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Main Discussion Area => KFOG's 10@10 => Topic started by: RGMike on April 06, 2010, 08:33:04 AM

Title: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: RGMike on April 06, 2010, 08:33:04 AM
according to AL's clue on the promo and her FB page: "the year Stephen Hawkings' A Brief History of Time was published."  I've requested either Joan Jett or Lita Ford, to continue the Runaways theme from yesterday.
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: Davefish on April 06, 2010, 10:03:44 AM
Holy Toledo!  A Proclaimers song other than "500 Miles".  No doubt I've never heard this before, though hearing it now, I'm not surprised.
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: RGMike on April 06, 2010, 10:04:16 AM
Holy crap -- the Proclaimers are on their wee, er, way. An ATBB that barely got any airplay in '88 afaik.
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: Tinka Cat on April 06, 2010, 10:07:43 AM
Purple toupee and gold lamé is all i need to BOS the Giants!
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: Davefish on April 06, 2010, 10:07:58 AM
And whoa, a "They Might Be Giants" song other than "Birdhouse in Your Soul".  "Purple Toupee"?  Great!
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: Gazoo on April 06, 2010, 10:08:03 AM
BOSFRA to TMBG, "Purple Toupee," which I haven't heard since college.
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: RGMike on April 06, 2010, 10:08:37 AM
BOS TMBG -- this is NTM, never got a lick of NYC airplay.
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: RGMike on April 06, 2010, 10:10:17 AM
aaack! let's Escape from this Club. "Cher is on the airwaves" -- one of my fave m-greens.
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: Davefish on April 06, 2010, 10:10:38 AM
HM for Escape Club pumping it up while working for a living with "Wild Wild West".

ETA: Didn't really need the loooooong version.
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: Tinka Cat on April 06, 2010, 10:11:07 AM
aaack! let's Escape from this Club. "Cher is on the airwaves" -- one of my fave m-greens.

I'm glad you did the work for us, b/c it's hard to find a mondegreen in a song you can't stand hearing!  ;)
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: Tinka Cat on April 06, 2010, 10:11:43 AM
BOS TMBG -- this is NTM, never got a lick of NYC airplay.

you should have called their Dial-A-Song hotline!
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: Gazoo on April 06, 2010, 10:14:25 AM
HM for Escape Club pumping it up while working for a living with "Wild Wild West".

ETA: Didn't really need the loooooong version.

Ditto on the ETA.  Sheesh.
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: RGMike on April 06, 2010, 10:14:52 AM
aaack! let's Escape from this Club. "Cher is on the airwaves" -- one of my fave m-greens.

I'm glad you did the work for us, b/c it's hard to find a mondegreen in a song you can't stand hearing!  ;)

I found it quite clever at the time but I don't think it's aged well -- and this 12" version isn't helping.
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: Davefish on April 06, 2010, 10:15:31 AM
Real BOS for some real rock from Vernon and the boys.
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: Tinka Cat on April 06, 2010, 10:15:42 AM
I'll BOS Vernon Reid's Living Colour -- saw them at CBGB's in '88
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: RGMike on April 06, 2010, 10:16:04 AM
BOS2 Living Color, "CoP", a Morey fave. Next time "Glamour Boys", please.
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: Gazoo on April 06, 2010, 10:16:47 AM
BOS TMBG -- this is NTM, never got a lick of NYC airplay.

you should have called their Dial-A-Song hotline!

I'm trying to remember if I ever called it.  I know I was aware of it.  (I learned about TMBG when MTV put "Don't Let's Start" into occasional rotation.)
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: RGMike on April 06, 2010, 10:20:23 AM
BOS3 B.A.D. --just play dat music!
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: Davefish on April 06, 2010, 10:21:11 AM
BOS3 B.A.D. --just play dat music!
Never heard this one.  Good stuff.

They could use some real trumpets in there.
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: Tinka Cat on April 06, 2010, 10:24:12 AM
BOS TMBG -- this is NTM, never got a lick of NYC airplay.

you should have called their Dial-A-Song hotline!

I'm trying to remember if I ever called it.  I know I was aware of it.  (I learned about TMBG when MTV put "Don't Let's Start" into occasional rotation.)

a guy where I worked called it once and said "listen to this" and handed the phone to me.  I can't recall the song I heard, but I was unimpressed at the time.  I did become a real TMBG fan a couple years later and wished I had seen them back when I still lived in NYC.

