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Main Discussion Area => Capital Gold, other Internet Radio => Topic started by: RGMike on April 10, 2006, 02:04:46 PM
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Judge is making being sick almost a pleasure. He unearthed the Sly live-at-Woodstock medley of "Dance to the Music/Music Lover/Take You Higher", which I haven't heard in decades.
And here's a Curtis Mayfield song I'm not familar with: "something ... something/Sho' is funky/I ain't no junkie". From Superfly?
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Good Gawd! here are the 4 Tops covering Todd's "We Gotta Get You a Woman" -- never heard this before, looks like it's from Nature Planned it, their last Motown LP.
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BTW, I got an email from CGSS's Greg Edwards, wondering if we'd "figured out" how to continue hearing CG (and supplying me with a London Postal Code to use just in case!). Which I thought was very sweet. I told him we "broke the code" and are still very much with him.
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BTW, I got an email from CGSS's Greg Edwards, wondering if we'd "figured out" how to continue hearing CG (and supplying me with a London Postal Code to use just in case!). Which I thought was very sweet. I told him we "broke the code" and are still very much with him.
I'm glad to hear this. The Voice is still considering this topic for a future "Sound of the Industry" article -- which, unfortunately, I won't have time to research and write if they assign it to me.
Are you listening to CG this afternoon? I'm going to have some station playing in the background while I write my Monkees paper, would be nice to have company, so let me know what you're tuned in to.
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BTW, I got an email from CGSS's Greg Edwards, wondering if we'd "figured out" how to continue hearing CG (and supplying me with a London Postal Code to use just in case!). Which I thought was very sweet. I told him we "broke the code" and are still very much with him.
I'm glad to hear this. The Voice is still considering this topic for a future "Sound of the Industry" article -- which, unfortunately, I won't have time to research and write if they assign it to me.
Are you listening to CG this afternoon? I'm going to have some station playing in the background while I write my Monkees paper, would be nice to have company, so let me know what you're tuned in to.
Yeah, I'll switch over to CG, now that I've heard Pearl Harbor as Annalisa's bonus track.
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and we begin wif Lufah! "Stop to Love".
"one day you'll discov-a
I'm the one you love-a"
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and we begin wif Lufah! "Stop to Love".
A guilty pleasure for me. Guilty, because
* I blame Luther and Narada Michael Walden for killing the organic R&B of Motown, Stax et al. Their use of programmed drums, synths, and bass gave way too much '80s soul a metallic, inauthentic flavor, from which the genre has never fully recovered IMHO.
* And because the song's message is an awful one if we assume Loofa's singing to a woman: You shouldn't be working, that's my job, so stop that silly stuff and return to the home where you belong.
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if we assume Loofa's singing to a woman...
Er... no comment. But somebody's GOTTA be writing one helluva tell-all, warts-and-all bio, no?
ETA: after examining the lyrics, I don't see any referecne to the fact that HE works at all. (He's being kept?) She's working overtime, leaving him "home alone" -- which would be black-culturally accurate, and the target demo is black women, after all.
She's a rich girl, and she's gone too far. It's a bitch!
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Hips are movin' now! Yay for the SDQ!!
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if we assume Loofa's singing to a woman...
Er... no comment. But somebody's GOTTA be writing one helluva tell-all, warts-and-all bio, no?
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OMG! Procol Harum's "Homburg" comin' up.
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OMG! Procol Harum's "Homburg" comin' up.
What a lovely, lovely song. I have only heard four PH songs -- this, "Pale," "Conquistador," and "A Salty Dog" -- and love them all. Is the rest of their catalog as elegant?
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Did this band have to pay royalties to GH for using "Taxman"'s bassline on "What You Give Is What You Get"?
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OMG! Procol Harum's "Homburg" comin' up.
What a lovely, lovely song. I have only heard four PH songs -- this, "Pale," "Conquistador," and "A Salty Dog" -- and love them all. Is the rest of their catalog as elegant?
