The Drive week of 12/10/12

[RGMike]

missed Monday.

Tue 12/11/12: 1968

a Beggar's Banquet indeed. "Jumpin' Jack Flash" -- shit's a gas!

Sly's gonna add some bottoms!

yes, both of the above are LNs. and now uber-uber-LN3, "White Room". I'm pretty damn tired, starlings.

LN too but always a BOS for "Elinore', my pride and joy et cet'ra

Bob: "Canned Heat releases Living the Blues, a double LP..." And the only fucking song we ever hear is "Going Up the Country". uber-LN4 and WOS/proxy of Gaz.

uber-uber LN5: Steppenwolf. This set is making Renee look like AL.

"Hazy Shade of" BOS2 S&G

Somebody get me a cheezeburger! And a non-'trina.

BOS3 Kenny Rogers & Co gettin' all psychedelic on yo' ass.

BOS4 Beatles, "Birthday"

Rolling Stones - Jumpin' Jack Flash 
Sly & the Family Stone - Dance to the Music 
Cream - White Room 
Turtles - Elenore 
Canned Heat - Going Up The Country   
Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride 
Simon & Garfunkel - A Hazy Shade of Winter 
Steve Miller Band - Living in the U.S.A.   
First Edition - Just Dropped In (To See What Condition...) 
Beatles - Birthday   

[RGMike]

Wed 12/12/12: it's Magic!

Hoping for Queen's "A Kind of Magic". Predicting: Heart, ELO, Pilot, Santana, Police, Cars, America.

Ding! Ding! Ding! ELO appears.

How could I forget the 'oo?

DingDingDing2: Pilot.

DDD3: Heart. Bob's nothing if not predictable.

Ha!  Nice surprise: "Hocus Pocus". Focus, people!

DDD4: Cars. Summer Summer Summer in December.

oy: "Abracadabra"

VHM: Beatles.

DDD5: America

Didn't see that coming: "Grand Illusion". Cheeze for breakfast!

Electric Light Orchestra - Strange Magic 
Who - Magic Bus 
Pilot - Magic 
Heart - Magic Man 
Focus - Hocus Pocus 
Cars - Magic 
Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra 
Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour 
America - You Can Do Magic   
Styx - The Grand Illusion   

[RGMike]

Thur 12/13/12: 1977

running on empty indeed.

F-Mac jerk the "Chain"

BOS Mr Loaf, "You Took the Election Right Out of My Mouth"

no, Foreigner -- it feels like the GAZILLIONTH time.

just a song by CSN.  Just an unnecessary remake by Santana.

NOOOOOOOOO!! Geddy gets clooooser to the heaaaaaaaart. Dogs heads explode.

uber-BOS2 BJ's fabulous "The Stranger"

at what point did "Black Betty" become one of the most-overplayed OHWs of all time?

BOS3 "S&D&R&R"

Jackson Browne - Running on Empty   
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain 
Meat Loaf - You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Hot Summ 
Foreigner - Feels Like The First Time 
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Just A Song Before I Go   
Santana - She's Not There 
Rush - Closer To The Heart   
Billy Joel - The Stranger   
Ram Jam - Black Betty   
Ian Dury - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll 

[RGMike]

Fri 12/14/12: 1972

Moodies, "IJASIARnRB" "so many people, really diseased" is still a fave mondegreen of mine.

LN1: Lou Reed; LN2 EJ.

BOS1 the Dan,"Dirty Work", another late-Dec release that wouldn't really register until the following year.

America, on the first part of their journey.  Yes suggests thay take the roundabout.

BOS2: Macca gets Hi Hi Hi with his fokkin' little mama.

BOS3 Carly doing her apricot yacht gavotte.

VHM Poseidon trailer. I'd give anything to hear "The Morning After" right now. But alas we get LN3, "Witchy Woman."

LN4: poor stupid deluded Brandy, believing everything that lyin' sack-o'-shit sailor tells her. Yo, baby, I got some "ragin' glory" for ya, right here.

Moody Blues - I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock & Roll Band) 
Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side 
Elton John - Honky Cat 
Steely Dan - Dirty Work   
America - A Horse With No Name 
Yes - Roundabout 
Paul McCartney & Wings - Hi Hi Hi   
Carly Simon - You're So Vain   
Eagles - Witchy Woman 
Looking Glass - Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)