← Behind The Song: Classic Rock Chronicles
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Host of We Fixed It
This week on We Fixed It. You're welcome. We're getting personal about a very beloved company.
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Brad Reese
I'm the grandson of H.B. reese and I have no interest in buying another Reese's product.
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Host of We Fixed It
Our guest, Brad Reese, has the world's attention and he's got ours too.
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Brad Reese
It's laughable. I mean, you're paying more for a product that's inferior.
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Host of We Fixed It
Of course we're going to try to fix this situation.
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Brad Reese
Hopefully Hershey will pay attention. Hopefully Hershey will address it.
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Host of We Fixed It
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Host Janda
Welcome to the behind the Song podcast, taking you deeper into classic rock's most timeless tunes. Here's your host Host Janda I'm Janda,
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and in this bonus episode of the behind the Song podcast, let's reach beyond the chart toppers for some truly awesome classic rock deep cuts when it comes to love songs. What an incredible song I'm Gonna Crawl by Zeppelin is. It's the album Closer on in through the Outdoor. It starts with an orchestral arrangement by John Paul Jones and then crashes into your head with a slow bur blues, with Robert Plant delivering some of his most vulnerable, desperate I will do anything for you kind of vocals. It's like a 60s soul song that dips into James Brown territory, especially when John Bonham's drums hammer home in time to Plant singing every little bit over and over. Lyrically, Robert Plant sells the magnitude of the love that he's singing about. Just really one of his best vocal deliveries, period, including a literal scream that Prince must have surely heard once or twice before he recorded When Doves Cry or Darling Nicky. I love how the song ends, plant sings. Yes, I love her. I guess I love her. I want to crawl. Totally irresistible. Next, how about Coming Down Again by the Rolling Stones? Keith Richards took the lead vocal on this song, a downright melancholy ballad with a much more tender vibe than the Stone's usual swagger. This is off the Goat's Head Soup album, and while another song from that album, Angie, usually takes center stage, this song is waiting there in the wings to be enjoyed. When you find love a little confusing, it covers the weariness of withdrawing from something or someone. Written during Richard's battles with addiction during his very, very complicated relationship with Anita Pallenberg starts with a beautiful piano riff by Nicky Hopkins. Don't skip this one. Just forget dream on for a second. You See Me Crying the epic closer from Aerosmith's Toys in the Attic, a piano ballad has a massive string arrangement, and Steven Tyler is singing it like nobody's business. He wrote this song with an outside collaborator, Don Solomon, who he was in a band called Chain Reaction with before Aerosmith. While it didn't sound like much else in the Aerosmith catalog at the time, this very underrated song is really a majestic precursor to some of the power ballads that the band would crank out later in the 80s and 90s that made Aerosmith popular all over again.
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Progressive Insurance Announcer
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Host Janda
The lyrics go you see me crying don't let it get you down. You see me cryin'. I'm back to the lost and found. It's a plea for understanding that love is there underneath a Playboy exterior. It was released as a single, but it didn't go anywhere on the charts. Absolutely fantastic song, though.
