During a school assembly in the early nineteen-eighties, a new youth disco night was announced.

I turned excitedly to my friend and said in a breathless voice:

“I hope they play some ELO!”

Immediately as I said it, I knew it was wrong. The gang in front of me, a small group of hard punk lads, turned around and repeated what I had said with an incredulous sneer…

Thus began several years of merciless pisstaking around this remark, which still makes my cheeks burn with embarrassment to think of...

H-GM wrote:I remember frantically calling WLS FM, which was 94.7 at the time, and requesting for "Yub Nub" to be their number one song for the day.

For your edification: YUB NUB

Enjoy.

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Rubby Chuckers wrote:I turned excitedly to my friend and said in a breathless voice:

“I hope they play some ELO!”

Immediately as I said it, I knew it was wrong.

It would have been worse if you had said "I hope they play some Electric Light Orchestra."

OK, here you go. As a young man, I owned the following albums at different times:

Loverboy--Get Lucky (the leather ass on the cover always creeped me out. I wasn't quite sure what they were suggesting. I'm not sure Loverboy themselves knew what they were suggesting.)

Quarterflash--S/T (grade-school-level sax playing)

Rick Springfield--Working Class Dog (Jessie's Girl, still pretty good)

Styx--Paradise Theater (dreadful from start to finish)

REO Speedwagon--Hi Infidelity (Get it? High in fidelity, like 'hi-fi,' but instead of 'in fidelity,' it's 'infidelity.' Get it?)

I am not saying I listened to any of them that much. Even if I did, I'm not saying which ones.

tmidgett wrote:OK, here you go. As a young man, I owned the following albums at different times:

Loverboy--Get Lucky (the leather ass on the cover always creeped me out. I wasn't quite sure what they were suggesting. I'm not sure Loverboy themselves knew what they were suggesting.)

Quarterflash--S/T (grade-school-level sax playing)

Rick Springfield--Working Class Dog (Jessie's Girl, still pretty good)

Styx--Paradise Theater (dreadful from start to finish)

REO Speedwagon--Hi Infidelity (Get it? High in fidelity, like 'hi-fi,' but instead of 'in fidelity,' it's 'infidelity.' Get it?)

I am not saying I listened to any of them that much. Even if I did, I'm not saying which ones.

I only owned the Loverboy and REO records from this list (I bailed on Styx after "Babe"). I remember Big Irv Ross, a Louisville punk legend, worked security at a Quarterflash show at the Kentucky State Fair and spent an inordinate amount of energy trying to convince me later that the bass player "totally kicked ass."

Loverboy played the Ozark-Empire Fair in Springfield, MO, in 1996. I attended the fair on the night of their performance but could not bring myself to enter the arena despite the fact that the show was free. I was afraid that, pushing fifty, they'd still be wearing head bands and those red leather jumpsuits. That's something I never need to see.

tmidgett wrote:
Styx--Paradise Theater (dreadful from start to finish)

My first record purchase, since lost. Remember that "art" on the b-side? It was like two reclining figures or something, imprinted in the actual vinyl. I had another record with art on the vinyl, but can't recall it.

I fear listening to this record ever again.

tmidgett wrote:Quarterflash--S/T

My first rock concert was Quarterflash, at the Yuma Civic and Convention Center.* I wanna say fifth grade. I went with my friend and 2 girls- it was a quasi-date.

If I remember right (and I do), Quarterflash was sorta-kinda new wave. Their hearts were hardened at some point, obviously.

We all thought they sucked. And we were in fuckin' fifth grade.





















On separate occasions I saw Roy Clark, Mel Tillis, and the Superstars Of Lawrence Welk (awesome show) there too. Morrissey - he of the huge Latino following - played there a few years ago.

dabrasha wrote:Remember that "art" on the b-side? It was like two reclining figures or something, imprinted in the actual vinyl.

It was LASER-ETCHED.

Honestly, even as a child, I didn't like Paradise Theater. But I thought I had to keep records forever if I bought them. So I had it for a few years.

Angus Jung wrote:If I remember right (and I do), Quarterflash was sorta-kinda new wave. Their hearts were hardened at some point, obviously.

We all thought they sucked. And we were in fuckin' fifth grade.

They were sort of a belabored, soft-serve version of Pat Benatar. Who is sort of a belabored, soft-serve version of Joan Jett.

This album only got a few plays, but like I said, I didn't know I could get rid of it once I owned it.

I still own I Love Rock and Roll and Bad Reputation. I wonder if I would still like them. Probably.

H-GM wrote:For your edification: YUB NUB

Enjoy.

Thanks, I did. Although my cat fled the room.

H-GM wrote:For your edification: YUB NUB

Enjoy.

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I fucking love "Yub Nub".


Ewoks are better than Soundgarden, too.

Ewoks were totally grunge, dude.