August 18, 2004

Talking back to 80s music, 32

Nope, sorry lady. This train goes to Albuquerque. 

Dennis DeYoung, “Desert Moon”

Posted by Jeff G. @ 1:18am
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  1. Jeff Goldstein says August 18, 2004 at 2:13 pm

    You all are pathetic.  Pathetic.

  2. Nathan says August 18, 2004 at 3:36 pm

    Okay, I can go with Tommy Shaw, but this song confirms Dennis DeYoung’s senility/insanity (first indicated by the song/album Mr. Roboto).

    I am perhaps the world’s biggest Styx fan, but it is absolutely unacceptable that you even deigned to acknowledge the travesty that is Desert Moon with a reply.

  3. Glenn Miller says August 18, 2004 at 3:39 pm

    A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-

    I’ve got a gal in Kalamazoo.

    Oops, wrong decade.

  4. Scott P says August 18, 2004 at 3:57 pm

    10,000 Maniacs?

  5. Scott P says August 18, 2004 at 4:01 pm

    Desert Moon?  Bbbllllleeeeeeeeccccccchhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

  6. Jeff Goldstein says August 18, 2004 at 4:11 pm

    I actually had the album.  Along with Girls With Guns from Tommy Shaw.

    I also owned a moog.  And wore a wizard’s cap. And slaughtered rose bushes on instructions from a drum solo in Emerson Lake & Palmer’s “Karn Evil number 9, 3rd Impression.”

  7. Nathan says August 18, 2004 at 5:26 pm

    Like I said, Tommy Shaw is fine.  Girls With Guns was the worst of his solo albums, but still head and shoulders over any of the garbage Dennis DeYoung put out.

    Yeah, I know: taking Styx members and their post-Styx careers seriously is geekdom of the worst sort… I have no excuse.  Even geeks consider me a geek they don’t want to hang out with.

  8. Scott P says August 18, 2004 at 5:31 pm

    OK, I’ll fess up, too.  Owned Styx and Peter Frampton albums.  Played “Lucky Man” on my Micro Moog over and over and….

    There.  I feel better already.  Now I can go listen to my Cher CDs and feel good about myself.  Doh!

  9. Beck says August 18, 2004 at 6:29 pm

    Back it up a decade (or two?), and you’ve got the last train to Clarkesville.

    Meet you at the station.

  10. triticale says August 19, 2004 at 3:03 am

    Pardon me, Roy, is that the cat that chewed your new shoes?

  11. Greg says August 19, 2004 at 12:02 pm

    Perhaps Sheena (?Sp) Easton’s Morning Train. There was some truly terrible music in that decade, but she really looked good.

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