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Time to get another song of the day thread going, this one about 80s songs, specifically ones that gained popularity by being played on MTV a lot.
Plus, it will give many of us who are suckers for 80s music a chance to talk about those songs that maybe aren't worthy of their own threads, so to speak.
Whitesnake - Is This Love
Earlier today, I was at Quiznos, this song was playing at the store, and all I could think was, "Is this song really 25 years old already?" Hard to believe. 1987 was the year I graduated from 8th grade, and a bunch of us spent that whole summer hanging out before we all went to different high schools, and about a dozen or so songs from that time period remind me of that summer, including this Whitesnake tune. :coolio
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Personally, one of the worst songs on an otherwise flawless album. Just inspired me to go and give it a spin.
Following this thread, as I'm a full on junkie for glam/hair metal.
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Sweet. I will touch everything from Whitesnake to Debbie Gibson to Bon Jovi to Adam Ant to Madonna to Tears for Fears in this thread. If it got played on MTV a lot in the 80s, it is fair game! :biggrin:
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I'm gonna be following. That was the year I graduated HS, and was in my transition from metalhead to prognerd, had just discovered IQ and Marillion, and was instantly more cultured than everyone else. I love going back to the hair metal and realizing how my snobbishness from both sides made me miss a shit ton of really good music.
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1987 was a great year for hard rock music. I was 19 and had a decent income in my first job and most of it went on lps and I bought a cd player this year too. I had the Bon Jovi curly perm too. Luckily there is very little photographic evidence around from those days!
1987 was a great album, Coverdale a great singer, but that video was bad even then. Cost him a few quid too with the divorce.
Just been jamming on Bad Boys this afternoon too.
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Excellent tune. I love Syke's work on this album and this tune is no exception. FANTASTIC clean tones and interesting chord voicings. I love the feeling in it. Also, a great lead that doesn't need to completely rip to get its point across.
Slight tangent: For some reason, everytime I hear "Just Between Us" by Talisman (Jeff Scott Soto's band), the solo reminds me of "Is This Love". Dunno why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X97eOsHrXXg (solo at 1:55)
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Yeah, we are gonna need you to dig up that picture, Lowdz. ;)
And given how many 80s songs there are, even this is a Song of the Day, there are likely to be days where I do more than one.
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Yeah, we are gonna need you to dig up that picture, Lowdz. ;)
This.
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Excellent tune. I love Syke's work on this album and this tune is no exception. FANTASTIC clean tones and interesting chord voicings. I love the feeling in it. Also, a great lead that doesn't need to completely rip to get its point across.
Agreed. I really like the leads he plays after the first two choruses, and how the second one slightly varies from the one after the first before going into the solo. It's almost like the first one is a tease before heading into the second verse, and then the second is hitting letting loose with the solo, but, like you said, never showing off or getting too crazy. Good stuff.
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Are we allowed to post some, or only comment on your choices?
Good tune. Not as good as a lot of others on the album, but still solid and brings back a lot of memories. I actually sang this for my solo assigning in pop choir senior year in H.S. The two rocker chicks in class were like: :metal The others were like, "oh, wow. This is Whitesnake? I thought they were like scary metal, but this is actually pretty good."
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Are we allowed to post some, or only comment on your choices?
I would probably prefer to let me post them, for fear of 10 people posting different songs in the same day and it turning into a cluster, but I guess there could be a way of letting others post some, too. Any ideas? I just don't want it to be a free-for-all where anyone and everyone is throwing songs out left and right and some get lust in the shuffle and don't get their proper due in the way of discussion.
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No, that's fine. I just wan't 100% sure what you intended.
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Is this song REALLY 25 years old? :o
One of the lesser songs on this album, but given how high quality it was-I'd have no problem with someone calling Whitesnake's 1987 album the best hard rock album of the 80s-it means that its pretty good. Very solid rock tune, and yes, those damn videos didn't hurt the success of that album in the least. Great tune.
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My intention is to have lots of talk about 80s cheese, aqua net, spandex and Robert Sweet's ginormous drum kit. :biggrin:
But really, even if multiple songs are being talked about, that is all good. A new one being brought up for discussion doesn't mean anyone can't still talk about the previous ones. Speaking of which...
Van Halen - Hot for Teacher
Okay, who didn't see this video back in 1984 and think it was the coolest video ever? Certainly not I. This video epitomizes the 80s, both the good and the bad. And the bad worked at the time. Plus, this was like DLR's dress rehearsal for when he went solo and really went crazy with the corny, fun videos. :biggrin:
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Following. Grew up watching MTV in the 80s. Was 11 in 1987. Never was a huge Whitesnake fan, but recall this video getting lots of play.
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My intention is to have lots of talk about 80s cheese, aqua net, spandex and Robert Sweet's ginormous drum kit. :biggrin:
But really, even if multiple songs are being talked about, that is all good. A new one being brought up for discussion doesn't mean anyone can't still talk about the previous ones. Speaking of which...
Van Halen - Hot for Teacher
Okay, who didn't see this video back in 1984 and think it was the coolest video ever? Certainly not I. This video epitomizes the 80s, both the good and the bad. And the bad worked at the time. Plus, this was like DLR's dress rehearsal for when he went solo and really went crazy with the corny, fun videos. :biggrin:
Cool video- cracked up the first time I saw it when Waldo speaks.
And my teachers didn't look like that.
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I was also bummed that my teachers never looked like that either. Good song, great video.
Love Is This Love too. Great clean guitar, sweet vocals and brilliant Syke lead work.
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Sit down, Waldo :lol
I love that video, and "Just a Gigalo" even more. I'll stick around as long as awesomeness is delivered.
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The best part about this type of nostalgia is remembering what "firsts" we attach to certain songs.
Hot for Teacher, first song I saw a stripper dance to. Hot blonde named Madison at my brother's friend's bachelor party, she came out in a business suit, hair in a bunt, glasses, smacking a ruler against her palm. When the song hit the opening DLR scream, the hair, glasses, and top went flying away, along with with my innocence. Needless to say, this song holds a special place in my heart.
Can't wait till you get to Ratt. :caffeine:
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I have no such memories tied to Hot For Teacher. However, the mention of DLR's solo career does remind me of the fact that Eat 'em and Smile was the first CD I ever bought. Hot For Teacher has to be one of the few double bass pounding drum beats that actually made it into pop radio. Still head bang along with it to this day. Speaking of which, gotta go hit play.
Oh, and killer guitar solo (walking down the library tables).
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Can't wait till you get to Ratt. :caffeine:
First time you danced as a stripper?
(https://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/bosk1/DTF/lsgc.jpg)
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Cute. Very cute. We're just gonna have to wait and see if he picks the song now, won't we.
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Cute. Very cute. We're just gonna have to wait and see if he picks the song now, won't we.
(https://img52.imageshack.us/img52/8751/lolwutwl.png)
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Thanks to Edan, I have an endless series of avatars. Still don't know what's behind the fucking door though.
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The Whitesnake video was bad, but turn down the sound and just watch Tawny Kitaen writhe around for four or five minutes and it's okay.
I always thought "Hot for Teacher" was ultra cheesy, even for Van Halen, and honestly, the "teachers" in the video did nothing for me. If I'd been a teenaged boy in a classroom with teachers like that dancing in my face? Hell yes! But the video was stupid. The guitar solo was good, though.
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Cute. Very cute. We're just gonna have to wait and see if he picks the song now, won't we.
List the song. Just make sure it's bolded, so it stands out. :)
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Is This Love was a good but not great song from that album. As Orbert said, the video is spank worthy but to me, the song is ok.
Hot for Teacher is the one VH song I skip. I think I heard it 5 million times my sophomore year in HS.
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The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian
I actually didn't like this song that much when it was first out, which seems strange given that I liked much of the 80s cheese at the time back then, but over time, it grew on me. Odd that a song like this would grow on you :lol, but whenever it comes up when I play my 80s playlist, I enjoy it now. And who didn't think Susanna Hoffs was the bomb-diggity back then? Hell, she still looks pretty damn good for early 50s!
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Good call. Although if I could pick one and only one Bangles song to listen to, it would easily be Hazy Shade Of Winter.
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I was never that wild about that one. I liked Manic Monday the best back then, and Eternal Flame was nice.
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Good call. Although if I could pick one and only one Bangles song to listen to, it would easily be Hazy Shade Of Winter.
Agreed.
Is This Love is OK. I was never crazy about the "super" lineup playing or acting the bits of the recorded band.
I still love Hot For Teacher. Videos by nature are cheesy, but that song still kicks complete ass to me.
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Hot For Teacher - one of the quintessential Van Halen songs. It is the 80's condensed into one ass kicking of a song. Over the top video? Check? Lyrical content contains references to drinking, partying, or banging hot chicks? Check. Guitar solo badassery? Check. DLR being DLR? Check. Man, this song is unreal. Just turning it on, grabbing a guitar, and playing along makes you feel better. As Roth said, "'Old Van Halen, when I was in it-classic Van Halen-makes you wanna drink, dance and screw, right? And the new Van Halen encourages you to drink milk, drive a Nissan and have a relationship." As much as I like Sammy, I can't deny that old VH has that effect. :lol
WLAE - Nice. It's a pretty catchy tune and it didn't hurt that even the least hot Bangle was still hittable. I hear it from time to time and am still shaken by that guitar tone at the end, the big brassy Danelectro-ish kinda sound. Cool. Still an earworm of a tune. As for Susanna Hoffs, if you haven't seen it, look up her live cover of Bad Company's "Feel Like Makin' Love" and attempt to not be stirred by it. ;)
EDIT: Saw the additional comments and thought "I really liked Eternal Flame." Then saw KS mentioned it. :tup
EDIT #2: If interested (hint: you're interested), here's the aforementioned Susana Hoffs "FLML" performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol4MaEPayv0
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The best thing about Hot for Teacher is that riff. I defy anyone to tell me that that riff doesn't kick major ass. :metal
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The best part about it is that it's such a simple riff, yet so effectively ass-kicking.
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I used to go to a club a lot that had a dance floor devoted to 80s music. This was one of 3 songs that during which I would take a bathroom break if it came on.
Eternal Flame was one of those quintessential middle school dance songs.
And who didn't think Susanna Hoffs was the bomb-diggity back then?
I sure as hell did! Haven't seen her lately, off to google, brb!
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Okay, I'm now caught up on watching all the videos mentioned in this thread (plus Cruel Summer, because even though it's Bananarama and not The Bangles, I still always think of that song when I think of the Bangles for some reason).
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I've always been too critical for my own good, and it often stops me from enjoying things that other people enjoy. The first time I saw the "Walk Like an Egyptian" video, I thought it was one of the stupidest things I've ever heard and seen. I still believe that. There's the ancient paintings with the dudes posed with their arms like that, but for fuck's sake, they didn't actually walk around like that. And even if they did, it still looks completely stupid.
Even though Susannah was adorable, this video didn't even fit into the "turn the sound down and just watch the babes" category for me. The Bangles had much better videos for that.
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Susanna Hoffs was one of my biggest crushes. That is all.
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Also, that scene in "The Allnighter"? Yeah.
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Susanna Hoffs was one of my biggest crushes. That is all.
This.
I bought the Bangles' first single (remember them?)- Hero Takes A Fall- after seeing it on the Whistle Test program here in the UK. Good song but I think I was swayed by Susannah tbh.
Pat Benatar was the one who did it for me- before she went lesbian-chic in the mid-eighties. Remember watching a live concert on tv and becoming hooked.
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Speaking of Pat Benatar...
Pat Benatar - Shadows of the Night
Hands down, one of my favorite songs of the 80s when I was growing up, and I still love it. That chorus is the definition of a perfect pop rock chorus, and the song even rocks quite a bit. And how much corny fun was the video? I can never listen to this song loud enough when it comes on. :hat
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Good song, but she could never recreate the powerhouse that was Crimes of Passion, such a killer album. And yes, loved her too. :heart
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I'm with everybody about Hazy Shade Of Winter. Never was a fan of Walk Like An Egyptian.
Shadow In The Night was a letdown for me at the time but it grew on me and I really like it now. Was a bigger fan of Little Too Late from the same album.
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*Waits for Depeche Mode/The Cure/New Order/The Smiths* :dangerwillrobinson:
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Shadows of the Night had a ridiculously infectious chorus. Very catchy. Good stuff.
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Susanna Hoffs was one of my biggest crushes. That is all.
And all I have to say about Shadows of the Night is: one mention of the song and the damn chorus is ALREADY stuck in my head! :lol
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Kev, my bud and I always sing Shadows of The Night on Rockband so if you can imagine two dudes singing falsetto to that song you'd die laughing.
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Kev, my bud and I always sing Shadows of The Night on Rockband so if you can imagine two dudes singing falsetto to that song you'd die laughing.
Who does the high harmomy?
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I do it and then I don't speak for a week.
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Awesome thread, thanks for doing it!! Is this love is a great ballad; pure cheese, but great. Hot for teacher is a classic video. Don't know much about Bangles
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I do it and then I don't speak for a week.
:rollin
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Seeing how I graduated from high school in 1988, I'm definitely following this thread.
Songs thus far:
1. Like Mister jingle, I agree that it was the worst song on an otherwise kickass record. So mush so that I remember seeing Whitesnake open for Motley Crue on the Girls Girls Girls tour, and I thought that Whitesnake blew the Crue AWAY that night.
2. Ah, yes... Hot For Teacher. GREAT video, always liked it a lot. Didn't have cable while I was living in Houston (long story) so I'd have to rely on either staying over at friend's houses for my MTV fix or a show called Friday Night Videos every Friday on NBC. The song still holds up, but the video made it that more legendary. You can't argue with DLR's antics OR the kids they got to play the VH dudes.
3. Never liked The Bangles too much, but I gained a little more appreciation for them when I found out Prince had written Manic Monday. I prefer their cover of Hazy Shade of Winter, but I've warmed up to WLAE over the years. BUT... the song reminds me of my older brother's parody of it, Walk With An Erection. :lol
4. I prefer Pat's stuff that came before Shadows of the Night. Her "80s" persona, IMO, killed her hard-rocking persona too quickly. This song stands NO chance against Heartbreaker, Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Hell Is For Children, or Promises in the Dark.
And I'm caught up. :metal
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I do it and then I don't speak for a week.
:rollin
:lol Seriously. I tell my bud I have to warm up singing other songs before I tackle that!
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4. I prefer Pat's stuff that came before Shadows of the Night. Her "80s" persona, IMO, killed her hard-rocking persona too quickly. This song stands NO chance against Heartbreaker, Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Hell Is For Children, or Promises in the Dark.
This lady speaks truth. That album kicked so much fucking ass.
@king, you singing that song is a visual I did not need to start my day. :lol
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Def Leppard - Photograph
If you were listening to music almost anywhere in 1983, it was impossible not to hear this song all of the time. Anyone remember Friday Night Video Fights on MTV? Yeah, this song dominated, winning like 10 or 11 weeks in a row, which I believe was the record for quite a long time (and maybe forever). Personally, I like this song, but it was never a favorite, even at the time, and still isn't. But I do like it.
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Loved this song, I actually had to hide that fact though so as to not seem a poser to my metalhead friends. Also held me from seeing them live, which from all accounts was the best titty show in the history of titty shows.
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What a great glam album. So much quality stuff that still has listen-ability to this day.
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The first 3 Pat Benetar albums are outstanding. Love her cover of The Sweet's No You Don't.
I loved Def Leppard when Pyromania came out. That tour was my first concert! Yes, a lot of that album still holds up.
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Def Leppard was my first concert, saw them on the Pyromania tour with Krokus and Gary Moore, great show.
I actually liked Def Leppard before Pyromania came out-got into them when MTV was playing their videos off High 'n Dry-so I was a little shocked at first at how commercial sounding Photograph was. Then after it got to the first chorus I said to myself "this is gonna be HUGE." And I was right. Pyromania still holds up well as a great hard rock album today.
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Was a fan of def Lepp from hearing Getcha Rocks Off on a complilation album (The legendary Axe Attack lp i think ?). I prefer Pyro to Hysteria- some great songs on it. Photograph wasn't played alot in the UK as far as I remember but I was aware of how hugeit was in the US. There was alot of negativity in the UK music press about them turning their backs on the UK to make it in America when really it was the other way round. And who wouldn't in their position?
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Def Leppard was my first concert, saw them on the Pyromania tour with Krokus and Gary Moore, great show.
I actually liked Def Leppard before Pyromania came out-got into them when MTV was playing their videos off High 'n Dry-so I was a little shocked at first at how commercial sounding Photograph was. Then after it got to the first chorus I said to myself "this is gonna be HUGE." And I was right. Pyromania still holds up well as a great hard rock album today.
Where did you see them? Saw the same bill. I went to the old Cape Cod Coliseum! Saw Iron Maiden a couple of months later there as well.
High n Dry is one of my all time favorite albums.
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Are we going to see Rainbow's "Street of Dreams" in this thread? I saw that video on VH1 Classic the other day
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Def Leppard was my first concert, saw them on the Pyromania tour with Krokus and Gary Moore, great show.
I actually liked Def Leppard before Pyromania came out-got into them when MTV was playing their videos off High 'n Dry-so I was a little shocked at first at how commercial sounding Photograph was. Then after it got to the first chorus I said to myself "this is gonna be HUGE." And I was right. Pyromania still holds up well as a great hard rock album today.
Where did you see them? Saw the same bill. I went to the old Cape Cod Coliseum! Saw Iron Maiden a couple of months later there as well.
High n Dry is one of my all time favorite albums.
Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, VA. I also saw Iron Maiden on the Piece of Mind tour a few months later in Norfolk, opener was Quiet Riot just around the time they broke big. I just realized the cost of both tickets COMBINED was $20. Fuck I'm OLD. :lol
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Def Leppard always have a song I love and a song I hate. Photograph is a song I can play a hundred times in a row and I still wouldn't be sick of it.
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Are we going to see Rainbow's "Street of Dreams" in this thread? I saw that video on VH1 Classic the other day
Easily one of my favourite Rainbow songs, if not my favourite. Amazing tune.
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I'm more of a casual fan of Def Leppard; "Photograph" and "Rock of Ages" are probably two of my favorites from them.
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Are we going to see Rainbow's "Street of Dreams" in this thread? I saw that video on VH1 Classic the other day
Easily one of my favourite Rainbow songs, if not my favourite. Amazing tune.
Certainly one of my favourite JLT era Rainbow songs but I'm more a fan of the classic DIO era, and 80s Rainbow were a completely different beast. JLT has a great voice and I surrender was the first single I ever bought (with UFO's Lonel Heart).
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Just to let some of you know, if you like the 80s hard rocktracks mentioned, there may be things to interest you in the official melodic rock/AOR thread.
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Rainbow - Street of Dreams
Definitely a great song, and the video, while a bit corny for its time (imagine that? :lol), was fairly entertaining at the time as well. I remember this being one of the first singles I owned on a '45. :hat
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Susanna Hoffs was one of my biggest crushes. That is all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHP6f6MQ_sA&feature=related
How is this possible?! This woman is 53!!!
I'd hit that in a New York minute.
rumborak
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Susanna Hoffs was one of my biggest crushes. That is all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHP6f6MQ_sA&feature=related
How is this possible?! This woman is 53!!!
I'd hit that in a New York minute.
rumborak
Good to see she aged incredibly well, so damn cute. :heart
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And her legs still look sexy as hell. :censored
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Susanna Hoffs was one of my biggest crushes. That is all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHP6f6MQ_sA&feature=related
How is this possible?! This woman is 53!!!
I'd hit that in a New York minute.
rumborak
FIFTY THREE? :O
Damn she's still fine!
As for Street of Dreams-I love the hell out of Rainbow, all the way from the Dio days to the far more commercial Joe Lynn Turner era, and Street of Dreams is a classic. The rest of Bent Out Of Shape isn't quite as good-on the whole I consider it a step down from Straight Between The Eyes, which would make my top 20 of 80s rock albums-but that song's amazing. I remember being SO annoyed when I heard Deep Purple was reuniting because I loved Rainbow so much.
But then I heard Perfect Strangers and, well, got over it really quick. :lol
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The Deep Purple reunion made me so happy!
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The Deep Purple reunion made me so happy!
I had 6th row with no ear plugs at the first show at the Centrum. My ears were ringing for 3 days.
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Wow, she's still a babe!
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She's got a Jaclyn Smith thing going on. Scarecrow and Mrs King era.
Schwing!
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That was Kate Jackson as Mrs. King. Wrong original Angel.
That's okay, I'd've taken either of those two.
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Right-o. Guess I was too busy fapping back then to pay attention to who was who. :lol
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Rainbow- "Street of Dreams" is an absolutely fantastic melodic masterpiece. Love it, it's my favorite post Dio Rainbow track.
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David Bowie - Let's Dance
I remember hearing this song in passing quite a few times and it never really grabbing me, but all of a sudden one day, it was like, "Wow, this song is really awesome." And I have loved it since. Funny story, too, is that Stevie Ray Vaughan (who plays the bluesy leads at the end of the song) was not pleased when he saw Bowie miming over his guitar parts in the video (in other words, giving the impression that Bowie had played those guitar leads).
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Rainbow- "Street of Dreams" is an absolutely fantastic melodic masterpiece. Love it, it's my favorite post Dio Rainbow track.
Not for me. That would be Lost In Hollywood or Eyes Of The World.
Although it was more Rainbow sounding than DP, I always liked the Slaves & Masters album with JLT. Perfect Strangers was an awesome return for DP though. In fact I enjoyed House Of Blue Light too.
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David Bowie - Let's Dance
I remember hearing this song in passing quite a few times and it never really grabbing me, but all of a sudden one day, it was like, "Wow, this song is really awesome." And I have loved it since. Funny story, too, is that Stevie Ray Vaughan (who plays the bluesy leads at the end of the song) was not pleased when he saw Bowie miming over his guitar parts in the video (in other words, giving the impression that Bowie had played those guitar leads).
Fuck I love this song, it's perfect. We use to cover it and it was one of the most fun songs to play live. Bowie at his absolute best.
And yeah, I always assumed it was Bowie doing some cool licks but it is indeed SRV.
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Def Leppard - Photograph
If you were listening to music almost anywhere in 1983, it was impossible not to hear this song all of the time. Anyone remember Friday Night Video Fights on MTV? Yeah, this song dominated, winning like 10 or 11 weeks in a row, which I believe was the record for quite a long time (and maybe forever). Personally, I like this song, but it was never a favorite, even at the time, and still isn't. But I do like it.
Wow, yeah, I remember. And if memory serves, their first win was over Every Breath You Take, which was a big shocker to me.
As funny as it sounds now to say this, Def Leppard was the band that REALLY cemented my love for hard rock. First album I bought ever was Queen, the Game. Not too long after, I got Van Halen I. But the Pyromania album is what REALLY hooked me. Before I heard Photograph, I had heard about it. And without ever even hearing Def Leppard, I had written them off as a stupid band with a stupid Led Zepplin rip-off name. But I had heard about Photograph, and so when I was sitting around watching MTV one night, and Marth Quinn announced that she was going to be showing a Def Lep video shortly, I thought, "Oh, okay. I can hear that Photograph song and see what that's about." Nope. They played Rock Of Ages. My reaction: :omg: Went out and bought the album shortly thereafter. But once I eventually did hear Photograph, I liked that as well.
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David Bowie - Let's Dance
I remember hearing this song in passing quite a few times and it never really grabbing me, but all of a sudden one day, it was like, "Wow, this song is really awesome." And I have loved it since. Funny story, too, is that Stevie Ray Vaughan (who plays the bluesy leads at the end of the song) was not pleased when he saw Bowie miming over his guitar parts in the video (in other words, giving the impression that Bowie had played those guitar leads).
I thought it was pretty obvious that that was Stevie Ray on guitar. He was a hot commodity in the 80's and his sound is pretty distinctive. David plays guitar, but generally leaves lead work to someone else. He's had a number of great guitarists in his bands over the years, including SRV, Peter Frampton, Carlos Alomar... when I saw him, he was with Adrian Belew.
Back to the song. The chorus used to kill me. "Tremble like a flower!" is so weird, so atonal, that it just didn't register. It took a while, but I can handle it now, and I like the song. But some of those chords are freakin' weird.
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As funny as it sounds now to say this, Def Leppard was the band that REALLY cemented my love for hard rock. First album I bought ever was Queen, the Game. Not too long after, I got Van Halen I. But the Pyromania album is what REALLY hooked me. Before I heard Photograph, I had heard about it. And without ever even hearing Def Leppard, I had written them off as a stupid band with a stupid Led Zepplin rip-off name. But I had heard about Photograph, and so when I was sitting around watching MTV one night, and Marth Quinn announced that she was going to be showing a Def Lep video shortly, I thought, "Oh, okay. I can hear that Photograph song and see what that's about." Nope. They played Rock Of Ages. My reaction: :omg: Went out and bought the album shortly thereafter. But once I eventually did hear Photograph, I liked that as well.
I knew quite a few people for whom Def Leppard was an early hard rock favorite as well. Most of them loved that early 80s stuff, but weren't crazy about the wildly popular Hysteria record.
Back to the song. The chorus used to kill me. "Tremble like a flower!" is so weird, so atonal, that it just didn't register. It took a while, but I can handle it now, and I like the song. But some of those chords are freakin' weird.
:tup :tup
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Okay, what would an 80s thread be without a song by...
Huey Lewis and the News - If This Is It
Cool song, and a very fun and summery video. Perfect for a hot day. Hehe. Funny sidebar about this song is a few guys I tended bar with about a decade ago, whenever this song came on (which was often), we would always change to the lyrics of the main line to, "Bull fucking shit." :biggrin: :lol
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As funny as it sounds now to say this, Def Leppard was the band that REALLY cemented my love for hard rock. First album I bought ever was Queen, the Game. Not too long after, I got Van Halen I. But the Pyromania album is what REALLY hooked me. Before I heard Photograph, I had heard about it. And without ever even hearing Def Leppard, I had written them off as a stupid band with a stupid Led Zepplin rip-off name. But I had heard about Photograph, and so when I was sitting around watching MTV one night, and Marth Quinn announced that she was going to be showing a Def Lep video shortly, I thought, "Oh, okay. I can hear that Photograph song and see what that's about." Nope. They played Rock Of Ages. My reaction: :omg: Went out and bought the album shortly thereafter. But once I eventually did hear Photograph, I liked that as well.
I knew quite a few people for whom Def Leppard was an early hard rock favorite as well. Most of them loved that early 80s stuff, but weren't crazy about the wildly popular Hysteria record.
Hysteria took a little getting used to, but I pretty much always felt it was a solid album. Pyromania was a great combination of fun, a bit of a hard edge, and commercial. Hysteria sacrificed a bit of the hard edge and went a bit more commercial than I would have hoped, but was still a great album. Adrenalize pushed the band even further in the commercial direction. And while it sounded a LOT like a Hysteria 2, the songwriting just wasn't as tight, the edge was gone, and it just felt like a band going through the motions.
Okay, what would an 80s thread be without a song by...
Huey Lewis and the News - If This Is It
Good call. I used to bang my head against a wall trying to figure out why these guys were so popular. I mean, yeah, they wrote really catchy songs that would get stuck in your head and kinda make you feel good. But aside from that, there really isn't anything special about them. Then one day, it finally occurred to me that perhaps I was overanalyzing things. Yeah, they wrote really catchy songs that would get stuck in your head and kinda make you feel good. That pretty much covers it.
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Yep, that's it. Well-written, catchy, feel-good songs. But no clichés. Real guitars with good sounds. Real keys, including Hammond organ. Real horns. When you have all that, it doesn't even matter that your singer doesn't have the greatest voice. He sings in tune and with a lot of feeling.
I finally picked up the album Sports and Holy Crap, it was like every single song was a radio hit. The first seven tracks were all songs I recognized. There are only nine songs on the album. Sure it's 80's music, but it's the kind you can actually listen to and it doesn't sound dated (to me, anyway).
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I can't think of Huey Lewis without also being reminded of American Psycho:
Bateman: You like Huey Lewis and the News?
Paul Allen: They're OK.
Bateman: Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humour.
Paul Allen: Hey Halberstram.
Bateman: Yes, Allen?
Paul Allen: Why are there copies of the Style section all over the place, d-do you have a dog? A little chow or something?
Bateman: No, Allen.
Paul Allen: Is that a rain coat?
Bateman: Yes it is! In '87, Huey released this, Fore!, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. [rapidly, as if agitated] But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself. [raises axe above head] Hey Paul!
[he bashes Allen in the head with the axe, and blood splatters over him]
Bateman: TRY GETTING A RESERVATION AT DORSIA NOW YOU FUCKING STUPID BASTARD! YOU FUCKING BASTARD!
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I can't think of Huey Lewis without also being reminded of American Psycho:
Bateman: You like Huey Lewis and the News?
Paul Allen: They're OK.
Bateman: Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humour.
Paul Allen: Hey Halberstram.
Bateman: Yes, Allen?
Paul Allen: Why are there copies of the Style section all over the place, d-do you have a dog? A little chow or something?
Bateman: No, Allen.
Paul Allen: Is that a rain coat?
Bateman: Yes it is! In '87, Huey released this, Fore!, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. [rapidly, as if agitated] But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself. [raises axe above head] Hey Paul!
[he bashes Allen in the head with the axe, and blood splatters over him]
Bateman: TRY GETTING A RESERVATION AT DORSIA NOW YOU FUCKING STUPID BASTARD! YOU FUCKING BASTARD!
:lol
You don't get much more 80s rock and roll than Huey Lewis and the News. They managed to bridge a more classic, 60/70s pop style to 80s rock without either side overpowering the other. Great band. If This Is It isn't a favorite of mine, but its memorable and quite catchy. They don't really make bands like this anymore.
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I never bought their music when they were hot in the 80's, (Got the greatest hits later in the 2000's) but damn if I wasn't singing their songs when they were on the Radio. If This Is It is a good song but there are others like Jacobs Ladder & Do You Believe In Love that are awesome.
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Never really cared for Huey Lewis, but their music was right for the time.
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Never really cared for Huey Lewis, but their music was right for the time.
What he said. Catchy, but catchy = / = enjoyable. Gonorrhea is catchy too.
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Hall & Oates - Family Man
Another 80s fixture, it was tough deciding which songs of theirs to go with first, but I ultimately went with my favorite. Cool song, and the video increased my appreciation for it thanks to the extended middle section. If you are not familiar with it, check out the video or get the nearly 6-minute rock mix version of this tune. You won't be disappointed!
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Good band. The second album I ever purchased with my own money was their album, Rock 'n Soul Part 1. But as far as the song you picked, I couldn't even remember it without going and watching the video. Good song, but I probably would have picked on of their other chart toppers.
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Yeah, picking one of their more popular hits probably would have been best, but oh well. :P
Talking Heads - Burning Down the House
Great tune by a great band, a band whose music has aged extremely well. This was one of my favorites at the time when I was 10. In particular, I found the end of the song and video completely hypnotizing, with that creepy keyboard underneath that awesome drum beat. This is a great song to listen to loud, and when my brother and I saw David Byrne play it at a solo show a few years back, it brought the house down; it didn't burn it down. :biggrin:
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Though not a fan, I have always had immense respect for the Talking Heads.
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Great song. Great video. So far, you've hit two of my "5 must-have '80s songs" if I were to make a non-rock essential '80s collection.
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I actually first heard the cover of this song by The Cardigans & Tom Jones before the original. Cool song, although not my favourite TH track (Road To Nowhere).
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Yes, best listened to loud. Great driving song. Though nothing I would go out of my way to listen to. At least you didn't go with 'Once in a Lifetime.'
Cool use of it in 'Revenge of the Nerds.'
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Once in a Lifetime is great, too! As is all of Remain in Light. :)
Billy Joel - Uptown Girl
Who wouldn't love a video featuring the lovely Christie Brinkley, Joel's main squeeze at the time?
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Family Man isn't one I'm as familiar with, though I have heard it. I like Out of Touch. Can't put my finger on what it is I like, but I do. I saw them many years ago and it was a great show.
Burning Down The House is excellent. I want my band to do a harder edged version of it, a la Lukas Rossi, from Rockstar: Supernova.
Perfect use of it in 'Revenge of the Nerds.'
FTFY
Uptown Girl - Christie Brinkley. 'Nuff said.
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Missed both David Bowie and Huey Lewis. I need to keep a closer eye on this thread.
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I need to keep it more active, too, quite honestly. I'll do my best.
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Yeah, picking one of their more popular hits probably would have been best, but oh well. :P
Talking Heads - Burning Down the House
Great tune by a great band, a band whose music has aged extremely well. This was one of my favorites at the time when I was 10. In particular, I found the end of the song and video completely hypnotizing, with that creepy keyboard underneath that awesome drum beat. This is a great song to listen to loud, and when my brother and I saw David Byrne play it at a solo show a few years back, it brought the house down; it didn't burn it down. :biggrin:
Yeah, the end of the video is so cool. The music is cool enough, but you've also got David making faces at you, projected on the road, as you cruise along. Great effect.
This is one of those songs that starts off so quietly that if it comes up while you're shuffling, you have to crank the volume and start it again. Then when the drums come in... YEAH BABY!
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Great stuff. :tup :tup
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For no reason I can possibly discern other than the fact that YouTube is sentient and knew I had been looking at this thread, Photograph (official video) just showed up in my "recommended" bar. :lol
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Ha!
Ideally, I'd like to link the video for each song I put up every time, but since many are not official, I figured it is best to not. Besides, anyone who wants to see or revisit said videos, I think they know where to go find them. :lol
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I'm fine with you linking to videos, even if posted by third parties. Most bands haven't put out commercially available DVD's with their "official videos" on them, so I'm fine with it. If it is something that you know is commercially available, that's a different story. But your call.
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Comments on songs I missed:
Hall and Oates-Family Man.
Thing that always amuses me about this song is that it's a cover of a Mike Oldfield song. Yes, the Tubular Bells Mike Oldfield. Vaguely remember the video, and also remember that after it had been out a few months a new version of it showed up with a longer edit to the song.
Talking Heads-Burning Down The House.
Oh yeahhhh, we're talking 80s here. I remember going to see the Talking Heads concert film, Stop Making Sense, waaaay back when as a midnight show, in an old fashioned theater with a stage in front of the screen. We took that as an excuse to treat it like a general admission concert and stood up and rocked out. Damn good night.
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Family man is a very good song. I saw Hall & Oats open for Chicago in the early 2000's and they were great.
Burning Down The House. I LOVE the video but OD'd in this song. But when it came out it was very unique for it's time.
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Mötley Crüe - Girls, Girls, Girls
Well, given that I was 14 when this video came out, I pretty much thought it was one of the best things ever at the time. :lol :lol
I'M OUT! /Kramer
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For the first time in the thread, you lost me. Oh well. I'll wait for the next one.
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Motlol Crue.
That's my contribution to this current installment of 80s discussion.
*Still eagerly awaits new wave/goth/industrial song*
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Definitely one of my first experiences with the power of the music video. Wasn't a Crue fan, but saw this video and thought the song was awesome.
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I didn't get into the Crue until Dr. Feelgood. When I did get to their back catalogue, everything was a notch down from Feelgood. Girls, Girls, Girls was a pretty weak track, on a pretty weak album. Wild Side is the only redeeming track to that album.
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I agree with Jingle, Girls Girls Girls was a pretty weak album. The title track was a decent enough 80's pop metal tune and had a good video. For me, nothing tops Shout at the Devil and the 94 self titled for the Crue; those two kick serious ass.
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Not one of my absolute favourite Crue songs, but still a great Crue song, and that music video is classic 80s sleaze. :tup
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Perfect video for Crue. The Song is good but there ar other I like much better. Good sleazy fun song.
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Girls x3 has never once failed to pack the dance floor with chicks when one of my bands has played it. It gets nothing but :tup :tup :tup :tup :tup :tup :tup from me.
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I hope this makes Ravenheart a little happy. ;)
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
I was never much of a fan of this band or song, but I know a lot of people were, so go nuts. :biggrin:
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Steeee-rike two!
brb vomiting
Would watch the video just to make sure, but can't take the risk. :noeyes:
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I love this song. It's simple and poppy, but also whimsical and beautiful. The synth always puts a smile on my face. It's also a good example of The Cure's happier side.
The album it was taken off of is also fantastic and one of the best albums of the 80s.
The music video is nothing to write home about, but I'm not really a fan of music videos in general, so yeah.
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Steeee-rike two!
I had to throw Ravenheart a bone, given that he is such a fan of stuff like that, and he talked it up a lot in the Pet Shop Boys/Erasure thread a while back.
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Never heard it.
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Thank you for said bone, Kev.
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Steeee-rike two!
I had to throw Ravenheart a bone, given that he is such a fan of stuff like that, and he talked it up a lot in the Pet Shop Boys/Erasure thread a while back.
Oh, I know. I just didn't want to not post just because I don't like a song, because if everyone does that, you'll think the thread isn't generating interest, which might lead you to stop posting in it.
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I figured. ;)
And now that we've made Ravenheart happy for now...
Journey - Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
One of the most awesomely bad videos ever. Air keyboarding? I mean, come on. :rollin :rollin :rollin But the song itself is still a very good one.
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Ahh, that's better. :hamster1:
Yeah, ridiculous video, but terrific song. Captures everything that is good about Journey.
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My play-by-play of the video, for the 1 or 2 people who didn't see it yet:
The following video - Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) - is 80's cheese at its most heinous and I f*cking love it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LatorN4P9aA&ob=av2el
Several points of interest:
Steve Perry = Demi Moore
0:35, 0:49 - no instruments
0:52 - Jon Cain bear-pawing his air keyboard
1:07 - awkward zoom-in
1:25 - keyboard on the wall
2:11 - slow-mo marching band "ABOUT FACE!" move
2:16 - advertisement for Steve Perry's dentist
2:18 - why are they in a dockyard full of shipping skids?
2:29-2:36 - sequences like this are what make 80's videos so excellent
2:44 - 2nd from left: Ross Valory = Jeff Foxworthy
2:56 - Oops! Almost lost my balance!
3:01 - 55-gallon drumset
3:06 - HURRR-STOMPA-STOMPA *follows camera*
3:11 - Pulls out just in time to avoid inevitable Jon Cain collision
3:12 - Jon Cain's patented "Camera Bitch-Slap"
3:17 - Check out how awesome I am. I may have tried to kick Santana out of the band, but at least the afro's gone!
3:22 - guitar face
3:26 - weird slow-mo
3:49 - more wall keyboard
4:01 - Brigitte Nielsen look-alike approaches: "You guys are still at this??"
Okay, so though I make fun of it, it's still f*cking awesome. Enjoy.
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You guys just don't get it. Jonathan Cain's air-keyboarding for a moment, but that's just because his keyboard didn't materialize as quickly as he did.
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This might be the biggest discrepencey between the awesomeness of the song and the badness of the video ever. Yet I can't not watch.
Also, I want to request my favorite video from when I was a kid: I Can't Drive 55 by Sammy Hagar. What male kid DOESN'T like fast cars?
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Awesome song. Never saw the video until Nem's roulette. Full of win and fail at the same time. It's a paradox. I refuse to watch it a 2nd time, lest a black hole open up and swallow me hole.
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I figured. ;)
And now that we've made Ravenheart happy for now...
Journey - Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
One of the most awesomely bad videos ever. Air keyboarding? I mean, come on. :rollin :rollin :rollin But the song itself is still a very good one.
So bad it's great video, no doubting the quality of the song though.
Motley- GGG- great video :P :heart not a great Motley song. First two albums and Dr feelgood were very good, the rest of the catalogue gets a thumbs down from me.
The new romantic-y stuff Ravenheart likes- has no interest to me so no point commenting..
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We play "Separate Ways" and our lead singer John likes to air-keyboard some parts. I think it looks pretty stupid. For some reason, air-guitar is acceptable (I do it and I don't even play guitar) but air-keyboards is lame.
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This is one of my favorite rock songs of all time. Perry has a great voice.
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I've never been a Cure fan but I admire them for really forging a style in music and style and concept. I did like a bunch of songs off Disintegration. I've always been more of a fan of Simple Minds myself.
Journey - Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) Great, great song. Just like that girl in the video that I couldn't get away from it playing on MTV either.
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Wow, I get sick and miss about 11dy6 songs... :(
Okay, so to catch up:
Photograph - Ok, I admit it, I LOVED this song and the whole album. Rock Of Ages was a bit more of a favorite, but there wasn't a bad track on the album. Good "set the wayback machine" song.
Street of Dreams - Good song, and I admit that I had a HUGE crush on JLT at the time. :blush
Let's Dance - I LOVE THIS SONG. I don't care who knows it either. I will admit that this song reminds me a lot of Frank Zappa's song "Be In My Video", especially the line I'll make you wear red shoes! :lol I also liked Blue Jean, China Girl, Modern Love and Cat People (Putting Out Fire). The album was not only a huge push for Stevie Ray Vaughan (RIP) but it put Bowie back on the map too. Hah--jamming on this song right now! :coolio
If This Is It - This one was a bit overplayed when it was a hit. I'm more of a fan of The Heart Of Rock And Roll and Bad Is Bad.
Family Man - Good song, but Maneater blows this one out of the water. Hell, Sara Smile blows BOTH of them out of the water. BUT--I've always loved their harmonies.
Burning Down The House - OMG OMG OMG!! Ok, sorry. This song and video are just. SO. DAMN. COOL! It also helps that a good friend of mine in high school made a parody of this one, Burning Down The School. :lol Good memories right here with this one.
Uptown Girl - Never one of my favorites. It IS better live though. BUT--I'd rather have Captain Jack, Scenes From An Italian Restaurant or Big Shot over this one.
Girls Girls Girls - :umno: This doesn't hold a candle to the Shout At The Devil album. NEXT...
Just Like Heaven - Didn't like The Cure at first, same with Depeche Mode, The Psychedelic Furs and Tears For Fears, but I gained an appreciation for all of them later. Great song. Video's ok too.
Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) - NO. Just... no. Anything from Escape back is great, much past Escape is sketchy IMO. Next...
OH, I'm caught up again. :laugh:
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This might be the biggest discrepencey between the awesomeness of the song and the badness of the video ever. Yet I can't not watch.
:lol
This is actually my favourite Journey song. It's got that great heavy DUN DUN DUNDUN chug to it, plus that intro keyboard riff (I love sawtooth synths), and a catchy as hell chorus.
The music video is so bad that it's almost good, but not quite. It's still awful. On the plus side, I did figure out a few of the keyboard arrangements from watching the air keyboarding!
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I always thought Send Her My Love from Frontiers was really nice as well. Neal Schon really nailed those sweet guitar outros in their hits during those days.
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*insert digression here*
You want sweet Neal Schon guitar? Have you heard of Hardline's 1991 album Double Eclipse? He produced and played lead there. That was a SWEET guitar-led melodic album. In The Hands of Time has what I firmly believe is his best solo ever.
https://grooveshark.com/album/Double+Eclipse/3433281
This might be the biggest discrepencey between the awesomeness of the song and the badness of the video ever. Yet I can't not watch.
:lol
This is actually my favourite Journey song. It's got that great heavy DUN DUN DUNDUN chug to it, plus that intro keyboard riff (I love sawtooth synths), and a catchy as hell chorus.
The music video is so bad that it's almost good, but not quite. It's still awful. On the plus side, I did figure out a few of the keyboard arrangements from watching the air keyboarding!
I really love the "waahhh-ee-ee wahh" squeal in the background of that heavy part.
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Always loved this Neil. some of you 80's folks will remember this band getting together for one album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-QdcrubBBY
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Heart - These Dreams
I love the fact that Nancy Wilson sang this song with a cold, which, if you listen carefully, you can tell on certain lines, the most obvious being the first time she sings, "every second of the night," during the first chorus. It adds a lot of character to the song, especially since pop like that can often be so slick and perfect and mistake-free, especially nowadays. Anyway, very good song, and kind of a cool video as well, with the Wilson girls with their hair in full 80s form! :metal
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Saw them on that tour and I played the crap out of that album. I do like the new album to the 80's and early 90's. I never knew Nancy had a cold. That's a cool tidbit Kev. It reminds me of One from U@ where Bono sang the lead at 3 am in the weeeee hours and he was tired and his voice was tired and the crack make that vocal genuine to me at least.
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Heart - These Dreams
I love the fact that Nancy Wilson sang this song with a cold, which, if you listen carefully, you can tell on certain lines, the most obvious being the first time she sings, "every second of the night," during the first chorus. It adds a lot of character to the song, especially since pop like that can often be so slick and perfect and mistake-free, especially nowadays. Anyway, very good song, and kind of a cool video as well, with the Wilson girls with their hair in full 80s form! :metal
Yeah, they'd autotune that right out of the song these days. That Heart album was a rare case of a band bringing in a ton of outside songwriting in an attempt to make hits and it WORKING. Usually the resulting album has no personality and it falls on its face. Haven't listened to that album in a long time, so I'm not sure how it holds up today (I have a feeling the production's going to be terribly dated) but it was a great album then.
And oh yes, HSAS. Some of Neal Schon's best solos ever, one of my favorite things Sammy Hagar ever sang on. My best friend still has the vinyl of that album.
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For four albums there Heart were awesome (the S/T to Desire Walks On- everything else, no thanks). These Dreams is a great song and a pretty typical 80s video and suits the song. it is very dream-y. And it's got Nancy Wilson :heart.
Talented performers, certainly, but not great songwriters imo. Without the outside writers they are poor.
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I like that song a lot. It's probably the only Heart song I've heard, but it's a very enjoyable pop tune.
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I actually love this song. Love it. I also love Alone, Never, and pretty much all 80's Heart. And I think i'm still in love with 80's Ann Wilson.
Alone still gives me chills. Go watch the video on youtube and see what i mean...
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Heart is amazing! The Wilson sisters put out some absolutely quality female led hard rock. I don't have too many of their complete albums, but all of their radio friendly stuff is badass.
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For four albums there Heart were awesome (the S/T to Desire Walks On- everything else, no thanks). These Dreams is a great song and a pretty typical 80s video and suits the song. it is very dream-y. And it's got Nancy Wilson :heart.
Talented performers, certainly, but not great songwriters imo. Without the outside writers they are poor.
I take you've never heard Heart's music from the 70s, especially all of Dreamboat Annie, eh?
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I was cool with Heart, though I liked them when they were more hard rocking chicks. My brother worked as a bell hop at a hotel they stayed at for a show, and scored the drummer a bag of weed, scoring us backstage passes. Pretty good show, but never met the sisters.
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The Kinks - Come Dancing
Undoubtedly one of my favorite songs and videos growing up in the 80s. As someone who loved listening to Casey Kasem's top 40 back then, I used to do my own top 20 every week (that is probably when I started love the idea of doing lists :lol), and I remember that Come Dancing was my number 1 for like six weeks, which might have been the record for me. But anyway, helluva fun tune (that brass section at the end is absolutely dynamite), and the video is comically cheeky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-38Kz07HR8&feature=related The two best moments:
1:30 - when the sister's date shakes his fist at the brother again when leaving for their date (my dad and I still often chuckle about and imitate this video moment, nearly 30 years later)
3:36 - when the sister's date shakes his head at Ray Davies hamming it up on stage
Fantastic song!
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I do like the song but was more of a fan of the next album with Do It Again. That also is a great story about your dad, you and music Kev!
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The Kinks are in my top five of all time bands. Been listening to them since I was a wee lad, and have seen them live over ten times. I can honestly say they are one of the top live shows I have ever seen, playing almost four hours once. Favorite album is One For The Road, and my favorite song is Celluloid Heroes or Catch me Now I'm Falling. Come Dancing, that's one song that at a live show, everyone dances to, no matter what. Such a great little ditty.
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For four albums there Heart were awesome (the S/T to Desire Walks On- everything else, no thanks). These Dreams is a great song and a pretty typical 80s video and suits the song. it is very dream-y. And it's got Nancy Wilson :heart.
Talented performers, certainly, but not great songwriters imo. Without the outside writers they are poor.
I take you've never heard Heart's music from the 70s, especially all of Dreamboat Annie, eh?
Oh I have, and I own some of it. Too Folk-y and Zep wannabe for me at the time. A couple of good songs here and ther but not heard it for decades though
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Come Dancing is such a catchy song, and I love the video-more than the song, actually.
Back to the Heart thing for a minute-their 70s music did, at times, come off as being wanna be Zeppelin, but they did it better than most. The problem was that by the early 80s, that sort of sound was already becoming dated. Heart pretty much had to move away from that because everyone else already had. Back then the last thing a hard rock band wanted to be called was dinosaur rock (funny that a sound could be considered prehistoric in a mere five years) and in the early 80s, Heart was just that. Like I said before, normally I dislike a band bringing in outside songwriters and cleaning up their sound, but Heart was a rare case where it was the best move.
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Early Heart was definitely influenced by Led Zeppelin; they've covered a number of Zeppelin songs, so it's pretty clear that they're an influence. Plus, just listen to Ann's singing; she's like a female Robert Plant. There's no question that a lot of her delivery comes from his style.
"These Dreams" was a revelation to me, in a couple of ways. First, I didn't realize that Nancy sang lead vocals on any of their songs. I always thought it was Ann. I even have half a dozen Heart albums, but unlike with many bands, I didn't really dig through the liner notes. The other thing is that this is the first time I thought Nancy was kinda hot. When Heart first hit the scene, a lot of people talked about the band with the two hot girl singers, but to be honest, I didn't really think much of them. If you're hot anyway, that's great, but in every picture I saw, they were striking poses and making "sexy" faces and shit, and it was a turn-off. With the advent of video, you got to see what artists really looked like (kinda), and, well I was impressed. I think Nancy has actually gotten hotter over time, while I think it's fair to say that time hasn't been as kind to Ann.
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Heart - These Dreams
I love the fact that Nancy Wilson sang this song with a cold, which, if you listen carefully, you can tell on certain lines, the most obvious being the first time she sings, "every second of the night," during the first chorus. It adds a lot of character to the song, especially since pop like that can often be so slick and perfect and mistake-free, especially nowadays. Anyway, very good song, and kind of a cool video as well, with the Wilson girls with their hair in full 80s form! :metal
Yeah, they'd autotune that right out of the song these days. That Heart album was a rare case of a band bringing in a ton of outside songwriting in an attempt to make hits and it WORKING. Usually the resulting album has no personality and it falls on its face. Haven't listened to that album in a long time, so I'm not sure how it holds up today (I have a feeling the production's going to be terribly dated) but it was a great album then.
All this. And as pointed out above, there was a LOT of really good stuff going on on that album. Never was probably my favorite track.
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I do like the song but was more of a fan of the next album with Do It Again. That also is a great story about your dad, you and music Kev!
:tup :tup
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These Dreams is excellent. I didn't realize until seeing them live a few years ago that it was Nancy singing it. I remember the bit about her having a cold, it does sound pretty obvious, but it definitely gives it a character that I feel it benefitted from.
Another thing about Heart that always occurs to me. People CONSTANTLY go on about how difficult a song "Alone" is to sing. While this is true, I'm just as impressed by the harmony vocals in the chorus. They are UP THERE.
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Dang it, more chatter about Come Dancing, the current 80s song, please. :censored >:( :hat :biggrin:
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Well, screw it. :lol Moving forward...
Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died in Your Arms
Pretty good song, but the interesting thing about this band is that the rest of that album was actually really good! Broadcast was one of my favorite cassettes to listen to back then, and I liked every song. In fact, I think I mentioned earlier about the first albums or cassettes I listened to as whole back in the 80s, but I completely forgot about this one. It was one of the first back when I was 14. Anyway, (I Just) Died in Your Arms was by far the biggest hit they ever had, but the two other singles and videos from that album, I've Been in Love Before and One for the Mockingbird, both got regular airplay on MTV as well. But I had to feature the biggest hit here as their selection.
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I remember this song. Got a lot of plays on mixed tapes of mine. I think I bought the 45, but not the whole album. Good memories; good times.
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I absolutly LOVED this cd and played the crap out of it. Don't Look Back was my favorite song on the album.
Little knwn fact, the guitarist, Kevin MacMichael, played on most of Robert Plant's
Fate of Nations album. Passed away from cancer in 2002.
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Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died in Your Arms
I'm too anal when it comes to language. When a song starts with the line "I just died in your arms tonight..." my first thought is "Then how the fuck are you singing this song?" It was all over the radio and MTv, and I don't think I ever listened to the whole thing, probably never got past the first verse. It just depended on how fast I could change the station/channel.
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Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died in Your Arms
I'm too anal when it comes to language. When a song starts with the line "I just died in your arms tonight..." my first thought is "Then how the fuck are you singing this song?" It was all over the radio and MTv, and I don't think I ever listened to the whole thing, probably never got past the first verse. It just depended on how fast I could change the station/channel.
Orbert: DTF's literal lieutenant. :lol
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Never really liked (I Just) Died In Your Arms, just wasn't my thing. It always felt like the last gasp of the sort of pop-rock song that MTV made huge in the early 80s to me. I rather did like I've Been In Love Before, though. Always was a sucker for 80s ballads.
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Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight
Never was a big fan of this one, but every time it is mentioned, I think of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4GtOdJtgL8
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Hahaha, I was going to mention the exact same scene. Nice.
I think it was a pretty decent song. Something that definitely has to be on every party playlist.
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I think it's a fantastic song, easily a favorite. The video drove me nuts, with the stuttering-shaking or whatever that effect is called where you alternate between two images. Usually you see it used with handwriting or hand-drawn images, and it looks stupid then. With film or video, it's even worse.
But the song itself totally rocks. It has a catchy beat, it actually uses the band's name in a fun way, and let's face it, Jack Hues has an amazing voice. When he goes for "On the edge of oblivion..." in the bridge, it's just insane.
Actually, Wang Chung overall is quite underrated. They'll be forever remembered for this fun party song, and not for their very cool, darker stuff, like the soundtrack from the movie "To Live and Die in L.A." and the song "Wait". Something about their sound inspired me to check out a few albums by Wang Chung, and I'm glad I did. "Points on the Curve", "Mosaic", and the soundtrack from "To Live and Die in L.A." are all very good albums.
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Early Heart was definitely influenced by Led Zeppelin; they've covered a number of Zeppelin songs, so it's pretty clear that they're an influence. Plus, just listen to Ann's singing; she's like a female Robert Plant. There's no question that a lot of her delivery comes from his style.
"These Dreams" was a revelation to me, in a couple of ways. First, I didn't realize that Nancy sang lead vocals on any of their songs. I always thought it was Ann. I even have half a dozen Heart albums, but unlike with many bands, I didn't really dig through the liner notes. The other thing is that this is the first time I thought Nancy was kinda hot. When Heart first hit the scene, a lot of people talked about the band with the two hot girl singers, but to be honest, I didn't really think much of them. If you're hot anyway, that's great, but in every picture I saw, they were striking poses and making "sexy" faces and shit, and it was a turn-off. With the advent of video, you got to see what artists really looked like (kinda), and, well I was impressed. I think Nancy has actually gotten hotter over time, while I think it's fair to say that time hasn't been as kind to Ann.
I don't know if you've ever seen footage of Heart in the 70s . . . Ann was outrageously sexy without even trying that hard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkJj68xSI90
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXOO7QVHgXs&feature=related
I could post dozens. But anyway, Heart is touring this year and Ann's voice is still incredible at 61. :omg:
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I may have caught a performance on Midnight Special or something, but I don't remember. I really don't remember seeing video of them, only still photos, and as I said, somehow they just didn't seem "sexy" to me. Yeah, they were pretty. But pretty and sexy aren't the same thing to me.
But I was a mutant back then, probably still am. If a teenage boy looks at a picture of a pretty girl and doesn't immediately want to bang her, there's something wrong. Also, I was Asian (probably still am). If she cannot extract a square root using a slide rule, we are not a match.
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Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer
An 80s classic in every sense of the word. Easily the most classic song Bon Jovi has ever done, and who woulda thought this song would age so well?
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Slam dunk great 80s song. Nuff said.
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Not really a bon jovi fan but this song, like most of the songs from SWW, are pretty good. Aoo Aoo Aoo Aoo Aoo Aoo
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No matter how popular or old this song gets, I will always think it's great. It's just a really well constructed 80s pop rock song, with catchy melodies throughout.
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LOAP- The song that launched a million perms- mine included :rollin
Seems like a long time ago. I was a Bon Jovi fan from the debut album until Faith- not been much to enjoy since then, though HAND was good.
Video was ok, nothing special or innovative but showed a band having fun, something they've certainly forgotten about in recent years. Funny, as JBJ got better as a songwriter, his songs got worse...
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A great song, no matter how overplayed it's gotten to be over the years. A catchy and uplifting chorus if there ever was one.
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Fantasticness. I like what Lowdz said about the band having fun. It does seem to be a somewhat absent idea in music anymore. Also, the solo, while not at all demanding, is just excellent.
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Great song.
This is great example of a track that would have been much less noteworthy without synthesizers. I'm not sure how synths got such a bad rap, but if used tastefully they turn so-so tracks into powerhouses like this one.
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Living' on a Prayer
I got my Bachelor's in education in the 80's, and the school district that hired me went on strike at the start of the school year, so I worked as a substitute teacher for $50 a day in the neighboring school districts for three weeks. One day I was assigned to a middle school English class, and on one wall of the classroom are posters of Bon Jovi, album covers, and stuff like that. I specifically remember the big Slippery When Wet poster. One wall was mostly windows, and the other two had the boards and other stuff you'd normally find in a school classroom, but the regular teacher in this room was obviously a big Bon Jovi fan, and the one wall looked more like a girl's bedroom wall than a classroom.
Then after a chatting with the students a bit, I realize that I know the teacher. She lived in my dorm, and was one of the "groupies" for a band we had going, just some of us in the dorm. We sucked, but hey, we played and girls came to check us out, so it was a good time. Connie was easily the hottest one, and now here I am subbing in her room.
I asked the kids what it was like having Miss ----- as a teacher. I swear to God, the first thing they mention is how they love it when she talks, because she stands in front of the windows, and the light coming in behind her turns her clothes transparent. What? Yeah, she wears sheer blouses and pretty dresses and stuff, and when she stands in front of the windows, you can see right through them. She doesn't usually wear a slip, either.
When you have a substitute teacher in school, there are the clueless ones, the ones who are Drill Sargents because at the very least they'll get through the day, and there are the "cool" ones who actually know what they're doing and seem alright. I always tried to be one of the "cool" ones, but this was a whole new level. These kids (mostly the boys, obviously) were obviously quite smitten with their English teacher, and had a very good reason to come to class every day, and they were fine telling me all about it. I remember Connie from the dorm, and this actually sounded just like her. Suddenly I wanted to be a student in her class, not the sub. I also wondered why I didn't have teachers like that in middle school.
So anyway, that's what I think of when I hear Livin' on a Prayer or anything else from Slippery When Wet. The song is alright.
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Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight
Never was a big fan of this one, but every time it is mentioned, I think of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4GtOdJtgL8
Knew what that link was gonna be before I even clicked it. Agree whole-heartedly on what you said.
LOAP ... quintessential 80s. I think Slippery When Wet is the flagship of 80s glam rock. Top album for me - #27 to be precise.
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Slam dunk great 80s song. Nuff said.
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Living' on a Prayer
I got my Bachelor's in education in the 80's, and the school district that hired me went on strike at the start of the school year, so I worked as a substitute teacher for $50 a day in the neighboring school districts for three weeks. One day I was assigned to a middle school English class, and on one wall of the classroom are posters of Bon Jovi, album covers, and stuff like that. I specifically remember the big Slippery When Wet poster. One wall was mostly windows, and the other two had the boards and other stuff you'd normally find in a school classroom, but the regular teacher in this room was obviously a big Bon Jovi fan, and the one wall looked more like a girl's bedroom wall than a classroom.
Then after a chatting with the students a bit, I realize that I know the teacher. She lived in my dorm, and was one of the "groupies" for a band we had going, just some of us in the dorm. We sucked, but hey, we played and girls came to check us out, so it was a good time. Connie was easily the hottest one, and now here I am subbing in her room.
I asked the kids what it was like having Miss ----- as a teacher. I swear to God, the first thing they mention is how they love it when she talks, because she stands in front of the windows, and the light coming in behind her turns her clothes transparent. What? Yeah, she wears sheer blouses and pretty dresses and stuff, and when she stands in front of the windows, you can see right through them. She doesn't usually wear a slip, either.
When you have a substitute teacher in school, there are the clueless ones, the ones who are Drill Sargents because at the very least they'll get through the day, and there are the "cool" ones who actually know what they're doing and seem alright. I always tried to be one of the "cool" ones, but this was a whole new level. These kids (mostly the boys, obviously) were obviously quite smitten with their English teacher, and had a very good reason to come to class every day, and they were fine telling me all about it. I remember Connie from the dorm, and this actually sounded just like her. Suddenly I wanted to be a student in her class, not the sub. I also wondered why I didn't have teachers like that in middle school.
So anyway, that's what I think of when I hear Livin' on a Prayer or anything else from Slippery When Wet. The song is alright.
Dammit, I love when you have a story to tell. I always know it's going to be worth the read. :lol
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Orbert you rule and this is by far a slam dunk like lonestar speaks of. Damn near perfect live.
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Yeah, I have a story for pretty much everything. That's what happens when you're old as hell; pretty much anything will remind you of something else, and it's cool if the something else involves chicks.
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INXS - Need You Tonight/Mediate
Need You Tonight was probably my favorite hit of 1987 at the time, and I still dig it. Mediate was a cool extension of it, and the video, aping Bob Dylan, was neat. I can still sing most of Mediate by memory. I used to be able to do it all, but I forgot a few here and there nowadays. :lol
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Isn't this the video of them air drumming, with sticks, while standing?
Nice track, always did like INXS. Had the cassette, but never re-obtained a digital copy. Been a LONG time since I heard anything from them.
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Per the air drumming with sticks, the drummer does that at times, yes
Kick is great from start to finish. Every song is really good.
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Great song(s), much fun. Kick is my favorite INXS album. I like Listen Like Thieves as well. I have Shabooh Shoobah on (gasp!) vinyl, but it never really grabbed me. I mostly got it just for the song "The One Thing" which I like.
INXS wrote some catchy stuff. They had a great sense of rhythm and weren't afraid to bring the funk.
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Great band, one of those I regret not getting into at the time because of my metalhead snobbery.
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Isn't this the video of them air drumming, with sticks, while standing?
Nice track, always did like INXS. Had the cassette, but never re-obtained a digital copy. Been a LONG time since I heard anything from them.
The video is absolutely terrible.
I always hated INXS. I guess because they were so popular here in their home country they were played 24/7. All their songs are very similar IMO, and they recycle their musical ideas way too much.
The band are in disarray now. After Michael Hutchence died, they went through a couple of well known singers before doing the horrid tv show. I believed they should have just kept Jon Stevens from Noiseworks as he has a killer voice. From their, they did a pathetic album with JD fortune and he has been in and out of the band multiple times since then.
The band produced a cd with reworkings of their songs with different singers. It made me hate them even more, what they did to the songs, even though I was never a fan in the first place was disgusting. Haven't heard from them since. They should have just ended the band when Michael died.
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They should have just ended the band when Michael died.
That's the only part I agree with. Well, that and the part where the JD Fortune album sucked and the TV show was a joke, which kinduv tie into that. I wasn't even aware that they did anything before or since then.
A lot comes down to personal taste, but I don't really see how their songs are all similar or that they reused their ideas too much. On their albums, I think they show a bit of range, actually.
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Likes ti song. Always love the rockin' side more of INXS. Don't Change is a good example but boy were they on a run in the 80's through part of the 90's
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Saw Bon Jovi's SWW tour a couple of times. Although some seeds (Van Halen/Motley Crue) were sown, it was was really Bon Jovi that led to the mid/late 80's popular (hair) metal revolution.
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Night Ranger - Sister Christian
This gets made fun of all of the time for being one of those 80s monster ballads, but even if it is, it is still a very well-written one. And the solo by Brad Gillis is very good; probably one of the best ones when it comes to 80s monster ballads. And who doesn't think of Boogie Nights when you hear this song now (assuming you've seen the movie)? "It's Cosmo. He's Chinese." :lol :lol
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Very good song. Saw them once on a New Years show with Eddie Money opening for them, Eddie fucking blew them off the stage, no one had anything left for Night Ranger.
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I'm a railroad buff, and used to watch this show on PBS called "Tracks Ahead" hosted by Spencer Christian, who at the time was a well-known ABC newscaster (Good Morning America, etc.). It was a cool show, and I learned a lot about trains.
Then this horrible song started playing on the radio 24/7, along with a video that was on MTv six times per hour, and now I can't even hear the name Spencer Christian without thinking of that horrible song. I actually vomited once from hearing that song, at my mother-in-law's house, on her brand new carpet. She just smiled and nodded, understandingly. "Don't Tell Me You Love Me" was a rocker, and playing it was very cool with that great keyboard sound that actually got chicks to notice me for five minutes a night, but I will never forgive Night Ranger for ruining one of my favorite TV shows for me.
♫ Spencer Christian, oh, your time has come...
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:lol
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Wasn't Toto's Africa and Rosanna pretty big at the time in the 80s (I think '81?)
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One of the first power ballad's I remember. Great track. I remember loving this at the same time as Oh Sherrie.
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One of the first power ballad's I remember. Great track. I remember loving this at the same time as Oh Sherrie.
Good song, good band. Their "comeback" album last year was excellent. It rocked too. Never seen the video- NR weren't a hit in the UK.
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Love Sister Christian. Saw them play it live and the blew Starship away.
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great power ballad.
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I told this story in a thread about Kansas a while back, but I can dust it off again for here.
I saw Night Ranger open for Kansas on the In The Spirit of Things Tour, playing at a club that held maybe 800 people. One of the best concerts I've ever been to, made more memorable by a drunk guy who had decided he knew me and was willing to share a bottle of tequila with me. And when the management confiscated that the guy bought me like a 32 ounce beer. Fun times.
As for Sister Christian-as a Night Ranger fan at the time, I actually found Sister Christian to be one of the weaker songs on that album, but I also knew it was going to be a hit. It had all the earmarks of a successful ballad back then, and I was right. It actually is one of the songs from the 80s I considered overplayed, and I have a tendency to skip it whenever it pops up on the Night Ranger greatest hits CD I sometimes play.
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If anyone has ever seen the Styx Behind the Music, or saw Damn Yankees when they toured in the early 90s, you'll know that Jack Blades and Tommy Shaw had some fun making fun of each other for their hugely popular ballads from their former respective bands. Shaw would make fun of Blades for Sister Christian, and Blades would make fun of Shaw for Babe (which irked Dennis DeYoung). :lol :lol
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Yeah. I did see that. Way too funny Kev. This is how I feel about the first 2 Damn Yankees albums, half the album great, half forgettable.
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That sums up the first Damn Yankees album, I agree.
But the second one is dynamite. Much more rocking than the first, in songwriting and production (more low end/balls). Great record from start to finish!
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I should listen to the second album some more, I guess. I checked out the first album and thought it was alright, kinda 50-50 like others have said, but I don't know if I even made it through the second album. It just sounded like more of the same. Maybe it takes multiple listens. I do like both Nugent and Shaw, so I was disappointed by the first album and may not have given the second album a fair chance.
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The meat of the album has some really good rockers (that weren't hits) like Dirty Dog and Firefly, as well as killer stuff like Silence Is Broken and Someone to Believe.
Anyway, back to the 80s...
Prince and the Revolution - When Doves Cry
Say what you want about Prince, but Purple Rain is a terrific record, and When Doves Cry, the biggest hit from it, is a killer tune.
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You know, it wasn't till later that I found out what a killer guitar player Prince is. He can sure write a catchy tune and this is a big one.
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Song was on the radio at work today. Don't get what all the fuss is about with Prince at all. Purple Rain (song) is good, and a couple of others but that's it. What's the point of being a great guitarist if you don't show people what you can do?
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What's the point of being a great guitarist if you don't show people what you can do?
Because not every player cares about showing off all of the time.
Besides, I am friends with a couple who went and saw him years ago, and the husband (who wasn't much of a fan) came away shocked at what a great guitarist Prince was, so I am guessing he shows it more live than he does in the studio.
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What's the point of being a great guitarist if you don't show people what you can do?
Because not every player cares about showing off all of the time.
Besides, I am friends with a couple who went and saw him years ago, and the husband (who wasn't much of a fan) came away shocked at what a great guitarist Prince was, so I am guessing he shows it more live than he does in the studio.
That's fair enough but has he shown it ever though? I know other guitarists have jammed with him ( a certain Mr Vai for example) and said how awesome he is. I haven't heard a single thing to suggest he's anything more than an average guitarist. I'm happy to be proved wrong if anyone knows any examples.
edit. ok I YT'd Prince and there are examples of some good playing there. Does he ever play like that on album?
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This work, and 1999 before it, were breakthroughs for me, in opening my eyes to look at genres past rock and metal. I loved a lot of his stuff, but this song especially was dear to me.
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Purple Rain is a top album for me. WDC got way too overplayed on MTV/Much Music (our version of MTV). Now that I don't hear it that often, it is a wonderful/brilliant song.
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There's nothing about Prince that I like. There's few artists that I cannot stand less. Just sayin' :D
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Madonna - Material Girl
There were a dozen Madonna songs I could have picked, but I went with this one, a) because it is a good song, b) the name of the song became one of her media nicknames, and c) the video is the best she has ever looked, IMO. I was never someone who thought Madonna was that attractive, but she looked stunning in this video.
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When Doves Cry - Prince IS criminally underrated as a guitarist. The Purple Rain album is excellent from beginning to end. When Doves Cry may have been played into the ground, but there's a uniqueness to its sound that always grabs me. As far as his guitar playing, here's his solo on 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps" from the 2--4 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lZ1Mu78VFM#t=3m26s
Material Girl - Yep. Probably her best looking video. The whole "Like a Virgin" era was her hottest. I never cared a ton for her music, but I always liked "La Isla Bonita".
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As talented as Madonna is, I've never liked that style of music.
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Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
The theme song of Rocky III, this was one of my first favorite songs when I was 9, but it hasn't aged that well for me. It is on my 80s playlist and my 80s CD in my car, but I will almost always skip over it if it comes on when doing random play. Not sure why. But I loved it as a kid.
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Despite being used to death over the years to the point of being beyond cliche, I still love the song. Instantly recognizable from the first note.
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What blob said. Great song, but beaten to death.
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What lonestar said.
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Okay, then.
ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin'
I gotta admit that, at 10, this video was one of the coolest things ever: the ZZ Top Eliminator Car, the keychain and the pretty girls, all of whom were pretty back in the later Eliminator videos like Legs and Sharp Dressed Man. Plus, this is just a good, rocking song.
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Wait...that was the video with the car, right?
:sharpdressedman:
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Love Eye of The Tiger. Big Survivor fan. Love Premonition and Vital Signs.
ZZ Top. The Songs good but I never owned a ZZ Top album. The shock!!
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Ahhh, ZZ Top, the ideal pimp lifestyle of every young male in the early eighties. :hat
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Ahhh, ZZ Top, the ideal pimp lifestyle of every young male who thought dressing like Don Johnson was cool in the early eighties. :hat
Fixed.
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I only have ZZ Top's greatest hits ... that's enough of the trio for me. Gimmee All Your Lovin (and the other hits from Eliminator) produced some quality videos - at a time when videos was THE thing to be doing.
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Anybody here prefer old-school ZZ Top? I grew up on the bluesy stuff like "La Grange" and "Tush". And some of their album tracks from back then were fun and downright hilarious. Songs like "She Loves My Automobile" and "Arrested for Driving While Blind" are great fun. Bluesy, dirty, funny, and best of all, they don't all sound the same. I do like the synthy ZZ Top sound of the 80's (Eliminator era) but those songs are all pretty interchangeable.
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Yeah, 70s ZZ Top is definitely their best stuff. Classics like Tush, La Grange, Just Got Paid, Waitin' for the Bus etc. are all great. And of course my favorite, Cheap Sunglasses.
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80s ZZ Top made for memorable music videos, but the songs were quite interchangeable. But yeah, they got a LOT of teenaged guys to stop and watch the TV for a while. Older ZZ Top is much better.
My funny ZZ Top story: I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that it took me AGES to realize what the song Pearl Necklace was about. Realizing what it was about sitting next to my senior year in high school crush, who could wear a sweater like WHOA, certainly didn't help matters much. :lol
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My funny ZZ Top story: I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that it took me AGES to realize what the song Pearl Necklace was about. Realizing what it was about sitting next to my senior year in high school crush, who could wear a sweater like WHOA, certainly didn't help matters much. :lol
:lol :lol :tup :tup
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Icehouse - Crazy
I think this is one of those cool forgotten 80s songs. I don't really remember the video, but I am pretty sure there was one. :lol But I like the song, and it was one I didn't add to my massive 80s iTunes playlist until last year because I had forgotten about it. But I am glad I eventually remembered it, as it is a good, solid tune.
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Well, since no one probably remembers that song :lol...
ABC - The Look of Love, Part 1
Great pop song, and one that sounds very British, if that makes sense. Definitely a favorite of mine back in 1982, and one I still enjoy.
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ABC had some serious fashion sense. I liked that when other bands were going with outrageous makeup and flaming sets and other useless stuff, ABC just put on some nice suits. Their videos did get pretty crazy sometimes, but the band looked cool.
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Awww, ABC, made me dig up this one....
When Smokey Sings (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jiV0BsB590&feature=related)
Such a catchy, infectious tune, gotta run and play some thrash to get it out of my head. (just kidding, I kinda love this nostalgic pop crap, makes me feel young)
EDIT: That just sent me on a quick journey down memory lane, Missing Persons-Destination Unknown and 'Til Tuesday- Voices Carry ( :heart Aimee Mann)
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Icehouse - Crazy
I think this is one of those cool forgotten 80s songs. I don't really remember the video, but I am pretty sure there was one. :lol But I like the song, and it was one I didn't add to my massive 80s iTunes playlist until last year because I had forgotten about it. But I am glad I eventually remembered it, as it is a good, solid tune.
You know, I never ever bought anything from Icehouse but I do love this song. Very catch chorus. I always wanted to try something from them.
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I cannot for the life of me remember this song.
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I wasn't even close to metal or Rock TAC. I don't think you'd like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzMaptbNMRw
Edit: Thanks Kev. I just watched Electric Blue also. It's been 20 years since I heard that song.
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:lol
God, that's awful! I seriously do NOT remember that song.
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I knew you wouldn't like it. :lol I know your tastes.
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Yup, put me in the "no fucking idea" category.
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Kev. Mess them all up and pick Frozen Ghost -- Should I See :lol
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Forget that, let's see some Alda Nova!!!
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Forget that, let's see some Alda Nova!!!
Saw him open for BOC.
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Forget that, let's see some Alda Nova!!!
Saw him open for BOC.
Saw a stripper in Sacramento dance to Fantasy,getting handcuffed to a chain link fence halfway through the song.
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Edit: Thanks Kev. I just watched Electric Blue also. It's been 20 years since I heard that song.
Yeah, that one's okay.
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
Good song from a very good album, and hands down one of the best videos ever. For those of you who have never seen it, check it out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULjCSK0oOlI
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Oh Jesus.
I remember Icehouse. But I don't remember THAT song. I remember their early 80s videos directed by Russell Mulcahy. Back when MTV would play just about ANYTHING to fill the time, and man, they played early Icehouse a lot. Thanks for the nostalgia bomb!
As for Paul Simon, yes, that's one of the best videos of the 80s. Kind of funny that a decade noted for excess in music videos had one of its best be something that simple. Catchy as hell song too.
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I love the Paul Simon video. Chevy Chase is great in it, and overall it's just really well done. Simple but very clever. Lots of little stuff in there you might not notice the first time (such as Chevy setting things on the "table" only to have them fall through to the floor).
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Wow. Remember when real music had a place in pop culture?
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Edit: Thanks Kev. I just watched Electric Blue also. It's been 20 years since I heard that song.
Yeah, that one's okay.
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
Good song from a very good album, and hands down one of the best videos ever. For those of you who have never seen it, check it out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULjCSK0oOlI
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Man I couldn't stand that song. Came out at a time when I was just getting in to heavier music, so that's probably why I just found it annoying.
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Is that song on the album where Paul Simon had those African singers? I remember he had them on TV constantly. They were incredible!
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Genesis - Land of Confusion
This video was huge when it came out, in large part due to the comical nature of it, featuring the puppets of many famous people, ranging from the President Ronald Reagan to Hulk Hogan to Mick Jagger to Johnny Carson to the band themselves. Great, innovative video, and a helluva fun pop rock tune.
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The last two songs for me were pretty much overshadowed by their videos. I would stop whatever I was doing whenever they came on MTV, but if I ever passed one of them on the radio dial, I would feel like something was missing, and probably keep scrolling.
Good examples of wondering how I would feel about a song if I heard it a few times before ever seeing the video.
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awesome song, love it!!
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Genesis - Land of Confusion
This video was huge when it came out, in large part due to the comical nature of it, featuring the puppets of many famous people, ranging from the President Ronald Reagan to Hulk Hogan to Mick Jagger to Johnny Carson to the band themselves. Great, innovative video, and a helluva fun pop rock tune.
Yes.
The last two songs for me were pretty much overshadowed by their videos. I would stop whatever I was doing whenever they came on MTV, but if I ever passed one of them on the radio dial, I would feel like something was missing, and probably keep scrolling.
Good examples of wondering how I would feel about a song if I heard it a few times before ever seeing the video.
And yes again.
To me, it's kinda like a Bugs Bunny cartoon. I thought it was cool at the time, but didn't have the maturity and perspective at the time to appreciate how poignant and well-constructed a lot of the humor really was.
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Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
One of the biggest one-hit wonders of the 80s, this is a song that seems to get mocked a lot, as if it is a symbol of how retched the 80s allegedly were, but I think this song, cheesy as it is, is good fun. And isn't that what music is supposed to be a lot of time...fun? :biggrin:
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This is a great song. However, I'm not convince that the vocalist is actually saying words in this song's verses, or maybe he's singing them with a mouth full of molasses or something.
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Come On Eileen is a catchy tune but I never wanted to own it.
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When I went to University in the mid 90s, you couldn't go to a bar any night of the week without this coming on. Not sure why it ended up being such a party song at that time (in my neck of the woods), but I certainly got my fill of it then. I like the tune, but don't go seeking it out to listen to.
I had the 45 as a kid, and I recalled that the band was labeled Dexy's Midnight Runners and the Emerald Express. Everyone I ever said that to looked at me like I had 7 heads. Proof is in the pudding.
(https://images.45cat.com/dexys-midnight-runners-and-the-emerald-express-come-on-eileen-1982.jpg)
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Nice. I think I had that on a 45 as well, but I don't think it said that. It is probably still buried somewhere at my parents' house with all of their records. If I think about it, I'll have to look later today when I go over for Easter. In the meantime...
The Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another
This always struck me as a song I should have liked a lot, but never really did. I never disliked it, and still don't, but it was just never a favorite at all.
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A huge Fixx fan. Saw them in the 80's. The guitarist Jamie West-Oram is one of a kind guitarist.
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The Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another
This always struck me as a song I should have liked a lot, but never really did. I never disliked it, and still don't, but it was just never a favorite at all.
Right with ya there buddy. Took me a little time just to recall the song/melody. Never did much for me.
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Chad, how about Red Skies or Are We Ourselves or Saved By Zero?
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I like "One Thing Leads to Another". That weird synth sound is cool and I love the percussive sound of the guitar. It's catchy, and if anything, it's too short. It didn't have to go on forever like a prog song or anything, but the verses are quick, the break is only eight bars, another quick verse, and out. There's probably a 10-minute extended dance version somewhere that goes too far the other direction, but this song could've used a little fleshing out overall.
I thought "Red Skies at Night" was also catchy, and "Saved By Zero" as well. I don't remember "Are We Ourselves?" but overall The Fixx is one of those bands who had a cool sound and were definitely an 80's staple for a while.
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Chad, how about Red Skies or Are We Ourselves or Saved By Zero?
Honestly, I don't remember The Fixx at all other than this track.
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Chad, how about Red Skies or Are We Ourselves or Saved By Zero?
Honestly, I don't remember The Fixx at all other than this track.
Try the songs I suggested on Youtube. I'd love to hear what you think about them.
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Ah, finally some videos I remember. I've always liked that Paul Simon and Genesis video. It's amazing that even when Chevy isn't trying to be funny he was. And as a kid you can't go wrong with crazy puppets.
I don't remember the video, but I remember that The Fixx song.
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Saved by Zero was definitely my favorite of the hits by The Fixx. Great tune.
Bryan Adams - Run to You
Very cool song, and the video, with the snow, sums the song up well, as it is a cool song to listen to on a cold, snowy day.
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Cool straight forward rock from Adams. He puts on a no nonsense rockin live show and run to you goes over well live.
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Was a big Bryan Adams fan back in the day. He always had cool videos without going over the top with the cheese.
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I always had mixed feelings about "Run to You". The lyrics bug me, both for their content and their crappy grammar, but I still like the song. I remember watching the video and thinking how cliché it all is, but I still think it's really good. Pop music confuses me.
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Styx - Mr. Roboto
As a kid, I loved this song. When I got into Styx when I was 17 or so, I grew to really dislike it. Now, I sort of like it. The music in it is really good, but the robot thing is sooooo bad. Although I did enjoy it when DeYoung played it at a solo show of his my brother and I saw about 10 years ago. I barely remember the video.
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I don't remember the video at all, and I suspect it will be much easier to retain my enjoyment of the song if I keep it that way. :)
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since it's baseball season, how about some Outfield?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiMineG1w3U&ob=av2e
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Loved Mr. Roboto as a kid but figured out later the damage this album and tour did to the band. The video is camp city but not as campy as Heavy Metal Poisoning. :lol
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As a disgruntled, isolated thirteen year old scifi reading loser who was head over heels in love with Styx, this video was the greatest thing ever. I later realized that as a concept album and as a song, the idea was lame. Still, it will always have a place in my heart. :heart
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Europe - The Final Countdown
Say what you want about this song, but how many songs can attain such popularity with the hook being a keyboard melody, as opposed to a vocal one? Not many. Interestingly, and I know I have expressed this before, when I first DT, my instant thought was they were a heavier and more intense Europe. They had similar elements: operatic singer, cool use of keyboards, etc. The massive difference was soon pretty evident, but that was my first impression.
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Cool song, loved it in the day.
I love the line by Sebastian Bach on one of those VH1 specials about this song though,"Any song about spaceflight by a band named after a continent has to suck." :rollin
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Bach had some major pipes back in the day, but have you seen him lately? He looks like an aging, obese woman. :lol :lol
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Rockstars in general never seem to age gracefully. :lol
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I love The Final Countdown. From that iconic keyboard riff that everyone knows, to those silly scifi lyrics that make little sense even once you figure out the words. I love it all. I'd call it a guilty pleasure but for the fact I have no shame in it at all. :lol
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I give the middle finger to the idea of guilty pleasures, since I have none. I like what I like, and if someone has a problem with it, that is their problem, not mine. I have ZERO guilty pleasures. :metal
But I have seen The Final Countdown called one by many over the years, so I get it. :biggrin:
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I enjoy it, if only for the iconic synth intro.
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One of the cooks at work loves the song. You want entertainment, watch a 250 pound Mexican line cook sing this a the top of his voice. :lol
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One of the cooks at work loves the song. You want entertainment, watch a 250 pound Mexican line cook sing this a the top of his voice. :lol
Okay. Time and address?
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I love that song for one reason...our HS band played it at the beginning of every 4th quarter our team had the lead, which was pretty much every game.
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Great song. great band- unfairly slated as talentless empty crap probably because the singer had the audacity to not be fugly. Unfortunately it's one of those songs (Livin' On A Prayer, Sweet Child o' Mine, Summer Of '69 etc) that suffers from overexposure.
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Overplayed but who cares?! great tune and like everybody else said, "Who can forget the keyboard intro?"
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Overplayed but who cares?! great tune and like everybody else said, "Who can forget the keyboard intro?"
??? How did it go. I'm not remembering it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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Well played.
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:clap:
Well played.
This. Free lunch for King.
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Chad, how about Red Skies or Are We Ourselves or Saved By Zero?
Honestly, I don't remember The Fixx at all other than this track.
Try the songs I suggested on Youtube. I'd love to hear what you think about them.
Got around to checking them out a couple of days ago. Still didn't do anything for me. Not sure it would've 25 years ago either.
Mr. Roboto ... the cheesiest of all Styx tunes. Fun, but cheesy as hell. And stay away from that video. It's horrid on the same level Separate Ways is!
Final Countdown... nice track on a horribly under-rated album. Overplayed song back in the day yes, but the album was as good as Slippery When Wet. Solid, top to bottom.
Thankfully, King's YT clip got pre-empted with an ad, so I didn't get 'rolled'.
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I thought "Mr. Roboto" was okay the first time I heard. A bit repetitive, but catchy. The second time, it seemed even more repetitive and somehow less catchy. I'm not sure I've ever made it all the way through the song a third time. Cheesy is right.
I was a Styx fan from Equinox, Crystal Ball days; my first concert was The Grand Illusion. But man, when they fell, they fell hard.
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Big Country - In a Big Country
Now, talk about a song that just sounds like great fun, that describes In a Big Country to a 't'. I am a little fuzzy on remembering this video as well, but I think I remember it being good fun to match the music; I'll have to check it out here shortly.
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I always liked this song, especially the way the electric guitar sounds like bagpipes but without the whine.
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Huge fan of Big Country. even bought a few albums in the 90's as imports before Stu took his life. Loved the song and the lower harmonies. The drummer rocked and both the drummer and bass player played a bit with Pete Townsend on album and live (Well, the bass player did).
Next album has one of my all time fav songs buy them, Where The Rose Is Sown.
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Big Country should have been as big as U2. The album "The Seer" is fantastic.
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Late to the party, but wanted to chime in on Final Countdown:
1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjeMDvCdrtc (How far can you make it?)
2) Good tune, cool solo.
3) Always makes me thing of the record stores in the Grand Theft Auto games: Vinyl Countdown (https://images.wikia.com/de.gta/images/0/0f/Vinyl_Countdown,_Market,_SA.jpg)
4) I heard Sebastian Bach a couple of times in the last couple of years. He sounds like he just stepped out of 1989. Seriously, he still sounds excellent.
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Men at Work - Down Under
I loved this song when it first came out, even though at the age of 8, I thought he was singing, "I come from the land of under." :lol :lol But how can you not love a well-written pop song that not only has a great video, but features a flute?!
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I love that song. Probaably the only song in history to have the word "vegemite" in it.
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As an Australian, this song is just a huge embarrassment to this entire country. :facepalm:
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I guess I can understand that, but the rest of the world thought it was pretty cool, and I think it raised the overall opinion of Australia in general. People who'd never even heard of Australia went "Hey, they're pretty cool. They have the one band with that one song, you know?"
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I love that song. Probaably the only song in history to have the word "vegemite" in it.
I guess I can understand that, but the rest of the world thought it was pretty cool, and I think it raised the overall opinion of Australia in general. People who'd never even heard of Australia went "Hey, they're pretty cool. They have the one band with that one song, you know?"
All that.
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Belated comments on Big Country:
I loved their first two albums. It's a shame In A Big Country gave them a gimmick as being "the band with the bagpipe guitars" because they were a lot more than that. The Crossing and Steeltown are two of my favorite albums ever.
Down Under by Men at Work-yet another one of those endlessly catchy songs with a great video that the 80s seemed to fire out constantly. Also a remnant of the days when albums could be out forever before taking off. They were pretty close to releasing their next album when Who Can It Be Now and Down Under blew up. Great, next I'll be waxing nostalgic about the days when a band could sell out an arena in Detroit and no one knew who they were in New York :lol
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People who'd never even heard of Australia went "Hey, they're pretty cool. They have the one band with that one song, you know?"
Well, to be fair, it had that effect on the rest of the world that wasn't already saying that about AC/DC. :lol
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People who'd never even heard of Australia went "Hey, they're pretty cool. They have the one band with that one song, you know?"
Well, to be fair, it had that effect on the rest of the world that wasn't already saying that about AC/DC. :lol
Or Midnight Oil.
Very catchy tune but I never bought their albums. It's funny how hard they fell after the second album. I see Colin Hay still tours and does solo albums once in a while.
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I remember reading an article about Men at Work back when they were hot, about how they were all very private people. Some celebrities are fine with the spotlight and thrive on fame, some deal with it as a necessary evil that comes with the turf, and some really reject the whole thing. The guys from Men at Work didn't like doing interviews, didn't see the point in telling everyone about their personal lives, are they married or what, any of that. After the second album, we never heard from them again, and I remembered that article and thinking that fame goes both ways. They were cool, but they weren't that cool, they weren't superstars or anything, and the public wasn't going to continue embracing them if they weren't going to hug back. So they disappeared.
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Colin Hay still does solo gigs. Playing in Baltimore in the near future.
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As an Australian, this song is just a huge embarrassment to this entire country. :facepalm:
This. This. This. This. This. This. This!!!!!!
Saying that, I will add the lawsuit they lost over this song a few years ago was bullshit!!
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I remember hearing about the lawsuit, and thought it was completely stupid, but I never heard how it turned out. On the other hand, I turned on the radio one time, just when the little flute ditty was starting. The second one, which does sound exactly like "Kookaburra". I had never made the connection before, and there it was, plain as day. So while the suit was stupid, it wasn't without merit.
But if anything, I would consider it an homage. They are, after all, Australian and clearly proud of it, so it makes perfect sense that the song praising the land Down Under would include a reference to a native bird.
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Asia - Heat of the Moment
Many probably got to know this song because of it being featured near the end of 40-Year Old Virgin, and many probably hated it at the time because it was prog guys playing pop rock, but being a young kid when it came out, I enjoyed it a lot. And in fact, every time I still see the video, it takes me back to my childhood. So yeah, I dig it.
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Great classic rock song, very catchy.
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I had a massive hard on for the whole album. Nuff said.
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Still to this day, I play this album and love ever song on it. Heat Of The Moment is a song I can never get sick of.
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many probably hated it at the time because it was prog guys playing pop rock
I didn't hate it, but it was a major disappointment. Wetton, Howe, Downes, Palmer, a "new styled" Roger Dean cover, and a promise of some great new prog from a band I'd never heard of but knew I was going to love. I put it on, and WTF? This is the new prog supergroup? Yes, King Crimson, U.K., Emerson Lake & Palmer have combined forces to produce... this?
