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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2016 10:23:15 GMT -5
My introduction to Journey came via some syndicated radio hour circa 1978; the song that stuck with me was "Wheel in the Sky." I could tell they were, uh, someone I would not be looking into further.
Far more happily, the host also played a great song by a British band I'd barely ever heard of. It's the title track of what memory tells me turned out to be the first import LP I ever purchased, a few months later.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 16, 2016 10:23:27 GMT -5
Which raises the question: Which songs by the Grateful Dead and by Billy Joel do you like? I'm also unaccountably fond of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire," possibly because it's the only song I can think of that mentions Little Rock, Malcolm X & Ho Chi Minh*. And refreshing my memory via Google just now, I see Alabama's in there as well. If only he'd thrown in Sgt. Fury or Brother Power the Geek ... You're dead to me. Btw...good to see you back posting.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2016 10:25:04 GMT -5
And now I'm getting to practice what I preached, I guess. A week ago my driver-side window stopped working, so I removed the door panel (about an hour-long process, since the images allegedly illustrating the procedure in my Haynes manual bore no more resemblance to what I was actually dealing with than they did to the SHIELD helicarrier) to see if anything obvious was the matter. Are you sure? Definitely. I could have the door panels off that sucker inside 10 minutes.
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Post by The Captain on May 16, 2016 10:29:57 GMT -5
That's my father's feeling on "Stairway to Heaven". When he was reviewing popular music for the local paper, he went to schools to talk about journalism as a career, and at one school, one of the kids asked him if he liked that song. My father replied, "I liked it, the first million times I heard it." I'd say the same thing about pretty much the entire playlist of pretty much an "classic rock" radio station. It just stopped being interesting 25 years ago after the millionth playing. The problem is that my dad answered this question around 1980 or so. He didn't have the benefit of 36 more years of overplay. I like some "classic rock", primarily The Who as well as random songs here and there from other artists, but it's not something I can take a steady diet of.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 16, 2016 10:36:32 GMT -5
Cheers is a show I have not watched a lot of. Most of my Cheers knowledge was from watching Frasier. But I always liked George Wendt's character. And any chance to see Bebe Neuwirth was always a plus.
I didn't get into Led Zepplin until I was in my 20's in the late 90's and never cared for Stairway to Heaven, at least in comparison to much better songs of theirs. It's not bad, but it's just drab.
I didn't realize that way Billy Joel singing "We Didn't Start the Fire". Man that was so played back then. And around the time that I was first listening to the radio and trying to find my own music. And "Carribean Queen". But I still like it more so than most anything from that era.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2016 10:37:11 GMT -5
I'm also unaccountably fond of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire," possibly because it's the only song I can think of that mentions Little Rock, Malcolm X & Ho Chi Minh*. And refreshing my memory via Google just now, I see Alabama's in there as well. If only he'd thrown in Sgt. Fury or Brother Power the Geek ... You're dead to me.
Btw...good to see you back posting. Fingers crossed it lasts a bit. I think I'm depressurizing after not only the aforementioned weekend of car work but also work duties that saw me look through well over 20,000 photos last week, not counting having to look through all 2,910 pages of the 49 issues we've published so far of my employer's magazine.
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Post by Confessor on May 16, 2016 10:37:27 GMT -5
They have three songs I adore, three songs I loathe, and the rest is mild unpleasantness for me. Three? Good grief. I mean, I like one song by the Grateful Dead... Say what now?! Which one? Inquiring minds want to know. EDIT: I see you've already stated that it's "Touch of Grey". That'll teach me to read to the end of a thread before commenting. (I was slightly in shock though, in my defence).
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2016 10:38:04 GMT -5
Cheers is a show I have not watched a lot of. Most of my Cheers knowledge was from watching Frasier. But I always liked George Wendt's character. And any chance to see Bebe Neuwirth was always a plus. I didn't get into Led Zepplin until I was in my 20's in the late 90's and never cared for Stairway to Heaven, at least in comparison to much better songs of theirs. It's not bad, but it's just drab. I didn't realize that way Billy Joel singing "We Didn't Start the Fire". Man that was so played back then. And around the time that I was first listening to the radio and trying to find my own music. And "Carribean Queen". But I still like it more so than most anything from that era. Billy Ocean, not Billy Joel.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 16, 2016 10:56:04 GMT -5
Cheers is a show I have not watched a lot of. Most of my Cheers knowledge was from watching Frasier. But I always liked George Wendt's character. And any chance to see Bebe Neuwirth was always a plus. I didn't get into Led Zepplin until I was in my 20's in the late 90's and never cared for Stairway to Heaven, at least in comparison to much better songs of theirs. It's not bad, but it's just drab. I didn't realize that way Billy Joel singing "We Didn't Start the Fire". Man that was so played back then. And around the time that I was first listening to the radio and trying to find my own music. And "Carribean Queen". But I still like it more so than most anything from that era. Billy Ocean, not Billy Joel. I didn't clarify I was just saying that "Caribbean Queen" was another song from that era I still like not associating it with Billy Joel.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2016 11:01:24 GMT -5
I figured that might be the case, but one never knows ...
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 16, 2016 11:07:01 GMT -5
I figured that might be the case, but one never knows ... Not that I knew that then. Most music I relied on the radio for knowing who sang what. That is till I bought my first album; The Fine Young Cannibals.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2016 11:14:38 GMT -5
Yeah -- virtually all of my listening was courtesy of radio till I was maybe 16 & joined the Columbia House record club. My introductory-offer choices (either 7 records or 10; can't remember at this late date) included Sparks' Indiscreet & the Wailers' Burnin', but I'm not sure what else. Quite possibly the ubiquitous Frampton Comes Alive.
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Post by The Captain on May 16, 2016 11:22:43 GMT -5
Yeah -- virtually all of my listening was courtesy of radio till I was maybe 16 & joined the Columbia House record club. My introductory-offer choices (either 7 records or 10; can't remember at this late date) included Sparks' Indiscreet & the Wailers' Burnin', but I'm not sure what else. Quite possibly the ubiquitous Frampton Comes Alive. I'm amazed. You're only the second person I have ever known who is aware that Sparks even exist (the other's my dad, but because of his profession, that wasn't surprising to me at all).
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2016 11:29:15 GMT -5
I first encountered them on American Bandstand around ... '72? ... syncing to "Talent is an Asset," I'm pretty sure. They might've done "This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us" (same album & a hit in the UK) as well. Edit: Aaaaaand I erred. Apparently it was "Wonder Girl" (tenuous comics relevance!) & "(No More) Mr. Nice Guys" i nstead. I definitely remembered the latter, but thought I had to be confusing it with Alice Cooper's similarly titled hit. (I'd still bet money that I heard "Talent is an Asset" on TV. Must've been one of the late-night weekend shows, like In Concert or Don Kirsher's or Midnight Special.)
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2016 11:42:10 GMT -5
Come to think of it, quite a few '80s fans here, like young adam, might recall them for "Cool Places" with Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go's back in '83 ...
... or maybe not. Wikipedia surprised me just now by showing that it made only No. 49 in the Top 100. I'd have guessed Top 20, easily.
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