10at10 Club
Main Discussion Area => KFOG's 10@10 => Topic started by: RGMike on November 18, 2009, 09:57:31 AM
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Well, I have to be right occasionally... "Only a Memory" indeed. Please let there be some surprises.
wonder if we'll get "Turkeys" next week?
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Pretty good start with the Smithereens. It's still OK to rock in the 80s.
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Please let there be some surprises.
and as if to slap me down, we get "Roll With It". ::)
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As overplayed as "Roll With It" is, it still sounds good to me. I remember being really happy about it then. Steve Winwood's vocals sound great -- a real throwback to the Spencer Davis days.
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VHM T-Heads, but I'm really hoping for a bustout to knock my sox off.
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As overplayed as "Roll With It" is, it still sounds good to me. I remember being really happy about it then. Steve Winwood's vocals sound great -- a real throwback to the Spencer Davis days.
I think I saw Stevie around this time. He put on a great show...
Talking Heads Flowers is one of their few post-Speaking In Tongues songs I like ...
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The highways and cars
Were sacrificed for agriculture
I thought that we'd start over
But I guess I was wrong
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Now we just eat nuts and berries
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okay, I've held out as long as I can, but I finally have to give a WOS to The Proclaimers.
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okay, I've held out as long as I can, but I finally have to give a WOS to The Proclaimers.
I guess you won't be hayverin' to them! (or whatever that word is)
Indeed, an overexposed song, esp since it's "legal" in 2 diff years.
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okay, I've held out as long as I can, but I finally have to give a WOS to The Proclaimers.
LOL! I think I've had enough, too.
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okay, I take that back, BOS Proclaimers + segue into Lockerbie plane crash. Dare we infer the hope was that Craig & Charlie would have been on the plane in an alternate universe? Or refueling at the petrol station or...
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OMG! BOS Tracy Chapman (and I don't say THAT often). "Baby Can I Hold You" shoulda been a big hit by somebody.
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Pretty rare Tracy Chapman, but it doesn't do anything for me.
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OMG! BOS Tracy Chapman (and I don't say THAT often). "Baby Can I Hold You" shoulda been a big hit by somebody.
but apparently not Tracy...
eta: I was thinking this was Joan Armatrading at first...
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OMG! BOS Tracy Chapman (and I don't say THAT often). "Baby Can I Hold You" shoulda been a big hit by somebody.
but apparently not Tracy...
Y U Say That?
ETA: okay, got it.
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the voice sounds sultry, the slow groove is nicely languorous, the original song is awesome... but I never dug this Cowboy Junkies cover
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Most yawn-inducing of set for Cowboy Junkies sucking all the life out of Sweet Jane. What's this song worth without The Riff?
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OMG! BOS Tracy Chapman (and I don't say THAT often). "Baby Can I Hold You" shoulda been a big hit by somebody.
but apparently not Tracy...
eta: I was thinking this was Joan Armatrading at first...
LOL! everybody thought she was Joan A at first, back in '88.
It was the follow-up to "Fast Car" but peaked somewhere short of the Top 40. I always thought Anne Murray shoulda covered it.
BOS2 Heathers. "I love my dead gay son!"
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BOS Heathers into Johnny Marr's sublimme intro riff, and then Morrissey's lyrics.
"Why do you come here? And why-hy-hy-hy-hy-hy-hy-hy-hy do you hang around?"
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BOS Morrissey Suedehead... voting is over!
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BOS for Heathers, and Christian Slater appearing as Jack Nicholson.
"Phlegm-glob!"
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OMGWTFLOL -- BOS3 Morrissey! "Suedehead" is a bustout, no?
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BOS Heathers into Johnny Marr's sublimme intro riff, and then Morrissey's lyrics.
is Marr on that LP? this is post-Smiths, I thought he was not involved on that album but I could be wrong.
"it was a good lay, good lay..."
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AAAAAAAAAAAAACK! anything by TTD besides "WW" woulda made this set a keeper. But... no.
