16 May 2014: it's... 1981

[Big Fingers McGee]

Will AL play Brooooce deep cut to satiate the GS crowd?

I'd bet the farm on it.

Hopefully it was somebody else's farm! Apart from Soft Cell, this wasn't half bad.

[CapnJack]

Friday, May 16, 2014 - 1981

1. The Rolling Stones - Hang Fire
2. Boomtown Rats - Up All Night
    (TV: SNL - Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood)
3. DEVO - Through Being Cool
    (Movie: Mommie Dearest)
4. Styx - Too Much Time on My Hands
5. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - Do You Wanna Touch?
    (Movie: Stripes)
6. Carl Carlton - She's a Bad Mama Jama
7. Steve Winwood - Arc of a Diver
8. Soft Cell - Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go?
    (Raiders Win Super Bowl)
9. Journey - Keep On Running
    (Movie: Raiders of the Lost Ark)
10. The Ramones - We Want the Airwaves

[urth]

Friday, May 16, 2014 - 1981

1. The Rolling Stones - Hang Fire
2. Boomtown Rats - Up All Night
    (TV: SNL - Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood)
3. DEVO - Through Being Cool
    (Movie: Mommie Dearest)
4. Styx - Too Much Time on My Hands
5. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - Do You Wanna Touch?
    (Movie: Stripes)
6. Carl Carlton - She's a Bad Mama Jama
7. Steve Winwood - Arc of a Diver
8. Soft Cell - Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go?
    (Raiders Win Super Bowl)
9. Journey - Keep On Running
    (Movie: Raiders of the Lost Ark)
10. The Ramones - We Want the Airwaves

Looking at this on paper after the fact, my BOS picks would be at opposite ends of the set and smack in the middle: songs 1, 5, 6, and 10.

[ggould]

uber-uber-LN: "Tainted Love"  I could go a good 10 years without hearing this one.

ETA and it's the extended "Where Did Our Love Go" looooooong version to boot. VHM Don Pardo.

Sex Dwarf would have made my week.

 

Don't crush that sex dwarf, hand me the sex pliers.

Oh Porgy, my oh my!

[ggould]

I know we've heard "Arc of a Diver" a lot, but I think this is about as good as synth-heavy music gets.

I think it's been quite a while for this particular tune. Sounds pretty good, even though it has pretty much nonsensical lyrics.

I think Winwood was cribbing from the Jon Anderson school of lyrical obscurity.

So, these comments made me look up lyrics, and all the sites I saw had this line "I must be deaf on the telephone."  I'd never heard that, and eventually found some legit sheet music on sale, and could read in the preview files "I must be there on the telephone."  Gee, I guess not everything you read on the internet is true!

[CapnJack]

AL on FB says the Ramones got BOS.

[dischead]

I know we've heard "Arc of a Diver" a lot, but I think this is about as good as synth-heavy music gets.

I think it's been quite a while for this particular tune. Sounds pretty good, even though it has pretty much nonsensical lyrics.

I think Winwood was cribbing from the Jon Anderson school of lyrical obscurity.

So, these comments made me look up lyrics, and all the sites I saw had this line "I must be deaf on the telephone."  I'd never heard that, and eventually found some legit sheet music on sale, and could read in the preview files "I must be there on the telephone."  Gee, I guess not everything you read on the internet is true!

It seems like the lyric web sites all copy each other.  Whenever I've stumbled upon an error,
all the sites I've checked have the same thing.