I figured maybe the first song had to be "catchy", have radio potential or something. This was 1981, after all. The second song is going to be awesome! Hmmm. Okay, the third song. The third song will slay me! Hmmm. I'm sure I played the whole thing at least a few times, expecting it to grow on me, but it never did. The writing is great, the playing and production are great, but there's just nothing there I care to hear more than a few times.
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Still to this day, I play this album and love ever song on it. Heat Of The Moment is a song I can never get sick of.
ditto. Great opening riff, great vocal melody, catchy chorus. All good stuff.
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I loved the first Asia album, and even though I consider myself a hardcore prog head, have no problems calling it prog in the least. You have to consider that in 1982, playing prog as it was-side long epics with flowery, poetic lyrics-was basically a kiss of death. That kind of music got you laughed at. There's enough instrumental complexity to the first Asia album-go ahead and tell me the average pop-rock band in 1982 would be capable of pulling off a song like Without You, I'll chuckle at the notion-to interest most prog fans without it turning into instrumental wankery. While progressive rock survived to go on and return to the flights of excess that the 70s had seen the genre evolve to, I'll submit that the first Asia album was precisely what prog needed in the 80s. The genre had backed itself into a corner by then, and needed to evolve to live. (Interestingly, that's called progression. It's kind of surprising how conservative a genre prog rock can be.)
The shame about Asia was all the mistakes they made AFTER the first album. The first album was sheer gold.
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Yeah, that first Asia album is really good from start to finish. Every song is really good. :tup :tup
George Michael - Father Figure
Say what you want about George Michael, but the guy had a phenomenal voice back in the day, and Father Figure is a great song. And the video completely captures the mood and feel of the song. This was easily one of the best pop songs of the 80s.
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Not.....a....fan.
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I met my wife the year after her father died. It still affects her to this day of course, but back then it was much worse and she was still reeling from it. She had an older brother and sister, but she was always daddy's favorite and they were very close. The song "Father Figure" was all over the radio not long after that, and a couple of times (or maybe it's just the once towards the end) he pauses before saying "...figure" so it mostly sounds like he's saying "I will be your father." I remember thinking how fucking cheap that is to do to somebody. Here's this girl who has just lost her father, and some guy on the radio is singing about how he will be not just her father figure, but really her father. Love and protect you, look out for you, take care of you. I remember driving around in the car with her one time and this song came on and I looked and she was crying.
Fuck you, George Michael. You're a cheap bastard, fucking with girl's emotions like that for a hit single.
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Asia- Great song from a great album. Got this when it came out without having heard any of their previous bands after a review. Has the most awful guitar solo ever. A wtf moment every time I heard it. Not heard the album for ages so going to dig it out now. Remeber not liking the 2nd album as it was too soft. Astra was a good album though.
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re. Down Under - the ways that its been used here has been embarrasing (i.e.. the soundtrack to Australia winning the Americas Cup in '83, as well as whenever an Australian wins an olympic gold medal, and rugby world cup victories), but I like the song itself. I remember being a kid going around our school yard with my friend singing it when I was about 10 (and we didn't get beat up). when Kev mentioned Icehouse the other day, I mentally listed it as one of the three most likely songs to make an Australian homesick (others - Icehouse' Great Southern Land, and the Church's Under the Milky Way)
also, as a song, it can only ever have come from here, which you definitely can't say about, say, Savage Garden
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Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel. Awesome video. I also like Steam by PG
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On that note...
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
Legendary, ground-breaking video, but I have never been overly wild about the song. I am a huge fan of PG's solo work, but this is far down my list of favorite songs of his.
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Sorry, I didn't have time to expand upon that song, I had to leave the computer :P
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On that note...
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
Legendary, ground-breaking video, but I have never been overly wild about the song. I am a huge fan of PG's solo work, but this is far down my list of favorite songs of his.
Can't say enough about this song, the video and the art that PG creates.
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The videos for Sledgehammer and Big Time were both pretty amazing. Peter really knew how to use the medium. He's always been that kind of guy.
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Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf
Good song, and definitely one of the earliest MTV videos that told a story. This song was Duran Duran's breakthrough and it has aged really well, IMO. This is one of a handful of 80s tunes that makes frequent appearances on my workout playlist.
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Sledgehammer is another one of those songs (like 'You Can Call Me Al') that I just couldn’t separate from their awesome videos. Whenever I heard them on the radio, they just felt lacking.
Was a big Duran Duran fan and loved Hungry Like the Wolf. That is an example of a song that was great despite it having such a memorable video. And definitely has aged well. It has that quintessential 80s sound, but it some ways sounds like it could have been released last week.
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Obviously I'm not a Duran Duran fan, but I remember pre Hungry, I was listening to King Biscuit Flower Hour and this band was playing that I'd never heard. It was actually pretty rocking, and then the last song they played was Planet Earth, which I immedeately recognized from seeing the video, and I was like, No Way is this that queer band in the video. They were actually rocking!!
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Simon LeBon had a great voice and Duran Duran overall had some awesome vocal harmonies.
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There are few artists that you can say "MTV made them in America" more about than Duran Duran. Because MTV made them. Sure they had good songs, but without the videos, and especially Hungry Like The Wolf drawing attention like it did, they'd never had been as huge as they were.
It's interesting to consider how different the history of 80s music would have been if the first couple of years of MTV, where they played practically anything to fill time, hadn't happened.
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I remeber getting Duran Duran -- Rio on cassette the same day as Iron Maiden -- Piece Of Mind. I remember my cousin saying that it was the weirdest combo he had ever seen purchased.
Years later he tells me the the first few Duran Duran albums were their best and I just had to laugh because he wouldn't even listen to them in the 80's. Rio is a fantastic album and HLTW was great even without the video but it is so true that MTV made DD.
To this day I still buy music all over the place.
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I also bought Piece Of Mind with something else, except it was Riot's Narita.
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HLTW is an excellent tune. Something about that little guitar riff - it's so simple, but it sounds so f*cking cool.
Also:
Simon LeBon had a great voice and Duran Duran overall had some awesome vocal harmonies.
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I also bought Piece Of Mind with something else, except it was Riot's Narita.
My cousin had the weirdest face saying, "Why the hell would you buy that?" And now he owns it. :lol
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While we're on the subject of Duran Duran, the song Rio has a surprisingly killer bass line. It is easy to miss or mistake for a synth, but that is a bass guitar. Good stuff!
Also, Jaq, you are correct: MTV totally made Duran Duran in America in the early 80s. I remember for a spell in 1983, it seemed like they couldn't go more than two hours without playing The Reflex. :lol
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Another band my teen metal snobbery wouldn't allow me to get into till much later, but a great album, one of the best of that era.
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Another band my teen metal snobbery wouldn't allow me to get into publicly admit I was into till much later, but a great album, one of the best of that era.
This.
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I admit to owning the DD best of. I was happy enough to say I liked them at the time but certainly wasn't a "fan". And the guitarist, Andy Taylor, recorded a great AOR album and produced the awesome first Thunder album. For that alone he deserves respect.
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Those DD hits were right during my transition from pop to rock as my preferred musical outlet. Good tunes, and glad I didn't get caught up in any predispositions like RJ. Great tune.
And I'm with Kevin on Sledgehammer ... Legendary video, but the song was meh. Still is. Was very popular in its time though.
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Another band my teen metal snobbery wouldn't allow me to get into publicly admit I was into till much later, but a great album, one of the best of that era.
This.
Yeah, kinda the same thing I guess, I really didn't give them an honest listen till college though.
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Time to get this thread back on track...
Simply Red - Holding Back the Years
I've always liked this song a lot. It has a kind of melancholy feel to it that is very infectious and extremely memorable. Very easy song to get lost in for four and a half minutes.
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Great song! I too like the melancholy feel to it, and Hucknall's voice is perfect for that kind of song. I usually don't like his voice, to be honest, but it works perfectly here.
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I never really bought anything from SR but the man possesses so much soul in his voice. I just saw him on Paladia on cable and they had an 80's concert and he still has got it. I really went nuts seeing Level 42 on that show. I loved that band.
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Simply Red never did anything for me. In fact, I don't remember this song, nor can I immediately think of what their radio hits were. I certainly never had any vinyl of their's.
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Simply Red isn't the first band I think of when I think "80s video bands"-but they're in the top ten :lol
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That is probably the only Simply Red song I like, to be honest.
Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Fantastic song, one which I loved the first time I heard it back in 1987, and one I still love. Dusty Springfield's vocal contribution is just beautiful; I sometimes get chills during her verses. I was outspoken a while back in another thread about how much music I really enjoy by this band now, but this one will always remain one of my favorites by them. Electro-pop can often so sound clinical and emotionless, but their blend of dance beats and sneaky good melodies is almost always well done, and this song is a great example of that.
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No one? ??? >:( :biggrin:
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Nope. :P
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Never was a Pet Shop Boys fan.
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What they said. Opportunities and West End Girls is the only Pet Shop Boys songs I liked/remember.
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"It's a Sin" was always my favorite Pet Shop Boys.
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Okay, in honor of the death of one of their members last week....
Beastie Boys - (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)
I enjoyed this song a lot when it was first out, as the video was great fun, but it didn't age that well for me, and I was never much of a fan of this band. But for a very short spell in 1986, this was one of my favorite songs.
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Listened to this and some other License to Ill songs after hearing about MCA. Wasn’t ever a big Beastie fan, but always did love their videos. Some of their songs hold up well for me now. No Sleep till Brooklyn is probably my favorite.
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I am in the same boat with you kev. liked it when it forst came out but wasn't a fan except for Sabotage. I do know that they were very talented but not my cup of tea.
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I do this song in both of my bands. It's always a crowd pleaser.
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80s staple tune. I remember this as one of the first songs to blend rap/rock. I tolerated this song, but never really liked it. Very simple song. Nothing wrong with it at all, but nothing abundantly right with it either.
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John Mellancamp - Pink Houses
Very nice song, and a cool video. This song is, IMO, easily one of the best two or three songs he ever did. I rarely listen to him, but this is definitely one of the few go-to songs of his for me.
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A song that transcends eras. Very catchy and very sing alongable (if theres such a word, oh I'm Blob now making up words! :lol)
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My wife and I were in a diner somewhere catching some lunch, and it had a jukebox. I always look for obscure stuff to play on jukeboxes, and it had the acoustic version of "Pink Houses" (probably the B side of some other hit from that album, I don't remember). I picked it, and listened to the lyrics really for the first time.
I'm from the Midwest, just as John is, so all those things he's singing about in that song are so familiar to me that it just sounded like a string of clichés. Which is what they are, of course, but it wasn't until I moved to the East Coast, then to Chicago, that I really understood the point of the song. It's all those quaint little things that mean America to him. Also, the song is much better as just a voice and guitar song, which I'm sure is how all of John's songs start out.
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Just want to give a shout out to the Pet Shop Boys song from above. I love that tune. I don't check this thread enuff...
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All I know by PSB is West End Girls but I love it to this day.
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Never really got into Mellencamp. He had a few good songs I spose. Paper and Fire and Rain on the Scarecrow were a couple of good ones. Didn't really like much else than that.
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Never really got into Mellencamp. He had a few good songs I spose.
Same here. I didn't dislike his music, and I wouldn't go out of my way to avoid it or anything. But listening to his songs kinda felt like the equivalent of ('80s reference coming up) going to the generic aisle of the supermarket and picking up a yellow box that just said "rock music" on it.
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Are you sure it wasn't a white box?
"There's a white box in a white store, sittin in a white generic aisle."
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I think it was a regional thing. Out where we were, most stores had the yellow generic aisle. But I seem to remember one or two stores having white.
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Now they've integrated generic (a.k.a. store brand) into the aisles with everything else. No more "separate but equal" for MY bargain shopping experience, thank you very much!
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Great. Next thing you know, they'll be trying to legalize generic marriage. (Which, for the record, I am not opposed to. I simply don't look forward to having to moderate all the threads where Omega says that anyone who is not opposed is objectively wrong)
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Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters
The main song from the classic movie, I liked this song back then, but it was never really a favorite. I am sure many around my age will remember how the "Who you gonna call?" shtick was prevalent to joke around with and whatnot. :lol The video famously had a cameo by many stars of the time, including Chevy Chase, Melissa Gilbert, George Wendt and many more I cannot remember offhand.
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Yeah. Decent song. But fun video that made the song part of '80s pop culture.
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I like "I Want a New Drug" better.
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I like "I Want a New Drug" better.
??? Wait...isn't that the song Kev just posted?
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Ya know, I never really caught the I Want a New Drug ripoff until I saw the Behind the Music where Huey Lewis talked about it, and then I was like, "Okay, duh." :lol :lol
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I like "I Want a New Drug" better.
??? Wait...isn't that the song Kev just posted?
maybe we shouldn't talk about that. Wouldn't want to get sued.
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I remember all the fuss about one song ripping off the other, and honestly, there are some similarities, but they're obviously not the same song. I actually like both of them and never even noticed the similarities until they were pointed out. 80's music is so... "generic" sounding that it just doesn't matter.
Trivia: You know how in the chorus, when he asks "Who you gonna call?" and the response "Ghostbusters!" sounds like a bunch of young girls or something? Ray was working under a deadline to get the song finished in time, and the only people he could round up on short notice were his girlfriend and a bunch of her friends, so they're the ones yelling "Ghostbusters!" Yeah, it's a bunch of girls.
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I remember all the fuss about one song ripping off the other, and honestly, there are some similarities, but they're obviously not the same song. I actually like both of them and never even noticed the similarities until they were pointed out. 80's music is so... "generic" sounding that it just doesn't matter.
They're incredibly similar, but the reasons why are impossible to tell. Assuming it wasn't intentional (which I don't think it was), Parker may have been subconsciously influened by I Want A New Drug. Or whatever less obvious song may have influenced Huey may have been what later influenced Ray. Who knows? But things like that often happen in music.
For instance, listen to this very recongizable start-stop guitar riff in the verse of this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmSg33WMJao (for example, 2:10-2:25)
Now listen to the sample of track 10 here: https://www.amazon.com/UnEarthed-Vol-2-Y-t/dp/B0006H92BU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337357867&sr=8-1 Given how they cut it, it may be hard to pick out, but listen to the start-stop guitar riff in the verse (the sample starts with the chorus, so you have to wait a bit for the verse to come in).
Now here's the background on the Y&T track. They can't remember what inspired that song, other than they had been listening to some bluesy stuff and want to do some blues-based rock. After they had written the demo for the song and were going to submit it for the track list for their new album, Whitesnake released their album with Slow An' Easy. Somebody brought it in and basically said, "Hey guys, does this sound familiar?" So they pulled it and did not release it (the album on Amazon is a collection of demos, rarities and stuff that ended up on the cutting room floor that they just released a few years ago). On the surface, the two riffs are very similar. But the two bands hadn't heard each other's stuff when they were (almost simultaneously) writing those two songs. Interesting to me how that kind of thing can happen. And if I had to guess, I'm guessing there was perhaps a common song that influenced both of these. But who knows?
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Another great example - Theory of a Deadman's "Bad Girlfriend" and The Cult's "Fire Woman". They're the same song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I94o59Ge96Y
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Speaking of Y&T...
Y&T - Contagious
While not much of a hit, IIRC, I do remember it getting quite a bit of airplay on MTV in 1987, and it was a fun song and video, so I think it qualifies for this thread. I never liked anything else I heard by this band, which admittedly wasn't much, but I still have a nostalgic liking for this tune.
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Speaking of Y&T...
Y&T - Contagious
While not much of a hit, IIRC, I do remember it getting quite a bit of airplay on MTV in 1987, and it was a fun song and video, so I think it qualifies for this thread. I never liked anything else I heard by this band, which admittedly wasn't much, but I still have a nostalgic liking for this tune.
Well, if you're going to mention Y&T, you automatically have my attention. :biggrin:
Interesting song choice, though. That video was bad. But then again, it was 1987, so... The high school where they filmed parts of it is still there. It's a bad part of town now, but still there. I know you said you never really got into any of their other stuff, but it bears mentioning that Rob Halford called this song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QR4O0-G9HA) the ultimate metal anthem.
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I listened to both of those. Forever is an excellent tune as well, but there is something about the inherent cheese factor of Contagious that obviously appeals to me. The solo is really damned cool!
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Well, Coz, if you like the cheese factor, combined with some fun and goofy guitar acrobatics, here's another one from the Contagious album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa7BQ3P9vJU
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Great guitar ALL over that song, but holy hell, the vocals might be too much cheese for even me.
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OMG, the singers sounds just like Sammy Hagar in parts of that song. :eek :eek
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OMG, the singers sounds just like Sammy Hagar in parts of that song on most of Y&T's albums. :eek :eek
Fixed that for you. ;)
I love Y&T. One of the most underrated hard rock/metal bands ever. Contagious is a really good album and song but both are pretty low on my Y&T list, they were that damn good.
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Great guitar ALL over that song, but holy hell, the vocals might be too much cheese for even me.
:lol Yeah... But if it's intentional, is that a bad thing? Incidentally, Jimmy DiGrasso came up with the drum groove for that song, and Dave wrote the guitar and vocals around Jimmy's drums rather than the more typical pattern of writing a song based on the guitar or vocal melody.
OMG, the singers sounds just like Sammy Hagar in parts of that song. :eek :eek
That's not a coincidence, actually. In the early-mid '70s, the "big three" heavy rock bands in Northern California were Journey, Yesterday & Today (Y&T), and Montrose (which was then fronted by Hagar). These three gigged and toured together extensively in the early days, and you will find lots of overlap in styles, as they basically learned rock and roll from one another.
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OMG, the singers sounds just like Sammy Hagar in parts of that song on most of Y&T's albums. :eek :eek
Fixed that for you. ;)
I love Y&T. One of the most underrated hard rock/metal bands ever. Contagious is a really good album and song but both are pretty low on my Y&T list, they were that damn good.
Here's how I'd rank the studio albums (not including the Unearthed series):
1. In Rock We Trust (from start to finish, probably the strongest, most consistent album they've ever done)
2. Endangered Species (probably blasphemy to most fans to rank this above "the trilogy," but while it may not have such anthems as Forever, Rescue Me, Meanstreak, etc., again, it is consistent and doesn't have anything that feels like filler)
3. Black Tiger (okay, is all forgiven now? Perhaps the "quintessential Y&T album")
4. Earthshaker
5. Meanstreak (of course has a special place in my heart)
6. Ten
7. Contagious
8. Down For The Count
9. Musically Incorrect
10. Struck Down
11. Yesterday & Today
12. Facemelter
Sorry for the temporary derail. But if you open the Y&T door with me in the room, you know I'm gonna walk right through it. :lol
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Man, I forgot about Contagious. You know the guitar sounds a little like Bon Jovi's You Give Love a Bad Name.
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Love Y&T. Such an underrated band with so much talent. I liked Contagious a lot, but some of the tracks on the album were hit and miss. I think with Ten they did the commercial thing a lot better. These guys should have been a lot more successful than what they were.
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Ya know, for some reason, Y&T was a band I was never exposed to, or got any radio time (that I can remember) in these here parts. I've heard a few tracks of there's, and generally liked them, but never gone out of my way to find them.
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awesome band, awesome song!
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U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name
Easily the best of the three videos from The Joshua Tree, and while the least successful of the three Joshua Tree hits (while still pretty darn successful at the time), time has shown it to be their best and most beastly live tune. If seeing this performed live doesn't get you going, there is simply wrong with you. But the video back in '87 was very cool, a takeoff of what the Beatles had done, performing on a rooftop in public to fans on the street below, and them getting busted by the cops, which was exaggerated but actually happened, just makes the video that much cooler. This song is, simply put, an absolute beast. :coolio
The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qairkoPEUQ
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I've always dug U2's singles. Where the Streets Have No Name is good stuff.
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The classic Edge sound. I assume Kev you've seen the making of The Joshua Tree (Classic Album Series). What a sound and style The Edge forged.
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My favorite thing about this was the pop up video version of this
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I assume Kev you've seen the making of The Joshua Tree (Classic Album Series). What a sound and style The Edge forged.
I actually have not, but I need to. I love in the U2 By U2 book where The Edge talks about how he wrote the music to Streets one night when he was by himself, and how his intention was to write the ultimate live U2 song. I'd say he was pretty damn successful!
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You would loose it watching them peel back the layers of guitars. I love when they are at the board and they separate the different guitar tracks.
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OMG, the singers sounds just like Sammy Hagar in parts of that song on most of Y&T's albums. :eek :eek
Fixed that for you. ;)
I love Y&T. One of the most underrated hard rock/metal bands ever. Contagious is a really good album and song but both are pretty low on my Y&T list, they were that damn good.
Here's how I'd rank the studio albums (not including the Unearthed series):
1. In Rock We Trust (from start to finish, probably the strongest, most consistent album they've ever done)
2. Endangered Species (probably blasphemy to most fans to rank this above "the trilogy," but while it may not have such anthems as Forever, Rescue Me, Meanstreak, etc., again, it is consistent and doesn't have anything that feels like filler)
3. Black Tiger (okay, is all forgiven now? Perhaps the "quintessential Y&T album")
4. Earthshaker
5. Meanstreak (of course has a special place in my heart)
6. Ten
7. Contagious
8. Down For The Count
9. Musically Incorrect
10. Struck Down
11. Yesterday & Today
12. Facemelter
Sorry for the temporary derail. But if you open the Y&T door with me in the room, you know I'm gonna walk right through it. :lol
Always loved Y&T, since hearing Earthshaker back in the day. Saw them at Donington in 84 and in Manchester 4-5 years ago and they were still awesome. It was the hottest, sweatiest gig I've ever been to, but one of the best.
Saying that, Contagious is a poor album and this song about as good as it gets (with Armed & Dangerous). Now Summertime Girls was a good video.
I would rate The Almighty Trio, Ten (probably my number 1), DFTC, IRWT as top drawer. The rest doesn't get played much chez Lowdz.
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You would loose it watching them peel back the layers of guitars. I love when they are at the board and they separate the different guitar tracks.
I checked some of it out on youtube; pretty neat for sure!
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Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - (I've Had) The Time of My Life
It probably goes without saying that if you like Dirty Dancing, you probably like this song, and vice versa. Personally, I've always thought the movie was highly enjoyable, and the song is good fun. Nobody's puts Baby in a corner. :P
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Ugh, I'm sorry but this song makes me change the station/channel as fast as any other song I can think of. The sentiment is nice, and the song is catchy, so it was fine the first time I heard it. But hearing it once is like hearing it five times, because it's literally the same thing over and over (and over and over and over) so I was already sick of it by time I heard it a second time. Does it even have verses? All I can think of is that chorus ad infinitum.
I've never seen the movie. I've seen parts of it, but I never thought Jennifer Grey was that cute, and sleazy dancing doesn't do anything for me.
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My grandparents were extras in a couple of scenes in this movie, so I've seen it more times than I care to. It's a decent movie, the first few times. After that, I've had enough. The song is decent, but again, I've had too much of it. :lol
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Awhile back, I had to spend a few days in the back room of a large bridal attire client of ours. Think about it. They primarily sell wedding dresses and bridesmaid dresses. Now think about the fact that their PA plays a constant loop of generic, happy, sappy "wedding hits" over, and over, and over, and over... During that few days, I heard The Time of My Life perhaps more than during the rest of my life combined. I'm honestly perfectly okay with NEVER hearing it again. Ever.
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Speaking of movie soundtrack hits...
Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
This video is symbolic about how much fun videos could be when the song was from a movie, as you'd see clips from the movie interspersed with clips of the band. Always a cool effect, and was done a lot in the 80s. Fans of the old Jefferson Airplane probably cringe at this song, but hey, at least it was a lot better than the objectionally wretched We Built This City. ;) :lol
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Fans of the old Jefferson Airplane probably cringe at this song, but hey, at least it was a lot better than the objectionally wretched We Built This City. ;) :lol
In all fairness, that is only one of many reasons people cringe at this song.
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There wasn't a day at work where they played soft rock that I didn't hear (I've Had) The Time of My Life about 5 times in an 8 hour period. I've had enough.
I'd rather listen to We Built This City than Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now. Saw them back up Night Ranger on that tour.
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The Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed
Simply put, a dynamite pop song, and the video is just tons of fun, climaxing with the girls splashing around in the water of a fountain at the end. I think anyone who knew this song at the time will testify that it was played non-stop by MTV in its earliest days. Back to the song for a minute, I always like how Jane Wiedlin, the writer of the song, sings the bridge in the middle of the song, and then continues singing a background vocal as the songs goes back into the final chorus. Those two lines she sings at that juncture just sound beautiful, despite her having an oddball voice (from 1:54 to 2:05 in the video).
The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3kQlzOi27M
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Yeah, Belinda Carlisle did most of the lead vocals, but Jane's voice was good enough for the occassional lead, plus she was the cutest one, and in the video age, that matters (more than it should).
I had trouble taking anything seriously by this band, but they did write and play their own material, and a band full of not-unattractive females is never a bad thing, so sure, I'll watch the video, but I probably wouldn't listen to the song otherwise.
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Orbert, you ever see the video of them backstage partying like men. you'd have a totally different opinion of them after that. :lol
Good tune Kev. Never bought it but it is catchy as all hell. I do like better Head over Heels.
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Orbert, you ever see the video of them backstage partying like men. you'd have a totally different opinion of them after that. :lol
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this. If the makeup comes off and they're pretty hideous underneath, yeah, that would be disappointing. If clothes come off, then we have a different situation entirely. Otherwise, I know they're rockers, and I've partied with some pretty hard-core female rockers in my time, so probably nothing too shocking. Probably.
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Orbert, you ever see the video of them backstage partying like men. you'd have a totally different opinion of them after that. :lol
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this. If the makeup comes off and they're pretty hideous underneath, yeah, that would be disappointing. If clothes come off, then we have a different situation entirely. Otherwise, I know they're rockers, and I've partied with some pretty hard-core female rockers in my time, so probably nothing too shocking. Probably.
No they we drinking hard and talking about groupies and what they'd do to them. You'd really like it. I did!
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I love this song. I love it. It totally sounds like it is an 80s song, but sounds fresh and lively intead of cliche and dated like so many other songs do now fromt he 80s. Cool bass line too.
Wasn't this the song that Jane wrote that originally had a more somber/moody feel to it that was ultimately turned in to a poppier, upbeat song by the label and/or rest of the band? I swear I recall that about one of their songs and thought it was this one.
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Wasn't this the song that Jane wrote that originally had a more somber/moody feel to it that was ultimately turned in to a poppier, upbeat song by the label and/or rest of the band? I swear I recall that about one of their songs and thought it was this one.
I think so, yes. I remember the Behind The Music on them briefly playing the demo Wiedlin had done of the song when she wrote it, and it was very mellow and somber, but you could hear the melody that ended up being very prevalent in the finished song.
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Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Seriously, who doesn't like this song? It is just a great song all-around, and very easy to sing along to.
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Seriously, who doesn't like this song?
This.
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Loved them. Great live and if you've never picked up their comback album Everybody Loves A Happy Ending, do so now.
Also, great tune.
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It makes me think of the end of Real Genius.
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Cool song, not my fave from them, but good anyway.
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It makes me think of the end of Real Genius.
Was going to post the exact same thing. Great use of the song, and a good song in its own right.
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LOVE the drums in this song. And the bass.
And the song.
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Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the Dark
For a lot of younger folks, like myself at the time, this song and video was our introduction to Bruce Springsteen, and I have to admit that I absolutely loved this song back then; I still like it a lot, too. The video, despite being merely an on stage concert-like one, managed to be really interesting, thanks to Springsteen's on stage persona and of course the end of the video, which featured him pulling a fan, the then-unknown Courtney Cox, on stage to dance with him. This is an iconic 80s video by any standard.
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My most loathed song from Born in the USA. Disliked this song, and still dislike it to this day. Just never clicked with me. Frankly, I'm not a huge fan of Born in the USA. It was kinda like his Black album... where he "sold out" to be more commercially accepted. I'm not saying it was a bad move, but I just saw this as him turning a corner and more driven to be commercially accepted.
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MTV destroyed this song for me playing on the hour for a year straight.
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Dancing in the Dark will forever be known to me for being the Bruce Springsteen song with synthesizers in it. I honestly don't know enough about Springsteen's music to know whether or not Born in The USA was his first use of synthesizers, but I went to school with someone who was a fan and had the memorable reaction of "that song's got fucking synthesizers in it!" when the video hit MTV. It's pretty much one of the videos that most defined the 80s for music though, I'll give it that.
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Bruce's turn to the Dark Side. He used to write long, narrative songs with lots of changes and verses and feeling. Now he writes long songs with lots of verses, no changes and no feeling. "Dancing in the Dark", "Born in the USA", "Glory Days", "I'm on Fire" -- every one of those songs is literally the same two-bar riff the entire fucking song. I was at a Springsteen concert once and half the band committed suicide right on the stage out of sheer boredom. Okay, I might've made that last part up. But the rest is true.
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The Clash - Rock the Casbah
Definitely one of the most played videos of 1982, Rock the Casbah is still an enjoyable tune, and the video, featuring a fair amount of random silliness, still reminds me of being a kid. I know most think of Combat Rock and whatnot when The Clash come to mind, but for me, this is the one song of theirs that I always go back to.
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Oh KevShmev, did you really cut Bruce short because we were all ragging on him? MTV in the 80's Song of the Half-Hour?
Okay then. My favorite part of this song was the bluesy piano intro, but the rest of the song was pretty catchy and fun. We never knew what the words to the chorus were, but we sang this song anyway.
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Haha, no, I am just trying to pick up my own slack :biggrin:, and I did say early on that there would be days where I'd do several songs a day. ;)
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Bruce's turn to the Dark Side. He used to write long, narrative songs with lots of changes and verses and feeling. Now he writes long songs with lots of verses, no changes and no feeling. "Dancing in the Dark", "Born in the USA", "Glory Days", "I'm on Fire" -- every one of those songs is literally the same two-bar riff the entire fucking song. I was at a Springsteen concert once and half the band committed suicide right on the stage out of sheer boredom. Okay, I might've made that last part up. But the rest is true.
Some of his newer material is back to the old Bruce. I don't have the newest album, but 2009s Working on a Dream is pretty good. Closer to his 70s/early 80s material.
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Actually, I've heard that, that he's gotten back to his roots a bit, but I keep forgetting to follow up on it. I used to like his early stuff. Not all of it; some of it was just a bit too mumbly for me, but some of it was really cool. Thanks for the reminder.
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Damn, I've missed considerably more songs than I've talked about so I won't backtrack. Would take too long.
Current song - I hated it at first, then one day realized how awesome it was. IMO, The Clash have always been criminally underrated.
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The Clash - Rock the Casbah
Definitely one of the most played videos of 1982, Rock the Casbah is still an enjoyable tune, and the video, featuring a fair amount of random silliness, still reminds me of being a kid. I know most think of Combat Rock and whatnot when The Clash come to mind, but for me, this is the one song of theirs that I always go back to.
Like the song but I was never a Clash fan but the tune has and is very catchy.
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Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Good song, but one of which I was never a big fan. I liked most of his other hits from the 80s better, but I decided to pick this one to discuss for now since it was very popular and is among his most rocking known songs.
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There are about ten songs that, to me, exemplify the 80s. Rebel Yell and Rock the Casbah are, in fact, two of them. :lol
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i dont really like the 80's
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i dont really like the 80's
Then you probably shouldn't bother with a thread about '80s songs then? Just a thought.
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i dont really like the 80's
Then you probably shouldn't bother with a thread about '80s songs then? Just a thought.
For sure. If you don't like the 80s, then I would please ask that you stay out of this thread and leave it to those of us who do. :)
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Rebel Yell is one the song that you could hear at almost every cafe here at Turkey in the 90s but now... :facepalm: Old but gold days. Crazy song.
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Never a big Idol fan, but a fun song. Maybe my favorite of his if I had to pick one.
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Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Seriously, who doesn't like this song? It is just a great song all-around, and very easy to sing along to.
One of my fav songs of all time, it's amazing, the atmosphere this song creates is incredible.
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Good song, but one of which I was never a big fan. I liked most of his other hits from the 80s better, but I decided to pick this one to discuss for now since it was very popular and is among his most rocking known songs.
Good song. We use to cover this all the time, really fun song to play live.
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I liked Eyes Without a Face better than Rebel Yell back in the day. I also absolutely HATED White Wedding back then too, and I dig on that song now. Weird. Anyway, Rebel Yell is a rocker, but not my favorite of Billy's stuff.
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Rebel Yell was cool because "Yeah, the song is okay, but the guitarist kicks fucking ass!" I'm actually something of a Steve Stevens fan now, whereas Billy Idol never impressed me much. "Eyes Without a Face" was cool because it has the break that somehow goes into double tempo without the beat actually changing. I thought that was cool.
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Completely agreed on Steve Stevens - criminally underrated.
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Rebel Yell was cool because "Yeah, the song is okay, but the guitarist kicks fucking ass!" I'm actually something of a Steve Stevens fan now, whereas Billy Idol never impressed me much. "Eyes Without a Face" was cool because it has the break that somehow goes into double tempo without the beat actually changing. I thought that was cool.
And that's why Idol took off around that time. Steve Stevens co wrote a lot of the songs.
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That makes sense. He does seem to be featured in a lot of Idol's songs.
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The lead guitar in the middle of Eyes Without a Face is pretty badass.
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I only had the Idol greatest hits disk - Vital Idol I think it was called. Seems as though I lost it a long time ago. All quality tracks, but Mony Mony was always my fave, especially at public school dances. ;)
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Phil Collins and Philip Bailey - Easy Lover
Good song, and fun little video. Nothing particularly special about either, but I always dug both the song and the video. Phil Collins was one of the kings of hamming it up in 80s videos, and this one is a good example.
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There was a period in the 80s where it seemed you could turn on MTV and wait for a while you either got a Phil Collins video, a Genesis video, or a song he produced or played drums on. It usually didn't take very long for that to happen, either. The man was everywhere for a while. This is a fun bit of harmless fluff, a nice little pop song.
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I really like that song. Good harmonies and as typical Phil's unique drum sound.
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Rebel Yell was cool because "Yeah, the song is okay, but the guitarist kicks fucking ass!" I'm actually something of a Steve Stevens fan now, whereas Billy Idol never impressed me much. "Eyes Without a Face" was cool because it has the break that somehow goes into double tempo without the beat actually changing. I thought that was cool.
Completely agreed on Steve Stevens - criminally underrated.
Steve was on That Metal Show recently as the guest guitarist. He was joking that Idol was always telling him to tone down his playing. "instead of playing 40 notes, just play 10." Stuff like that.
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Debbie Gibson - Foolish Beat
Many would call this cookie-cutter pop, but I call it a well-written pop song that manages to have a hook in both the music (the sax) and the vocal melodies, which ain't easy to pull off. The majority of her hits from the 80s haven't aged that well, IMO, but this one has, if you ask me.
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Steve was on That Metal Show recently as the guest guitarist. He was joking that Idol was always telling him to tone down his playing. "instead of playing 40 notes, just play 10." Stuff like that.
That doesn't compute, but I guess Billy wanted a more toned down sound from Steve. I haven't watched that TMS episode yet, but that definitely has me more interested in it now.
Easy Lover - cute song I guess, but I was never really a huge fan of it. I liked the video more, but that's probably because Phil was such a ham in videos at the time.
Foolish Beat - ugh. Never liked Debbie/Tiffany/any of the other "pop girls" that were popular at this time. Side note: Bill Hicks did a REALLY funny bit about Debbie, Tiffany, Jimi Hendrix, and the "mall culture". :rollin
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Phil Collins has an amazing ear for picking out great and unusual harmony lines. He did it with Genesis for years, both behind Peter Gabriel and then just multitracking himself, then solo and with other people. "Easy Lover" has one of my favorite PC harmony parts. It's nuts, and Phillip Bailey also has an incredible voice and does some great harmonies on this song. It's a true duet.
This might sound kinda lame, but something that my wife and I do is when we're driving around in the car, we always have tunes on and we sing along in harmony. She sings the melody, and I pick out the harmony. I sing tenor in the church choir, and of course background vocals in countless bands, so for me it's actually more natural than singing lead. Try singing Phillip Bailey's high harmony (falsetto if necessary, which it is for most males) in "Easy Lover". It's totally insane the way it jumps around.
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Debbie Gibson - Foolish Beat
Many would call this cookie-cutter pop, but I call it a well-written pop song that manages to have a hook in both the music (the sax) and the vocal melodies, which ain't easy to pull off. The majority of her hits from the 80s haven't aged that well, IMO, but this one has, if you ask me.
Bubble gum music but at least she wrote her own songs and it fit her age at 17. BTW. There's an actor that plays her love interest in a few video's who in real life now is the guitarist for the band Tonic.
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Phil Collins has an amazing ear for picking out great and unusual harmony lines. He did it with Genesis for years, both behind Peter Gabriel and then just multitracking himself, then solo and with other people. "Easy Lover" has one of my favorite PC harmony parts. It's nuts, and Phillip Bailey also has an incredible voice and does some great harmonies on this song. It's a true duet.
This might sound kinda lame, but something that my wife and I do is when we're driving around in the car, we always have tunes on and we sing along in harmony. She sings the melody, and I pick out the harmony. I sing tenor in the church choir, and of course background vocals in countless bands, so for me it's actually more natural than singing lead. Try singing Phillip Bailey's high harmony (falsetto if necessary, which it is for most males) in "Easy Lover". It's totally insane the way it jumps around.
Great post! I think Collins is a far better singer than he always gave himself credit (or lack of) for being. And yeah, Bailey's high notes in this song are just bonkers.
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Golden Earring - Twilight Zone
A legitimate rock song getting heavy airplay on MTV in the early days? The hell you say! :P But yep, this video was played to death back in 1982, and it was always one of my favorites. I mean, this was a video with an actual storyline, and a cinematic one at that, not a cheesy "normal" 80s one, for lack of a better term. If you've never seen it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1sf2CzEq0w
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The first couple of years of MTV were great for how they pretty much said "is it rock and roll of any sort? WE'LL PLAY IT." (An aside: I became a fan of both Judas Priest and Iron Maiden because of videos MTV played.) Twilight Zone was definitely in the category of "WE'LL PLAY IT!" for MTV, but it's a great song-the video is the single edit, the actual track is just shy of eight minutes long-and a good video. What's amazing about Golden Earring is the band formed in 1961...and is still touring and releasing albums!
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Great song and great album. I remember back when MTV played concerts on Saturday nights, (Remember those days?! Sometimes simulcast on radio too?!)
Well, they had Golden Earirng live from that tour. i only saw it once, was blown away and always forgot to check out youtube for it. This thread just reminded me.
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Eh, I've always liked Radar Love better than Twilight Zone. Maybe BECAUSE radio drove TZ into the ground.
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Eh, I've always liked Radar Love better than Twilight Zone. Maybe BECAUSE radio drove TZ into the ground.
Funny, I remember it the other way around. TZ is a great song.
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great classic rock, always enjoy it
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Eh, I've always liked Radar Love better than Twilight Zone. Maybe BECAUSE radio drove TZ into the ground.
Funny, I remember it the other way around. TZ is a great song.
Same, here in Oz, Radar Love was the only song getting airplay from this band. Twilight Zone was never played on radio here.
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Well, that would make sense being the other way around for you two if Radar Love was ran into the ground in your neck of the woods.
Both got play time in the States, it just seemed to me that Twilight Zone was played a whole hell of a lot more than Radar Love in my neck of the woods.
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When Twilight Zone came out, everyone was amazed because it was the same band that had done Radar Love so many years before. "What, they're still around? Or back together or whatever?" What's even more amazing is that, if I'm not mistaken, it was the same lineup. Golden Earring never had any personnel changes.
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FeeT song, I think it gets a shit tone more play now then back then.
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When Twilight Zone came out, everyone was amazed because it was the same band that had done Radar Love so many years before. "What, they're still around? Or back together or whatever?" What's even more amazing is that, if I'm not mistaken, it was the same lineup. Golden Earring never had any personnel changes.
I believe you are correct.
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AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
A hard rock classic, this video inexplicably got a resurgence in 1987 and got regular airplay on MTV for quite a while that year. I remember getting into this and Back in Black (the song) in the spring and summer of '87 thanks to a friend from grade school who was a big fan. In fact, at our annual school picnic (with rides and all of that fun stuff) in June 1987, weeks after we graduated from 8th grade(our Catholic grade school was K-8, so I never went to a middle school), I remember Back in Black being the most requested song of the night to be played by the deejay that they had for the evening portion of the picnic. Suffice it to say, those two AC/DC songs take me back to 8th grade every time I hear them. #nostalgia
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Wasn't the video for You Shook Me All Night long made when AC/DC did the soundtrack for Maximum Overdrive? I know around the same time they had a video out for Who Made Who which was from that movie. I'm pretty sure there wasn't a video for anything off Back In Black that wasn't live before that. And as for the song, it's off Back In Black, which is right near fucking PERFECT. Of course it's a brilliant song.
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Great song from a great album. BIB is also the very first cassette :getoffmylawn: I bought with my own $$$. Good times, good music.
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I've only ever heard 3 songs from Golden Earring (this, Radar Love and the brilliant The Devil Made Me Do It) and I love all 3. Never felt the urge to check anything else out strangely.
YSMANL is a classic. Video is funny too. Life's still like that in Geordie Land.
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Lowdz, did you ever here, When The Lady Smiles? This was the first single off the next album after Cut which had Twilight Zone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYxp6OIEZlk
Also can you ever name a band that was bigger after it's singer died like AC/DC. That whole album is a classic. Maybe 5150 VH but I can't think of any other band replacing a singer and getting bigger on it's first album with the new singer.
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Great song from a great album.
:tup
Great song, but very overplayed on the radio here, so that puts it down slightly for me. But the whole album is very strong.
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Lowdz, did you ever here, When The Lady Smiles? This was the first single off the next album after Cut which had Twilight Zone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYxp6OIEZlk
Also can you ever name a band that was bigger after it's singer died like AC/DC. That whole album is a classic. Maybe 5150 VH but I can't think of any other band replacing a singer and getting bigger on it's first album with the new singer.
Dream Theater?
(i know, i know, but someone had to say it)
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Olivia Newton-John - Physical
Never a big fan of this song, which unbelievably spent 10 weeks at number 1 on the billboard top 40, which I believe was the most for any song in the 80s. Funny too, as when VH1 did a top 100 songs of the 80s a few years back, this song didn't even make it on there, which I guess shows that it hasn't aged well for a lot of people, despite its massive popularity at the time it was out. The best thing I can say about the song is the appearance of it on The Office:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88N5n122ZiA
:lol
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Yeah, It's ok. I'm more of a fan of Olivia's pants in Grease at the end of the movie then the song. :lol
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Okay, enough of that one already. :lol
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
A magnificent song by any standard or measure. I have to question the sense of anyone who doesn't think this song is great. Very cool and innovative video in its time as well. This song is Exhibit A of Michael Jackson's greatness as a songwriter, pop star and visionary when it came to videos.
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I don't care what genre it is, or how popular it is, I just find it impossible not to like MJ's classic hits. Billie Jean is one my favourites thanks to that bass riff, plus as usual catchy as hell melodies, with one of his many iconic music videos.
I could really apply this description to any of his 80s singles, and it would be just as apt.
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Ground breaking piece of music, took over the world, can't say enough. And such a good song too.
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Great tune. Funny I never owned it but I always watched it on MTV.
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much of this album was written and performed by the members of Toto. Porcaro's drumming shines throughout, and especially on this track.
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much of this album was written and performed by the members of Toto.
Not true. Four of the nine songs were written by Jackson himself (including three of the biggest hits), and Human Nature is the only song on the album with a songwriting credit related to someone from Toto.
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Steve Lukathur did play the rhythm guitar on Beat It.
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much of this album was written and performed by the members of Toto.
Not true. Four of the nine songs were written by Jackson himself (including three of the biggest hits), and Human Nature is the only song on the album with a songwriting credit related to someone from Toto.
You're right. I should have said "Much of the album was recorded by the members of Toto." That being said, even though HN is the only official songwriting credit, i'm sure they were influential.
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It's all good. :hat
Toto - Africa
I loved this song when it first hit the scene, and to this day, I still love it. The music is terrific, the video was entertaining, and who hasn't gone almost hoarse a few times singing along to the chorus? :biggrin:
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Perfect Segue ;D
I absolutely love this track. And it's amazing how well it has aged. Wow - what a song!
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I still can't decide whether this thread makes me feel good, or just feel old.
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Can not say enough about Africa. My brother and I as kids played this song to the record in our basement. (Me on acoustic and him on bass).
Love singing the low harmonies (David Paich's) and I wish I saw them more than once live.
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Got a good one. Way back in the day, about twelve years ago, the fellow chefs and I used to drink at a very seedy bar, filled with drunks and drug addicts, hell of a place, my type of bar. After getting a thorough drunk on, we were just casually shooting pool. Africa comes on. Two dudes, hammered, strung out, and tattoo'ed to the hilt, are watching the ant races at the end of the bar(passed out basically). The song shakes them out of their stupor and the start rocking out to it like they're seeing Zeppelin playing Whole Lotta Love or something. Now don't get me wrong, it is a great song, but it isn't the type for that caliber rocking out, we couldn't stop laughing, fucking hysterical.
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Africa is one of my all-time favorite tracks.
When my grandmother bought a new Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera in the early 80's, it came with a demo cassette tape with 4 "programs", kind of like an old 8-track used to have.
Program 1 started with the Oldsmobile Jingle then had modern adult rock and roll stuff with Neil Diamond, Barbara Streisand, Bertie Higgins' "Key Largo" and of course Toto's "Africa".
Program 2 was more country-type songs. Program 3 had more jazzy stuff and included Weather Report's "Birdland" (awesome!). And Program 4 had classical (including "Also Sprach Zarathustra").
I wore that tape out constantly playing and rewinding "Africa".
Here is the Oldsmobile Jingle for your listening pleasure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5dEF11QZ7k
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The intro keyboards are a bit cheesy and 80s, which is exactly why I love them. :hat Big chorus that really contrasts with those nice soft verses.
Good album too. :tup
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I still can't decide whether this thread makes me feel good, or just feel old.
No kidding.
One comment about Billie Jean - AWESOME. Thriller was SO huge, and it was a damn good album too.
Africa, though? Okay, if you must. :lol Sorry, that song didn't age well for me.
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I still can't decide whether this thread makes me feel good, or just feel old.
I think it does both for me. :lol
I mean, I can't believe Thriller is 30 years old now. :eek :eek :eek
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I still can't decide whether this thread makes me feel good, or just feel old.
I think it does both for me. :lol
I mean, I can't believe Thriller is 30 years old now. :eek :eek :eek
No kidding, man. I remember when the world premier video was released for Thriller (the song), and how groundbreaking it was. I set the VCR and recorded that sucker. :lol
I still can't decide whether this thread makes me feel good, or just feel old.
No kidding.
One comment about Billie Jean - AWESOME. Thriller was SO huge, and it was a damn good album too.
Africa, though? Okay, if you must. :lol Sorry, that song didn't age well for me.
I wasn't in love with it at the time, but it has grown on me a lot. I dunno. A lot of songs that I didn't love back then are much easier to appreciate now. I wish they would do a compilation DVD set (like those compilation CD's on those informercials) with the original music videos for a lot of these songs. I would definitely pay for that.
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I wish they would, too; I'd buy those in a heartbeat. But for now, I am content with the occasional youtube viewing of this video or that video and setting my DVR for Classic 80s on VH1 Classic every morning. :coolio
Speaking of those compilation CDs, I have like 12 of those Sounds of the Eighties CDs that Time released in the 90s. I remember seeing the commercials for them back then, and it was like $15 a month for a year for them to send you a new CD every month. Given that easy access to buying single songs on the internet wasn't around yet, those CDs were a gold mine for me at the time.
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We should do an '80s tournament where people nominate their top 10, and then we do a second round where we cull out the top however many and have people rank their top 5 or so from those and then talley the scores. Do you think it would interfere too much with this thread if I ran that? I'm thinking maybe doing one for all genres, with the caveat that songs should have a video that was played on MTV in the '80s. And then maybe do a hard rock/metal round as well. Thoughts?
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I think that could be cool, but the problem is that there aren't that many people who are participating in this thread, and you'd likely get people nominating stuff like Rush, Maiden, etc. (since they technically were played on MTV), as opposed to playing videos that were closely associated with MTV and videos, and then it'd become a big cluster you-know-what. ;) Maybe worth a shot, but perhaps start a new thread for it? That way, this one can stay on course. :)
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I shall try. If it fails, it fails.
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Do or do not. There is no "try".
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I'll throw an 80's song into the fray, Daryl Hall "Dreamtime."
Hall & Oates is a top 5 80's act if you ask me, and when Daryl Hall decided to do his own thing in 1987, he decided to work with Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) and the result was the album "Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine"
"Dreamtime" was a big hit and til this day is one of my favorite 80's tunes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-AMiFuymH8
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I'm your huckleberry Kev and bosk1!!
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I think that could be cool, but the problem is that there aren't that many people who are participating in this thread, and you'd likely get people nominating stuff like Rush, Maiden, etc. (since they technically were played on MTV), as opposed to playing videos that were closely associated with MTV and videos, and then it'd become a big cluster you-know-what. ;) Maybe worth a shot, but perhaps start a new thread for it? That way, this one can stay on course. :)
I may not comment on every song, but I'm reading and keeping up with this. There may be more people lurking that don't always comment.
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Oh, I know! :biggrin:
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I'm your huckleberry Kev and bosk1!!
Well, alrighty then. https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=32532.0
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I'll throw an 80's song into the fray, Daryl Hall "Dreamtime."
Hall & Oates is a top 5 80's act if you ask me, and when Daryl Hall decided to do his own thing in 1987, he decided to work with Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) and the result was the album "Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine"
"Dreamtime" was a big hit and til this day is one of my favorite 80's tunes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-AMiFuymH8
Pretty good song. I like the main riff and the chorus is nice. Was never a favorite, but I liked it.
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USA for Africa - We Are the World
I am pretty convinced that if someone has never heard the song before, and checked it out now, they would think it is one of the cheesiest things ever, but back then, it was pretty neat seeing all of those stars come together to do a song like that for a good cause. The Ray Charles vocal parts of this song still give me goosebumps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9BNoNFKCBI
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USA for Africa - We Are the World
I am pretty convinced that if someone has never heard the song before, and checked it out now, they would think it is one of the cheesiest things ever, but back then, it was pretty neat seeing all of those stars come together to do a song like that for a good cause. The Ray Charles vocal parts of this song still give me goosebumps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9BNoNFKCBI
Agreed. And while it probably won't make your list for this thread, I would say the same thing about Stars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7eqxg92YG0
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Great concept; pretty good song. WATW<Do They Know it's Christmas<Tears Are Not Enough. And I don't say that just to be patriotic. All three were good. Amazing to comprehend that all of these were written, recorded and mixed in a day or so. Not sure if Geldof spent more time writing Do They Know... but the other two certainly were.
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The song isn't bad, and since there weren't a lot of "world anthems" around at the time, you could say that it was the model for the ones which followed. Of all of them, I think this one annoys me the least, so I guess that makes it the best.
The fun part of watching the video of course is seeing how many people you recognize before you hear them sing, though recognizing them afterwards still counts for some points. I tended to suck at that because I don't know a lot of 80's acts by face, though I'd usually get the ones from the 70's and before. I mean, who doesn't know Ray Charles?
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Do They Know It's Christmas > We Are The World
Although I do admit, the first time I heard WATW it was okay but then it got WAY overplayed.
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Rod Stewart - Infatuation
Nice rocking tune, featuring some stellar guitar lead work by Jeff Beck. I am not a big fan of Stewart, but I do like this song a lot. Memorable video in its time, too, as it was 1984, back when the best videos were the ones that told little stories that may or may not have had something to do with the song. :lol
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Ah, but this one did, and the girl was hot, too.
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Never a HUGE fan of his, but Infatuation is a good song.
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I was never a fan much either (including this track), but his Unplugged album is money.
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Loverboy - Working for the Weekend
I remember when this song and video were out, I was 8, and because of the editing of the video, I thought their drummer was totally awesome. :lol And of course years later, the song now reminds many of us of the classic SNL Chippendales sketch. But it's still a good, fun song.
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I love the song, but until 5 minutes ago had never seen the music video, so um..... thanks? :lol
Drummer was definitely the highlight of that video.
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I was in a band in the 80's and we did a number of Loverboy songs, including this one. I thought it was great. The synth hook with the descending intervals (inverted fifth, inverted tri-tone, inverted fourth) was awesome and of course the chorus was one of great party anthems of the time. Great song.
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Loverboy - Working for the Weekend
I remember when this song and video were out, I was 8, and because of the editing of the video, I thought their drummer was totally awesome. :lol And of course years later, the song now reminds many of us of the classic SNL Chippendales sketch. But it's still a good, fun song.
The "classic rock" radio station where I lived played this every Friday at 5:00. After 50-60 weeks that shit starts to get old. ;)
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I agree with what ZirconBlue posted.
Although, given some time away from this song and just going by memory I guess there's a reason this song is so iconic. Plus, it's really not a bad song comparatively speaking.
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I used to date this hottie about ten years back, and her favorite band in hs was Loverboy. when this song came on, oh the things it did to her, thanks Loverboy. :tup
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I used to date this hottie about ten years back, and her favorite band in hs was Loverboy. when this song came on, oh the things it did to her, thanks Loverboy. :tup
So she played "When It's Over" when you finished?! :lol
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Do They Know It's Christmas > We Are The World
Although I do admit, the first time I heard WATW it was okay but then it got WAY overplayed.
Strange co-incidence, I just entered Hear 'n' Aid - We're Stars in Bosk's thread in my top 10. decent DIO song with long guitar solo? Sounds good to me. Don't know how much it raised compared to the two charity big hitters, probably peanuts.
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I saw that, yeah. From what I remember, I only heard "We're Stars" on the radio once. Only saw the video once too. It's a shame, because from what I remember it was a decent song.
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Michael Penn - No Myth
The brother of actor Sean Penn had a surprisingly very good debut record - every song is good - and the hit single from it, No Myth, is still an insanely catchy song after all of these years. I think it is kind of a forgotten song for a lot of 80s fans, but I was pleased to see it featured on a recent episode of Totally 80s on VH1 Classic.
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I am Proud to say I own every one of his albums. This is such a great tune. The guy has such a craft for the melancholy. Mp4: Days Since a Lost Time Accident is my favorite album of his.
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I saw that, yeah. From what I remember, I only heard "We're Stars" on the radio once. Only saw the video once too. It's a shame, because from what I remember it was a decent song.
Well...THAT'S WHAT YOUTUBE IS FOR!!! :) (not to mention that I linked it a few posts back after Kev posted WATW) Go watch, and the come back and tell us how awesome Dave Meniketti was on that song. That's my favorite part of the video. ...with my second favorite being Neil Schon's "I smell something bad that nobody else smells" face during his solo. :lol
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Oh wow - I forgot about that song! Always loved it. :heart
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I saw that, yeah. From what I remember, I only heard "We're Stars" on the radio once. Only saw the video once too. It's a shame, because from what I remember it was a decent song.
Well...THAT'S WHAT YOUTUBE IS FOR!!! :) (not to mention that I linked it a few posts back after Kev posted WATW) Go watch, and the come back and tell us how awesome Dave Meniketti was on that song. That's my favorite part of the video. ...with my second favorite being Neil Schon's "I smell something bad that nobody else smells" face during his solo. :lol
I know, I know. Will do, chief!
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I saw that, yeah. From what I remember, I only heard "We're Stars" on the radio once. Only saw the video once too. It's a shame, because from what I remember it was a decent song.
Well...THAT'S WHAT YOUTUBE IS FOR!!! :) (not to mention that I linked it a few posts back after Kev posted WATW) Go watch, and the come back and tell us how awesome Dave Meniketti was on that song. That's my favorite part of the video. ...with my second favorite being Neil Schon's "I smell something bad that nobody else smells" face during his solo. :lol
Rumbled. I skipped some pages where pop songs were being discussed ;D
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Wow, I forgot how good that song really was.
REAL funny to see Tater in there too.
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I love the song, but until 5 minutes ago had never seen the music video, so um..... thanks? :lol
Drummer was definitely the highlight of that video.
Oh, you think the drummer of Loverboy was fun in THAT video? See if you can find the video for Gangs In The Street. Trust me, his performance in Working was just the warm up for that masterpiece.
And omg, No Myth? I totally fucking forgot that song! Nostalgia bomb!
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No Myth is a great song. I didn't get any further into Michael Penn, but I did like the one song.
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I saw that, yeah. From what I remember, I only heard "We're Stars" on the radio once. Only saw the video once too. It's a shame, because from what I remember it was a decent song.
I bought the Hear 'N Aid cassette as well as the VHS which documented the project (and included a bunch of the alternate vocal and guitar takes). I still have that VHS around here somewhere.
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Wow. Cassette AND VHS in the same post, folks! :lol ;) :clap:
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Wow. Cassette AND VHS in the same post, folks! :lol ;) :clap:
Yeah, sadly I missed the 8-track era by a couple of years.
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You didn't miss much. :lol
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You didn't miss much. :lol
One of my older brothers had an 8-track recorder. You could buy blank 8-tracks and record on them. For some reason.
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Robert Plant - Big Log
Undoubtedly one of my favorite songs and videos when growing up - the song is a great slow burn featuring a fantastic guitar lead, and the video is just neat, albeit a bit confusing and random. :lol Still, I love this song, and was definitely an important song for me in regards to my development as a music fan and appreciating certain kinds of music.
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The guitar is outstanding in this song. Just listened to Now and Zen today.
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You didn't miss much. :lol
One of my older brothers had an 8-track recorder. You could buy blank 8-tracks and record on them. For some reason.
My Dad had one too, but it was part of his stereo system at the time. Ooo, BUT... my uncle had a REEL TO REEL machine. Ha HA! :lol
Robert Plant - Big Log
Undoubtedly one of my favorite songs and videos when growing up - the song is a great slow burn featuring a fantastic guitar lead, and the video is just neat, albeit a bit confusing and random. :lol Still, I love this song, and was definitely an important song for me in regards to my development as a music fan and appreciating certain kinds of music.
GOOD. SONG. Hell, the whole Principle of Moments album is really good too.
I think The Honeydrippers album should also be mentioned because that album was such a breath of fresh air at the time. I was just getting into "Dad's music" (the old hits from the 50s and 60s) so my 14/15 year old self REALLY dug that album too.
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Robert Plant - Big Log
Undoubtedly one of my favorite songs and videos when growing up - the song is a great slow burn featuring a fantastic guitar lead, and the video is just neat, albeit a bit confusing and random. :lol Still, I love this song, and was definitely an important song for me in regards to my development as a music fan and appreciating certain kinds of music.
I couldn't stand this song when it came out (I was 11), then about 5 years later, after not hearing it for a few years, it became a favorite of mine. Nice choice.
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Heard Big Log on MusicChoice yesterday. I thought "What a drastic change from his days of fronting one of the biggest rock bands in history".
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Heard Big Log on MusicChoice yesterday. I thought "What a drastic change from his days of fronting one of the biggest rock bands in history".
That's Plant though. Listen to the stuff he's done on his last 3 solo albums. Very different and unique.
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I thought it was really boring when it first came out. Now, I find it nice and mellow and pensive, and still pretty boring.
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The Cars - Magic
I couldn't decide which hit from Heartbeat City to do first here, but it being a beautiful summery day today, this one was the natural, given the video. This is probably my least favorite of their hits from that record, but at the ripe old age of 11, I thought the video was so cool, even though it was obvious that he was standing on something in the pool, not really walking on water. :lol
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Great song. Great video. Who cares if you can see the plate glass in the pool?
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Don't recall the video, but a cool song.
Their debut album gets overlooked when people discuss the great debut albums in rock history.
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LOVE The Cars, love the song. Their deeper cuts are pretty stellar too.
Great song. Great video. Who cares if you can see the plate glass in the pool?
No kidding. :lol
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LOVE The Cars, love the song. Their deeper cuts are pretty stellar too.
Great song. Great video. Who cares if you can see the plate glass in the pool?
No kidding. :lol
Yeah, I was never huge into them, but had a couple of albums. My band performs Just What I Needed, which is a blast.
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Oh, I'll bet. :tup
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Right before the Cars started to blow. Great tune. Classic Cars and so damn singable.
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We used to watch this video and totally crack up at the intro. The guy laying there hungover or something, looks up, and all these people are running towards him, "WTF?!" he thinks, he panics, he tries to escape...! And it turns out the people are all just running to see Ric standing on the pool singing a song. He has nothing further to do with the video, and he's probably happier that way. Now that's some great filmmaking! (100% serious)
(Okay not really, but it's still a fun video)
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:lol at Orbert's post. :tup :tup
Berlin - Take My Breath Away
It is impossible to hear this song and not think of Top Gun, and I swear, every time I hear this at a bar or something, girls everywhere scream like those girls in the old Beatles clips the instant this second starts. This is not a bad choice to have on in your car when on a date early in a possible relationship (yes, I have it on one of my 80s mp3 CDs). :hat :biggrin:
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I loved Berlin, actually this song wasn't a big one for me, but Metro and No More Words are killer songs, and Terri Nunn, um, yes please.
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Not a bad song, but I honestly like "Sex (I'm A...)" better.
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I like pretty much everything about the movie Top Gun, but I can't watch it because of that damned song. Yes, the song pretty much ruins the movie for me. "Metro" is awesome, though, and so is "Sex (I'm A...)". Also, yeah, Terri was a real cutie in her time. Today, not so much.
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I like pretty much everything about the movie Top Gun, but I can't watch it because of that damned song. Yes, the song pretty much ruins the movie for me. "Metro" is awesome, though, and so is "Sex (I'm A...)". Also, yeah, Terri was a real cutie in her time. Today, not so much.
Bob are you sure? I saw a picture of her from a few years ago and she still looks good?
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Wow, a quick Google Images search shows that I'm quite wrong, which is actually good news.
But I know I remember seeing a relatively recent picture of her and being pretty shocked. It might have been one of those "Then and Now" things, in which case I'm sure they used the worst recent picture of her that they could find.
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a-ha - Take On Me
An insanely catchy song, featuring a vocal hook AND a keyboard hook, and the video was one of the best ever made. This is an 80s classic personified.
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a-ha - Take On Me
An insanely catchy song, featuring a vocal hook AND a keyboard hook, and the video was one of the best ever made. This is an 80s classic personified the 80s personified.
Well that's what I think anyway. :lol
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a-ha - Take On Me
An insanely catchy song, featuring a vocal hook AND a keyboard hook, and the video was one of the best ever made. This is an 80s classic personified.
And BINGO was his name, oh!
you're right on with the comments kev. One of the most unique videos of the 80s, if not ever.
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Also, I should mention how I like the ending to the song better in the video rather than regular version. The regular version is a simple fadeout with the chorus being sang again, while the video version climaxes with that big drum thing, echoed in the video by the guy crashing to the floor, and then the fadeout is simply a soft-sounding keyboard that sounds just lovely. Minor difference, but enough to make the video version better.
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I never knew until a few years ago that they were still huge in Europe.
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Top Gun had a great soundtrack. My dad had the LP and I cranked that all the time. Includes a great song by Cheap Trick that is in the film for about 1.5 seconds.
Big fan of Take On Me back then, but I honestly wonder if I ever heard it on the radio, or in any other context outside of along with the video.
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Also, I should mention how I like the ending to the song better in the video rather than regular version. The regular version is a simple fadeout with the chorus being sang again, while the video version climaxes with that big drum thing, echoed in the video by the guy crashing to the floor, and then the fadeout is simply a soft-sounding keyboard that sounds just lovely. Minor difference, but enough to make the video version better.
I like the video version of the song more for that exact same reason.
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Yeah, same here. Whenever I hear it on the radio, it's just a little disappointing because most people my age knew the video version first.
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as good as a-ha's "take on me" is, their second single was even better, yet no one ever speaks of it.......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3ir9HC9vYg
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a-ha "Take On Me" is one of the 80s classic pop songs. Cool Song, great video. Normally not my kind of music but I think they had some other good songs. Hunting High And Low is one of my favorites.
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a-ha - Take On Me
An insanely catchy song, featuring a vocal hook AND a keyboard hook, and the video was one of the best ever made. This is an 80s classic personified.
Totally. That was an awesome video. I think the chick in it is the same chick from Ernest Goes to Jail.
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Great song from a superb album. Hunting High and Low is easily in my top 5 albums of the 80s. The Sun Always Shines on TV is the highlight, but Living A Boys Adventue Tale and the title track are killer as well. This is one of those albums like Supertamp's Crime of the Century where every single track is top shelf and the production is sublime. :hefdaddy
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Bruce Hornsby & The Range - The Way It Is
Cool song, and I always found it amazing how unique and easily identifiable Hornsby's piano sound was. It was like, when you heard the piano start playing, you knew it was him. Same applied to when Don Henley's The End of the Innocence tune came out. The first time I heard that song, I thought, "That has to be Bruce Hornsby playing piano in that song." And sure enough, it was.
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Great song, and Bruce Hornsby was a great keyboardist, good enough to travel with the Dead for many years in the early nineties.
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Bruce Hornsby & The Range - The Way It Is
Cool song, and I always found it amazing how unique and easily identifiable Hornsby's piano sound was. It was like, when you heard the piano start playing, you knew it was him. Same applied to when Don Henley's The End of the Innocence tune came out. The first time I heard that song, I thought, "That has to be Bruce Hornsby playing piano in that song." And sure enough, it was.
So true. It's funny - I was only 7-8yrs old when these songs came out, but when i first heard the Way It Is, i thought it was Don Henley. Little did i know that it was actually Bruce who wrote End of the Innocence for Don.
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One of the few great piano led songs I loved in the 80s. Mandolin Rain was also pretty hot.
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Great song, and Bruce Hornsby was a great keyboardist, good enough to travel with the Dead for many years in the early nineties.
I'm sure Bruce still is a great keyboardist, considering he isn't dead. ;)
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Touche
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:icy:
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The whole album The Way It Is is awesome. Was introduced to Bruce by my uncle - good stuff. :coolio
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One of the few great piano led songs I loved in the 80s. Mandolin Rain was also pretty hot.
Yeah, both of those songs. Bruce came on the scene and was so different, so cool, with the piano and the laid-back acoustic sound. Who would've thought he'd become so popular?
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Mandolin Rain is really good, too, but Every Little Kiss is my favorite of the three big hits from that record.
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Mandolin Rain is really good, too, but Every Little Kiss is my favorite of the three big hits from that record.
Yeah, I've always thought Every Little Kiss was the best of the three too.
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Aerosmith - Rag Doll
Being someone who wasn't familiar with any of Aerosmith's older stuff when their videos for Permanent Vacation all came out, I thought this song and video were both totally awesome, to use an 80s phrase. :P Years later, I still dig the song, but wouldn't call it an 80s favorite of mine. The video is still entertaining as heck, though.
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Rag Doll is good, but St. John is my favorite song on Permanent Vacation.
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Aerosmith - Rag Doll
Being someone who wasn't familiar with any of Aerosmith's older stuff when their videos for Permanent Vacation all came out, I thought this song and video were both totally awesome, to use an 80s phrase. :P Years later, I still dig the song, but wouldn't call it an 80s favorite of mine. The video is still entertaining as heck, though.
there are no words that can tell you how much I dislike this song.
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I always wondered what longtime Aerosmith fans thought of that late 80s stuff when it first came out. I mean, it didn't smack of cheesy 80s, and still rocked pretty good (Angel notwithstanding).
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When I was introduced to Aerosmith in the 80s, I was surprised later to hear they were a big act in the 70s. That's how clueless I was.
Rag Doll was another song I loved on MTV, but not sure if I would have stopped turning the dial for if I heard it on the radio (damn, I am old enough to remember actually turning a radio dial...). Probably the type of material I loved back then, but if I heard now, I would think "Man, I used to listen to this stuff??"
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I always wondered what longtime Aerosmith fans thought of that late 80s stuff when it first came out. I mean, it didn't smack of cheesy 80s, and still rocked pretty good (Angel notwithstanding).
I thought "Rag Doll" and Permanent Vacation in general did a good job of capturing what made Aerosmith great in the 70's. They weren't a straight-up Rock 'n' Roll band; they came from R & B, and "Rag Doll" was R & B.
They went through some tough times in the early 80's, and as far as I can tell, none of the stuff they did without Joe Perry was worth a shit, but they came back strong. My buddies and I, who used to listen to Get Your Wings and Toys in the Attic in junior high, were pretty good with Permanent Vacation. Aerosmith were back, as far as we were concerned, and I think Pump is actually a little better. Sure, the guys sound older, and I'm sure the years of living like they do has taken its toll, but it was overall an impressive comeback.
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When I was introduced to Aerosmith in the 80s, I was surprised later to hear they were a big act in the 70s. That's how clueless I was.
same here. But by the time Pump came out, i had Toys in the Attic also.
Rag Doll is great fun - i read on wikipedia that it was originally titled "Rag Time," and the music definitely smacks of it. Amazing that Steven Tyler's style hasn't changed since Permanent Waves.
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Rag Doll is the one song on the album I am not fond of. Never liked it at all.
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Don't mind Rag Doll. Hated St John- always skip it.
PV is a great album and only bettered by Pump for me in their discog. Never liked 70s Aerosmith at all.
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Aerosmith are a band I've never really gotten into, although to be fair the only stuff of their s I'm familiar with is the are the tracks that got a lot of airplay in the 80s such as Jamies Got a Gun and the stuff they did with Run DMC which I simply don't like. I understand that many people enjoy it, but it's just not my kind of music. ???
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Though I now enjoy the later Aerosmith, the older stuff was just so gritty and raw and real to me, the vibe of the newer stuff lost me for a long while.
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The Tubes - She's a Beauty
A wonderfully catchy song, one that has aged well, and the video was provocatively interesting, especially for those of us who still hadn't hit puberty when it was popular. :lol
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The video was just so odd and offputting that I never really found myself able to enjoy the song.
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The Tubes were my first concert when I was thirteen, on their support of The Completion Backwards Principle album, so when this song came out, I could be all badass and say that I had seen them live. :hat
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The Tubes
badass
Wait...what?
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Very good tune. Catchy. Though I think Talk To You Later is their home run of a song.
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always thought this song sounded like it should have been done by Chicago (around Chicago 16/17) with Bill Champlin singing the primary vocal parts and Peter Cetera doing the chorus.
. . . and I just saw that David Foster was a co-writer, so I guess that makes perfect sense.
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Though I think Talk To You Later is their home run of a song.
saw this song on SCTV way back in the day.
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Very good tune. Catchy. Though I think Talk To You Later is their home run of a song.
Agreed, killer tune.
@bosk, I was 13 and a video of the only band I had seen was on MTV, of course I felt like a badass. Also was the start of my proggy uniqueness and snobbery, since no one else listened to them at school. :lol
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I had forgotten that Foster was involved in the writing of She's A Beauty, but in hindsight it makes perfect sense. The Tubes were the sort of weird theatrical rock band that probably should have stayed in the 70s, though Talk to You Later is a damn amazing song. She's A Beauty is one of many songs where the band sacrificed itself to have a hit, because after this, they basically vanished. Seems that David Foster producing you in the 80s, unless you were Chicago arguably, was a death knell.
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David Foster was the death knell for Chicago as well, they just didn't realize it at the time.
The video was just so odd and offputting that I never really found myself able to enjoy the song.
Same here.
The Tubes started off edgy and wild. "She's a Beauty" was most people's introduction to The Tubes, but by then they too were shadows of their former selves. I'm glad that they finally became popular and made some money, after years of being pretty much an underground band, but I'm sure longtime fans had some trouble with later Tubes.
"Talk to Ya Later" was a cool song. I liked it because we played it in the band I was in and I actually got to do a synth solo.
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David Foster was the death knell for Chicago as well, they just didn't realize it at the time.
They did have 4 or 5 top ten hits after he left, but yeah, they quickly became a cover band of themselves.
On the other hand, a lot of people will tell you Terry Kath's accidental death was also the death knell for Chicago.
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The death of Terry Kath actually killed the band, but they continued as a zombie band for years after that, unaware. They'd been on life support for a while anyway. Robert Lamm was out of ideas, and Peter Cetera was establishing himself as "the" lead singer because his crappy soft-rock songs were the hits, but when they had to bring in outside writers, that was the death knell.
(Note that "death knell" is not the actual fatal stroke, but that which heralds or pronounces the death. The band as we know it had been dead for a while.)
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agreed
That first handful of Chicago albums is so good. So inventive and fresh, especially for that time.
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Seriously. My first album was Chicago Live at Carnegie Hall. I had no idea how incredible and unusual that was. I was in 7th grade and bought it for five dollars from my friend's sister, who had played Side One and didn't like it. Can you imagine? I picked up Chicago V and then Chicago VI when it came out (it was the new one), then went back to I, II, and III. As a fledgling musician, it was truly mind-blowing. The arrangements, the improvisation, the horns, the vocals, the songs themselves.
Ten years later, they were singing "soft hits" written by David Foster and Diane Warren. Yeah, it was over.
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Wow, I did not expect this much chatter as a result of She's a Beauty being this morning's song. :eek :lol
But this is a good segue way into...
Chicago - Love Me Tomorrow
For as many cheeseball, shmaltzy songs as Chicago did in the 80s, this is one I think holds up well and is still quite enjoyable. I always liked this song when I was a kid and this is the one Chicago song that remains in all of my 80s playlists.
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Agreed on Talk To Ya Later being the better of the two Tubes songs mentioned.
Chicago? The older the better, especially when Terry was still alive.
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I need to check out those Tubes songs, not sure if familiar.
Schmaltzy Chicago was the soundtrack to my junior high years. Nothing like breaking up with your girlfriend, thinking it is the most depressing thing that could ever happen in life, and then hearing a Chicago song to just kick you while you are down.
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well, this thread is surely full of David Foster today. He co-wrote this one and both of the Tubes songs we've been discussing.
I do like the orchestral ending of Love Me Tomorrow. I remember I had this on one of those BackTrax cassette singles along with Hard to Say I'm Sorry/Get Away.
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Chicago always had its share of happy songs. "Saturday in the Park", "Beginnings", even "Questions 67 & 68" (sung by none other than Peter Cetera), and Schmaltzy Chicago was not particularly horrible music. It was just horrible to folks who'd grown up with Chicago and missed what they used to be.
That's true of most bands, I suppose. Longtime fans say the new stuff sucks, etc. But to go from progressive jazzfusion featuring horns and Hendrix-style guitar to music for junior high girls is just sad.
"Hard to Say I'm Sorry" wasn't completely awful, and while I thought it was a clever segue, I always felt like "Get Away" was tacked on to appease the fans of "old" Chicago. Those horns really smoke, for pretty much the last time.
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Questions 67 & 68 is an AMAZING song. The album it's on ain't too shabby either.
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Both true. The Chicago Transit Authority and Chicago Live at Carnegie Hall are still the two Chicago albums I spin the most often.
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Chicago always had its share of happy songs. "Saturday in the Park", "Beginnings", even "Questions 67 & 68" (sung by none other than Peter Cetera), and Schmaltzy Chicago was not particularly horrible music. It was just horrible to folks who'd grown up with Chicago and missed what they used to be.
That's true of most bands, I suppose. Longtime fans say the new stuff sucks, etc. But to go from progressive jazzfusion featuring horns and Hendrix-style guitar to music for junior high girls is just sad.
"Hard to Say I'm Sorry" wasn't completely awful, and while I thought it was a clever segue, I always felt like "Get Away" was tacked on to appease the fans of "old" Chicago. Those horns really smoke, for pretty much the last time.
My introduction to Chicago was the 1982-1989 Greatest Hits compilation, so I definitely did not have the history with them that other longtime fans did. I love the 80's pop stuff and I love the old jazz-rock stuff.
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You're actually fortunate in that way, you can appreciate both earlier and later Chicago. (I was gonna say "older and newer" but it's all pretty old now.)
I picked up Chicago XXX because it supposedly was a return to their old sound, but apparently that merely meant that a few of the songs actually have horns on them. The long-lost album Stone of Sisyphus was finally released and was also promoted as something that would appeal to longtime fans, as it was originally recorded 15 years earlier. It was recorded in 1993 and finally released in 2008, but 1993 was still long after the change, and it still had the slick overproduction so characteristic of the 80's and 90's.
Oh well. I still have the old albums.
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I remember the first time I heard Get Away I thought "Where in the world did this come from?" Didn't sound like anything else I was familiar with of theirs. But I thought it was awesome and it prompted me to look back at some of their older material.
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You make one comment about how arguably Chicago wasn't killed by David Foster, look what happens. :biggrin:
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Both true. The Chicago Transit Authority and Chicago Live at Carnegie Hall are still the two Chicago albums I spin the most often.
I need to get Carnegie Hall - I'm a HUGE fan of South California Purples and there's a 15 minute version on that disc.
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Both true. The Chicago Transit Authority and Chicago Live at Carnegie Hall are still the two Chicago albums I spin the most often.
I need to get Carnegie Hall - I'm a HUGE fan of South California Purples and there's a 15 minute version on that disc.
I have that 4 night CD from Rhino and it is incredible.
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The Rhino reissue fits the original four LPs onto three CDs and throws in a fourth disc of bonus songs and alternate takes. You actually get two live versions of "South California Purples" and yes, they're both amazing. Also a second version of "Sing a Mean Tune, Kid" and "25 or 6 to 4", and another take of Lamm's piano intro to "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" which fades out as the song proper starts up.
I used to hear about how Deadheads collect like every possible live recording of The Greatful Dead that they can get their hands on, and I used to think "Damn, how many different versions of the same songs can you hear?" But after hearing how different and amazing Terry's and Robert's solos are in those Chicago songs, and knowing that they were there all week, I would pay good money to hear the takes from the other nights as well.
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See... I used to think that way too, until I got into Frank Zappa's music hard and heavy - and he recorded pretty much everything he did.
I'm definitely going to have to get that now. TWO versions of SCP?! Oh hell yeah, I'm all over that. :drool:
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The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
While technically from 1979, this is heavily associated with the 80s, it being the first video ever played on MTV and all. I didn't care for it back then, but I like it now. Very catchy, and was almost prophetic, given how many careers or were derailed in the 80s because of their lack of airplay on MTV or video appeal.
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paging Mr. Cross. Paging Mr. Christopher Cross.
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The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
While technically from 1979, this is heavily associated with the 80s, it being the first video ever played on MTV and all. I didn't care for it back then, but I like it now. Very catchy, and was almost prophetic, given how many careers or were derailed in the 80s because of their lack of airplay on MTV or video appeal.
Love the tune but seriously, Trevor Horn looks so uncomfortable in front of a camera. Camera, camera. (Sorry, I had to. :lol)
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The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
While technically from 1979, this is heavily associated with the 80s, it being the first video ever played on MTV and all. I didn't care for it back then, but I like it now. Very catchy, and was almost prophetic, given how many careers or were derailed in the 80s because of their lack of airplay on MTV or video appeal.
You want to hear a story about being old, relatively speaking?
I didn't see this video first on MTV. I saw it on HBO.
Way way back in the day, when HBO was new and, in fact, didn't initially start airing movies until after 5 PM-they actually weren't on the air at all that early during the week- they had a between movie filler thing called Video Jukebox. It played early videos, and the two I distinctly recall were M's Pop Music and Video Killed The Radio Star. I'm sure there were more, but those two stuck in my head. In fact, when MTV was playing the Buggles, my thought then usually was "oh yeah, the guys from Video Jukebox."
Christ I'm getting OLD.
For an interesting, to say the least, version of the song, go look up the Asia DVD called Fantasia. They did songs from other bands that the members had been in (John Wetton singing Roundabout while playing that bass line is a thing of beauty) and Geoff Downes' representation was Video Killed The Radio Star, with Wetton singing the first verse through a megaphone. Great fun.
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I've seen this song performed live many times by 80s cover bands, and it is always given more energy than the original recording has. When I hear the original now it sounds weak and lifeless. Good song, though.
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Damn Jaq, I remember HBO showing, Heat Of The Moment also.
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It's a good enough song I guess, and has the added bonus of being the first video ever played on MTV. I just think there were better songs/videos at that time. JMO.
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Damn Jaq, I remember HBO showing, Heat Of The Moment also.
Video Jukebox was around fairly long, actually-I just remembered reading this post that it was around long enough for HBO to be the first place I saw the video for Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms. Weird the things that stick in your head sometimes.
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Whoa, I remember Video Jukebox! And when HBO only came on at night. Of course, there was only one HBO and one Cinemax, but we had them both for a while.
Remember how risqué it was for those R-rated movies to be shown uncut on cable TV? Before every one of them, you didn't just get a card with the R rating, but an actual voiceover telling you that the following movie contains adult language and/or nudity and/or graphic violence, and it concluded with "HBO will only show this movie at night." Pioneering days of cable TV, baby.
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Love this song. Like Take on Me which we discussed a few days ago, the song has been remembered, while a terrific album (in this case The Age of Plastic) has been criminally overlooked. One of my top fifty fevourite albums without a doubt and the album that introced Geoff Downes and Trevor Horn to the world. :tup
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Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes
A fun little song, with a video that I enjoyed a lot at the ripe old age of 8. :lol I remember the lady reporter (the one he dances with near the end of the song) being literally my first celebrity crush, if you can call some no-name in a video a celebrity. When she lets her hair down and her clothes look a little disheveled...that is good stuff. :tup :tup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o41A91X5pns
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I remember that reporter, too. She was hot.
As for the song itself, yeah a fun song. The trumpet adds a lot; it's different, and even gets to take a solo.
I read that the song itself was Adam's impression of all the interviews when he first became known. Everyone just wanted to know if he took drugs, drank, partied... and he doesn't really do any of that, so they'd finally ask "What do you do?" The end of the video, when he shows the reporter one thing that he actually does, meant something after that, rather than the standard sleazy nailing the hot babe from the video. Which it still is, but at least it had some context.
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Great song, especially live if done well. A song anyone should be able to dance to, even if you hate to dance. Don't recall the video, will have to check out at home.
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Wow, I don't think I ever caught the reference to "Jailhouse Rock" before. Nice!
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The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
While technically from 1979, this is heavily associated with the 80s, it being the first video ever played on MTV and all. I didn't care for it back then, but I like it now. Very catchy, and was almost prophetic, given how many careers or were derailed in the 80s because of their lack of airplay on MTV or video appeal.
You want to hear a story about being old, relatively speaking?
I didn't see this video first on MTV. I saw it on HBO.
Way way back in the day, when HBO was new and, in fact, didn't initially start airing movies until after 5 PM-they actually weren't on the air at all that early during the week- they had a between movie filler thing called Video Jukebox. It played early videos, and the two I distinctly recall were M's Pop Music and Video Killed The Radio Star. I'm sure there were more, but those two stuck in my head. In fact, when MTV was playing the Buggles, my thought then usually was "oh yeah, the guys from Video Jukebox."
Christ I'm getting OLD.
For an interesting, to say the least, version of the song, go look up the Asia DVD called Fantasia. They did songs from other bands that the members had been in (John Wetton singing Roundabout while playing that bass line is a thing of beauty) and Geoff Downes' representation was Video Killed The Radio Star, with Wetton singing the first verse through a megaphone. Great fun.
Whoa, I remember Video Jukebox! And when HBO only came on at night. Of course, there was only one HBO and one Cinemax, but we had them both for a while.
Remember how risqué it was for those R-rated movies to be shown uncut on cable TV? Before every one of them, you didn't just get a card with the R rating, but an actual voiceover telling you that the following movie contains adult language and/or nudity and/or graphic violence, and it concluded with "HBO will only show this movie at night." Pioneering days of cable TV, baby.
:rollin
I remember all of that. Obert, this is for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-NuyV6tTEk :biggrin:
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:rollin
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:rollin :metal
To the given song though - I didn't dig it at first, but it definitely grew on me fast. Good song, cool vid.
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Obert
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this is for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-NuyV6tTEk :biggrin:
:biggrin: That's the one!
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Typo. Deal with it. :biggrin:
:biggrin: That's the one!
I know. When I played it, I could practically recite it verbatim along with the narrator. :lol
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The Rolling Stones - Undercover of the Night
This song gets trashed by a lot of Stones purists, but it was song by them I heard, and I liked it a lot, and the video was like a little story, albeit a somewhat violent one, so I don't have hate for it at all. But I get why existing fans might have hated it (a dance beat, NOOOOOOO!).
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Obert, this is for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-NuyV6tTEk :biggrin:
Brushing the memories away like cobwebs...
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The Rolling Stones - Undercover of the Night
This song gets trashed by a lot of Stones purists, but it was song by them I heard, and I liked it a lot, and the video was like a little story, albeit a somewhat violent one, so I don't have hate for it at all. But I get why existing fans might have hated it (a dance beat, NOOOOOOO!).
I like this song a lot. I don't like everything by the Stones, and seem to have a different taste in their work than many, but this is a catchy song, and yeah, the video is cool.
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Interestingly, I couldn't find the regular video on youtube. Even more interestingly, the wiki page for the songs says, "The music video, directed by Julien Temple, was considered to be too violent for MTV," which is not accurate, as MTV played the crap out of it back then.
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True. I'm pretty sure MTv is the only place I've ever seen it.
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There's better RS songs, but Undercover of the Night isn't too shabby.
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Until I youtubed the song, I'd totally forgotten Undercover of the Night. Then I heard the first few seconds and got nostalgia bombed. Wiki is totally wrong, MTV played the fuck out of this video.
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Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me with Science
I loved this song when it first came out, but was never so disappointed as I was when I bought the single 45 of it, as it had the longer version, which is annoying since it had a bunch of unnecessary added parts, unlike the single version, which was shorter, more concise and just perfect. To this day, I still prefer the single version. And the video was fairly entertaining, too!
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SCIENCE!
:lol
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Shorter version > longer version, but I do like parts of both.
Actually, it's about time you got to this song - it's one of my top 10 favorite 80s songs/videos. :tup
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If we're talking Thomas Dolby, this video MUST enter the discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGzWqAc16l0&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL1FBD985D98757E83
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Was the original theme song for Bill Nye the Science Guy. It's cool for that reason, but otherwise this is a ridiculously dumb song.
The first time I ever saw Thomas Dolby was in the Roger Waters performance of The Wall in Berlin (in 1990?). At the time I didn't know he did that song. I'd never heard of him.
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YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
...and watch the video I just posted. :biggrin:
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One of the bits of musical trivia about the 80s that always puts a smile on my face is that Thomas Dolby played keyboards on a couple of songs on Foreigner's 4 and under an assumed name on Def Leppard's Pyromania. Little facts like that always interest me.
Great song, btw. Totally in my top five of 80s songs (defined as "songs that only would have worked in the 1980s") :D
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Yep, that's "Tom Dolby" playing keys on Foreigner's "I've Been Waiting" and others. But you want some Dolby trivia? After he became somewhat less popular after the 80's, he started writing ringtones for Nokia. I read somewhere that 90% of the ringtones out there (the ones that aren't actual songs) were written and performed by Thomas Dolby.
Anyway, I happen to love the longer version of "She Blinded Me with Science". The Simmons jam at the end goes on a bit too long, but I like everything else. Same with the longer version of "One of Our Submarines is Missing". More is better when it comes to Dolby.
Oh yeah, one last trivia bit. He's not related to the famous Professor Dolby, inventor of the Dolby noise-reduction process. When he first started out, someone started a rumor that he's the son of Professor Dolby. He's not, as Dolby isn't even his real name (Thomas Morgan Robertson is his real name), but Professor Dolby does have a son named Thomas, so that may be where the confusion comes in.
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Sorry to be a spoilsport but I never liked this song. It annoyed when it was first released and I still find it annoying. :tdwn
That's just me though, I can see how many people would find it enjoyable -just not my kind of music.
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Naked Eyes - Always Something There to Remind Me
At the age of 10, I remember being just amazed that all of the music in this song was played on a synthesizer. :lol :lol
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I remember liking that one a lot too, but not as much as She Blinded Me With Science.
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While catchy, I never got into Naked Eyes.
And Bosk1. I thought this was going to be your You Tube link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r5pb_pFcik
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I remember the original version of "Always Something There to Remind Me" by The Supremes, so when the Naked Eyes cover came out, it always bugged me that they straightened out the rhythm in the chorus. It seemed to take something away from the song. Yeah, it's cool that everything was done on synths; as a budding keyboard player, I was always interested in hearing what could be done with them, and this was a good example. But some complained that making everything electronic robbed the music of its soul, and I felt that this was a good example of that as well. The deadpan delivery, coupled with the straight rhythm and metronome-perfect synths seemed to make it sound more artificial. Neil said it's really just a question of your honesty. I know what he meant, but to me, it's more about how clever you are. Music can be open-hearted, as he put it, and still be lame.
But... I recently heard the original Supremes version for the first time in a while, and found that I didn't like it as much. Maybe I've just gotten used to the Naked Eyes version, but when Diana sings those syncopated notes in the chorus (you know the ones I'm talking about), you can practically hear someone in the booth telling her "Make sure you really nail those syncopated notes, those are really important." I mean, she really nails them, hard. It was strange returning to an original I thought I liked better, and finding that I didn't like it as much anymore, that maybe I do like the cover better.
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the Supremes never recorded that song....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%28There%27s%29_Always_Something_There_to_Remind_Me
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Ah, it was Dionne Warwick. I thought it was Diana Ross.
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David Lee Roth - California Girls
Say what you want about DLR, but the man knew how to make entertaining videos back in the day, and this was definitely a great one, in large part thanks to all of the pretty girls, but also thanks to the comedic value therein as well.
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Great video but was not a fan of this album.
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The guy sure knew how to make a music video, that's for sure. I still sometimes find myself saying "give me a bottle of anything and a glazed donut-TO GO!" when I'm at 7-11. Thankfully never to the clerks, or I'd really be in trouble. Hell, give me a moment and I can probably recite all of that prologue from Yankee Rose. California Girls isn't as memorable as that, but it's still a lot of fun.
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Far from one of my favourites DLR ever did, but I'm a huge DLR fan (especially of his later post-Vai stuff). But Roth certainly knew how to make an entertaining '80s video. :lol
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His version of the song sucked, but the video? GOLD. :lol
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Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
This is one of those 80s songs that really doesn't sound that 80s, and has also aged extremely well. I don't remember the video being anything notable, but who cares? Fantastic song either way.
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David Lee Roth - California Girls
Say what you want about DLR, but the man knew how to make entertaining videos back in the day, and this was definitely a great one, in large part thanks to all of the pretty girls, but also thanks to the comedic value therein as well.
