27 Feb 2008: 1983 redux

[Davefish]

proxy post of gaz: "would that we could hear "Holiday Road" in its entirety" rather than as part of a movie clip.

What's Holiday Road?  Something in "Vacation"?

[RGMike]

proxy post of gaz: "would that we could hear "Holiday Road" in its entirety" rather than as part of a movie clip.

What's Holiday Road?  Something in "Vacation"?

Lindsay Buckingham -- we heard a snippet of the song at the top of the movie clip. A great little pop single that shoulda been a bigger hit.

[urth]

Sounds like mostly a set that I don't mind missing at all. But I've been waiting for DM to pull out Family Man for ages. Might have to listen to the replay for that alone.

[RGMike]

Sounds like mostly a set that I don't mind missing at all. But I've been waiting for DM to pull out Family Man for ages. Might have to listen to the replay for that alone.

02/27/2008 - Wednesday! The Big Wheel stops on...1983!!!
 
1.  Robert Palmer - You Are in My System   
2.  Madness - Our House   
3.  Don Henley - Nobody's Business   
4.  Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know?   
5.  Ultravox - Reap the Wild Wind   
6.  Marillion - He Knows, You Know   
7.  Prince - Delirious   
8.  Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) (BEST OF SET!!)   
9.  Hall & Oates - Family Man   
10.  Jackson Browne - Tender is the Night   
 
BONUS TRACK:  Genesis - Silver Rainbow


Turns out the Robert Palmer has only been played once before. If Dave had avoided "Our House" and Marillion, this might almost be worth recording. He's done worse '83 sets, fer shurr.

[mshray]

Sounds like mostly a set that I don't mind missing at all. But I've been waiting for DM to pull out Family Man for ages. Might have to listen to the replay for that alone.

02/27/2008 - Wednesday! The Big Wheel stops on...1983!!!
 
1.  Robert Palmer - You Are in My System   
2.  Madness - Our House   
3.  Don Henley - Nobody's Business   
4.  Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know?   
5.  Ultravox - Reap the Wild Wind   
6.  Marillion - He Knows, You Know   
7.  Prince - Delirious   
8.  Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) (BEST OF SET!!)   
9.  Hall & Oates - Family Man   
10.  Jackson Browne - Tender is the Night   
 
BONUS TRACK:  Genesis - Silver Rainbow


Turns out the Robert Palmer has only been played once before. If Dave had avoided "Our House" and Marillion, this might almost be worth recording. He's done worse '83 sets, fer shurr.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.  But what a downer those two songs were for me.  I was listening while driving & actually flipped stations as soon as "Our House" came on.

[RGMike]

I may have asked this last time he played it, but does anyone remember hearing the Marillion track *in* '83? I sure don't -- total Narada for me, I never heard of them until 2 years later when "Kayleigh" came along.

[urth]

I may have asked this last time he played it, but does anyone remember hearing the Marillion track *in* '83? I sure don't -- total Narada for me, I never heard of them until 2 years later when "Kayleigh" came along.

Hard to say--I know I'd heard it in '84, as they were the first band I ever saw at the Fillmore (an odd distinction, I know), and I want to say that was March of that year. But I was a big prog geek at that point, so I may have been ahead of the curve.

[mshray]

I may have asked this last time he played it, but does anyone remember hearing the Marillion track *in* '83? I sure don't -- total Narada for me, I never heard of them until 2 years later when "Kayleigh" came along.

Not me, I think I didn't hear them until "Kayleigh" also, and must say I never much liked them even though I had a roommate once with all their albums.

[Gazoo]

Sounds like mostly a set that I don't mind missing at all. But I've been waiting for DM to pull out Family Man for ages. Might have to listen to the replay for that alone.

You and me both.

As for Marillion - I was aware of the album title Script for a Jester's Tear but not of the songs themselves.  What year was that?

[urth]

Sounds like mostly a set that I don't mind missing at all. But I've been waiting for DM to pull out Family Man for ages. Might have to listen to the replay for that alone.

You and me both.

As for Marillion - I was aware of the album title Script for a Jester's Tear but not of the songs themselves.  What year was that?

That was the album that had He Knows, You Know, so released in 83, probably got a little more notice in 84.

[RGMike]

Sounds like mostly a set that I don't mind missing at all. But I've been waiting for DM to pull out Family Man for ages. Might have to listen to the replay for that alone.

You and me both.

As for Marillion - I was aware of the album title Script for a Jester's Tear but not of the songs themselves.  What year was that?

That was the album that had He Knows, You Know, so released in 83, probably got a little more notice in 84.

and that remains one of the most hilariously pretentious album titles of all time -- positively Spinal Tap-ian.

[SFGuy]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! the Mutha of all '83 Katrinas from Madness.

A lot of you don't like this song but I actually like it. I guess it's because Madness is part of my generation of the early to mid 80's. I remember Madness doing an autograph signing at the old Record Factory on Parker Ave/Geary Blvd. in SF and it drew a ton of high school kids, a lot more people then other acts from that era like Quarterflash, Howard Jones and Berlin.

[SFGuy]

Ahh the lovely (and hot, as we found out later) Vanessa Williams.  I guess she got the last laugh on "Ugly Betty".

Ahh Vanessa Williams. I remember I had to sneak a peak at Penthouse to see her because I was under 18 at the time.

[Gazoo]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! the Mutha of all '83 Katrinas from Madness.

A lot of you don't like this song but I actually like it. I guess it's because Madness is part of my generation of the early to mid 80's. I remember Madness doing an autograph signing at the old Record Factory on Parker Ave/Geary Blvd. in SF and it drew a ton of high school kids, a lot more people then other acts from that era like Quarterflash, Howard Jones and Berlin.

That Record Factory became Wherehouse years later, right?

"Our House" is a great song, it just succumbed to some degree of overkill.  But yeah, just focus on how snappy that arrangement is.

[Gazoo]

OMFG!!! BOS5 and proxy of shray, H&O, "Family Man"!  A bustout!

Haha, this brings back memories.  When this came out, I was playing my new Atari 2600 pretty much constantly, and this song's choppy riffs totally sound like circa-2600 effects.