10at10 Club
Main Discussion Area => KFOG's 10@10 => Topic started by: RGMike on April 21, 2011, 03:52:39 PM
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well, duh. One of those sets where I look forward to the "usual suspects" (3DN, Joni, Cat Stevens). i suggested Tom Paxton's "Whose garden Was This?" which i doubt she'll have -- I'll post it on FB tomorrow.
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Must say this list of suggestions from Bear Toffifay (or whatev his name is) was quite interesting -- some I've not heard of:
Rainbow Connection - Kermit The Frog
Revolution Earth - The B-52's
Pollution - Bo Diddley
This Is Planet Earth - Duran Duran
Down To Earth - Peter Gabriel
The Land, the Sea and the Sky - Sophie B. Hawkins
I Need To Wake Up - Melissa Ethridge
Windsong - John Denver
This Land Is Your Land - Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
Better Man - Keb' Mo
The Monkey's Gone To Heaven - The Pixies
Paradise - John Prine
If A Tree Falls - Bruce Cockburn
Cool, Crazy, Beautiful, World - Johnny Clegg & Savukka
Make A Better World - Maria Muldaur
Trouble The World - Katie Webster"
and I heartily 2nd the suggestion someone made for "Pollution" by Tom Lehrer
OTOH... Donna Summer's "MacArthur Park"?? Wha??
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Must say this list of suggestions from Bear Toffifay (or whatev his name is) was quite interesting -- some I've not heard of:
Rainbow Connection - Kermit The Frog
Revolution Earth - The B-52's
Pollution - Bo Diddley
This Is Planet Earth - Duran Duran
Down To Earth - Peter Gabriel
The Land, the Sea and the Sky - Sophie B. Hawkins
I Need To Wake Up - Melissa Ethridge
Windsong - John Denver
This Land Is Your Land - Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
Better Man - Keb' Mo
The Monkey's Gone To Heaven - The Pixies
Paradise - John Prine
If A Tree Falls - Bruce Cockburn
Cool, Crazy, Beautiful, World - Johnny Clegg & Savukka
Make A Better World - Maria Muldaur
Trouble The World - Katie Webster"
and I heartily 2nd the suggestion someone made for "Pollution" by Tom Lehrer
OTOH... Donna Summer's "MacArthur Park"?? Wha??
I'll have to second "Revolution Earth", one of the better later B-52's efforts.
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Hrm... not 10 ecology songs, exactly. 10 "appreciate the world" songs, or something. I've always liked the Louis Armstrong tune, but it's a tad overexposed at this point.
OK, this is better: also a staple, but Marvin is marvelous nonetheless.
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Mercy, mercy, I'd like to hear "To the Last Whale" in this set.
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"Indian Lake"? I was thrilled when AL played this as a '68 request. Today... notsomuch. "you'll be able to
mate make the way the Indians do!"
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"Indian Lake"? I was thrilled when AL played this as a '68 request. Today... notsomuch. "you'll be able to mate make the way the Indians do!"
Who is this? Beach Boys? Bobby Goldsboro? bass sounds like Tommy James...
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"Indian Lake"? I was thrilled when AL played this as a '68 request. Today... notsomuch. "you'll be able to mate make the way the Indians do!"
Who is this? Beach Boys? bobby Goldsboro? bass sounds like Tommy James...
Cowsills.
ah, my beloved 3DN/Paul Williams collab. Always a BOS. I feel much better now.
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"Indian Lake"? I was thrilled when AL played this as a '68 request. Today... notsomuch. "you'll be able to mate make the way the Indians do!"
Who is this? Beach Boys? bobby Goldsboro? bass sounds like Tommy James...
Cowsills.
ah, my beloved 3DN/Paul Williams collab. Always a BOS. I feel much better now.
I like "Out in the Country". Didn't like "Indian Lake", though I'm glad to know I can rent a canoe, if I'm so inclined.
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Don't do it Maude! You'll make us cry.
BOS for Sugar Magnolia.
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VHM Ruth Gordon. How did she not get an Oscar nom for H & M?
"Sugar Magnolia" is stretching it a bit, AL.
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"Sugar Magnolia" is stretching it a bit, AL.
A lot, I'd say.
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OK, hippies belong in an Earth Day set since they're so DIRTY..!! nyuk nyuk
"I take me out and wander 'round..?"
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BOS2 T.Heads -- irony RULES!
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coulda done without Johnny Clegg.
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coulda done without Johnny Clegg.
WOS. I hate those late-'80s fake horns.
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BOS3 "Apeman", man. "the air pollution is a-
fuckin foggin' up mah eyes!"
