The Drive, 4/30/09: 1981

[RGMike]

VHM "Promises in the DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARK!"  Cheeze for breakfast from Ms. Benatar.

[RGMike]

WOS Styx with too much time and not enuf brains.

[Gazoo]

VHM "Promises in the DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARK!"  Cheeze for breakfast from Ms. Benatar.

Second serving of cheese: "Too Much Time on My Hands."  Nice to hear this every once in a while, but I wish someone would occasionally play "Nothing Ever Goes As Planned."

[RGMike]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!  WOS2 Diesel, "Sausalito Summernight".  Bob's un-doing all the good he did the last 3 days of stellar sets.

[RGMike]

yeesh, Genesis too. 

[Tinka Cat]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!  WOS2 Diesel, "Sausalito Summernight".  Bob's un-doing all the good he did the last 3 days of stellar sets.

I like it, but Stacy just called it "really dumb goobery made-for-tv song."

she did note they say "The Grapevines."  I mentioned they were a Dutch band, and she replied, "Ok, but Dutch doesn't mean dumb, does it?"    snap!

This song is a Naruda for both of us, too. 

[RGMike]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!  WOS2 Diesel, "Sausalito Summernight".  Bob's un-doing all the good he did the last 3 days of stellar sets.

I like it, but Stacy just called it "really dumb goobery made-for-tv song."

she did note they say "The Grapevines."  I mentioned they were a Dutch band, and she replied, "Ok, but Dutch doesn't mean dumb, does it?"    snap!

This song is a Naruda for both of us, too. 

is that a Pablo Naruda?  (the term is "Narada" ,BTW).  But it was one for me too -- I can understand it getting Bay Area airplay, but Chicago?  Indeed, their sense of geography sucks.

BOS AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds", best of a rather painful lot this morning.

[RGMike]

BOS2 "Arc of a Diver", sounding even classier than usual in these crappy surroundings today.

[RGMike]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!2 -- in the space they invade, Rush get rich off you.

[RGMike]

Foreigner - Jukebox Hero 
Pat Benatar - Promises in the Dark 
J. Geils Band - Centerfold 
Tom Petty - The Waiting 
Styx - Too Much Time on My Hands 
Diesel - Sausalito Summer Nights 
Genesis - Abacab 
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap 
Steve Winwood - Arc of a Diver 
Rush - Tom Sawyer 

that was truly painful.  You'd never know '81 was the height of New Wave from that set.

[Tinka Cat]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!2 -- in the space they invade, Rush get rich off you.

HAHA!  I love the #2!   

I'll BOS JGiels, Stevie Winwood and the mighty RUSH

[mshray]

that was truly painful.  You'd never know '81 was the height of New Wave from that set.

...the height of New Wave, by pretty much all accounts, was 1983.

MTV even commissioned a double disc of hits entitled The MTV Class of '83.  Something they never did before or since.

[RGMike]

that was truly painful.  You'd never know '81 was the height of New Wave from that set.

...the height of New Wave, by pretty much all accounts, was 1983.

MTV even commissioned a double disc of hits entitled The MTV Class of '83.  Something they never did before or since.

well, by then it had crossed over and was being seen on MTV, but for a NY'er with proximity to CBGBs etc, our local rock radio was awash in "skinny-tie" bands and Costello wannabes from '79 thru '82.