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| Chicago – Song For You Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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It wasn't credited, but it was the P.C. Moblee voice that showed up on Window Dreamin' and Aloha Mama on 13. |
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| Chicago – Manipulation Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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It's a shame that XIV was such a dud. This is heresy for most Chicago fans, but I think XIV had some good material. Yes, all of it is missing a certain "oomph" that most other albums had, it had it's high points, and this is one of them. |
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| Chicago – Woman Don't Want To Love Me Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Woman or Women? It's printed as "Women" on the original LP, and the Rhino re-release of Chicago VII, but on the Columbia CD release of VII, it's printed as "Woman", and the lyrics seem to hint that it's "Woman". |
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| Chicago – Uptown Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This song is AMAZING. Kath did a phenomenal job on Uptown. If this is the caliber of song we got just prior to his death, who knows what we could have heard had he lived. |
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| Chicago – Take Me Back To Chicago Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This was written by Danny Seraphine and David Wolinski in memory of drummer Freddy Page who had died in 1977, prior to XI's release. Page was a member of the Illinois Speed Press, another outfit owned by Chicago's then producer, James William Guercio. (Taken from the liner notes in the Rhino re-release of Chicago XI) |
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| Chicago – Little One Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Uhm, no, machw0. This was written by Danny Seraphine and David Wolinski for Danny's daughters. It was just sung by Terry Kath, making it more than a little tragic. |
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| Chicago – Baby, What a Big Surprise Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Someone please explain how THIS was the big hit off of XI. Look at Mississippi Delta City Blues, Till The End Of Time, Policeman, Take Me Back To Chicago, Vote For Me, Uptown, This Time, or Little One. Those are all FAR superior. |
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| Chicago – Feel Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Though I have yet to hear much of the 30th album besides this, this song gives me hope for a new, better Chicago than that from the late 80's-early 90's post-Peter Cetera era.
1969 - 1972 = Vintage Era
1972 - 1978 = Experimental Era
1978 - 1982 = Post-Terry Kath Era
1982 - 1989 = Peter Cetera Ballad Era
1989 - 1995 = Post-Peter Cetera Era
1995 - 2006 = Quiet Era
2006 - = New Era
That's my layout of Chicago's life into separate periods. |
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| Bob Dylan – The Man in Me Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This song (and most of The Big Lebowski, for that matter) reminds me so much of the start of my Freshman year of high school. I was becoming interested in Coen Brothers movies (I loved Fargo), and my dad happened to find this on a TV listing, so he recorded it, and we watched it. I thought it was hilarious, but I remember how this song stuck with me when it played during the opening sequence. |
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| Chicago – You're The Inspiration Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I cannot understand why this song is so well-liked. I can't stand this song, nor any of the other Peter Cetera ballads form the 1980's. Just... no.
Don't get me wrong, I'm an enormous Chicago fan, one of the biggest you will ever meet, but I hate this song. The TRUE Chicago fan, is the fan of the vintage stuff: 1969-1978. |
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| Chicago – State Of The Union Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I've always found the lyrics to this song rather comedic. I don't know if that was the intent, but that's how I feel. |
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| Chicago – Someday (August 29, 1968) Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I feel that "Prologue", "Someday", and "Liberation" on CTA were trying to do what "It Better End Soon" did for CII, only "It Better End Soon" pulled it off better. |
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| Chicago – Questions 67 And 68 Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This is a good, quality song off of the first album, but I've always thought it lacks the pizazz that so many other Chicago songs have. |
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| Chicago – Poem 58 Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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A fantastic guitar piece, but I think it was dragged on a bit too long. |
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| Chicago – Now That You've Gone Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This song will forever remain a testament for me as to how you get a lot of bang for your buck with Chicago. Here is a song off of Chicago V that I had completely forgotten, and for that matter never heard until recently (I had a small hard drive on my computer, so I had to exclude several songs from my iTunes library, unfortunately this was one), but when I heard it, I loved it. This song shows to me that even if there are songs that weren't hits, that you've never heard of, they can still blow your mind. |
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| Chicago – Mother Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I like the first minute or so, as well as the last, but I don't care a whole lot for the horn fusion in between. |
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| Chicago – Mongonucleosis Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Whoa, SALSA?!