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BOS to Kinks, of course.
That Johnny Clegg song wasn't that bad. Does it belong in this set? that's certainly debatable.
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BOS to Kinks, of course.
That Johnny Clegg song wasn't that bad. Does it belong in this set? that's certainly debatable.
To me it's an uber-Moreytrina from... whatever late-'80s year that was. Reason enuf to avoid it. I understand AL's logic ("it's our world -- love it!") but still.
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What will be the next 'themed' set? Mothers Day? We've had a few too many recently, I am sorry to say.
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This PG is NTM.
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This PG is NTM.
NTM?
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What will be the next 'themed' set? Mothers Day? We've had a few too many recently, I am sorry to say.
April is just one of those (cruelest?) months. But yeah, Mothers Day -- 2 Fridays from now. Cue the Intruders. (I'll still be in NYC)
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This PG is NTM.
NTM?
New to Me.
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OK, I'd've *MUCH* preferred Kermit's version of "...Green". Green is Universal! (and Comcast and NBC and...)
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This PG is NTM.
NTM?
New to Me.
The song and the acronym are NTM - they always seem so obvious afterwards
HM to the Van
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This Van is NTM. Sounds kinda TOP-like in the left channel, except for that nasty soprano sax, presumably played by Van himself.
ETA: I didn't even realize this was Kermit's song until I looked at the lyrics. I like it.
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What will be the next 'themed' set? Mothers Day? We've had a few too many recently, I am sorry to say.
April is just one of those months. But yeah, Mothers Day -- 2 Fridays from now. Cue the Intruders. (I'll still be in NYC)
Thankfully, we'll in all likelihood be spared a Ka-Boom! set. Sorry for being a crankypants, but I think I re-entered the cynical mode with the "San Francisco" set of a couple of weeks ago.
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Sax solos seem to be haunting me lately...
BOS Marvin, 3DN, TH (yay Johnny Marr!), Kinks & VM.
I was pleasantly surprised with this set. It could've been cliche after cliche a la Swellegant's beloved SF set. ;)
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Sax solos seem to be haunting me lately...
BOS Marvin, 3DN, TH (yay Johnny Marr!), Kinks & VM.
I was pleasantly surprised with this set. It could've been cliche after cliche a la Swellegant's beloved SF set. ;)
Yeah, AL clearly wanted a balance between "message" songs and fun. Dave's Earth Day sets were much more political, as were his sets generally.
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This PG is NTM.
actually, on reflection, I have heard it -- it's his Oscar-nominated tune from the WALL-E sndtk. But I surely have never heard it on the radio.
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Here's what AL put together for last year's set, just for comparison's sake:
4/22/10 Thursday! A Foghead generated Earth Day set!!
1. Marvin Gaye- Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
(News: Walter Cronkite First Earth Day 1970)
2. Cat Stevens- Where Do The Children Play?
3. Three Dog Night- Out In The Country
(Movie: Harold and Maude)
4. Quicksilver Messenger Service- Fresh Air (locally grown B.O.S!!)
5. Thomas Dolby- Windpower
(TV: Colbert-sacrifice iPod)
6. Bruce Cockburn- If A Tree Falls
(TV: quick clip from Simpsons, the gun-shootin' Texan)
7. Johnny Cash- Don't Go Near The Water
8. Cake- Carbon Monoxide
(Jane Goodall-one person can make all the difference)
9. Ben Harper- With My Own Two Hands
(TV: Al Gore & Alec Baldwin on 30 Rock/Kermit- It's Not Easy Being Green)
10. Louis Armstrong- What A Wonderful World!!
Just three repeats this year, although it looks as if the Kermit version of INEBG was a between-song clip.
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So, I just saw on FB that a friend of mine, "MaryJean... has answered What's Your Pick For Best of Set..." and she's not a Foghead (lives in Jersey), hasn't "like"ed KFOG Radio on FB and isn't friends with Annalisa. She saw the post on my page and was able to click on it and vote (for Van Morrison, even tho' she's a Deadhead from way back). Somehow there's something... wrong about that. Call me crazy.
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4/22/11- Friday!! Earth Day!!
1. Louis Armstrong- What a Wonderful World (B.O.S-Best of Set)
(News: First Earth Day--Walter Cronkite)
2. Marvin Gaye- Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
(PSA- Woodsy Owl- Water pollution)
3. Cowsills- Indian Lake
4. Three Dog Night- Out In The Country
(Movie: Harold and Maude- What Kind of flower would you be?)
