Soft Rock Hits (any era)

[Cachoo]

GO!

I Just Want To Stop (Gino Vannelli)

 

[Jenny]

Soft Rock Gold two CD compilation

 

[easilydistracte]

GO!

I Just Want To Stop (Gino Vannelli)

Love that song!

"Foolish Heart" by Steve Perry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9iTAYYAybI

 

[Kruss]

I'd Really Love To See You Tonight by England Dan and John Ford Coley

 

[quartz]

I’ve always thought if it were classified as soft, it cannot, therefore, be rock. ??‍

 

[skategal]

I Wanna Know What Love Is.... Foreigner

 

[moebius]

We're All Alone - Rita Coolidge

 

[shan]

Player "Baby Come Back"

 

[paskatefan]

It's Just Another Day - Paul McCartney (& Linda?)

 

[flyingsit]

Babe - Styx

 

[pollyanna]

Lyin' Eyes - The Eagles

And showing my age here, Cherish - The Association

 

[paskatefan]

^ "Windy" (The Association) is my all time favorite song, if I have to pick one! I love the recorder flute (which probably also explains why I'm a Jethro Tull fan).

 

[Buzz]

Human - Rag ‘n’ Bone Man

 

[Cachoo]

I’ve always thought if it were classified as soft, it cannot, therefore, be rock. ??‍

Maybe I should have titled it mellow love songs---I dunno...but then you hear a song like America's "A Horse With No Name" and what IS that?

 

[Kruss]

I think the term "soft rock" has been used by many radio stations. These may not be rock like the harder stuff, but I think there's quite a lot of versions of rock music anyway, from the soft to the death metal.

 

[GarrAargHrumph]

"Soft rock" is just a ballad, often from a rock band. So I counter all your posts with Beth from KISS.

 

[Simone411]

One of my favorites from Chicago - Colour My World

 

[Jenny]

"Soft rock" is just a ballad, often from a rock band. So I counter all your posts with Beth from KISS.

Disagree. Many songs that I believe are rightfully classified as soft rock are not ballads at all, and most of the more well known artists of the genre never did what one might call rock, whether it be classic or otherwise.

 

[Susan1]

Disagree. Many songs that I believe are rightfully classified as soft rock are not ballads at all, and most of the more well known artists of the genre never did what one might call rock, whether it be classic or otherwise.

How about just "pop" songs or "Top 40"? 80's hair band power ballads are not "soft rock". hee hee

 

[Simone411]

Well, I believe in a way that Fleetwood Mac could be considered hard or soft rock depending on what song it is. That's the same when Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, and Lindsey Buckingham went solo with their on songs. Here's three songs by them I believe could be considered soft rock.

Nightbird by Stevie Nicks with Lori Nicks

Got A Hold On Me by Christine McVie

Trouble by Lindsey Buckingham

 

[Prancer]

Shale is a soft rock.

Wiki says this is soft rock: The style smoothed over the edges of singer-songwriter and pop rock,[1] relying on simple, melodic songs with big, lush productions. Soft rock was prevalent on the radio throughout the 1970s and eventually metamorphosed into the synthesized music of adult contemporary in the 1980s.

ITA with Jenny; I think it's its own genre. As with all kinds of music, the lines are often blurred, but a lot of soft rock is soft rock and nothing else.

 

[shan]

How about this one?

Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up

 

[GarrAargHrumph]

How about this one?

Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up

That's not soft rock. That's dance music.

And that's right, Rick - I'm never gonna give you up, damn it!

 

[shan]

That's not soft rock. That's dance music.

And that's right, Rick - I'm never gonna give you up, damn it!

He is quite the dancer in the video!

 

[attyfan]

Is "Yesterday" considered soft rock? I read somewhere that it wasn't immediately released as a single because it was "soft"; I'm never sure if it qualifies as rock.

 

[paskatefan]

One of my favorites from Chicago - Colour My World

I like that song, but I LOVE Petula Clark's "Colour My World," a totally different song. For that matter I love many of her songs!

 

[Cachoo]

When Guardians of the Galaxy wasreleased it featured so many good oldies. I had forgotten The Five Stairsteps “Ooh Child.”

 

[Jot the Dot Dot]

Steve Winwood knew how to crank 'em out. Traffic :
Many A Mile To Freedom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjclwMg3CzQ
No Time To Live

No Time To Live

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Every Mother's Son https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDnzRq9ZCM8

Badfinger knew as well, and boy could they harmonize!
Name Of The Game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDfH5j0o5hk
Day After Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XonFZjuyc6E
Sweet Tuesday Morning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOXMQBMlSJM

Harmonium were a French speaking band out of Quebec
Comme Un Sage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrxDV63C1gQ

And I know this is going into the obscure, but this soft rock was by a Welsh group, and this song written for them by Graham Bond (again, obscure). Just listen to it on earphones for the mellotroned strings:
Eyes Of Blue
Love Is The Law

Eyes Of Blue - Love Is The Law (1968)

Eyes Of Blue - Love Is The Law (1968)

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[PeterG]

P!nk - Beautiful Trauma

 

[taf2002]

I would call hardly any of the songs here as any kind of rock. To me bands like The Association never did any rock songs. They did ballads. Does Cherish make you want to get up & dance? Bands like Kansas, Chicago, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Doors, Aerosmith, etc are rock to me.