Completely Conspicuous 663: Shadow Dancing

from Completely Conspicuous · host Jay Kumar

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about songs we hate to love. 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 Completely Conspicuous is available through Apple Podcasts. Subscribe and write a review! 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.

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