The Drive, week of 9/5/11

[RGMike]

Mon 9/5/11: 1978

Heart   Heartless   5.5%
REO Speedwagon   Time For Me to Fly    6.3%
Warren Zevon   Excitable Boy    10.9%
Journey    Lights    13.3%
Rolling Stones   Shattered    13.3%
Foreigner    Love Has Taken its Toll   2.3%
Queen    Bicycle Race   3.9%
Exile    Kiss You All Over   14.8%
Who   Who Are You?    21.1%
Bob Seger   We've Got Tonight   

[RGMike]

Tue 9/6/11: 1983

Robert Plant - In The Mood 
Huey Lewis and the News - I Want a New Drug   
David Bowie - Modern Love   
Jackson Browne - Lawyers in Love 
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams   
Eric Clapton - I've Got a Rock 'n' Roll Heart 
Yes - Leave It   
John Mellencamp - Crumblin' Down   
The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger 
Genesis - Home By the Sea 

[RGMike]

Wed 9/7/11: By the Numbers

"Ol' 55" to start (Iggles version, natch)

proxy of shray: "Karn Evil 9"  why can't I find a picture of Seven Virgins & a Mule?

proxy of shray too: REO's live "157 Riverside Ave" is a serious rarity if not an ATBB.  But a WOS from me -- this thing is endless. "diddle-a-diddle-a-diddle-a-diddle"? Yeesh.

ah, the Dan to soothe my damaged ears. "Rikki Don't Lose that Number"

Damn! Zep's "4 Sticks" is def an ATBB. BOSFRA.

Timbuk 3. Cute, Bob. And "Funk 49"? Too obvious.

BOS2: "Free 4".

U2, "God, Part 2" Double twos!

BOS3 Bobby Fuller 4.



Eagles - Ol' 55 
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil #9 
REO Speedwagon - 157 Riverside Avenue 
Steely Dan - Rikki Don't Lose That Number 
Led Zeppelin - Four Sticks   
Timbuk 3 - The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades 
James Gang - Funk 49 
Pink Floyd - Free Four   
U2 - God Part II 
Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought The Law 

[RGMike]

Thur 9/8/11: 1974!

thank heaven for small favors. I predict something cheezy from Bob's "pop surprise" category. Terry Jacks, anyone?

eeek: GFR locomotes.

yeesh: Aerosmith do their same old same old.

ooo! the 'oo! BOS1 "Pure & Easy". and a child flew past me riding in a star...

"all men are bored with other men's lives" -- guess Pete's never seen reality TV.

BOS2 the Cat Man's delightful Sam Cooke remake -- one of the more inventive covers of that decade. Ooh! La!

Just as I feared: "Seasons in the Sun"

BOS3 EJ's "LSD"

BOS4 Buffett when he was solid, smart songwriter. Supertramp goes to school.

uber-BOS5 Maccas all-time-best 45, "Junior's Farm". Take me down, Jimmeh!

Grand Funk Railroad - The Loco-Motion 
Aerosmith - Same Old Song and Dance 
Who - Pure and Easy 
Cat Stevens - Another Saturday Night 
Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun   
Elton John - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds 
Bad Company - Bad Company   
Jimmy Buffett - Come Monday   
Supertramp - School   
Paul McCartney - Junior's Farm

[RGMike]

Fri 9/9/11: 1982

yeesh. Prepare for the worst.

eeek: MAW are down under. Stay there, guys.

yeesh: Santana, "Hold On"

good lord, the cheeze-for-breakfast of "Eye of the Tiger" may be the best we get in this set.

The Clash rock the, uh, you know.

DUUUUDE! the Priest!!! BOS "You Got Another Thing Comin"; VHM Rob Halford's codpiece.

I guess the plane's down in Africa. or I bless the rains down in Africa. or something.

sheesh: Billy Squier.

VHM the Fixx, on a be-bop morning.

Van Halen - Dancing in the Streets   
Men at Work - Down Under   
Santana - Hold On   
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger 
Clash - Rock the Casbah 
Judas Priest - You Got Another Thing Coming 
Eddie Money - Think I'm In Love 
Toto - Africa   
Billy Squier - Everybody Wants You 
Fixx - Red Skies