The Drive, 4/26/07: It's 1985

[Gazoo]

With hints that we may get more Mellencamp and Fogerty's "Centerfield."

[RGMike]

With hints that we may get more Mellencamp and Fogerty's "Centerfield."

you are correct, sir!

John Mellencamp - R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.  
 The Talking Heads - Stay up Late  
 Philip Bailey (with Phil Collins) - Easy Lover  
 The Firm - Radioactive  
 Sting - If You Love Someone Set Them Free  
 Eric Clapton - Forever Man  
 John Fogerty - Centerfield  
 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Don't Come Around Here No More  
 John Parr - St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)  
 Tears For Fears - Shout  

Very Moreyesque.

[Gazoo]

With hints that we may get more Mellencamp and Fogerty's "Centerfield."

you are correct, sir!

John Mellencamp - R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.  
 The Talking Heads - Stay up Late  
 Philip Bailey (with Phil Collins) - Easy Lover  
 The Firm - Radioactive  
 Sting - If You Love Someone Set Them Free  
 Eric Clapton - Forever Man  
 John Fogerty - Centerfield  
 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Don't Come Around Here No More  
 John Parr - St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)  
 Tears For Fears - Shout  

Very Moreyesque.

And this was *precisely* what B-94, Pittsburgh's Top 40 station, sounded like at the time.  Sledgehammer central.  (Would've been even more so had they replaced the T-Heads with Supertramp's "Cannonball," which didn't take off quite as mucn nationally, or Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing.")