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Main Discussion Area => Regional 10@10's across the time zones! => Topic started by: RGMike on March 28, 2005, 09:26:44 AM
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On WXPK ("The Peak"), in suburban NYC (Westchester/Rockland).
http://www.1071thepeak.com/10at10/
They do stream their programming. Of course 10 in NY is 7 here... so if you're at work REALLY early...
I may check it out Friday, when I usually get to work between 7 & 7:15. But for Gaz, it's local time.
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On WXPK ("The Peak"), in suburban NYC (Westchester/Rockland).
http://www.1071thepeak.com/10at10/
They do stream their programming. Of course 10 in NY is 7 here... so if you're at work REALLY early...
I may check it out Friday, when I usually get to work between 7 & 7:15. But for Gaz, it's local time.
I see they use the "ten great songs from one great year" slogan, too. Wonder what the connection is to KFOG and/or DM if there is one? My first thought was that they could be another Susquehanna station, but their "Peak Music" page says they're owned by Pamal Broadcasting.
Ah, here's the connection: their evening DJ is Paul Marszalek, who according to his bio, was once Operations Manager at KFOG.
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On WXPK ("The Peak"), in suburban NYC (Westchester/Rockland).
http://www.1071thepeak.com/10at10/
They do stream their programming. Of course 10 in NY is 7 here... so if you're at work REALLY early...
I may check it out Friday, when I usually get to work between 7 & 7:15. But for Gaz, it's local time.
I see they use the "ten great songs from one great year" slogan, too. Wonder what the connection is to KFOG and/or DM if there is one? My first thought was that they could be another Susquehanna station, but their "Peak Music" page says they're owned by Pamal Broadcasting.
Ah, here's the connection: their evening DJ is Paul Marszalek, who according to his bio, was once Operations Manager at KFOG.
I remember Marszalek. He was in charge in the mid-'90s. I once emailed him, around the time Paul Simon's Capeman album came out, to inquire why they weren't playing it -- they did, after all, have 5 cuts from Graceland (then a 10-year-old LP) in constant rotation. I suggested Fogheads might like to hear new Simon, rather than every Hootie clone (this was '97-ish) that came down the pike. He replied that he'd be more inclined to listen to me if my attitude were "less snotty". (!?!)
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I'm listening to "The Peak" right now, they are indeed quite KFOG-ish.
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Peaking now, with "Love My Way" presumably kicking off a set. Which would mean 1983?
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Peaking now, with "Love My Way" presumably kicking off a set. Which would mean 1983?
Wow, WAY off. I don't have a sense of when P-Furs did their thing since Pittsburgh utterly ignored them (as they did most modern rock).
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Their 1989 set was faboo today. BOS to Sinead, "Nothing Compares 2 U." Proxy POC vote to "Black Velvet." Power-pop Posies, too!
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Their 1989 set was faboo today. BOS to Sinead, "Nothing Compares 2 U." Proxy POC vote to "Black Velvet." Power-pop Posies, too!
well, the Sinead and Alannah Myles are Dave staples, so what made this set better than one of his by-the-numbers '89-ers? Aside from the Posies, that is?
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Their 1989 set was faboo today. BOS to Sinead, "Nothing Compares 2 U." Proxy POC vote to "Black Velvet." Power-pop Posies, too!
Which Posies was it?
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Their 1989 set was faboo today. BOS to Sinead, "Nothing Compares 2 U." Proxy POC vote to "Black Velvet." Power-pop Posies, too!
thank you! quite fitting since the presleys she were on oprah yesterday. from my mother: "she sang something about 'kick me when i'm up, kick me when i'm down,' and i thought 'she's not saying anything to me,' and what a shame for her father, 'cause he really had it going on."
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Today's set is from 1984. Nice long trailer for All of Me, a movie I'd totally forgotten about (God love ya, Lily), abutted by fairly predictable songs (Cyndi Lauper, U2). I like these folks b/c their between-song snippets are rather inspired.
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Ooh! Some of y'all are gonna wish you'd gotten up early: Christine McVie's solo hit, "Got a Hold On Me." Haven't heard this in ages. Her usual understated elegance. The more I think about it, the more I think I'd put her in my Top Ten Female Rock Voices pantheon.
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Ooh! Some of y'all are gonna wish you'd gotten up early: Christine McVie's solo hit, "Got a Hold On Me." Haven't heard this in ages. Her usual understated elegance. The more I think about it, the more I think I'd put her in my Top Ten Female Rock Voices pantheon.
Do they give a hint what the next day's year will be? or is it a "surprise"? I'll be early tomorrow, for sure.
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Ooh! Some of y'all are gonna wish you'd gotten up early: Christine McVie's solo hit, "Got a Hold On Me." Haven't heard this in ages. Her usual understated elegance. The more I think about it, the more I think I'd put her in my Top Ten Female Rock Voices pantheon.
Do they give a hint what the next day's year will be? or is it a "surprise"? I'll be early tomorrow, for sure.
I was on the phone so I missed the ending. But you also missed the Bangles' "Hero Takes a Fall," best female Beatles impersonation ever.
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Well, I'm here to get Peaked. It's 1980 today. Which apparently is as far back as they go. That's gotta mean serious Katrina-ism over the long haul , no?
Appropriately, we start with "I Can't Remember" (their target demo was barely born on '80 -- LOL!).
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our third 1980 set of the week, and "Call Me" finally appears. Ooo! "Tattooed Love Boys"! BOS so far.
"I shot my mouth off and you showed me what that hole was for!"
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OMG! "Tired of Toein' the Line"!! New BOS!!!
What a fab pop single. Dave should really play this one some day.
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"that's right, that's right... we bad!"
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AC/DC "You Shook Me..." BOS3.
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our 2nd repeater (he played the Police earlier): "Switchin' to Glide". I'm much impressed. A fine, diverse set, and anybody who remembers Rocky Burnette is OK in my book.
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Well, I'm here to get Peaked. It's 1980 today. Which apparently is as far back as they go. That's gotta mean serious Katrina-ism over the long haul , no?
Appropriately, we start with "I Can't Remember" (their target demo was barely born on '80 -- LOL!).
I missed the set -- busy today -- but if 1980 is as early as they go, what's their most recent? The repetition level must be obscene.
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Well, I'm here to get Peaked. It's 1980 today. Which apparently is as far back as they go. That's gotta mean serious Katrina-ism over the long haul , no?
Appropriately, we start with "I Can't Remember" (their target demo was barely born on '80 -- LOL!).
I missed the set -- busy today -- but if 1980 is as early as they go, what's their most recent? The repetition level must be obscene.
The jock before Mr Arrow referred to 10@10 as "10 great songs from one great year in the '80s", and since all the sets I know about this week were '80s, I'm assuming thats where they're centered. And yes, that would mean hitting every year twice a month.
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Well, I'm here to get Peaked. It's 1980 today. Which apparently is as far back as they go. That's gotta mean serious Katrina-ism over the long haul , no?
Appropriately, we start with "I Can't Remember" (their target demo was barely born on '80 -- LOL!).
I missed the set -- busy today -- but if 1980 is as early as they go, what's their most recent? The repetition level must be obscene.
The jock before Mr Arrow referred to 10@10 as "10 great songs from one great year in the '80s", and since all the sets I know about this week were '80s, I'm assuming thats where they're centered. And yes, that would mean hitting every year twice a month.
Well that does't have to be so bad as long as (unlike Dave), they keep a database & actually refer to it before putting the sets together.
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Well, I'm here to get Peaked. It's 1980 today. Which apparently is as far back as they go. That's gotta mean serious Katrina-ism over the long haul , no?
Appropriately, we start with "I Can't Remember" (their target demo was barely born on '80 -- LOL!).
I missed the set -- busy today -- but if 1980 is as early as they go, what's their most recent? The repetition level must be obscene.
The jock before Mr Arrow referred to 10@10 as "10 great songs from one great year in the '80s", and since all the sets I know about this week were '80s, I'm assuming thats where they're centered. And yes, that would mean hitting every year twice a month.
Well that doesn't have to be so bad as long as (unlike Dave), they keep a database & actually refer to it before putting the sets together.
Oh I'm SURE Dave has a database. He just willfully ignores it when he's feeling obstinate.
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Today's set featured another visit to "No New Tale to Tell."
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Well, I'm here to get Peaked. It's 1980 today. Which apparently is as far back as they go. That's gotta mean serious Katrina-ism over the long haul , no?
Appropriately, we start with "I Can't Remember" (their target demo was barely born on '80 -- LOL!).
I missed the set -- busy today -- but if 1980 is as early as they go, what's their most recent? The repetition level must be obscene.
The jock before Mr Arrow referred to 10@10 as "10 great songs from one great year in the '80s", and since all the sets I know about this week were '80s, I'm assuming thats where they're centered. And yes, that would mean hitting every year twice a month.
Well that doesn't have to be so bad as long as (unlike Dave), they keep a database & actually refer to it before putting the sets together.
Oh I'm SURE Dave has a database. He just willfully ignores it when he's feeling obstinate.
Remember last year when I had a long chat with Irish Greg at a SJ supermarket where I was one of about 4 Fogheads to show up for their promo? And he told me that someone had sent Dave a 5 year spreadsheet of 10@10 songs? And when I asked him the next day to forward it to us & he said Dave had deleted it? Remember that? Greg strongly implied that keeping databases is NOT the way Dave works.
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Remember last year when I had a long chat with Irish Greg at a SJ supermarket where I was one of about 4 Fogheads to show up for their promo? And he told me that someone had sent Dave a 5 year spreadsheet of 10@10 songs? And when I asked him the next day to forward it to us & he said Dave had deleted it? Remember that? Greg strongly implied that keeping databases is NOT the way Dave works.
which makes it very convenient for Dave to say "we don't play songs over and over." In politics that's called "deniability" :roll:
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Today's 10@10EST goes all the way back to the '70s! So far I've heard "Rock 'N Me" and "The First Cut Is the Deepest" (Rod's version).
EDIT: It's 1976! And they're playing "Coyote"! This one's for you, VWP.
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Today's 10@10EST goes all the way back to the '70s! So far I've heard "Rock 'N Me" and "The First Cut Is the Deepest" (Rod's version).
EDIT: It's 1976! And they're playing "Coyote"! This one's for you, VWP.
I'm impressed to hear they go back further than '80. I look forward to Friday's set, whatever it is.
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Today's 10@10EST goes all the way back to the '70s! So far I've heard "Rock 'N Me" and "The First Cut Is the Deepest" (Rod's version).
EDIT: It's 1976! And they're playing "Coyote"! This one's for you, VWP.
I didn't get to listen to much of The Bone's A-Z, but they played "Rock 'N Me" in the wrong spot, as if it were spelled "Rockin' Me". I'm sure Gaz & Urth share this peeve.
I did get to hear one thing that massivley surprised me: BOC's "Cities On Flame with Rock & Roll"
Does The Peak's 10@10 repeat in the evening?
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Today's 10@10EST goes all the way back to the '70s! So far I've heard "Rock 'N Me" and "The First Cut Is the Deepest" (Rod's version).
