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Kasey Kasem's American Top 40: This week in 1975 (1 Viewer)

2. "The Really Long Title I Don't Feel Like Typing Out Because I'm Lazy (Oh Wait, I just Did It - Am I Doing A Family Guy Thing?)" - BJ Thomas

 
Bruce Dickinson said:
The whole Golden Smog family (Jayhawks, Soul Asylum, Run Westy Run, Jeff Tweedy) made the live music scene in 1990s MSP an absolute blast.  

Golden Smog's live encore, a cover of Spooky where Tweedy, Gary Louris, and Dan Murphy trade leads and stage a solo battle during the instrumental section, was a transcendent experience.   
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Hell yes!

 
1. "Philadelphia Freedom" - Elton John

That's it, ladies & gents. Keep your eyes on the prize and keep reaching in your pants.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
2. "The Really Long Title I Don't Feel Like Typing Out Because I'm Lazy (Oh Wait, I just Did It - Am I Doing A Family Guy Thing?)" - BJ Thomas
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"Raindrops Keep Fallin'On My Head"?

Oops, nope it is:




"(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song"


I forgot about this one.



 




 
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Uruk-Hai said:
Boooooo!

Although. you are right because........

18. "I Don't Like To Sleep Alone" - Paul Anka

See? This is the kind of song that older Baby Boomers latched onto when they started smoking dope and having late babies they ignored. #### you, Paul Anka.
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Might be the greatest UH post ever

:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:  

 
Getzlaf15 said:
I just showed a home to a client that had burnt orange colored shag in it. I cried a tear for the old days.
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There's an old, NBC-era Letterman bit where Dave and Paul gave a series of home improvement tips and tricks, spoofing the morning shows.  Dave demonstrated a cheap, easy way to update old shag carpeting with materials you already have around the house.  He fired up a two-cycle Toro push mower, activated the blade, and mowed the shag down to a shorter nap.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
39. "Love Won't Let Me Wait" - Major Harris

I remember this song coming on and my mother changing the channel because of the lady's moaning. That may have been the most embarrassed I've ever seen her.
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Uruk-Hai said:
36. "My Eyes Adored You" - Frankie Valli.

When this came out I was 13 and in Junior High (Middle School for you young 'uns), so this worked perfectly for every drama-filled one-day, the-world-is-ending relationship.
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i think these are actually the same song. Ladies and gentlemen - I give you the difference between black & white people in 1975!

 
Limp Ditka said:
Might be the greatest UH post ever

:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:  
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I want to be perfectly clear that I was and am the most uncool person ever by the following anecdote:

Somewhere around the same time as this countdown, my birthday rolled around and my family was in bad financial shape (though I didn't really understand at the time). Anyway, my mom took me to this country store to get me some shoes that didn't have my toes sticking out of them. She also let me buy one record and I picked "Sunshine (On My Shoulders)" by John Denver.

 
wOw, this mighta been the worst one ever. seen 70s charts w more forgettable fluff than this, but none with sooooo many insipid psychic buzzsaws of hellstalgia. as glad as i am sorry i missed doin it with ya, bud.

 
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Jules Winnfield said:
Hell yes!
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Was trying to recall every venue I've seen the Jayhawks play... the three that jump out are First Ave (or course, many times), the Lake Harriet bandshell (right when they broke out, security was so "tight" we walked around the bandshell after the show, walked right up to Gary, introduced ourselves, and a guy with our group had Gary autograph his copy of Hollywood Town Hall), and Midway Stadium in St Paul (the night they put a stage out in center field and booked Soul Asylum, The Jayhawks, and Matthew Sweet.  I know I'm not the only user here who was at that Midway show.  During the Jayhawks set, Dave Pirner came out to sing "Nature's Way"... don't recall if Golden Smog ever recorded that one.)

 
Those were some truly terrible songs. Interesting that so many of the few good ones on that list were by African American artists. You could suck and still succeed if you were white, but you had to be good if you were black to have a chance. 

