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Title: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: RGMike on July 25, 2013, 07:39:58 AM
RR's clue: "Marcus Welby MD and the Flip Wilson Show"

1970 again, after we just had a 1970 classic. WTF?  great year regardless, but... continuity person?
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... early '70s
Post by: CapnJack on July 25, 2013, 10:01:56 AM
TOTHK Mountain "Mississippi Queen" 1970
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: CapnJack on July 25, 2013, 10:04:08 AM
Elton John "Burn Down The Mission"

This was in the classic set from Friday...
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... early '70s
Post by: Lightnin' Rod on July 25, 2013, 10:05:03 AM
TOTHK Mountain "Mississippi Queen" 1970

Early BOS, but not my final answer.
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: RGMike on July 25, 2013, 10:05:56 AM
OK, we heard "Burn Down the Mission" on Friday's classic Seriously, does anybody pay attention over there? to anything?
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: Tinka Cat on July 25, 2013, 10:07:09 AM
OK, we heard "Burn Down the Mission" on Friday's classic Seriously, does anybody pay attention over there? to anything?


yeah, but it's a great choice to repeat.
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: yessongs on July 25, 2013, 10:08:52 AM
OK, we heard "Burn Down the Mission" on Friday's classic Seriously, does anybody pay attention over there? to anything?


yeah, but it's a great choice to repeat.

True, but still...
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: CapnJack on July 25, 2013, 10:10:44 AM
Temptations "Ball Of Confusion"
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: RGMike on July 25, 2013, 10:10:59 AM
My balls are in confusion.
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: Lightnin' Rod on July 25, 2013, 10:12:13 AM
My balls are in confusion.

I hate when that happens...

VHM, Temps
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: CapnJack on July 25, 2013, 10:14:20 AM
Traffic "Glad"
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: RGMike on July 25, 2013, 10:14:57 AM
VHM Traffic, oh how I played this LP to death that year.
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: yessongs on July 25, 2013, 10:15:23 AM
Traffic "Glad"

Big BOS from me
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: Lightnin' Rod on July 25, 2013, 10:15:24 AM
Traffic "Glad"

Cool song, but I'm pretty sure it was in the last '70 set...
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: CapnJack on July 25, 2013, 10:21:18 AM
Hot Tuna "Water Song"
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: RGMike on July 25, 2013, 10:21:46 AM
An instrumental twin-spin!  I love "Water Song", Overexposed tho' it may be.  VHM.
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: urth on July 25, 2013, 10:23:54 AM
1970 again, after we just had a 1970 classic. WTF?  great year regardless, but... continuity person?

Sorry, that position was eliminated due to budget constraints.
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: Lightnin' Rod on July 25, 2013, 10:24:21 AM
Hot Tuna "Water Song"

Pretty = VHM.
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: Lightnin' Rod on July 25, 2013, 10:26:38 AM
1970 again, after we just had a 1970 classic. WTF?  great year regardless, but... continuity person?

Sorry, that position was eliminated due to budget constraints.

That could be a punch-line for a fine prostitution joke...
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: Tinka Cat on July 25, 2013, 10:28:42 AM
The repeat of EJ notwithstanding, this set is shaping up nicely.  The clips are really well done, nice segues.  Could use a surpirse, forgotten nugget or three, though.
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: CapnJack on July 25, 2013, 10:29:28 AM
Women's liberation / Equal Rights Amendment into Diana Ross "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: RGMike on July 25, 2013, 10:29:28 AM
Miss Ross, she da boss. Short version, sadly.
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: Lightnin' Rod on July 25, 2013, 10:31:56 AM
I'm your Katrina, I'm your Katrina...

Still a great song, so I'm okay with it.
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: RGMike on July 25, 2013, 10:32:02 AM
yet another song I've recently referenced in my novel. Meaning Renee has the same taste in music as a 15-year-old boy.  VHM GFR.
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: CapnJack on July 25, 2013, 10:32:15 AM
Grand Funk Railroad "I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home"
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: Tinka Cat on July 25, 2013, 10:38:23 AM
I'm your Katrina, I'm your Katrina...

Still a great song, so I'm okay with it.

I always think I hear Ray & Dave Davies of the Kinks singing backup on this "I'm your captain!"
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: CapnJack on July 25, 2013, 10:40:35 AM
Canned Heat "Let's Work Together"
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: RGMike on July 25, 2013, 10:41:28 AM
Canned Heat "Let's Work Together"

I've always preferred the Wilbert Harrison version (also 1970)  but at least Kermit isn't singing lead here.
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: Tinka Cat on July 25, 2013, 10:42:42 AM
Canned Heat "Let's Work Together"

I've always preferred the Wilbert Harrison version (also 1970)  but at least Kermit isn't singing lead here.

LOL..!  I dig Bryan Ferry's cover.  It's really warbly.
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: RGMike on July 25, 2013, 10:43:59 AM
BOS McGuinness Flynt!!   This may be a KFOG bustout (tho' i can't swear Dave never played it; it sounds up his alley). I've heard it on the Peak a few times.
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: CapnJack on July 25, 2013, 10:44:54 AM
Oscars into McGuinness Flint "When I'm Dead And Gone"
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: RGMike on July 25, 2013, 10:47:31 AM
Sly's lookin' at the gavel. or the devil. or sumthin'.  VHM -- also a Katrina but I do love it.
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: CapnJack on July 25, 2013, 10:49:52 AM
Sly & The Family Stone "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)"
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: CapnJack on July 25, 2013, 11:02:23 AM
Renee sez Phillip Phillips (!) puts Sly & The Family Stone over the top for BOS; VHM 2-way tie to GFR and Mountain.
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: urth on July 25, 2013, 11:10:35 AM
Renee sez Phillip Phillips (!) puts Sly & The Family Stone over the top for BOS; VHM 2-way tie to GFR and Mountain.

