Fooled Around & Fell In Love by Elvin Bishop

 

This song, released in 1976, is a harbinger of some terrible things that would happen musically in the next decade.

1. 50s revivalism. Don't get me wrong, the 50s were full of great music, but the music that came out in the late 70s and early 80s that tried to bring those sounds back failed miserably. They were too polished, too produced and too slick. All the rough edges that made that earlier era great were destroyed by  the musicality and production of later wannabes. The retro rehashings were just a gaudy reiteration of already tired tropes.

2. This is the world's introduction to the guy who sang We Built This City On Rock And Roll, perhaps one of the worst songs of all time, aside from Old Time Rock & Roll by Bob Seger, which is also a shitty rehash of 50s music.

Finally, the lyrics are all based around an awful pun containing grade school level sexual innuendo. The entire thing is just a generic mess of horrific elements. It is a paint-by-numbers replica of R&B and Soul, neither of which deserved this.