Glorious stripped-down version of Christopher Cross's "Sailing" you've likely never heard before

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Those poor people…

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The only version i’ll acknowledge

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Version?

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Version of the song, or cover. But I was half paying attention and i just realized its a different song altogether lol. Still, the terrible Sailing Away cover amuses me so i’ll keep it up here.

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Say what you will about Christopher Cross, but they were a breath of fresh air in a genre full of misogyny for the era, not to mention a band you could listen to in the car with your parents (Centerfold? The Stroke? Damn, I was pubescent teen in those days!). :man_shrugging:

Plus, who can hear the backstory for this song without getting a little misty-eyed?

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Hehe. It is more funner to imagine Sailing being sung ironically by Jack Black.

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I think I’ll stick with this nautical themed anthem for my sailing needs.

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I prefer his later stuff…

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So what did the release version with orchestra do, clarinets, violins, all that?

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that! was goddamn funny!
i now have a new anthem to top the onboard music playlist.

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I gather you’ve got a lot more Lonely Island to discover, e.g. “I Threw It On The Ground”. Rather than hijacking this thread with a playlist thereof I’ll put in only this nautical-adjacent one:

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Oh man I had to work hard to prevent my dad from hearing that song. He’d already given me crap for “Brick House”.

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I respect this so much, because it happened all the time and yes it looked friggin’ ridiculous. But this also is a perfect illustration of why I didn’t particularly care for a lot of synth early on, quite often it was transparently a cheap lazy substitute for orchestral pads. Obvs not talking about stuff like Throbbing Gristle or Kraftwerk or whatever. But in a lot of pop the synths slipped into the exact role that an orchestra of studio musicians had been in in decades earlier. What we should be asking is why his label was too cheap to hire a string section for these types of performances.