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Hooks and Harmony — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:39:20 -0000

I used to think it was "empress"...

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Beau — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:00:20 -0000

This is a quality top 10. "Dirty Laundry" suffers from being in the hand of the same crew of LA session vets who made so many Zevon songs plod along, but speaking as a journalist, I think it's a well-aimed zinger at my profession. (I always tell myself it's about those TV people, not us noble newspaper folk.)

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mojo — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:00:58 -0000

Iconic is Toni Basil's LSD trip in the New Orleans cemetery with Fonda & Hopper in Easy Rider! Without Toni Basil to blaze a trail for choreographer-singers, Paula Abdul would be serving up Vegiburgers somewhere along the PAcific Coast Highway.

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Reg — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:42:02 -0000

Fags? Really?

Great post otherwise.

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Elaine — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:18:27 -0000

I'm going to have to search down this instrumental version of Sexual Healing. For me, the best part of the song is the cool groove w/backup singers.

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Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:20:32 -0000

I want to say that Mike Nesmith's proto-MTV Nickelodeon show "Popclips" played the hell out of "Mickey" throughout 1980-81, but now I'm honestly not sure whether it was that or the Shabbadoo 'Swan Lake' clip. Maybe both?

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Matt Rappaport — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:31:14 -0000

Africa IS the best song on this list! ..I also have NO idea what it all means,
Howie Day did a cover hehe

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MichaelWSP — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:17:28 -0000

"Kitty" is just *jarring* to listen to. What a great example of production values making the difference between something iconic and something...awful.

I LOVE Baby Come To Me, and you just know when McDonald is singing on a track, even if he's buried in the mix, the raw "McDonaldness" he creates suffuses the chorus in its velvet splendor.

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Mike — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:44:49 -0000

Which actually wound up getting released after Gaye's death as "Sanctified Lady". Not a bad song, actually.

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DwDunphy — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:14:13 -0000

...Which had a different title that had to be changed when Marvin's round-the-way-girl Octo objected.

A lie, but hey. Not much else you can do with that nasty factoid.

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John Densmore — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:38:56 -0000

Racey had a great song called "Some Girls" which was originally written for Blondie. It peaked at #2 in the UK in 1979.

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dslifton — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:19:14 -0000

The other cool fact about Sexual Healing that Ritz put in his book was that Gaye wanted the follow-up single to be called Sanctified Pussy.