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Title: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: CapnJack on January 30, 2014, 09:30:36 AM
Where will Renee take us today?

I won't be around for this one, so take copious notes!
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... ?
Post by: RGMike on January 30, 2014, 09:36:45 AM
Where will Renee take us today?

I won't be around for this one, so take copious notes!

Fingers crossed for '60s, unless maybe they're saving that for tomorrow  ;)   An '00s set would not surprise me.
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... ?
Post by: urth on January 30, 2014, 09:54:07 AM
Good news: Last minute meeting cancellation, so I'll get to listen in after all.

Bad new: Today's meeting is now piggybacked onto tomorrow's so I'll have a gargantuan 2.5 hours of training -- via phone, since I am headed home this afternoon.

And: These LifeAlert stream ads are a signifier of the direction that the KFOG audience is going. Ah, mortality...
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... ?
Post by: RGMike on January 30, 2014, 09:59:49 AM
These LifeAlert stream ads are a signifier of the direction that the KFOG audience is going. Ah, mortality...

over-the-air they're running those Joan Lunden "A Place For Mom" spots.
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: RGMike on January 30, 2014, 10:02:57 AM
Caturday already?  TOTHK and LN1: Cure, "Love Cats"
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: RGMike on January 30, 2014, 10:06:16 AM
"Shall we play a game?"  -- even the movie clips are LNs today.

WOS1 The Goat at her goatiest. "Stand Back" indeed.
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: RGMike on January 30, 2014, 10:10:45 AM
OK, I'll VHM Kajagoogoo "Too Shy"
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: urth on January 30, 2014, 10:13:23 AM
OK, I'll VHM Kajagoogoo "Too Shy"

Probably the most notable track so far, but this set needs to hoist itself up by its bootstraps a bit.
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: Big Fingers McGee on January 30, 2014, 10:13:38 AM
RR has typically had serious issues with the early 80's, so my expectations are low.
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: RGMike on January 30, 2014, 10:14:21 AM
U2, "2 Hearts Beat as 1", another VHM from me.
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: Big Fingers McGee on January 30, 2014, 10:15:40 AM
U2, "2 Hearts Beat as 1", another VHM from me.

BOS so far, with the Cure #2, Kajagoogoo #3 and Nicks #4
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: RGMike on January 30, 2014, 10:17:13 AM
RR has typically had serious issues with the early 80's, so my expectations are low.

indeed, some more pop would be nice: DeBarge, a Culture Club deep cut, Macca & MJ "Say say Say", OMD "Locomotion"...

oy: uber-LN Jackson Browne "Tender is the Night". Boring is the set.
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: Big Fingers McGee on January 30, 2014, 10:21:26 AM
RR has typically had serious issues with the early 80's, so my expectations are low.

indeed, some more pop would be nice: DeBarge, a Culture Club deep cut, Macca & MJ "Say say Say", OMD "Locomotion"...

oy: uber-LN Jackson Browne "Tender is the Night". Boring is the set.

and Browne is the LN of set so far.
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: urth on January 30, 2014, 10:21:27 AM
Halfway thru the set and nary a bootstrap in sight, although there's still time. It would really take just a couple of stellar picks to lift this one out of the cellar
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: RGMike on January 30, 2014, 10:22:52 AM
Stones "Undah-covah" -- is this a different mix?
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: Tinka Cat on January 30, 2014, 10:24:18 AM
Stones "Undah-covah" -- is this a different mix?

don't think so, sounds like the one I've always heard.  I loved this video!
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: Big Fingers McGee on January 30, 2014, 10:26:47 AM
Stones "Undah-covah" -- is this a different mix?

don't think so, sounds like the one I've always heard.  I loved this video!

Probably not a bustout, but I don't believe we've heard it in awhile.
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: urth on January 30, 2014, 10:27:55 AM
Stones "Undah-covah" -- is this a different mix?

don't think so, sounds like the one I've always heard.  I loved this video!

Likewise. The Stones had a bit of balls on this record, in no small part due to working with Steve Lillywhite, iirc. Best track so far, and I'm sure certain GS members are in ecstasy right now.
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: RGMike on January 30, 2014, 10:28:16 AM
anti-nuke protesters --> Yes, "Leave it", one of my all-time worst WOSes.
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: Tinka Cat on January 30, 2014, 10:29:44 AM
anti-nuke protesters --> Yes, "Leave it", one of my all-time worst WOSes.

heh, I like this one.
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: urth on January 30, 2014, 10:30:52 AM
And back to the depths we go. This version of Yes bore little resemblance to the one I revere from 6 or more years previous, although it probably put some significant cash in their bank accounts.
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: Tinka Cat on January 30, 2014, 10:32:37 AM
And back to the depths we go. This version of Yes bore little resemblance to the one I revere from 6 or more years previous, although it probably put some significant cash in their bank accounts.

oh, yeah, they cashed in fer shure.  I liked Owner of  Lonely Heart, prob b/c I was glued to MTV back then.  But as a guitar god worshipper, I felt dismayed that Steve Howe was not in the band.  It was not the same Yes.
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: RGMike on January 30, 2014, 10:33:23 AM
Santana  "Havana Moon" -- closest to a rarity we'll get, I guess. (tho' I'm surprised to see that "Undercover..." didn't come up when I searched)
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: urth on January 30, 2014, 10:34:30 AM
Guessing this is Santana doing "Havana Moon." Closest to a rarity we've heard so far but it's putting me to ZZZzzzzz.
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: RGMike on January 30, 2014, 10:36:49 AM
Testament -- one of the saddest movies I have ever seen.

OMFG: turn around, Bright Eyes!  BOS Bonnie Tyler for cheeze factor alone.
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: urth on January 30, 2014, 10:38:16 AM
Testament -- one of the saddest movies I have ever seen.

