Why Do I Love this Song SO MUCH?

It's terrible. Sounds like it was made in some teenager's bedroom.

well pardon me, Miss Wagner!

Because in 1981 you were an aging shop-bottom ex cheerleader and this song to you back to your glory days of 1965!

LOL R3, that photo is FAB

You're the dirty blond with classes in middle row, right.

I don't think I ever heard it before, but I do like it, OP.

I think part of it is that the tonal scale feels like it is always ascending. It's uplifting.

The 70s were filled with more of these guilty pleasures

Paul Davis had a great voice; "I Go Crazy" and "Cool Night" are Adult Contemporary standards.

C- Beach Boys but still catchy as hell

First Class - Beach Baby

You asked for always ascending? Here's always ascending

Jigsaw - Sky High

That was a good one! 🙄

OP - Was he singing about having an affair with a 65 year old? Is he single?

R9 that's a great cut I haven't heard in a long time

Ugly asshole

Fun fact 65 Love Affair went to number 6 in 1982. I Go Crazy his only other top 10 went to number 7 in 1978 but had tremendous staying power. The song was in the top 40 for like six months, something unheard of in those days. Billboard listed it as the number 12 song of 78. So in terms of staying power, IGC is his biggest song despite 65LA going a notch higher.

Leave it to you old hags to find music that I had totally forgotten about (but loved!) . Thats one of my favorite things about DL.

Ah, the adult contemporary hits of 1981/1982! These were the musical artists who were too unhip to be shown on MTV so they had to appear on Solid Gold instead.

This song brings me back to that period too.

"I Go Crazy" was definitely a song that stayed around forever. "Cool Night" and "65 Love Affair" were his other big hits, but I seem to remember another one "Sweet Life", which was really nice.

I adored Little River Band ! This i smy fave,but its hard to choose.

Cool Change is such a great song! As is Cool Night. I want to go sailing at sunset and play early 80s yacht rock

The Alan Parsons Project - were they the hippest soft rock band ever?

The thing about I Go Crazy and its "staying power" was that it actually was a slow rise up the chart and then a relatively quick drop off:

89 - 78 - 68 - 58 - 47 - 45 - 43- 41- 41 - 37 - 34 - 31 - 29 -28 - 25 - 25 - 23 - 23 - 21 - 21 - 19 - 18 - 16 - 14 - 12 - 11 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 7 - 7 - 28 - 35 - 63 - 63 - 83 - 90 - 95 - 99

R23 thanks! I was actually going to look up the Billboard charts to trace that songs rise and fall.

Fond memories of listening to Paul Davis, Sheena Easton and Dan Fogelburg on my preferred FM soft rock station in 1982 while playing my Atari 😌.

Maybe it’s because you’re old & cheese filled OP.

This is my earworm today:

I always liked “65 Love Affair”, OP!

The music at the very start sounds exactly like this song . . . .

Ah, the sweet spot between not cool enough for MTV and not quite Yatch Rock.

As r18 said, if Dionne introduced them on Solid Gold, they probably belong in this thread

Joey Scarbury "Believe It Or Not"

Because it's so good in comparison to today's crappy music.

R11, I much prefer this Sky High. Also very high octave. I always thought it was a female until today.

Stupid song.

It always sounded like a song you'd get murdered to in 1982. Like playing from another house next door or something.

I’d forgotten about the donkey dick sucking cheerleader shit at the end of the song. I ran it on YT at double speed to get it over with.

The Alan Parsons Project was prog rock, R22.

Absolute fabulosity, R30! I've always loved that sing, plus Andy Gibb and Marilyn McCoo!

*cums*

Also love this one, an other uplifting ear-worm.

This thread is crack for DL music snobs, They'll never be able to resist the short-term superiority high

Another Alan Parsons Project fave

I think this was America’s last hit (1982).

Gino!

So mellow, so smooth.

Great choice r37 - OP

Lobo - Where Were You When I Was Falling In Love?

I won’t listen to guys with cute voices and ugly faces.

Toby Beau - My Angel Baby

Karla Bonoff - Personally

Personal FAV Alan Parsons Project

I was SO in love with the guitar player with the beard ! Plus its an excellent song.

Another favorite...I was so in love with John Waite !

Boz Scaggs.

Someone needs to do a parody thread, Why Do I Love This Schlong SO MUCH?

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