And apparently I have grossly underestimated Foghead love for the Eagles. Now that's what I call snooze rock (with a couple of exceptions).
it's not possible to underestimate Foghead love of ANYTHING. The comments on FB make my head explode on a daily basis. Particularly the "I haven't heard this in AGES!!" swoons over songs that 105.7/the Bone/K-Fox all play 27 times a week. I guess these people really listen to KFOG 24/7?
or maybe they don't have the same finely-tuned radio nerd sense that we have. Many folks don't give a care as much as we do about these kinds of things. They might like 10at10 b/c it is (or was?) awesome, but other than that they play their ipods or listen to KOIT at work, etc.
you're absolutely right, of course -- but that doesn't make me any less sad about the state of radio-and-music literacy. Folks like that are the majority and that's why DC can get away with dumbing things down because "most listeners won't even notice".
I completely agree with everything expressed above. But that said, I am heartened to see that the three songs that tied for BOS are the biggest rarities of the set and the ones that are most deserving, imo (JB, Johnny, and Blondie). So either there are a few more fogheads than we think who are of similar opinions to ours (or mine anyway), or AL is stuffing the ballot box.
Was very pleased to see Memory Motel make it into the set.
Black and Blue is probably the most maligned of the mid-70s Stones records, but I think it's got some really great material on it--particularly three of the songs that were mentioned earlier (Hand of Fate, Hot Stuff, and MM). Fool to Cry is OK, but it's almost a carbon copy of Memory Motel--the melodies and the production on both are really close imo. Cherry Oh Baby and Hey Negrita are pretty fine too--all in all, a pretty solid album. Full disclosure: I didn't come to this opinion until after it had been out for a number of years--in '76 I thought it was pretty lame, as did a lot of folks.