Without question, DLR knew the value of over-the-top showmanship. His post VH vdeos are proof of it. Cool tune, excellent video, But I liked the stuff from Eat 'Em and Smile better. Surprisingly, I just saw the video for Goin' Crazy for the first time this past weekend. :lol
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Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
This is one of those 80s songs that really doesn't sound that 80s, and has also aged extremely well. I don't remember the video being anything notable, but who cares? Fantastic song either way.
Who cares if there even WAS a video for this song? :lol I agree on the aging well thing too.
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I saw a band do "Don't Dream It's Over" one time... they were great. It was a three-piece band called "Tom & Friends" with (presumably) Tom on guitar, lead vocals, and keyboards, and his friends on bass and drums. Tom was singing and playing guitar, and I remembered that there's a keyboard solo in this song, so I lean over to the guy I'm with and say "What's he gonna do now?" Tom's regular spot is standing behind the keyboards, holding the guitar and/or playing it, so when the keyboard solo comes up, he hammers the chords with his left hand and plays the keyboard solo with his right hand! Like a boss, baby! Then comes the guitar solo, then "Hey now, hey now..."
I stood up and applauded. I was the only one, but I had to; it was too cool for words.
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Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
This is one of those 80s songs that really doesn't sound that 80s, and has also aged extremely well. I don't remember the video being anything notable, but who cares? Fantastic song either way.
Great tune and video. I saw Neil Finn in 2002 and what a great show. I believe it was at the Paradise in Boston Ma.
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Don't Dream It's Over is one of the best pop/rock songs ever. Yes, you read that right. Easily one of the best songs of the 1980s, and just such a sublime, lovely pop song. Loved it since the first time I heard it on the radio.
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Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
This is one of those 80s songs that really doesn't sound that 80s, and has also aged extremely well. I don't remember the video being anything notable, but who cares? Fantastic song either way.
Can't stand this band or this song. I think that's probably due to the amount of overplaying this band gets here in Australia.
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Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out
Without a doubt, one of my early favorites as a young music fan. I still love this tune.
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Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out
Without a doubt, one of my early favorites as a young music fan. I still love this tune.
yep, this was at the top of my 80's list in the other thread - one of the first pop/rock songs I can remember hearing. Has such a cool vibe.
We are young but getting old before our time
We'll leave the TV and the Radio behind
Don't you wonder what we'll find
Stepping out tonight
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Great song. I love that bass line. The guy keeps it moving non-stop the whole song.
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Awesome song. Almost impossible to believe that this track got so much radio play. You'd never hear anything like this on the radio today. Early 80's pop music had so much jazz in it. Wow... what a track!
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Great song. I love that bass line. The guy keeps it moving non-stop the whole song.
wouldn't be the 80's without that awesome synth bass.
and those crazy dresses the women wore in the video.
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It's synth bass? Damn. I need better speakers.
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If it's 80s pop, odds are better than even that most of it was played on a synth. :lol
Never really was into this song. My younger self saw Joe Jackson going all jazzy as being some sort of musical midlife crisis-you know the one, where you hit a certain age and you feel required to throw away all your childish things and start listening to jazz and drinking red wine instead of Budweiser. My older self, who lists Kind of Blue amongst his top 20 albums...still kind of sees it that way. Nothing wrong with the song, but it just feels sterile and forced to me, even now.
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Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out
Without a doubt, one of my early favorites as a young music fan. I still love this tune.
Didn't like this song at first, but it grew on me as I was introduced to some of the deeper cuts on Joe's albums. He is criminally underrated, and FTR this song is awesome.
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The Moody Blues - Your Wildest Dreams
Yet another classic prog band that went the pop rock route in the 80s, and the Moodies did it pretty well, this being their best song of that era. And with a great video to boot! I like how references to the classic Moodies era are in there, including a shot of the In Search of the Lost Chord vinyl. And the climax of the story in the video with the unexpected sad, some would say bittersweet, ending was very well done. Great song!!!
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I was more of a fan of Gemini Dream than your Wildest Dreams tbh...
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Gemini Dream is great, as was The Voice, but something about Your Wildest Dreams is just so good; it's always been my favorite post-70s song of theirs.
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Completely forgot about The Voice, that's a great one too.
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I never realized until just now that I Know You're Out There Somewhere was a sequel to Your Wildest Dreams, video and all. Probably because I've never been overly wild about that song. :lol
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Ugh, thanks for bringing that one back up. :lol
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The Call - Let the Day Begin
This was a band my older brother was always nuts about. Meanwhile, I liked a few of their tunes, like this one and I Don't Wanna, but they never really stayed on my radar.
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The Call - Let the Day Begin
This was a band my older brother was always nuts about. Meanwhile, I liked a few of their tunes, like this one and I Don't Wanna, but they never really stayed on my radar.
I always thought The Call should tour with Beck.
Similarly, The Cure should tour with Poison.
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Was never really too keen on The Call.
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The Call - Let the Day Begin
This was a band my older brother was always nuts about. Meanwhile, I liked a few of their tunes, like this one and I Don't Wanna, but they never really stayed on my radar.
I always thought The Call should tour with Beck.
Similarly, The Cure should tour with Poison.
:lol :lol Well-played. :tup :tup
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I completely missed that. :blush :rollin
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I've not checked all of this thread so apologies if anyone has posted this but......does anyone like Go West...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9s9vmrJkV8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9s9vmrJkV8)
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Wow, Go West brings back memories. I had the Indian Summer album, so I guess it doesn't really fit this thread since it was from 1992.
That's the one that had Faithful, Still In Love, Tell Me, What You Won't Do For Love, King of Wishful Thinking . . .
The summer of 92 or 93, I went to Six Flags Atlanta with a bunch of friends and I must have heard What You Won't Do For Love a thousand times waiting in line for the rides. It was in a rotation of about 5 or 6 songs that they played over and over on the tv's while you waited.
I really loved the song The Sun and The Moon.
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If you liked Indian Summer then I would highly recommend there previous 2 albums. They have a more pop/rock feel with some incredible lead guitar work provided by Alan Murphy - one of the best guitarist from the UK in that era, went on to play with Level 42 and sadly died in 1989.
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Jackson Browne - Lawyers in Love
Kind of a forgotten song of his, as most think of his famous 70s tunes when he comes to mind, but I think this song is a major winner - always a favorite of mine from 1983 - and it still sounds great.
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People get "forgotten" and "forgettable" mixed up all the time. It's understandable given how similar the two words are. I forgive you.
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This video cracked me up. I loved the imagery of paddling your car like a canoe, doing the "mating call" of the lawyers, and listening for the response. Surreal insanity.
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Hehe, I forgot about that. I barely remember the video, although now that I think about it, I think that shot of the guy with the rows on top of the car was on the sleeve of the 45 of the record, which I had at the time. That was a cool thing back then, when singles had their own full sleeves. :coolio
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In what has to be some crazy irony, yesterday's episode of Totally 80s, which I skimmed through briefly last night before going to sleep, had the video for Lawyers in Love! And now I see why I didn't remember it: it was wholly unmemorable. And quite terrible, actually. :lol :lol
Culture Club - Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
Despite featuring a male singer that dressed and looked, well, rather womanly :lol, this video didn't strike me as that weird at the age of 9. A little out there, but I enjoyed the song enough. Not a favorite, but enjoyable nonetheless.
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Not familiar with the Jackson Browne one, but TOO familiar with the Culture Club one. Yick. :puke:
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Was always partial to The War Song. What a flash in the pan CC was. Right place; right time.
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I like that Culture Club song. While there was much better new wave and synthpop that was popular at the time, it's a good song nonetheless.
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Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
Good song. And out of all of the 80s soundtrack songs, is there one more closely associated with the movie than this one is with The Breakfast Club? I'd love to hear an argument otherwise. :)
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Simple Minds are great. Love this song. Iconic chorus and triumphant synths; I can't not like it. Probably one of the defining 80s synthpop songs and bands.
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Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
Good song. And out of all of the 80s soundtrack songs songs ever recorded, is there one more closely associated with the movie than this one is with The Breakfast Club? I'd love to hear an argument otherwise. :)
Maybe this is because I am a child of the 80s, but I had to tweak that statement. This song fit so well int hat movie, and it was actually a great song in its own right, as well. I remember on our senior trip, at the end of the night they played this song, and it really resonated with everyone.
Of course, I've pretty much forgotten about everyone and everything from high school, but it was a nice moment 18 years ago, nonetheless.
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Good song, good movie. This is one of the few "really popular" 80s songs that's aged well for me.
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Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
Good song. And out of all of the 80s soundtrack songs, is there one more closely associated with the movie than this one is with The Breakfast Club? I'd love to hear an argument otherwise. :)
Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins would like a word with you. :lol
Hell, Kenny Loggins' 80s output would like a word with you...
Or Take My Breath Away... :lol
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How about Ghostbusters? I think that is about the strongest association you can have.
for me, Pat Benatar's Invincible is forever linked to The Legend of Billie Jean.
Then there's:
Oh Yeah (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off)
Eye of the Tiger (Rocky III)
Dirty Dancing ( (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life)
The Power of Love (Back to the Future)
The Glory of Love (Karate Kid II)
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How about Ghostbusters? I think that is about the strongest association you can have.
for me, Pat Benatar's Invincible is forever linked to The Legend of Billie Jean.
Then there's:
Oh Yeah (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off)
Eye of the Tiger (Rocky III)
Dirty Dancing ( (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life)
The Power of Love (Back to the Future)
The Glory of Love (Karate Kid II)
Some more nominees:
Weird Science (Weird Science)
In Your Eyes (Say Anything)
I'm All Right (Caddyshack)
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Real Genius)
Batdance (Batman)
Axel F (Beverly Hills Cop)
St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion) (St. Elmo's Fire)
Old Time Rock and Roll (Risky Business)
Up Where We Belong (An Officer and a Gentleman)
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Kev's kind of getting hammered. :lol
As for the actual song, I remember when it came out that the band didn't really want to do it, since it was written by an outside writer and didn't really sound like them, but they went along with it. And so when their next album came out, it pretty well vanished after one single-Alive And Kicking, which oddly I remember very well. Looks like their instincts were right.
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I'm sorry, when I referred to Don't You (Forget About Me) being the song most associated with the movie it was in, I was referring to actual good songs :p
And 'Alive and Kicking' is a great song as well.
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I knew that comment would result in some good replies. ;) :biggrin:
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - If You Leave
Another soundtrack example, this one being from Pretty in Pink. I actually never saw this movie until long after the 80s had ended, but it is still difficult to not associate the song with the end of the movie.
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Never liked that one. :puke:
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As for the actual song, I remember when it came out that the band didn't really want to do it, since it was written by an outside writer and didn't really sound like them, but they went along with it. And so when their next album came out, it pretty well vanished after one single-Alive And Kicking, which oddly I remember very well. Looks like their instincts were right.
I didn't realize that Simple Minds didn't write "Don't You". Kerr does such an awesome job on the vocals, completely owns them, that it never occurred to me that maybe they didn't write it.
My favorite Simple Minds song is "All the Things She Said'. Love that song, and the video is very cool.
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Fleetwood Mac - Gypsy
I absolutely love this song. Everything about it is just tremendous, and to this day this is probably still my favorite Fleetwood Mac studio song (I probably prefer Dreams as a song, but only the live version from The Dance). I don't remember this video being particularly memorable or noteworthy at all, but the song was so great, it didn't matter.
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I really like FM. My girlfriend is a Mac freak so I guess it just rubbed off over the years. Good song that one, excellent soothing atmosphere and great performances. Great video too.
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Not the best FM song, but pretty good nonetheless.
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Spandau Ballet - True
Never much of a fan of this one, as it's a bit too tame, even by 80s standards, but I did warm up to it a tad after it was featured at the end of The Wedding Singer; it's the song Steve Buscemi, as the wedding singer, sings at the wedding of Robbie and Julia.
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Going back to Gypsy, loved that song, and Stevie Nicks was a huge crush of mine as a kid.
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Going back to Gypsy, loved that song, and Stevie Nicks was a huge crush of mine as a kid.
All of that.
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Spandau Ballet - True
Ugh. :puke:
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Spandau Ballet - True
Never much of a fan of this one, as it's a bit too tame, even by 80s standards, but I did warm up to it a tad after it was featured at the end of The Wedding Singer; it's the song Steve Buscemi, as the wedding singer, sings at the wedding of Robbie and Julia.
The song is mushy but nice. The saxophone solo, and the key change that comes with it, are amazing. I'll listen to this song every time, just for that solo.
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Spandau Ballet - True
Ugh. :puke:
Agreed. The only redeeming thing about Spandau Ballet was Ed Norton's episode in Modern Family about them.
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Spandau Ballet - True
Ugh. :puke:
I second that emotion
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Poison - Talk Dirty to Me
Despite being a fan of a lot of the mainstream hair metal at the time, I didn't care much for this song, and only liked a few other Poison songs a little bit when they later came out (Fallen Angel being the only one I can say I liked quite a bit).
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Another UGH. :lol
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Every Poison album got incrementally better than the one before it up to Native Tongue. Despite the fact I liked it at the time, this song - and Look What the Cat Dragged in as a whole - represents everything that was wrong with "hair" metal, and what the stereotype is all about.
Oh, and just because I posted a comment in GD side chat referring to talk dirty to me, and someone responded with the below, I had to share it with everyone. Put your gogglez on, in the hopes that they might do something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFY-qYbnSdk
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You know, I...I clicked on the link, got about 30 seconds in, and just said to myself, "I'm never going to get this 4 minutes or so of my life back. Do I really want to continue?"
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I had the exact same reaction. :lol
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Quintessential hair metal staple. It's one of the most representative songs of the genre, IMO. Both of my bands play Poison songs, one of them doing TDTM. Being that Poison are the hometown heroes around here, it never hurts to have them in the set somewhere. I do quite like the song.
everything that was wrong with "hair" metal
Clearly you're operating from a completely different definition of "wrong" than I am familiar with.
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Say what you want about it, but Talk Dirty to Me is a song that gets people going. Go to any club or bar with a band playing, and if Talk Dirty to Me is played, people will be all over the dance floor and singing along to the chorus.
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Absolutely. Every time. I try to make the same point to both of my bands about "Girls, Girls, Girls". There is no faster way to fill up the dance floor with women than to play that song.
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You know, I...I clicked on the link, got about 30 seconds in, and just said to myself, "I'm never going to get this 4 minutes or so of my life back. Do I really want to continue?"
and of course you did continue, because you just couldn't ... look ... away....
Quintessential hair metal staple. It's one of the most representative songs of the genre, IMO. Both of my bands play Poison songs, one of them doing TDTM. Being that Poison are the hometown heroes around here, it never hurts to have them in the set somewhere. I do quite like the song.
everything that was wrong with "hair" metal
Clearly you're operating from a completely different definition of "wrong" than I am familiar with.
Don't get me wrong, I still kinda dig the song, but this was from a band that (at the time) was WAY more focused on their image than their musical or lyrical quality.
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I never bought Poison but I dig this song along with Unskinny Bop. My favorite song by them is Give Me Something To Believe In.
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The title track to Look What the Cat Dragged In is my favorite Poison track. This one is alright; but it's become a generic bar band song- simular to Don't Stop Believing and Livin on a Prayer.
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Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
Pretty entertaining video, one that easily caught your eye, but I was never a fan of this song, or even of the Scorpions in general, outside of a handful or so of songs.
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Great tune. Don't recall the video to tell you the truth. One of my earliest memories of hard rock. Got lots of radio play around here.
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Talk Dirty to Me - I like Poison, but this isn't a song I ever got into. Unskinny Bop and Nothin' But a Good Time are much better tunes.
Rock You Like a Hurricane - Great song. Never seen the video.
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Video was kind of cheesy in that 80s way :lol , but the song still kicks ass. :metal
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Never seen the video.
:omg:
Don't recall the video to tell you the truth.
:omg:
Remedy this situation immediately! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxdmw4tJJ1Y
As for the song:
:metal
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Scorpions are an unusual case for me because, in the 80s, they were one of my favorite bands-I loved the hell out of Blackout, and remember sitting in front of the TV the night MTV premiered Rock You Like A Hurricane, all excited-but later, as I discovered their 70s work, I found that I really, really liked the band a lot better with Uli Jon Roth in it. They didn't quite become a different band when he left, but I rather preferred what he brought to the table.
I will however admit that the 70s Scorpions had perhaps the most IDIOTIC album covers ever. Whoever thought the Virgin Killer cover (and album title for that matter) was a good idea needed a swift kick in the nuts.
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Thanks bosk. I was too lazy to look it up on my own, but I wasn't expecting it to be any good tbh.
Animals, girls, cages, mind numbing concert footage, yep. Classic 80s. :lol :hat
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Thanks bosk. I was too lazy to look it up on my own, but I wasn't expecting it to be any good tbh.
Animals, girls, cages, mind numbing concert footage, yep. Classic 80s. :lol :hat
Definitely. And for whatever reason it was included, the fleeting shot of the panther licking its chops about 10 seconds in is probably the most awesome shot in the entire video (and I mean that it a good way). :lol
Also, I have to give the solo in this song MAJOR props. One of the best, most memorable solos in '80s rock.
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RYLAH is one of those songs that if you are going to learn to play guitar, YOU MUST LEARN THIS RIFF!! It's like learning the main riffs to Smoke on the Water or Whole Lotta Love or Crazy Train or Paranoid or something.
Also, I have to give the solo in this song MAJOR props. One of the best, most memorable solos in '80s rock.
Also, this.
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Love the Scorps
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RYLAH is one of those songs that if you are going to learn to play guitar, YOU MUST LEARN THIS RIFF!! It's like learning the main riffs to Smoke on the Water or Whole Lotta Love or Crazy Train or Paranoid or something.
But, see, that's one of the problems with the song. You are right. And as an aspiring young guitarist at the time the song came out, I was thrilled when someone showed me that main riff. Those are MY fingers producing a genuine heavy metal riff. And then I learned how to palm mute and play the verse. I cannot be more pleased with how well my playing has progressed so quickly. Truly, I must have a unique talent at this instrument to have become the living embodiment of heavy metal so quickly. ...And then you get to the solo. And if you've just picked up a guitar for the first time only months before, you give it a go for a little while, and then eventually just slam the guitar undre your bed and go, "SCREW THIS! Guitar is dumb anyway! I'm gonna go ride bikes."
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RYLAH is one of those songs that if you are going to learn to play guitar, YOU MUST LEARN THIS RIFF!! It's like learning the main riffs to Smoke on the Water or Whole Lotta Love or Crazy Train or Paranoid or something.
But, see, that's one of the problems with the song. You are right. And as an aspiring young guitarist at the time the song came out, I was thrilled when someone showed me that main riff. And then I learned how to palm mute and play the verse. And then you get to the solo. And if you've just picked up a guitar for the first time months before, you give it a go for a little while, and then eventually just slam the guitar undre your bed and go, "SCREW THIS! Guitar is dumb anyway! I'm gonna go ride bikes."
:rollin
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RYLAH is one of those songs that if you are going to learn to play guitar, YOU MUST LEARN THIS RIFF!! It's like learning the main riffs to Smoke on the Water or Whole Lotta Love or Crazy Train or Paranoid or something.
But, see, that's one of the problems with the song. You are right. And as an aspiring young guitarist at the time the song came out, I was thrilled when someone showed me that main riff. Those are MY fingers producing a genuine heavy metal riff. And then I learned how to palm mute and play the verse. I cannot be more pleased with how well my playing has progressed so quickly. Truly, I must have a unique talent at this instrument to have become the living embodiment of heavy metal so quickly. ...And then you get to the solo. And if you've just picked up a guitar for the first time only months before, you give it a go for a little while, and then eventually just slam the guitar undre your bed and go, "SCREW THIS! Guitar is dumb anyway! I'm gonna go ride bikes."
Another symptom of Lead Singer Disease.
:flame:
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Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
Pretty entertaining video, one that easily caught your eye, but I was never a fan of this song, or even of the Scorpions in general, outside of a handful or so of songs.
Ah, I can still see the 16 year old kingshmegland playing this in a barn at the other guitarist house. We has this as the 3rd song in our list. Funny how a band that never played out at the time had it's song's all laid out for a 2 hour show. :lol
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I knew that song would get this thread going again. I am so smart. :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:
Saga - On the Loose
Very cool song, and I am pretty sure this was their biggest hit ever. Wind Him Up is pretty great as well. And apparently this band has an extremely fanatical fanbase, but I can't say I've ever heard anything else by them except those two songs.
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Kev. I do a mowing the lawn song list that I post on Facebook all the time and I'm doing an 80's list this weekend and this song will be on it.
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Great song, and a very cool video. We used to do this song in the band I was in; the instrumental break with the interplay between the guitar and keyboards was sweet. Hard to learn, but fun to play and a great fourth set song.
Saga is one of those bands that had some hits, so people checked them out and discovered that they had actual chops and depth to their writing. Like a Canadian version of Kansas or something. Maybe not quite as prog, but they definitely had some skills.
About the coolest and proggiest thing they did was the Chapters concept. There were eight songs on the first album; the last song on Side One was "Will It Be You? (Chapter Four)" and the last song on Side Two was "Tired World (Chapter Six)". No explanation was given for why they were titled that way. The second album opened with "It's Time (Chapter 3)" and also included "Images (Chapter 1)". Still nothing in the liner notes, and this was all pre-Internet so there weren't many sources of information except maybe the official fan club or whatever. Eventually they wrote sixteen Chapters which, when played in order, formed a story. It was a science fiction story about aliens who come to earth and resurrect Albert Einstein so that he can help them save humanity from self-destruction. Their concert tour that year produced The Chapters Live where they played all sixteen Chapters in order.
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Kev. I do a mowing the lawn song list that I post on Facebook all the time and I'm doing an 80's list this weekend and this song will be on it.
??? How big is your lawn that you need an entire list of songs for mowing?
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Kev. I do a mowing the lawn song list that I post on Facebook all the time and I'm doing an 80's list this weekend and this song will be on it.
??? How big is your lawn that you need an entire list of songs for mowing?
Almost an acre. It takes me about 1 1/2 hours to mow and 2 if I trim along the edges. I love making different song lists each week.
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RYLAH is one of those songs that if you are going to learn to play guitar, YOU MUST LEARN THIS RIFF!! It's like learning the main riffs to Smoke on the Water or Whole Lotta Love or Crazy Train or Paranoid or something.
But, see, that's one of the problems with the song. You are right. And as an aspiring young guitarist at the time the song came out, I was thrilled when someone showed me that main riff. Those are MY fingers producing a genuine heavy metal riff. And then I learned how to palm mute and play the verse. I cannot be more pleased with how well my playing has progressed so quickly. Truly, I must have a unique talent at this instrument to have become the living embodiment of heavy metal so quickly. ...And then you get to the solo. And if you've just picked up a guitar for the first time only months before, you give it a go for a little while, and then eventually just slam the guitar undre your bed and go, "SCREW THIS! Guitar is dumb anyway! I'm gonna go ride bikes."
Another symptom of Lead Singer Disease.
:flame:
Yes, well, I would guess the number of lead singers spawned in the '80s by being former guitarists who tried learning the solo for RYLAH and choosing to go ride bikes instead is pretty high, actually, so there you go.
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Saga is a great band from Canada; big fan. They have prog aspects to them for sure. I would recommend "Worlds Apart" or their best of.
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I knew that song would get this thread going again. I am so smart. :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:
Saga - On the Loose
Very cool song, and I am pretty sure this was their biggest hit ever. Wind Him Up is pretty great as well. And apparently this band has an extremely fanatical fanbase, but I can't say I've ever heard anything else by them except those two songs.
Oh Saga, now here's another "Jaq remembers WAY too much about MTV in the early days" story. :P
Let's flash back to the early days of MTV, shall we? Our wayback machine is set to late 1981, when MTV was young and having 20 some channels was state of the art. MTV back then was not the MTV we came to know, of course; it was twenty four hours a day, seven days a week of music videos, with only a couple of hours on Saturday nights devoted to whatever concert they could get their hands on. In 1981, there simply weren't that many videos, and most of them, the lion's share, came from British bands, which is where the form really came into being, which is largely why the British new wave invasion happened in the first place. MTV then had two methods of survival without boring you to death by playing a handful of videos constantly; the first was to cut up any of the concerts they played into single songs, which is why nine times out of ten in late 1981 you could tune into MTV and see a live REO Speedwagon video, as that was (1) MTV's first concert and (2) cut up into something on the order of 12 single song videos. The other method was to play any music video out there, and damn the genre. And the more videos an artist had, the better! This is why Rod Stewart was one of the champions of early MTV, why you could see Iron Maiden play Wrathchild live, the video for Juice Netwon's Queen of Hearts, Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes, and Turn it On Again by Genesis in a row. Followed by REO Speedwagon and something by Madness. In Fall 1981 you couldn't get out of an hour of MTV without something by Madness playing.
And in the midst of all of these videos, in the freewheeling, anything goes days of MTV, were two videos by a band called Saga: Careful Where You Step and Don't Be Late.
These days, Saga sounds like a meeting point between prog rock and AOR, but back when those videos were thrown into the fire just to fill a spot, they sounded otherworldly to young me. I loved these guys! Young me didn't realize you could have more than one keyboardist in a band, or the keyboardist playing unisons with the guitarist, and what are those spacey sounding vocals (they were vocoder vocals, for the record)? And what's more, a lot of people liked Saga here in my neck of the woods in Virginia. MTV, you see, wasn't available everywhere when it launched, so if you were fortunate enough to have MTV, you felt kind of like a colonist out on the edge of the musical frontier.
And then On The Loose came out, and that's when things got really fun with Saga. Saga played the Hampton Coliseum as an opening act three times on their tour for Worlds Apart, and for a while, they were sort of our band. I even think a member of the band married someone he met here on one of those tours. So it was kind of neat when Worlds Apart took off, so to speak. Because it felt like WE made a band, and it was quite possibly the last dying gasp of the more territorial music scene of the 70s, where a band could sell out arenas in St. Louis and play bars in Philadelphia. I'll always have a fondness for Saga for that reason...doesn't hurt that their first four albums are fuckin brilliant too.
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Saga - On the Loose
Very cool song, and I am pretty sure this was their biggest hit ever. Wind Him Up is pretty great as well. And apparently this band has an extremely fanatical fanbase, but I can't say I've ever heard anything else by them except those two songs.
Never saw the video, but I've always dug the song.
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[Cool Story]
Cool story, bro. Seriously.
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Time to throw one more out there today before I head out for the evening....
Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
A song I am sure most of us have heard 1,000 times by now, this is one of the very few songs by them, IMO, that is actually worthy of the attention it has gotten. It is a kickass rocker, and it has aged very well. This was the first song most of us heard by the band, and it could easily be argued that everything else that came after it failed to top this.
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Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
A song I am sure most of us have heard 1,000 times by now, this is one of the very few songs by them, IMO, that is actually worthy of the attention it has gotten. It is a kickass rocker, and it has aged very well. This was the first song most of us heard by the band, and it could easily be argued that everything else that came after it failed to top this.
I agree with every word of this post.
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Uh... yeah. Never liked it, never really liked GNR. I will say that the redeeming quality of the original GNR (not what Axl is parading as GNR these days) was the band itself - Axl, IMO, has always been the weakest link.
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Major kickass rocker
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Time to throw one more out there today before I head out for the evening....
Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
A song I am sure most of us have heard 1,000 times by now, this is one of the very few songs by them, IMO, that is actually worthy of the attention it has gotten. It is a kickass rocker, and it has aged very well. This was the first song most of us heard by the band, and it could easily be argued that everything else that came after it failed to top this.
As much as I loved this tune I never bought the record. Shocker. I know!
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An iconic song that kicks off the greatest rock album of all time. :tup From that very first guitar note, you know exactly what song it is.
The video is kind of average though, and doesn't really give an accurate impression of the band compared to later videos.
As much as I loved this tune I never bought the record. Shocker. I know!
:o Get on it! NOW!
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An excellent song. Pretty sure I saw a stripper dance to it once.
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An excellent song. Pretty sure I saw a stripper dance to it once.
Interesting. I think Paradise City is the more common stripper anthem.
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Kiss -- Take It Off is better. :zydar:
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The Traveling Wilburys - Handle with Care
You wouldn't have thought that a song by a supergroup of mostly aging rockers would have done well, especially on MTV, smack dab in the middle of the hair metal era, but it did. This song and video were both incredibly popular, which is not hard to understand since it is a very solid tune.
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The Traveling Wilburys - Handle with Care
You wouldn't have thought that a song by a supergroup of mostly aging rockers would have done well, especially on MTV, smack dab in the middle of the hair metal era, but it did. This song and video were both incredibly popular, which is not hard to understand since it is a very solid tune.
Love Harrison, love Petty, love Dyan, love Lynn...love this.
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I worked at a Musicland, which eventually became the Sam Goodys chain before, I think, FYE finally devoured them whole a few years back, as a seasonal employee the year that the first Traveling Wilburys album came out, and the manager at the store played it in a rotation of three albums to attempt to get certain demographics to come into the store. The other two were something by Anita Baker and Bobby Brown's Don't Be Cruel. Hearing Handle With Care come out of the speakers caused me to breathe a sigh of relief, because while all three albums were worn out for me after a while, it was the one of the three that I actually liked. Classic tune.
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Interesting. I think Paradise City is the more common stripper anthem.
Maybe that was it. Sweet Child of Mine is pretty common as well.
The Traveling Wilburys - Handle with Care
You wouldn't have thought that a song by a supergroup of mostly aging rockers would have done well, especially on MTV, smack dab in the middle of the hair metal era, but it did. This song and video were both incredibly popular, which is not hard to understand since it is a very solid tune.
Love Harrison, love Petty, love Dyan, love Lynn...love this.
And I love Roy Orbison. Great song.
Musicland...Sam Goodys
Wow, I haven't heard those names in forever. :lol
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The Traveling Wilburys - Handle with Care
You wouldn't have thought that a song by a supergroup of mostly aging rockers would have done well, especially on MTV, smack dab in the middle of the hair metal era, but it did. This song and video were both incredibly popular, which is not hard to understand since it is a very solid tune.
Great song, great album.
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Squeeze - Tempted
Am I the only who has always disliked this song a lot? It just annoys the crap out of me.
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Even if I liked the song-and I didn't-it being one of the ten or so songs MTV played every two or so hours the first few months MTV was on the air would've killed it for me. :lol
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It was catchy, but as a song it wasn't more than "okay". I always thought it was ironic and a bit sad that the girl in the video wasn't really "tempting" at all. I thought she was pretty blah myself.
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Not their best, but not bad either IMO.
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ugh - worked in a department store in college and this was one of the songs that was on the rotation. Hated it then, hate it now.
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Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
One of my favorite songs on 1983, the lyrics match the music perfectly, and the video was very fitting as well. This is just a great rainy day song. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) was the bigger hit, but this was by far the better song, IMO.
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This song, and the album, are awesome. Her voice is utterly amazing, and I had a huge crush on her at the time too. Good stuff here. :tup
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ugh - worked in a department store in college and this was one of the songs that was on the rotation. Hated it then, hate it now.
I was trying to think of a good way to describe this song, and the fact that it would be in the rotation at a department store seems to sum up that song nicely.
Here Comes the Rain is an ok song. My fave of theirs is probably Would I Lie to You.
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By the time the Eurythmics hit, I was solidly and foresquare in my METAL RARRRH phase, which ran from about 1983 to mid-85, when I went prog mad. So they were part of a long list of bands that younger me simply sneered at as "new wave crap" and never really gave much time to. Looking back, they made pretty immaculate pop songs, and Annie Lennox was a PERFECT frontwoman for an 80s band with that androgynous look she had going for her-it was just made for music video back then. It's no wonder they broke big.
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By the time the Eurythmics hit, I was solidly and foresquare in my METAL RARRRH phase, which ran from about 1983 to mid-85, when I went prog mad. So they were part of a long list of bands that younger me simply sneered at as "new wave crap" and never really gave much time to. Looking back, they made pretty immaculate pop songs, and Annie Lennox was a PERFECT frontwoman for an 80s band with that androgynous look she had going for her-it was just made for music video back then. It's no wonder they broke big.
I agree with this post - describes me to a T.
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The Police - Every Breath You Take
What a monster hit this was, spending eight weeks (!) at number 1 on the billboard pop charts. Very few songs in the 80s spent more weeks at number 1 than this song did - Physical, I think Bette Davis Eyes, and I am pretty sure there was another one in the later 80s. But anyway, great song from a great, great album. Not my favorite song from Synchronicity, or even my favorite hit from it, but it is not hard to see why this song was so huge.
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Okay, looking it up, the only other song that spent more weeks at number 1 in the 80s besides Physical (10 weeks) and Bette Davis Eyes (9 weeks, albeit non-consecutive) was Endless Love by Kenny Rogers and Diana Ross, which spent 9 weeks at number 1 in 1981. Many of us probably know that song from when it was featured in Happy Gilmore. "Friends listen to Endless Love in the dark." :lol
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What's always been funny about this song to me is how many people have utterly missed the point of it. This is the soundtrack to a stalker's obsession, not a touching love song. :lol The video is one of the top ones in my head when I think of 80s music videos as an art form, surpassed only, IMO, by the video for Don Henley's The Boys of Summer.
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What's always been funny about this song to me is how many people have utterly missed the point of it. This is the soundtrack to a stalker's obsession, not a touching love song. :lol
Bingo! :lol
That said, the video is - like Jaq said - a perfect example of a music video as art. I wouldn't have said Boys of Summer, though - I'd have said Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer.
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I always thought Sledgehammer was kind of cheesy myself, but I can see where it works as a good music video. Guess I prefer the brooding black and white videos myself :D
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also the basis for Puff Daddy's "I'll Be Missing You". I was on a college trip to Atlanta in May of '97 and woke up one morning to "I'll Be Missing You" playing on the alarm/radio. Couldn't figure out what in the world was going on because the song sounded familiar but so, so different.
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also the basis for Puff Daddy's "I'll Be Missing You". I was on a college trip to Atlanta in May of '97 and woke up one morning to "I'll Be Missing You" playing on the alarm/radio. Couldn't figure out what in the world was going on because the song sounded familiar but so, so different.
Oh, don't remind me of that. If there's one thing that started in the 90s that utterly annoys me, it was when songs like this, which cannibalized the main melodies of existing songs, kept the choruses intact (and in this case PERFORMED by the actual singer of the song) and threw a bunch of rap at the verses. I used to maintain that Puff Diddy or whatever he calls himself these days had blackmail worthy pictures of both Sting and Jimmy Page to get them to take part in such horseshit. :lol
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oh, I know. Almost ruined "Every Breath You Take" for me
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I always thought Sledgehammer was kind of cheesy myself, but I can see where it works as a good music video. Guess I prefer the brooding black and white videos myself :D
The song IS a little cheesy, I admit, but the video is just amazing.
oh, I know. Almost ruined "Every Breath You Take" for me
WORD.
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Don Henley - The Boys of Summer
Hands down, not only one of my favorite 80s songs, but one of my favorite songs of all-time. Everything about this song is nothing short of perfect, and the video was magnificent as well. We all have songs that we never turn off if we happen upon them on the radio or whatever, and this is one of the songs for me. If I stumble across The Boys of Summer, the volume is going up and I am not going anywhere until it is over. I honestly believe this is the best song anyone from the Eagles has ever done, with the Eagles, on their own or with another band. Yes, I think it is is better than Hotel California. I love this song that much. :tup :tup
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great, great song about aging and losing your youth.
Also the title of an even better book by Roger Kahn. In part 1 he details growing up in a Brooklyn family, his life as a young sportswriter following the Brooklyn Dodgers for two years (both ending in bitter World Series losses to the hated Yankess) and the loss of his father. Then in the second section he goes back later in life to find those same Dodgers, the heroes of his youth, and details how they have transitioned into "normal" life and the struggles they have faced.
I'm getting a bit misty thinking about the book right now. If you haven't read it, you need to.
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The Police - Every Breath You Take
What a monster hit this was, spending eight weeks (!) at number 1 on the billboard pop charts. Very few songs in the 80s spent more weeks at number 1 than this song did - Physical, I think Bette Davis Eyes, and I am pretty sure there was another one in the later 80s. But anyway, great song from a great, great album. Not my favorite song from Synchronicity, or even my favorite hit from it, but it is not hard to see why this song was so huge.
Trivia question: What video defeated this one on MTV's Friday Night Video Fights?
EDIT: Never mind. I forgot that this was already answered earlier in the thread. :lol
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Since I said a few posts back that I saw this video as being the best music video of the 80s and arguably ever, I think my opinion on the video's pretty clear. It doesn't hurt that the SONG itself is pretty amazing to boot. It isn't the best thing any of the Eagles have ever done, because I throw that honor straight at The Last Resort off Hotel California, but it is one of the best pop songs of the 80s, off one of the best albums of the 80s.
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The Police - Every Breath You Take
What a monster hit this was, spending eight weeks (!) at number 1 on the billboard pop charts. Very few songs in the 80s spent more weeks at number 1 than this song did - Physical, I think Bette Davis Eyes, and I am pretty sure there was another one in the later 80s. But anyway, great song from a great, great album. Not my favorite song from Synchronicity, or even my favorite hit from it, but it is not hard to see why this song was so huge.
Trivia question: What video defeated this one on MTV's Friday Night Video Fights?
Hmmmm, no idea. Maybe something by the Cars?
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Nah, it was Photograph. Couldn't find it on YouTube, but I DID find another funny FNVF promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRSHAP0HNrM
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Are you sure about that? Photograph was at its height of popularity in the spring of 1983, while The Boys of Summer didn't come out until the fall of 1984. It just doesn't add up, timeline-wise. ???
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No, they beat Every Breath You Take, not The Boys of Summer.
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Oh shit, I got the songs messed up, thinking you were now talking about the latest song I did. :facepalm:
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That's what I figured. (although I DID quote the song title in my post :lol )
Funny thing is, what made me realize that I had posted the answer earlier in the thread was this: I did a quick google search to see whether the answer was easily findable online anywhere, and the third search result was a link to this thread. :lol
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Out on the road today, I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac...
I was the resident musical expert where I was working, and someone asked me what the significance was of this line. They didn't understand it, but sensed that the line was somehow profound.
It was. In 1983, we still weren't that far distanced from the 70's. Aging rockers were rare. Rockers didn't get old, they either died or cut their hair, put on a suit, and joined "the establishment". The idea that someone who had followed The Grateful Dead around "back then" and was now driving a Cadillac was kinda cool, and it made sense that there were some people like that. That he/she would actually put a Deadhead sticker on their Cadillac... whoa! You just didn't see that kind of thing back then.
"So the Deadhead sticker meant that they're a Grateful Dead fan?"
Yeah, see, the Deadheads were... Holy crap. It completely escaped me that there might be people who didn't know this.
lol 80's kids.
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Cool video but the song itself was always kind of "eh" to me.
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brilliant song. Just absolutely fantastic. gonna go listen to it now in fact. Yeah, those little guitar licks are fantastic. Henley's got such a sweet vocal sound in this one.
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Hate Henley as a human being but love this song and the dude can write a tune.
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That is simply one of my fav songs of all time.
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Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar on Me
There are no words for how big this song and the Hysteria album were back in 1987 and into 1988. I liked this song a lot back then at the time, but I don't know if it was from being overplayed or it simply not aging well, but I eventually grew to not care for this song very much. Don't get me wrong, it is still fun to dance to when it is inevitably played at wedding receptions (everyone knows it, and everyone sings along to the chorus), but while it is on my massive 80s playlist, and usually makes my 80s CDs for my car, it is one I almost always hit the skip button for when it comes on now.
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my mom is a huge def leppard fan, in fact my parents just saw them last night at Jones Beach, so i hear them quite a bit around the house. I think they have some pretty good songs, but Pour Some Sugar on Me is laughable. I understand why it was popular, but they have songs that are 1000x better. Rock of Ages, Photograph, etc. i just think Sugar is dumb
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I've actually been listening to this album a lot the past week. A good song, although there are much better songs on Hysteria.
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I always thought Gods of War, one of the few songs from it that wasn't released as a single and with a video, was really good; I also like Animal and Rocket a lot. On the flip side, I never much cared for the title track, Armageddon It or Love Bites. Women is pretty good, too, but I remember that being a flop as the first single from the record.
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Women was a flop, indeed, and Animal didn't fare much better. Think Hysteria had been out for about a year when Pour Some Sugar On Me blew up.
Another Jaq in the 80s story (yes, there's always going to be one when I like the song!): I worked at a Musicland for one Christmas season back then, and occasionally-when the manager who only played three albums wasn't around-we'd play music we LIKED. One of the assistant managers, who I actually dated for a while, loved Def Leppard, so she always played Hysteria. When she played it, I came to realize something: women LOVED the song Excitable. Girls in the store would actually start SINGING the chorus! And I never met, at the time, a guy who liked it. But women-and my fellow employee I wound up dating for a while-did.
You can bet, during my brief relationship with the assistant manager, I put that knowledge to good use :lol
To the song itself: looking back, it's kind of hard to figure out why it wasn't the first single, or failing that the second one. Huge sing along chorus, driving beat, catchy as hell...makes you wonder what people were thinking at their label.
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Women was a flop, indeed, and Animal didn't fare much better. Think Hysteria had been out for about a year when Pour Some Sugar On Me blew up.
Another Jaq in the 80s story (yes, there's always going to be one when I like the song!): I worked at a Musicland for one Christmas season back then, and occasionally-when the manager who only played three albums wasn't around-we'd play music we LIKED. One of the assistant managers, who I actually dated for a while, loved Def Leppard, so she always played Hysteria. When she played it, I came to realize something: women LOVED the song Excitable. Girls in the store would actually start SINGING the chorus! And I never met, at the time, a guy who liked it. But women-and my fellow employee I wound up dating for a while-did.
You can bet, during my brief relationship with the assistant manager, I put that knowledge to good use :lol
To the song itself: looking back, it's kind of hard to figure out why it wasn't the first single, or failing that the second one. Huge sing along chorus, driving beat, catchy as hell...makes you wonder what people were thinking at their label.
Was just listening to the album the other week and I'm just not a big fan of the second half of that album. Everything past "Gods of War" with the exception of "Hysteria" was just meh. The good thing is that although it was overplayed and sold like wild it really was a quality rock album from that time IMO.
Surprised "Women" didn't fare so well as it seems to bridge Pyro and Hysteria well...
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Great story, Jaq! :tup :tup
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You keep bringing the 80s songs, odds are I have a story for it :lol
And yes, Hysteria was one of the first albums where the needs of making a CD length album-it's just under 63 minutes long-ran into the track listing set ups of old vinyl albums. Generally, old vinyl albums tended to put the best tracks and singles on side one, and usually put at least one single and the more filler tunes on side two. That wasn't a problem in the old vinyl days, where you wound up with maybe three weak songs that you had to work through. Hysteria, though, was terribly unbalanced in that the entire first SIDE was released as singles where five of the six songs on side two weren't. And it shows.
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Women was a flop, indeed, and Animal didn't fare much better. Think Hysteria had been out for about a year when Pour Some Sugar On Me blew up.
yep - the single came out in April of 1988 after the album was released in August of '87. Phil Collen has stated that a few strippers in Florida began using that song for their routines and it just took off from there.
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I liked Sugar a lot after I'd gotten Hysteria, but like Kev it just did not age well at all with me. :lol
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Kev summed it up pretty good. Still a quintessential 80s album, like Slippery. And for the comments on the length... when it was released, it was the longest single album release ever at the time.
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This is one of the 2 Def Lep songs I just can't take anymore. The other is Rock Of Ages.
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This is one of the 2 Def Lep songs I just can't take anymore. The other is Rock Of Ages.
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This is one of the 2 Def Lep songs I just can't take anymore. The other is Rock Of Ages.
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*Take's a bow*
I don't know what it is about them. They do have plenty of great tune. I just can't stand those two.
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I know it's not 80s, but Adrenalize was awful. Let's Get Rocked = worst song in history.
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That's when I fell off the DL wagon. They got me back on after but I hated the sound of that album.
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I know it's not 80s, but Adrenalize was awful. Let's Get Rocked = worst song in history.
Ugh. I completely agree.
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Danny Wilson - Mary's Prayer
Oddly, I had never heard this entire song until very recently. I never heard it back in the day, and only knew the excerpt from it that plays for about 20 seconds in There's Something About Mary (when Ted is pulling up to Mary's house to pick her up for the prom). But after finally hearing the whole song, I gotta say, it is a very enjoyable, good song, and I am surprised it wasn't a bigger hit back in 1987 when it was first out.
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Mary's Prayer got quite a bit of airplay here in Germany, but I don't remember if it was a huge success in the charts. Nice tune, belongs in my category of "like to listen to it but don't necessarily have to own it"
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No story here, because I haven't the foggiest idea what song this is. :lol
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No story here, because I haven't the foggiest idea what song this is. :lol
Pretty much this.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hqgC3W9GUI
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I haven't the foggiest idea what song this is.
Going back a bit, not sure if anyone played the album Hysteria more than I did when it came out. I think it might have actually been the first CD I purchased with my own money. Either this, or Lap of Luxury (Cheap Trick). I loved that album so much, everything was awesome.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hqgC3W9GUI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hqgC3W9GUI)
Wow, that was the 80s personified by a less than 4 minute video. :lol
Not bad.
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Okay I got to the chorus and remembered which song it was. :lol
Still, the fact that I had forgotten it probably suggests how generic 80s pop I found the song to be.
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Starship - We Built This City
Complete and utter shit. I hated this song back then, and I hate it now. There is nothing appealing about this piece of shit song.
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Made no. 1 on Vh1's worst 50 songs of all time. Biggest sell out song in rock history. They went from counter culture icons to lyrics like"someone's always playing, corporation games." Such a sad demise.
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that song always sounded like a TV commercial/jingle to me
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Remember AGES back in this thread when I said Heart going to outside writers was very probably the best move they could have made at the time?
Meet the antithesis of that argument. Sure, it was a hit, but this kind of processed plastic pop was the purview of one hit wonders, not the band who had a lineage going back to White Rabbit and 60s psychedelia.
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Starship - We Built This City
Complete and utter shit. I hated this song back then, and I hate it now. There is nothing appealing about this piece of shit song.
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Remember AGES back in this thread when I said Heart going to outside writers was very probably the best move they could have made at the time?
Meet the antithesis of that argument. Sure, it was a hit, but this kind of processed plastic pop was the purview of one hit wonders, not the band who had a lineage going back to White Rabbit and 60s psychedelia.
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Agreed, too. Okay, on to something better (which isn't hard)...
Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance
A rather corny song, with an even sillier video, yet it is catchy enough to still enjoy on occasion. A girl friend of mine from years ago used to love singing the spelled out beginning of the song (that was edited out in the single version), just to be silly and get us talking about the 80s; she was funny. :lol
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Fucking love it. Catchiest riff ever.
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Yeah... Beavis and Butthead ripped on it back during their first run, but I've always kinda liked it. It's quite catchy, but you have to admit that the video IS a bit silly.
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Utterly silly song, but WOW is it catchy as hell.
In fact just reading about it gets it stuck in my head!
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never understood the love for this song aside from the obvious silliness of it all, which wore thin on me quickly
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First time I heard this song was on the radio, and it was a completely different version than the version of the song in the video. The radio cut was more new-wavey and had a synth hook line that's nowhere to be found in the video version. The video version is more melodic and has the cute silly girl being cute and silly.
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Safety Dance - Loved that song and still like it. Yeah it's kinda silly but I don't mind.
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Agreed, too. Okay, on to something better (which isn't hard)...
Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance
A rather corny song, with an even sillier video, yet it is catchy enough to still enjoy on occasion. A girl friend of mine from years ago used to love singing the spelled out beginning of the song (that was edited out in the single version), just to be silly and get us talking about the 80s; she was funny. :lol
:2metal: Single best song by any band ever.
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Remember AGES back in this thread when I said Heart going to outside writers was very probably the best move they could have made at the time?
Meet the antithesis of that argument. Sure, it was a hit, but this kind of processed plastic pop was the purview of one hit wonders, not the band who had a lineage going back to White Rabbit and 60s psychedelia.
I know this is not today's song but the Irony of the above statement is that the lyrics to Heart's "These Dreams" and Starship's "We Built This City" were both written by Bernie Taupin.
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Interesting. Doesn't make We Built This City suck any less though.
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Remember AGES back in this thread when I said Heart going to outside writers was very probably the best move they could have made at the time?
Meet the antithesis of that argument. Sure, it was a hit, but this kind of processed plastic pop was the purview of one hit wonders, not the band who had a lineage going back to White Rabbit and 60s psychedelia.
I know this is not today's song but the Irony of the above statement is that the lyrics to Heart's "These Dreams" and Starship's "We Built This City" were both written by Bernie Taupin.
That's pretty funny. My point still stands though :lol
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Bernie Taupin wrote some incredible lyrics in his day. Obviously he wrote the lyrics to the vast majority of Elton John's songs, but for some reason, it never occurred to me that he'd worked with other artists. Silly me.
Anyway, the key here is that the lyrics to "These Dreams" and "We Built This City" are neither inherently good nor bad. It's the way they're set to the music that makes or breaks them. I personally like "These Dreams" but find "We Built This City" to be so cheesy that you could actually slice it up and put it on sandwiches. That's not the fault of the lyrics, though. Set it to metal or anything with balls and you could make it work.
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Someone always playing corporation games
Who cares they're always changing corporation names
We just want to dance here someone stole the stage
They call us irresponsible write us off the page
Sorry man, but these lyrics are inherently bad to me.
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Starship - We Built This City
Complete and utter shit. I hated this song back then, and I hate it now. There is nothing appealing about this piece of shit song.
I saw them on this tour opening for Night Ranger (7 Wishes tour) and they played this song opening and closing the set!! :lol
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Back to WBTC for a moment. The extended club remix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h12Lmvyvb3c
From the comments:
About a month ago I ate an entire bag of Juanita's corn chips. I don't know how it happened, they were there, then they were gone. I felt sick. But what I didn't know is that I had a stomach flu coming on. Two hours later, I was yakking up that bag of Juanita's. A fire hose of corn and grease and stomach acid. I can still taste it.
Now when I see a bag of Juanita's I gag a little and, I'm not making this up, I have to stop myself from crying. Which is exactly how this song makes me feel.
That said, Safety Dance is excellent.
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Someone always playing corporation games
Who cares they're always changing corporation names
We just want to dance here someone stole the stage
They call us irresponsible write us off the page
Sorry man, but these lyrics are inherently bad to me.
Yeah, there's NO saving them in any setting IMO.
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Hmm, maybe you're right. Those are pretty bad. I don't know if I've ever really listened to them.
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having said all of this, the song stilled reached number one and the band received a Grammy nomination for it (not that that means anything).
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More proof that the Grammys are bogus.
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having said all of this, the song stilled reached number one and the band received a Grammy nomination for it (not that that means anything).
Your honor, the prosecution rests.
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Man, I haven’t heard this song in ages. I will have to spotify it when I get home. I recall liking it when I was a wee lad, before my tastes developed and all that. And of course I thought this was just a new band that came out of nowhere.
Safety Dance to me is one of those songs that sounds great when it first comes on (catchy tune, fun lyrics), but then after a minute or so I am ready to move on. It also isn’t quite fast or upbeat enough to dance to like a lot of other similar 80s songs.
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Safety Dance to me is one of those songs that sounds great when it first comes on (catchy tune, fun lyrics), but then after a minute or so I am ready to move on. It also isn’t quite fast or upbeat enough to dance to like a lot of other similar 80s songs.
Oddly, that sums up A LOT of 80s songs for me. I can put my 80s CD on in the car and get through about eight songs in a 15-minute drive. :lol
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After the Fire - Der Kommissar
Definitely a classic 80s tune, this is one I will almost listen to from start to finish! The video definitely freaked me out a tad, as a kid, though, with that damn spider crawling around and such. :eek :eek
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I thought it was weird how Falco had a song called "Der Kommissar" and then it was maybe six months later that After the Fire released an English-language version of the same song. I guess they figured not many people would know Falco's original version of the song. Personally, I prefer Falco's version. The video isn't as good, but it has the virtue of being simple. Falco said he thought American videos were too complicated, trying too hard or something. Of course, we looked at the European videos and thought they were silly and lame, so there you go.
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I liked the American version well enough until I heard Falco's version.
Falco's version >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> After The Fire's version
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Up until now I didn't even know that there is an american version :omg: have to check it out when I get home.
The Falco version is definitely cool. He had the ability to turn mediocre songs into listenable hits.
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OK, so I went back through the thread and I think I have collected all the songs listed for discussion by Kev to this point. Maybe we can put it in the original post so that we can keep track? I didn't hit my teens till the 80's were done but I was always into music so I'm familiar with almost all the material so far. Great to listen back over some songs I haven't heard in a while.
Whitesnake - Is This Love
Van Halen - Hot for Teacher
The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian
Pat Benatar - Shadows of the Night
Def Leppard - Photograph
Rainbow - Street of Dreams
David Bowie - Let's Dance
Huey Lewis and the News - If This Is It
Hall & Oates - Family Man
Talking Heads - Burning Down the House
Billy Joel - Uptown Girl
Mötley Crüe - Girls, Girls, Girls
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
Journey - Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
Heart - These Dreams
The Kinks - Come Dancing
Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died in Your Arms
Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight
Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer
INXS - Need You Tonight/Mediate
Night Ranger - Sister Christian
Prince and the Revolution - When Doves Cry
Madonna - Material Girl
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin'
Icehouse - Crazy
ABC - The Look of Love, Part 1
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
Genesis - Land of Confusion
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
The Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another
Bryan Adams - Run to You
Styx - Mr. Roboto
Europe - The Final Countdown
Big Country - In a Big Country
Men at Work - Down Under
Asia - Heat of the Moment
George Michael - Father Figure
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf
Simply Red - Holding Back the Years
Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Beastie Boys - (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)
John Mellancamp - Pink Houses
Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters
Y&T - Contagious
U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - (I've Had) The Time of My Life
Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
The Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed
Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the Dark
The Clash - Rock the Casbah
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Phil Collins and Philip Bailey - Easy Lover
Debbie Gibson - Foolish Beat
Golden Earring - Twilight Zone
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
Olivia Newton-John - Physical
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Toto - Africa
USA for Africa - We Are the World
Rod Stewart - Infatuation
Loverboy - Working for the Weekend
Michael Penn - No Myth
Robert Plant - Big Log
The Cars - Magic
Berlin - Take My Breath Away
a-ha - Take On Me
Bruce Hornsby & The Range - The Way It Is
Aerosmith - Rag Doll
The Tubes - She's a Beauty
Chicago - Love Me Tomorrow
The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes
The Rolling Stones - Undercover of the Night
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me with Science
Naked Eyes - Always Something There to Remind Me
David Lee Roth - California Girls
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out
The Moody Blues - Your Wildest Dreams
The Call - Let the Day Begin
Jackson Browne - Lawyers in Love
Culture Club - Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - If You Leave
Fleetwood Mac - Gypsy
Spandau Ballet - True
Poison - Talk Dirty to Me
Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
Saga - On the Loose
Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
The Traveling Wilburys - Handle with Care
Squeeze - Tempted
Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
The Police - Every Breath You Take
Don Henley - The Boys of Summer
Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar on Me
Danny Wilson - Mary's Prayer
Starship - We Built This City
Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance
After the Fire - Der Kommissar
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Pretty impressive list. :tup
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The scary thing is, I made a separate playlist in iTunes (I simply copy and pasted my normal 80s playlist into another one and called it DTF 80s) and have been deleting each song from it as I feature it here...and I still have nearly 400 songs left! :eek :eek So, this thread could still go on for a loooooong time. :coolio
Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It
Loved this video like crazy when it was out. I remember there was a time period where MTV was playing at at 7 p.m. (CT) on the button every weeknight for weeks, so if I was home, the MTV was going on before 7 so I wouldn't miss it, since, ya know, we didn't even have a VCR yet! :lol And I obviously had no clue at the time that the video and even several comments in the song were a nod to Animal House, since I didn't see that movie till I was like 18 or 19. But it made the video even more awesome once I knew all of that.
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The power of music video to make bands in the 80s wasn't just tied to the British New Wave, as this video demonstrated. If MTV hadn't gotten behind this video the way they did, Twisted Sister would never have taken off to the extent that they did. It doesn't hurt though that it's a pretty funny video AND the song is catchy as hell. This was one of the videos that opened the door to metal being accepted in the mainstream; Quiet Riot drove through that door and Motley Crue and Ratt were right behind them.
In fact, apparently MTV had a thing about playing metal songs at 8 PM eastern (7 PM central, natch) because for a month, every day, they played Metal Health by Quiet Riot at 8 PM eastern. :lol
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OMG - I loved that video! :lol Still do, kinda sorta. :heart
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Run-D.M.C. featuring Aerosmith - Walk This Way
I wasn't much of fan of this. Despite never really digging rap at all, I did like a few of Run-D.M.C.'s hits that came out after this, but this one didn't do a lot for me. I was completely unfamiliar with Aerosmith and the original Walk This Way at the time, but I imagine that the outrage and cries of "sellouts!" had to be loud and thunderous from their longtime rock fans. However, it was a smart move that helped get them back in the limelight and on MTV. You gotta give them that.
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Until this version came out, it had never occurred to me that what Steven Tyler did in the original version was rap. It still blows my mind to think of it that way because in general I really don't like rap. Even after this version came out, I remember thinking "What the fuck? They've turned it into a rap song!" Then I saw a thing on MTv talking about it, about how natural it was, it made perfect sense since Aerosmith's version is one of the earliest examples of rap on the radio. Whoa.
This confuses my prejudices, because I'm still pretty sure that I don't like rap, but I do love the original Aerosmith version. Hate the Run-D.M.C version.
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Couldn't stand this song.
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I was completely unfamiliar with Aerosmith and the original Walk This Way at the time...
Same with me. I remember thinking the video was cool, which upped the quality of the song in my mind. Then when I heard the original it always sounded like something was missing.
I never got in to Run DMC or any other similar groups back then. I didn't hate rap, I just didn't care to listen to it. I never cared for Aerosmith either. I liked 'Angel' and 'What it Takes.'
Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It
And I obviously had no clue at the time that the video and even several comments in the song were a nod to Animal House, since I didn't see that movie till I was like 18 or 19. But it made the video even more awesome once I knew all of that.
Holy crap I didn't know that. I need to check that out. Good rebellous song, at least for a 10 year old Cool Chris, who was about as far from being a rebel as possible.
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Until this version came out, it had never occurred to me that what Steven Tyler did in the original version was rap. It still blows my mind to think of it that way because in general I really don't like rap. Even after this version came out, I remember thinking "What the fuck? They've turned it into a rap song!" Then I saw a thing on MTv talking about it, about how natural it was, it made perfect sense since Aerosmith's version is one of the earliest examples of rap on the radio. Whoa.
This confuses my prejudices, because I'm still pretty sure that I don't like rap, but I do love the original Aerosmith version. Hate the Run-D.M.C version.
Wow! So spot on. This is how I felt also.
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Okay, as usual, I have a story about this video. :lol
In high school, there was a girl I knew, and, in fact, had a powerfully huge crush on. The story of the first half of my senior year with my friends was my crush on this girl, and when the fuck was I going to do something about it. (I did over Christmas vacation. It was a disaster, but not related to this tale.) The thing about this girl, other than how fantastic she made sweaters look, was that she was a HUGE Aerosmith fan. Now, being that I was in that sort of intense, head over heels, idealistic young love that comes of being a teenager with their most monstrous crush, you would think that at that point, I'd run out, buy every Aerosmith album and t-shirt I could find, and slap Aerosmith logos on my notebooks and whatnot.
Well fuck that noise, my favorite band was Iron Maiden, and no one, not even the girl I wanted to spend several hours in the backseat of my parents' 67 Fury* with, was going to tell me otherwise. When music would come up, she would champion Aerosmith, and I would champion Iron Maiden, and I'd forget that I had this utterly hormonal crush on her, and in hindsight, if I had kept that up, I might have gotten a date with her instead of trying to woo her with poetry and love letters. (I told you it was a disaster, didn't I?)
Time passed as time did. We graduated, and I lost track of her along with the vast majority of my school age friends. But I always associated her with Aerosmith, with the days when she'd snatch my notebook off my desk and draw Aerosmith logos by hand on the back of them as part of her war against Iron Maiden. See, if I had stuck with music as my form of contact with her instead of poetry and love letters...At any rate, when Walk This Way came out, my first thought was "what the fuck is this?" and my second one was "I wonder what she thinks of this song?" I also thought the same thing about the rest of Aerosmith's 80s output. Time passed, hands on the clock, calendar pages falling off the calendar, the mullet came and went.
And a couple of years ago, my best friend in high school got ahold of me and explained that I needed to get a Facebook, because my crush was looking for me, and other people she went to school with. I'm not much for social media, but I did it, and she contacted me, and we talked on occasion about old times. December 2010, she sends me a message about she was coming to town with her son to visit her family here, and hey, how about we meet? I agreed, and wound up at a pizza place with her and her son, and the subject of our old music wars came up. And hell, I'd been wanting to ask her this question for AGES, so I asked "what did you think when Run DMC did Walk This Way with Tyler and Perry?"
Without missing a beat, she said " When I saw the video the first time I heard you say 'I told you Iron Maiden was better' as clear as day."
The best part of this story is: she still has the poems and letter I wrote her all those years ago. Go figure.
*Why the old Fury they had instead of the two 1984 vintage cars my family had at the time? Easy, the Fury had the biggest back seat!
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Haha, that is awesome, Jaq! :metal :metal
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Until you started this thread, I had NO idea how much of my life I could tie back to watching MTV. :lol
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I could probably say the same thing for my younger years. I still have four or five old VHS tapes of videos I taped circa 1987-1989, that I refuse to throw away. I don't even use my VHS anymore, but it would be like throwing part of my childhood away. I won't do it. :hat
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Erasure - A Little Respect
An outstanding synth pop song, this is one of those songs I still know all of the words to whenever it comes on. Clever little video with all of the references to the lyrics which were interspersed with shots of the singer. Like Pet Shop Boys, the outwardly gayness of the lead singer tends to throw some people off, but to me, a straight male, good music is good music, and The Innocents, the album this song came from, had quite a few really good tunes.
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Run-D.M.C. featuring Aerosmith - Walk This Way
I wasn't much of fan of this. Despite never really digging rap at all, I did like a few of Run-D.M.C.'s hits that came out after this, but this one didn't do a lot for me. I was completely unfamiliar with Aerosmith and the original Walk This Way at the time, but I imagine that the outrage and cries of "sellouts!" had to be loud and thunderous from their longtime rock fans. However, it was a smart move that helped get them back in the limelight and on MTV. You gotta give them that.
IMO, this is the weakest song on an otherwise stellar late 80s rap album - you can't deny the impact that Raising Hell had, especially since Public Enemy was just getting their feet wet and The Beastie Boys had released Licensed To Ill, both (all three, actually) at around the same time. Good record IMO, okay song, video was really cool though.
Not too familiar with the Erasure one though - more familiar with Chains of Love.
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I prefer the original version by Aerosmith over the RUN DMC version, but the latter isn't that bad either.
What I remember when it came out is, that people talked about how unique and groundbreaking it is to have a rap part in a rock song. I always told them that they should listen to the original because Steven Tyler back then rapped as good (or better) than RUN DMC. In fact the RUN DMC version isn't that much different, it just doesn't groove like the orginal.
Not crazy about Erasure and don't remember that particular song but Sometimes was quite nice.
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I could probably say the same thing for my younger years. I still have four or five old VHS tapes of videos I taped circa 1987-1989, that I refuse to throw away. I don't even use my VHS anymore, but it would be like throwing part of my childhood away. I won't do it. :hat
Me too. Though I have a VCR but not plugged in. So many concerts and videos I taped over the years. Plus so many bootleg concert video's I bought.
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What I remember when it came out is, that people talked about how unique and groundbreaking it is to have a rap part in a rock song. I always told them that they should listen to the original because Steven Tyler back then rapped as good (or better) than RUN DMC. In fact the RUN DMC version isn't that much different, it just doesn't groove like the orginal.
I've tried to figure out what it is about rap that turns me off so badly. I really, really don't like it. Back in school, it was still pretty new (compared to mainstream rock anyway) and it was easy to dismiss as nothing more than talking in rhythm. But that's all Steven Tyler is doing on the original, and I love it. I think it's the "attitude" or something. The Run-DMC rap, and most rap to my ears, sounds pushy, arrogant. There's a WUH! WUH! WUH! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! about it that just bugs me. Steven sounds like he's just telling you what went down. I guess there's a certain bravado to his delivery, but that fits with the story he's telling. It grooves, as you say. Run-DMC sound like they're pushing it, bragging, building it up. The unnecessary way they SLAM on certain BEATS and EMphasize certain SYLLables just RUINS the RHYthm of the deLIVery.
I remember Will Smith was still The Fresh Prince in those days, and I could actually listen to his style of rapping, because it literally just sounded like talking in rhythm, almost conversational. "Parents Just Don't Understand" was cool. It's not what rap is lacking that bugs me, I think it's what they add to it. The arrogance, the unnecessary punctuation.
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I'm not a big rap fan myself, I don't hate it, but most of the times I just don't get it. And I think a big part of me not getting it is just what you wrote. I don't feel the rhythm or the flow of the rap part. Most of the time it sounds forced and constructed and not natural, at least to my ears.
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Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Good pop song, but one I was never overly fond of. I didn't hate it, but it wasn't one I got excited about when it came on the radio or MTV; the video was good fun, for sure though. And it got the whole Rock N' Wrestling Connection thing going, with Captain Lou Albano, who played Lauper's dad in the video, smack dab in the middle of it with Hulk Hogan and Rowdy Roddy Piper. That was good stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1LB0kWS3Xw
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I like the wrestling connection
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At first I liked this song but after a while Cindy's voice/singing style started grating on my nerves a lot.
Nowadays if I here it it's okay, I don't turn it of.
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Would turn this song off in a heartbeat.
I like the wrestling connection
She appeared at a Wrestlemania, right?
Love the avatar. I was such a huge fan of Flair back in the NWA days, and when he was a Horseman.
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Fun song, good video - I just happen to like Time After Time a lot more.
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Time After Time is a far superior song but Girls is still a catchy song
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Yeah there were alot of tie in's with Cindy around Wrestlemania 1. I believe she was Wendi Richters manager for her match.
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One day I will sit down and determine the top 10 songs that remind me most of the 80s. It's better than even odds Girls Just Wanna Have Fun will make it. :lol
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Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart
It is now almost impossible for me to hear this song and not think of Old School. :lol When I was a kid, my dad always loved this song and video a lot, and while I didn't like it nearly as much as he did, I did like it. I like the big-sounding instrumental break in the middle a lot; that part still sounds glorious.
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Karaoke destroyed this one, along with Don't Stop Believing, for me forever.
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Great song. Really has a majestic feel to it, for lack of a better word. That instrumental section is glorious, and the way it builds toward the final section is awesome.
Also.... just watched the Land of Cinfusion video for the first time in decades. Holy crap that was weird.
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Meh...... never really dug the song. Sorry, just caught this thread, don't mean to start with a negative post.
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One of my many musical guilty pleasures is Jim Steinman's music. I have no shame in admitting it, though I can understand why his music really isn't for everyone. The emotional level of every narrator in a Steinman song is set to total bugfuck crazy and every song seems to come from some alternate universe where the 50s never ended. (Which is why his music was singularly appropriate for the 80s Walter Hill film Streets of Fire, another place where the 50s never ended.) His music seems to find a certain higher level of magnificence when a woman sings it-Celine Dion's version of It's All Coming Back To Me Now is a fabulous example of this-which is why Total Eclipse of the Heart works so well. The full version of this song, which clocks in around seven minutes, is GLORIOUS. In a delightfully cheesy way, admittedly, but still glorious.
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Meh...... never really dug the song. Sorry, just caught this thread, don't mean to start with a negative post.
No worries - we've ALL said something negative in this thread at one point or another. :lol
That said? I've always liked this one a lot. Sue me. :P
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Meh...... never really dug the song. Sorry, just caught this thread, don't mean to start with a negative post.
No worries - we've ALL said something negative in this thread at one point or another. :lol
That said? I've always liked this one a lot. Sue me. :P
Sigh....and to think I held you in such high regard.... :lol :P
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O RLY? :sadpanda:
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One of my many musical guilty pleasures is Jim Steinman's music. I have no shame in admitting it, though I can understand why his music really isn't for everyone. The emotional level of every narrator in a Steinman song is set to total bugfuck crazy and every song seems to come from some alternate universe where the 50s never ended. (Which is why his music was singularly appropriate for the 80s Walter Hill film Streets of Fire, another place where the 50s never ended.) His music seems to find a certain higher level of magnificence when a woman sings it-Celine Dion's version of It's All Coming Back To Me Now is a fabulous example of this-which is why Total Eclipse of the Heart works so well. The full version of this song, which clocks in around seven minutes, is GLORIOUS. In a delightfully cheesy way, admittedly, but still glorious.
I think I'd read at some point that Steinman wrote "Total Eclipse of the Heart" but I'd forgotten. And I didn't realize that he also wrote "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" though I'm not surprised. They both have that Broadway musical hypertheatrical sound to them that all his songs seem to have and which worked so well with Meat Loaf. I can only take so much of it, but when it happens to catch me in the right mood, it's pretty awesome stuff.
What I remember about the "Total Eclipse" video was all the young boys running around, and thinking "WTF? Why would I want to watch this?" Then I thought about the fact that a woman was singing it, so it was full of sexy young men, just as 95% of videos are by guys and feature lots of sexy young women. It's only fair, I guess.
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Robert Plant - Ship of Fools
I absolutely adore this song. Did back in the day, and still do. It is just a gorgeous song, featuring some really sweet singing by Plant, whose voice was more refined and less rough than it was during the bulk of his LZ days. I am still a big fan of the entire Now and Zen record. And even though it is somewhat of a cliche to say that the most popular song from it is your least favorite from it, Tall Cool One really is my least favorite from it. :lol A friend I used to work used to drive another friends of ours (who was a huge LZ nut, played bass and worshipped John Paul Jones) nuts by always telling him (in jest, to those of us in on the joke) that Tall Cool One was the best song Robert Plant ever sang. :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
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Oh jeeze - Ship of Fools blows Tall Cool One AWAY.
Always liked Ship of Fools too - SO different from his gravelly vox from the Led Zeppelin days.
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Was never a huge fan of this song, but it holds some good memories for me.
Total Eclipse... fantastic song. Excellent Power Ballad from an unexpected source.
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This is a tough one for me. I grew up worshiping Zep in the 70's. As far as the 80's, I really didn't care for anything Plant or Page did. Is it a good song? Sure it is, just not my style, and surely a far cry from Zeppelin.
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I figured out that the secret to enjoying Robert Plant's solo work is to not expect it to be too much like Led Zeppelin. I did pick up Now and Zen way back when, and I like it. "Ship of Fools" is a good song, though I don't remember the video. I lost a few years in the 80's, so it may have been out during that time. Same with "Tall Cool One". I know I heard it on the radio, because that's why I bought the album, but I don't remember the video. That was during the lost years.
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Ship of Fools is an excellent song. This song helped turn me onto Plant's solo work which I had largely ignored to that point, aside from the radio tunes. He still had lots of great songs solo... was just a bit less consistent IMO.
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Oh god, Tall Call One.... :lol
I love Ship of Fools. Beautiful song. My enduring moment about this album was being pleasantly drunk, in the grocery store that had just opened across the street from where I lived, and buying an issue of Rolling Stone with Plant on the cover. Went out and bought the CD the next day.
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Back to Total Eclipse of the Heart for a moment. If there's anyone who hasn't seen it yet, the "literal version" of the video:
Funny Stuff (https://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f03d464867/total-eclipse-of-the-heart-literal-video-version-original)
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HA!
Drinking wine, douchebags!
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I figured out that the secret to enjoying Robert Plant's solo work is to not expect it to be too much like Led Zeppelin. I did pick up Now and Zen way back when, and I like it. "Ship of Fools" is a good song, though I don't remember the video. I lost a few years in the 80's, so it may have been out during that time. Same with "Tall Cool One". I know I heard it on the radio, because that's why I bought the album, but I don't remember the video. That was during the lost years.
:lol Think I lost a few years back then too Rob....
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Dokken - Burning Like a Flame
This was my favorite song for a spell back in 1987. That chorus was just so catchy and fun, while still rocking enough to not come off like another cheeseball monster ballad or anything like that. Nowadays, it is not even close to be an 80s favorite of mine, but I still enjoy it every once in a while when it comes on.
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I fell into a black hole in the late 80s so I really don't remember that particular Dokken tune/video.
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The first 4 Dokken albums are the definition of 80's hair metal. Plus, an amazing live album. Great song.
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I fell into a black hole in the late 80s so I really don't remember that particular Dokken tune/video.
You musta fell into the one I crawled outta in the mid 80's..... :lol ............
(https://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc276/sideways777/bonghit.gif)
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I fell into a black hole in the late 80s so I really don't remember that particular Dokken tune/video.
You musta fell into the one I crawled outta in the mid 80's..... :lol ............
(https://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc276/sideways777/bonghit.gif)
That and living in the boonies with no cable, brah. :hat
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Or Radio?? :biggrin: I hear ya sistah ;)
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We had radio, just not what I was listening to at the time (which was predominantly hard rock/metuuul).
And word, brotha. :)
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I figured out that the secret to enjoying Robert Plant's solo work is to not expect it to be too much like Led Zeppelin. I did pick up Now and Zen way back when, and I like it. "Ship of Fools" is a good song, though I don't remember the video. I lost a few years in the 80's, so it may have been out during that time. Same with "Tall Cool One". I know I heard it on the radio, because that's why I bought the album, but I don't remember the video. That was during the lost years.
:lol Think I lost a few years back then too Rob....
After the band self-destructed and I moved back home, I got a job working the midnight shift in a campus restaurant while taking classes during the day. My life was upside-down for three years. I worked til dawn, then depending on my class schedule, either went to class then home to sleep, or slept then went to class, then went to work. Somewhere in there I spent time with my girlfriend, but because everything was upside-down, I never watched any TV, and I hated listening to the radio. (For two years before that, it was literally part of my job to listen to the radio and/or watch MTv and learn all the "hot" songs so we could play them for drunks in bars.)
Eventually I got a job working in the computer lab and left the kitchens, but I was still pretty insulated from society and culture. So things that were big on TV or on the radio during the mid-80's, it's entirely possible that I completely missed them. I spent about five years pretty much out of contact with the world. The 80's. Ha ha, I heard I didn't really miss much.
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I don't really have many memories about that Dokken song, since it came out roughly the same time I became a professional beer drinker, and things kinda got blurry for a while :lol
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That's crazy that we all collectively "hazed" out. :lol
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Chaka Khan - I Feel for You
Not really a song I was ever much of a fan of...except for the harmonica in it, which was played by Stevie Wonder. Oddly, I am normally not a fan of the harmonica, as I often find it too shrilly and annoying, but I love the melody it plays in this song. And I had no idea until recently that the song was written by Prince.
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I think I liked the song better than the video. :lol
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I'm pretty much convinced Prince wrote every pop hit in the mid 80s under assumed names. :lol
Never really was a fan of this song, and it certainly didn't help it that it came out around the time I had come off a prog rock binge and had gone full on metal again. Ahh, my cyclic music interests!
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Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
This song was hugely popular, but I never liked it. And I still don't. It was a fairly controversial song, too, thanks to the use of the word "faggot" three times in the second verse. The video was on a few weeks ago on Totally 80s, and I noticed that the second verse was completely omitted from it; I don't remember it being so back when it was played to death in the mid 80s.
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did someone say "80's?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQDU-2qMre0
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It never ceased to amuse me that a video that basically condemned the existence of MTV wound up winning all sorts of MTV Video Music Awards. :lol
Dire Straits is one of my favorite bands, but I never really was fond of this song. There were far better songs on the album, and the title track is a bloody masterpiece. My enduring memory of this song though, isn't the video, but comes from Live Aid. The day of Live Aid, me and my friends basically moved from one house to the other watching it, ending up at a party for the last hour or so, and from stop to stop we listened to it on the radio. Dire Straits played in the afternoon, and I recall that there were people commenting on each band as they got ready to play, and they were utterly befuddled when Sting got up on stage with Dire Straits. "I wonder why Sting is with them?" one puzzled woman asked.
"MONEY FOR NOTHING!" me and the other three in the car yelled.
"Yes, why is Sting with them?" an equally confused man wondered.
"MONEY FOR NOTHING!"
"Oh! They must be doing Money For Nothing!"
We applauded sarcastically. :rollin
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Chaka Khan - I Feel for You
Not really a song I was ever much of a fan of...except for the harmonica in it, which was played by Stevie Wonder. Oddly, I am normally not a fan of the harmonica, as I often find it too shrilly and annoying, but I love the melody it plays in this song. And I had no idea until recently that the song was written by Prince.
Whenever we order pizza, I sing this song, but replacing the words "Chaka Khan" with "Papa John's".
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Chaka Khan - I Feel for You
Not really a song I was ever much of a fan of...except for the harmonica in it, which was played by Stevie Wonder. Oddly, I am normally not a fan of the harmonica, as I often find it too shrilly and annoying, but I love the melody it plays in this song. And I had no idea until recently that the song was written by Prince.
No way. If Prince wrote it, it would've been named "I Feel 4 U".
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Chaka Khan - I Feel for You
Not really a song I was ever much of a fan of...except for the harmonica in it, which was played by Stevie Wonder. Oddly, I am normally not a fan of the harmonica, as I often find it too shrilly and annoying, but I love the melody it plays in this song. And I had no idea until recently that the song was written by Prince.
No way. If Prince wrote it, it would've been named "I Feel 4 U".
:rollin :rollin
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Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
This song was hugely popular, but I never liked it. And I still don't. It was a fairly controversial song, too, thanks to the use of the word "faggot" three times in the second verse. The video was on a few weeks ago on Totally 80s, and I noticed that the second verse was completely omitted from it; I don't remember it being so back when it was played to death in the mid 80s.
It's a good song and video, I just happen to like Sultans of Swing a whole HELL of a lot better.
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Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
This song was hugely popular, but I never liked it. And I still don't. It was a fairly controversial song, too, thanks to the use of the word "faggot" three times in the second verse. The video was on a few weeks ago on Totally 80s, and I noticed that the second verse was completely omitted from it; I don't remember it being so back when it was played to death in the mid 80s.
It's a good song and video, I just happen to like Sultans of Swing a whole HELL of a lot better.
Egggzactly! MFN is more of a pop song to me, where Sultans is some brilliant musicianship. Knopflers guitar work is incredible in Sultans.
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Oh, don't get me wrong though - MFN is good, it's just that Sultans is SO much better. Agreed about the guitar work too.
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Very true, but that tune is from 1978, so it doesn't really qualify for this thread.
Scandal - The Warrior
This is kind of a forgotten 80s song, as you never hear anyone talk about it anymore, even in conversations about 80s songs, but it was pretty popular at the time. I liked it quite a bit when it was out; it has a fun, upbeat chorus that was easy to sing along to. Listening to it now, it is still a pretty good song, even if there are tons of 80s songs that have aged better for me.
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Oh man... the first dude I ever slept with (I was way too young at 14) had a MASSIVE crush on Scandal's singer.
Okay song, okay video.
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Did you wear makeup during the sex like Patty Smyth did in the video? ;)
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Did you wear makeup during the sex like Patty Smyth did in the video? ;)
Shut up Kev :lol
Mostly because you beat me to the joke :P
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Nope. :lol
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Gotta keep this rolling!!!!
Madonna - Like a Prayer
Fantastic pop song, one of Madonna's best (the original with the mellow verses, not the remix with a dance beat over the verses), and the video was one of the most controversial of the 80s. If it came out now, it would be no big deal, but in the late 80s, the religious imagery and everything that went with it was too much for a lot of people.
Wiki article on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like_a_Prayer_(song)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftXHKfbXeBM
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I remember busting a gut laughing at when she cuts her palms and SUDDENLY, STIGMATA! happens. It was kind of an "oh come now" moment, because with all the religious imagery in the video it was so fucking OBVIOUS. I didn't think it was offensive at all, it was kind of hilarious. Though the video did cause one of the soda giants-was it Coke or Pepsi?-to yank a Madonna ad campaign with this song in it.
A quick check on Wiki says it was Pepsi, who typically for the 80s caved into a religious right boycott of their products. The 80s were a weird place.
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Eh, I'm more of a fan (if I can be called that :lol ) of her stuff before Like A Prayer.
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How the hell did you guys end up DT fans???? :lol
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Dumb luck, I guess. :lol
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How the hell did you guys end up DT fans???? :lol
Because we have open minds and recognize that good music comes in all shapes and forms. :)
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That's pretty much it, yeah.
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How the hell did you guys end up DT fans???? :lol
Me? Dancing madly backwards. :biggrin:
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How the hell did you guys end up DT fans? ??? :lol
Because we have open minds and recognize that good music comes in all shapes and forms. :)
That works too. :tup
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Billy Squier - Rock Me Tonite
Good song, but the video that absolutely buried his career. You have to see it to understand why. :lol I didn't think it was that bad at the time, but what did I know? I was 10. :lol :lol
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Oh, this video was such a misguided idea. Hard rock acts needed to stick to performance videos, not dancing around. Personally, I don't think this video ALONE killed Billy Squier's career-the rest of this album was pretty blah if memory serves-but wow, it sure does make a nice nail in the coffin. :lol
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How the hell did you guys end up DT fans???? :lol
Because we have open minds and recognize that good music comes in all shapes and forms. :)
Screw that. Open mindedness is stupid.
And that Billy Squier song is cool.
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Billy Squier - Rock Me Tonite
Good song, but the video that absolutely buried his career. You have to see it to understand why.
oh my. Can someone pass a towel, my eyes are bleeding.
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Not familiar with this video - will check out later.
Billy Squier had some rockin' songs. Saw him live around 2000, he put on a great show.
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Not familiar with this video - will check out later.
Billy Squier had some rockin' songs. Saw him live around 2000, he put on a great show.
It will forever change your perception of Billy. :lol
Good song though!
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I remember the Billy Squier video and thinking that it was horrible. It has been blamed for literally killing his career, but that's an oversimplification. I don't even remember the name of the album it's from, but it was bad, a massive disappointment after Don't Say No, and that's what killed his career. If you finally score the big album, you cannot follow it with something lame and weak. Acts that have been around for 10 years can still disappear after one bad album, and the 80's were a fickle time. Bye-bye, Billy.
Note that the same thing happened to Peter Frampton in the late 70's. Frampton Comes Alive! was huge, the best-selling live album of all time, then he followed it with this:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b9/I'm_In_You_Album.jpg/220px-I'm_In_You_Album.jpg)
His career took decades to recover, and never really fully recovered. There are rockers, and there are sexy pop stars, but one cannot be both.
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So true. Frampton's in a good place now. Saw him in the 90's and he sounded great.
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I like Fingerprints. I checked it out upon a recommendation from somewhere on DTF, I don't remember where. Other than that, I remember his cover of "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" was pretty cool, then he was gone for a while.
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Premonition (1986) got some play from the song "Lying". Tony Levin on the album and in the video and then Where All the Pieces Fit in 1989 is when I saw him. He had 2 more albums after that then in 2006 Fingerprints came out.
You jogged my memory on Fingerprints. We were on vacation and in Boston, (I'm on vacation right now) and bought it at a Newbury Comics.
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Billy Squier - Rock Me Tonite
Good song, but the video that absolutely buried his career. You have to see it to understand why. :lol I didn't think it was that bad at the time, but what did I know? I was 10. :lol :lol
Okay song.
No on the video. Just... NO. :lol
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I don't know what you guys mean when discussing the awfulness of the Billy Squier vid...
(https://gifsoup.com/imager.php?id=122067&t=o) (https://gifsoup.com/view/122067/rock-me-tonite-gay.html) GIFSoup (https://gifsoup.com/)
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:lol
Michael McDonald - Sweet Freedom
Love this song! And the video was great stuff, combining clips of Running Scared, the movie soundtrack the song was a part of, with clips of actors Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines hamming it up with McDonald. Definitely one of my favorite songs of 1986 at the time.
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Honeymoon Suite - Feel it Again
something about 80's Canadian rock bands that were truly under appreciated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQYU9xcdNtY
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??? ???
T-ski, while I appreciate your enthusiasm for the 80s, trying to take over this thread with your own picks will cause nothing but chaos, so I nicely ask that you leave the songs to me. Thanks! :)
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(https://media.screened.com/uploads/0/5962/359677-professor_chaos.jpg)
Sorry dude, didn't realize this thread was your baby.
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Michael McDonald - Sweet Freedom
Love this song! And the video was great stuff, combining clips of Running Scared, the movie soundtrack the song was a part of, with clips of actors Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines hamming it up with McDonald. Definitely one of my favorite songs of 1986 at the time.
Um... ok. :lol
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Kev I totally forgot about that song. Wow!
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I have absolutely no memory of that song, despite seeing Running Scared on HBO about ten thousand times. :lol
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Wham! - Careless Whisper
Wham! is one of the most made-fun-of 80s bands ever, and probably for good reason if you've ever seen the video for Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, but Careless Whisper is a dynamite song. The lead saxophone melody definitely gives it that 80s cheesy pop feel, but this song actually features some pretty cool acoustic guitar work. In particular, I really like the wistful feel of the outro. One of the best pop songs of 1984!
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The lead saxophone melody definitely gives it that 80s cheesy pop 70s porno feel
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Guess what?
A story!
My senior year of high school. Word began to spread around the school that the prom committee, which was made of the usual kind of upper crust snobs that perceived themselves as being better because they lived in the slightly more upscale area near the high school, had decreed that the prom theme was going to be Careless Whisper. I found this out between classes when a girl shoved a clipboard at me and announced that this was a petition to get the prom theme changed from Careless Whisper to Phil Collins' One More Night. "Do they know that Careless Whisper is about cheating on your girlfriend, not, you know, actually DANCING?" I asked the girl as I signed it.
"It doesn't appear so," she said.
This became a bit of a cause for some people in my senior class, myself among them. Finally, the prom committee said they'd have an after school meeting to discuss whether or not the song should be changed. Here's where it gets funny; rather than do this, they changed when the meeting was scheduled without telling anyone but the committee and when no one showed up, they rubber stamped the choice of Careless Whisper as the prom theme for my senior prom. I happened to know one of the members of the committee, who was in a couple of my classes, and I mentioned the stunt they had pulled. He was smiling like the cat with the canary, so I remarked "You do know that song is about infidelity, right? That the dancing in it is a metaphor?"
He looked blankly back at me and said "It is?"
I wound up missing my prom (no date, didn't feel like going stag) but I heard from the girl that started the petition that the people there insisted on Careless Whisper being played, so my class would forever be remembered as the class with the prom theme about infidelity.
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Good story, lame prom committee.
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80's pop/rock had a lot of saxophone. I miss that.
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Haha, that's a great story, but in all honesty, One More Night is a dreadful song, so even though it is about infidelity, I think Careless Whisper is still the better choice. It reminds me of how so many have used U2's One as their wedding song even though that song sends a completely different message than the fairy tale idea of two people getting married and becoming one. :lol :lol
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The lead saxophone melody definitely gives it that 80s cheesy pop 70s porno feel
:tup
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Just remembered something else about this song; it was playing on the radio the first time I kissed the girl I had my first long term sexual relationship with. In fact we were involved on and off for over 12 years.
Thanks Kev now this thread is making me feel OLD. :lol
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Yeah but the important question is: Was she hot?
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Thanks Kev now this thread is making me feel OLD. :lol
That's the idea! ;) :biggrin:
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R.E.M. - The One I Love
This is a band I have never really liked that much, and even the songs liked, I never liked a lot, including this one. Sometimes, bands just don't it for you, and R.E.M. is one of those bands for me. This song was pretty popular back in '87, though.
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I feel the same. I was a huge of Green, but never bothered getting any of their previous releases for whatever reason. When their next album came out, I had lost interest and my tastes had changed.
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Never was a fan of R.E.M.
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My favorite version of "Careless Whisper" and I really like the song so you know this is great....
https://youtu.be/GaoLU6zKaws
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anyone familiar with the "Hairless Sister" parody from the Dr. Demento Show?
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Yeah but the important question is: Was she hot?
Would you expect me to answer otherwise? :lol
As for REM; never really was a fan of the band, but I do recall hearing this song and thinking "at least I can understand the singer these days." Another thing about REM was, in their early days, a local DJ was one of their champions, and for their first local gig gave away approximately 300 tickets, or it certainly SEEMED that way based on the number of ticket give aways. She had a good natured semi feud with the DJ who followed her on the air because of her love of REM; he would always say to her "Why should I listen to REM when I can listen to the Byrds do the same thing with better songs?"
Man, you just don't get shit like that today from modern radio.
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I kinda like R.E.M.'s sound, but their lyrics often completely blow. Very repetitive.
This one goes out to the one I love
This one goes out to the one I left behind
Something else
This one goes out to the one I love
Second verse is actually the same thing over again.
Third verse is the same thing yet again.
Orange Crush, Stand, Driver 8, Fall on Me, the list goes on. Same verse - heck, mostly the same lines - over and over again.
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R.E.M. - The One I Love
This is a band I have never really liked that much, and even the songs liked, I never liked a lot, including this one. Sometimes, bands just don't it for you, and R.E.M. is one of those bands for me. This song was pretty popular back in '87, though.
Love this song. One of the 2 bands I wanted to see and never did. The other was Queen.
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Ratt - Round and Round
I didn't realize it until years later, but it is amazing how much Stephen Pearcy tried to sound like Rob Halford. The voice, the style and even the way he enunciates certain words and phrases are very Halford-esque. But anyway, Round and Round was their breakthrough hit, and one I liked. A few of their later 80s songs I was bigger on (Way Cool Jr., in particular), but there is no denying the long-lasting popularity of Round and Round.
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Milton Berle!
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Ratt - Round and Round
I didn't realize it until years later, but it is amazing how much Stephen Pearcy tried to sound like Rob Halford. The voice, the style and even the way he enunciates certain words and phrases are very Halford-esque. But anyway, Round and Round was their breakthrough hit, and one I liked. A few of their later 80s songs I was bigger on (Way Cool Jr., in particular), but there is no denying the long-lasting popularity of Round and Round.
Cool song... fun video. The album the song came off (Out of the Cellar) of is great IMO. Lots of very good songs on there.
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There were hundreds of bands that started coming out of the woodwork in the 80's, playing hard rock or metal or hair metal or whatever you want to call it, but for some reason Ratt seemed to have more than their share of catchy, likeable songs. I don't know why; I specifically remember thinking that their lyrics were pretty bad. ("What comes around, goes around. I'll tell you why." Okay, why?) But this song was catchy.
