Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about songs we hate to love. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").
Show notes:
- Our top 10 songs we hate to love in no particular order
- Phil: A song from the infamous Great White
- One of the many bands who tried to sound like Zeppelin
- Jay: Rupert Holmes somehow got cheesier than the "Pina Colada Song"
- Classic AM gold shizz
- Phil: A big hit for the Carpenters
- Originally written for a bank commercial
- Jay: Monster disco one-hit wonder from Patrick Hernandez
- Phil: Britney with an earworm
- Jay: Raspy pop smash from Kim Carnes
- Crossed over to MOR stations that our parents listened to
- Phil: Digging into the Jefferson Starship ballads
- Marty Balin got on the wrong side of the Hell's Angels at Altamont
- Jay: Phil Collins did a lot of soundtrack music in the '80s in addition to everything else
- A patented Collins Angry Ballad
- Phil digs that calypso beat in one of Lionel Richie's biggest hits
- Richie was one of the driving forces behind "We Are the World"
- Jay: A synth pop cover of "Lean On Me"
- Phil: Secretly loved the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack as a kid
- Yvonne Elliman sang backups on several Clapton albums
- Jay: Non-English hit by Falco
- Only German-language #1 song in America
- Phil: Frankie Valli's disco song in Grease
- Written by Barry Gibb, who was unstoppable in the late '70s
- Jay: Early '70s soft rock jam from Albert Hammond
- Phil: John Mayer's wuss rock moment
- More familiar with his work in Dead and Co.
- Jay: Rediscovered recently his love of Little River Band
- Australian purveyors of catchy dad rock
- Original members lost the rights to the band name
- Phil: Shout out to the Weather Girls
- Catchy and co-written by Paul Shaffer
- Jay: Another huge hit from the Queen of Disco, Donna Summer
- Phil: An apparently ironic love ballad from the Captain and Tennille
- Jay: Another hit from the Gibb family, this time younger brother Andy
- Too much cocaine, apparently
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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.
