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Yet another 10@10: "The Peak"
« on: March 28, 2005, 09:26:44 AM »
On WXPK ("The Peak"), in suburban NYC (Westchester/Rockland).

http://www.1071thepeak.com/10at10/

They do stream their programming. Of course 10 in NY is 7 here... so if you're at work REALLY early...

I may check it out Friday, when I usually get to work between 7 & 7:15. But for Gaz, it's local time.
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Re: Yet another 10@10...
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2005, 09:34:57 AM »
Quote from: "RGMike"
On WXPK ("The Peak"), in suburban NYC (Westchester/Rockland).

http://www.1071thepeak.com/10at10/

They do stream their programming. Of course 10 in NY is 7 here... so if you're at work REALLY early...

I may check it out Friday, when I usually get to work between 7 & 7:15. But for Gaz, it's local time.


I see they use the "ten great songs from one great year" slogan, too. Wonder what the connection is to KFOG and/or DM if there is one? My first thought was that they could be another Susquehanna station, but their "Peak Music" page says they're owned by Pamal Broadcasting.

Ah, here's the connection: their evening DJ is Paul Marszalek, who according to his bio, was once Operations Manager at KFOG.
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Re: Yet another 10@10...
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2005, 09:49:36 AM »
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On WXPK ("The Peak"), in suburban NYC (Westchester/Rockland).

http://www.1071thepeak.com/10at10/

They do stream their programming. Of course 10 in NY is 7 here... so if you're at work REALLY early...

I may check it out Friday, when I usually get to work between 7 & 7:15. But for Gaz, it's local time.


I see they use the "ten great songs from one great year" slogan, too. Wonder what the connection is to KFOG and/or DM if there is one? My first thought was that they could be another Susquehanna station, but their "Peak Music" page says they're owned by Pamal Broadcasting.

Ah, here's the connection: their evening DJ is Paul Marszalek, who according to his bio, was once Operations Manager at KFOG.


I remember Marszalek.  He was in charge in the mid-'90s.  I once emailed him, around the time Paul Simon's Capeman album came out, to inquire why they weren't playing it -- they did, after all, have 5 cuts from Graceland (then a 10-year-old LP) in constant rotation.  I suggested Fogheads might like to hear new Simon, rather than every Hootie clone (this was '97-ish) that came down the pike. He replied that he'd be more inclined to listen to me if my attitude were "less snotty". (!?!)
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Yet another 10@10: "The Peak"
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2005, 10:52:47 AM »
I'm listening to "The Peak" right now, they are indeed quite KFOG-ish.
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« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2005, 07:01:09 AM »
Peaking now, with "Love My Way" presumably kicking off a set.  Which would mean 1983?
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« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2005, 07:19:02 AM »
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Peaking now, with "Love My Way" presumably kicking off a set.  Which would mean 1983?

Wow, WAY off.  I don't have a sense of when P-Furs did their thing since Pittsburgh utterly ignored them (as they did most modern rock).
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« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2005, 07:49:19 AM »
Their 1989 set was faboo today.  BOS to Sinead, "Nothing Compares 2 U."  Proxy POC vote to "Black Velvet."  Power-pop Posies, too!
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« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2005, 07:51:39 AM »
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Their 1989 set was faboo today.  BOS to Sinead, "Nothing Compares 2 U."  Proxy POC vote to "Black Velvet."  Power-pop Posies, too!


well, the Sinead and Alannah Myles are Dave staples, so what made this set better than one of his by-the-numbers '89-ers? Aside from the Posies, that is?
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« Reply #8 on: March 30, 2005, 08:43:30 AM »
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Their 1989 set was faboo today.  BOS to Sinead, "Nothing Compares 2 U."  Proxy POC vote to "Black Velvet."  Power-pop Posies, too!


Which Posies was it?
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« Reply #9 on: March 30, 2005, 08:45:59 AM »
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Their 1989 set was faboo today.  BOS to Sinead, "Nothing Compares 2 U."  Proxy POC vote to "Black Velvet."  Power-pop Posies, too!


thank you! quite fitting since the presleys she were on oprah yesterday. from my mother: "she sang something about 'kick me when i'm up, kick me when i'm down,' and i thought 'she's not saying anything to me,' and what a shame for her father, 'cause he really had it going on."
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« Reply #10 on: March 31, 2005, 07:22:26 AM »
Today's set is from 1984.  Nice long trailer for All of Me, a movie I'd totally forgotten about (God love ya, Lily), abutted by fairly predictable songs (Cyndi Lauper, U2).  I like these folks b/c their between-song snippets are rather inspired.
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« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2005, 07:27:15 AM »
Ooh!  Some of y'all are gonna wish you'd gotten up early: Christine McVie's solo hit, "Got a Hold On Me."  Haven't heard this in ages.  Her usual understated elegance.  The more I think about it, the more I think I'd put her in my Top Ten Female Rock Voices pantheon.
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« Reply #12 on: March 31, 2005, 07:55:57 AM »
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Ooh!  Some of y'all are gonna wish you'd gotten up early: Christine McVie's solo hit, "Got a Hold On Me."  Haven't heard this in ages.  Her usual understated elegance.  The more I think about it, the more I think I'd put her in my Top Ten Female Rock Voices pantheon.


Do they give a hint what the next day's year will be? or is it a "surprise"? I'll be early tomorrow, for sure.
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« Reply #13 on: March 31, 2005, 07:59:36 AM »
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Ooh!  Some of y'all are gonna wish you'd gotten up early: Christine McVie's solo hit, "Got a Hold On Me."  Haven't heard this in ages.  Her usual understated elegance.  The more I think about it, the more I think I'd put her in my Top Ten Female Rock Voices pantheon.


Do they give a hint what the next day's year will be? or is it a "surprise"? I'll be early tomorrow, for sure.

I was on the phone so I missed the ending.  But you also missed the Bangles' "Hero Takes a Fall," best female Beatles impersonation ever.
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« Reply #14 on: April 01, 2005, 07:05:15 AM »
Well, I'm here to get Peaked. It's 1980 today.  Which apparently is as far back as they go.  That's gotta mean serious Katrina-ism over the long haul , no?

Appropriately, we start with "I Can't Remember" (their target demo was barely born on '80 -- LOL!).
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