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Man, you were better off that way. xpost

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 7 December 2006 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I can play Baker Street on the saxophone. Or at least I could the last time I tried, which admittedly was about 8 years ago.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 7 December 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I used to play "Jump" by Kris Kross on the clarinet, much to the delight of the African American girls in my 8th-grade band class.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

The best part of the Steal Away video is when he gets DOWN toward the end and like, bends his knees a little bit.

Rupert Holmes was much more than the Pina Colada Song. Oh will the inoffensive white men of AM Gold ever get their due?

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 7 December 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

The far superior Rupert Holmes song "Him."

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 7 December 2006 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG listening to "Baker Street" right now -- didn't know this song had a name!! Or ... a verse. Weird: I've heard that sax riff a million times out of context, apparently.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Him! Him! Him!
Me! Me! Me!

xpost - See John? First "Africa" and now "Baker Street." Let me be your tour guide on our soft rock odyssey.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 7 December 2006 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

We'll return changed. Softer. Mellower. Wearing crew-neck sweaters and white pants.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 7 December 2006 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

The far superior Rupert Holmes song "Him."

See, your knowledge of the man far exceeds my own. There was some googling involved in my answer. But I did remember that the guy who wrote Pina Colada also wrote a musical.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Thursday, 7 December 2006 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost: i bought a ringtone. i bought the theme to 'the people's court' (when i had been drinking some wine) for when leaf calls me. i thought it was hilarious. it's actually kind of a funky tune.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Thursday, 7 December 2006 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

You're right, having just heard both for the first time, "Him" > "Escape."

LOL at "The People's Court" ringtone.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Oooh, I looooove "Africa."

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

It's on the jukebox at Richochet's.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

The video for Africa is crying out for a feminist/critical race deconstruction. There's dissertation material there, I am sure.

Also, so many glasses and mustaches...

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Do you think it's at the Hidden Cove? I've been practicing just in case...that song totally reminds me of driving around with my mom so I listen to it in the car (more frequently than I would like to admit).

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

It's on the jukebox at Richochet's.

Is that where we heard it? I was trying to figure that out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Also the lead singer of Toto looks a little like John.

xpost - Man, I hope so! Also, my AM Gold love I am almost sure stems directly from driving around with my mom in her orange VW Rabbit, listening to the radio through one little dashboard speaker.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

xp -- me too me too me too re: speaker, only ours was a ragtop caprice classic

Although I have my heart set on Asia.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Chicagoist covered the karaoke scene last week.

I wish I'd driven around with my mom listening to AM Gold! But I was probably a born a couple years too late. My mom did listen to smooth-jazz radio (WNUA) in the late '80s, though, so I'm familiar with Double's "Captain of Your Heart" and Donald Fagen's "New Frontier" and Go West's "What You Won't Do for Love" and the collected works of Sade.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Sade is mah girl.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

wow, that "Africa" video. I'd never seen it before.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I love Captain of Your Heart.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

You know how crazy old ladies tend to wear huge amounts of blush? (or rouge, if they prefer)

That's what I look like right now! I look like I woke up in the morning and said "Yes, this would be a good day to apply clown makeup. Today." That's how red my face is.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

is Sade AM Gold? I love Sade.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Does your face hurt like it's been burned?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes my face hurts like it has been burned.

Sade is after AM gold as far as I'm concerned. BUT My bff and I made up a song called "Smooth Toilet Paper" in her honor.

Coast to coast and into the Acme,
go down theeeee
aisles and there is no Charmin left,
I think I'll die...
so I buy the
smooth toilet papaaaah
smoooth...toilet paaapaaaaah

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I think Sade is post-AM Gold, but could be classified within the more inclusive "Soft Rock" category.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

[note: Acme was our local grocery store]

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I used to get terrible wind burn/dryness while skiing. I'd have an outline of the space between where my mask stopped and my goggles began. It was like a little chevron across my cheeks.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

That's me! We are vewwy sensitive.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

i SHOULD NOTE that we made up that song when we were 7 or 8 years old, not recently.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Woah woah woah John, do you mean "What You Won't Do For Love" as in the Bobby Caldwell song?

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

omg LOVE "smooth toilet paper"!!! Amanda, you have made me very, very happy.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

You can thank my 7 year old self for that gem. We also penned "Mr. Toilet Bowl Man" in the "style of New Edition."

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm heading to the train in a minute, see some of ya'll later this evening!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Woah woah woah John, do you mean "What You Won't Do For Love" as in the Bobby Caldwell song?

Apparently so. Didn't know it was cover. (Man, YouTube is great.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I forgot to share a gem from today's papers:

"...picturing a girl playing the foamy game."

Guess what the foamy game is.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Come on, I know you have all played the foamy game.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.surround-sounds.co.uk/images/event/foam_party_6.jpg

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Based on a sampling of "What You Won't Do For Love" performances on YouTube:

Go West > Bobby Caldwell >>> Dionne Warwick (live) >>>>> Boyz II Men

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Nope, it was a small child. She was blowing bubbles.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I want to go to a foam party with a Christian youth group.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, Tom Wolfe.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha! I almost spit my apple out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link

See you all in approximately 2 hours, give or take 15 min. I am hungry and will come bearing cookies. Someone should call Kevin to make sure he's not frozen.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Go West > Bobby Caldwell >>> Dionne Warwick (live) >>>>> Boyz II Men

I have to check some of those out! Digd0wn has talked about doing that tune.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

What's with people leaving work early to go drink? Is that a valid reason? I've never tried it.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

behind on this thread...

but, omg baker street.

i am mad at my computer for being all slow with the youtube africa video.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

eric's interview on 848 is up:

http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/audio_library/848_radec06.asp

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Kr is coming to TT, yay.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link

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