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Main Discussion Area => Regional 10@10's across the time zones! => Topic started by: RGMike on January 16, 2007, 07:59:52 AM
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wait a minute, Stevie... bleat for us a while.
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"what would say? they'll be calling you Katrinical..."
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New to me: "Stay in Time" by a band called Off Broadway... a Midwestern hit, maybe?
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The Devil comes up to Chi-town! And praise jeezus, it's the "son-of-a-bitch" version!
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little-heard Styx: "Borrowed Time". Cheezy, yet impressive, Bob!
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all the debutantes in Houston, baby, couldn't hold a candle to you. proxy of gazoo: WOS Eagles.
And we close with the Cars. Well, 2 rarities and 8 fairly obvious choices today.
ETA: wow, I was the first one to vote today -- giving Neil's "My My Hey Hey" a perfect score.
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so much for Neil's early lead...
Fleetwood Mac Sara 8.6%
Supertramp The Logical Song 7.8%
Off Broadway Stay in Time 17.6%
Neil Young My My Hey Hey 7.4%
Pink Floyd Run Like Hell 9.0%
Charlie Daniels Band The Devil Went Down to Georgia 11.1%
Tom Petty & Heartbreakers Here Comes My Girl 5.7%
Styx Borrowed Time 21.3%
Eagles Long Run 4.5%
The Cars Dangerous Type 7.0%
Styx win easily.
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New to me: "Stay in Time" by a band called Off Broadway... a Midwestern hit, maybe?
You called this one pretty well. From AMG:
Off Broadway was a late-'70s power pop group from Chicago. That put them in a position roughly equivalent to that of Shaquille O'Neal's backup. In this case O'Neal was Cheap Trick and Off Broadway was doomed to obscurity. Much like Cheap Trick, Off Broadway played a quirky hopped-up blend of Beatlesque melodies and Move-like power. They didn't rock quite as hard and vocalist Cliff Johnson had nowhere near the style and range that Robin Zander did (then again, how many vocalists do?), but they wrote catchy songs and managed to sell around 200,000 copies of their 1979 debut album, On. Another album, Quick Turns, followed in 1980 and met with little acclaim or sales. Touring as an opening act for heavy metal bands did the group no favors as the audiences hated them and they became disillusioned with the music business. They soldiered on through the disappointment for a couple more years and then gave up in 1983. Perhaps inspired by the new wave of power pop-inspired bands that sounded very much like Off Broadway and the re-release of On in 1996, four members of the original band got together in the late '90s as Black on Blond and began playing clubs in the Chicago area. Due to audience requests, they began adding Off Broadway material to their set and soon decided to become Off Broadway again. In 1997, the band recorded and released their first record in 17 years, Fallin' In, and followed it with a live set in 1998, Live at Fitzgeralds. They may never have reached the big time but they are remembered quite fondly by power pop connoisseurs the world over.
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New to me: "Stay in Time" by a band called Off Broadway... a Midwestern hit, maybe?
You called this one pretty well.
Well, thanks, but anytime Bob plays something I've never heard of, I just assume it's got a Midwest/Chicago connection. The equivalent of Rob playing Garland Jeffreys.