Thursday July 14 - Happy Bastille Day! and it's 1983

[urth]

Damn. Hoping Dave can work some nugget-producing magic on this one.

The Yes tune isn't boding well, although better than Owner of a Lonely Heart.

[ggould]

Damn. Hoping Dave can work some nugget-producing magic on this one.

The Yes tune isn't boding well, although better than Owner of a Lonely Heart.

[snore]It's prog rock![/snore]

[RGMike]

Yikes! MAW, "WCIBN".  I'll only run and hide, indeed.

[Gazoo]

Early BOS to Naked Eyes and "Promises Promises," proving that chicken-scratch guitar didn't altogether die with disco.

[RGMike]

ooo! BOS Naked Eyes' OTHER hit, just for being a non-Katrina.

[mshray]

this set is putting me to sleep, although I haven't heard "Promises Promises" in a while.

So to fan the flames a little, allow me to be snarky about something I just read on ESPN.com about the Tour De France:

But Armstrong said he felt he could rely on his remaining seven Discovery Channel teammates to help fill Beltran's place in the mountains that straddle France and Spain.

Either the writer & his editor have no idea what the word 'straddle' means, or else they are utterly ignorant of the geography of France, which would seem to be a modest requirement when covering the tour.

[RGMike]

this set is putting me to sleep, although I haven't heard "Promises Promises" in a while.

So to fan the flames a little, allow me to be snarky about something I just read on ESPN.com about the Tour De France:

But Armstrong said he felt he could rely on his remaining seven Discovery Channel teammates to help fill Beltran's place in the mountains that straddle France and Spain.

Either the writer & his editor have no idea what the word 'straddle' means, or else they are utterly ignorant of the geography of France, which would seem to be a modest requirement when covering the tour.

he was thinking about Lance straddling Sheryl Crow.

[Beej]

Great honk, but this set has been Dullsville. And I won't even go on about how I hate that Men At Work song. Peter Schilling's cool, though. That hekps. But, it's also "Major Katrina" if'n you follow.

[RGMike]

Great honk, but this set has been Dullsville. And I won't even go on about how I hate that Men At Work song. Peter Schilling's cool, though. That hekps. But, it's also "Major Katrina" if'n you follow.

it's Katrina Klobberin' time!

[ggould]

a breath of fresh air in a synth-addled set

[urth]

Great honk, but this set has been Dullsville. And I won't even go on about how I hate that Men At Work song. Peter Schilling's cool, though. That hekps. But, it's also "Major Katrina" if'n you follow.

Wit'cha, Beej--Major Tom has been about the only thing that's piqued my interest so far (OK, the Stevie Ray tune wasn't bad. But not notable either.)

[RGMike]

a breath of fresh air in a synth-addled set

Normally SRV borders on Guilty Displeasure for me -- I appreciate the craft but it doesn't, y'know, move me. But that sounded good this morning.

[Beej]

That's what this world needs, though- another song about the further adventures of Major Tom- last seen in Bowie's "Ashes to Ashes"....

[ggould]

a breath of fresh air in a synth-addled set

Normally SRV borders on Guilty Displeasure for me -- I appreciate the craft but it doesn't, y'know, move me. But that sounded good this morning.

I think it's a generic SRV song, but stands apart from all the other stuff tonally.

[urth]

Now THIS is more like it--my introduction to Simple Minds.

(True mondegreen confession: When this first came out, I thought Jim Kerr was singing about 4 guys named Eddie. "Eddie 1, Eddie 2, Eddie 3, Eddie 4." I figured it out eventually, but not until I'd embarrassed myself once or twice.)