Though I also think Amie is a good song 

 
wikkidpissah said:
wOw, this mighta been the worst one ever. seen 70s charts w more forgettable fluff than this, but none with sooooo many insipid psychic buzzsaws of hellstalgia. as glad as i am sorry i missed doin it with ya, bud.
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The brothers and Chaka held this one up. That '79 countdown I referenced earlier was the worst I've ever seen - Robert John seemed like Otis Redding in that one.

 
I dunno, guys. For me, at least, hearing some of the cheese that I may or may not have liked back then is part of the fun. I know which records are considered awesome - it's the others that interest me, even if I trash them.

 
Love all of the Golden Smog talk. I would have killed to have been in the Minneapolis area from about '82-'90 just for the music scene.

Replacements

Husker Du (just saw Mould last night and he still kills it)

Soul Asylum

Jayhawks

Magnolias

oh, and that Prince fella too. 

 
Uruk-Hai said:
Bruce Dickinson said:
Great track.  

One of my favorite live acts to see during my years in Minnesota is an alt-country act named The Jayhawks.  (I swear their band name is coincidental to my interest in their music.)  In their live shows they usually worked in a 70s cover or two to reach the part of the crowd who didn't know their originals.  "Bad Time" was a staple cover of theirs; IIRC, they even recorded a cover of it and put it on one of their albums. 
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The Jayhawks are frigging awesome. They've been slumming as the house band for some recent albums by legacy artists
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They are backing band on new Ray Davies record. Ray is the lead singer of the Kinks for you youngsters out there.

 
northern exposure said:
IIRC Casey's rankings were based on AM radio airplay, a lot of the better music in both of those polls were being played on FM/AOR stations. 
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Disagree to some extent. Nobody doing country or who - God forbid - was black could get a song on AOR. When white Boomer rock finally starting collapsing in the late 70s, programmers started playing EWF's "September" and stuff like Blondie and the Cars out of desperation.

How the #### did this or this not get played on FM rock channels when programmers were so short of material that they had to play the last cut off of a Yes album to fill a shift?

 
i've resisted doing this cuz i'm getoffmylawn age, but here's today's top 30:











Official Singles Chart Top21 April 2017 - 27 April 2017


ish

Pos


LW


Title, Artist


Peak
Pos


WoC


 


Chart
Facts


1


2 





SHAPE OF YOU
ED SHEERAN
ASYLUM




1


15


buylisten


 


2


4 





SYMPHONY
CLEAN BANDIT FT ZARA LARSSON
ATLANTIC




2


5


buylisten


 


3


3





GALWAY GIRL
ED SHEERAN
ASYLUM




2


7


buylisten


 


4


1 





SIGN OF THE TIMES
HARRY STYLES
COLUMBIA




1


2


buylisten


 


5


5





PASSIONFRUIT
DRAKE
CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC RECORDS




3


5


buylisten


 


6


31 





HUMBLE.
KENDRICK LAMAR
AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE




6


3


buylisten


 


7


6 





SOMETHING JUST LIKE THIS
CHAINSMOKERS & COLDPLAY
DISRUPTOR




2


9


buylisten


 


8


7 





SOLO DANCE
MARTIN JENSEN
DISCOWAX




7


9


buylisten


 


9


8 





STAY
ZEDD & ALESSIA CARA
INTERSCOPE




8


8


buylisten


 


10


11 





ISSUES
JULIA MICHAELS
POLYDOR




10


6


buylisten


 


11


9 





IT AIN'T ME
KYGO & SELENA GOMEZ
COLUMBIA




7


9


buylisten


 


12


10 





CASTLE ON THE HILL
ED SHEERAN
ASYLUM




2


15


buylisten


 


13


13





THAT'S WHAT I LIKE
BRUNO MARS
ATLANTIC




13


6


buylisten


 


14


12 





CIAO ADIOS
ANNE-MARIE
ASYLUM/MAJOR TOM’S




9


10


buylisten


 


15


24 





SWALLA
JASON DERULO/NICKI MINAJ/TY
WARNER BROS




15


3


buylisten


 


16


16





NO MORE SAD SONGS
LITTLE MIX
SYCO MUSIC




16


4


buylisten


 


