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Title: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: RGMike on August 12, 2008, 10:01:30 AM
well, better than '90s. But this Babys 'trina ain't floatin' mah boat.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: RGMike on August 12, 2008, 10:04:52 AM
APP playin' games.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Gazoo on August 12, 2008, 10:07:57 AM
APP playin' games.
HM from me.  My crystal ball foretells Kenny Loggins' "I'm Alright."
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: RGMike on August 12, 2008, 10:08:44 AM
BOS Gary Myrick, but this is as much a frequent-flyer as the previous 2.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: mshray on August 12, 2008, 10:09:29 AM
Is it our 20/20 vision?

No, but a BOS anyway.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Wayback on August 12, 2008, 10:10:23 AM
BOS Gary Myrick, but this is as much a frequent-flyer as the previous 2.
good tune, but a Narada for me
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: RGMike on August 12, 2008, 10:10:57 AM
APP playin' games.
HM from me.  My crystal ball foretells Kenny Loggins' "I'm Alright."

"cinderella story... from outta nowhere..."

(http://www.80stees.com/images/Halloween_Costumes/Caddyshack_Karl_Spackler.jpg)

Let's hope your crystal ball is not-so-crystal.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: urth on August 12, 2008, 10:11:25 AM
Is it our 20/20 vision?

No, but a BOS anyway.

I'm down with the BOS for this one. Hard to believe this was classified "new wave" when it came out--it seems pretty mainstream now.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Gazoo on August 12, 2008, 10:11:42 AM
Is it our 20/20 vision?

No, but a BOS anyway.
Recast as a country-western song, it would be: "She Talks in Stereo, But She Gave Me Mono"
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: urth on August 12, 2008, 10:13:30 AM
APP playin' games.
HM from me.  My crystal ball foretells Kenny Loggins' "I'm Alright."

"cinderella story... from outta nowhere..."

(http://www.80stees.com/images/Halloween_Costumes/Caddyshack_Karl_Spackler.jpg)

Let's hope your crystal ball is not-so-crystal.

TANC: your selecting that pic is something I'm experiencing in reality right now--we've got squirrels raising hell in our filbert orchard, so we've got to figure out a way of ridding ourselves of the little vermin.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Gazoo on August 12, 2008, 10:13:36 AM
WHOA!!!  ATBB and BOS to the Tempts, "Power"!!
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: RGMike on August 12, 2008, 10:14:08 AM
1980: the last time America cared about hockey.

WTF is this pow-a-poom-poom thing? Temptations?

ETA:  oh, yes! "Power". I've heard this maybe once before. BOS2 for bustoutyness alone.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: mshray on August 12, 2008, 10:16:00 AM
WHOA!!!  ATBB and BOS to the Tempts, "Power"!!

ATBB for sure, and very cool.  Big BOS from me.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Wayback on August 12, 2008, 10:18:55 AM
< wouldn't it be amusing if we all had Issac Hayes avatars?!
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: RGMike on August 12, 2008, 10:19:48 AM
< wouldn't it be amusing if we all had Issac Hayes avatars?!

well, his chest was almost as big as ScarJo's ;)

more Police for Alicat!
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Wayback on August 12, 2008, 10:21:31 AM
< wouldn't it be amusing if we all had Issac Hayes avatars?!
well, his chest was almost as big as ScarJo's ;)
Yes, but dresses look better on her!

MJ sure is Off The Wall
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: RGMike on August 12, 2008, 10:21:34 AM
BOS3 "Off the Wall".
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Gazoo on August 12, 2008, 10:22:20 AM
I love it when Dave's in a 1980 R&B mood.  Doesn't happen nearly enough.  BOS2 to MJ, which might also be a bustout.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: urth on August 12, 2008, 10:22:50 AM
WHOA!!!  ATBB and BOS to the Tempts, "Power"!!

Here, here! This out-BOSes the rest of the set. And safe to say an absolute bustout.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Tinka Cat on August 12, 2008, 10:22:52 AM
< wouldn't it be amusing if we all had Issac Hayes avatars?!
done.


and BOS to the Po-Po's song, which a friend once thought was titled in jibberish French mondegreen, something like "Divah Toot-See-ay"
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: urth on August 12, 2008, 10:25:16 AM
< wouldn't it be amusing if we all had Issac Hayes avatars?!
done.


and BOS to the Po-Po's song, which a friend once thought was titled in jibberish French mondegreen, something like "Divah Toot-See-ay"

All we gotta do now is paste Black Moses' head onto Scarlett's bod for Shray.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Wayback on August 12, 2008, 10:25:41 AM
< wouldn't it be amusing if we all had Issac Hayes avatars?!
done.
Excellent!  That's a great way this club can honor DA MAN!

and Xanadu to you too!  ;)
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: mshray on August 12, 2008, 10:26:11 AM
< wouldn't it be amusing if we all had Issac Hayes avatars?!
done.


but I'll have to find one that has him with Scarlett Jo  ;)

...otherwise you all start complaining. 

ETA:  I see once again Urth is reading my mind.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: RGMike on August 12, 2008, 10:27:39 AM
VHM the Xanadu commercial. Worst. Musical. EVAH (even with stiff competion from Can't Stop the Music and Mamma Mia!). But the song itself woulda been cheezy fun.

Jon & Vangelis? BOS4!
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Davefish on August 12, 2008, 10:28:29 AM
VHM the Xanadu commercial. Worst. Musical. EVAH (even with stiff competion from Can't Stop the Music and Mamma Mia!). But the song itself woulda been cheezy fun.

Jon & Vangelis? BOS4!
And don't forget Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.  It's up there.  And my wife loves Mamma Mia.  She's going to see it for the third time tonight.  Cringe...
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: RGMike on August 12, 2008, 10:29:35 AM
VHM the Xanadu commercial. Worst. Musical. EVAH (even with stiff competion from Can't Stop the Music and Mamma Mia!). But the song itself woulda been cheezy fun.

Jon & Vangelis? BOS4!
And don't forget Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.  It's up there.

Oh my yes.  (and Gaz will chime in with The Apple, also a contendah)
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Wayback on August 12, 2008, 10:30:23 AM
< wouldn't it be amusing if we all had Issac Hayes avatars?!
done.
but I'll have to find one that has him with Scarlett Jo  ;)
...otherwise you all start complaining. 
This one is close
(http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/020319/125033__rock1_l.jpg)

Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: RGMike on August 12, 2008, 10:31:34 AM
uh-oh -- Dead, I'm reckoning.  WOS from me, just to be snotty.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Davefish on August 12, 2008, 10:32:06 AM
HM for Althea, one of my favorite down-tempo Dead songs.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Wayback on August 12, 2008, 10:32:24 AM
uh-oh -- Dead, I'm reckoning.  WOS from me, just to be snotty.
I'd prefer the upbeat 'alabama getaway'!
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: urth on August 12, 2008, 10:34:09 AM
< wouldn't it be amusing if we all had Issac Hayes avatars?!
done.
but I'll have to find one that has him with Scarlett Jo  ;)
...otherwise you all start complaining. 
This one is close
(http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/020319/125033__rock1_l.jpg)


OK, I confess: who's the babe?
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: mshray on August 12, 2008, 10:34:45 AM
VHM the Xanadu commercial. Worst. Musical. EVAH (even with stiff competion from Can't Stop the Music and Mamma Mia!). But the song itself woulda been cheezy fun.

Jon & Vangelis? BOS4!
And don't forget Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.  It's up there.

Oh my yes.  (and Gaz will chime in with The Apple, also a contendah)

Have any of you ever seen the early seventies remake of Lost Horizon?  Inevitably ranked as one of the worst moives of any genre, and I actually saw it in the theater on its first run.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: RGMike on August 12, 2008, 10:35:09 AM
uh-oh -- Dead, I'm reckoning.  WOS from me, just to be snotty.
I'd prefer the upbeat 'alabama getaway'!

