24 Aug 2010: it's... 1980

[RGMike]

uh-oh, Fred's under the stobe light again.  Keep yer hands off my pineapple, Schneider.

[Davefish]

BOS for the B52's!  I don't know this song.  

They were great at the Mountain Winery with Blondie a few weeks ago, opening with "Wig"!

ETA: I guess I have heard "Strobe Light" before.

[Lightnin' Rod]

BOS, B52s

[Davefish]

uh-oh, Fred's under the stobe light again.  Keep yer hands off my pineapple, Schneider.

It's his lips you gotta worry about.

[RGMike]

OMFG!!! Blotto!! uber-BOS5 "I Wanna Be a Lifeguard", one I requested for the Summer Set.

BTW, "Strobe Light" made its 2nd appearance in the AL era, tho' Dave never played it.

[Davefish]

What the hell is this?  "I Wanna Be a Lifeguard"?  Sounds like there's a little "Hand of Todd" in this one too.

[RGMike]

What the hell is this?  "I Wanna Be a Lifeguard"?  Sounds like there's a little "Hand of Todd" in this one too.

nope. cheezy little band from upstate NY. This was huge on the East Coast but most Californians have never heard of it.

[Tinka Cat]

What the hell is this?  "I Wanna Be a Lifeguard"?  Sounds like there's a little "Hand of Todd" in this one too.

nope. cheezy little band from upstate NY. This was huge on the East Coast but most Californians have never heard of it.

I remember this one (I'm from Upstate NY).  I actually was a lifeguard at some neighborhood pools.  I never got around to doing it, but I thought I Wanna Be A Lifeguard, Peter Gabriel's I Go Swimming" and maybe some Beach Boys song would have made a nice "lunch box" request to our local Classic Rock station.  "Hey, free pizza courtesy of Sal's Pizza and Subs on Culver Road going out to the Penbrooke Apartments pool staff ... Rock on!"

[Tinka Cat]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!  WOS2 Diesel. Sheesh, AL!

But at least the past couple of nights actually WERE "hot summer nights in Sausalito" -- how rare is that?  (a lot rare than hearing this song on 10 at 10 as we all know...)
 

[RGMike]

8/24/10-Tuesday!!  Back to the sounds of 1980!!

 1.  ZZ Top- Cheap Sunglasses
 2.  Eagles/JoeWalsh- All Night long
(Movie: Caddy Shack)
 3.  Kenny Loggins- I'm Alright
(Movie: Caddy Shack)
 4.  Utopia- Set Me Free
 5.  Pretenders- Kid
(Ad: "mean" Joe Green and the kid/Coke)
 6.  Kool & The Gang- Ladies' Night
 7.  Diesel- Sausalito Summer Night
 8.  Judas Priest- Living After Midnight
(News update: Pres elect Reagan/ Voyager One)
 9.  B-52's- Strobe Light (BOS!!)
10. Blotto- I Wanna Be A Lifeguard

[SFGuy]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!  WOS2 Diesel. Sheesh, AL!

Why is this in 1980? This song was released in 1981.

BOS4 Judas effin' PRIEST!  Dude, that guy in the leather codpiece is gay?? Gee, who'd'a guessed?

Rob Halford joked when he came out of the closet saying look what he was wearing. Of course, he's gay. I love how the vast majority of Priest fans just yawned when he came out. They didn't care.

[RGMike]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!  WOS2 Diesel. Sheesh, AL!

Why is this in 1980? This song was released in 1981.

BOS4 Judas effin' PRIEST!  Dude, that guy in the leather codpiece is gay?? Gee, who'd'a guessed?

Rob Halford joked when he came out of the closet saying look what he was wearing. Of course, he's gay. I love how the vast majority of Priest fans just yawned when he came out. They didn't care.

He also said that when he came out he thought he would be "the Madonna of Metal", but most disco-addled gay men had no idea who he or his band were. He was rather disappointed.

[Gazoo]

BOS2 Mean Joe & the Kid.  Awwwww...

A missed opportunity to pair this with Michael Henderson's "Wide Receiver," which name-checks this ad: "Thanks, Mean Joe!"

[Gazoo]

BOS for the B52's!  I don't know this song.  

They were great at the Mountain Winery with Blondie a few weeks ago, opening with "Wig"!

Back in the early '00s, when I was staying with a friend in what later became my first NYC apartment, I noticed on his bookshelf a promo copy of a children's illustrated book based on "Wig": it showed wildly adorned women and men dancing and having fun in accompaniment to the lyrics.  (Right down to the joke about Fred's hairpiece: "he didn't want to pay.")