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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3105 on: May 22, 2011, 11:29:30 AM »
Holding Back The Years...ah, what Purgatory sounds like!  Another song I appreciate more now...prolly 'cos I'm pushing 40.  Heh.

I wish my mom invented Liquid Paper.  Damn you, Mike Nesmith!  :P

ZZ Top's "Rough Boy".  There's a joke in there somewhere, I know it!  There's something about this song I like.  VHM.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3106 on: May 22, 2011, 11:42:38 AM »
WOS4 Starship -- again I ask, how is "We Built This City" the worst-song-ever when virtually ALL their '80s singles are worse than "WBTC"??

BOS2 Mater, Pater, and Simply Red. VHM ZZT's dead-on Eagles homage/parody.


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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3107 on: May 22, 2011, 11:46:31 AM »
WOS4 Starship -- again I ask, how is "We Built This City" the worst-song-ever when virtually ALL their '80s singles are worse than "WBTC"??

BOS2 Mater, Pater, and Simply Red. VHM ZZT's dead-on Eagles homage/parody.


uber-BOS3 Sade; BOS4 HoJo
Agreed.  "Never As Good As The First Time" is one of her best songs, IMO (but not better than "Is It A Crime?") 
I forgot how good "No One Is To Blame" is.  What ever happened to HoJo?

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3108 on: May 22, 2011, 11:46:49 AM »
VHMs to Simply Red, Sade and HoJo.  This set is full of fond memories.  (And I'm alone here in liking "I Wanna Be a Cowboy" too.)
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3109 on: May 22, 2011, 11:48:10 AM »
George Michael was *22* when he wrote "A Different Corner."  Damn.  Too bad he lost all his urge to create a decade later, what a shame.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3110 on: May 22, 2011, 11:49:00 AM »
ZZT's dead-on Eagles homage

I never thought of this - but damn, you're right.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3111 on: May 22, 2011, 11:49:22 AM »
George M's "Different Corner" seemed impossibly wimpy to me at the time. But it sounds quite lovely this morning. Unexpected BOS5.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3112 on: May 22, 2011, 11:49:34 AM »
George Michael was *22* when he wrote "A Different Corner."  Damn.  Too bad he lost all his urge to create a decade later, what a shame.

I knoooow, right?  22!  BOS5.

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3113 on: May 22, 2011, 11:51:11 AM »
ZZT's dead-on Eagles homage

I never thought of this - but damn, you're right.

First time I heard it I thought it was a Glenn Frey solo thing. (Frey *wishes* he could write a ballad that non-smarmy)
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3114 on: May 22, 2011, 11:59:04 AM »
What on *earth* is this ("flip, flop, fly"?) retro number being played as a Canadian extra?
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3115 on: May 22, 2011, 11:59:37 AM »
What on *earth* is this ("flip, flop, fly"?) retro number being played as a Canadian extra?

Never mind, the player's finally showing the info.  Never heard of the Downchild Blues Band.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3116 on: May 22, 2011, 12:02:12 PM »
"Nothin' At All" certainly *sounds* like the fourth single from an album.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3117 on: May 22, 2011, 12:06:46 PM »
"Nothin' At All" certainly *sounds* like the fourth single from an album.

On this we can all agree. WOS5.  And WOS6 Billy Ocean's cupful of treacle.

But BOS6 the Jets.
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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3118 on: May 22, 2011, 12:16:20 PM »
VHM The Jets "Crush On You".  I didn't love hearing it as much as I did then.

BOS6 "Addicted To Love".  Real horns!

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Re: Casey Kasem American Top 40
« Reply #3119 on: May 22, 2011, 12:22:46 PM »
"I never wanted to be a man", sez Boy George. Well, duh.  VHM the unfairly forgotten "Move Away"

hey soul sister, ain't that Mr Mister?  WOS7 "Is it Love?"; WOS8 Journey; VHM Level 42.
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