Austin "Bob" week of 3/8/10

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Mon 3/8/10: 1987

Swingout Sister -Breakout
Georgia Satellites -Keep Your Hands To Yourself
Cutting Crew -(I Just) Died In Your Arms
Lou Gramm/Foreigner -Midnight Blue
Genesis -Land Of Confusion
Cindy Lauper -Change Of Heart
Billy Idol -Mony Mony
T'Pau -Heart and Soul
Huey Lewis & The News -Jacob's Ladder (Step By Step)

if only AL would play Swingout Sister some morning.

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Tue 3/9/10:1979

Raydio -You Can't Change That
Cheap Trick -I Want You To Want Me
Journey -Lovin, Touchin, Squeezin'
Electric Light Orchestra -Shine A Little Love
Supertramp -The Logical Song
Cheryl Lynn -Got To Be Real
Rupert Holmes -Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
Fleetwood Mac -Tusk
Gloria Gaynor -I Will Survive

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Wed 3/10/10: 1983

Billy Joel -Allentown
Bryan Adams -This Time
Madness -Our House
Dionne Warwick -Heartbreaker
David Bowie -China Girl
Men At Work -It's A Mistake
Naked Eyes -Promises, Promises
Adam Ant -Goody Two Shoes
Patti Austin/James Ingram -Baby, Come To Me

Def what '83 sounded like to me.

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Thur 3/11/10: 1993

SWV -Right Here (Human Nature)
Gin Blossoms -Hey Jealousy
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers -Mary Jane's Last Dance
Prince -7
Stone Temple Pilots -Plush
R.E.M. -Everybody Hurts
Spin Doctors -Two Princes
Proclaimers -I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
Snow -Informer (yes, #1 this week in '93 -- more proof the '90s sucked)

But BOS Prince and VHM SWV re-purposing MJ.

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MY-bee.... joost MY-bee... Naughty gahls need loove too!

Samantha Fox -Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)
U2 -Desire
Church -Under The Milky Way
Paul Carrack -Don't Shed A Tear
Joan Jett -I Hate Myself For Loving You
Johnny Kemp -Just Got Paid (Friday Night)
Erasure -Chains of Love
Bruce Springsteen -Pink Cadillac
George Michael -Father Figure

BOS Joan Jett -- one of the best rock singles of the '80s. But surely that should be the Natalie Cole version of "Pink cadillac" in '88, no?