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Regional 10@10's across the time zones! / 1966 on 1/27/05

« on: January 27, 2005, 08:34:01 AM »

Mick didn't get an Oscar nom for "Old Habits Die Hard," his collaboration with Dave Stewart on the Alfie soundtrack.  A good song, to be sure.

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Regional 10@10's across the time zones! / 1966 on 1/27/05

« on: January 27, 2005, 08:21:18 AM »

black is black - woohoo! did nina simone write this?

Why yes.  And she was thrilled that it was made a hit by Mexicans who became German expats.

Meanwhile, BOS3 to the Four Tops, second time I've heard this today (first was on Micky Dolenz's oldies morning show).

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Regional 10@10's across the time zones! / 1966 on 1/27/05

« on: January 27, 2005, 08:19:48 AM »

BOS2: Los Bravos, "Black Is Black."  Always loved Mike Kennedy's wail.  Anyone else here ever hear his solo single "Louisiana"?  Stunning shoulda-been-a-hit.

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Regional 10@10's across the time zones! / 1966 on 1/27/05

« on: January 27, 2005, 08:13:27 AM »

BOS = Music Machine, "Talk Talk"

My social life's a dud / My name is really mud.

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Regional 10@10's across the time zones! / 1966 on 1/27/05

« on: January 27, 2005, 08:11:42 AM »

"I'm just mad about fourteen"


Donovan: the first size queen?

That's an even bigger stretch ...

You don't say.

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Regional 10@10's across the time zones! / 1966 on 1/27/05

« on: January 27, 2005, 08:06:15 AM »

"I'm just mad about fourteen"


Donovan: the first size queen?

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Stream of Consciousness / "Sentences I Can't Parse," for $200, Alex

« on: January 27, 2005, 08:00:32 AM »

This was a very interesting piece.  Was amused by this quote:

Those 1,400 or so people (of which I'm one) cast votes for our favorite albums and singles of the year, awarding points that are tabulated by some poor sap who must really want to get in good with the Voice music staff.

About 10 or so such saps, actually.

Amazed that MTV took interest in this article.  But it does nicely summarize the perceived drawbacks of the poll.  HOWEVER -- I can categorically state that Loretta Lynn did not win the Top Album nod.  I won't divulge the winners, but I will say that (a) the #1 album did not appear on my list at all (I only liked one of the four songs I heard on it); and (b) the top single came from my #1 album, but it wasn't the song I picked as my #1 single.

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Regional 10@10's across the time zones! / 1966 on 1/27/05

« on: January 27, 2005, 07:54:54 AM »

(P.S.  Internet connection is fixed.  For now, at least.  We'll see if I can stay tuned in for an hour without choking.)

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Regional 10@10's across the time zones! / 1966 on 1/27/05

« on: January 27, 2005, 07:54:15 AM »

I'm gonna predict the Monkees, "Last Train to Clarksville."

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Stream of Consciousness / Tasteless Tsunami "We Are The World" parody

« on: January 27, 2005, 07:33:51 AM »

I love how the station management is pretending it had NO IDEA that this was being broadcast and that they would NEVER CONDONE such behavior.  Naw, those people who put it on the website, those people who passed it along to message boards -- we had no idea MORNING DJs would ever stoop so low.

*sigh*

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Stream of Consciousness / "Sentences I Can't Parse," for $200, Alex

« on: January 27, 2005, 07:30:05 AM »

From a CNN article about Bush's Iraq press conference:

He said that if he had told the reporters in the room a few years before that the Iraqi people would be voting, "you would look at me like some of you still look at me, with a kind of blank expression."

*shakes head*

*reads Billboard instead*

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Stream of Consciousness / What's In a Name?

« on: January 26, 2005, 09:31:30 PM »

My dream band is called The Happy Coincidence.

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Stream of Consciousness / Tasteless Tsunami "We Are The World" parody

« on: January 26, 2005, 10:41:42 AM »

kim and someone else:
lend a helping hand

Very remarkably done!  The only correction is that it's Kim Carnes and Huey Lewis here singing "stand together as one."

At least they're not re-releasing "Voices That Care."  Although now that I think about it, it'd make a great Onion piece to claim that *every charity single ever recorded* will be re-released this weekend for the tsunami victims.

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Mondegreens, My 3 Songs, Other Trivia / MONDEGREENS

« on: January 26, 2005, 10:34:37 AM »

An old friend of mine used to sing that as, "You smell like my cat's butt / You smell like my cat's butt."  I don't think he actually thought that was the lyric, though.

"Sunday monkey no play piano song / play piano song,"
Gaz.

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Stream of Consciousness / No more listening here at work

« on: January 26, 2005, 08:13:26 AM »

The internet connectivity is too limited here at this building for me to listen to any streaming radio for the foreseeable future, I'm afraid.  I'm told a T1 line is being installed but not for a month.

*sigh*