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Very cool song. A song that just screams 80's hair metal. Love it.
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There were hundreds of bands that started coming out of the woodwork in the 80's, playing hard rock or metal or hair metal or whatever you want to call it, but for some reason Ratt seemed to have more than their share of catchy, likeable songs. I don't know why; I specifically remember thinking that their lyrics were pretty bad. ("What comes around, goes around. I'll tell you why." Okay, why?) But this song was catchy.
I remember the follow up to this album by Ratt had a song called You Should Know By Now. And everyone's reaction to it was "what the fuck SHOULD we know?" :lol Lyrics weren't Ratt's strong suit.
Fun fact: the cover model for Out of the Cellar was Tawny Kitaen, who went on to marry David Coverdale and make every white blooded American male wish they were the hood of a high performance sports car.
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Ratt was one of those bands that shot out right through the gate with Round and Round but as each album came out they got worse and worse.
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Ratt - Round and Round
I didn't realize it until years later, but it is amazing how much Stephen Pearcy tried to sound like Rob Halford. The voice, the style and even the way he enunciates certain words and phrases are very Halford-esque. But anyway, Round and Round was their breakthrough hit, and one I liked. A few of their later 80s songs I was bigger on (Way Cool Jr., in particular), but there is no denying the long-lasting popularity of Round and Round.
Cool song... fun video. The album the song came off (Out of the Cellar) of is great IMO. Lots of very good songs on there.
Agreed - Ratt was my favorite of the "hair metal" bands, and I'm not afraid to admit that.
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The Beach Boys - Kokomo
I know a lot of people who absolutely hate this song, and if you are a Beach Boys fan from back in the day, I can see why, but I have enjoyed it for it being such a hokey and corny song; it's just so darn catchy! The movie it came from, Cocktail, is almost as ridiculous, but that can also be enjoyable on an almost embarrassing level. :lol
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One more comment for Round and Round - the VH1 pop-up video for this song is quite interesting. Look it up if you have time...
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The Beach Boys - Kokomo
I know a lot of people who absolutely hate this song, and if you are a Beach Boys fan from back in the day, I can see why, but I have enjoyed it for it being such a hokey and corny song; it's just so darn catchy! The movie it came from, Cocktail, is almost as ridiculous, but that can also be enjoyable on an almost embarrassing level. :lol
Gawd - if i never hear this song again i will consider my life a triumph.
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The Beach Boys - Kokomo
I know a lot of people who absolutely hate this song, and if you are a Beach Boys fan from back in the day, I can see why, but I have enjoyed it for it being such a hokey and corny song; it's just so darn catchy! The movie it came from, Cocktail, is almost as ridiculous, but that can also be enjoyable on an almost embarrassing level. :lol
Gawd - if i never hear this song again i will consider my life a triumph.
Agreed.
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The Beach Boys - Kokomo
I know a lot of people who absolutely hate this song, and if you are a Beach Boys fan from back in the day, I can see why, but I have enjoyed it for it being such a hokey and corny song; it's just so darn catchy! The movie it came from, Cocktail, is almost as ridiculous, but that can also be enjoyable on an almost embarrassing level. :lol
Gawd - if i never hear this song again i will consider my life a triumph.
Agreed.
Agreed too. Both the song and the movie can stay in the 80s. :lol
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The Beach Boys - Kokomo
I know a lot of people who absolutely hate this song, and if you are a Beach Boys fan from back in the day, I can see why, but I have enjoyed it for it being such a hokey and corny song; it's just so darn catchy! The movie it came from, Cocktail, is almost as ridiculous, but that can also be enjoyable on an almost embarrassing level. :lol
I get why people hate it, but for me it's just a fun summer song that has actually been getting a lot of play time from me recently (along with a lot of other Beach Boys work too). One of the earlier songs I can remember being played on TV and radio.
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The Beach Boys - Kokomo
I know a lot of people who absolutely hate this song, and if you are a Beach Boys fan from back in the day, I can see why, but I have enjoyed it for it being such a hokey and corny song; it's just so darn catchy! The movie it came from, Cocktail, is almost as ridiculous, but that can also be enjoyable on an almost embarrassing level. :lol
Gawd - if i never hear this song again i will consider my life a triumph.
Agreed.
Me too.
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Okay then, on to something a little less objectionable...
Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart
The song (and 90125 the album) that pissed off the prog Yes fans everywhere, but this being the first song I ever heard by Yes, I thought it was great, and I still love this song and most of the 90125 album. And the video for this tune was just dynamite; definitely one of the best of the decade. Proggers everywhere curse the day Trevor Rabin became a member of Yes, but there is no denying that the guy was a big reason Yes stayed relevant in the 80s, albeit to a very different demographic.
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Oh, this video.
The original version of the video featured the band performing the song for about a verse, before the song stops and then there's this weird segment where the band members transform into the various "animals that turn into the members of Yes in suits" that crop up in the remainder of the video. The video then has the song resume to the video that most people probably know today, with the decidedly weird story of a businessman being tortured and beaten up and all kinds of crazy shit; I'm sure it's on Youtube somewhere.
However, that version of the video didn't last long, chiefly because of several disturbing images that flashed into the hapless heroes head, suggesting unusual tortures. The worst, and the one I suspect caused the edits, showed the dude with maggots in his eyes.
You read that right.
After a while, a version of the video which removed the band performance prologue and used shots from it to replace the torture kind of scenes arrived, and became the version of the video I imagine most people recall. But I never forgot the original version because it was so fucking CREEPY.
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The longer one is very cool. The shorter one seems like it's missing a bit of exposition, but I guess if most people are fine with it, then it's fine.
I'm still a few albums away from 90125 in my Yes Discography thread, but basically Trevor Rabin became a member of Yes the day the suits told him that his new band Cinema would instead be Yes, or they wouldn't promote it. Trevor and I both wish that he'd stuck to his guns, but I don't blame him for how it went down, and I'm about as big a Yesfan and proghead as they come.
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** oops - this was for Kokomo **
Perfect song for the film. It is catchy, in a mall department store sort of way. I know my mom loved it, which says something to me. Mike and Carl's voices work great together, as always.
Hearing it now outside the context of the movie and years later... I can only imagine how cheesy sounds.
** Owner of a Lonely Heart **
Good song. Don't recall the video.
My wife used to play soccer with Alan White's daughter. It came up one day her dad was in Yes, and my wife had no idea who Yes was (naturally). I found Owner of a Lonely heart on youtube, and right away she recognized it, and said it was a good song. I bet my last dollar she wouldn't recognize any other Yes song.
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Not overly familiar with all of Yes' material. But really enjoy this song and all of 90125
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Okay then, on to something a little less objectionable...
Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart
The song (and 90125 the album) that pissed off the prog Yes fans everywhere, but this being the first song I ever heard by Yes, I thought it was great, and I still love this song and most of the 90125 album. And the video for this tune was just dynamite; definitely one of the best of the decade. Proggers everywhere curse the day Trevor Rabin became a member of Yes, but there is no denying that the guy was a big reason Yes stayed relevant in the 80s, albeit to a very different demographic.
I've always dug this song, but I've only ever seen the shorter version of the video. I think.
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Trivia: Tony Kaye played keyboards on 90125 but left the band temporarily and was replaced by Eddie Jobson for the upcoming tour. It was during this time that the video for "Owner of a Lonely Heart" was produced, so Eddie is in the video even though he didn't play on the song. Then Tony came back and Eddie left right before the tour, so Eddie Jobson is unique in that he was an official member of Yes but does not actually play on any album. He's just in the one video.
For those not up on slightly obscure prog musicians, Eddie Jobson was in U.K. with John Wetton, Alan Holdsworth and Bill Bruford, then later Terry Bozzio. He was also in Roxy Music and Jethro Tull at various times, and has worked with King Crimson, Frank Zappa, and others.
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Trivia: Tony Kaye played keyboards on 90125 but left the band temporarily and was replaced by Eddie Jobson for the upcoming tour. It was during this time that the video for "Owner of a Lonely Heart" was produced, so Eddie is in the video even though he didn't play on the song. Then Tony came back and Eddie left right before the tour, so Eddie Jobson is unique in that he was an official member of Yes but does not actually play on any album. He's just in the one video.
For those not up on slightly obscure prog musicians, Eddie Jobson was in U.K. with John Wetton, Alan Holdsworth and Bill Bruford, then later Terry Bozzio. He was also in Roxy Music and Jethro Tull at various times, and has worked with King Crimson, Frank Zappa, and others.
Hey save it for the Yes album thread! :p
I had forgotten the Eddie Jobson thing until you posted this. I remember seeing him for the first time playing in the live video for Jethro Tull's Aqualung that was recorded on the tour for A and thinking, for the first time "Wow, that's an awesome keyboard player." It would not be the last, but Jobson was the first keyboard player that guitar and drums crazy young Jaq was impressed by.
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Eddie is very cool. I don't think he gets enough credit. My first exposure to him was U.K., wherein he played keyboards and electric violin, and man, he rips on that violin! ♫♫ He's also great on keyboards. For whatever reason, he's not very well known, and hasn't done a whole lot, considering how long he's been around. But I've always liked whatever he contributes to the bands in which he's played.
And yeah, I was going to mention him in the Yes Discography thread. He's barely more than a footnote, but as he was an official member of the band, I'll have to work him in somehow. Probably just say pretty much what I said above about him.
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Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut
This was a favorite of mine back in 1982, and while it is not an 80s song I revisit a lot nowadays, I still like it. It really doesn't have that "80s sound" like so many songs from that era do, but for obvious reasons, it still has a heavy 80s association for me. In some respects, I think a song like this, one that has a bit of a storytelling dramatic feel, was a building block for me and my later enjoyment of longer songs with stories.
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Stray Cat Strut ... way too cheesy as I recall.
Owner of A Lonely Heart ... at the time I hadn't yet converted to rock music (I was still only listening to pop radio), so this was my first exposure to Yes. Liked it long time, and 90215 was my first Yes disc. While nothing like the prog masterpieces they did in the 70s, it's still a great song/album.
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Okay then, on to something a little less objectionable...
Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart
The song (and 90125 the album) that pissed off the prog Yes fans everywhere, but this being the first song I ever heard by Yes, I thought it was great, and I still love this song and most of the 90125 album. And the video for this tune was just dynamite; definitely one of the best of the decade. Proggers everywhere curse the day Trevor Rabin became a member of Yes, but there is no denying that the guy was a big reason Yes stayed relevant in the 80s, albeit to a very different demographic.
This song and album's sound was way ahead of it's time. It's pissed me off when MTV edited the original video for this song.
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A friend of mine was just telling me that he'd burned a Yes mix disc for his 10-year-old son, who likes "Owner of a Lonely Heart". I'm just wondering what else he put on that disc. "Owner" is like a gateway tune for Yes; hopefully it will lead to the stronger stuff. I could just imagine kids in the 80's liking "Owner" and 90125 and checking out Yes' back catalog at the time.
90125 and Trevor Rabin's band get a lot of shit for being very different from 70's Yes, changing the Yes sound, and all that, but they also have to be thanked for keeping the Yes name alive. Yes continued to go through more lineup changes than any band I know, and the Tales from Topographic Oceans band even regrouped for a while and put out new music, 20 years later. That likely wouldn't have happened if not for "Owner of a Lonely Heart".
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My enduring memory of the Stray Cats was my mom seeing this video and saying "these guys think they're from the 50s?" And I said, I guess so. And then she said "no drummer back then would play standing up like that, they're just making a gimmick out of the 50s."
I don't know if she was right, but that's always stuck with me. :biggrin:
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Brian Setzer is amazing. The guy has basically revitalized two music genres over his career. If you ever get the chance to see him perform, do it.
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Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut
This was a favorite of mine back in 1982, and while it is not an 80s song I revisit a lot nowadays, I still like it. It really doesn't have that "80s sound" like so many songs from that era do, but for obvious reasons, it still has a heavy 80s association for me. In some respects, I think a song like this, one that has a bit of a storytelling dramatic feel, was a building block for me and my later enjoyment of longer songs with stories.
Was never too big on Stray Cats - too cheesy for me too. Brian's solo stuff on the other hand is really good.
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I'm not getting the folks who say the Stray Cats were cheesy. As far as I can tell, they captured the style perfectly. Maybe it sounds cheesy today, but that's what that style of 50's music was like. Very expressive.
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If I want 50s cheese, I'll listen to some of Frank Zappa's twisted sense of that music. :lol
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Van Halen - Jump
Call me crazy, but I think this is one of those songs you have to be crazy not to like. It is just so catchy and fun. I am sure some hardcore VH fans were annoyed about the song being synth-driven, but so what? They still got a sweet guitar solo, and the song still sounds very much like Roth-era Van Halen, even with it being synth-driven. Good video, too. It's not always easy to make a good video where it is just the band on stage, but the on stage personalities of Van Halen totally made it work.
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I remember not liking it too much when I first heard it on the radio, but seeing the video made me realize that it's really not a bad song at all. I liked Hot For Teacher more, but it's already been discussed I believe.
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Enduring memory of this song: the mixture of delighted shock and utter horror amongst my circle of friends that OMG VAN HALEN USED SYNTHESIZERS. Half the people I knew thought it made for a nice addition to their sound, the other half was horrified by Van Halen going pop. Always thought this was a middling song at best on 1984, which had some good tracks. Hilariously enough, Eddie Van Halen placed insanely high-he might have even WON the category-for this year on Circus' year end readers poll for Best Keyboardist. Of course, not long after that Tommy Lee claimed a runner up position on the same poll as keyboardist for the piano on Home Sweet Home.
Readers polls. :lol
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Eddie Van Halen plays keyboards the same way he plays guitar. Percussive chord patterns and apreggio stuff. At first I scoffed at this album, as I'm an old-school Van Halen fan and Eddie obviously isn't a "real" keyboard player. Then I figured out that he actually plays them pretty well and keys turned out to be a nice addition to the Van Halen sound. Hey, they changed with the times. That's what bands do. I kinda like 1984 as an album, and this song's pretty cool.
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I love synths, and Jump is a great example of the dynamism and breadth they can add to a song. Loved this track in 1984, and i love it today. The synths hit you right in the gut in the beginning, and hold onto you for the ride.
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This is one of my favourite songs of all time, and really inspired me for writing music too.
One of the most iconic synth riffs of all time, with a heavy sawtooth sound that completely drives the song and makes it rock, rather than the guitars, and mixed with AVH's big-ass thumping drum sound of 1984.
I've always loved the way the modulation for the guitar solo and back really lifts the song up, and the layered keyboards of the pre-chorus. For a short pop rock song, it really manages to squeeze in a lot to define itself beyond the basics.
The music video is pretty simple, but VH's personalities always came through so strong in their videos to make them classics.
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Always enjoyed the song.
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This was the old Winnipeg Jets entrance song! Love it.
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Stryper - Free
I don't remember this being that big of a hit on the pop charts, but it was huge on MTV. I remember it being number 1 practically every day for like six weeks on Dial MTV, the show where MTV played the most requested songs of the day. And yet once it rans its course, it was gone from the network forever, forgotten about and never to be seen again. But it was huge with the MTV crowd for that six week period. And I liked it. I was a fan of all five MTV "hits" they had in the later 80s, and while this wasn't my favorite of them, it was definitely the most popular of the three rockers.
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I remember Honestly and Calling On You being played constantly, but I don't think I ever saw Free. But good song.
Regarding Jump, I didn't really care for it. It wasn't the fact that it had synths. And there were parts of the song that I actually thought were quite good. The whole solo section, and especially the transition from guitar to keyboard solo, is really cool. The verses are pretty good, too. But the chorus turned me off from the song. I didn't hate it, but just didn't care for it.
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I owned Soldiers Under Command and To Hell With The Devil, which shows how much I liked Stryper, but I have zero memory of Free at all. :lol
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I was never a fan of Stryper, so...
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I was never a fan of Stryper, so...
Me either.
Jump is/was definitely iconic. Not the best song from 1984, but definitely the most iconic. And, the end of the DLR era.
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Van Halen - Jump
Call me crazy, but I think this is one of those songs you have to be crazy not to like. It is just so catchy and fun. I am sure some hardcore VH fans were annoyed about the song being synth-driven, but so what? They still got a sweet guitar solo, and the song still sounds very much like Roth-era Van Halen, even with it being synth-driven. Good video, too. It's not always easy to make a good video where it is just the band on stage, but the on stage personalities of Van Halen totally made it work.
The first album I ever bought for myself was 1984, on cassette, pretty much based on just hearing jump on the radio (AM radio!).
As for the video, it always bugged me that they show EVH playing the guitar during the parts where the keyboards had the dominant part of the music.
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One of Strypers better songs
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General Public - Tenderness
I read recently that this song was supposedly the most played of the 80s, but that can't be right. I don't remember it being that played or popular. Aside from the video, where the two guys in the band are bouncy as hell the whole thing :lol, my biggest memory of this song is it being played near the end of Weird Science. Hehe. :D
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Alrightythen. :lol
Billy Idol - Dancing with Myself
I loved this song and video a lot back in 1982, and I had no idea until literally decades later what the song was about. :lol But it was a good rocking song with a nice driving beat and enough catchiness to be liked by a 9-year old such as myself. :biggrin:
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General Public - Tenderness
I read recently that this song was supposedly the most played of the 80s, but that can't be right. I don't remember it being that played or popular. Aside from the video, where the two guys in the band are bouncy as hell the whole thing :lol, my biggest memory of this song is it being played near the end of Weird Science. Hehe. :D
Judging by the response in this thread, apparently it wasn't that played or popular :lol
My memory of Dancing With Yourself: my mom asking me and my sister "Is this song about what I think it's about?" and neither of us being able to properly answer.
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??? It's not about dancing? :| Oh... :eek Oh, my...
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Alrightythen. :lol
Billy Idol - Dancing with Myself
I loved this song and video a lot back in 1982, and I had no idea until literally decades later what the song was about. :lol But it was a good rocking song with a nice driving beat and enough catchiness to be liked by a 9-year old such as myself. :biggrin:
That's equivalent to the meaning behind Turning Japanese. :lol
Anyhoo, decent song. Never really saw the video much though.
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Well that one song truly struck out. Neither than band name or song name sounded familiar.
When I used to go to a club here that played 80s music 'Dancing with Myself' was always one of my favorites. Great energy and beat. Always got the crowd going.
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Don't Come Around Here No More
This song wasn't really on my radar when it first came out, and I didn't really remember seeing the video that much, but years later, when I got into him a little bit after borrowing his greatest hits from a friend, this song was an immediate favorite. In retrospect, the video was pretty neat! I have never been more than a moderate Petty fan at best, but this is one of a handful of songs of his I would call great.
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Great video, always would catch it when it was on. Not sure if I ever heard the song outside the context of the video, as I was never much of a Petty fan.
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This video was all over MTV when i was a pre-teen. It was kind of spooky to me.
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General Public - Tenderness
I read recently that this song was supposedly the most played of the 80s, but that can't be right. I don't remember it being that played or popular. Aside from the video, where the two guys in the band are bouncy as hell the whole thing :lol, my biggest memory of this song is it being played near the end of Weird Science. Hehe. :D
Judging by the response in this thread, apparently it wasn't that played or popular :lol
My memory of Dancing With Yourself: my mom asking me and my sister "Is this song about what I think it's about?" and neither of us being able to properly answer.
Yeah, i remember when i realized that almost every song with "Dance" or "Dancing" was basically an innuendo.
A few:
I Want to Dance with Somebody (Whitney)
Safety Dance (Men Without Hats)
Let's Dance (Bowie)
Dance the Night Away (VH)
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Don't Come Around Here No More
This song wasn't really on my radar when it first came out, and I didn't really remember seeing the video that much, but years later, when I got into him a little bit after borrowing his greatest hits from a friend, this song was an immediate favorite. In retrospect, the video was pretty neat! I have never been more than a moderate Petty fan at best, but this is one of a handful of songs of his I would call great.
Love the video so much that I put it in my top 10 80's videos for that thread bosk made a while back. SUCH cool imagery, and nice cameo by Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) as The Catepillar :lol
It's not my favorite Tom Petty song, but it's up there.
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Don't Come Around Here No More
This song wasn't really on my radar when it first came out, and I didn't really remember seeing the video that much, but years later, when I got into him a little bit after borrowing his greatest hits from a friend, this song was an immediate favorite. In retrospect, the video was pretty neat! I have never been more than a moderate Petty fan at best, but this is one of a handful of songs of his I would call great.
Never really was a fan of the song, but man, I loved the video. Yeah, it was just an Alice in Wonderland riff, but it was masterfully done. Great video.
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Don't Come Around Here No More
This song wasn't really on my radar when it first came out, and I didn't really remember seeing the video that much, but years later, when I got into him a little bit after borrowing his greatest hits from a friend, this song was an immediate favorite. In retrospect, the video was pretty neat! I have never been more than a moderate Petty fan at best, but this is one of a handful of songs of his I would call great.
I'm a firm believer that the video made this song a hit, rather than the music. Another MTV success story.
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Michael Jackson - Beat It
Like Billie Jean, this song was impossible to avoid if you watched MTV at all back in '82/'83, and that was not a bad thing, as this song and video are both fantastic. I remember it was always exciting every time the opening shot of this video came on screen. And as corny as it might look to some now, especially those who have never seen it before, the dance sequence at the end was positively awesome back then; a great way to end a classic song and video!
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Good song. Good video. Been debating whether or not to try to include this in our band's set.
Regarding Tom Petty, which was the song with the basically Mad Max video? Can't remember it for the life of me, other than the synth intro and the melancholy whammy bar guitar "solo." Or maybe you're planning to throw that one out there soon...
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Regarding Tom Petty, which was the song with the basically Mad Max video? Can't remember it for the life of me, other than the synth intro and the melancholy whammy bar guitar "solo." Or maybe you're planning to throw that one out there soon...
You Got Lucky. That's still on the long list. :D
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Ah, yes. That's the one.
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Was just listening to this album yesterday. I love Beat It, probably partially thanks to Back to the Future II :blob:.
MJ blended the rock influence into his style really well here, and his voice really suited it. A lot of his songs are built on a strong bass riff anyway, so it was a pretty natural progression.
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Michael Jackson - Beat It
Like Billie Jean, this song was impossible to avoid if you watched MTV at all back in '82/'83, and that was not a bad thing, as this song and video are both fantastic. I remember it was always exciting every time the opening shot of this video came on screen. And as corny as it might look to some now, especially those who have never seen it before, the dance sequence at the end was positively awesome back then; a great way to end a classic song and video!
Like bosk said - great song, great video. Thriller was SO huge back in that time frame, and the majority of the songs have really held up over the years.
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Check out Yngwie Malmesteen's version of Beat it. Ripper kills on it!
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YNGWIE did a version of Beat It?! Wow... crazy.
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He did. It's on a compilation of largely instrumentals called High Impact. It's equal parts awesome and hilarious. :lol
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Damn you all for stinking up this thread with talk of Yngwie. *vomits* :facepalm:
Quiet Riot - Cum On Feel the Noize
A wildly popular song and video, it was never one I called a favorite. I liked it, but that was probably because it was played every hour on MTV for what seemed like forever. :lol IIRC, MTV never edited the spelling of the first word of the title, but I could be misremembering. Anyone remember for sure?
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Near as I remember, they never changed it. Hell, in the earliest days of MTV they played a Rod Stewart video with the lyric "why the fuck is she ignoring me?" left intact. :lol
I saw Quiet Riot open for Iron Maiden around the time this song broke big, they were an awesome live band at the time. They damn near blew MAIDEN off the stage, which is no mean feat. This is one of my favorite songs of the 80s off a very good commercial metal album.
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First metal album to go to number 1!
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Quiet Riot - Cum On Feel the Noize
A wildly popular song and video, it was never one I called a favorite. I liked it, but that was probably because it was played every hour on MTV for what seemed like forever. :lol IIRC, MTV never edited the spelling of the first word of the title, but I could be misremembering. Anyone remember for sure?
I liked Bang Your Head and Slick Black Cadillac better, but you can't deny the impact this song/video had back in the day.
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A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran
Another 80s classic, this is one of those videos that was a staple of MTV's earliest days. I always thought the constant spinning in the video every time it showed a band member playing, while the screen stood still for everything else, was a cool effect.
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all of the Flock of Seagulls hits were very good songs. If you've ever heard any of their other stuff you'd cringe.
Little known fact, FOS won a Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental in 1983 for this song...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF2lX0ZrccQ
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The hair
The way he plays his one note on the synth with such authority
The demented look in his eyes
The hair
The guitar solo at the end of the song
The way it ends on that weird, unresolved chord
The hair!
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The hair
The way he plays his one note on the synth with such authority
The demented look in his eyes
The hair
The guitar solo at the end of the song
The way it ends on that weird, unresolved chord
The hair!
This post says it all. :biggrin: I always loved the way the singer played that one note as if having to hold on to the keyboard for his life.
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The hair
The way he plays his one note on the synth with such authority
The demented look in his eyes
The hair
The guitar solo at the end of the song
The way it ends on that weird, unresolved chord
The hair!
Post of the year. :lol
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The hair
The way he plays his one note on the synth with such authority
The demented look in his eyes
The hair
The guitar solo at the end of the song
The way it ends on that weird, unresolved chord
The hair!
Spot on, dude. :lol :clap:
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Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
This is one of those songs I should have liked a lot at the time back then, but never really did; it just never did anything for me. In fact, the best thing about this song is the "Frankie Says Relax" shirt that Ross had on Friends. :lol :lol :lol
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There were a few girls in my H.S. that had that shirt, too. Not sure whether they understood it...
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Great song then, and still holds up well for me know. Featured song on the 80s section of my dance music compilation. And I remember that shirt on Friends too.
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Blech. (https://www.progarchives.com/forum/uploads/28482/vomit.gif)
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There were a few girls in my H.S. that had that shirt, too. Not sure whether they understood it...
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Thought the same thing too!
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One of the things that, in hindsight given several members of the band's now known sexual preferences (was it known then? I have no idea), is now kind of funny is the SECOND version of the video for Relax, which was a live version of the song with the band being mobbed by girls, Beatlemania style. :lol I actually didn't mind Frankie Goes To Hollywood's other single, Two Tribes, but I didn't have much time for Relax.
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Pleasure Dome was always my fav. Like this song plenty.
Flock of Seagulls... best thing about that (hair) was Jules' line in Pulp Fiction. The song ... meh.
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Hall & Oates - Out of Touch
One of their best 80s hits, IMO, and much better with the Dance On Your Knees intro (which is in the video, albeit a bit abbreviated). Fun little video, too. Maybe it's the mustache, but it always seemed like John Oates was the heart and soul of their videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIQ1TLvQViY&feature=fvwrel
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Cool enough song, cool video. Nothing spectacular or anything. :)
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Never liked H&O, even when pop was my preferred genre.
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Hall & Oates - Out of Touch
One of their best 80s hits, IMO, and much better with the Dance On Your Knees intro (which is in the video, albeit a bit abbreviated). Fun little video, too. Maybe it's the mustache, but it always seemed like John Oates was the heart and soul of their videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIQ1TLvQViY&feature=fvwrel
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Hall and Oates are a top 5 80's act IMO. Don't think I've ever heard a bad song by them.
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I meant to start this the other day, but I'll start it today...time for 80s tunes that were featured in 80s movies. This can apply to songs that were written for the movie and/or soundtrack or merely songs that were prominently featured in the movies.
Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone
From Top Gun, this song was heavily featured in the movie, and how fitting that it was by Kenny Loggins, who was like the king of the 80s soundtrack hits! As for the song, it doesn't do a lot for me, but always seem to fit well in the movie.
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Great song for the movie, which as you said, no one did better than Kenny Loggins.
Was thinking about this soundtrack album the other day. I remember my parents had the record, and I used to listen to it all the time. Every song was great, and the guitar in the last song (the instrumental) could have been the first real shreddy solo I ever heard. At least it was shreddy for me at the time, and I remember it to this day as being cool for a pre-pubescent Cool Chris.
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Typical 80s song, nothing special - more of a fan of "I'm Alright" from Caddyshack to be honest.
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Ahh, Kenny Loggins, forever to be known as the Soundtrack Guy. :lol
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The Go-Go's - We Got the Beat
Featured during the opening sequence of Fast Times of Ridgemont High, this song reeks of the 80s, but never did a lot for me.
On a sidenote, it always bothers me that their band name has that apostrophe in it. :lol :lol
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Our Lips Are Sealed > We Got The Beat
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The Go-Go's - We Got the Beat
Featured during the opening sequence of Fast Times of Ridgemont High, this song reeks of the 80s, but never did a lot for me.
On a sidenote, it always bothers me that their band name has that apostrophe in it. :lol :lol
We used to play this song in High School Pep Band. That bass line made for a pretty cool tuba part.
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I'll always associate this song with Fast Times.
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Our Lips Are Sealed > We Got The Beat
Agreed, but we did already cover Our Lips Are Sealed in this thread. ;)
We used to play this song in High School Pep Band. That bass line made for a pretty cool tuba part.
Hmmm, I could see that.
I'll always associate this song with Fast Times.
As will I.
"Mister, if you don't shut up, I'm gonna kick 100 percent of your ass!"
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I'll always associate this song 'Moving in Stereo' with Fast Times Phoebe Cates.
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I associate it more with MTV than the movie, probably because it was on MTV and the radio pretty regularly, but I don't think I actually saw FTARH until much, much later (and it didn't make much of an impression on me, honestly).
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I'll always associate this song 'Moving in Stereo' with Fast Times Phoebe Cates.
Hehe, that, too! :corn
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Learn it. Know it. Live it.
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Our Lips Are Sealed > We Got The Beat
Agreed, but we did already cover Our Lips Are Sealed in this thread. ;)
I know. ;)
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Huey Lewis & the News - The Power of Love
It is impossible for me to hear or even talk about this song without thinking of the awesomeness that is the entire Back to the Future trilogy. I remember seeing the first one at the theater back in 1985 and thinking it was the greatest movie ever. And already being very familiar with Huey Lewis and the News, thanks to the tons of hits from his 1983 album Sports, I thought it was cool that they had done the main song for the movie. The song itself is pretty good, not one of Huey's better hits, but it so tied to this movie that I can't help but enjoy it every time I hear it thanks to the movie association.
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I think I'd have to agree with you, Kev - decent enough song on its own, but it's SO synonymous with the first BTTF movie that when you watch, you can't help but get into it.
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*breathes a happy sigh and reminisces*
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"Wait a minute Doc, are you telling me that it's 8:25? Damn! I'm late for school!" (cue Power of Love)
I also like the version that Marty's band the Pinheads launch in to during the school dance audition. Marty was shredding some sweet licks before Huey himself shut them down for being "too darn loud." What a dick.
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^ That scene is still awesome. :lol
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I also like the version that Marty's band the Pinheads launch in to during the school dance audition. Marty was shredding some sweet licks before Huey himself shut them down for being "too darn loud." What a dick.
I love that part. Far from the best Huey Lewis song, but memorable as hell from how it was used in the movie.
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Great chorus in that song.
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Great chorus in that song.
Yes. They always had a knack for catchy choruses.
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I love BTTF, and I love that song. Coincidence? Probably not. :lol A well written pop rock song though.
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Huey Lewis has some great music for iconic moments in movies.
Power of Love- BTTF
Hip To Be Square- American Psycho
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Phil Collins - Against All Odds
Oddly, I like this song more now than I did back then. I wouldn't call it an 80s favorite by any means, but it is a very nice ballad. It sure beats the hell out of all of that crap he released from No Jacket Required. I have never seen the movie this song was written for.
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:whatisthisidonteven:
Couldn't stand the song then, still can't stand it.
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Patrick Swayze - She's Like the Wind
A surprisingly good song, considering the singer, and another one that is impossible to not think of the movie it came from whenever you hear it.
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Hip To Be Square- American Psycho The High-Fivin’ White Guys
Against All Odds sure didn’t last long :lol
I actually remember liking that song when it came out. I knew it was basically a love song/ballad, but to my kid ears it sounded different than so many other long songs. So it got bonus points for being different. I guess. I never liked Phil Collins music either, so this was that one song of his I liked.
At the time all my female friends thought She’s Like the Wind was the greatest thing ever (or at least for that week) and forced me to listen to the whole thing. I thought I would hate it, but for what it was it was alright.
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My best friend, when he was in high school, was a member of the school chorus, which meant he could sing fairly well-not a world beater, but good enough for government work. He provided me my lasting memory of She's Like The Wind by remarking when we first saw the video that "it sounds like someone scared they wouldn't make it trying out for the school chorus." :lol
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ITT, decent songs from excellent movies. Raquel Welch :drool:
Swayze's vocal performance is surprisingly good.
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ITT, decent songs from excellent movies. Raquel Welch :drool:
Swayze's vocal performance is surprisingly good.
You mean Rachel Ward?
Against All Odds - song was WAY better than the movie.
Power of Love - what bosk said: "*breathes a happy sigh and reminisces*"
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Patrick Swayze - She's Like the Wind
A surprisingly good song, considering the singer, and another one that is impossible to not think of the movie it came from whenever you hear it.
Meh - okay song for Patrick singing it, but...
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Kenny Loggins - Footloose
I was never much of a fan of this song or the movie. I did rock out to this song once when a bunch of us were at a club on NYE, I was hammered, and a girlfriend and I danced like crazy to it (she was a fan), but that's about it. :lol
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Kenny Loggins - Footloose
I was never much of a fan of this song or the movie. I did rock out to this song once when a bunch of us were at a club on NYE, I was hammered, and a girlfriend and I danced like crazy to it (she was a fan), but that's about it. :lol
maybe we could have a thread dedicated to Kenny Loggins' soundtrack songs. He was the man!
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this song kind of sucks.
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Danger Zone > Footloose
But really....
I'm Alright > Danger Zone > Footloose
And, like Kev, never was a fan of the movie either.
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Sammy Hagar - Winner Takes It All
A Sylvester Stallone movie about arm wrestling. Need I say more? :P But this song is damn good, and it's always been one of my favorites from Hagar's solo career. Not surprisingly, the main song from Over the Top soundtrack was by Kenny Loggins :lol, but this was by far the better song.
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Big fan of Stallone, love Over the Top. Song, meh.
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The only Sammy Hagar soundtrack song worth mentioning is Heavy Metal. :metal
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Don't forget "The Girl Gets Around" from Footloose. KILLER Hagar soundtrack song.
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The only Sammy Hagar soundtrack song worth mentioning is Heavy Metal. :metal
Indeed.
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James Brown - Living in America
It is literally impossible for me to hear this song without the image of a dancing Apollo Creed appearing in my head. :rollin :rollin
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:lol Total cornball, but that does not necessarily make it bad.
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James Brown - Living in America
It is literally impossible for me to hear this song without the image of a dancing Apollo Creed appearing in my head. :rollin :rollin
I don't need to say anything else, since this hits it dead on. :lol
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James Brown had better songs, obviously, but LIA was tolerable enough.
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James Brown had better songs
Indeed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7T3-uXmTeI
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Oh yeah. :metal
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I feel good!
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Rocky IV, my favorite of the series. "I must break you"! I obviously don't care much for the song itself, but it does actually fit the scene of Creed-Drago well.
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Irene Cara - Flashdance... What a Feeling
Again, never seen the movie Flashdance, but I liked this song a lot when it was out. I remember hearing it and not thinking a lot about it, and then I hear it again a few days later and was like, "Damn, that is an insanely catchy song!" Back then, I used to do my own version of America's Top 40 every week (although I did just top 20) and I liked this song so much that it debuted on my countdown at number 3. :lol And was then number 1 for a few weeks, IIRC. I think me doing that at such a young age is what made me the type of person who enjoys making music lists. :biggrin:
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This song is, naturally, overshadowed as far as Flashdance is concerned by Maniac, the music video where it is totally, utterly impossible to realize that Jennifer Beals used a body double for the dance scenes.
Provided you close your eyes. :lol
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Liked that one better than Maniac, but that's not really saying much. :lol
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Vangelis - Chariots of Fire
A very nice instrumental, but having never seen the movie it was written for, whenever I hear this song, two other 80s movies come to mind: Vacation and Mr. Mom. :biggrin:
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Never saw the movie either. Song is okay, I guess - there's definitely been worse ones, and in this thread too. :lol
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Rowan Atkinson had a wicked synth solo in that tune.
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Glenn Frey - The Heat Is On
Okay song, but not one I ever liked that much. And here is where I have to admit something that, for someone who group in the 80s, might be a bit shocking:
I've never seen Beverly Hills Cop.
:eek :eek :eek :eek
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Glenn Frey - The Heat Is On
Okay song, but not one I ever liked that much. And here is where I have to admit something that, for someone who group in the 80s, might be a bit shocking:
I've never seen Beverly Hills Cop.
:eek :eek :eek :eek
All I can say is :eek :eek :eek :eek
And I will add that Glenn Frey sounds so suspiciously similar to Kenny Loggins on this tune that I think it actually is Kenny Loggins using a fake name. I defy you to try to persuade me otherwise.
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Ha, I always thought it was Kenny Loggins, too! :lol
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You're saying it's NOT Loggins?
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Rowan Atkinson had a wicked synth solo in that tune.
:rollin
I am actually shocked that Kenny Loggins didn't do a song for either Beverly Hills Cop movie. I like to imagine that they went to him and he turned them down for some reason, so Glenn Frey and Bob Seger were second choices. :lol
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Glenn Frey - The Heat Is On
Okay song, but not one I ever liked that much. And here is where I have to admit something that, for someone who group in the 80s, might be a bit shocking:
I've never seen Beverly Hills Cop.
:eek :eek :eek :eek
Eh, so you haven't seen it - big dealio.
I liked the song he did for Miami Vice (Smuggler's Blues) better than this one.
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Eh, so you haven't seen it - big dealio.
I liked the song he did for Miami Vice (Smuggler's Blues) better than this one.
He also guest starred in the same episode that it was used in. I also liked his song You Belong To The City that was also used in a Miami Vice episode, the one where they go to New York.
(Wow I was just able to make two Miami Vice related posts in two days! :rollin)
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Nice! :tup
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Okay, back to regular 80s tunes...
The Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now
This was a favorite of mine back in 1984; I liked the contrast of the male and female vocals, and at the age of 10, I was easily entertained by the sliding frames in the video. ;) Still a fun song, but not really an 80s favorite of mine anymore.
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I didn't like Hold Me Now when it first came out, but it's not the worst song that was done in that time period.
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Despite hanging out with a crew whose tastes in music ran from new wave to my love of metal and prog rock, whenever we were out partying, if this song came on, we invariably sang along with the chorus, very badly. I had the part of the ad libs over the last choruses, and let me tell you, I KILLED them. In the sense that my performance was dead on arrival.
If it helps, we usually were terribly drunk when this happened. :rollin
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Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'N' Roll
This is one of those songs that seemingly everybody loves - put it on at a club or a bar and everyone will sing along and/or dance to it - but it was always kind of ho-hum for me.
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Same here. Yet another "rock anthem" with the added bonus of being sung by a girl who some people thought was hot.
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This is one of those songs that seemingly everybody loves - put it on at a club or a bar and everyone all the girls will sing along and/or dance to it - but it was always kind of ho-hum for me.
Also one of the top 'go to' songs girls seem to love for karaoke.
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While I agree that it's a classic rock anthem, what killed it for me was how weak sister the drums sounded. This is a song that needed the snare going WHAP, not sounding like the drummer was playing with uncooked spaghetti. :lol
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Yeah, the guitars sound fine, and her voice has some gravel to it, but the song just doesn't smack you in the face the way it should. I've never really considered why before, but it's probably the weak drum sound.
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Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'N' Roll
This is one of those songs that seemingly everybody loves - put it on at a club or a bar and everyone will sing along and/or dance to it - but it was always kind of ho-hum for me.
Not bad, but there's better stuff of hers out there.
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Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
I've never been a fan of this song, and the gushing it got from everyone back when it was out completely baffled me. I mean, to me, it was a boring ass song that featured an acoustic guitar lead that was a slight tweaking of the guitar from Jack and Diane. My opinion hasn't changed much over the years.
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I agree with you 100%. I when to a radio station show here in Boston and she was blah live. Not my cup of tea at at.
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I'll pile on. Not only unimpressive musically, but depressive as well. This song makes me feel blah. I've always gone out of my way to avoid it.
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Every few years the recording industry finds and touts an artist with an acoustic guitar and hypes them as being a life changing, important, meaningful Artist with a capital A. And every time I find them to be as boring as watching the grass grow.
Tracy Chapman is the poster girl for these artists.
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This song must have sucked hard if Jaq doesn't have a story to go along with it.
Next, please!
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This song must have sucked hard if Jaq doesn't have a story to go along with it.
Next, please!
:rollin
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:lol
I do like someone else in her style of music. Michael Penn.
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Okay, on to something good, then...
INXS - Devil Inside
Despite being pretty bananas over the Kick album at the time, this was a song I liked, but wasn't crazy about it back then. I liked it, but I like all of their other songs and most of the non-hits on the album way more than it. Years later, I like it quite a bit more, but I still prefer the bulk of the Kick album to it. The video was always kind of a blur to me, so maybe that didn't help its cause back in '87 and '88.
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My memories of the video are pretty vague-there was a girl riding a motorcycle or something, and wandering through clubs? And someone wearing a red mask of some kind. As for the actual song, other than a fairly nifty riff, I didn't much like it.
And....THERE IS A STORY!
My best friend wound up with two tickets for a local INXS concert on this tour, and, in theory, I was supposed to get the other one. But the night of the show, he doublecrossed me and gave the other ticket to a girl he worked with that he was trying to score with! The bastard!
I showed him about a month later when, after a party she took me home with her instead of him. If only she hadn't moved away two weeks later... :lol
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Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
I've never been a fan of this song, and the gushing it got from everyone back when it was out completely baffled me. I mean, to me, it was a boring ass song that featured an acoustic guitar lead that was a slight tweaking of the guitar from Jack and Diane. My opinion hasn't changed much over the years.
I agree. (https://www.progarchives.com/forum/uploads/28482/vomit.gif)
Okay, on to something good, then...
INXS - Devil Inside
Despite being pretty bananas over the Kick album at the time, this was a song I liked, but wasn't crazy about it back then. I liked it, but I like all of their other songs and most of the non-hits on the album way more than it. Years later, I like it quite a bit more, but I still prefer the bulk of the Kick album to it. The video was always kind of a blur to me, so maybe that didn't help its cause back in '87 and '88.
While I like some of their songs better than this one, this was a LOT better then some of the poppier stuff coming out at that time IMO.
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Today's 80s Song of the Day is per request by bosk1!
Expose - Seasons Change
This wasn't even on my radar, but bosk1 is right: this is classic 80s. I was never a fan of it, but it was pretty popular, IIRC.
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:tup Honestly, I completely forgot this song existed until, for some reason, my memory was randomly jogged by an A Change Of Seasons thread, and visions of that bright yellow and hot pink cassette cover art came flooding back into my head. :lol Interestingly, I don't really remember the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcWfpPgeAP4). Not sure if I even saw it. But it was a really catchy song, and a friend of mine liked them, so I ended up buying the album and reallly liking it.
EDIT: Whoa. Um...don't try doing a google image search for the album cover art if you are at work. :lol
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I'll pile on again: This is a great song! :tup Liked it then, classic 80s now.
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Time has not been kind to this song. Every sound in it screams YOU ARE IN THE EIGHTIES and not in the way where a song manages to capture the decade for the better. To be fair, back in the 80s I was a sucker for a lot of the production values of the time, but these days I run for the hills when something this, I dunno, plastic comes on. :lol
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What's wrong with plastic?
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Plastic worked for Pamela Anderson. I DON'T HEAR YOU COMPLAINING ABOUT THE 80'S NOW!!
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YES, BUT--!...well, okay, yeah. :D
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Barely can recall this song, never liked it when it came out.
What am I missing about the cover art? Or does something completely random and unrelated (and inappropriate) come up on a google search?
Also, was a big fan of Devil Inside and the video. It was fun with being too… ‘poppy.’ I remember the video being really dark too, unlike lots of other songs/videos I liked at the time, which was cool. Kick was such a great album. Damn, just looked at their wiki page… they had a lot of albums. I couldn’t have named any of them aside from Kick and X.
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Was never a fan of Expose, or the song in question.
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Okay, this selection was also by request, courtesy of dbrooks22.
*awaits the flurry of fellow 80s fans jamming my Inbox with PMs with requests on which song to feature next*
:P
T'Pau - Heart and Soul
Another song I kind of forgot about and wasn't on my radar at all, but a good pick for this thread. Not a bad song at all, even if I am not really a fan. It's pretty damn catchy, though.
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I remember the one girl was kinda cute, and the band was named for a character from Star Trek, so that's either kinda cool or kinda cheesy. The song was catchy.
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This is one of my 80s favorites. :hefdaddy
The chorus is just OK, but the verses are something special - dynamic and powerful. The way they layer both vocal tracks on top of each other - it works perfectly. And the layered synths also really tug at you. Everything comes together beautifully.
I really love this track.
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"This chick's name is..... T'Pau"
Link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2ZdbxUUTak#t=2m05s)
That said, I agree, cool song, definitely catchy.
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Thanks to that episode of Beavis and Butthead, I'll always associate that video with "$1.95 a minute. operators are standing by." :lol
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"This chick's name is..... T'Pau"
Link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2ZdbxUUTak#t=2m05s)
yep, first thing that came to my mind as well.
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Somehow, I never saw that episode.
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"This chick's name is..... T'Pau"
Link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2ZdbxUUTak#t=2m05s)
Good call, dude. :lol :metal
That said - never liked the song.
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Mr. Mister - Broken Wings
A very cool 80s tune. Love the bass riff, and the cool things going on with the keys throughout the song are pretty neat. And the vocal hook is as catchy as all get-out. Easily one of the best pop songs of 1985. :tup :tup
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I should have delved more into Mr. Mister - saw them live in Houston and they were really good.
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I just considered them another 80's pop act. Sure, they had some good songs, but so did a lot of bands; I didn't think they were anything special.
When Pat Mastelotto joined King Crimson, I saw that he was the drummer for Mr. Mister. I have the utmost faith in Robert Fripp's judge of both character and musicianship, so his appointment of Pat Mastelotto to the court indicated to me that I should probably check out more Mr. Mister.
But I never did. :(
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Mr. Mister - Broken Wings
A very cool 80s tune. Love the bass riff, and the cool things going on with the keys throughout the song are pretty neat. And the vocal hook is as catchy as all get-out. Easily one of the best pop songs of 1985. :tup :tup
Huge fanboy of Mr. Mister. Welcome To The Real world is a killer album and the album tracks are better than the 3 huge hits.
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Quality band. That's what happens when you take accomplished studio musicians and let them loose on their own stuff. These guys were great, and this track is awesome.
For the Rush fanboys in here, wondering if you ever noticed how similar the guitar work is to parts of Mystic Rhythms?
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Mr. Mister - Broken Wings
A very cool 80s tune. Love the bass riff, and the cool things going on with the keys throughout the song are pretty neat. And the vocal hook is as catchy as all get-out. Easily one of the best pop songs of 1985. :tup :tup
Cool song and band as well.
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Billy Joel - The Longest Time
Not a favorite of his, but I still like the song, and the video looked like they probably had some fun making it.
And to go off on a slight tangent here, Joel is probably the 70s star who made the most out of MTV in the 80s while not changing his style or sound much at all. He always made fun, enjoyable videos once MTV became the big thing. Many 70s stars either struggled or had to change their sound or style (see: Genesis, Yes, etc.) to remain relevant in the 80s, but Joel kept writing his usual good songs and added really cool videos to the mix. :tup :tup
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Yeah, all of that is pretty spot on, actually.
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One of the better 80s Billy Joel tunes, but by no means my favorite of his.
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Mr. Mister-a long time ago around here, I made a post that said that their debut album wasn't quite the best 80s pop-rock album, but it was pretty close. The non-single tracks were fantastic here.
Billy Joel-more than once, me and my friends, most of them being in chorus, while I could carry a tune, sang The Longest Time when it came on the radio. We all settled into our parts almost naturally. Great song, always loved that Billy sang all the parts by himself. All fourteen of them :lol
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Billy Joel-more than once, me and my friends, most of them being in chorus, while I could carry a tune, sang The Longest Time when it came on the radio. We all settled into our parts almost naturally.
Ditto
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Billy Joel-more than once, me and my friends, most of them being in chorus, while I could carry a tune, sang The Longest Time when it came on the radio. We all settled into our parts almost naturally. Great song, always loved that Billy sang all the parts by himself. All fourteen of them :lol
Nice - that's a great song, too.
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The Cars - You Might Think
I absolutely loved this song back in 1984, and the video was super cool, too, but now I merely like it. Back then, it was easily my favorite Cars song from the great Heartbeat City album, but now it is probably middle of the pack. But, getting back to the video, I believe it was the first video to win the MTV Music Video of the Year award, and was definitely a deserving winner. Like Billy Joel, The Cars came out of the 70s and managed to not compromised their sound or style in the 80s while still making great videos to expand their audience.
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Even though You Might Think was EVERYWHERE when it was a single, I still like it.
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I really liked this song then, and I still like it now. I have actually been on a bit of a Cars kick, and hating the fact that I don't still have any of their CDs. I sold a lot of my lesser listened to stuff a while back for some quick cash. Their debut CD is a masterpiece.
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You Might Think is a great song, but I would probably put it in the middle or bottom half of the Heartbeat City album myself. There are so many great songs on that album. I just recently found Heartbeat City in vinyl and wow did I enjoy listening to it.
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Despite being a monster prog/metal head, one of my favorite bands ever, period, was the Cars. Just an amazing run of albums, and every one of them tended to be loaded. You Might Think is an awesome single, totally catchy and memorable, and it's in the lower half of songs on Heartbreak City. And yes, it did win the first VMA for video of the year. Haven't seen the video in ages, so I'm sure it looks pretty cheesy by modern standards. A lot of the more visually impressive videos of the 80s were using (or inventing) things that are pretty par for the course for today.
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Tina Turner - What's Love Got to Do with It
One of the better laid back pop hits of the 80s. The music throughout this song, while often understated and in the background, is very beautiful, and Turner's gritty voice provides a nice counterpoint, while not overdoing it. I never thought the video was anything special, but it's not bad or anything; it works well for the song.
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I've always liked that one.
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The Cars - You Might Think
Great song. Great album. Great video. I got the album kinda by mistake (didn't send in the "no" card to Columbia House in time), but played it nonstop afterward. I pretty much forgot about these guys for years until recently when the band wanted to add "Just What I Needed" to the set. I think I'm going to have to go out and pick up a "great hits" or something.
Tina Turner - What's Love Got to Do with It
I hate to be a hater, but I've never liked anything Tina Turner did. This song is no exception.
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Survivor - I Can't Hold Back
Kind of a stereotypical 80s monster ballad, before 80s monster ballads became a stereotype. :lol But I like this song. In fact, it is probably the one Survivor song I go back to fairly often when going through my 80s stuff.
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Great tune, like you said, a standard, and shining example of an 80's AOR rock tune. I personally would shy away from using the word ballad, only because I (whether right or wrong) too closely associate the term with slower, more emotional offerings like Every Rose, Don't Know What You Got, Heaven, etc.
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That's probably true. It is more of a laid back tune alongs the lines of Night Ranger's Goodbye. Not a rocker, but not a true monster ballad per se.
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Erm... next... :lol
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Survivor - I Can't Hold Back
Kind of a stereotypical 80s monster ballad, before 80s monster ballads became a stereotype. :lol But I like this song. In fact, it is probably the one Survivor song I go back to fairly often when going through my 80s stuff.
I've read this post like 50 times now, and I still don't understand what it is trying to say. My eyes read the word "Survivor," but then when the next words are not "Eye of the Tiger," my brain just shuts down and will not let me proceed any farther.
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Coem on now, Eye of the Tiger wasn't even one of Survivor's better songs.
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You're kidding about this whole thing about them having "other songs," right? RIGHT?
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Great song. Great album. Great video. I got the album kinda by mistake (didn't send in the "no" card to Columbia House in time), but played it nonstop afterward. I pretty much forgot about these guys for years until recently when the band wanted to add "Just What I Needed" to the set. I think I'm going to have to go out and pick up a "great hits" or something.
Did the same a while back, and none of the 'greatest hits' I found suited my fancy. Which is pretty sad for a band with 4/5(?) studio albums.
Never cared for Tina Turner's music. But never questioned her talent either.
This Survivor song doesn't sound familar and I can't research at work. But I couldn't name 3 of their songs. Was a huge fan of The Search is Over (that was Survivor, right?) though.
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You're kidding about this whole thing about them having "other songs," right? RIGHT?
Survivor has some great tracks! Can't Hold Back, Burning Heart (from Rocky IV), High on You, Search Is Over, Is This Love - all great songs!
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Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson - Say, Say, Say
What a fun and neat video this was! This was one of my favorite videos back then, and the video made the song that much better, it not being that notable of a song in general, IMO.
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Paul McCartney is immensely talented, and the guy knows how to write a melody like nobody else can. Michael Jackson was also immensely talented, as far as singing, dancing, and even songwriting. For these reasons, I automatically rejected this song and video. It was during my "If it's that hugely popular, it can't possibly be any good" phase (which I've never really grown out of). I don't like being manipulated, and writing a song specifically to become a hit, to me, is a form of manipulation. The catchy melody, the catchy beat, the slick video... it's all designed to sell records. It took me a long time to accept that some people (such as Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson) are just so damned talented that, it's not that they're trying to write hits, they just can't help it. All their songs are great.
So yeah, it's a great song. Great melody, catchy, clever video, all that. And I still don't really like it, but that's my problem.
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Survivor - I Can't Hold Back
Kind of a stereotypical 80s monster ballad, before 80s monster ballads became a stereotype. :lol But I like this song. In fact, it is probably the one Survivor song I go back to fairly often when going through my 80s stuff.
Seen them 4 times live and a great show. People do not realize how much they liked to rock out more live.
Great tune.
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Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson - Say, Say, Say
What a fun and neat video this was! This was one of my favorite videos back then, and the video made the song that much better, it not being that notable of a song in general, IMO.
Cute (ish) video, not a bad song by 80s standards.
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Prince - U Got the Look
Always one of my favorites by Prince, but what I found baffling is how the video how that extended intro, which was a great buildup, but the regular version on the album doesn't have it. Pretty weird, to say the least. A version with the intro can be found on the Ultimate (The Very Best of Prince) double CD compilation, but even that version unnecessarily extends the middle section a little bit, so there really is no perfect version of U Got the Look on CD the way it is in the video, which is unfortunate. But anyway, I really like the vocal contributions of Sheena Easton in this song, and the video is pretty cool, featuring nearly the entire thing as a dream sequence. This is hands down one of the best hits Prince ever had.
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Mmmm Sheena Easton.... :) Prince certainly had an ability for surrounding himself with some FINE women. :lol
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Prince :hefdaddy
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Average Prince song for me.
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Dude, average Prince was Raspberry Beret.
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Survivor - I Can't Hold Back
Kind of a stereotypical 80s monster ballad, before 80s monster ballads became a stereotype. :lol But I like this song. In fact, it is probably the one Survivor song I go back to fairly often when going through my 80s stuff.
Seen them 4 times live and a great show. People do not realize how much they liked to rock out more live.
Great tune.
Man, how did I miss this one? Pretty good song, and the whole album is really solid. I don't even know which songs were singles/hits, because it just sounds like a whole album of them to me. :hat
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Janet Jackson - When I Think of You
I've never been much of a fan of most of her work, but this song is kind of cool. The music in the intro is pretty cool, and while the rest of the song strikes me as run of the mill 80s pop, it is mostly enjoyable, although I rarely reach for this song when scanning through my 80s playlist.
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Survivor - I Can't Hold Back
Kind of a stereotypical 80s monster ballad, before 80s monster ballads became a stereotype. :lol But I like this song. In fact, it is probably the one Survivor song I go back to fairly often when going through my 80s stuff.
Seen them 4 times live and a great show. People do not realize how much they liked to rock out more live.
Great tune.
Man, how did I miss this one? Pretty good song, and the whole album is really solid. I don't even know which songs were singles/hits, because it just sounds like a whole album of them to me. :hat
Yes, Vital Signs is a great album. I hated a girl for breaking up with me and I cranked "Broken Promises" a billion times after the break up.
Kev, never been a fan of Janet's music.
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Janet Jackson - When I Think of You
I've never been much of a fan of most of her work, but this song is kind of cool. The music in the intro is pretty cool, and while the rest of the song strikes me as run of the mill 80s pop, it is mostly enjoyable, although I rarely reach for this song when scanning through my 80s playlist.
She's had better songs, but the video for this one is pretty cool.
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Well thanks to this thread I'm listening to Vital Signs, When Seconds Count and Premonition albums by Survivor today while doing production paperwork.
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Well thanks to this thread I'm listening to Vital Signs, When Seconds Count and Premonition albums by Survivor today while doing production paperwork.
.... and i just picked up Mr. Mister's welcome to the Real World. Gonna spin it on my 45 min commute...
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A fantastic album dbrooks22.
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kings, I am not sure if I should be proud or apologize to you. ;) :lol
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Billy Idol - White Wedding
This is another one of those handful of videos that I remember seeing on MTV non-stop when we first got cable TV. Very good little tune, and the video was pretty neat, too, with the gothic wedding and all. This is a very nostalgic song for me. :coolio
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I'm not a huge Billy Idol fan, but this was one of his cooler, catchier songs. Also, Billy's work is where I first heard Steve Stevens. I always thought Billy was kinda hit or miss, but his guitarist could scream.
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kings, I am not sure if I should be proud or apologize to you. ;) :lol
Hey if I like it it's ok! :lol
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I'm not a huge Billy Idol fan, but this was one of his cooler, catchier songs. Also, Billy's work is where I first heard Steve Stevens. I always thought Billy was kinda hit or miss, but his guitarist could scream.
Sums up my feelings about Billy Idol right there. The only reason I owned Rebel Yell was because of Steve Stevens' guitar work, I used to think he was what the 21st century was going to sound like. :lol
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Well, Steve's still around, doing some pretty cool stuff, so you're not that far off with your prediction.
On the other hand:
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/386774_3611176519984_1089987980_n.jpg)
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:rollin :rollin :rollin
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I know, that's not really fair. I'm sure a lot of singers enjoy doing a Christmas album, a chance to put their personal stamp on classic tunes they grew up with. And actually, when I was growing up, there were a number of Christmas albums that my parents played on their old stereo that were by popular artists (of the time). Now, however, I can't help but think of a holiday album as something you do when your career is in something of a downturn.
But man, we were Christmas shopping a couple years ago and I saw that, and just busted out laughing. The tree, the wreath, and the whiplash smile.
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Well, Steve's still around, doing some pretty cool stuff, so you're not that far off with your prediction.
On the other hand:
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/386774_3611176519984_1089987980_n.jpg)
holy crap
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Apparently it was pretty popular, since he did a follow-up:
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/424702_3611174639937_1157178003_n.jpg)
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I'm not a huge Billy Idol fan, but this was one of his cooler, catchier songs. Also, Billy's work is where I first heard Steve Stevens. I always thought Billy was kinda hit or miss, but his guitarist could scream.
Completely agreed - Steve is criminally underrated.
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Level 42 - Something About You
I can't name any other song this band did, but this song was a winner, and is symbolic of the type of music that was popular in 1985. I don't really remember the video, but every time this song comes on, it just screams "mid 80s!" to me. :coolio
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My brother (who is a bass player) got me into this band. Excellent song and Kev, they have a few more cool songs like this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGxHCCUWGtY
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Not a bad little tune there; I had never heard it before.
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Level 42 - Something About You
I can't name any other song this band did, but this song was a winner, and is symbolic of the type of music that was popular in 1985. I don't really remember the video, but every time this song comes on, it just screams "mid 80s!" to me. :coolio
:heart
(That is all. :) )
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Always loved the combination of Billy Idol/Steve Stevens, they were really rocking. Saw them live some years ago and they still brought it on (plus they had Derek Sherinian on Keyboards). Then I heard about this christmas thing and I thought wtf?
Something about you is a great song. Level 42 were really popular in europe in the mid and late 80s. I think their biggest hit was Lessons in Love. During their career they turned from a funky/jazzy band to a major pop act. While I still like some of the later songs I am to this day an avid admirer of their earlier work up to World Machine (from where Something about you is taken).
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Genesis - Invisible Touch
Ah yes, the song that makes old school Genesis fans heave on a regular basis. :lol But when this came out, I loved it, and the video was great, too, featuring Phil Collins hamming it up like crazy; very fun and comical video. I can definitely see why fans who grew up on 70s Genesis absolutely hated it, but I still enjoy it every once in a while, for nostalgic reasons, of course.
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Well, the song is catchy.
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Well, the song is catchy.
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(https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/forumavatars/avatar_1070_1346181559.gif)
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Genesis is my favorite of the classic prog bands and one of my favorite bands ever, so logically I should hate this song, right?
Well...
I don't!
The thing about Genesis was, whether or not they were crafting 23 minute epics about the end of the world or four minute pop ditties about cute girls, they were songwriters. Whatever they set their minds to do, they did it and they did it well. Yes, Invisible Touch is a poppy song that isn't a thing like the band was in 1971. It's also a brilliant, fantastic pop song, written by three brilliant songwriters who had the technical ability to do just about whatever they set their mind to. I don't have the hang up some prog fans have over well written pop songs, especially when the band in question is Genesis.
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This was my favorite song when i was 8 yrs old, and my first cassette tape.
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I quite like this song, as mentioned it is catchy and a good written pop song.
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Talking of Level 42, a great little secret amongst British guitarists is a guy called Alan Murphy. sadly he died of Aids but was a mix between Larry Carlton and Allan Holdsworth (who incidentally replaced him after his death on Level 42s album Guaranteed).
Here's the closest thing Level 42 have done to prog, live.
Incidentally for all you Steven Wilson fans, the drummer, Gary Husband, was supposed to play piano on his most recent tour but dropped out due to injury.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzugTJ3l8Ds&feature=related (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzugTJ3l8Ds&feature=related)
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Gah! More Genesis :\
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The Pretenders - Back on the Chain Gang
This is another video I remember being played quite frequently during my earlier MTV viewing days. It's a good little song, but was one that was more along the lines of one I heard a lot rather than one I wanted to hear a lot. I don't listen to it that often when going through my 80s stuff, but I do think it is a good song still.
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If memory serves, wasn't this their first single after two members of the band died in quick succession? While the Pretenders were fairly successful, I always wondered what would have been if the band hadn't suffered so much loss at once. Early Pretenders was some great, hard rocking stuff with a good pop feel, but after the guitarist and bassist died, they lost a bit.
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If memory serves, wasn't this their first single after two members of the band died in quick succession? While the Pretenders were fairly successful, I always wondered what would have been if the band hadn't suffered so much loss at once. Early Pretenders was some great, hard rocking stuff with a good pop feel, but after the guitarist and bassist died, they lost a bit.
Well said, and I completely agree.
Decent song, but IMO the earlier the songs are the better.
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Madonna - Papa Don't Preach
This has always been one of my favorite Madonna songs. It is a great combination of a nice melody, a great dance beat and fairly interesting lyrics, especially given the times. One of her better 80s videos, too, IMO. Madonna always had a knack for making interesting and visually striking videos, and Papa Don't Preach was certainly no exception.
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Nah, Lucky Star and Angel were my favorites of Madge's.
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At the time, this was my favorite Madonna song.
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Songs with a blatant political or social message always start off on the wrong foot with me. I understand that artists create for many different reasons, and the core of that is to express what they feel, and if they feel strongly about some politcal or social issue, then by all means, they should express that in their work. But I don't like being preached to, and the title "Papa Don't Preach" actually made me laugh because it's a very preachy song. It has all the clichés and excuses that young lovers have when the girl somehow ends up pregnant and the song literally is crafted to make a point.
It's the age-old dichotomy. I don't like being manipulated, I don't like feeling like someone's trying to convince me of something; I just want to listen to some music. But at the same time, it's hard not to credit someone who can craft a catchy song with a social message and do it well. And it is a catchy song, and she may even have given a number of young girls some hope or a few lines to use in conversations with their fathers or mothers, so good for her.
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I've never been that big on Madonna, but she had a couple of great songs in the 80s. This is one of them, but my very favourite is La Isla Bonita.
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This is one of them, but my very favourite is La Isla Bonita.
THAT is a sexy song.
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But I don't like being preached to, and the title "Papa Don't Preach" actually made me laugh because it's a very preachy song.
I actually meant to mention this irony in my post, and forget to do so. But you got me covered! :biggrin: :tup
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:tup
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The Alan Parsons Project - Don't Answer Me
This is one of those forgotten 80s songs and videos, but both are actually pretty awesome, IMO. The song is a melodic wonderland, and the animated video tells a fantastic, albeit fairly sappy, story. It was one of those videos that you couldn't help but get sucked into every time it was on, and MTV did play it a ton back in the day.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALC7kt6iUHY
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The Alan Parsons Project - Don't Answer Me
This is one of those forgotten 80s songs and videos, but both are actually pretty awesome, IMO. The song is a melodic wonderland, and the animated video tells a fantastic, albeit fairly sappy, story. It was one of those videos that you couldn't help but get sucked into every time it was on, and MTV did play it a ton back in the day.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALC7kt6iUHY
splendid choice. APP was one of my favorites as I began forging my musical tastes in the 80's. The video was top notch.
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Great song. I love the story of about how Eric Woolfson wanted Don't Answer Me to have the big Phil Spector wall of sound thing, but Alan Parsons hated that sound. Finally after a lot of nagging, Parsons went "oh, you mean like this?" and hit a couple of buttons and suddenly the song was drenched in glorious reverb. I always got the sense Parsons was saying there "sure I can do it, but it's too fucking EASY." :lol
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Roger Hodgson - Had a Dream (Sleeping with the Enemy)
You wouldn't have thought an 8 1/2 minute song by a 70s artist, the former lead singer of Supertramp, would have had a song and video played on MTV a lot in 1984, but it happened. IIRC, the song was slightly edited down, but still pretty long by "single" standards. In fact, checking it out on youtube right now as I type this, it looks like it was a little over 6 minutes. The video itself looks a little familiar, but aside from the guy running naked :lol, I don't remember much of the video. But the song is one I remember very well, because it was a major winner. This has long been a favorite of mine from 1984, and still is. Great tune. :coolio
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Man I've loved the last 2 songs. Great video for Don't Answer Me.
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Don't really remember the Hodgson video all that well, but it was a great song off a great album. My brother in law owned this album and I'll admit I flat out stole it from him, I borrowed it and played it so much. But then he was a douchebag, so fuck him :lol
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I remember being at work one time and "Had a Dream" came on the radio. One of my co-workers said "Tell me, does this sound like Supertramp to you? Because this guy I was talking to said it's Roger Somebodyorother. I told him he's fucking crazy, it's gotta be Supertramp, listen to the voice. Nobody else sounds like that."
:facepalm:
I gotta admit, it sounds like Supertramp. I'm pretty sure that that's because Roger Hodgson sang a lot of their hits before leaving the band, but he's not exactly a household name, so it shouldn't surprise me that people didn't know that he'd even left the band. That would be like someone hearing a Jon Anderson song and saying "It's Yes, you can tell by the voice" and refusing to believe that it's not Yes, but a song by some guy named Jon.
(cool story bro)
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I remember being at work one time and "Had a Dream" came on the radio. One of my co-workers said "Tell me, does this sound like Supertramp to you? Because this guy I was talking to said it's Roger Somebodyorother. I told him he's fucking crazy, it's gotta be Supertramp, listen to the voice. Nobody else sounds like that."
Planet Moron strikes again. :lol
As to the song? Good for its time, but it didn't age too well for me.
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Quarterflash - Harden My Heart
This video was on Totally 80s the other day, and I have to admit, I didn't remember it at all. Pretty good song, though, featuring a very nice sax lead.
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Quarterflash had a much better song out there called "Find Another Fool". We had a female singer for a while, and I played the saxophone, so naturally we exploited that. "Find Another Fool" was uptempo and rocked out at the end. The guitar and I traded fours, and even busted into harmony. It was a crowd-pleaser.
"Harden My Heart" by contrast had that slow shuffle beat, and try though we might, we could not get it to groove. It just ended up sounding really boring. We finally decided that it was because the song itself was so boring. And of course we were right. :p We never did play the song live.
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Quarterflash actually rocked a bit harder live than they did in the studio-certainly hard enough to survive the fact that their first headlining tour had Sammy Hagar of all people as the opening act! There was a live video for the song Orbert is talking about where they did a similar guitar/saxophone trade off (on album it was saxophone and violin.) Harden My Heart was pretty much the ballad-esque, obvious single for the album, and like a lot of rock bands of the late 70s and early 80s, it pretty much locked the band into a more middle of the road style. The first album had the lead guitarist actually sing on occasion, but by the time the second album came out, the band was all about the other singer/saxophonist Rindy Ross, and dreadfully boring to boot.
The fact that I remember the name of Quarterflash's singer but can't tell you with any certainty where my wallet is right now says a lot about me. :lol
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I'm sure they had better songs (never delved too deep tbh) but Harden My Heart bores me to tears and didn't age well, even back then! :lol
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The Outfield - Your Love
I was never much of a fan of any of this band's hits. I believe this was their first one, and I always found the way the song starts off fairly annoying, so I think my inability to ever really get past that always skewed my thoughts of any of their subsequent songs.
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Never liked this song. I couldn't believe that anyone thought singing the line "I just want to use your love tonight" was a good idea, something that a girl would want to hear. I mean, really?
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Oh dammit, I had forgotten how that song started until you made this post, and now it's STUCK IN MY HEAD. Curse you Kev!
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Yeah, it's an annoying song anyway. That guy's voice begs from a good smack in the face.
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Annoying song is annoying. Always has been.
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Okay, since we all agree :D, on to something better..and bigger:
Michael Jackson - Thriller
You really have to have been around to understand just how huge this video was back when it came out. I mean, a nearly 14-minute video get regular play on MTV?? That was unheard of, yet there it was. It was one of those videos that every time it was on, you just had to watch the whole thing; you couldn't help but. The song itself is quite good, too, albeit not as great as the two biggest hits from Thriller, but still highly enjoyable. And the video made it that much more enjoyable.
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Thriller didn't just get played on MTV, it got played on MTV a lot. Like every two hours a lot. It's not necessarily the best video ever made, but it's kind of the quintessential music video, the apex of the form, and the height of Michael Jackson's fame on MTV. By that point Michael Jackson had flown past superstardom into another level entirely.
In typical Jaq form, a slightly related story: a few years later in a magazine Playboy put out-like Girls of Lingerie or some shit like that-there were some RIGHT NICE pictures of the girl from this video. Yowza!
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I remember seeing the pictorial Playboy did of her back in the day - right nice indeed.
Anyhoo, I remember posting earlier in this thread that Thriller was just so monstrous in its time. The title track is no different, and has a Vincent Price cameo to boot! The video shot the popularity of this song into the stratosphere, but that was the case with pretty much everything on the album.
For its time? GREAT video.
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Love the song, but I hate the edit of the song in the music video. It's all verses lumped together, then an extended zombie break, then the chorus stuck at the end with weaker backup harmonies. Bleh.
The music video itself is an iconic classic though. How many other music videos have dance moves that memorable and instantly recognizable?
:billiejean: (closest the forum has, sorry)
Great song, and the start of a killer 3 song run on the album.
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I'd have to agree on the way they edited the song for the video. But that's really my only complaint about it.
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The Outfield - Your Love
I was never much of a fan of any of this band's hits. I believe this was their first one, and I always found the way the song starts off fairly annoying, so I think my inability to ever really get past that always skewed my thoughts of any of their subsequent songs.
I guess I better not show you folks my I-Pod. I've always loved the Outfield and have all their CD's. even the ones in the 2000's.
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FYI, Ola Ray was the June 1980 Playmate of the Month.
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The Outfield - Your Love
I was never much of a fan of any of this band's hits. I believe this was their first one, and I always found the way the song starts off fairly annoying, so I think my inability to ever really get past that always skewed my thoughts of any of their subsequent songs.
I guess I better not show you folks my I-Pod. I've always loved the Outfield and have all their CD's. even the ones in the 2000's.
Oh god, they're still around? :lol
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The Outfield - Your Love
I was never much of a fan of any of this band's hits. I believe this was their first one, and I always found the way the song starts off fairly annoying, so I think my inability to ever really get past that always skewed my thoughts of any of their subsequent songs.
I guess I better not show you folks my I-Pod. I've always loved the Outfield and have all their CD's. even the ones in the 2000's.
I also like this song. Lyrics aren't wonderful, but overall it's got a great feel to it.
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Thriller
So I was 5 years old when this was released - I remember my older brother (16 at the time) playing the vinyl for me. The creepy sound effects and Vincent Price parts scared the crap out of me!
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The Outfield - Your Love
I was never much of a fan of any of this band's hits. I believe this was their first one, and I always found the way the song starts off fairly annoying, so I think my inability to ever really get past that always skewed my thoughts of any of their subsequent songs.
Had no idea what this song was till I found it online. Of course once I did, I knew it instantly. And turned it off. Blech.
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I thought the "Thriller" video was fine, and something like prog, only for video. Extending the song into a real cinematic event. It was even presented as a short film by John Landis, not just a music video.
I love Vincent Price's voiceover on the album. I grew up with his scary movies and he was the man to do the voiceover on the album. Then I heard that he was bummed about never getting any royalties from the "Thriller" film/video. I don't know how it works if you do voiceover on a song and the song ends up in a video, but there are definite rules about how your performance is used in film, and they were presenting it as a film, therefore Vincent was due some royalties. He never got paid. For that matter, John Landis never got paid for making the film/video, either. Ola Ray got some money early on, then those payments stopped. MJ either had some good lawyers, or total slimebag lawyers, or probably both.
Fun Interview with Landis about Vincent Price (https://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/36846)
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The Outfield - Your Love
I was never much of a fan of any of this band's hits. I believe this was their first one, and I always found the way the song starts off fairly annoying, so I think my inability to ever really get past that always skewed my thoughts of any of their subsequent songs.
I guess I better not show you folks my I-Pod. I've always loved the Outfield and have all their CD's. even the ones in the 2000's.
Oh god, they're still around? :lol
Why yes they are! Thing is that, the original 3 got back together and the guitarist's cancer came back so he's fighting for his life. This is his second bout. I hope he makes it.
BTW did any of you know that the Outfield was a Police cover band before getting a record contract. You can here it in the vocals no doubt.
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I thought the "Thriller" video was fine, and something like prog, only for video. Extending the song into a real cinematic event. It was even presented as a short film by John Landis, not just a music video.
I love Vincent Price's voiceover on the album. I grew up with his scary movies and he was the man to do the voiceover on the album. Then I heard that he was bummed about never getting any royalties from the "Thriller" film/video. I don't know how it works if you do voiceover on a song and the song ends up in a video, but there are definite rules about how your performance is used in film, and they were presenting it as a film, therefore Vincent was due some royalties. He never got paid. For that matter, John Landis never got paid for making the film/video, either. Ola Ray got some money early on, then those payments stopped. MJ either had some good lawyers, or total slimebag lawyers, or probably both.
Fun Interview with Landis about Vincent Price (https://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/36846)
Well, according to the interview you linked... MJ was always... a smooth criminal... :lhk:
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Cyndi Lauper - She Bop
This was probably my favorite of her three hits from She's So Unusual, although is still wasn't a huge favorite of mine or anything. But I like it. I remember the video being fairly entertaining, but not much else about it; I haven't seen it in probably almost 30 years. As for the lyrical content of this tune, I had no idea what it supposedly was about till like 10 years ago, and by then, it was so far off of my radar that the revelation was nothing more than a passing thought, but I guess for those who knew it at the time, it had to be quite a shock, considering the time period.
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Don't recall the video at all, but do feel like this was the only song of hers I enjoyed. Otherwise she was basically a non-entity for me in the 80s, except when she showed up at that Wrestlemania.
Sidenote: there were 3 songs played at an 80s club I used to go to all the time that were automatic piss breaks for me. I couldn't for the life of me remember what the 3rd one was. It was 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"
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Yeah... Good song. Quirky song. In other words, Cyndi Lauper.
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Cyndi Lauper - She Bop
This was probably my favorite of her three hits from She's So Unusual, although is still wasn't a huge favorite of mine or anything. But I like it. I remember the video being fairly entertaining, but not much else about it; I haven't seen it in probably almost 30 years. As for the lyrical content of this tune, I had no idea what it supposedly was about till like 10 years ago, and by then, it was so far off of my radar that the revelation was nothing more than a passing thought, but I guess for those who knew it at the time, it had to be quite a shock, considering the time period.
I remember the "controversy" about the lyrics, and while some people were aghast, I know a lot of people who just thought "Really? Cool." Also, I think Cyndi has denied that there's any secret meaning to the lyrics; I don't remember what she said the lyrics were really about, but it wasn't what everyone thought it was. But then, maybe she was just saying that to keep everyone guessing.
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My discovery of what She Bop was about came several years later, but not because I was clueless about it-because it was listening to the song myself in the late 80s where I figured it out-but because I really, really, really didn't like Cyndi Lauper's music at the time. I was a pretty narrow minded guy musically then-metal, hard rock, and prog ruled, everything else could go out the door-so generally when Cyndi Lauper came on, I tuned out. Unless it was Time After Time. Chicks liked to slow dance to that one. :biggrin:
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"Time After Time" is a great song. I love the two-part harmony. So weird, yet so cool.
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"Time After Time" is a great song. I love the two-part harmony. So weird, yet so cool.
That whole first album was recorded with The Hooters as the back up band. Erik Brazillion (sp?) got a great voice.
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:omg: I didn't know that! I like The Hooters. Are you telling me that I have to hunt down a Cyndi Lauper album now?
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Yup! The Hooters we a great live band.
Funny I saw Cyndi Lauper at a free radio concert and two of the guys from the Hooters toured with her. She put on a great show.
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See, that's the funny thing. I didn't much like Cyndi Lauper, but yet I totally knew the Hooters were her back up band on the first album. Music news just percolated around in weird ways I guess.
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it was one of the "filthy fifteen" if I remember correctly
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Belinda Carlisle - Circle in the Sand
This wasn't her biggest hit out of her four hits in the 80s, but it was by far the best of the lot, IMO. This is just a great pop song; great vocal melodies, interesting (by pop standards) lyrics, gorgeous music, and it had a nice little video, too.
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"Time After Time" is a great song. I love the two-part harmony. So weird, yet so cool.
That whole first album was recorded with The Hooters as the back up band. Erik Brazillion (sp?) got a great voice.
I think he's spelled Bazilian :D and Rob Hyman, the keyboard player of the Hooters wrote Time after Time with Cindy Lauper.
The Hooters sometimes play a stripped down version of that song in concerts, I quite like their take on it.
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Belinda Carlisle - Circle in the Sand
This wasn't her biggest hit out of her four hits in the 80s, but it was by far the best of the lot, IMO. This is just a great pop song; great vocal melodies, interesting (by pop standards) lyrics, gorgeous music, and it had a nice little video, too.
I have no memory of this song. At all. I remember Heaven is a Place on Earth and I Get Weak (the latter because I cheerfully turned it into a parody called "I Eat Meat". Why yes, I was still drinking at the time) but I don't remember this one at all.
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I recall the melody to 'Circle in the Sand' but otherwise nothing about it stands out in my head right now.
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"Time After Time" is a great song. I love the two-part harmony. So weird, yet so cool.
LOVE Time After Time. :heart
She Bop was quirky enough to catch my ear and take hold though - nice slice of the 80s right there. :)
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Hey kingshmegland - Mr. Mister Welcome to the Real World is awesome! Pat Mastelotto is a beast on the drums! Lots of great tracks here - thanks for the recommendation!
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I'm glad you liked it. The next two albums get more progressive too. Check them out!
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Mutiny! ;)
I'm sure KevShmev will be back in gear soon, but in his absense:
Nu Shooz - I Can't Wait
Besides the bass keyboard riff heard at nearly every NBA game of the past 20yrs, this song really grooves. Love the guitar flicking over the keys during the verses. It's like a melding of 70's groove with 80's technology. But the real gem is clearly that bass key progression.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Yx0X-eHn8
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Good song, regardless if it's overplayed at NBA games.
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UGH! I forgot about that song for so long!! :lol
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I do not support this mutiny.
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Okay, back on track now...
Elton John - I'm Still Standing
This was the first song I knew by Elton John, I loved it, and to this day, it is still one of my favorites by him (although I am admittedly not a big fan of his). Very cool song, and I remember the video being a lot of fun.
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The textbook definition of a catchy song. In fact, just seeing the title caused the chorus to leap into my mind, and I probably haven't heard the song in 20 years. That's what you call a memorable tune!
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The textbook definition of a catchy song. In fact, just seeing the title caused the chorus to leap into my mind, and I probably haven't heard the song in 20 years. That's what you call a memorable tune!
Nailed it.
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Not one of my favorites of Elton's, but not a bad song either.
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Europe - Cherokee
While not as popular as The Final Countdown's title track, this was easily my favorite of the four hits/videos from that Europe record. A very nice tune, with some great melodies, and the instrumental section (guitar solo followed by a cool synth-driven section) is a large reason why I thought DT sounded like a heavier, more ballsy Europe the very first time I heard Pull Me Under.
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Europe :metal
Cherokee is a nice song from this great band. The Final Countdown has some great songs (although I prefer the album before it, Wings Of Tomorrow). I remember my little sister and me playing this song together on our acoustic guitars when we were younger - it sounded a little weird on acoustics but it was fun.
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I neve r knew the name or artist on that NBA bass song, which is how I am going to refer to it now, because I am never going to remember 'Nu Shooz - I Can't Wait'
Ok, I got that Elton John chorus in my head. And it is not a good experience.
Europe had 3 other hits???
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I can't remember how high they all charted, but The Final Countdown, Rock the Night (another favorite of mine), Carrie (major CHEESEBALL 80s ballad) and Cherokee all had videos that got heavy rotation on MTV.
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The other three hits>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Carrie
That said, Cherokee wasn't bad.
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Wait.
There was a video for Cherokee?
My god, I totally forgot. :lol
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That'd be more like a "thanks for the warning" statement. :lol
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That'd be more like a "thanks for the warning" statement. :lol
:rollin
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Mad love for I'm Still Standing.
Cherokee was a cool song and I do remember the video Jaq. :lol
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I'm still standing is catchy, but not annoyingly catchy, at least to my ears. Quite like this song.
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There's a part of me that would love to forget that the band Europe ever existed but... :lol
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There's a part of me that would love to forget that the band Europe ever existed but... :lol
But then you hear that keyboard melody and your earwormed to death.
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Yep. :lol
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Europe is a great band; this is one of their best songs for sure.
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Slade - Run Runaway
Always loved this song. And the video was hysterical, with the singer hamming it up quite a bit. Being a fan of silliness, I always loved it. The song is just foot-stomping greatness. :tup :tup
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Oh yes, this is from Slade's brief return to relevance as "the band that Quiet Riot covered." :lol This was a fun little track though. Always dug Slade, even if mostly these days they're known for other people covering them.
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Fun song that I'd totally forgotten about.
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I always dug that one.
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Didn't mind it. Never bought it.
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Katrina & the Waves - Walking On Shunshine
This song is from 1985, but I don't have any memory of hearing it prior to becoming familiar with it after it was featured in the 1987 movie, The Secret of My Success, a movie I liked a lot.
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The song is catchy, your typical 80's feel-good song. But for me, the song will forever be associated with this really cute girl named Katrina who worked at the mall. Dear lord, she was cute. I swear, just seeing her smile could make me walk on sunshine.
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Catchy tune again I never owned.
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It was kind of cute the first time I heard it, but then... overkill... (https://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc55/black_floyd_2007/vomit.gif)
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Total, utter earworm type of song. One of the catchiest songs of the 80s, if not all time, even if I didn't particularly like it. Oddly for some reason I associate it with a lot earlier in the 80s than 1985 though...it just feels more like a 1983 song. And no, I don't know HOW a song can feel like a particular year, it's a gut kind of thing.
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Nice catchy feelgood song, that got a little overplayed
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America - You Can Do Magic
Maybe an odd choice, as this is an early 80 song by a 70s classic rock band, this is one of the first 80s songs I really loved back in 1982, so it works here. I still love it, too. Great little tune.
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Guess that one was a swing and a miss. :lol :lol
George Michael - I Want Your Sex
This was quite the controversial song at the time. Of course, if it came out now, it wouldn't be at all, which speaks to how different the times were back in the 80s. But anyway, enjoyable song. Not my favorite of his, but probably one of his better solo hits.
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Honestly, I think it was only controversial because it was a pop (i.e. "mainstream") song. There were much more explicit songs in rock and rap at the time.
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Of course, but that's exactly why it was controversial. We don't want our kids to hear it on mainstream radio. Stuff like that needs to be hidden where kids can find it but parents can naively believe that it doesn't exist.
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:lol Well put.
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It's got a good beat and you can dance to it, but it's not my favorite of his solo stuff.
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I loved how the controversy about this song was not, in fact, about him having sex, but somehow the suggestion that the song was about promiscuity and the video had to add the bit about PRACTICE MONOGAMY to make people shut up. The early days of people finding out about AIDS-after years of the media not even knowing it existed-were in retrospect a little hilarious. Never much of a fan of the song though.
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Good points there, Jaq. :tup :tup
Boy Meets Girl - Waiting for a Star to Fall
A very catchy, infectious pop song. Probably a bit too poppy for some, but the vocal melodies are all very catchy and memorable. Most artists go their entire careers without writing a hook as strong as the one in the chorus of this song.
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Dang, two swings and misses in the same week. :facepalm:
Duran Duran - The Reflex
If you watched MTV in 1984, it was impossible to avoid this song; it was played seemingly every hour, every day, for months. Good song, one that still sounds nice, but not one I would call one of my favorites from Duran Duran. But every time you hear this song, you can't help but think of the video.
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Boy Meets Girl - Waiting for a Star to Fall
A very catchy, infectious pop song. Probably a bit too poppy for some, but the vocal melodies are all very catchy and memorable. Most artists go their entire careers without writing a hook as strong as the one in the chorus of this song.
Yes, very poppy, good song for what it was. Can’t really imagine getting too jazzed about hearing it now though.
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Duran Duran - The Reflex
If you watched MTV in 1984, it was impossible to avoid this song; it was played seemingly every hour, every day, for months. Good song, one that still sounds nice, but not one I would call one of my favorites from Duran Duran. But every time you hear this song, you can't help but think of the video.
Oddly, I can’t recall this video, but remember really liking this song. Was a moderately big Duran Duran fan back in the day. Revisited them recently and this song did not age well for me.
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I liked the Boy Meets Girl as well, but that was yesterday...
Anyone catch the obscure Foreigner reference?
But you're right, Kev. That's one of those songs that when you hear it, you're playing the video in your head. Like "Take On Me" by A-Ha.
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Duran Duran - The Reflex
If you watched MTV in 1984, it was impossible to avoid this song; it was played seemingly every hour, every day, for months. Good song, one that still sounds nice, but not one I would call one of my favorites from Duran Duran. But every time you hear this song, you can't help but think of the video.
Definitely NOT my favorite DD song - this one was all over the place for a good long while. Looking back though, it's really not a half bad tune, it just got majorly overplayed at the time.
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at one time, The Reflex was my favorite song (I was 7 or 8 at the time).
Wasn't the video kind of a "live" setting with a big wave coming out of the video screen?
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Yep, that's the one.
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My sisters saw Duran Duran on the tour for this album. They didn't like it when I asked if a wave came out of the screen during The Reflex. :lol
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Dang, two swings and misses in the same week. :facepalm:
Duran Duran - The Reflex
If you watched MTV in 1984, it was impossible to avoid this song; it was played seemingly every hour, every day, for months. Good song, one that still sounds nice, but not one I would call one of my favorites from Duran Duran. But every time you hear this song, you can't help but think of the video.
Wasn't a big fan of this song. I thought they has way better songs but it was a big hit.
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Heart - Alone
This was a monster hit in 1987, spending three weeks at number 1. I myself was never a big fan of this one - I greatly preferred the other hits from the Bad Animals album - but it was easy to see why this song was so popular at the time. I don't remember the video really at all.
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Always loved this great emotional song. Funny, I just listened to this album for the first time in years last week.
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Heart - Alone
This was a monster hit in 1987, spending three weeks at number 1. I myself was never a big fan of this one - I greatly preferred the other hits from the Bad Animals album - but it was easy to see why this song was so popular at the time. I don't remember the video really at all.
Good song, but I have other favorites from that time period that trump this one. That, and the older the better with Heart anyways...
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Pretty much Heart's last gasp as a major commercial force. While the outside writer thing worked big time with the previous album, it didn't quite fare so well here. This is a great 80s style power ballad, though, I'll give it that.
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Mötley Crüe - Dr. Feelgood
Simply put, this song flat out rocks. The video wasn't anything memorable, IMO, but this is easily one of their two or three songs.
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My high school jazz band did a cover of it.
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My favourite Crue song. It's got that heavy D riff to kick it off, a great drum beat throughout, not to mention it sounds pretty damn heavy on good speakers.
And there were two versions of the music video for this one, right? One with the drug dealer storyline, and one without? Been a while since I've watched it.
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Best song from that album for sure!
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That friggin' "chug chug" guitar riff in the opening is killer.
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Crüe at it's best, love this song.
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Night Ranger - When You Close Your Eyes
My fondest memory of this song is going to a record store with my cousin, Maureen, so she could buy the 45 of it on vinyl. We both liked the song a lot, and she had a big crush on Jack Blades. Haha. Those were the days, when so many singles were out, and most of them had their own cover, which was usually different from the album cover the song came from. That was good stuff. :coolio
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Loved that song - still do, given a little thought about it.
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Loved Night Ranger. 7 Wishes tour was ass kicking. Great live energy and that song came off very well live.
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Great song, great band. Saw Night Ranger open for Kansas at a local club when Kansas was touring for In The Spirit Of Things, and they put on a kick ass show. Night Ranger was, honestly, one of my favorite bands of the 80s, kind of regret not catching them as a headliner.
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Very good band
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Horrible. The original Winger!
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Great song, great band. Saw Night Ranger open for Kansas at a local club when Kansas was touring for In The Spirit Of Things, and they put on a kick ass show. Night Ranger was, honestly, one of my favorite bands of the 80s, kind of regret not catching them as a headliner.
I wish I would've been able to catch them live back in the day.
