18 Sept 2014: it's...1987

[RGMike]

I obviously missed this, but what is the months-long pattern?

generally, each week it's 2 '70s years, 2 '80s years and one from either '60s, '90s or '00s. Theme sets (I think) take the place of one of the '80s. Tomorrow will tell.  And based on length of time since last visit... '79 is a good guess.

looking at the other 10@10s... KFOG remains the only rock station that does '00s sets... The Drive and The Sound have '89 as their cutoff, it seems, and The Peak goes as far as 1999.

[Big Fingers McGee]

Perhaps a train-themed set could include the Quad City DJ's doing "C'mon And Ride (The Train)".

We can hope, I think.

I wonder if in the case Train wasn't played so damn much if the 10@10/GS community would have such revulsion about them. I tend to think not.

[CapnJack]

9/18/14  Thursday!!  Music is Everywhere in...1987!!

   1.  Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper- Elvis Is Everywhere
(Movie: Good Morning, Vietnam)
   2.  John Hiatt- Memphis In the Meantime
   3.  Lyle Lovett- M-O-N-E-Y
(News: Stock market crash)
   4.   Steve Miller- I Want to Make the World Turn Around
   5.  Lone Justice- Shelter (B.O.S!)
(Movie: Moonstruck)
   6.  David Bowie- Never Let Me Down
   7.  Michael Jackson- The Way You Make Me Feel
(Movie: Good Morning, Vietnam)
   8.  INXS- Devil Inside
(News: Evangelical scandals)
   9.  The Damned- Alone Again Or
(Movie: Good Morning, Vietnam)
 10.  The Replacements- Alex Chilton

[Big Fingers McGee]

Prediction: 1979

Ding Ding Ding!

[dischead]

2. John Hiatt - Memphis in the Meantime

One of my favorite Hiatt tunes.  He seems to capture my frustration with KFOG's shift towards
the singer-songwriter genre and softer rock:

"Sure I like country music and I like mandolins,
But right now I need a telecaster through a Vibrolux turned up to ten"

and

"'Cause one more heartfelt steel guitar chord -- girl, it's gonna do me in
I need to hear some trumpet and saxophone, you know sound as sweet as sin"

[Big Fingers McGee]

2. John Hiatt - Memphis in the Meantime

One of my favorite Hiatt tunes.  He seems to capture my frustration with KFOG's shift towards
the singer-songwriter genre and softer rock:

"Sure I like country music and I like mandolins,
But right now I need a telecaster through a Vibrolux turned up to ten"

and

"'Cause one more heartfelt steel guitar chord -- girl, it's gonna do me in
I need to hear some trumpet and saxophone, you know sound as sweet as sin"

Hiatt is very near the top of my personal list of Guilty Displeasures.

[Here'sToYa!]

Prediction: 1979

Ding Ding Ding!

Day late and a dollar short