EDIT: It's 1976! And they're playing "Coyote"! This one's for you, VWP.
I didn't get to listen to much of The Bone's A-Z, but they played "Rock 'N Me" in the wrong spot, as if it were spelled "Rockin' Me". I'm sure Gaz & Urth share this peeve.
I did get to hear one thing that massivley surprised me: BOC's "Cities On Flame with Rock & Roll"
Does The Peak's 10@10 repeat in the evening?
indeed they do repeat it at night.
Have you heard the new improved Bone? they've tweaked the format (apparently the stuff they played during A-Z was a setup for the new playlist) and are playing a lot more recent/current stuff. Going for those disenfranchised KSJO listeners.
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It's 1992 on the Peak today. Will be an interesting comparison to Dave's early-'90s snoozers.
Well, the theme from "Mad About You" was nice (surprised Dave's never pulled that one out). But here's the Indigos "Galileo". Very Moreyish.
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Before "Galileo" was the Black Crowes' "Remedy," always welcome.
But a big ol' BOS to XTC, "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead." What a great, great song. About a year later, Crash Test Dummies covered it to almost equally strong effect (vox alternated between Mr. Bass Man and the Lady).
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early BOS: XTC, "Peter Pumpkinhead"
"He showed the Vatican
What gold's for..."
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early BOS: XTC, "Peter Pumpkinhead"
"He showed the Vatican
What gold's for..."
"Oh my, oh my, don't it make you wanna cry ..."
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BOS2 "Harvest Moon"
VHM Joe Pesci and his "2 yoots." LOL!
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yoiks, the inevitable "Tears in Heaven".
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"Conor, would you go play by the window? Daddy's trying to write a hit song."
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"The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead." ... Crash Test Dummies covered it to almost equally strong effect (vox alternated between Mr. Bass Man and the Lady).
I have that at home -- Dumb & Dumber sndtk, yes? I'll have to drag it out and give it a spin.
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"Conor, would you go play by the window? Daddy's trying to write a hit song."
God knows you're not the first to make that joke... but I'm laughing nonetheless.
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YES! BOS2 to the mighty Jayhawks, "Waiting for the Sun." WHere's Urth?
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BOS3 to Tori Amos's peak moment, "Silent All These Years."
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BOS3 to Tori Amos's peak moment, "Silent All These Years."
Or as I was about to say, Tori Amos before she became completely annoying.
This is quite a long set!
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"Conor, would you go play by the window? Daddy's trying to write a hit song."
OMG, you did NOT just say THAT.
You are SO going to hell.
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I was really planning on trying to get in early for this, but as you can see from my premature 10@10 post, I had an excuse.
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An early Monday for me and lo & behold it's 1977! Rob promises some "surprises" whatever that means.
Ooo! Blondie, "I'm Always Touched"!
it's really not cheating...
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Mr Stewart and his "Hot Legs" followed by Marley, "3 Little Birds".
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OMGWTF! is this Mink deVille, "Mixed-Up Shook-Up Girl"?? I am MOST impressed.
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Ramones, "Sheena" -- what would've been a clear BOS in a Morey '77 set is in a tie for VHM here.
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well, OK, it wouldn't be '77 without "Strawberry Katrina."
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Clash, "Police and Thieves" in '77 ??
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Townsend/Lane, "Street in the City" (?) Haven't heard this in ages.
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OMGWTF! is this Mink deVille, "Mixed-Up Shook-Up Girl"?? I am MOST impressed.
If I'm not mistaken, isn't that from the KSAN days? I loved their tunes.
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Clash, "Police and Thieves" in '77 ??
yes, I was confused -- I was thinking of "Police on my Back" from Sandinista.
But -- DAMN! -- that was one of the best '77 sets ever. Of course NYC in '77 was the epicenter of US punk/new wave, and clearly the Peak assumes its target audience remembers all those CBGBs stalwarts. Few on the West Coast were aware of Mink deVille at that time. Kudos to Rob!
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Clash, "Police and Thieves" in '77 ??
yes, I was confused -- I was thinking of "Police on my Back" from Sandinista.
But -- DAMN! -- that was one of the best '77 sets ever. Of course NYC in '77 was the epicenter of US punk/new wave, and clearly the Peak assumes its target audience remembers all those CBGBs stalwarts. Few on the West Coast were aware of Mink deVille at that time. Kudos to Rob!
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Clash, "Police and Thieves" in '77 ??
yes, I was confused -- I was thinking of "Police on my Back" from Sandinista.
But -- DAMN! -- that was one of the best '77 sets ever. Of course NYC in '77 was the epicenter of US punk/new wave, and clearly the Peak assumes its target audience remembers all those CBGBs stalwarts. Few on the West Coast were aware of Mink deVille at that time. Kudos to Rob!
I'm glad to hear it; you'd never know it from Dave's sets, tho' I think Joel Selvin played some Mink recently on his Sun nite Bone show. And Little Steven is a BIG Willy deVille fan,
Last nite's Selvin show, BTW, was an hour of Zappa.
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Clash, "Police and Thieves" in '77 ??
yes, I was confused -- I was thinking of "Police on my Back" from Sandinista.
But -- DAMN! -- that was one of the best '77 sets ever. Of course NYC in '77 was the epicenter of US punk/new wave, and clearly the Peak assumes its target audience remembers all those CBGBs stalwarts. Few on the West Coast were aware of Mink deVille at that time. Kudos to Rob!
I don't know if I can claim 1977, but I sure knew who Willy DeVille was by '78. KSAN was all over them, as was KZAP up Sacto way. As I recall, they were the opening act at a Winterland show with Rockpile as support, and Elvis Costello headlining circa This Year's Model.
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Tues 4/12/05, tuning in mid-set. Dave Edmunds, "Slippin' Away" -- '83?
ooo! Echo & the Bunnymen, "Spare Us the Cutter"!
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Today (4/13) so far we've had:
that acoustic-but-I-forget-the-lyrics version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
clips from Jurassic Park
something I didn't recognize at all
and now "Man on the Moon."
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Today (4/13) so far we've had:
that acoustic-but-I-forget-the-lyrics version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
if you mean that Hawaiian guy, I'm glad I missed it (and I didn't know it was that old -- it certainly didn't get airplay until years later).
and now Kurt is all apologies. Everyone is gay.
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Gaz is en route, so I guess it's just me & the Peak...
The Howling! LOL! "an experience too terrifying for words!" Well, that means '81 and right on cue here's the Police.
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Squeeze, "Is That Love?", which interestingly, I heard on the Peak the one time I listened outside of 10@10.
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"you with the glasses!"... it's the Pretenders' "Louie Louie" for the 2nd time this week.
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OMGWTFLOL! they played Mike Post, "Hill St Blues"!! I request it every time Dave does Instrumentals and he has never played it.
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it's 1986 (I think) on The Peak -- Gabriel, "Big Time".
I'm working half a day because my cold has taken a turn towards bronchitis. And I'll miss Dave's set (Taxes or not) because of a stupid meeting. I'm gonna miss the A's game tonite too, dammit!
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our third 1986 set of the week gives us our 2nd appearnce of Blue Velvet. Methinks Rob Arrow listens to Dave on the 'net.
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BOS HoJo: "No One is to Blame". Nice.
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ooo! BOS2 -- "Dere's a Rat in de Kitchen, mon!"
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BOS3: Hannah and her Sisters montage.
"I don't know if you remember me, but we had the worst night of my life together..."
Having just seen the not-quite awful Melinda & Melinda, this was especially sweet.
OMG! Ms Lauper, "True Colors"!!
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well, again the Peak comes up with the best '86 set I've heard in ages. Has Dave ever played BOC, "Dancing in the Ruins"?
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At some point we may want to set up a new forum category for the Peak@10, I dunno ... but at any rate, today's visit to 1991 features "Teen Spirit."
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1991 BOS to "The Obvious Child," if only for that great drum break.
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joining in just in time for Joe Walsh "Ordinary Average Guy" which I remember hearing on my drive across America that June but don't think I've ever heard on SF radio.
Uh-Oh -- JT. He had an album that year?
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Rob Arrow is obviously a big Mike Post fan -- third Post reference in a week.
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wow, tuned in for the tail end of an '83 set -- BJ, "Allentown", my fave from that LP and another one Dave's never played.
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OMG! Peter Godwin, "Images of Heaven"!
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oops, my bad, it was '82 -- Bob does the opposite of Dave and uses the album release date. "Allentown" was a charted single in early '83.
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OMG! Peter Godwin, "Images of Heaven"!
I'm going to have to figure out a way to listen to this guy, that is a GREAT song and really representative of the New Wave as I experienced it. And you mentioned he played "Rat In Mi Kitchen" which is such an excellent song (did you know that those horns are the work of none other than Herb Alpert?).
Mike (or anyone else for that matter), have you heard Peter Godwin's other new wave hit "Baby's In The Mountains"?
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Mike (or anyone else for that matter), have you heard Peter Godwin's other new wave hit "Baby's In The Mountains"?
Indeed! it was a local fave on suburban NYC's alternative WLIR/WDRE ("the station that dares to be different"). Wouldn't surprise me if it showed up on The Peak eventually.
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1978 today. go bucky dent!
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nice "fm" clip - the bad movie with the good soundtrack.
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nice "fm" clip - the bad movie with the good soundtrack.
More bad movies with good soundtracks:
Xanadu
Thank God It's Friday
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More bad movies with good soundtracks:
Xanadu
Thank God It's Friday
love jones
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BOS Stones! "Before They Make Me Run" -- Dave's never played this one either. And it's Neil's version of "Lotta Love"! Woo Hoo!
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neil doing "a lot of love" (or whatever the title is). i've never heard this before!
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neil doing "a lot of love" (or whatever the title is). i've never heard this before!
"Lotta Love". Not to be confused with Lotta Fagina :wink:
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1978 today. go bucky dent!
David Duchovny is working on a movie called Bucky Fucking Dent, about a guy and his dad who bond over baseball. Look for a title change :shock:
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1978 today. go bucky dent!
David Duchovny is working on a movie called Bucky Fucking Dent, about a guy and his dad who bond over baseball. Look for a title change :shock:
i saw something about him and wifey tea and erykah badu in a movie...probably not the same...
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1978 today. go bucky dent!
David Duchovny is working on a movie called Bucky Fucking Dent, about a guy and his dad who bond over baseball. Look for a title change :shock:
i saw something about him and wifey tea and erykah badu in a movie...probably not the same...
that's his current movie, House of D -- the one with Robin Williams as a retarded janitor. Avoid!
ooo! "S&D&RnR"! Very good indeed!
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OMGWTFLOL! He actually played solo David Johanssen, "Funky But Chic". Yet another album Dave's never dropped the needle on. And Meat Loaf too!
Best '78 set ever?
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OMGWTFLOL! He actually played solo David Johanssen, "Funky But Chic". Yet another album Dave's never dropped the needle on. And Meat Loaf too!
Best '78 set ever?
it wasn't bad at all!
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Today's set is brought to you by a drip trip: Flip Fantasia.
(Actually, she's a big girl; I don't think I could flip her.)
