View Full Version : Air supply where is the respect?
drwho
07-02-2006, 03:37 PM
They have got to be one of the most prolific romance rockers in the history of music. Why dont people talk about them more?
david r
07-02-2006, 04:14 PM
Thanks for taking me back to 1980.
Air Supply. Lost in Love. Making Love out of Nothing at All.
Can you imagine those 2 songs as hits now??
I last saw Air Supply was downgraded from their hayday of stadium shows to now doing...weddings.
Cash Lone
07-02-2006, 05:05 PM
I saw a recent pic of the band and the one dude had tons of tattooes and piercings. Shocking, considering the over the top weepy ballads they sing.
I saw a recent pic of the band and the one dude had tons of tattooes and piercings. Shocking, considering the over the top weepy ballads they sing.
Air Supply is the clean cut, mindless musak; it's safe, secure, poppy & mainstream. Air Supply has no edges. Heart, in the 80's, had more edge than Air Supply in their heyday. And this is the revamped Heart of "Never" & "These Dreams" I'm talking about...
Chiasm
07-02-2006, 09:05 PM
Making Love Out of Nothing at All
I can't think of this song without fond memories of my first and actually only lap dance in a strip club. :D
Clint Barton
07-02-2006, 09:32 PM
http://www.hoffmantalent.com/images/airsupply.jpg
Do these guys really deserve respect? (rhetorical question) :p
drwho
07-02-2006, 09:38 PM
What is scary is you had a copy of that laying around. I cant see a stripper dance to this music.
Adam Crocker
07-02-2006, 10:53 PM
Air supply where is the respect?
This is a joke right?
Valmore
07-03-2006, 12:31 AM
Eh, kind of bland ballad music. One could do much better... like The Moody Blues.
Chiasm
07-03-2006, 01:40 AM
What is scary is you had a copy of that laying around. I cant see a stripper dance to this music.
I was feeling the music and it worked with the moment. :o
Okay, actually I was feeling something else.:o :o :D
My other memorable Air Supply moment is much more recent yet equally inappropriate. I think slimy slugs when I think of them thanks to Slither.
Albert
07-03-2006, 02:51 AM
http://www.hoffmantalent.com/images/airsupply.jpg
Do these guys really deserve respect? (rhetorical question) :p
Robin Williams and Rex Reed were in Air Supply?!?
Spike-X
07-03-2006, 03:00 AM
They have got to be one of the most prolific romance rockers in the history of music. Why dont people talk about them more?
Because they suck.
And they're about as far from "rockers" as you can get.
Buried Alien
07-03-2006, 03:30 AM
They filled a similar niche in the 1980s that Bread did in the 1970s...melodic, romantic soft pop that was catchy and pleasant enough, but was definitely not rock 'n roll.
Back then, it was called easy listening; today, it's called adult contemporary.
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Cash Lone
07-03-2006, 09:30 AM
They filled a similar niche in the 1980s that Bread did in the 1970s...melodic, romantic soft pop that was catchy and pleasant enough, but was definitely not rock 'n roll.
Back then, it was called easy listening; today, it's called adult contemporary.
Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)
yeah, but unlike Air Supply, Bread is awesome!
Dennis K
07-03-2006, 10:24 AM
I'm pretty sure Nathan Lane was in Air Supply at one time.
zombie
07-03-2006, 10:36 AM
I like Air Supply.
Dennis K
07-03-2006, 10:57 AM
I like Air Supply.
You're also probably a Sens fan.
Zing!
Ontir
07-03-2006, 11:57 AM
CRAP! 3rd time today this has happened! That's what I get for checking my spelling...
Ontir
07-03-2006, 12:00 PM
Nathan Lane was too busy starring with Doug Henning (the triple-threat, he couldn't sing, dance, or act) in a musical on Broadway at the time!
I liked Air Supply when they first hit, but the love soon died that slow miserable death from which there's just no coming back!
80's Moody Blues: "I've got some lyrics somewhere... some... where... some... where..." :rolleyes: It's hard to believe that these were the guys who brought us "Nights in White Satin!"
zombie
07-03-2006, 12:07 PM
You're also probably a Sens fan.
Zing!
Nah, that wouldn't make mocking my Sens-loving housemate much fun.
http://www.hoffmantalent.com/images/airsupply.jpg
"My wife wears the earrings in the family."
