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Post by dukelightning on Apr 5, 2017 13:57:27 GMT -5
^You imply that you skip songs and I know others skip songs. For the Premiere series of shows, I can probably count on my thumbs the number of songs I skip. Maybe the Freddie Fender song in this week's 70s show Edit: maybe not, I let it play! and "Sittin on the Dock of the Bay" because I skip nearly every Michael Bolton song. Easily the worst singing voice in pop music and rivaled only by Enimem for worst voice period in pop music. Outside of those 2 artists and Hootie singing with his mouth full of mashed potatoes and the Blowfish, I don't skip anything in the various shows I hear covering the last 5 decades.
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Post by matt on Apr 6, 2017 15:03:50 GMT -5
^You imply that you skip songs and I know others skip songs. For the Premiere series of shows, I can probably count on my thumbs the number of songs I skip. Maybe the Freddie Fender song in this week's 70s show Edit: maybe not, I let it play! and "Sittin on the Dock of the Bay" because I skip nearly every Michael Bolton song. Easily the worst singing voice in pop music and rivaled only by Enimem for worst voice period in pop music. Outside of those 2 artists and Hootie singing with his mouth full of mashed potatoes and the Blowfish, I don't skip anything in the various shows I hear covering the last 5 decades. Funny you mention Freddy Fender and Michael Bolton's version of "Dock of the Bay". I'm right with you on both accounts...just listened to his debut record on the 3/20/76 show, and man I do not get how he was popular for that brief stretch in 1975-76 (though I do get how it was brief!). "Before the Next Tear Drop Falls" is among the top 5 worst #1 songs of all time...that's one I could easily skip past, except that like you I insist on listening to every second of every show I put on. And I've posted it before, but the "Dock of the Bay" remake by Michael Bolton ranks as the worst cover of all time. Simply tragic how he butchered that song...completely over-sang it and seemed to be more interested in showing everyone what a powerful voice he had than actually singing it the way it was meant to sound. He couldn't have been further away from Otis Redding...and while sometimes it's a good thing for an artist to make a song their own, this time it was not. |
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Post by at40nut on Apr 6, 2017 17:15:48 GMT -5
One of my favorite shows from 1982-4-10-82. A great number of debut songs such as Tom Tom Club's "Genius Of Love", Junior's "Mama Used To Say", The Human League's "Don't You Want Me" and many others. One song I would skip over is "Never Been To Me" by Charlene. That song sounds like it could have used as a tampon commercial in 1979.
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Post by JMW on Apr 6, 2017 22:36:25 GMT -5
For me, the first show I thought of that I liked all the way through was the (regular) 7/5/1986 show (99.99% because that was the date of my 7th birthday  ) |
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Post by pointpark04 on Apr 7, 2017 8:35:33 GMT -5
^You imply that you skip songs and I know others skip songs. For the Premiere series of shows, I can probably count on my thumbs the number of songs I skip. Maybe the Freddie Fender song in this week's 70s show Edit: maybe not, I let it play! and "Sittin on the Dock of the Bay" because I skip nearly every Michael Bolton song. Easily the worst singing voice in pop music and rivaled only by Enimem for worst voice period in pop music. Outside of those 2 artists and Hootie singing with his mouth full of mashed potatoes and the Blowfish, I don't skip anything in the various shows I hear covering the last 5 decades. You're darn tootin' I skip songs. I don't have the time to get through two entire shows in one work day and yesterday, I barely made it through one entire show. I work at a mid-sized corporate law firm in Pittsburgh. And when I say work, I don't mean "enable large corporations to pollute our environment and rip off the common man" - I mean WORK. Physical stuff, as well as administrative AR/AP duties, and other office handyman tasks. I may have spent three hours in my office yesterday. If I hadn't skipped through a few songs and dedications, I would have been pushing it to finish the 4/6/1985 countdown by day's end. And do I really need to hear worn-out, out-dated songs such as "Mickey" and "Centerfold" and the hundreds of other played-out titles? This guy thinks not. |
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Post by ronnie21 on Jul 14, 2017 20:55:54 GMT -5
3/11/78, good show..
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Post by retrodaddy on Sept 8, 2017 18:10:12 GMT -5
I've never heard an entire show I enjoyed from start to finish.
That said, I enjoyed last week's '82 show a hell of a lot more than I'd expect to enjoy an early 80s show Very few AM Gold / easy listening songs, and the few acts I don't care much for (Crosby, Stills and Nash. Kenny Rogers, Air Supply) had songs I can dig.
It came pretty close to being a start-to-finish gem.
