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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 28 March 2016: it's... 1993

« on: March 28, 2016, 10:13:22 AM »

more Larry Sanders

The clips were really sped up. Both Hank "Hey Now" and Larry had voices pitched up at least a half-step.

Loved that show.

PS: The lead-in song, Stereo MCs Connected, was released in 1993 in the US --  consider it a warm-up act...?  jeebus

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 24 March 2016: it's... 1977

« on: March 24, 2016, 01:00:51 PM »

3/24/16 - Thursday!  It's 1977

No. 9 appears to be a bust-out.

I'm thinking No. 1 is too -- don't think we've ever gotten the orig studio version of "IWYTWM", tho' we've heard the live version in a bunch of 1979 sets.

Wow, not even during the Morey era?  Coulda sworn we've heard Marquee Moon before.   (I know we've heard Venus di Milo.)

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 22 March 2016: it's... 1969

« on: March 22, 2016, 11:20:16 AM »

And we go from jazzy brass rock to pop brass rock - Chicago's Questions 67 and 68.

(Not that Chicago wasn't capable of being jazzy when they wanted to be, but not on this tune.)

Some of these early Chicago recordings are so muddy-sounding.  (Make Me Smile is one example.  Sometimes it downright makes me cringe.)

... but what a fab-yoo-luss set!  BOS Joni.  Not a huge reggae fan, but who can deny 1969-era Jimmy Cliff?

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 16 March 2016: it's... 1979

« on: March 16, 2016, 10:48:16 AM »

commercials (Paul Masson, Hamburger Helper)--> JB "Fo' Goodness Sakes (Lookit Those Cakes)" BOS8.

The set ends with my BOS pick. Listening to this it's easy to hear where Byrne & Eno got the blueprint for Remain in Light.

nice observation. Have you seen this video of the THeads in concert in 1980?  Top of their game. Adrian Belew, Bernie Worrell round out the band here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-_PC6TlIhs

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 16 March 2016: it's... 1979

« on: March 16, 2016, 10:44:53 AM »

Mork talking doll --> "Lost in the Supermarket". VHM -- in a lesser set this would be a BOS contender but this has been quite fab today.

oh, but FAB song.  Benjamin Orr with the sweet vox, Eliott Easton with the usual blistering solo. Great song -- and I adored the first two Cars albums back then (still do).  I get that they're in heavy rotay (as the insiders say), but what they hey, it speaks, nay YELLS, 1979 to me, so Imma diggit lots.
 
Very good set overall.  I would've preferred Clampdown over Lost in the Supermarket, though. 

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Regional 10@10's across the time zones! / Re: The Peak, week of 3/7/16

« on: March 07, 2016, 07:38:02 PM »

Mon 3/7/16: March 1972

I decided to listen:

1 Water Song - Hot Tuna
2 Doctor My Eyes - Jackson Browne
3 Pink Moon - Nick Drake
4 Baby Blue - Badfinger
5 Heart Of The Sunrise - Yes
6 Old Man - Neil Young
7 Sandman - America
8 First Time Ever I Saw - Roberta Flack
9 Run Run Run - Jo Jo Gunne
10 Melissa - Allman Brothers Band

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Regional 10@10's across the time zones! / Re: The Peak, week of 3/7/16

« on: March 07, 2016, 01:05:14 PM »

Mon 3/7/16:
ETA2: this note on their FB page: "Sad day here. Rob's position was eliminated in budget cuts that affected the entire company. Nobody's choice here. The rest of us have to absorb his duties and Jimmy Fink will be the new host of the 10@10."  Man, corporate radio sucks. Here's hoping the show itself doesn't change too much. Jimmy Fink is roughly the same age as Rob (and myself) and also grew up in the NYC area so he had the same musical signposts.  Urth, like me, will remember him from early-'70s WPLJ.

aw, too bad.  I haven't listened to the Peak's 10 at 10 in a long while, but I liked Rob. Here's hoping the station keeps the same spirit alive in the show. I appreciate when they play regional hits --  Local Radio Rules! 

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 29 Feb 2016: it's... a post-Oscars "Movie Monday"

« on: February 29, 2016, 10:32:17 AM »

Almost Famous --> yup, "Tiny Dancer".

yeah, spice it up with some Wagner!  (Apocalypse Now!)

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 25 Feb 2016: it's... 1999

« on: February 25, 2016, 10:20:18 AM »

Despite Wilco showing up, I'm gone.

ciao!

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 25 Feb 2016: it's... 1999

« on: February 25, 2016, 10:17:45 AM »

Sounds like Chrissie Hynde. Reminiscent of "The Night In My Veins," but with much less sex.  I liked the early 80s Pretenders a lot.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 25 Feb 2016: it's... 1998 (?)

« on: February 25, 2016, 10:06:48 AM »

1999

is this a remix of the Old 97s song?

ETA: it was a live version of "Murder (Or A Heart Attack)"

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 18 Feb 2016: it's... 2001

« on: February 18, 2016, 01:43:02 PM »

Zoolander (enough already!)

At least the Zoolander clips were mostly of Owen Wilson. My laughter muscles have never ... been stiller ... than when Ben Stiller is on the screen.   

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Regional 10@10's across the time zones! / Re: The Peak, week of 1/25/16

« on: January 28, 2016, 10:31:19 PM »

and JJ's missing from KPOO...

Missing? Like on vacation? I haven't listened in a while.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 22 Jan 2016: it's... 1985

« on: January 22, 2016, 10:50:22 AM »

"After Hours" was one weird flick.

True. That's what the main character was thinking the whole time, too -- "This is weird."

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 22 Jan 2016: it's... 1985

« on: January 22, 2016, 10:34:19 AM »

I'm still not tired of Kate Bush and "Running Up that Hill".

Me, either, but she missed a great rhyming opportunity in this verse:

You don't want to hurt me,
But see how deep the bullet lies.
Unaware I'm tearing you asunder.
Ooh, there is thunder in our hearts.*

* should probably be "thighs"