From 1973 (and The Midnight Special) please enjoy -- if that's the word -- Netherlands prog-rockers Focus making the world safe for demented yodeling with their international smash hit "Hocus Pocus."
Prog with a sense of humor or just a complete piece of pretentious crap -- YOU make the call.
Personally, I always thought that Tales from Topographic Oceans was pretty funny, but then again -- as Chuck Barris famously said, what do I know, I like cold toilet seats.
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This pretty amazing, really. It's got riffs and the yodeling is funny and not a joke at the same time.
It's kinda like "Frankenstein" by the Edgar Winter Group. A reminder that once there were chops evident on top 40.
prog with a sense of H
As I said over at Facebook -- I appreciate this one on the level of a novelty record, but I remain unconvinced they meant the yodeling to be funny.
If you like prog, the Focus catalog is pretty deep. Fun is fun, yodeling or no.
Entertaining, but I can't imagine a whole concert of the group. The yodeling isn't really funny, but I would have liked to see Andy Kaufman doing it.
I liked the tune when it first came out, but it got overplayed on the radio to the point I couldn't stand the tune. Same with EWG's Frankenstein.
The Dutch "invasion" continued this very fall with Anne Soldaat's new album. His second recorded with and mixed by Jason Falkner, so the power pop credentials are sterling.
Seymour Stein or someone at Sire heard a hit in this and they were right. Pretentious? No way.
Oh, they're just having fun. And you can't say they ain't musicians! (Won't someone give the drummer some?)
Once you go Dutch, you won't go much. Also.
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