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Post by at40nut on Sept 9, 2017 9:55:42 GMT -5
9-10-83 is most definitely a classic show not just the music, but the content as well. There were some instances of irony such as the photo of Eddie Cochrane, which was the inspiration for Brian Setzer of the Stray Cats. Four years later, Brian Setzer would play the role of Eddie Cochrane in the movie La Bamba. Then there was "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" by Bonnie Tyler in which Casey said it was "acting like a #1 song in the U.S.A." Well, on August 21, 2017 it certainly did that on that day. Finally, the Cat dedication in which Casey gives a personal commentary on not ever owning a pet. As we all know, Casey would do a 180 on the infamous "Dead Dog Dedication" almost exactly two years later. I found the LDD from 1988 (I think it was from 2-27-88) involving a death of a cat was a little more jarring because the writer of that LDD described herself as someone as not an ordinary average person. I think that is why Casey had a bit of emotion in his voice while reading that LDD in 1988. I, myself had lost a pet a year before that, and that LDD had a profound effect on me also.
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Post by Hervard on Sept 9, 2017 10:03:57 GMT -5
9-10-83 is most definitely a classic show not just the music, but the content as well. There were some instances of irony such as the photo of Eddie Cochrane, which was the inspiration for Brian Setzer of the Stray Cats. Four years later, Brian Setzer would play the role of Eddie Cochrane in the movie La Bamba. Then there was "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" by Bonnie Tyler in which Casey said it was "acting like a #1 song in the U.S.A." Well, on August 21, 2017 it certainly did that on that day. Finally, the Cat dedication in which Casey gives a personal commentary on not ever owning a pet. As we all know, Casey would do a 180 on the infamous "Dead Dog Dedication" almost exactly two years later. I found the LDD from 1988 (I think it was from 2-27-88) involving a death of a cat was a little more jarring because the writer of that LDD described herself as someone as not an ordinary average person. I think that is why Casey had a bit of emotion in his voice while reading that LDD in 1988. I, myself had lost a pet a year before that, and that LDD had a profound effect on me also. Me too. I myself am a cat person, and cried my eyes out when I heard that LDD (I was unusually emotional during my teen years). I had a cat at the time that I tended to tease, and she did not like to be teased; I could tell because she'd run away from me when she saw me approaching her, even if I was going to turn and walk into another room. That LDD inspired me to stop teasing her and, though it took longer than I would have liked, she eventually warmed up to me. |
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Post by Jessica on May 20, 2018 15:31:22 GMT -5
Loving this weeks 1987 show. Almost every song is a winner. The Top 20 is amazing. Casey’s stories are also great. Loved the story about Molly Ringwald and the late 80s director John Hughes. I also loved the story about Phil Collins and The Beatles. The LDD’s were good too, not too depressing. Great show.
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Post by mga707 on Aug 30, 2018 17:53:14 GMT -5
Lovin' this 1979 show. The first two hours are loaded with 45s that have been collecting dust in commercial radio's storage closets since Jimmy Carter was President. Could not agree more: "Youngblood", "Saturday Night", "Girl Of My Dreams", "What'cha Gonna Do With My Lovin'"--great to hear all of them again. For me, this show will be one where I like 39 out of the 40 songs. A certain song in the top 10 by a certain 'Southern Rock' artist who also had a song in last week's show that I also really dislike will be the only outlier...  |
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Post by Jessica on Oct 27, 2018 18:45:44 GMT -5
The 10/31/87 show is almost perfect. Loved the Halloween extra and the facts about poison lol.
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Post by at40nut on Oct 27, 2018 21:46:32 GMT -5
OMG this 1979 show is a Buffett of ear candy! From a very underrated one by Elt, Kermit, Crusaders, LRB too many of these Risers haven't been on radio since Jimmy Carter was President! How can you not like a countdown with a hit by an artist named Lobo?? I concur ! A little bit of a mixed bag of goodies from A singing frog, a man with a wolf's name, and a story about M J's animal kingdom . I got a chuckle out of that LDD to Leif Garrett in regards to reading Playboy. That was probably the most harmless thing he did compared to the other things he was doing at that time. I remember the VH1 Behind The Music feature on him. BTW-the guy who wrote "The Rainbow Connection " He's the same guy who played Little Enos on Smokey And The Bandit -The one and only Paul Williams. |
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Post by mga707 on Oct 27, 2018 21:51:15 GMT -5
How can you not like a countdown with a hit by an artist named Lobo?? I concur ! A little bit of a mixed bag of goodies from A singing frog, a man with a wolf's name, and a story about M J's animal kingdom . I got a chuckle out of that LDD to Leif Garrett in regards to reading Playboy. That was probably the most harmless thing he did compared to the other things he was doing at that time. I remember the VH1 Behind The Music feature on him. BTW-the guy who wrote "The Rainbow Connection " He's the same guy who played Little Enos on Smokey And The Bandit -The one and only Paul Williams.[/quote] Mr. Williams also wrote The Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun", #2 on this week's 1970 show, as well as Three Dog Night's "An Old Fashioned Love Song", among others. |
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Post by mga707 on Oct 27, 2018 21:53:22 GMT -5
OMG this 1979 show is a Buffett of ear candy! From a very underrated one by Elt, Kermit, Crusaders, LRB too many of these Risers haven't been on radio since Jimmy Carter was President! How can you not like a countdown with a hit by an artist named Lobo?? Saw what you did there with "Buffett"! Would so much rather here "Fins", as on this show, than the terminally-overplayed "Margaritaville". |
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