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Main Discussion Area => Regional 10@10's across the time zones! => Topic started by: RGMike on May 26, 2005, 07:45:49 AM
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Looks like we're not blocked today!
BTW here's what we missed yesterday -- 10 by Styx:
1. Styx - Too Much Time on My Hands
2. Styx - Renegade
3. Styx - Suite Madame Blue
4. Styx - Find the Cost/Can't Find My Way Home
5. Styx - Fooling Yourself
6. Styx - Crystal Ball
7. Styx - The Grand Illusion
8. Styx - Loreli
9. Styx - Come Sail Away
10. Styx - Blue Collar @ 2120
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What's "Blue Collar @ 2120"? A remix/re-recording? Shame on them for not kicking off with "Light Up."
And now, HM to Bowie for 1975, that opening kills me every time. Stiffest dance track ever recorded -- I can't imagine how people danced to this back in the day, though I'm sure they did.
Any chance we'll get "Fawwin' in Love"?
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I think "Wildfire" is a sweet if sleepy song, but I'm forever reminded of a bitchy line in a Dave Barry column about his use of "killing frost" to describe the storm: "Killing Frost refers to your vegetables," the contributor noted, "and no one would get lost in one that wouldn't get lost in the middle of summer."
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What's "Blue Collar @ 2120"? A remix/re-recording?
it's an "unplugged" version included on their new collection of covers. 2120, I presume, is a small club in Chicagoland.
OMG! "Wildfire", one of the most underrated singles of the '70s IMHO. Why this consistently shows up on HFH lists is beyond me. Great death imagery & symbolism.
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I think "Wildfire" is a sweet if sleepy song, but I'm forever reminded of a bitchy line in a Dave Barry column about his use of "killing frost" to describe the storm: "Killing Frost refers to your vegetables," the contributor noted, "and no one would get lost in one that wouldn't get lost in the middle of summer."
Er, actually...
"In a blizzard he was lost". I always assumed the blizzard followed the frost.
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"can't catch me 'cause the rabbit done died"
got a bit tired of this one when it briefly replaced "Killer Queen" as KFOG's top oldie, great track tho' it is.
Yay! "Magneto & Titanium Man"!! And the Crimson Dynamo came along for the ride...
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I've never heard this Wings song before. Not sure why he lapses into his "hoarse-throated from singing all night" persona on an otherwise genteel song.
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Ah, "Love Hurts" -- so irresistible to over-sing this, it must be an American Idol favorite. Magnificent songwriting (and I was never ga-ga over Felice and Boudleaux Bryant).
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Where's Beej?!? It's time for a BBBBLLLIIITTZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!
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BOS: Carlton Fisk!
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makes me think of the first time I saw this assemblage at a Day On The Green back then; their first gig.
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I hate posting this many times in a row, but I have to show some more love to "Why Can't We Be Friends?" since there are many who don't like it. I understand the feeling -- it is a novelty song, and "sometimes I don't speak right / but yet I know what I'm talking about" isn't exactly poetry -- but I don't understand how one can listen to the refrain and not come out smiling at the end.
POW!
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I hate posting this many times in a row, but I have to show some more love to "Why Can't We Be Friends?" since there are many who don't like it. I understand the feeling -- it is a novelty song, and "sometimes I don't speak right / but yet I know what I'm talking about" isn't exactly poetry -- but I don't understand how one can listen to the refrain and not come out smiling at the end.
POW!
I despised this song at one time, the repeating refrain used to drive me nuts. But somewhere along the line my feelings for the song changed. It DOES make me smile now, every time. And really, why CAN"T we be friends?
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I hate posting this many times in a row, but I have to show some more love to "Why Can't We Be Friends?" since there are many who don't like it. I understand the feeling -- it is a novelty song, and "sometimes I don't speak right / but yet I know what I'm talking about" isn't exactly poetry -- but I don't understand how one can listen to the refrain and not come out smiling at the end.
POW!
agreed -- Ah loves me some "why can't we be friends?" -- tho' the remake (Sugar Ray? Smash Mouth? Sugar Smash?) was unnecessary.
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WOS to Wildfire. No good critical reason, I just hate the way it sounds. Weepy crap, and when he goes "WI iiiii iii iii lllddddd fiiiiiiiiii errrrrrr" it makes me ill.