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Horrible. The original Winger!
:lol
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John Cougar - Jack and Diane
I am listing it under what his name was at the time of the release. Anyway, I liked this song a lot when it was first out, but I am pretty ambivalent towards it now. I don't dislike it, but it is just kind of there for me.
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It's not the best song he's ever done, but it's not the worst either. I'm opposite of you though, Kev - I couldn't STAND "Jack and Diane" back in the day, but it's grown on me over the years.
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The first several times I heard this song were on MTv (of course) and there's a serious drawback to that: our TV had really crappy speakers. No bass at all, so that hook line where all the guitars stop and bass hums on was completely lost. I thought it was a completely stupid hook. Then I eventually heard it on the radio and heard the bass hum, and it improved the hook immensely.
That's still not saying a lot. It took the song from a 4 to maybe a 6 on a scale from 1 to 10. Over the years, with some perspective of my own, I've come to appreciate the song a little more for its message and its story. It's up to a 7 now.
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Very good tune that MTV destroyed for me. It was on every hour it seemed.
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ah yes - my first favorite song when I was 5. I remember riding in my brother's car (he would have been 16) at the time and this song coming on the radio. I thought it was the best thing I'd ever heard. He took me to get an ice cream cone that day and then to the local arcade joint where we unloaded many quarters.
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I always thought John Cougar was far more fun to listen to than the overly earnest, look at me, I'm serious here John Mellencamp was. His version of I Need A Lover manages to sound like a ten minute, ridiculously over the top epic in half that in actual running time. That being said, given my name is Jack, I came to LOATHE this song as a young man, simply for all the "Hey where's Diane?" lines. :rollin
I remember around the time this was a hit there was a live version floating around FM radio that turned the part after the drums came in into a flat out, full band rocker that probably raised the roof on any venue that John Cougar played in on that tour. That version I didn't mind as much.
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I always thought John Cougar was far more fun to listen to than the overly earnest, look at me, I'm serious here John Mellencamp was. His version of I Need A Lover manages to sound like a ten minute, ridiculously over the top epic in half that in actual running time. That being said, given my name is Jack, I came to LOATHE this song as a young man, simply for all the "Hey where's Diane?" lines. :rollin
I remember around the time this was a hit there was a live version floating around FM radio that turned the part after the drums came in into a flat out, full band rocker that probably raised the roof on any venue that John Cougar played in on that tour. That version I didn't mind as much.
Hey, where's Diane??
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Shut up, Kev :rollin
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His version of I Need A Lover manages to sound like a ten minute, ridiculously over the top epic in half that in actual running time.
I always loved his version of "I Need a Lover" for pretty much the same reason. The intro takes its time, even includes a piano break, and the verses alternate with guitar breaks, spreading a very simple song out into something that seems much more. Also, the lyrics crack me up. Someone who'll thrill me and then go away. Somebody that knows the meaning of "Hey, hit the highway!" Rock and roll!
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Cheap Trick - The Flame
This song was hugely popular in 1988 - I think it was one of the most popular songs of the year on the charts - and MTV played the crap out of the video, but I was never much of a fan of it.
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Eh. Not much of a fan either, never was.
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I loved that song. In fact, I think Lap of Luxury was my first ever CD (if it wasn't that, it was Hysteria). I played the crap out of it - but then of course it was my first (or second) CD.
Listened to this song a while ago for the first time in ages. Thought it was pretty good, but made me think of junior high dances.
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The 80's. The Age of the Power Ballad.
Cheap Trick. The band of cheap tricks.
Coincidence? I think not.
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Pretty sure this was Cheap Trick's album where they did the inevitable dalliance with outside writing that had good results for a lot of bands. I suppose in THEORY it worked here, since this song was a hit, but like a lot of bands that tried this, it eventually worked against them and their sales were never the same. But my lasting memory of Cheap Trick is this. While I can point to individual sets by bands at a concert being better, the best concert, in terms of quality delivered by both the opener and the headliner, I ever saw was REO Speedwagon with Cheap Trick opening in the mid-80s. You had two bands that grew up in the 70s playing live constantly, and it showed, because I've never seen both bands on a show quite engage the audience like that. I've seen better openers and better headliners, but that show still holds the record for complete show quality from start to finish.
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Cheap Trick - The Flame
This song was hugely popular in 1988 - I think it was one of the most popular songs of the year on the charts - and MTV played the crap out of the video, but I was never much of a fan of it.
This is one song that for me became better over time. I'm a bigger fan of "Tonight it's You" however.
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Cheap Trick - The Flame
This song was hugely popular in 1988 - I think it was one of the most popular songs of the year on the charts - and MTV played the crap out of the video, but I was never much of a fan of it.
I played the crap out of this album. Saw them on this tour as well. They always had a great live, raw sound. As Jaq pointed out this album is like many albums of that time, (Kiss, Heart) where bands were forced to use outside writers.
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That song really caught on during the summer when I was in boot camp. We were totally deprived of all connection with the outside world until the week we had admin duty, and I got to work in the mailroom for an hour every day and the guys in there always had a radio going. I remember hearing this song a few times and just thinking it was amazing.
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The Flame is one of my guilty pleasures. I freakin love that tune.
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Deniece Williams - Let's Hear It for the Boy
I am sure I am not the only one who hears this song and can't get those awful images of Kevin Bacon's character teaching Chris Penn's character to dance in Footloose out of their head. :facepalm: :facepalm: :lol :lol
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BLEEEEEECH.
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What Deb said.
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Bleeeech is right. I'm okay with singing about your love and how awesome he or she is, but "Let's hear it for the boy" is just such a lame thing to say.
I'm not sure why, but females into their 20's, 30's, or beyond can still be "girls". But at some point, it just seems stupid to refer to a guy as a "boy". When you 30something years old, is he your "boyfriend"? Do you actually say "He's great. Let's hear it for the boy"? Because if you did, I'd probably throw something at you.
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BLEEEEEECH.
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Okay then, since we all agree on that one...
Mike & the Mechanics - All I Need Is a Miracle
Very cool song; I particularly love the way the intro builds up. I liked the video, even though it seemed to not have much to do with the actual meaning of the song, outside of the title. Hehe.
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Same here. Cool song, cool video. I like Mike.
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I always thought the song kinda sounded wimpy.
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Mike & the Mechanics - All I Need Is a Miracle
I always liked that one. :)
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Always liked this album, which admittedly I bought for my love of all things Genesis but found a few things to like about it on its own. If I had a complaint about it, it did seem very, I don't know, laid back sonically-it didn't need to be heavy, but it had one of those lighter than air 80s productions that felt like at times the album could just float away and you not miss it. :lol
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:lol
It is nice to hear stuff like that sometimes though.
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Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly
This was the first songs I ever heard by Pink Floyd, and I loved it immediately. The video was played to death by MTV, which was great, as it helped the Roger Waters-less Floyd reach new audiences. What better way to scream, "We're still here!" than to have a great new song, and a cool video with it to boot.
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Holy crap, new avatar!
Agree with everything you said, though I hardly ever listen to it these days, even when watching/listening to Pulse/DSoT.
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Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly
This was the first songs I ever heard by Pink Floyd, and I loved it immediately. The video was played to death by MTV, which was great, as it helped the Roger Waters-less Floyd reach new audiences. What better way to scream, "We're still here!" than to have a great new song, and a cool video with it to boot.
SHUT THE FUCK UP DONNY!!
Also that song was fantastic and like you said the video was really cool. I winder if the video had impact on increasing Floyd's popularity since they were playing stadiums for The Wall. I'm guessing it did since they made a profit unlike The Wall.
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I got Momentary Lapse of Reason for my birthday the year it came out, after I listened to a local radio station play it and was flat out stunned at how good it was. I was a fan of David Gilmour's solo album About Face, but this was a quantum leap up in quality for him as a band leader. Learning to Fly's a genuine classic and one of my favorite songs ever.
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Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly
This was the first songs I ever heard by Pink Floyd, and I loved it immediately. The video was played to death by MTV, which was great, as it helped the Roger Waters-less Floyd reach new audiences. What better way to scream, "We're still here!" than to have a great new song, and a cool video with it to boot.
GREAT song and album, but AMLoR was the best of the Waters-less PF for me.
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Great song. But I have no recollection whatsoever of ever having seen the video.
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Stevie Nicks - Stand Back
This is a bit of an odd song for me in that I like it and it definitely takes me back to my early days of MTV watching, but is not one I ever have the urge to listen to, even when in an 80s mood. But I think it's a good song, and that synth lead that carries the song is extremely effective.
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If memory serves, Prince played keyboards on this song, and MTV made a bigger deal of that than the actual song itself. :lol It was always jarring when the rock acts of the 70s not really known for synthesizers started using them in their music-Tom Petty's You Got Lucky being one of the best examples of the "what the hell is this?" moments in terms of the sound of an act changing. Ahh, 80s synths, how dated you sound now. Even worse than 70s Moogs, for some reason.
Oh, the song itself? Never much liked it, really.
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Liked the song and the album muchly. Stevie was probably my favorite non-metal artist at the time.
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We were just listening to some 70's Fleetwood Mac last night, and Stevie had such a beautiful, sweet voice... which she totally blew out on the Bella Donna tour and never got back. I thought "Edge of Seventeen" was okay the first couple of listens, it was kinda cool hearing her do something with some grit, but it's too repetitive and ultimately just annoying. Then "Stand Back" came out and it's basically the same song but with synths instead of guitars. Driving, catchy, but repetitive and pretty pointless, and her voice sounds even worse. It's been 30 years now, so I guess I should accept the fact that this is what she sounds like now, but damn, after growing up with her original voice, it's just tragic.
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Stevie had the same impact as Phil Collins. Love their band work but I am not enamored with their solo work. Not a bad song but just never caught my attention.
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Okay song, but I like the duets she did with Don Henley (Leather and Lace I think?) and Tom Petty (Stop Draggin' My Heart Around) a fair bit better than the totality of her solo stuff.
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Def Leppard - Love Bites
This song was massive - it had to have been the 2nd most popular song off of Hysteria - but I was never much of a fan. I mean, by 80s ballad standards, it was okay, and I definitely get why it was so popular, but it just never clicked with me. The chorus shows off their love for Queen in a big way, with those layered harmonies.
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Cool ballad
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Not much of a fan of this one. The other singles/hits off the album are much better imo.
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Not much of a fan of this one. The other singles/hits off the album are much better imo.
This exactly. Love Bites did NOT age well for me, even though I liked it at the time it was a single.
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Funny, it was the opposite for me. I was tired of the DL Massive crowd chants. (HEY, HEY!!!) <--- Those kind of harmonies from the likes of Rock Of Ages and Pour Some Sugar on Me so this song was very refressing for me. Still holds up well.
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Probably my most hated of all power ballads. This one is an absolute stinker in my books. Worst song on an otherwise flawless album (by 80s glam standards).
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What a horribly disappointing album, especially after such a long wait.
Remember collecting the 45's to make the puzzle out of the covers? The b sides were so much better (heavier) than anything on the album!
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I was a HUGE Def Lep fan at the time, but this song took awhile to click. I liked Hysteria when it first came out, but didn't immediately love it. I just wanted it to rock more than it did. So having a couple of ballads didn't thrill me. But this song, like the album as a whole, really grew on me over time.
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But this song, like the album as a whole, really grew on me over time.
Yeah,like a rash!
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:TAC:
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Not much of a fan of this one. The other singles/hits off the album are much better imo.
Agreed. I listened to this album to death (indicated earlier it was my 1st or 2nd ever CD). I liked it on the album and wouldn't normally skip, but when it was released as a single and hit MTV, I grew weary of it.
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I remember hearing "Love Bites" was supposed to be a country song and Wiki tells me I'm right....
"One song, "Love Bites," was already mostly written in the vein of a country ballad by Mutt Lange when he brought it to the band's attention."
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Never had much problem with Love Bites myself. A pretty harmless example of an 80s power ballad, and not really shocking that it did so well. Catchy as hell bridge and chorus, well put together production wise-yeah, it wasn't Bringing On The Heartbreak, but they weren't that band anymore. For better or worse :lol
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I remember hearing "Love Bites" was supposed to be a country song and Wiki tells me I'm right....
"One song, "Love Bites," was already mostly written in the vein of a country ballad by Mutt Lange when he brought it to the band's attention."
Oh gawd, really? Bleeeeeeeh... (https://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc55/black_floyd_2007/vomit.gif)
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Greg Kihn Band - Jeopardy
I think this might have been the first video I ever saw that I thought was really great. Even at the age of 8, I was intrigued by the fact that the video told a story, rather than just being a bunch of randomness or fairly static. I still get a kick out of the video, but the song itself is not I reach for a lot, even though I often think, "This is still a pretty good song," every time I see the video, which admittedly isn't often.
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Okay song, better video.
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I can say uneuivocally I have never seen that video in my life until now.
And now that I have, I can't say I am any better off than I was 5 minutes ago.
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Greg Kihn Band - Jeopardy
I think this might have been the first video I ever saw that I thought was really great. Even at the age of 8, I was intrigued by the fact that the video told a story, rather than just being a bunch of randomness or fairly static. I still get a kick out of the video, but the song itself is not I reach for a lot, even though I often think, "This is still a pretty good song," every time I see the video, which admittedly isn't often.
Good tune. I have his greatest hits but to be honest. 4 songs are fantastic and the rest are forgettable. But those 4 tunes and that includes Jeopardy are great.
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The video is amazing, lots of fun, and more clever than it might seem at first glance. Lots of little detail to it. The song is catchy, but unfortunately I almost can't listen to it now because it was overplayed so much, and because of Weird Al's parody "I Lost on Jeopardy".
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another interesting fact....in 1986 Joe Satriani filled in as lead guitarist for the Greg Kihn Band. A year later, Satch would begin his solo career.
"Jeopary" is a great tune. It will forever be linked to Weird Al.
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I love Weird Al's parody as well, it's just a shame that it came out a year before Alex Trebek ressurected the game show "Jeopardy!" and thus Weird Al's song mentions Art Fleming as the host. I grew up with original "Jeopardy!" but most people today have no idea who Art Fleming is and why he's mentioned rather than Alex Trebek.
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I can say uneuivocally I have never seen that video in my life until now.
And now that I have, I can't say I am any better off than I was 5 minutes ago.
Yeah, but had you seen it back in 1981, you might have thought it was neat. Or maybe not. :lol :lol
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I was 5 in 1981, so not necessarily. Which is probably why some of the songs in this thread are totally unfamiliar to me :biggrin:
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Whitesnake - Still of the Night
A legitimately awesome hard rock song. This was the song that put Whitesnake on the map with the MTV crowd in 1987, and I was definitely someone who was sucked in immediately by the Led Zeppelin Junior approach of this song. A quarter of a century later, it still rocks. Honestly, I can't believe this song is 25 years old already. :eek :eek
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Ass kicking tune. Was dissapointed to find out that most of the guys in the video didn't play on the album though John Sykes is a killer guitarist.
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Ass kicking tune. Was dissapointed to find out that most of the guys in the video didn't play on the album though John Sykes is a killer guitarist.
I'd been a big Whitesnake fan for years before this came out and although it's different from the bluesier feel of earlier WS I still loved it- even though I'm no Zeppelin fan. Video wise- it's very much "of it's time" ;D
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Their s/t album is A+ top to bottom.
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Ass kicking tune. Was dissapointed to find out that most of the guys in the video didn't play on the album though John Sykes is a killer guitarist.
I was gonna post something extremely similar to this.
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I love the chords in the break. Actually the whole break is pretty cool.
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Def Leppard - Love Bites
This song was massive - it had to have been the 2nd most popular song off of Hysteria - but I was never much of a fan. I mean, by 80s ballad standards, it was okay, and I definitely get why it was so popular, but it just never clicked with me. The chorus shows off their love for Queen in a big way, with those layered harmonies.
The video had a cool effect: They recorded it at double speed, with the band performing at double speed, so that when played back at regular speed, it gave the video a real dreamlike feel.
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Whitesnake's self titled was the quintessential 80s hard rock/metal album, at least in terms of commercial appeal. A perfect mix of exquisitely written and performed hard rock and spectacular videos that might as well have been piped straight into the libidos of the average 18-25 year old male. Of course, the slinky music videos wouldn't have been quite so effective without some great music, and Still of the Night, despite the over the top Zeppelin aping, was a GREAT fucking song. I was always amused by the story that went around back then of just how the line up that toured for the album came into being. Coverdale had fired the band that was credited on the album, though a lot of people actually played on it. Coverdale had already enlisted Adrian Vandenberg to replace John Sykes, but legend has it that the rest of the band was basically put together to play in the video for Still of the Night and stayed together for the tour. I don't know if that's true, but I love the story so much I hope it's true.
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This song shows that Whitesnake is capable of kicking serious ass!
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Ass kicking tune. Was dissapointed to find out that most of the guys in the video didn't play on the album though John Sykes is a killer guitarist.
For me that's what makes the music video so amusing. :lol
Great song from a great album, and definitely one of their heavier tracks. Probably not my favourite from the album, although it's so consistent that it's really hard to say.
I can't recall, but I believe this was one of the 600 Whitesnake music videos with Tawny Kitaen in it? :lol
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Whitesnake - Still of the Night
A great song. I still love it today!
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Madness - Our House
An enjoyable quirky song; very easy to sing along to. The video isn't much to talk about, but it was good fun at the time. I think most would call this a classic 80s tune.
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the young Big Hath always got this song confused with Burning Down the House (released a year later)
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A fun little song. They've got better ones though.
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The video is brilliant. Nice editing work, silly to the appropriate degree, and actually is related to the song. The song of course is great.
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I don't like it, but it's completely not my style of music either (too british :lol). Nothing wrong with it aside from that though. It's catchy.
Never seen the music video until just then, but it's fun, so that's a plus.
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Anyone who watched MTV from day one was very familiar with Madness long before this video came out. Madness was one of the bands that embraced the video format early in England, and in the early days of MTV, the more videos you had, the better! Madness videos generally had the sort of cheeky, oh so British humor as Our House did; I distinctly recall the video for the song House of Fun being largely about teenagers buying condoms at the local drug store, wink wink nudge nudge. One of the odder memories I have about Our House though actually comes from my dad, who had, and still has, generally zero interest in anything rock and roll related. Yet he loved Our House for reasons that continue to escape my family to this day. For that, if nothing else, the song's a classic in my book.
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Madness - Our House
An enjoyable quirky song; very easy to sing along to. The video isn't much to talk about, but it was good fun at the time. I think most would call this a classic 80s tune.
I don't care what anyone else says, I still love this song/video.
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Madness - Our House
An enjoyable quirky song; very easy to sing along to. The video isn't much to talk about, but it was good fun at the time. I think most would call this a classic 80s tune.
In the middle of the Street! Never owned it but I did like the song. Fun and catchy.
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George Harrison - Got My Mind Set on You
I remember how much my parents loved this song when it came out; I liked it a lot, too. The video was a stitch, featuring the middle section where Harrison dances around and does a backflip, but even at the age of 14, it was oh so obvious that it was a stunt double doing all of that, not Harrison himself. For one, the stunt double had much thicker hair. :lol But anyway, good toe-tapping tune.
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Fun video, one of his catchiest songs.
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While Our House was the song that, my dad, inexplicably, liked, Got My Mind Set On You was the very first song my nephew, who is autistic, ever liked, at the rather young age of four or so. He grew up to be quite the headbanger, and actually went with me in 2010 to see Dream Theater and Iron Maiden, but this song was the first time ever the kid showed any interest in music, and with some doctors saying he'd never really have the capability to do that, it's pretty much etched into my memory for that reason alone. It's also a right catchy song with a great video too.
Yeah, I'm probably never going to run out of stories about the songs in this thread, in case you haven't noticed. :rollin
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George Harrison wrote a lot of great songs, but a lot of them were really, really repetitive. This is one of them. Yes, it's catchy, but in general, songs that literally repeat themselves over and over annoy me.
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That song's just six words long. Painful.
And that 'Our House' song is pretty bad too. I don't recall the video, will need to check it out.
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George Harrison wrote a lot of great songs, but a lot of them were really, really repetitive. This is one of them. Yes, it's catchy, but in general, songs that literally repeat themselves over and over annoy me.
While what you say is true...Got My Mind Set On You is a cover. :lol
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I dug it. Nice little melody.
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George Harrison wrote a lot of great songs, but a lot of them were really, really repetitive. This is one of them. Yes, it's catchy, but in general, songs that literally repeat themselves over and over annoy me.
While what you say is true...Got My Mind Set On You is a cover. :lol
I'm not sure if that makes it better... or worse.
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George Harrison - Got My Mind Set on You
I remember how much my parents loved this song when it came out; I liked it a lot, too. The video was a stitch, featuring the middle section where Harrison dances around and does a backflip, but even at the age of 14, it was oh so obvious that it was a stunt double doing all of that, not Harrison himself. For one, the stunt double had much thicker hair. :lol But anyway, good toe-tapping tune.
LOVE :heart
Actually, the whole Cloud Nine album is quite stellar.
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I gotta admit, the only songs I know from Cloud Nine are Got My Mind Set on You and When We Was Fab, the latter of which I like a lot as well. :)
Glenn Frey - Smuggler's Blues
Hands down, one of my favorite 80s videos back in my childhood. I think it still holds up well, and would still call it a favorite. Really good song, too. Looking back on the video, it apparently helped inspire the Miami Vice television show, but I gotta think Scarface was an inspiration on the video itself.
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I like this song. A song that has the feel of an action movie. "I'm sorry it went down like this; somebody had to lose."
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I dig the hell out of Smuggler's Blues - I remember it being on the MV soundtrack too.
I gotta admit, the only songs I know from Cloud Nine are Got My Mind Set on You and When We Was Fab, the latter of which I like a lot as well. :)
When We Was Fab is awesome too :heart
Jeff Lynne (ELO, Travelling Wilburys) did an excellent job producing the Cloud Nine album - you should really check out the rest of it.
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I like "When We Was Fab" a lot more than "Got My Mind Set On You". That violin line with the diminished chords (you know the one) sounds like something out of a Beatles song, a real Harrison trademark. Jeff Lynne is a huge Beatles fan and saw ELO as picking up where The Beatles left off, or at least picking up one part of what they were doing. If you listen to the first couple of ELO albums, you can hear it.
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Jeff freely admits that ELO was a Beatles rip-off band. :lol I didn't mind, as I love The Beatles (have ever since I can remember) and the whole mix of dramatic orchestral music with rock and roll just hit me in the right way growing up. Now... their later, more poppy output (after Out Of The Blue) was a bit hit and miss, as I really dig the more proggy sounding of their albums (going backwards from OOTB).
That violin line with the diminished chords (you know the one) sounds like something out of a Beatles song, a real Harrison trademark.
I know exactly what you're talking about. :heart
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ZZ Top - Legs
Probably one of THE definitive 80s videos, it featured the Eliminator Car, the Eliminator girls and the type of video that was so symbolic of the 80s: story-driven, fun and a little funny. Plus, the pacing of the video matches the pace of the song perfectly; great job by the director in that regard. Really good song, too.
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Agreed on all counts. ZZ Top's "three hot babes" series of videos were great. ZZ Top really knew how to use the video format, and I'm sure they sold tons of records. Heck, I almost bought some, that's how good they were.
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ZZ Top, at least for those three videos/one album, managed to update themselves for the 80s musically without changing their personal image, while making videos designed to grab your attention if you were in that 18-25 demographic. A pretty neat trick all around for a Texas boogie rock band that was one of the stalwarts of the 70s scene. A lot of 70s rock acts didn't pull this stunt off at all, but ZZ Top did with flying colors.
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That's a great song. I haven't checked out their new album yet. The Texicali EP didn't do much for me though
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Man I loved that video and no joke, those legs were unreal on those 3 girls. Meow.
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The Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination
An oddly catchy song, but still a good one. I remember my dad being a big fan of the song and the video. The video itself doesn't have much to it, other than the band in a small room playing and singing the song, but it does a good job of rotating from band member to band member, which really works given how many band members sing in the song. Gives it a better feel than watching a video with a band playing where just one person sings.
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I just saw them doing this song live on the HD music channel for some 80's revival concert in England. Man the lead singer is creepy.
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I always thought of this song as being the perfect blueprint for making sure that a band that had a hit would do its level best to make certain that would never happen again.
"Okay, let's base this song on the most annoying, repetitious riff that mankind can think of! Let's have a large majority of the song sung by people who had nothing to do with our big hit! Let's pretty much annoy the fuck out of the people who just bought our hit and have never heard anything else by us!"
While they did go on to have another hit with Human a few years later, this song and album killed the band fucking DEAD for a while in America. :lol
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ZZ Top - Legs
Cool video, but I always liked Sharp Dressed Man better - better song and all.
I haven't checked out their new album yet.
Don't know how you feel about Rick Rubin at all, but IMO you're better off sticking with older ZZ Top.
The Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination
Next...
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:tup
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Okay...
Pat Benatar - We Belong
I didn't like this song at all when it was big in 1984, partly because I fond the video really annoying for some reason, but I kind of like it now.
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I basically like most of Pat's rocking songs, and the slow ones and/or ones with political messages generally make me want to puke. This one's in the second category so
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This is when Pat Benetar jumped the shark. I mean I think this was successful for her, but for me, I was done.
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A bit like TAC when she went soft but I tought she rebounded well with 7 The Hard Way. Not a rocking album but it was so different at the time I liked it.
I don't mind the song now at all but the rest of the album is poor.
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Next... :lol
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Next... :lol
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Damn it. :facepalm:
John Parr - St. Elmo's Fire
I remember, as a kid, thinking this song had the greatest, most powerful chorus ever. In retrospect, that seems like an absurd thought, but it is still an awfully good chorus, and the rest of the song, reeking of the 80s, is quite enjoyable. I have never seen the movie, however.
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Isn't this another David Foster "No Humans Were Harmed Or Even Used In The Recording of this Song" sound track songs? :biggrin:
Reminds me of an old Doonesbury comic where the strips folk singer character went to the studio to be produced by David Foster and every single aspect of his needs musically was answered by Foster by describing some computerized wonder that replaced actual musicians. The singer finally says "Hey, about my vocals?" and Foster says "I got it covered." :rollin
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Was never a huge fan of Benetar's. Always liked her radio hits, which this was one.
St. Elmo's Fire ... Very groovy, love the piano. Since I was taking piano lessons back then, this was a tune that appealed to me. Still like it to is day.
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Damn it. :facepalm:
John Parr - St. Elmo's Fire
I remember, as a kid, thinking this song had the greatest, most powerful chorus ever. In retrospect, that seems like an absurd thought, but it is still an awfully good chorus, and the rest of the song, reeking of the 80s, is quite enjoyable. I have never seen the movie, however.
Always loved this track, great voice.
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Weird Kev. On the same concert I talked about with The Human League, John parr played and they showed that song. I'm not joking when I tell you he looks the same and had the same hair style from the era nd the video for SEF. :lol
Good song but I never would have bought it. But that's ok, MTV played the crap out of it.
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I honestly cannot remember how this song goes.
Was Naughty Naughty not available?
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John Parr - St. Elmo's Fire
Liked Naughty Naughty better. Neeeext... :lol
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decent track, pure 80's
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Madonna - Borderline
This was the first Madonna song I liked a lot. She had three hits from her self-titled 1983 album, and all got heavy airplay, but this was the only one I really liked a lot. Good video, too, that showed even early on how creative she could be with videos. The various looks and styles she had in the video was nothing compared to what would later come from the material girl. ;)
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The earlier with Madge, the better IMO - this does include Borderline, although my favorite from that album is Lucky Star.
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The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter
Good cover of a Simon & Garfunkel, albeit quite different. I love how the video matches the fast pace of the song, and the movie shots from Less Than Zero work perfectly in it, too.
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I thought this song was outstanding.
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I am pretty behind here.
The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter
Great cover, though one of those instances where I heard this version prior to the original. They did a great job updating it for their times and their song without losing the feel of the original.
Madonna - Borderline
Madonna :\
John Parr - St. Elmo's Fire
I remember, as a kid, thinking this song had the greatest, most powerful chorus ever. In retrospect, that seems like an absurd thought, but it is still an awfully good chorus, and the rest of the song, reeking of the 80s, is quite enjoyable. I have never seen the movie, however.
Pretty much how I feel. I have a dance remix of this song that just loops the chorus periodically. It gets old pretty fast.
The Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination
Don’t recall the video, and the song is just ok, but a local 80s cover band did a great job at playing it with a little added energy it needs.
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loved this cover when it came out....made me go back and listen to S&G again...they are a big guilty pleasure of mine
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On what planet is listening to Simon & Garfunkel a guilty pleasure? ???
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On what planet is listening to Simon & Garfunkel a guilty pleasure? ???
Im sure there are not alot of S&G fans hear on this board and I can guarantee most of the youngins have no idea who they are
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So? That doesn't make them a guilty pleasure, though. S&G are classic. Calling them a guilty pleasure is like calling The Beatles or Bob Dylan a guilty pleasure (although I personally get zero pleasure out of listening to Dylan :lol).
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So? That doesn't make them a guilty pleasure, though. S&G are classic. Calling them a guilty pleasure is like calling The Beatles or Bob Dylan a guilty pleasure (although I personally get zero pleasure out of listening to Dylan :lol).
I agree they are classic...guess my idea of guilty pleasure is admitting to listening to someone whom the majority in the conversation wouldn't admit too...
I know you guys love these lists but check out who's at number #1
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/blogs/staff-blog/rolling-stones-list-of-the-25-undisputed-guilty-pleasure-bands-20070409
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YES!!! :2metal:
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I know you guys love these lists but check out who's at number #1
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/blogs/staff-blog/rolling-stones-list-of-the-25-undisputed-guilty-pleasure-bands-20070409
a. What a shock that most of the artists on that list are ones critics routinely hate and/or criticize. :\ :\
B. Rolling Stone sucks.
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Like anything from Lolling Stone magazine has any relevance. The last time they did anything that mattered was a layout of a 1/2 naked Jennifer Aniston 16 years ago.
Let's just refer to them as :lol ing Stone from now on, ok?
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(https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v394/kevshmev/JA.jpg)
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Simon & Garfunkel are amazing. I have no problem proclaiming my undying love for them.
Also, Jennifer Aniston has a cute butt.
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The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter
Good cover of a Simon & Garfunkel, albeit quite different. I love how the video matches the fast pace of the song, and the movie shots from Less Than Zero work perfectly in it, too.
New was into the Bangles but I loved this song when it came out. Such a great cover and that movie was killer too. Robert Downey Jr. was great in it.
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On what planet is listening to Simon & Garfunkel a guilty pleasure? ???
Really - S&G are outstanding. ???
The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter
Never was a Bangles fan either, but I do like their cover of this. Probably the best thing they ever did IMO.
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The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter
Never was a Bangles fan either, but I do like their cover of this. Probably the best thing anybody who has ever recorded music has done ever IMO.
Fixed.
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Really?! :lol
No, seriously - REALLY?!
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I was kind of over the Bangles by the time this came out-not that I was really a huge fan, but hey, Susannah Hoffs could get my attention and make me wish I was a Rickenbacker, let me tell you. This was a soundtrack song, wasn't it? Yes, scrolling back to Kev's post tells me it was from Less Than Zero, a movie I had totally forgotten about. It actually reminds me of my personal theory that musical decades aren't exactly the same as calendar ones. To me, the kind of music that I think of as being the 80s ended in 1987 or so, with 88 and 89 being a sort of interim period, stretching in 1990, before the arrival of grunge and the death of glam metal. This song was one of the ones that fell into the tail end of 80s music as I see it. (In case you were wondering, the period of music in my head that I associate, largely, with 80s groups runs from 1979 to 1987. Even if you weren't, that's how it works for me!)
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Funny you say that, cause even though I like a lot of stuff from 1988 and 1989, I find that to be the stuff I listen to the least when going for my 80s playlist. '81-'87 gets almost all of the love. Plus, at that point, I was in high school and was starting to get into some classic rock in '89 thanks to the summer I spend cutting grass with my cousin Tim (and he was always playing classic rock on the radio).
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Amy Holland - Shooting for the Moon
Okay, I am going a bit off-kilter here, since this was not a bit at all, and I don't think there was a video for it, but it being prominently featured in a movie that screams 80s makes it very much of an 80s song to me, so I thought I'd include it here in the discussion. Very beautiful and melodic and CHEESY song, but I like it. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention the movie...it was the song that plays during the final scene and into the credits of Teen Wolf. :lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viCZGUb9rhU
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I have no memory of this song, because I never saw Teen Wolf. :lol
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I've seen the original Teen Wolf (sad that I need to even specify) a few times, and think it's pretty fun, but I still have no memory of the song. Must be pretty forgettable.
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Saw the movie but I don't remember this song.
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Peter Gabriel - Shock the Monkey
At the age of 9, I thought this song was so creepy and weird, but I still liked it a lot. The video was rather neat, too. Little did I know at the time what a huge fan I would eventually become of Peter Gabriel.
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Hated the song, hated the video, so naturally a handful of years later I loved Peter Gabriel era Genesis. :rollin
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Another weird, catchy tune from Peter, with a weird video, too. :tup
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Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name
A hugely popular song, really the song that put Bon Jovi on the map as a major act, it being the first single from Slippery When Wet, but while it is a song I enjoyed at the time, it was never really a favorite of mine, and is one I almost never listen to anymore. Not a bad song, just not one I really care to listen to.
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I love all of the hits from Slippery When Wet. Even though it's a very '80s song that represents the period, it's dated very well, as have the other hits.
The rest of the album, not so much.
And the music video is a typical phoned in '80s affair. Mind numbing concert footage. :lol
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And don't forget Blob, Bon Jovi beofre he used Nair.
I've said too much.
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Peter Gabriel - Shock the Monkey
Great video, greater song - LOVE it.
Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name
Yes, I had SWW as did a lot of people back then. It DID NOT age well. Next...
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It's interesting to note that, early on in their careers, at least in my circle of metal/hard rock fans, Bon Jovi was, if not liked, tolerated as a hard rock band. Kind of thought of on the same tier and type of music as Night Ranger was, not quite metal, but good, solid arena rock. I remember the band having a MTV concert around the time of their second album that honestly kicked several shades of ass.
And then Slippery When Wet came out.
And any tolerance my circle of metal/rock fans had for Bon Jovi fucking evaporated. I actually didn't mind the entire album, but the singles just felt like the band was catering towards an audience that wasn't me, especially You Give Love A Bad Name. Bon Jovi became the band that made the teen aged girls that shouldn't really have been at the parties you were throwing but you let em in anyway because you were only 21 or so and probably right addled where girls were concerned dance when You Give Love A Bad Name came on. Which, hey, worked out for Bon Jovi because it made them stars.
I will say that, however, when insanely drunk, this song had a fun chorus to sing along to. But never with that one sixteen year old girl who is really going to get some guy in trouble, over there in the corner stealing his tall boy Budweiser while batting her eyelashes at him.
No, that wasn't me. I was the guy getting shit faced on the purple passion over in the kitchen, amused by all of that. :rollin
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I'm a few days late, but I dig that Human League song. 80s new wave and synthpop always sits very well with me,
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I know I've shared my Bon Jovi story here before, but yeah, it's actually pretty scary the effect that Slippery When Wet had on females.
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Did any of you guys listen to Steve Winwood's album Arc of a Diver? When You See a Chance and the title song are amazing. The album is amazing too, but those tracks stand out.
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It's interesting to note that, early on in their careers, at least in my circle of metal/hard rock fans, Bon Jovi was, if not liked, tolerated as a hard rock band. Kind of thought of on the same tier and type of music as Night Ranger was, not quite metal, but good, solid arena rock. I remember the band having a MTV concert around the time of their second album that honestly kicked several shades of ass.
And then Slippery When Wet came out.
And any tolerance my circle of metal/rock fans had for Bon Jovi fucking evaporated. I actually didn't mind the entire album, but the singles just felt like the band was catering towards an audience that wasn't me, especially You Give Love A Bad Name. Bon Jovi became the band that made the teen aged girls that shouldn't really have been at the parties you were throwing but you let em in anyway because you were only 21 or so and probably right addled where girls were concerned dance when You Give Love A Bad Name came on. Which, hey, worked out for Bon Jovi because it made them stars.
I will say that, however, when insanely drunk, this song had a fun chorus to sing along to. But never with that one sixteen year old girl who is really going to get some guy in trouble, over there in the corner stealing his tall boy Budweiser while batting her eyelashes at him.
No, that wasn't me. I was the guy getting shit faced on the purple passion over in the kitchen, amused by all of that. :rollin
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I know I've shared my Bon Jovi story here before, but yeah, it's actually pretty scary the effect that Slippery When Wet had on females.
I think that goes for a lot of that hair rock/metal of the later 80s. Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Guns N' Roses, Poison, etc. Girls went nuts over almost all of them.
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Speaking of which...
Poison - Fallen Angel
This is the one Poison song I actually liked a lot at the time. None of the others did much for me, but I liked this song; enjoyable video, too, about a young girl moving to LA away from her family to try and make it in showbiz.
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Great tune. Open Up was a monumental improvement over Look What the Cat Dragged in. It actually had intelligent writing. This too was probably my initial favorite from the album. Nice video too.
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I actually do not remember that Poison song. They were one band that I had NO respect for.
Bon Jovi, on the other hand was the real deal. I actually saw them open for the Scorps in 1984, and they were incredible.
Slippery When Wet just blew up and really opened up the airways and charts for the hard rock/hair rock movement. But the follow up, New Jersey, is fantastic and has a heck of a lot more to do with Thin Lizzy than it does with hair metal.
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I have no memory of that Poison song, though I did own and like the debut album, even if the band looked HILARIOUS on the cover.
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I actually do not remember that Poison song. They were one band that I had NO respect for.
Bon Jovi, on the other hand was the real deal. I actually saw them open for the Scorps in 1984, and they were incredible.
Slippery When Wet just blew up and really opened up the airways and charts for the hard rock/hair rock movement. But the follow up, New Jersey, is fantastic and has a heck of a lot more to do with Thin Lizzy than it does with hair metal.
I saw them on that same tour and MSG was completely empty during Bon Jovi's set, Jon actually made a comment along the lines of how he wanted to take a couple of underage girls back to his hotel room before intoducing the song Runaway...
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TAC, what are the odds of Poison cracking your top ten? one in a trillion or just zero?
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David Bowie - China Girl
Always liked this song a lot, and still do. The video was always one that was easy to get sucked into, as it was oddly appealing. Pretty much everything about this song is great.
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I didn't like China Girl too much back in the day, but it grew on me BIG TIME over the years. Love it now. :heart
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I didn't like David Bowie back in the day, and I still don't.
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Great song.
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TAC, what are the odds of Poison cracking your top ten? one in a trillion or just zero?
Zero in a trillion!
Actually I came very close to seeing them in a small club before they broke. On the fall of '87 a slew of LA bands toured out here. I saw Faster Pussycat (who absolutely sucked) and Guns n Roses ( who were incredible). Poison came shortly after, I believe, and I had full intentions of going. I hadn't heard anything by them, but for some reason I didn't go.
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I never liked "China Girl" even though I like most David Bowie. The song itself is weird, with the pentatonic harmonies meant to evoke Chinese music, and what's with the "Oh baby, just you shut your mouth"? I've never understood love songs where someone tells the other to "just shut up and..." whatever. Maybe because I babble a lot and am always being told to shut up. Um, yeah.
Also, the girl in video was completely hideous. Fucking hell, you write a song about a Chinese babe and you make a video with the ugliest fucking Asian girl you can find? I didn't like the song anyway, but shit, when I saw the video it certainly did not help. I don't think I've ever actually made it through the video, though. Does she turn into a flower or something at the end? 'Cause as it is, you could hit her in the face with a brick and I still think it would be an improvement.
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I never liked "China Girl" even though I like most David Bowie. The song itself is weird, with the pentatonic harmonies meant to evoke Chinese music, and what's with the "Oh baby, just you shut your mouth"? I've never understood love songs where someone tells the other to "just shut up and..." whatever. Maybe because I babble a lot and am always being told to shut up. Um, yeah.
Also, the girl in video was completely hideous. Fucking hell, you write a song about a Chinese babe and you make a video with the ugliest fucking Asian girl you can find? I didn't like the song anyway, but shit, when I saw the video it certainly did not help. I don't think I've ever actually made it through the video, though. Does she turn into a flower or something at the end? 'Cause as it is, you could hit her in the face with a brick and I still think it would be an improvement.
I had a laugh when I read this, cause those were my exact same thoughts when I first saw the video way back when. She certainly has an 'androgynous' look which probably appealed to Bowie:
Geeling Ng is a New Zealand model, actress and restaurateur who is best known as the title character in David Bowie's music video "China Girl". She was a waitress when Bowie spotted her and wanted her in the video.[1]
Ng hosts the cooking segment for TV ONE's Asia Downunder and is the operations manager at Soul Bar & Bistro in Auckland's Viaduct. She was also a contestant on Dancing with the Stars in 2008. [2]
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:lol Yeah, I always thought she was less than attractive as well, but the nature of the video helps her out a little bit, I think. And Bowie is kind of a weird guy anyway, so pairing him up with a gal like that in a video kind of makes sense. :lol :lol
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David Bowie, weird?! Naaaaaah... :lol
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David Bowie, weird?! Naaaaaah... :lol
:rollin
This period of David Bowie's career was always interesting to me because it was obvious to me that he sat down and said "you know what? I'm going to jump headfirst into this whole 80s rock thing and just make a shit ton of money." He would later have a lot of bad things to say about Let's Dance and the videos and what not, but everything about Let's Dance was custom built to make huge amounts of money. I remember on this tour he played TWO dates in Norfolk, VA because the first one sold out. I can name only a handful of acts who pulled that off around here, and one of them was the Rolling Stones. Bowie might not look back too fondly on this period, but for a while he was huge.
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Oh God, Let's Dance (album) was HUGE. It also put one Stevie Ray Vaughan (RIP) in the spotlight, and well deserved too.
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I was aware of 60's and 70's weirdo Bowie while growing up, but when Let's Dance came out, that's when I actually thought he wasn't too bad. Rewatching the "Let's Dance" video now, it's hard to believe, but I distinctly remember watching it and thinking "Yep, the dude's still way weird". But I love Let's Dance and the follow-up Tonight ("Loving the Alien" is so cool) and they inspired me to take a real look at his back catalogue. Lots of cool stuff back there.
So even if David himself views the 80's as a time of artistic compromise, which it totally was, it got a lot of people into his past work, which he presumably holds in higher regard.
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Speaking of guys that were big in the 70s...
Rod Stewart - Lost in You
I have to admit that I had completely forgotten about this song. In fact, I hadn't heard it probably since the late 80s until it popped up on VH1 Classic a few weeks ago, and I was like, "Oh yeah! Good song, and nice video." As a 15-year old, it was even better at the time. :biggrin:
The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoOytXDDWT0
I am not a strip bar guy at all, but 1:38-1:44 is glorious. :hat :hat :hat
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No one remembers that one, eh?
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Doesn't sound familiar.
* watches clip
Ok, that was painful, almost had ot fast-forward to 1:38. The chorus sounds vaguely familiar. But maybe it just has that generic Rod Stewart sound I had to listen to all the time since my mom was a big fan of his.
Looking back through this page, didn't like China Doll, and never got in to Bowie for whatever reason.
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I don't specifically remember that one either, but I do like me some Rod Stewart.
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Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight
This duet with Ronnie Spector was wildly popular, reaching the top 5 on the pop chart here in the States, and the video was played to death on MTV. I don't remember the video being anything noteworthy, but I always liked the song.
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Ick... sorry... :lol
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This is not your week in this thread, is it? :biggrin: :lol
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This is not your week in this thread, is it? :biggrin: :lol
Heh, not really. :lol
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Ahh, yes. As far as I was concerned, until he popped up in that Geico commercial about being as happy as Eddie Money at a travel agency, this pretty much was the end of Eddie Money's career for me. :lol Honestly don't know how he followed it up on this ALBUM, let alone the next one.
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Fine, I'll throw another out there now and both can be up for discussion for now (not like I don't do two or three some days already anyway)...
David Lee Roth - Yankee Rose
An awesome video in every way possible. The intro is incredible - "Gimme a bottle of anything, and a glazed donut...to go!" And then when the song starts, it is just as good. Say what you want about DLR, but the guy had charisma, and he could make a great video even just out of him and his band performing on stage. And wearing assless pants. :rollin :rollin :rollin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsC7oEjCHAM
2:24-2:25 is possible the funniest moment in any DLR video ever. Roth shaking his butt in the screen goes perfectly with that emotive guitar lead by Steve Vai. :lol :lol :lol
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Home run! :lol :lol
Cool song, MUCH better video. I always loved how much David Lee Roth embraced the video medium - he really made the most of it back then.
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I can't do it anymore, but for AGES, I could recite every crazy line in the introduction of this video, and "Give me a bottle of anything and a glazed donut...to GO" was pretty much my catchphrase. The rest of the video was a fairly standard performance video to introduce DLR's new band-and good fucking god, what a band-but that intro was fucking dynamite.
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I just listened to this one the other day. :hat
Great song, and as usual DLR shines in the video. What he lacks in vocal ability, he's always made up for with charisma.
(https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/BlobVanDam/DLR2.gif)
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Yes! I am gonna have to steal that. :hat :hat
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Dare I even ask what for? :lol
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I have several cousins who are big fans of VH/DLR. They will get a chuckle over that. That's all. Swear. :lol :lol
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Give me a bottle of anything and a glazed donut.
To Go.................
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(https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/BlobVanDam/DLR2.gif)
:rollin
I just listened to this one the other day. :hat
Great song, and as usual DLR shines in the video. What he lacks in vocal ability, he's always made up for with charazma.
FTFY :lol
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That gif would be a home run if he was wearing his assless chaps.
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^ Truth. :kingshmeg:
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Give me a bottle of anything and a glazed donut.
To Go.................
Fuckin this.
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That gif would be a home run if he was wearing his assless chaps.
Word. Eat 'em and Smile was the very first CD I ever bought. Great song, better video. Never got tired of it. All four of the band had some grade-A charisma. And that mullet on Bissonette!
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I always loved how Vai tried out outdo Roth in that clip.
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I found DLR solo stuff to be hit or miss; this is a hit!
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Bryan Adams - Cuts Like a Knife
Good song, and the video is one of those that looks cheesy and dated now, but back then it was kind of cool; it was always a favorite of my Dad's. The gal in the video was quite the looker and had really nice legs. :coolio
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I would never actually buy a Bryan Adams album (strictly speaking, that isn't true, since I inadvertently failed to fill out the "do not buy" card from Columbia House on time the month that that album was the Columbia House album of the month, so I was on the hook for it when they sent it, and therefore actually did buy it, but it was an accident, so it doesn't count), but I pretty much enjoyed his songs when they would come on the radio or MTV, this one included.
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Never heard the song and I'll have to look it up later, but I did go to school with a guy named Bryan Adams.
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Never heard the song and I'll have to look it up later, but I did go to school with a guy named Bryan Adams.
I'll guarantee it wasn't the same guy. :lol
Adams is pretty much the Canadian standard bearer for commercial rock music - writing, producing, recording. His late 80s output was fantastic. Cuts Like a Knife is a great album. It's like the Canadian Pyromania... a great setup to the commercial juggernaut that followed - Reckless.
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I would never actually buy a Bryan Adams album (strictly speaking, that isn't true, since I inadvertently failed to fill out the "do not buy" card from Columbia House on time the month that that album was the Columbia House album of the month, so I was on the hook for it when they sent it, and therefore actually did buy it, but it was an accident, so it doesn't count), but I pretty much enjoyed his songs when they would come on the radio or MTV, this one included.
Do those things still run? If it happens to you again put "Refused, Return to Sender" on the box and put it back in the mail.
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I always enjoyed Bryan Adams work, but I too was never one to buy any of his cd's. Great artist.
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I would never actually buy a Bryan Adams album (strictly speaking, that isn't true, since I inadvertently failed to fill out the "do not buy" card from Columbia House on time the month that that album was the Columbia House album of the month, so I was on the hook for it when they sent it, and therefore actually did buy it, but it was an accident, so it doesn't count), but I pretty much enjoyed his songs when they would come on the radio or MTV, this one included.
Do those things still run? If it happens to you again put "Refused, Return to Sender" on the box and put it back in the mail.
No, this was back when the album was actually new. Yeah, I eventually learned the system.
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I would never actually buy a Bryan Adams album (strictly speaking, that isn't true, since I inadvertently failed to fill out the "do not buy" card from Columbia House on time the month that that album was the Columbia House album of the month, so I was on the hook for it when they sent it, and therefore actually did buy it, but it was an accident, so it doesn't count), but I pretty much enjoyed his songs when they would come on the radio or MTV, this one included.
:lol
Great story, suckah!
That is so funny, I can absolutely relate. They actually contacted me because I sent back so many albums. :lol
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I would never actually buy a Bryan Adams album (strictly speaking, that isn't true, since I inadvertently failed to fill out the "do not buy" card from Columbia House on time the month that that album was the Columbia House album of the month, so I was on the hook for it when they sent it, and therefore actually did buy it, but it was an accident, so it doesn't count), but I pretty much enjoyed his songs when they would come on the radio or MTV, this one included.
:lol
Great story, suckah!
That is so funny, I can absolutely relate. They actually contacted me because I sent back so many albums. :lol
Yup. As a friend of mine used to say, "What, do I have 'Charms' written on my forehead?" :sucka:
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Bryan Adams - Cuts Like a Knife
Okay song the first 5 times I heard it, not so much the 100 and 11dy6 times I heard it after that. I've always liked Run To You much, much better.
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Cuts Like A Knife isn't really one of teh more popular singles over here in Australia. It's played but not as much as 69, Run To You, Heaven, Do It For You even The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me is played more.
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They were all played a LOT here in the States, but Cuts Like a Knife more so than the other ones you mentioned. Well... Knife AND Summer of '69...
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They played this video a LOT, and of course it got a young Jaq's attention since it largely featured a leggy model getting into a swimsuit. :lol Songwise, it was certainly catchy and stuck in the head, but better things were coming for Bryan Adams with Reckless, which was one of the best pure rock albums of the 80s. Funny thing is, I wound up with Reckless because...my sister neglected to turn in her Columbia House card, and it was sent to her, and she threw it my way just to get rid of it. :lol
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I never liked this song much, but was a big fan of Reckless.
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I always enjoyed Bryan Adams work, but I too was never one to buy any of his cd's. Great artist.
Bryan was great until Everything I Do ruined him. He was great in concert too back in the day. In the last 20 years there's been too many ballads and his balls got lost. Keith Scott was a very tasteful guitar player too.
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I never owned any of his CD's till after Waking up the neighborhood. The man can write an anthem rocking tunes. Lowdz is correct that after WUTN, he went pop and that's when I stopped buying his stuff. I did see him on the WUTN's tour and he killed. You know how opened for them? The Storm. Anybody remember their one album?
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I never owned any of his CD's till after Waking up the neighborhood. The man can write an anthem rocking tunes. Lowdz is correct that after WUTN, he went pop and that's when I stopped buying his stuff. I did see him on the WUTN's tour and he killed. You know how opened for them? The Storm. Anybody remember their one album?
Yeah I remember The Storm. Kevin Chalfont on vocals? More Journey than Journey were at the time.
If you take Bryan Adams' vocals off WUTN and put Joe Elliot there it's a Def Leppard album. Mutt was all over it.
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Oh hell yeah. They as a million HEY, HEYS of a thousand backing vocals in that album. :lol
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I am so proud of myself for NOT remembering them!
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The Kinks - Do It Again
What a powerhouse rocker this is! Great tune, one I loved immediately back in '84 and still love to this day. And the video was absolute money, featuring Ray Davies hamming it up even more than he did in the Come Dancing video, which seemed impossible at the time. I like how the video brought back the character from the Come Dancing video (played by Davies, of course), and the latter part of the video is awesome, as Davies pounds away on the drums dressed in a rather odd-looking clown outfit. :lol In short, great song and even greater video. :tup :tup
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfGwjHg9gyU
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Before watching the video, I could not remember the song.
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The Kinks - Do It Again
What a powerhouse rocker this is! Great tune, one I loved immediately back in '84 and still love to this day. And the video was absolute money, featuring Ray Davies hamming it up even more than he did in the Come Dancing video, which seemed impossible at the time. I like how the video brought back the character from the Come Dancing video (played by Davies, of course), and the latter part of the video is awesome, as Davies pounds away on the drums dressed in a rather odd-looking clown outfit. :lol In short, great song and even greater video. :tup :tup
I agree with all of this. Great song, rockin', upbeat. One of my favorite Kinks songs. :tup
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I absolutely love that song. Saw them on this tour ( the old Boston Garden) as a 15 year old with Tommy Shaw opening. (Girls With Guns)
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Great to see some love for this song! I was afraid it was gonna be one of those "I don't remember this song" for everyone. I am happy to be wrong. :)
What's interesting, too, is the song wasn't much of a hit. I remember it getting solid airplay on MTV, but I don't think it did well on the pop charts at all. Maybe it didn't sound "80s" enough to be a big hit in 1984. :lol
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It got good radio airplay at the time if memory serves Kev.
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I never owned any of his CD's till after Waking up the neighborhood. The man can write an anthem rocking tunes. Lowdz is correct that after WUTN, he went pop and that's when I stopped buying his stuff. I did see him on the WUTN's tour and he killed. You know how opened for them? The Storm. Anybody remember their one album?
Yeah I remember The Storm. Kevin Chalfont on vocals? More Journey than Journey were at the time.
That's because Journey was in the middle of a 10 year hiatus at the time.
Schon was asked to be the guitarist for The Storm, too, which would have made it 4 Journey members, but he had another project going at the time so couldn't do it. It was either Bad English or Hardline, don't remember the exact timing. Ramos was his guy, though, he recommended him to Rolie for the band.
Somewhere in here Rolie and Schon discussed giving Perry the boot and bringing Chalfant in as the lead singer of Journey (with Rolie rejoining). Chalfant even sung with Journey for one or two small shows. I'm not sure all the details have ever come out, but Chalfant was very close to being in some form of Journey. At different times I've heard different stories. Maybe Perry wanting to come back put a stop to it. Maybe Schon got nervous because Chalfant was as controlling and egotistical as Perry when they tried writing.
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After watching the video, I definitely remember the song. I don't recall it being played on the radio, just MTV.
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Before watching the video, I could not remember the song.
Me too.
After watching the video, I definitely remember the song. I don't recall it being played on the radio, just MTV.
That's probably why I couldn't remember it just from the title of the song, since I didn't have MTV at home until the early 90s.
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INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
Another big hit from the Kick record, one I love dearly; it's just a gorgeous song. Neat video, too, and I remember thinking, in reference to the extended intro, "Where did that come from?" I wish it had been on the album like that. But the song as is on the album is still absolutely dynamite. Kick was my favorite album of all-time at the time it was out, and Never Tear Us Apart was a part of that great Side 2 (although the only hit/single from Side 2).
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I'm more of a fan of their earlier stuff, but yeah - GREAT band, great song.
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Kick was a masterpiece of 80s pop-rock. Most of the album-one of the few that the manager of the Musicland I worked at let us play beyond his playlist of precisely three albums (the first Traveling Wilburys album, something by Anita Baker, and Don't Be Cruel by Bobby Brown) that normally got airplay in my store-was single worthy, and the tracks that weren't singles were still pretty damn good. One of the best albums of the 80s right here; even though I wasn't much of a fan of either this song or the album, I recognized how well done it was back then.
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I didn't like everything by INXS, but they had some catchy songs, and I liked this one. Michael Hutchense could sing with incredible emotion in his voice, and that saxophone solo was killer.
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It's really a shame about Michael - I agree, Orbert, his voice was downright incredible sometimes.
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This is one fellow homegrown band that I could never stand to be honest. They are absolutely huge over here, so overplaying of every single one of their hits didn't help. I appreciate their sound but for me they just repeated themselves too much. They use the same clean guitar riff in just about every song.
I actually had the displeasure of seeing them live a few years ago with JD Fortune and they were absolutely dreadful, Michael would be rolling in his grave with what this band has become.
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U2 - New Year's Day
Awesome song in every way possible, and a helluva video, too, one that matches the cold vibe of the song. I always loved watching MTV on January 1st back in the day since I knew they would play this video (this was when I was a kid and before I owned the War CD and before the video was easily viewed on youtube at any time).
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I always liked this song, but probably liked it more back when U2 were new and different and not horribly overplayed on every pop (and now classic rock) station in America.
For some reason, I thought it was really cool that Bono sang "be with you, be with you". It would've been cool to sing it and have it echo in time, but maybe he thought that would be too cliché, or maybe he just thought it was cooler this way anyway. Which it is.
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Never dug that one - I'll take Sunday Bloody Sunday over New Year's Day ANY day of the week that ends in Y.
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Never dug that one - I'll take Sunday Bloody Sunday over New Year's Day ANY day of the week that ends in Y.
So, not tomorrow?
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One of my favourite U2 songs. I have a tradition of playing this as the very first song I listen to on New Years day.
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Never dug that one - I'll take Sunday Bloody Sunday over New Year's Day ANY day of the week that ends in Y.
So, not tomorrow?
Har har, very funny. :P
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Never dug that one - I'll take Sunday Bloody Sunday over New Year's Day ANY day of the week that ends in Y.
So, not tomorrow?
Har har, very funny. :P
I'm here all week. :biggrin:
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I guess I should enjoy the veal while I'm at it... :justjen
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War was the album that U2 started turning into the U2 we know them as today-before that, they'd been a kind of punky/New Wave type thing, not really the socially conscious activist rockers that they wound up spending most of the rest of the 80s as. They were still filing the edges off their sound, refining it, and War is pretty well a halfway point between their earlier approach and the band they became. You didn't really get the sense of how big they were going to be when New Year's Day came out, though there was a sense of seeing these guys mature pretty quickly over their early output and that they were going to be pretty successful. But wow, did they blow up HUGE over the next few years!
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War was the album that U2 started turning into the U2 we know them as today-before that, they'd been a kind of punky/New Wave type thing, not really the socially conscious activist rockers that they wound up spending most of the rest of the 80s as. They were still filing the edges off their sound, refining it, and War is pretty well a halfway point between their earlier approach and the band they became. You didn't really get the sense of how big they were going to be when New Year's Day came out, though there was a sense of seeing these guys mature pretty quickly over their early output and that they were going to be pretty successful. But wow, did they blow up HUGE over the next few years!
All true. I was pretty young at the time, but I sure didn't see it coming when they became the biggest band in the world with the release of The Joshua Tree.
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They were EVERYWHERE after The Joshua Tree came out. Great album though.
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The Bangles - Manic Monday
Written by Prince, because he apparently had a huge crush on Susanna Hoffs (who in the hell didn't?!?!?!?!?!?!), Manic Monday is a fantastic pop song: catchy as hell and with a brilliant hook. The video wasn't anything ground-breaking, but any video that shows a lot of Hoffs is a good one. :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:
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Decent enough song, but it got WAY overplayed at that time IMO. I didn't know that Prince had written it at first though, but that upped its cool points.
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The song that proved that Prince, in fact, wrote every pop single in the 80s that didn't have much of anything to do with Michael Jackson. :rollin I remember hearing around the time that this song came out that Prince had offered Susannah Hoffs a spot in his band, which prompted me to remark that "Prince can't have ALL the good looking women in music!" and crack up my friends with its earnestness. I actually owned this album, and recall how it left my life...sold at a family yard sale. :lol
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Excellent tune. Hoffs has aged quite well to boot.
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The song that proved that Prince, in fact, wrote every pop single in the 80s that didn't have much of anything to do with Michael Jackson. :rollin
Say what?! :rollin
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In the mid-80s, it seemed like every time you turned around, the new hit single had been written by Prince. So in my circle of friends, we had a running joke that Prince wrote every hit single of the 80s with the exception of Michael Jackson's hits. Which could get funny when a song came on the radio and we raced to declare it was written by Prince.
Did I mention that generally a lot of alcohol was involved in these inside jokes?
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Aha, that would 'splain it. :lol
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New Order - True Faith
One of the more entertaining videos of the later 80s, as it features a bunch of characters dressed in colorful outfits slapping each other (humorously, to the beat of the song), beating each other up and dancing, all at the same time. Pretty entertaining, to say the least. Good solid dance song, too.
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Was never my genre, so I don't even recall the song.
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I'll have to YT that, as I don't remember it either.
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I'll have to YT that, as I don't remember it either.
Did you say Y&T?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QR4O0-G9HA
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The Bangles - Manic Monday
Good song, never knew Prince wrote it.
New Order - True Faith
One of the more entertaining videos of the later 80s, as it features a bunch of characters dressed in colorful outfits slapping each other (humorously, to the beat of the song), beating each other up and dancing, all at the same time. Pretty entertaining, to say the least. Good solid dance song, too.
I have a remix of this that I listen to all the time. I love it. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KahhJpqpf10) And I honestly can’t say I recall the video, or even the last time I heard a non-remix version of this song. New Order had some good tunes, especially Blue Monday – another song with some great remixes.
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I'll have to YT that, as I don't remember it either.
Did you say Y&T?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QR4O0-G9HA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QR4O0-G9HA)
:ultimetal:
YOUTUBE, silly. :lol
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Oh, my bad. But while we're on the subject of really good Y&T videos, why waste the opportunity? :biggrin:
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True enough - I'll scope it out either when I get home or later on this week. :metal
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Just an advance word of caution: brace yourself for mid-'80s neon pink jumpsuit. But otherwise, outstanding performance.
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Thanks for the warning. :lol
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Just an advance word of caution: brace yourself for mid-'80s neon pink jumpsuit band in PASTELS, NOTHING BUT PASTELS. But otherwise, outstanding performance.
Fixed that for you. :lol Awesome song though.
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Just an advance word of caution: brace yourself for mid-'80s neon pink jumpsuit band in PASTELS, NOTHING BUT PASTELS. But otherwise, outstanding performance.
Fixed that for you. :lol
:lol True.
Awesome song though.
Definitely. As Rob Halford said of that song, "FOREVER! Best heavy metal song ever written!" But...since it doesn't have a "proper" video, and it wasn't posted by Kev, I should probably stop hijacking his thread now. :lol
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New Order - True Faith
One of the more entertaining videos of the later 80s, as it features a bunch of characters dressed in colorful outfits slapping each other (humorously, to the beat of the song), beating each other up and dancing, all at the same time. Pretty entertaining, to say the least. Good solid dance song, too.
I have a remix of this that I listen to all the time. I love it. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KahhJpqpf10) And I honestly can’t say I recall the video, or even the last time I heard a non-remix version of this song. New Order had some good tunes, especially Blue Monday – another song with some great remixes.
That remix was good! :tup :tup
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Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes
This is one of those songs I never really liked a lot or disliked, but is one I associate with a specific time period, simply because it was played so much at the time I was first listening to music a lot. It was all over the radio and MTV in 1981, so it was impossible to avoid. I think it was number 1 for like seven or eight weeks, IIRC.
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I remember really liking this track when i was very young... like 4yrs old. And Carnes' voice was very unique.
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Oh yes, while it was actually a hit (which is not what you can say about a LOT of early MTV videos) this song was definitely a mainstay of the early days of MTV when the policy was "You made a music video? WE'LL PLAY IT." Pretty sure at one point it was on every other hour. Man, early MTV was so weird and so fun all at once.
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Her voice bugs me, but I watched the video because I always loved the slapping-in-unison scene.
"Slap-slap... slap! Slap-slap... slap!"
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Eh. Was never much of a fan of that song.
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Dire Straits - Walk of Life
This was on of the few songs by them, growing up, that I liked, helped in large part by the video, featuring a wide array of sports bloopers, falls, etc. Whoever put that collection of sports clips together for this video deserves high praise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZxVC0GB838
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I love Dire Straits to death. One of my favorite bands, and Making Movies is one of my favorite albums ever. Seeing them become huge with Brothers In Arms pleased me greatly, and I was always happy when one of their videos came on MTV. Was just listening to this album earlier in the day, and while, to be honest, I liked their earlier albums more (I really liked when they got their prog on with Love Over Gold), Brothers In Arms still holds up as a great album. This was a nicely edited video for a rather catchy song. Mark Knopfler could make a guitar wail, but he had a knack for writing catchy as hell songs.
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Cool song, but as I've posted elsewhere ITT - Sultans of Swing rules all.
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Cool song, but as I've posted elsewhere ITT - Sultans of Swing rules all.
Tunnel of Love would like a word with you. :lol
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Well... all right, then. :lol
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Well... all right, then. :lol
Tunnel of Love is, and will always be, my favorite Dire Straits song. Always!
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I'm that way with Sultans, obviously. :lol
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Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Pretty good song, and another one of those songs that was impossible to avoid if you watched MTV or listened to the radio at the time; it was hugely popular and everywhere. I remember it being the song that finally knocked The Police's Every Breath You Take out of the number 1 spot on the Billboard chart after eight weeks of it reigning at the top.
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This was the kind of music I listened to when it was released, so I liked it plenty. My tastes changed shortly thereafter. Don't really care for it now, other than the nostalgic aspect.
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There are a handful of videos from the early days that I'd consider truly iconic, and this is one of them. Annie's look, from the short, bright red hair to the business suit, was stunning. Dave's strings were obviously synth, but in the video he's playing a real cello. What up with that? Just some minor mindfucking, nothing to get excited about, but still pretty cool. Annie's amazing voice. The song itself had that incessant beat. This was one of the videos you had to watch when it came on.
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heh, my wife can't stand Annie Lennox and cringes any time she hears this song.
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Definitely not my thing, then or now, but I can appreciate it, both as a perfect example of 80s pop and a perfectly crafted music video. One of the most iconic songs and videos of the decade.
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I HATED that song when it first came out, but hearing Annie's solo stuff later on warmed me up to it and fast.
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Can't believe Dave Stewart sold out and did this, guess National Health wasn't a big seller /joke
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Heh heh
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Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy
This song was never on my radar. Even when it was played back in the day, I either didn't pay attention to it or I changed the channel. I wouldn't say I hated it, but it did absolutely nothing for me.
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But Annabella
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Egh. Next...
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If it's the tune I think it is, I second Deb
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Hall & Oates - Say It Isn't So
These guys had a million hits back then, and out of all of them, this was probably one of my two or three favorites. I love the musical intro, and the driving verses are a great set-up for the wonderful chorus; very catchy and fun to sing along to. The video wasn't anything special, but was still effective. I always noticed what a presence John Oates was in their videos. Maybe it was the mustache :lol, but you were always watching what he was doing.
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One of their better 80s songs IMO.
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80's Hall & Oates = awesome.
I'm not sure they had a bad song in the 80's. I would've said ever, but I can't say I've heard much of their 90's-current catalog.
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I fucking love Hall and Oates.
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I'm not sure they had a bad song in the 80's.
Yeah, pretty much everything was mint.
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Cinderella - Nobody's Fool
I loved this song to death when it first came out, but it didn't have a lot of staying power with me. Maybe it's because just about every other subsequent Cinderella song/video was a snoozer for me, but this song just didn't do it for me once it wore off me. Listening to it now, it is okay, but still nothing to get excited about.
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Keifer's got one of the most distinct voices from the 80s glam bands. Wasn't a huge fan of this one, but it was all right.
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Ahh, Nobody's Fool. If you looked sideways at it, you realized what a rip of Def Leppard's Bringing On The Heartbreak it was. :lol I kid, but it did rather obviously follow the early 80s power ballad formula, which really did get a lot from Def Leppard. Never really had a lot of time for Cinderella back then; the one thing I remember most was the stories about how their drummer apparently couldn't manage to get recording in the studio right (which was caused, in part, by a session drummer finishing up the recording of the first album before Fred Coury joined, and Cozy Powell being credited for the drums on Long Cold Winter)-which doesn't say a lot about their music now does it? :lol
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I think Cinderella is one of the better hair bands of the 80s. The debut from them is stellar; including this tune.
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Was only a moderate Cinderella fan, but always thought this was a great song.
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I think Cinderella is one of the better hair bands of the 80s. The debut from them is stellar; including this tune.
I agree. Some great tunes on the debut like Push Push, Once Around The Ride, In From The Outside.
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Ahh, Nobody's Fool. If you looked sideways at it, you realized what a rip of Def Leppard's Bringing On The Heartbreak it was.
Really? I've never thought that. Yeah, I guess the chords are similar (maybe same chords even), but they're not really similar songs.
...the one thing I remember most was the stories about how their drummer apparently couldn't manage to get recording in the studio right (which was caused, in part, by a session drummer finishing up the recording of the first album before Fred Coury joined, and Cozy Powell being credited for the drums on Long Cold Winter)-which doesn't say a lot about their music now does it? :lol
Yeah, I remember the Coury stories as well. Not a great drummer. But whatever. For the stuff they played, nothing really technical was required. But are you sure it was Powell? I seem to recall that Denny Carmassi got the credit on that album.
EDIT: Just had to look it up. Actually, they are BOTH credited, so I guess we both got it right. :lol
But, yeah, I liked them a lot. The first two albums were just terrific. They lost me a bit after that. I thought Heartbreak Station and Still Climbing had some good songs, but were too stripped down, and just got a bit too funky with the horn sections, etc.
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Eh... Nobody's Fool didn't age well for me.
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Well, then I guess you won't get fooled again. :lhk:
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:lol
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I can't believe I'm gonna do this....
Meet the new Bosk, same as the old Bosk.
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:tup
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I can't believe I'm gonna do this....
Meet the new Bosk, same as the old Bosk.
He's quite a bargain.
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I can't believe I'm gonna do this....
Meet the new Bosk, same as the old Bosk.
He's quite a bargain.
Best I ever had. :hat
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:fingerdance:
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:lol
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You guys and girls are silly. :lol
Speaking of silly...
Crowded House - Something So Strong
Good song, and one of the silliest videos ever, simply the band and some friends goofing around in a barn while performing the song. Some probably think the video is a bit too silly, but to me it just looks like a bunch of people having a good time and acting like jackasses. And what's wrong with that?? :hat
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Off the top of my head, I cannot recall this song.
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Off the top of my head, I cannot recall this song.
It rings a bell... a very tiny bell, but for the most part I'm with TAC. Can't say I remember the tune.
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Remember the song, but it's MASSIVELY overshadowed by Don't Dream Its Over, which for me was the single best pop song of the 80s. Video was pretty harmless fun, though.
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Never liked Crowded House. Something So Strong was a good song though, but I don't remember the video.
Don't Dream It's Over was either way overplayed, or just not very good. Perhaps both.
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I really love Crowded House. I saw them live at the Minnesota Zoo's Amphitheater and it was really good. Something So Strong is a great song.
It's sad what happened to their drummer
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Remember the song, but it's MASSIVELY overshadowed by Don't Dream Its Over
Agreed.
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LL Cool J - Going Back to Cali
For some reason, Totally 80s plays this video all of the time, which seems odd since it wasn't that popular or played that much at the time. Rap has never been to my liking, so I can't say I was ever much of a fan of it.
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Wow, seems like we've been in Less Than Zero mode around here a lot lately. We had Hazy Shade Of Winter, then the Bring The Noise discussion on the DT side, and now this. I think it's a sign that I need to go out and try to scare up a copy of this soundtrack.
I don't remember seeing the video much, but the song was kinda quirky and fun. Given that it was on the soundtrack, which I had, I actually gave this song a lot of play. I find that in terms of rock, pop, and rap, there was a pretty balanced mix that made it a pretty good listen all the way through.
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LL Cool J - Going Back to Cali
For some reason, Totally 80s plays this video all of the time, which seems odd since it wasn't that popular or played that much at the time. Rap has never been to my liking, so I can't say I was ever much of a fan of it.
that's odd. I remember it totally differently. I saw this video all the time.
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LL Cool J - Going Back to Cali
Yo, I don't think so. :lol
Anyhoo - LOVED this song back in the day. Still do. There's just something about late 80s/early 90s rap that is just so awesome to me.
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There's just something about late 80s/early 90s rap that is just so awesome to me.
This.
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I mean, think about it - you have, at the VERY least, Beastie Boys, Run DMC (Raising Hell was SO huge, even at the podunk school I went to for my junior/senior years), LL Cool J, NWA, Ice-T, Public Enemy, Digital Underground... and I'm sure I'm leaving TONS out too... :lol
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I don't have too much rap music in my collection, just the Run DMC "You be Illin'" single on vinyl and Young MC's "Stone Cold Rhymin'" on CD. Money well spent, if you ask me.
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You Be Illin' is so awesome. :lol
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I just saw it at the record store, remembered that I had heard "Christmas in Hollis" the Christmas before, and thought, "yeah, this is what rap should be". The single was two dollars and had "Hit it Run" as a B-Side, which is a decent song in itself.
This was when I was just getting into Dream Theater. A Dramatic Turn of Events was released at about that time, and it's been a lot of fun ever since.
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Christmas in Hollis is amazing. Have you seen the video?
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That's what first got me into late 80's rap. It was fun, it wasn't forced or anything. It didn't have to be overtly adult to be good. If it related to you, it was good. "Roll with the punches" by Young MC is a pretty good example of rap that is uplifting, fun, and even a little inspiring.
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I'll never forget hearing "I Wanna Rock/Doo Doo Brown" on the radio in the early 90's with my buddies. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard in my life.
That was either 2 Live Crew or Luke after he went solo.
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I have to search for that on You Tube. Sounds pretty hilarious.
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don't get your hopes up. I'm sure most of the hilarity stemmed from hearing it with 3 or 4 other middle-school aged boys.
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LOL, fair enough. :lol
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I'll never forget hearing "I Wanna Rock/Doo Doo Brown" on the radio in the early 90's with my buddies. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard in my life.
That was either 2 Live Crew or Luke after he went solo.
Yeah, it was Luke Skywalker. That song plus DJ Jimi's Where They At (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu00R61PzbE) owned Q-93's Hot 8 at 8 countdown for the better part of the first half of 1992. Steven Wilson ain't got shit on DJ Jimi's lyricism.
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I'm going to have to check that out (floyd's link) over the weekend.
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I'm going to have to check that out (floyd's link) over the weekend.
In 1992, there was a dispute in the New Orleans area as to whether DJ Jimi or MC T. T. Tucker (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys3RPPGXbd8) was the first to release a song called Where They(Dey) At.
NSFW lyrics in both of the songs I've linked in my last two posts.
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All of this icky rap talk is making me think this thread needs cleansing. :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:
AC/DC - Heatseeker
This is a great rocking song, and one that still sounds good. I had never heard AC/DC until hearing Back in Black and You Shook Me All Night Long at a friend's in the summer of 1987, and I loved them both, so when a new AC/DC song and video came out in 1988, it being Heatseeker, I ate it up with a spoon. :metal :metal
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All of this icky rap talk is making me think this thread needs cleansing. :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:
Bah - deal wit it, yo. :biggrin:
@ blackest_floyd - I'll definitely check both links out and report back. :tup
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You said it best, Heatseeker is a great rocking song and still sounds good!
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You said it best, Heatseeker is a great rocking song and still sounds good!
Oh yeah. Blow Up Your Video is solid all the way around. Just like you Kev, I was familiar with the radio hits from before that, but this was the first foray into AC/DC once Rock had become my musical preference.
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You said it best, Heatseeker is a great rocking song and still sounds good!
Oh yeah. Blow Up Your Video is solid all the way around. Just like you Kev, I was familiar with the radio hits from before that, but this was the first foray into AC/DC once Rock had become my musical preference.
Blow Up You Video is a GREAT album. It is terribly underrated. It is loaded with great songs.
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Who Made Who was getting regular rotation again on MTV at the time, and the You Shook Me All Night Long video had a resurgence in 1987 (I thought it was new at the time :lol :facepalm:).
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John Waite - Missing You
Another song that was played to death both on the radio and on MTV. I am pretty sure it went to number 1 on the pop charts. I can see why it went to number 1, given the type of song it was and what kind of songs did well around that time period, but I was never much of a fan. I wouldn't say it is a bad song, but it is just one that never did anything for me.
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It's a decent song. It never did wow me, but a good little melodic rock song.
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It's a decent song. It never did wow me, but a good little melodic rock song.
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As I recall, this album was like a lot of hard rock albums in the early 80s, namely that the obvious single was considerably less rock oriented than the rest of the album, kind of more middle of the road. Missing You sums that concept up PERFECTLY.
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Never heard any of John Waite's other solo stuff, but never knew he really did hard rock, I thought all of his stuff was melodic/AOR rock.
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Remember Bad English? Who else was in that? Was it Neal Schon??
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Remember Bad English? Who else was in that? Was it Neal Schon??
Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain, with Deen Castronova on drums. And christ, who was the bassist?
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Ricky Phillips.
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I wasn't about to go to Google or Wiki to look it up. Thanks Orbert :lol
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Bleeeeeh. :yawn:
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One of those songs that, when you are 15 and your girlfriend just dumps you, seems to be on the radio ALL THE FREAKING TIME.
/nostalgia
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That, and "Nothing Compares 2 U" :lol
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I wasn't about to go to Google or Wiki to look it up. Thanks Orbert :lol
AMG, but you're welcome. :D
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I wasn't about to go to Google or Wiki to look it up. Thanks Orbert :lol
AMG, but you're welcome. :D
:rollin
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The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger
I loved this song the first time I heard it, and I still love it; just an awesome song, with a wonderful vibe. Great video, too, that captured the mood of the song perfectly.
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Minus Mother (which admittedly has its own appeal), Synchronicity was a damn good album. Wrapped Around Your Finger was one of my favorites (besides Murder By Numbers, which Frank Zappa's touring band for Broadway The Hard Way did a most stellar version of), always loved the video too.
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I love this song, great video too.
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The Police were hit or miss for me, this is a good one.
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Easily my fav song from them, absolutely incredible. the atmosphere is amazing.
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Great song, but not my fav by the Police by any stretch. Was a 'best of' kind of fan back in the day. Never dug too deep into them. It sure was a helluva lot more enjoyable than Doo Doo Doo Doo, Dah Dah Dah Dah.
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This song is etherial. Really an amazing piece of music. Nothing else quite like it. Very dark and brooding.
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Good song, cool video. :tup
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My a Police fan, but my favorite song by them was Invisible Sun.
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+1 on what everyone else says, "Wrapped..." is a great song.
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Great band, great song although not their best.
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If the 80s could be summed up in one album, that album, quite simply, would be Synchronicity. Okay, no, it's really Thriller, but for ME, no album sums up the 80s better than Synchronicity. It's a front to back masterpiece, AND it worked hand in hand with the music videos for the album as a complete package in terms of marketing it. Wrapped was a great song with one of the more visually interesting videos of the decade. I probably should get this album again, I had it on vinyl until I sold my vinyls when I moved about seven years ago.
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My a Police fan, but my favorite song by them was Invisible Sun.
Invisible Sun's my favorite too! :metal
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The Police were hit or miss for me, this is a good one.
I was never big in to them either. Had the Greatest Hits CD though and listened to the crap out of that. This song was one of my favorites.
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I like The Police a lot, but they tend to have some popular songs that annoy me:
-Roxanne is just plain awful. That is number 1 on my list of "Rock songs I can't believe are so popular."
-Message in a Bottle is good, but the constant "Sending out an S.O.S." at the end of the song over and over and over and over and over... is annoying as hell.
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Personally I can't stand Every Breath You Take. One of those songs I can't understand why it became a hit.
Many people also seem to mistake it for a love song, when it's actually about a stalker.
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I like The Police a lot, but they tend to have some popular songs that annoy me:
-Roxanne is just plain awful. That is number 1 on my list of "Rock songs I can't believe are so popular."
-Message in a Bottle is good, but the constant "Sending out an S.O.S." at the end of the song over and over and over and over and over... is annoying as hell.
Bingo! As far as Roxanne goes, I can NOT hear that without picturing/hearing Eddie Murphy from Another 48 Hours (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaz8A9Bu-pA).
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Personally I can't stand Every Breath You Take. One of those songs I can't understand why it became a hit.
Many people also seem to mistake it for a love song, when it's actually about a stalker.
Yeah, this, and completely agreed.
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-Roxanne is just plain awful. That is number 1 on my list of "Rock songs I can't believe are so popular."
What the--just--WHAT? YOU COME OUT FROM BEHIND THAT COMPUTER SCREEN I'LL FIGHT YOU RIGHT NOW! >:(
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It's awful.
Bring it. (https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v394/kevshmev/boxing.gif)
:biggrin:
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This is gonna be good.
:corn
I disagree about Roxanne, but I loathe Message in a Bottle, for what it's worth.
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I hated "Every Breath...." when it was popular, but as the years have gone by the song has become better and better.
I don't care for "Roxanne" either.
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:corn
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My favorite Police song is "Spirits in the Material World". That song is awesome.
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The whole Ghost In The Machine album is spectacular - probably my favorite Police album.
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This discussion is a good segue way into the next song...
Sting - Be Still My Beating Heart
Another mellow tune, I don't have enough words to express my love for this song. I loved it to death in 1987, and I still do. I love the echo/reverb on Sting's voice throughout much of the song, which gives the song an even more ethereal feel that the music had already given it. I wasn't a big fan of a lot of Sting's solo work, although I respect him for trying a lot of different things, instead of just sticking with the rock genre, but with this song, he didn't just hit a home run, he slammed it out of the zip code!
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That IS a good song - always dug it.
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bigger fan of "Fortress Around Your Heart".
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No one else?? ??? :(
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I wasn't a big fan of a lot of Sting's solo work, although I respect him for trying a lot of different things, instead of just sticking with the rock genre...
Basically this. I remember liking "Fortress Around Your Heart", but "Be Still My Beating Heart" doesn't even resonate in my head. I will have to youtube/spotify.
I don't know why I never cared for Sting much. Not sure what this means, but the thing I associate with him the most is "Dune."
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I like this song, it's just been so long since i listened to it. It's not fresh in my mind right now.
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This discussion is a good segue way into the next song...
Sting - Be Still My Beating Heart
Another mellow tune, I don't have enough words to express my love for this song. I loved it to death in 1987, and I still do. I love the echo/reverb on Sting's voice throughout much of the song, which gives the song an even more ethereal feel that the music had already given it. I wasn't a big fan of a lot of Sting's solo work, although I respect him for trying a lot of different things, instead of just sticking with the rock genre, but with this song, he didn't just hit a home run, he slammed it out of the zip code!
Great song of an average album. I cannot say enough about Ten Summoners Tales though. Top to bottom a perfect album.
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vinnie colaiuta's work on TST is one of my greatest drumming inspirations.
But as much as i love that album, I'm not sure that NLTS is any less great.
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Saw the TST tour with Dada opening up. One of my top 10 shows of all time. Vinny blew me away. Hell, the whole band did!
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Burning down the House
The Talking Heads. I remember seeing that video and being like WTF!?!?
If mentioned I am too lazy to read through 50 pages
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Good tune, but KevShmev is usually the one picking the tunes for us to talk about/rip apart. :lol
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True. And yes, we've discussed this one before.
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Yeah, don't take it the wrong way Dean. This thread would be chaos if we all contributed, so, as the thread originator, Kev - who semmingly has an endless supply (and love I suspect) of 80s tunes - is the one proposing the tunes.
He's the claw. We're the aliens.
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Ooooh...the claw!
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Haha, that is a funny way to put it. :tup :tup
What is scary is that I still have around 275 80s songs that I have yet to feature in this thread. :eek :eek :eek
One of them is:
J. Geils Band - Centerfold
An insanely catchy song, one I enjoyed as a kid, but it does pretty much nothing for me now. I don't remember the video being noteworthy at all, either.
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I played that song a lot in pep band in high school.
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Always liked Centerfold. Overall, J. Geils Band was always very seriously underrated.
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Great song of an average album. I cannot say enough about Ten Summoners Tales though. Top to bottom a perfect album.
+1
I always liked his work in The Police so much more. This is the only album that comes close but on a completely different level. Saw him on that tour too and the band was killer.
Back to topic: J. Geils Band - Centerfold
Catchy, but didn't age that well with me. Don't remember the video either.
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Like a lot of 80s songs, it was ok for the time, but certainly wouldn't be my cup of tea nowadays. If not for the nostalgic factor, it'd be a big bucket of 'blah'. Nostalgic-wise, it's slightly better than ok.
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I remember that everyone thought MTv Veejay Martha Quinn was one of the girls in the video.
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The cute brunette did look a lot like Martha, but it wasn't her. If anything, the girl in the video was even cuter than Martha, which I know is hard to believe, but it's true.
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Well there was also the fact that, if memory serves, Martha Quinn was a teenager when MTV launched. :lol Doubtful she would be running around in lingerie in a music video.
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Martha was 22 when MTV launched.
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There's another rumor from when I was in school dashed then. :lol
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Aerosmith - Love in an Elevator
A fun, rocking song, and an entertainingly funny video, too. Say what you want about Aerosmith's comeback in the later 80s, but they did a great job of embracing the video format by making some memorable videos, an area where many other 70s rock bands either failed or didn't really try.
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My favorite song in 6th grade.
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Decent song; Awesome album.
Oh! Good morning Mr. Tyler. Going .... down?
hehehehe...oooh!
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Not the best Aerosmith song ever, but not the worst either. It's a rocking tune, I'll give it that.
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I love the guitar break. My local radio station at the time was one of those that not only played the same songs all the time, but also basically at the same time each day, so I always heard "Love in an Elevator" on the way to work. One time out of boredom, I timed the guitar break, and it was a minute and a half, which is insanely long for a regular pop song. The break actually has three movements to it. Joe Perry is awesome.
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This song is a prime example of why I despise all things Aerosmith.
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Can you be more specific? It's definitely a stereotypical Aerosmith song, but what don't you like about it?
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I love the guitar break. My local radio station at the time was one of those that not only played the same songs all the time, but also basically at the same time each day, so I always heard "Love in an Elevator" on the way to work. One time out of boredom, I timed the guitar break, and it was a minute and a half, which is insanely long for a regular pop song. The break actually has three movements to it. Joe Perry is awesome.
Ya know, even when I was 16, I remember being in awe that a song with such a long instrumental section in the middle was getting played so much on MTV.
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Can you be more specific? It's definitely a stereotypical Aerosmith song, but what don't you like about it?
I just don't like their sound at all. It's hard to quantify exactly what it is, but I've just never liked Aerosmith.
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I like Aerosmith, but there was a stretch in the 90s where they were so huge, it seemed like everyone thought they were the best rock band ever, and being the prog snob I was at the time :lol, that turned me off of them for quite a while, but I eventually came back around to enjoying a fair amount of their music. I'd never call them a favorite, though.
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Can you be more specific? It's definitely a stereotypical Aerosmith song, but what don't you like about it?
I just don't like their sound at all. It's hard to quantify exactly what it is, but I've just never liked Aerosmith.
Fair enough. Did you like their earlier stuff any better, when they were a lot closer to their R&B roots?
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Can you be more specific? It's definitely a stereotypical Aerosmith song, but what don't you like about it?
I just don't like their sound at all. It's hard to quantify exactly what it is, but I've just never liked Aerosmith.
Fair enough. Did you like their earlier stuff any better, when they were a lot closer to their R&B roots?
Nah. But in addition to just my general dislike of them, I just have a built-in prejudice against a lot of late '60s/early '70s rock. There's just something about the sound from that period that I don't like in general. In the past 5 years or so, I've gradually started to sort of "discover" a lot of bands from that era that I didn't like before, and learn to appreciate their music. But it's a hurdle I can't get over with a lot of bands.
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I just don't like their sound at all. It's hard to quantify exactly what it is, but I've just never liked Aerosmith.
I have always had the same problem. I thought they had cool videos from this period, but I was probably more watching the video than actually listening to the music. I liked the music, but never enough to purchase any or listen to it on the radio.
Regarding their earlier period, it seems like I would like that more based on my enjoyment of rock from that period, but I don’t. Shrug.
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The length of the instrumental break of that song always did impress me, given that it was a hit single getting a lot of MTV airplay. You'd figure someone would cut at least half of it out on general principle, but I guess when you're Aerosmith, people don't fuck with you with single edits :lol
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Bon Jovi - Lay Your Hands On Me
I wasn't wild about some of the singles from the New Jersey album, but I like this one a lot. It was similar to Let It Rock from Slippery When Wet in that it had an extended, almost prog rocky, instrumental section to begin the song before bursting into the meat of the song. And the intro was quite great, too! And I always loved this second part of the first verse:
What you get ain't always what you see
But satisfaction's guaranteed
They say what you give is always what you need
So if you want me to lay my hands on you
The way that builds up into the chorus was pretty great. This is a really good anthemic hard rock tune. :coolio
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I first heard this song on the radio a few years ago (lolradio), and really liked it, so I grabbed the album.
Very simple but catchy chorus, and it's got a cool riff, which for Bon Jovi was kinda heavy. One of my favourite Bon Jovi songs.
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Love in an elevator is a great tune although the gang vocals in the verses (oh yeah) get on my nerves sometime. The instrumental break is great and, as mentioned, unusually structured and unusually long for a hit single. Also the a capella ending is really great. They really made the best of the video format with Pump and even more so with Get a Grip.
Lay your hands on me is a decent enough song for me from a time when Bon Jovi was still rocking.
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Early Bon Jovi is pretty good.
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I seriously can't stand either Bon Jovi or Aerosmith. Bon Jovi's first album was okay, but that's about it for me.
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Slippery When Wet was top shelf material from start to finish. Great track... though I don't remember the video at all.
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No. New Jersey did NOT age well for me. (https://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc55/black_floyd_2007/vomit.gif)
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Slippery When Wet was top shelf material from start to finish. Great track... though I don't remember the video at all.
Lay Your hands On Me wasn't on Slippery When Wet.
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Slippery When Wet was top shelf material from start to finish. Great track... though I don't remember the video at all.
Lay Your hands On Me wasn't on Slippery When Wet.
Oh yeah, right. I totally forgot about New Jersey. I'm with Deb ... That was an immense let down after SWW. Total brain fart (hadn't had my first cup yet). I was hearing 'Let it Rock' in my head. No idea why ... Only similarity is the both start with the letter L. :lolpalm:
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SWW was a solid album. Lots of good tracks on it, and i remember really liking Lay Your Hands on Me at the time. Now, listening to it brings back some emotional baggage of the time period, so I'd rather not. But it's a good song.
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I still can't believe Bad Medicine went to number 1; that songs sucks something awful.
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I actually love New Jersey. That's still a great album..Stick To Your Guns, Wild Is The Wind, and the great Blood On Blood! Wicked Thin Lizzy influences on that album!
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Lay Your Hands On Me comes with, YOU GUESSED IT, a story.