17


18 





SKIN
RAG'N'BONE MAN
BEST LAID PLANS/COLUMBIA




17


9


buylisten


 


18


New





DNA.
KENDRICK LAMAR
INTERSCOPE




18


1


buylisten


 


19


14 





YOU DON'T KNOW ME
JAX JONES FT RAYE
POLYDOR




3


16


buylisten


 


20


15 





SLIDE
CALVIN HARRIS/OCEAN/MIGOS
COLUMBIA




10


8


buylisten


 


21


20 





GREEN LIGHT
LORDE
VIRGIN




20


7


buylisten


 


22


19 





HUMAN
RAG'N'BONE MAN
BEST LAID PLANS/COLUMBIA




2


21


buylisten


 


23


New





THE CURE
LADY GAGA
INTERSCOPE




23


1


buylisten


 


24


26 





MASK OFF
FUTURE
RCA




24


3


buylisten


 


25


23 





PERFECT
ED SHEERAN
ASYLUM




4


7


buylisten


 


26


17 





CHAINED TO THE RHYTHM
KATY PERRY FT SKIP MARLEY
CAPITOL




5


10


buylisten


 


27


New





LOYALTY.
KENDRICK LAMAR & RIHANNA
INTERSCOPE




27


1


buylisten


 


28


21 





SCARED TO BE LONELY
MARTIN GARRIX & DUA LIPA
COLUMBIA




14


12


buylisten


 


29


27 





PLACES
MARTIN SOLVEIG & INA WROLDSEN
POSITIVA




27


2


buylisten


 


30


25 





TOUCH
LITTLE MIX
SYCO MUSIC




4


18


buylisten


 












 
 
 






31


34 





ON MY MIND
DISCIPLES
PARLOPHONE




31


2


buylisten


 


32


22 





PARIS
CHAINSMOKERS
DISRUPTOR




5


14


buylisten


 


33


New





ELEMENT.
KENDRICK LAMAR
INTERSCOPE




33


1


buylisten


 


34


New





DID YOU SEE
J HUS
BLACK BUTTER




34


1


buylisten


 


35


28 





CALL ON ME
STARLEY
AATW




6


14


buylisten


 


36


29 





STILL GOT TIME
ZAYN FT PARTYNEXTDOOR
RCA




24


4


buylisten


 


37


30 





BLEM
DRAKE
CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC RECORDS




10


5


buylisten


 


38


33 





BE THE ONE
DUA LIPA
WARNER BROS




9


12


buylisten


 


39


New





LOVE.
KENDRICK LAMAR
INTERSCOPE




39


1


buylisten


 


40


32 





NEW MAN
ED SHEERAN
ASYLUM




5


7


buylisten


 

i see just as much insipid-to-insidious, rote & reptitive dreck as the '75 chart, without the naivete or need to serve an older age spectrum as an excuse. missing are bedrock anthems for all subsequent gens and any semblance of germ of new grooves to deliver us someday. Sheeran got nothing on Anka but 4 decades of music from which to know better and i'll take my Kendricks Eddie-style over Lamar anyday, nufced




 
Limp Ditka said:
Love all of the Golden Smog talk. I would have killed to have been in the Minneapolis area from about '82-'90 just for the music scene.

Replacements

Husker Du (just saw Mould last night and he still kills it)

Soul Asylum

Jayhawks

Magnolias

oh, and that Prince fella too. 
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Thinking about trekking down to DC next Friday for the Bob Mould show. Worth it? The night before, I'm seeing Jason Narducy (Bob's current bassist) along with Kelly Deal's band here in Bmore. Not sure I can do back to back nights at my age (especially with the drive to DC) but hate to miss a Mould show, especially if this solo tour is something worth seeing 

 
Limp Ditka said:
Love all of the Golden Smog talk. I would have killed to have been in the Minneapolis area from about '82-'90 just for the music scene.

