17 August 2011: It's 1987!

[RGMike]

Webster gets to make TOTHK requests? WTF?

[ggould]

sorry: WOS the Dead.

damn! I missed it!

[ggould]

I've always liked "Throwing Stones" especially if it gets played other than on Earth Day.  When I was in grad school at UCSB I had a really cool t-shirt that had the line from this song: "And the kids they dance and shake their bones" with Calvin & Hobbes dancing.

Grateful Dead/Calvin and Hobbes shirts are the best!

[ggould]

sorry: WOS the Dead.

I like "Throwing Stones". This was a time in my life when I saw the Dead many times at Frost Amphitheater at Stanford. Good times. Though I do think it's a terrible guitar solo.

The Dead at Frost; that was special.

[sundaygal]

Webster gets to make TOTHK requests? WTF?

...and he chose that? 

BOS Sinead.  Helluva song.

[Davefish]

sorry: WOS the Dead.

I like "Throwing Stones". This was a time in my life when I saw the Dead many times at Frost Amphitheater at Stanford. Good times. Though I do think it's a terrible guitar solo.

The Dead at Frost; that was special.

Yes indeed. Beautiful.

[RGMike]

Webster gets to make TOTHK requests? WTF?

...and he chose that? 

indeed, odd. He was, like, 26 in '87, it's not like he was some high school headbanger then.  Of course, I was 32 and I'm def requesting "Talk Dirty To Me" next time.

8/17/11-Wednesday! Pouring On The Hits of...1987

 1.  Def Leppard- Pour Some Sugar On Me
(Movie: Good Morning, Vietnam)
 2.  Squeeze- Hourglass
(News: Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker)
  3.  George Michael- Faith
  4.  10,000 Maniacs- Hey Jack Kerouac
  5.  The Replacements- Alex Chilton
(Movie: Moonstruck)
  6.  ABC- When Smokey Sings
  7.  The Cure- Just Like Heaven
(News Brief-Dow over 2100 for 1st time)
  8.  Warren Zevon- Sentimental Hygiene (B.O.S!)
  9.  Grateful Dead- Throwing Stones
(News: Wall Street/Movie: Wall Street)
10.  Sinead O'Connor- Mandinka

I'm impressed that Zevon won BOS, tho'.

[RGMike]

I'll take Classic Moreytrinas for $500, AL: "Hourglass".

Squeeze:  I ask you, is this any worse than 86-87 era Genesis?

I was a HUGE fan but Dave put me off this one for life -- he played it sixteen times, per the shraytabase.

Amusing (as always): the difference in perceptions of the set. Just as I (about midway thru) posted on FB that we were covering familiar 10@10 territory, someone else posted "great to be hearing all these unfamiliar tunes today!" and a 3rd person said they hadn't heard "Alex Chilton" by the Replacements since '87!  I realize we're uniquely geeky here, but it's like some of these people only listen to 10@10 once a month or something.

[sundaygal]

I'll take Classic Moreytrinas for $500, AL: "Hourglass".

Squeeze:  I ask you, is this any worse than 86-87 era Genesis?

I was a HUGE fan but Dave put me off this one for life -- he played it sixteen times, per the shraytabase.

Amusing (as always): the difference in perceptions of the set. Just as I (about midway thru) posted on FB that we were covering familiar 10@10 territory, someone else posted "great to be hearing all these unfamiliar tunes today!" and a 3rd person said they hadn't heard "Alex Chilton" by the Replacements since '87!  I realize we're uniquely geeky here, but it's like some of these people only listen to 10@10 once a month or something.

You mean the same people who post on FB everyday?   

[radical347]

I'll take Classic Moreytrinas for $500, AL: "Hourglass".

Squeeze:  I ask you, is this any worse than 86-87 era Genesis?

I was a HUGE fan but Dave put me off this one for life -- he played it sixteen times, per the shraytabase.

Amusing (as always): the difference in perceptions of the set. Just as I (about midway thru) posted on FB that we were covering familiar 10@10 territory, someone else posted "great to be hearing all these unfamiliar tunes today!" and a 3rd person said they hadn't heard "Alex Chilton" by the Replacements since '87!  I realize we're uniquely geeky here, but it's like some of these people only listen to 10@10 once a month or something.

I think it's because even though Dave played them a lot, we haven't heard most of these too much during the AL era.  Also, at least today didn't sound KFOG sample-hour-ish.

[Tinka Cat]

I'll take Classic Moreytrinas for $500, AL: "Hourglass".

Squeeze:  I ask you, is this any worse than 86-87 era Genesis?

I was a HUGE fan but Dave put me off this one for life -- he played it sixteen times, per the shraytabase.

yes, I can see that. 

(also, to clarify, my orig post should have read something more along the lines of "This is just as bad as 86-87 era Genesis, isn't it?" -- I actually prefer Genesis to the Squeeze usually, even the late era stuff.  I'm not a fan of Tilbrook's voice.)

[Big Fingers McGee]

'trinas by the millions etc.

My biggest complaint with DC isn't that he's playing more new music that I don't necessarily care for.  Rather, it's that anything from the past now has to be a "golden" oldie.  No deeper tracks from the past allowed. 

That's my read of the switch... I think the general move to more recent music was inevitable, but it shouldn't come at the cost of the lesser-known earlier tunes. I'm not ready for yet another Gold 150 ("Only music you are familiar with - do not think, stay between the lines") format.

[RGMike]

'trinas by the millions etc.

My biggest complaint with DC isn't that he's playing more new music that I don't necessarily care for.  Rather, it's that anything from the past now has to be a "golden" oldie.  No deeper tracks from the past allowed. 

That's my read of the switch... I think the general move to more recent music was inevitable, but it shouldn't come at the cost of the lesser-known earlier tunes. I'm not ready for yet another Gold 150 ("Only music you are familiar with - do not think, stay between the lines") format.

Agreed, tho' even before the switcheroo, they were playing the same "old" songs repeatedly. They've basically just swapped out "Rocket Man" and "Sweet Home Alabummer" for "Wild Wild Life" and "Closing Time". Again I recommend that Eastern L.I. station, WEHM, which manages to play quite a lot of interesting older stuff (Randy Newman's version of "Mama Told Me..." and the like) in the midst of Coldplay and Foster The People.