Ontir
07-03-2006, 06:24 PM
I don't get it.
david r
07-03-2006, 09:40 PM
I believe 100 years from now, Air Supply will get the respect they so RICHLY deserve.
david r
07-03-2006, 09:45 PM
Nah, Christopher Cross kicks their ass!
"If you get caught between the MOON and New York City.
I know it's crazy. But it's true.
If you get caught between the MOON and New York City.
(Sing with me now!!)
The Best that you can do, is FALL IN LOVE!!!" :D
howyadoin
07-03-2006, 11:30 PM
rockersHow'd that word end up in this thread?
Mike Smash!
07-03-2006, 11:41 PM
How'd that word end up in this thread?Careful, howya. You might trip over the bar they just set for "rocker".
Buried Alien
07-04-2006, 12:02 AM
How'd that word end up in this thread?
Sometimes, when defining something, you need to define what it is not.
In the case of Air Supply, "not rockers" seems appropriate. Air Supply itself has conceded as much.
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Ontir
07-04-2006, 01:17 AM
Nah, Christopher Cross kicks their ass!
"If you get caught between the MOON and New York City.
I know it's crazy. But it's true.
If you get caught between the MOON and New York City.
(Sing with me now!!)
The Best that you can do, is FALL IN LOVE!!!" :D
Christopher Cross was hired to sing that song, it was written by Peter Allen, late ex-husband of Liza Minnelli, whom Hugh Jackman portrayed in the Boy From Oz
drwho
07-04-2006, 03:41 AM
Christopher Cross was hired to sing that song, it was written by Peter Allen, late ex-husband of Liza Minnelli, whom Hugh Jackman portrayed in the Boy From Oz
I thought I read somewhere that Burt Bacarach wrote that song for the Arthur movie in the 70s.
I thought I read somewhere that Burt Bacarach wrote that song for the Arthur movie in the 70s.
Arthur's Theme. (Best That You Can Do) Words & Music by Christopher Cross, Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager & Peter Allen
Who would have thought that it could take so much talent to write such a crappy song.
Jessica Drew
07-04-2006, 09:37 AM
....Who would have thought that it could take so much talent to write such a crappy song.
I know...it's crazy, but it's true.:D
drwho
07-04-2006, 10:01 AM
Arthur's Theme. (Best That You Can Do) Words & Music by Christopher Cross, Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager & Peter Allen
Who would have thought that it could take so much talent to write such a crappy song.
I like the song has a happy vibe to it. Plus I wish i could waste my life away drinking doing whatever i please.
david r
07-04-2006, 11:08 AM
Air Suppy/Christopher Cross tickets!! Get your tickets here!!
Reptisaurus!
07-04-2006, 12:29 PM
Sometimes we play "Radio Tag." We sit around and flip through the radio dial and name the bands/singers/musicians who sing each song.
For the purposes of Radio Tag, Air Supply and REO Speedwagon count as one band, because none of us can tell them apart.
That's my only Air Supply story.
Albert
07-04-2006, 12:38 PM
For the purposes of Radio Tag, Air Supply and REO Speedwagon count as one band, because none of us can tell them apart.
Speedwagon is the Earth-2 Air Supply, so I can understand the confusion.
Buried Alien
07-04-2006, 01:03 PM
Compared to Air Supply, however, REO Speedwagon at least rocked a *little* bit. Not much, but still more than Air Supply.
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drwho
07-04-2006, 04:01 PM
Never knew Air Supply would be such a hot topic with all the views counted.:D
Ontir
07-04-2006, 05:18 PM
Arthur's Theme. (Best That You Can Do) Words & Music by Christopher Cross, Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager & Peter Allen
Who would have thought that it could take so much talent to write such a crappy song.
I like the song actually, but I'm also a HUGE Bacharach fan. I remember seeing Peter Allen, I think it was on the Mike Douglas Show, or maybe it was John Davidson, but anyway, he was talking about trying to come up with something for this song, and he was on a plane that was in a holding pattern for JFK @ night, "stuck between the moon and New York City..." Crazy, but true.
Valmore
07-04-2006, 06:33 PM
Arthur's Theme. (Best That You Can Do) Words & Music by Christopher Cross, Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager & Peter Allen
Who would have thought that it could take so much talent to write such a crappy song.
