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Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: RGMike on May 03, 2006, 09:05:10 AM
starting with the Ugly Americans -- certainly haven't heard them since '96, tho' this LP got LOTS of KFOG play back then. I always found it ironic that this album did well, since they sounded kinda like the Spin Doctors, who were flopping at the time with their attemps to follow-up their big hit album.

uh-oh, DMB. Unavoidable, I guess.
Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: mshray on May 03, 2006, 09:06:49 AM
Just got in for DMB, sorry to have not heard the Ugly Americans.  At least this isn't one of the DMB's most overplayed tunes, give Ginger credit for mining a little deeper.
Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: RGMike on May 03, 2006, 09:10:25 AM
VHM TP, he shoulda got an Oscar nom for this song from that Ed Burns flick (whose name escapes me).
Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: RGMike on May 03, 2006, 09:14:07 AM
where have all the possible BOS's gone?  So far '96 ain't lightin' my fire.
Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: mshray on May 03, 2006, 09:14:44 AM
I'm gonna give a BOS to Paula Cole "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?".
Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: princessofcairo on May 03, 2006, 09:16:54 AM
Quote from: "mshray"
I'm gonna give a BOS to Paula Cole "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?".


can't believe it's been ten years. ok, maybe i can. i hated this song. the rest of the album is excellent, though. i think it's the lyrics i can't stand here.

now here's a bos!! jamiroquai! i remember standing in the bowling alley the first time i heard this song.
Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: mshray on May 03, 2006, 09:17:25 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
where have all the possible BOS's gone?  So far '96 ain't lightin' my fire.


How do you feel about Jamiroquai?
Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: princessofcairo on May 03, 2006, 09:23:12 AM
yuck. the wallflowers. what a waste of fresh air.
Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: RGMike on May 03, 2006, 09:24:04 AM
Quote from: "mshray"
Quote from: "RGMike"
where have all the possible BOS's gone?  So far '96 ain't lightin' my fire.


How do you feel about Jamiroquai?


That was OK, but that's a song that barely registered with me at the time (KFOG barely played it, if at all). And If I want Stevie Wonder, I'll listen to Stevie Wonder.
Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: RGMike on May 03, 2006, 09:25:39 AM
Wallflowerzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: princessofcairo on May 03, 2006, 09:29:06 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
Quote from: "mshray"
Quote from: "RGMike"
where have all the possible BOS's gone?  So far '96 ain't lightin' my fire.


How do you feel about Jamiroquai?


That was OK, but that's a song that barely registered with me at the time (KFOG barely played it, if at all). And If I want Stevie Wonder, I'll listen to Stevie Wonder.


not if you had the choice between 1996 stevie wonder and jamiroquai.
Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: princessofcairo on May 03, 2006, 09:30:36 AM
harumph. the wallfowerzzzz guitarist hit a big flat note. of all the tunes to pick to play ten years later! didn't they release a real album that year? one with the flat notes edited out?
;)
i'm so mean.
Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: urth on May 03, 2006, 09:33:10 AM
Hmmm. Sounds like someone covering Bob Seger channelling Chuck Berry. Blues Traveller maybe? Yep, there's a harmonica. Better than most everything else I've heard them do.

(And of course a station in Colorado is gonna pick up on Get Out of Denver.)
Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: princessofcairo on May 03, 2006, 09:35:02 AM
Quote from: "urth"
Hmmm. Sounds like someone covering Bob Seger channelling Chuck Berry. Blues Traveller maybe? Yep, there's a harmonica. Better than most everything else I've heard them do.

(And of course a station in Colorado is gonna pick up on Get Out of Denver.)


and denver kinda rhymes with katmandu. i was thinking it was bob seger, too. until the 'monica, of course.

now, who's this? i vaguely remember the song. and the whiny voice. but i can't place the band. it's not bush, that's for sure.
Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: RGMike on May 03, 2006, 09:38:41 AM
Quote from: "princessofcairo"
harumph. the wallfowerzzzz guitarist hit a big flat note. of all the tunes to pick to play ten years later! didn't they release a real album that year? one with the flat notes edited out?
;)
i'm so mean.


That was a live-on KBCO version, no?  It didn't sound like the original.

BOS Beck.
Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: princessofcairo on May 03, 2006, 09:38:47 AM
was this only the second coming of beck? or was there an album in between the loser ep and this one?
Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: mshray on May 03, 2006, 09:39:03 AM
BOS Beck, I think I'll recant my earlier vote for Paula Cole.
Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: mshray on May 03, 2006, 09:40:22 AM
Quote from: "princessofcairo"
was this only the second coming of beck? or was there an album in between the loser ep and this one?


Odelay is actually his 4th LP.
Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: princessofcairo on May 03, 2006, 09:43:40 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
Quote from: "princessofcairo"
harumph. the wallfowerzzzz guitarist hit a big flat note. of all the tunes to pick to play ten years later! didn't they release a real album that year? one with the flat notes edited out?
;)
i'm so mean.


That was a live-on KBCO version, no?  It didn't sound like the original.

BOS Beck.


yes, it was. that's what i mean. why pick a flawed live performance when you can use the flawless album version?

bos again to barenaked ladies. a fine paul heaton impersonation!
Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: RGMike on May 03, 2006, 09:43:53 AM
"Shoebox of Life"???
Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: urth on May 03, 2006, 09:45:56 AM
Sorry, this has been one of Ginger's more underwhelming efforts. I'm pretty sure there was better music made in 96.
Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: RGMike on May 03, 2006, 09:46:40 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
"Shoebox of Life"???


Ginger says "Shoebox of Love", BNLs.  Whatever.  The BNLs were getting no airplay in SF at that point.
Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: mshray on May 03, 2006, 09:47:51 AM
Quote from: "princessofcairo"

now, who's this? i vaguely remember the song. and the whiny voice. but i can't place the band. it's not bush, that's for sure.


[belated post]  You didn't realize that the 'whiny voice' was Matchbox 20?

 :roll:  :roll:
Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: mshray on May 03, 2006, 09:50:47 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
Quote from: "RGMike"
"Shoebox of Life"???


Ginger says "Shoebox of Love", BNLs.  Whatever.  The BNLs were getting no airplay in SF at that point.


maybe this is why:
Barenaked Ladies' third album, Born on a Pirate Ship, recorded during a period of personnel instability and misgivings over the band's artistic direction, is by far the Toronto group's weakest effort. The few attempts at humor in the manner of 1992's Gordon tend to sound forced, and the inclusion of reworked versions of early material like "Shoe Box", which had originally appeared on the band's 1990 demo, suggests that primary songwriters Steven Page and Ed Robertson were short of material.
Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: princessofcairo on May 03, 2006, 09:51:59 AM
Quote from: "mshray"
Quote from: "princessofcairo"

now, who's this? i vaguely remember the song. and the whiny voice. but i can't place the band. it's not bush, that's for sure.


[belated post]  You didn't realize that the 'whiny voice' was Matchbox 20?

 :roll:  :roll:


nope. :) how quickly we forget. maybe if he had given me his heart, and made it real...
Title: KBCO 5/3/06: 1996
Post by: mshray on May 03, 2006, 09:53:37 AM
Quote from: "urth"
Sorry, this has been one of Ginger's more underwhelming efforts. I'm pretty sure there was better music made in 96.


I thought it was a strong finish, but yeah, basically you're right.

'96 is when I moved back from Taiwan & promptly gave up on mainstream radio.  The only stuff I really liked from this set is the stuff that you could only hear on Live 105 that year.  Of course now you can hear Beck & BNLs on KFOG.