The Drive, week of 3/29/10

[RGMike]

Mon 3/29/10: 1983

John Mellencamp - Authority Song 
Journey - Faithfully 
Romantics - Talking in Your Sleep 
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell 
Jackson Browne - For a Rocker 
Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart 
Night Ranger - Don't Tell Me You Love Me 
Police - Every Breath You Take 
Golden Earring - Twilight Zone 
U2 - Two Hearts Beat As One 

[Tinka Cat]

Mon 3/29/10: 1983

John Mellencamp - Authority Song 
Journey - Faithfully 
Romantics - Talking in Your Sleep 
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell 
Jackson Browne - For a Rocker 
Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart 
Night Ranger - Don't Tell Me You Love Me 
Police - Every Breath You Take 
Golden Earring - Twilight Zone 
U2 - Two Hearts Beat As One 

ugh, hate that Golden Earring song.   

compare this middling threadbare snoozefest set to AL's 83 set from today.   Where's the new wave?   U2's Two Hearts ... is the closest we get to a something fresh sounding.  But I get it, the Drive isn't the place to hear anything other than AC or AAA or whatever the acronym is.

[RGMike]

ugh, hate that Golden Earring song.   

compare this middling threadbare snoozefest set to AL's 83 set from today.   Where's the new wave?   U2's Two Hearts ... is the closest we get to a something fresh sounding.  But I get it, the Drive isn't the place to hear anything other than AC or AAA or whatever the acronym is.

I'm sure Bob (or his PD) considers Billy Idol, the Romantics, U2 and the Police to be NewWave -- which would make this one of his most left-leaning '80s sets in ages, according to that standard.  But yeah, it's the Midwest and we like our rock solid and stolid. The only thing missing is Rush

[RGMike]

Tue 3/30/10: Happy Birthday Crapton!


Clapton - Layla (unplugged)  
Derek and The Dominoes - Bell Bottom Blues  
Clapton - Forever Man  
Cream - Change The World  
Clapton - Sunshine of your Love  
Clapton - Mainline Florida  
Clapton - Cocaine  
Clapton - Pretending  
Clapton - Wonderful Tonight  
Clapton - I've Got a Rock n' Roll Heart  

[RGMike]

Wed 3/31/10: 1976

Bob Seger - Main Street 
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Saturday Night Special (live) 
Elvin Bishop - Fooled Around and Fell in Love 
Boston - Peace of Mind 
Steely Dan - Don't Take Me Alive 
Blue Oyster Cult - Don?t' Fear the Reaper 
Walter Murphy - A Fifth of Beethoven 
Queen - You're My Best Friend 
Aerosmith - Last Child 
Steve Miller - Rock 'n Me

[RGMike]

Thur 4/1/10: April Fools

Beatles - Fool on the Hill 
Def Leppard - Foolin' 
Foghat - Fool For the City 
Chris Rea - Fool If You Think It's Over 
Tom Petty - Fooled Again 
Who - Won't Get Fooled Again 
Styx - Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) 
Led Zeppelin - Fool in the Rain 
Elvis Presley - Fool Such as I 
Steve Perry - Foolish Heart 

Nicely played -- BOS Steve Perry, whose "Foolish Heart" is as lovely to my ears as his "Oh Sherrie" is gratingly fingernails-on-a-blackboard-ish.  Gotta catch the replay to see if Bob played the orig 45 of the Chris Rea or if he got stuck with one of those bogus re-recordings.

[RGMike]

Fri 4/2/10: 1968

Tommy James - Crimson and Clover 
Doors - Hello I Love You 
Canned Heat - Going Up the Country 
Temptations - I Wish it Would Rain 
Steppenwolf - The Pusher 
Beatles - Revolution #1 
Otis Redding - Sitting on the Dock of the Bay 
Moody Blues - Departure/Ride My Sea Saw 
Gary Puckett - Lady Willpower 
Nazz - Hello It's Me 


God-DAMN! "The Pusher", man!  BOS Steppenwolf.