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Argh: "Ants Marching" is probably my least favorite track from Under the Table and Dreaming.
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HM to "Star 69" and Mellencamp's version of "Wild Night," neither of which I've heard in ages. Probably the best kind of '94 set I could have hoped for.
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"someday you will ache like I ache"
I sure hope not, Courtney. But I'd like some of the drugs yer doin'! LOL!
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And an easy BOS to Hole's "Doll Parts," still emotionally impactive after all these years (and all of Courtney's more pathetic stunts).
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OMG! He played US3's "Cantaloop"? I'm impressed.
That song by Mocean Worker that KFOG is playing is essentially a retread of "Cantaloop", IMHO.
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a Peak '89 sensation. Compare & contrast to Dave's. Didn't recognize song # 1, but here's the Cure's "Love Song" in the #2 slot.
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What is it about 1989? I'm starting to nod off 20 minutes in. Henley's "Heart of the Matter" isn't helping. Such a graceless age, indeed.
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aaack! FYC, making up for Dave's egregious oversight on Monday.
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sounds like somebody told Rob Arrow his movie clips were too long. We're getting small bites now. Still, VHM to the brief Heathers clip. "Bulimia's so 1987..."
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YAY! Macca's "My Brave Face" singlehandedly saves the day. Why oh Why has Dave never played this?
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1989 on the Peak Friday 4/22. BOS goes to Macca's "My Brave Face," which really should be as much of a Morey staple as, say, "Veronica." His last great lyric.
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YAY! Macca's "My Brave Face" singlehandedly saves the day. Why oh Why has Dave never played this?
Semi-Jinx!
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YAY! Macca's "My Brave Face" singlehandedly saves the day. Why oh Why has Dave never played this?
Semi-Jinx!
and a nice seg into an EC song that's NOT "Veronica". "Deep Dark Truthful Mirror", VHM at very least ("Brave Face" being my BOS too).
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1984 BOS to Broooce, "Cover Me" -- always a favorite of mine. I like Bruce best when he's vulnerable.
P.S. I decided not to submit an abstract for that Bruce conference this fall at Monmouth -- the small print indicated that conference presenters would be expected to pay the regular attendee fee of $199, which strikes me as either absurd, naive, or fraudulently gouging (I'll take Door #3).
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BOS2 to Lindsay Buckingham's "Go Insane." There Are No Coincidences: I played the live version of this song at a jukebox Thursday night after not hearing it for several years.
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And a VHM to INXS, "Original Sin," which (surprise!) couldn't get on the air in Pittsburgh.
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just arrived during INXS. VHM to Once Upon a Time in America --wow, was that really 1984? I remember seeing it (the butchered studio version) that summer, and then seeing the uncut 4-hour version the following January at the long-gone 8th Street Playhouse and being blown away by it. Sorry I missed "Go Insane".
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VHM2 "Who's That Girl", Annie & Dave could do no wrong in this period.
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And a VHM to INXS, "Original Sin," which (surprise!) couldn't get on the air in Pittsburgh.
Are you implying censorship or just unadventurous programming?
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And a VHM to INXS, "Original Sin," which (surprise!) couldn't get on the air in Pittsburgh.
Are you implying censorship or just unadventurous programming?
Moreso the former: Pittsburgh wasn't about to celebrate mixed-race relationships in 1984. Only slightly better in 2004.
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And a VHM to INXS, "Original Sin," which (surprise!) couldn't get on the air in Pittsburgh.
Are you implying censorship or just unadventurous programming?
Moreso the former: Pittsburgh wasn't about to celebrate mixed-race relationships in 1984. Only slightly better in 2004.
So they didn't play "Brother Louie" there? The INXS songs strikes me as far less explicit in comparison.
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And a VHM to INXS, "Original Sin," which (surprise!) couldn't get on the air in Pittsburgh.
Are you implying censorship or just unadventurous programming?
Moreso the former: Pittsburgh wasn't about to celebrate mixed-race relationships in 1984. Only slightly better in 2004.
So they didn't play "Brother Louie" there? The INXS songs strikes me as far less explicit in comparison.
Well, it's hard for me to speak to that since I wasn't aware of radio in 1973 -- my never having heard "Brother Louie" in da 'Burgh could be as much due to lack of a '70s pop oldies format on local radio as to segregationism. (Growing up, Pittsburgh had an oldies station that capped things at 1970, and a '70s hard-rock station, but "Louie" didn't fit into either.)
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So, when Rob's on vacay there's no 10@10? They don't save "classics" for such occasions? WTF?
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I missed the year today, but we've kicked off with INXS's "Mystify," more proof of their underrated status among rock acts of the past 25 years. I'd consider them for the R&R HOF.
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I missed the year today, but we've kicked off with INXS's "Mystify," more proof of their underrated status among rock acts of the past 25 years. I'd consider them for the R&R HOF.
By now you've figured out there's no 10@10 when Mr Arrow's away.
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the Peak's 10@10 is back -- OMG, got here in time for Patti Smith, "Gloria"!
'75 is the oldest Peak set I've heard yet. Right on! uh-oh, here's "Low Rider" for the second time today.
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proxy BOS, for poc: the Dan "Daddy Don't Live in that NYC No More"
proxy WOS, for Gaz: JT, "Mexico". Wasn't that '76?
My BOS: Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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the Who re-doing "I'm Free" in 1975? Oh, the Tommy sndtk, I guess. I don't think I've ever heard this on the radio.
OMG, FMac, "Blue Letter", the track you never hear from that album, and a personal fave -- Linda Ronstadt shoulda covered this.
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Tues 5/3: logging on in time for "Running Up That Hill", so it must be 1985.
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VHM Breakfast Club trailer.
"Does Barry Manilow know you raid his wardrobe?"
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Sounds like 1980: Broooce, "Sherry Darling" maybe in my all-time Top 5 Boss tunes. Before it, caught the tail end of a song that sounded familiar but that I couldn't quite nail -- sorta new-wavish. We'll see.
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OMG! Elvis C, "I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down", from Get Happy, the Costello LP that Dave never plays. Fab.
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Sounds like 1980: Broooce, "Sherry Darling" maybe in my all-time Top 5 Boss tunes. Before it, caught the tail end of a song that sounded familiar but that I couldn't quite nail -- sorta new-wavish. We'll see.
Ah, it was "So Long" by Fischer Z. A long-lost nugget that got NYC airplay. The Peak definitely knows its core audience -- NY'ers who were in HS or College in the '80s (now living in the 'burbs) and who were listening to WNEW-FM and WLIR back then.
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Thurs 5/5/05:
Tuned in in time for JCM's "Paper in Fire" which means 1987 -- an interesting contrast to Dave's set on Monday, I'm sure.
Here's the Cure, "Why Can't I Be You?"
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U2 "With or Without You", followed by Sinead, "Mandinka". It's Cinco de Mayo in Ireland!
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compare, contrast, discuss...
Dave's 1987 set:
Georgia Satellites - Battleship Chains
Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight (vinyl!)
John Hiatt - Thank You, Girl
Stabilizers - One Simple Thing (B-O-S!!)
Crowded House - World Where You Live
Squeeze - Hourglass
Chris Isaak - Fade Away
Bourgeois Tagg - I Don't Mind At All (vinyl!)
U2 - Bullet the Blue Sky
REM - Finest Work Song
Rob's 1987 set:
John Hiatt - Thing called Love
Greg Allman - I'm No Angel
F. Mac - Little Lies
Smiths - Shoplifters of the World
G Dead - Hell in a Bucket
Los Lobos - La Bamba
JCM - Paper in Fire
Cure - Why Can't I Be You?
U2 - With or Without You
Sinead - Mandinka
Actually, except for the Smiths tune, the Peak's set was rather Dave-like.
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Friday 5/6:
B-52s, 52 Girls, which makes it '79.
Followed by Bowie "Look Back in Anger" (?) from Lodger I think.
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Mr Curry does the Rock one more once. Always a treat, even for the second time in 2 weeks. Raising protein quota!
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Friday 5/6:
B-52s, 52 Girls, which makes it '79.
Followed by Bowie "Look Back in Anger" (?) from Lodger I think.
Correctimundo. I bought Lodger for "Boys Keep Swinging," and LBIA was the only other song I ended up liking on it.
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Friday 5/6:
B-52s, 52 Girls, which makes it '79.
Followed by Bowie "Look Back in Anger" (?) from Lodger I think.
Correctimundo. I bought Lodger for "Boys Keep Swinging," and LBIA was the only other song I ended up liking on it.
"when you're a boy... other boys check you out"
Especially when you do the Rock.
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I think the time zone makes it less accessible for us left coasters, but you guys do seem to tune in.
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I think the time zone makes it less accessible for us left coasters, but you guys do seem to tune in.
Friday is my early day; the rest of the week I catch the last 10-15 mins. But as an ex-NY'er I find they come up with nuggets that only NY'ers would remember, especially in the late-'70s/early '80s sets -- that was when the punk/new wave thing was influencing AOR airplay back East.
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Monday 5/9:
Elton, "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word", which means either '76 or '77, as Blue Moves was on the cusp.
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'76 it is: "Roots Rock Reggae." Play I some music, mon.
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Tues 5/10: it's 1992.
Some REM followed by "Diz Knee Land". I just pissed off President George!
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closing nicely with Neil, "War of Man."
They also played the Soup Dragons, "Divine Thing" and the Jayhawks, "Waiting for the Sun"!
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Wed 5/11: 1983
Rob played Red Rockers' "China", too bad mshray's on the road. Also "Just Got Lucky" from JoBoxers, Percy's "Big Log" (ahem) and INXS's "Don't Change". And a Gaz/poc WOS: Jackson Browne's "Lawyers in Love". In all a bit better than Dave's Monday Katrinafest.
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Wed 5/11: 1983
Rob played Red Rockers' "China", too bad mshray's on the road. Also "Just Got Lucky" from JoBoxers, Percy's "Big Log" (ahem) and INXS's "Don't Change". And a Gaz/poc WOS: Jackson Browne's "Lawyers in Love". In all a bit better than Dave's Monday Katrinafest.
Wish I'd been around for the JoBoxers, a major favorite of mine. But I needed my beauty sleep. (I also need to get back into the gym: college reunion in 3.5 weeks! Aaagh!)
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Hey, who's that on the top left of the Peak pages, next to Sheryl Crow? That's not Adam Duritz of Counting Crows, is it? Yikes.
(Playing before the 10@10 set: Elton John's "A Word in Spanish," which I haven't heard in 10+ years. Sounds better than I remember.)
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Thurs 5/12: 1988
and I log on just in time for... Crowded House! Hope the rest of the set was better.
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Treat Her Right, "I Think She Likes Me" -- most obscure of set and a VHM for novelty alone.
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Fri 5/13:
Hmm... the Peak's first theme set, it's 10 by Sting & the Police. Because... why?
Oh, Sting's in NYC this weekend. Hope this is not gonna be a regular thing, tho'.
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except for "Englishman in NY" (always nice to hear), this set was deadly dull, even for someone like me who actually likes Sting.
