The Drive, week of 11/12/12

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Mon 11/12/12: 1972

Doobie Brothers   Jesus is Just Alright   10.6%
Argent   Hold Your Head Up   10.6%
Deep Purple   Highway Star   14.1%
Loggins & Messina   Your Mama Don't Dance   5.1%
Mott the Hoople   All The Young Dudes   11.4%
Eagles   Take It Easy    13.7%
Rolling Stones   Tumbling Dice   11.8%
Foghat   I Just Want To Make Love To You   8.2%
Robert John   The Lion Sleeps Tonight   7.1%
T. Rex   Bang A Gong

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Tue 11/13/12: 1983

Feh.

John Mellencamp - Crumblin' Down 
Tubes - She's a Beauty 
ZZ Top - Legs 
Stevie Nicks - Stand Back 
Police - Synchronicity 2 
Pat Benatar - Love is a Battlefield 
Elton John - I'm Still Standing 
Night Ranger - Sister Christian   
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Pride and Joy   
Huey Lewis & The News - Heart of Rock & Roll

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Wed 11/14/12: Dancing

gee, how much disco is Bob allowed to play in a "Dancing" set?

Predicting VH, "Dance the Nite Away", Van's "Moondance" and Stones "Dance Little Sister"

eek: the worst is first -- Jagger Bowie "Dancing in the Street". Nowhere to go but up.

oops, shoulda predicted Brooce.

VHM Orleans "Dance With Me" -- wispy memories of the summer of '75.

and heeeere's prediction #1: VHM VH, oooo, baby baby.

BOS1 for cheeze factor alone: King Harvest. The Baja Men did a cover of this a couple years before they let the dogs out.

uber-BOS2 Zappa!! Love your nails!

VHM Santana.

LN: Billy Idol.

oy vey: Wang Chung.

BOS3 Zep.

Jagger/Bowie - Dancing in the Streets 
Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the Dark 
Orleans - Dance With Me 
Van Halen - Dance the Night Away   
King Harvest - Dancing in the Moonlight   
Frank Zappa - Dancin' Fool   
Santana - Dance Sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana) 
Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself 
Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days 
Led Zeppelin - Dancing Days   

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Thur 11/15/12: 1977

it's mah fav'rite foreign movie!  VHM "Peg"

WOS1 "Cat Scratch Fever" -- fuck you, Ted.

LN1: "Don't Stop"

WOS2: Kansas.

LN2: Crapton. Shit don't lie.

VHM "You Got That Right". See? I don't automatically WOS *all* Repub rockers.

BOS Annie Hall, the Marshall McLuhan scene.  BOS2 BJ, jus' the way he are.

BOS3 Styx, at their peak of appealingly delicious cheeziness.

The sky is burning. And so are my ears.

We jammin', mon.

Steely Dan - Peg 
Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever 
Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop   
Kansas - Point of Know Return   
Eric Clapton - Cocaine 
Lynyrd Skynyrd - You Got That Right 
Billy Joel - Just The Way You Are 
Styx - Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) 
Bad Company - Burnin' Sky   
Bob Marley - Jamming   

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Fri 11/16/12: 1970

a catcher (Johnny Bench) won NL MVP that year. le plus c'est change...

Stills loves the one he with.

BOS1 Badfinger's still-thrilling "No Matter What".

man, how many times have I heard this Jack Nicholson "hold it between your kneees" clip?

BOS2 Spirit, "Nature's way"

It's the fuzzy-wuzzy lovin' cup explosion! No idea WTF the Guess Who are on about. But BOS3 anyway.

BOS4 Neil, "After the Gold Rush".

Didn't really need "Vehicle" today.  But BOS5 Beatles "I Got a Feeling". Everybody had a wet dream! er, ewww.

ze maddogs, ze Englishmen, et... Zho Co-KAIR!

it's practically an Earth Day set: "Nature's Way" earlier, and now "Fresh Air". BOS 6. Only thing missing is "Out in the Country"

awwww.... VHM "Color My World", the theme of a million High School proms .

Stephen Stills - Love the One You're With 
Badfinger - No Matter What 
Spirit - Nature's Way   
Guess Who - Hand Me Down World 
Neil Young - After The Gold Rush 
Ides of March - Vehicle   
Beatles - I've Got a Feeling 
Joe Cocker - The Letter 
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Fresh Air   
Chicago - Colour My World