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26 Jan 2016: a "classic" from... 1979
« on: January 26, 2016, 09:23:03 AM »
well, this is a pretty nice surprise.

Several sets began with "One Step Beyond" so we'll see what song 2 is.
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Re: 26 Jan 2016: a "classic" from... 1979
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2016, 10:05:58 AM »

6/19/2012 - Tuesday! One Step Beyond in...1979!

 1. Madness - One Step Beyond
 2. The English Beat - Tears of a Clown
(News: Walter Cronkite reporting on the total eclipse of the sun)
 3. ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses
 4. Rod Stewart - Do You Think I'm Sexy?
(Steve Dahl - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy-disco parody)
 5. Frank Zappa - Dancin' Fool
(Video intro-Cheap Trick The Dream Police)
 6. Cheap Trick - The Dream Police
 7. ELO - Don't Bring Me Down
 8. Styx - Babe
 9. Patti Smith - Dancin' Barefoot
(News: Jello for Mayor of San Francisco-"There's always room for Jello")
10. Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles (B.O.S!)


a lot to like, despite Rod the Bod and ELO.
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Re: 26 Jan 2016: a "classic" from... 1979
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2016, 10:14:32 AM »
Sooooo, at 2 minutes to 10 my loaner laptop decided to download some windows updates and then restart, thus preventing me from hearing the first couple songs of the set. And, I also have a 10:30 meeting, which means I am likely to hear at most 4 or 5 songs out of this one.

C'est la vie.
Let's get right to it.

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Re: 26 Jan 2016: a "classic" from... 1979
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2016, 10:17:47 AM »
I like the "apartment / heart meant" rhyme. Maybe "like" is too strong a word. I'm amused by it.
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Re: 26 Jan 2016: a "classic" from... 1979
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2016, 10:24:05 AM »
BOS, "Dancin' Fool".

and any fool knows
a dog needs a home
a shelter
from pigs on the wing

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Re: 26 Jan 2016: a "classic" from... 1979
« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2016, 10:31:38 AM »
I'd like the ELO song better had they sung "One of these days I'm gonna kick your ass" --  "...you're gonna break your glass" doesn't even make sense.

Bathroom break: Styx.
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Re: 26 Jan 2016: a "classic" from... 1979
« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2016, 10:34:05 AM »
My kid brother Chris played this ELO record relentlessly, so it took me a couple decades to re-like it.

"Music is the Earth, People are the Flowers, and I am the Hose."

--Carlos Santana, 2010

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Re: 26 Jan 2016: a "classic" from... 1979
« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2016, 10:35:12 AM »
I went to 4 formal dances my senior year of high school ('79-'80), 3 at my school and one at the invitation of a girl from an all-girls school, and "Babe" was the final song at each of them.
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Re: 26 Jan 2016: a "classic" from... 1979
« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2016, 10:36:26 AM »
BOS Patti.
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Re: 26 Jan 2016: a "classic" from... 1979
« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2016, 10:37:55 AM »
I went to 4 formal dances my senior year of high school ('79-'80), 3 at my school and one at the invitation of a girl from an all-girls school, and "Babe" was the final song at each of them.

Did you see Colbert's tribute to Glenn Frey where he talked about "Desperado" being the first song he ever slow-danced to? You can find it on YouTube. Very sweet.
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Re: 26 Jan 2016: a "classic" from... 1979
« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2016, 10:39:53 AM »
BOS Patti.
I concur. The best Patti song.
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Re: 26 Jan 2016: a "classic" from... 1979
« Reply #11 on: January 26, 2016, 10:42:35 AM »
There's always room (heh) for a BOS2 from Jello and the DKs.
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