All that bad singing has given me a sore throat....

...so I cleaned my apartment.

Ambrosia, "How Much I Feel"
On: Life Beyond L.A. (1978)
What the song is about: A relationship in which the parties are better off apart, but being hung up on it well after it's over.
Why I played it as I was dusting: I know it's lame, but I love 70s and 80s soft rock-- Journey, Foreigner, Hall ad Oats...yes, these groups are usually considered to be super saccharine, but I enjoy killer pop hooks and lead singers with beastly voices. Ambrosia probably isn't considered the biggest and baddest of these pop/rock arena bands (that honor would go to Steve Perry & Co.) but they have always been my favorite. Their music is a little less cheese-tastic than that of their peers; I don't feel so embarrassed when someone looks through my ipod and sees "How Much I Feel" versus "I Wanna Know What Love Is".
My favorite lyrics... I've always appreciated the frankness of "How Much I Feel". A lot of times songs about relationships are 1) saddled with metaphors or 2) describe what is going on in an overblown way. In this song, the love has died, no one is happy, and there is no need to dress it up: "Well you try to stay in the middle/ And the you cry just a little/ And then you both realize just how foolish you've been/ And you try to make amends/ But you're better off as friends."
....But my favorite part of the song is always: Whenever David Pack belts, "THAT'S HOWWWWWW MUUUUCCCCCHHHH!!!!"