IdRatherBeSkiing's Top 20 (Sunday, June 21st, 2020 version)

sadchild said:
YES! I didn't discover "This Is Ponderous" until the 2010s, but my son and I love it (and quote it often).

Did you know it started as a hot tub commercial?

I also suspect it came from a Casey Kasem outtake as well.
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I didn't know about the hot tub commercial.
I had that on cassette back when it came out. I used to work next door to a record store back in the day, and would hang out when things were boring at the store I worked at. The owner would give me free tapes and disks of weird stuff, cut outs and whatnot. I don't remember if he gave me that one or I bought it because I liked The Art of Noise and he thought I'd like 2Nu. Either way, I listened to it a lot. I think I have another one of theirs, but don't think it was quite as good.

I quote that song from time to time, and people think there's something wrong with me....
 
I actually bought the digital album last night for the nostalgia of it all.
It still sounds good.

I should document all of the cassettes that I still have and see what stuff I should buy new again. There has to be a bunch of fun crazy stuff that I haven't thought about in a long time.
 
Today's artist top 10: The Eagles. Not included is solo work. If it was you may find Joe Walsh's Life's Been Good and Don Henley's Boys of Summer and/or Dirty Laundry on this list.

10. New Kid In Town
9. Witchy Woman
8. Desperado
7. Take It To The Limit
6. The Long Run
5. Life In The Fast Lane
4. Heartache Tonight
3. Peaceful Easy Feeling
2. Hotel California
1. Take It Easy

My son's favourite is not on the list "Lying Eyes". It's a nice song but has been overplayed.
 
Good list.

My favorites in no order:

Desperado
One of these Nights
Tequilla Sunrise
Ol' 55
I Can't Tell You Why
In the City
Lyin' Eyes
Take It to the Limit
After the Thrill is Gone
Witchy Woman

Favorite lyric -
Take another shot of courage
Wonder why the right words never come
You just get numb
 
Eagles

1. Hotel California
2. Desperado
3. Life In The Fast Lane
4. Those Shoes
5. The Long Run

Favorite lyric: "Your prison is walking through this world all alone"
 
When I was a teenager back in 1979 I was convinced that something bad happened every time I heard Heartache Tonight. That started when I went to a dance and proceeded to ignore my girlfriend and hang out across the street drinking illegal booze with my friends and then smoking to cover up the smell from the chaparones (only time I have ever smoked). On the way to the dance I heard Heartache Tonight. So when my girlfriend dumped me after the dance it was because of that song. Obviously I did nothing else wrong. :whistle:
 
I have been searching for a song in MP3 form for a while. The task was complicated by the fact it was never released as a CD. I have been staring at the cassette of it for like years. Yesterday I was looking around and found a cassette to mp3 recorder on amazon. So I now have it on MP3. Here is the song in question. From 1980 obscure Russian artist (I think) BB Gabor. Was played a bit on Regina radio stations back in the day.

 
Any relation to Zsa Zsa? That 'tick tock' sound is catchy. His singing style makes me think of The Vapors. Turning Russianese I really think so.

I've had a list of songs I can't find on MP3 that I've maintained over the years, many of them b-sides. Over time I've found a couple dozen as they show up. I've had to rip some music from vinyl myself. And I have a folder on my PC at home called "notonyoutube" that someday I may upload to help people out.
 
The accordion and goofy lyrics make me think of They Might be Giants, but the 2nd track needed a bit of drum machine to make it funkier like the first one.
 
I have been doing these top 10s alphabetically and realized I had skipped over an important band: Dexy's Midnight Runners ... just kidding. Their list would be 1. The group I missed was Dire Straits. So here is my top 10 Dire Straits songs.

10. The Bug
9. Expresso Love
8. Tunnel of Love
7. Romeo and Juliet
6. Skateaway
5. Telegraph Road
4. Twisting By The Pool
3. Industrial Disease
2. Walk of Life (my mom's favourite song. We played it at the funeral)
1. Sultans of Swing

Money For Nothing used to be on there but it has fallen out of favour since radio has started editing the lyrics.

Favourite lyrics:

They don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band. It ain't what they call Rock and Roll.

Sometimes you're the windshield
Sometimes you're the bug
 
Today started when I was helping my son look for our Clue board game (did not find). But I found a bunch of my old cassettes. The first mix tapes I made as a teenager. I lettered each one and now they have a place in my iTunes library as a playlist. But until today the first one I had was W which I did not make until the 1990s. I think my last one was BC which I made in 1999. I now have almost all of them. I am starting to build the associated missing playlists.

But I found other treasures as well. I have a concert of Rush from somewhere on Su 1980/03/30 taped from the radio. 2 days later I would be on the "Rush Rock Ride to Winnipeg" to see them there (I registered at Kelly's Stereo Mart and won the trip sponsored by "Regina's Best Rock -- Music Radio -- CJME"). I even have a copy of the commercial which lists the winners including myself. I think that was my first live concert. Certainly my first of that magnitude. The one and only time I ever won a radio contest. I got to meet my first DJ (Ed Rocker Walker) who came with us. The station is now of course some newstalk format. Not even the same frequency (1300). And of course I am no longer living in Regina and would not be caught dead going to Winnipeg. How time changes things.

And I found these forgotten treasures on my cassettes (I forgot they existed until I saw them on the tapes):





And



The first 2 are quite obscure the last is a obscurish track from a forgotten Canadian group.
 
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