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Title: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: RGMike on May 08, 2013, 08:17:12 AM
"The year the Beatles called it quits"

Well, 1970 can't suck but it can be an Oldies 103.7-fest. I'm guessing that's what's in store. "Lola", anyone?
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: CapnJack on May 08, 2013, 08:47:28 AM
Maybe DC will pull out a rarity or two today. Let's hope so, anyway.
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: RGMike on May 08, 2013, 09:55:22 AM
"the facebook people have been crying out for one of these years" sez Renee. No duh.
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: RGMike on May 08, 2013, 10:02:00 AM
Damn I was thisclose to predicting "Ride captain ride". A predictable, if pleasant, TOTHK.
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: CapnJack on May 08, 2013, 10:02:36 AM
TOTHK - Blues Image "Ride Captain Ride"
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: RGMike on May 08, 2013, 10:05:46 AM
VHM Chicago's "Make Me Smile" -- but bonus points if we get the entire "Ballet For a Girl".

ETA: Nope. Long radio edit.
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: CapnJack on May 08, 2013, 10:05:59 AM
Chicago "Make Me Smile" or the entire Ballet?
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: urth on May 08, 2013, 10:06:58 AM
VHM Chicago's "Make Me Smile" -- but bonus points if we get the entire "Ballet For a Girl".

Care to wager on that? :D
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: CapnJack on May 08, 2013, 10:10:32 AM
The Kinks "Apeman" preceded by Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: RGMike on May 08, 2013, 10:11:04 AM
VHM Chicago's "Make Me Smile" -- but bonus points if we get the entire "Ballet For a Girl".

Care to wager on that? :D

yeah, my hopes were not high.

WTF: Planet of the Apes was '68 and Heston was NOT in the sequel.

But at least we're getting "Apeman" and not "Lola"
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: urth on May 08, 2013, 10:11:52 AM
"Lola", anyone?

You were th-i-i-i-i-i-i-s close!

Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: RGMike on May 08, 2013, 10:13:02 AM
"Lola", anyone?

You were th-i-i-i-i-i-i-s close!

DC's idea of an OMGWTF rarity.
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: RGMike on May 08, 2013, 10:14:06 AM
"One Toke" is from '71. Oh, Renee, this is not an endearing trait. Sweet Jeezus indeed.
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: CapnJack on May 08, 2013, 10:15:21 AM
Brewer & Shipley "One Toke Over The Line"
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: CapnJack on May 08, 2013, 10:17:22 AM
Bobby Bloom "Montego Bay"
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: RGMike on May 08, 2013, 10:17:56 AM
What's the over/under on whether we get the "Beautiful morning" coda on this Bobby Bloom hit?  VHM either way, I still dig this one. You ain't been 'til you been high.

ETA: No "morning" this morning.
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: RGMike on May 08, 2013, 10:20:23 AM
"Lucky Man" is another one I associate with '71. Whatevs.
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: CapnJack on May 08, 2013, 10:20:40 AM
ELP "Lucky Man"
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: CapnJack on May 08, 2013, 10:21:32 AM
No long versions of Chicago or Bobby Bloom  ::)

Renee better not utter that "short songs" line today!  :P
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: Lightnin' Rod on May 08, 2013, 10:23:37 AM
"Lucky Man" is another one I associate with '71. Whatevs.

Like "One Toke..." this came out on an album in 1970.  Fine by me, but I've alway been an album guy, not a chart geek.
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: RGMike on May 08, 2013, 10:24:48 AM
BOS the Fabs, "Two of Us"
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: CapnJack on May 08, 2013, 10:26:08 AM
The Beatles "Two Of Us"

Burning matches, lifting latches on our way home...
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: RGMike on May 08, 2013, 10:27:09 AM
"Lucky Man" is another one I associate with '71. Whatevs.

Like "One Toke..." this came out on an album in 1970.  Fine by me, but I've alway been an album guy, not a chart geek.

this one makes for more leeway because it wasn't a big hit single and I'm sure it was on the radio in late '70. Nobody'd heard of Brewer & Shipley until Spring '71, tho'.

I'm in the midst of doing some writing about this period and this is giving me ideas.
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: RGMike on May 08, 2013, 10:28:27 AM
OY: I *did* predict "Spill the Wine" on FB.  Long version or radio edit?

ETA: appears to be the full LP cut.
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: CapnJack on May 08, 2013, 10:28:45 AM
Eric Burdon & War "Spill the Wine"
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: Lightnin' Rod on May 08, 2013, 10:32:41 AM
OY: I *did* predict "Spill the Wine" on FB.  Long version or radio edit?

ETA: appears to be the full LP cut.

I still love this track, but uber-LN from me too.

