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« Reply #45 on: August 25, 2006, 08:15:57 AM »
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have you been following KINK's "Most Overlooked LPs of all Time" list? They're counting 'em down (one per day):

http://www.kink.fm/radio.php/special

Today at #12 (they'll hit #1 on labor day) is Macca's Ram -- an intersting selection, as it was slammed by critics upon release but (as we all know from 1971 10@10s) sounds not-bad-at-all 35 years later.

TANC, While in Maui I went into a celebrity art gallery and saw a display of Ram, record, photo, signature etc. I hadn't thought about this album since I last packed it away in a box.
While there, I snapped a pic of a Jerry G painting done by Grace Slick. This was done before gallery owner asked me not to take pictures. I knew it was wrong but had to do it.
http://www.celebrityfineart.com/


Haha, I've also taken pictures of Gracie's paintings!  (In early 2001 she had a showing in a SoMa gallery -- "Artrock," I think it was called?)
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« Reply #46 on: September 15, 2006, 02:20:19 PM »
For Mark especially, this bit from the sfgate Parent's Blog on rock music kids love (and we don't mean the SippyCups, either):

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/parenting/detail?blogid=29&entry_id=8924#comments
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« Reply #47 on: January 11, 2007, 02:49:50 PM »
couldn't decide where to put this, but anyway...  I just discovered that EW's website has a "Chart Flashback" feature: the writer features the Billboard Top Ten on this date in (insert year here) and makes snarky comments.  This week it's 1986:

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20007619,00.html
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« Reply #48 on: February 02, 2007, 01:39:32 PM »
Apparently Dave (after they talked about Gavin's "affair") asked for suggestions for the best adultery songs ever. And someone blogged about it on sfgate:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=3&entry_id=13160

other suggestions?  Maybe this will end up as this year's Valentine's Set :wink:
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« Reply #49 on: February 02, 2007, 03:40:02 PM »
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Apparently Dave (after they talked about Gavin's "affair") asked for suggestions for the best adultery songs ever. And someone blogged about it on sfgate:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=3&entry_id=13160

other suggestions?  Maybe this will end up as this year's Valentine's Set :wink:


Greatest adultery song ever is "If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Want to Be Right)."  Either the Luther Ingram or Millie Jackson version, but I'll suggest the former since Millie has a whole album-plus of such material in Caught Up.  Also might want to include "Me and Mrs. Jones" and the inevitable remorse anthem, "Kiss and Say Goodbye."
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« Reply #50 on: February 02, 2007, 10:28:47 PM »
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Apparently Dave (after they talked about Gavin's "affair") asked for suggestions for the best adultery songs ever. And someone blogged about it on sfgate:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=3&entry_id=13160

other suggestions?  Maybe this will end up as this year's Valentine's Set :wink:


Greatest adultery song ever is "If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Want to Be Right)."  Either the Luther Ingram or Millie Jackson version, but I'll suggest the former since Millie has a whole album-plus of such material in Caught Up.  Also might want to include "Me and Mrs. Jones" and the inevitable remorse anthem, "Kiss and Say Goodbye."


But everybody knows the best cheatin' songs are country cheatin' songs. (So far only one person commenting on that sfgate thread has brought that up.)
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« Reply #51 on: February 03, 2007, 12:09:47 AM »
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Apparently Dave (after they talked about Gavin's "affair") asked for suggestions for the best adultery songs ever. And someone blogged about it on sfgate:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=3&entry_id=13160

other suggestions?  Maybe this will end up as this year's Valentine's Set :wink:


Greatest adultery song ever is "If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Want to Be Right)."  Either the Luther Ingram or Millie Jackson version, but I'll suggest the former since Millie has a whole album-plus of such material in Caught Up.  Also might want to include "Me and Mrs. Jones" and the inevitable remorse anthem, "Kiss and Say Goodbye."


But everybody knows the best cheatin' songs are country cheatin' songs. (So far only one person commenting on that sfgate thread has brought that up.)


I was listening at the time, and "Your Cheatin' Heart" came to mind.  And I was just thinking, Robert Cray, "Strong Persuader."

Somebody mention Layla, but I would have gone with "Have You Ever Loved a Woman."  

