February 12, 2010

Radar Love - Golden Earring (1974)

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[1970-1974 Best Songs]

Billboard Top 100, 1974, #64 Golden Earring - Moontan - Radar Love

Minimalism. Radar Love is just pure, simple Rock N' Roll. Most of the song is a guitar, a bass and drums. A bit of horns is thrown in for a bigger crescendo toward the end. Nothing else - no strings, no synthesizers, no backup singers.

The raw, deliberately UNDER-produced sound makes it stand out among the songs of its day. It also leaves little room for error. Kind of like a model without her makeup: she's got to be extraordinary.

All I can think of is Raquel Welch... (really, that's all I can think of.)

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