The Drive, week of 6/13/11

[RGMike]

Mon 6/13/11: 1980

that's what I like about you, Bob: you start a 1980 set with the Romantics. And follow with Pretenders -- they got new skank. Or something.

BOS Broooce (get well, Clarence!) "Out in the Street", wo-oh-oh-oh-OH!

Jackson Browne recycles himself on the boulevard. BOS2 John's "Woman".

Here in my car, I feel like a Katrina.  WOS REO Snoozewagon, all coiled up and hissin'.

There must be some misunderstanding: Genesis actually sounds good after REO.

VHM AC/DC's "Shoot To Thrill" -- heavy-rockin' cheeze for breakfast!

Ah! Donnie!  VHM.

[RGMike]

Tue 6/14/11: 1974

Stones - Ain't Too Proud to Beg 
Grand Funk Railroad - Some Kind of Wonderful 
Hollies - The Air That I Breathe 
Dave Mason - All Along the Watchtower 
Elton John - Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me 
Bad Company - Can't Get Enough 
Eric Clapton - Let it Grow 
Bachman Turner Overdrive - Let it Ride 
Al Wilson - Show and Tell 
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama 

good gawd, do Larry or Bob EVER do a 1974 set that doesn't include "Sweet Home Ala-Bummer"??

[RGMike]

Wed 6/15/11: 1984

sheesh Bob in the '80s yet again. and no set tomo'w ("Album Sides Thursday") and Friday it's a Father's Day thing.

You might think you've heard "You Might Think" one too many times. And you'd be right.

Bob ALWAYS plays the live T-Heads LP in '84. Yawn.

BOS Spinal Tap clip -- I'd've preferred a song by Tap rather than the Scorpions rawkin' like a hurry-cayne.

Yeah, Corey Hart, you keep telling yourself you "almost" got the lead in Back to the Future   

BOS3 Broooce with the song Donna Summer turned down.

Early morning evening, April 4...

VHM Eurythmics. I'd like to, er, "dive into your ocean" nudgenudge winkwink.

VH can wait. BOS3 Dynasty -- oh, Alexis!

WOS Bryan Adams; WOS2 Foreigner. That was yesterday, indeed.

Cars - You Might Think 
Talking Heads - Life During Wartime 
Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane 
Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night 
Bruce Springsteen - Cover Me 
U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love) 
Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again 
Van Halen - I'll Wait 
Bryan Adams - Somebody 
Foreigner - That Was Yesterday 

[sundaygal]

Wed 6/15/11: 1984

You might think you've heard "You Might Think" one too many times. And you'd be right.

A case where the video was better than the song itself.  Call me cray cray!

BOS Bryan Adams.  You heard right.  (Spare the crater face jokes, plz.) 

[Tinka Cat]

Wed 6/15/11: 1984

You might think you've heard "You Might Think" one too many times. And you'd be right.

A case where the video was better than the song itself.  Call me cray cray!

and that video has super lo-fi graphics, too.  like community-access style.

[RGMike]

Wed 6/15/11: 1984

You might think you've heard "You Might Think" one too many times. And you'd be right.

A case where the video was better than the song itself.  Call me cray cray!

I've ALWAYS wanted to swat Ric Ocasek away like a fly...

[RGMike]

BOS Bryan Adams.  You heard right.  (Spare the crater face jokes, plz.) 

"I need some... Clearasil!"

[Tinka Cat]

Wed 6/15/11: 1984

You might think you've heard "You Might Think" one too many times. And you'd be right.

A case where the video was better than the song itself.  Call me cray cray!

I've ALWAYS wanted to swat Ric Ocasek away like a fly...

he's more praying mantis, IMO

[RGMike]

Thur 6/16/11: no set -- "Album Sides Thursday"

[RGMike]

Fri 6/17/11: all about Dad

Getting "Cat's in the Crade" outta the way early, at least.

Bwahahaha! "Come To Papa" ain't about fatherhood, Bob. But BOS1 Seger.

Happy (God)Father's day, JB. VHM "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag"

WOS Stones. Daddy, you a fool to release a ballad as a single when you're known as "the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world".

BOS2 and nicest surprise, F-Mac, "Sugar Daddy". Oh Ms Perfect!

least surprising: Tempts remembah the 3rd of Septembah. Dadgummit!

I'll be nice and not WOS Crapton's father's eyes.

BOS3 the Cat Man. Still lovely after 40 years.

another unexpected BOS(4): Broooce, "Walk Like a Man". Nice set-closer.

Harry Chapin - Cats in the Cradle 
Bob Seger - Come to Poppa 
James Brown - Papa's Got a Brand New Bag 
Rolling Stones - Fool to Cry 
Beach Boys - Fun Fun Fun 
Fleetwood Mac - Sugar Daddy 
Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone 
Eric Clapton - My Father's Eyes 
Cat Stevens - Father and Son 
Bruce Springsteen - Walk Like a Man

better than expected; I assume Larry on the Sound will be doing something similar.