Do you admit that you ever enjoyed listening to:

Funny thing about that music - there's a band for every ear.

GH, I do hope that you'll someday dig on Prefuse 73; but beyond the folks in the record store, I don't know anyone else who enjoys them or that genre. Still, it has really brought passion back to my music world, even for the things I have known for so long.

I do know of all the bands mentioned by the OP but am the least acquainted with Dan Fogelberg. A buddy that I've seen 40-50 shows with is a Fogelberg fan.

I need to check out the four bands mentioned by the OP since I have Spotify. Thanks to GH on that count.

Awesome thread; carry on.

Alvin and the Chipmunks. My first LP. Five years old.

dl...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-3GqJFNjGU


Couldn't resist....;)

That song was actually on that album Jerry. LOL

Dave

In short; Yes. Whether you’re drawn to the genre or not, all the groups you first listed produced/wrote great melodies and in my view that's what it's all about ... that and the arrangement. Sadly, much of the !@#$%*! produced today and for perhaps that past two decades, is a pathetic and sad attempt to pass noise off as "music" .... but, the millennials & X generations lap it up to the tune of billions of dollars annually. There is very little or no variety … one, two, maybe 3 chords repeated over and over with a backdrop of syntho-babble …. a mindless bunch of flats and sharps and an arrangement that are agonizingly unimaginable and unmusical. There are a very few, what I call good bands out there ….. but the greater majority is just processed crap. I’ll step off my soap box now.