BOS the Beatles.
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: CapnJack on May 08, 2013, 10:33:09 AM
S&G "The Boxer"
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: RGMike on May 08, 2013, 10:33:39 AM
and now the reverse: "The Boxer" was a hit single in '69 but was also on the BOTW album in '70.  It's still lovely, so BOS2.
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: urth on May 08, 2013, 10:36:56 AM
No long versions of Chicago or Bobby Bloom  ::)

Renee better not utter that "short songs" line today!  :P

At least we got the full version of the Eric Burdon tune.
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: CapnJack on May 08, 2013, 10:38:46 AM
"Green Eyed Lady" Sugarloaf
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: RGMike on May 08, 2013, 10:41:11 AM
"Green Eyed Lady" Sugarloaf

also the loooooong version, as Mr Pardo would say.
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: RGMike on May 08, 2013, 10:46:29 AM
"Psychedelic": I do not think it means what you think it means, Renee.
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: urth on May 08, 2013, 10:50:32 AM
"Psychedelic": I do not think it means what you think it means, Renee.

Give her a break. When she was old enough to take psychedelics, ecstasy was as good as it got.  AKA St. Joseph's Baby Acid. :)
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: RGMike on May 08, 2013, 10:53:33 AM
St. Joseph's Baby Acid. :)

bwahahaha!  I'd never heard that before, but I love it.

I just think the noodling on "Green-Eyed lady" is closer to fake jazz than anything psychedelic.
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: CapnJack on May 08, 2013, 10:55:32 AM
Renee sez S&G gets BOS, VHM Beatles and ELP.
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: RGMike on May 08, 2013, 10:57:17 AM
Renee sez S&G gets BOS.

from all those kids who said "hey! it's that Mumford & Sons song!"
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: ggould on May 08, 2013, 11:02:25 AM
"One Toke" is from '71. Oh, Renee, this is not an endearing trait. Sweet Jeezus indeed.
released 1970, certainly played here then.
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: ggould on May 08, 2013, 06:36:01 PM
St. Joseph's Baby Acid. :)

bwahahaha!  I'd never heard that before, but I love it.

I just think the noodling on "Green-Eyed lady" is closer to fake jazz than anything psychedelic.
the double-guitar shtick presages ABB a year or two.
(although early Fleetwood Mac does it too)
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: RGMike on May 08, 2013, 07:28:00 PM
1. Blues Image - Ride Captain Ride
2. Chicago - Make Me Smile
(Movie: Beneath the Planet of the Apes)
3. Kinks - Apeman
4. Brewer and Shipley - One Toke Over The Line
5. Bobby Bloom - Montego Bay
(News: First Earth Day)
6. Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Lucky Man
7. The Beatles - Two Of Us
8. Eric Burdon & War - Spill The Wine
9. Simon and Garfunkel - The Boxer
10. Sugarloaf - Green Eyed Lady
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: ggould on May 08, 2013, 10:39:05 PM
listening to replay.  Pleasant, but not the kind of awesome flashback-inducing sonic stew one would hope for.
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: dischead on May 08, 2013, 10:39:41 PM
VHM Chicago's "Make Me Smile" -- but bonus points if we get the entire "Ballet For a Girl".

No, that would take a radio station with balls.
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: dischead on May 08, 2013, 11:06:43 PM
listening to replay.  Pleasant, but not the kind of awesome flashback-inducing sonic stew one would hope for.

Interesting.  I think 1970 is second only to 1971 in being the best year ever, and then only by
the smallest of margins.  Echoing my comment from the last 1971 set, which incidently occurred
exactly one month ago, it would be difficult but not impossible to screw up this year.  While that
fate was avoided, I would concur that the awesome potential offered by this year did not come
close to getting realized.

The Blues Image & Eric Burdon tunes sparked specific memories of hearing them often on the
radio that summer, along with One Toke and Montego Bay.  The contrast between today's Kinks
song as opposed to yesterday's just demonstrated how much the later stuff sucked.  (And was
that a reggae beat -- in 1970?)  Overall, a pop-dominated set, and not unrepresentative of the
time.  But it could have rocked harder -- much harder -- and gone in a lot more directions.
Title: Re: 8 May 2013: it's... 1970!
Post by: dischead on May 08, 2013, 11:13:13 PM
St. Joseph's Baby Acid. :)
bwahahaha!  I'd never heard that before, but I love it.

I just think the noodling on "Green-Eyed lady" is closer to fake jazz than anything psychedelic.

How about simply a well-craft pop song?  Apparently such an entity is relatively foreign to her
experience, and thus she struggles for the vocabularly to describe it.  Back in the day, we
listened to well-crafted pop songs on the radio all the damn day long, and didn't give it no
never-mind.  I guess they're rarer now.