Another case of tune #10 winning the BOS vote. I swear this is rigged.
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: RGMike on July 25, 2013, 11:11:24 AM
Renee sez Phillip Phillips (!) puts Sly & The Family Stone over the top for BOS; VHM 2-way tie to GFR and Mountain.

Another case of tune #10 winning the BOS vote. I swear this is rigged.

McGuinness Flynt didn't have a prayer.
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: RGMike on July 25, 2013, 11:29:35 AM
1. Mississippi Queen-Mountain
2. Burn Down the Mission-Elton John
(News: Kent State shootings)
3. Ball of Confusion-The Temptations
4. Glad-Traffic
5. Water Song-Hot Tuna
(News: Women's Lib)
6. AIn't No Mountain High Enough-Diana Ross
7. Closer to Home-Grand Funk Railroad
8. Let's Work Together-Canned Heat
(News: Oscar nominees)
9.When I'm Dead and Gone-McGuiness Flint
10. Thank You (falettinme be mice elf agin)- Sly and the Family Stone

I'm gonna assume tomorrow will be a '90s day, which would make this our first 5-decade week since the AL era, methinks.
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: dischead on July 25, 2013, 11:15:41 PM
Perhaps with a super-strong year like 1970 it's almost impossible to fuck it up.  But with the
usual haphazard effort, a potentially excellent set can be avoided and an largly ordinary,
slightly better-than-average one supplied instead.  Which is what we got today.

In principle, I don't object to repeating 1970 within a week's time, or even 1993, for that matter.
A truly random "big wheel" would produce such a result occasionally.  But to do so would require,
at bare minimum, not repeating songs.  It just looks like shoddy work when that happens.

I liked last Friday's 1970 set much better.  Although most of today's songs were great, their
impact was diminished by their overexposure.  More than anything, they hinted at the better
choices that could have been.

1. Mississippi Queen-Mountain
Completely LN.  Sadly, the only Mountain song that ever gets played today.  How about
Theme For An Imaginary Western, to pick but one great alternative.  Yet another band
that I'd like to hear more of on 10@10.
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2. Burn Down the Mission-Elton John
A great song, yes, but not only did it just appear last Friday on 10@10, I think it's been getting
more play recently in general.  Or maybe I just imagined I've heard it... But it's EJ, for goodness
sake, so there's a plethora of tracks to chose from... how about Amoreena?
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3. Ball of Confusion-The Temptations
Another frequent flyer.
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4. Glad-Traffic
Yet another KFOG FF.
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5. Water Song-Hot Tuna
Wow, did no one catch this?  It's from Burgers, released in 1972!  (And still another KFOG FF.)
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6. Ain't No Mountain High Enough-Diana Ross
An acceptable choice.  Not a bust-out, but not a FF either.
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7. Closer to Home-Grand Funk Railroad
Another song that seems to have slipped into occasional play in recent months.  It appeared
on 10@10 in mid-March.  This is the kind of song that is too easily over-played.
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8. Let's Work Together-Canned Heat
Still yet another frequent flyer again.
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9.When I'm Dead and Gone-McGuiness Flint
A rarity, and NTM, although it didn't make much of an impression on me.
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10. Thank You (falettinme be mice elf agin)- Sly and the Family Stone
Somewhere between the sixth and eighth FF, depending on how strict one scores.
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: RGMike on July 26, 2013, 07:21:44 AM
Perhaps with a super-strong year like 1970 it's almost impossible to fuck it up.  But with the usual haphazard effort, a potentially excellent set can be avoided and an largly ordinary, slightly better-than-average one supplied instead.  Which is what we got today.


Your analysis was spot-on. Certainly not an unpleasant set but... unfulfilled potential, for sure.
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: dischead on July 26, 2013, 10:26:32 PM
Perhaps with a super-strong year like 1970 it's almost impossible to fuck it up.  But with the usual haphazard effort, a potentially excellent set can be avoided and an largly ordinary, slightly better-than-average one supplied instead.  Which is what we got today.
Your analysis was spot-on. Certainly not an unpleasant set but... unfulfilled potential, for sure.

I echo the sentiment of Big Fingers McGee about the recent 2000 encore, where he opined that
the set was less than the sum of its parts.  Given that it's 1970, the parts are great and that sum
is still above average.  But it seemed unconnected.

His observation seems to apply to many 10@10's lately... to be sure, there is an element of
chance in creating a good 10@10.  But there is more to it than just picking ten songs from that
year and looking for clever seques from the clips.
Title: Re: 25 July 2013: it's... 1970
Post by: dischead on July 26, 2013, 10:32:48 PM
Renee sez Phillip Phillips (!) puts Sly & The Family Stone over the top for BOS; VHM 2-way tie to GFR and Mountain.

So song #10 wins BOS three days in a row.  Hmmm...