Funny, I like that song. It has a light feel that doesn't take itself too seriously for a love song.
david r
07-04-2006, 08:33 PM
How did they get the name Air Supply, anyway? What does it mean exactly? How is it musical at all??
I have nothing personal against Air Supply, Christopher Cross or any of the other late 70's / early 80's mellow maniacs.
I wish them all well and hope they had a great time and made some good money.
It's just that I can't stand their actual music.
And as for Bacharach, I really think that he pretty much lost it after his partnership with Hal David ended. I just never could enjoy any of his work with Sager.
kmeyers
07-04-2006, 10:31 PM
How did they get the name Air Supply, anyway? What does it mean exactly? How is it musical at all??
It's what you had to be hooked into at the nursing home to listen to their musak.
Buried Alien
07-04-2006, 10:45 PM
How did they get the name Air Supply, anyway? What does it mean exactly? How is it musical at all??
If bands can call themselves "Smashing Pumpkins" and "Butthole Surfers," they can definitely call themselves "Air Supply." Maybe it refers to the two singers' lungs?
Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)
Jessica Drew
07-04-2006, 11:10 PM
Air Supply's "All Out of Love" was performed by an actor (I forget his name) with an acoustic guitar to a woman he was seducing in Todd Solondz's disturbing and unsettling 1998 film Happiness. The aforementioned scene--and its aftermath--are very touching, sad, and poignant, and the music really enhances the scene. It's really something to behold how well Solondz uses that song. I guess this--and the length of this thread, as well as Air Supply's phenomenal success in their heyday--hearkens back to Oscar Wilde's quote: "Extraordinary how potent cheap music is."
Buried Alien
07-04-2006, 11:12 PM
Oscar Wilde's quote: "Extraordinary how potent cheap music is."
Ironically, although we're all pretty much agreed that Air Supply was no rock 'n roll band, Wilde's quote is the essence of what rock 'n roll is about.
Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)
Jessica Drew
07-04-2006, 11:17 PM
Ironically, although we're all pretty much agreed that Air Supply was no rock 'n roll band, Wilde's quote is the essence of what rock 'n roll is about.
Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)
True...but some pop and rap music fall under that quote's umbrellas as well.
Ontir
07-05-2006, 02:21 AM
How did they get the name Air Supply, anyway? What does it mean exactly? How is it musical at all??
Well, since you asked, in the early days they could only get gigs at Bar Mitzvahs and nursing homes. On a sunday afternoon, while playing at the Shady Jacaranda Retirement Estate, one of the audience yelled at another resident, "SHIFT IT YOU DAFT COW! YOU'VE GOT YOUR FOOT ON MY AIR SUPPLY!"
"Lightning in a bottle," thought the band, and within weeks, they'd signed a lucrative record deal!
A "Behind the Music" that "VH1" forgot to tell.
Ontir
07-06-2006, 03:58 AM
Hey, I put a lot of effort into this origin story!!! :p
Someone's gotta read it! :cool:
Jessica Drew
07-06-2006, 10:11 AM
Hey, I put a lot of effort into this origin story!!! :p
Someone's gotta read it! :cool:
It's a great story, and I told it to my wife, whose very first album was an Air Supply one. Your effort is appreciated, you daft cow!
Ontir
07-06-2006, 01:03 PM
Thanx! :D
Dennis K
07-06-2006, 01:23 PM
Has Air Supply ever had a "Hello Cleveland" moment?
Ontir
07-06-2006, 01:41 PM
...uhm... I'm not sure what that means. If you mean, "Did they perform to a sold-out, screaming stadium?" that would be, "Yes." They were wildly successful, internationally for a number of years.
Dennis K
07-06-2006, 02:03 PM
...uhm... I'm not sure what that means.
http://yanksfansoxfan.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/spinal20tap_1.jpg
Ontir
07-06-2006, 04:30 PM
... OK, that still has no real meaning to me. Is it a drug bust? If so, who is it?
Adam Crocker
07-06-2006, 07:43 PM
... OK, that still has no real meaning to me. Is it a drug bust? If so, who is it?
The URL indicates a scene from THIS IS SPINAL TAP.
Ontir
07-06-2006, 08:16 PM
I didn't get a URL, but thanks for the info. What do you think of the origin?
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