15 Nov 2012: it's... 1984

[RGMike]

someone on FB says RR posted a clue that points to either '81 or '82 but I'm not seeing it on the KFOG page.

ETA: well, whoever it was they were wrong. It's '84.  BOS1 Brooooce, "Cover Me" -- written for Donna Summer, who turned it down.

[Big Fingers McGee]

Not a bad way to start - and would fit the profile of "hit at the time, not played so much anymore".

[RGMike]

Not a bad way to start - and would fit the profile of "hit at the time, not played so much anymore".

indeed -- as FP said on FB, "at least it's not "Dancing in the dark"

but uber-LN1: the Cars.

[RGMike]

VHM "Tenderness".

[radical347]

BOS1 Bruce.
BOS2 The Cars not sounding like The Cars, though "Heartbeat City" needs to appear in 10@10 & I know it's on DC's list...
LN1 General Public
BOS3 Echo/Bunnymen

[RGMike]

BOS2 Echo, "Killing Moon". Another song you won't hear anywhere else these days.

[RGMike]

BOS1 Bruce.
BOS2 The Cars not sounding like The Cars, though "Heartbeat City" needs to appear in 10@10 & I know it's on DC's list...
LN1 General Public
BOS3 Echo/Bunnymen

The Cars tune is WAAAAY more LN than "Tenderness"...

[RGMike]

VHM Pretenders, greatly improving a rather awful song.  Cute segue there (Bush/Ferraro --> "thin line Betw Love & hate"), assuming it was intentional.

[Davefish]

BOS for Chrissie singing about the Thin Line.

[urth]

someone on FB says RR posted a clue that points to either '81 or '82 but I'm not seeing it on the KFOG page.

ETA: well, whoever it was they were wrong. It's '84.  BOS1 Brooooce, "Cover Me" -- written for Donna Summer, who turned it down.

I think there was a hint on the KFOG FB page that we'd be going to the year that Apple produced its first personal computer, which would have been 81 or 80 (I think).  However, I'm guessing what the KFOG dipsh*ts intended is the year that Apple intro'd the Macintosh. Which was 84.

[radical347]

BOS1 Bruce.
BOS2 The Cars not sounding like The Cars, though "Heartbeat City" needs to appear in 10@10 & I know it's on DC's list...
LN1 General Public
BOS3 Echo/Bunnymen

The Cars tune is WAAAAY more LN than "Tenderness"...

Sledgehammer-wise, possibly, but Tenderness is one of the biggest AL 'trinas ever.  She played it 6x in two years (technically 5x + 1 repeat).

[urth]

VHM Pretenders, greatly improving a rather awful song.  Cute segue there (Bush/Ferraro --> "thin line Betw Love & hate"), assuming it was intentional.

Let's give them the benefit of the doubt here.

Proxy of Geoff for Thompson Twins, LN though it may be.

[RGMike]

someone on FB says RR posted a clue that points to either '81 or '82 but I'm not seeing it on the KFOG page.

ETA: well, whoever it was they were wrong. It's '84.  BOS1 Brooooce, "Cover Me" -- written for Donna Summer, who turned it down.

I think there was a hint on the KFOG FB page that we'd be going to the year that Apple produced its first personal computer, which would have been 81 or 80 (I think).  However, I'm guessing what the KFOG dipsh*ts intended is the year that Apple intro'd the Macintosh. Which was 84.

I think that clue was subsequently deleted -- unsurprisingly.

LN2: "Hold Me Now"

[Here'sToYa!]

Hold my [fill in the blank]

[RGMike]

LN3 "Blue Jean".

It seems that we're actually hearing songs in the year they peaked, chart-wise, lately.