Are You Gonna Be There (At The Love In) - Chocolate Watch Band

British-influenced fuzzy, flowered-up pop in the typical Sunset Strip mix of of Hollywood hedonisn and hippie ideals.

I'm not sure what a 'love-in' is. Maybe it's a sixties version of today's tabloid 'love romp'... only with body painting and not necessarily followed by 'his sex shame' and 'crisis talks about their marriage'.

The hippie generation new a lot of stuff. They new that universal peace can only be achieved my bed-ins and joining hands. They knew how to live with the rhythms of the earth. They also knew that on a high amphetamine diet you can eat all the carbohydrates you want.

Heavy use of LSD offsets the weight-gaining effects of complex starch sugars and is a non-fattening alternative to omega 3 liposomes.

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She's Not Just Another Woman - The 8th Day

In the era of Wig-Wam Bams, Tiger Feet and Shang-a-langs, the awfulness of many pop soul lyrics are often overshadowed by lyrical crimes in other, whiter genres.

This throwaway chart soul hit on the Holland-Dozier-Holland's Invictus/Hotwax label features some or the worst lyrics of the seventies as lead singer Steve Mancha compares his new squeeze to his mother, brother, father... and mother again as he comes up with the most innocently Oedipal rhyming couplet in pop history...

"She's got electrifying loving that's as warm as my mother's oven."

Someone I knew at college took his Mum to see Basic Instinct in the cinema when she came down to visit. He just couldn't understand why anyone else would find this creepy.

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If it's ever been on K-Tel or Ronco, it's in. If it features hand claps, cow bells, syrupy orchestration, walls of sound, wrecking crews, sha-la-las, toothy teen idols, candy-based metaphors for carnal acts or lyrics about hugging, squeezing and rocking all night long, it's in.

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