I wound up with a copy of New Jersey for god only knows what reason; I think a friend gave it to me because he didn't really like it, and, hey, remember, in the 80s, Bon Jovi was a fucking chick magnet. One Friday night, I was hanging out with a friend of mine, who had married pretty young, his wife, and her sister, and her sister wanted us to take her to pick up her best friend so they could hang out. We said sure, and me and my friend took her to meet her friend. I had with me a couple of cassettes, and I had New Jersey with me because my friend's sister in law knew I had it and wanted to hear it. (I told you, chick magnet. But she was 16 and I was way too old for that sort of trouble.) We wound up at her friend's, and she was there with her boyfriend and a couple of other guys. Naturally, they saw me and my friend and realized we were legal and wanted us to buy beer. That sort of trouble, yes, I did find myself in all too frequently.
Anyway, the sister in law announces to her friend "Oh, Jill, Jack here has the new Bon Jovi album out in the car." Jill is, of course, excited, and her boyfriend chimes in with "AWWW YEAH BON JOVI!" I say, fine, I'll go get it, and waited until whatever rap album was playing at Jill's house to stop playing, and I pop in New Jersey and Lay Your Hands On Me starts BLASTING. Now, this is about a month after New Jersey dropped, and, let's face it, Jon Bon Jovi has a fairly distinctive voice. But that didn't stop the boyfriend, who had just said "AWW YEAH BON JOVI" from asking, about halfway through the song, "I thought you were going to play the new Bon Jovi."
"He IS." Jill says, eyes askance at her man. In the course of the evening, I found out later that they'd been dating for about a week. They disappeared for a little bit-I figured they were going to do what most hormonal teenagers do when they're alone-but about half an hour later, the guy storms out of where he had been, grabs his friend, and they split. Jill comes out, looks at me, and said "Thanks. I just dumped him."
"Excuse me?" I asked, wondering in horror if this teen had decided that I should be her man since I came armed with Budweiser and Bon Jovi.
"Yeah. He was lying about liking Bon Jovi to impress me, what the fuck else was he lying about?"
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you New Jersey. The album that broke up a couple in less than five minutes. :lol
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Good stuff, Jaq!
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:rollin
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Any story involving Jack and Jill is a... well, you understand.
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My god...wasnt Holy Diver an absolute BEAST when it came out in the 80's?
I think there was a point where Sreaming for Vengeance, Number of the Beast, and Holy Diver were playing in my boom box non-stop.
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I still can't believe Bad Medicine went to number 1; that songs sucks something awful.
Yeah, no shit.
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I still can't believe Bad Medicine went to number 1; that songs sucks something awful.
I love Bad Medicine. It's cheesy as hell, and has dated much worse than their earlier hits, but it's still a good bit of fun. :lol
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I still can't believe Bad Medicine went to number 1; that songs sucks something awful.
I love Bad Medicine. It's cheesy as hell, and has dated much worse than their earlier hits, but it's still a good bit of fun. :lol
+1
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My god...wasnt Holy Diver an absolute BEAST when it came out in the 80's?
I think there was a point where Sreaming for Vengeance, Number of the Beast, and Holy Diver were playing in my boom box non-stop.
Yup! Absolutely!
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Guns N' Roses - Patience
This is probably the GNR song I liked the most back in the later 80s; it is an enjoyable, laid back tune. While often called a power ballad, I don't see it that way. It isn't ripe with a lot of the stereotypes that dot the most well-known 80s power ballads. It sounds like a more classic power ballad, for lack of a better term. It's too bad that Rose didn't use his voice that way more often, as he could sound pretty good when scaling his voice down a few notches, instead of wailing and making that noise that usually comes out of his mouth.
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Enduring memory of this song: a performance of it on an awards show (was it the MTV Music Video Awards? I'm not sure) where, for reasons that remained rather vague, the song featured drums...played by Don Henley. I think Axl mumbled something about needing a drum part for the band to keep time live, but it pretty much said to the world "Steven Adler? Yeah he's gone." Though it took a bit more to make that official, as memory serves. The other enduring memory of the time was how much trouble the song "One In A Million" got the band in, which was one of the earlier signs that Axl was going to be a problem in the future. And boy, WAS he. Given how bombastic GNR got after this, Patience is a nice, stripped down ballad, and a direction they should have tried more often instead of being so damn over the top. :lol
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Yeah, I definitely liked this song.
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Yeah, I definitely liked this song.
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Yeah, I definitely liked this song.
Yeah, me too. And by "me too", I mean that I couldn't fucking stand it. Acoustic and GnR did not mix well for me.
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Yeah, it sounded too much like the cliche "Hard rock band slows it down for the chicks" song.
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Bleeeeeech. Next...
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Bleeeeeech. Next...
+1
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Tears for Fears - Shout
This is another one of those 80s songs that I liked a lot when it was out, but don't listen to much anymore. When I do, it still sounds like a good song, but I just don't get the urge to listen to it, even when in the mood for 80s stuff. The instrumental break in the middle is still pretty fantastic, though.
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Yet another decent song that I still enjoy when played, most likely only for nostalgic purposes. If I heard it for the first time today, wouldn't be my thang.
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I agree 100% with Kev. I thought it was cool (for some reason!) when they played the drums on the ground during the instrumental break, which does sound pretty rockin' for a Tears for Fears song.
I recall they had pretty cool videos, which probably helped offset the mediocrity of their music.
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Tears for Fears - Shout
I hated them when they first broke, but there was always something about this song that was just so pervasive. Not my favorite by them, but it's at the top of my list for sure.
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Never cared for them.
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This is a song I can do without.
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I see what you did there.
And I approve.
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Joe Jackson - Breaking Us in Two
The other big hit from Night and Day, I don't like this quite as much as Steppin' Out, but it's still a damn fine tune. Checking out the video again, it didn't look familiar to me at all.
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I see what you did there.
And I approve.
:biggrin: ...although, technically, my post said the exact opposite of how I feel about the song. I pretty much adore that entire album.
Joe Jackson: Eh, like a lot of videos, I didn't hate this one, but just viewed at as "filler" while waiting for something else to come on that I was interested in.
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Someone said, ages ago in this thread, that if I didn't have a story about the song in question, it must have sucked.
Apply that to the Joe Jackson song. :lol As for Shout, I was always fond of the instrumental break and the guitar solo, and it certainly was a song that got you to sing along with the chorus. But I wasn't really a fan.
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I see what you did there.
And I approve.
:biggrin: ...although, technically, my post said the exact opposite of how I feel about the song. I pretty much adore that entire album.
I don't hate Tears for Fears or anything -- for one thing, Roland has an incredible voice -- but they just never really thrilled me. Therefore it's just a simple statement of fact that I could do without them. Also, it reminded me of a time over at my brother-in-law's house when he made almost that same joke. "Shout" came on the radio, he switched it off after the first line, and sang "This is a song I could live without".
Joe Jackson - Breaking Us in Two
The other big hit from Night and Day, I don't like this quite as much as Steppin' Out, but it's still a damn fine tune. Checking out the video again, it didn't look familiar to me at all.
I vaguely remember the video, but I've always liked the song. It caught me in a schlocky mood one time and resonated with me, and I've had a soft spot for it ever since. The synth solo is obnoxious, yet kinda cool at the same time. Weird how that works.
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I'm a big Tears For Fears fan, when Roland took over the last few album were leaning towards the progressive side and I loved it. Their comeback album 5 years ago (?) was a great album. Shout is a very good anthem song but it did get way overplayed.
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I actually didn't remember the Joe Jackson song until I looked it up on YT. Definitely liked Steppin' Out a LOT more.
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Shout is such a great song, liked it back then and still like it.
Tears For Fears were (are?) a band with great hits. I have a Best Of that is killer from start to finish. Maybe I should listen to the regular albums as well.
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Shout: My favorite song at age 7 1/2.
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Ratt - Dance
I dug this song like crazy when it was out; loved the video, too, and always got a kick out of the hand "heating" into the camera. Gotta love 80s cheese. :lol :lol
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The single worst singer in the history of rock.
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Round and Round is the only Ratt track I can remember.
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Cool, catchy riff and melodies, like a lot of their tunes. Very fun at the time, but little long-term replay value. Had to watch this just now to re-live it. *reminisces*
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One of the Ratt songs I do not care for.
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I have no memory of this song. At ALL. Time to see what the deal was...to the internet!
Okay, as soon as it started, I remembered it. I was kind of over Ratt by the time this came out-I bought a couple of their albums, but really, they started sounding the same to me pretty quickly. In fact, I had forgotten this album EXISTED-I thought they went straight from Invasion of Your Privacy to the one with Way Cool Jr. on it. Which says a lot about this particular Ratt album. :lol
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The single worst singer in the history of rock.
No kidding. Which is sad that I'm agreeing with you, as I dug the holy shit out of Out Of The Cellar and Invasion Of Your Privacy back in the day. :lol :blush :lol
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Genesis - Illegal Alien
I don't care what anybody says...this is a good song! And the video was great hilarity, too, featuring Phil Collins with a fake mustache. :lol
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Good Song. Phil Collins can be funny in his own special way.
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I liked Illegal Alien back in the day, but it really didn't age well for me - there's better songs on that album.
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Fun tune, and yeah... hilarious video.
This was the last thread I looked at before bed last night, and could not get the song out of my head as I fell asleep. Thankfully, no related dreams.
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Good Song. Phil Collins can be funny in his own special way.
Heh heh.
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Ratt - Dance
I dug this song like crazy when it was out; loved the video, too, and always got a kick out of the hand "heating" into the camera. Gotta love 80s cheese. :lol :lol
Not my favorite Ratt song. I always thought the chorus should be:
Dance, Dance, Dance
Feel the heat of the rhythm
Feel the heat in my pants
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Never had a problem with Illegal Alien-always thought it was a fun song and a funny video. But man, could you imagine a band doing this simple, fun song NOW? Someone would get bent out of shape over it, pundits on one side would berate it for being sympathetic to illegal immigration, people on the other side would find it insulting to people who had immigrated to this country. There would be online petitions to get the video banned. There would be a mild shitstorm over a silly, harmless song.
This country's forgotten how to be FUN.
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Ratt - Dance
I dug this song like crazy when it was out; loved the video, too, and always got a kick out of the hand "heating" into the camera. Gotta love 80s cheese. :lol :lol
Not my favorite Ratt song. I always thought the chorus should be:
Dance, Dance, Dance
Feel the heat of the rhythm
Feel the heat in my pants
:rollin
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Never had a problem with Illegal Alien-always thought it was a fun song and a funny video. But man, could you imagine a band doing this simple, fun song NOW? Someone would get bent out of shape over it, pundits on one side would berate it for being sympathetic to illegal immigration, people on the other side would find it insulting to people who had immigrated to this country. There would be online petitions to get the video banned. There would be a mild shitstorm over a silly, harmless song.
This country's forgotten how to be FUN.
Sad, but true. Along those lines, Madonna's Like a Prayer is like the polar opposite. Back in the late 80s, a video with that kind of religious imagery was considered very controversial, but nowadays it would barely be a blip on the controversy radar.
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There would be online petitions to get the video banned.
It should be banned for how crappy it is.
Can I start a petition to stop having Genesis songs in this thread? :)
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:lol
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Never had a problem with Illegal Alien-always thought it was a fun song and a funny video. But man, could you imagine a band doing this simple, fun song NOW? Someone would get bent out of shape over it, pundits on one side would berate it for being sympathetic to illegal immigration, people on the other side would find it insulting to people who had immigrated to this country. There would be online petitions to get the video banned. There would be a mild shitstorm over a silly, harmless song.
This country's forgotten how to be FUN.
As an American, i take offense to that.
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Never had a problem with Illegal Alien-always thought it was a fun song and a funny video. But man, could you imagine a band doing this simple, fun song NOW? Someone would get bent out of shape over it, pundits on one side would berate it for being sympathetic to illegal immigration, people on the other side would find it insulting to people who had immigrated to this country. There would be online petitions to get the video banned. There would be a mild shitstorm over a silly, harmless song.
This country's forgotten how to be FUN.
As an American, i take offense to that.
As an American, I take offense at your offense! I'M STARTING A PETITION TO HAVE MY HOUSE SECEDE FROM THE UNION! :P
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As an American, I'm offended that you take offense at people being offended by such a silly, harmless song.
(But the greater offense is still that a once-great prog band would release such a song.)
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Never had a problem with Illegal Alien-always thought it was a fun song and a funny video. But man, could you imagine a band doing this simple, fun song NOW? Someone would get bent out of shape over it, pundits on one side would berate it for being sympathetic to illegal immigration, people on the other side would find it insulting to people who had immigrated to this country. There would be online petitions to get the video banned. There would be a mild shitstorm over a silly, harmless song.
This country's forgotten how to be FUN.
As an American, i take offense to that.
As an American, I take offense at your offense! I'M STARTING A PETITION TO HAVE MY HOUSE SECEDE FROM THE UNION! :P
I also find your tone offensive. Stop offending or you will be shamed into ceasing with your secession.
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I am reminded of an old Bloom County comic where everyone was offended at everyone's offense and it ended with Opus the penguin coining the word "offensensitivity" :lol
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I'm offended that I saw that song live.
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Bananarama - Cruel Summer
The beginning of this song definitely reminds me of a specific time of my life, but in general, the song is rather ho-hum; it simply doesn't do a lot for me. It's catchy and all, but it's just not a song I ever really go for when it is time for some 80s stuff.
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I would be glad if I never have to hear this song again.
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wow, haven't heard the song in a looong time. Isn't the video the one where they are walking around some city dressed in overalls?
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I would be glad if I never have to hear this song again.
+1
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Impossible for me to hear this song and NOT think of the Karate Kid.
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The only Bananarama I remember is Venus. Fortunately, I've stricken everything else from the memory banks.
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Hey Chad, remember that Bananarama song I sent in your roulette? ;D
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Was it this one? As I mentioned at the end of that round, I just fired up my handy desk-top time machine, and pretended that round never existed.
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No, I sent you this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma4tf9eB8TU
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The only Bananarama I remember is Venus. Fortunately, I've stricken everything else from the memory banks.
This was actually the only Bananarama video I remembered, having stricken everything else, especially Venus, from my own memory banks. The main reason why Venus was such an earworm! In fact, just typing this has gotten the chorus stuck in my head!
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The only Bananarama I remember is Venus. Fortunately, I've stricken everything else from the memory banks.
This was actually the only Bananarama video I remembered, having stricken everything else, especially Venus, from my own memory banks. The main reason why Venus was such an earworm! In fact, just typing this has gotten the chorus stuck in my head!
She's got it! Yeah baby she's got it!
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You bastards. :getoffmylawn:
:lol
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Prince - 1999
Fun song, one I remember being played to death on MTV back in '82. The video was cool, featuring Prince and all of his band members, several of which were prominently featured vocally in the song. I think I knew even at the time that it would be a song that would stay popular for a long time, and it has.
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Yeah, for the time, the video was very cool. I liked the two-level stage, and the fact that the other singers sang their lead parts before you ever heard from Prince.
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Prince was for me the perfect blend of pop and rock. This was a great tune. He had quite a few, and then blew his load with Purple Rain.
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Yeah, I have never been that impressed by most of what I've heard from him post-1985 (a few songs notwithstanding), but Purple Rain is just a gem. :tup :tup
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Prince - 1999
:heart
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1999 was a cool song, but even as a young metal kid I had a massive love for Little Red Corvette. That was one catchy as fuck song. Prince's talent in so many areas is so good its kind of scary.
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The Waitresses - I Know What Boys Like
One of the most horribly cheesy videos ever made, and the song ain't much better, but it is oddly catchy. It's like watching and listening to something so bad that you can't break away from it. Watch the video and try to turn it off before it's over! It's so bad you can't help but keep watching! :lol :lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcoiGr_FlQY
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That song is absolutely horrific
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That song is absolutely horrific
:lol :lol
Exactly. :tup :tup
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That song is absolutely horrific
:lol :lol
Exactly. :tup :tup
Yeah, every time I hear it, I just feel... ughhhhhhh... Yah Know?
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CURSE YOU KEV.
I had erased that song from my memory. THE HORROR.
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That chick died of lung cancer before her 45th birthday :'(
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ackkkk, as soon as I saw the song title it all came rushing back.
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Okay, time to wash the stink of that song off :lol :lol...
Rush - Tom Sawyer (Exit... Stage Left version)
I am doing this live version because it was the one always played on MTV back in the 80s. Even as a kid, I thought this song was awesome, even though Geddy Lee's voice irritated me. I thought that guitar lead right before the "And what you say about company..." the first time was the most badass thing I had ever heard. I think that little section alone is what sucked me into the song. Fast forward to years later, Rush eventually became my favorite band and the rest, as they say, is history. :coolio
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I'm not that familiar with the live version. I had Exit... Stage Left for a week or so but it was stolen by one of my roommates along with a handful of other albums. I could never prove it, but there's no doubt in my mind. As much as I missed the albums that he took, I couldn't bring myself to buy them again. When I bought more music, it had to be different, stuff I hadn't heard yet.
So, uh, cool song. But I can't comment on the live version. I've heard the version from Moving Pictures thousands of times, of course, and was even lucky enough to play it a few times.
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You must not have watched a lot of MTV then, as they played the crap out of that live version.
Another personal note: I used to frequently check albums out of the library as a kid, and I must have checked out the vinyl of ESL at least four or five times, just to listen to Tom Sawyer. I never bothered listening to any other songs from it. :facepalm: :lol But what the hell, I was like 11 or 12. :biggrin:
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Nope, no recollection. But I'm missing a good-sized chunk of the 80's anyway. I'm sure it's great.
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But... I actually LIKE that song by The Waitresses. If that's wrong, I ain't never gonna be right.
Annnnnddd...
ESL version of Tom Sawyer absolutely slayed the studio version IMO.
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If you want to see it, Orbert, it's the version of Tom Sawyer that comes from the Exit...Stage Left concert video. MTV lopped Tom Sawyer, Limelight, and Red Barchetta out of that concert film and played the hell out of them for months. In the early days of MTV, if you had a concert they played, look out, it became video rotation fodder. As for the song itself-it's fucking Tom Sawyer, man, what do I need to say?
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Much better song then that waitress thing. Like 80 billion times better.
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Funny... Much Music always played the actual video, of them recording it up in their cabin. Watching that video is how I learned to play the keyboard melody. I always loved watching Peart hammer the skins, to the point his set was shaking.
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Lita Ford & Ozzy Osbourne - If I Close My Eyes Forever
Yawn. I can see the appeal of this song for a lot of folks, but it never did anything for me.
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Lita Ford put out a couple of solid hard rock/metal albums before this one. I remember she always said she was never going to sell herself as the main image, that she was a serious musician and all that.
Then Kiss Me Deadly came out and she's all sexy and slinky and vamping all over the place. Welp. Gave up on her long before she put this snoozefest out.
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Lita Ford & Ozzy Osbourne - If I Close My Eyes Forever
Yawn. I can see the appeal of this song for a lot of folks, but it never did anything for me.
Meh. :yawn:
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yeah it is a snoozefest
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Lita Ford & Ozzy Osbourne - If I Close My Eyes Forever
Yawn. I can see the appeal of this song for a lot of folks, but it never did anything for me.
OK song but one of the best Ozzy faces in that video. It's like he thinks he has the make up on from the Bark At The Moon video. :lol
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Cutting Crew - I've Been in Love Before
Their second biggest hit from Broadcast, for being a ballad, this is a really good song, one that has held up surprisingly well; it has some tasty guitar work throughout, too. I believe this was a top 10 hit, and the video, while not being anything fancy or notable, got major heavy rotation for quite a while. It's kind of a forgotten 80s hit, as (I Just) Died in Your Arms is the only song anyone thinks about when this band is mentioned, but they were definitely not a one-hit wonder.
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Always liked this song better than Just Died In Your Arms. Probably had something to do with the serious cutie I slow danced with one night at a local club to this song. :lol
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I had to pull up the video to remember the song - fogey brain. I remember liking (I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight much better.
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Always liked this song better than Just Died In Your Arms. Probably had something to do with the serious cutie I slow danced with one night at a local club to this song. :lol
That's not nearly as epic a story as we are used to getting from you. :biggrin:
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Always liked this song better than Just Died In Your Arms. Probably had something to do with the serious cutie I slow danced with one night at a local club to this song. :lol
That's not nearly as epic a story as we are used to getting from you. :biggrin:
They can't all be epics. In the case of the slow dancing cutie, she was dragged off by her friends after that song and I wandered off to another club with my friends. It's a bit of an anticlimax. :lol
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They can't all be epics.
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Well played, sir.
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Huey Lewis and the News - Stuck with You
Like so many of their other videos, Huey was the centerpiece of the "plot," with the News somehow becoming a part of the story, albeit somewhat behind the scenes and in a rather comical fashion. Love or hate him, this formula often worked, and Stuck with You was no exception. Entertaining video to a good, catchy song, and the girl in the video was pretty darn attractive, too. :coolio
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Cutting Crew - I've Been in Love Before
Their second biggest hit from Broadcast, for being a ballad, this is a really good song, one that has held up surprisingly well; it has some tasty guitar work throughout, too. I believe this was a top 10 hit, and the video, while not being anything fancy or notable, got major heavy rotation for quite a while. It's kind of a forgotten 80s hit, as (I Just) Died in Your Arms is the only song anyone thinks about when this band is mentioned, but they were definitely not a one-hit wonder.
Very good album but believe it or not. I always found this song to be the weakest one.
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It's pretty simple to use the phrase "catchy as hell" as a blanket statement for Huey Lewis' music and leave it at that. I mentioned this ages ago in this thread, but to me the definition of a catchy song is that you can not hear it for years and the second someone mentions it, you remember it in every detail, and that fits Stuck With You to a T. Haven't heard it for, god, fifteen years or more, but as soon as I saw it was the next song the chorus jumped into my head.
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Huey Lewis and the News - Stuck with You
Like so many of their other videos, Huey was the centerpiece of the "plot," with the News somehow becoming a part of the story, albeit somewhat behind the scenes and in a rather comical fashion. Love or hate him, this formula often worked, and Stuck with You was no exception. Entertaining video to a good, catchy song, and the girl in the video was pretty darn attractive, too. :coolio
Not my favorite by them, but like Jaq... once I saw the song title the chorus instantly popped into my head.
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i remember the chick in that video being smoking hot... :eek
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While we're on the Huey Lewis thing, I remember Hit Me Like a Hammer being the second single from the album it came from. I can't remember what the first one was. Anyone know?
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[LMWTFY]
It was Couple Days Off.
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i remember the chick in that video being smoking hot... :eek
Keely Shaye Smith, now Keely Shaye Brosnan. Yes, she married Pierce Brosnan.
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Cutting Crew - I've Been in Love Before
Their second biggest hit from Broadcast, for being a ballad, this is a really good song, one that has held up surprisingly well; it has some tasty guitar work throughout, too. I believe this was a top 10 hit, and the video, while not being anything fancy or notable, got major heavy rotation for quite a while. It's kind of a forgotten 80s hit, as (I Just) Died in Your Arms is the only song anyone thinks about when this band is mentioned, but they were definitely not a one-hit wonder.
Very good album but believe it or not. I always found this song to be the weakest one.
Hmmm, I can't say that, but Broadcast is very strong from start to finish. I wore that cassette out back in the late 80s. :heart
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Cutting Crew - I've Been in Love Before
Their second biggest hit from Broadcast, for being a ballad, this is a really good song, one that has held up surprisingly well; it has some tasty guitar work throughout, too. I believe this was a top 10 hit, and the video, while not being anything fancy or notable, got major heavy rotation for quite a while. It's kind of a forgotten 80s hit, as (I Just) Died in Your Arms is the only song anyone thinks about when this band is mentioned, but they were definitely not a one-hit wonder.
Very good album but believe it or not. I always found this song to be the weakest one.
Hmmm, I can't say that, but Broadcast is very strong from start to finish. I wore that cassette out back in the late 80s. :heart
As did I. It Shouldn't Take Too Long is the highlight for me. Great album from start to finish. Not that I didn't like IBILB but the rest of the album was that strong.
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For sure. I was always big on Life in a Dangerous Time, Sahara and The Broadcast. In fact, a song like The Broadcast, the way it stretched out and almost had that 'epic' feel, was one of those songs I liked early on that helped set the tone for my eventual love for epic songs. :coolio
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Sade - Smooth Operator
I was never really a fan of this tune, but I can see why it was so big. Personally, it always struck me as much that should have been used in soft porn. :lol
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I invoke the "No Story=Jaq thinks the song sucks" rule here. :rollin
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Whoa, didn't expect you to go the "smooth jazz" route. ...and also didn't realize this was from the '80s. I thought it was early '90s for some reason. I also don't believe I ever saw the video. But great song. I think many babies have been made with it playing in the background.
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I invoke the "No Story=Jaq thinks the song sucks" rule here. :rollin
:lol :lol :lol
Whoa, didn't expect you to go the "smooth jazz" route. ...and also didn't realize this was from the '80s.
It actually isn't in my default 80s playlist (which I am using for this thread), but it plays on Totally 80s all of the time, so it fits.
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Sade - Smooth Operator
I was never really a fan of this tune, but I can see why it was so big. Personally, it always struck me as much that should have been used in soft porn. :lol
Saw Sade live and her band kicks ass. Good tune.
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Sade is amazing. Smooth Operator is not one of her best songs, but it's still pretty good.
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Never liked the song or band, but certainly recognize the talent in her voice.
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Great song. Pure audio sex. Sade will even be sexy as a corpse. Here's a bass cover by a cute blonde. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxtRgu3pg2k)
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Never liked the song or band, but certainly recognize the talent in her voice.
That's about where I am. She's got style and talent, but just isn't my cup of tea.
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Fleetwood Mac - Big Love
Great tune; loved in back then, and still love it. Neat video, too, featuring a progression of images of the band throughout a mansion, and when the song concludes with that sped-up ending, the entire video is then reversed in a hurried manner that goes along with the new pace of the song. Very cool.
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A great song. I've mostly heard the live version from 1997 since it's on the Greatest Hits I have. I wish I could play guitar like Buckingham...
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You know I was never enamored with this song or the album. It was ok but I never really got into TITN.
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A great song. I've mostly heard the live version from 1997 since it's on the Greatest Hits I have. I wish I could play guitar like Buckingham...
The acoustic-only live version is nice, but there is something about the original that is so sublime and exciting; it's quite the sensual song. :coolio
And Buckingham is definitely a beast of a player. :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
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I literally do not remember this song. I'm sure I'd recognize it if I heard it.
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A great song. I've mostly heard the live version from 1997 since it's on the Greatest Hits I have. I wish I could play guitar like Buckingham...
The live version definitely takes the song to another level. Buckingham is awesome.
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There are a lot of times when I forget this album by Fleetwood Mac existed. This was one of them. :lol
While Lindsey Buckingham was a great guitarist, I always remembered when Joe Walsh was singing the praises of the criminally underrated Don Felder in an inteview once, and his particular comment was "Felder could blow Lindsey Buckingham off the stage." Always wondered what Walsh had against Buckingham with that comment.
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Well, Tom Petty's Don't Come Around Here No More was based off of Petty hearing Stevie Nicks tell that to Don Henley at a party back in the day. Perhaps she got along as poorly with other Eagles as she eventually did with Henley and maybe there could be a contentious vibe extending to other Fleetwood Mac members. Reaching? Yep. Possible? Maybe.
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Well, Tom Petty's Don't Come Around Here No More was based off of Petty hearing Stevie Nicks tell that to Don Henley at a party back in the day. Perhaps she got along as poorly with other Eagles as she eventually did with Henley and maybe there could be a contentious vibe extending to other Fleetwood Mac members. Reaching? Yep. Possible? Maybe.
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I think that is a reach. If any bands in the history of music got along well and had no animosity toward others, it was Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles.
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While Lindsey Buckingham was a great guitarist, I always remembered when Joe Walsh was singing the praises of the criminally underrated Don Felder in an inteview once, and his particular comment was "Felder could blow Lindsey Buckingham off the stage." Always wondered what Walsh had against Buckingham with that comment.
Considering the massive amount of drugs Walsh has done in his lifetime, I gotta think that that comment came when he was hitting them particularly hard.
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I think that is a reach. If any bands in the history of music got along well and had no animosity toward others, it was Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles.
Well the part about Nicks telling Henley "don't come around here no more" is true. They'd been dating at the time and were having a couples spat. I saw it on Pop Up Video.
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.38 Special - Back Where You Belong
I always got a kick out of this video, as it portrayed it like it was gonna be a serious video, but came off as more charming and comical than anything; good combination of the two, given all of the elements. And the ending, with the girl smiling and waving goodbye to them as she gets away on the train, is just awesome. Oh, and the song itself is obviously a good one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSu9AjAwJLI
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Fleetwood Mac - Big Love
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.38 Special - Back Where You Belong
Eh.
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I had today, utterly forgotten both this song and video until I clicked the Youtube video link. And wow, I used to love .38 Special back in the day. Great band. No story, though, since yeah, I utterly forgot the song existed. :lol
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No story?? That's an abomination. Speaking of abominations...
Eddie Murphy - Party All the Time
Awful. Horrible. Atrocious. Dreadful. Embarrassing. Laughable.
Did I miss anything?
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Yeah. Awesome, which is what this song is. I loved it as a kid and that hasn't changed.
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Funny, I've never been a southern rock guy but 38 Special had enough pop sensibilities that I liked them a lot.
Party All The Time proved that Eddie couldn't sing.
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Party All The Time proved that Eddie couldn't sing.
There was a tribute to him recently and he did a damn good job singing Higher Ground with Stevie Wonder so...
Party All The Time was catchy as fuck, but I thought it was a joke at first.
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You mean it's not?
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Let's face it, this album only happened because Eddie Murphy was Eddie Murphy. Back then he could get away with whatever he wanted. Song still sucked though. :lol
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Party All The Time proved that Eddie couldn't sing.
There was a tribute to him recently and he did a damn good job singing Higher Ground with Stevie Wonder so...
Party All The Time was catchy as fuck, but I thought it was a joke at first.
Still don't like his voice.
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I blame Rick James. :lol
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Madonna - Into the Groove
One of her must upbeat, top-tapping hits of the 80s, this was a big hit, despite the movie it was written for, Desperately Seeking Susan, absolutely bombing. Not my favorite Madonna hit from the 80s, but still one I enjoyed then, and one I still enjoy. I don't remember the video being one of her better ones, probably because it mainly consisted of footage from the movie, which I never saw.
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Eh. Madge had better singles than Into The Groove, but it had a decent beat and you could dance to it.
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I always liked the analogy of the girl saying that he cannot get "into the groove" until he proves his love for her. Seemed pretty blatant to me.
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I wanted to nail her so bad when I was a little kid and this song was probably the pinnacle of that feeling for me.
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The Motels - Suddenly Last Summer
I hadn't seen this video in probably close to 30 years until a few weeks ago, and when I saw it, I didn't remember a single bit of it. Weird. Because I remember hearing the song a lot when I was kid; it must have been on the radio more than on MTV, because my mind simply doesn't forget videos I saw a lot. But whatever, it's a nice little catchy tune.
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I think I may have never heard this before now. I liked the chicks in the video. Early 80s chicks looked so pure and girl-next-doorish.
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:yawn:
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Don't even vaguely remember this one.
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Ahh yes, the Motels. One of those bands that had been around for a while, flirted briefly with mainstream success with a couple of singles, and then faded away. This actually wasn't unusual in rock music, but when you had a video that was played endlessly for a few months, like Suddenly Last Summer, it became more obvious when a band was an one hit wonder. MTV had a distorting effort on the success of a band; just checked on Wiki and found that the album this came off of only went gold. But given the amount of video airplay you'd think it was a multi-platnium wonder.
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Don't forget: Martha Davis (singer for The Motels) was one of The Three Most Important People in the World.
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Ahh yes, the Motels. One of those bands that had been around for a while, flirted briefly with mainstream success with a couple of singles, and then faded away. This actually wasn't unusual in rock music, but when you had a video that was played endlessly for a few months, like Suddenly Last Summer, it became more obvious when a band was an one hit wonder. MTV had a distorting effort on the success of a band; just checked on Wiki and found that the album this came off of only went gold. But given the amount of video airplay you'd think it was a multi-platnium wonder.
That was probably true more often than not, but Only the Lonely (which I haven't featured yet in this thread) was just as big a hit as Suddenly Last Summer. Just saying. :)
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Suddenly Last Soma.
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^ I'd rather hear THAT to be honest... :jets:
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Ahh yes, the Motels. One of those bands that had been around for a while, flirted briefly with mainstream success with a couple of singles, and then faded away. This actually wasn't unusual in rock music, but when you had a video that was played endlessly for a few months, like Suddenly Last Summer, it became more obvious when a band was an one hit wonder. MTV had a distorting effort on the success of a band; just checked on Wiki and found that the album this came off of only went gold. But given the amount of video airplay you'd think it was a multi-platnium wonder.
That was probably true more often than not, but Only the Lonely (which I haven't featured yet in this thread) was just as big a hit as Suddenly Last Summer. Just saying. :)
Technically you're right, that would make them a two-hit wonder. Except the songs sounded exactly the same, so they're still a one-hit wonder.
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Duran Duran - Rio
This song is all about that bass line. You don't expect to hear such a killer bass line in a song by Duran Duran, but there it is nonetheless. The rest of the song is good, too, and the video was good sunshine fun with plenty of glamour and excess. Very creative and innovative video for its time
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An ape I'd heard for this song back in those days... "Her name is Rio and she dances on my face... " :jets:
Didn't dig the song back in the day, but it's really not that bad. DAT BASS LINE :hat
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Not my favorite DD song, but recall liking it enough at the time, most likely enhanced by the video. They really killed with their videos. I think DD was the first cassette tape I bought with my own money, but can't remember which one it was.
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I fucking love DD's 80s guitar tone. Come Undone and Ordinary World were excellent too but in a different way obviously.
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Their vocals, especially the big harmonies, were amazing. Simon's voice was great, but I did get tired of it by time my girlfriend played an entire Duran Duran album or two or three.
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If Hungry Like The Wolf made you think "this band is going places" then Rio made you think "this band is going to be fucking HUGE." Duran Duran was one of the earliest bands to realize that music video could be more than just the band playing in front of the camera, filmed on video tape, with maybe a couple of video effects over the screen, and to use their videos to strategically market the band. I never really was a fan of the band, but I could appreciate how good they were at what they did.
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I fucking love DD's 80s guitar tone.
The guitar tone in HLTW is awesome. So very good. Also, yeah, the videos were excellent. Rio is an incredibly excellent song.
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DD was a great blend of pop and rock... much like Prince, but in a totally different way. The Reflex was one of my favorite songs of that era.
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I just went back and relistened to Rio. For all the times I heard it back when I was a kid and the few times I've heard it since then, there are things I never really noticed until now. The 16th note synthesizer bit that goes constantly throughout is what always came to mind when thinking about this song, but I never noticed the cool synth lines with the pitch wheel all throughout the chorus.
Sure, I've heard them, but I never HEARD them. I heard a lot of things going on in the music, but listening to it today and catching that and listening to how it really enhances the chorus - really very cool. It's one of those things that make such a difference in the music we love that you can't always put your finger on immediately. Or in this case, in 30 years. :lol
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Fun little fact, I bought Rio and Iron Maiden's Piece Of Mind on the same day so you know I was all over the place. John Taylor's bass playing on this album was unreal. Loved the frettless work of, "Save a Prayer" to the staccato lines of, "Hungery Like The Wolf" but "Rio" was his best work on that album.
Their first album had a great tune that had such a great line but was re released after Rio broke big here in the states. See if any remember this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M0hogZyRyU
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John Taylor was/is an awesome bassist
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See if any remember this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M0hogZyRyU
I was always on the impression that anyone who paid legit attention to pop music in the 80s was fairly aware of Rio, Hungry Like the Wolf, Girls on Film, Reflex, and Is There Something I should Know.
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See if any remember this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M0hogZyRyU
I was always on the impression that anyone who paid legit attention to pop music in the 80s was fairly aware of Rio, Hungry Like the Wolf, Girls on Film, Reflex, and Is There Something I should Know.
Yes but we are on a Dream Theater Forum so....... :lol
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Their first album had a great tune that had such a great line but was re released after Rio broke big here in the states. See if any remember this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M0hogZyRyU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M0hogZyRyU)
I remember that one - it was one of the very few I actually liked back in the day.
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The Fixx - Stand or Fall
I don't really remember the video, but this was always my favorite Fixx song. I love the guitar lead, and the way that the keyboards often swirl around it while that lead rings out in the distance is very neat. Very infectious song, one that probably would have been a bigger hit had it came out a few years later. In a sense, it was ahead of its time, as it sounds like a song that would have been huge in '84 or '85.
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LOVE The Fixx, always have. Great song from a really unique band.
"State your peace tonight" :heart
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I will pound my chest and tell everybody I am a huge, The Fixx fan. Seen them a few times live and they always had a bit of prog in them. Love the interplay of guitar and bass on this song.
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I will pound my chest and tell everybody I am a huge, The Fixx fan. Seen them a few times live and they always had a bit of prog in them. Love the interplay of guitar and bass on this song.
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LOVE The Fixx, always have. Great song from a really unique band.
"State your peace tonight" :heart
It's about time you started liking some of the featured songs again! :biggrin:
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It's about time you posted songs I actually LIKE. :biggrin:
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Bah! We can't all love every 80s tune, riiiight? :)
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The Fixx - Stand or Fall
I don't really remember the video, but this was always my favorite Fixx song. I love the guitar lead, and the way that the keyboards often swirl around it while that lead rings out in the distance is very neat. Very infectious song, one that probably would have been a bigger hit had it came out a few years later. In a sense, it was ahead of its time, as it sounds like a song that would have been huge in '84 or '85.
solid pick, although my fave Fixx song is "Deeper and Deeper."
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Yes that's my favorite track as well.
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I liked The Fixx. I thought they had a cool sound, and maybe a little more going on musically than most 80's bands.
My girlfriend didn't like the song because in the video, a horse keeps falling down, and she likes horses so much that it bothered her. She's a wimp.
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Bah! We can't all love every 80s tune, riiiight? :)
Correct. :)
solid pick, although my fave Fixx song is "Deeper and Deeper."
Deeper And Deeper is my favorite too. :tup
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You said "deeper".
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I liked The Fixx. I thought they had a cool sound, and maybe a little more going on musically than most 80's bands.
My girlfriend didn't like the song because in the video, a horse keeps falling down, and she likes horses so much that it bothered her. She's a wimp.
My lasting memory of this video was my sister lamenting how they made the horse fall down so many times to make the video, and my mom pointing out that they used the same shot over and over again, and me thinking "yeah, but what if they did a lot of takes just to get the one shot." Odd how so many people seem to have focused on the horse in that video.
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women, horses
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Bruce Hornsby & the Range - The Valley Road
I love a lot of the songs on his first two albums, and this is definitely a favorite. The biggest hit from Scenes from the Southside, this features the classic piano-playing by Hornsby, not to mention a rhythm that is impossible to tap your toe to. This was one of the more fun, upbeat songs of 1988, and the band looked like they had a blast making the video, shots of which are intertwined with random clips of people moving to the rhythm of the song. This is a great song by any measure. :tup :tup
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Oh wow, I haven't heard that song in forever - so much so that I had to pull up the video for it, and instantly remembered the song once it started.
You're right too - those first two albums have some damn fine music on them.
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Bruce Hornsby & The Range were awesome. Catchy, well-produced pop music with some kind of folksy/jazzy side to it, from what I could tell.
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Bruce Hornsby is from Williamsburg, Virginia, right up the road from where I live. It's worth noting that he made exactly zero impression on the local music scene until his first album came out, years after he left the area, where local writers elbowed each other aside to proclaim him a local hero. As a funny aside, my best friend from high school, once he got through the wild, zany adventures we used to have, became a member of the Williamsburg police department, and was known for years around there as "the guy who gave Bruce Hornsby a speeding ticket." :lol
Musically, I was never much of a fan, but he had such a distinctive sound that it took me-and anyone who listened to rock and roll in that time frame-maybe 3 seconds to realize that he was playing on Don Henley's song The End of the Innocence. Hornsby did carve out a rather unique niche for himself at the end of the 80s, I'll give him that.
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RIght up the road? I have an aunt and uncle that live in Williamsburg. I spent several years living just outside Langley Air Force Base in the early 80's.
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My god, you were in my neck of the woods during a lot of the silly adventures I talk about in this thread. I live in Hampton, right down on the beach. :lol
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:lol Outstanding. I was in 3rd grade when we moved away to Roanoke, 1984. We lived in a little community called Bethel Manor a few miles outside the main AFB gate.
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Musically, I was never much of a fan, but he had such a distinctive sound that it took me-and anyone who listened to rock and roll in that time frame-maybe 3 seconds to realize that he was playing on Don Henley's song The End of the Innocence. Hornsby did carve out a rather unique niche for himself at the end of the 80s, I'll give him that.
So true, regarding The End of the Innocence. I remember when that song came out, I immediately thought, "Ah, a new Bruce Hornsby song," and then the little thing at the bottom showed that it was by Don Henley, and I was like, "Wait, what?" So yeah, I was not shocked at all when I found out that Hornsby played the piano in that song. His style and sound was so distinctive.
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:lol Outstanding. I was in 3rd grade when we moved away to Roanoke, 1984. We lived in a little community called Bethel Manor a few miles outside the main AFB gate.
I may have had an adventure or two in that neighborhood in my youth, but after you moved away :lol
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Freakin' small world.
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Def Leppard - Foolin'
This wasn't as big as Photograph, but I always thought it was much better, and definitely the best of the hits from Pyromania. Plus, the video had a very dreamlike feel during the verses that just make it that much more enjoyable.
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DEFINITELY liked Foolin' more than Photograph - Photograph was WAY overplayed.
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Good rocker. Very 80s in a good way. I also sometimes sing "St-st-st-stoooolaaan!!" to myself when I'm backed up on the john. Even when it doesn't help things along, I still get a good laugh to myself.
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Robert Plant - Tall Cool One
I loved most of the Now and Zen album, and I know it's a cliche to say it, but Tall Cool One, the biggest hit from it, was my least favorite song from the record. It's not the awful song that some make it out to be, but it isn't that great either. A friend from years ago used to aggravate another friend of ours, who was a huge LZ fan and quite the hothead, by telling him that Tall Cool One was the best song Robert Plant ever sang. It never failed to get a reaction. :lol :lol
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I thought it was a cool song. The chorus has that almost-rap thing going on, and the beat is really catchy. I haven't heard it in a while, but isn't this the one with all the Led Zeppelin quotes at the end? Kinda cheesy now I guess, but at the time it was really cool, and they're well incorporated.
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Yes.
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Def Leppard - Foolin'
This wasn't as big as Photograph, but I always thought it was much better, and definitely the best of the hits from Pyromania. Plus, the video had a very dreamlike feel during the verses that just make it that much more enjoyable.
The Def Leppard I love.
Robert Plant - Tall Cool One
I loved most of the Now and Zen album, and I know it's a cliche to say it, but Tall Cool One, the biggest hit from it, was my least favorite song from the record. It's not the awful song that some make it out to be, but it isn't that great either. A friend from years ago used to aggravate another friend of ours, who was a huge LZ fan and quite the hothead, by telling him that Tall Cool One was the best song Robert Plant ever sang. It never failed to get a reaction. :lol :lol
I absolutely love Tall Cool One and the whole album.
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Foolin is a standout track from DL for me. Great tune.
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I just dug out Now And Zen recently, having been on a Zep related kick since Celebration Day came out, and my opinion of Tall Cool One hasn't changed in years. It's a bit of a gimmicky song, but it's an exceptionally done gimmick song. It is a bit funny how it was seen as embracing and looking back on the Zeppelin legacy, what, eight years after they broke up? :lol
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I had a weird fascination with Tall Cool One after it came out, but looking back... eh, that was a bit dodgy. :jets:
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I absolutely love Tall Cool One and the whole album.
The three hits aside, I was always partial to The Way I Feel, Helen of Troy and White, Clean & Neat. Now and Zen still holds up as an outstanding record. :coolio
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The Way I Feel my favorite and I also love Billy's Revenge
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I like how Plant embraced the Zeppelin legacy, rather than the Honeydrippers crap he did to ignore it. Great album. Liked it so much that in my work softball league, I chose the number 1, and had "Tall Cool" as the name on the jersey.
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The Way I Feel my favorite and I also love Billy's Revenge
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I like how Plant embraced the Zeppelin legacy, rather than the Honeydrippers crap he did to ignore it. Great album. Liked it so much that in my work softball league, I chose the number 1, and had "Tall Cool" as the name on the jersey.
Haha, nice. :hat
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Van Halen - Best of Both Worlds
The live version of this from the Live Without a Net video was played like crazy on MTV, and I liked it quite a bit. I never heard the studio version until years later, and when I did, it was a massive letdown; very sterile and lifeless in comparison, IMO. To this day, Best of Both Worlds isn't close to being a favorite of mine, even from the Van Hagar era, but when I do listen to it, I go for the live version every single time.
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I don't believe I've heard the Live Without a Net version, although I know the Right Here, Right Now version. I love the song, although there are plenty more on the album I prefer, being such a great album.
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I chose the number 1, and had "Tall Cool" as the name on the jersey.
That's pretty cool. :tup
the Honeydrippers crap
I don't see why anyone, singer or musician or whatever, can't try other genres. I thought The Honeydrippers had some good stuff. Zep was gone, there was no intention of bringing them back. He'd done some solo stuff, he wanted to try out some other stuff he liked. I have no problem with that. Steve Stevens' first solo album was Flemenco, and I heard it was pretty kickass.
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Van Halen - Best of Both Worlds
Not a bad song from the Van Hagar days, but not the best either.
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Van Halen - Best of Both Worlds
Not a bad song from the Van Hagar days, but not the best either.
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the Honeydrippers crap
I don't see why anyone, singer or musician or whatever, can't try other genres. I thought The Honeydrippers had some good stuff. Zep was gone, there was no intention of bringing them back. He'd done some solo stuff, he wanted to try out some other stuff he liked. I have no problem with that. Steve Stevens' first solo album was Flemenco, and I heard it was pretty kickass.
I guess I don't have a problem with him trying other stuff, I just didn't like it.
Van Halen - Best of Both Worlds
Not the best on 5150, but I too lean towards the live version, and can't hear that main melody without picturing Eddie, Sammy and Michael doing that strut on stage. I've got that DVD... it's a pretty sweet concert... even if Hagar's hair makes him look like a dork. Man, those baggie pants :facepalm:
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Yeah, the live version SLAYS the studio version for sure.
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BOBW is excellent. This is coming form someone who's as big a fan of Sammy Hagar in general as I am of Van Halen pre-Hagar. The studio version IS considerably more subdued sounding. I'm going off the RHRN live version as well, which kicks major ass.
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Metallica - One
I remember being shocked that MTV was playing something so heavy, fast and intense back in 1988. Playing something like that on a regular basis was nearly unheard of at the time. I didn't like the song much at all then, and while I did get into Metallica years later, One has never been a song I have embraced that much. There are parts of it I like (the creepy verses), but I generally do not think it is that good of a metal song. The video was definitely interesting, though, and in a good way.
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MTV playing this was shocking simply because, at the time, Metallica had been a band that had resolutely sworn to NEVER make a music video. I remember the night it debuted on Headbanger's Ball, and at the top of the hour they announced videos by assorted bands that were going to be played, and when the announcer said "Metallica" I turned to my best friend and asked "Did they say METALLICA?" To our shock, they HAD, and it was equally shocking that it was the full length version of the song. After it took off, there was a single version of One, which was still around five minutes long or so, but when it debuted it was the full song. The song itself is the standard Metallica thrashy ballad, and honestly, they never did that better than Fade To Black, but back then, seeing a seven minute plus Metallica video on MTV was like seeing the metal underground march out into the light.
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My favorite Metallica song. The Johnny Gets His Gun scenes depress me. Such a creepy premise
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From my top 50 thread:
This was my entry into heavy metal and really anything that even remotely resembled "prog". I had previously known of Metallica since Master of Puppets because my friend had the cassette, but I never really listened to them until "One" hit, and man did it hit me hard. The video for "One" debuted in January of 1989, when I was 11 years old. I remember staring at the TV wondering what it was I was watching - there was NOTHING else like this. The stark black and white images of the band furiously playing interspersed with scenes from a movie I had never heard of plus the dark lyrical content really made an impression. "One" quickly became a favorite song of mine and still is to this day.
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I am shocked there wasn't more chatter about the only Metallica song that will be featured in this thread. ??? ??? ???
But anyway, moving on...
Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days
I've enjoyed this song a lot since the first time I heard it; it's just a fun and energetic rock song that has a wide appeal. The video shows Bruce and his band have a good ole time performing the song, and I get an even bigger kick out of seeing it now, given how well I now know Steven Van Zandt. Back then, he was one of the E Street guys trying to hog center stage with Bruce :lol, but now it's like, "Hey, it's Sil from the Sopranos!" :hat :hat :hat
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Never really liked Springsteen (don't tell my family in Jersey).
"One" got me into Johnny Got His Gun, though, which is now one of my favorite movies (even though it makes me want to kill myself) :heart
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Didn't like the direction Springsteen took in the 80s, and the radio latched on to him like VD. You couldn't go a single day without hearing one of those "hits" from Born in the USA... most of which I didn't like too much.
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Big Springsteen fan here, but I agree with Chad about his direction in the 80s. Born In The USA was a huge album but I strongly prefer his earlier stuff.
That said, Glory Days is an okay song and as catchy as herpes on a Saturday night :zydar:
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My favorite song of his 80's days
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My favorite song of his 80's days
That's like being the tallest attendee at a midget convention.
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"Glory Days" was one of those 80's Springsteen tunes that I just can't understand. The intro, verse, chorus, and bridge (if there is one) are all literally the same riff, over and over. This one, the title track, I'm sure there were a few others, were all like that. Yes, catchy as hell, the first time you hear it. After that, there's nothing more to the song.
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That is something that I noticed about the Born in the USA album. Every song was a simple riff repeated endlessly to the point of monotony.
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Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now
I never quite got the hype over this song or Tiffany herself. Sure, she was kind of cute and had that attainable look, which appealed to a lot of males around my age, but none of her songs ever really made a dent with me. And when she fell of the map, seemingly without a whimper, I didn't even notice.
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Exactly. She was not unattractive, her songs weren't bad, there just wasn't much to distinguish her from the countless other girl singers.
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Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now
I never quite got the hype over this song or Tiffany herself. Sure, she was kind of cute and had that attainable look, which appealed to a lot of males around my age, but none of her songs ever really made a dent with me. And when she fell of the map, seemingly without a whimper, I didn't even notice.
The only good thing about this song beyond Tiffany's cute-ness and fapability factor was it being the inspiration for Wierd Al's I Think I'm a Clone Now.
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Wasn't she like sixteen when this song came out? :rollin
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Wasn't she like sixteen when this song came out? :rollin
Yes, but, then so was much of her target demographic at the time. I was born like 2 months after Tiffany, and a lot of people my age liked her and Debbie Gibson partly because they were the same age as us.
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It just becomes kind of retroactively funny for people to talk about Tiffany's fappability now. It may not help my memory of her that she bore a very strong resemblance to the then 14 year sister of the girl one of my friends married. :lol Though a couple of years later, that girl was the friend of the teenager whose relationship I ended with a Bon Jovi album, as I mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
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The Romantics - Talking in Your Sleep
I loved this song when it was first out. I even had the 45 of it. But years later, it doesn't do much for me. Sure, if I head it, I think, "Yeah, that is still catchy and kind of cool," but it never screams out for me to listen to it, making most listens of it to be accidental ones. :lol
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Metallica - One
:2metal:
Not one of the best of their thrashers IMO, but it's by far not the worst.
Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days
No. Just... no. Never been much of a Bruce fan, but the earlier the better.
Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now
You should hear Bill Hicks's rant about mall culture - which involves Debbie Gibson, Tiffany, and Jimi Hendrix. Funny shit. :jets:
Anyhoo - another no.
The Romantics - Talking in Your Sleep
Never liked this one - the bass line is about the only redeemable quality in this one.
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Tommy Tutone - 867-5309/Jenny
Despite being as catchy as a cold in the winter, I was never really a fan of this song. It is kind of funny how many problems the song caused though, what with people all over the country prank calling the number in their area and asking for Jenny. I suspect that, to this day, nobody wants that to be their telephone number.
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Benjamin Franklin Plumbing used to have that number (1-866-867-5309).
On their commercials they used the tune of the song, but instead of "Jenny, don't change your number", the lyric was "Benny, the punctual plumber - 867-5309"
8675309 is also the fourth most common 7-digit password
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Terrible song. Funny facts about the plumber and password though.
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So overrated
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He has no one to turn to. But he knows that there is Jenny, who he could call for a good time. Just knowing that she's out there, and would show him a good time, gives him hope. He's never actually called the number, she doesn't know him, but she makes him so happy. It's poignant. Movie of the Week material right there.
Also, the video is funny.
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Tommy Tutone - 867-5309/Jenny
Never a fan of it - overrated and definitely overplayed.
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Every decade has one hit wonders, but there's always one that is the archetype of the one hit wonder. For the record, the greatest one hit wonder ever is Right Said Fred's I'm Too Sexy, because if you saw them making TV appearances during that time, you could tell they knew they were a one hit wonder, and they were milking it for all it was worth, while it lasted.
867-5309 was the archetype of the 1980s one hit wonder, IMO. I say this because MTV had a bit of a distorting effect on the one hit wonder phenomenon. MTV could extend the life of a one hit wonder by a few videos, maybe even get the band to the next album before the roof caved in. Tommy Twotone? They had THIS song. And nothing else. That was it for them. In the era of early MTV, that took a lot of work to make happen. The song itself? Awful. Never sure why it took off the way it did.
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867-5309 is the phone number of a pawn shop in town.
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Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Interestingly, I really got into a lot of this band's music about two years ago. I already knew their big 80s songs/hits, and West End Girls, their biggest hit ever, was never much of a favorite. It's a good song, but I just like a lot of their songs more. The video is kind of odd to go back and watch now, and it really surprises me that this song was the hit that it was, even for that time period.
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I've never had much time for Pet Shop Boys, they're really not my thing. But I adore their version of Always On My Mind. Go figure. :lol
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Prolly one of a couple of songs by PSB that I can tolerate. Again, this came out just towards the tail end of my poppy music days, as I was transitioning my tastes to real music.
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Real music? ???
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Real music? ???
Yeah, I was transitioning out of pop, in to Rock.
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And pop, of course, isn't real. :lol
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ok... 'better' music.
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Tony Banks of Genesis once cited Pet Shop Boys as one of his favorite bands. I figured if one of my favorite composers names them as a favorite, they're worth checking out. I did, and while they had a good sound and great production, I didn't find anything particularly mindblowing about their music. Better, or at least less offensive, than most 80's stuff.
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Actually, a lot of their post-80s material is their best stuff. Very, Nightlife, Fundamental and Yes are all chock full of good songs.
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Ah ha, the anomoly. The band whose better material came later, not earlier in their catalogue!
Now I have to hunt down some later Pet Shop Boys.
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I never delved beyond West End Girls and What Have I Done To Deserve This. Not bad though.
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Phil Collins - Sussudio
Awful. This is one of those songs that should be put in a coffin and buried forever. It's that bad. And it went to number 1! Yikes.
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Agreed. How did this become huge?
Wait... how did Phil Collins become huge?
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Wait... how did Phil Collins become huge?
As a solo artist, I think In the Air Tonight was what really launched him. And that is a great song.
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Phil became huge by growing a mullet of course.
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The crowd in that video has to go in the 80's fashion hall of fame. And they don't even look like they're having much fun until the director tells them to start dancing and clapping.
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The only thing I really like about Sussudio is the fact that the title was just something Phil sang to fit the melody, and he never found anything to replace it, so it stuck. :rollin
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I quite like this song. In fact, No Jacket Required is my favorite Phil Collins album, and also one of my favorite pop/rock albums of all time.
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I don't dislike ANYTHING from Phil Collins.
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It's catchy, and the horns are great. Can't say I like the song, though.
The live version with the Phil Collins Big Band smokes, though.
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Phil Collins - Sussudio
Awful. This is one of those songs that should be put in a coffin and buried forever. It's that bad. And it went to number 1! Yikes.
Right on, Kev.
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Murray Head - One Night in Bangkok
I had completely forgot about this song until last week! I remember digging it when I was a kid, especially musically. I was never a big fan of the talking style of the verses, but I liked the chorus. And the song is still wicked cool musically.
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ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK AND THE CHORUS IS STUCK IN YOUR HEAD!
Dammit Kev, another earworm I thought defeated. :lol
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Catchy song, one of those rare 80's tunes that I actually have on my iPod.
Things I learned/realized while trying to hunt down an mp3 of this song:
- Murray Head was Judas Iscariot in the Broadway version of Jesus Christ Superstar. That's my favorite version, I've listened to it hundreds of times, and I never recognized his voice.
- The song is from the Broadway version of the musical "Chess". For some reason, it is nearly impossible to find this version. Instead, the London version is everywhere, but the cast is different, and the story is actually quite different (for one thing, they completely changed the ending). But the soundtrack with Murray Head is nowhere to be found.
- I was listening to the soundtrack, and sometimes the chorus would come in and the female voices would do a run in tight harmony and I'd say "What is this, ABBA?" The music was written by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, the guys from ABBA, who also wrote most that group's music.
End of music lesson.
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ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK AND THE CHORUS IS STUCK IN YOUR HEAD!
Dammit Kev, another earworm I thought defeated. :lol
:biggrin:
Catchy song, one of those rare 80's tunes that I actually have on my iPod.
Things I learned/realized while trying to hunt down an mp3 of this song:
- Murray Head was Judas Iscariot in the Broadway version of Jesus Christ Superstar. That's my favorite version, I've listened to it hundreds of times, and I never recognized his voice.
- The song is from the Broadway version of the musical "Chess". For some reason, it is nearly impossible to find this version. Instead, the London version is everywhere, but the cast is different, and the story is actually quite different (for one thing, they completely changed the ending). But the soundtrack with Murray Head is nowhere to be found.
- I was listening to the soundtrack, and sometimes the chorus would come in and the female voices would do a run in tight harmony and I'd say "What is this, ABBA?" The music was written by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, the guys from ABBA, who also wrote most that group's music.
End of music lesson.
Interesting. Not sure of the difference, but I did find what I knew as the normal version of this song on amazon immediately. Only cost me 99 cents. :tup :tup
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KevShmev: How do you find the songs that you decide to make the Song Of The Day?
First I thought you chose from your favourites, but I very soon realised that's not the case :lol
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Well, $@%!
Yeah, I just went to Amazon and the original soundtrack was even listed first, before the London one. I guarantee you, five years ago that was not the case.
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KevShmev: How do you find the songs that you decide to make the Song Of The Day?
First I thought you chose from your favourites, but I very soon realised that's not the case :lol
Looks through his old VHS tapes. :biggrin:
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KevShmev: How do you find the songs that you decide to make the Song Of The Day?
First I thought you chose from your favourites, but I very soon realised that's not the case :lol
I have a master 80s playlist in iTunes, that includes my favorites and whatnot. I then made a duplicate playlist titled DTF 80s, and then I added a bunch of 80s songs many would call essential, but ones I don't like enough to have in my own playlist, since, as a completist, I do have quite a few mp3s of songs I am iffy on, and then there are songs I might remember when seeing them on Totally 80s (but don't have an mp3 of). And then I just randomly pick songs from it and delete them from the DTF 80s playlist so I know not to accidently feature them again. So, if I ever accidently feature a song I've already done, it's cause I forgot to delete it. :lol
Well, $@%!
Yeah, I just went to Amazon and the original soundtrack was even listed first, before the London one. I guarantee you, five years ago that was not the case.
Hehe, there ya go. :)
Looks through his old VHS tapes. :biggrin:
:lol Funny you say that, as I do still have four or five old 6-hour VHS tapes from the 80s just full of videos, but they are useless now, what with me not really having a working VCR anymore.
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In the version I have, there's an orchestral instrumental titled "Bangkok" which leads directly into the song "One Night in Bangkok". The volume on the instrumental is really low compared to the song. Is it that way on your copy? It seems like such a cool tune, but when I'm shuffling, it's half over before I realize that it's even playing because it's so quiet.
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[Murray Head was Judas Iscariot in the Broadway version of Jesus Christ Superstar. That's my favorite version, I've listened to it hundreds of times, and I never recognized his voice.
This version of the album is stellar, between him and Ian Gillan, and everyone else. Maybe because it was the first I heard, but every other verison just sounds... wrong. I know that isn't fair, but I can't listen to any other version. I get chills when he gets to "I shall be dragged through the slime and the, slime and the, slime and the mud!!!"
Interestly, I've never heard him doing anything else. I've heard this song, but never knew it was him.
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Kev, no lie, I just threw out about 45 VHS tapes when we cleaned out the basement. All I recorded over the years. I do have a VCR in the bedroom we never use. :lol
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I had forgotten about this song too, but it for some reason jumped into my consciousness a few weeks back. Didn't have it in my library, so thank god for the internet.
Totally dug this tune back in the day, and still do. Eletronic, pop, and a little prog in there all at once. Here's a one hit wonder.
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Kev, no lie, I just threw out about 45 VHS tapes when we cleaned out the basement. All I recorded over the years. I do have a VCR in the bedroom we never use. :lol
come on be honest you use it as a clock
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Kev, no lie, I just threw out about 45 VHS tapes when we cleaned out the basement. All I recorded over the years. I do have a VCR in the bedroom we never use. :jets:
come on be honest you use it as a clock
Or it's always flashing 12:00
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Kev, no lie, I just threw out about 45 VHS tapes when we cleaned out the basement. All I recorded over the years. I do have a VCR in the bedroom we never use. :lol
I won't lie, either: there will probably come a day very soon where I have to throw out all of my VHS tapes - probably 100+ when you count ones full of videos, old wrestling shows in the late 80s/early 90s, sitcoms (I still have almost every episode of Cheers on VHS), movies, etc. - and it will make me a bit sad when I finally have to do it. :(
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In the version I have, there's an orchestral instrumental titled "Bangkok" which leads directly into the song "One Night in Bangkok". The volume on the instrumental is really low compared to the song. Is it that way on your copy? It seems like such a cool tune, but when I'm shuffling, it's half over before I realize that it's even playing because it's so quiet.
I don't think so. It seems fine. :shrug
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Kev, no lie, I just threw out about 45 VHS tapes when we cleaned out the basement. All I recorded over the years. I do have a VCR in the bedroom we never use. :lol
I won't lie, either: there will probably come a day very soon where I have to throw out all of my VHS tapes - probably 100+ when you count ones full of videos, old wrestling shows in the late 80s/early 90s, sitcoms (I still have almost every episode of Cheers on VHS), movies, etc. - and it will make me a bit sad when I finally have to do it. :(
I had a whack load of things on VHS that were irreplaceable. About a year ago, I got myself a USB-RCA dongle, the appropriate software, and 'ripped' all my VHS tapes, along with all my Hi-8 camcorder tapes. Now everything is digitized, and I don't need to keep a VCR just for the heck of it, or the physical space of all those cassettes.
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Guys, guys! I have a cable box for the time! It's for all my old pronos. Come on now.
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Murray Head - One Night in Bangkok
I had completely forgot about this song until last week! I remember digging it when I was a kid, especially musically. I was never a big fan of the talking style of the verses, but I liked the chorus. And the song is still wicked cool musically.
YES! I've always loved this song! :biggrin:
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In the version I have, there's an orchestral instrumental titled "Bangkok" which leads directly into the song "One Night in Bangkok". The volume on the instrumental is really low compared to the song. Is it that way on your copy? It seems like such a cool tune, but when I'm shuffling, it's half over before I realize that it's even playing because it's so quiet.
I don't think so. It seems fine. :shrug
Damn, I may have to bust out 99 cents and upgrade my copy.
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Don't hurt yourself, big spender. :P :jets:
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Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink
I had no idea that there were two versions of this song until literally yesterday. I only ever knew what was apparently the 2nd version, the one re-recorded for the Pretty in Pink soundtrack. Maybe it's because I am often partial to the first version I hear of a song, but the 2nd version is much better, if you ask me. I like the saxophone playing the lead, even if it does up the cheese factor. :biggrin: Anyway, good song, and it's hard not to think of the movie when I hear it cause it was another of those videos with plenty of movie clips included. Not that the movie is that great (it is an enjoyable 80s flick, but not much else), but it is hard to hear the song without thinking of it.
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An inoffensive enough song. I wasn't aware that there were two versions, either. The singer from The Furs had a cool voice, the kind of "smooth Euro" voices I associate with the 80's, but in a good way, I guess.
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The Psychedelic Furs had better tunes, but Pretty In Pink wasn't too bad.
Their singer was/is Richard Butler, btw.
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Time for some holiday spirit...
Billy Squier - Christmas Is the Time to Say "I Love You"
Anyone who grew up watching MTV in its earliest years should love the video of him performing this in the MTV studios with the help of the MTV crew, including early VJ's like Martha Quinn, Mark Goodman, J.J. Jackson, etc. This is another song I had totally forgotten about until I saw it last week, but seeing the video again was a total reminder of how awesome and fun the 80s were. Call it cheesy, call it corny, call it whatever you want, but it sure was fun back then. :coolio
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dekHPlFNMIc
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MTV playing this was shocking simply because, at the time, Metallica had been a band that had resolutely sworn to NEVER make a music video. I remember the night it debuted on Headbanger's Ball, and at the top of the hour they announced videos by assorted bands that were going to be played, and when the announcer said "Metallica" I turned to my best friend and asked "Did they say METALLICA?" To our shock, they HAD, and it was equally shocking that it was the full length version of the song. After it took off, there was a single version of One, which was still around five minutes long or so, but when it debuted it was the full song. The song itself is the standard Metallica thrashy ballad, and honestly, they never did that better than Fade To Black, but back then, seeing a seven minute plus Metallica video on MTV was like seeing the metal underground march out into the light.
Good post dude.
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Billy Squier - Christmas Is the Time to Say "I Love You"
[Monty Python and the Holy Grail] RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!!! [/Monty Python and the Holy Grail]
But seriously... NO. Hell no. Never liked that song. I'd much rather hear a loop of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" than... THAT.
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Haha, the song itself is obviously not very good, but the video is so much fun, and seeing all of those old MTV VJs was cool.
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I'll give you that. :jets:
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I heard that Billy Squier song on a local classic rock station a few years back, and my head-which does strange things to songs sometimes-instantly re-purposed it as a cry from Billy Squier to get people to buy his music now. "CHRISTMAS IS A TIME TO SAY I LOVE YOU, AND BUY DON'T SAY NO FOR ALL YOUR FRIENDS THIS YEAR." :rollin
What can I say, the weirdness in my head wasn't just from my drinking days.
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:jets:
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Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?
I don't care what anyone says, I think this is a good song and one I still enjoy a lot during the holiday season. Noteworthy is the drum fill Phil Collins does following Bono's, "Well tonight, thank God it's them instead of you!" line; I still love that little fill there.
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You should do a battle of the bands
Band Aid vs Hear n Aid
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Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?
I don't care what anyone says, I think this is a good song and one I still enjoy a lot during the holiday season.
Completely agreed.
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Yeah I enjoy this too. It's in my regular rotation of Christmas songs every year.
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Run-D.M.C. - Christmas in Hollis
Despite never being much of a fan of rap, I gotta big kick out of this song and video when it was big in late '88, but it didn't age well for me at all. I don't think it sucks or anything, but the novelty, or whatever you want to call it, of it simply wore off quickly and it became forgettable.
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Yeah! This was one of the first rap songs that I actually liked. The music video is classic as well.
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Back to Band Aid. Great song, and great initiative by Geldof. Might be my patriotism showing, but of the three songs to come out of that idea (this, We Are The World, and Tears Are Not Enough), I was always partial to Canada's effort.
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I like the 3 Christmas songs but never really play them even at Christmas.
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Run-D.M.C. - Christmas in Hollis
Despite never being much of a fan of rap, I gotta big kick out of this song and video when it was big in late '88, but it didn't age well for me at all. I don't think it sucks or anything, but the novelty, or whatever you want to call it, of it simply wore off quickly and it became forgettable.
Enduring memory of this song:
"This IS Christmas music!" in Die Hard. :biggrin:
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UB40 - Red Red Wine
There are no words to describe how much I hate this song. I guess the music ain't bad, but the vocals are so damn annoying. It didn't help that a friend loved this song at the time it was out and played the shit out of it. :facepalm:
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I've never been a fan of UB40's modern reggae pop sound. The music just doesn't seem to do anything, and as you said, the vocals are annoying, too. That doesn't leave a lot.
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I feel the same Bob.
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Oh god, I loathe Red Red Wine. About the time the one guy starts ad libbing shit-RED RED WINE MAKE YOU FEEL SO FINE, I'MMA GONNA CHOKE ON SOAP ON A ROPE or whatever it is-I want to collectively punch the band in the dick. :lol
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Red Red Wine = _floyd's puking emote
Christmas in Hollis :tup
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Europe - Superstitious
This was not only my favorite Europe song back in the day, but it was one of my favorite songs of 1988 at the time. Easily the best chorus the band ever wrote, the rest of the song around it is rock solid as well. I defy an 80s fan to listen to this song and then have that chorus not get stuck in their head. :lol :biggrin:
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I have no memory of this song at all. :lol Is this off the same album as Open Your Heart, which I actually DO remember?
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Yes, although I think Open Your Heart was redone. The redone version was the popular one with the video, and that is the one from the same album as Superstitious, Out of This World (which is actually good from start to finish).
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Yeah, Open Your Heart was a redone version of an older Europe song. I actually bought that song off itunes a few years back. Always liked the switch from acoustic verses to that big riff driven chorus. Need to try the rest of that album someday.
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Europe - Superstitious
This was not only my favorite Europe song back in the day, but it was one of my favorite songs of 1988 at the time. Easily the best chorus the band ever wrote, the rest of the song around it is rock solid as well. I defy an 80s fan to listen to this song and then have that chorus not get stuck in their head. :lol :biggrin:
This is one of those songs you look at youtube like I did and go, "Oh yeah!" I forgot about this tune. Not bad but they do have better tunes than this.
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Europe gets a bad rap, but they're a very solid band.
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Run-D.M.C. - Christmas in Hollis
Despite never being much of a fan of rap, I gotta big kick out of this song and video when it was big in late '88, but it didn't age well for me at all. I don't think it sucks or anything, but the novelty, or whatever you want to call it, of it simply wore off quickly and it became forgettable.
I LOVE this song! And while I recognize that it's really not a very good song, I still love it nonetheless.
UB40 - Red Red Wine
There are no words to describe how much I hate this song. I guess the music ain't bad, but the vocals are so damn annoying. It didn't help that a friend loved this song at the time it was out and played the shit out of it. :facepalm:
I don't hate it like some others do, but never really liked it much either. My step-mom is Jamaican, born and raised, so I grew up with authentic reggae on the stereo morning, noon and night, which made UB40's brand of pop-reggae seem weak in comparison. Still, they had some good, catchy tunes. Funny that this song was their biggest hit, since I remember there being much stronger songs on the same album (although I would be hard pressed now to remember what they are).
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Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is a Place on Earth
A catchy enough song to where its popularity was no surprise, but while it wasn't a song I hated, it wasn't one I really liked at all. It was just kind of there. And I was totally oblivious to the similarity its chorus had to Bon Jovi's You Give Love a Bad Name until I read about it online a few years ago, and then I was like, "Duh." :facepalm: :lol
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...damn those two songs DO have a similar chorus. :lol
One of the things I seem to recall about Belinda Carisle's solo career at the time this song came out was how big a deal it was that OMG BELINDA CARISLE IS SKINNY NOW. As if she was ever, ya know, what you'd call grossly overweight. Some things never change.
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Yeah, she wasn't fat, but the Go-Go's obviously partied hard, so she had a little bit of fat (but still looked good). I guess she had toned down the partying and drinking by 1986 when her first solo album came out.
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Europe gets a bad rap, but they're a very solid band.
Word
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Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is a Place on Earth
No. Just... HELL no. I'd rather listen to The Go-Go's than Belinda's solo stuff ANY day of the week.
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Also, it still bugs me that The Go-Go's have that apostrophe in their band name. It makes no sense.
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Me too. All I can think of is that they thought "Go-Gos" looked weird, which it does. "Go-Goes"? Even worse.
(They should've just picked a different name)
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Haha, probably. On that note...
The Go-Go's - Head Over Heels
I believe this was their last big hit in the 80s before splitting and going their separate ways. A catchy enough song at the time, but sounds pretty vanilla nowadays, even by 80s pop standards.
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Earworm worthy chorus...well, okay, maybe not, but I hear the title followed by a handclapping sound whenever I think of this song, so close enough...but it is kind of generic. Am I wrong in remembering they only did two albums together?
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Yeah, a bit forgettable - their earlier hits packed more of a punch.
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Mr. Mister - Kyrie
Hands down, one of the best pop rock songs of the mid 80s. This is still one of those songs that if I hear it, its chorus is likely to be stuck in my head for hours. And since I just listened to it, as I always do with the song I am about to feature, it will now be stuck in my head till at least early afternoon. :lol
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I agree, such a good song. I like this a bit better than "Broken Wings"
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Mr. Mister is one of the bands I've always regretted not delving into past their radio hits. Although, I always preferred Broken Wings to Kyrie. Not that it's a bad song, though - just a personal preference.
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I remember when Pat Mastellotto joined King Crimson, and my friend mentioned that he was the drummer for Mr. Mister. I was surprised. Mr. Mister had never seemed more than a generic 80's pop band to me. A good one, I guess, but nothing special. But let's face it, if you're good enough to play with Fripp in King Crimson, you've got it going on. Suddenly I felt the need to check out more from Mr. Mister.
I never did, though. Got lazy or something. But they had some good songs.
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Great song, and Richard Page is one hell of a song writer.
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Billy Idol - Eyes Without a Face
A very cool laid back song, featuring a killer bridge that takes the song from being pretty good to really good. I wasn't big on a lot of Idol's hits in the 80s, but this one was really nice.
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Not really a fan of his besides a handful of songs. This is a cool song though.
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Somewhere on these forums, there is a post I made saying that I had no problem with someone saying Welcome to the Real World was the definitive 80s pop-rock album. I still believe that. The thing people forget about Mr. Mister, or may not even know, is that much like Toto, they were a band who had extensive careers as session musicians, which meant that they had a lot more talent than people gave them credit for, and they used that skill to craft some amazing pop-rock songs. I didn't realize it at the time, of course, since I was just wading out into the waters of prog and was largely a GRRR METAL RULES kind of guy, but Mr. Mister is a lot better than a lot of people gave them credit for, including me :lol
As for Eyes Without A Face-THAT RIFF. :metal
You go through most of the song thinking it's going to be an atmospheric, laid back song, and then suddenly BOOM, here comes a killer guitar riff and the song goes off in another direction that at the same time works perfectly with the rest of the song. One of the better "holy shit" moments of the 80s.
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Billy Idol had some cool tunes, and this is definitely one of them. I love how it goes from mellow to double-time for the break, while half of the rhythm section apparently doesn't change anything. Steve Stevens is screaming on guitar, as usual. The video had lots of nice little touches to it as well. I like how it starts with "In the midnight hour..." which somehow has a different connotation with the mellow feel, but is a reference to one of his balls-out rockers. I think this one had the ass-slapping girls, too, which is a reference to another video of his. And then somehow it returns to mellow, again seemingly without much else changing musically. Clever stuff, and the guy knew how to use video to good effect.
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Mr. Mister - Kyrie
Hands down, one of the best pop rock songs of the mid 80s. This is still one of those songs that if I hear it, its chorus is likely to be stuck in my head for hours. And since I just listened to it, as I always do with the song I am about to feature, it will now be stuck in my head till at least early afternoon. :lol
Had the album on vinyl. It was a beast. Might have to try and dig up a digital copy to reminisce. I only have Kyrie and Broken Wings in my library.
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Billy Idol - Eyes Without a Face
:heart :heart :heart
Thank you, that is all. :biggrin:
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Great song from Billy right there.
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U2 - With or Without You
I wasn't overly crazy about this song when it first came out. For one, it was played non-stop, so I kind of had that "It's an okay song, but not great enough to warrant this kind of non-stop play" reaction, and for two, having been a big fan of the rockers by them that MTV played in the mid 80s, it seemed too tame. But over time, I grew to really love the song, especially once I got into the band in a big way. Over 25 years later, this is still a song that is literally impossible not to know. A younger friend at work a while back said she had no idea of the song when it somehow came up in a conversation, but when she heard it, she was like, "Oh yeah, I know that, but didn't know what it was called or who it was by."
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Over-rated. Great album, but this is in the bottom tier of it. It was't even a very good ballad for the era.
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I think U2 is overrated, period.
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Great album, but this is in the bottom tier of it.
Well, to me, The Joshua Tree is so strong from start to finish, that even the bottom tier tunes are pretty damn good, although my least favorite, Trip Through Your Wires, is one I am not wild about; probably because of that damn harmonica. :facepalm:
I think U2 is overrated, period.
Way to discuss the song. :\ :tdwn :tdwn
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I actually really like this song.
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U2 - With or Without You
It's not one of my favorites from TJT, but it's better than a lot of the stuff they've released within the last few years IMO.
That said, I was never really a huge fan.
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Can't stand U2 to be honest.
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Very good song. The problem with it, as you pointed out Kev, is that it was SO overplayed. But I will freely admit that I overrate pretty much every song from that album. Definitely a fan. Joshua Tree just holds an almost mythical status for me. Big, big fan.
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Unless you were there when it happened, I don't think it's possible to realize the impact With or Without You had. In a flash, U2 went from being a popular rock band to the biggest band on the planet, a title they held for a good 7 years (1987-1993). During that timespan, no one was bigger than U2. Not GNR. Not Metallica. Not Nirvana. No one. And With or Without You was the catalyst for that.
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Unless you were there when it happened, I don't think it's possible to realize the impact With or Without You had. In a flash, U2 went from being a popular rock band to the biggest band on the planet, a title they held for a good 7 years (1987-1993). During that timespan, no one was bigger than U2. Not GNR. Not Metallica. Not Nirvana. No one. And With or Without You was the catalyst for that.
This right here. Up until With or Without You, U2 was a successful band, but not on the level of being a household name. After this song, and this album, U2 became the biggest band in the world, and one of the biggest in the history of rock and roll. You can't understate how important that song, and The Joshua Tree, was to music in the 80s.
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Unless you were there when it happened, I don't think it's possible to realize the impact With or Without You had. In a flash, U2 went from being a popular rock band to the biggest band on the planet, a title they held for a good 7 years (1987-1993). During that timespan, no one was bigger than U2. Not GNR. Not Metallica. Not Nirvana. No one. And With or Without You was the catalyst for that.
They went from playing 3000 seat stadiums on the War tour to 12,000 seat arenas for The Unforgettable Fire to Football stadiums holding 60,000. The Joshua Tree was beyond huge and With Or Without you started that.
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Unless you were there when it happened, I don't think it's possible to realize the impact With or Without You had. In a flash, U2 went from being a popular rock band to the biggest band on the planet, a title they held for a good 7 years (1987-1993). During that timespan, no one was bigger than U2. Not GNR. Not Metallica. Not Nirvana. No one. And With or Without You was the catalyst for that.
This is true, and I was there. What I've never understood is why. It's an okay song, and they're a good band, but a lot of their stuff sounds the same, and I could never see what made them so much better than 1000 other bands.
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This is true, and I was there. What I've never understood is why. It's an okay song, and they're a good band, but a lot of their stuff sounds the same, and I could never see what made them so much better than 1000 other bands.
MTV?
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MTv didn't make anyone better, they just made some bands and artists insanely popular.
Also, I've noticed that a lot of people spell it "MTV". I always thought the "v" was lower case.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/MTV_Logo.svg/200px-MTV_Logo.svg.png)
I guess it's hard to tell.
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Unless you were there when it happened, I don't think it's possible to realize the impact With or Without You had. In a flash, U2 went from being a popular rock band to the biggest band on the planet, a title they held for a good 7 years (1987-1993). During that timespan, no one was bigger than U2. Not GNR. Not Metallica. Not Nirvana. No one. And With or Without You was the catalyst for that.
This is true, and I was there. What I've never understood is why. It's an okay song, and they're a good band, but a lot of their stuff sounds the same, and I could never see what made them so much better than 1000 other bands.
A signature sound (Bono's voice and Edge's guitar playing are both very unique) + tons of good, catch songs + knowing how to appeal to the masses = U2's success. I know a lot of people do not like them, but they had a very original sound, they've written countless good songs, and they (Bono, in particular) knew exactly how to market themselves and their music.
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Unless you were there when it happened, I don't think it's possible to realize the impact With or Without You had. In a flash, U2 went from being a popular rock band to the biggest band on the planet, a title they held for a good 7 years (1987-1993). During that timespan, no one was bigger than U2. Not GNR. Not Metallica. Not Nirvana. No one. And With or Without You was the catalyst for that.
This right here. Up until With or Without You, U2 was a successful band, but not on the level of being a household name. After this song, and this album, U2 became the biggest band in the world, and one of the biggest in the history of rock and roll. You can't understate how important that song, and The Joshua Tree, was to music in the 80s.
I'm not denying the impact With Or Without You made for U2 back then - it would be ridiculous to. I just think that WOWY is one of the weaker tracks on an otherwise stellar album, and that I'd rather listen to WOWY than... say, Mysterious Ways, Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of, or Beautiful Day. IMO, of their fairly recent singles (after The Joshua Tree) Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me is the best them.
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Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me is the best them.
This is about the only U2 song I can stand.
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I lost interest after Achtung Baby, and am basically fine only having Joshua Tree and a greatest hits disk in my collection. But I absolutely love their work up through Joshua Tree.
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:tup
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Huey Lewis & the News - I Want a New Drug
This was always my favorite of his out of all of the hits from the Sports record; it's just a lot of fun, and the video echoes the feel of the song perfectly. Huey Lewis & the News was definitely one of the artists most identified with MTV and the 80s and this song is possibly their most defining one.
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Never had a problem with Huey Lewis.
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The first time I heard this song was on the radio as a kid, and I thought to myself "this is a ripoff of the Ghostbusters theme!" :lolpalm:
Never had a problem with Huey Lewis.
In an unrelated note, in my dream only last night, I was singing "Power of Love" really loudly.
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When I read the song, I just said to myself as I started scrolling down the page, "Ghostbusters ripoff reference in 3...2...1..." :lol
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I had no clue about the Ghostbusters ripoff until I saw the Behind the Music where Huey violated the agreement and talked about it. I guess I had never really thought about it.
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No problem with Huey Lewis at all. Good pick
And with U2, I prefer "Where the Streets Have no Name" and "Still Haven't Found..." over WOWY
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When I read the song, I just said to myself as I started scrolling down the page, "Ghostbusters ripoff reference in 3...2...1..." :lol
:rollin
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I never even noticed the parallels to the Ghostbusters theme until the "controversy" afterwards. I still don't think one is a ripoff of the other. Also, "I Want a New Drug" is awesome while "Ghostbusters" is just silly.
I love the horn break and both guitar breaks, especially the second, longer guitar break (which is cut out of the video - boo!) which even quotes Hendrix towards the end. Good stuff.
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IWAND is a great song. One of my favorites from the decade.
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Huey Lewis & the News - I Want a New Drug
Great song, but I think my favorite single from that album is The Heart of Rock & Roll. Bad Is Bad was the best of the deeper cuts.
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Sports is a great album. When I finally got it a few years ago, I was amazed. Of the nine tracks, I knew the first seven, all from the radio and/or MTV.
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Yeah, that album was all over the place back then. Not that it was a bad thing, as it's pretty solid.
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Huey Lewis & the News - I Want a New Drug
Great song, but I think my favorite single from that album is The Heart of Rock & Roll.
That still is set to be featured in this thread at some point, but I will say now that I was never that big on it.
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It's all good. Different tastes and whatnot. :)
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Continuing the trend of artists who have a lot of songs to be featured, so they have to be featured more often than many others...
Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel
This was probably his best video from the Bad album, and the song is fairly catchy, too, but this is another one of those 80s songs I dug a lot when it was first out, but didn't age well particularly well. So much of Thriller is still pretty badass, but most of the hits from Bad do not appeal to me at all anymore, this one included.
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For my $$$, Thriller slays ANYTHING that came after it.
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Thriller slays anything else anyone in the entire Jackson family has ever put out (although Rythm Nation made me REALLY like Janet before she became a major whoreslut).
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Word.
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Bad is a better album than Thriller IMO. There I said it.
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Huey and his band (INCLUDING STEF! :caffeine:) are doing the national anthem at the '9ers/Packers game Saturday night. :metal
Returning to Candlestick Park to perform the national anthem will be the iconic Bay Area rock band Huey Lewis & The News. Completing the rock, rhythm and blues of the band’s sound are founding members Johnny Colla, Bill Gibson and Sean Hopper, as well as Stef Burns and John Pierce.
https://www.49ers.com/news/article-2/Candlestick-Set-for-Divisional-Round/05d4e4a6-80b1-46d5-94ec-82cc8246397b
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Bad is a better album than Thriller IMO. There I said it.
Heresy! Lies! :D
Huey and his band (INCLUDING STEF! :caffeine: ) are doing the national anthem at the '9ers/Packers game Saturday night. :metal
Returning to Candlestick Park to perform the national anthem will be the iconic Bay Area rock band Huey Lewis & The News. Completing the rock, rhythm and blues of the band’s sound are founding members Johnny Colla, Bill Gibson and Sean Hopper, as well as Stef Burns and John Pierce.
https://www.49ers.com/news/article-2/Candlestick-Set-for-Divisional-Round/05d4e4a6-80b1-46d5-94ec-82cc8246397b (https://www.49ers.com/news/article-2/Candlestick-Set-for-Divisional-Round/05d4e4a6-80b1-46d5-94ec-82cc8246397b)
No foolin? I'll make it a point to check that out! :metal
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For my $$$, Thriller slays ANYTHING that came after it.
True dat. Even the songs I like on Bad I have trouble listening to because of the production, I think. I don't know what it is, whether it's the vocals, or the general synth/drum sounds, but I just don't think it's held up as well as Thriller.
But I do like the song. Not one of my favourite MJ tunes, but still a good song.
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Van Halen - Finish What Ya Started
This tune has always gotten a major "meh" from me. I loved a lot of the Van Hagar material, but the two big hits from OU812, this and When It's Love, never did anything for me.
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I quite like the song, although it's definitely not one of my favourites from Van Hagar either. I'm not that big on OU812 in general.
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Of the OU812 songs that had videos made, I always thought Feels So Good was by far the best, but it flopped as a single, and I don't think the video saw much airplay.
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TBH, I can't even remember what Hagar era songs even had videos, because they were all pretty dull imo. The only cool one I remember is "Runaround", which captured that VH fun again.
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Didn't particularly care for this album. I didn't dislike it, but just never found anything to latch onto that I liked much either. This song fits squarely into that category.
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I liked OU812, and saw Van Halen on that tour. Awesome show, but it did nothing to make me like Finish What You Started anymore, even if live the rock factor was turned up about 100%.
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Yup, mediocre song on a mediocre album. Van Hagar had a few songs that didn't bore me to death, but this wasn't one of the them.
My best memory of this song is that it was used as the theme to a TV show starring Eddie's then-wife, Valerie Bertinelli. I don't remember the name of the show, but I was glad to see that Valerie was still hot. The show sucked, though, and was cancelled. Eddie went to rehab, they divorced, and now Valerie's a spokesperson for Weight Watchers or something. See? TV is bad for you.
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Returning to Candlestick Park to perform the national anthem will be the iconic Bay Area rock band Huey Lewis & The News. Completing the rock, rhythm and blues of the band’s sound are founding members Johnny Colla, Bill Gibson and Sean Hopper, as well as Stef Burns and John Pierce.
I would hardly call Huey Lewis and the News 'iconic.'
I was a big fan of OU812 when it came out, but that interest was short lived.
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I quite like the song, although it's definitely not one of my favourites from Van Hagar either. I'm not that big on OU812 in general.
What he said. OU812 is the weakest of the four Hagar era albums. Nothing horribly wrong with the tracks, but nothing horribly good either.
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Didn't particularly care for this album. I didn't dislike it, but just never found anything to latch onto that I liked much either. This song fits squarely into that category.
100% agree
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I liked OU812 back when it came out (and saw them on that tour also) but it did NOT age well. Finish What Ya Started was never one of my favorites from the album.
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Relevant to recent discussion.
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:jets:
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Dumb... that's actually the With AND Without you. Dumbass doesn't know the principle's of a Venn diagram. That would actually be the place that Bono CAN live.
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Actually, the place where he CAN live would be the union of the sets. With OR Without You. So either circle, or their intersection.
The area where he CAN'T live would be the universe minus the union of the two circles.
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Actually, the place where he CAN live would be the union of the sets. With OR Without You. So either circle, or their intersection.
The area where he CAN'T live would be the universe minus the union of the two circles.
At least I'm not the only one that remembers some aspects of High School math
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Michael Sembello - Maniac
I believe this was the first video ever to feature nothing but scenes from the movie is was featured in. Not a bad little song, and based on the scenes in the video, one that clearly was perfect for the movie (I never saw Flashdance).
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Memory of this video is basically how people were all up in arms because Jennifer Beals used a dancing double for all the scenes where her character danced, and it was really, really bloody OBVIOUS, especially if you watched this video and watched how the female character's figure kept changing from shot to shot. :lol I never had a problem with it, but they really didn't try very hard to find a dancer built like Jennifer Beals.
And then a couple of years later she took flak for using a body double for the sex scenes in another movie-was it the Frankenstein thing with Sting? If people thought empty headed entertainment news only began in the 21st Century, have I got some news for you!
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:lol :lol :tup :tup
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Can never hear this song without thinking about Chris Farley in Tommy Boy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMHluTrbVcI
The ending part of that scene was gold.
Lowe: Did you eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid?
Farley. hehehehehe.... ?? Why ??
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Michael Sembello - Maniac
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Samantha Fox - I Only Wanna Be with You
This wasn't her most popular hit, but I thought it was by far her best. Entertainingly fun video, too, where her super hotness was on full display. Call it cheeseball pop if you want, but this song has hooks galore!
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I don't remember a note of her music.
But I had every single nude photo she ever did back then. And back then, boys and girls, that wasn't a case of turning off safe search on Google Image Search. :rollin
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:drool:
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She is still fucking smoking today, incredibly women, don't care for her music though.
