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Title: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Big Fingers McGee on August 12, 2010, 08:53:52 PM
Apparently Hits From Hell was copyrighted by Dave. So much for trying to avoid "With Arms Wide Open"!
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: urth on August 12, 2010, 08:56:48 PM
Per AL's FB pg:

Quote from: Annalisa
For this Friday the 13th's 10@10: Since these days we can use all the luck we can get, introducing the Lucky 13 10@10 set! 13 good tunes for good luck and good fun! Got a lucky song you'd like to hear? Let me know. I'll get you started with one for good luck!
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Wayback on August 12, 2010, 09:00:34 PM
If we hear Wings' "With A Little Luck" 13 times in a row, it'll be a HFH  ;)
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: ggould on August 12, 2010, 09:02:25 PM
Apparently Hits From Hell was copyrighted by Dave.

Gullible Geoff says "really?"
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: RGMike on August 12, 2010, 09:06:39 PM
Well, I'm not entirely surprised, as AL had hinted that she prefers sneaking HFHs into regular sets.

But once again sundaygal reads my mind and suggests JoBoxers' "Just Got Lucky" and Janet Jackson's "Black Cat", which I'd planned to request for the next 1990 set!  Maybe we were married in a previous life?

Anyway, I'll be at an offsite training thingy tomorrow with no radio and no interwebs, so I'll catch up tomorrow nite.  Keep copious notes, kids!
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: sundaygal on August 12, 2010, 09:42:55 PM
Well, I'm not entirely surprised, as AL had hinted that she prefers sneaking HFHs into regular sets.

But once again sundaygal reads my mind and suggests JoBoxers' "Just Got Lucky" and Janet Jackson's "Black Cat", which I'd planned to request for the next 1990 set!  Maybe we were married in a previous life?

Anyway, I'll be at an offsite training thingy tomorrow with no radio and no interwebs, so I'll catch up tomorrow nite.  Keep copious notes, kids!
Your musical hag, mayhaps?   ;)
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Gazoo on August 13, 2010, 10:07:34 AM
AL kicks off with some unfamiliar Lovich-y New Wave, then some forgotten Elvis, "Good Luck Charm."

I'm hoping for Joan Armatrading, walking under ladders.
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: sundaygal on August 13, 2010, 10:08:39 AM
Ooh...BOS1 Lucky Number - Lene Lovich
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51940FT5W6L._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Gazoo on August 13, 2010, 10:14:17 AM
Jeez, does the instro part of "With a Little Luck" go on for a long time.
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Gazoo on August 13, 2010, 10:21:04 AM
Well, I'm not entirely surprised, as AL had hinted that she prefers sneaking HFHs into regular sets.

But once again sundaygal reads my mind and suggests JoBoxers' "Just Got Lucky"

BOS from me!  Follows on the heels of Rod's leaden, joyless version of "Some Guys Have All the Luck."
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: sundaygal on August 13, 2010, 10:22:27 AM
Just got off BART and turned on the radio to...Just Got Lucky - JoBoxers.  A good sign indeed!  BOS2
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Wayback on August 13, 2010, 10:24:18 AM
JoBoxer "Just Got Lucky" sounds like a cut off Joe Jackson's "Night & Day" LP.  

And BOS The Turtles!
(http://a3.vox.com/6a00d414298a4e3c7f01240b5f7af3860e-500pi)
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Gazoo on August 13, 2010, 10:24:27 AM
Oh me, oh my, lucky guy is what I am to hear the Turtles' "She'd Rather Be With Me."  Surprising choice!
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: sundaygal on August 13, 2010, 10:25:47 AM
I can't believe AL is playing this (but am happy she is)...
Lucky Star - Madonna BOS3
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Wayback on August 13, 2010, 10:28:41 AM
I can't believe AL is playing this (but am happy she is)...
Lucky Star - Madonna BOS3
(http://www.10madonna.com/madonna/medium/Madonna_1984_03.jpg)
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Wayback on August 13, 2010, 10:30:11 AM
Mick Jagger - Lucky in Love
(http://www.rollingstonesnet.com/images/LuckyInLove_Single.jpg)
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Wayback on August 13, 2010, 10:38:01 AM
AL could have gone ahead and played Marlon Brando's version of "Luck Be A Lady Tonight" from Guys & Dolls, but here's the Sinatra version.  He's the better singer!
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: sundaygal on August 13, 2010, 10:38:36 AM
Uber-duber BOS4 goes to Luck Be A Lady - Frank
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Gazoo on August 13, 2010, 10:39:45 AM
WOS Frankie's "Luck Be a Lady."  I hate big-band vocal delivery.
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Tinka Cat on August 13, 2010, 10:40:06 AM
man, I'd hate to play poker with Mick Jagger, what with all that screming and all.  "What's that?  .... A ROYAL FLUUUUSH?"

sorry I missed Lene Lovich, another BOS to Frank Sinatra.