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Guest or Co-host on Behind the Song
A Shelter from Pigs on the Wing
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Host Janda
if you want something truly deep for your love song collection, look for Pigs on the Wing, Parts one and two from Pink Floyd. They are two short acoustic bookends to the Animals album that Roger Waters wrote specifically as a love letter to his then wife, Carolyn Christie, a rare moment of warmth on a very dark album. In the lyrics, he sings, you know that I care what happens to you and I know that you care for me too so I don't feel alone on the weight of the stone now that I've found somewhere safe to bury my bone and any fool knows a dog needs a home a Shelter From Pigs on the Wing Parts one and two serve as a breather on either side of the album's long critiques of society. An album that heavily references Animal Farm by George Orwell. The Dogs and the Pigs not exactly where you'd expect to find any kind of love song, but here we are nonetheless. These bookends are a personal, tender escape from the authoritarians Waters is griping about on the Rest of Animals, While Rumors gets all the glory. Fleetwood Mac's 1975 self titled album has this really velvet soft gem, Warm Ways, written and sung by Christine McVie. It's about being completely in love with someone and it captures that hazy feeling of waking up with someone. It's precisely Christine McVie's romantic optimism that you hear in this song and in some of her other songs, like youe Make Loving Fun and you're always kind of rooting for her in these songs, happy for her to have found love or at least to have had a really interesting night with someone. That's one of the gifts that she brought to the table in Fleetwood Mac. She sounded like a friend that you wanted good things for, and she sang this one so beautifully. Warm Ways was never released as a single in the States and never performed live by the band. A song about being wide open to someone I'd have youe Anytime by George Harrison. This is the opening track to his masterpiece All Things Must Pass, and it was co written with his future bandmate in the Traveling Wilbury's Bob Dylan. It was written while Harrison was visiting Dylan while he was holed up near Bearsville, New York to chill out from the limelight. This was at the time when Harrison was getting kind of tired of the pressure of being in the Beatles, and by all accounts he was able to get into Dylan's head in a way that almost nobody else could. This song is about breaking down walls to truly know someone. It's incredibly intimate with a slow guitar solo from Eric Clapton and it all feels just like a conversation. What a gem. Thin Lizzy's Still In Love with youh is Phil Lynott was the master of the tough guy with a bleeding heart Persona and this song totally embodies that and it doesn't get talked about enough. It's a soulful, raw confession of devotion and it's a rarity in the Thin Lizzy songbook because it features co lead vocals by Frankie Miller, a blue eyed soul singer from Scotland. It has a distinct R and B feel to it, so much so that Sade later covered it the lyrics go Think I'll just fall to pieces if I don't find something else to do this sadness never ceases I'm still in love with you Definitely worth putting on, preferably at night. This is off then Lizzie's very underrated Nightlife album Strangers on this Strangers by the Kinks maybe my all time favorite Kinks tune. This is off Lola versus Powerman and the Money Go Round. And no surprise, it was written by Dave Davies. It's a really beautiful philosophical take on two people finding each other in a confusing world. The lyrics are profound in their simplicity. For example, when he sings and if I feel tomorrow like I feel today we'll take what we want and give the rest away Strangers on this road we are on we are not two, we are one it perfectly fits the idea that there is a perfect fit for every misfit. I just love it. It's Late by Queen this deep cut from News of the World is a stone cold banger. A particularly Queen kind of heavy romantic epic, it totally captures the late night tension of a relationship at a crossroads. When Freddie Mercury sings It's late but not too late, he's hoping it's not too late, but admits that there are some issues with the relationship being true or faithful. One of them he mentions that it's time to be set free, but he doesn't sound like he really wants to be set free either. It deals with complex emotions in a really raw way, helped along by Freddie's vocal gymnastics and Brian May's killer guitar riff. This love song really rocks. And when their four part harmonies come screaming out at you singing it's late, it's so cathartic. I love this crazy love. So. Here's a little gem from Badfinger that kind of has it all in terms of the gold standard of power pop. Baby Blue from the Straight up album has really infectious melodies and soaring harmonies and a bittersweet sentiment. It's about missing out on somebody because you made them wait too long for you. The lyrics start. Guess I got what I deserved Kept you waiting there too long my love all that time without a word did you really think that I'd forget Or I'd regret the special love I have for you My baby blue now this song just sounds great. Todd Rundgren produced this Bad Finger album after all, and Baby Blue did make it to number 14 on the singles chart when it was released. Plus it did have a moment in the finale of the Breaking Bad TV show. But it remains a deep cut in the landscape of classic rock love songs. Something you don't hear all the time, which makes it more special when you do. It's a song for that moment just before saying goodbye. The beautiful thing about music is that it can amplify a feeling and give a feeling a home within its lyrics. Like these songs I mentioned here. There are so many great classic rock love songs that fall under the category of deep cuts. So which ones would you include in this list? Let me know. And as always, thanks for listening to behind the Song. If you like it, give it a like and hit subscribe. Or better yet, tell a friend. That's the best way to really share music. I'm Janda and I'll catch you back here for the next episode. New one every Wednesday on the way. Much more classic rock and roll.