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Mon 5/16: 1993
caught the tail end, a very Morey-like '93 set (Blind Melon, Lenny Kravitz) but apparently they did begin it with Juliana Hatfield's "My Sister", which woulda been nice to hear.
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Tues 5/17/05: 1977!
Eddie & the Hot Rods, "Do Anything You Wanna Do", which was huge on NY radio back then. Don't think I've ever heard it in SF.
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Before that was Marley's "One Love," I missed everything before that.
And "Short People" really does sound like 1977 as I remember it.
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Wed 5/18/05: 1986
Mr Arrow's first error that I've noticed: he played UB40's "The way you do the things you do", from Labor of Love II -- wasn't that late '89/early '90?
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Thurs 5/19/05: another artist salute thingy, 10 by Broooce (guess he's in NYC tonite).
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Thurs 5/19/05: another artist salute thingy, 10 by Broooce (guess he's in NYC tonite).
Oy: If so, I'm totally oblivious. I'd like to see Bruce live sometime before he retires, but not in support of the D&D album, which I just didn't find gripping enough to buy after one listen.
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Thurs 5/19/05: another artist salute thingy, 10 by Broooce (guess he's in NYC tonite).
here's one of my fave obscure Bruce tunes: "Ramrod". At the time I thought it was hilarious that he had TWO songs named after NYC gay bars ("Badlands" being the other). LOL!
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At the time I thought it was hilarious that he had TWO songs named after NYC gay bars ("Badlands" being the other). LOL!
And now one of his new songs includes references to anal sex. Hmmm.
ETA: From http://www.brucespringsteen.net/songs/
A Good Man Is Hard To Find (Pittsburgh)
I'm Goin' Down
I'm On Fire
Man At The Top
My Lover Man
Pony Boy [Ok, this is a stretch]
Real Man
Ricky Wants A Man Of Her Own [work it, girl]
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My Lover Man
I believe this was an unused track he recorded for the Philadelphia soundtrack, ne?
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I believe this was an unused track he recorded for the Philadelphia soundtrack, ne?
Oh, heck- I dunno. But remember when he married that Hollywood starlet and then divorced her super-fast but then hooked up with Patty Whatshername who was more "fan approved"?
I dunno- but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck- it just might be oriented towards drakes if you get what I'm sayin.... :D
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I believe this was an unused track he recorded for the Philadelphia soundtrack, ne?
Oh, heck- I dunno. But remember when he married that Hollywood starlet and then divorced her super-fast but then hooked up with Patty Whatshername who was more "fan approved"?
I dunno- but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck- it just might be oriented towards drakes if you get what I'm sayin.... :D
I always thought he got a total free pass from the rock press about Julianne -- if Sammy Hagar had married some actress/model and then dumped her because she didn't want to have kids (supposedly the reason for the Bruce/Julianne split), can you imagine what a macho pig HE would've been made out to be?
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if Sammy Hagar had married some actress/model and then dumped her because she didn't want to have kids (supposedly the reason for the Bruce/Julianne split), can you imagine what a macho pig HE would've been made out to be?
Well, that is if anyone cared about Sammy Hagar! But, seriously- you've got a good point there.
OT: Wasn't that one of the factors involved in the Jennifer Aniston/Brad Pitt breakup? I mean, besides Angelina Jolie (whose good at adopting children).
Ah, but this is America- where you're supposed to get married so you can have kids. Or rather- have kids and not go to hell for fornicating. So, if your wife doesn't want to have kids- well, what are you supoosed to do? Stay married to such a heartless woman who won't procreate in a Bible-approved way? Bruce had no choice!
So... how many kids to Bruce and Patty Whatshername have exactly?
ETA: 3. He's got 3 kids. I wonder if any of them will grow up to be rock stars. In this twisted world- they'll probably grow up to be Republicans.
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Tues 5/24/05: 1991
Dire Straits, "The Bug" -- nice, and I'd love to hear the Mary-Chapin Cartpenter version on the radio again someday.
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Woke up in time for the Smithereens' "A Girl Like You," which threatens to put me back to sleep. Just feels kind of pedestrian to me.
Followed by their superior rivals, the Pixies (again), with "Here Comes Your Man." Makes me want to revisit Frank Black's "Los Angeles," which I only remember for its dream-like coda and John Flansbergh-directed video (surrealistic futuristic bumper-cars traversing about a desert).
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Woke up in time for the Smithereens' "A Girl Like You," which threatens to put me back to sleep. Just feels kind of pedestrian to me.
Followed by their superior rivals, the Pixies (again), with "Here Comes Your Man." Makes me want to revisit Frank Black's "Los Angeles," which I only remember for its dream-like coda and John Flansbergh-directed video (surrealistic futuristic bumper-cars traversing about a desert).
"Angel Eyes" -- Jeff Healey?
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Woke up in time for the Smithereens' "A Girl Like You," which threatens to put me back to sleep. Just feels kind of pedestrian to me.
Followed by their superior rivals, the Pixies (again), with "Here Comes Your Man." Makes me want to revisit Frank Black's "Los Angeles," which I only remember for its dream-like coda and John Flansbergh-directed video (surrealistic futuristic bumper-cars traversing about a desert).
"Angel Eyes" -- Jeff Healey?
Wow, they played an obscurity ("This One") from McCartney's album -- we can't even get Dave to play the hit "My Brave Face"!
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Woke up in time for the Smithereens' "A Girl Like You," which threatens to put me back to sleep. Just feels kind of pedestrian to me.
Followed by their superior rivals, the Pixies (again), with "Here Comes Your Man." Makes me want to revisit Frank Black's "Los Angeles," which I only remember for its dream-like coda and John Flansbergh-directed video (surrealistic futuristic bumper-cars traversing about a desert).
"Angel Eyes" -- Jeff Healey?
Wasn't listening, but Jeff Healey did have hit with "Angel Eyes." Peaked at 11 in September of '89.
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Thurs 5/26: 1984
very Morey-like... Icicle Works, U2, REM, Pretenders, David Gilmour, Marshall Crenshaw.
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Fri 5/27: it's 1978!
and here's... Flash & the Pan, "Hey St 'trina"! maybe Rob monitors Dave.
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little-heard Who: "Guitar and Pen".
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ooo! BOS Mr Loaf, "2 out of 3", a song Dave has avoided playing for some reason.
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more goodies: Neil's "Look Out For My Love" followed by Elvis C "You Belong to Me". "pumpin' like a fire hydrant" indeed!
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OMG! he also played David Johanssen "Girls" AND Marley's "Punky Reggae Party" which you NEVER hear.
I am mucho impressed.
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up early finishing a lesson plan for my last bit of SFSU work, so I thought I'd tune in. Nice start with Shelter from the Storm. Not sure of next song, is it Dwight Twilley "I'm on Fire?"
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disco baby!
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then some Paul Simon song. "You're so kind"(?)
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can barely stay awake, but this perks me up for another few minutes.
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I believe this is it. Supposedly written for Beck by Stevie Wonder, who was supposed to have given Superstition to Beck (it was on Beck, Bogert, and Appice) but used it himself.
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just tuned in -- the Peak going all the way back to '75 is a rarity. "Squeeze Box", one of the Who's most unfairly maligned tunes. judging by your running tally, Geoff, this has been a fine set.
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EWF Shining Star, and now Bruce doing one of his big grand tunes...big Roy Bittan intro...oh yes, it's...Backstreets
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just tuned in -- the Peak going all the way back to '75 is a rarity. "Squeeze Box", one of the Who's most unfairly maligned tunes. judging by your running tally, Geoff, this has been a fine set.
I zoned out and forgot to type squeeze box
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Great stuff -- now on to '73 on the Drive!
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just passing through. The stream is really bad, lots of odd sound artifacts. First some hopelessly 1985 kind of track I'm sure someone else could identify (that Anglophillic thing again) then a somewhat refreshing "Rock and Roll Girls" by John Fogerty.
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just got here -- obscure Prince, "Paisley Park"!
but yeah, the stream sounds crappy...
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I believe this is it. Supposedly written for Beck by Stevie Wonder, who was supposed to have given Superstition to Beck (it was on Beck, Bogert, and Appice) but used it himself.
One of my all time favorite songs. Actually, the song is a cover of a tune Stevie wrote for (I'm going to get this wrong) Syreeta. Or someone like that. It actually has words, or so I understand. Never have heard it.
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Here's a link, includes clip:
http://www.hip-oselect.com/catalogue_syreeta.asp
And, BTW, it's "Cause" not "Since."
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starting w/Eric Clapton "Alibis" (if that's the name), mediocre song, burning guitar.
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I believe this is it. Supposedly written for Beck by Stevie Wonder, who was supposed to have given Superstition to Beck (it was on Beck, Bogert, and Appice) but used it himself.
One of my all time favorite songs. Actually, the song is a cover of a tune Stevie wrote for (I'm going to get this wrong) Syreeta. Or someone like that. It actually has words, or so I understand. Never have heard it.
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Here's a link, includes clip:
http://www.hip-oselect.com/catalogue_syreeta.asp
And, BTW, it's "Cause" not "Since."
Obviously, I would hope Stevie did not write it 'for' Jeff Beck in the same sense as he would've written it 'for Syreeta.' My memory has more to deal with the concept of letting someone use a song you wrote. Like I said, Beck was supposed to get first crack at "Superstition" but Stevie decided to release it himself first. I'm dealing with thirty year old pre-internet memories, so it's a little hard to dig up. It makes more sense about Syreeta tho!
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never heard that before; no idea who it is.
then "Romeo in black jeans"
I'm going to eat breakfast.
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OK, now I'm gone
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just tuning in ... Black Crowes doing Otis. "Ah'm sho' hard to handle now, yessa ram" -- sure this isn't JarJar Binks?
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never heard that before; no idea who it is.
guess that was Oingo Boingo.
Damn, missed the Pretenders covering "Not a Second Time", a B-side I've never heard.
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Friday 6/3/05: it's 1980. And I'm here early enough to hear the whole thing.
NICE start: Martha & the Muffins, "Echo Beach"!
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We are Devo! "Freedom of Choice"!
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ooo! "Scary Monsters" after a clip about John Wayne Gacy.
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"Play that fast thing one more time", little-played Rockpile, followed by Dire Straits "Tunnel of Love". This has been one FINE 1980 set.
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Tues 6/7/05: 1979. Predictable Cars, and now the Roxys, "Angel Eyes".
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Anuvver bloody brick in yer bloody fookin' wall!
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Damn, missed "Boys Keep Swingin'" and "Dancin' Fool"!
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Damn, missed "Boys Keep Swingin'" and "Dancin' Fool"!
Double Damn, I got to my desk early, before 7:40 at least, but my computer was glacially slow & by the time I got the stream going it was 7:48. Was at least hoping to have been in time for the back announce.
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In early today, 1983 on tap. Just heard "Crumblin' Down", and now it's "One Thing Leads To Another".
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In early today, 1983 on tap. Just heard "Crumblin' Down", and now it's "One Thing Leads To Another".
I'm here too -- 2 appropriate song titles for the way I feel !
