27 Feb 2014: it's... 1969

[RGMike]

and we close with "Oh darling", a Beatle song i'm not terribly fond of. Charles Brown shoulda sued.

Seriously underwhelmed today.

[yessongs]

and we close with "Oh darling", a Beatle song i'm not terribly fond of. Charles Brown shoulda sued.

Seriously underwhelmed today.

Totally agree.

It's really hard for me to think of any Beatles songs that I never really liked, but this is one of them...

[RGMike]

and we close with "Oh darling", a Beatle song i'm not terribly fond of. Charles Brown shoulda sued.

Seriously underwhelmed today.

Totally agree.

It's really hard for me to think of any Beatles songs that I never really liked, but this is one of them...

"I want You (She's So Heavy)" is perhaps my least-fave -- I find it turgid and endless -- but when i figured out years later how much "Darling" sounds like "Please Come Home for Xmas" I was floored.

[urth]

and we close with "Oh darling", a Beatle song i'm not terribly fond of. Charles Brown shoulda sued.

Seriously underwhelmed today.

Totally agree.

It's really hard for me to think of any Beatles songs that I never really liked, but this is one of them...

I don't dislike it, but I'm not an avid fan either. I could hear Wings doing this. Possibly one of the things that drove a wedge between John and Paul (besides Yoko)?

[Big Fingers McGee]

This set reminds me in some ways of RR's first effort.... BTW, I do like "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"

[Tinka Cat]

and we close with "Oh darling", a Beatle song i'm not terribly fond of. Charles Brown shoulda sued.

Seriously underwhelmed today.

Totally agree.

It's really hard for me to think of any Beatles songs that I never really liked, but this is one of them...

"I want You (She's So Heavy)" is perhaps my least-fave -- I find it turgid and endless -- but when i figured out years later how much "Darling" sounds like "Please Come Home for Xmas" I was floored.

never took to I Want You or Oh, Darlin. They must've been smoking some ponderous weed back then.

[CapnJack]

Seriously underwhelmed today.

I'll have to post my '69 set later this evening...

[dischead]

1969!  Kinks, "Victoria" to start.  "Anna-lisa, is my queen"

I suppose I shouldn't look askance at any 1960s set, but having this today means it may be a few weeks before we get to have an Annalisa-created 60s set in which to revel.

I see no reason to think that, particularly since it seems that there has been some loosening of
what is acceptable w.r.t. repeating decades.  But it brings up yet another sign that the selections
aren't truely random -- if they were, the gaps between successive visits to the same year would
show more variation.  In any event, I think that we'll get a pre-1972 set within the first couple
of weeks.

[CapnJack]

BTW, what got BOS today?

[dischead]

Welcome to DeKamp!  I'd call "We're Not Gonna Take It" pretty LN too.  This set could use a nice obscurity about now.

Agreed about the obscurity, but I have a feeling "2525" may have been it.

That and this clip from Midnight Cowboy.

Btw, I am with Geoff on the Tommy cut. Always necessary.

The Midnight Cowboy clip is something of a frequent flyer, especially during the DM era.

Lots of room to go deeper for a great Tommy cut.  The Acid Queen would be a bust-out,
as would Sally Simpson.  Underture has only appeared once.

[dischead]

and we close with "Oh darling", a Beatle song i'm not terribly fond of. Charles Brown shoulda sued.

Seriously underwhelmed today.

It was a somewhat pleasant set, but in total was not even the sum of its parts.  A bit of a
disappointment considering that 1969 is one of the strongest years.

[dischead]

BTW, what got BOS today?

Oh crap.  I heard it but it didn't stick.  It was either The Beatles and/or The 5th Dimension,
or Zager & Evans.

[CapnJack]

[CapnJack]

2014-02-27 - Thursday! It's 1969 today on 10@10, Blast off!
 1. The Kinks - Victoria
(TV: Martin & Rowan's Laugh-In)
 2. Frank Zappa - Peaches En Regalia
 3. Chicago - Beginnings
 4. Sly & The Family Stone - Hot Fun In The Summertime
 5. Shocking Blue - Venus
 6. Zager & Evans - In The Year 2525
 7. The Who - We're Not Gonna Take It
(Movie: Midnight Cowboy)
 8. Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin'
(News: Moon launch)
 9. The 5th Dimension - Aquarius / Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)
10. The Beatles - Oh! Darling

[Lightnin' Rod]

and we close with "Oh darling", a Beatle song i'm not terribly fond of. Charles Brown shoulda sued.

Seriously underwhelmed today.

Totally agree.

It's really hard for me to think of any Beatles songs that I never really liked, but this is one of them...

"I want You (She's So Heavy)" is perhaps my least-fave -- I find it turgid and endless -- but when i figured out years later how much "Darling" sounds like "Please Come Home for Xmas" I was floored.

never took to I Want You or Oh, Darlin. They must've been smoking some ponderous weed back then.

I'll be the voice of dissent here -- I quite like both of them.  "Oh, Darlin" was my drunken campfire song when I was younger (I'm sure if you were a neighbor camper, you probably didn't care for it either).  And I like the heaviness repetition at the end of "I Want You (She's So Heavy)".  It's as close to headbanging rock as the Beatles ever got.