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Stuck on the Border
Re: Celebration of Airborne
Good heavens Soda. The song name Gloria for me means Van Morrison/Them's Gloria ('and her name is G - L - etc') but I take it you mean Laura Branigan's song.
I have this album on CD so I can rank it.
1. Neve Surrender
2. Asphalt Jungle
3. Haywire
4. Still Alive
5. Night Owl
6. Who Tonight
7. Bad Girls
8. Winners
Only 8 tracks!
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Stuck on the Border
Re: Celebration of Airborne
I was wondering what you all thought of the lyrics. I listened to them for the first time recently and my first impresions are
1) Better lyrics than I expected and more coherent than many of his contempories.
2) Yuk! I'm not sure why I felt like this but possibly because they are mostly third person commentaries on casual sexual encounters. It makes them somewhat voyeuristic (or maybe I'm influenced by the Bad Girls video).
I can see them as a following on from some of the Eagles songs such as Those Shoes and Victim of Love. It seems stranger that this married, family man is writing that kind of song.
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Stuck on the Border
Re: Celebration of Airborne
I think it may be because he's trying to sound 'hip' and 'contemporary' so perhaps he thought the lyrics needed to sound 'streetwise'. Some of them do echo Eagles songs in which he was prominent. I agree with your comments about the content being mainly about sexual encounters. The only song which appears to address his own relationship, Still Alive, is OK at best.
I prefer this album to Road To Forever. I think the singing is better & the guitar work is more prominent. RTF may attempt to be more personal but some of it jars with me for various reasons.
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