2 January 2008--Onward Ever Onward

[RGMike]

"Don't Stop thinkin' about tomorrow" -- a subtle Hilary endorsement?

[RGMike]

WOS GD.

[Davefish]

I really like "Throwing Stones", but I don't see the connection.

[urth]

WOS GD.

Have to agree, but I'd bet a sawbuck it gets the popular BOS vote.

[ggould]

Speaking of prog-, BOS again for Ambrosia.

I was listening sporadically in car, didn't hear theme.  It obviously wasn't the year, then I thought I figured it out: bells!  The start of the Lennon tune, and the Ambrosia tune was full of them!  Well I was wrong, and I don't dig this pretentious progressive doowah, but I noticed today the T. S. Eliot quote for the first time:

For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

[ggould]

WOS GD.

Have to agree, but I'd bet a sawbuck it gets the popular BOS vote.

Don't be hatin' !  Who gets the sawbuck?
 

[RGMike]

WOS GD.

Have to agree, but I'd bet a sawbuck it gets the popular BOS vote.

Don't be hatin' !  Who gets the sawbuck?
 

We all woulda got a buck & change had they won BOS but (thankfully) Fogheads gave a rare display of taste

[ggould]

I really like "Throwing Stones", but I don't see the connection.

pretty much in line with New Radicals and Fleetwood Mac, and the rest re: the Onward Ever Onward theme:

And the radical, he rant and rage,
Singing someone's got to turn the page.

[urth]

WOS GD.

Have to agree, but I'd bet a sawbuck it gets the popular BOS vote.

Don't be hatin' !  Who gets the sawbuck?
 

Sorry, no diss on the Dead, but I was never a big fan of this song (admittedly I was in the minority among Deadheads on that one).  For all their skill at improvisation, I thought they played it pretty much the same way every time they hauled it out, which was too often for my taste.

And nobody took me up on the bet, so the sawbuck stays with me. 

[ggould]

WOS GD.

Have to agree, but I'd bet a sawbuck it gets the popular BOS vote.

Don't be hatin' !  Who gets the sawbuck?
 

Sorry, no diss on the Dead, but I was never a big fan of this song (admittedly I was in the minority among Deadheads on that one).  For all their skill at improvisation, I thought they played it pretty much the same way every time they hauled it out, which was too often for my taste.

And nobody took me up on the bet, so the sawbuck stays with me. 

I agree that it's not in the typical mold of the improvisational GD tune, and being as Bobby works out his songs to great detail (listen to his part on China Cat for example) it probably still sounds the same, although I haven't seen Ratdog in over a decade, so I don't really know.  I just think it's a good song for ecopolitical issues.  I always like the line

Picture a bright blue ball,
Just spinnin', spinnin, free.
Dizzy with the possibilities.

[Gazoo]

WOS GD.

Have to agree, but I'd bet a sawbuck it gets the popular BOS vote.

I'm rarely one to defend the Dead, but I've long been impressed by the stanza "shipping powders back and forth / singing: black goes South and white comes North."  BOS to Chaka and the gang, and I wonder what the name is for that whirring-into-stratosphere sound effect that "Once You Get Started" shares with Kool & the Gang's "Summer Madness," and then via sample thereof with the Fresh Prince's "Summertime."  I really dig it.

[urth]

01/02/2008 - Wednesday!! Happy New Year!
 
1.  Call - Let the Day Begin   
2.  Chicago - Beginnings (BEST OF SET!!)   
3.  New Radicals - You Get What You Give   
4.  Rolling Stones - Start Me Up   
5.  Simple Minds - New Gold Dream   
6.  Rufus - Once You Get Started   
7.  John Lennon - Starting Over   
8.  Ambrosia - Time Waits For No One   
9.  Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop   
10.  Grateful Dead - Throwing Stones   
 
BONUS TRACK:  The The - This is the Day

[mshray]

01/02/2008 - Wednesday!! Happy New Year!
 
1.  Call - Let the Day Begin   
2.  Chicago - Beginnings (BEST OF SET!!)   
3.  New Radicals - You Get What You Give   
4.  Rolling Stones - Start Me Up   
5.  Simple Minds - New Gold Dream   
6.  Rufus - Once You Get Started   
7.  John Lennon - Starting Over   
8.  Ambrosia - Time Waits For No One   
9.  Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop   
10.  Grateful Dead - Throwing Stones   
 
BONUS TRACK:  The The - This is the Day

Dang! I heard the replay but didn't realize what a great bonus track I'd missed.  If only Dave would play that in its year on the spinning wheeel.