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« Reply #52 on: March 21, 2007, 03:06:34 PM »
Having heard three of the four recently, thought I'd start an impromptu list of my favorite song intros:

1. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, "More Love"
2. Jr. Walker and the All-Stars, "What Does It Take"
3. The Toys, "A Lover's Concerto"
4. Petula Clark, "Downtown"
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« Reply #53 on: September 04, 2007, 01:58:50 PM »
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Having heard three of the four recently, thought I'd start an impromptu list of my favorite song intros:

1. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, "More Love"
2. Jr. Walker and the All-Stars, "What Does It Take"
3. The Toys, "A Lover's Concerto"
4. Petula Clark, "Downtown"


while I'm here to post something else, I'd name the 4 Seasons'"Opus 17".
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« Reply #54 on: September 04, 2007, 02:00:38 PM »
we all love "Top 500 songs of ______" lists, and for most of us they tend to be "all-time" type lists that don't specifiaclly exclude our Wonder Years. But NYC's WPLJ just did the Top 500 Songs of the Past 20 Years -- interesting:

http://images.radcity.net/5146/2122808.txt
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« Reply #55 on: September 04, 2007, 02:28:45 PM »
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we all love "Top 500 songs of ______" lists, and for most of us they tend to be "all-time" type lists that don't specifiaclly exclude our Wonder Years. But NYC's WPLJ just did the Top 500 Songs of the Past 20 Years -- interesting:

http://images.radcity.net/5146/2122808.txt


Does Rob Thomas' mother work at WPLJ?
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« Reply #56 on: September 04, 2007, 02:38:13 PM »
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we all love "Top 500 songs of ______" lists, and for most of us they tend to be "all-time" type lists that don't specifiaclly exclude our Wonder Years. But NYC's WPLJ just did the Top 500 Songs of the Past 20 Years -- interesting:

http://images.radcity.net/5146/2122808.txt


Does Rob Thomas' mother work at WPLJ?


ROTFL! Guess Rob's big with the soccer moms. Speaking of suburbia, I'm amazed "How To Save a Life" isn't in the Top 10.
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« Reply #57 on: September 04, 2007, 02:55:38 PM »
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we all love "Top 500 songs of ______" lists, and for most of us they tend to be "all-time" type lists that don't specifiaclly exclude our Wonder Years. But NYC's WPLJ just did the Top 500 Songs of the Past 20 Years -- interesting:

http://images.radcity.net/5146/2122808.txt


Does Rob Thomas' mother work at WPLJ?


ROTFL! Guess Rob's big with the soccer moms. Speaking of suburbia, I'm amazed "How To Save a Life" isn't in the Top 10.


Either that or they've got the all-time biggest Rob Thomas fan stuffing the ballot box like mad.

I know most of the songs in that list have been played on KFOG at one time or another, but to see them all laid out like that, one after another, is just so depressing. I mentally changed the station about 12 times in the first 100 songs. At least KFOG doesn't play Shania.
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« Reply #58 on: September 05, 2007, 12:44:10 AM »
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we all love "Top 500 songs of ______" lists, and for most of us they tend to be "all-time" type lists that don't specifiaclly exclude our Wonder Years. But NYC's WPLJ just did the Top 500 Songs of the Past 20 Years -- interesting:

http://images.radcity.net/5146/2122808.txt


Reaction #1: This is fascinating!

Reaction #2: The '90s really have been neglected by memory, haven't they?

Reaction #3: What this countdown ignores is the marvelous indie underground that blossomed in '93-'94.  Whither "Cannonball"?  Whither anything from Barenaked Ladies?  Je suis stunned.

Reaction #4: HOLY SHIT THAT CALLING SONG IS SIX YEARS OLD
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« Reply #59 on: September 05, 2007, 08:13:21 AM »
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Reaction #3: What this countdown ignores is the marvelous indie underground that blossomed in '93-'94.  Whither "Cannonball"?  Whither anything from Barenaked Ladies?  Je suis stunned.



well, yes, but this is WPLJ -- a "Hot AC" station aimed squarely at white suburban soccer moms.  This is based on songs that got airplay there.
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