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I hate posting this many times in a row, but I have to show some more love to "Why Can't We Be Friends?" since there are many who don't like it. I understand the feeling -- it is a novelty song, and "sometimes I don't speak right / but yet I know what I'm talking about" isn't exactly poetry -- but I don't understand how one can listen to the refrain and not come out smiling at the end.
POW!
agreed -- Ah loves me some "why can't we be friends?" -- tho' the remake (Sugar Ray? Smash Mouth? Sugar Smash?) was unnecessary.
It was Smash Mouth, in one of many unnecessary and unlistenable covers from them. ("Can't Get Enough of You Baby" was the only one they did right.)
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It was Smash Mouth, in one of many unnecessary and unlistenable covers from them. ("Can't Get Enough of You Baby" was the only one they did right.)
indeed, "Can't..." suited them -- but the '80s cover by Colourfield is still better. Oddly, I don't think I've ever heard the original by ? & the Mysterians. But I'd like to.
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WOS to Wildfire. No good critical reason, I just hate the way it sounds. Weepy crap, and when he goes "WI iiiii iii iii lllddddd fiiiiiiiiii errrrrrr" it makes me ill.
it is kind of the antithesis of Rockin' Rod, eh?
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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I think "Wildfire" is a sweet if sleepy song, but I'm forever reminded of a bitchy line in a Dave Barry column about his use of "killing frost" to describe the storm: "Killing Frost refers to your vegetables," the contributor noted, "and no one would get lost in one that wouldn't get lost in the middle of summer."
Er, actually...
"In a blizzard he was lost". I always assumed the blizzard followed the frost.
I always thought Wildfire borrowed heavily (in theme if not melody) from Roger McGuinn's supremely silly horse song, Chestnut Mare. Now if you want illogical lyrics, Michael Murphey's got nothing on ol' Rodg. (But for the record, I do like both songs.)
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I always thought Wildfire borrowed heavily (in theme if not melody) from Roger McGuinn's supremely silly horse song, Chestnut Mare. Now if you want illogical lyrics, Michael Murphey's got nothing on ol' Rodg. (But for the record, I do like both songs.)
I've only heard that song once in my life, but it creeped me out something FIERCE. "I'm gonna catch that horse if I can / I'm gonna make that horse wear my brand," or something like that? Someone call PETA!
And if my ears don't deceive, Fleetwood Mac later nicked that pretty opening for their moderate hit "As Long as You Follow," the single from their (1989?) greatest-hits comp.
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WOS to Wildfire. No good critical reason, I just hate the way it sounds. Weepy crap, and when he goes "WI iiiii iii iii lllddddd fiiiiiiiiii errrrrrr" it makes me ill.
it is kind of the antithesis of Rockin' Rod, eh?
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Well, I suppose. Though I like plenty of songs that are slow and pretty, or sappy and sad. Like 'Vincent.' or 'Love Hurts.' or 'Dust in the Wind.' But dammit, 'Wildfire' is TWO SYLLABLES, not 15.
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I always thought Wildfire borrowed heavily (in theme if not melody) from Roger McGuinn's supremely silly horse song, Chestnut Mare. Now if you want illogical lyrics, Michael Murphey's got nothing on ol' Rodg. (But for the record, I do like both songs.)
I've only heard that song once in my life, but it creeped me out something FIERCE. "I'm gonna catch that horse if I can / I'm gonna make that horse wear my brand," or something like that? Someone call PETA!.
Or call NOW, since it always struck me as a metaphor (horse = elusive woman). It was a big big song on early-'70s NYC prog FM. Haven't heard it on the radio since moving to SF.
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I always thought Wildfire borrowed heavily (in theme if not melody) from Roger McGuinn's supremely silly horse song, Chestnut Mare. Now if you want illogical lyrics, Michael Murphey's got nothing on ol' Rodg. (But for the record, I do like both songs.)
I've only heard that song once in my life, but it creeped me out something FIERCE. "I'm gonna catch that horse if I can / I'm gonna make that horse wear my brand," or something like that? Someone call PETA!.
Or call NOW, since it always struck me as a metaphor (horse = elusive woman). It was a big big song on early-'70s NYC prog FM. Haven't heard it on the radio since moving to SF.
Great Song; can't say I've ever heard it on KFOG. Sounds like a good one for 10@10