Replacements

Husker Du (just saw Mould last night and he still kills it)

Soul Asylum

Jayhawks

Magnolias

oh, and that Prince fella too. 
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The Suburbs

The Wallets 

 
The_Man said:
Thinking about trekking down to DC next Friday for the Bob Mould show. Worth it? The night before, I'm seeing Jason Narducy (Bob's current bassist) along with Kelly Deal's band here in Bmore. Not sure I can do back to back nights at my age (especially with the drive to DC) but hate to miss a Mould show, especially if this solo tour is something worth seeing 
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It was interesting. Just him, electric. No backing band. Honestly I wasn't thrilled about the idea of going to see him in that setting. I've seen Mould 7 times now between solo and Sugar, but I've influenced my 17 year old son  into liking him and we missed him with Naurdacy and Wurster last time he came through and he wanted to go, so we did. 

Here's the set list from last night.

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/bob-mould/2017/thalia-hall-chicago-il-63e62647.html

Between Love Is All Around and Hardly Getting Over It, I was provided with some 'die happy' moments since I'd never seen him play those before.

For the most part, the setlist worked. Not overly dependent upon a backing band.

Closed his first set with Black Confetti which someone worked. Just killed it. 

I'd call it a unique, possibly once in a lifetime experience. If you're a Mould lifer, like me, I'd recommend going

 
Limp Ditka said:
Love all of the Golden Smog talk. I would have killed to have been in the Minneapolis area from about '82-'90 just for the music scene.

Replacements

Husker Du (just saw Mould last night and he still kills it)

Soul Asylum

Jayhawks

Magnolias

oh, and that Prince fella too. 
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Jules Winnfield said:
The Suburbs

The Wallets 
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Excellent lists here.  I'll add two bands with overlapping members, Trip Shakespeare and Semisonic.  More straightforward pop-rock than the others listed, but still great live.  The women of the Twin Cities sure liked Matt Wilson, Dan Wilson, and John Munson, so the crowds at their shows were a lot of fun, too.  Trip had a couple major label albums but never broke out.  After Trip got dropped and broke up, Dan and Munson re-formed as Semisonic and had a couple national hits and got on some movie soundtracks.  They were supposed to play a Semisonic anniversary show at First Ave in January, but in true Minnesotan fashion, Dan Wilson slipped and fell on an ice patch, nothing too serious but hurt had enough to have to cancel the gig.   

 
Limp Ditka said:
Simply don't understand the Ed Sheersn thing.
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When he was breaking out, his was actually a really interesting live act.  His show was solo acoustic, but he had a series of microphones and foot pedals to record loops and play back to give the songs a fuller sound: pat out a drum cadence on his guitar body on mic 2, play rhythm chords on mic 3, sing background vocal hooks on mic 4, then play and sing lead on mic 1 with his "band" looping on the other mics.  Don't think he has much depth as a songwriter and I don't find his songs interesting to listen to on the radio, but watching him construct the sound live like that was interesting to watch.  

He did an episode of Storytellers where he went back to a Dublin bar he played a lot when we was getting started.  It's different watching him play in that element.        

 
Bruce Dickinson said:
Excellent lists here.  I'll add two bands with overlapping members, Trip Shakespeare and Semisonic.  More straightforward pop-rock than the others listed, but still great live.  The women of the Twin Cities sure liked Matt Wilson, Dan Wilson, and John Munson, so the crowds at their shows were a lot of fun, too.  Trip had a couple major label albums but never broke out.  After Trip got dropped and broke up, Dan and Munson re-formed as Semisonic and had a couple national hits and got on some movie soundtracks.  They were supposed to play a Semisonic anniversary show at First Ave in January, but in true Minnesotan fashion, Dan Wilson slipped and fell on an ice patch, nothing too serious but hurt had enough to have to cancel the gig.   
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Suicide Commandos

Information Society

 
wikkidpissah said:
i've resisted doing this cuz i'm getoffmylawn age, but here's today's top 30:




i see just as much insipid-to-insidious, rote & reptitive dreck as the '75 chart, without the naivete or need to serve an older age spectrum as an excuse. missing are bedrock anthems for all subsequent gens and any semblance of germ of new grooves to deliver us someday. Sheeran got nothing on Anka but 4 decades of music from which to know better and i'll take my Kendricks Eddie-style over Lamar anyday, nufced
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I don't think I know any of those songs you posted, but I bet every single one is better than this

 
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