The Peak, week of 6/16/14

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Mon 6/16/14: June 1972

LNs: "Take it Easy", "Starman", "Hold Your Head Up". uber-uber-LN "Rocket man"

BOSes: Dead, "Playing in the Band"; John "New York City"; Poco "Good Feelin to Know"; Young/Nash, "War Song"; Stones "Shine a Light"

VHMs: trailer for Shaft's Big Score; Alice "School's Out"

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Tue 6/17/14: June 1994

preview of AL's Pride set: Blur, "Boys & Girls" BOS.

LNs: JCM "Wild Night", STP "Vasoline", Seal "Prayer/Dying" Counting Crows "Round Here", Offspring "Come Out & Play".

VHM Keb'Mo' "Dirty Lo Dow & Bad"

Me: Pink Floyd "Take it back"; ToadTWS "Fall Down"

WOS Aerosmith "Crazy"

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Wed 6/18/14: June 1983

LNs: "Burning Down the House", "Stand back", "Buffalo Soldier", "Radio Free Europe", "Every Breath You Take." uber-LN-infinity "Come Dancing"

VHMs: Crock o'Siegals "Wishing"; Aztec Camera "Oblivious"

BOS Marshall Crenshaw "Whenever You're on My Mind" -- far from a rarity but sounding like the best of an overly-familiar lot today.

rarity of the day: Rickie Lee Jones covers "Under the Boardwalk". VHM.

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Thur 6/19/14: June 1969

LNs: "Suite: JBE", "Israelites", "Get Together"

BOSes: "White Bird", "A Salty Dog", Moodies' "Lovely to See You"; "Ballad of J&Y" Christ, you know it ain't easy to do a bad '69 set. uber-uber-BOS Dylan "I Threw it All Away".

VHMs "Beginnings" (I really never tire of early Chicago); the 'oo "I'm Free";

OMGWTFLOL: the trailer for The Chairman, in which Gregory Peck had a bomb planted in his skull so he can blow up Mao Tse-Tung (!). Now that's a movie that never shows up on cable.

ETA: listening again on the replay. Rob did a "seamen" joke about "Salty Dog" in his backannounce this morning. Heh.

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Fri 6/20/14: June 1984

LNs: Brooooce, "Born in the USA"; Scandal, "ah ayum da wah-wee-uh"; Cars, "Drive"; Huey, "Heart of RnR"; Elvis "Only Flame in Town", Corey Hart "Sunglasses at Night"

always a BOS sweet Lou, "Ah loves you Suzanne"

VHMs: Pope of Greenwich Village trailer; ZZT "Legs", sounding surprisingly good today; Fixx, "Deeper & Deeper"

uber-BOSFRA, Little Steven/Disciples, "Los Desaparacitos"