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Smiths unquestionably the uber-BOS, but a very big BOS to TT-D'A. "Wishing Well" is a huge Sledgehammer/Zietgeist tune, and one of those things that one imagines was *this close* to becoming a Penthouse letter.
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Pixies get uber-BOS from me, though I've heard this dozens of times in the last few years on RadioParadise.
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hmmmm.. the Pixies give Morrissey a run for his money in the BOS dept.
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Smiths unquestionably the uber-BOS, but a very big BOS to TT-D'A. "Wishing Well" is a huge Sledgehammer/Zietgeist tune, and one of those things that one imagines was *this close* to becoming a Penthouse letter.
where is your MIND?
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Pixies supplants Morrissey as my Uber-BOS.
Hey Rod, how was the show?
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Smiths unquestionably the uber-BOS, but a very big BOS to TT-D'A. "Wishing Well" is a huge Sledgehammer/Zietgeist tune, and one of those things that one imagines was *this close* to becoming a Penthouse letter.
I don't see the Penthouse (Forum) connection. I looked at the lyrics, but they're a little abstract for that sort of venue.
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BOS #4 Jerry Harrison.
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Rev it up rev it up little boy and VHM.
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Smiths unquestionably the uber-BOS, but a very big BOS to TT-D'A. "Wishing Well" is a huge Sledgehammer/Zietgeist tune, and one of those things that one imagines was *this close* to becoming a Penthouse letter.
where is your MIND?
sorry, a little slow on the uptake that this was solo Morrissey, and no, I checked, it was some guy named Vini Reilly credited with the guitars.
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sorry, Jerry Harrison ain't cutting it for me.
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Smiths unquestionably the uber-BOS, but a very big BOS to TT-D'A. "Wishing Well" is a huge Sledgehammer/Zietgeist tune, and one of those things that one imagines was *this close* to becoming a Penthouse letter.
where is your MIND?
sorry, a little slow on the uptake that this was solo Morrissey, and no, I checked, it was some guy named Vini Reilly credited with the guitars.
doing a creditable Marr imitation, which I suppose was the idea.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAACK! anything by TTD besides "WW" woulda made this set a keeper. But... no.
Agreed. Have they ever played anything else from him?
I like WW, but it seems like it's played on every single 87 and 88 set.
BOS to Morrissey. This one worked well in this mostly slow-midtempo set.
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Smiths unquestionably the uber-BOS, but a very big BOS to TT-D'A. "Wishing Well" is a huge Sledgehammer/Zietgeist tune, and one of those things that one imagines was *this close* to becoming a Penthouse letter.
I don't see the Penthouse (Forum) connection. I looked at the lyrics, but they're a little abstract for that sort of venue.
Not a lyrical, only an anecdotal connection:
Back in 1988 I was living with my brother Chris in SD, and holding down part-time jobs as a limo driver and selling suits at the JC Penney in Fashion Valley Mall, one of the more upscale JCP’s in the country. There was a gal named Donna who was centerfold material (before the advent of ubiquitous breast-implants, mind you), and she had the job of dressing all the mannequins and displays in the store, which brought her into my dept quite often. She had married her HS sweetheart who was in the Navy, but that didn’t stop us from becoming pretty good friends and keeping up a low-level flirtation.
At this particular time there was a stretch of several weeks where my limo company was hired by one of the local radio stations (91X), to be part of their promotion at a local nightspot that had dinner & dancing. Every Tuesday it was Ladies Night, and they were having a best T-Shirt dance contest (not wet T-shirt, but only just barely less provocative), and the evening’s winner got a free 90 min limo ride with yours truly.
So imagine my surprise when one night Donna shows up at the Best T-shirt dance contest & comes in 2nd (but with her husband in attendance).
