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RZ — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:51:57 -0000

I just wish "Abracadabra" came with an instrumental version. I loved the synth sequence at the end (on the version played on AOR station -- the Top 40 single ends with the lyrics). But the lyrics are among the worst in pop music history.

Our "oldies" station (which plays music up to 1992, three years after the station signed on its oldies format) uses a lot of happy, "have fun at the office" jingles. I recently heard the jingle "the station that picks you up and makes you feel good!" -- which was immediately followed by CSN's "Wasted On the Way." Downer, man...

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Rick — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:44:50 -0000

"Hurts So Good" is a blatant rip of the Stones' "Start Me Up", which was a big hit the year before.

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Guest — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:10:13 -0000

Oh, it was funny, just figured it was something I missed.

Slappy's rule #17:
"If one is given more credit than one deserves, one should graciously accept and hope no one figures it out"

LOL

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DwDunphy — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:34:25 -0000

You have to understand that I'm not that existential. I was inferring that a crappy tribute band would be more Crapplemania than Beatlemania.

I know, it's not terribly funny, but whenever I get the chance to use the word "crap", I'm on it!

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Guest — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:00:18 -0000

Assuming that was a pop culture reference I didn't recognize, I utilized The Google but got no results...I did get this suggestion: "Did you mean: "This isn't Beatlemania. This ain't even Grapplemania!" "

Which I found both humorous and vaguely disturbing, just like the proposed cover album. Circle of life or something like that?

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DwDunphy — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:08:05 -0000

"This isn't Beatlemania. This ain't even Crapplemania!"

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MatthewF — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:16:46 -0000

Is this the most soft rock top 10 ever?

We must never lose our yearnin' to keep the fires burnin'!

Sweet merciful jesus.

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Ray — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:42:35 -0000

It still bugs me that radio stations still play this song incessantly, never mind that most of them cut off the ending. After all, this song (along with America';s SISTER GOLDEN HAIR) has rightfully earned the title as "LITE ROCK SONG FROM HELL!!!!!!!!"

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Guest — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:49:31 -0000

You, sir, are a very bad man!

To me that sounds like ironic hipster douchebag....I want straight, legit covers: Winger, Jani Lane-era Warrant, Trixter, could you imagine Bon Jovi's histrionics?

I also enjoy how the "band" Hair Supply has lost control of their domain. ^rolls eyes^

The ironic cover band is big in my area, but, irritates the cripes out of me because they sound NOTHING like the originals....there's a popular Police cover band (Stung) that I saw at Slim's and they were a three piece playing Police songs but weren't even trying to get the vocals to sound close. Blech.

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Guest — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:45:43 -0000

I'd buy two if it had Winger on it.

I have a theory that the only difference between a lot of 80s pop (Air Supply, Chicago) and 80s hard rock is the speed of the guitar playing and the mixing where guitars are buried in one, put in front on the other.

To my untrained ear, much of the music sounds very similar.

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jasonhare — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:42:22 -0000

You guys haven't heard of Hair Supply?

http://www.myspace.com/hair...

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DwDunphy — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:37:03 -0000

That is the most ridiculous, insane, retarded thing I've ever heard. I LOVE IT. Could we get a reformed Winger to do "The One That You Love"?

(And I mean it - this is an incredibly bad idea, but I would be first in line to get that CD)

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Maxus — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:39:49 -0000

Face it, Hare... the awkward question: “What’s a band?”

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DwDunphy — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:19:01 -0000

Rebuttal: you ain't no boss'a me.

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EightE1 — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 09:47:33 -0000

Dunphy made me do it! I knew it was enunciation! I did! I knew it all ...

Aw hell. You got me, Jon.

Though, you do bring up an interesting side-idea -- if Kevin Cronin were a superhero, perhaps his power would be poking out villains' eyeballs with his spiky bleach-blond hair. What would Tommy Shaw's super power be?

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rob — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:37:26 -0000

"The Onion" recently had a hysterical headfline recently about Wikipedia celebrating the countr's 750th anniversary.

I thought I'd add that for no good reason.

And Jason? I'll get you back for another one of your Steve Miller digs. Mark my words. You will kneel down one day and pay your respects to the "Gangster of Love"

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David_E — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:26:10 -0000

I pronounce you the winner.

Or enunce you. Whatever.

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Guest — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:30:21 -0000

I love how Graham is rawking out with the acoustic in the background of the live Air Supply clip....would LOVE LOVE LOVE a hard rock cover compilation of Air Supply tunes, that'd be awesome!

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:::theroux — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:07:42 -0000

I think Jane Weidlin was giving us the business in that there interview. It's hard enough to water-ski, but to water-ski drunk?

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JonCummings — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:56:02 -0000

This chart dovetails nicely with a little colloquy Dave Steed initiated in his comments on Wednesday, about when '80s music "started" and "ended." He said he had seen a blog theorizing that the '80s didn't start musically until '83--and this chart is full of the kind of stuff that got shunted aside later in the decade. Consider that seven months after this chart, the top three would be "Billie Jean," "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" and "Hungry Like the Wolf"--and the next #1 song after that was "Come on Eileen." Now THAT's '80s.

A couple other points: Jason, if you've heard nothing off "Press to Play," you have to at least go hear "Stranglehold": http://www.youtube.com/watc.... And "Take the Money and Run" is frickin' "War and Peace" compared to "Abracadabra." I have no idea how I talked myself into leaving "Abracadabra" off my worst-#1s-of-the-'80s list. It must have been the last song onto the lifeboat.

"Summer Lovers" is truly, stupendously awful, but it must have one of the longest listings in the "Bare Facts Guide," so that's a plus.

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JonCummings — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:33:44 -0000

OK, you know what? I wasn't gonna go after Jason on this, because I didn't want to get all 5th-grade-teacher on him. But now that I can take out THREE of you bitches at once:

It's ENUNCIATION when you're talking about whether someone makes his words sound more or less clear. You can't over-pronounce a word.

Class dismissed. Have a nice weekend. I'm gonna give Jason's address to my son to give to Cronin's daughter (her locker is still just a couple away from his this year) to give to him, and he's gonna come poke out your eyeballs with his spiky bleach-blond hair.

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twostepcub — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:10:13 -0000

Thanks Jason, for a great trip back on a stormy Friday night here in New Jersey. It pulled all the strings, since last week was my birthday and 1982 was the year I started buying music and listening religiously to Casey Kasem (I think I would've had a heart attack then if I heard the now-famous expletive rant he went on about his long distance dedications).

I had no idea about Dennis Wilson possibly being the inspiration for "Hold Me". Christine was always my favorite Mac'er, and she was missed when I saw them last spring in Philly.

"Abracadabra" may have been inane, but it still was miles above the rest of the album (cassette, in my case).

I actually was fond of "Vacation", probably because I bought that album at the time. I didn't get BATB till I was an adult.

When I was younger I thought Kevin Cronin was some crazy Irish guy who fronted a rock band.

And in my day I could rock my Lowery organ with both "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" AND "Get Away"...that is SOOO sad.

Thanks again..
Cheers!

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jasonhare — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:00:28 -0000

...and there's the answer! Thanks!

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jasonhare — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:59:09 -0000

You are absolutely correct. Wikipedia had those two switched, and I didn't cross-check with my huge Billboard spreadsheet. Damn you, Wikipedia! Thanks for the correction.

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UltraMegaSummer — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:39:21 -0000

"Not that it matters, but “Wasted On the Way” was their final Top 40 appearance."

Wasn't "Southern Cross" actually the follow-up to "WOTW"? Thus, making "Southern Cross" their final Top 40 appearance?