The Drive, week of 4/18/11

[RGMike]

Mon 4/18/11: 1981

insert Crapton "I Can't Stand It" joke here. WOS1. Meanwhile Sting has a big enuf... umbrella.

AAAACK! "Sausalito SummerNight" -- in Chicago?  Wait -- is there an extra verse here? I don't recall that "root beer/to boot, dear" rhyme. WOS2 in any case.

And now a song written by Wynonna Judd's high-school boyfriend:  "tempted by the fruit of your mother"

BOS ZZT, making their 2nd 1981 appearance in a week, this time with "Pearl Necklace".

And speaking of 2-timers: WOS3-in-perpetutity Loverboy.

AAAACK!² WOS4 Triumph's truly dreadful "Magic Power"

Seafood Mama Quarterflash have a hard-on in their heart. Or something.

AAAACK!³ WOS5 Styx with too much bad songwriting on their hands.

Damn, this was painful...

Clapton - I Can't Stand It 
Police - Every Little Thing She Does is Magic 
Diesel - Sausalito Summernight 
Squeeze - Tempted 
ZZ Top - Pearl Necklace 
Loverboy - Working For the Weekend 
Triumph - Magic Power 
Quarterflash - Harden My Heart 
Styx - Too Much Time On My Hands 
J. Geils Band - Freeze Frame

[Gazoo]

I'm listening for the first time in eons.  T-t-tickticktick

[RGMike]

Tue 4/19/11: 1969

Cream   Crossroads   11.6%
The Zombies   Time Of The Season   15.4%
The Rolling Stones   Monkey Man    7.4%
Jr. Walker & All-Stars   What Does It Take   8.3%
Led Zeppelin   Communication Breakdown   16.3%
The Guess Who   Undun   8.0%
Santana   Evil Ways   2.4%
Creedence Clearwater Revival    Fortunate Son   8.6%
It's a Beautiful Day   White Bird   15.7%
The Who   I'm Free   6.2%

[RGMike]

Wed 4/20/11: 1980

NOOOOOOO!  I'm going to use my "Free Will" and bail on another Bob-in-the-'80s set that starts with Rush. Jeezus fucking Christ on a stick.

and this has made me do the unthinkable -- listen to KFOG in the 8:00 hour (luckily, Tim Goodman's on today talking up the 2nd season of Treme).

[Tinka Cat]

Wed 4/20/11: 1980
NOOOOOOO!  I'm going to use my "Free Will" and bail on another Bob-in-the-'80s set that starts with Rush. Jeezus fucking Christ on a stick.

Neal Peart would be proud. 

[RGMike]

Wed 4/20/11: 1980
NOOOOOOO!  I'm going to use my "Free Will" and bail on another Bob-in-the-'80s set that starts with Rush. Jeezus fucking Christ on a stick.

Neal Peart would be proud. 

Rush - Free Will
Pete Townshend - Let My Love Open the Door 
Blues Brothers - Sweet Home Chicago 
Van Halen - Everybody Wants Some 
Billy Joel - Don't Ask Me Why 
Kool & The Gang - Celebration 
Queen - Another One Bites the Dust 
AC/DC - Back in Black 
Steely Dan - Hey 19 
Christopher Cross - Ride Like the Wind

as hideous an '80s collection as Bob has assembled.

[urth]

Wed 4/20/11: 1980
NOOOOOOO!  I'm going to use my "Free Will" and bail on another Bob-in-the-'80s set that starts with Rush. Jeezus fucking Christ on a stick.

Neal Peart would be proud. 

Rush - Free Will
Pete Townshend - Let My Love Open the Door 
Blues Brothers - Sweet Home Chicago 
Van Halen - Everybody Wants Some 
Billy Joel - Don't Ask Me Why 
Kool & The Gang - Celebration 
Queen - Another One Bites the Dust 
AC/DC - Back in Black 
Steely Dan - Hey 19 
Christopher Cross - Ride Like the Wind

as hideous an '80s collection as Bob has assembled.

Do you think Bob creates monstrosities of his own "Free Will" or is he hamstrung by is PD? Or maybe just the MOR preference of his audience?  Seems to me he used to do better sets--like, 5 years ago.

[RGMike]

Do you think Bob creates monstrosities of his own "Free Will" or is he hamstrung by is PD? Or maybe just the MOR preference of his audience?  Seems to me he used to do better sets--like, 5 years ago.

Bob has a database of songs (that he and whoever was PD 10 years ago created) that he is required to pick from and has to get permission to play anything off-base.  (I remember he did a '66 set the day after Skyy Saxxon died but couldn't add The Seeds at the last minute because the PD was out-of-town!) When he started doing the show it was all '60s & '70s years and he had a decent amount of pop & soul mixed in, including "oh wow" stuff like Cher and Starland Vocal Band. He's even played the Carpenters one or twice. But when they started adding '80s years to the mix, it seems like the consultants took over.

And yeah, The Sound, also owned by Bonneville, appears to use the same database of songs for their 10@10s.

[RGMike]

Thur 4/21/11: 1970

Bob begins with the anti-TOTHK: "Bridge Over Troubled Water".  Artie G was never lovlier. BOS1.

And Chicago was never Katrinier.

Rap-a-rap-a-rap, they'll call me Donnie Iris in 10 years.

WOS my least-fave Tempts trend-jumper. I still say that they wouldn't've recognized psychedelia in 1970 if it bit them on the ass.

No question: BOS2 and proxy of shray, Moodies, "Question".

"War" is good for... a VHM.

CSNY arrive with a fave mondegreen of mine: "I dreamed I saw the barbers riding shotgun in the sky" -- yeah, I know it's "bombers" but my 15-year-old mind figured barbers were riding shotgun because they hated long-haired hippies.

BOS3 EJ, taking it to the pilot. To resurrect an old Johnny Carson line "he's had his hand in more pilots than a Air Force proctologist".

BOS4 little Sir John.


Coulda done w/out Norman Katrinabaum. But what I wouldn't give to hear "Canned Ham".

Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water 
Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4 
Jaggerz - The Rapper 
Temptations - Psychedelic Shack 
Moody Blues - Question 
Edwin Starr - War 
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Woodstock 
Elton John - Take Me to the Pilot 
Traffic - John Barleycorn (Must Die) 
Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky

[RGMike]

Fri 4/22/11: 1988

Yeesh & Sheesh: I'll be damned if I'm gonna subject myself to Bob's THIRD '80s set of the week, and on a Friday no less. Ugh.

and just in time for my vacation next week: they're doing "The Drive A-to-Z" starting Wed.

U2 - Angel of Harlem 
Cheap Trick - The Flame 
Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine 
Steve Winwood - Roll With It 
Van Halen - When It's Love 
Traveling Wilburys - End of the Line 
R.E.M. - Stand 
Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn 
Moody Blues - I Know You're Out There Somewhere 
Eric Clapton - After Midnight '88

Y&S indeed. Glad I stayed away.