The Drive, week of 3/26/12

[RGMike]

Mon 3/26/12: 1977

the usual usual, I'm guessing.

... and sure enuf we start with F.Mac and Kansas. LN and WOS, respectively.

The sky is burning. And so are my ears.

uber-LN: Queen. Sheesh.

BOSFRA Jackson Browne, "The Road".

BOS2 H&O and they rich bitch. 

Cheeze for breakfast: VHM Styx, sailing ay-way.

whenever I hear the long intro to "Jet Airliner", I think it's Billy Joel's "Miami 2017" which is very similar. And I get excited because I'd much rather hear the rarely-heard BJ track.

[RGMike]

Tue 3/27/12: 1981

Billy Squier - Lonely is the Night 
Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty - Stop Draggin' My Heart Around 
Peter Cetera - Livin' in the Limelight   
Genesis - Man on the Corner 
Point Blank - Nicole   
Pat Benatar - Promises in the Dark   
Greg Kihn - The Breakup Song (Don't Write 'Em) 
Rolling Stones - Waiting on a Friend   
Journey - Stone in Love 
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap 

eeek. I'm never sorry to miss an '80s set on The Drive. Don't think I know that Point Blank song -- "Nicole"?  Anybody? Beuller?  so that's an ATBB but I'm guessing it's some horrid midwestern AOR atrocity. (ETA: worse yet they're from Texas -- bad ZZTop-meets-.38 Special crapola)

[Big Fingers McGee]

Tue 3/27/12: 1981

Billy Squier - Lonely is the Night 
Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty - Stop Draggin' My Heart Around 
Peter Cetera - Livin' in the Limelight   
Genesis - Man on the Corner 
Point Blank - Nicole   
Pat Benatar - Promises in the Dark   
Greg Kihn - The Breakup Song (Don't Write 'Em) 
Rolling Stones - Waiting on a Friend   
Journey - Stone in Love 
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap 

eeek. I'm never sorry to miss an '80s set on The Drive. Don't think I know that Point Blank song -- "Nicole"?  Anybody? Beuller?  so that's an ATBB but I'm guessing it's some horrid midwestern AOR atrocity. (ETA: worse yet they're from Texas -- bad ZZTop-meets-.38 Special crapola)

The Cetera is NTM as well.

[RGMike]

Peter Cetera - Livin' in the Limelight   


The Cetera is NTM as well.

It's a Drive/Sound staple for some reason. Pretty bad, it was Cetera trying to rock before he went all wimpy, but sadly that's not a plus.

[RGMike]

Wed 3/28/12: 1967!

can't remember the last time I heard TWO Procol Harum songs in the same morning.  VHM "Whiter Shade".

Spencer Davis is a man, or so he says. I'll be the judge o' that, bub.

BOS Strawberry Alarm Clock; BOS2 Jimi; Jim Morrison is a 2-timer.

C-O-M... P-O-Z...


and speaking of sedatives: "Nights in White Satin"

LN: "Itchykoo Park". VHM the Monkees, despite my reservations about millionaire pop songwriters disparaging consumerism.

uber-LN2: "White Rabbit"

Procol Harum - A White Shade of Pale 
Spencer Davis Group - I'm A Man   
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints 
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced 
Doors - Love Me Two Times 
Aretha Franklin - Respect   
Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin 
Small Faces - Itchycoo Park   
Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday   
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit   

[RGMike]

Thur 3/29/12: 1979

instant BOS Neil, "Hey Hey My My". Johnny Rotten! Rotten Johnny!

the Floyd run like hell.

BOS2 Dave Edmunds covering Elvis C.

uber-LN: the Cars.

VHM VH.

could we have 'trinas for breakfast, mummy dear, mummy dear? And speaking of... the least-necessary 'trina of all: Nick Lowe.  Ditto "Roxanne"

good lord: pina coladas for breakfast.

Neil Young - Hey Hey My My (Into the Black) 
Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell   
Dave Edmunds - Girls Talk   
Cars - Let's Go   
Van Halen - Beautiful Girls   
Supertramp - Breakfast in America 
Nick Lowe - Cruel to be Kind 
Police - Roxanne   
Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Pina Colada Song) 
Bad Company - Rock n' Roll Fantasy

[RGMike]

Fri 3/30/12: The Doctor is IN!

Turn your head sideways and cough...

ooo -- the Drive have a new player!

"Good Lovin" -- nice start.  Ah, the "doctor" meme extends to artists too: Dr John's in the right place, then.

uber-BOS1 the Beatles, "Dr Robert", one of my fave rarities of theirs.

WOS UFO. Eeek.

BOS2 Steely Dan, "Doctor Wu"; Nilsson's doctor puts de lime in de coconut.

BOS3 a VH rarity "Somebody Get Me a Doctor".

DAY-um!  Macca's "Medicine Jar" gets a BOS4.  One of Bob's more enjoyable efforts in a while.  OTOH... coulda done without Dr Hook.

Most-obvious LN: "Doctor My Eyes"

Rascals - Good Lovin'   
Dr. John - Right Place, Wrong Time 
Beatles - Dr. Robert   
UFO - Doctor Doctor   
Steely Dan - Doctor Wu   
Harry Nilsson - Coconut   
Van Halen - Somebody Get Me a Doctor 
Paul McCartney & Wings - Medicine Jar 
Dr. Hook - The Cover of The Rolling Stone 
Jackson Browne - Doctor My Eyes