09/30/2010 - You're Only Human - Billy Joel - 1985

today's

Ocho-rific
Song o the Day...

You're Only Human (Second Wind)
- Billy Joel - 1985 -

09/26/2010 - Be Good to Yourself - Journey - 1986

And now, for today's

Ocho-rific Song o the Day...
Be Good to Yourself
Journey
1986

09/12/2010 - Hold on Tight - ELO - 1981

Today's

Ocho-rific Song o the Day...Hold on Tight - ELO - 1981

09/08/2010 - ::Extra Goodies:: - Tom Petty - Moondance Jam, Farm Aid, Local Food & a DVD Trailer!

::Extra Goodies::

In this morning's Ocho-rific Song o the Day, it was referenced that both Sammy Hagar (with Van Halen) and Tom Petty performed at the first Farm Aid in 1985.

09/08/2010 - Runnin' Down A Dream - Tom Petty

Good morning and
Happy Mid-Week!

I'm sure you've all been terribly excited to see who we're moving to next, so I'll hop right to the it.

09/07/2010 - 6 Degree Wrap Up - Sammy Hagar

6 Degrees of Separation
Wrap Up

09/06/2010 - Van Halen
09/07/2010 - Sammy Hagar

What have we learned about Sammy Hagar today? 
What connection can be used to make my next move.... ?

09/07/2010 - ::Extra Goodies:: - Sammy Hagar

::Extra Goodies::

In this morning's Ocho-rific Song o the Day, "Montrose" was mentioned.  As press time I hadn't had a chance to google Montrose.  I have now and recognize them!!

09/07/2010 - Give To Live - Sammy Hagar - A TeQuila Plug & 6 Degrees of Separation!

Brace yourselves for a fun-packed day kids,

we're now playing

6 Degrees of Separation
The object of 6 Degrees of Separation is that each day's song must connect to the last day's song in some way.  So, yesterday's Ocho-rific Song o the Day was Right Now-Van Halen...an absolutely STUPENDOUS Upbeat Hit... 

File This Under ::Extra Goodies:: A Bonus Track from For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

::MORE Extra Goodies::

Could it be??  Yes it is!!
What the heck ... it's a holiday :)

09/06/2010- Oh, Phil Collins... You too???

::Extra Goodies::The ::WIKI "FACTS":: in this morning's Ocho-rific Song o the Day referenced Another Day in Paradise-Phil Collins.   I went to YouTube to get the video and embed it here .... but sadly; you can add Phil Collins to the list of people who don't want their videos embedded.

And YOUR First Concert Was?

Happy Saturday!!

I'm still editing pics from Thursday Night's Styx show in DuQuoin. 

8/31/2010 - Tues. - the Middle of the Road - the Pretenders

today's

Ocho-rific Song o the Day...

Middle of the Road

the Pretenders

1983
(I have a descrepancy over here ... 1983, 1984 - I'm not sure...I'll "fact check" it later.)

::from SongMeanings.net::

Lyrics - version 1

THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD IS TRYING TO FIND ME

I'M STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF LIFE WITH MY PLANS BEHIND ME

WELL I GOT A SMILE FOR EVERYONE I MEET

AS LONG AS YOU DON'T TRY DRAGGING MY BAY

OR DROPPING THE BOMB ON MY STREET

NOW COME ON BABY

GET IN THE ROAD

OH COME ON NOW

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD, YEAH

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD YOU SEE THE DARNDEST THINGS

LIKE FAT GUYS DRIVING 'ROUND IN JEEPS THROUGH THE CITY

WEARING BIG DIAMOND RINGS AND SILK SUITS

PAST CORRUGATED TIN SHACKS FULL UP WITH KIDS

OH MAN I DON'T MEAN A HAMPSTEAD NURSERY

WHEN YOU OWN A BIG CHUNK OF THE BLOODY THIRD WORLD

THE BABIES JUST COME WITH THE SCENERY

OH COME ON BABY

GET IN THE ROAD

OH COME ON NOW

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD, YEAH

ONE...TWO...THREE...FOUR...

THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD IS NO PRIVATE CUL-DE-SAC

I CAN'T GET FROM THE CAB TO THE CURB

WITHOUT SOME LITTLE JERK ON MY BACK

DON'T HARASS ME, CAN'T YOU TELL

I'M GOING HOME, I'M TIRED AS HELL

I'M NOT THE CAT I USED TO BE

I GOT A KID, I'M THIRTY-THREE

BABY, GET IN THE ROAD

COME ON NOW

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD

YEAH

See Lyrics - version 2!