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Aaack! Phil Collins with one of the whitest Motown covers ever.
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Aaack! Phil Collins with one of the whitest Motown covers ever.
One of????
Ooh, my first BOS goes to Percy, "In The Mood".
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Aaack! Phil Collins with one of the whitest Motown covers ever.
One of????
Ooh, my first BOS goes to Percy, "In The Mood".
agreed, best so far certainly. But VHM to Dexy's -- BBC America is showing reruns of '80s Britcom The Young Ones and in the middle of an episode the other nite, Dexy's showed up to do their cover of "Jackie Wilson Said". I'd completely forgotten about that.
BOS2 "Telegraph Road"!
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No way, is he really going to play all of "Telegraph Road"? I've asked, but I have never heard Dave play it.
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BOS2 "Telegraph Road"!
Here comes the guitar solo, which still gives me chills to this day.
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VHM to the Meaning of Life trailer. Everey sperm is sacred!
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BOS #3 to "Seconds", when I had the War album on my turntable non-stop, this was actually my favorite song.
"I wanna be an airborne ranger"
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Everey sperm is sacred!
looks like every letter 'e' is sacred.
:lol:
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Crap, I missed "Legal Tender", that would have been my BOS hands down, just because I have asked Dave to play that twice with no success. It's also my all-time #81 song.
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Crap, I missed "Legal Tender", that would have been my BOS hands down, just because I have asked Dave to play that twice with no success. It's also my all-time #81 song.
Working late filing a report that's due (yucchhhhh!!), but the only silver lining is getting to re-listen to the set from the top, so I got to hear my favorite B-52's song after all.
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Wed 6/15/05: The Peak does '77! "Birdland" again, followed by that great F.Mac semi-rarity, "Silver Springs".
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OMFWTFLOL! Garland Jeffreys, "35 Millimeter Dreams". It's tragic that this guy got little airplay outside the Northeast. Gotta track down a GJ Best Of.
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and now another Townsend/Lane track, "Street in the City". Lovely.
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second visit to 1981 this week -- second spin for the Stones' "Slave".
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Friday morning -- it's 1986! "Emotion in Motion" and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
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finally a BOS: Echo & the Bunnymen, "Bring On the Dancing Horses". Another band Dave neglects, shamefully.
ETA: so of course the steeam died in the middle of the song!
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Tues 6/21: The Peak is playing 10 by the Kinks -- Ray or Dave Davies is appearing locally, I presume?
ETA: It's Ray Davies' birthday (he's 61).
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Tues 6/21: The Peak is playing 10 by the Kinks -- Ray or Dave Davies is appearing locally, I presume?
ETA: It's Ray Davies' birthday (he's 61).
I musta been on the same wavelength, I listened to a block of Kinks on my CD while driving to work: "Celluloid Heroes", "Dedicated Follower of Fashion", "Living On A Thin Line", "Lola", "Set Me Free", "Waterloo Sunset". I even listened to "Living On A Thin Line" twice.
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1982 today: Rob channels Dave with Square Pegs, "Six Months in a Leaky Boat", and Translator.
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1978: a rarely heard Nick Lowe gem from Pure Pop..., "They Call it Rock".
They cut another record
It never was a hit
And someone in the newspaper said it was shit
and Rob played solo David Johanssen too -- a truly Noo Yawk experience.
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'84 on the Peak (as well as the Drive) today. This set's a Morey-esque ramble: BOS "Last Nite I Got Loaded", VHM JCM "Authority Song".
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'84 on the Peak (as well as the Drive) today. This set's a Morey-esque ramble: BOS "Last Nite I Got Loaded", VHM JCM "Authority Song".
"I Got Loaded" is one of the best drinking songs in the history of music, used to great effect in Bull Durham.
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'89 today -- notable because they're actually playing a B-52s song that isn't "Love Shack" or "Roam". "Deadbeat Club" rules!
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'89 today -- notable because they're actually playing a B-52s song that isn't "Love Shack" or "Roam". "Deadbeat Club" rules!
Agreed -- especially when they name-drop "96 Tears" on the jook.
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'89 today -- notable because they're actually playing a B-52s song that isn't "Love Shack" or "Roam". "Deadbeat Club" rules!
Agreed -- especially when they name-drop "96 Tears" on the jook.
they also (mshray alert!) played "Monkey Gone to Heaven" by the Pixies. And, unfortunately, "Good Thing" by FYC.
Welcome back, Gaz you were missed!
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'89 today -- notable because they're actually playing a B-52s song that isn't "Love Shack" or "Roam". "Deadbeat Club" rules!
"Deadbeat Club" rules indeed! I have over the years been at a couple of friends-with-kids houses & for whatever reason 3 year-olds all love this song, including my own.
Sorry to have missed the Pixies!
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Tuesday, 1985: Rob takes a page from Dave's book with Cock Robin, but ends with the Ramones' "Sha La la", which I don't think Dave's EVER played.
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Wed 6/29: arrived late (thanks, BART!) for the tail end of a 1975 set. "Bad Sneakers" and a Pina Colada on "Thunder Road"...
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OMGWTF! Joni, from Hissing of Summer Lawns and a track that isn't "In France They Kiss on Main St"! Dave's never played this: "Harry's House/Centerpiece". Wow.
"A helicopter lands on the PanAm roof
Like a dragonfly on a tomb..."
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Wed 6/29: arrived late (thanks, BART!) for the tail end of a 1975 set. "Bad Sneakers" and a Pina Colada on "Thunder Road"...
[sarcasm]
I'm sure service would improve if those poor underpaid BART employees could get a raise.
[/sarcasm]
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"I Don't Like Mondays" on a Thursday doesn't quite fit right. But my oh my, how quickly this year has gone by.
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Ack! It's Ready Freddie again. *yawn*
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"I Don't Like Mondays" on a Thursday doesn't quite fit right. But my oh my, how quickly this year has gone by.
Just got here for -- surprise! -- "Crazy Little Song Gaz Doesn't Need To Hear for a Long While"
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And now "Tide is High" -- did Rob listen to Bob yesterday?
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Woo Hoo! Elvis, "5ive Gears in Reverse". Get Happy! is one of the Costello LPs Dave has never touched.
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1990 BOS to Neil Young's "Mansion on the Hill," which I'd never heard til now.
As an unrelated aside, can anyone explain to me why "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" was left off Decade?
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The Peak goes back further than I've ever heard them go -- and uses the lovely "Hypnotized" as the TOTHC! Nice start. (I'll be listening but not posting the rest of the morning -- still transcribing.)
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OK, popping back in to give a BOS to Georgie's "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)." While I don't hear the relationship between "My Sweet Lord" and "He's So Fine," I do hear a relationship between this and Dylan's "I Want You."
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OK, popping back in to give a BOS to Georgie's "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)." While I don't hear the relationship between "My Sweet Lord" and "He's So Fine," I do hear a relationship between this and Dylan's "I Want You."
Wow, this IS the furthest back they've ever gone. Got here in time for "Money" by PF and at first assumed it was a Live 8 -themed set.
BTW, sing the phrases out loud: "My Sweet Lord".... "He's So Fine"... they're the same bloody notes. Not that it means George stole 'em necessarily, but I can understand the urge to sue.
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ooo! BOS Raspberries, "Tonight". How did this one manage not to be a hit?
ETA: "a band that's just gotten back together"? Does Rob know something we don't?
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Great back-to-back, with Annie Lennox's "Why" followed by Black Crowes' "Remedy." Best Of Artist candidate for each.
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"they cannot see me naked..."
don't worry, Mr Stipe, we'd rather not.
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There Are No Coincidences: I just pulled out the Gordon CD earlier this week to listen to "If I Had $1000000" and "Brian Wilson." Great, underrated album.
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BNL, "If I had a Million $$$" -- I didn't realize this song was THAT old. '92?
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"they cannot see me naked..."
don't worry, Mr Stipe, we'd rather not.
Nevertheless, a sledgehammer for me: First time I heard it, it was June 1995 and I'd just met the most beautiful man I'd ever met, and we ended up skinny dipping at Lake Winnepesaukee with about 20 of his friends. Ah, memories ...
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"BUT NOT A REAL GREEN DRESS, THAT'S CRUEL!"
One of the greatest lines EVER. Hundreds of listens later, I still laugh out loud.
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'79 today -- OMGWTFLOL! it's "Too Late" by Shoes. What a great record.
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wow, the Shoes record (12-string guitar) followed by Tom Petty and then "Starry Eyes" by the Records! It's a 1979 12-string festival! All we need now is Bram Tchaikovsky...
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another OMG -- Graham Parker, "Discovering Japan". This has been a killer set with at least 3 songs Dave has never played.
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we also got the Cure's "Jumping Someone Else's Train", and F.Mac's "Storms" -- 2 more I've never heard on KFOG. A fine set indeed.
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You were right -- this was a winner.
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"BUT NOT A REAL GREEN DRESS, THAT'S CRUEL!"
One of the greatest lines EVER. Hundreds of listens later, I still laugh out loud.
I agree, gets me every time.
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1976: Blondie's "Rip Her to Shreds"! Followed by the mandatory Dan cut, "The Fez".
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Paul Carrack's "Don't Shed a Tear" isn't sounding half-bad. I never noticed how Squeeze-like the lyrics to the verses are.
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Paul Carrack's "Don't Shed a Tear" isn't sounding half-bad. I never noticed how Squeeze-like the lyrics to the verses are.
got here in time for "Nothing But Flowers", T.Heads' last hurrah.
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Paul Carrack's "Don't Shed a Tear" isn't sounding half-bad. I never noticed how Squeeze-like the lyrics to the verses are.
got here in time for "Nothing But Flowers", T.Heads' last hurrah.
A fine song, indeed.
But OMGWTF - is this La Deborah revamping "Liar Liar"?!?
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BOS Debbie Harry's fab cover of "Liar Liar".
VHM Meg Ryan's faked 'gasm. Her career, er, peak.
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"Scrambled eggs all OVER my face... what IS a boy to do?"
1993, theme from Frasier and the usual suspects (Spin Doctors et al).
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wow, 1974. 10cc "Wall St Shuffle".
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OMG! Billy Joel, "Los Angelinos". can't remember the last time I heard this on the radio. Certainly never in SF.
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Princess! Get over here! It's CHAKA, tellin' us somethin' good!
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Ang a big gay OMGWTFLOL to Mike's new avatar!
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Mmm ... Bastille-y Dan.
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OMGWTF2: the original of "September Girls"!
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"He would have an enormous schwannstukker!"
VHM Young Frankenstein
BOS 2 (or 3) to Neil.
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Ang a big gay OMGWTFLOL to Mike's new avatar!
I went looking for a simple pic of Mr Slave and hit the jackpot with that little gem.
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another wonderful original: Tom Waits' "Heart of Saturday Night". This has been a fab set, with '66 on tap from the Drive. More than makes up for the fact that I'll miss Dave's set due to a 10:00 meeting.
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Ha! I was actually going to post about that "It's Only Rock & Roll" video! Bubbles, bubbles everywhere.
Great set all around except for the Crapton.
