The Peak, 08/02/06: It's 1985

[mshray]

BOS #1 for "Driver 8"

...but it's still a ways away...

[mshray]

For a song that peaked at #71 on Billboard, "Ways To Be Wicked" sure is ubiquitous across the board in 10@10 sets from this year.  Still a great song, but I'm just sayin'.

[RGMike]

For a song that peaked at #71 on Billboard, "Ways To Be Wicked" sure is ubiquitous across the board in 10@10 sets from this year.  Still a great song, but I'm just sayin'.

indeed, it was a song that music geeks and radio people loved but that had trouble with that old "I'm not sure if it fits our format" thing.

Just looked at the Just Played so far, and this set is rather Moreyesque all around.

[mshray]

For a song that peaked at #71 on Billboard, "Ways To Be Wicked" sure is ubiquitous across the board in 10@10 sets from this year.  Still a great song, but I'm just sayin'.

indeed, it was a song that music geeks and radio people loved but that had trouble with that old "I'm not sure if it fits our format" thing.

Just looked at the Just Played so far, and this set is rather Moreyesque all around.

Except for the Cheap Trick!

[RGMike]

VHM David Pat Bowitheny

[RGMike]

Power Station - Some Like It Hot
Marshall Crenshaw - LIttle Wild One (No. 5)
Robert Plant - Little By Little
R. E. M. - Driver 8
Lone Justice - Ways To Be Wicked
Cheap Trick - Tonight It's You
Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
David Bowie/Pat Metheny -This is Not America
Talking Heads - And She Was
Bob Dylan - Seeing the Real You at Last

Damn! BOS the Dylan, which I've never heard. But otherwise, totally Moreyfied.

[mshray]

For a song that peaked at #71 on Billboard, "Ways To Be Wicked" sure is ubiquitous across the board in 10@10 sets from this year.  Still a great song, but I'm just sayin'.

indeed, it was a song that music geeks and radio people loved but that had trouble with that old "I'm not sure if it fits our format" thing.

Just looked at the Just Played so far, and this set is rather Moreyesque all around.

Except for the Cheap Trick!

Interesting anomaly - Dave has played "I Want You To Want Me" & "The Flame" a couple times each in the past 2+ years since my Db is contiuous, but in all the sets from before April '04, they are entirely missing.  That's either a very unlikely statistical coincidence, or else Dave genuinely has recently played them with greater frequency.

[urth]

For a song that peaked at #71 on Billboard, "Ways To Be Wicked" sure is ubiquitous across the board in 10@10 sets from this year.  Still a great song, but I'm just sayin'.

indeed, it was a song that music geeks and radio people loved but that had trouble with that old "I'm not sure if it fits our format" thing.

Just looked at the Just Played so far, and this set is rather Moreyesque all around.

Except for the Cheap Trick!

Interesting anomaly - Dave has played "I Want You To Want Me" & "The Flame" a couple times each in the past 2+ years since my Db is contiuous, but in all the sets from before April '04, they are entirely missing.  That's either a very unlikely statistical coincidence, or else Dave genuinely has recently played them with greater frequency.

I'm betting the latter. I can't honestly say I can remember him ever playing Surrender in a 78 set, and that song got a lot of airplay that summer, at least around here. Guess it's another one of the gaps in his preferences. Seems odd though--given his love of Beatle-inflected pop, I'd think he'd be all over them. (Maybe Robin Zander once snubbed him or something?)

[RGMike]

I can't honestly say I can remember him ever playing Surrender in a 78 set, and that song got a lot of airplay that summer, at least around here. Guess it's another one of the gaps in his preferences. Seems odd though--given his love of Beatle-inflected pop, I'd think he'd be all over them. (Maybe Robin Zander once snubbed him or something?)

LOL!  I think I made a similar comment recently about something else "Beatle-inflected" that he ignores but I can't remember what it was? Piper, perhaps? or Pezband?

He's also never played that Todd & Utopia Deface the Music Beatle-soundalike LP, which would seem to be ideal Morey fodder -- jeez, Todd imitating the Fab Four? Sounds like a Katrina-in-the-rough to me!