10at10 Club
Main Discussion Area => KFOG's 10@10 => Topic started by: CapnJack on January 31, 2013, 10:06:09 AM
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Janis Joplin needs a man
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Seventies twice in a week! Huzzah!!
Btw, Is it me, or does the commercial break between the morning show and 10@10 seem a lot shorter now than it was in the DM and AL eras? I don't have a problem with that, just saying.
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Rare Earth just wants to celebrate
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Rare Earth just wants to celebrate
Or as I'm expecting Mike to post, they want to sell a brate. What a brate is, he hasn't explained. :)
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James Taylor says you've got a friend
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Carole King says it's too late
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Getting close to singer-songwriter overload
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A couple of extra points for the Carole King two-fer.
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Veruca Salt tantrum into Jean Knight's ode to Mr. Big Stuff
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Mr. Big Stuff...the song that Jessica Riddle sampled for her atrocious non-hit, "Symphonies"
and Everclear's use of this for "AM Radio" wasn't too thrilling either
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Veruca Salt tantrum into Jean Knight's ode to Mr. Big Stuff
She said "twat!"
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Three Dog Night sings an old fashioned love song
Speaking of which, I watched a documentary on the writer of said song, Paul Williams, the other day.
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John Lennon imagines
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Paul McCartney is sorry about Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
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I'm sorry but I effing hate this song (Imagine). It's ten times worse than Hey Jude or Let It Be.
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Wow -- George Harrison sings the plight of Bangla Desh
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Anyone else think Renee will play Ringo's "It Don't Come Easy"?
Yup, I called it!
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This quadruple shot came a little too easy.
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I'm sorry but I effing hate this song (Imagine). It's ten times worse than Hey Jude or Let It Be.
I'd put "Imagine" between the two others, but yeah, I get what you're saying. Uber-LN
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Renee sez Janis Joplin is BOS with John Lennon getting VHM.
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I'm sorry but I effing hate this song (Imagine). It's ten times worse than Hey Jude or Let It Be.
I'd put "Imagine" between the two others, but yeah, I get what you're saying. Uber-LN
As someone who has played this song in public (church, hospital, parties) I have to politely disagree as strongly as I can.
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Funny: I had a Dr's appt at 9, and when I got in the car at 10:45 10@10 was already over. I assumed it was a super-short 1966 set or something. This looks like it was pretty LN-heavy except for "Bangla Desh". At least the Janis wasn't "Bobby McGee"...
1. Janis Joplin - Move Over
2. Rare Earth - I Just Want To Celebrate
3. James Taylor - You've Got A Friend
4. Carole King - It's Too Late
(Movie: Willy Wonka)
5. Jean Knight - Mr. Big Stuff
6. Three Dog Night - An Old Fashioned Love Song
(News: Nixon/Viet Nam)
7. John Lennon - Imagine
8. Paul McCarthey - Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
(News: Bangladesh)
9. George Harrison - Bangladesh
10. Ringo Starr - It Don't Come Easy
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I'm sorry but I effing hate this song (Imagine). It's ten times worse than Hey Jude or Let It Be.
I'd put "Imagine" between the two others, but yeah, I get what you're saying. Uber-LN
As someone who has played this song in public (church, hospital, parties) I have to politely disagree as strongly as I can.
I think it is a great song, but also a song that I rarely leave on when it comes on the car radio -- I'll click around the presets in hope of something not so familiar and slow. Really slow. And preachy. But if I am in the mood, it is perfectly fine.
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I'm sorry but I effing hate this song (Imagine). It's ten times worse than Hey Jude or Let It Be.
I'd put "Imagine" between the two others, but yeah, I get what you're saying. Uber-LN
As someone who has played this song in public (church, hospital, parties) I have to politely disagree as strongly as I can.
I think it is a great song, but also a song that I rarely leave on when it comes on the car radio -- I'll click around the presets in hope of something not so familiar and slow. Really slow. And preachy. But if I am in the mood, it is perfectly fine.
Agreed. And 80% of today's set was songs that I really don't need to hear more than once or twice a year. And they play "Imagine" when the ball drops on New Year's Eve, so I'm good until December. ;)
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The last time AL visited 1971 (back in June 2012), she did a block of solo Beatles, but she delved into deeper cuts from the Imagine and Ram albums. "It Don't Come Easy" was also played -- wish the flip side would get played ("Early 1970").
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I'm sorry but I effing hate this song (Imagine). It's ten times worse than Hey Jude or Let It Be.
I'd put "Imagine" between the two others, but yeah, I get what you're saying. Uber-LN
As someone who has played this song in public (church, hospital, parties) I have to politely disagree as strongly as I can.
I think it is a great song, but also a song that I rarely leave on when it comes on the car radio -- I'll click around the presets in hope of something not so familiar and slow. Really slow. And preachy. But if I am in the mood, it is perfectly fine.
