Not songs about the army… songs that came out when I was in the army, doing my bit for my country by playing bass guitar:
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I think I played about a dozen of those songs over the years with various bands, and most of them… ugh, disco disco disco (as well as my un-favoritest Stones song, which says something about how dreadful it is, and which thankfully I never had to play).
Thank goodness for Baker Street, then and now one of the greatest ballads ever.
Afterthought: I never liked the syrupy Light Up My Life, and listening to it now, it has to be the worst production ever, with absolutely no redeeming features. The piano, for starters, sounds like someone’s hammering on the keyboard with a mallet, and the cheesy string arrangement would have made Mozart commit suicide. To cap it off, the desperately-unsexy Debbie Boone sounds like she’d taken a large dose of Xanax in the studio on the day it was recorded.
1978, the dark days of Disco. About half way through that list there were a few songs I could stand to listen to. The only ones from albums I ever owned were Chuck Mangione and Meatloaf. I think I listened to more old albums than radio that year.
That was also the year I was awakened in the middle of the night by the sound of a burglar opening my bedroom door. They left very quickly when they realized someone was home. by the time I was really awake, they were gone. They came back a couple of weeks later when we were not home and took my stereo and all my albums. I soon moved to a better neighborhood and also purchased my first pistol.
Looking pretty badass there Kim.