Today's AT40...

...is gonna suck.  Feb 16, 1980.  Disco, crossover country, cheesy ballads, and the very rare new wave hit.  i might spot-highlight a surprise or two, but I ain't doin' the line by line.

to hint, last week's top three were Coward of the County (Kenny Rogers), Do that to me one more time (Captain & Tennille), and Michael Jackson's Rock With You was #1.  Yeah, we're 0 for 3 here, guys.

Even Styx can't have a good one.  DeYoung was trying his "broadway" pop-stylings in Cornerstone's Why Me, styles that would eventually lead to Kilroy and the first breakup.  In spite of it's success, I find Cornerstone to be my least fav Styx album after the first four (pre-Shaw) records.  Let me put it this way: a 2-disc "greatest hits" cd set and this song didn't make that while songs that weren't even singles did.

And all these years later I still have no idea what to make of Zep's "Fool in the Rain".

top 3 - Kenny holds, Freddie (doing Elvis) in #2, and Captain and Tennille's last top 40 hit ever winds up in #1.  What a way to go out, 'eh?

btw, Casey repeated the now proven false rumor they were married Feb 14, 1974.  they were actually officially married on vet's day, 1975.

Good for Peter Gabriel

He's not performing or attending at the Oscars tonite 'cause

1. They reduced the number of nominees for original song from 5 to 3
2. They're going to perform them in one single medley instead of the traditional means of all of them getting their own spot in the night

I'm with him on that: quit short-changing good work, Academy.

I'm still hoping Wall-E wins everything it's up for, of course...

• score
• song
• screenplay
• sound
• sound editing
• animated film

and pretty much could care less about anything else that happens tonite...we may skip it entirely and just watch Ledger's nominated Dark Knight performance instead...or finish the West Wing. :)