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Title: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: urth on March 26, 2008, 10:00:35 AM
Anyone know who the folks leading the orchestra are?

Lunatic fringe for starters. Hrm.
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: RGMike on March 26, 2008, 10:02:24 AM
Anyone know who the folks leading the orchestra are?

Lunatic fringe for starters. Hrm.

I believe that's a character on It's a Living -- cue the theme.  Lunatic 'Trina is not an auspicious start. A fire drill looms, I may miss part of this set.
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: Davefish on March 26, 2008, 10:02:41 AM
Anyone know who the folks leading the orchestra are?

Lunatic fringe for starters. Hrm.
A frequent flyer for sure, but a cool song.  "Lunatic French, I know you're out there..."
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: RGMike on March 26, 2008, 10:05:07 AM
Anyone know who the folks leading the orchestra are?

Lunatic fringe for starters. Hrm.
A frequent flyer for sure

its 11th appearance, per the shraytabase. Hold on Tight indeed -- also appearance #11. (nice seg, tho' from the air traffic controllers & Reagan, speaking of frequent flyers)
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: mshray on March 26, 2008, 10:07:37 AM
Anyone know who the folks leading the orchestra are?

Lunatic fringe for starters. Hrm.
A frequent flyer for sure, but a cool song.  "Lunatic French, I know you're out there..."

My thoughts exactly.  And since I seem to be combating a lunatic fringe in my company at the moment...entirely apropo.
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: RGMike on March 26, 2008, 10:08:07 AM
BOS Kinks!
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: Wayback on March 26, 2008, 10:08:26 AM
Anyone know who the folks leading the orchestra are?
Lunatic fringe for starters. Hrm.
A frequent flyer for sure
its 11th appearance, per the shraytabase. Hold on Tight indeed -- also appearance #11. (nice seg, tho' from the air traffic controllers & Reagan, speaking of frequent flyers)
"It's morning in America..."
(http://sanderhicks.com/images/imagesjan04/reagan.jpg)
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: RGMike on March 26, 2008, 10:10:13 AM
Anyone know who the folks leading the orchestra are?
Lunatic fringe for starters. Hrm.
A frequent flyer for sure
its 11th appearance, per the shraytabase. Hold on Tight indeed -- also appearance #11. (nice seg, tho' from the air traffic controllers & Reagan, speaking of frequent flyers)
"It's morning in America..."
(http://sanderhicks.com/images/imagesjan04/reagan.jpg)

and there's a little green man in my head...
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: urth on March 26, 2008, 10:11:08 AM
BOS Ray & the Kinks

Paranoia may destroy ya...

(And Ray's at the Warfield this Friday--coincidence?)
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: Davefish on March 26, 2008, 10:11:31 AM
Anyone know who the folks leading the orchestra are?
Lunatic fringe for starters. Hrm.
A frequent flyer for sure
its 11th appearance, per the shraytabase. Hold on Tight indeed -- also appearance #11. (nice seg, tho' from the air traffic controllers & Reagan, speaking of frequent flyers)
"It's morning in America..."
(http://sanderhicks.com/images/imagesjan04/reagan.jpg)

and there's a little green man in my head...
It's a gremlin.
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: Davefish on March 26, 2008, 10:12:23 AM
WOS for the extremely ponderous "Keep It Dark".
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: Davefish on March 26, 2008, 10:17:20 AM
And BOS for the completely unintelligible Pretenders tune.
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: urth on March 26, 2008, 10:17:30 AM
Now this is more like it. BOS2 The Wait. Man Chrissie and the boys played the HELL out of this song.

Oh to be 21 again...

RIP James Honeyman Scott & Pete Farndon.
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: RGMike on March 26, 2008, 10:21:08 AM
Now this is more like it. BOS2 The Wait. Man Chrissie and the boys played the HELL out of this song.

Oh to be 21 again...

