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Main Discussion Area => Regional 10@10's across the time zones! => Topic started by: RGMike on August 23, 2006, 07:55:12 AM
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Bob's been on a roll since last week -- hope an '80s set doesn't trip him up.
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Bob's been on a roll since last week -- hope an '80s set doesn't trip him up.
starting with Genesis -- not a good omen. Must be some misunderstanding, indeed!
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BOS vote give I to "Redemption Song", mon.
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proxy of Gazoo: Macca, "Coming Up (Live at Glasgow)".
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BOS3 Broooce, "Out in the Street" whoa-oh-oh-oh-OH!
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OMFG! Christopher Cross, ridin' like the wind.
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VHM Christopher Cross "Ride Like The Wind", just because it could have been "Sailing" from the way Bob was talking & it wasn't.
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BOS4 AC/DC, knockin' me out with those American thighs!
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OMGWTF! BOS5 Rod the Bod! "Passion", one of his many radio-friendly singles of that decade. Bob is kicking butt today, and that doesn't happen often with '80s sets.
Who's playing that piano, I wonder?
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Bob's playing a bunch of songs that take me back to dorm dances my freshman year of college, including this Rod Stewart.
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Too many cameras and not enough food. VHM "Driven to Tears."
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I can't say I am really enjoying the tunes in this set very much, but they sure as hell are taking me back.
"Turn Me Loose", indeed.
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I cna't say I am really enjoying the tunes in this set very much, but they sure as hell are taking me back.
Well, I'm sure not gonna BOS "Turn Me Loose" (I still can't tell the diff between Saga and Loverboy), but I am enjoying this set, it's not exactly the "usual suspects" mode Bob often goes into with the '80s.
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anothe BOS Bowie, Ashes to Ash and Funk to Funky.
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and a minor quibble: that Tonight Show clip mentioning Yahoo Serious couldn't possibly be from 1980, since Mr Serious' Young Einstein came out in '88.
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proxy of Gazoo: Macca, "Coming Up (Live at Glasgow)".
Have you ever seen the video for this? Paul dressed up as various pop/rock stars and archetypes, including 1974 "Beatle Paul" and a then-unknown-to-me Ron Mael of Sparks. Song's also Linda's best effort apart from "Silly Love Songs."
PS: 1980 strikes me more and more as a very strange year for music. It's like rock abruptly stopped, turned the car 90 degrees, and started driving again.
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proxy of Gazoo: Macca, "Coming Up (Live at Glasgow)".
Have you ever seen the video for this? Paul dressed up as various pop/rock stars and archetypes, including 1974 "Beatle Paul" and a then-unknown-to-me Ron Mael of Sparks. Song's also Linda's best effort apart from "Silly Love Songs."
PS: 1980 strikes me more and more as a very strange year for music. It's like rock abruptly stopped, turned the car 90 degrees, and started driving again.
1980 was indeed a weird year: Top 40 radio was in an identity crisis; the prevalence of disco (and of all-disco formatted stations, which were stealing a lot of the Top 40s' audience) led Top 40 to take a distinctly AC turn, hence Chris Cross, Air Supply, Kenny Rogers etc. It began a downward slide for the format, which didn't bounce back until '83, by which time MTV had become powerful enough to be an influence. The huge, unexpected success of Z-100 in NY that year was the rebirth of Top 40 (or CHR as it had now been rechristened).
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VHM Christopher Cross "Ride Like The Wind", just because it could have been "Sailing" from the way Bob was talking & it wasn't.
And I'm gonna BOS it without guilt. Even gonna shout out to Michael McDonald's contributions to the track. If memory serves, the metal band Saxon did a cover of this during the "Headbanger's Ball" heyday. (!)
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Genesis Misunderstanding 4.3%
Bob Marley Redemption Song 4.7%
Paul McCartney Coming Up 2.3%
Bruce Springsteen Out in the Street 5.1%
Christopher Cross Ride Like the Wind 5.9%
AC/DC You Shook Me All Night Long 9.4%
Rod Stewart Passion 3.9%
The Police Driven to Tears 6.2%
Loverboy Turn Me Loose 28.5%
David Bowie Ashes to Ashes 29.7%
yikes, nearly a dead heat between Bowie and Loverboy.