OMFG: turn around, Bright Eyes!  BOS Bonnie Tyler for cheeze factor alone.

Was wondering if it were that or The Day After. Yes, I remember being profoundly affected by it too, particularly the scene with the mother and son dancing to the Beatles. Needed a strong drink afterward.

ETA: Did Jim Steinman have anything to do with the Bonnie Tyler song? It has his bombastic sound; I'm thinking it is.
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: Big Fingers McGee on January 30, 2014, 10:39:43 AM
Jim Steinman, who has made otherwise-intolerable-to-me acts pleasurable (Air Supply, Meat Loaf, even Celine Dion).
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: RGMike on January 30, 2014, 10:42:27 AM
Jim Steinman, who has made otherwise-intolerable-to-me acts pleasurable (Air Supply, Meat Loaf, even Celine Dion).

and don't forget Barry Manilow!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXOy3tcP6S8
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: RGMike on January 30, 2014, 10:43:22 AM
I love "True" but it's way LN at this point.
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: RGMike on January 30, 2014, 10:44:50 AM
Testament -- one of the saddest movies I have ever seen.

OMFG: turn around, Bright Eyes!  BOS Bonnie Tyler for cheeze factor alone.

Was wondering if it were that or The Day After. Yes, I remember being profoundly affected by it too, particularly the scene with the mother and son dancing to the Beatles.

Granted, I had just broken up with someone and was in a fragile state, but I cried continuously for the last 45 minutes of that film.
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: urth on January 30, 2014, 10:45:19 AM
I love "True" but it's way LN at this point.

A frequent flyer for sure, but I enjoy it too, so I'll give it a pass. (Guessing we must be down to Tune # 10?)
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: dischead on January 30, 2014, 10:36:43 PM
and Browne is the LN of set so far.

Only half the appearences of U2, and I'm enjoying it...


OK, I'll VHM Kajagoogoo "Too Shy"

BOS from me... it was one of my favorite songs from that time.


Stones "Undah-covah" -- is this a different mix?
don't think so, sounds like the one I've always heard.  I loved this video!
Probably not a bustout, but I don't believe we've heard it in awhile.

A bust-out, along with Santana, and it's one of this set's few high points.


And back to the depths we go. This version of Yes bore little resemblance to the one I revere from 6 or more years previous, although it probably put some significant cash in their bank accounts.

ITA, but, as with Genesis, I still like some of their more popular '80s hits, even though I bemoaned
the fact they moved away from prog rock into a more mainstream sound.
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: CapnJack on January 30, 2014, 11:02:36 PM
Did anyone catch what got BOS?
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: dischead on January 30, 2014, 11:05:01 PM
Testament -- one of the saddest movies I have ever seen.

OMFG: turn around, Bright Eyes!  BOS Bonnie Tyler for cheeze factor alone.
Was wondering if it were that or The Day After. Yes, I remember being profoundly affected by it too, particularly the scene with the mother and son dancing to the Beatles. Needed a strong drink afterward.

Never heard of that movie... I thought it was The Day After too.  (I haven't seen either one.)
In any case, I was totally expecting 99 Luftballoons next.

I recall that in 1983 there was a widespread, almost palpable sense that we were headed for
a nuclear showdown with the USSR.  Reagan was in full bluster about the Communist threat to
freedom,  plans for the MX missle system were being discussed, the Strategic Defense Initiative
(aka "Star Wars") was proposed, there was the KAL 007 incident, and in November, The Day
After
aired.  It wasn't just the anti-nuke activists... lots of everyday people worried that we
were on the brink of nuclear annihilation.
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: dischead on January 30, 2014, 11:07:57 PM
Did anyone catch what got BOS?

It was (ugh) Bonnie Tyler.  RR is solely responsible for both appearances of this on 10@10.
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: dischead on January 30, 2014, 11:14:02 PM
1983... perhaps the strongest year of the '80s, so more is to be expected.  But this set didn't
deliver.  A couple of high points, three or four okay tracks, and not even any outstanding
clips.  No truffle for the blind pig today.
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: RGMike on January 31, 2014, 07:33:01 AM
Did anyone catch what got BOS?

It was (ugh) Bonnie Tyler.  RR is solely responsible for both appearances of this on 10@10.

I totally understand why that song would be someone's HFH, but for me it's the sort of pop cheeze that '80s sets often lack. I also loved the dance cover by Nicki French from the '90s.
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: dischead on January 31, 2014, 11:17:45 PM
Did anyone catch what got BOS?
It was (ugh) Bonnie Tyler.  RR is solely responsible for both appearances of this on 10@10.
I totally understand why that song would be someone's HFH, but for me it's the sort of pop cheeze that '80s sets often lack. I also loved the dance cover by Nicki French from the '90s.

I don't think the song is bad enough to be a HFH, and I can grudgingly appreciate why it might
be so popular.

I've done a lot of wine tasting around Northern California, and sometimes when you're trying a
wine that you think is not very good, the pourer will ask you flat out if you like it.  (Not a good
practice, in my book, and I think more knowledgeable staff know better.)  But rather than reply
bluntly that the wine sucks, I'd say "it's not my style."

Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart is... not my style.  (grin)
Title: Re: 30 Jan 2014: it's... 1983
Post by: dischead on February 06, 2014, 11:11:51 PM
1/30/14 - Thursday!  It's 1983

1. The Cure - Lovecats
2. Stevie Nicks - Stand Back
3. Kajagoogoo - Too Shy
4. U2 - Two Hearts Beat As One
5. Jackson Browne - Tender is the Night
6. The Rolling Stones - Undercover of the Night
7. Yes - Leave It
8. Carlos Santana - Havana Moon
9. Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart (BOS)
10.Spandau Ballet - True