10at10 Club
Main Discussion Area => KFOG's 10@10 => Topic started by: RGMike on June 20, 2013, 10:03:10 AM
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I was expecting '90s. Nice surprise. Ah, it's "Leah" as our TOTHK.
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I was expecting '90s. Nice surprise. Ah, it's "Leah" as our TOTHK.
An FF perhaps, but I've always enjoyed this.
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TOTHK - Donnie Iris "Ah! Leah!"
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BOS1 Elvis C's version of "Girls Talk". (maybe a triple-play with Dave Edmunds and Ms. Ronstadt? Nah.)
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Elvis Costello & The Attractions "Girls Talk"
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The English Beat "Tears Of A Clown"
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Airplane! "Ever seen a grown man naked?" "And don't call me Shirley!" etc.
BOS2 English Beat, "Tears of a Clown" inna ska stylee.
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Airplane! "Ever seen a grown man naked?" "And don't call me Shirley!" etc.
BOS2 English Beat, "Tears of a Clown" inna ska stylee.
Love Airplane! Nice song choices so far.
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The Kings "This Beat Goes On/Switchin' to Glide"
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I adore "Switchin' to Glide" but RR played it fairly recently, no?
Me and Zero request you in the Mercedes...
(http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsM/12469-15298.gif)
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I adore "Switchin' to Glide" but RR played it fairly recently, no?
Me and Zero request you in the Mercedes...
(http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsM/12469-15298.gif)
Yeah, she played it in her last visit to 1980 sometime in April.
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Not even close to a rarity, but I still never tire of hearing This Beat Goes On/Switchin' to Glide.
This, Ah Leah, and Split Enz I Got You are three songs that immediately harken back to the fall of '80. Will we get the hat trick?
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Not even close to a rarity, but I still never tire of hearing This Beat Goes On/Switchin' to Glide.
This, Ah Leah, and Split Enz I Got You are three songs that immediately harken back to the fall of '80. Will we get the hat trick?
Does this count as a Narada? I never heard it before 10at10.
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Not even close to a rarity, but I still never tire of hearing This Beat Goes On/Switchin' to Glide.
This, Ah Leah, and Split Enz I Got You are three songs that immediately harken back to the fall of '80. Will we get the hat trick?
Does this count as a Narada? I never heard it before 10at10.
yes, it would be a Narada for you. It was a HUGE "turntable hit" on the East coast.
"Tattooed Love Boys" show Chrissie what her hole is for. BOS3. One of the greatest debut LPs evah.
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Tower Records commercial into The Pretenders "Tattooed Love Boys"
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BOS for "Tattooed Love Boys". Great song.
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Not even close to a rarity, but I still never tire of hearing This Beat Goes On/Switchin' to Glide.
This, Ah Leah, and Split Enz I Got You are three songs that immediately harken back to the fall of '80. Will we get the hat trick?
Does this count as a Narada? I never heard it before 10at10.
A Narada is in the ear of the beholder.
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Rolling Stones "She's So Cold"
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Tower Records commercial into The Pretenders "Tattooed Love Boys"
"Stop snivelin'! You're gonna make some plastic surgeon a rich man!" Love that line.
BOS4 Stones, just because. She's a sweet sweet beauty. With a sweet sweet booty.
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Rolling Stones "She's So Cold"
This song has always struck me as a throw-away, which I also felt about "Start Me Up". I could never account for the success of either of 'em.
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Jimmy Carter/Iran into XTC "Generals And Majors"
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one of the uber-uber 1980 LNs: XTC, "Gs & Ms". In a DC 1980 set we'd be up to LN 4 or 5 by now. Progress!
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Rolling Stones "She's So Cold"
This song has always struck me as a throw-away, which I also felt about "Start Me Up". I could never account for the success of either of 'em.
I agree about She's So Cold -- the whole Emotional Rescue album, really. Start Me Up I liked at the time with its big guitar riff, but it hasn't worn well. There are several far better cuts on Tattoo You.
