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Title: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: urth on June 23, 2009, 10:02:18 AM
My gut feeling is to check out LA, but I should probably hang to see what AL comes up with. U2 leads, One Tree Hill.
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: RGMike on June 23, 2009, 10:03:02 AM
AL hits the *other* worst-year-on-the-wheel.  Fingers crossed...
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: RGMike on June 23, 2009, 10:03:43 AM
My gut feeling is to check out LA, but I should probably hang to see what AL comes up with. U2 leads, One Tree Hill.

LA did '86 yesterday, so chances are today will be something decent there.

ETA: apparently it's '74 in LA.
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: urth on June 23, 2009, 10:07:04 AM
U2 leads, One Tree Hill.

Is this the live version? Not sounding like the one KFOG plays all the time, and the player isn't showing the title.
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: RGMike on June 23, 2009, 10:08:21 AM
U2 leads, One Tree Hill.

Is this the live version? Not sounding like the one KFOG plays all the time, and the player isn't showing the title.

sounded the same to me.

and 2 Morey faves in a row: BoDeans.
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: RGMike on June 23, 2009, 10:11:28 AM
BOS Brooooce, "All That Patti Will Allow".  Is this a bustout? Certainly rare.
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: Tinka Cat on June 23, 2009, 10:12:45 AM
like the U2 -- great album.  not always a huge Bo Deans fan, tho
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: urth on June 23, 2009, 10:12:57 AM

and 2 Morey faves in a row: BoDeans.

But Only Love shows up just once in the DB. Dreams was by far Dave's go-to choice in '87.

BOS Bruce, All That Heaven Will Allow.
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: urth on June 23, 2009, 10:14:24 AM
BOS Brooooce, "All That Patti Will Allow".  Is this a bustout? Certainly rare.

Two previous appearances--'05 and '07.

Big ups for the segue from Dan Rather calling out Jerry Falwell and Jim Bakker into XTC's Dear God.
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: mshray on June 23, 2009, 10:14:26 AM
BOS Brooooce, "All That Patti Will Allow".  Is this a bustout? Certainly rare.

two previous appearances in the Db.

BOS XTC!

ETA: hard to believe Dave only played this once before!
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: urth on June 23, 2009, 10:17:04 AM
BOS Brooooce, "All That Patti Will Allow".  Is this a bustout? Certainly rare.

two previous appearances in the Db.

BOS XTC!

ETA: hard to believe Dave only played this once before!

And that was 4+ years ago--I coulda sworn...
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: RGMike on June 23, 2009, 10:17:15 AM

BOS XTC!

ETA: hard to believe Dave only played this once before!

VERY hard to believe.

I always mondegreened "still believing that junk is true" as "still believe in that Chunky Soup"
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: RGMike on June 23, 2009, 10:17:46 AM
Dave left his Jim'n'Tammy clips behind...
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: RGMike on June 23, 2009, 10:18:48 AM
BOS2 New Order.

"when I was a very young boy
Michael Jackson talked to me..."
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: Tinka Cat on June 23, 2009, 10:19:39 AM
BOS Dear God -- ----------------------------------------

I dohn't shop fer cars..  I dohn't shop fer mehnk coahts!

Also, VHM to the shout out for TJ Maxx.  It's like a more glamorous CRoss Dress For Less
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: mshray on June 23, 2009, 10:19:46 AM
BOS #2 New Order, a different mix to my ear.

and "True Faith" makes another good segue from the continuing Bakker clips.
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: radical347 on June 23, 2009, 10:20:43 AM
So far, yawn...but still I'm optimistic.  At least half the set to go.

XTC gets a WOS.  This song shows a complete lack of respect for human willpower.

Ooh wait, what's this... New Order?  Yes!   BOS  :)  Now the question is...is it the radio edit or the 5:57 version?
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: Tinka Cat on June 23, 2009, 10:20:57 AM
another BOS to New Order.  

My morning sun is the drug that brings me near.
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: Gazoo on June 23, 2009, 10:22:01 AM
BOS "True Faith"
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: Tinka Cat on June 23, 2009, 10:22:05 AM
So far, yawn...but still I'm optimistic.  At least half the set to go.

XTC gets a WOS.  This song shows a complete lack of respect for human willpower.

Ooh wait, what's this... New Order?  Yes!   BOS  :)  Now the question is...is it the radio edit or the 5:57 version?

Hey R347 -- I bet AL plays the  lo-o-o-ong version.
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: RGMike on June 23, 2009, 10:24:57 AM


XTC gets a WOS.  This song shows a complete lack of respect for human willpower.


OK, you're gonna have to explain that...
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: mshray on June 23, 2009, 10:26:29 AM
BOS #3 Floyd "One Slip"

And yet another pointed segue coming out of Reagan's Iran-Contra mess.  Annalisa's having fun today.
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: urth on June 23, 2009, 10:26:43 AM
No love here for the David Gilmour band...er, Pink Floyd. They weren't the same band without Waters (even though Waters was as big a prick as one could imagine in their later years).

ETA: Shray, you can add this to your list of Alisons though. The phrase "a momentary lapse of reason" puts it in that category.
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: RGMike on June 23, 2009, 10:28:46 AM
VHM PsyFurs.
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: Tinka Cat on June 23, 2009, 10:30:25 AM
I dig the Pee-furs, but would someday love to hear Dumbwaiters in whatever appropriate year.
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: urth on June 23, 2009, 10:34:32 AM
I dig the Pee-furs, but would someday love to hear Dumbwaiters in whatever appropriate year.


If it ever happens it'll be a bustout. Dave never played it.

Another 'meh' to the Dead, Throwin' Up...I mean Throwin' Stones. Nothing wrong with the song or its message, I've just heard it too much.
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: mshray on June 23, 2009, 10:35:09 AM
BOS #4 "Throwing Stones" a song that appears in 3 different theme sets (Earthquake special, New Year's Day special, Earth Day - twice), and only 1 straight 1987 set.

Annalisa coul've segued out of a couple of her earlier clips into 'politicians throwing stones'
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: RGMike on June 23, 2009, 10:35:12 AM
NOT looking forward to the Wall Street sequel, evevn tho' Stone is directing. (It stars Shia LaHype)

WOS Dead.

Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: Tinka Cat on June 23, 2009, 10:35:17 AM
nothing says 1987 1967 like the Dead
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: radical347 on June 23, 2009, 10:35:31 AM


XTC gets a WOS.  This song shows a complete lack of respect for human willpower.


OK, you're gonna have to explain that...

Ok, time to get on my soapbox  ;)

The jist is that bad things happen in this world, so XTC can't believe in God.  So they're really not taking into account that the vast majority of unfortunate things happen because people themselves make decisions/actions that lead to them. (I know, the consequences of the decisions spill out to others too.)  Regardless of belief, if God/Yahweh/Allah/exists does that automatically guarantee that 100% of people's stupid decisions will be automatically overriden?  Somehow, I doubt it.

*steps off soapbox*

BOS2 to the Psychedelic Furs!  And that Pink Floyd song is one of the very few by them that doesn't make me want to rip all my hair out, so VHM to that too.
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: Tinka Cat on June 23, 2009, 10:37:03 AM
NOT looking forward to the Wall Street sequel, evevn tho' Stone is directing. (It stars Shia LaHype)
WOS Dead.

I'm looking forward to Transformers, though.  Shia LaBoof, heheh.
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: RGMike on June 23, 2009, 10:37:41 AM


XTC gets a WOS.  This song shows a complete lack of respect for human willpower.


OK, you're gonna have to explain that...

Ok, time to get on my soapbox  ;)

The jist is that bad things happen in this world, so XTC can't believe in God.  So they're really not taking into account that the vast majority of unfortunate things happen because people themselves make decisions/actions that lead to them. (I know, the consequences of the decisions spill out to others too.)  Regardless of belief, if God/Yahweh/Allah/exists does that automatically guarantee that 100% of people's stupid decisions will be automatically overriden?  Somehow, I doubt it.

*steps off soapbox*


I'd argue that their point is also that people do bad things and use God as an excuse (regardless of whether he exists or not).
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: Gazoo on June 23, 2009, 10:39:21 AM
The Dead's best line of the decade: "shipping powders back and forth / singing black goes south, and white comes north."  That says a lot.
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: Gazoo on June 23, 2009, 10:40:40 AM


XTC gets a WOS.  This song shows a complete lack of respect for human willpower.


OK, you're gonna have to explain that...

Ok, time to get on my soapbox  ;)

The jist is that bad things happen in this world, so XTC can't believe in God.  So they're really not taking into account that the vast majority of unfortunate things happen because people themselves make decisions/actions that lead to them. (I know, the consequences of the decisions spill out to others too.)  Regardless of belief, if God/Yahweh/Allah/exists does that automatically guarantee that 100% of people's stupid decisions will be automatically overriden?  Somehow, I doubt it.

*steps off soapbox*


I'd argue that their point is also that people do bad things and use God as an excuse (regardless of whether he exists or not).

Mike's reading is what I take from the song as well, but I see where you're coming from too.
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: RGMike on June 23, 2009, 10:43:00 AM
BOS3 Los Lobos.

But really, despite 3 BOSs from me, this is the closest AL has come to a snoozer.
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: urth on June 23, 2009, 10:43:40 AM
Here's my BOS:

Los Lobos, One Time One Night.

This is the only bustout of the set (another surprise to me), but also lots of rarities in the 1- or 2- play category.
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: mshray on June 23, 2009, 10:44:34 AM
This is my most enthusiastic BOS vote in the set, and I believe a Db bustout as well.

ETA: I see Urth has confirmed that for me.
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: mshray on June 23, 2009, 10:48:57 AM
Here's another Bustout & another enthusiastic BOS.  I think I'll retract my earlier votes & call it a 2-way tie between LL & X.

Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: urth on June 23, 2009, 10:49:09 AM
Followed hard on its heels by my BOS2: X's version of Dave Alvin's stellar Fourth of July. So many good versions of this. This one is second only to Dave's.

