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Title: The Sound (LA), 3/24/09: 1989
Post by: Tinka Cat on March 24, 2009, 10:05:21 AM
Tom Petty sez "My sister got lucky married a yuppie, took him for all he was worth."

oh 1989, Yer So Bad!


Title: Re: The Sound (LA), 3/24/09: 1989
Post by: RGMike on March 24, 2009, 10:10:22 AM
Tom Petty sez "My sister got lucky married a yuppie, took him for all he was worth."

oh 1989, Yer So Bad!




yeesh, Larry falls victim to the '89 FYC curse.
Title: Re: The Sound (LA), 3/24/09: 1989
Post by: Gazoo on March 24, 2009, 10:11:36 AM
Seriously: What did people like about "Sha Drahv Ma Crhzah"?  The lyric is minimal and insipid, the chorus even more so, the beat rudimentary and undanceable.  What made it a fricking #1?
Title: Re: The Sound (LA), 3/24/09: 1989
Post by: RGMike on March 24, 2009, 10:15:18 AM
Seriously: What did people like about "Sha Drahv Ma Crhzah"?  The lyric is minimal and insipid, the chorus even more so, the beat rudimentary and undanceable.  What made it a fricking #1?

Seriously? its an incredibly catchy earworm, and there was much goodwill from the previous LP which sould've hit big but didn't. When did "minimal and insipid" lyrics ever stop a record from going to the top?  I loved it at the time; now it's just played-out but I'd never call it awful.
Title: Re: The Sound (LA), 3/24/09: 1989
Post by: Tinka Cat on March 24, 2009, 10:21:57 AM
Seriously: What did people like about "Sha Drahv Ma Crhzah"?  The lyric is minimal and insipid, the chorus even more so, the beat rudimentary and undanceable.  What made it a fricking #1?

Seriously? its an incredibly catchy earworm, and there was much goodwill from the previous LP which sould've hit big but didn't. When did "minimal and insipid" lyrics ever stop a record from going to the top?  I loved it at the time; now it's just played-out but I'd never call it awful.

and Roland Gift was a hottie. Rent Sammie and Rosie Get Laid.
Title: Re: The Sound (LA), 3/24/09: 1989
Post by: RGMike on March 24, 2009, 10:22:23 AM
OMFG -- Camper van Beethoven's cover of "Pictures of Matchstickmen" would get a BOS-of-the-Week if I were actually able to listen.
Title: Re: The Sound (LA), 3/24/09: 1989
Post by: Gazoo on March 24, 2009, 10:22:43 AM
Set's redeemed a bit by Camper Van Beethoven's cover of "Pictures of Matchstick Men."
Title: Re: The Sound (LA), 3/24/09: 1989
Post by: RGMike on March 24, 2009, 10:23:39 AM
Seriously: What did people like about "Sha Drahv Ma Crhzah"?  The lyric is minimal and insipid, the chorus even more so, the beat rudimentary and undanceable.  What made it a fricking #1?

Seriously? its an incredibly catchy earworm, and there was much goodwill from the previous LP which sould've hit big but didn't. When did "minimal and insipid" lyrics ever stop a record from going to the top?  I loved it at the time; now it's just played-out but I'd never call it awful.

and Roland Gift was a hottie. Rent Sammie and Rosie Get Laid.

hear hear. Great flick (but getting Gaz to rent a movie he's never seen is like asking AIG to give back bonuses).
Title: Re: The Sound (LA), 3/24/09: 1989
Post by: Gazoo on March 24, 2009, 10:23:56 AM
"Wicked Game" is 20 years old?  My heart hurts.
Title: Re: The Sound (LA), 3/24/09: 1989
Post by: Tinka Cat on March 24, 2009, 10:24:47 AM
BOS to Chris Isaak! 
Title: Re: The Sound (LA), 3/24/09: 1989
Post by: RGMike on March 24, 2009, 10:25:20 AM
"Wicked Game" is 20 years old?  My heart hurts.

indeed, it was released in '89 but didn't hit until a year or 2 later, iirc.
Title: Re: The Sound (LA), 3/24/09: 1989
Post by: Tinka Cat on March 24, 2009, 10:29:44 AM
WOS to Aerosmith. 