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Survivor - The Search Is Over
A friend I worked with years ago used to talk about how much he loved this song and how it was his favorite of all of the 80s ballads. Call him corny, but I can see how a child of the 80s would love this song to pieces. It has some really good melodic hooks, but it never really was a song I was crazy about. I don't remember the video.
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Vaguely remember the video, typical 80s fare. But I loved this song, probably was one of my top ballads from my childhood.
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An amazingly solid album, but this one's an average filler track imo. Not bad, and it's a song I will listen to in the grand scheme of the album, but not a song that interests me on its own.
I've never seen the video. I'm guessing the video isn't worth watching?
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Both songs = (https://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc55/black_floyd_2007/vomit.gif)
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An amazingly solid album, but this one's an average filler track imo. Not bad, and it's a song I will listen to in the grand scheme of the album, but not a song that interests me on its own.
I've never seen the video. I'm guessing the video isn't worth watching?
Like Blob said. Song to song on Vital Signs is a top notch album. Blob video is sappy. don't bother.
Also, Suh, suh, Samantha. :lol
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One of their weaker song imo. Nothing can top Eye of the Tiger
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True. Everything is pretty weak compared to Eye of the Tiger. As sappy power ballads go, though, it's not bad.
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Richard Marx - Don't Mean Nothing
While not as popular, his career trajectory kind of reminded of Bryan Adams: made a splash with a rocker, had a hugely popular ballad, and then continued down the ballad route and became known for his sappy songs more than anything else. But that aside, this was a good rocking song when it first came out; I liked it quite a bit. I won't say it hasn't aged well, but it isn't one that really draws me in anymore.
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first marriage 1988.....this was our wedding song \
Survivor that is
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The only thing I really remember about Richard Marx is that his wife Cynthia Rhodes was really hot, and the videos in which she appeared were always better than the rest. His music was pretty generic 80's stuff, and I honestly don't remember much about it.
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I can say I don't remember much of the 80's in general :justjen
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Richard Marx - Don't Mean Nothing
Good enough song for its time, but it just didn't age well at all.
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Thing that always made me kind of chuckle about Don't Mean Nothing was, not only did it sound rather shamelessly like the Eagles, it featured Joe Walsh on guitar as well as Randy Meisner and Timothy B. Schmidt on backing vocals. I guess if you're going to go for a familiar sound, it doesn't hurt to use the people who made that sound. Richard Marx was huge for a while-his first two albums were monsters-but I imagine these days he's mainly known for the sappy ballads.
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Having all that one song don't mean nothing.
Sorry, it had to be done. I think his best album was his third. Rush Street.
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Is that the one that is an exact rip off of In the Long Run by the Eagles?
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No.
But it does kinda sound like Eagles because half of Eagles play on it.
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Steve Winwood - Valerie
I wasn't a fan of the stuff he did in the latter half of the decade, but Valerie is definitely a really good song. I actually prefer the remixed version that was released in '87 a little more than the original; the original is a little slower. But either way, this is definitely a well-written tune, and it's funny how that singular keyboard note is the hook in the song.
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TBH, I can't even remember what Hagar era songs even had videos, because they were all pretty dull imo. The only cool one I remember is "Runaround", which captured that VH fun again.
The video for "Right Now" was pretty memorable.
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Valerie
Sometime in the 80's, the band self-destructed and I moved back home with my parents. It turned out that during my time away, Valerie, the little girl next door who I used to babysit, had grown up. Very nicely, in fact. It was summer, and she used to spend every afternoon on their deck, tanning. My bedroom was in the back corner of our house, basically overlooking their deck. It seemed like she had a new bikini every week. One time, she was adjusting the straps, trying to figure out how to do the thing where you untie it but set the strings so that they don't leave tan marks, and she realized that she'd introduced a half-twist somewhere in there and there was no way. In frustration, she just took it off, straightened everything out, and lay it upon her. Summertime, middle of the day on a weekday, nobody's home, right?
Valerie
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Valerie
Sometime in the 80's, the band self-destructed and I moved back home with my parents. It turned out that during my time away, Valerie, the little girl next door who I used to babysit, had grown up. Very nicely, in fact. It was summer, and she used to spend every afternoon on their deck, tanning. My bedroom was in the back corner of our house, basically overlooking their deck. It seemed like she had a new bikini every week. One time, she was adjusting the straps, trying to figure out how to do the thing where you untie it but set the strings so that they don't leave tan marks, and she realized that she'd introduced a half-twist somewhere in there and there was no way. In frustration, she just took it off, straightened everything out, and lay it upon her. Summertime, middle of the day on a weekday, nobody's home, right?
Valerie
:tup :tup
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Valerie
Sometime in the 80's, the band self-destructed and I moved back home with my parents. It turned out that during my time away, Valerie, the little girl next door who I used to babysit, had grown up. Very nicely, in fact. It was summer, and she used to spend every afternoon on their deck, tanning. My bedroom was in the back corner of our house, basically overlooking their deck. It seemed like she had a new bikini every week. One time, she was adjusting the straps, trying to figure out how to do the thing where you untie it but set the strings so that they don't leave tan marks, and she realized that she'd introduced a half-twist somewhere in there and there was no way. In frustration, she just took it off, straightened everything out, and lay it upon her. Summertime, middle of the day on a weekday, nobody's home, right?
Valerie
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:rollin :rollin
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Valerie
Sometime in the 80's, the band self-destructed and I moved back home with my parents. It turned out that during my time away, Valerie, the little girl next door who I used to babysit, had grown up. Very nicely, in fact. It was summer, and she used to spend every afternoon on their deck, tanning. My bedroom was in the back corner of our house, basically overlooking their deck. It seemed like she had a new bikini every week. One time, she was adjusting the straps, trying to figure out how to do the thing where you untie it but set the strings so that they don't leave tan marks, and she realized that she'd introduced a half-twist somewhere in there and there was no way. In frustration, she just took it off, straightened everything out, and lay it upon her. Summertime, middle of the day on a weekday, nobody's home, right?
Valerie
Hey, epic stories about the songs in this thread is MY GIMMICK! :rollin
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Sorry man, I've only ever met one girl in my life named Valerie, and if you mention that name and the 80's, this is the first thing I think of.
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Way to go Hamilton. Awesome, totally awesome!! :lol
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An amazingly solid album, but this one's an average filler track imo. Not bad, and it's a song I will listen to in the grand scheme of the album, but not a song that interests me on its own.
I've never seen the video. I'm guessing the video isn't worth watching?
I love Vital Sign, my favourite "straight" AOR album. This is a good song from it.
Richard Marx was good too.
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Sorry man, I've only ever met one girl in my life named Valerie, and if you mention that name and the 80's, this is the first thing I think of.
Not a problem, it is a worthy epic tale for this thread. :biggrin:
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Pet Benatar - Love Is a Battlefield
Easily one of the most played videos of 1983; it was seemingly on every hour. And I loved it. Neat little video that told a rather interesting story about a young girl running away from home to be on her own, and the song is damn good, too. I recently saw the video again and thought, "Okay, where do I know that actor who played her dad from??" Sure enough, I looked it up, and he was in Raising Arizona (the rich guy whose babies they kidnap) and Bull Durham (the Bulls manager).
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Okay, now we're talking. Good song. The only other two songs I can recall from her are Shadows Of The Night and Hit Me With Your Best Shot. Didn't like any of them enough to buy any of her stuff, but they were all fair enough tunes to bob one's head to for 3 minutes or so.
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This song was the exact point at which the vast majority of Pat Benatar's audience, who had loved her as that rarest of hard rock women, ran screaming in the other direction because she had gone totally new wave. It gained her a new audience because this song was right huge, but I was pretty well over her at this point. And to this date, the big dance number just cracks me the hell up.
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This song was the exact point at which the vast majority of Pat Benatar's audience, who had loved her as that rarest of hard rock women, ran screaming in the other direction because she had gone totally new wave. It gained her a new audience because this song was right huge, but I was pretty well over her at this point. And to this date, the big dance number just cracks me the hell up.
Yeah, this 100%.
Also... is it bad that I had to YT Valerie to remember it? :facepalm: :loser:
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I still remember seeing Pat, Journey and Eddie Money during the summer of 1980 in Flint at Atwood Staduim.
Very powerful voice.
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Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round
Oddly, I remember the song really well, but don't remember the video at all. Even checking it now, it doesn't look the least bit familiar. Weird. But anyway, this is one of those songs that is easy to identify as classic 80s, helped of course by its placement in the opening credits of The Wedding Singer, a 90s movie set in the mid 80s. It's a fun song.
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Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round
Oddly, I remember the song really well, but don't remember the video at all. Even checking it now, it doesn't look the least bit familiar. Weird. But anyway, this is one of those songs that is easy to identify as classic 80s, helped of course by its placement in the opening credits of The Wedding Singer, a 90s movie set in the mid 80s. It's a fun song.
Plus it gave us meat spin?
:rollin
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Everytime that video came on MTV I reached for the clicker.
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Great song, hokey video. A song where the dance remixes are better than the original, and there are several of them.
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Always liked this song.
And what Chris said.
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I recognize that this song is kinda crap, and the video as well, but I love them both.
To this day, I rarely speak of turning around or going around, it's always "right round baby, right round". Like a record, baby! :yarr
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Everytime that video came on MTV I reached for the clicker.
Radio dial for me, but ayup.
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My library contains the 8:03 extended mix.
:kvlt:
I know this was made for another song in mind, but it could apply to this one too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o0Vv8lr41w
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My ex used to sing this song's chorus until it got stuck in my head.
Of course I hate the fucking thing now. :lol
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https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Pete+Burns+Before+And+After&FORM=RESTAB&adlt=strict#view=detail&id=3C666B6E5B0EB238D4991B11AFDCA7AA63261918&selectedIndex=1
enough said
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Damn!
I was pretty meh on Pete Burns before, being a straight guy and all, but I don't care which way you swing, he's just plain ugly now.
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Why does everyone who goes through plastic surgery eventually look like Janice the Muppet?
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My library contains the 8:03 extended mix.
Checked my dance remix folder and mine is 7:59 so presumably the same. I have had it so long I don’t know where I got it. I have a couple shorter ones too.
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I used to have a version on my iPod, I don't even remember where but probably downloaded peer-to-peer back in the Napster days. It was somewhat longer than the video version, maybe some kind of medium dance mix. Since I didn't have the album or anything, it just lived in my "Mondo Mix" playlist, but I had to remove it eventually because it was so much louder than anything else I had.
WATCH OUT HERE I COME - COME - COME - COME!
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https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Pete+Burns+Before+And+After&FORM=RESTAB&adlt=strict#view=detail&id=3C666B6E5B0EB238D4991B11AFDCA7AA63261918&selectedIndex=1 (https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Pete+Burns+Before+And+After&FORM=RESTAB&adlt=strict#view=detail&id=3C666B6E5B0EB238D4991B11AFDCA7AA63261918&selectedIndex=1)
enough said
EW!!! :omg: *barf*
He was never one of my favorites or anything, but IMO he looked SO much better back in the day.
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I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.
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Talking Heads - Wild Wild Life
Damn good tune, and as usual with this band, a wholly entertaining video. They just had a knack for making videos that you just couldn't take your eyes off of. Always writing great tunes sure helped a lot, too. :tup :tup
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Honestly can't stand Talking Heads, just never did anything for me.
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The Heads had some catchy songs, and a lot of them were just weird. For me, this one was a little of each, and not quite enough of either to be interesting. David Byrne is a strange guy, and a lot of the time I watch or listen to Talking Heads and just think "David Bryne is a strange guy". It rarely gets beyond that.
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Byrne is a strange guy, but that strangeness helped make their videos so neat.
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Love this track. We (wife and I) saw Byrne and St. Vincent a couple months back here in town.. what a great show. He's still very 'stiff' on stage, even outside of the Talking Heads "robotic" persona.
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My brother and I saw Byrne back in late '08 when he was touring on the Everything That Happens Will Happen Today record he did with Brian Eno and it was a fantastic show.
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I always thought they were a cool band, but never liked them quite enough to buy any of their albums. And the only songs that I really have strong memory of nowadays are the already-discussed Burning Down The House and Once In A Lifetime. After YouTube'ing this one, I definitely remember it. Catchy song, but not as good as the two I just mentioned. As usual, quirky video that is also quite funny.
To go briefly off topic, I just had an '80s flashback with a friend of mine with a band I am going to assume will NOT be discussed in this thread, so I posted in the Occasional Cozmo Recommendation thread, if anyone is interested.
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Rick Springfield - Rock of Life
Jesse's Girl was his biggest hit of the 80s, but I always thought this hit from 1988 was much, much better. I was a big fan of this song when it was out, and I still like it. In fact, I had the Rock of Life cassette, and I remember all of Side 1 being really solid, although it's probably been over 20 years since I've heard any of the songs besides Rock of Life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkXMrjrX-ic
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Hmm, I don't know that one, actually. Jesse's girl was kinda cool. Good riff. Nice hook. I remember there were actually TV commercials about the album that was on, where the announcer basically said, "you know him as [whatever character he played on whatever soap opera he was on]; but what you didn't know is that Rick Springfield ROCKS! [cue up Jesse's Girl video]." :lol
I have a friend who actually babysat and tutored one of his kids in Malibu.
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Rick Springfield - Rock of Life
Jesse's Girl was his biggest hit of the 80s, but I always thought this hit from 1988 was much, much better. I was a big fan of this song when it was out, and I still like it. In fact, I had the Rock of Life cassette, and I remember all of Side 1 being really solid, although it's probably been over 20 years since I've heard any of the songs besides Rock of Life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkXMrjrX-ic
I absolutly love this song. There's something about the jangly guitar and then the power chords. I had this on one of my thousand VCR tapes I threw away.
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I have no memory of any music Rick Springfield made after about...hmm...1983? :lol
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Rick Springfield - Rock of Life
Jesse's Girl was his biggest hit of the 80s, but I always thought this hit from 1988 was much, much better. I was a big fan of this song when it was out, and I still like it. In fact, I had the Rock of Life cassette, and I remember all of Side 1 being really solid, although it's probably been over 20 years since I've heard any of the songs besides Rock of Life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkXMrjrX-ic
I absolutly love this song. There's something about the jangly guitar and then the power chords. I had this on one of my thousand VCR tapes I threw away.
:tup :tup
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Talking Heads - Wild Wild Life
They had better, but still a good song. Talking Heads = :tup
Rick Springfield - Rock of Life
I don't remember this one, even after pulling up the video link for it. I'm chalking this one up to late 80s overlook and Wey being the Rick Springfield fan of the house.
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Yeah I watched the video too and I still don't remember it, but by then, my MTV watching was strictly Headbanger's Ball on Saturday night, which meant a lot of videos just flew under my radar. Having heard it, I would have thought it sounded out of date even then: that song should've come out in about 1983 or so. :lol
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Dad didn't have cable at that time (and we were in the boonies to boot), so if I didn't hear it on what radio I listened to at that time it flew under my radar as well.
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I have a feeling Kev and I were very similar recording so many damn videos and concerts on MTV when they played all that.
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I wouldn't doubt it - hell, I recorded a whole bunch of MTV stuff too (when we finally got cable, that is).
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Same here. I had a few VHS tapes full of MTV videos that were all missing the first 10 seconds or so that it took me to recognize the video and press "play." Every once in awhile, I'll hear a song that I mainly only listened to from those recorded videos, and be like, "oh, wow. So that's how the beginning of that song goes." :lol
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<--- Guilty as charged. :lolpalm:
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I had something like 5 full VHS tapes at one time that were heavy metal videos with the first few seconds missing, as Kev said. Some inexplicable things happened on some of them-like the tape where I had the first two minutes of Gutter Ballet by Savatage rudely interrupted by Alice Cooper's House Of Fire. I'm assuming alcohol was involved in that mishap. :lol I had those tapes until 1998, when they had the misfortune to be under a leak in my roof. Five VHS tapes of metal videos from 1986 to 1992, man. Crying shame.
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:'( :hug:
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I still have a handful of old VHS tapes full of MTV videos from the 80s buried along with tons of movies on VHS in several boxes. I refuse to throw them away. :lol :lol
The Cars - Drive
This wasn't my favorite of the Heartbeat City hits at the time, but it is the one that has stayed with me the most. It's a terrific slow(er) song, and unlike a lot of popular 80s ballads, it manages to kick ass while not being cheesy at all.
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For me, it's probably my favorite song of theirs. So beautiful and haunting
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Wasn't a big fan of the Cars, but I love that song.
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I like "Drive". Every Cars song seemed to have at least some keyboards in it, but this is one of the few that's really built around them. Also, I didn't realize how much Benjamin Orr sang lead for The Cars. I thought it was mostly Rik Ocasek, and after they made such a big deal about how Ben sang this one, smarter people than me pointed out that he'd always sang a lot of lead, all the way back to the first album. I just thought Rik had a couple of different voices that he used. (He did -- his and Ben's)
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Haha, that's funny. But even now, on the rare occasions I listen to The Cars, I don't even notice which guy is singing lead since their voices can sound fairly similar. Like, Just What I Needed sounds like Ocasek (and I always assumed it was), but apparently that was Orr.
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I have been listening to more Cars lately and was also surprised to see how much Benjamin sang, when I too thought Ric did most of it.
I remember my parents really liking this song, and I even think they had the 45 (that is a record, for those unfamiliar with the term). One of the songs they played a lot that I liked. Been ages since I've heard it though.
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Even as a young metalhead, I never had a problem with liking the Cars, or admitting it to anyone who gave me a hassle over it. Ric Ocasek could craft just amazing pop-rock songs, seemingly endlessly. This wasn't my favorite Cars ballad-that'd be I'm Not The One-but it's a lovely ballad, from a damn near perfect pop-rock album.
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Information Society - What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)
Ho-hum. I knew a few people who loved this tune, and there were obviously a lot of others who loved it, since it went to number 3 on the pop chart, but it was and is nothing more than an afterthought for me.
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I loved this song, and the album got regular play from me. They got bonus points from me for the Trek samples
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Only thing I remember about this song was the Star Trek sample that made up the title. To the point that if something is ever described or marketed as being "pure energy" I hear the sample in my head. :lol
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Sheena Easton - Strut
Okay song, but more importantly, Easton has sort of become one of the forgotten hotties of the 80s. :lol Even with her big 80s hairdo in the video for this tune, she still looks great.
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Information Society - What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)
Ho-hum. I knew a few people who loved this tune, and there were obviously a lot of others who loved it, since it went to number 3 on the pop chart, but it was and is nothing more than an afterthought for me.
I blanked that video out of my mind. thanks Kev!! :lol
Sheena Easton. Just mute the song and stare at her. It's much better.
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I love Sheena Easton. This song is one of my least favorites of hers. Everyone knows also she originally did Wind Beneath My Wings, right?
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Sheena Easton. Just mute the song and stare at her. It's much better.
Haha, exactly!
Everyone knows also she originally did Wind Beneath My Wings, right?
I had no idea, but I dislike that song, so my level of care has always been nil for finding out any info about that tune. :lol
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Sheena Easton - Strut
Okay song, but more importantly, Easton has sort of become one of the forgotten hotties of the 80s. :lol Even with her big 80s hairdo in the video for this tune, she still looks great.
Not forgotten by me. Sheena Easton was sooooooooooo hot back then. Music? She did music? :lol
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In a lot of ways, I think Prince was trying to have Carmen Electra be the Sheena Easton of the 90's
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Hmm, I don't know that one, actually. Jesse's girl was kinda cool. Good riff. Nice hook. I remember there were actually TV commercials about the album that was on, where the announcer basically said, "you know him as [whatever character he played on whatever soap opera he was on]; but what you didn't know is that Rick Springfield ROCKS! [cue up Jesse's Girl video]." :jets:
I have a friend who actually babysat and tutored one of his kids in Malibu.
Dr. Noah Drake and General Hospital, respectively.
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:lolpalm:
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Drive = :heart
What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) was always a favorite of mine for some reason. Cool song.
Strut = black_floyd's puking emote
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Lou Gramm - Midnight Blue
This is a nice, little toe-tapper. Not something I'd call a favorite, but still an enjoyable song. And it kind of stood out in 1987 as a rock song that was actually a rock song, not a big pile of cheese. In other words, this song could have been released in 1977 and it would have sounded just right on a modern day classic rock radio station.
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Dug that tune a lot. Bought the CD. That album was just ok but the single was very good.
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Midnight Blue did have a kind of timeless rock song quality to it, and would have easily fit in on any of Foreigner's first three albums without causing much fuss (and probably would have improved Head Games to no good end.) Lou Gramm's a severely underrated vocalist; the guy could WAIL.
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excellent driving song...roll down the windows and crank it up
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Eh... I'd change to another station whenever it would be played on the radio.
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Lou Gramm - Midnight Blue
This is a nice, little toe-tapper. Not something I'd call a favorite, but still an enjoyable song. And it kind of stood out in 1987 as a rock song that was actually a rock song, not a big pile of cheese. In other words, this song could have been released in 1977 and it would have sounded just right on a modern day classic rock radio station.
Good song, I actually heard it on the radio the other day for the first time and years and cranked the shit out of it.
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Kajagoogoo - Too Shy
This is another one of those 80s song I can say I liked at the time, but was never a favorite, and nowadays doesn't do a whole lot for me.
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BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH!!!!!!
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You know what shocked me, that the bass player in Kajagoogoo is the bass player in Steven Wilson's band. Nick Beggs is his name. I would never think their music worlds would cross paths.
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You know, Kev, whenever you make a second version of this thread, I submit that it should be called "ver. 2 BLEHCCHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" in honor of Debra. :lol
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Pretty smooth song, I like it.
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The bass line is pretty cool, and it really makes the song. The fact that the bass player went on to bigger and better things is also cool.
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BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH!!!!!!
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Seems like it's getting harder to please some...:P However, this one is sure to make most following this thread happy.
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
Tawny Kitaen is solely to thank for this video being so great and so memorable, but the song itself is utterly fantastic; a monster ballad that manages to rock hard at the same time. I didn't know anyone who didn't think this song was totally awesome back in 1987. Obviously, the original 1987 version is the best one, not the radio version they released the same year (that had the verses way too upbeat and was more synth-driven).
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Back when Tawny was hot enough to deal with all that crazy.
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I didn't know anyone who didn't think this song was totally awesome back in 1987.
<-- Didn't. Still don't.
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Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
It is a very well-written, well-constructed song. And I agree that the album version is better than the radio version.
The 1982 Saints and Sinners version ain't bad either, but it has a completely different groove to it. I wasn't familiar with Whitesnake until I saw them on the Slide It In tour opening for Quiet Riot on their Condition Critical tour, and I didn't hear the 1982 version until well after being very familiar with the 1987 version, so it always sounded a bit odd to me. I'm sure old-school Whitesnake fans who were with the band from the early days felt that way about the 1987 version after having the original for 5 years before hearing it redone. Funny how we have a tendency to do that with music (i.e. to often subjectively feel that the first version of a song that we individually have heard to be the "definitive version"). But to me, the 1987 version just sounds more polished, focused, and better performed.
And the video...
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It is a very well-written, well-constructed song. And I agree that the album version is better than the radio version.
That. Excellent ballad. The original version isn't bad, but the 87 version is superior in every way imo.
And of course, a memorable classic video for obvious reasons.
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Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
I didn't know anyone who didn't think this song was totally awesome back in 1987.
I don't mean to piss on anything here, but I do think that dissenting options should at least be heard. I never liked this song, at all. It had the clichéd "slow intro, then do the same thing only heavy" trick, it had the "repeat the catchy chorus, repeat it again, okay one more time" deal, it had the "sleazy video" thing going on, basically all the tricks. 100% formulated to be a big hit, and of course it was. Yes, Tawny was hot. Super hot. But she was also a total sleazebag, and that's just a turnoff for me.
Obviously, the original 1987 version is the best one, not the radio version they released the same year (that had the verses way too upbeat and was more synth-driven).
I'm only familiar with the MTV version, because there was nothing to the song that inspired me to look any further.
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Great song... great video... amazing album. My favorite radio hit from that album. Classic Power Ballad, and that's a style of song that I absolutely adore.
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Great video (naturally), and I like the radio version better than the studio version (I'm assuming the studio version is the one without the scream?)
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I didn't know anyone who didn't think this song was totally awesome back in 1987.
<-- Didn't. Still don't.
Okay, but I didn't know you in 1987, so...;) :lol :biggrin:
I don't mean to piss on anything here, but I do think that dissenting options should at least be heard.
Well, of course! I mean, if not, would we really endure Debra's "BLECH!" remark towards every other song here lately? :biggrin:
But yeah, positive and negative opinions are welcome about all songs posted. :)
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I don't mean to piss on anything here, but I do think that dissenting options should at least be heard.
Absolutely. I totally get where you're coming from. I mean, you're completely, unequivocally wrong in your opinion. But I totally get where you're coming from. :biggrin:
That song may check all the "boxes" you mention. But that still doesn't stop it from being a terrific song that makes me wanna rock you in the morning and roll you in the night.
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Dude, I'm married. Calm down. And for God's sake (and mine) don't play that song if it makes you feel that way.
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:eyebrows:
Any way you want, I'm gonna prove my love for you.
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makes me wanna rock you in the morning and roll you in the night.
Wrong song and band. You're referring to this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELtpTBf-pMU
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makes me wanna rock you in the morning and roll you in the night.
Wrong song and band. You're referring to this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELtpTBf-pMU
I know it's the wrong song. But it is absolutely the right band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjgD1HIVFC4
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Never knew there were 2 versions of this song, only aware of the one I saw on TV (endlessly).
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Classic song off a classic album with a classic video...can't really go wrong with Whitesnake's 1987 album, can you? Whitesnake had a habit of re-recording songs, as Crying In The Rain and Fool For Your Loving were also reworks of earlier versions. Given their initial lack of success in America, it kind of makes sense, but I imagine the overseas market was like 'What?"
I saw Whitesnake on the Slip of the Tongue tour, with Kix opening-one of the last concerts I went to with my best friend, who took up a job as a cop about a year later and our schedules never really meshed for going to shows. It was a memorable concert for a lot of reasons-hey, Steve Vai and Adrian Vandenberg together was enough to justify the ticket price-but my two favorites were this. The first was getting about 20 people around me and my best friend to sing "FUCK OFF AND DIE! FUCK OFF AND DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" to the tune of Kix's Don't Close Your Eyes. (This coming after seeing Tesla, Great White, and Badlands a few months earlier and turning Great White's Once Bitten, Twice Shy's chorus to "My, my, my, why don't you fuck off and die." Which retroactively isn't as funny as it used to be after the Station fire, but trust me, back then it was a riot.)
The second-and the more memorable one-came when Whitesnake came out for the encore and Coverdale asked the crowd "What do you want to do now?" Which I answered with a full throated "I WANT TO FUCK YOUR WIFE!", causing a good 30 people to fall over themselves laughing.
Needless to say, a sizable amount of alcohol was involved in the evening.
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:lol I saw that tour also, but different opener. I think it was Faster Pussycat, but I don't recall for sure. Saw them in Columbia, MD. Great show. Actually, I saw them on three consecutive tours, and all three were great shows. On the Slide It In tour, they were the second band in between Kick Axe an Quiet Riot at the Oakland Colosseum (indoor). All three bands were outstanding. Sykes tore it up. On the S/T tour, saw them at Day On The Green at the Oakland Colosseum (outdoor stadium where the Raiders and A's play) after Jetboy and Poison, and before Motley Crue. Jetboy were boring. Poison actually put on a very good show. Whitesnake were outstanding. Crue were pretty good, but I'm not really a fan. Then the aforementioned Slip Of The Tongue tour.
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I guess I was lucky. I saw Whitesnake with Dokken!
Or was it, Just Got Lucky?
:IfIOnlyKnewTheCSIMiamiEmote:
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I guess I was lucky. I saw Whitesnake with Dokken!
Or was it, Just Got Lucky?
:IfIOnlyKnewTheCSIMiamiEmote:
Let me help you out there bro
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I've got to write that down. :lol
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I guess I was lucky. I saw Whitesnake with Dokken!
Which tour?
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You know, Kev, whenever you make a second version of this thread, I submit that it should be called "ver. 2 BLEHCCHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" in honor of Debra. :jets:
Nicely played, sir. :jets: :)
BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH!!!!!!
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:rollin :rollin :rollin
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
I dug it quite muchly back in its day but... really didn't age too well for me. The video didn't help much with that either. :jets:
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I guess I was lucky. I saw Whitesnake with Dokken!
Which tour?
Same tour.
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I saw Whitesnake open for Crue on the S/T tour and Whitesnake blew Crue AWAY. Big time.
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Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
I never cared for any of their music back in the 80s. In fact, this song was downright annoying to me. I've come around to sort of liking it, as I finally gave a whole listen to Violator a while back, most of which is quite good, but this will never be something I call a favorite.
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In fact, this song was downright annoying to me.
Agreed. Still is.
Violator...most of which is quite good
Also agreed. This band was VERY hit and miss for me. I either REALLY liked their songs or REALLY disliked them, depending on the song. I found most of Violated to be very good. Excellent driving music.
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I'm gonna steal Debra's gimmick for this one:
BLECHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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Does that mean Deb gets to tell a story about this one? :caffeine:
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A quintessential 80s dance song that I think still holds up well today (for what it is). Probably my favorite of theirs - which isn't saying much, as I never got in to them.
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Does that mean Deb gets to tell a story about this one? :caffeine:
If she has one. :rollin
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Does that mean Deb gets to tell a story about this one? :caffeine:
If she has one. :rollin
it will include JLB and a bathroom
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:lol
I'm not a fan of 80s synth pop in general, but Depeche Mode is an exception to this rule. They have many great albums, and Violator is among their very best. Personal Jesus is a nice track with a cool guitar riff.
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Some of there stuff is pretty catchy, with the synthy percussion or whatever that is, but they've never really overwhelmed me.
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Does that mean Deb gets to tell a story about this one? :caffeine:
If she has one. :rollin
it will include JLB and a bathroom
:rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
As for the song today.... like Mister Shmevin, I didn't dig on it much at the time but dug on it more the first time I actually listened to Violator (borrowed from a co-worker and then subsequently bought). I will say that I dig Policy of Truth much better, but... I'll take Personal Jesus. Floater does an AWESOME cover of it, I understand.
Oh, um... goils, booze, underpants. :lol
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Never been a big fan of Depeche Mode. I just don't like that style of music. I was more of a Simple Minds and The Fixx kind of guy.
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It's alright, I like Enjoy the Silence better
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Enjoy The Silence is also stellar, and Failure did a really good cover of it too.
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DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Parents Just Don't Understand
Even though I was never a fan of rap, I did like this song a lot back in 1988. It had enough humor to be likable, and the video showed the charisma that would eventually help make Will Smith a big movie star. I don't really listen to this song anymore, but I did know every word to it back in the day. :eek :eek :lol :lol
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While I really didn't expect Will Smith to become the movie star he turned out to be, watching this video once was enough to tell me he was going to be huge. I just figured it'd be in music. :lol
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Just a great, humorous, rap song. This is the kind of rap that I enjoy.
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Most rap bugs me, but Will's laid-back style and easy, almost conversational tone works for me. I thought this was a fun song.
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Man, kingshmegland just don't understand.
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Man, kingshmegland just don't understand.
Nor jingle.boy
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Duran Duran - Skin Trade
This 1986 hit was a bit different for them, but I liked it. I don't think it was that big of a hit, IIRC, but I think it was one of their best hits of the later 80s.
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I don't Want Your Love was a better single from Notorious.
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:facepalm:
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Parents Just Don't Understand was pretty cool, for rap lite.
While I really didn't expect Will Smith to become the movie star he turned out to be, watching this video once was enough to tell me he was going to be huge. I just figured it'd be in music. :lol
I think a LOT of people thought that back then.
Duran Duran - Skin Trade
I had to pull up YouTube for this one. Never heard it. Okay enough, I guess. The title track is the one I remember the most though.
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:facepalm:
Oops! I meant Notorious! :lol Wrong album!!
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Notorious was something of a trainwreck of an album for Duran Duran, and they really didn't recover until Ordinary World became a hit. I always thought the success of the Power Station really wrecked the roll Duran Duran was on in the 80s. Skin Trade didn't quite sink without a trace, but man it came close. :rollin
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That's a good point about The Power Station.
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Notorious was pretty crap and began a decline of Duran Duran IMO, their previous stuff was killer.
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The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
Okay, it's technically a 1979 song, but it was played a lot in the early MTV days, so it is easy to associate it as being an 80s tune (just like Video Killed the Radio Star). Anyway, kind of an unusual song, but one that is oddly catchy. It was never really on my radar back then, but when going through and collecting all relevant 80s tunes for my music collection years ago, that song was brought to my attention and I was like, "Yeah, that's a cool song," so I grabbed it and liked it quite a bit. The video is good, cheeky fun, too. Some of Bob Geldoff's clothes crack me up. :lol
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I always thought this song was just about a guy who don't like Mondays, but then I read that it's about a shooting spree of a 16-year old girl (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_dont_like_mondays). (Granted, I don't pay attention to lyrics)
It's a catchy little song, haven't seen the video for it though.
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Very memorable song. I learned to play it on the piano by ear. The first part was easy. The rest, not so much (for a 10 year old).
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Great song, one of my ten favorite songs ever. It's the only Boomtown Rats song I like-I have a feeling that's the case with a lot of people-and is just such a strange, quirky song, the fact that it became a hit kind of amazes me. The video, of course, is one of those videos that looks just plain silly today, but it was one of the first videos where the band did more than just play the song in a studio, so it deserves a little slack.
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Very memorable song. I learned to play it on the piano by ear. The first part was easy. The rest, not so much (for a 10 year old).
I remember watching someone doing the descending glissandos in the intro one time, and thinking to myself how amazing that sounded, and it was actually super easy. Stay on the black keys, you've got yourself a nice mellow Gb6+9, but slam a low Eb, and suddenly it's an Ebm7. I was 15 and probably had a bit more experience than you did at 10, so once I'd figured out how the intro worked, picking out the rest of it wasn't too bad.
The piano break is cool, but the something about the way it comes out of nowhere always reminded me of Springsteen.
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Okay song, was never one of my favorites or anything.
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Decent song.
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Johnny Hates Jazz - Shattered Dreams
Major one-hit wonder here. Enjoyable song at the time, and it still has a nice hook, but while it's on my 80s playlist, it usually gets the skip treatment if it happens to pup up. The video was not memorable to me at all.
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I agree, Kev - it was okay for its time.
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Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Blech. I was never wild about Poison, and while I can see why this song was so popular, I never liked it. There is good cheese, and then there is bad cheese. This is bad cheese.
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I've grown so very tired of this song, despite having just picked it up to play in the band(s). Even though I hate it, chicks dig it, so it works.
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Chicks pretty much dig anything that can be connected to hair metal. Seriously, go to any bar where a band is playing 80s stuff, and every time they play anything by Bon Jovi, Poison, Whitesnake, Motley Crue, etc., girls hit the dance floor at record speed.
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Pretty much, if you went out to parties or clubs or whatnot in the 80s and were into women who liked rock, your best bet was to be as conversant with hair metal as was humanly possible. Bon Jovi was more useful-even this thread doesn't have space for the stories I could tell that started with an excited woman at a club being into Bon Jovi-but if you majored in Bon Jovi, you defintely minored in Poison. :lol
I actually liked Poison's first album-that's another thing, a lot of us guys now talking all tough about how we only used hair metal to get laid tended to like a lot of it up until, oh, 1986-87 or so-but even being conversant in hair metal to keep hotties interested didn't make me like Every Rose Has Its Thorn in the LEAST.
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Chicks pretty much dig anything that can be connected to hair metal. Seriously, go to any bar where a band is playing 80s stuff, and every time they play anything by Bon Jovi, Poison, Whitesnake, Motley Crue, etc., girls hit the dance floor at record speed.
Exactly why we also started doing Girls, Girls, Girls. Guaranteed to fill the dance floor with chicks.
Every.
Single.
Time.
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And gets guys on the floor hitting on girls, girls, girls. :lol
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Exactly.
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I'm more a fan of "Something to Believe In"
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Was a fan of Poison's first four albums. Good power ballad for it's day, but it has not stood the test of time. Hardly ever listen to it now, and if I heard it for the first time today, I'd probably be pretty 'blech' about it. It's good for nostalgic purposes, and because my enjoyment of it is ingrained in my musical DNA.
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I'd imagine a lot of DNA got "ingrained" to this song.
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I'd imagine a lot of DNA got "ingrained" to this song.
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What does it say about this forum when a Poison song in this thread gets more replies than a Hendrix song does in the classic rock thread*? :eek :eek :lol :lol :biggrin: :biggrin:
*I posted both about the same time this morning.
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I noticed that. It's gotta be an anomaly. Around here, hair metal seems to go over about as good as a fart in church. Granted, you can always count on the same general handful of people to have comments on the like.
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Yeah, with 80s songs, there can always be a bit of a LOL-factor, which can make them worth discussing more, while a lot of the classic rock songs will fall along the lines of "great song, yeah, that goes without saying," ya know?
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That borderline LOL-factor is what I love so much about it. Some of it's so over the top that in addition to giving me a little bit of a chuckle, I'm like "I so wish I could be in that band".
The video for New Thing by Enuff Z'Nuff is a perfect example.
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Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Blech. I was never wild about Poison, and while I can see why this song was so popular, I never liked it. There is good cheese, and then there is bad cheese. This is bad cheese.
Kevin Shmevin will be playing the part of Debra Kadabra today... :P
Seriously. NO. Just... HELL no. Never liked this song, and if this makes me an anomaly in the chick world... I couldn't care less. So be it.
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For the record, I'm not sure if there is any such thing as bad cheese.
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Because we all left our young DNA in the 80's while out parents left their DNA with Jimmy. :lol
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For the record, I'm not sure if there is any such thing as bad cheese.
Limburger.
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I'm sure there's an application for it in which it is palatable.
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*insert black_floyd's puking emote here*
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(https://i.qkme.me/3prolt.jpg)
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:lol
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Fuck I love that movie.
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Yeah, the two Bill and Ted movies are some of the first DVDs I got when I got my first DVD player, like 100 years ago.
The song, I could live without. But I always think of Bill and Ted quoting it to show how deep and philosophical they can be.
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The solo makes the song, I love playing it. Not the best Poison ballad though.
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Good song. Haters gonna hate.
Bonus points to Orbert for the reference. I just watched that movie again recently too. :tup
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Hall & Oates - Maneater
Funny story about this song is my younger brother Mark was 5 when this song came out...and he was scared of it. He literally would get upset if it came on. But then one day, the whole family was out at a furniture store or something, and it was playing over the store. He was initially freaked out, but once my parents told him there was nothing they could do about it and not to pay attention to it, he was fine, and I don't think it ever bothered him again. :lol
Anyway, I always thought this was one of Hall & Oates' best hits of the 80s. A lot of cool musical things going on in this song, the rhythm is hard not to tap your foot to, and the hook in the chorus is infectious.
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Hall & Oates - Maneater
I remember when this came out, I Just couldn't figure out they were saying "Man eater", and I never new the track name until later. I don't know what I thought they were saying.. something like "Magneta"... which I always said "this makes no sense".. :rollin
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Hall & Oates - Maneater
I remember when this came out, I Just couldn't figure out they were saying "Man eater", and I never new the track name until later. I don't know what I thought they were saying.. something like "Magneta"... which I always said "this makes no sense".. :rollin
My mom thought they were saying "bandita". :lol
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I didn't mind Hall & Oates growing up-I think their version of You've Lost That Loving Feeling is flat out amazing-but it was around this time that they went from "not my thing, but I'll listen to them" to "I don't like these guys"-and it was strictly because I didn't like Maneater. It was just too fucking goofy for me.
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Kev that is too funny. My younger brother was afraid of riders On The Storm by the Doors. He's hears the rain and lightning and Jim's low voice and he'd cry. :lol
Also, no one could get away from Maneater. TV, Radio. It was everywhere!
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Little kids can be so empathetic that it freaks them and everyone else out. "Whoa-oa, here she comes" is scary. This woman is going to come eat you. To a five-year-old kid, that's pretty scary. "Riders on the Storm" is a spooky song. I didn't like it when I was little, and even though it's kinda cool now, I don't know if I'll ever like it.
One time when my son was maybe four or five, we were watching Thomas the Tank Engine (these anthropomorphic steam engines and their little adventures) and Thomas get in a wreck. That alone didn't bother my son, everyone bumps into things sometimes. But they had to lift him up with cranes on set him on the track. It was a very tricky situation, and kinda scary. Just watching that scene, my son got so scared that he started crying. Once Thomas was safely back on the tracks, all was well.
Oh yeah, the song. Yeah, kinda goofy. I like some Hall & Oates, but this one's a little too silly.
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Maneater's okay but... I'm kind of agreeing with this:
but it was around this time that they went from "not my thing, but I'll listen to them" to "I don't like these guys"-and it was strictly because I didn't like Maneater. It was just too fucking goofy for me.
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Fucking love Hall and Oates, smooth killer 80's tune.
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Tears for Fears - Sowing the Seeds of Love
This was hands down my favorite song of 1989 at the time, not to mention the best song this band did by a wide margin. I love the Beatles feel it has at times, and it is very epic in feel and scope, what with the different changes it goes through melodically and structurally. I still know almost every word to it, so singing along to it is still quite easy. This was one off the best MTV hits of the 80s, without question, IMO.
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No complaints here. :heart :heart :heart
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You're on a roll with the pop, Kev. Another great one. :tup
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Love this song and loved them live. Great melody and hook. They know how to write a good catchy tune.
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Love Tears for Fears
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It did this song no favors with me that the phrase "ripping the Beatles off" fit the chorus of this song PERFECTLY. None in the least. To this day, me and my older sister still sing that if the song ever comes up. I never really liked it when any band so openly copped the particular sound of another band-which explains my dislike of DT's Muse-like songs-and I think it goes back to this song. :lol
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It did this song no favors with me that the phrase "ripping the Beatles off" fit the chorus of this song PERFECTLY. None in the least. To this day, me and my older sister still sing that if the song ever comes up. I never really liked it when any band so openly copped the particular sound of another band-which explains my dislike of DT's Muse-like songs-and I think it goes back to this song. :lol
But that's really just one song. Their catalog, though having some influence from the Beatles is very varied. After the bass player left they were even a bit proggish.
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Yeah the variety in their albums is incredible. I still need to check out more of the later stuff Roland did on his own.
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It did this song no favors with me that the phrase "ripping the Beatles off" fit the chorus of this song PERFECTLY. None in the least. To this day, me and my older sister still sing that if the song ever comes up. I never really liked it when any band so openly copped the particular sound of another band-which explains my dislike of DT's Muse-like songs-and I think it goes back to this song. :lol
But that's really just one song. Their catalog, though having some influence from the Beatles is very varied. After the bass player left they were even a bit proggish.
The fact that they generally didn't ape other bands so stridently was what made this one stand out to me so much. I rather liked Songs From The Big Chair, and actually like the rest of this album a great deal. But man, for me, this song just didn't work. :lol
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Like Wolfie was talking about , if you never checked out the sans Curt Smith music, very proggy and I can not say enough about Elemental and Raul and The King Of Spain. Plus Roland's solo albums.
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I've always been more partial to "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" and "Head Over Heels"
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I dig those two muchly as well, along with Shout.
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David Lee Roth - Just Like Paradise
This was another winner of a song and video by DLR. DLR could always make an entertaining video out of (mostly) just him and his band performing on stage. The guitar Steve Vai plays at times in the video was definitely of the :eek :eek-variety at the time. And this song was huge enough to where his tour that year was pretty successful. I was in high school at the time and there were kids everywhere wearing the Skyscraper T-shirt to school the day after he played here. I was not one of them. :lol :lol
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Great song :tup
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Great song, although it's one of the few songs on the album I like (sorry, really not a fan of his Vai era stuff. The later stuff was much better overall).
Another classic video too. One of the all time great rock n' roll frontmen. I have to give DLR the "Most Vigorous Thrusting" award for this one-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMQttqas_WA&feature=player_detailpage#t=81s
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Haha, I totally knew which part was going play. He always threw a hilarious moment like that in his videos, like shaking his butt in the screen in Yankee Rose. :lol
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I thought this one also had the grinding the mic stand bit, but maybe that one was in the Yankee Rose clip. I really can't keep track of that man's pelvis.
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I always looked at that song as the weak link on the album. Not bad but not as good as other like Stand Up and Hot Dog & a Shake.......
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Good song and all, but I liked the stuff from Eat 'em and Smile a bit better.
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Wham! - Everything She Wants
Kind of an odd song in that the studio version almost sounds lifeless, but the way it is presented in the video (link below), with crowd noise included to give it the impression of the video being a live performance, gives the song a lot more life. Wham! is of course the butt of many jokes, and are often used as an example of those who like bashing the 80s, but they did have a few good songs, this being one of them. No, this song isn't great or anything, but it is a good pop song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf_Lwe6p-Cg
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If you were around in the 80s, you have a Wham! story. I had three...the one where I kissed my first long term girlfriend for the first time to Careless Whisper, the song that was dubbed, despite being about infidelity, the theme for my senior year prom, and this one.
A guy I went to high school with joined the Air Force when he graduated and by sheer luck was stationed at the Air Force base in my home town, so we took to hanging out again, like we did in school. Since he'd come home, he remained involved with the girls he knew before he left, and wound up dating a girl we'd both known in high school. She was totally gorgeous and totally a ditz, and drove my friend crazy with her silliness. One weekend, he called me and wanted to go out and hit the bars. I said "what will your girlfriend say?" He sighed and said "we broke up."
"What caused it?" I asked.
"She called me at 5:30 in the morning and told me Wham had broken up. She was in tears."
Found I couldn't argue with him. :lol
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All I remember is those stupid white with the black lettering T-Shirts all over school. "Choose Life" ans such.
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I honestly liked George Michael's solo stuff a LOT better than that Wham! shit.
All I remember is those stupid white with the black lettering T-Shirts all over school. "Choose Life" ans such.
Those, and the Frankie Goes to Hollywood shirts. :facepalm:
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He sighed and said "we broke up."
"What caused it?" I asked.
"She called me at 5:30 in the morning and told me Wham had broken up. She was in tears."
Found I couldn't argue with him. :lol
:rollin Fantastic!
I honestly liked George Michael's solo stuff a LOT better than that Wham! shit.
I like 'em both but will give the edge to the solo era. Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 has a lot of awesome singles.
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Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 has a lot of awesome singles.
Word on that, bruh.
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Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible
The song was okay, but the girls in the video were hard to ignore (despite being plastered in makeup). :lol
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Eh, Addicted to Love is much better
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I got tired of this song fast. Way overplayed.
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Just Like Paradise I remember being my favourite song when it came out and I was like 5, killer tune.
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Eh, Addicted to Love is much better
This.
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Those two Robert Palmer songs were interchangable, and neither were very good IMO. I prefered Bad Case of Loving You
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I thought I Didn't Mean to Turn You On was his best of his 80s hits (Bad Case of Lovin' You is from the 70s).
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Eh, Addicted to Love is much better
Yep. Although...
I thought I Didn't Mean to Turn You On was his best of his 80s hits (Bad Case of Lovin' You is from the 70s).
I Didn't Mean To Turn You On was a favorite of mine. Awesome song.
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Mike + the Mechanics - Silent Running
I've always liked this song a lot. I didn't realize in then, but it definitely has that blend of pop and prog feel that a lot of post-Steve Hackett Genesis material had, which makes sense since Mike Rutherford was one of the principle writers of the song. The keyboard work is pretty sweet, and most of the atmosphere in the song comes from the keyboard melodies.
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Agreed. Good song, one of my favorite Mike + The Mechanics songs.
(plus sign, not ampersand)
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Noted. I totally forgot that it was supposed to be a plus sign. :facepalm:
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Really cool song. neat video too
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Noted. I totally forgot that it was supposed to be a plus sign. :facepalm:
Well, as you know from the ELP thread, I'm pretty anal about stuff like that. It was meant to be a "gentle" correction. :)
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Oh, I know. :)
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Mike + the Mechanics - Silent Running
Aces, still dig this one. :heart
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Aerosmith - Dude (Looks Like a Lady)
It wasn't a favorite of mine at the time, but I got a kick out of this song when it was first released. Aside from the Walk This Way collaboration with Run-D.M.C., this was the first song I ever heard by Aerosmith. I had heard of them, but didn't know anything by them, so I think I kinda fell in the "Oh, this band is supposedly great, and this is a brand new song, so it has to be good." What the hell, I was only 14 at the time! :lol That is not to say that I dislike now or anything - it's still an enjoyable song. It's just not a song I ever revisit anymore.
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I like most Aerosmith, including their funny, less-serious songs, but this one was never a fave. It's catchy and fun, I guess.
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This song is pretty much the dividing line between Old Aerosmith and New Aerosmith, though it amuses me how much music and time is on the side of the line marked "new" :rollin This was the album where the party all the time, rock and roll all night, dirty bluesy Aerosmith evolved into, basically, a middle aged, slower, calmer version of the same band, and in doing so became a bigger band than they were before. They were still demonstrably Aerosmith, but the edges had been filed off and the inevitable outside songwriters had arrived-it seemed like if you were a 70s hard rock success, you wound up getting Desmond Child and Holly Knight forced upon you as songwriters. Never really liked the song, though I was a sucker for Angel. Gotta love those big 80s power ballads. :biggrin:
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70's Aerosmith :tup
this is when Aerosmith went and sold their souls to the MTV demons :tdwn
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Aerosmith - Dude (Looks Like a Lady)
I like the Run-D.M.C. version of Walk This Way MUCH better than Dude. Always seemed too corny.
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Aerosmith is to this thread what Genesis is to the Classic Rock thread. Instant :puke: on my part.
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Kenny Loggins - Heart to Heart
I have to admit that this was a favorite of mine when I was 9. I don't remember it being a huge hit, but there was something about it that I really liked. There aren't many Kenny Loggins songs I go back to anymore - in fact, this might the only one :lol - but when I am in the mood for early 80s stuff, this one is always in rotation. Without a doubt, a nostalgic favorite of mine. :coolio
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Ugh. I was a huge Loggins & Messina fan -- okay, I guess it was really just the one album -- but I don't think I liked anything Kenny Loggins did solo.
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When I see a Kenny Loggins song from the 80s get mentioned, the first thing I think is "what movie was this from?" :lol
And the only thing.
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Robert Plant - In the Mood
Watching it now, kind of a funny video, featuring the random shots of people dancing to the music, but there are some really cool moments. The way it ends how it starts is really cool, but it's easy for that to get lost among the unintentional comedic value of the rest of the video. The song itself is terrific; one of his best solo songs ever.
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I remember the back lash a bit from this song but I dug tis song and the album. This is when Robert started to explore new musical ground.
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You have to give Robert Plant credit; he could have spent the 80s banging out low grade versions of Zeppelin's cock rock swagger and made a fortune, but instead he decided to forge his own path. Largely. Tall Cool One proves how misguided Plant trying to do Zeppelin swagger on his own would have been. Even his debut avoided largely the Zep style for something new, but this album made it obvious that Plant wasn't going to dwell on the past often. Even revisiting Zep music with Page in the 90s, he put a new spin on it. I'm sure these days it annoys a lot of people that Plant wouldn't go back to the well for a Zep tour after O2, but it shouldn't have shocked anyone. He'd been doing his own thing since the 80s.
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Yep, Plant does his own thing, and that's fine with me. I'm not a huge fan of this particular song, but it's not bad, and I like that Robert was doing what he wanted to do, trying out new things as a singer, and not just endlessly rehashing the glory days.
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It's funny. My recollection of MTV in the 80s was that it was pretty cool. This thread seems to be an A-Z list of everything I hated about MTV. Not only did I despise all of these songs but they played them 20 times a fucking day. Now I'm just confused. :lol
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INXS - New Sensation
Another big hit from the Kick record, this was another song I liked a lot; probably my 3rd favorite of the hits from that record. Watching it now, the video is corny to say the least, with those weird effects during the chorus, but back in 1987, it was kind of cool. I actually think this song hasn't aged as well as most of the other songs from Kick, but it is still an enjoyable tune.
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Another catchy song by INXS. I like this one. I haven't heard it in a while, so I can't say how well it's aged, but I know I crank it up when I hear it.
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it's alright
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You mean New Shitsation.
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New Sensation might not have been written explicitly in the hopes it got picked up for a commercial...but it sure as fuck SOUNDS like it did. :lol
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Heart to Heart :facepalm:
In The Mood :tup
New Sensation :coolio
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R.E.M. - Stand
I liked this song when it was first out, but I got tired of it very quickly, and it is now a song I avoid listening to it all costs. I don't like much R.E.M. in general - I don't care for Michael Stipe's voice or his delivery - but this song is really quite nauseating now.
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Some R.E.M. songs hit a groove and work even though the lyrics are really repetitive, and some R.E.M. songs are just kinda boring and annoying because the lyrics are really repetitive. This one falls into the second category.
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Prince & the Revolution - Let's Go Crazy
The other number 1 hit from Purple Rain, this is a great rocker, while still incorporating elements of dance into it. Prince displays his prowess on the guitar, especially at the end of the song. Say what you want about the guy, but the guy is a helluva musician, and this is easily one of the best songs he ever wrote, and one of the standout MTV hits/videos of 1984, which is really saying something considering how strong of a year it was for pop songs.
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R.E.M. - Stand
I liked this song when it was first out, but I got tired of it very quickly, and it is now a song I avoid listening to it all costs. I don't like much R.E.M. in general - I don't care for Michael Stipe's voice or his delivery - but this song is really quite nauseating now.
Chriselliottcore :metal
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R.E.M. - Stand
(https://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc55/black_floyd_2007/vomit.gif)
Prince & the Revolution - Let's Go Crazy
You know... I dug the holy FUCK out of the Purple Rain ST back in the day, but Let's Go Crazy, When Doves Cry and Purple Rain (the song) are about the only ones I can still listen to without reaching to change the song. :-\
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Let's Go Crazy is greatness
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R.E.M. - Stand
I liked this song when it was first out, but I got tired of it very quickly, and it is now a song I avoid listening to it all costs. I don't like much R.E.M. in general - I don't care for Michael Stipe's voice or his delivery - but this song is really quite nauseating now.
Chriselliottcore :metal
I hope others on the board got this..
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Prince & the Revolution - Let's Go Crazy
You know... I dug the holy FUCK out of the Purple Rain ST back in the day, but Let's Go Crazy, When Doves Cry and Purple Rain (the song) are about the only ones I can still listen to without reaching to change the song. :-\
This, minus When Doves Cry. Purple Rain was the one album it was okay for everyone to own-no metal head looked at you funny if he saw it in your collection, as it was in mine, and I think a lot of it had to do with Prince's guitar playing on Let's Go Crazy and Purple Rain. These days, though, the rest of the album just doesn't work without the movie.
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Let's Go Crazy is outstanding. I've always wanted to learn it and open a show with it.
The whole Purple Rain album is excellent. Stuff like The Beautiful Ones and Computer Blue, the deep cuts - just great stuff. LGC is just a balls-out good time, capped with a great example of Prince's under-ratedness as a guitarist.
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Totally agree with ya, Coz.
Prince & the Revolution - Let's Go Crazy
You know... I dug the holy FUCK out of the Purple Rain ST back in the day, but Let's Go Crazy, When Doves Cry and Purple Rain (the song) are about the only ones I can still listen to without reaching to change the song. :-\
This, minus When Doves Cry. Purple Rain was the one album it was okay for everyone to own-no metal head looked at you funny if he saw it in your collection, as it was in mine, and I think a lot of it had to do with Prince's guitar playing on Let's Go Crazy and Purple Rain. These days, though, the rest of the album just doesn't work without the movie.
Yeah, WDC was an aberration I think. It still KIND OF works on its own, but I agree with you that the other songs really need the movie for context.
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Let's Go Crazy is outstanding. I've always wanted to learn it and open a show with it.
The whole Purple Rain album is excellent. Stuff like The Beautiful Ones and Computer Blue, the deep cuts - just great stuff. LGC is just a balls-out good time, capped with a great example of Prince's under-ratedness as a guitarist.
loved his solo on While my Guitar Gently Weeps from the 2004 Rock and Roll hall of fame
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I still have never seen the movie and I enjoy the songs immensely
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Debbie Gibson - Lost in Your Eyes
I humbly admit that not only was I a big fan of this song when it came out (not so much now), but I had the Electric Youth album on vinyl...and enjoyed all of it. Flame away! :biggrin: :lol
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We had it on cassette so no hating here. I liked her
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Yeah, I had the cassette single. I also had Tiffany's single at the same time, so...yeah. This falls squarely into the "did not age well" category. In fact, I think it fell squarely into that category within about two weeks after coming out, along with I Think We're Alone Now, Cars With The Boom, etc. Erm...or so I've heard, you know, from people who had those songs.
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Yeah, I had the cassette single. I also had Tiffany's single at the same time, so...yeah. This falls squarely into the "did not age well" category. In fact, I think it fell squarely into that category within about two weeks after coming out, along with I Think We're Alone Now, Cars With The Boom, etc. Erm...or so I've heard, you know, from people who had those songs.
Did you know that "I Think We're Alone Now" was a cover song? It was a top 10 hit for Tommy James and the Shondells in the 60s.
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I was not aware of that.
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Um... yeah... :puke:
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Van Halen - Panama
Great song; great video. Play this at a bar on the jukebox or by a live band and everyone will inevitably yell, "Panama!" during the chorus. A classic in every way possible. :metal
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Incredibly catchy, energetic song. Looking back, I'm not sure how they got away with the monologue part on a song that got so much MTV and public radio play, but whatever. :lol
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One of my favourite VH songs, and the music video really captured the fun of the band. :lol The drum sound on that song/album really gave it so much kick and energy.
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This is the one song I skip when it's on my I-pod. Not that it's a bad song at all, I just heard it and saw it on MTV so many times that I got sick of it.
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Awesome song and video! Always wonder what kind of material the band would've released during the rest of the 80s and 90s if they never had broken up after this album.
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Always wonder what kind of material the band would've released during the rest of the 80s and 90s if they never had broken up after this album.
That is hard to speculate on, cause EVH was already going in a slightly different direction, a direction Roth didn't like (more keyboards), so given that, it is doubtful the two would have co-existed much longer under those circumstances. At the time, the shock was probably a shock to most (I was too young to grasp it at the time), but in retrospect, it happened at just the right time, for both sides.
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Favorite Van Halen song, at least so far
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Van Halen - Panama
Classic, but... like king, I've heard it so much that I'm kind of burned on it.
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When in Rome - The Promise
This song was never really on my radar when it came out in 1988, but when I got one of those 80s compilation CDs years later, it was on there, and I was like, "Oh yeah; not a bad song." The appeal is more than obvious: memorable melodies combined with some crazy dance rhythms.
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:heart :heart :heart :heart :heart
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Duran Duran - Save a Prayer
This is actually my favorite of the three hits from Rio; always loved this song. The keyboard work is this song is so freaking cool, it almost sounds like keyboard work that would have been done in a song by band that first hit it big in the 70s, if that makes sense. The extended outro, which is killer, just caps off a great song.
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Great song! The programmed keyboard line helps make it, but Duran Duran's unique harmonies are what seal the deal for me. It's wacky at the end when Nick slowly increases the portamento rate on the programmed synth, past the point where it can get to the next note in time, resulting in a pretty bizarre almost-melody.
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Heard this song first on Arena, so hearing the album version through me off. Came to love them both, and one of the few songs of theirs I can't imagine getting to a point where I wouldn't like it.
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Great song, great keyboards and an awesome atmosphere.
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I can't say enough good things about this song.
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Never really liked that one, tbh.
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Julian Lennon - Too Late for Goodbyes
This is another song I hadn't heard in decades and had completely forgotten about, and then I saw the video the other day and was like, "Oh yeah, I remember that!" I think I liked it at the time, although it wasn't a favorite. I think I probably thought it was cool since it was by John Lennon's kid. Revisiting it now, it is catchy enough, and I'll probably spend a buck to get it and add it to my 80s playlist.
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His early stuff while catchy were ok. His later music is much better.
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When Julian started hitting the airwaves, of course everyone compared him to his late father, and remarked on how much he sounded like John. Me, I just wondered how much of it was natural, and how much his voice was processed to make it sound that way.
I liked this one better than "Gavotte", because it was upbeat and kinda catchy, but overall his stuff didn't excite.
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Julian Lennon - Too Late for Goodbyes
Screw y'all, I LOVE this song - always have, always will. Couldn't care less if it's too "poppy" or whatever. :heart :heart :heart
I liked this one better than "Gavotte", because it was upbeat and kinda catchy, but overall his stuff didn't excite.
Um... wat? :lol Don't you mean Valotte?
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Yeah, I thought about that after I'd logged out. Gavotte, Valotte, whatever. Boring song.
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Too Late is indeed a great song
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"You had one eye in the mirror as you watched yourself gavotte"
I think that's what I was thinking of.
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John Lennon - Nobody Told Me
Released four years after his death, this song got heavy rotation on MTV (the video including older clips of Lennon and Yoko Ono), and I enjoyed it a lot. I still like it, even if it is not a song I listen to much at all. But whenever I do hear it, I still enjoy it.
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It's alright and fairly enjoyable. I enjoy it more than "Woman" and "Borrowed Time", but not as much as "Starting Over" or "Watching the Wheels"
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Yeah, I thought about that after I'd logged out. Gavotte, Valotte, whatever. Boring song.
So says you - his first album, IMO, was one of the better things to come out of 80s pop. It's aged quite well too, unlike a lot of the Purple Rain soundtrack (for one example). But, you know... opinions and all that... :)
It's alright and fairly enjoyable. I enjoy it more than "Woman" and "Borrowed Time", but not as much as "Starting Over" or "Watching the Wheels"
Exactly this.
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Night Ranger - The Secret of My Success
I have to admit that I am a sucker for not only this song, but the movie of the same name. I remember watching movies like The Secret of My Success, Dragnet and Summer School to death back in 1987, and I will always enjoy all of them to the fullest, since they remind me of that specific period of my life. Hooray for nostalgia!! But getting back to the song, it wasn't that big of a hit, and I suspect some won't remember it, but I still think it is a well-written song. It's rather different than most of their other hits (thanks to the emphasis on horns), but so what? :)
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The movie is awesome. There's a street in our neighborhood, Whitfield Avenue, and we always call it Carlton Whitfield Avenue.
I don't remember the song. I was never a huge Night Ranger fan.
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That album was the start of their popularity slipping and right after that album, the keyvboardist left. Very good song though.
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The only thread I have ever started here, as far as I remember, was dedicated to the precise moment a band blew it. It was a little bit of a misunderstood thread, since so many people jumped in citing the Black Album by Metallica, but my point was not to list the album where you stopped liking a band, but the thing a band did that snatched failure from the jaws of success.
My example in the opening post was The Secret of My Success by Night Ranger. That song was the beginning of the end for Night Ranger-it turned loads of people off-and inside of two years, Night Ranger went from headlining 13,000 seat arenas to opening for Kansas on a club tour. Needless to say, I think you can guess my opinion of this song. :lol
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I remember that thread.
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That makes two of us, apparently. :lol
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I don't remember it, but I agree with the general premise--at least as you've described it above.
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:lol
But seriously, it was the start. They still were filling 15,000 a night for that tour but it went downhill fast after that. Though I liked the album, "Man In Motion" after it.
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:lol
But seriously, it was the start. They still were filling 15,000 a night for that tour but it went downhill fast after that. Though I liked the album, "Man In Motion" after it.
Oh, there was nothing wrong with the REST of Big Life, the album that Secret To My Success was on in addition to the movie's soundtrack-hell, Color of Your Smile and Rain Comes Crashing Down are two of my favorite Night Ranger songs-and Man In Motion was borderline amazing. But once people stopped giving a damn about Night Ranger, they fell apart QUICK, and it did start with that song.
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I saw them on the 7 Wishes tour and they killed live. Too bad.
BTW the opening band was Starship and they open and closed with "We Built This City". WFT?! :lol
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The same song, twice? That's bad.
When I saw Styx, like 100 years ago, the opening band was Ram Jam, who had that song "Black Betty". They opened with it, and played the rest of their EP, which is all they had. They were really good, though, and the crowd was screaming for an encore. Since they'd already played all their songs, they came back out and did "Black Betty" again. Blam-a-lam.
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I saw them on the 7 Wishes tour and they killed live. Too bad.
BTW the opening band was Starship and they open and closed with "We Built This City". WFT?! :lol
Was it the whole song, or was the closer just like a reprise or something?
Also, the latest Night Ranger album was pretty cool.
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The same song, twice? That's bad.
Not nearly as bad as getting stuck covering Sweet Home Alabama three times at the same show for drunken rednecks in Slidell, LA.
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I saw them on the 7 Wishes tour and they killed live. Too bad.
BTW the opening band was Starship and they open and closed with "We Built This City". WFT?! :lol
Was it the whole song, or was the closer just like a reprise or something?
Also, the latest Night Ranger album was pretty cool.
The whole song. When they first played it they broke into it like it was going to be a reprise but they played it fully.
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That song, twice? It's terrible enough once.
FTFY :xbones
As for the Night Ranger tune... never was a fan of that one, or anything that came afterwards. Their gold was before that.
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I saw them on the 7 Wishes tour and they killed live. Too bad.
BTW the opening band was Starship and they open and closed with "We Built This City". WFT?! :lol
Was it the whole song, or was the closer just like a reprise or something?
Also, the latest Night Ranger album was pretty cool.
The whole song. When they first played it they broke into it like it was going to be a reprise but they played it fully.
Sweet Jesus.
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I don't think it was that unheard of back in the day, for bands with very little material to play their most well-known early hit twice at a concert. I think Europe did it with The Final Countdown, and I think U2 even did it with I Will Follow on their first U.S. tour. But I won't even try to defend Starship or that atrocity of a song called We Built This City.
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I wanna see a band troll the audience by playing the same song repeatedly for the entire set.
*Goes and watches live AC/DC vids on youtube*
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I wanna see a band troll the audience by playing the same song repeatedly for the entire set.
*Goes and watches live AC/DC vids on youtube*
:lol
This guy!
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I wanna see a band troll the audience by playing the same song repeatedly for the entire set.
*Goes and watches live AC/DC vids on youtube*
:metalol:
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The Police - Synchronicity II
This was not only my favorite of the hits from the Synchronicity record, but it was easily my favorite Police song. And it still is. Everything about this song is absolutely killer. Cool as hell video, too. The ominous shots of the lake during the choruses add a darkness to the video that makes it that much more awesome. This is high up on my list of favorite songs and videos that fit in this thread. :coolio
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In an interview very early in The Police, Sting said that he saw the band lasting five albums, then they'd go their separate ways. The Police lasted five albums, and it was pretty clear by then that they were moving in different directions. What is the deal with Andy's guitar solo? I mean, I love it, I love that kind of thing, but it comes out of nowhere and is so bizarre in the context of that song. The video makes it work, with the footage of coming across the lake like that. But just listening to the song, you can practically hear the band coming apart at the seams.
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I love, love, love the atmosphere of this song and Andy's creepy as all hell solo. Like you said Kev the video was perfect for this song.
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Very cool song!
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Interesting take, Orbert. :hat
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The Police - Synchronicity II
Good song, but not my favorite from the album. Or the band, for that matter. The video was pretty cool though, from what I remember.
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Very very good song, could possibly be my favourite by them.
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good song, but really odd too. I'm more partial to Every Little Thing She Does, Don't Stand So Close to Me, Message In A Bottle, Walking on The Moon, even Every Breath You Take
I haven't been able to find the video on YouTube. All they have are live performances
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From Synchronicity, I'm real partial to Wrapped Around Your Finger and Murder By Numbers. Oh, and Tea in the Sahara too.
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Billy Joel - Allentown
He had a lot of hits in the 80s, but this is the best of them all. In fact, this might very well my favorite Billy Joel song ever; I love it that much. The video was enjoyable, but not really noteworthy; definitely not the best video he ever did. But the song is just too great for words. This is on my "whoever doesn't love this song is a communist" list. :biggrin:
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I guess that makes me a communist, although to be honest, I've never understood why people consider communism such a horrible thing. It's a social/political system that works very well in certain situations.
But I know your comment was a joke, just as this song was. After a great series of amazing, kickass singles, Billy Joel released a slow, boring, depressing, plodding, boring, slow, plodding, depressing, boring, slow song about a town slowly dying. The video somehow shows all of this, then finishes with a big "America Fuck Yeah Red White and Blue!!" ending which comes out of nowhere and makes no sense. So I guess the video is about as good as the song.
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My favorite song by Mr. Joel.
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Call me a communist then, because I didn't like Allentown much either. :rollin
There were too many artists in the 80s singing about unemployment and the American Dream dying that, after a while, it felt almost contrived. Like the road to relevance was singing a song about a factory closing down. I can forgive Dire Straits for doing this, since their song that mentioned unemployment was the fourteen minute long Telegraph Road. :P But it just felt like it was a shorthand for pop stars to show how much they cared about the poor to write songs about unemployment.
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I like Allentown a lot, but when it comes to 80's Joel, it's songs from An Innocent Man all the way
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My favorite song by Mr. Joel.
I like this post. :tup :tup
As for you "communists" identifying yourselves, bah. :P :biggrin:
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I don't know if I love the song, but I like it muchly.
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Huey Lewis & the News - Heart and Soul
Another hit from Sports (there were so many!), I always liked this song, and the video was totally 80s fun. It wasn't my favorite by them, or even from that record, but I still liked it. Just not a favorite. I remember my mom and dad both loving this song a lot when it was out.
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I love Huey Lewis. He rarely had a bad song
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Yep, another good one from Huey. Not the best, but a good fun song.
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If memory serves, and it may be wrong, MTV debuted the videos for both Heart And Soul by Huey Lewis and Mama by Genesis on the same night, an hour apart. Which is why, when people talk about Genesis going pop-and I made this comparison in the Genesis discography thread-I say that Genesis didn't really sound like a lot of pop bands, because look at what debuted on MTV the same night as Mama...this here Huey Lewis song. :rollin
Good song, though. Huey Lewis and the News were a pretty reliable band there for a while, a bit of a 70s throwback rock act blending a modern sound to good old rock and roll.
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Damn, if you remember that, you've got a great memory. But you're right, Genesis pop still isn't the same as Huey Lewis pop.
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Madonna - Live to Tell
I have to admit that this was the first Madonna song that I thought was really great. Sure, I like a lot of her hits prior to this one, but this is one I thought was just a great song. And I remember the moment where I realized it. I was sitting in the dentist's chair, waiting for my dentist to come in and do the cavity check following my cleaning, and in that time, a radio that was on in the next room was just loud enough for me to hear, Live to Tell was playing, and it just sounded like a great song to me in the state I was in at the time. Top that, Jaq! :biggrin:
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I still love that song. I don't care what anyone thinks when they see Madonna in my list of artists on my iPod. :hat
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I like this too. You know, she has a really good knack with songs for soundtracks
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Damn, if you remember that, you've got a great memory. But you're right, Genesis pop still isn't the same as Huey Lewis pop.
My memory of the 80s is a bit scattershot...and let's not talk about the second half of 1990, that was a bad time for me...but for some reason, as this thread has made abundantly clear, I can tie a lot of memory to MTV. :lol
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Elton John - Sad Songs (Say So Much)
Good, solid song, and I remember the video being a lot of fun, too, although I haven't seen it in a long time. I have never been a big Elton fan, but I liked a handful of his 80s hits. It could be that, relatively speaking, they compared favorably to some of the bad 80s stuff, while his 70s stuff sounds so tame compared to so much of the awesome classic rock of that decade; hard to say. But I just know I have always liked this song quite a bit. :tup :tup
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I submit to you the album Goodbye Yellowbrick Road to refute the notion that Elton John couldn't rock in the 70s. If anything I have the opposite opinion of his 80s work, which is really when he became a rather safe adult contemporary act. :lol
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I didn't say he couldn't rock; I just meant that his best stuff from the 70s paled in comparison, IMO, to much of the other classic rock of the same time period. "Tame" was probably the wrong word to use.
And I have owned Goodbye Yellow Brick Road for almost 20 years. :hat
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We have different definitions of what rocked in the 70s then. :biggrin:
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Really like the song. I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues I like a tad better
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We have different definitions of what rocked in the 70s then. :biggrin:
Apparently. :biggrin:
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John Mellencamp - Crumbin' Down
Another hit from Uh-Huh, this was probably my least favorite of the three hits from it at the time, but I probably like it more than Authority Song now. Good, quality song, and as for the video...well, it's a good thing he didn't try to make a career out of being a dancer. :lol
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Not bad, but give me Pink Houses and Jack and Diane
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Billy Joel - Allentown
Not one of my favorites from the album it's on, but not a terrible song either.
Huey Lewis & the News - Heart and Soul
Good, fun song.
Elton John - Sad Songs (Say So Much)
Older EJ > 80s EJ.
I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues I like a tad better
Yeah, me too.
John Mellencamp - Crumbin' Down
Fixed the last name misspell for ya. Great song. :metal
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I've said it before in this thread, but I liked energetic rocker John Cougar far better than earnest, socially conscious John Mellencamp. Far, far better. This song does nothing to convince me I'm mistaken. :lol
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John Cougar had a lot of great songs actually. This is indeed a good one.
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I've said it before in this thread, but I liked energetic rocker John Cougar far better than earnest, socially conscious John Mellencamp. Far, far better. This song does nothing to convince me I'm mistaken. :lol
I completely agree. That's why my favorite about is Whenever We wanted. Straight on rock album for him.
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John Mellencamp - Crumbin' Down
Fixed the last name misspell for ya. Great song. :metal
The spelling and grammar nazi inside me feels ashamed. :facepalm: :lol
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Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
I have always been mesmerized by both this song and the video; both are absolutely amazing. Talking Heads are not everyone's cup of tea, and even as a kid, I thought they were a little weird - David Byrne's quirky on-screen persona mostly being the reason - but that weirdness was a big reason why their songs were so good and their videos so entertaining.
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Great song, and a weird video :lol
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Love me some Talking Heads. Yeah, that was an odd video but TH are a weird band
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Real quirky but just enough hook to make it damn catchy. But the video......what the hell?! :lol
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I don't like everything by the Talking Heads, but a lot of their songs are really weird and cool, in a weird and cool way, and this is one of them.
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Journey - I'll Be Alright Without You
I know a lot of Journey fans aren't wild about the hits from the Raised on Radio record, but I always liked this song quite a bit, and I still do; good, solid song. I am not always a huge fan of him as a vocalist - I think he overdoes it at times, and don't worship him like a lot of people do - but Steve Perry's vocals are pretty dynamite in this tune. All I remember about the video are two things: 1) it was an actual live version, and 2) Perry's hairdo was absolutely ridiculous. :lol
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To this day, the presence of American Idol's Randy Jackson on this album and tour makes me want to see someone he judges poorly on the show to say "what the hell do you know, you were in Fake Journey!" :lol Which sums up what a lot of long time Journey fans thought of this album. It wasn't Journey, it was Steve Perry with Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain along for the ride.
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I'm a big Journey fan (I actually just saw them live last Saturday :hat), but I don't know/like anything from this album, aside from Be Good To Yourself, which I don't mind.
I just checked it out again though, and the vocals are great, and it's a decent song, but nothing great. And whoa, Perry's hairstyle instantly tells you which half of the '80s it was. :lol
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Ah, the Steve Perry solo album. I KID!! 3 songs including this one are great and the rest is 80's sounding shlock.
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I really like this song, but I prefer the studio version to the video's live performance. The studio version is a lot more laid back. It has a cool vibe.
Perry should have auditioned for Heart looking like that!
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It's alright
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I'm a big Journey fan too, and didn't like this album at all for many years. Eventually I warmed up to it though, after maybe...8 or 10 years? It's still very far from being my favourite Journey album, but I do actually like most of the songs on it now.
This particular song is definitely one of the better ones from the album, for me, and for most of the period I did not listen to the album I still liked this song. It was actually part of the Best-Of compilation that got me into the band in the first place, so that's probably why.
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ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man
For whatever reason, I didn't like this song nearly as much as I did the other major hits from the Eliminator album (Legs and Gimme All Your Lovin'). I mean, this is a good song, but it wasn't one that I couldn't not watch if it came on; maybe the video not being as memorable as the others didn't help. Hard to say, but it's still a solid tune.
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I like Sharp Dressed Man second only to Legs
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I was never big on ZZ Top. I dig a few tunes here and there but it's just not my cup of tea.
Funny story about a this album. My friend had a funny theory (it was a joke) that there was only one song recorded and ZZ Top slowed it down to call it one song, played it backwards and called it another song. Played the album on it's side to... well you get the point. :lol
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Yeah, once they got to the 80's and added synths to their sound, there was a certain "sameness" to a lot of their stuff. But if you liked that sound, it worked. It was catchy and fun, and still rocked. Hey, it was the 80's; pretty much everything was formulaic.
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The spelling and grammar nazi inside me feels ashamed. :facepalm: :lol
As well you should. :police: (JK :laugh: )
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
YES. Awesome song (not more awesome than Burning Down The House though). :heart
Journey - I'll Be Alright Without You
No. Just... nope.
ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man
Good tune. :tup
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Soft Cell - Tainted Love
I was never a fan of this song, but it seems to be one of those go-to songs when shows or movies want to feature 80s songs. Or maybe I am just imaging that. :lol All I know is that when I hear this song now, I think of the Friends episode where Danny DeVito was the stripper for Phoebe's bachelorette party. :eek :facepalm: :lol
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One of favorite one hit wonders. I actually have on my iPod the extended 8 minute version with their version of Where Did Our Love Go
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I always think of the movie Coneheads. Weird movie.
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Two words to express my feelings for this song.........
Get away. :biggrin:
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Two words to express my feelings for this song.........
Get away. :biggrin:
:lol
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I completely dislike 'Once in a Lifetime' (I won't go as far as to say I hate it, but this is just one step away from that).
One of favorite one hit wonders. I actually have on my iPod the extended 8 minute version with their version of Where Did Our Love Go
I usually think of these 2 songs together myself, though I don't care as much for 'Where Did Our Love Go.' 'Tainted Love' is an awesome song. Definitely in my top 20 dance songs from the 80s.
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Being Australian and not that old in the 80's, I'm more familiar with a cover of this song that was played on the radio during the 90's by The Living End. I was all about ROCK and not much else back in my early teens, so I never really warmed up to the Soft Cell version or the original.
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Being Australian and not that old in the 80's, I'm more familiar with a cover of this song that was played on the radio during the 90's by The Living End. I was all about ROCK and not much else back in my early teens, so I never really warmed up to the Soft Cell version or the original.
I always knew the origial well, but when that cover came out, that was pretty special, love it more than the original. Check it out;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxOpxeIJHBY
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Janet Jackson - Nasty
I wasn't a big fan of this song when it was first out, but it wasn't one I would automatically turn off either; it was one I would occasionally enjoy. Now, I never listen to it. Even when in an 80s mood, if it comes on, I am skipping over it. In other words, a song I never thought was that good has not aged well.
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Never was a Janet fan though I know many friends that love her. Great performer but not my style of music.
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A very meh song indeed
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Great performer but not my style of music.
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Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Aw HELL naw.
Two words to express my feelings for this song.........
Get away. :biggrin:
Yep.
Janet Jackson - Nasty
This one didn't age well back in the day. :lol Janet's had better hits than this (When I Think Of You is the first one to pop into my noggin).
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And since we are getting some dreck out of the way today, I guess it's time to feature an artist that was too big in the 80s to not at least give one Song of the Day to...
Lionel Richie - All Night Long
This guy had a bunch of big hits in the 80s, and this was the one I can say I sort of liked (it had a catchy chorus, but the rest of it was pretty average, even by pop standards), so this is the one I am featuring. ;)
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Yeah, Lionel was pretty hot for a while, but I never really got into his solo stuff. The Commodores were cool, though.
Best use of that particular song was the one-line quote in The Fifth Element.
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Great party song
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I went to school with a girl who legitimately, and without any subtext intended, thought this song was called All Nine Long.
When it hit her what her version of the song was suggesting, she turned the most amazing shade of red. :rollin
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:rollin :rollin :rollin
And, as always, Jaq, I thank you for your many contributions to this thread. :tup :tup
And everyone else, too, of course, but I think most of us would agree that Jaq's 80s stories are full of win. :coolio
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You're welcome. :lol
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Gotta get her out of the way here, too...
Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance with Somebody
No thanks. I know everyone used to salivate over her voice, but her songs never did anything for me, even back in the 80s.
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And since we are getting some dreck out of the way today, I guess it's time to feature an artist that was too big in the 80s to not at least give one Song of the Day to...
Lionel Richie - All Night Long
This guy had a bunch of big hits in the 80s, and this was the one I can say I sort of liked (it had a catchy chorus, but the rest of it was pretty average, even by pop standards), so this is the one I am featuring. ;)
Aw HELL naw.
I mean, it wasn't that bad, but it wasn't very good either.
Gotta get her out of the way here, too...
Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance with Somebody
No thanks. I know everyone used to salivate over her voice, but her songs never did anything for me, even back in the 80s.
Aw HELL naw.
Yeah, in all fairness, she really DID have an amazing voice. But that doesn't mean her songs were enjoyable to listen to. In case it hasn't already been said:
Aw HELL naw.
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I'll admit, I enjoy this song
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My best friend in high school came back from an aborted tenure at the Air Force Academy owning Whitney Houston's debut album. As his tastes were largely identical to mine, and I didn't much like her music, I wondered why he owned it. "Guy I knew at the Academy said owning it would help you with the ladies," was his answer.
"How'd that work out for you?" I asked.
He was quiet for a moment, then he said "shut the fuck up, man." :lol
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:lol
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Lionel Richie - All Night Long
Decent song back in the day, but... it didn't age well at ALL. :lol
Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance with Somebody
bosk stole what I was gonna post for this one. :laugh:
My best friend in high school came back from an aborted tenure at the Air Force Academy owning Whitney Houston's debut album. As his tastes were largely identical to mine, and I didn't much like her music, I wondered why he owned it. "Guy I knew at the Academy said owning it would help you with the ladies," was his answer.
"How'd that work out for you?" I asked.
He was quiet for a moment, then he said "shut the fuck up, man." :lol
Nice. :rollin
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My best friend in high school came back from an aborted tenure at the Air Force Academy owning Whitney Houston's debut album. As his tastes were largely identical to mine, and I didn't much like her music, I wondered why he owned it. "Guy I knew at the Academy said owning it would help you with the ladies," was his answer.
"How'd that work out for you?" I asked.
He was quiet for a moment, then he said "shut the fuck up, man." :lol
In the 80's we all knew that answer. :lol
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My best friend in high school came back from an aborted tenure at the Air Force Academy owning Whitney Houston's debut album. As his tastes were largely identical to mine, and I didn't much like her music, I wondered why he owned it. "Guy I knew at the Academy said owning it would help you with the ladies," was his answer.
"How'd that work out for you?" I asked.
He was quiet for a moment, then he said "shut the fuck up, man." :lol
:lol :lol :lol
Okay, back to something good...
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
MTV played the shit out of the live Red Rocks version, so this, to me, is still the definitive version of the song. I never heard the studio version till years later, and while it is very good as well, nothing beats that Red Rocks live version. Oh look, there I go again liking the version I heard first the best. ;) :lol But really, a lot of U2 songs were good in the studio and great live, so Sunday Bloody Sunday is just one of many.
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I think almost everyone who wasn't a hardcore fan of U2 back then came to this song from the live version. I always found the studio version to be almost clunky in comparison, the live version had so much more energy.
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I recorded that Red Rocks show on Showtime before they made it into an MTV video. It was a great show with so much energy.
Shout out to my parents for paying for cable when no one had it in the neighborhood. :lol
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I think almost everyone who wasn't a hardcore fan of U2 back then came to this song from the live version.
I don't know about that. The studio version was all over the place, and is still the version that gets played on classic rock stations. I think I've heard the live version maybe three or four times in 30 years. I'm not a U2 fan, so it didn't sound much different to me.
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Back then, it was a different story. I don't think Sunday Bloody Sunday got much airplay UNTIL the live EP that this was on came out.
Of course, around 30 years have gone by and the studio version is all that gets played now. But back then, the live version was the one that got the most time.
Now I'm going off to sit in a corner and feel fucking OLD. :lol
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U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
MTV played the shit out of the live Red Rocks version, so this, to me, is still the definitive version of the song. I never heard the studio version till years later, and while it is very good as well, nothing beats that Red Rocks live version. Oh look, there I go again liking the version I heard first the best. ;) :lol But really, a lot of U2 songs were good in the studio and great live, so Sunday Bloody Sunday is just one of many.
Love the live version/the song for the very same reason. :hifive:
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Never heard the live version, but a great old school U2 song nevertheless
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Wrong thread.
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Yes - Love Will Find a Way
Really enjoyable tune; one of the best on Big Generator, which, thanks in large part to the success of this song, was actually nominated for a grammy for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. :eek :eek I am sure this is one of those songs that old school Yes fans (see: ones who scoff at everything they did with Trevor Rabin) dog on a regular basis, but this really is a damn fine song. I guess I was fortunate at the time to still be ignorant to anything Yes had done, aside from the 90125 hits, so I wasn't predisposed to hate anything they did that wasn't full-on prog.
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There's a lot of truth in what you say about old-school Yesfans hating on the Rabin-era stuff. It's weird, though. A lot of them just seem to hate it because it's not prog, and they don't need a better reason than that. But prog fans often have very diverse and eclectic tastes, so there's no reason for any type of music to be written off.
Anyway, I'm not even sure which group I fall into. During my Yes Discography thing, I gained a greater appreciation for each of the different phases of Yes, but I think my problem is that I just don't like most of Rabin's music. It has nothing to do with whether or not it's Yes.
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Yes - Love Will Find a Way
Haven't heard this one in quite a while, but I remember liking Big Generator when it came out.
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I knew about old Yes and still had no problem with Big Generator. It amazes me how close minded and conservative fans of progressive rock can be sometimes; they want the genre to stay locked forever in the year 1973 or so. :lol
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:hifive:
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I remember how long it took Yes to record that album. My second favorite song on the album. First being Final Eyes.
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - You Got Lucky
This video was played a ton back in 1982, and I definitely liked it a lot; this was a song and video I never turned off. It is still a darn good song, and although the video looks a little hokey and dated now, I still get a kick out of it on the rare occasions when I see it, in large part thanks to the nostalgia that kicks in. :coolio
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Tom Petty's "welcome to the synthesizer era!" album. This is pretty much the only song I remember off of it, because my memory of the entire album was it was kind of pedestrian by Tom Petty's standards. I know there would have been other singles, and likely other videos, but I can't remember them.
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That video was huge! You could not turn on MTV in the day without seeing that video playing.
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We used to laugh at Tom Petty's videos, "Refugee" and the other early, crappy ones. So when this one came out, we agreed that is was pretty cool, and excellent for Tom Petty. Some of us were sci-fi geeks, which helped. I like how the atmospheric low synth effect at the beginning (before the song starts, while they're still investigating) is actually the hook line, two octaves down. Didn't notice that until a later viewing, probably like an hour later.
By the way, I tend to speak of "we" and "us" a lot when I think of these 80's videos because the early 80's is when I lived in a house with five other guys, basically the band I was playing in plus a few hangers-on. We spent literally countless hours together watching MTV, smoking non-tobacco, and laughing about the songs while at the same time trying to figure out which ones we needed to learn.
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The song is alright, but yeah, the video was pretty cool for it's day
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We used to laugh at Tom Petty's videos, "Refugee" and the other early, crappy ones. So when this one came out, we agreed that is was pretty cool, and excellent for Tom Petty. Some of us were sci-fi geeks, which helped. I like how the atmospheric low synth effect at the beginning (before the song starts, while they're still investigating) is actually the hook line, two octaves down. Didn't notice that until a later viewing, probably like an hour later.
By the way, I tend to speak of "we" and "us" a lot when I think of these 80's videos because the early 80's is when I lived in a house with five other guys, basically the band I was playing in plus a few hangers-on. We spent literally countless hours together watching MTV, smoking non-tobacco, and laughing about the songs while at the same time trying to figure out which ones we needed to learn.
I always thought that was really cool, too! Good call. :tup :tup
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Heart - There's the Girl
This was the least successful of Heart's three top 40 hits from the Bad Animals record, but I always thought it was easily the best of the three (although I understand why the other two were bigger hits, especially the ballad, Alone). There is just something about this song that I really love. I love the verses, and the way they transition into the chorus is very cool. Plus, it's neat that a Nancy Wilson lead vocal resulted in another hit (like These Dreams).
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I barely remember this song, and probably wouldn't have if you hadn't mentioned Nancy sang it. :lol
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I never knew Nancy sang These Dreams. I'll have to check this song out later after work
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By time Heart got to Bad Animals, it already felt to me like this was a comeback of sorts. I know that that's not really fair, but their 70's albums were so strong, it was like they hit the 80's and stumbled big time, actually fell down, then had to work their way back. I didn't follow the band closely enough to know that Roger Fisher left during the Bebe le Strange sessions, but in retrospect, it makes perfect sense. They lost something there. And I lost most of the early 80's, so I missed out on whatever Heart did during that time.
I have this CD and have played it a few times, but it just doesn't satisfy like the first album, or any of the other early albums. Those were all killer albums. Bad Animals isn't horrible or anything, but it just doesn't kick my ass like the 70's albums did.
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I barely remember this song, and probably wouldn't have if you hadn't mentioned Nancy sang it. :lol
Jaq man, that damn video was all over MTV!!!! You couldn't miss it! :lol
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BTW, this thread will be one year old tomorrow. :eek
I have been saving a personal favorite of mine for the occasion. :coolio
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - You Got Lucky
Good song, crap video. :lol
Heart - There's the Girl
Don't remember this one.
I never knew Nancy sang These Dreams.
WAT :omg:
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I never knew Nancy sang These Dreams.
WAT :omg:
Did you never see the video? Because if you have, it makes it pretty clear that Nancy sings the lead vocal.