They'll Need a Crane is an amusing video.  It shows the band, consisting of the two Johns and bunch of senior citizens men.  They're playing near the main fountain in Central Park: http://vimeo.com/7725846
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: RGMike on April 06, 2010, 10:24:35 AM
BOS3 B.A.D. --just play dat music!
Never heard this one.  Good stuff.

They could use some real trumpets in there.

This one I *do* remember, but it was a fairly minor alt-radio hit as I recall. I'm wondering how many of the songs we've heard so far were being played by KFOG in '88.

proxy of shray, the Church, a real rept-trina.
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: Tinka Cat on April 06, 2010, 10:29:47 AM
Church's Reptile sounds good.  Echo and the Bunnymen-esque
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: Gazoo on April 06, 2010, 10:30:17 AM
I'm a sucker for Edie Brickell & New Bohemians' "Circle."  BOS2.
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: RGMike on April 06, 2010, 10:31:26 AM
I quit. I give up. WOS Mrs. Simon. What she am is what she are and what she is now is an Upper-East-side society matron.
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: RGMike on April 06, 2010, 10:33:25 AM
BOS4 Heathers.  "I love my dead gay son!"

BOS5 Graham Parker, gettin' started with the Mona Lisa's sistah.
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: Davefish on April 06, 2010, 10:33:38 AM
BOS for Graham Parker.  I've always liked this one.

And another BOS for "Heathers".  That's an intense movie.  Especially Christian Slater's best Jack Nicholson.
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: Rastermon on April 06, 2010, 10:37:35 AM
BOS3 B.A.D. --just play dat music!
Never heard this one.  Good stuff.

They could use some real trumpets in there.

This one I *do* remember, but it was a fairly minor alt-radio hit as I recall. I'm wondering how many of the songs we've heard so far were being played by KFOG in '88.

proxy of shray, the Church, a real rept-trina.

Tighten up Vol 88 was a great album.. my fave from that is The Battle of All Saints Road
Sometimes there's a drought we cant get no sensi at all
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: RGMike on April 06, 2010, 10:38:21 AM
Jane says... this song has one of the whiniest vocals evah.
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: Davefish on April 06, 2010, 10:38:50 AM
Biggest BOS I think for Jane saying what she wants to say about her addiction. (though she never mentions the word "addiction"...)
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: RGMike on April 06, 2010, 10:44:52 AM
Ha! AL did "9@10" today!
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: Tinka Cat on April 06, 2010, 10:45:19 AM
BOS for Graham Parker.  I've always liked this one.
me, too.   I like it whenever I hear it, but I never cared enough about it to seek it out.
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: Davefish on April 06, 2010, 10:45:44 AM
Ha! AL did "9@10" today!
But she got to 10 at the end, didn't she?  I don't get it.  Did she change the number of a song in the middle there?
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: ggould on April 06, 2010, 11:37:48 AM
Ha! AL did "9@10" today!
But she got to 10 at the end, didn't she?  I don't get it.  Did she change the number of a song in the middle there?
Quote from: Annalisa on Facebook
Hey gang--so today must have made up for the 11 @ 10 I did for April Fool's set...D'oh! I'm sorry I shortchanged you today w/9 :( and I brought in so much extra music today, too...curses!!&^%
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: RGMike on April 06, 2010, 09:10:31 PM
4/6/10- Tuesday and we're on our way to 1988!!

 1.  The Proclaimers- I'm On My Way
 2.  They Might Be Giants- Purple Toupee
(Movie: Hairspray w/the divine Divine)
 3.  The Escape Club- Wild Wild West
 4.  Living Colour- Cult Of Personality
 5.  Big Audio Dynamite- Just Play Music!
(News-election put-downs)
 6.  The Church- Reptile (B.O.S!!) psst-at Great American Music Hall tonight
 7.  Edie Brickell- Circle
(movie: Heathers)
 8. Graham Parker- Get Started Start A Fire
 9. Jane's Addiction- Jane Says
10. Incredibly... Missing! :)

Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: Big Fingers McGee on April 07, 2010, 05:39:04 AM
Ha! AL did "9@10" today!

Budget cuts.
Title: Re: 6 April 2010: 1988
Post by: Tinka Cat on April 07, 2010, 10:54:55 AM
Ha! AL did "9@10" today!
Budget cuts.

heehee!   or maybe AL is a closet Mormon and she tithed 10% directly to the CofLDS..?