5. Grateful Dead- Sugar Magnolia
(The Eco-Bunnies save Earth Day)
6. Talking Heads- (Nothing But) Flowers
(Ad: It's not nice to fool Mother Nature)
7. Johnny Clegg & Savuka- Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World
(Movie: Human Nature -man raised as ape)
8. The Kinks- Ape Man
(Movie: Harold and Maude- I love the feel of soil)
9. Peter Gabriel- Down To Earth
(PSA: Woodsy Owl Give a Hoot Don't Pollute:)
10. Van Morrison- Bein' Green
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So, I just saw on FB that a friend of mine, "MaryJean... has answered What's Your Pick For Best of Set..." and she's not a Foghead (lives in Jersey), hasn't "like"ed KFOG Radio on FB and isn't friends with Annalisa. She saw the post on my page and was able to click on it and vote (for Van Morrison, even tho' she's a Deadhead from way back). Somehow there's something... wrong about that. Call me crazy.
The only way I can tell during the day what was played was from Mike posting the question thingy. Both KFOG and this club are blocked at school.
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"Sugar Magnolia" is stretching it a bit, AL.
A lot, I'd say.
You know I love the Dead, and Sugar Magnolia is historic in stature, but I don't get the Earth Day connection. Did she explain it?
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"Sugar Magnolia" is stretching it a bit, AL.
A lot, I'd say.
You know I love the Dead, and Sugar Magnolia is historic in stature, but I don't get the Earth Day connection. Did she explain it?
there's a line in the lyrics about the "wonders of nature" or something? I think that was about the extent of it. ::)
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"Sugar Magnolia" is stretching it a bit, AL.
A lot, I'd say.
You know I love the Dead, and Sugar Magnolia is historic in stature, but I don't get the Earth Day connection. Did she explain it?
there's a line in the lyrics about the "wonders of nature" or something? I think that was about the extent of it. ::)
yes, it's all very bucolic and all, but there are many other GD tunes more apropos.
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"Sugar Magnolia" is stretching it a bit, AL.
A lot, I'd say.
You know I love the Dead, and Sugar Magnolia is historic in stature, but I don't get the Earth Day connection. Did she explain it?
there's a line in the lyrics about the "wonders of nature" or something? I think that was about the extent of it. ::)
yes, it's all very bucolic and all, but there are many other GD tunes more apropos.
True--Throwing Stones was an Earthday evergreen in the Morey era. What other songs were you thinking of, Geoff?
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"Sugar Magnolia" is stretching it a bit, AL.
A lot, I'd say.
You know I love the Dead, and Sugar Magnolia is historic in stature, but I don't get the Earth Day connection. Did she explain it?
there's a line in the lyrics about the "wonders of nature" or something? I think that was about the extent of it. ::)
yes, it's all very bucolic and all, but there are many other GD tunes more apropos.
True--Throwing Stones was an Earthday evergreen in the Morey era. What other songs were you thinking of, Geoff?
Throwing Stones of course, and Unbroken Chain. There's also a rarely heard Brent Mydland song, "We Can Run" that was achingly beautiful, and retroactively tragic, considering his early demise.
Heard AL's keynote remarks this morning, and she specifically mentions "The Wonders of Nature" and the audio clip just now before the start of Sugar Magnolia is about flowers. So, I'd say she did a pretty good job after all. It just didn't come through in the abstract reading the list.
"We Can Run But We Can't Hide"
Words by John Perry Barlow; music by Brent Mydland
We don't own this place, though we act as if we did,
It's a loan from the children of our children's kids.
The actual owners haven't even been born yet.
But we never tend the garden and rarely we pay the rent,
Some of it is broken and the rest of it is bent
Put it all on plastic and I wonder where we'll be when the bills hit.
[Chorus:]
We can run,
But we can't hide from it.
Of all possible worlds,
We only got one:
We gotta to ride on it.
Whatever we've done,
We'll never get far from what we leave behind,
Baby, we can run, run, run, but we can't hide.
Oh no, we can't hide.
I'm dumpin' my trash in your back yard
Makin' certain you don't notice really isn't so hard
You're so busy with your guns and all of your excuses to use them.
Well, it's oil for the rich and babies for the poor,
We got everyone believin' that more is more,
If a reckoning comes, maybe we will know what to do then.
[Bridge:]
All these complications seem to leave no choice,
I heard the tongues of billions speak with just one voice,
Saying, "Just leave all the rest to me,
I need it worse than you, you see."
And then I heard...
The sound of one child crying.
Today I went walking in the amber wind,
There's a hole in the sky where the light pours in
I remembered the days when I wasn't afraid of the sunshine.
But now it beats down on the asphalt land
Like a hammering blow from God's left hand
What little still grows cringes in the shade like a bad vine.