Mystery Kwiz--Cancelled

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

* avi.

I'm a retard

Kwiz cancelled

[seawolf17]

A: Six people who have never been in my kitchen.



P.S. Weird: A Google image search for "cliff claven" (no quotes) yields this image as the nineteenth image on the page:



(It's because of an espn.com Page 2 article that mentions Clavin, but it still comes across as odd.)

[soupcan]

A: All made their ML debuts in September?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Bradford's presence on the list makes it all the more puzzling. All of the others were position players who spent at least a few years with the Mets. Bradford's a pitcher who's only been around for a little while.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Stop guessing.

[soupcan]

You are retarded.

Tommy Tutone would be ashamed of you.

Not to mention Jenny.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Now this is even more intriguing.

Carter, Backman, Kranepool, Bradford, Floyd, Jefferies.

None of them were born in Guam. Could that be it?

[Elster88]

What were you going for?

[metirish]

I think Dickshots kid is keeping him up late at night, Johnny is not himself it seems.

[soupcan]

Sheesh, you guys are dense.

867-5309

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Soup wins!!!!

Heard that song on the radio this morning

[Elster88]

What?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I thought it might have something to do with uniform numbers, but when I strung the numbers together I got something that didn't mean anything to me.

Now that I see that phone number, above, it still doesn't.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Okay, now I know

Never heard of the song. That's why I didn't do well in the song parody contest last year.

[soupcan]

That's cause Mr. Mets-by-the-numbers screwed it up.

The players he listed, in order, are

8,6,7,53,30,9.

He threw the extra '3' in there.

If he used Steve Henderson instead of Bradford, then it works out.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Okay, now I know Never heard of the song.

WHAT?

[metirish]

Great, now that song will be playing in my head all day.....cool quiz though and good job by soup.

[soupcan]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: ="Yancy Street Gang"]Okay, now I know Never heard of the song. WHAT?

Yancy spent the '80's reading comic books with the radio off.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I spent the 70's reading comics with the radio off.

I only listen to music in the car (and now, not even then) and in 1982 I was listening to oldies on WCBS-FM.

There was only a brief period of time when I listened to Top Forty radio (in the final few years of WABC) and that was the only time I was hip to popular music.

So no, I've never heard of that song.

[MFS62]

I used to listen every Monday night to the new top 40 list on WABC.
Years later, when I was on my honeymoon, I met Cousin Brucie (Morrow) who was emceeing a rock-and-roll show in the hotel where we were staying.

Later

[Vic Sage]

] I spent the 70's reading comics with the radio off.

I read my comics in the 70s with the radio ON. But that was the last period of time i listened to top 40... Elton John, America, Billy Joel, Meatloaf, Harry Chapin, Foreigner, Boston, Styx, Kansas, Yes, Jackson Browne.

But I hated the inescapable disco sound on the radio of the era, and so i mostly listened to my older brother's LPs --- British rock (Beatles, Who, Pink FLoyd, Tull, Kinks), folk-ish, country-ish rock stuff (Simon & Garfunkel, CCR, Dylan & The Band, CSN, Cat Stevens, Jim Croce, Randy Newman), R & B (Motown, Ray Charles, early Steve Miller, Van Morrison), Springsteen and Elvis --- and dad's jazz vocalists (dinah washington, sarah vaughn, ella, tony bennett), and mom's showtunes.

When i went to college (1978 - 1982) at SUNY Stony Brook, i stopped listening to radio almost entirely. The only new music i heard was from the LPs i hoisted from the Concerts Committee slush pile (they got promotional LPs from all the record labels). So I was listening to a variety of eclectic stuff that i never would have heard otherwise, because they weren't on mainstream radio stations... Laurie Anderson, T-Bone Burnett, George Winston, Kitaro, Pat Metheny, Robert Fripp, Renaissance, Brian Eno, Tom Waits

The campus concert series exposed me to other stuff as well (Cyndi Lauper, Bangles, Go Gos, Stray Cats, Prenders, Talking Heads, King Crimson). And Zappa played there every year, attendance to which became a ritualized experience. There was also a local band called The Good Rats, which i liked alot. The more mainstream radio stuff of the period that i did like included Dire Straits, Peter Gabriel, Blondie, The Clash, Queen, The Police, Prince. and the Doors were in the midst of a big revival at that time.

After college, i didn't like the haircut bands and silly brit-pop and euro-dance crap i heard everywhere (except for Eurythmics, which i liked alot), and "punk" (which I didn't like, but at least had a personality) had morphed into the pointlessly generic "new wave", so i reverted even more into exploring 60s rock and my other earlier faves.

A few new acts have slipped under the radar over the years...Warren Zevon, Suzanne Vega, Tracey Chapman, Enya, some others. But i've managed to largely avoid the disco era, euro-dance music, heavy metal, the entire grunge era, alternative (to what?) bands, and rap/hip-hop.

Instead, I've expanded my interest in earlier forms (classical, rag, jazz instrumental, celtic) and continue to mine the backlists of favorite artists.

But at this point, i have no idea whats going on in the top-40 pop music field, and every time i hear the newest DJ-Killdabitch, or the next Britney Spears, or the next American Idol, i realize im not missing much.

[Guest Edgy DC]

]There was only a brief period of time when I listened to Top Forty radio (in the final few years of WABC) and that was the only time I was hip to popular music.

That's why not knowing of it is remarkable. There was nothing hip about hearing 867-5309. It was just sonic wallpaper for a year. It was played between innings at Shea. It came with credit card applications. Planes would fly overhead dragging it on a banner at the beach.

Admittedly there are records people reference as having been ubiquitous for a time during my sentience and I have no idea what they're talking about. I wouldn't know "I've Never Been to Me" if it sat me down and showed me pictures of us together.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Still play the Island a few times a week

[Vic Sage]

Does the lead guy still strut around playing air guitar on a baseball bat?

I love RAT CITY IN BLUE.
you have a picture of that one?

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

goodrats.com

[G-Fafif]

="soupcan"]Sheesh, you guys are dense. 867-5309

We would have also accepted "the No. 284 song of all-time".

(I only bring it up since Dickshot's been exposed to my Top 500 list.)

[Guest Edgy DC]

Funny, I have the Good Rats' "Takin' It to Detroit" at 284.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

You should post the top 500.