<snore>
Title: Re: The Sound (LA), 3/24/09: 1989
Post by: Gazoo on March 24, 2009, 10:43:09 AM
HM to "Let Love Rule."  And while Aerosmith did a lot of tedious and interchangeable mid-tempo singles between '88 and '98, I kinda like "What It Takes."
Title: Re: The Sound (LA), 3/24/09: 1989
Post by: Tinka Cat on March 24, 2009, 10:46:16 AM
HM to "Let Love Rule."  And while Aerosmith did a lot of tedious and interchangeable mid-tempo singles between '88 and '98, I kinda like "What It Takes."

hmm, maybe I shoulda listened for more than 30 seconds then...  I'll check it out and try to keep my mind open.
Title: Re: The Sound (LA), 3/24/09: 1989
Post by: Tinka Cat on March 24, 2009, 11:03:18 AM
BOS to Replacements' I'll Be You


Title: Re: The Sound (LA), 3/24/09: 1989
Post by: Tinka Cat on March 24, 2009, 11:07:46 AM
a good set, methinks, maybe except for Love N Rockets' I'm Katrina Alive

on the orig go around, I missed A Girl Like You, the power chord nugget from Smithereens, who otherwise don't register much w me. 
Title: Re: The Sound (LA), 3/24/09: 1989
Post by: RGMike on March 24, 2009, 01:53:34 PM
Yer So Bad - Tom Petty
A Girl Like You - Smithereens
She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
Crossfire - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Pictures of Machstick Men - Camper Van Beethoven
Wicked Game - Chris Isaak
What it Takes - Aerosmith
So Alive - Love and Rockets
Let Love Rule - Lenny Kravitz
I'll Be You - The Replacements
Title: Re: The Sound (LA), 3/24/09: 1989
Post by: urth on March 24, 2009, 02:50:40 PM
Yer So Bad - Tom Petty
A Girl Like You - Smithereens
She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
Crossfire - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Pictures of Machstick Men - Camper Van Beethoven
Wicked Game - Chris Isaak
What it Takes - Aerosmith
So Alive - Love and Rockets
Let Love Rule - Lenny Kravitz
I'll Be You - The Replacements

Yep, the 'Mats and the CVB are the two standouts in that set. And it looks like Haley has indeed hired Dave's old intern to type the setlists--"machstick"?!?
Title: Re: The Sound (LA), 3/24/09: 1989
Post by: mshray on March 24, 2009, 06:01:53 PM
"Wicked Game" is 20 years old?  My heart hurts.

indeed, it was released in '89 but didn't hit until a year or 2 later, iirc.

It was a big enough hit that my then girlfriend gave me the disc for my birthday in March 1990.
Title: Re: The Sound (LA), 3/24/09: 1989
Post by: RGMike on March 24, 2009, 09:01:52 PM
"Wicked Game" is 20 years old?  My heart hurts.

indeed, it was released in '89 but didn't hit until a year or 2 later, iirc.

It was a big enough hit the my then girlfriend gave me the disc for my birthday in March 1990.

I remember driving around with a cassette a friend had made for me of the LP in Sept of '89. The "Wicked" single however, didn't chart until Dec of '90; the song had been used in David Lynch's Wild at Heart.
Title: Re: The Sound (LA), 3/24/09: 1989
Post by: mshray on March 24, 2009, 09:51:06 PM
"Wicked Game" is 20 years old?  My heart hurts.

indeed, it was released in '89 but didn't hit until a year or 2 later, iirc.

It was a big enough hit the my then girlfriend gave me the disc for my birthday in March 1990.

I remember driving around with a cassette a friend had made for me of the LP in Sept of '89. The "Wicked" single however, didn't chart until Dec of '90; the song had been used in David Lynch's Wild at Heart.

Actually I didn't have a girlfriend in spring of '90 (or for that matter the entire 89-90 academic year, my first at UCSB), that memory was from '91.  The girlfriend in question was from Berkeley, and her best friend was Chaka Khan's god-daughter.  She had pix of them together.