The Drive , week of 11/15/10

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Mon 11/15/10: 1985

it's a lonely ol' Monday, JCM.

WOS Crapton, rever-man, rever-man, rever-man.

VHM Dream Academy, one of the default "look, we don't just play AOR warhorses here" tracks -- sadly, it's followed by Phil Collins. WOS2.

don't come around here, Tom Petty.

another VHM TFF; WOS3 The Firm "Satifaction Guaranteed" which I can guarantee you is unsatisfying.

John Cougar Mellencamp - Lonely Ol' Night 
Talking Heads - And She Was 
Eric Clapton - Forever Man 
Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town 
Phil Collins - Inside Out 
David Lee Roth - California Girls 
Inxs - What You Need 
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Don't Come Around here No More 
Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World 
Firm - Satisfaction Guaranteed 

Misssed DLR thanks to a cow-orker; that woulda been another VHM.

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Tue 11/16/10: 1968

Vanilla Fudge - You Keep Me Hanging On 
Doors - Hello I Love You 
Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine 
Beatles - Happiness is a Warm Gun 
Bob Seger - Ramblin' Gamblin' Man 
Rascals - People Got to Be Free 
Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash 
Janis Joplin - Piece of My Heart 
Sly & The Family Stone - Dance to the Music 
Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing 

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Wed 11/14/10: 1977

TOTHK Queen's "Fat Bottomed Girls" gets a BOS. Odd TANC: they played this Sat nite at the Sharks game (!) wait -- isn't this from '78??

BJ laughs with the sinners. Screw those Catholic girls!

Skynyrd smells that smell. "Ewww" indeed.

Todd Is Godd, and Lovve is the Annswwer. BOS2

VHM the Money Man channeling the DC5; ditto "One Love", tho' Marley's bizarre pronunciation of "beginning" had me wondering for years what a "Pekingese" had to do with it.

you a rich rich bitch, girl! BOS3 H&O.

aaack! WOS UFO, "Lights Out". Like Rush with a slightly-more-tolerable lead singer. But not tolerable enuf.

And my eyes have a mist from the smoke of a dist.

Queen - Fat Bottom Girls (oops, wrong year)
Billy Joel - Only The Good Die Young 
Lynyrd Skynyrd - That Smell 
Todd Rundgren - Love is the Answer 
Eddie Money - Baby Hold On 
Bob Marley - One Love 
Foreigner - Cold As Ice 
Hall & Oates - Rich Girl 
UFO - Lights Out 
Sanford/Townsend Band - Smoke From a Distant Fire 

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Thur 11/18/10: 1981

aaack! Styx to start -- "Best of Times" but WOS.

Hey, Aldo -- yer last name means "no go" in Spanish. WOS2 "Fantasy".

Wassamatta, Mick -- don't wanna be mah "Slave"?

BOS Ms Benatar's "Fire & Ice" -- best of an underwhelming lot so far.

VHM Police just for trying to rhyme "jail ya" and "failure".

aaaaack-infinity! WOS3 "Don't Stop Believin' ", goin' on&on&on&on.

Oh Bob, yer killin' me loudly today: WOS4 Rush

clearly I'm living a "Life Of Illusion", expecting anything other than AOR dreck in a Drive 1981 set.

BOS2 Beck & Crapton doing a live version of "'Cause We've Ended as Lovers" -- NTM; Secret Policeman's Ball, perhaps? (ETA: close... it's from the "other" Ball)

Styx - The Best of Times 
Aldo Nova - Fantasy 
Rolling Stones - Slave 
Pat Benatar - Fire and Ice 
J. Geils Band - Centerfold 
Police - Spirits in the Material World 
Journey - Don't Stop Believing 
Rush - Limelight 
Joe Walsh - A Life of Illusion 
Jeff Beck/Eric Clapton - Cause We Ended As Lovers 

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Fri 11/19/10: 1970

73 men sail up...

BOS "Hand Me Down World" and the fuzzy-wuzzy lovin' cup explosion. Or something.

OMFG! uber-BOS2 the Cat Man's lovely "Sad Lisa"

BOS3 Zep in the land of the ice'n'snow.

BOS4 and proxies of geoff & Rod, ABB "... Eliz Reed"

WOS JT, steamrollin' -- dude, you wouldn't recognize "burnin' funk" if it bit you in the ass.

Blues Image - Ride Captain Ride 
Van Morrison - Moondance 
Guess Who - Hand Me Down World 
Santana - Black Magic Woman 
Eric Burden - Spill the Wine 
Cat Stevens - Sad Lisa 
CCR - Run Through the Jungle 
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song 
Allman Brothers - In Memory of Elizabeth Reed 
James Taylor - Steamroller