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Title: The Peak, 1/5/07: 1986
Post by: RGMike on January 05, 2007, 07:13:10 AM

Sorry I missed a great TOTHC: Pet Shop Boys, "Opportunities".

Title: The Peak, 1/5/07: 1986
Post by: RGMike on January 05, 2007, 07:20:49 AM

You can call me Al... just don't ask me about global warming.

Title: The Peak, 1/5/07: 1986
Post by: RGMike on January 05, 2007, 07:25:37 AM

BOS Oingo Boingo, "Not My Slave".

Title: Re: The Peak, 1/5/07: 1986
Post by: Gazoo on January 05, 2007, 07:28:38 AM

Quote from: "RGMike"

Sorry I missed a great TOTHC: Pet Shop Boys, "Opportunities".

Woke up too late for it, but that's my BOS.  Although it has one grammatical error: "Ask yourself this question: Do you want to be rich?" should really be, "Do *I* want to be rich," no?

Title: The Peak, 1/5/07: 1986
Post by: RGMike on January 05, 2007, 07:29:41 AM

OMG, Ms Lauper shows her "True Colors" -- BOS2

Title: The Peak, 1/5/07: 1986
Post by: Gazoo on January 05, 2007, 07:29:42 AM

HM to Cyndi's "True Colors," still a pretty song even after its co-opting by Phil Collins and Kodak.  Would love to hear the forgotten No. 2 hot follow-up, "Change of Heart," someday in a 1987 set (I haven't heard the song since its chart run).

Title: The Peak, 1/5/07: 1986
Post by: Gazoo on January 05, 2007, 07:37:03 AM

Love that disembodied coke-synth opening to RP's "Didn't Mean to Turn You On."

Title: The Peak, 1/5/07: 1986
Post by: RGMike on January 05, 2007, 07:37:59 AM

BOS3 REM "Superman" -- I'd love to hear the original of this, by Clique, the late-'60s group that had a hit with Tommy James' "Sugar on Sunday".

and now BOS4: Robert Palmer showing impeccable taste in R&B covers, as always, with "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On".

Title: The Peak, 1/5/07: 1986
Post by: RGMike on January 05, 2007, 07:42:45 AM

and we close with T.Heads' little-heard "City of Dreams".  I winced when I first tuned in at 7:10 and heard the Smithereens -- I'd been hoping for an older set -- but this has been my-t-fine.

Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities
Steve Winwood - Higher Love
Smithereens - Behind The Wall Of Sleep
Ric Ocasek - Emotion In Motion
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
Oingo Boingo - Not My Slave
Cyndi Lauper - True Colors
REM - Superman
Robert Palmer - I Didn't Mean to Turn You On
Talking Heads - City Of Dreams