I remember hearing Dave Alvin once tell a story about being on the road, in a motel someplace, and turning on David Letterman just in time to hear Willie Nelson play this song on national TV. He said the royalties on that one performance paid his house payments for about four months.
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: Tinka Cat on June 23, 2009, 10:53:38 AM
love David Hidalgo's voice, another BOS for Los Lobos

btw, Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women are in town this week..
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: RGMike on June 23, 2009, 10:59:01 AM
BOS3 Los Lobos.

But really, despite 3 BOSs from me, this is the closest AL has come to a snoozer.

Ooops! got called into a meeting and missed what woulda been BOS4(th of July), X, used brilliantly on the Sopranos a couple years ago.

But still... like Dave, AL avoided anything truly "pop" in 1987.
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: RGMike on June 23, 2009, 12:39:01 PM
6/23/09 - Tuesday!  Time spent in...1987!!!

   1.  U2 - One Tree Hill
(News:  Soviet-U.S. Summit)
   2.  Bodeans - Only Love
   3.  Bruce Springsteen - All That Heaven Will Allow
(News:  PTL & Falwell)
   4.  XTC - Dear God
(News:  Tammy Faye)
   5.  New Order - True Faith (BEST OF SET!!)
(News:  Iran Contra)
   6.  Pink Floyd - One Slip
   7.  Psychedelic Furs - Heartbreak Beat
(Wall Street--The real world & the movie!)
   8.  Grateful Dead - Throwing Stones
(News:  Montage-Pope visits U.S.)
   9.  Los Lobos - One Time One Night in America
 10.  X - 4th of July

BONUS TRACK (from Lisa in Oakland):  Squeeze - Hourglass

I guess "Lisa from Oakland" misses Dave... ;)
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: Tinka Cat on June 23, 2009, 05:56:44 PM


XTC gets a WOS.  This song shows a complete lack of respect for human willpower.


OK, you're gonna have to explain that...

Ok, time to get on my soapbox  ;)

The jist is that bad things happen in this world, so XTC can't believe in God.  So they're really not taking into account that the vast majority of unfortunate things happen because people themselves make decisions/actions that lead to them. (I know, the consequences of the decisions spill out to others too.)  Regardless of belief, if God/Yahweh/Allah/exists does that automatically guarantee that 100% of people's stupid decisions will be automatically overriden?  Somehow, I doubt it.

*steps off soapbox*


I'd argue that their point is also that people do bad things and use God as an excuse (regardless of whether he exists or not).

Mike's reading is what I take from the song as well, but I see where you're coming from too.

I suppose it's open to interpretation (like the bible), but I feel the speaker is "losing his religion," (apologies to REM) -- he's realizing the relationship he had w God is not what he thought, and that it was all a construct that has now come tumbling down (no apologies to John Melloncamp).  This lyric speaks pretty loudly:

Did you make disease, and the diamond blue?
Did you make mankind after we made you?
And the devil too.


I think the next song the narrator would sing would be Free Will by Rush.  :)
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: mshray on June 24, 2009, 12:05:27 PM


XTC gets a WOS.  This song shows a complete lack of respect for human willpower.


OK, you're gonna have to explain that...

Ok, time to get on my soapbox  ;)

The jist is that bad things happen in this world, so XTC can't believe in God.  So they're really not taking into account that the vast majority of unfortunate things happen because people themselves make decisions/actions that lead to them. (I know, the consequences of the decisions spill out to others too.)  Regardless of belief, if God/Yahweh/Allah/exists does that automatically guarantee that 100% of people's stupid decisions will be automatically overriden?  Somehow, I doubt it.

*steps off soapbox*


I'd argue that their point is also that people do bad things and use God as an excuse (regardless of whether he exists or not).

Mike's reading is what I take from the song as well, but I see where you're coming from too.

I suppose it's open to interpretation (like the bible), but I feel the speaker is "losing his religion," (apologies to REM) -- he's realizing the relationship he had w God is not what he thought, and that it was all a construct that has now come tumbling down (no apologies to John Melloncamp).  This lyric speaks pretty loudly:

Did you make disease, and the diamond blue?
Did you make mankind after we made you?
And the devil too.


I think the next song the narrator would sing would be Free Will by Rush.  :)


I take Tinka's interpretation one step further.  The whole song represents the arc of the narrator's anger/frustration/despair, but at the very end he's still desperate for a God to believe in.  The last lyric is not ironic as such, but in the same vein as when you have a knock-down, drag-out fight with your spouse/partner and you say "I Hate You!", but at the same time you know you aren't leaving.

"If there's one thing I DON'T believe in...it's YOU, Dear God." 

Not only is the narrator still talking to the God he doesn't believe in, but it's clear to me that XTC has the child's voice come back for those last 4 words for a reason.
Title: Re: 23 June 2009--it's 1987
Post by: RGMike on June 27, 2009, 10:39:32 AM
BOS2 New Order.

"when I was a very young boy
Michael Jackson talked to me..."

wow , I posted that Tuesday morning and 2 days later he was dead. (cue Twilight Zone theme...)