RIP James Honeyman Scott & Pete Farndon.

back from a (mercifully brief) fire drill -- sorry I missed Chrissie; Phil & Co notsomuch.  Ah! Donnie!
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: mshray on March 26, 2008, 10:21:25 AM
Now this is more like it. BOS2 The Wait. Man Chrissie and the boys played the HELL out of this song.

Oh to be 21 again...

RIP James Honeyman Scott & Pete Farndon.

Yes, yes and yes.  God I love this song & it fits my mood right now.

And another BOS to "Ah! Leah!".  Saw Donnie Iris in a dive bar/club called Rasputin's in Wilmington in No. Carolina summer of '83 while on a family vacation.  Great memory.
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: Davefish on March 26, 2008, 10:22:15 AM
Ditto my "Lunatic Fringe" comment for "Ah! Leah!".  I had a girlfriend in high school named Leah, so I have a soft spot for this song.  And it's cool.
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: mshray on March 26, 2008, 10:22:56 AM

"It's morning in America..."


The guy who wrote that line for Reagan just died yesterday or the day before.  He was credited with making SF Bay Area an advertising hub.
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: RGMike on March 26, 2008, 10:24:19 AM
all together now: "we can't stand it either, Eric!"
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: urth on March 26, 2008, 10:26:39 AM

"It's morning in America..."


The guy who wrote that line for Reagan just died yesterday or the day before.  He was credited with making SF Bay Area an advertising hub.

Hal Riney. I believe there's a thread for him over in the Obits and birthdays forum. And I would bet it wasn't an accident we heard that.
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: Davefish on March 26, 2008, 10:27:54 AM
all together now: "we can't stand it either, Eric!"
Almost as repetitive as the Genesis tune.
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: RGMike on March 26, 2008, 10:29:23 AM

"It's morning in America..."


The guy who wrote that line for Reagan just died yesterday or the day before.  He was credited with making SF Bay Area an advertising hub.

Hal Riney. I believe there's a thread for him over in the Obits and birthdays forum. And I would bet it wasn't an accident we heard that.

we didn't actually hear "It's morning in America," tho' -- that's for an '84 set.  Can't really avoid Reagan clips in '81 .

ah, another bad weekend with the Toobs.
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: urth on March 26, 2008, 10:29:41 AM
Arrgh, this Tubes song grates, simply because they were such a freaking great band that went down, errr, the tubes when they decided to change their image in order to make the bigtime.
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: Davefish on March 26, 2008, 10:30:51 AM
Ahh, The "Completion Backwards Principle" always reminds me of the RA in my freshman dorm, a fellow tenor sax player and hero (and crush) of mine.  So I'm always happy to hear it.
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: Lightnin' Rod on March 26, 2008, 10:31:39 AM
Arrgh, this Tubes song grates, simply because they were such a freaking great band that went down, errr, the tubes when they decided to change their image in order to make the bigtime.

My thoughts exactly.

BOS, The Pretenders.
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: Lightnin' Rod on March 26, 2008, 10:32:18 AM
VHM, Katrinas and Majors.
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: RGMike on March 26, 2008, 10:32:26 AM
Gen'rals 'n' 'Trinas -- from battlefields, annoying us.  (14th appearance for this one!)
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: Wayback on March 26, 2008, 10:33:11 AM
If its 1981, its Generals & Majors
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: RGMike on March 26, 2008, 10:35:05 AM
If its 1981, its Generals & Majors

and we sometimes get it in 1980 too! (Not to mention the "whistle Rock" set.)
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: RGMike on March 26, 2008, 10:37:18 AM
BOS(U)2.  I was at a party in the early '80s where my friend's mixtape segged from U2's "Gloria" to Laura Branigan's "Gloria" and everybody laughed out loud.
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: Wayback on March 26, 2008, 10:38:20 AM
BOS early U2
(http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jlt267/U2-young.jpg)
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: urth on March 26, 2008, 10:38:32 AM
BOS3 U2, Gloria from their second record. Saw both them and the Pretenders at the Warfield within a few months of one another in the fall of '81.
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: RGMike on March 26, 2008, 10:39:16 AM
BOS early U2
(http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jlt267/U2-young.jpg)

Bono before he was God.
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: urth on March 26, 2008, 10:39:26 AM
BOS early U2
(http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jlt267/U2-young.jpg)

...And they looked just like that!