A veherry unexpected experiment for Chicago, but a fantastic one at that. This is undoubtedly one of the best songs off of the seventh album. |
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| Chicago – Make Me Smile Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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The entire "Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon" suite shows off James Pankow's amazing composing abilities, but more so in the "Make Me Smile" suite. |
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| Chicago – Lowdown Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This song has changed a lot for me over the years. Upon my first times hearing it, I thought it was good, but just good. Well, I recently uncovered this song again a few months ago, and fell in love. This is undoubtedly in my top ten favorite Chicago songs. |
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| Chicago – Listen Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Washingtonnative91, you speak the absolute truth.
This is one of my favorite Chicago songs of all time. Whenever I hear this, I have this undying urge to get up, bob my head, and dance in all manner of disgrace, but I don't care. The song is just that good. |
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| Chicago – I'm A Man Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This is one of the few (if not the only) songs that Chicago did not write. I can't remember the original writers, but it has been redone several times. |
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| Chicago – Harry Truman Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I have to disagree with Warren67's comparison of Truman to Bush. Yes, Truman was very highly-looked upon posthumously, so to speak, but I don't think Bush will have the same effect.
According to interviews with band members, this song was heavily influenced by Randy Newman. |
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| Chicago – Goodbye Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think this piece has some of the best horn arranging of any Chicago song in their history. I love the horns on this piece, and I think they're at their absolute best. |
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| Chicago – Free Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I like the way this song was extended on Chicago IV (Carnegie Hall). This has always been one of my favorites, but I felt it was too short. |
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| Chicago – Flight 602 Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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On Chicago IV (Carnegie Hall), Robert Lamm gives a little background to this song, stating that it resembles their lives as musicians, traveling from place to place, having no real home, and it being "kind of a drag", as Lamm puts it. |
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| Chicago – Feelin' Stronger Every Day Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think this is the strongest track off of the sixth album. This is a song that before, I never gave much of a glance, but after listening to it by chance, I fell in love with it. |
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| Chicago – Fancy Colours Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I like to refer to this song as "Chicago's Drug Trip". Does that mean I think they're a bunch of stoners who were high on acid at the time they were writing this song? No. I simply mean it's just a strange, bizarre, out of the blue song. The wah-wah guitar and psychedelic horns and flutes add to that as well.
This song quickly became one of my favorites of theirs, mainly because of its upbeat feel. I think it's massively underrated. |
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| Chicago – Dialogue Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think this is one of Chicago's absolute BEST songs of all time. It's a great listen, it's something I could hear time and time again, day after day, but it's actually got a premise to it. Believe it or not, most songs don't tell stories like movies do, but Dialogue managed to.
The story is essentially two people: one a pessimist (Terry Kath), the other a blind (figuratively), apathetic optimist (Peter Cetera), who meet, discuss their political beliefs, and by the end of the song, come to be more hopeful and realistic. |
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| Chicago – Call On Me Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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If I am not mistaken, this is one of the first songs Lee Loughnane wrote for Chicago. |
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| Chicago – Beginnings Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I've always thought this was one of Chicago's best love songs. Why? Several reasons.
1. It's got a good melody.
2. Good rhythm/beat.
3. Good lyrics.
But most of all, it's not sappy, crappy, ballady, Peter Cetera stuff that dominated the 1980's. The story is so simple, sincere, and sweet. That's the main thing that sells it for me. It's not about how hot someone is, or "banging some chick", or anything like that. It's simply about the enjoyment and love of being with this person. If you ask me, that's a lot of what love is. |
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| Chicago – Anyway You Want Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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The little bluesy guitar riff that shows up twice is what saved this song for me. At first I thought it was nice, but a little repetitive. Just as I was about to change the song, that riff played, and I fell in love with it.
This is also one of the few Chicago songs I play (more or less) top to bottom on keyboard. The others being Saturday in the Park and DARKWTII. |
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| Chicago – Alive Again Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This song is a subtle tribute to Terry Kath, being the first track on the first album after his death. |
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| Chicago – Ain't It Time Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This is my favorite track off of Hot Streets. I think this is probably the closest Chicago has ever gotten to metal-ish rock. |
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