The Drive, week of 2/7/11

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Mon 2/7/11: 1981

Bob starts with a qurky jerk. Named Ric Ocasek.  and from a jerk to a "Stroke" with Mr Squier.

AAACK: Santana's "Winning"; we're losing.

VHM Ms Benatar, who always seems to be the best thing in these Drive early-'80s sets.

VHM Seger, gettin' back to his roots with "Tryin' to Live My Life Without You"

BOS Jr Walker's sax on Foreigner's "Urgent".

Styx's "Snowblind" is a rarity and a bustout. But that doesn't make it good. WOS2. Rhyming "snowblind" with "so fine" is especially heinous. And from snowblind to Mr Daltrey drinking himself blind to the sound of old T-Rex. HM, you bet.

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Tue 9/8/11: 1971

Rod Stewart   Reason to Believe   6.2%
Pink Floyd   One of These Days   14.1%
Long John Baldry   Dont' Try and Lay No Boogie Woogie... 
Jethro Tull   Aqualung   12.1%
Jonathan Edwards   Shanty   3.9%
Badfinger   Day After Day   12.1%
Janis Joplin   Mercedes Benz   4.6%
Rolling Stones   Can't You Hear Me Knockin'   13.1%
Carly Simon   Anticipation   9.3%
Led Zeppelin   Black Dog

nice "lesser" hits from Janis and Mr Edwards.

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Wed 9/9/11: 1976

yay for a non-hit from Frampton. "Something's Happening" indeed.

AC/DC TNT gets a proxy-of-Gaz WOS. "Oy! Oy! Oy!"

I want to fly from this 'trina, to the sea.

WOS Macca -- "Silly Love Songs" seems more annoying than usual today.

BOS Heart's "Crazee on Yew" with full intro. If only someone could've saved them from Diane Warren-ville.

BOS2 the Bellamys. If only someone could've saved them from country ghetto-ville.

Yikes: live Skynyrd with a S-S-saturday nite s-s-special; WOS2 JT's unnecessary re-do of his own "Carolina In My Mind".

Peter Frampton - Baby (Something's Happening) 
Kansas - Carry on Wayward Son 
AC/DC - T.N.T. 
Steve Miller - Fly Like An Eagle 
Paul McCartney - Silly Love Songs 
Heart - Crazy on You 
Bellamy Brothers - Let Your Love Flow 
Lynyrd Skynyrd (live) - Saturday Night Special 
James Taylor - Carolina in my Mind 
Tom Petty/Heartbreakers - Breakdown 

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Thur 2/10/11: 1987

ugh.

OK, JCM's "Cherry Bomb" may be the closest we get to a BOS.

WOSes "Fly"ing Floyd and "Rocket"ing Leppard.

it's the end of the world as we know it, all right. Birthday party cheesecake jellybean boom.

I wouldn't let Steven Tyler anywhere NEAR "daddy's little cutie". What's that Chris Rock line about "every father's #1 job is keeping his daughter off the pole"?

Lou Gramm makes his 2nd appearance of the week -- "Midnight Blew", er, "Blue" is loved by some here, but not me.

Guess it ain't '87 without U2.

Duuuude! WOS3 Whitesnake. VHM F-Mac's "Little Lies".

John Cougar Mellencamp - Cherry Bomb 
Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly 
Inxs - New Sensation 
Def Leppard - Rocket 
R.E.M. - It's the End of the World 
Aerosmith - Rag Doll 
Lou Gramm - Midnight Blue 
U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name 
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again 
Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies 

Bob notes the similarity between the REM tune and the Monkees' "Auntie Griselda", tho' I think "Auntie" sounds more like the Stones' "19th Nervous Breakdown".

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Fri 2/11/11: 1972

had some streaming probs; joining in progress with "St Dominic's Preview"

VHM EJ, "Honky" tonkin'

Damn -- I missed Chi Coltrane and her huge, er, discovery.

BOS the Dan's "Dirty Work".  Wish I could find the Melissa Manchester cover of this.

BOS2 C/N, "Immigration Man".

Yikes -- twice in one week: uber-WOS Robert John, "The Lion Sucks Tonite", one of the worst, most unnecessary covers in the history of recorded music.

TANC: Yes show up, in a "Roundabout" way. Dude! it's a prog 'trina!  "Models come out of the sky and they stand there!" VHM