A Note on My Brother, the Coach

The Cheese with a Capital C

Just to let you know, the Coach is the go to guy on all things cheese.

This is a guy who has the self proclaimed “calves of a Greek god.”

So, when he started playing with iTunes a few years ago, he started making some truly, ahem, interesting mixes such as The Best of the Hair Bands and Ultimate Cheese.

Ultimate Cheese was a compilation of some of the very worst songs ever to hit the airwaves in the 70s and 80s as far as I was concerned.

Ultimate Cheese

• Hello It’s Me by Todd Rundgren (The Coach recently attended a T. Rundgen concert)
• Everything I Own by Bread
• Summer Breeze by Seals & Crofts
• Nights Are Forever Without You by England Dan & John Ford Coley
• Leader of the Band by Dan Fogelberg (The Coach was terribly saddened by the recent, untimely death of the famed songwriter)
• Sailing by Christopher Cross
• She’s Gone by Daryl Hall & John Oates
• If You Don’t Know Me by Now by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
• Afternoon Delight by the Starland Vocal Band

So, I answered with my own version with a little help from my cabinet members: Gourmet Cheese, which is a list of those songs that, although cheesy, you can’t help yourself from singing along and secretly enjoying.

Gourmet Cheese

• True by Spandau Ballet
• Not Enough Time by INXS
• Mad About You by Belinda Carlisle
• Amie by Pure Prairie League
• Set Adrift On Memory Bliss by P.M. Dawn
• Into the Night by Benny Mardones (A submission by the MOD, he was very proud of himself)
• Play Me by Neil Diamond
• Better Days by the Goo Goo Dolls
• You’re the First, the Last, My Everything by Barry White (Doesn’t this make you hope that there’s a rerun of Ally McBeal on some channel?)
• More Than a Feeling by Boston
• She’s a Beauty by the Tubes (Another MOD pick)
• Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler (As an aside, I picked this one up off an album called “Mullets Rock!”)
• I Can’t Tell You Why by the Eagles
• All by Myself by Eric Carmen
• The Search Is Over by Survivor (I challenge you to find a cheesier song)
• Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover by Sophie B. Hawkins

Can you take this much cheese?

 

The Coach’s Offerings Part One: On George Michael, The Genius

The coach has a lot of time on his hands for idle thought lately…riding on the bus for roads trips, riding the lawnmower for hours on end at the field, etc. As such, I have come up with 2 completely unrelated random tidbits to share.

EDITORS NOTE: The BD will publish the second later on.

I recently saw a rerun of Pop-Up Video on VH1 Classic. These shows are filled with the useless bits of information I seem to soak up like a sponge. Anyway, I learned that George Michael wrote the lyrics to “Careless Whisper” at the age of 17.

 {OK, this is the point where our relationship is tested. If you don’t like these types of songs, you and I will have to part ways. If you do, we can be friends. And, as your friend, I recommend more cheese in your musical diet. You might message the B.D. for her “Gourmet Cheese Album” or I can give you my “Ultimate Cheese” list.} 

Anyway, my initial thought was “Big deal, who cares when he wrote it”. 

But after further reflection I realized the highlights of my seventeenth year included Beavis and Butthead and drinking beer by the lake in my parent’s backyard. 

So, if George Michael reads this (I like to believe he does), great job…though it’s easy to pretend, I know you’re not a fool. 

 

 

The Coach's Offerings Part One: On George Michael, The Genius

The coach has a lot of time on his hands for idle thought lately…riding on the bus for roads trips, riding the lawnmower for hours on end at the field, etc. As such, I have come up with 2 completely unrelated random tidbits to share.

EDITORS NOTE: The BD will publish the second later on.

I recently saw a rerun of Pop-Up Video on VH1 Classic. These shows are filled with the useless bits of information I seem to soak up like a sponge. Anyway, I learned that George Michael wrote the lyrics to “Careless Whisper” at the age of 17.

 {OK, this is the point where our relationship is tested. If you don’t like these types of songs, you and I will have to part ways. If you do, we can be friends. And, as your friend, I recommend more cheese in your musical diet. You might message the B.D. for her “Gourmet Cheese Album” or I can give you my “Ultimate Cheese” list.} 

Anyway, my initial thought was “Big deal, who cares when he wrote it”. 

But after further reflection I realized the highlights of my seventeenth year included Beavis and Butthead and drinking beer by the lake in my parent’s backyard. 

So, if George Michael reads this (I like to believe he does), great job…though it’s easy to pretend, I know you’re not a fool.