Agreed. And 80% of today's set was songs that I really don't need to hear more than once or twice a year. And they play "Imagine" when the ball drops on New Year's Eve, so I'm good until December. ;)
So, what would be the anti-"Imagine"? A song that we can generally agree is terrible, but can also agree that it would spice up a 10@10.
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I'm sorry but I effing hate this song (Imagine). It's ten times worse than Hey Jude or Let It Be.
I'd put "Imagine" between the two others, but yeah, I get what you're saying. Uber-LN
As someone who has played this song in public (church, hospital, parties) I have to politely disagree as strongly as I can.
I think it is a great song, but also a song that I rarely leave on when it comes on the car radio -- I'll click around the presets in hope of something not so familiar and slow. Really slow. And preachy. But if I am in the mood, it is perfectly fine.
Agreed. And 80% of today's set was songs that I really don't need to hear more than once or twice a year. And they play "Imagine" when the ball drops on New Year's Eve, so I'm good until December. ;)
So, what would be the anti-"Imagine"? A song that we can generally agree is terrible, but can also agree that it would spice up a 10@10.
"Rico Suave". Ha ha ha. :o
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I'm sorry but I effing hate this song (Imagine). It's ten times worse than Hey Jude or Let It Be.
I'd put "Imagine" between the two others, but yeah, I get what you're saying. Uber-LN
As someone who has played this song in public (church, hospital, parties) I have to politely disagree as strongly as I can.
I think it is a great song, but also a song that I rarely leave on when it comes on the car radio -- I'll click around the presets in hope of something not so familiar and slow. Really slow. And preachy. But if I am in the mood, it is perfectly fine.
Agreed. And 80% of today's set was songs that I really don't need to hear more than once or twice a year. And they play "Imagine" when the ball drops on New Year's Eve, so I'm good until December. ;)
So, what would be the anti-"Imagine"? A song that we can generally agree is terrible, but can also agree that it would spice up a 10@10.
"Rico Suave". Ha ha ha. :o
If we ever do 2004, then "Hollaback Girl".
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I'm sorry but I effing hate this song (Imagine). It's ten times worse than Hey Jude or Let It Be.
I'd put "Imagine" between the two others, but yeah, I get what you're saying. Uber-LN
As someone who has played this song in public (church, hospital, parties) I have to politely disagree as strongly as I can.
I think it is a great song, but also a song that I rarely leave on when it comes on the car radio -- I'll click around the presets in hope of something not so familiar and slow. Really slow. And preachy. But if I am in the mood, it is perfectly fine.
Agreed. And 80% of today's set was songs that I really don't need to hear more than once or twice a year. And they play "Imagine" when the ball drops on New Year's Eve, so I'm good until December. ;)
So, what would be the anti-"Imagine"? A song that we can generally agree is terrible, but can also agree that it would spice up a 10@10.
"Rico Suave". Ha ha ha. :o
If we ever do 2004, then "Hollaback Girl".
I think "Imagine" is genuinely a bad song, not just overplayed. Its lowest common denominator sentimentality is way, way beneath John's often breathtaking originality, and I suppose I resent that it's regarded as his signature song.
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I think "Imagine" is genuinely a bad song, not just overplayed. Its lowest common denominator sentimentality is way, way beneath John's often breathtaking originality, and I suppose I resent that it's regarded as his signature song.
I think maybe the piano/melody makes it seem more sentimental than it is. The utopian lyric (particularly "imagine no religion") was pretty controversial at the time.
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I think "Imagine" is genuinely a bad song, not just overplayed. Its lowest common denominator sentimentality is way, way beneath John's often breathtaking originality, and I suppose I resent that it's regarded as his signature song.
I think maybe the piano/melody makes it seem more sentimental than it is. The utopian lyric (particularly "imagine no religion") was pretty controversial at the time.
Yeah, maybe it's the legacy and reception
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I think "Imagine" is genuinely a bad song, not just overplayed. Its lowest common denominator sentimentality is way, way beneath John's often breathtaking originality, and I suppose I resent that it's regarded as his signature song.
I think maybe the piano/melody makes it seem more sentimental than it is. The utopian lyric (particularly "imagine no religion") was pretty controversial at the time.
Yeah, maybe it's the legacy and reception
Just because one is brave enough to criticize a sacred cow doesn't make the opinion any more valid. There are for sure, potential areas of ridicule, because of the song's utopian theme. You know, corny caricature of hippiedom, etc. But I think John Lennon's talent was just that, to put something obvious and direct in a lyric. The lyrical sentiment resonates deeply with people, albeit those who put aside cynicism. Also, the piano sound is magical. The lush reverb works perfectly.
When we've played that song for the residents of Laguna Honda Hospital, the last verse really hits me. "Imaging no possessions, I wonder if you can" we sing, and there we are playing for those that actually have close to nothing. I have also played it at church, where it works very well. Most church folk get it, but it does piss off certain church music directors I've met!