Eric Schmuckler

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Member Since: 8/16/2001
Total Mixes: 69
Total Feedback: 132

Other Mixes By Eric Schmuckler

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Have a Nice Decade II

Side A
Artist Song
the Flying Machine  Smile a Little Smile For Me 
Norman Greenbaum  Spirit in the Sky 
Alive & Kicking  Tighter, Tighter 
Bobby Bloom  Montego Bay 
Lynn Anderson  Rose Garden 
Wadsworth Mansion  Sweet Mary 
Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds  Don't Pull Your Love 
Tommy James  Draggin' the Line 
Lee Michaels  Do You Know What I Mean 
Apollo 100 featuring Tom Parker  Joy 
Gilbert O'Sullivan  Alone Again (Naturally) 
Gallery  I Believe in Music 
Albert Hammond  It Never Rains in Southern California 
Dobie Gray  Drift Away 
Stories  Brother Louie 
Side B
ArtistSongBuy
Blue Swede  Hooked on a Feeling 
Jim Stafford  Spiders & Snakes 
Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods  Who Do You Think You Are 
Billy Swan  I Can Help 
Ace  How Long 
Gary Wright  Dream Weaver 
Maxine Nightingale  Right Back Where We Started From 
Orleans  Still the One 
Climax Blues Band  Couldn't Get It Right 
Bonnie Tyler  It's a Heartache 
Ram Jam  Black Betty 
Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman  Stumblin' In 
John Stewart  Gold 
City Boy  5.7.0.5. 
   

Comment:

You were warned. The inevitable sequel to the highly successful highlights mix of Rhino's awe-inspiring 'Have a Nice Day' series. A smidgen less undeniable than Vol. 1 perhaps, but only just. Okay, I fell back on ringers such as 'Still the One' and 'Alone Again, Naturally,' and if you must dismiss 'Rose Garden' and 'It Never Rains in Southern California' as MOR crap, well, your point is not wholly lacking in merit. But this is pure pop pleasure from stem to stern, every song a smart bomb of joy direct to your primordial top 40 consciousness. All my forty-plus friends more or less died from delight listening to these tapes, and if you're a twentysomething sneering at this, i don't envy you your future nostalgia. I think Blue Swede said it best: 'Oohga-chaka, oohga-chaka, oohga-chaka, oohga-chaka...' You can't argue with that.

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Ken Harris
Date: 4/20/2003
All great stuff...I've made similar comps using the same Rhino sources and have derived endless listening pleasure...Here, here to the pop song!
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magickitty
Date: 4/21/2003
Hee: I love this one!!!
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valis
Date: 4/21/2003
Bravo Eric...., I'll gracefully dance around the songs you've singled out for comment; great stuff.....the Ace song is pure magic, the Gilbert track always stops me, and Billy Swan hit it on the head!
It was a decade...
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Rob Conroy
Date: 4/21/2003
This looks good to me. I did a two-volume set that was something like this, "Get some sleep and dream of rock 'n' roll". I'd be interested in hearing what you think.