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« Reply #15 on: October 24, 2006, 08:30:13 AM »
I'm quibbling here, but I will always associate this Dan LP with 1973 -- a Dec '72 release, I guess, but it didn't enter anyone's consciousness until early '73. Playing anything from it in a '72 set is a cheat IMHO.
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« Reply #16 on: October 24, 2006, 08:33:32 AM »
Graham Nash gives the officials the Immigration Face, which I suppose was a previous iteration of the Gas Face.
“The choir of children sing their song.  They've practiced all year long.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.”

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« Reply #17 on: October 24, 2006, 08:35:00 AM »
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Graham Nash gives the officials the Immigration Face, which I suppose was a previous iteration of the Gas Face.


Irritation, man.
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« Reply #18 on: October 24, 2006, 08:36:31 AM »
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I'm quibbling here, but I will always associate this Dan LP with 1973 -- a Dec '72 release, I guess, but it didn't enter anyone's consciousness until early '73. Playing anything from it in a '72 set is a cheat IMHO.


Exactly like playing anything from London Calling in a 1979 set (at least in the US).  It was released Dec 14th, and the Clash were still unkown here.  During the 80's it's stature grew until Rolling Stone named it the #1 LP of the decade.
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« Reply #19 on: October 24, 2006, 08:37:11 AM »
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Okay, this is a great set and all, but if you start Commander Cody you just have to let him finish.  It's in the Rules!
Why the Commander and not, say, Gilbert O'Sullivan?  Is there a coolness threshold to identify?   :?  :lol:

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I had almost forgotten how great Commander Cody was until KPIG.
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« Reply #20 on: October 24, 2006, 08:37:26 AM »
OMG BOS6 America, "I Need You", one that doesn't get nearly the airplay that some of their other hits do.
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« Reply #21 on: October 24, 2006, 08:39:38 AM »
"I Need You" is "Beatlesque"?  Bee Gees would be closer to the mark.
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« Reply #22 on: October 24, 2006, 08:43:41 AM »
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"I Need You" is "Beatlesque"?  Bee Gees would be closer to the mark.


George Martin might disagree :wink:
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« Reply #23 on: October 24, 2006, 08:47:28 AM »
mmm... ABB

1972!
   The Allman Brothers - One Way Out
   Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down By the School Yard
   Chi Coltrane - Thunder & Lightening
   Eagles - Chug All Night
   CCR - Some Day Never Comes
   Stevie Wonder - Superstition
   Todd Rundgren - I Saw the Light
   Steely Dan - Do it Again
   Crosby & Nash - Immigration Man
   America - I Need You
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« Reply #24 on: October 24, 2006, 12:38:00 PM »
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What a great day to not be at work!  YAY for Todd's "I Saw the Light"!!!  Those three opening notes have a Pavlovian effect on me.  (What do you call notes that come in before the first proper measure?)


A pick-up. Seriously. (And if that's not a great straight line, I don't know what is.)

(There may be a more technical term for it, but in conversational musician-speak, that's what I know it as. Dave, do you concur?)
Let's get right to it.

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« Reply #25 on: October 25, 2006, 07:51:03 AM »
The Allman Brothers   One Way Out   12.1%
Paul Simon   Me and Julio Down By the School Yard   6.8%
Chi Coltrane   Thunder & Lightening   12.9%
Eagles   Chug All Night   4.5%
CCR   Some Day Never Comes   14.4%
Stevie Wonder   Superstition   12.9%
Todd Rundgren   I Saw the Light   12.9%
Steely Dan   Do it Again   4.5%
Crosby & Nash   Immigration Man   10.6%
America   I Need You   8.3%

CCR wins a close race.
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