Plot synopsis for "Mr. Slave"?
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Ha! I was actually going to post about that "It's Only Rock & Roll" video! Bubbles, bubbles everywhere.
Great set all around except for the Crapton.
Plot synopsis for "Mr. Slave"?
You need to rent the entire South Park DVD collection, dude.
After Mr Garrison finally acknowledged his gayness in, like, season 4 (or 5?) he hooked up with Mr Slave, an outrageously effeminate leatherman, whose catchphrase is my quote below. You really need to see the eps, tho'. Absolute genius.
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OMGWTF2: the original of "September Girls"!
The Big Star tune, yes? Has DM ever played any Big Star in 10@10?
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OMGWTF2: the original of "September Girls"!
The Big Star tune, yes? Has DM ever played any Big Star in 10@10?
I know you should never say never, but... "Never".
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Tuned in to find an odd Yes song I'd never heard, "Going for the One." Followed by Gary Gilmore's death sentence as segue into "Psychokiller." Happy Monday, everyone!
(P.S. I'll be working at the Voice from 11am til we close the issue, so I'll be a nonpresence today.)
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A *LOT* of little-heards in today's set, BOS being Randy Newman's "Baltimore," which sounds completely different from how Nina Simone recorded it a year later.
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OMG! Southside Johnny! "Without Love". Wonderful. those first 3 LPs are gems.
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OMG! Southside Johnny! "Without Love". Wonderful. those first 3 LPs are gems.
I never would have guessed who that was. The horns and mildly dated production reminded me of Bo Donaldson & the Haywoods more than anyone else. (And that's not an insult, I hasten to clarify -- I *loved* "Who Do You Think You Are" and hope Dave trots it out again next time we're in '74.)
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here early and it's '86... figured this has to beat Dave's '86 sets... but dammit here's Crowded House, "World Where You Live".
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not bad: REM, "Fall on Me", Mr Simon with a little-heard Graceland track, "Crazy Love" which gets BOS for novelty alone.
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BOS2: Bruce covering Tom Waits' "Jersey Girl" -- a perfect uniting of artist and cover material.
Down the shore everything's all right...
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OMG! BOS3! Smiths, "There is a Light That Never Goes Out." Why is Dave's aversion to the Smiths (he has maybe 3 songs he plays occasionally -- from a catalog of a dozen-and-a-half alt-radio "hits") outdone only by his aversion to Janet Jackson?
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Nothing remarkable in today's 1991 set, BOS to Matthew Sweet's "Angeline" just for being underplayed. Bob's been on a roll lately, though, so I'll let this set slide. :)
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1991 on Wednesday.
Got in late, but nice segues from "...Teen Spirit" into Matthew Sweet's "Evangeline" into REM's "Me In Honey", a couple of those 2nd or 3rd tracks that Dave never seems to dig down to in latter year sets.
Special bonus: T2 movie ad in between the last two songs.
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I always liked "She Talks To Angels" and it seems to be holding up well (imho)
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mmm, "Calling Elvis".
Hope I can win Mark Knopfler tix on the 9:00 Pop quiz to day, it includes a backstage meet & greet.
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This is the third time in the past 10 days I've heard Billy Idol's "Hot in the City" -- bizarre.
WOS to what I believe is a Rod favorite, DS's "Twistin' By the Pool."
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BOS: a version of Bowie's "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" that I've never heard. Very different, slowed-down arrangement. Curious.
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BOS: a version of Bowie's "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" that I've never heard. Very different, slowed-down arrangement. Curious.
the soundtrack version, presumably. He re-did it for Let's Dance.
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This is the third time in the past 10 days I've heard Billy Idol's "Hot in the City" -- bizarre.
WOS to what I believe is a Rod favorite, DS's "Twistin' By the Pool."
That song makes me happy. Haven't heard it in quite a while.
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1981: OMG, it's Lene Lovich, "New Toy"! Haven't heard this on the radio since I left NY.
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Not as much fun to go from 1982 one day to 1981 the next, but BOS to footage from Stripes ("We are not homosexual. But we're willing to learn.") and OMGWTF to Lene Lovich, "New Toy," which I would bet $20 Mshray has in his collection (or wishes he did).
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Not as much fun to go from 1982 one day to 1981 the next, but BOS to footage from Stripes ("We are not homosexual. But we're willing to learn.") and OMGWTF to Lene Lovich, "New Toy," which I would bet $20 Mshray has in his collection (or wishes he did).
"Do you mean, like, flaming?"
OMG half-jinx!
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Not as much fun to go from 1982 one day to 1981 the next, but BOS to footage from Stripes ("We are not homosexual. But we're willing to learn.") and OMGWTF to Lene Lovich, "New Toy," which I would bet $20 Mshray has in his collection (or wishes he did).
as they say in Chinese: Fei Hua!
(which means: That's like totally & insultingly obvious!)
It's on Rhino's Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the 80's, Vol. 3.
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Weird set so far. Tuned in for back-to-back covers I can do without (the Blues Bros' "Soul Man," Devo's "Satisfaction"). And then, Meatloaf's "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" -- which, strangely, I just heard several frat-boy types singing along with at a bar in Boston Saturday night. Then Joe Walsh's "Life's Too Good" -- doesn't anyone else think the solos go on just a little too long? -- and finally, RGMike's BOS doubtless, Tom Robinson's "2-4-6-8 Motorway."
Gotta get to work now. Will be a limited presence on the board this week due to increased workloads on all fronts (this is a good thing).
Gaz
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just tuned in -- it's either '78 or '79 -- and lo, Tom Robinson, "2-4-6-8 Motorway"! Woo Hoo!
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"Top of the World", Ma! -- Cheap Trick.
Rob also played MeatLoaf and the Motors' fab "Airport".
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It's Mick Jagger's 62nd birthday, and so the Peak does its bit for the old git. Surprised I'm able to tune in to an all-Stones set. We started with "Sympathy for the Devil," now in "Dance Little Sister" or whatever that one's called. Hoping for something from Goat's Head Soup, preferably "Tom Waits For No One."
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It's Mick Jagger's 62nd birthday, and so the Peak does its bit for the old git. Surprised I'm able to tune in to an all-Stones set. We started with "Sympathy for the Devil," now in "Dance Little Sister" or whatever that one's called. Hoping for something from Goat's Head Soup, preferably "Tom Waits For No One."
I got excited -- I thought they were actually doing 1968! KFOG played the new Stones tune earlier. Didn't catch the title, but one line was "I used to be your little rooster, but now I'm just one of your cocks" (!)
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Nice to hear "Some Girls", censored tho' it was.
"I just don't have that much jam!"
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It's on Rhino's Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the 80's, Vol. 3.
A CD I own, thank you very much.
Hoping for something from Goat's Head Soup, preferably "Tom Waits For No One."
And Tom Waits was the guy who spoke at an awards ceremony where Keith Richards was receiving a songwriting award. Or maybe that's the other way around. Either way? THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES!! OooOOoooOOoooOoooo!
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just in time for '89: Cure, "Fascination Street", followed by the Stones' "Mixed Emotions", which I think I like more than most folks here.
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Natalie & her Maniacs, "Trouble Me". Yawn.
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OMGWTF! 1972 -- the furthest back they've EVER gone. Joni, "You Turn Me On I'm a Radio" (!) and Van's "Jackie Wilson Said".
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wow, he also played Paul Simon, "Peace Like a River". Gaz, you might wanna catch the replay on this one tonite if you can.
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wow, he also played Paul Simon, "Peace Like a River". Gaz, you might wanna catch the replay on this one tonite if you can.
Man, I wish I could've - but I just got home after yet another long and eventful day. Some fun to be had, though. Tonight I met Franke (as in, of the Knockouts): He's the manager of a very Santana-like Latin-rock band called de Sol that I went to see tonight at the Mercury Lounge. (How Santana-like? When advised that they only had five minutes left to play, instead of jumping into their current single, "Karma," they closed with a cover of "Oye Como Va." Fun for the crowd, but an inexplicably bad move for them professionally.)
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wow, he also played Paul Simon, "Peace Like a River". Gaz, you might wanna catch the replay on this one tonite if you can.
Man, I wish I could've - but I just got home after yet another long and eventful day. Some fun to be had, though. Tonight I met Franke (as in, of the Knockouts): He's the manager of a very Santana-like Latin-rock band called de Sol that I went to see tonight at the Mercury Lounge. (How Santana-like? When advised that they only had five minutes left to play, instead of jumping into their current single, "Karma," they closed with a cover of "Oye Como Va." Fun for the crowd, but an inexplicably bad move for them professionally.)
KFOG has been playing that very single and yes it is VERY Santana-like. I suspect The Peak is playing it -- are they getting any airplay in NYC proper?
And is Frankie a Knockout? or at least a "Sweetheart"?
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wow, he also played Paul Simon, "Peace Like a River". Gaz, you might wanna catch the replay on this one tonite if you can.
Man, I wish I could've - but I just got home after yet another long and eventful day. Some fun to be had, though. Tonight I met Franke (as in, of the Knockouts): He's the manager of a very Santana-like Latin-rock band called de Sol that I went to see tonight at the Mercury Lounge. (How Santana-like? When advised that they only had five minutes left to play, instead of jumping into their current single, "Karma," they closed with a cover of "Oye Como Va." Fun for the crowd, but an inexplicably bad move for them professionally.)
KFOG has been playing that very single and yes it is VERY Santana-like. I suspect The Peak is playing it -- are they getting any airplay in NYC proper?
And is Frankie a Knockout? or at least a "Sweetheart"?
They're getting no love in NYC radio at all, which is really surprising considering the size of the Latino/a population here. (New York has more Puerto Ricans than Puerto Rico.)
Franke? Oh goodness no. A pleasant, mildly fey, mildly overweight man vaguely resembling a pockmarked Phil Silvers sans the glasses. Queasy yet?
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Franke? Oh goodness no. A pleasant, mildly fey, mildly overweight man vaguely resembling a pockmarked Phil Silvers sans the glasses. Queasy yet?
LOLAICS
(laughing out loud and I can't stop)
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Friday: My one day to hear a full Peak 10@10... and it's 10 by Dave Matthews :cry:
Wish yesterday's '72 set were today...
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Friday: My one day to hear a full Peak 10@10... and it's 10 by Dave Matthews :cry:
Is he playing Jones Beach this weekend or something? Our time may yet come folks--he's got two nights at the Big Phone in about two weeks. Feh.
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Friday: My one day to hear a full Peak 10@10... and it's 10 by Dave Matthews :cry:
Is he playing Jones Beach this weekend or something? Our time may yet come folks--he's got two nights at the Big Phone in about two weeks. Feh.
yeah he's doing 2 nites in the NY area but I forget exactly where.
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Nice post set bunch of songs:
Neil, Hey Hey My My (I think I remember that right)
Joe Jackson, Breaking Us in Two
SRV, Little Wing
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Nice post set bunch of songs:
Neil, Hey Hey My My (I think I remember that right)
Joe Jackson, Breaking Us in Two
SRV, Little Wing
Oops, I thought I was still in the KFOG 10@10 1965 area...
