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urth

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« Reply #15 on: February 13, 2006, 10:43:50 AM »
OK, who can ID this Balloonman song? It sort of sounds like Robyn Hitchcock but it CAN'T be.

ETA: Oh. My. Freaking. God. It was Robyn. Now THERE'S a bustout.
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« Reply #16 on: February 13, 2006, 10:46:25 AM »
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Was that Church tune a bust-out? I don't recall hearing it before, but somehow I think maybe you were hoping for better.


It may have been a bust out last time, but we did hear it once before.
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« Reply #17 on: February 13, 2006, 10:46:56 AM »
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OK, who can ID this Balloonman song? It sort of sounds like Robyn Hitchcock but it CAN'T be.


Not according to me or Dave!

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« Reply #18 on: February 13, 2006, 10:48:06 AM »
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OK, who can ID this Balloonman song? It sort of sounds like Robyn Hitchcock but it CAN'T be.


Oh yes it can. :wink:

Got quite a bit of alt-radio play in  NY at the time, and the story was that he wrote it for the Bangles but they said, "sorry, we're writing our own stuff now". So he did it himself.
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« Reply #19 on: February 14, 2006, 09:17:17 PM »
2/13/06 - Monday!  Good times in...1988!!

Crowded House - Sister Madly
Bobby Brown - My Perogative
Talking Heads - Nothing But Flowers
Church - North, South, East & West
Cheap Trick - The Flame
Smithereens - Only a Memory (B-O-S!!!)
Steve Winwood - Roll With it
REM - Turn You Inside Out
Midnight Oil - Dreamworld
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians - Balloon Man
BONUS TRACK:  Eric Clapton - After Midnight '88
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« Reply #20 on: February 15, 2006, 03:16:58 PM »
So I found the 1988 set that previously gave us that Church tune, in fact it was the TOTHC.  This set is from Thursday 5/20/2004.  No wonder I was hoping for some Erasure towards the end.

1. Church - North, South, East and West
2. Escape Club - Wild Wild West
3. Thomas Dolby - the Ability to Swing
4. Neil Young - This Note's For You
5. Crowded House - Better Be Home Soon
6. Little Feat - Let it Roll
7. Bob Dylan - Silvio
8. John Hiatt - Slow Turning
9. Erasure - Chains of Love (BEST OF SET!!)
10. George Harrison - Got My Mind Set on You

I'm working in my spare time on compiling the 10@10 database using Darryl's website.  If anyone wants to do something similar you don't need to know how to write complicated nested formulas in Excel (so that you could, f'rinstance, paste this list into 10 vertical cells and have it broken out into columns for Tune #, Artist & Song).  I can give them to you so all you need to do is copy the formula & fill down.
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