I used to have a GH cassette of theirs that came out in '73 -- it included "Homburg", which was my first time hearing the song (though it did actually make the US Top 40). I remember liking the songs but I've never gone deeper -- They're on Little Steven's list of best groups ever.
and lo -- the Jam!
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Did this band have to pay royalties to GH for using "Taxman"'s bassline on "What You Give Is What You Get"?
That was the Jam, "Start". and no, I don't think George got upset (pot calling the kettle a Taxman?)
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The Marvelettes nice version of "When you're young and in love", a UK hit but I don't think it did anything here.
and speaking of young & in love.. it's Madge, and she's keepin' that damn baby! somebody call Danny Aiello!
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here's a boyband covering Tracy Chapman's "Baby Can I Hold You". Glad somebody had a hit with that one.
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ooo! Mel & Kim, "Respectable" (NOT the Stones song). I can never remember whether Mel or Kim was the one who died, but I remember them being huge for a brief period in the UK in the late '80s.
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Woo Hoo! Suzi Quatro, "Devil Gate Drive". She can jive!
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Ahh, one of my all-time girl-group faves, "Sweet Talkin' Guy."
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Followed by an all-time disco fave, "Young Hearts Run Free." One of those songs I can always recognize in under three notes.
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Followed by an all-time disco fave, "Young Hearts Run Free." One of those songs I can always recognize in under three notes.
FYI, I've switched to WLNG; I'm not a big fan of that Alex Belfield guy on CG at this hour.
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OMG! Paul Anka, "You Are My Destiny". Used to great effect in a wonderful Hungarian film from the early '80s called Time Stands Still, about Hungarian teens in the late '50s discovering sex and American rock'v'roll -- worth a rental.
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Yikes! ZZTop's "Sleeping Bag", which I haven't heard since it was a hit.
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Joanie Sommers' "Johnny Get Angry" -- the antithesis of "You Don't Own Me".
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now, where else am I gonna hear Melissa Manchester's "Don't Cry Out Loud", fer cryin' out loud? And how did Barry Manilow let this one get away?
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now, where else am I gonna hear Melissa Manchester's "Don't Cry Out Loud", fer cryin' out loud? And how did Barry Manilow let this one get away?
OMG, if Barry Manilow and Clay Aiken did a duet of this world peace would be achieved through worldwide OMFGWTFLOLism. Imagine:
Clay: Because I had the finest teacher ...
Barry: That was me. [ hushed ] I told him ...
And the Junior Vasquez dance megamix would reign for months.
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now, where else am I gonna hear Melissa Manchester's "Don't Cry Out Loud", fer cryin' out loud? And how did Barry Manilow let this one get away?
OMG, if Barry Manilow and Clay Aiken did a duet of this world peace would be achieved through worldwide OMFGWTFLOLism. Imagine:
Clay: Because I had the finest teacher ...
Barry: That was me. [ hushed ] I told him ...
And the Junior Vasquez dance megamix would reign for months.
ROTFLSHIPMP!
But seriously, "Don't Cry Out Loud" is on the all-time "shoulda-been-Manilow" list, along with Phil Collins' "Against All Odds" and Rex Smith's "You Take My Breath Away". Others? (it's kinda like the "Faux-town" list... for white people)
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VIP-ing today... and we begin with Style Council's pushy-bottom anthem, "Shout to the Top".
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VIP digs up Gloria Gaynor's rendition of "I Am What I Am". Dave should do the same for his Pride set this year -- an underrated record, as it was a retro-disco anthem in the mid-'80s, before those really became fashionable.
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flashback of the day for the 4 Tops' superior original version of "I Believe in you & Me", which flopped but was later made a hit by Whitney H.
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checking out some classic country today:
www.everybodysmusic.com
they've got 4 channels: Beethoven, BigBand, "the Brad Kava Channel" and "Classic KRTY" Just heard "Behind Closed Doors". Sublime.
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WLNG Nugget o' the Day: "The Love I Saw In You Was Just a Mirage", one of my fave Smokey Robinson lyrics.