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Set kicks off with obscure solo Jeff Lynne, "Every Little Thing," clearly influenced by his period of working with Roy Orbison. Who should have sung this one himself, had he lived.
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a proxy Black Velvet BOS for poc!
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I never knew Jude Cole was a former member of The Records!
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OMGWTFLOL! the Peak does 1968!!! Wish I coulda heard this from the top; joining in the middle of the Beatles (yay), "Julia".
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Today's BOS goes Bruce-ward, "Downbound Train," which could easily have been the 8th top-ten hit off Born in the USA.
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WOS to Russ Ballard's prediction of the Giants' '04 outfield: "Moises ... I hear Moises ..."
And BOS2 to REM's "So. Central Rain," as alt-country as they ever got.
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WOS to Russ Ballard's prediction of the Giants' '04 outfield: "Moises ... I hear Moises ..."
Jerry Reed was even more prescient: "Named him after a man o' the cloth... called him Amos Moises..."
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ooo! Joni, kissin' in France on Main Street!
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a commercial for the movie of Tommy featuring an hilariously solemn voiceover from Jonathan Schwartz. Followed by EJ's "Pinball Wizard".
"He's scorin' mooooooooooooooore!"
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continuing a 1975 set: a clip from MP&THG: "we are the knights who say... NI!"
I happened to catch some MP on BBC America last nite, an ep that included Dead Parrot.
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OK I coulda done without "Bohemian Rhapsody" for the umpteenth time. Thought the "urban" version by the Braids 7 or 8 years ago was genius, tho'.
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John's cover of "You Can't Catch Me". Here come old flattop... again.
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Should have been 1988 to befit today's date, but ah well. BOS to Depeche Mode's "Never Let Me Down Again," the only synth riff that could ever be described as "crushing."
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Woo Hoo! Joan Jett, "Light of Day"! Been a while since I've heard this. Has Dave ever used this in an '88 set?
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It's an all-Dead set, in memory of Mr. Garcia. I wish I enjoyed their work more.
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It's an all-Dead set, in memory of Mr. Garcia. I wish I enjoyed their work more.
Well, as the song goes, "One man gathers what another man spills!"
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always sweet to hear this on the radio. This is the song that we thought sounded like Archie Bell and the Drells the first time we heard it.
Eyes Of The World
(Robert Hunter)
Right outside this lazy summer home
You don't have time to call your soul a critic, no
Right outside the lazy gate of winter's summer home
Wondering where the nuthatch winters
Wings a mile long just carried the bird away
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world
The heart has its beaches its homeland and thoughts of its own
Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings
But the heart has its seasons its evenings and songs of its own
There comes a redeemer and he slowly, too, fades away
And there follows a wagon behind him that's loaded with clay
And the seeds that were silent all burst into bloom, and decay
And the night comes so quiet and it's close on the heels of the day.
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world
The heart has it's beaches its homeland and thoughts of its own
Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings
But the heart has its seasons its evenings and songs of it's own
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own
And sometimes we visit your country and live in your home
Sometimes we ride on your horses Sometimes we walk alone
Sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world
The heart has it's beaches its homeland and thoughts of its own
Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings
But the heart has its seasons its evenings and songs of it's own
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the Deadheads raised some money to buy a billboard to fight a Colorado anti-gay initiative, using the line from this song:
"Ain't no time to hate"
Uncle John's Band
(Garcia/Hunter)
Well the first days are the hardest days,
Don't you worry any more,
'Cause when life looks like Easy Street,
There is danger at your door.
Think this through with me,
Let me know your mind,
Wo, oh, what I want to know,
Is are you kind?
It's a buck dancer's choice my friend;
Better take my advice.
You know all the rules by now
And the fire from the ice.
Will you come with me?
Won't you come with me?
Wo, oh, what I want to know,
Will you come with me?
Goddamn, well I declare,
Have you seen the like?
Their walls are built of cannonballs,
Their motto is "Don't tread on me".
Come hear Uncle John's Band playing to the tide,
Come with me, or go alone,
He's come to take his children home.
It's the same story the crow told me;
It's the only one he knows.
Like the morning sun you come
And like the wind you go.
Ain't no time to hate,
Barely time to wait,
Wo, oh, what I want to know,
Where does the time go?
I live in a silver mine
And I call it Beggar's Tomb;
I got me a violin
And I beg you call the tune,
Anybody's choice,
I can hear your voice.
Wo, oh, what I want to know,
How does the song go?
Come hear Uncle John's Band by the riverside,
Got some things to talk about,
Here beside the rising tide.
Come hear Uncle John's Band playing to the tide,
Come on along, or go alone,
He's come to take his children home.
Wo, oh, what I want to know, how does the song go.
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the Deadheads raised some money to buy a billboard to fight a Colorado anti-gay initiative, using the line from this song:
"Ain't no time to hate"
(http://www.casagordita.com/images/dad.gif)
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always sweet to hear this on the radio. This is the song that we thought sounded like Archie Bell and the Drells the first time we heard it.
I thought the intro reminded me of Marvin Gaye, circa What's Goin' On.
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the Deadheads raised some money to buy a billboard to fight a Colorado anti-gay initiative, using the line from this song:
"Ain't no time to hate"
(http://www.casagordita.com/images/dad.gif)
*sincere, raucous applause*
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1979 this morning: today's gem-that-Dave-has-never-played was Patti Smith's fab cover of "So You Wanna Be a Rock'n'Roll Star".
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Hmm... no Peak 10@10 today? Odd.
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Hmm... no Peak 10@10 today? Odd.
Rob Arrow's on vaca. 10@10 to return Monday.
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Hmm... no Peak 10@10 today? Odd.
Rob Arrow's on vaca. 10@10 to return Monday.
they don't save "classics"? that's kinda dumb from a programming standpoint -- audiences expect consistency.
I tuned in in the middle of "5:15" by the Who and got all excited.
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One advantage of a business trip to Denver is being an hour earlier & able to listen to the Peak.
"She's filing her nails while they're draging the lake."
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Of course if all I get to hear is 'World class rock from then & now..' instead of 10@10, it kind of nullifies the feeling.
next song is Mellissa Etheridge covering Petty's "Refugee".
ah well.
be back at my desk tomorrow.
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Rob's back and so is 10@10 -- Bruce's "Glory Days" followed by Oingo Boingo, "Stay". 1985, sez Rob.
I always mondegreened the Oingo Boing lyric, "if we get through one more night..." as "if we get the room..."
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OMG! The Peak does 1971. Tuned in in the middle of "Mercy Mercy Me", followed by McGuinness Flint "When I'm Dead & Gone" -- now there's a nugget I can't remember Dave playing.
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OMGWTF! Dylan, "Watching the River Flow"! One of his best singles, how did this manage to not be a hit?
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Rob pulling out ALL the stops today: Zep, "Goin to Calif" followed by Freda Payne "Bring the Boys Home", or as Robert Christgau once called it, "Vietnam with Violins". LOL!
Cease all fire (tell 'em 'bout it)!
per the backannounce, he also played "Starship Trooper", and Ms King's "Where You Lead".
All that was missing was "Stoney End" :wink: ... best '71 set from any source in a long time. Gaz -- you need to catch the replay on this one!
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Rob pulling out ALL the stops today: Zep, "Goin to Calif" followed by Freda Payne "Bring the Boys Home", or as Robert Christgau once called it, "Vietnam with Violins". LOL!
Cease all fire (tell 'em 'bout it)!
per the backannounce, he also played "Starship Trooper", and Ms King's "Where You Lead".
All that was missing was "Stoney End" :wink: ... best '71 set from any source in a long time. Gaz -- you need to catch the replay on this one!
Thanks for the lead, I should be able to. Been busy this week filling in as a fact-checker for the Voice's upcoming Best Of New York issue. Not enjoying this work, but it's employment and it's expanding my skill-set and my reputation as a go-to guy around here (which may not be entirely a good thing -- I'll explain some other time).
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OMGWTF! Dylan, "Watching the River Flow"! One of his best singles, how did this manage to not be a hit?
It wasn't? I remember hearing it a lot.
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OMGWTF! Dylan, "Watching the River Flow"! One of his best singles, how did this manage to not be a hit?
It wasn't? I remember hearing it a lot.
It peaked at #41.
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Today's Peak set was 10 by Mr Costello in honor of his 50th B-Day.
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it's expanding my skill-set and my reputation as a go-to guy around here.
you're also a go-to goy and a go-to gay. You're a triple threat!
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OMGWTF! Dylan, "Watching the River Flow"! One of his best singles, how did this manage to not be a hit?
It wasn't? I remember hearing it a lot.
It peaked at #41.
Jeez, if I put out a record, and it hit #41, I'd put something like "he had a hit record!" on my tombstone!
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OMGWTF! Dylan, "Watching the River Flow"! One of his best singles, how did this manage to not be a hit?
It wasn't? I remember hearing it a lot.
It peaked at #41.
Jeez, if I put out a record, and it hit #41, I'd put something like "he had a hit record!" on my tombstone!
Someday I'll write a book on near-misses. I'll call it "The #11s and the #41s: Faraway, So Close," or something like that. (There's already a book out about the #2 hits.)
Meantime, I gotta say, I'm really enjoying this all-Elvis set, even more than I would have expected. The alternate take on "Everyday I Write the Book" is far superior to the released version; was that recorded around the same time and rejected, or is that a recent revisiting?
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"The year the Chicken McNugget was introduced," we are helpfully reminded (and I can't imagine a McDonald's without them now). Kicking things off with "(Keep Feeling) Fascination," which sounds better on Fridays than on other days (it's a scientific fact!).
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Friday 8/26: 1983. Starting in Moreyesque fashion with Human League, "(Keep Feeling) Fascination".
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Laura Branigan for Dr Pepper!?! I don't think I ever heard this at the time.
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(Human JINX)
I don't think I ever noticed the degree to which Laura Branigan took her vocal cues from Donna Summer. Not quite the degree that France Joli did, but still ...
Ooh! "Undercover"!
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(Human JINX)
I don't think I ever noticed the degree to which Laura Branigan took her vocal cues from Donna Summer.
Really? I remember the first time I heard "Gloria" on the radio; I just assumed it was Ms Summer. My roommate at the time -- a straight guy -- liked the song so much he bought an import 12-inch of the original Italian version (by... Umberto Tozzi? something like that).
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doo-waaah! VHM Neil; this really IS a Moreyesque outing.
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off-topic, but amusing: the Critical Quote of the Day by Manhola Dargis, reviewing Brothers Grimm in the NYTimes...
"Like Colin Farrell in Alexander, Mr. Damon is also forced to struggle with a most disenchanting handicap, namely a hairdo (or wig) that in combination with his sideburns and frock coat make him look ready for a Paul Revere and the Raiders tribute band..."
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And there was much celebrating in the streets of New York as the mighty JoBoxers win BOS O' The Week for "Just Got Lucky." Glory!
Are there any other songs where the piano bass notes dictate the melody?
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BOS JoBoxers, "Just Got Lucky" -- TANC, it's been in my head since seeing 40 Year-Old Virgin last nite. Hilarious movie and great soundtrack.
