We REALLY need a tongue-in-cheek emoticon.
I have a life size poster of Barry Manilow on my bedroom ceiling.
He's such a dream!
The thing about Barry Manilow, is that there are no memorable songs. His music is like an old pair of slippers, warm and comfy.
We need more stuff like that, especially now!
Dunno about that, Phoenix ...
msolga- It's sorta like chocolate for the ears. We need a lot of comfort food now!
...or maybe it's nostalgia for less complicated times?
mandy
i was deeply in lust with a girl of the same name
sadly unrequited
I had forgotten Mandy. Every artist is entitled to one song.
Folsom Prison Blues
Thats my favorite Manilow song.
Did Manilow do "War Pigs"? Or was that someone else?
If there would be a hell, my segment of it would have Manilow recordings and Manilow musak piped in full blast quadraphonically.
OMG. She's described hell. That is scary.
Sound: Manilow
Smell: Cooking cabbage.
Sight: Carnage
I can't go on...
sound-Manilow, check
smell-dead skunk (loudon wainright style0
sight- Gus in a bathhing suit.
Yup thats hell
Heaven
sound- rippling water and Betthovens 6th
smell-lavendar and ribs cookin
sight- Grand tetons and lotsa naked women
this may be worth a thread sometime
Hell:
Sound - Manilow as headliner, Styx as opening act
Sight - Manilow and Styx
Smell - too much Botox
Heaven,
sound - rippling water, Beethoven's Sixth, check
sight - oh, well, y'all know, flying down the center of Italy, landing in Rome on gorgeous day. Uh, not for the Vatican, no, no, for the palazzi.. and the piazzas
smell - and the pizzas..
cav--LMAO!!!
Somebody start a thread.
Farmer--love the rippling water and lavender...
Quote:sight- Grand tetons and lotsa naked women
You're repeating yourself, farmerman.
Mandy was not a bad song. You'll notice it was Manilow's first hit. I actually stuck up for the song in some discussions with friends.
However, his second song sounded much like Mandy, only not quite as nice. And the third, and the fourth, etc.
They all sounded alike. Start off slow, then a quick drum flourish in the middle, then increasing volume and more instruments added, then a real schmaltzy ending when it sounds like 10 orchestras are playing behind him.
I am absolutely convinced that Manilow's first 18 hits were all recorded in the same recording session. It probably took a week, they recorded a song once, then changed the melody slightly and the words so they could call it another song, then worked through the same treatment, then did the next song, and the next, etc.
They all sound alike.
Except for Copacabana, of course, which was distinctive. It was distinctive for being, without question, the very worst song in the rock era that ever became a hit. They ended up making a TV special out of it.
After Copacabana, Manilow sensibly went back to grinding out the same formula which had worked for years.
I believe the term is schlock. Manilow defines the category.