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Rolling Stones "She's So Cold"
This song has always struck me as a throw-away, which I also felt about "Start Me Up". I could never account for the success of either of 'em.
I think there was a point, sometime after Exile..., when they were capable of writing "a typical Stones song" in their sleep. I always imagined they tossed them off and stockpiled 'em for use when needed.
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Springsteen "Cadillac Ranch"
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once again FP gets Stones AND Broooce. BOS5 "Cadillac Ranch".
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Dire Straits "Skateaway"
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LN2 "Skateaway", another one I just loved back then, but which has made a few too many 10@10 appearances.
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Rolling Stones "She's So Cold"
This song has always struck me as a throw-away, which I also felt about "Start Me Up". I could never account for the success of either of 'em.
I think there was a point, sometime after Exile..., when they were capable of writing "a typical Stones song" in their sleep. I always imagined they tossed them off and stockpiled 'em for use when needed.
With Tattoo You, that's absolutely the case:
The album's producer, Chris Kimsey, who'd been associated with The Stones dating back to Sticky Fingers said Tattoo You, "...came about because Mick [Jagger] and Keith were going through a period of not getting on. There was a need to have an album out, and I told everyone I could make an album from what I knew was still there."[1] He began sifting through the band's vaults: "I spent three months going through like the last four, five albums finding stuff that had been either forgotten about or at the time rejected. And then I presented it to the band and I said, 'Hey, look guys, you've got all this great stuff sitting in the can and it's great material, do something with it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattoo_You#History
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The Jim Carroll Band "People Who Died"
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I'm in the minority, probably. but I've always hated "People Who Died". So WOS. But overall, a perfectly fine set.
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I'm in the minority, probably. but I've always hated "People Who Died". So WOS. But overall, a perfectly fine set.
It's pretty awful, but unusual. Would be better if it didn't repeat two verses. Nothing wrong with this song being 1:50.
ETA: Three verses...
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I'm in the minority, probably. but I've always hated "People Who Died". So WOS. But overall, a perfectly fine set.
It's pretty awful, but unusual. Would be better if it didn't repeat two verses. Nothing wrong with this song being 1:50.
ETA: Three verses...
My thought too -- we don't need to hear the litany of the dead a second time; we got it the first time around.
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I'm fascinated by how animated RR has become. Was working for DC really that depressing? (I'd've thought, since he made her Music Director and gave her the midday gig that she'd thought he was pretty swell.) Is the new guy holding a gun to her head and saying "Sound HAPPY, dammit!" ?
oh that "cash call.. ch-ching" commercial is godawful.
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Renee says The Pretenders get BOS (she wanted Dire Straits to win).
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The Jim Carroll Band "People Who Died"
This was on Hits 106's playlist ~1995.
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I'm fascinated by how animated RR has become. Was working for DC really that depressing? (I'd've thought, since he made her Music Director and gave her the midday gig that she'd thought he was pretty swell.) Is the new guy holding a gun to her head and saying "Sound HAPPY, dammit!" ?
Probably the latter. I have a feeling DC pretty much let her get away with whatever. Although I have to admit that 10@10s have improved even if they are very Moreyesque. Also the years have started to skew way older. I remember when sets were rarely allowed to go before 1985...now look at this week. Nothing after 1985.
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I'm fascinated by how animated RR has become. Was working for DC really that depressing? (I'd've thought, since he made her Music Director and gave her the midday gig that she'd thought he was pretty swell.) Is the new guy holding a gun to her head and saying "Sound HAPPY, dammit!" ?
Probably the latter.
well, Tim & Greg seem a lot more jovial and talkative too. But RR's jolliness doesn't seem forced to me.
Also, this week's big "add" on New Releases is that John Mayer "Paper Doll" song. A far cry from Capital Cities and Linkin Park.
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Thursday -- 1980
1. Donnie Iris - Ah! Leah!
2. Elvis Costello - Girls Talk
(Movie: Airplane!)
