Any favorite "mellow rock" songs?

I like the sound and feeling of the music from the 70s and early 80s.

Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
Seals and Croft - Summer Breeze
Christopher Cross - Sailing
Little River Band - Reminiscing
TOTO - Africa
Lindsay Buckingham - Trouble
Steve Perry - Oh Sherry
Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You
The Motels - Only the Lonely
Chicago - if You Leave Me Now
10cc - I'm Not In Love
Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin

I think the Little River Band has some excellent tunes.

Most of the ones you listed already.
If I'd Been the One-38 Special
This Could be the Right One-April Wine
Drift Away-Dobie Gray
Thunder Island-Jay Ferguson

007 wrote:

I think the Little River Band has some excellent tunes.

I kid you not, walked into work yesterday morning and my boss was blasting LRB from his computer speakers.

I have always loved Player's "Baby Come Back" as it is just catchy as hell. And Van Morrison's "Moondance" has always been a fave.

I think my liking those songs now is mostly nostalgia from my younger days, but I gotta admit... the music was extremely memorable and catchy.

Eye In the Sky by Alan Parsons Project is another good one.

CSN-Southern Cross is one that makes me stop and listen.

Gordon Lightfoot-The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Chris De Burg-Don't Pay the Ferryman

^ Both are great songs.

anything from Mr. Reality

007 wrote:

I think the Little River Band has some excellent tunes.

They do! I saw them live when I was in college and they were great. The harmonies were spot on.

Boy there are a lot of good songs listed in this thread.

One I haven't seen yet is:

Marc Cohn - "Walking In Memphis"

I have a special place in my heart for this song because when it was popular I was sent to Sweden in February for 10 days. It was freakin' cold over there! And you couldn't get any decent food. All the produce was wilted because it had to be trucked in from other locations and all the meat was smothered in some kind of sauce. Plus where I had to hole up was in a little town called Edsbyn which was about 3 hours south of Stockholm by train and finding people who spoke English was a challenge.

Anyway, when my plane back finally touched down at Memphis airport, "Walking In Memphis" happened to be playing on the PA system and I'd never heard it sound sooooo good.

The Sweden experience was fun but I was sure glad to get back home.

I could list so so many but:

Lindsey Buckingham-Trouble
Chicago-No Tell Lover
John Lennon-Woman (not much for Lennon though)
Wings-Silly Love Songs
Eagles-I Can’t Tell You Why
Poco-In The Heart Of The Night
.38 Special-One Time For Old Times
Captain Beyond-Starglow Energy
Gary Wright-Dream Weaver
Moody Blues-Nights In White Satin
Bread-Baby I’m A Want You
Glen Frey-The One You Love
Atlanta Rhythm Section-Imaginary Lover
Hall & Oates-Sara Smile
Don Henley-Love Rules (not much for Henley)
Jackson Browne-Somebody’s Baby

Troublezone wrote:

I like the sound and feeling of the music from the 70s and early 80s.

Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
Seals and Croft - Summer Breeze
Christopher Cross - Sailing
Little River Band - Reminiscing
TOTO - Africa
Lindsay Buckingham - Trouble
Steve Perry - Oh Sherry
Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You
The Motels - Only the Lonely
Chicago - if You Leave Me Now
10cc - I'm Not In Love
Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin

Pretty much all of these and many others already mentioned. I would also have to mention "Magic" by Olivia Newton John and "Steal Away" by Robbie Dupree. Throw in Greatest American Hero Theme by Joey Scarbury for good fun.

One more



All of these songs take me back to being a kid.

America-Sister Golden Hair
Rod Stewart-You Wear It Well
Fleetwood Mac-Sentimental Lady (better than Bob Welch’s solo version)
Bob Welch-Ebony Eyes

I haven’t even gotten to Soul/R&B from the ‘70s because I’d have a huge list but i’ll List 2:

Smokey Robinson-Being With You
Delegation-Oh Honey

tohostudios wrote:

Boy there are a lot of good songs listed in this thread.

One I haven't seen yet is:

Marc Cohn - "Walking In Memphis"

I have a special place in my heart for this song because when it was popular I was sent to Sweden in February for 10 days. It was freakin' cold over there!  And you couldn't get any decent food.  All the produce was wilted because it had to be trucked in from other locations and all the meat was smothered in some kind of sauce.  Plus where I had to hole up was in a little town called Edsbyn which was about 3 hours south of Stockholm by train and finding people who spoke English was a challenge.

Anyway, when my plane back finally touched down at Memphis airport, "Walking In Memphis" happened to be playing on the PA system and I'd never heard it sound sooooo good.  

The Sweden experience was fun but I was sure glad to get back home.

Not a fan of Swedish meatballs?  

Atlanta Rhythm Section - So Into You

Ambrosia - How Much I Feel

So smooth vocal harmonies isn't passe for those who like metal now?

And of coarse Sabbath had two of the greatest songs ever.

Solitude and Planet Caravan.

David Bowie - China Girl
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
U2 - With or Without You

Chris Isaac - Wicked Game
Paul Young - Every Time You Go Away
The Cars - Drive
Mr. Mister - Broken Wings
Spandau Ballet - True
Simply Red - Holding Back the Years
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
Kool and the Gang - Cherish
The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger
Heart - These Dreams

Leatherface wrote:

Chris De Burg-Don't Pay the Ferryman

My fav karaoke song!

Troublezone wrote:

David Bowie - China Girl
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
U2 - With or Without You

That's a good call with Gabriel.  I think the man is a musical genius.  His music is quirky yet memorable at the same time and that's a difficult feat to pull off.   The "Melting Face" album is one of my favorite "non-hard music" albums of all time.

Take this song for example. So weird yet so catchy at the same time: