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Title: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: RGMike on September 21, 2009, 10:04:03 AM
BOS JJ, when he was "the new Elvis Costello"

(http://pagesperso-orange.fr/religionnaire/artistes/70s/art/look_sharp.jpg)
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: Rastermon on September 21, 2009, 10:04:33 AM
off to a good start!
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: RGMike on September 21, 2009, 10:06:54 AM
Lawd! BOS2 Graham Parker.

(http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/en/9/90/Squeezing_out_sparks_cover.jpg)
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: Davefish on September 21, 2009, 10:07:34 AM
Lawd! BOS2 Graham Parker.
It's a good day for angry young men.  Can EC be far behind?
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: urth on September 21, 2009, 10:08:01 AM
And now it's the anti-Joe!  BOS Local Girls! All hail GP!
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: Davefish on September 21, 2009, 10:11:19 AM
Gigantic BOS for Squeeze's "Slap and Tickle".  This never gets played, not even on RadioParadise.
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: RGMike on September 21, 2009, 10:11:52 AM
Gigantic BOS for Squeeze's "Slap and Tickle".  This never gets played, not even on RadioParadise.

indeed, BOS3 from me. 
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: urth on September 21, 2009, 10:12:36 AM
Gigantic BOS for Squeeze's "Slap and Tickle".  This never gets played, not even on RadioParadise.

Right with you on that one. And the first bustout of the set, too!
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: Tinka Cat on September 21, 2009, 10:14:13 AM
Not really a squeeze fan, but it's nice not to hear Pulling Annie's Black Coffee Mussels  for the umpteenth time.
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: RGMike on September 21, 2009, 10:16:43 AM
holy crap! a Police bustout??  BOS(4)FRA "On Any Other day"
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: Davefish on September 21, 2009, 10:16:54 AM
What is this Police-esque song?  Sounds a little like Sting singing backup.

ETA: I see that's exactly what it is.  I don't recognize it at all.
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: urth on September 21, 2009, 10:17:04 AM
Whoa! Here's one I haven't heard since the mid-80s, at the latest.  That line about "my fine young son has turned out gay" may not play too well these days though. Nonetheless, BOS3 for On Any Other Day.
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: Gazoo on September 21, 2009, 10:18:59 AM
BOS the Records, "Starry Eyes"!!  Poptopia!
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: RGMike on September 21, 2009, 10:19:12 AM
(http://www.chiefacoins.com/Database/Movies/MorkMindy.jpg)

Starry Eyes indeed!  BOS5 the fabulous Records -- is this a bustout? it's been a bonus a bunch of times.
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: urth on September 21, 2009, 10:19:32 AM
What is this Police-esque song?  Sounds a little like Sting singing backup.

ETA: I see that's exactly what it is.  I don't recognize it at all.

What is this Police-esque song?  Sounds a little like Sting singing backup.

You are dead on. It's a deep track from Regatta de Blanc, iirc. Stewart Copeland singing lead.

And while I'm here, uber BOS to the Records, Starry Eyes.
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: RGMike on September 21, 2009, 10:20:28 AM
5 songs
5 Brits
5 BOS's

Woo Hoo!
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: urth on September 21, 2009, 10:21:31 AM
Starry Eyes indeed!  BOS5 the fabulous Records -- is this a bustout? it's been a bonus a bunch of times.

Indeed it is! (A bustout, that is.) Obviously AL digs it--and now that she's in the drivers' seat (cue Sniff 'n the Tears) we can hear it in the set proper.
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: Davefish on September 21, 2009, 10:22:40 AM
Starry Eyes indeed!  BOS5 the fabulous Records -- is this a bustout? it's been a bonus a bunch of times.

Indeed it is! (A bustout, that is.) Obviously AL digs it--and now that she's in the drivers' seat (cue Sniff 'n the Tears) we can hear it in the set proper.
Great pop song -- the Byrds would be proud.
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: RGMike on September 21, 2009, 10:23:10 AM
6th Brit: "Cruel to Play Katrinas"
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: urth on September 21, 2009, 10:23:39 AM
Yeah, yeah, we hear CtbK all the damn time--but how can you resist a hook like this one? The Brits just keep on coming!
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: RGMike on September 21, 2009, 10:27:01 AM
Americans crash the party: BOS6 Blondie's ultrafab "Dreaming"

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uB-0D-gV8mY/RvKkiBdLVaI/AAAAAAAAEBg/-XIaXHq5Jjk/s400/blondie.jpg)
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: urth on September 21, 2009, 10:28:43 AM
Well, the Brit streak ends, but the bustouts continue: Dave only ever played Heart of Glass and One Way Or Another in '79. VHM Dreamin'--and I'd love to hear Rip Her To Shreds sometime.
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: RGMike on September 21, 2009, 10:30:27 AM
BOS7 "Boys Don't Cry".
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: urth on September 21, 2009, 10:32:06 AM
This set is largely made up of the Bonus tracks that AL played following '79 sets for the last few years.
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: mshray on September 21, 2009, 10:32:20 AM
5 songs
5 Brits
5 BOS's

Woo Hoo!


I can't believe that the Records, Blondie & Cure are all bustouts (standard Db disclaimer).  I would only have expected the Cure tune to be one.  Pretty sure Squeeze was too, btu haven't checked yet.

BOS for just about everything
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: Tinka Cat on September 21, 2009, 10:33:52 AM
Holy Crap! Transmission by Joy Division

BOS .... and put down your pencils!  Voting is over!
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: urth on September 21, 2009, 10:35:03 AM


I can't believe that the Records, Blondie & Cure are all bustouts (standard Db disclaimer).  I would only have expected the Cure tune to be one.  Pretty sure Squeeze was too, btu haven't checked yet.

BOS for just about everything

Yep, and the Police tune as well. All bustouts as far as I can tell.
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: mshray on September 21, 2009, 10:35:15 AM
Holy Crap! Transmission by Joy Division

BOS .... and put down your pencils!  Voting is over!

Indeed.  Annalisa, We Are I Awe!!!
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: RGMike on September 21, 2009, 10:35:23 AM
5 songs
5 Brits
5 BOS's

Woo Hoo!


I can't believe that the Records, Blondie & Cure are all bustouts (standard Db disclaimer).  I would only have expected the Cure tune to be one.  Pretty sure Squeeze was too, btu haven't checked yet.

BOS for just about everything

Well, yes, but "Starry Eyes" is one we've all bitched about Dave never playing, and the fact that AL played it as a bonus a couple times only made its absence from actual sets more infuriating.
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: Davefish on September 21, 2009, 10:35:50 AM
There was a hilarious bit on SNL about Three Mile Island featuring Dan Akroyd as Jimmy Carter.  Remember?  He was exposed to radiation and got really big -- Rodney Dangerfield was brought in to explain how big the president was.  "Oh man, he's big.  Like he could have an affair with the Lincoln Tunnel!"
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: RGMike on September 21, 2009, 10:36:54 AM
Holy Crap! Transmission by Joy Division

BOS .... and put down your pencils!  Voting is over!

Indeed.  Annalisa, We Are I Awe!!!

BOS8 (!) and  this really is a set for the ages -- gobsmackingly great.
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: RGMike on September 21, 2009, 10:37:43 AM
All "New Wave" All the Time!  When AL picks a theme, she sticks to it!  fab fab fab.
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: RGMike on September 21, 2009, 10:39:29 AM
I just accidentally hit the "report to moderator" button and got

You can't report your own post to the moderator, that doesn't make sense!

LOL!
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: mshray on September 21, 2009, 10:39:37 AM
You know it's an off the chart setlist when (by far) the weakest entry is "Hey, St. Peter".

Yes, it was GOOOOOOOD!
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: urth on September 21, 2009, 10:42:25 AM
So only 1.5 of the songs were of US origin. (I'm giving the Police tune half-credit since it was sung by their token Yank.)
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: urth on September 21, 2009, 10:46:46 AM
5 songs
5 Brits
5 BOS's

Woo Hoo!


I can't believe that the Records, Blondie & Cure are all bustouts (standard Db disclaimer).  I would only have expected the Cure tune to be one.  Pretty sure Squeeze was too, btu haven't checked yet.

BOS for just about everything

Well, yes, but "Starry Eyes" is one we've all bitched about Dave never playing, and the fact that AL played it as a bonus a couple times only made its absence from actual sets more infuriating.

I'm curious what she's going to pull out for today's Bonus? Either something really really obscure...or maybe Supertramp?  :o

ETA: And instead the pulls a left turn from the New Wave-a-thon of the set and goes for the Cheeze Styx. Oy.

Btw, the Bonus track hasn't been decided by foghead callers lately--AL is making the call here too. Maybe they're running low on new music samplers?
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: radical347 on September 21, 2009, 11:48:41 AM
Wow, this is the first 70's set that I've actively enjoyed! (Although I guess it's not that far behind that 1980s set of hers, which not only was the first pre-1982 set I liked, I LOVED it!  I didn't love this one quite as much, but it was still solid.)  For one, it was good to hear a non One Way or Another/Heart of Glass/Rapture Blondie song...and a non Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Divison song...and a non all-those-other-songs Squeeze song.

BOS: Joy Division.
WOS: Cure, and I finally figured out why it's their only non post-Disintegration single I hate, and that's because it's from the 70s. :P (I didn't know the Cure was around back then. & while Disintegration is IMO their greatest album, as a general rule, I abhor 97% of everything they've released after that.)  Fortunately she lumped the few tolerable 70s songs into this set.  ;)
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: mshray on September 21, 2009, 12:37:52 PM

ETA: And instead the pulls a left turn from the New Wave-a-thon of the set and goes for the Cheeze Styx. Oy.

Btw, the Bonus track hasn't been decided by foghead callers lately--AL is making the call here too. Maybe they're running low on new music samplers?

actually, today's bonus track *was* decided by a Foghead - me!

I was driving & so figured on calling Annalisa to express my apreciation for the set.  I had just gotten a ring when she said on air that she was torn between a cheesy #1 hit & classic live album.  And then she picked up, so I asked her if I could help her decide & she said it was between "Babe" and something from Live at Budakan, and she admitted that she was leaning towards the latter.  I said that I love cheese & besides, "Babe was THE high school slow dance for my graduating class.  It was released just in time for Homecoming, then the Winter ball, and finally Senior Prom.  I'd only gone to one formal before those three.  But I went to all of those, and I also got invited to attend a prom at an all-girls prep school by a friend from my exchange student experience.  So I can safely say that, upon the release of  "Babe", I danced to that song, in a tuxedo, roughly every other month for the next 8 months.
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: Tinka Cat on September 21, 2009, 12:52:28 PM

ETA: And instead the pulls a left turn from the New Wave-a-thon of the set and goes for the Cheeze Styx. Oy.

Btw, the Bonus track hasn't been decided by foghead callers lately--AL is making the call here too. Maybe they're running low on new music samplers?

actually, today's bonus track *was* decided by a Foghead - me!

I was driving & so figured on calling Annalisa to express my apreciation for the set.  I had just gotten a ring when she said on air that she was torn between a cheesy #1 hit & classic live album.  And then she picked up, so I asked her if I could help her decide & she said it was between "Babe" and something from Live at Budakan, and she admitted that she was leaning towards the latter.  I said that I love cheese & besides, "Babe was THE high school slow dance for my graduating class.  It was released just in time for Homecoming, then the Winter ball, and finally Senior Prom.  I'd only gone to one formal before those three.  But I went to all of those, and I also got invited to attend a prom at an all-girls prep school by a friend from my exchange student experience.  So I can safely say that, upon the release of  "Babe", I danced to that song, in a tuxedo, roughly every other month for the next 8 months.

wow, sounds like you were getting some ack-shawn!

yes, Babe was a nice cheese counterpoint to the set.  nice.
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: ggould on September 21, 2009, 06:32:27 PM
wow, Starry Eyes!  Urth probably has this one, right?

9/21/09 - Monday... Stutting into...1979!!!
   1.  Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!
   2.  Graham Parker - Local Girls
(Ad:  Tab Cola)
   3.  Squeeze - Slap & a Tickle
   4.  The Police - On Any Other Day
(TV:  Mork & Mindy)
   5.  The Records - Starry Eyes (BOS!)
   6.  Nick Lowe - Cruel to Be Kind
(TV:  ABC Lineup promo)
   7.  Blondie - Dreaming
   8.  The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
(News:  Three Mile Island)
   9.  Joy Division - Transmission
  10.  Flash & the Pan - Hey St. Peter
BONUS TRACK:  Styx - Babe
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: RGMike on September 21, 2009, 07:31:37 PM

wow, Starry Eyes!  Urth probably has this one, right?


I'd be willing to bet at least half of us own a copy of "Starry Eyes" in one format or another.
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: Big Fingers McGee on September 21, 2009, 09:47:28 PM
BOS to Joe Jackson and the Tab Ad.
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: Gazoo on September 21, 2009, 11:14:51 PM
So only 1.5 of the songs were of US origin. (I'm giving the Police tune half-credit since it was sung by their token Yank.)

I'd offer Sting circa 1979 a token yank.

(http://gooddeedaday.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/sting.jpg)
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: RGMike on September 22, 2009, 07:40:08 AM

I'd offer Sting circa 1979 a token yank.


http://www.instantrimshot.com/
Title: Re: 21 Sept 2009: look sharp! it's 1979
Post by: RGMike on September 22, 2009, 11:52:11 AM

9/21/09 - Monday... Stutting into...1979!!!
   

Er, I guess that's supposed to be "strutting" into 1979, and not "stuttering"  ;)