Taking Sides: "Fly At Night" vs "Fly By Night"

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Which Canadian AOR classic do you prefer? I'm leaning towards Chilliwhack at the moment.

sundar subramanian, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Time's like a rubber band, time's at our command...Philip K Dick or what? Chilliwack's 'Dreams Dreams Dreams' = incredibly underrated! Kind of like what Fleetwood Mac were doing contemporaneously except with more hard rock muscle than Buckingham managed. "California Girl" is nice too. Is their first double LP still in print? Classic 70s liner notes - "We decided to improvise in the studio on the spot for the 20 minutes that make up side 4". How did Jerkoff Jim Vallance come to represent Vancouver to the world when Bill Henderson is still active?

dave q, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I just meant songs not albums by the way.

sundar subramanian, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I recently made a two-volume "80s" CD-R set for myself and for a friend who is really into that period of music, featuring some of the lesser-known, sadly forgotten tracks from the dawn-of-MTV. It prominently features Chiliwack's "My Girl", sandwiched in-between "He Can't Love You" by the Michael Stanley Band and "She Sheila" by The Producers. I also put on there Triumph's "Say Goodbye", another forgotten classic (well, to me anyway; see Top 10 AOR Songs of All Time thread), and FM's "Phasors on Stun", which didn't make it to MTV (to my knowledge) but really should have. No Rush on there, though. Maybe I can sneak in "The Body Electric" for the next one. 1-0-0-1-0- 0-1...SOS! :)

Joe, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

54-40, the major label debut, with "Baby Ran," etc.

nickn, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How did Jerkoff Jim Vallance come to represent Vancouver to the world when Bill Henderson is still active?
I dunno about you, but when I think about Vancouver music establishment these days, I think Bob Rock. Jim Vallance is from ye olde David Foster days, in my mind.

Sean Carruthers, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hey, the b side of paul hardcastle's '19' is called fly by night. i thought thuis thread was about that. that is a wikked tune.

ambrose, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

_Fly By Night_ has "By-Tor And The Snow Dog" on it!

Dan Perry, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Do you mean By-Tor, Prince of Darkness, Centurion of Eeeeeeeeevil?

Ayn Rand III, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

thirteen years pass...

By-Tor and the Snow Dog is such a beautiful song

flappy bird, Friday, 27 November 2015 05:10 (ten years ago)


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