Nugget #2: Scott MacKenzie's "Like An Old-Time Movie", a follow-up to "San Francisco" that I've heard maybe once in 35 years.
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CG is doing their Easter Weekend Top 500 Albums of All Time countdown (they're in the mid-300s as I write). Dunno if this will pre-empt CGSS today.
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CG is doing their Easter Weekend Top 500 Albums of All Time countdown (they're in the mid-300s as I write). Dunno if this will pre-empt CGSS today.
They're not playing the entire albums, of course: Are they selecting one track from each?
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CG is doing their Easter Weekend Top 500 Albums of All Time countdown (they're in the mid-300s as I write). Dunno if this will pre-empt CGSS today.
They're not playing the entire albums, of course: Are they selecting one track from each?
Yup. Maybe when they get to, I dunno, the top 20 they'll play several, but for #392, it's one track.
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CGSS's Greg gives us "Yes We Can Can" one mo' once.
ETA: Followed by "Fire" and "Automatic"!
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and still more: "Jump (For My Love)", "Dare Me", and "I'm So Indicted, er, Excited", which a friend thinks Hall & Oates shoulda got their hands on first.
BTW, a single-package GH with all their stuff would be swell, but right now you gotta buy an ABC set ('70s) and a Planet/RCA one ('80s).
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CGSS Nugget o' the Day: "MotownPhilly". Would that Dave'd play that someday in place of Color Me Badd.
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Hey, Mike I thought I'd check out Little Steven's archive for the first time in a couple of months, and found the link I'd saved to be not functional.
Is this the URL you've been using?
http://www.littlestevensundergroundgarage.com/homepage.html
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Hey, Mike I thought I'd check out Little Steven's archive for the first time in a couple of months, and found the link I'd saved to be not functional.
Is this the URL you've been using?
http://www.littlestevensundergroundgarage.com/homepage.html
Yup. That's the homepage, just click on "archived shows". Every one a gem.
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Hey, Mike I thought I'd check out Little Steven's archive for the first time in a couple of months, and found the link I'd saved to be not functional.
Is this the URL you've been using?
http://www.littlestevensundergroundgarage.com/homepage.html
Yup. That's the homepage, just click on "archived shows". Every one a gem.
Hmmm. That's the url I have bookmarked, but the page isn't loading--it times out and I get a 404. Have to see if I have better luck from home.
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Hey, Mike I thought I'd check out Little Steven's archive for the first time in a couple of months, and found the link I'd saved to be not functional.
Is this the URL you've been using?
http://www.littlestevensundergroundgarage.com/homepage.html
Yup. That's the homepage, just click on "archived shows". Every one a gem.
Hmmm. That's the url I have bookmarked, but the page isn't loading--it times out and I get a 404. Have to see if I have better luck from home.
I haven't really given Little Steven a shot, but did today, and really enjoyed it. As a musician, I like the way he talks about tone, and recording techniques.
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and still more: "Jump (For My Love)", "Dare Me", and "I'm So Indicted, er, Excited", which a friend thinks Hall & Oates shoulda got their hands on first.
Now, you've pointed out the resemblance between "I'm So Excited" and "I'm Still Standing" before; which one came first? I'm not sure I can hear H&O on "Excited." But I will say that "Dare Me" is a terribly underrated single, and it would be really nice to hear "Automatic" for the first time in at least a decade, probably longer.
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Now, you've pointed out the resemblance between "I'm So Excited" and "I'm Still Standing" before; which one came first? I'm not sure I can hear H&O on "Excited." But I will say that "Dare Me" is a terribly underrated single, and it would be really nice to hear "Automatic" for the first time in at least a decade, probably longer.
"Excited" first charted 9/82 and peaked at 30; re-released 8/84 in the wake of "Automatic" and "Jump", it peaked at 9.
EJ's "Standing" came out 5/83. Sure made me wonder at the time. And I like "Dare Me" too, tho' recently it was the victim of one of those dance-remakes where they just repeat the chorus over and over and over. Baby, make your move, already!