"'when the smoke has cleared', she said..."

But the smoke *never* clears at a Dead show! ;)

Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: mshray on August 12, 2008, 10:35:33 AM

OK, I confess: who's the babe?

Alicia Keyes, no?
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: RGMike on August 12, 2008, 10:36:11 AM
Have any of you ever seen the early seventies remake of Lost Horizon?  Inevitably ranked as one of the worst moives of any genre, and I actually saw it in the theater on its first run.

forgot that one, since sadly I've never seen it -- Liv Ullman and Peter Finch SING!
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Wayback on August 12, 2008, 10:37:08 AM
< wouldn't it be amusing if we all had Issac Hayes avatars?!
but I'll have to find one that has him with Scarlett Jo  ;)
...otherwise you all start complaining. 
This one is close
OK, I confess: who's the babe?
Yes, Alicia Keyes, at least from Scarlett Jo generation.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: mshray on August 12, 2008, 10:37:19 AM
HM for Althea, one of my favorite down-tempo Dead songs.

I'm with you Davefish.  I think I'm up to BOS 5, which means this is prety good set for the year in question.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: RGMike on August 12, 2008, 10:38:31 AM
"the Dakota hotel"?? It's an apartment building, dude.  ah , NY's Finest...
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: mshray on August 12, 2008, 10:38:32 AM
Have any of you ever seen the early seventies remake of Lost Horizon?  Inevitably ranked as one of the worst moives of any genre, and I actually saw it in the theater on its first run.

forgot that one, since sadly I've never seen it -- Liv Ullman and Peter Finch SING!

Oh My God, Mike, hie thee to your Netflix queue posthaste.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Gazoo on August 12, 2008, 10:38:42 AM

OK, I confess: who's the babe?

Alicia Keyes, no?
Yes, but spelled Keys.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: RGMike on August 12, 2008, 10:39:16 AM
and we close (?) with one of Dave's fave 1980 Katrinas, EB, "MITB".
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Alicat on August 12, 2008, 10:40:25 AM
BOS Althea. The best!
Ginger will also visit 80 this week me thinks.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Gazoo on August 12, 2008, 10:40:29 AM
VHM the Xanadu commercial. Worst. Musical. EVAH (even with stiff competion from Can't Stop the Music and Mamma Mia!). But the song itself woulda been cheezy fun.

Jon & Vangelis? BOS4!
And don't forget Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.  It's up there.

Oh my yes.  (and Gaz will chime in with The Apple, also a contendah)

Have any of you ever seen the early seventies remake of Lost Horizon?  Inevitably ranked as one of the worst moives of any genre, and I actually saw it in the theater on its first run.
This is the first I've ever heard of it!  Netflix has been flooding me with ads and intro offers lately; maybe it's time ...

VHM to Eng Beat watching themselves while They. Are. Ea. Ting.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: mshray on August 12, 2008, 10:40:51 AM
< wouldn't it be amusing if we all had Issac Hayes avatars?!
but I'll have to find one that has him with Scarlett Jo  ;)
...otherwise you all start complaining. 
This one is close
OK, I confess: who's the babe?
Yes, Alicia Keyes, at least from Scarlett Jo generation.

Not only that but she costarred with Scarlett Jo in The Nanny Diaries.  Not nearly as bad a flick as I thought it might be, but then again Laura Linney is incapable of bad work, and Scarlett is incapable of looking bad.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Wayback on August 12, 2008, 10:41:29 AM
"the Dakota hotel"?? It's an apartment building, dude.  ah , NY's Finest...
John & Yoko in 1980...
(http://www.tfaoi.com/cm/4cm/4cm274.jpg)
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Gazoo on August 12, 2008, 10:42:11 AM
OMFG!  Dave's on a major roll today.  Proxy of Cairo and BOS#whatevs to the pride of Pittsburgh, "Gimme the Night."
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: RGMike on August 12, 2008, 10:42:17 AM
BOS Althea. The best!
Ginger will also visit 80 this week me thinks.

tomorrow, in fact.