Then…one day shortly after, Donna walked up to me and told me straight out, appropo nothing, that she had had a dream about me the night before. I was quite literally at a loss for words. Then she proceeds to tell me that even though she came in second previously, she’s been invited back by the bar to participate in their grand finale, in which the Grand Prize is a week for two in Hawaii. And THEN she proceeds to tell me that her husband is at sea, and would I *please* come with her the next night to lend her moral support (I SWEAR she used those words!). She said she didn’t think she could do it if I wasn’t there.
And so there I was, the only member of her rooting section as she performed to “Wishing Well”…and she kept her eyes on me the whole time…and of course she won the contest & trip to Hawaii…and of course she went with her husband…and he thanked me profusely…and all I got was a peck on the cheek.
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Great story, Mark! I can see why I didn't get it all from your original post.
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As overplayed as "Roll With It" is, it still sounds good to me. I remember being really happy about it then. Steve Winwood's vocals sound great -- a real throwback to the Spencer Davis days.
I 100% agree... it's sort of the 1988 version of "Smooth" - veteran rocker has a #1 pop song that isn't too dull. In fact, it seems there are many stylistic similarities between the two..
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BOS: Pixies
HM: Winwood, Jerry Harrison
WOS: Proclaimers
Song from '88 I'd love to hear on 10@10 but probably won't: Terence Trent D'arby, "Dance Little Sister"
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BOS: Pixies
HM: Winwood, Jerry Harrison
WOS: Proclaimers
Song from '88 I'd love to hear on 10@10 but probably won't: Terence Trent D'arby, "Dance Little Sister"
I'll have to check that one out. Another track from that album is on my list, "Let's Go Forward".
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BOS: Pixies
HM: Winwood, Jerry Harrison
WOS: Proclaimers
Song from '88 I'd love to hear on 10@10 but probably won't: Terence Trent D'arby, "Dance Little Sister"
I'll have to check that one out. Another track from that album is on my list, "Let's Go Forward".
Introducing the Hardline... is honestly in my Top 10 albums of all time, one I often cite in deserted-island scenarios. I'm partial to "If You All Get to Heaven" and "Sign Your Name." I really think everyone should own that album.
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11/18/09 - Midweek! Sounds like...1988!!
1. Smithereens - Only a Memory
2. Steve Winwood - Roll With it
(News: KPIX Local)
3. Talking Heads - (Nothing But) Flowers
4. Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
(News: Pan Am Lockerbie Scotland bombing)
5. Tracy Chapman - Baby, Can I Hold You (BOS)
6. Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
(Movie: Heathers)
7. Morrissey - Suedehead
8. Terrence Trent D'Arby - Wishing Well
(News - Nasty election montage)
9. Pixies - Where is My Mind (BOS)
10. Jerry Harrison - Rev it Up
BONUS TRACK: Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers - Tumblin' Down
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just heard the Pixies cut on the replay. What is the attraction to liking this? Is it the band itself? This particular song? Many of you profess BOSness for this cut.
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just heard the Pixies cut on the replay. What is the attraction to liking this? Is it the band itself? This particular song? Many of you profess BOSness for this cut.
While that's not the best Pixies song (In my opinion, that would be "Bone Machine"), I voted it BOS for being something new on 10@10. At least, I find them to be something new.
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BOS: Pixies
HM: Winwood, Jerry Harrison
WOS: Proclaimers
Song from '88 I'd love to hear on 10@10 but probably won't: Terence Trent D'arby, "Dance Little Sister"
I'll have to check that one out. Another track from that album is on my list, "Let's Go Forward".
Introducing the Hardline... is honestly in my Top 10 albums of all time, one I often cite in deserted-island scenarios. I'm partial to "If You All Get to Heaven" and "Sign Your Name." I really think everyone should own that album.
Agreed. One of the greatest debut LPs evah. Why he didn't have, like, 4 or 5 Top Ten singles off it is a mystery. On Columbia, no less -- all that Michael Jackson money they had back then, and they couldn't buy, er, promote a few more #1's for TTD?
BTW, nice job on the marathon this morning: they played the sets in reverse-chron order (93-88-77-69-67) for once, so late risers got the best stuff.