Raised on Radio #33- Starbuck
Sep. 8th, 2013 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23It's been awhile since I've posted a song from my youth. Ostensibly, this series has been about my favorite songs of that era.
Still, I've spent a lot of time talking about artists that I heard a lot of on local radio- regardless of how much I liked them- I can't tell you how many times I heard Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street", Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Get Down" or Cliff Richard's "We Don't Talk Anymore'. Good, bad, or otherwise, there was plenty of Jim Croche, Paul Davis, and Bertie Higgins. There was Al Stewart, Albert Hammond before his son was in the Strokes, and Donna Summer leaving her cake out in the rain in "Macarthur Park".
The truth is you know most of the bands (Fleetwood Mac, Carpenters) or at least remember them (Juice Newton, Ronnie Milsap) or at least know them as a punchline (Christopher Cross, Starland Vocal Band).
Which brings me to Starbuck.
I don't know that i could have even named the band, but I swear I probably heard "Moonlight feels right" more times in my life than most any song you can name.
Like a lot of songs of that era, it's not aged well, though it's catchy as hell. I think even then as a kid, I thought it was cheesy. It's almost as old as I am, so it would have been a couple of years dated by the time I heard it, but I am sure I already knew it was uncool.
And it is.
It's everything that is uncool about the 70s.
-A cheesy sci-fi sounding band name (though it does predate Battlestar Galactica)
-Lyrics that sound like bad pick up lines
-Burt Reynolds-style moustache
-Boat captain's hat
-A sound that is simultaneously vanilla and druggy/sleazy
-keyboards that had to be a real b*tch to move
and most importanly
-Marimba solos
This song will haunt me to the grave.
Still, I've spent a lot of time talking about artists that I heard a lot of on local radio- regardless of how much I liked them- I can't tell you how many times I heard Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street", Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Get Down" or Cliff Richard's "We Don't Talk Anymore'. Good, bad, or otherwise, there was plenty of Jim Croche, Paul Davis, and Bertie Higgins. There was Al Stewart, Albert Hammond before his son was in the Strokes, and Donna Summer leaving her cake out in the rain in "Macarthur Park".
The truth is you know most of the bands (Fleetwood Mac, Carpenters) or at least remember them (Juice Newton, Ronnie Milsap) or at least know them as a punchline (Christopher Cross, Starland Vocal Band).
Which brings me to Starbuck.
I don't know that i could have even named the band, but I swear I probably heard "Moonlight feels right" more times in my life than most any song you can name.
Like a lot of songs of that era, it's not aged well, though it's catchy as hell. I think even then as a kid, I thought it was cheesy. It's almost as old as I am, so it would have been a couple of years dated by the time I heard it, but I am sure I already knew it was uncool.
And it is.
It's everything that is uncool about the 70s.
-A cheesy sci-fi sounding band name (though it does predate Battlestar Galactica)
-Lyrics that sound like bad pick up lines
-Burt Reynolds-style moustache
-Boat captain's hat
-A sound that is simultaneously vanilla and druggy/sleazy
-keyboards that had to be a real b*tch to move
and most importanly
-Marimba solos
This song will haunt me to the grave.
