Chicago used to actually make GOOD music<\/a>.\u00a0 Yes, you read that right.<\/p>\nMy memories of Chicago go way back.\u00a0 And they ain’t good memories.\u00a0 At my first job, I was forced to endure Muzak, which included Chicago’s 80s hits.\u00a0 Holy fuck they stink.\u00a0 Peter Cetera is the Devil.<\/p>\n
I take that back.\u00a0 I’m sorry, Mr. Cetera.\u00a0 You probably aren’t Satan.\u00a0 Probably.<\/p>\n
Actually, if you’re grooving right the fuck out to this here song from 1971 – and you best be grooving right the fuck out kid – That’s Peter Cetera singing.\u00a0 Even he made kick-fucking-ass music!<\/p>\n
See, Chicago used to make jazzy rock with horns.\u00a0 They made about 5 albums like that.\u00a0 Quite a lot of music actually because their first several albums were double albums.\u00a0 And this kind of stuff is right up my street…. it’s even – dare I say – progressive.<\/p>\n
And I really like the guitarist too.\u00a0 Hendrix did also… just before he died.\u00a0 And Terry Kath died too early too, and it’s an extremely sad story, so Google it up if you want to know the details.<\/p>\n
But wow.\u00a0 Who knew?\u00a0 Awesome music from 1969 to 1972.\u00a0 Then again in 1974.\u00a0 And everything after that is downhill… and then the 80s hit and GOD HELP US ALL IT’S THE THREE HEADED HOUND OF HELL CERBEROUS!!!!<\/p>\n
Seriously, if you like the song you just heard… you probably won’t like any of the music that most Chicago fans like.<\/p>\n
Schmaltzy, safe, maudlin, sappy, saccharine pap.<\/p>\n
Well, fuck.\u00a0 This certainly was worth the time you spend reading, wasn’t it?\u00a0 I like to think that I can chip away at the lives of many that way.\u00a0 I will steal your minutes.\u00a0 You will never have them again.\u00a0 Ha!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Oh, joy.\u00a0 Oh, happiness and wonderment, etc.\u00a0 Et-Cetera. Robotman is blogging again!\u00a0 Aren’t we all lucky!\u00a0 I’ll tell you something, Buster, I’m pretty fucking lucky.\u00a0 I no longer have to get up so damn early to get to work early and get home late because I leave work late because of traffic because of construction […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,12],"tags":[101,405,406,57],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-song-of-the-day","tag-70s","tag-chicago","tag-jazz-fusion","tag-progressive-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}