I had a friend who was in a production of Guys and Dolls in college.  A lot of male theater majors were, um... not straight?    So of course they referred to the show as Gays And Dolls..   heehee

Hurray! my favorite Tom Petty song!  
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Wayback on August 13, 2010, 10:41:00 AM
Nice! AL skips the obvious Petty luck song "You Got Lucky" for "Even the Losers" (get lucky sometime)
(http://991.com/newgallery/Tom-Petty-Damn-The-Torpedoe-466022.jpg)
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Wayback on August 13, 2010, 10:42:13 AM
ELP "Lucky Man"
(http://www.45vinylvidivici.net/SEVENTIESimages%20%28dg%29/emerson%20lake%20palmer%206014041.jpg)
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Gazoo on August 13, 2010, 10:45:40 AM
WOS2 "Lucky Man," which is silly poetry and contradicts AL's unironic "luck" theme.
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Tinka Cat on August 13, 2010, 10:47:24 AM
WOS2 "Lucky Man," which is silly poetry and contradicts AL's unironic "luck" theme.

you don't like the kitty cat synthesizer sounds?   (sorry, I always picture my cat playing the Moog here...)
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Wayback on August 13, 2010, 10:48:18 AM
John Lee Hooker "Mr Lucky" (with Robert Cray)
(http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/761793565eb620d293d6de239b436852/10865.jpg)
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Tinka Cat on August 13, 2010, 10:53:42 AM
Social Distortion's Bad Luck earns a BOS proxy of Shray!
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Rastermon on August 13, 2010, 10:54:45 AM
Loooong set today!
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: darryl on August 13, 2010, 10:58:06 AM
Oh holy crap I've gotta get myself some Social D.  I know so little of their work.  Too bad I can't see 'em Sunday.
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Wayback on August 13, 2010, 10:58:29 AM
Loooong set today!
We got lucky... 13 tunes!
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Lightnin' Rod on August 13, 2010, 11:20:12 AM
I can't believe AL is playing this (but am happy she is)...
Lucky Star - Madonna BOS3

BOS from me.  Remember vividly when this came out.  Never guessed she would become what she became, but the video to the song made me a fan for the moment.
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Lightnin' Rod on August 13, 2010, 11:21:23 AM
WOS2 "Lucky Man," which is silly poetry and contradicts AL's unironic "luck" theme.

Pretty melody though.  Guilty pleasure, in my case.
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: radical347 on August 13, 2010, 11:25:00 AM
Well I must say I would have liked to hear "Lucky" in its entirety, although I did have the feeling she was going to cut it off as soon as it came on.  Especially since she played it after everything else.  Not that I can complain too much; she's thrown us more than enough curveballs lately.
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Big Fingers McGee on August 13, 2010, 11:35:05 AM
Well I must say I would have liked to hear "Lucky" in its entirety, although I did have the feeling she was going to cut it off as soon as it came on.  Especially since she played it after everything else.  Not that I can complain too much; she's thrown us more than enough curveballs lately.

Did she seriously play Britney Spears?

BOS Mick
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: radical347 on August 13, 2010, 02:49:02 PM
Well I must say I would have liked to hear "Lucky" in its entirety, although I did have the feeling she was going to cut it off as soon as it came on.  Especially since she played it after everything else.  Not that I can complain too much; she's thrown us more than enough curveballs lately.

Did she seriously play Britney Spears?

BOS Mick

She played about the first five seconds and then she was like "sorry Britney, we already played our 13 lucky songs."  I think she did something like this with the Macarena awhile back.
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Tinka Cat on August 13, 2010, 03:33:11 PM
8/13/10-Friday The 13th!! An all lucky songs "Lucky 13 Set"!!

 1.  Lene Lovich- Lucky Number
 2.  Elvis Presley- Good Luck Charm
(Movie: Austin Powers-Dr Evil)
 3.  Paul McCartney & Wings- With A Little Luck
 4.  Rod Stewart- Some Guys Have All The Luck
(News: Lucky the cat survives 26 story fall)
 5.  JoBoxers- Just Got Lucky
 6.  Turtles- She'd Rather Be With Me
(Movie: Lucky Number Slevin)
 7.  Madonna- Lucky Star
(TV: Golden Girls)
 8.  Mick Jagger- Lucky In Love
(Movie: Guys and Dolls-Brando)
 9.  Frank Sinatra- Luck Be A Lady Tonight (BOS!!)
10.  Tom Petty- Even The Losers
(News: Lucky Lotto)
11.  Emerson Lake & Palmer- Lucky Man
(Ad: Lucky Strikes)
12.  John Lee Hooker w/Robert Cray- Mr Lucky
13.  Social Distortion- Bad Luck
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Big Fingers McGee on August 13, 2010, 03:36:12 PM
Well I must say I would have liked to hear "Lucky" in its entirety, although I did have the feeling she was going to cut it off as soon as it came on.  Especially since she played it after everything else.  Not that I can complain too much; she's thrown us more than enough curveballs lately.

Did she seriously play Britney Spears?

BOS Mick

She played about the first five seconds and then she was like "sorry Britney, we already played our 13 lucky songs."  I think she did something like this with the Macarena awhile back.

