<p>'78? 7th grade? Thanks for making me feel really, really old.</p>
<p>78- I lived in upstate New York- it was always a fricken blizzard…it took an ice storm with black ice to have anything shut down</p>
<p>my hair actually would freeze on the way to school if I didn’t dry it enough</p>
<p>Hey I participated in a '79 blizzard…but it was in Golden, Colorado! It was a freak storm that dumped at least three feet during the Thanksgiving weekend. It was my first holiday away from home and I lived in a basement apartment. My husband and I had to dig ourselves out so he could hike to his Monday classes, which his hardcore profs had refused to cancel.</p>
<p>And speaking of the Kohl’s commercial…here’s the original video of In a Big Country. I LOVED that song… even though the video is hilariously lame. (But we all thought it was so cool back then right?? :-)</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udMGCJF0fXs[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udMGCJF0fXs</a></p>
<p>HA! Maxine Waters is that crazy congresswoman from LA…I meant Maxine Nightingale (the original singer of “Right Back Where We Started From”. Too much politics, too much politics…
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<p>driver, I was in the Boston area at college for the blizzard in 1978 and in grad school in Philadelphia for the one I think you are describing ( February of 1983 - I still have the pictures). Still trying to figure out who your BF must have been, though!</p>
<p>Nope – Pearl Harbor and the Explosions were history by 1983. I saw them in SFO (their home) in '79 or '80, though. Great New Wave band, sort of a No Doubt precursor, with some really good songs.</p>
<p>My nomination for weirdest use of music in a commercial: The Iggy Pop heroin anthem “Lust For Life” in those cruise line ads.</p>
<p>It was definitely ‘79 when I saw them. They had one quasi-hit called "Drivin’" (no relation), but the thing that stands out in my my mind was Pearl’s great covers at the end. She was just awesome.</p>
<p>Roshke, I lived about a block off of Comm Ave. in the '78 blizzard, right where Allston Ave. starts and Comm Ave. curves sharply into Brighton. Never have seen anything quite like that one, before or since. I woke up to see soldiers walking down the street with long sticks, trying to locate cars in advance of enormous bulldozers. That guy wasn’t really my boyfriend…just a guy I knew. I was the local Chrissy Hynde–a shameless groupie who knew 'em all. I still see the guy I mentioned at the gym now and then, and remind him that he had a shot once, and blew it. He’s a very nice man.</p>
<p>JHS, Of course. Driver only <em>said</em> 1979 in her post! Sorry bout that. </p>
<p>And yep, I second nomination of that song in the cruise commercial because after all… shooting up heroin is WAY more than a vacation!</p>
<p>What about the Beatle’s song Taxman for H and R Block? The song isn’t meant to be exactly complimentary to the "taxman! " H and R Block, while not the government, is the taxman supposedly referenced by the song!</p>
<p>driver, sorry crossposted with you there. I was out in the Boston suburbs at the time where we also had the National Guard patrolling the streets. We weren’t supposed to leave the dorms for days, but mine was right on the edge of the campus, just next to the town, so a few of us us did go out to take a peek. When we saw guns we ran back to the dorms pretty fast!</p>
<p>im kind of offended that you think that our music wont be around in 40 years? Your parents probably said the same thing to you when you were young. It’s silly. I plan on listening to the bands I like when I’m an adult. I dont listen to them because of a fad, i like the songs.</p>
<p>If you want to really get saturated in 70’s music (or any other decade for that matter), try XM radio. I’m an itinerant teacher of visually impaired students so I spend lots of time drivng around my school district. Although I will admit to some 70’s songs being sappy(ie. not a real fan of “Paper Roses”), its fun going down memory lane and remembering where you were when you heard…song. My kids get tired of it and want to change the station quickly, but when I’m by myself I find the channel finder going back to the 70’s. :)</p>
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<p>I vaguely remember some of those names. I think I was at the Bijou & possibly Stars. It seemed like a lot of clubs were going disco when I was there-a big disappointment to me. Most of the rock bands I saw in those days were the student bands which played the frat houses. Mostly covers with a few originals thrown in. At least I didn’t have to practice any steps to be able to dance.</p>
<p>Driver said: “I lived about a block off of Comm Ave. in the '78 blizzard, right where Allston Ave. starts and Comm Ave.”</p>
<p>Driver,</p>
<p>In '79 I lived in an apartment within blocks of that location. It was above a restaurant/bar on Comm Ave, across from a Kappy’s Liquors if I remember correctly, right near Brighton Road We used to go to Kinvara Pub in Allston for cheap drinks, darts and an easy staggering distance home.</p>
<p>Was into the Specials, Selecter, Madness and other Ska revivalists in '79, but didn’t go for the leather look. Got “London Calling” while in that apartment, and the Pretenders debut, and that other classic debut “Get the Knack”!</p>
<p>God help me…I just love old music threads. All sorts of memories triggered. I’m still stuck in 1979, and whoever gets this question right gets a slice of pizza at Fella’s and I’ll take you to the packy for some be-ah. Kappy’s will be fine.</p>
<p>The greatest and coolest rock 'n roll lady of all time recorded her first solo album in 1979 and included a cover of Graham Parker’s “Thunder and Rain” on it. Mick Ronson produced and played guitar. You know her amazing voice, even if you don’t know this album or can’t think of her name.</p>
<p>OK, let’s see how good you guys are.</p>
<p>Edit: There weren’t no disco at those clubs, Audio!</p>
<p>I cheated and looked it up, but once I saw the name, I knew where else I heard her voice. </p>
<p>Driver, wasn’t there a well known disco on Bainbridge?</p>
<p>I’ll still get you the pizza some day. I can’t think of any discos on Bainbridge, but I was married and off the streets by '82, so maybe it came later.</p>
<p>Ellen Foley’s “Night Out”. The single “We Belong to the Night” got play on WBCN, which spun an incredibly diverse mix of music for 78 - 80.</p>
<p>Better known as the female lead on Meatloaf’s “Paradise by the Dashbaord Light”.</p>
<p>Also from the same year, what 60’s London icon and recovering drug addict released a critically aclaimed album after a lenghty absence, sounding like a female version of Leonard Cohen?</p>
<p>OOh, ooh. This one I know because I have it in my collection: Marianne Faithful.</p>
<p>Gold star to the AudioP!</p>
<p>How many of these do you remember from College radio circa 1979, when “Alternative” was called New Wave?</p>
<p><a href=“Various Artists - CMJ the Year in Alternative Music 1979 Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic”>Various Artists - CMJ the Year in Alternative Music 1979 Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic;
<p>OK, here’s a question back: This self titled mid 70s album (that I’m listening to right now) was released after the group broke up. Heavily VU influenced, most of their demos were produced by John Cale. The lead song is described in the liner notes as "one of the all-time greatest pedal-to-the-metal car-drivin’, rock “n"roll songs.” I agree 100%.</p>