OMG, we're not done -- more '80s Soul!  A record for Dave, it seems.  VHM the princess of cairo's favorite lech.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: mshray on August 12, 2008, 10:42:25 AM
OMFG!  Dave's on a major roll today.  Proxy of Cairo and BOS#whatevs to the pride of Pittsburgh, "Gimme the Night."

Wow, a 1980 set with both MJ & GB in it, pretty much songs I danced to every weekend during my freshman year of college.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Davefish on August 12, 2008, 10:43:14 AM
VHM for "Gimme the Night".  A stunning set for 1980.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: urth on August 12, 2008, 10:43:15 AM
and we close (?) with one of Dave's fave 1980 Katrinas, EB, "MITB".

I'd have thought that was tune #10 too, but it only seemed that way. Now we really close with another K from the Princess' fave lech, Georgie B.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Gazoo on August 12, 2008, 10:43:47 AM
Memo to George, though: You really don't need to double the solo in scat formation on Every Single Song.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: urth on August 12, 2008, 10:44:00 AM
BOS Althea. The best!
Ginger will also visit 80 this week me thinks.

tomorrow, in fact.

OMG, we're not done -- more '80s Soul!  A record for Dave, it seems.  VHM the princess of cairo's favorite lech.

Fave lech JINX!
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: RGMike on August 12, 2008, 10:44:04 AM
[Laura Linney is incapable of bad work, and Scarlett is incapable of looking bad.

I worship Laura Linney. Saw her on B'way in April in the Dangerous Liasons revival, she starred opposite some incredibly hot British guy.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Alicat on August 12, 2008, 10:44:44 AM
BOS Gimme the night!
Second to Althea.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: mshray on August 12, 2008, 10:45:57 AM
BOS Althea. The best!
Ginger will also visit 80 this week me thinks.

tomorrow, in fact.

OMG, we're not done -- more '80s Soul!  A record for Dave, it seems.  VHM the princess of cairo's favorite lech.

Fave lech JINX!

that was one of the better jinxes, ever.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Gazoo on August 12, 2008, 10:46:01 AM
Someone set their recorders on STUN tonight; this one was a set for the ages.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Alicat on August 12, 2008, 10:46:09 AM
BOS ALTHEA. Yup, listeners know best, thanks Dave.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Gazoo on August 12, 2008, 10:46:46 AM
BOS Althea. The best!
Ginger will also visit 80 this week me thinks.

tomorrow, in fact.

OMG, we're not done -- more '80s Soul!  A record for Dave, it seems.  VHM the princess of cairo's favorite lech.

Fave lech JINX!

that was one of the better jinxes, ever.
We may have to explain this one to our newer friends.   :)
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: RGMike on August 12, 2008, 10:47:43 AM
filling in for Annalisa: Webster??

(http://www.sitcomsonline.com/840114.jpg)
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: mshray on August 12, 2008, 10:47:46 AM
[Laura Linney is incapable of bad work, and Scarlett is incapable of looking bad.

I worship Laura Linney. Saw her on B'way in April in the Dangerous Liasons revival, she starred opposite some incredibly hot British guy.

Well then you should see Nanny Diaries, I know you also like Paul Giamatti & he does a really nice turn as Linney's icky husband.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: mshray on August 12, 2008, 10:49:11 AM
Someone set their recorders on STUN tonight; this one was a set for the ages.

Throw in the new & different Olympic Hockey & Lennon assassination clips.  I especially was glad to hear a hockey clip that didn't end with Al Michaels.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Wayback on August 12, 2008, 10:50:17 AM
VHM for "Gimme the Night".  A stunning set for 1980.
And a George Benson/John Lennon connection; released shortly after "Abbey Road", Benson's jazzy covers of Abbey Road tunes. I still have this LP:
(http://pixhost.eu/avaxhome/avaxhome/2007-09-20/cover_406.jpg)
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: RGMike on August 12, 2008, 10:53:31 AM
VHM for "Gimme the Night".  A stunning set for 1980.
And a George Benson/John Lennon connection; released shortly after "Abbey Road", Benson's jazzy covers of Abbey Road tunes

it's no McLemore Avenue, to tie things up with an Isaac Hayes (well, Stax, anyway) connection:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xYlA3hZYL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: urth on August 12, 2008, 10:54:44 AM
VHM for "Gimme the Night".  A stunning set for 1980.
And a George Benson/John Lennon connection; released shortly after "Abbey Road", Benson's jazzy covers of Abbey Road tunes. I still have this LP:
(http://pixhost.eu/avaxhome/avaxhome/2007-09-20/cover_406.jpg)

From when Benson was known only as a pretty hot jazz guitarist, long before Breezin' turned him into a vocal sensation.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Wayback on August 12, 2008, 10:59:09 AM
and let's not forget this one
(http://static.rateyourmusic.com/images/one?id=326434&size=f)
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: ggould on August 12, 2008, 12:10:46 PM
HM for Althea, one of my favorite down-tempo Dead songs.
I broke the law to make a cell phone call from the car to BOS Althea!
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Wayback on August 12, 2008, 12:44:02 PM
Then there's this 1980 item in today's news.  Rot in prison, loser:
Lennon's killer denied parole for 5th time
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080812/ap_on_re_us/chapman_parole (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080812/ap_on_re_us/chapman_parole)
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: RGMike on August 12, 2008, 01:03:35 PM
Then there's this 1980 item in today's news.  Rot in prison, loser:
Lennon's killer denied parole for 5th time
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080812/ap_on_re_us/chapman_parole (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080812/ap_on_re_us/chapman_parole)

While I agree with the sentiment, I'm amused by Yoko's argument that she wants to deny him parole because he's "safer" in prison ('cause another disgruntled Lennon fan might kill Chapman in revenge). She's a slick operator, that Ono.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: RGMike on August 12, 2008, 02:00:12 PM
8/12/08 – Tuesday!  Another Olympic year…1980!!

1.  Babys – Back on My Feet Again
2.  Alan Parsons Project – Games People Play
3.  Gary Myrick – She Talks in Stereo
4.  Temptations – Power
5.  Police – Driven to Tears
6.  Michael Jackson – Off the Wall
7.  Jon & Vangelis – I Hear You Now
8.  Grateful Dead – Althea (BEST OF SET!!)
9.  English Beat – Mirror in the Bathroom
10. George Benson – Give Me the Night

BONUS TRACK:  Journey – Any Way You Want it

One of Dave's best 1980 sets in ages -- but I'm sure glad I didn't stick around for the bonus!
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: Alicat on August 12, 2008, 06:31:15 PM
HM for Althea, one of my favorite down-tempo Dead songs.
I broke the law to make a cell phone call from the car to BOS Althea!
for shame. I phoned in too but used the ear thingy in. Tune into KBCO tomorrow for Gingers 80. I think she'll play Althea too.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: SFGuy on August 12, 2008, 10:51:29 PM
1980: the last time America cared about hockey.

WTF is this pow-a-poom-poom thing? Temptations?

ETA:  oh, yes! "Power". I've heard this maybe once before. BOS2 for bustoutyness alone.

Well it was the last time I cared about hockey.
Title: Re: 12 Aug 2008: 1980
Post by: SFGuy on August 12, 2008, 10:52:46 PM
uh-oh -- Dead, I'm reckoning.  WOS from me, just to be snotty.

I have to agree because I HATE the Dead.