KFOG, But Not 10@10

[princessofcairo]

"...who has an irritating Freddie Mercury wail..."

LOL!

what the f**k is that supposed to mean?

[RGMike]

"...who has an irritating Freddie Mercury wail..."

LOL!

what the f**k is that supposed to mean?

It could mean the critic likes Freddie and finds bad imitations of him annoying; or it could mean he doesn't have much use for Freddie to begin with.  The critic is Kyle Smith of the NY Post and he's rather rabidly right-wing, so I'm guessing the latter.

[darryl]

Anyone else notice that "world class rock" seems to be skewing to the 90s a lot more lately? Been hearing several Nirvana tunes and also a lot of Alanis of late, to name just two.

And I'm thinking I'd like to start a movement to have You Oughta Know banned from the airwaves--sure, I get that the song is written from the POV of someone who's been harshly dumped, but the negativity and venom in that song is just bad--it never fails to put me in a foul mood. We have enough of that in this world.

Alex Bennett once called her Alanis MoreUpset -- I've called her that ever since. Never mind the anger, I find there to be somewhat of a double standard in that it's OK for a woman to direct that anger at a guy in a  song, but a guy saying the equivalent things to a woman would be considered misogynist.

Ah, Alex.  Hey, Alanis is ok -- she's quite more sedate now, opened up for Barenaked Ladies a few years back at Shoreline and put on a great show.

Anyways, did a quick grep through my listings, and yeah it seems like Alanis airplay is up a bit.  Although things really started spiking back in Jan-Feb, well before the Cumulus takeover.  Also annoying though is that they really only play stuff off of Jagged Little Pill.  They ought to play some tracks off of the acoustic version of the whole album she recently released.  (Rosalie does on Sundays.)

As far as Nirvana -- nah, except for the fact that they now play "THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD", they still play around the same amount of Nirvana per month, a lot of it unplugged, on average about once a day...

Of course my numbers can be suspect, so take this with a grain of salt.

--Darryl

[princessofcairo]

Anyone else notice that "world class rock" seems to be skewing to the 90s a lot more lately? Been hearing several Nirvana tunes and also a lot of Alanis of late, to name just two.

And I'm thinking I'd like to start a movement to have You Oughta Know banned from the airwaves--sure, I get that the song is written from the POV of someone who's been harshly dumped, but the negativity and venom in that song is just bad--it never fails to put me in a foul mood. We have enough of that in this world.

Alex Bennett once called her Alanis MoreUpset -- I've called her that ever since. Never mind the anger, I find there to be somewhat of a double standard in that it's OK for a woman to direct that anger at a guy in a  song, but a guy saying the equivalent things to a woman would be considered misogynist.

Ah, Alex.  Hey, Alanis is ok -- she's quite more sedate now, opened up for Barenaked Ladies a few years back at Shoreline and put on a great show.

Anyways, did a quick grep through my listings, and yeah it seems like Alanis airplay is up a bit.  Although things really started spiking back in Jan-Feb, well before the Cumulus takeover.  Also annoying though is that they really only play stuff off of Jagged Little Pill.  They ought to play some tracks off of the acoustic version of the whole album she recently released.  (Rosalie does on Sundays.)

As far as Nirvana -- nah, except for the fact that they now play "THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD", they still play around the same amount of Nirvana per month, a lot of it unplugged, on average about once a day...

Of course my numbers can be suspect, so take this with a grain of salt.

--Darryl

if you're talking about the 2004 shoreline concert, i believe the ladies opened for alanis. that's how i remember it, anyway. it would make sense that they open for her, no? hmm...well, of one thing i'm certain - my buddies and i were bummed we missed nellie mckay's set.

i remember when alex said that. ah, the good ole days.

re: the double-standard - i doubt a woman could remake dion's "the wanderer" without being labelled a whore. it goes both ways.

[RGMike]

i doubt a woman could remake dion's "the wanderer" without being labelled a whore.

Paging Paris Hilton!

[darryl]

if you're talking about the 2004 shoreline concert, i believe the ladies opened for alanis. that's how i remember it, anyway. it would make sense that they open for her, no? hmm...well, of one thing i'm certain - my buddies and i were bummed we missed nellie mckay's set.

i remember when alex said that. ah, the good ole days.

re: the double-standard - i doubt a woman could remake dion's "the wanderer" without being labelled a whore. it goes both ways.