That's pretty funny - I bet she played the part that goes "This is a song about a girl named Lucky", and that was it.
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: RGMike on August 13, 2010, 06:27:26 PM
WOS Frankie's "Luck Be a Lady."  I hate big-band vocal delivery.

er, wha??  Frank was long past his big band period by then, so I dunno *what* that means, unless you hate swingin' Nelson Riddle-ish arrangements.

Kudos to AL for one of several inspired choices there  -- gotta love the Madonna too. And the Lovich tune was making its 2nd appearance in the AL era. Gawd bless AL's love of late-'70s New Wave.  And while I don't dislike Rod's cover of "SGHATL", the orig by the Persuaders would've really blown my mind, I consider it as underrated as I consider "Thin Line Between Love & Hate" overrated. Looking forward to the replay.
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: Gazoo on August 13, 2010, 09:59:09 PM
WOS Frankie's "Luck Be a Lady."  I hate big-band vocal delivery.

er, wha??  Frank was long past his big band period by then, so I dunno *what* that means, unless you hate swingin' Nelson Riddle-ish arrangements.

I don't draw (or even know) a distinction between the two; I dislike it all.  Sorry.   :-\
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: ggould on August 13, 2010, 10:08:50 PM
WOS Frankie's "Luck Be a Lady."  I hate big-band vocal delivery.

er, wha??  Frank was long past his big band period by then, so I dunno *what* that means, unless you hate swingin' Nelson Riddle-ish arrangements.

I don't draw (or even know) a distinction between the two; I dislike it all.  Sorry.   :-\
While I don't normally agree with you guys awarding points for rarity, this is so out of the ordinary, it really intrigues me.  Hope to hear it on the replay tomorrow.
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: RGMike on August 13, 2010, 10:20:23 PM
WOS2 "Lucky Man," which is silly poetry and contradicts AL's unironic "luck" theme.

you don't like the kitty cat synthesizer sounds?   (sorry, I always picture my cat playing the Moog here...)

indeed, that rivals Daryl Dragon's "Muskrat Love" noodling for anthropomorphic musicality.
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: RGMike on August 13, 2010, 10:26:12 PM
Just got off BART and turned on the radio to...Just Got Lucky - JoBoxers.  A good sign indeed!  BOS2

"I'm feeling easy and I'm feeling Jake"

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Skoh-lE8sO0/SadyYLeTrtI/AAAAAAAARrc/hnW5Sm0Oju4/s400/Jake+Gyllenhaal+GoodLookingRev.jpg)
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: ggould on August 13, 2010, 10:35:50 PM
WOS2 "Lucky Man," which is silly poetry and contradicts AL's unironic "luck" theme.

you don't like the kitty cat synthesizer sounds?   (sorry, I always picture my cat playing the Moog here...)

indeed, that rivals Daryl Dragon's "Muskrat Love" noodling for anthropomorphic musicality.
This is a sample clip of the song I always think of when I hear "Lucky Man"  I may have talked about it before, but I was finally able to extract a sample clip.

http://ggould.com/mp3/Minotaur.mp3

from "Moog: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman" 1969.  The song is called The Minotaur
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: RGMike on August 13, 2010, 10:59:01 PM
This is a sample clip of the song I always think of when I hear "Lucky Man"  I may have talked about it before, but I was finally able to extract a sample clip.

http://ggould.com/mp3/Minotaur.mp3

from "Moog: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman" 1969.  The song is called The Minotaur

Damn -- Hyman shoulda sued. And ELP's Tarkus LP is full of that kinda stuff.
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: ggould on August 14, 2010, 10:58:11 AM
This is a sample clip of the song I always think of when I hear "Lucky Man"  I may have talked about it before, but I was finally able to extract a sample clip.

http://ggould.com/mp3/Minotaur.mp3

from "Moog: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman" 1969.  The song is called The Minotaur

Damn -- Hyman shoulda sued. And ELP's Tarkus LP is full of that kinda stuff.

Well, partly that's just the way the Moog sounded, but you do hear the resemblance I've heard too, right?  He seems to cop some licks pretty directly.
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: ggould on August 14, 2010, 11:16:02 AM
too little, too late

I just remebered what would have been a good choice: Alan Price Set, title song from "O Lucky Man"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK3P97RfVaI
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: RGMike on August 14, 2010, 12:12:11 PM
too little, too late

I just remebered what would have been a good choice: Alan Price Set, title song from "O Lucky Man"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK3P97RfVaI

great song, great film.
Title: Re: 13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs
Post by: ggould on August 14, 2010, 04:34:02 PM
More on my Moog thread

Quote from: Synthtopia.com
Listen to “The Minotaur”, and you can hear where Keith Emerson cribbed some of his ideas. The track starts with a primitive drum machine track, and some early sequenced bass. On top of this, Hyman plays a short tune, and then plays variations and improvisations on the theme. The sound he uses sounds very familiar…think “Lucky Man”. Hyman’s improvisational style on “The Minotaur” seems to anticipate the chromatic style that Emerson made popular a few years later. He also uses lots of octave jumps, with the notes sliding from one octave to another. This is one of the most listenable cuts on the album because of the great playing. It’s also interesting as one of the earliest examples of jazz-rock synthesizer improvisations.

I'm not the only one who's had this impression!