(Look! The Edge still has hair!)
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: urth on March 26, 2008, 11:21:42 AM
So I may be wrong, but it appears Annalisa really went off the rails on the Bonus track today. She played the Springsteen version of The Fever, which, so far as I can tell, was recorded in '73 but not released officially until the Tracks album in '98.

It was great to hear it and all, but I can't find a connection to '81 for this song anyplace, unless it was a B-side to one of The River singles.
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: RGMike on March 26, 2008, 11:32:22 AM
So I may be wrong, but it appears Annalisa really went off the rails on the Bonus track today. She played the Springsteen version of The Fever, which, so far as I can tell, was recorded in '73 but not released officially until the Tracks album in '98.

It was great to hear it and all, but I can't find a connection to '81 for this song anyplace, unless it was a B-side to one of The River singles.

I'm baffled too -- and she's been doing this a LOT lately.  I have the 45s from The River at home (there were only 2, iirc -- "Hungry Heart" and "Fade Away"?) and i don't think "Fever" was the flip of either, but I'll check tonite.
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: urth on March 26, 2008, 12:07:11 PM
So I may be wrong, but it appears Annalisa really went off the rails on the Bonus track today. She played the Springsteen version of The Fever, which, so far as I can tell, was recorded in '73 but not released officially until the Tracks album in '98.

It was great to hear it and all, but I can't find a connection to '81 for this song anyplace, unless it was a B-side to one of The River singles.

I'm baffled too -- and she's been doing this a LOT lately.  I have the 45s from The River at home (there were only 2, iirc -- "Hungry Heart" and "Fade Away"?) and i don't think "Fever" was the flip of either, but I'll check tonite.

AMG sez that Cadillac Ranch, I'm A Rocker, Point Blank, and Ramrod all made the Mainstream Rock singles chart, but only the last two made it to the top 40. I remember hearing all of those on the radio, but HH and FA were the two big ones.
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: RGMike on March 26, 2008, 12:15:52 PM
So I may be wrong, but it appears Annalisa really went off the rails on the Bonus track today. She played the Springsteen version of The Fever, which, so far as I can tell, was recorded in '73 but not released officially until the Tracks album in '98.

It was great to hear it and all, but I can't find a connection to '81 for this song anyplace, unless it was a B-side to one of The River singles.

I'm baffled too -- and she's been doing this a LOT lately.  I have the 45s from The River at home (there were only 2, iirc -- "Hungry Heart" and "Fade Away"?) and i don't think "Fever" was the flip of either, but I'll check tonite.

AMG sez that Cadillac Ranch, I'm A Rocker, Point Blank, and Ramrod all made the Mainstream Rock singles chart, but only the last two made it to the top 40. I remember hearing all of those on the radio, but HH and FA were the two big ones.

the songs you mention were "AOR emphasis tracks" as they used to be called, but I don't think they were actually released as 45s.
Title: Re: 26 March 2008--it's 1981
Post by: ggould on March 27, 2008, 12:45:41 PM
03/26/2008 - Wednesday! Early '80's...1981!!!
 
1.   Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe      
2.   ELO - Hold on Tight      
3.   Kinks - Destroyer      
4.   Genesis - Keep it Dark      
5.   Pretenders - The Wait (BEST OF SET!!)      
6.   Donnie Iris - Ah! Leah!      
7.   Eric Clapton - I Can't Stand it      
8.   Tubes - Talk to Ya Later      
9.   XTC - Generals & Majors      
10.   U2 - Gloria      
 
BONUS TRACK:  Bruce Springsteen - The Fever