The Drive, week of 6/18/12

[RGMike]

Mon 6/18/12: 1969!

woo hoo!

VHM CCR.

"I'm your penis, I'm your fire, at your desire" -- most logical mondegreen ever.

LN: "Up on Cripple Creek"

VHM Chicago, "67 & 68" in '69.

BOS1 Stones, "Monkey Man". Ah could use a lemon-squeezah!

always a BOS2 for TJW, "PSA" -- wretched, spiteful, and one of my fave 45s of all time. Chomp! Chomp chomp!

BOS3 Zep --yo' tahm is gonna cum!

VHM Janis, "Try"; BOS4 IABD, "White Bird".

BOS5 Stevie -- "ma Cherie",  a date-specific flashback that takes me instantly to a hot Saturday in June 1969.

CCR - Green River   
Shocking Blue - Venus 
The Band - Up on Cripple Creek   
Chicago - Question 67 & 68 
Rolling Stones - Monkey Man   
Tony Joe White - Polk Salad Annie   
Led Zeppelin - Your Time Is Gonna Come 
Janis Joplin - Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) 
It's a Beautiful Day - White Bird 
Stevie Wonder - My Cherie Amour

[RGMike]

Tue 6/19/12: 1981

Another craptastic '80s set I'm glad I missed...

Who - Another Tricky Day   
.38 Special - Hold On Loosely   
Ozzy Osbourne - Flying High Again   
Steve Winwood - While You See a Chance 
Styx - Rockin' The Paradise 
Police - Spirits In The Material World 
Quarterflash - Hard-on in My Heart   
Billy Squier - In The Dark   
George Harrison - All Those Years Ago   
Journey - Don't Stop Believin'

but I heard 2 of these songs in Rock of Ages yesterday (Quarterflash and Journey).

[RGMike]

Wed 6/20/12: 1973!

always a treat.  Mr Allman rides at midnight.

BOS1 Macca's still-delightful "Helen Wheels"

VHM EJ & Norma Jean.

LN: Doobies, "LTR" which we'll hear again this weekend from Casey.

If Dylan's a-knockin', the song ain't very rockin'.

uber-BOS2 Queen's fantabulous "Keep Yourself Alive"

BOS3 the Dan, goin' back to school.

BOS4 MTB, cantcha see?

super-duper-BOS5 C&C "Basketball Jones"! ah got more moves than Ex-Lax !

Mick has his heart broken by a chick with 44s!

Gregg Allman - Midnight Rider   
Paul McCartney & Wings - Helen Wheels   
Elton John - Candle in the Wind 
Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin' 
Bob Dylan - Knockin' on Heaven's Door 
Queen - Keep Yourself Alive 
Steely Dan - My Old School   
Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See   
Cheech & Chong - Basketball Jones 
Rolling Stones - Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) 

[RGMike]

Thur 6/21/12: 1978

Time for REO-when-they-were-good to fly. BOS1.

LN1: Toto.

LN2: Boston. Wicked bad.

LN3: Old Time Rock'n'Seger.

jeezus effing christ: uber-LN4: ELO "Mr Blue Sky", one of the most overexposed songs ever.  I mean, for a single that peaked at #35...

"Sultans of Swing"... "Love is Like Oxygen"... this is one of Bob's least-inspired '78 sets evah.  All that's missing is either "Thunder Island" or "Dreadlock Holiday".

VHM VH.

When the Petty track is one of the less-exposed songs in a '78 set... BOS2 "I Need to Know".

Keep it to yerself, BJ -- it's YOUR life. VHM.

REO - Time For Me To Fly   
Toto - Hold The Line 
Boston - Don't Look Back   
Bob Seger - Old Time Rock & Roll   
Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky   
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing   
Sweet - Love is Like Oxygen   
Van Halen - Eruption/You Really Got me 
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - I Need To Know 
Billy Joel - My Life

[RGMike]

Fri 6/22/12: 1985 redux

JCM R.O.C.K.s; so does SRV.

eeek: Huey with one of the Katrinas of all time. uber-LN.

LN2: Everybody wants to rule the 'Trinas.

LN3: old Fogerty down the road.

T.Heads: little pee-pee and little toes.

NOOOOOOOOO!! Rush. "Big Money". Bigger WOS.

AAAAAAAAAACK!! WOS2 Heart, "Alone" "What About Love" (sorry, all their crappy power-ballads are the same song to me).

uber-LN4: don't you forget about Simple Minds.

Mellencamp - R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. 
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Look at Little Sister 
Huey Lewis & the News - The Power of Love 
Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World 
John Fogerty - The Old Man Down the Road 
Talking Heads - Stay Up Late 
Rush - The Big Money   
Heart - What About Love? 
Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me) 
Phil Collins - We Said Hello, Goodbye (Don't Look Back) 

Wow, that Phil Collins song may suck but I think it's an ATBB.