10at10 Club
Main Discussion Area => Regional 10@10's across the time zones! => Topic started by: RGMike on January 23, 2007, 07:52:17 AM
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no expectations.
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no expectations.
and indeed, we start with .38 Special "Caught Up in Cliches" and weak Who, "Athena". A bomb, indeed.
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the AOR schlockfest continues with APP, "Eye in the Sky"
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the AOR schlockfest continues with APP, "Eye in the Sky"
Ditto "Abracadabra".
but -- finally -- something BOS-worthy, even if it's somewhat overplayed: JJ, "Steppin' Out".
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yikes, Asia, "Only WOS Will Tell".
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BOS2 Mr Gabriel, shocking his monkey.
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And we close with the inevitable Men At Work, "Down Under'. "where this set blows and we shudder."
One of Bob's weaker '80s efforts.
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the AOR schlockfest continues with APP, "Eye in the Sky"
Ditto "Abracadabra".
but -- finally -- something BOS-worthy, even if it's somewhat overplayed: JJ, "Steppin' Out".
Would have loved "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" in its entirety; that, "Steppin' Out," and "Abracadabra" (with touches of Police and Men at Work) are, as best I recall, what my fall '82 sounded like.
And I'm suddenly reminded how remiss I was to leave Joe Jackson altogether out of my paper two years ago on straight artists addressing gay themes in song. After hearing "Real Men," I falsely assumed that JJ was gay and that "you can dress in pink and blue just like a child" was an especially clever way of hedging his bets for Top 40 consumption.
Whatever. "Steppin' Out" is still an impossibly gorgeous song. "We are young, but getting old before our time / We'll leave the TV and the Radio behind . . ."
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Whatever. "Steppin' Out" is still an impossibly gorgeous song. "We are young, but getting old before our time / We'll leave the TV and the Radio behind . . ."
Indeed. He's rather fallen out of the favor of the musical cognoscenti, but I still think he has it in him to be every bit the equal of his contemporary, Mr. MacManus-Costello.
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"Steppin' Out" is still an impossibly gorgeous song. "We are young, but getting old before our time / We'll leave the TV and the Radio behind . . ."
and fittingly, it wins the vote:
38 Special Caught Up in You 2.9%
The Who Athena 2.3%
CSN Southern Cross 16.6%
Alan Parsons Project Sirius/Eye in the Sky 6.6%
The Clash Should I Stay or Should I Go 11.8%
Steve Miller Band Abracadabra 8.2%
Joe Jackson Stepping Out 19.5%
Asia Only Time Will Tell 3.6%
Peter Gabriel Shock the Monkey 15.4%
Men at Work Down Under 13.2