Ah, you're right.  BNL opened.  They switched off headlining every other show on that tour.  I remember being disappointed that she didn't bring out BNL for "cameos" as she had done during their set.

I was also bummed to have only caught the tail end of Nellie.  Did get to see her sing a song with Steve, I think, w/ Jim on bass, so that was fun.  She's going to be at Bimbo's in a few weeks, actually.

Just bought BNL ticks for Nov. 28.  $60 freaking dollars for Bill Graham Civic, but 2nd row section 5, so I can't complain too much, I guess.  :-}

--Darryl

[urth]

Just bought BNL ticks for Nov. 28.  $60 freaking dollars for Bill Graham Civic, but 2nd row section 5, so I can't complain too much, I guess.  :-}

--Darryl

I know what you mean, bro. But these days, $60 is relatively reasonable for a big show. I'm balking a bit at $55 for the Meters (original lineup) at the Fillmore, but I know it'll rock, so should probably just shut up and kick down the $$$.

[RGMike]

Caught the tail end of Big Rick (now there's a visual!) and heard 3 "new" songs:

1. A Jurassic 5/DMB collab that was heavy on the rap -- Fogheads traditionally dislike that sorta thing, I'm wondering how long that'll be around.

2. Michael Franti's "Light Up Your Lighter" which totally kicks ass -- a scorching lyric with lines like "the war on terror is a war on peace".  Most impressive.

3. the U2/Leonard Cohen collab from that Cohen docu.

[urth]

From Leah Garchik's column in today's Chronicle:

P.S.: A grizzled veteran of Burning Man says the sound of the first commercial voice was heard this year. The Flaming Lotus Girls were performing, "to odd music, during a fireworks show," when an announcement was heard: "This is KFOG broadcasting live from the Flaming Lotus Girls on the Playa." Hit the deck, will Ronald McDonald be there next year?

So who do ya think it was? Renee? Mike Powers? Irish Greg?

[ggould]

some cool acoutstic guitar duo version of Stairway to Heaven.  Martha said
"they're playing this on KFOG?"

[urth]

From Leah Garchik's column in today's Chronicle:

P.S.: A grizzled veteran of Burning Man says the sound of the first commercial voice was heard this year. The Flaming Lotus Girls were performing, "to odd music, during a fireworks show," when an announcement was heard: "This is KFOG broadcasting live from the Flaming Lotus Girls on the Playa." Hit the deck, will Ronald McDonald be there next year?

So who do ya think it was? Renee? Mike Powers? Irish Greg?

From Friday's column, Leah takes it back:

P.S.: My grizzled Burning Man veteran was a little too grizzled, perhaps from the heat. What he'd described as a KFOG announcement was made by a pirate station with a soundalike name.

[Gazoo]

Caught the tail end of Big Rick (now there's a visual!) and heard 3 "new" songs:

1. A Jurassic 5/DMB collab that was heavy on the rap -- Fogheads traditionally dislike that sorta thing, I'm wondering how long that'll be around.

2. Michael Franti's "Light Up Your Lighter" which totally kicks ass -- a scorching lyric with lines like "the war on terror is a war on peace".  Most impressive.

3. the U2/Leonard Cohen collab from that Cohen docu.

OMG, I heard this!  I was very impressed with all three as well, especially the Cohen/U2 (and I'm largely unfamiliar with Lenny).

[RGMike]

Caught the tail end of Big Rick (now there's a visual!) and heard 3 "new" songs:

1. A Jurassic 5/DMB collab that was heavy on the rap -- Fogheads traditionally dislike that sorta thing, I'm wondering how long that'll be around.

2. Michael Franti's "Light Up Your Lighter" which totally kicks ass -- a scorching lyric with lines like "the war on terror is a war on peace".  Most impressive.

3. the U2/Leonard Cohen collab from that Cohen docu.

OMG, I heard this!  I was very impressed with all three as well, especially the Cohen/U2 (and I'm largely unfamiliar with Lenny).

I think you'd love Mr Cohen -- surely there's a cheap best-of floating around.

For the record I thought the Jurassic 5/DMB thing was pretty dreadful.

[ggould]

I sit in the science prep room, absorbing Dylan, and thinking of how to integrate this and pirate talk in my next chemistry class!


Arrrr!

[RGMike]

I sit in the science prep room, absorbing Dylan, and thinking of how to integrate this and pirate talk in my next chemistry class!


Arrrr!

I heard them talking that up earlier -- I can't imagine how awful it will be. Fogheads are so clueless.