The Peak, 5/22/09: 1980

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This Beat Goes On/Switching To Glide is full of fun hooks.  BOS

[RGMike]

I surely arrived just in time for Airplane!. And don't call me etc.

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Londing Calling -- Clash -- the guitar riff is scary, sounds like troops advancing.

Then Elephant Man movie clips were played.  Somewhere a child cried. 

 Springsteen    Ramrod -- not familiar w this one.  therefore it seems rare. and therefore someone should give it a BOSFRA.

Martha & The Muffins    Echo Beach -- this appeared recently somewhere else, didn't it?  She has that affected English pronunciation thing that was sometimes popular w new wavey singers.

Then Airplane movie clips were played. Somewhere a mid-40s dude started quoting his favorite lines, like "Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?"

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I'll give the Genesis Turn it One Again a HM.  Duke is a pretty darn good record, y'all.

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Martha & The Muffins    Echo Beach -- this appeared recently somewhere else, didn't it?  She has that affected English pronunciation thing that was sometimes popular w new wavey singers.

a big early-alt-radio/"turntable hit" in NYC for sure. Love that one. Always sounded like Blondie meets the Pretenders. They later re-invented themselves as "M + M" with a great song called "Black Stations/White Stations".

OMG! rare Geils gets a BOS from me.

and Broooce's "Ramrod" is a deep track from The River. It's also his 2nd song named after a NYC gay bar ("Badlands" is the other).

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many good memories of The English Beat.  Saw them in Concert in 83?  REM opened!

Dave Wakeling lives in the Bay Area doesn't he?  Seems to make many appearances at local street fairs, the Redwood Theater, etc., and such.  Went to Vegas a few years back, stayed at Mandalay Bay.  Dave Wakeling and his band were there as the entertainment for some convention, so we got to hear his sound check mini-concert at the pool's outdoor stage. 

Tears of a Clown is fun, and he has one great voice!

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I've never seen Used Cars but some people swear by it.

OMFG! BOS2 Blue Angel withCyndi Lauper singing lead, the fabulous "Maybe He'll Know". Oh Rob I (heart) you!

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and Broooce's "Ramrod" is a deep track from The River. It's also his 2nd song named after a NYC gay bar ("Badlands" is the other).

didn't he also cover Manhole and Anvil?   

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and Broooce's "Ramrod" is a deep track from The River. It's also his 2nd song named after a NYC gay bar ("Badlands" is the other).

didn't he also cover Manhole and Anvil?   

Grace Slick had an LP called Manhole.

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I've never seen Used Cars but some people swear by it.

OMFG! BOS2 Blue Angel withCyndi Lauper singing lead, the fabulous "Maybe He'll Know". Oh Rob I (heart) you!

wow, I never knew.

Here's Queentrina.  "Steamboat warily down the street."

TANC?  Brian May and the drummer also appeared on Idol the other night.  No one can escape it!

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WOS Jim Carroll -- I've always hated this one, always will.

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Kings (The) This Beat Goes On/Switchin' To Glide
Clash London Calling
Bruce Springsteen Ramrod
Martha & The Muffins Echo Beach
Genesis Turn It On Again
English Beat Tears Of A Clown
J. Geils Band Just Can't Wait
Blue Angel Maybe He'll Know
Queen Another One Bites the Dust
Jim Carroll Band People Who Died