The "Bland and Boring Music" Thread

[MicShazam]

Joan Osborne – I'll Be Around

[Trollheart]

Supertramp

Some band wrote a song called "Your Favourite Band is Supertramp", meant to be a derogatory sneer. But I'd consider it a compliment. I've been into Supertramp since the late seventies, and though they fell apart after the departure of Roger Hodgson (with the exception of one album) they did enough in the seventies and eighties to "indelibly stamp" their name on music history.

[Ninetales]

nice try TH

[Trollheart]

Originally Posted by Ninetales

nice try TH

Good one!

[MicShazam]

Huh. I've seen that cover art many times, but never noticed the city is made up of cups, salt shakers and condiment containers.

[Trollheart]

It's a clever picture. And the waitress is made up to look like the Statue of Liberty, and her nametag says "Libby". Pretty cool.

[Anteater]

Interesting thread. Lemme see....



The consummate Weather Channel band and the godfathers of vaporwave. I get a lot of flack for my appreciation of smooth jazz, but to me the stuff is addictively nostalgic. These guys are basically the sound of a bloodless, liberal-corporatized utopia, but they also have a distinctive melodic sense: guitarist Russ Freeman knows his way around an arrangement even if the aesthetic is like anathema to some.

I find it ironic in some ways that punk was a reaction against progressive rock, because smooth jazz is closer to being a polar opposite of punk: its idealistic, optimistic, romantic at times, perfectly produced and the best of it is glorious for blasting down the coast or if your at the beach or something. There's no surprises, but like ambient music it can be engaging in its own way.

I've said this before, but if you can genuinely appreciate smooth jazz, you can appreciate pretty much anything at any end of the spectrum. It's a big mountain to climb over, right up there with caustic noise, Insane Clown Posse, experimental powerviolence, whatever.

[Black Francis]

Originally Posted by Anteater

This is amazing. This song made me cringe so much it actually hurt. When the Sax came in i thought i was gonna have an aneurysm.

This one i heard when i called Direct tv and they left me on hold.

[Trollheart]

Ah yeah, I forgot Ant. You'll be at home here too, bud. Hit us with that Yacht Rock!

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