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

IdRatherBeSkiing said:
Cassette A
Side 2:
Find Your Way - Surrender
(this was the original song on cassette A. But it was recorded over for the commercial. There was no space left to include it back so I replaced it with "You're So Square". This was a remake of the Presley/Buddy Holly tune but by an artist which was not them. Was a more punkish sound. Unfortunately I only have the song name and the artist is not apparent so for my playlist I went back to the original song.)
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Sometimes answers just hit you. I was brushing my teeth and boing. The artist who sang "You're So Square" who was on the cassette. Selected for the duration of their song (2:00). Uranus. It is a miracle having been on this board for years that I could forget that band name. Here is the song.

 
Today another cassette. This is the last mix cassette not dedicated to a single artist that I recently rebuilt the playlist. I have included the remaining single artist ones at the end. This cassette has 5 songs from Coctail (I will mark with a *). I have never seen the movie but the soundtrack was fantastic.

Cassette Q
Side 1
A.D. 1928 - Styx
Rockin' the Paradise - Styx
Too Much TIme on My Hands - Styx
Working for the Weekend - Loverboy
Hot Girls in Love - Loverboy
Rockin' in the Free World - Neil Young
Handle With Car - Traveling Wilburys
Last Night - Traveling Wilburys
End of the Line - Traveling Wilburys
Should I See - Bruck Cocburn
If a Tree Falls - Bruce Cockburn
(his name is not pronounced as it is spelt. I think it would be cooler if it was).
* Kokomo - The Beach Boys

Side 2
Sold Me Down the River - The Alarm
Let the Day Begin - The Call
This Flight Tonight - Nazareth
Love Hurts - Nazareth
* Wild Again - Starship
* Hippy Hippy Shake - The Georgia Satellites
* Tutti Frutti - Little Richard
* Rave On - John Mellencamp
Jackie Brown - John Mellencamp
Pop Singer - John Mellencamp
(these last 2 Mellencamp songs from "Big Daddy")
S.O.S. - Abba
Waterloo - Abba
Fernando - Abba

The next cassettes:
Cassette R - Bruce Springsteen - The River (I think I recorded it from a friend)
Cassette S - Side 1: Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA (- Dancing In the Dark) / Side 2: Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell
Cassette T - April Wine & Streetheart
Cassette U - Prism & Trooper
Cassette V - Rod Stewart
 
Today a top 10. A Canadian group: The Tragically Hip. I think they may have got some US play. They are HUGE in Canada,. When their lead singer died of brain cancer almost all the radio stations played nothing but Hip for 2 days. When he was diagnosed as with it they did a farewell tour across Canada. Their final concert was televised on the CBC commercial free. The network pre-emted the Brazil Olympics for it. I have that on PVR.

This group has almost as strong a reaction from my wife as John Mellencamp except I don't have to change the channel. Almost all their music is about a real event of some sort although I don't know which one is which for the most part. I know "Fifty-Mission Cap" is about BIll Barilko.

Interestingly my #1 song was suspended from airplay by Canadian broadcasters for a period of time after Hurricane Katrina out of sensitivity of the title. They may do the same again this week depending on how well New Orleans handles its 2 storms.

Lots of honourable mentions. In no order:
Grace, Too
Impossiblilium
Fully Completely
Ahead By a Centrury
Little Bones
Cordelia
Killing Time
Highway Girl
Poets
Fireworks
Blow At High Dough
Gift Shop

And now the top 10:
10. Bobcaygeon
9. Nautical Disaster
8. At The Hundredth Meridian
7.Courage
6. Fiddler's Green
5. 38 Years Old
4. Wheat Kings
3. Fifty-Mission Cap
2. Boots Or Hearts
1. New Orleans Is Sinking
 
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The Tragically Hip are great. I watched that last concert. Knowing that it was the last time he would be performing with the band must have been pure hell. I can't imagine. I was choking back the tears watching him.

A couple of the guys play Reverend guitars. It's a Toledo based guitar company that started in the Detroit area.
 
Today another cassette W. Recorded sometime before 1992 but has a lot of 1980 stuff in it. The plethora of songs with () in them is just co-incidence.

Cassette W
Side 1
Hot Child In The City - Nick Gilder
Here Comes The Night - Nick Gilder (my favourite song of his)
(She's) One Of The Boys - Nick Gilder
(You Really) Rock Me - Nick Gilder
Wild Ones (Feeling Electric) - Nick Gilder
Catch 22 - Nick Gilder
Good Times Roll - The Cars
I'm Alright (Theme from Caddyshack) - Kenny Loggins
Any Way You Want It - Journey
Clones (We're All) - Alice Cooper
Never Come Back - ????????
Find Your Way - Surrender
Set Me Free - Utipia
Take a Little Rhythm - Ali Thomson

Side 2
Life's Been Good - Joe Walsh
All Night Long - Joe Walsh
A Live Of Illusion - Joe Walsh
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - The Police
De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da - The Police
I Got You - Split Enz
Six Months in a Leaky Boat - Split Enz
Even the Score - Toronto
Destroyer - The Kinks
Turning Japanese - The Vapors
Whip It - Devo
My Mistake - The Kingbees
Somethin' On My Mind - Teenage Head
 
I know Hot Child in the City, but for the life of me, I couldn't tell you who did it. I wonder if I'd recognize any other Nick Gilder songs?
 
scotchandcigar said:
I know Hot Child in the City, but for the life of me, I couldn't tell you who did it. I wonder if I'd recognize any other Nick Gilder songs?
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I doubt the others were played much outside Canada. You may recognized "Roxy Roller" which was him in another group 'Sweety Toth" (don't quote me on the spelling). Only those 2 are played now on Canadian radio.
 
I don't hear these two enough:

Hot Child In The City - Nick Gilder
Destroyer - The Kinks

Though I will say the "Hot Child" lyrics (or title for that matter) didn't age well, kinda like our earlier discussion about "Sexy & 17" and such.
 
Today a Top 10: Duran Duran. The video for "Rio" is among the first 3 videos I remember being significant. The other 2 was "Mickey" and "Billy Jean". The first Duran Duran song I heard was "Hungry Like The Wolf". That song had a real hook.

And yes, I remember roller blading to "Rio". It was in roller blading sunset years. I think the "Great Skate" went bankrupt a couple years later. I certainly don't remember roller blading too much after 1983. The building is still there in Regina. Some other business.

The Top 10:
10. Girls on Film
9. Notorious
8. Is There Something I Should Know?
7. Save a Prayer
6. The Reflex
5. New Moon On Monday
4. Union of the Snake
3. A View to a Kill
2. Hungry Like the Wolf
1. Rio
 
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