The Drive, week of 4/30/12

[RGMike]

Mon 4/30/12: 1985

T-Heads "And She Was" to start. Coulda been worse, certainly.

VHM for cheeze factor alone: "Man in Motion". Way to work the movie title into a lyric it has nothing to do with, Parr.

aaack! Bryan "Clearasil" Adams.

BOS "RnR Girls" just for not being "Centerfield"

LN: INXS. Not far behind: Dire Straits, doin' da walk.

WOS The Firm. Sorry Loverboy, I'm *not* "Lovin' Every Minute of It". WOS2.

BOS2 JCM; VHM ZZT, slippin' in they sleepin' bag.

Talking Heads - And She Was   
John Parr - St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion) 
Bryan Adams - Summer of '69 
John Fogerty - Rock & Roll Girls   
Inxs - What You Need   
Dire Straits - Walk of Life   
The Firm - Radioactive   
Loverboy - Loving Every Minute of It   
John Mellencamp - Lonely Ol' Night   
ZZ Top - Sleeping Bag   

[sundaygal]

Mon 4/30/12: 1985

Bryan Adams - Summer of '69 
 

Awww, yeeeeeeeah!   

[RGMike]

Tue 5/1/12: 1970

John Lennon - Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) 
James Taylor - Fire and Rain   
Mountain - Mississippi Queen   
Crabby Appleton - Go Back   
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Our House 
Guess Who - Hand Me Down World 
Beatles - Let It Be 
Edwin Starr - War   
B.J. Thomas - Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head 
Traffic - Glad   

Damn -- the rare 1970 Drive set I miss and Bob plays Crabby Appleton! Kudos on the BJ Thomas too. The rest... meh.

[RGMike]

Wed 5/2/12: 1979

it's a "Southbound Suarez" birthday soiree! BOS1

VHM VH, dancin' the nite away.

VHM JCM. He needs to get some without goin' cray-cray.

Live Cheap Trick, but at least it's not "IWYTWM".  Ms Benatar is the right kinda sinnah.

Birthday WOS: the Cars. Hey, it's all I can do.

Don't do me, TP. 

Mesdames et Monsieurs, le band de Tarney et Spencer avec "No Time Toulouse"

WOS2 Santana -- not all *I* ever wanted.

LedZep - Southbound Suarez 
Van Halen - Dance The Night Away 
John Mellencamp - I Need A Lover 
Cheap Trick - Ain't That A Shame 
Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker 
Cars - It's All I Can Do   
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Don't Do Me Like That 
Tarney- Spencer Band - No Time To Lose 
Santana - All I Ever Wanted 
Pink Floyd - Hey You 

[RGMike]

Thur 5/3/12: 1967!!

PP&M dig RnR, but don't exactly seem to know how to play it.

It's gettin' near dark, and Crapton seed's all dried up. No shit.

BOS1 the Buckinghams, "Don't You Care?". Well, *I* care.

VHM the Human Beinz. "Nobody But Me" is now flogging Little Caesar's pizza.

Come on down to my boat, Happy Jack.

uber-LN: "For What It's Worth".

BOS2 Jimi, the original gangsta. "ah gave her the gun! ah SHOT her!"

uber-BOS3 the Monkees' fab "She", one of my fave non-hits of theirs.

uber-LN2: "Somebody to Love"

damn, barely 30 mins -- this one needed to go to 11 in the worst way.

Peter, Paul & Mary - I Dig Rock & Roll Music   
Cream - Sunshine of Your Love 
Buckinghams - Don't You Care   
Human Beinz - Nobody But Me 
Who - Happy Jack   
Every Mother's Son - Come On Down to My Boat 
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth   
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe 
Monkees - She   
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love 

[RGMike]

Fri 5/4/12: 1981

eek, more playlisted '80s on a Friday.  Foreigner hit their marks in the formulaic "Juke Box Hero".

BOS H&O bringing some pop to the proceedings. They know yo' EVERY move, gurl!

LN1: Joe Walsh.

NOOOOOOOOOOO! Styx, with too much time on they hands. Is it any wonder they're WOS1?

WOS2: Triumph, "Magic Power".

Just like the white-winged goat dove sings a songs sounds like she's bleating.

uber-LN2:  Stray Cats.

NOOOOOOOOOOO!² Rush, in the WOS3 limelight.

WOS4 .38 Special. aaack.

Foreigner - Juke Box Hero 
Hall & Oates - Private Eyes   
Joe Walsh - A Life of Illusion   
Styx - Too Much Time On My Hands 
Triumph - Magic Power   
Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen   
Stray Cats - Rock This Town   
Rush - Limelight   
.38 Special - Fantasy Girl   
Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight