the Drive, week of 4/2/12

[RGMike]

Mon 4/2/12: 1970!

a good Drive week ahead (only one '80s set, on Tuesday when I don't listen anyway).

instant BOS to CCR's "Up Around the Bend", one of my 2 or 3 favorites of theirs.

uber-LN: "All Right Now"

BOS2 3DN/Paul Williams "Out in the Country".

Trouble ahead and a troubled behind -- hemorrhoids can be a bitch, Casey Jones.

proxy of shray:


By the time we got to wood shop, we were half-a-million birdhouses strong!



VHM Guess Who, gettin' no sugah, sugah.

BOS3 Santana, "Samba Pa Ti" sounds lovely today.

CCR - Up Around The Bend 
Free - All Right Now 
Three Dog Night - Out In The Country   
Grateful Dead - Casey Jones   
Simon & Garfunkel - Cecilia   
CSNY - Woodstock   
Guess Who - No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature 
Black Sabbath - Paranoid   
Santana - Samba Pa Ti 
Van Morrison - Caravan   

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Tue 4/3/12: 1988

REM - Stand   
Mike & The Mechanics - The Living Years 
Van Halen - When It's Love 
David Lee Roth - Damn Good   
U2 - Angel of Harlem 
Cinderella - Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone) 
Robert Plant - Tall Cool One   
Steve Winwood - Holding On 
Guns n' Roses - Patience   
Traveling Wilburys - End of the Line   

nice idea playing VH and DLR back-to-back (and Dave's "Damn Good" is a rarity, certainly).  But otherwise... Y&S.

ETA: Bob said "I can't remember the last time a song won Best-in-Show by so many votes -- nearly FOUR TIMES as many votes as any of the other 9 songs". That winner was.... Traveling Wilburys. Just shoot me.

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Wed 4/4/12: 1969

Beatle twin-spin, sorta: "Give Peace a Chance" --> "Come Together"

Percy's got a whole lotta love. So we've heard. BOS1

uber-BOS2 the great Joe South, "Games People Play"

VHM Spirit, doin' lines on you. or something.

she blew Mick's nose and then she blew his mind. BOS3 "HTW"

Rare Urf (as JJ would pronounce it) are gettin' ready.

BOS4 and proxy of shray: Mason Proffit, "2 Hangmen"

Those kids at Tommy's Holiday Camp -- they're not gonna take it. One of 'em grew up to be Dee Snider. True story.

Plastic Ono Band - Give Peace a Chance 
Beatles - Come Together   
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love 
Joe South - Games People Play 
Spirit - I Got a Line On You   
Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home 
Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women 
Rare Earth - Get Ready   
Mason Proffit - Two Hangmen 
Who - We're Not Gonna Take It 

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Thur 4/5/12: 1972

Your Mama Don't Do It Again: L&M and the Dan to start -- not encouraging.

it's the 3rd of September on April 5th.


wham bam thank you Bowie.

LN: "Heart of Gold". VHM Foghat.

Hate to call Spinners' great "I'll Be Around" an LN but, well... kinda.

But no uncertainty here: "Rocket Man" is one of the uber-LNs of all time.

Lawd-a-MIGHTY! uber-BOS Elvis, "Burnin' Love". Thankyaverramuch.

BOS2 Macca and his fokkin' litttle momma. Or whatever he's saying.

Loggins/Messina - Your Mama Don't Dance 
Steely Dan - Do It Again   
Temptations - Papa Was A Rollin' Stone 
David Bowie - Suffragette City   
Neil Young - Heart of Gold 
Foghat - I Just Wanna Make Love To You 
Spinners - I'll Be Around   
Elton John - Rocket Man   
Elvis Presley - Burning Love 
Paul McCartney & Wings - Hi Hi Hi 

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Fri 4/6/12: 1980

eek.  BJ has a fantasy. Keep it to yerself, bub.

in honor of Opening Day: Queen plays the game.  Well, Freddie certainly handled quite a few big bats in his day. BOS1.

The Manfreds do yet another Springsteen cover. Which seemed like desperation at this point. And changing "lick my sores" to "fight my wars" always bothered me.

Steve Perry walks like a lady, or something. Seger does the horizontal bop -- not to be confused with the unskinny bop.

NOOOOO!! WOS REO.

Bono's eyes make a circle; Bruce is like a river that just keeps on flowin'.

The Babys' "Midnight Rendezvous" is a rarity, but that doesn't mean it's good.

JCM ain't even done. But I am.

Billy Joel - Sometimes a Fantasy   
Queen - Play the Game   
Manfred Mann - For You 
Journey - Walks Like a Lady   
Bob Seger - The Horizontal Bop 
R.E.O. Speedwagon - Take It on the Run   
U2 - I Will Follow   
Bruce Springsteen - Hungry Heart   
Babys - Midnight Rondezvous 
John Mellencamp - Ain't Even Done With The Night