3. The English Beat - Tears Of A Clown
4. The Kings - The Beat Goes on / Switching To Glide
(Commercial - Pretenders/Tower Records)
5. Pretenders - Tattooed Love Boys
6. The Rolling Stones - She's So Cold
(News: Pesident Carter rescue mission in Iran)
7. XTC - Generals and Majors
8. Bruce Springsteen - Cadillac Ranch
9. Dire Straits - Skateaway
10. Jim Carroll - People Who Died
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I'm fascinated by how animated RR has become. Was working for DC really that depressing? (I'd've thought, since he made her Music Director and gave her the midday gig that she'd thought he was pretty swell.) Is the new guy holding a gun to her head and saying "Sound HAPPY, dammit!" ?
Probably the latter. I have a feeling DC pretty much let her get away with whatever. Although I have to admit that 10@10s have improved even if they are very Moreyesque. Also the years have started to skew way older. I remember when sets were rarely allowed to go before 1985...now look at this week. Nothing after 1985.
Agreed on all counts. They really are backpedalling big-time, back to the pre-DC days. I wonder if they would bring back AL and the Webster/Renee/Irish Greg morning show if they could?
Oh, and several of you are FB friends with Mr. Constantine, are you not? Has he given any hints as to his next move? I kind of feel for the guy, just buying a new house and getting the boot a month or two later.
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I'm fascinated by how animated RR has become. Was working for DC really that depressing? (I'd've thought, since he made her Music Director and gave her the midday gig that she'd thought he was pretty swell.) Is the new guy holding a gun to her head and saying "Sound HAPPY, dammit!" ?
Probably the latter. I have a feeling DC pretty much let her get away with whatever.
Funny, isn't this the opposite of what LCR had been screaming at us?
Also, the years have started to skew way older. I remember when sets were rarely allowed to go before 1985...now look at this week. Nothing after 1985.
Very much true. We're almost to the point where a journey to 1998 sounds desirable (ducks).
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I'm fascinated by how animated RR has become. Was working for DC really that depressing? (I'd've thought, since he made her Music Director and gave her the midday gig that she'd thought he was pretty swell.) Is the new guy holding a gun to her head and saying "Sound HAPPY, dammit!" ?
Probably the latter.
I disagree. I think she has more control now, has more ownership, and so feels more enthusiatic about her own work. But that's my impression.
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Rolling Stones "She's So Cold"
This song has always struck me as a throw-away, which I also felt about "Start Me Up". I could never account for the success of either of 'em.
I agree about She's So Cold -- the whole Emotional Rescue album, really. Start Me Up I liked at the time with its big guitar riff, but it hasn't worn well. There are several far better cuts on Tattoo You.
I much prefer "She' So Cold", which really worked for me at the time, to "Start Me Up", which was only okay for me at any time, and is now and instant station changer.
"I'm a bleedin' vol-caaay-no!"
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Oh, and several of you are FB friends with Mr. Constantine, are you not? Has he given any hints as to his next move? I kind of feel for the guy, just buying a new house and getting the boot a month or two later.
Haven't noticed any hints, but he's really been updating his page a lot more than before, with daily "Top 10 of ____" lists, pictures, and soundclouds. My guess is he's trying to get himself noticed and/or make himself look presentable to radio execs that are viewing his FB.
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Renee says The Pretenders get BOS (she wanted Dire Straits to win).
I strangely agreed with Renee this time!
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What is it about 1980? The year is under-represented in my collection of DM 10@10s. As the punk
revolution gave way to the New Wave trend, and people were starting to shake off the torpor
of the late '70s bloated arena rock and the mindlessness of disco, there should be lots of good
material. But for some reasons these sets never gel for me.
BOS Dire Straits and XTC, FF that they are. VHM Pretenders. The Kings are way overplayed, both
on10@10 and on KFOG generally, including Friday afternoon's "Weekend Salute." The Tears Of A
Clown remake is no improvement on the original. Donnie Iris, The Rolling Stones, The Bruce, and
Jim Carroll are all songs that have been rapidly crossing the line from okay to irritating the more
I hear them.