::from ArtistFacts.com::
Hynde was a Freshman at Kent State University in 1970,
and was protesting when the National Guard killed 4 students. She left and never went back to college.

((editor's note:  It's a good thing the NG was there to guard everyone from the
CARDBOARD SIGNS that were being used to protest ... 
that could've been a real disaster ............))

Any of you young whippersnappers who doodle on your notebook in history and aren't familiar with "Kent State" can click HERE to read the WIKI on it.I've pasted some of the shocking details below:

**the guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.**

**There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of four million students, and the event further affected the public opinion – at an already socially contentious time – over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.**

**The shootings killed four students and wounded nine. Two of the four students killed, Allison Krause and Jeffrey Miller, had participated in the protest, and the other two, Sandra Scheuer and William Knox Schroeder, had been walking from one class to the next at the time of their deaths. Schroeder was also a member of the campus ROTC chapter. Of those wounded, none was closer than 71 feet to the guardsmen. Of those killed, the nearest (Miller) was 265 feet away, and their average distance from the guardsmen was 345 feet.**


::from SongFacts.com::
In the lyrics, Hynde mentions she's "Got a kid." She was raising her daughter, Natalie,
as a single mother after leaving the father, Ray Davies from the Kinks.

::WIKI "FACTS"::
Appears on The Pretenders' album Learning to Crawl.

It peaked at #19 on the US pop singles chart and
#2 on the US mainstream rock chart in January 1984, where it stayed for four weeks.

The band has experienced drug-related deaths of the members, and numerous subsequent personnel changes have taken place over the years, with Hynde as the sole continual member.



For more on The Pretenders,
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August 28th, 2010 - Run Runaway - Slade - 1983

Good morning and Happy Saturday, Cats, Kittens and little dahlings!!

You can thank Mary 6-name for this Ocho-rific extravaganza about running away!!

We've both been dying to take off on a Thelma & Louise adventure ... however we do not plan to shoot out any police radios or anything like that on our adventure. Anywho, we're running away in just a tad over 83 days and I'm terribly excited!

August 26th, 2010 - If You Leave - OMD

Well I certainly know where I was at this moment twelve years ago today. 


I was sitting on a balcony in Ocho Rios, Jamaica having a ciggie and a cuppa java on what was ...
my wedding day.  Wow!  That seems like an absolute lifetime ago. 

"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice..."

What a crummy day to be running a day behind on the Ocho-rific Song o the Day!

I never did get this song posted yesterday, so I'm backposting it for 11:59pm :) ...
I chose it because of a Facebook status message on the page of a friend.  I may revisit this and update it on Saturday because I DO have a LOT to say on the topic of FREEWILL! :)  

Tuesday - 8/24/2010 An Ocho-rific Cover Tune - that'll show YOU, David Bowie...

Modern Love

David Bowie

1983

David Bowie and his people don't want me to embed his video,
so you can click here to open it in a new window on youtube. =)

And by the way, David Bowie ... should you or your people happen to wonder back over here to my Ocho-rific little world (after you notice the spike in views on your 27ish year old song!!) .. please note that it's a total pain in the arse to not be able to embed a video.  Good Grief!! Natalie Merchant is the worst!! She just wears me out with her anti-online-socialness.  For the love of Peter, Paul and Mary ... it's MARKETING, you dingle-dwarfs!!
It's for the benefit of you!!

The Ocho-riffic Song o' the Day - 8/17/2010 - A La Tears for Fears

((Well it doesn't feel very Ocho-riffic to me now because it's four days late.  I intended for this to be the Ocho-riffic song of the day on Friday the 13th.  Needless to say, the morning got away from me and by the end of the night, the LAST thing on earth I felt was Ocho-riffic.  And so, I'll take another run at making this a daily feature ... to challenge myself, if nothing else ...))Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Tears for Fears -

Overkill by Men at Work

I hate to have to remind myself why I'm exhausted and feel craptacular. 

It's amazing the path we can take when we sit down to get online.  Just as I was off to bed last night, I logged onto youtube to hear a song that'd been stuck in my head all day.  It all began as I was brushing my teeth around 8:40 central time.  It would've been fine for me to still be brushing my teeth at 8:40 if I worked in the same time zone.  My workplace time clock is ten minutes ahead of the central time zone, therefore it was actually 8:50 "workplace time" and my estimated travel time to work is eight minutes.