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Ballads or Rockers?
Most groups align themselves as either a hard band or a soft band. The Rolling Stones were a hard band, The Mamas and the Papas were a soft band. Cream was a hard band, Peter and Gordon were a soft band.
I guarantee you that if you search YouTube you’d find the groups who cover Cream never do a song by Peter and Gordon. The groups who cover the Stones don’t do the Mamas and Papas.
I understand there was this group from Liverpool who were similar. They covered Twist and Shout at the same time they were doing Til There Was You. And of course they confused their audience and haven’t been heard of since.
I have been surprised by how hard the Twins can rock. Their ballads are so beautiful, the harmonies so perfect that one almost wishes they would only do ballads. But Revolution rocks so hard, Hey Bulldog has so much kick that you only want rockers from the girls.
I’ve got it!! Mona- Lisa— no sleep!! We want new music daily- you can give us a nice combination of ballads and rockers, originals and covers- you can start singing the telephone directory- we don’t care.
But of course we do care. It’s tough to make interesting, wonderful music. The reason your music is all that is you guys put everything into it every time! And all of us here know that and are so appreciative!
Do you guys as fans have a preference between the rockers and ballads?
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I prefer rockers but Mona & Lisa have such awesome voices I like their slower songs almost as much.
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I ‘m not partial to just any genre they do… As long as the Lyrics… Instrumentation… & etc “Come Together” and it moves people… Strikes A Chord…One Tunes in… Then that is all that matters…MLT effectively do all genres they’ ve done equally superb ????????????????????????????????❤️
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I’ve always seen MLT as rockers more than a soft rock group, but they do ballads so wonderfully as we all know when they want to. When they released Orange, “Still a Friend of Mine”, and “Count on Me”, to me were a new depth in beautiful ballads they went into with their original music that blew me away. They are like the Beatles or Rolling Stones, more a rocker band to me, but when they want to, they can do incredible ballads.
It’s only my opinion, but it seems all the great bands that have a lot of musical depth lean more towards the harder rock and roll side of the spectrum, but do ballads incredibly well when they want, like “Yesterday” (Beatles), “Angie” (Rolling Stones), “Stair Way to Heaven” (Led Zeppelin). Groups that generally focus on ballads seem to get labeled or stuck there as a soft rock group like Air Supply, Carpenters, and Barry Manilow.
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Reminds me of an ancient SNL skit: “It’s a dessert topping!” “No, it’s a floor wax!!” “No, its’ really both!!” MLT is both rockers and balladeers, e.g., Johnny Be Good, If I Fell, God Only Knows, Revolution. The Beatles were both, e.g., Yesterday, Helter Skelter, I’m Down, In My Life. And there are multiple examples for the Beatles and MLT that come from both genres. MIke.
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