25 April 2014: it's... 1969!

[Here'sToYa!]

More Bewitched ---> The Who

Is this Overture? Underture is way too long for 10@10.

ETA: Overture/It's A Boy!

There was a kid named Walker in a class I taught recently, and he made me think of this song (except I told him about it, and he said his mom didn't take his dad's last name, so it doesn't quite work).

[CapnJack]

The Ventures "Hawaii Five-O" commercial to close things

ETA: AL played the entire track in the background while she did the backsell.

[urth]

and yet another uber-staple: "Boy Named Sue"  If I didn't know better, I'd think this was a rerun.

My standards now are if it doesn't sound like the other 23 hours and 15 minutes of KFOG, then it's a good set. So, this is a great set.

I've come to expect that most sets will include a few well-worn songs for the typical Foghead demographic, who won't know Steam from shinola.  I can live with a few FFs so long as we get a couple of nuggets to balance them out. (In today's set, that'd be Flirtations, Stooges, and maybe Dusty.)

Another nice segue: Darren & Samantha thinking about boy's names > Overture from Tommy.

[urth]

"The Ventures are definitely INSTRUMENTAL in your LIFE."

Heh heh, I see what he did there...

(And big ups to AL for using the backsell as a means to sneak in tune no. 11. #sogladshesback)

[Davefish]

"The Ventures are definitely INSTRUMENTAL in your LIFE."

Heh heh, I see what he did there...

Verrry wittty.

[yessongs]

and yet another uber-staple: "Boy Named Sue"  If I didn't know better, I'd think this was a rerun.

My standards now are if it doesn't sound like the other 23 hours and 15 minutes of KFOG, then it's a good set. So, this is a great set.

I've come to expect that most sets will include a few well-worn songs for the typical Foghead demographic, who won't know Steam from shinola.  I can live with a few FFs so long as we get a couple of nuggets to balance them out. (In today's set, that'd be Flirtations, Stooges, and maybe Dusty.)

Another nice segue: Darren & Samantha thinking about boy's names > Overture from Tommy.

Agreed for sure...  This was an excellent set!!

[Here'sToYa!]

and yet another uber-staple: "Boy Named Sue"  If I didn't know better, I'd think this was a rerun.

My standards now are if it doesn't sound like the other 23 hours and 15 minutes of KFOG, then it's a good set. So, this is a great set.

I've come to expect that most sets will include a few well-worn songs for the typical Foghead demographic, who won't know Steam from shinola.  I can live with a few FFs so long as we get a couple of nuggets to balance them out. (In today's set, that'd be Flirtations, Stooges, and maybe Dusty.)

Another nice segue: Darren & Samantha thinking about boy's names > Overture from Tommy.

I hear ya, but I also try to close down my prefrontal cortex as much as possible, so I can enjoy the music. That means trying to lose consciousness of info like how many spins a particular song has gotten on 10@10. So, if I like a song, I like hearing it, regardless of that fact. Of course, if I've heard a song so many times in general that I've gotten tired of it, that's another matter. But I don't think that's a function of conscious thought.

[RGMike]

I guess I just expect more from AL than I did from RR, and falling back on multiple "old standbys" repeatedly is a tad disappointing to me, given what an astounding year 1969 is.  I realize "the kids" in the KFOG core demo  haven't heard "Na Na Hey Hey" 8 million times... but I have. 

[Here'sToYa!]

I guess I just expect more from AL than I did from RR, and falling back on multiple "old standbys" repeatedly is a tad disappointing to me, given what an astounding year 1969 is.  I realize "the kids" in the KFOG core demo  haven't heard "Na Na Hey Hey" 8 million times... but I have. 

I feel like 10@10 irrevocably changed in the summer of DC (2011), so that KFOG more closely started emulating its imitators and playing ten great songs from one great year in one narrow format. This is bad enough in the years 1987-present, but I thought I've heard some of the genre-narrowing going on even in '60's-early '80's sets recently, and that was driving me nuts. So, yesterday's and today's sets including some harder rock, soul, and even a touch of dissonance, was reassuring to me. If the formula for the pre-'80's sets involves familiarity with the individual songs rather than an attempt to manufacture some retrospective KFOG format, I'm happier with that.

This means that AL is boxed in over the air and has to exercise her creativity during the "pre-show" the night before on FB. I can't fault her for this. This also affects my requests in that I usually make them not with an expectation that they might get played, but just to see who else likes them.

Expecting novelty, vibrancy, and an open playlist is a vain hope at this point, I think.

[CapnJack]

Per AL on FB, BOS The Who; VHM Dusty Springfield and The Stooges

[dischead]

Nixon inauguration speech ---> Cream "Politician"  A relative rarity that we usually hear on Election day.

BOS!  I never tire of hearing tracks from Wheels of Fire.  It's perhaps my all-time favorite
album and a desert-island choice; I have three copies on vinyl alone.

[RGMike]

1. Zager & Evans - In the Year 2525
     (News: Draft Lottery)
 2. The Stooges - 1969
     (News: Nixon Inaugural Speech)
 3. Cream - Politician
     (News: Nixon Speech)
 4. Steve Miller Band - Space Cowboy
     (News: Neil Armstrong Getting Ready for Moon Walk)
 5. Young-Holt Unlimited - Soulful Strut
     (Movie: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)
 6. The Flirtations - Nothing But a Heartache
     (Movie: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)
 7. Steam - Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
     (AD: The Swingy Doll by Mattel)
 8. Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man
     (TV: Bewitched - Baby Names)
 9. Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
     (TV: Bewitched - Darren Wants a Boy)
 10. The Who - Overture/It's a Boy

[dischead]

Zager & Evans -- didn't RR start a '69 set with this within the last 6 months? 

actually she played it as song #6 two months ago.

"Space Cowboy" is kinda LN -- going back to the Morey era.

This is its fifth appearance on 10@10, and I have no record of Dave ever playing it.

Outside of Steam and perhaps the Who, every song today is firmly in the low-spin category,
although there were no bust-outs.

[dischead]

NOOOOOOOOOOO!  Another uber-LN/FF: Steam.  Seriously, a song I never need to hear again for as long as I live.

At twenty-three appearances, that Steam tune is undoubtably one of the most played on 10@10.
I'd wager there's at least one other song that beats it, although I don't know what it is.

[dischead]

More Bewitched ---> The Who

ETA: Overture/It's A Boy!

BOS!  French horns!

Is this Overture? Underture is way too long for 10@10.

Underture has been played twice on 10@10.