"You framed an ASIA poster?!?"
You gotta see it, Gaz, especially for the musical number at the end.
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BOS JINX!
"You look like a Man-O-Lantern!"
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Concluding with another Morey fave, SRV. In all, a pleasant set... and '69 is on tap at the top o' the hour!
BTW Rob, we invaded Gren-AY-da, not Gren-AH-da.
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BOS JoBoxers, "Just Got Lucky" -- TANC, it's been in my head since seeing 40 Year-Old Virgin last nite. Hilarious movie and great soundtrack.
"You framed an ASIA poster?!?"
You gotta see it, Gaz, especially for the musical number at the end.
OMG, the musical number at the end* KILLS!!!. I won't say what it is to avoid spoiling the surprise, but it's worth the price of admission all by itself.
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BOS JoBoxers, "Just Got Lucky" -- TANC, it's been in my head since seeing 40 Year-Old Virgin last nite. Hilarious movie and great soundtrack.
"You framed an ASIA poster?!?"
You gotta see it, Gaz, especially for the musical number at the end.
OMG, the musical number at the end* KILLS!!!. I won't say what it is to avoid spoiling the surprise, but it's worth the price of admission all by itself.
BTW since you loved 40YOV so much, you really should see Wedding Crashers.
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Mon 8/29/05: it's 1976. The stream's sounding crappy, but Ms Armatrading ("Love & Affection") and the Flamin' Groovies ("Shake Some Action") make it worthwhile.
ETA: OMG! Linda Ronstadt with Karla Bonoff's lovely "Someone to Lay Down Beside Me".
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Fri 9/2/05: a decidedly dull 1992 set suddenly comes alive with "Divine Thing"!
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Tues 9/6/05: more comfort food; the Peak does '73!
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ooo! Bowie's cover of "Sorrow". Heard the original on CG last week.
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Just missed today's set : 10 Pretenders songs for Chrissie's B-day. Rock on, Ms. Hynde!
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Fri 9/9: 1981. BOS Elvis C "New Lace Sleeves".
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BOS2: Devo, "Jerkin' Back & Forth"!
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a 1980 set today: Fisher Z, "So Long", which I haven't heard since 1980.
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1991 today: very Morey, except for Southside Johnny (an album even his NY/NJ fan base barely remembers).
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1977 on the Peak... thought I was listening to a Drive set for a minute: an obscure Steve Goodman song called "Videotape".
"Wouldn't you be in good shape
If your life was on videotape?"
followed by a George Carlin clip and then "Estimated Prophet."
ETA: also Blondie "I'm Always Touched by Your Presence" (it's really not cheating!) and Mink DeVille's "Mixed-Up Shook-Up Girl"!
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Neat coincidence: The I Love Music message board was just talking about this Smithereens song "In a Lonely Place" today and its cinematic reference:
I was born the day I met you
Lived a while when you loved me
Died a little when we broke apart ...
Lovely stuff, and this from someone who's not really a fan.
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'78 on the Peak: "Love is Like Oxygen".
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BOS Cheap Trick's cover of "California Man".
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A Flash & the Pan song that's NOT "Hey St Peter". "feelin' like a woman/lookin' like a man..." Hmmm. "Walkin' in the Rain" (?)
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What's this horrid "Walking in the Rain" thing? It's like the "Hey St. Peter" group covering the old KROQ punk nugget "Suicide Child." I hate it already.
Happy Friday!
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The Dead didn't exactly expend a lot of effort on this cover, did they?
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What's this horrid "Walking in the Rain" thing? It's like the "Hey St. Peter" group covering the old KROQ punk nugget "Suicide Child." I hate it already.
Happy Friday!
We'll allow you to be cranky today because you're ill. But don't press yer luck, bub. :wink:
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OMGWTF!!! David Johanssen, "Frenchette". Oh the memories. Nobody on the West Coast seems to know this album at all. But damn it's great.
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The Dead didn't exactly expend a lot of effort on this cover, did they?
Don't tell me, let me guess: Good Lovin'?
Actually that song was much better in the live setting than their studio version would lead you to believe.
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The Dead didn't exactly expend a lot of effort on this cover, did they?
Don't tell me, let me guess: Good Lovin'?
Actually that song was much better in the live setting than their studio version would lead you to believe.
*ding ding ding*
And your observation would seem to apply to quite a bit of their catalog, I s'pose.
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1989 on the Peak -- is it me, or do they visit this year a LOT? tuned in just in time for the dreaded FYC "Good Thing".
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rock'n'roller cola wars! I can't take it any more!
But Rob did play Lou Reed "Dirty Blvd" and U2's cover of "Everlasting Love".
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OMG! The Peak does 1970!
"My Sweet Lord", "Big Yellow Taxi", the Allmans' "Revival" and BOS Sly, "Everybody is a Star". Musical comfort food.
ETA: Rob also played "No Matter What", "Fire & Rain", "Who'll Stop the Rain", the Velvets' "RnR".
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1985 sounds much like I remember it, with "Shout" and "Fortress Around in Your Heart." Opened with a pair of October longings -- "Centerfield" and "Dead Man's Party" -- and now an obscure, forgotten Cheap Trick pre-comeback single, "Tonight It's You." Interesting set, all told.
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1985 sounds much like I remember it, with "Shout" and "Fortress Around in Your Heart." Opened with a pair of October longings -- "Centerfield" and "Dead Man's Party" -- and now an obscure, forgotten Cheap Trick pre-comeback single, "Tonight It's You." Interesting set, all told.
So will any of our 10@10s feature 1979 today, so that they can "remember... the 21st of September"?
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Ooh, and now an easy BOS to "The Whole of the Moon." That song's 20 years old? Damn!
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OMG, Waterboys, "Whole of the Moon". One of my favorite lyrics ever. Brilliant.
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1985 sounds much like I remember it, with "Shout" and "Fortress Around in Your Heart." Opened with a pair of October longings -- "Centerfield" and "Dead Man's Party" -- and now an obscure, forgotten Cheap Trick pre-comeback single, "Tonight It's You." Interesting set, all told.
So will any of our 10@10s feature 1979 today, so that they can "remember... the 21st of September"?
Good question. Did we get 1972 on "the third of September" for a Temptations visit?
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Ooh, and now an easy BOS to "The Whole of the Moon." That song's 20 years old? Damn!
the whole of the JINX!
"I saw the rain-dirtied valley...
You saw Brigadoon..."
this song gives me chills every time, even after 20 years.
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1985 sounds much like I remember it, with "Shout" and "Fortress Around in Your Heart." Opened with a pair of October longings -- "Centerfield" and "Dead Man's Party" -- and now an obscure, forgotten Cheap Trick pre-comeback single, "Tonight It's You." Interesting set, all told.
So will any of our 10@10s feature 1979 today, so that they can "remember... the 21st of September"?
Good question. Did we get 1972 on "the third of September" for a Temptations visit?
Sadly, the third was a Saturday. And of course we didn't get "Ode to Billie Joe" on June 3rd either.
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Is this Kate Bush? Sounding intriguing, though "Running Up That Hill" was omnipresent for me around this time.
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Is this Kate Bush? Sounding intriguing, though "Running Up That Hill" was omnipresent for me around this time.
it is -- BOS2 just for novelty.
OMG did I miss Joanie B's "This is your Woodstock, and it's long overdue" clip?
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Is this Kate Bush? Sounding intriguing, though "Running Up That Hill" was omnipresent for me around this time.
it is -- BOS2 just for novelty.
OMG did I miss Joanie B's "This is your Woodstock, and it's long overdue" clip?
'Fraid so. Catch it tonight?
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Is this Kate Bush? Sounding intriguing, though "Running Up That Hill" was omnipresent for me around this time.
it is -- BOS2 just for novelty.
OMG did I miss Joanie B's "This is your Woodstock, and it's long overdue" clip?
'Fraid so. Catch it tonight?
actually I won't be home in time. But that clip is right up there with Grace at Woodstock, iconically speaking.
"All right kids, you have seen the heavy groups. Now it's time for Morning Maniac Music! It's a New Dawn!"
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Autumn begins with some phoned-in Bonnie ("I Thank You"), some other stuff I forgot (including PF's "Hey You"), and something I've never heard from Dave, Fantasy Island footage. And now, some amateurish new-wave wannabe-Elvis singing some "I gotcher number" nonsense.
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some amateurish new-wave wannabe-Elvis singing some "I gotcher number" nonsense.
Just got here and I'm trying to figure out who that could be.
Zep and B-52s "everybody had matching towels!"
oh it was the Jags -- "I got your number written on the back of my hand". Yes, very Elvis C (as Rob noted) -- but a great New Wave One Hit Wonder that got LOTS of NYC airplay at the time. Sorry I missed it, it's one of the few from that period I was unable to find a copy of, for my NWOHW mix tape series.
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Indeed, it's all-Bruce as we celebrate his birthday. I feel like I have the wrong perspective on him, missing his younger years initially and not knowing anything about him until he bought into Venice muscle-beach culture for "Dancing in the Dark."
And I'm just now reminded how difficult it is to make out his lyrics on "The Rising." Should've been a bigger hit either way.
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Indeed, it's all-Bruce as we celebrate his birthday. I feel like I have the wrong perspective on him, missing his younger years initially and not knowing anything about him until he bought into Venice muscle-beach culture for "Dancing in the Dark."
getting in shape (after being pretty damn skinny) is not the same as "buying into Venice Beach Muscle Culture". But his makeover is another of those issues that Dave Marsh prefers to skirt. Certainly made the Boss more video-friendly, in any case.
Yay! "Be True"! a fave B-side (the flip of "Hungry Heart"?).
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BOS "All That Heaven Will Allow". Wish somebody'd play the Mavericks cover in a '93 set.
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OMG! "Meeting Across the River", which Little Steven played during his salute to NYC last week. Fabulous. I used to seg this with the theme from Taxi Driver.
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wow, "Kitty's Back" -- talk about digging deep. Kudos to Rob Arrow!
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wow, "Kitty's Back" -- talk about digging deep. Kudos to Rob Arrow!
Wow, would have loved to have heard that. But since NY is a Bruce stronghold, he can get away with that stuff back there and people appreciate it. Out here, a lot of folks would go, "huh? what's this?"
(Heard the original Mountain of Love the other day, and was reminded of Bruce's version, btw.)[/code]
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Mon 9/26: 1987. Mostly Morey-ish but Rob gets major props for playing Prince's "I Could Never take the Place of Your Man", from Sign o' the Times, the Prince LP that Dave forgot.
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Tues 9/27: a Peak at 1975. "Once Bitten Twice Shy" gets a BOS. and "Two Lane Highway" (Pure Prairie League? Poco? Outlaws? who remembers?) gets best obscurity of set.
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Rob also played "Cause We've Ended as Lovers" and a clip from the Don Johnson/Harlan Ellison classic A Boy and His Dog.
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Listened to the replay, major BOS to Lindsey Buckingham's "Go Insane." Cocaine-induced paranoia never sounded so good, though the keyboards are a little dated.