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:lol You misunderstood my post there, Mister Shmev - I wasn't saying "WAT" about Nancy singing These Dreams (knew that back in the day). I was saying that because of masterthes's post. :lol
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Okay then, my post was directed at masterthes. :biggrin: :P
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Time to celebrate one year of this thread with what is probably my favorite video of the 80s and one of my all-time favorite songs:
U2 - All I Want Is You
I am gonna use what I wrote about this song when it was number 1 on my U2 top 50 two years ago:
This is my number 1 U2 song by a pretty wide distance. This is the song that made U2 my favorite band for about a two-year stretch (from '88-'90, until I discovered Pink Floyd, and then Rush in '91). If I had to make a list of my all-time favorite songs, this would be top 20, easily, and maybe even top 10. It is that awesome. Everything about this song is awesome. And it has one of the coolest videos you will ever see, featuring a story about a little man who is in love with a trapeze artist who breaks his heart, and one where you see the band once, walking on the sand near the end of the song, for about three seconds. The Edge's playing following the final vocal section, and before the beautiful outro, should be put in a time capsule for people centuries from now to hear; I am not sure I would even call that a solo, but my goodness, that is some of the most bad ass guitar playing you will ever hear. This is the perfect U2 song. This song is perfection.
Video: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xj1ad_u2-all-i-want-is-you_music#.UUFhl451PHg
:hefdaddy :hefdaddy :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
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I probably haven't seen the video in years, so lay off lol
Anyway, U2, LOVE that song. So amazing!
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Damn, I was hoping the anniversary song would be one I had an epic story to tell, but Rattle and Hum was about when I started tuning out where U2 was concerned, which means I don't have much memory of this song at all. :lol
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Bummer. ;)
But here's another one for fun today:
A Flock of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song
I Ran is the song everyone thinks of when this band is mentioned, but many forget that they had two other pretty popular hits, this being one of them. In some respects, I think this was the best of the three. Hell, that lead guitar sound even influenced someone like Alex Lifeson! Listen to the soaring lead in this song, and then go listen to Rush's Grace Under Pressure. The influence is definitely there.
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Fun song. I have it and the other A Flock of Seagulls hits on my iPod, and when they come round on shuffle, I always have to look and see what they are because they all start with synthy, spacey stuff. Then I remember I put them on because I thought the synthy, spacey stuff was cool.
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That was one of the U2 songs that I just thought it was ok. They had such a better catalog than that song.
Space Age Love song was good but not great. I wouldn't turn if off when it was on MTV but I ran was so much catchier.
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Emmm... yeah, not a big fan of the last two. Sorry.
BUT--congrats on one year for this here thread! :metal
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"Space Age Love Song" is great. I've always gone back and forth on my favorite FoS song between this one and "The More You Live, The More You Love".
Did anyone here know FoS won a Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental? No really, they did.
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Which tune?
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"D.N.A"
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I just checked it out on YouTube. Not a bad little tune, I guess. Basically A Flock of Seagulls without any words (surprise!). At least it ends, in a FoS way, but that's still better than a lame fadeout, especially considering how repetitive the tune itself is.
I'm thinking that if that's the best instrumental of the year, then that must've been a pretty weak year. But The Grammys are always subject to whatever gets nominated, and that depends on what people have even heard, and what's cool at the time.
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Here were the other nominees
Dixie Dregs - "Industry Standard"
Maynard Ferguson - "Don't Stop"
King Crimson - "Requiem
Van Morrison - "Scandinavia"
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Dregs are cool, but "Industry Standard" isn't one of my faves from them.
Maynard's also pretty cool, but all his tunes sound the same. Big Band blasting, then Maynard takes a solo somewhere between the stratosphere and what only dogs and cats can hear.
"Requiem" is one of my less favorite King Crimson instrumentals, but I guess it's cool to see them in the list.
I didn't know Van Morrison did instrumentals, since he's primarily a vocalist.
Given all this, I guess I'm not surprised that A Flock of Seagulls actually won. The Grammys are all a popularity contest anyway, and they were hot.
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Wrap your head around this, speaking about it being a popularity contest. The Police won this category the previous year. Guess what was one of the songs they beat?
YYZ :facepalm:
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They won for "Behind My Camel" didn't they? I think I remember hearing that. I love "YYZ", but you have to admit, the vast majority of normal people are going to prefer something a bit less unconventional.
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Pink Floyd isn't exactly conventional and yet they won in 94
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True. But again, it depends on who the competition was. Also, compare "Marooned" to "YYZ". Even if it was just those two choices, you know "YYZ" would go down. "Popularity contest" is not necessarily derogatory. It just means what's most popular among the general population, and there can be an upside to be hugely popular.
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Rush even getting a grammy nomination is like winning, really.
Howard Jones - No One Is to Blame
Huge hit, and while it sounds very much mid 80s, it was never a song I liked a lot. I don't dislike it, and it sounds enjoyable enough when I hear it, but this was never a song I just had or wanted to hear.
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A very so-so song. I do have it on my iPod, but very rarely listen to it
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I really liked Howard Jones songs back then. Not enough to buy anything of his, but enough to turn him up when he came on the radio.
Haven't heard anything of his in ages. Going to assume it hasn't aged well to my ears.
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I really liked Howard Jones songs back then. Not enough to buy anything of his, but enough to turn him up when he came on the radio.
Yeah, that's about where I am with him. "Things Can Only Get Better" was the biggie, but he had a few others. Good enough to crank up when they come on.
My Calculus professor was Dr. Howard Jones, and of course we called him Dr. Jones. My wife (then girlfriend) knew him as well. To this day, whenever we hear a Howard Jones song on the radio, we say "It's Dr. Howard Jones!" Silly inside joke.
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This is the one Phil Collins played drums on, isn't it? I remember a MTV concert with Howard Jones where he turned this sound into a solo piano piece that was practically a comedy number, with lots of adlibs and asides. And I never was sure why, but I loved it. "Oh, you only came here to see that one single? Take THIS." :lol
Mind you it probably didn't help in the long run...
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Howard Jones - No One Is to Blame
Eh... okay every once in a while I guess, but nothing I actively seek out to listen to.
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Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)
Good song, but it still surprises me that this was so popular. It not only went to number 1, but when VH1 did a top 100 songs of the 80s list a few years ago, it was number 6. I mean, it was a good song, but that good? I think the majority of their 80s hits were better, but that's just me. Also, I didn't realize it back then, but it is now so obvious to me that the bass line is the same one as in Billie Jean (Michael Jackson admitted to "borrowing" it).
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This was part of the 80's drum machine, automated, formulaic Hall & Oates that I found so annoying because of what it was... yet so catchy and fun despite what it was. I secretly hated myself for enjoying their music.
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Ehhhhhh... no.
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Ehhhhhh... no can do.
FTFY. :biggrin:
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:tup
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Asia - Don't Cry
One of the few post-debut album songs by them I like, I remember liking the song a lot back then, but I don't remember the video much. It gets played quite a bit on Totally 80s nowadays, but I never seem to remember it. I sure remember the song, though; I still dig it.
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Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)
I've said it before and I'll say it again, Hall & Oates + 80's = Awesome. This song is great.
Asia - Don't Cry
One of the few post-debut album songs by them I like, I remember liking the song a lot back then, but I don't remember the video much. It gets played quite a bit on Totally 80s nowadays, but I never seem to remember it. I sure remember the song, though; I still dig it.
I came across this video a couple of months ago and had zero recognition of it. Love the song.
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A Flock of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song
I Ran is the song I think of when this band is mentioned, but I forget that they had two other pretty popular hits, this being one of them.
Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)
I can't think of a single song I have ever heard from them that I didn't like, this song included. (can't remember whether I've mentioned it or not, but Rock & Soul pt. I was the second album I ever purchased, right behind Queen - The Game) I don't specifically remember the video, but I know I saw it a bunch.
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Yeah, Hall and Oates never really released a bad song, everything from them is gold. Wasn't a big Asia fan though.
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While I didn't mind Asia's Alpha, I will say that the criticisms directed at the first album-too pop oriented, too commercial-are perfectly legitimate ones to make at Alpha. While I like some of it-The Smile Has Left Your Eyes is only behind Without You on my Asia list, and is the most underrated power ballad of the 80s-Don't Cry's just a pale shadow of the hits from the debut.
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While I didn't mind Asia's Alpha, I will say that the criticisms directed at the first album-too pop oriented, too commercial-are perfectly legitimate ones to make at Alpha. While I like some of it-The Smile Has Left Your Eyes is only behind Without You on my Asia list, and is the most underrated power ballad of the 80s-Don't Cry's just a pale shadow of the hits from the debut.
Jaq, well said.
I do remember asking my paerents if I could stay up on a school nigth to see the world premier video od "Don't Cry". It was on at 11 pm. WFT MTV?! :lol
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Devo - Whip It
This was another one of those videos that was played non-stop in the very early MTV days, but while I get a kick out of the video, the song never did anything for me.
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Terrible, terrible song.
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Terrible, terrible song.
Yes. And I love it anyway.
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Eh, not a fan
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Yeah, it's bad, but I like it. ;D
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Whip It was another video I actually saw first on HBO's Video Jukebox, which is kind of funny given that it's a fairly, for the time, off color song and video. I guess that HBO went through the same process of "hey, is it a music video? PLAY IT!" MTV did. :lol But without having to resort to playing metal bands.
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Asia - Don't Cry
Didn't remember this one until I brought up the YT video for it. I remember not really liking this one as much as I did the debut album.
Devo - Whip It
Who CARES if it's bad? It's fricking DEVO. :heart
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The Honeydrippers - Sea of Love
Full disclosure: this was long before I had even heard of Led Zeppelin or knew of the original Sea of Love, so I did enjoy this song to some extent, although I did wonder why the guy who did cool songs like Big Log was now in some band called The Honeydrippers. :lol Now, I guess it is a pretty good cover, even if it now sounds hokey as hell. I reckon it would have at the time if I had had a clue. But I was 12, so screw it. :facepalm: :biggrin:
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For the most part, I just hate everything Robert Plant has ever done.
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For the most part, I just hate everything Robert Plant has ever done.
:eek :eek :eek :eek
I...have...no...words.
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I love Plant's solo work except for this. I saw the Shaken' 'n' Stirred tour and it was great expect when he did the Honeydrippers. Not that it's a bad song but, I just couldn't get into it.
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For the most part, I just hate everything Robert Plant has ever done.
:eek :eek :eek :eek
I...have...no...words.
:lol For the longest time, I thought I hated Led Zep. But then when I would hear covers of their songs by other people, I would often find myself liking them. I eventually came to the conclusion that I just can't stand his voice.
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Is "Sea of Love" the one with the video where there's Robert and a tuned percussionist, who stands there holding his mallets the entire song while we wait for solo, but he never takes a solo?
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Yep.
Anyway, my introduction to Page/Plant, although never knew at the time. Good cover. Still listen to it on occassion
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In that case, yeah, it's a good cover. But I want that vibes solo, dammit.
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You folks hatin' on the 'drippers are WACK - that whole album is mint.
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Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)
This song was too popular not to feature at some point, it having gone to number 1 on the charts. But I wasn't a fan, and I don't remember the video, so I got nothing. :lol
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Catchy tune. It was alright
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Another song where the way the singer pronounces certain words just bugged me, to the point where it really did spoil the song for me.
"Carribune Quin, now we're sharin the same drim.."
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Haven't invoked the "if Jaq doesn't have a story, the song sucks rule" in a while, have I? :lol
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Another song where the way the singer pronounces certain words just bugged me, to the point where it really did spoil the song for me.
"Carribune Quin, now we're sharin the same drim.."
I was thinking this exact same thing. "Caribune". :lol
I think "Get Out Of My Dreams (Get Into My Pants)" was a better tune, but this one was okay.
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Billy Vera and the Beaters - At This Moment
I think it is impossible for anyone who grew up in the 80s to not associate this song with Family Ties. After all, this flop of a hit in the early 80s then hit it big in late 1986/early 1987 thanks to being featured as the love song between the characters Alex and Ellen on the show. I never much cared for it, but it is impossible to hear it and not think of the show.
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Love this song. One of my top 10 80's one hit wonders
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Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)
Meh.
Haven't invoked the "if Jaq doesn't have a story, the song sucks rule" in a while, have I? :lol
:rollin
Billy Vera and the Beaters - At This Moment
It was a good song the first time I heard it, but not so much after being played 80 bajillion more times after that.
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Haven't invoked the "if Jaq doesn't have a story, the song sucks rule" in a while, have I? :lol
:rollin
This. :rollin :rollin :rollin
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Love this song. One of my top 10 80's one hit wonders
This. This song was nice and cathartic after a painful high school breakup.
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Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
Here we have it: the song that inspired the internet meme known as Rickrolling! Personally, I never liked the song , but I do get a kick out of the Rickrolling parodies and whatnot. And some may not know it, but this song was pretty huge at the time; I think it went to number 1 in countries all over the world. A friend I used to work always joked that he was gonna karaoke a Rick Astley song when a bunch of us would go out for drinks after work many years ago, and I seemingly always had to talk him out of it :lol, although, to this day, I still don't know how serious he actually was.
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I guess it had to turn up in this thread sooner or later.
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Terrible song, and yes I remember it being huge.
And Rickrolling is the dumbest thing ever.
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I didn't mind the song. Like any other popular song, it got massively overplayed to the point where I can't stand it now, but that's never the fault of the song itself. The coolest thing was the guy's voice, which you'd never expect from someone who looks like Rick Astley.
Also, this is relevant:
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/135795_1541278253821_7898849_o.jpg)
That's on the wall in the waiting area where I buy my tires.
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I'd be too scared to call that guy. You'd hear an automated voice say "please hold", and then the on hold music kicks in.....
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:rollin
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That picture is awesome. :lol :lol
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:rollin
I just realized that emoticon was probably not the most appropriate post. Let me rephrase:
:rickrollin:
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I guess it had to turn up in this thread sooner or later.
Unfortunately.
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:lol
Just saw him sing this live on an 80's revival on an HD live music channel. Yup, Rick Rolled in HD.
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Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry, Be Happy
I hate this f'ing song. There really are not enough words for how much dong this song sucks. But it was a big number 1 hit, so I guess it had to be featured at some point. At least that is my official stance. My unofficial stance is that I wanted to feature it so we can all talk about how much it sucks, while waiting to see how many out themselves as being fans of this travesty of a song. :lol :biggrin:
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It's not the song itself, it's the performance. Bobby is great at that. I don't know if I've ever heard anything from him that I like, but I can't deny the man's amazing talent.
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i've kind of grown tired of this song myself, but got to give the man props. That's all him on the song
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There was a strip in the old Bloom County comic where one of the animal characters in the cast-which was split half and half between humans and talking animals-was in a foul mood, and another walked up behind him and said "Don't worry, be happy!"
The next panel merely said this:
A SCENE OF UNIMAGINABLE VIOLENCE.
The last panel was the previously grouchy animal, now happy and whistling cheerfully, walking away from the battered remnants of the other guy.
That sums up my reaction to this song to a T. :lol
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I remember that one! Man, I haven't even thought about Bloom County in a while, but that strip was off the wall sometimes.
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Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry, Be Happy
*stabbity stabbity stabbity* (https://www.websmileys.com/sm/violent/sterb239.gif)
There was a strip in the old Bloom County comic where one of the animal characters in the cast-which was split half and half between humans and talking animals-was in a foul mood, and another walked up behind him and said "Don't worry, be happy!"
The next panel merely said this:
A SCENE OF UNIMAGINABLE VIOLENCE.
The last panel was the previously grouchy animal, now happy and whistling cheerfully, walking away from the battered remnants of the other guy.
That sums up my reaction to this song to a T. :lol
Nice, and I think I remember that one. :lol
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There was a strip in the old Bloom County comic where one of the animal characters in the cast-which was split half and half between humans and talking animals-was in a foul mood, and another walked up behind him and said "Don't worry, be happy!"
The next panel merely said this:
A SCENE OF UNIMAGINABLE VIOLENCE.
The last panel was the previously grouchy animal, now happy and whistling cheerfully, walking away from the battered remnants of the other guy.
That sums up my reaction to this song to a T. :lol
:lol :lol :tup :tup
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George Michael - Faith
The title track from his 1987 album, this was another monster hit, and the video was noteworthy for the blue jeans he wore in them, although that kind of thing was not on my radar, a) cause I was 13, and b) I am a guy. :lol Decent enough song, and it's easy to see why it was such a big hit, but I thought almost all of the other singles from the Faith album were better.
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Yeah... I was a bigger fan of I Want Your Sex. My favorite song of his is "Freedom! '90", but that didn't come out in the 80s so... :lol
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Upon further research, Faith was not only his biggest hit from that album - three others went to number 1, but it spent the most weeks at number 1 (4) - but it was the top-selling single of 1988.
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Great song. I love me some George Michael
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Yeah, this one was one of my favorites too. Just heard it on the radio on Friday. Probably the last 'pop' album I ever bought, as I was just in the transition into rock being my genre of choice.
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Never a fan of GM but I could never deny his talent and showmanship.
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Some fun 80s facts, courtesy of wikipedia:
1980s Total No. 1s
9 – Michael Jackson First 1980s No. 1: "Rock With You" (1980)
7 – Phil Collins First 1980s No. 1: "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" (1984)
7 – Whitney Houston First 1980s No. 1: "Saving All My Love For You" (1985)
7 – Madonna First 1980s No. 1: "Like A Virgin" (1984)
5 – Daryl Hall & John Oates First 1980s No. 1: "Kiss on My List" (1981)
5 – George Michael First 1980s No. 1: "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (1987)
5 – Lionel Richie First 1980s No. 1: "Endless Love" (1981)
4 – Bon Jovi First 1980s No. 1: "You Give Love A Bad Name" (1986)
4 – Prince First 1980s No. 1: "When Doves Cry" (1984)
4 – Stevie Wonder First 1980s No. 1: "Ebony and Ivory" (1982)
I gotta say, I would not have guessed that Phil Collins would be 2nd to only MJ on that list.
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I have mentioned a friend who was of the opinion that the way to success with a lady was to own Whitney Houston's debut album. I had another friend who believed the same path to success lay in owning George Michael's faith.
It worked even WORSE for him, since a large amount of Michael's audience back then was teenaged girls, which made for problems with my 20 year old friend.
I have no idea how any of us in my circle of friends ever got laid. Including me. :rollin
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I gotta say, I would not have guessed that Phil Collins would be 2nd to only MJ on that list.
What? Were you even around during the 80's? I know MJ was huge, but I'm not surprised at all the Phil is second. He too was everywhere, all the time.
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I thought Off the Wall was considered 79
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I thought Off the Wall was considered 79
it was, but Rock With You was released as a single late in 1979 and was number one in Jan/Feb of 1980.
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I have mentioned a friend who was of the opinion that the way to success with a lady was to own Whitney Houston's debut album. I had another friend who believed the same path to success lay in owning George Michael's faith.
It worked even WORSE for him, since a large amount of Michael's audience back then was teenaged girls, which made for problems with my 20 year old friend.
I have no idea how any of us in my circle of friends ever got laid. Including me. :rollin
:lol :lol as always... :biggrin:
I gotta say, I would not have guessed that Phil Collins would be 2nd to only MJ on that list.
What? Were you even around during the 80's? I know MJ was huge, but I'm not surprised at all the Phil is second. He too was everywhere, all the time.
Haha, I know. It just looks weird. I knew he had a ton of hits, but I guess I didn't realize that so many of them went to number 1, One More Night being one of them. *vomits*
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George Michael is a name that immediately makes me think of this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaoLU6zKaws).
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George Michael pisses me off. He had that song "Father Figure", I will be your father figure, put your tiny hand in mine, you know the song. My girlfriend's father had recently died from a heart attack. They were really close and it was sudden, so it hit her hard.
George is dragging out the lyrics, and eventually he doesn't even say that last word. He just says "I will be your father..." I look over at my girlfriend, and she's crying. She's thinking about her dad. Fuck you, George Michael. Fucking with a girl's emotions like that. "I will be your father". Get the fuck out of here with that shit.
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I honestly don't know what to make of that post. ???
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I don't know, either. The "MTV in the 80s" thread and the "Classic Rock song of the Day" threads both stir up a lot of memories, many of which I'd forgotten. But I remember listening to George Michael singing "I will be your father" while my girlfriend cried.
Songs about how you'll love someone forever or always be there for her or would jump on a grenade for her or blow yourself up for her, apparently girls like to hear that kind of thing. But in that moment, promising to be someone's father, that just seemed really cheap and cheesy. So it pissed me off.
"Father Figure" was the second song from the album Faith. That's why I thought of it. I mean, you followed me that far, right?
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George Michael pisses me off. He had that song "Father Figure", I will be your father figure, put your tiny hand in mine, you know the song. My girlfriend's father had recently died from a heart attack. They were really close and it was sudden, so it hit her hard.
George is dragging out the lyrics, and eventually he doesn't even say that last word. He just says "I will be your father..." I look over at my girlfriend, and she's crying. She's thinking about her dad. Fuck you, George Michael. Fucking with a girl's emotions like that. "I will be your father". Get the fuck out of here with that shit.
(https://www.voodoohash.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dedce405_Mother20of20God.jpg)
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I wasn't sure if you were being serious or quoting a parody or something, Orbert. But it's all good. :)
Stories like that - well, maybe not just like that ;) :lol hehe- are what make this thread great, IMO. For those of us who grew up in the 80s and have strong nostalgia and memories of a lot of these songs, posters' stories behind them are the meat of this thread, so I welcome any and all stories. :tup :tup
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No, it was 100% serious. I already thought "I will be your father figure" was a kinda stupid concept for a song, but when I saw what it did to a girl who'd just lost her father, I felt nothing but contempt for the guy who would write such a song. It just struck me as a such a cheap thing to do. Obviously that's not what he had in mind when he wrote the song, and he wasn't intentionally playing with her emotions, but hey, I was young. I still hate George Michael, though.
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No, it was 100% serious. I already thought "I will be your father figure" was a kinda stupid concept for a song, but when I saw what it did to a girl who'd just lost her father, I felt nothing but contempt for the guy who would write such a song. It just struck me as a such a cheap thing to do. Obviously that's not what he had in mind when he wrote the song, and he wasn't intentionally playing with her emotions, but hey, I was young. I still hate George Michael, though.
I'm a little confused. Your hating on George Michael for writing the song because it affected your girlfriend who lost her father in a negative way? Your treating him like he wrote the song specifically for her to fuck with her emotions. When in fact the concept might be totally different and he obviously doesn't know you or your girlfriend, yet because of this, he's an asshole for writing the song. That's just lunacy.
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That's just how I roll.
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That's just how I roll.
That's not very fair on George Michael.
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I'm okay with that. He's just another pop diva, as far as I can tell. Talented, sure, but nothing special.
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Stryper - Always There for You
This was a much bigger MTV hit than Billboard hit. It didn't break the top 40 charts, but the video was played non-stop on MTV for months and did well on their top 20 video countdown, IIRC. Those of us with good memories remember that MTV had a major hard-on for Stryper in 1987 and 1988. All five of their videos got played a ton, and this was probably my favorite of the five at the time; I loved this song, cheese and all. ;) :lol Now, it is still an enjoyable song, but it hasn't stayed with me like so many other 80s songs have. Guess the nostalgia just doesn't kick in on this one. :biggrin:
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Yeah, I really like these guys, but this song didn't really do much for me then or now, the video and constant MTV play notwithstanding.
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(https://i.imgur.com/xISaNTY.jpg)
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:clap:
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Coz just won the whole internet. Well played.
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I'm touched, deeply.
(No, not like that! Get your mind out of the gutter!)
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Holy LOL!!
I'm with bosk1 on the Stryper song.
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I'm touched, deeply.
:heybaby:
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Always There For You is excellent.
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Coz just won the whole internet. Well played.
This. :tup :tup
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I actually liked Stryper for a while, and would confuse the fuck out of metal head friends by playing Slayer's Hell Awaits and then Stryper's Soliders Under Command back to back. (I had the latter on vinyl. WHITE vinyl! Thing looked fucking amazing.) but by the time of this song, the band was leaning far too towards the commercial, more hard rock, power ballad side for me. Which was a shame, because they actually played melodic, catchy metal better than a LOT of bands that did it. Back then Stryper looked silly, but in all honesty, looking back now, they looked no less silly than Poison did.
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(https://i.imgur.com/xISaNTY.jpg)
:rollin
Poor George, he didn't even do anything wrong.
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He made my girlfriend cry. We hates him! We hates him forever, my precious! >:(
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Huey Lewis & the News - Do You Believe in Love
Their first big hit, and the first song I knew by them, I always liked this song; very catchy! And it is still one of the four or five Huey Lewis & the News songs that I will put on my 80s mp3 CDs.
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Trivia bit about this song: it was written by Mutt Lange, who at that time was largely known as being AC/DC's producer, since Def Leppard hadn't blown up yet. Which meant a few young hard rock fans who found this out were thinking "wait, what?" :lol In hindsight it makes sense, but back then we didn't really know about the wider careers of producers, we just knew when they produced something we owned. Catchy song, though. I can't help but think the music video, which had Huey and the band following the girl around her house belting out the song, would be received very differently today. SOMEONE would say that Huey was stalking her these days. :lol
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Haha, yeah, that video would definitely have a different connotation if released nowadays.
As for Mutt Lange, he was married to Shania Twain for like 17 years, so he has lived a good life. :lol :coolio
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Ratt - Way Cool Jr.
Out all of the Ratt songs that were popular and had videos in the 80s, this was favorite back then; I loved this when it came out. Sadly, my love for it has greatly dissipated, but my guess is hearing so much music since then that influenced it (see: Judas Priest) made me realize how average this band really was.
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Ratt
:rollin
Nice. In terms of the song, yeah, these guys wrote some really cool riffs. I liked them a lot when I was in H.S., and then they just kind of fell by the wayside. Couple of years ago, I picked up a greatest hits for $10, popped it in the car stereo, and had virtually the same reaction for every single song:
1. Listen for about 30-45 seconds.
2. "Yeah...I remember liking this back then...cool riff, but..."
3. Listen another 30 seconds or so.
4. "Man, I actually thought this was good back then?"
5. Hit skip button.
Some catchy vocal hooks, creative riffing, and cool soloing. But in terms of good songs, there is just no substance there. It's kinda like eating Peeps at Easter. When you are a kid, they are amazing. Then you eventually get to an age where you can't stomach them anymore and actually get grossed out by them for being so over the top sugary emptiness. Ratt are the Peeps of music. Way Cool Junior would be the interesting looking and somewhat rare blue Peeps.
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Stryper - Always There for You
No.
Huey Lewis & the News - Do You Believe in Love
Good song - always loved the vocal harmonies on this one.
Ratt - Way Cool Jr.
Anything much past their first three albums is dodgy at best. It was okay back in the day, but... I suspect it hasn't aged too well. :lol
Some catchy vocal hooks, creative riffing, and cool soloing. But in terms of good songs, there is just no substance there. It's kinda like eating Peeps at Easter. When you are a kid, they are amazing. Then you eventually get to an age where you can't stomach them anymore and actually get grossed out by them for being so over the top sugary emptiness. Ratt are the Peeps of music. Way Cool Junior would be the interesting looking and somewhat rare blue Peeps.
:metalol:
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Haha, that is a great way to put it, bosk. Any Ratt song that ends up on my 80 CDs usually gets skipped over pretty quickly, even the ones I really liked back in the day (Round and Round, Wanted Man, Dance, Slip of the Lip and Way Cool Jr.).
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Kev, forgive me for going a bit off topic, but given the audience in this thread, I figure this is as good a place as any to get relevant responses. So, here's the deal. My "band" (a group of us that get together casually to play every now and then and have had a handful over VERY low-key "gigs") is booked to play two hours or so of music at an outdoor cycling fundraiser at the beginnig of May (the Tour de Cure Diabetes ride, to be specific). We played it last year, and it was cool. Basically, we are providing background music and entertainment for a couple of hours for the families hanging out and eating lunch, and for the cyclists who are finishing their race. Problem is, our drummer bailed, so we have having to re-shuffle the band around, which means having to scratch some songs from the list and learn some newer, easier ones to fill in. For me, growing up on MTV, '80s MTV songs are my wheelhouse.
So here's what I'm asking for: Can you guys quickly give me some suggestions for songs you think would be appropriate for the crowd, catchy and recognizable, and fairly straightforward and easy to learn? As far as instruments, we have drums, bass, guitar, and me on vox. (one of our guitarists is moving over to fill in on drums, and we may be able to bring in a backup guitarist to fill in on the second guitar spot, but the guy who is now doing drums is somewhat limited in the drumming dept.) So nothing overly keyboard heavy, or at least that can't have the keyboard part played on guitar, which is basically what we are doing with Just What I Needed (the Cars).
Suggestions?
To give a flavor of some of the stuff we are already doing: Wanted Dead Or Alive (Bon Jovi), Still Rock And Roll To Me (Billy Joel), Back In The USSR (the Beatles), Purple Haze, a couple of Tom Petty tunes, etc. I was thinking about maybe adding a Huey Lewis song--just trying to think of the best one that isn't too keyboard or horn heavy. But '80s is mostly where it's at. What do you guys suggest?
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I'd say "Heart of Rock and Roll", but that's horn-heavy.
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PM Sent
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PM Sent
And that's probably all that Bosk needs. I could offer some thoughts, but have no idea whether they are hard/easy to learn and play.
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You could say it's just what he needed.
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Nah, I needed someone to feed.
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I think Hip to Be Square would be a good pick. It has keyboards in it, but you could easily make it work with just guitar. And it is upbeat and familiar enough to get people moving.
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Eddie Money -- Shakin
The Knack -- My Sharona
Foreinger - Hot Blooded
Kiss -- Love Gun
VH -- Everybody Wants Some
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Eddie Money -- Shakin
The Knack -- My Sharona
Foreinger - Hot Blooded
Kiss -- Love Gun
VH -- Everybody Wants Some
dude... I love that song. Had the vinyl. Quality fro on that one guy. And I almost considered submitting it to Nem for her roulette!!!! :lolpalm:
Ok, here are my decent childhood rock memories:
Bob Seger - Shakedown
Dexy's Midnight Runners and the Emerald Express - Come on Eileen
John Cafferty - On The Dark Side
Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone
Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
:derail:
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I have the album on my I-Pod. It still rocks. It really does.
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Jane Wiedlin - Rush Hour
By far the biggest hit the Go-Go's guitarist and main songwriter had as a solo artist. I like it; it is oddly catchy, despite her chipmunk-like voice, which was normally better for background vocals rather than lead (or doing a bridge, like in The Go-Go's Our Lips Are Sealed). Silly video, too, featuring her swimming around with dolphins. I think this song is off the radar now for even most 80s fans, but I remembered it when it came time to assemble my ultimate 80s collection of tunes. :tup :tup
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Didn't remember that one, so I pulled up the YT vid for it - didn't make it past about a minute or so. WAY too cheesy.
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Living Colour - Cult of Personality
Cool song. I liked it a lot when it first came out, but it kind of wore off of me pretty quickly for whatever reason. However, it's had a bit of resurgence with me since wrestler CM Punk has been using it as his entrance theme for the last year and a half. Very much of a :metal song.
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Never liked this song, and for whatever reason, prefer when wrestlers don't use popular songs for their entrances. But, not a bad song, just one I never care to listen to.
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I loved Living Color's debut album. I bought it on New Year's Eve the year it came out and it was the album blasting when the clock hit midnight. Living Color should have been a lot bigger for a lot longer, but they kind of fell on their faces with their second album. They had huge crossover appeal and an audience that didn't really judge them in terms of race (well, to be fair, no one I knew who liked them did) but after their second album they just kind of faded away. Never really could figure out why.
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I like the song. The guitarist has a great, crunchy tone, the singer is awesome, but somehow I was never motivated to check out the band any further.
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My brother and I saw Middle Man video on all things 120 Minutes show on Sunday nights. I had to order the CD because no place had it around here. So I play the CD at a party and none of my friends really say anything and then a few months later, "Cult" comes out and all the same friend try to talk to me about it. "You hear that awesome song?!"
I tell them, yeah, 2 months ago when you all ignored it when I tried playing it for you. :lol
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Living Colour - Cult of Personality
Always loved this one.
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I quite like this song, especially how it mixes it up with the little bars of 3/4 during the riff, and the pre-chorus of the 3/4 riff over a 4/4 drum beat. The guitar solo is absolutely horrid though.
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My brother and I saw Middle Man video on all things 120 Minutes show on Sunday nights. I had to order the CD because no place had it around here. So I play the CD at a party and none of my friends really say anything and then a few months later, "Cult" comes out and all the same friend try to talk to me about it. "You hear that awesome song?!"
I tell them, yeah, 2 months ago when you all ignored it when I tried playing it for you. :lol
I have experienced that several times before, too. :lol :lol
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I like the song. The guitarist has a great, crunchy tone, the singer is awesome, but somehow I was never motivated to check out the band any further.
Pretty much this.
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In Guitar Magazine's December 2004 issue, they had a joke article - The 100 Worst Riffs, Licks, and Solos of All Time. They went through and took beloved solos and just roasted on them, poking fun and generally being mean for the humor in it. For each one, it listed the artist, the song, the album, the year, and the guitarist. Each one had little icons to indicate what sucked about it. There were about 10 of them - things like "lazy", boring", and (among other things) "Involves C.C. DeVille". The entire article can be found HERE (https://www.guitarworld.com/100-worst-guitar-solos). Cult of Personality came in at #61:
61. LIVING COLOUR
“Cult of Personality”
Vivid (1988)
GUITARIST:Vernon Reid
Vernon Reid shows us what it would sound like if you tried to play a solo with a boat motor.
That said, I love this song. Absolutely killer.
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The entire article can be found HERE (https://www.guitarworld.com/100-worst-guitar-solos).
Some of these are brilliant - the comments, not the solo's.
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Despite their harshness, some of them are right on. What sucks is that in the original article, there were little sidebars that they didn't reprint online. One was about the live version of "Freebird", noting that if their sound was known as the "triple guitar attack", then this song was the equivalent of the slaughter at Gettysburg. Great stuff.
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In this plodding, lethargic remake of the Guess Who hit, Lenny Kravitz sucks all the bounce and air out of Randy Bachman’s classic riff like a vampire performing cunnilingus on a blow-up doll. If songs could give out restraining orders, Kravitz would be forced to stay away from everything recorded between 1960 and 1979.
:rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
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Yeah, sorry for the derailment. Maybe I should make a separate thread for that particular article. :lol
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Okay, I hate to break up the party, but a song as awesome as the one I gonna feature here demands out full attention...
Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
:lol :lol
This song is just for you, Orbert. Enjoy. :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:
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Wham! is the sound of the door slamming on Orbert's way out of this thread.
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I'll just say that when George Michael "came out" it was a surprise to no one who had ever heard this song.
In this plodding, lethargic remake of the Guess Who hit, Lenny Kravitz sucks all the bounce and air out of Randy Bachman’s classic riff like a vampire performing cunnilingus on a blow-up doll. If songs could give out restraining orders, Kravitz would be forced to stay away from everything recorded between 1960 and 1979.
:rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
Love it. Even without the song title, I know exactly which song they're talking about, and I agree 100%.
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I'll just say that when George Michael "came out" it was a surprise to no one who had ever heard this song.
Or seen the video.
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True.
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Wham! is the sound of the door slamming on Orbert's way out of this thread.
:rollin :rollin
Someone call him a Whambulance... he's so hurt by what George did to his girlfriend. :lol :lol
If not for nostalgia, this song would have zero redeeming qualities.
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Wham! is the sound of the door slamming on Orbert's way out of this thread.
:rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
That said/emoted, the song really sucked. So did the band. George was MUCH better on his solo stuff.
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Wham! is the sound of the door slamming on Orbert's way out of this thread.
:rollin :rollin
Someone call him a Whambulance... he's so hurt by what George did to his girlfriend. :lol :lol
If not for nostalgia, this song would have zero redeeming qualities.
Would be okay if I pointed out that I'm not the one making a big deal about the girlfriend thing? I just told my story, same as everyone does. People kept asking if I was serious, I was, I explained, and yeah, it's totally hyperbolic, but... that's just how I roll. You all know that.
And the song has zero redeeming qualities anyway.
Wait... the horns are pretty cool when they come in.
There. I said something nice about a George Wham song.
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It's a fun party song, but yes, George was hugely more gay in Wham than in his solo career
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the song has zero redeeming qualities
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It's a fun party song, but yes, George was hugely more gay in Wham than in his solo career
:lol :lol
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Europe - Rock the Night
This song so reminds me of 7th grade; that was when this song was popular. A bunch of us were all digging the Europe hits, and Rock the Night was one I liked a lot. It just had that great rock out, fun vibe going on, and the video couldn't have gone with it any better....just some fun rocking out. :metal
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Not a single bad song on that album. Great little tune here. Europe was a band that evolved quite nicely.
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Love that album, as Chad said not a filler in the bunch.
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I should add again that for a spell in 1988, Europe was my favorite band (thanks to The Final Countdown and Out of This World). And part of the appeal for me when I first heard DT was that they sounded, at the time, to me like a heavier and ballsier Europe. The lead guitar playing at the beginning of Let the Good Times Rock is very DT-esque, IMO. I think that juicy lead tone that John Petrucci had in so many places on Images & Words reminded me of that Europe song.
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Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive
Good song. I always liked it, even when I was nuts over Slippery When Wet back in the day (but who wasn't? :lol), but I would hesitate to say that I ever loved this tune. To its credit, it is probably the least-sounding 80s song out of all of their 80s hits. In other words, it sounds more timeless than the others, most of which sound very much like time period songs.
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Like a lot of songs from the 80s, Wanted Dead or Alive worked best in an episode of Miami Vice. This one appeared in an episode that starred Willie Nelson as an old retired Texas Ranger who was in Miami looking to avenge his son's death. Pretty kick ass episode. Generally have never been really big on rock songs where the band compares themselves to cowboys (as opposed to singing about BEING a cowboy, because Cowboy Song is my favorite Thin Lizzy song), but Wanted did work well in the Miami Vice episode.
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One of the better Bon Jovi songs. Cool acoustic intro.
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Love this, even more than Living On a Prayer
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Excellent song. People always seem to dig this song and this is one of those solos where its simplicity is its greatest asset. It is perfect as it is. Anything faster or more showy would've been all wrong.
Generally have never been really big on rock songs where the band compares themselves to cowboys
One of my bands is working on Modern Day Cowboy. :lol
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Excellent song, and one that has aged very well. I still listen to it very regularly. As Cozmo said, perfect solo. Sambora was good at writing the simple and catchy solo, without showing off for the sake of showing off.
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Without a doubt, best song on SWW. Top 50 song of all time in my books.
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Without a doubt, best song on SWW. Top 50 song of all time in my books.
Pretty much.
Generally have never been really big on rock songs where the band compares themselves to cowboys
One of my bands is working on Modern Day Cowboy. :lol
VERY cool! :tup I'd love to do it myself, but my voice would be wrecked for the rest of the set if we did. :lol
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Top 50 song of all time in my books.
WOW!
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I always wondered why he road a stale horse. Doesn't make any sense. A sandwich can get stale; leftovers can get stale; but a horse?
It took an SNL sketch to point out that he rides a steel horse, and that that's a metaphor for a bus. Or something. But it still sounds like he's saying "stale horse", and if it takes an SNL sketch to explain something to you, maybe you're being a bit too obscure.
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I always wondered why he road a stale horse. Doesn't make any sense. A sandwich can get stale; leftovers can get stale; but a horse?
It took an SNL sketch to point out that he rides a steel horse, and that that's a metaphor for a bus. Or something. But it still sounds like he's saying "stale horse", and if it takes an SNL sketch to explain something to you, maybe you're being a bit too obscure.
I always took it as a steel horse referenced a motorcycle.
Also, I just read that Richie Sambora is sitting out the current leg of their tour.
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I always wondered why he road a stale horse. Doesn't make any sense. A sandwich can get stale; leftovers can get stale; but a horse?
It took an SNL sketch to point out that he rides a steel horse, and that that's a metaphor for a bus. Or something. But it still sounds like he's saying "stale horse", and if it takes an SNL sketch to explain something to you, maybe you're being a bit too obscure.
I always took it as a steel horse referenced a motorcycle.
Me too.
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Ah, that makes more sense. But I thought he said it was a bus, like a tour bus, 'cause there in a band on the road.
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I always thought it would be the tour bus. Didn't know anyone ever looked at it any differently.
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I always took it as being a literal steel horse, like a robotic horse with rocket engines or something. Because it was the '80s, and robots were awesome back then. :blob:
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Nothing like a Bon Jovi song to get this thread kicking like Bruce Lee again! :tup :tup :lol :lol
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I guess you could say it was just the bad medicine this thread needed?
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I guess you could say it was just the bad medicine this thread needed?
:facepalm: I'm just going to Runaway from this discussion now.
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Raise your hands if you are sick of these Bon Jovi puns.
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These kinds of posts are a Social Disease.
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I guess you could say it was just the bad medicine this thread needed?
:facepalm: I'm just going to Runaway from this discussion now.
Fine, do that, but never say goodbye.
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C'mon guys, Stick To Your Puns!
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If I Was Your Mother I'd ground you for posting that.
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Don't worry TAC... I'll be there for you.
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Is this an MTV 80's Roulette song of the day?
You guys need to work on your puns.........with feeling.
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I can't take any more of this. I'm out. Have a Nice Day.
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Ride Cozmo Ride!
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I can't take any more of this. I'm out. Have a Nice Day.
Come on, keep the faith.
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Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive
Loved this one back in the day but... it didn't age well at all.
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It aged just fine with me. In fact, we'll be performing it in our set at a diabetes charity ride next month. :metal
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Excellent song. People always seem to dig this song and this is one of those solos where its simplicity is its greatest asset. It is perfect as it is. Anything faster or more showy would've been all wrong.
Generally have never been really big on rock songs where the band compares themselves to cowboys
One of my bands is working on Modern Day Cowboy. :lol
That's another exception to my rule, actually :lol
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I still listen to my Bon Jovi greatest hits collection now and then, and this song is of course a highlight. I've never felt compelled to go and buy actual Bon Jovi albums, though.
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Def Leppard - Rocket
I thought this was by far the best of the hits from the Hysteria record back then, and I still think that. Very good hard rock song, and I think the many classic rock references in the lyrics are pretty neat. I get why it wasn't as big a hit as songs like Love Bites and Pour Some Sugar on Me, but not only was it better than them back then, but it has aged a lot better than them as well, IMO.
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Def Leppard - Rocket
I thought this was by far the best of the hits from the Hysteria record back then, and I still think that. Very good hard rock song, and I think the many classic rock references in the lyrics are pretty neat. I get why it wasn't as big a hit as songs like Love Bites and Pour Some Sugar on Me, but not only was it better than them back then, but it has aged a lot better than them as well, IMO.
My second fav on the album... I always preferred Animal to it. This too is another killer album, although I'll concede its commercial success was far greater than was warranted.
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I still like Pour Some Sugar On Me better (and Animal), partially because it doesn't have that pointless meandering nothing section in the middle dragging it down, but aside from that Rocket is still a pretty good song.
I don't agree it's aged any better than the rest of the album though. It's all about the same level of dated to me. I'm the last person to have a problem with that though, so I don't mean anything negative by that. But it's all super '80s.
But I agree it's a buttload better than Love Bites, which just.......... well, bites.
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I know it was the "80's sound" and a lot of people love it, but Def Leppard's vocals always sound distorted to me. The harmonies are great, but it always sounds like they got pushed too much. When it's just lead vocals, it's okay, but once those harmonies come in, it sounds like shit.
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That was the thing I always noticed. People always go on about the production value of DL's vocals. I always noticed that same overdriven sound on all the vocals. It's like someone turned the gain knob on the vocal channels up just to the point where they start to break up a little.
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Exactly. They're redlining, hard.
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Def Leppard - Rocket
I thought this was by far the best of the hits from the Hysteria record back then, and I still think that. Very good hard rock song, and I think the many classic rock references in the lyrics are pretty neat. I get why it wasn't as big a hit as songs like Love Bites and Pour Some Sugar on Me, but not only was it better than them back then, but it has aged a lot better than them as well, IMO.
It was actually my least favorite of all the singles, and at the time, I didn't really understand why they even released it. But it has aged very well for me. I think by the time the video dropped, I was already off at boot camp, so I don't recall the video.
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In regards to Def Leppard's harmonies, I agree; they did often sound a bit weird or over-processed or whatever. But I guess I learned to overlook it if I liked the song enough, like in the case of one like Rocket.
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This was my least favorite single off Hysteria at the time (which was my favorite album for a while) but at this point, one of the better aged ones. When I revisited DL recently after a long break, I was surprised how much I enjoyed Rocket.
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In regards to Def Leppard's harmonies, I agree; they did often sound a bit weird or over-processed or whatever. But I guess I learned to overlook it if I liked the song enough, like in the case of one like Rocket.
That was all about the producer, Mutt Lange more than anything. His style. Kev, mabye you can remember this too but I think they talked about the gang chants/harmonies were like 100 overdubs. Something crazy like that. I thought I saw it on some doc.
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Def Leppard - Rocket
Besides Animal, Rocket's probably aged the best out of all of Hysteria - and this is coming from someone who spun the holy SHIT out of that album.
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Def Leppard - Rocket
Besides Animal, Rocket's probably aged the best out of all of Hysteria - and this is coming from someone who spun the holy SHIT out of that album.
never get tired of hearing the title track. I'm also a big fan of "Gods of War."
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In regards to Def Leppard's harmonies, I agree; they did often sound a bit weird or over-processed or whatever. But I guess I learned to overlook it if I liked the song enough, like in the case of one like Rocket.
That was all about the producer, Mutt Lange more than anything. His style. Kev, mabye you can remember this too but I think they talked about the gang chants/harmonies were like 100 overdubs. Something crazy like that. I thought I saw it on some doc.
I don't remember hearing anything about it. I know Queen was a big influence on Def Leppard, but while the former's harmonies always sound natural (like a big choir or something), the latter's sounded artificial and overdone more often than not, because they layered it on too thick.
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In regards to Def Leppard's harmonies, I agree; they did often sound a bit weird or over-processed or whatever. But I guess I learned to overlook it if I liked the song enough, like in the case of one like Rocket.
That was all about the producer, Mutt Lange more than anything. His style. Kev, mabye you can remember this too but I think they talked about the gang chants/harmonies were like 100 overdubs. Something crazy like that. I thought I saw it on some doc.
I don't remember hearing anything about it. I know Queen was a big influence on Def Leppard, but while the former's harmonies always sound natural (like a big choir or something), the latter's sounded artificial and overdone more often than not, because they layered it on too thick.
That was the whole goal. On the Classic Albums - Hysteria, they talk about how Mutt and them wanted to make it sound big and larger than life. A "Star Wars" for music kind of philosophy. I love the Def Leppard vocal sound. I wish I could get something resembling even a 10th of that. It's kind of amazing, given all of today's technology and audio plug-in's, there's still no easy way to get that sound.
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Thanks man! That's where I remember seeing it. I was a crazy amount of overdubs. Iremeber when Mutt recorded for Brian Adams (Waking Up The Neighbors) that he did those kind of chantas on that album as well for the anthematic songs.
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When I first listened to Hysteria, I was already familiar with Women, which sounded enough like Pyromania to not be alienating. Then I got to Rocket and was basically left saying "what the fuck is this?" :lol While it still sounded like Def Leppard, it had such an odd structure, lacked anything resembling a conventional guitar solo (which happened a LOT on Hysteria) and just felt generally weird other than the chorus, which was where most of the old Leppard sound was. Once I wrapped my head around what the band was doing on Hysteria, I grew to like the song, but it was on the lower end of the singles off the album, along with Armageddon It. Sometimes I think they released that and Rocket just so they could say the whole first side of the longest vinyl album to date had been released as singles. :lol
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Toto - Rosanna
The other big Toto hit from 1982, this was about as popular as Africa, IIRC, but I never thought it was nearly as good. Good song, sure, but not one I was ever bananas about it, and not one I really revisit that much anymore.
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I love singing the harmony parts that Steve Lukather sings and the fade out guitar solo is really cool.
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Not sure which I prefer out of this and Africa. I think they're both great.
I love all of the changes throughout the song, the way it has the softer section with the harmonies, then the big fill to the louder section. A perfect example of dynamics in a song that you wouldn't get so much today. The production is top notch too.
I've always found the structure of the song to be pretty interesting, and I don't really keep track of what's a verse or a chorus. The song is like a lot of sections stuck together, but it works.
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for some reason, the synth solo always reminded me of the music that plays during Disney's Electric Light Parade
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I just remembered, I once had a dream (or nightmare?) about this music video, with that closeup of Bobby Kimball. Not a photogenic band by any stretch. :lol
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Best part of this song-Lukather's fade out solo-either isn't in the video or is cut extensively, I can't remember.
This actually is old enough to have made the classic rock thread of the day. Which is actually kind of sad. :rollin
I just remembered, I once had a dream (or nightmare?) about this music video, with that closeup of Bobby Kimball. Not a photogenic band by any stretch. :lol
Toto DID have great faces for radio. :rollin Actually, Toto looked like a LOT of 70s bands did; it wasn't until the 80s and MTV where everyone suddenly seemed to be a photogenic rock god. Really, go look at band pictures from the 70s, those fuckers were uniformly pretty ugly in the rock end of the pool.
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I didn't actually plan on featuring Toto in both threads today, but after I did Rosanna here, I was like, hey, Hold the Line is a classic rock staple, so I'll do that one today in the other thread! I'm smart. :biggrin:
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Another great Toto song.
The verses are pretty clear, "Not quite a year" starts the pre-chorus, and "Meet you all the way" is the chorus. After the break, we come back to a pre-chorus. The extra jam at the end is just an extended coda.
This song came on the radio one time, and my wife pointed out that the guy who wrote it was obsessed with Rosanna Arquette. My daughter said "Really?" and I said "Yes, he loves her so much, he's not just gonna meet her halfway, he's gonna meet her all the way." Which, if you think about it, doesn't make any sense.
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Another great Toto song.
The verses are pretty clear, "Not quite a year" starts the pre-chorus, and "Meet you all the way" is the chorus. After the break, we come back to a pre-chorus. The extra jam at the end is just an extended coda.
Yeah, that makes complete sense, it's just that the "meet you all the way" bit never jumped out to me as more "chorus-y" than the "Not quite a year bit", since they're both repeating Roseanna endlessly. But I actually like that about the song.
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Yeah, they weren't afraid to mess with the norms, which was something cool about them.
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I gotta say, I am surprised by how much chatter Toto is getting in both threads. Sometimes when I post a song, especially in this here 80s thread, I think that it might only get a few replies, but Toto I wasn't sure about.
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Yeah, they weren't afraid to mess with the norms, which was something cool about them.
I like that too. Both Africa and Roseanna were/are popular, and they both had keyboard solos in them. And they both fit the song so well, and don't detract from the pop appeal of them imo.
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Fun song
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Rosanna WAS a great song but... it just got too much airplay.
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Chicago - Look Away
Most of Chicago's 80 ballads/softer hits absolutely reeked of some of the worst cheese ever, but this one was actually pretty good. Maybe it was the change of lead singers that made it seem a little less cheesy; hard to say. I do know that the shot near the end of the video where the gal comes out of the elevator was great. She goes into an elevator full of men in her swimsuit, changes in there, and when she exits the elevator fully-clothed, leaving the men in there in a sweat, she gives this little smile and look to the camera which was awesome. That little moment was probably why I liked the song in the first place. :lol
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Like the song but like most I do love the older Chicago. Though that album had so many hits and great hooks. The lack of horns is what I didn't like
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Yeah, was a great video. the tune is very decent as well
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Oh dear. I said this elsewhere, but Chicago around this period was the only Chicago I was familiar with at the time. And it seemed like every one of their songs was about getting kicked in the nuts to the curb by your girlfriend, which, to 14 year old Cool Chris, was the most tragic thing I could imagine. I had to have spent hours listening to their Greatest Hits CD 82-89, lamenting over my most recent break-up.
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I had to have spent hours listening to their Greatest Hits CD 82-89, lamenting over my most recent break-up.
this, x eleventy billion
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Wow, I'd totally forgotten about this song. Great chorus.
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I had to have spent hours listening to their Greatest Hits CD 82-89, lamenting over my most recent break-up.
this, x eleventy billion
Oh yeah, if you were hit by heartbreak in the 80s, you played Chicago. A LOT. :lol
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Guilty as charged.
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David Lee Roth - Just a Gigolo (I Ain't Got Nobody)
While maybe not the best song out of his 80s hits (it being a mash of two covers), this was by far, IMO, the best video DLR the solo artist ever did. He had everything that screamed 80s videos: girls, humor, excess, everything. And the moment where he goes through a long spiel of what-the-hell ever words vocally is still LOL (at 4:29 in the link below, just before the Billy Idol parody). Certain videos just define the 80s; this is one of them. :hat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN-4lX0QyZc
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Hated it with a passion.
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I loved this video, and by extension, this song, before I even knew what a gigalo was. I can't imagine listening to this song for more than 5 seconds now, but will watch this video first thing when I get home tonight.
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The music video is classic DLR, and classic '80s, and I love all of the references. Being an old cover rather than a typical DLR tune, I don't love the song, but I do still like it. I rarely listen to it though.
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A lot of songs are inextricably linked to their videos and always will be, and this is probably one of them. Also, this may have been one of the songs/videos that pushed me towards watching TV with the sound muted, which is now my norm. Listen to stuff I actually like, meanwhile watch TV and check out the babes. Best of both worlds. To this day, there are videos I've seen many times but have never actually heard the songs.
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Love the video; hate the song.
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Wasn't a fan of this one, although I really like DLR.
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Fun song and video
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Chicago - Look Away
Um... no.
David Lee Roth - Just a Gigolo (I Ain't Got Nobody)
Wow, well that didn't age very well. :lol I still love the "You've got charazma" kid though. :lol
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Chicago were never really popular here in Aus, so I'm actually not that familar with them. Should check them out, what I have heard was okay.
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Kade - the older, the better. Trust me. ;)
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Kade - the older, the better. Trust me. ;)
I actually really like that analogy. ;D
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:lol :tup
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Chicago were never really popular here in Aus, so I'm actually not that familar with them. Should check them out, what I have heard was okay.
start with CTA. What a great debut.
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Madonna - Like a Virgin
Easily one of her most defining songs of her career. I thought it was catchy enough when it first came out, but I wasn't a big fan. I thought many of her hits in the 80s were better.
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Never been a fan of her music but you can't deny her music and star power.
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she definitely has better songs
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Every time I hear this song I think of the part of Reservoir Dogs where Quentin Tarantino explains what the song is really about, and then how Steve Buscemi's character refuses to tip on general principle. :biggrin:
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Mötley Crüe - Wild Side
This video was noteworthy because it featured the spinning drum set of Tommy Lee; I remember that being a big thing. I was not really a big fan of this band, like a lot of people my age were, but I did like this song a lot. And it has held up as one of their best hits of the time period.
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Madonna - Like a Virgin
Not my favorite from that album, or in general.
Mötley Crüe - Wild Side
As much as I dug this song back in the day, I saw Crue on the GGG tour and I have to be honest - Whitesnake (their opener) blew the Crue AWAY.
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Okay, but what does that have to do with how good Wild Side is or isn't? :P
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Mötley Crüe - Wild Side
As much as I dug this song back in the day, I saw Crue on the GGG tour and I have to be honest - Whitesnake (their opener) blew the Crue AWAY.
Yeah, I saw them at the Day On The Green show on that tour, and Whitesnake, Poison, and Jetboy ALL blew Crue away. :lol
But as far as the song, yeah, don't care for it.
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Great Crue song. Aside from the spinning drum kit, the music video was just phoned in concert footage, and not one of their particularly memorable ones (I mean come on, no girls in cages or classrooms?)
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Okay, but what does that have to do with how good Wild Side is or isn't? :P
It's a frame of reference for how the song didn't age well for me, silly man. :P
Yeah, I saw them at the Day On The Green show on that tour, and Whitesnake, Poison, and Jetboy ALL blew Crue away. :lol
I don't think it was too hard to blow the Crue away on that tour. :lol
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Fine. :biggrin:
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Huey Lewis & the News - Doing It All for My Baby
One of his many hits from the 80s, this isn't one that is as remembered, but it was a big hit, being one of five top 10 hits from the Fore! record. The video was rather odd, being some kind of Frankenstein-like monster fest. Personally, this is another one of those 80s songs I enjoyed, but never would have called a favorite. Also, about 10 years ago, a co-worker was dating a gal who he said was rather, um, lazy in the bedroom, and whenever this song would come on the satellite radio at work (which it did for a spell), he would sing it as, "Doing it all cause she's lazy!" :lol :lol :lol
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Wow, the title is not familiar at all, and I like Huey Lewis & The News. I only have Sports, though. For whatever reason, I never picked up Fore! Maybe because it just sounded like more of the same, and I'd moved on by then.
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Had completely forgotten it until this post. :lol
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Yeah, video was corny, but it's a great song
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Had completely forgotten it until this post. :lol
Me too, but it immediately popped back into my brain. :lol
Not that it was a bad thing, mind you - always dug that one.
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Huey's love for doo wop. It's an ok song. There are much better songs by them.
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HL&N flamed out for me real quick. No staying power at all. The fact his videos were over-played helped burn him out for me.
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Duran Duran - New Moon on Monday
Another one of the band's many hits in the 80s, this is one I always enjoyed a lot, and I always got a kick out of the video, especially the introduction. MTV sure played the crap out of it, too (as they did every video of theirs in the early to mid 80s).
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Duran Duran had some awesome vocal harmonies. Simon LeBon has such a great, distinctive voice, and they really knew how to turn chords. But this was the song where it was all starting to sound the same to me. Still sounds great, but just more of the same Duran Duran to me.
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More of a fan of the stuff from Rio, to be completely honest - you would not catch me admitting that back in those days, however. :lol
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Funny story Deb, I bought Rio and Piece of Mind the same day. :lol
Now on New Moon, I loved that song but the album was no way near as good as Rio. The cracks were starting to show on Andy Taylor. He wanted more guitar in their music and production of albums.
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New Moon on Monday always reminds me of this guy I went to school with. He loved Duran Duran. Now, the metal heads and rockers I hung out with thought this was weird, until we considered this fact; the dude had alot of female friends. Like a fucking ton. Like all his friends were girls. Naturally, we assumed that the guy didn't really like Duran Duran, and he was using this as an avenue to score with chicks. Fine then, we approved. Okay, sure, he dressed a little funny, and at times even SEEMED to be wearing make up, but, hell, it was the 1980s, man, and fucking Motley Crue was doing it! So what if this guy loved Duran Duran, wore make up, and all of his friends were girls. What's wrong with that?
With all this in mind, it probably will not shock the reader to realize that absolutely none of us had noticed that this guy was spectacularly, flamboyantly, almost stereotypically gay, but that it took me eight years after I graduated for me to figure it out? That might shock some folks. It was a different time back then, what can I say? :rollin
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Not one of their best tracks IMO, but still good.
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New Moon on Monday always reminds me of this guy I went to school with. He loved Duran Duran. Now, the metal heads and rockers I hung out with thought this was weird, until we considered this fact; the dude had alot of female friends. Like a fucking ton. Like all his friends were girls. Naturally, we assumed that the guy didn't really like Duran Duran, and he was using this as an avenue to score with chicks. Fine then, we approved. Okay, sure, he dressed a little funny, and at times even SEEMED to be wearing make up, but, hell, it was the 1980s, man, and fucking Motley Crue was doing it! So what if this guy loved Duran Duran, wore make up, and all of his friends were girls. What's wrong with that?
With all this in mind, it probably will not shock the reader to realize that absolutely none of us had noticed that this guy was spectacularly, flamboyantly, almost stereotypically gay, but that it took me eight years after I graduated for me to figure it out? That might shock some folks. It was a different time back then, what can I say? :rollin
It was indeed a different time. Today, it's a lot more open, and there's a lot more awareness. We also seem to have more occurrences of bullying and/or suicide because of it, or maybe we just hear about it more. But I know what you're saying. I went to high school in the 70's, and no one was out then. Calling someone gay was an "acceptable" insult to any guy who wasn't 100% butch, hetero, and acting the part. In the 80's, a lot of guys came out of the closet, and yeah, there were a few who not exactly surprises. And a few who were.
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What amazed me about it, when I looked back, was that I wasn't the only person who totally missed it. We were aware that homosexuality existed, but, yes, it was more an insult to a straight person than an actual fact. When faced with an actual gay person, our minds just simply didn't go there. I'm also sure that, had any of us realized it, someone probably would have been a tool to the guy. But we honestly thought he had come upon a great way to hit on chicks. :rollin
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Not a bad thought, though. A lot of guys discovered the "secret" of listening to certain bands that girls liked.
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Haha, that's awesome, Jaq. :lol :lol
The Bangles - Eternal Flame
Yes, it's another one of those 80s ballads that was a smash hit. And this one was actually pretty darn good. Very catchy melodies, and as many of us know, any video that prominently featured Susanna Hoffs was worthy. :biggrin:
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*insert _floyd's puking emote here*
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It's a good song, and yes, the video was very nice as well
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Not a bad song but not something I would gravitate towards. They had better tunes.
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Oh yes, the Bangles song with the Barry Manillow snare.
Allow me to explain.
Back in the 70s, nearly all of Barry Manillow's ballad hits, at the end, saw the snare drum be mixed so it sounded like the hammer of Thor, with a dish of echo on the side. I guess it was to make the end choruses more dramatic or something. The snare on Eternal Flame, especially the last choruses? Totally the same thing. :lol
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:lol
I love it. The Barry Manilow SnareTM
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Total 8th grade slow dance song.
/Nostalgia
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Oh yes, the Bangles song with the Barry Manillow snare.
Allow me to explain.
Back in the 70s, nearly all of Barry Manillow's ballad hits, at the end, saw the snare drum be mixed so it sounded like the hammer of Thor, with a dish of echo on the side. I guess it was to make the end choruses more dramatic or something. The snare on Eternal Flame, especially the last choruses? Totally the same thing. :lol
Outed! :lol
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Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings
Pardon me while I go throw up. That's all I got regarding this song.
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Oh yes, the Bangles song with the Barry Manillow snare.
Allow me to explain.
Back in the 70s, nearly all of Barry Manillow's ballad hits, at the end, saw the snare drum be mixed so it sounded like the hammer of Thor, with a dish of echo on the side. I guess it was to make the end choruses more dramatic or something. The snare on Eternal Flame, especially the last choruses? Totally the same thing. :lol
Outed! :lol
:rollin
And yeah, invoking the "no story, it sucks" rule for Bette Midler.
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I thought her performance of 'Rochelle, Rochelle' was much better.
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And yeah, invoking the "no story, it sucks" rule for Bette Midler.
Shit, I had a great story all typed up, and didn't see this until I Previewed. Oh well.
But you're wrong. It's a great song.
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That rule applies solely to me. Anyone else can tell all the stories they want. :biggrin:
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Ah, well in that case... nah, I'm still not gonna bother. It wasn't that good a story to begin with; I just thought it might have value because people do tend to hate this song, and I don't.
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Do it! We all had a few 45's of him. Good story is good.
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Of him?
Anyway, what the fuck, here's why I stopped hating "Wind Beneath My Wings" by Bette Midler.
There's this movie called "Beaches" that my wife watches every time it comes on TV. Could be on Cinemax, or regular TV chopped to hell, doesn't matter, she watches it, and she cries at the end every time. I thought a movie about beaches would be a boring documentary at best, but possibly okay if there were lots of shots of babes in bikinis. But apparently it's a chick flick and the hot one dies of cancer or something, and my wife always cries. I told her that it will always end the same way, she will always die, so why do you subject yourself to this and cry every time? I mean, the world sucks enough as it is; why you would actively pursue sadness? "Because it's a great movie" she said. Yeah, okay.
One day, in a moment of weakness or perhaps just an attempt to appease the wife (shut up), I agreed to watch the movie with her. It really was good. And at the end, when the hot friend dies, I did get choked up (I said shut up!) and then Bette Midler sang "Wind Beneath My Wings" and I cried (okay fine, laugh all you want -- real men aren't afraid to cry).
A few years later, we finally bought our first house, moved a few towns north, and had to find a new church. They got a new choir director (who is pretty and has amazing breasts) who asked me if I liked to sing. I had no idea why she asked me, but yeah, I guess so. She was getting together a "Men's Chorus" to do a special song on Mother's Day, which was coming up. All the men would sing a special song to the moms and wives in their lives. They didn't have to be in choir or anything, they just had to want to sing a song to their special ladies. Well, sure.
On Mother's Day, we sang "Wind Beneath My Wings". It reminded me of the movie about beaches, and I got kinda choked up. I hadn't sung in years other than in the car, but I went ahead and dove right into it because why not? Afterwards, the director told me I had a great voice and she loved the passion with which I sang, and she asked if I'd like to join the choir. But the choir is, like, all old people. Oh shit, that's right, I'm old now! I wasn't playing in any bands or doing anything else musical at the time, so I joined the choir, learned to sing parts and stuff, and got my musical jones off that way. Never sang in a choir before. It's pretty cool.
So yeah, "Wind Beneath My Wings" helped lead me to singing in a choir and spending a couple hours a week with a pretty lady with wonderful breasts, and any song that can do that is okay in my book.
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Good story, Orbert. Regardless of what I or anyone else thinks of that song, or any other, cool stories like that are why I love this thread. Yay for nostalgia. :coolio
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I thought you were talking about Barry. :lol Still a great story.
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Ah yes, Barry Manilow. I do have a few of his albums, but no stories.
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Orbert, I'm totally with you. It's a great chick flick, and besides the song being discussed, the rest of the soundtrack is really good as well
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Orbert, I'm totally with you. It's a great chick flick, and besides the song being discussed, the rest of the soundtrack is really good as well
I can't cite the exact rule, but I'm pretty sure you just violated one of the rules of manliness. It's perfectly fine to admit that a select few chick flicks are decent without being in jeopardy of losing your man card. But you cannot, under any circumstances, attempt to bond with another male over a chick flick, no matter how good. That is absolutely forbidden. Pull it together, man!
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Sounds like this thread needs a non-ballad to bring it back around a bit...
Dokken - Dream Warriors
Originally released for the third A Nightmare on Elm Street film, it was also included on the Back for the Attack record. Good song, one that wasn't a big hit on the pop charts, but was one that MTV that played the shit out of. It was one of those vintage 80s videos that had footage of both the band playing the song and scenes from the movie.
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cheesy, but great video. great song too!
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I've never seen the music video, but it's a cool song, and a damn solid album from start to finish. I never knew it was in A Nightmare on Elm St. The more you know!
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I believe it is called "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors," so there ya go. ;)
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Dokken was pretty big in the 80s, don't get me wrong, but I often thought they were more MTV big than actually big. By that I mean their level of exposure on MTV was disproportionate to their actual chart and touring success. MTV had a bit of a distorting effect on bands, where they were seen as superstars because of near constant airplay, but often their actual success was different. I never heard Dokken on the radio here, and while I may have forgotten, I'm pretty sure the only times Dokken played here was as an opener. Yet in the mid 80s you tripped over Dokken videos all the damn time. Don't get me wrong, Dokken sold plenty of records and played plenty of shows, but if you tried to gauge their success based on how much they were played on MTV, you'd figure they were one of the biggest bands in the world.
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That seemed to be the same situation here in Canada with Much Music. Based on the amount of times they would play a video, you would think a band was huge. But that actually wasn't always the case. I haven't watched that station in around 20 years, so I'm basing that on the early-mid 90s.
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I believe it is called "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors," so there ya go. ;)
So, not exactly a tough puzzle to piece together had I known the movie. :lolpalm:
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2 stories for the price of 1 with this song:
In high school, I was basically in the "smart kids' group" that had honors and AP classes, so despite going to a large school, that core group of us had a lot of classes together through all four years. Somewhere along the way, we decided to have a class party every year. Can't remember whether it was around Christmas or the end of the year, but either way, we had it at my house the year this movie was out, and I remember we had it on in the background. At the point where somebody got brutally murdered by Freddie, I remember one of the guys in our class named John Mattos saying, "well, see--that's what happens when you listen to Dokken." :lol
I had never gotten into Dokken earlier despite some pretty good songs. Honestly, it all goes back to middle school. There was a girl named Nicki who had gone to see them and wore her "Rokkin' with Dokken" shirt at every opportunity. I just thought that was the dumbest slogan a band could possibly come up with, so I personally boycotted Dokken on principle and never gave them a shot. When I finally discovered them, it was through the same method that I inadvertently discovered a LOT of new music: I accidentally forgot to fill out the Columbia House selection of the month card and return it on time, so a few weeks later, Back For The Attack showed up in my mailbox. Turned out to be a really solid album. Mr. Scary was especially awesome. Suddenly, Nicki didn't look so silly anymore. Too bad--I missed my opportunity, as I believe she was already seeing somebody at this point. :struckout:
Anyhow, Dream Warriors was a cool song. If not for my Columbia House mishap, I may not have given it a fair shake. The video, as I recall, was movie scenes interspersed with band scenes, with a few custom shots of Freddie stalking the band or something like that. About what I would expect.
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My apologies sir. Will never happen again :tup
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...it was through the same method that I inadvertently discovered a LOT of new music: I accidentally forgot to fill out the Columbia House selection of the month card and return it on time, so a few weeks later...
Same here, but with the RCA Music Club. But checking out new music for cheap was cool back then. Today, I'd be pissed every time I forgot to send in the card and got some CD I didn't order, and I probably wouldn't give it a fair shake.
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Oh man, the classic 12 CDs for a penny deals! I took advantage of those a few times. Most of the cassettes (:lol) I owned back in the 80s were gotten through the mail from RCA or Columbia House. I did forget to send back the card several times and got sent some album I didn't want, but I always sent them back. :biggrin:
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My parents were proud members of Columbia House for a number of years
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Oh man, Dream Warriors is so good. Absolutely love it. Don sounds excellent, there's a killer guitar solo, just fantastic from start to finish. The video was pretty damned cool as well.
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Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings
Not one of her best, but not as bad as peeps make it out to be.
Dokken - Dream Warriors
Loved this one, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
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Dokken was pretty big in the 80s, don't get me wrong, but I often thought they were more MTV big than actually big. By that I mean their level of exposure on MTV was disproportionate to their actual chart and touring success. MTV had a bit of a distorting effect on bands, where they were seen as superstars because of near constant airplay, but often their actual success was different. I never heard Dokken on the radio here, and while I may have forgotten, I'm pretty sure the only times Dokken played here was as an opener. Yet in the mid 80s you tripped over Dokken videos all the damn time. Don't get me wrong, Dokken sold plenty of records and played plenty of shows, but if you tried to gauge their success based on how much they were played on MTV, you'd figure they were one of the biggest bands in the world.
This is a great point. Stryper is similar to Dokken in that regard, in that MTV played the living crap out of them, but they were not really that popular, at least when it came to the charts. Speaking of which...
Stryper - I Believe in You
Classic example of a song that was huge on MTV, but failed to break the top 40, which is kind of surprising given that it reeked of 80s monster balladry. :lol I didn't realize it at the time, but listening to it years later, it became oh so obvious what a massive influence Dennis DeYoung was on the vocal style of Michael Sweet. He sounds like he is channeling his inner Dennis DeYoung during the chorus of this song.
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Oh, Michael Sweet in ballad form WAS Dennis DeYoung. Honestly sounds like it came off the Styx album that, in a parallel universe, they did instead of Kilroy Was Here. :rollin
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There was another Dokken song in that movie: "Into the Fire" was playing during a scene. Oddly, the VHS release had a different song subbed in for that scene, but according to Wiki, "Into the Fire" was restored for the DVD.
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The rights to use a song in a movie often don't extend to home video versions of the movie, so new contracts have to be drawn up. At least that's the way it was years ago. Usually it's not a problem, but sometimes there's a glitch. The label or whoever currently owns the song doesn't want it used, or they want ridiculous amounts of money for it, or maybe they've gone under or there's some other kind of legal mess that they just don't feel like dealing with, just to get a song on the soundtrack for home video. So they don't bother. I suspect that that's what happened here with the VHS, then by time the DVD version came around, someone cared enough about getting all the original songs to push for it, and got it.
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There was another Dokken song in that movie: "Into the Fire" was playing during a scene. Oddly, the VHS release had a different song subbed in for that scene, but according to Wiki, "Into the Fire" was restored for the DVD.
Oh, wow. I don't think I ever picked up on that. (or if I did, I forgot a long time ago)
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The rights to use a song in a movie often don't extend to home video versions of the movie, so new contracts have to be drawn up. At least that's the way it was years ago. Usually it's not a problem, but sometimes there's a glitch. The label or whoever currently owns the song doesn't want it used, or they want ridiculous amounts of money for it, or maybe they've gone under or there's some other kind of legal mess that they just don't feel like dealing with, just to get a song on the soundtrack for home video. So they don't bother. I suspect that that's what happened here with the VHS, then by time the DVD version came around, someone cared enough about getting all the original songs to push for it, and got it.
Yeah, but considering Dokken also performed the Theme song for the movie, it seems kinda silly for the same label to allow it to be included, but not another song of theirs.
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Sounds like this thread needs a non-ballad to bring it back around a bit...
Dokken - Dream Warriors
Originally released for the third A Nightmare on Elm Street film, it was also included on the Back for the Attack record. Good song, one that wasn't a big hit on the pop charts, but was one that MTV that played the shit out of. It was one of those vintage 80s videos that had footage of both the band playing the song and scenes from the movie.
This was the first Dokken song I heard and it made me a a fan.
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The rights to use a song in a movie often don't extend to home video versions of the movie, so new contracts have to be drawn up. At least that's the way it was years ago. Usually it's not a problem, but sometimes there's a glitch. The label or whoever currently owns the song doesn't want it used, or they want ridiculous amounts of money for it, or maybe they've gone under or there's some other kind of legal mess that they just don't feel like dealing with, just to get a song on the soundtrack for home video. So they don't bother. I suspect that that's what happened here with the VHS, then by time the DVD version came around, someone cared enough about getting all the original songs to push for it, and got it.
Yeah, but considering Dokken also performed the Theme song for the movie, it seems kinda silly for the same label to allow it to be included, but not another song of theirs.
We don't know that the label wouldn't allow it. It could be that they were asking for more money than New Line thought was worth it, or New Line just didn't care that much. The theme song was obviously written for the movie, but "Into the Fire" was from Tooth and Nail. It would have required a separate agreement, and for every contract, they've got to come up with a price that both sides agree on.
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Stryper - I Believe in You
Classic example of a song that was huge on MTV, but failed to break the top 40, which is kind of surprising given that it reeked of 80s monster balladry. :lol I didn't realize it at the time, but listening to it years later, it became oh so obvious what a massive influence Dennis DeYoung was on the vocal style of Michael Sweet. He sounds like he is channeling his inner Dennis DeYoung during the chorus of this song.
Never was really into Stryper, but I'll have to YT this one when I get home solely due to the DDY connection. :biggrin:
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Dream Warriors kicked all kinds of ass but I Believe in You was lame, lame, lame. Stryper have so many better tunes.
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Um... yeah, so the DDY connection was flimsy at best. :lol
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Hey, the MTV song thread fell off the first page. GIVE US A SONG KEV. :rollin
And go listen to the Stryper song Honestly if you want to hear Michael Sweet channel his inner Dennis DeYoung, Debra.
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:lol :lol Fine, you asked for it...
Loverboy - Queen of the Broken Hearts
This is another one of those forgotten 80s hits. But looking it up, it only went to number 34 on the pop charts, so this looks like another one of those "it was bigger on MTV than it was in reality" songs. I liked it a lot at the time, but it is mostly an afterthought to me now.
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I don't even remember this one, and we played a lot of Loverboy songs. I think we had four in our setlist at one point. Was this a later Loverboy song?
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No, it was from 1983's Keep It Up, the same album Hot Girls in Love came from.
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Ha ha, that's "later" Loverboy to me. We broke up in 83 and all the songs we played were from the first two albums. I missed most of 1983, which is probably why I'd never heard of this one.
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Haha, I see. If you played four early Loverboy songs, they had to have been The Kid Is Hot Tonite, Turn Me Loose, Working for the Weekend and Lucky Ones. Yes?
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Loverboy - Queen of the Broken Hearts
Gee Kev, thanks for the update. NOT. :P
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So this is how you thank us for bumbing the thread?
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I only know one Loverboy song off the top of my head (Turn Me Loose) but I love it. Great driving song.
I missed most of 1983...
Musically, or in general?
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Tough crowd today.
Journey - Who's Crying Now?
Technically a ballad, this one doesn't really have that 80s cheese feel to it, at least I don't think so. Good mellow song, and the outro is absolutely gorgeous.
Better? :biggrin:
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The Jouney ballads are WAY overplayed, but I will still give an enthusiastic :tup to any pre-Raised On Radio Journey.
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Haha, I see. If you played four early Loverboy songs, they had to have been The Kid Is Hot Tonite, Turn Me Loose, Working for the Weekend and Lucky Ones. Yes?
To paraphrase Meat Loaf, two out of four ain't bad. We did "Lady of the 80's" and, for some reason I never quite understood, we did "Jump" (was that song even a hit?). It was my idea to seque "Jump" into "Workin' for the Weekend" -- rather than the four strikes, we led in with the synth hook -- and we also did "Lucky Ones".
I missed most of 1983...
Musically, or in general?
In general. The band broke up, I moved back home and started taking classes again, and I got a job working third shift at a 24-hour campus restaurant. I worked, I went to school, I slept, in that order. The seemlingly few hours a day I was awake were spent with my girlfriend, in a perpetual fog induced by too little sleep and too much non-tobacco. The mid 80's were basically lost years for me.
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Meh. One of my least favourites from the album. It's not bad, but far from one of their better ballads. The guitar work is a highlight, but otherwise it's a bit dull imo.
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Maybe I shouldn't have bumped the thread... :rollin
Like a lot of people who liked Loverboy, I tend to think of them as being their first two albums, since the drop off after that was fairly steep. About the only thing I remember about this album was the video for Hot Girls In Love, where a lucky MTV contest winner got to be in the video. If you blinked, you missed it, though, since it was the video for Hot Girls In Love, and the contest was won by an attractive, but overweight young lady. Always felt bad for her.
Who's Crying Now was great, even though with Open Arms on the second side the days of a Journey ballad not being a traditional power ballad were coming to a close. Any song with a lot of Neal Schon soloing at the end gets my vote, though. :tup
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About the only thing I remember about this album was the video for Hot Girls In Love, where a lucky MTV contest winner got to be in the video. If you blinked, you missed it, though, since it was the video for Hot Girls In Love, and the contest was won by an attractive, but overweight young lady. Always felt bad for her.
Ha, I do remember that. The one shot she was in, she was seated at some kind of control panel. In later versions of the video, she had been edited out and replaced. It was really kinda pathetic how that all played out. "Be in a Loverboy video!" Yeah, for literally two seconds, and only in the version that we play for a few weeks to make the prize seem legit.
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Maybe I shouldn't have bumped the thread... :rollin
:lol :biggrin: :coolio
But I'd like to point out that since this thread is now over a year old, most of what I would consider the best 80s stuff has been covered. Just saying...
Steve Winwood - Roll with It
I remember this guy having a string of hits in the latter half of the 80s, but I never cared for any of them. This one was played to death on MTV, and I think it went to number 1 on the pop charts, but no thanks.
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Journey - Who's Crying Now?
MUCH better, Kev. Who's Crying Now? absolutely SLAYS Open Arms IMO. Plus, it's aged better. Great song.
Steve Winwood - Roll with It
Overplayed. :yawn:
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There is a GALAXY of difference between the young Steve Winwood who sang Gimme Some Lovin and the middle of the road rocker he became in the 80s. A cosmos worth of difference. Sometimes I wish rockers wouldn't age so gracefully. :rollin
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Journey - Who's Crying Now?
MUCH better, Kev. Who's Crying Now? absolutely SLAYS Open Arms IMO. Plus, it's aged better. Great song.
It seems that you and I only agree in DT side. For general music discussion, er not so much, my dear. :biggrin:
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Stars on 45 - Stars on 45
This disco song is basically a cover/conglomeration of a bunch of early Beatles songs, with a Stars on 45 chorus hook at the beginning and the end. My parents had this on record, and I listened to it like crazy back then. I remember when I finally heard a lot of those Beatles songs, I already knew parts of them because of this song. I suspect hearing Beatles songs in a disco song was nightmarish to a lot of Beatles fans at the time, but for a young kid like me who didn't know any better :lol, it was a good, fun song. And it went to number 1 here in America, so plenty had to have liked it.
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I think that, blessedly, that decade plus of heavy drinking I did before I quit drinking for good blew my memory of this song right out of my head. Because it sounds like a musical nightmare from the description.
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Eh, it was alright
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Fortunately, this song was from before I was into The Beatles. I recognized the songs, but was not disgusted and offended as I'm sure I would be today. "Stars on 45" started something of a mini-trend of these kinds of song mashups which are really quite horrible. I'd completely forgotten about this until just now, and I hate you for reminding me of their existence.
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:lol :lol
Blame Jaq. He bumped this thread and asked for more. :biggrin:
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I think that, blessedly, that decade plus of heavy drinking I did before I quit drinking for good blew my memory of this song right out of my head. Because it sounds like a musical nightmare from the description.
It would seem that no one is happy about this. I don't even know who I should sue.
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Heart - Nothin' At All
Another of their smash hits from their 1985 self-titled album, this was probably my favorite from that album back then, and probably still is. I liked the video, too, as it displayed a fair amount of playful silliness by the Wilson sisters.
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Stars on 45 - Stars on 45
Um... >:(
Heart - Nothin' At All
I vaguely remember this one. May have to YT it to properly remember (fogey brain).
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Heart - Nothin' At All
Another of their smash hits from their 1985 self-titled album, this was probably my favorite from that album back then, and probably still is. I liked the video, too, as it displayed a fair amount of playful silliness by the Wilson sisters.
The videos from this album, as well as the songs, all seem to blur together in my mind right now. It's been so long since I really lisented to them. But man, that was such a good album.
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Wow, I can't believe any 80s fan wouldn't know this one offhand, but to each their own, I guess. :)
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Man I've missed a lot. So, I'd love to help the Wilson Sisters take off and put on dresses. :eyebrows:
Not a bad tune. Catchy. Saw them on this tour with Cheap Trick.
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Man I've missed a lot. So, I'd love to help the Wilson Sisters take off and put on dresses. :eyebrows:
:tup :tup
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Blondie - Rapture
Others who were big MTV watchers in its earliest days will remember that the channel played the living shit out of this video. Reading up on it, it apparently was the first rap video ever played on the channel. Interesting. I never much cared for it, and listening again now, it still does little for me.
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I like the main part of the song. It's got a cool groove. I've never been a rap fan, but this was a bit different and not too obnoxious, so I was okay with it, especially as it was part of something else.
Also, it took me way too long to notice the link between "Rap" and "Rapture".
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Here's another video by Blondie, along with Heart of Glass, which I first saw on HBO's Video Jukebox. They played the living fuck out of this video, but it wasn't out of any sense of "hey, this is groundbreaking music", more like "hey, they made VIDEOS!" :lol Rap's certainly come a long way since the start.
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When I think of HBO's Video Juke \Box I think of Asia's "Heat Of The Moment"
Like Orbert said, really good groove but now a song I would search on my I-Pod for though it is there.
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LOVED this song back in the day.
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Blondie - Rapture
Others who were big MTV watchers in its earliest days will remember that the channel played the living shit out of this video. Reading up on it, it apparently was the first rap video ever played on the channel. Interesting. I never much cared for it, and listening again now, it still does little for me.
Wow. Never knew that, especially since The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" was so much more popular back then.
Anyhoo - you couldn't catch me admitting it back then, but this is a pretty damn good song.
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Deb, it's so funny that you say, "you couldn't catch me admitting it back then." Why were we ever like that?! Who cares what other people think of the music we listened to but it's so damn true. I did it as well!
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I know! It seems so silly now, but back then I guess we placed more importance on our "street cred" with our friends instead of just enjoying good music - regardless of what it is.
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I started to break out of that when I bought Iron Maiden--Piece Of Mind and Duran Duran--Rio the same day.
Oh the heckling I got but years later some of them tell me now that Rio is their best album. :lol
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I think it took me a little longer to figure that out, but I got there nonetheless. :)
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I listened to whatever I felt like listening to, and didn't care too much what other people thought. But trust me, I had plenty of other issues. :lol
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:lol
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We all had those issues! :lol
My friend knew what a Rush nut I was. There is a thousand pics of me with my cheesy sports jackets with the rolled up sleeves just like Alex Lifeson. I look back now and laugh because it was "So Cool." :lol
Now my mantra is, "Take me as I am."
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*extends hand* ;)
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Elton John - I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
I've always liked this song a lot. It has a beautiful melody, and it is just an easy song to listen to and enjoy. And despite often not liking the harmonica, I like the harmonica solo in this song, played by Stevie Wonder.
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I haven't heard this song in AGES, but as soon as you mentioned the harmonica solo, I heard the entire solo in my head. Note perfect. :lol
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Love this song. My introduction to Sir Elton
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While I've always been more of a fan of his stuff from the 70s, this song is just so good.
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I have no recollection of the video whatsoever. But great song.
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There is a thousand pics of me with my cheesy sports jackets with the rolled up sleeves just like Alex Lifeson Crockett and Tubbs. I look back now and laugh because it was "So Cool." :lol
FTFY :lol
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Crockett and Tubbs?! :lol
You take that back! :lol
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Bahahaha, you know it's true! They were pioneers of that trend!
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Oh. Just... Oh, man.
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I need to find a few pictures and post them. I'd get a chuckle from DTF and their comments.
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Oh god, don't remind me of those days. I used to own a pastel green jacket and white pants with little purple and blue stripes, and when I wore that outfit in the height of the Miami Vice craze, not only did no one laugh at me, people thought it looked good. :rollin In fact, in many of the stories I have told in this thread, I was, in fact, wearing that very outfit.
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I was never big in to 70s Elton John, but really liked some of his 80s stuff. This would be at the top of my list.
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I need to find a few pictures and post them. I'd get a chuckle from DTF and their comments.
Oh man, the captions that could come flying! Thank god there's no hard evidence to incriminate me anywhere. White blazer, collar-less tee-shirt, docksiders, no socks... damn, how did I not get any poontang with that look!?!? Oh, plus the mullet.
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Oh man, Miami Vice clothes... :rollin
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Also, it took me way too long to notice the link between "Rap" and "Rapture".
Merciful Zeus!
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Elton John - I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
I've always liked this song a lot. It has a beautiful melody, and it is just an easy song to listen to and enjoy. And despite often not liking the harmonica, I like the harmonica solo in this song, played by Stevie Wonder.
Awesome song, I'm a big fan of Elton John.
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Also, it took me way too long to notice the link between "Rap" and "Rapture".
Merciful Zeus!
We're talking 1980-81 here. Rap was known in some circles, all urban, and it didn't even have its own section in the record stores, at least not the ones I went to, being a non-black kid in the suburbs. Blondie had a new song out, and it's cool, but then there's this wacky part where she, like, talks.
Later, we learned that this was called "Rap". Ah... and the song is "Rapture". It all made sense.
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Well, rap WAS just getting started back then too.
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Let us not forget that rap is 3/4 of crap.
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Let us not forget that rap is 3/4 of crap.
The "C" in rap is silent.
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Old fogies unite against rap or O.F.U.A.R
Oh faur heavens sake, what is this noise called rap.
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Let us not forget that rap is 3/4 of crap.
The "C" in rap is silent.
>:(
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I'd ask if we were out of songs or something, but the last time I did something like that Kev hit us with Loverboy, and I really don't want to have a discussion over Lovin' Every Minute Of It. :rollin
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Loverboy survivor now up in the Polls & Survivors board! GOGOGOGO!!!
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:lol :lol :lol
I wouldn't say we are out of songs, but it seems like most of the 80s biggies have been covered, unless you really want me to dive through the Billboard pop charts to see what numbers 1 we haven't discussed. In other words, song that were big hits, but were never on my personal radar, so I never even considered getting mp3s of them. Ya know, songs like:
Atlantic Starr - Always
Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton - Islands in the Stream
Stevie Wonder - Party-Time Lover
You see what I mean. :lol :biggrin:
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And I will do my best to find some nuggets still not discussed, such as:
Mötley Crüe - Kickstart My Heart
An ass-kicking rocker. I don't really remember the video, as I wasn't watching MTV as much by 1989, but I remember fans going nuts over this song.
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Atlantic Starr - Always
Blech! :tempus:
Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton - Islands in the Stream
This...actually wasn't bad.
Stevie Wonder - Part-Time Lover
Hey, don't diss Stevie. Nuthin' wrong with this song.
And I will do my best to find some nuggets still not discussed, such as:
Mötley Crüe - Kickstart My Heart
An ass-kicking rocker. I don't really remember the video, as I wasn't watching MTV as much by 1989, but I remember fans going nuts of this song.
I remember it. The album dropped when I was stationed in Okinawa, and I remember people going nuts over it even over there. And they had a literal video jukebox at the USO over there where I remember seeing this one and Tesla's Heaven's Trail played A LOT (although I think a lot of the plays Tesla got were probably mine). I don't remember a whole lot about the video, other than a few shots of drag cars and skydiving, but I remember seeing it a lot.
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Not a diss on Stevie - I actually like some of his 70s stuff quite a bit (He's Misstra Know It All is a beast of a song) - but Part-Time Lover is pure fluff, IMO.
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I don't remember a whole lot about the video, other than a few shots of drag cars and skydiving, but I remember seeing it a lot.
Throw in some black and white footage of the band playing, and you're up to speed. :lol (no pun intended)
Great song, but I really like most of their hits/singles.
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What do you call Dolly Parton taking a bath?
Islands in the Stream
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Not sure if it has been discussed, but I will always remember the Balls to the Wall Video by Accept.
LOVED that song, and will always rememebr the vid, especially Udo riding the wrecking ball!
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Mötley Crüe - Kickstart My Heart
An ass-kicking rocker. I don't really remember the video, as I wasn't watching MTV as much by 1989, but I remember fans going nuts over this song.
My introduction to Motley Crue. I remember the video vividly, which is somewhat of a miracle. I had just also started discovering the joys of whacky tobacco, and BT's. Both became my weekend rituals at various friends places (wherever parents were out). There was a top 5 (rock/metal) video show that played at midnight on one of the stations. This and Love Song are ingrained into my memory because of that show. Throw in a little Slip of the Tongue, I Remember You, Little Fighter... those were the recurring videos I remember all to well.
As for Kickstart My Heart, don't forget the hawt blond backup singers, and Mick trying to pull a 'Frampton'. Wasn't this song supposedly based on Nikki's real-life near-death (there's an oxy-moron) experience?
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Wasn't this song supposedly based on Nikki's real-life near-death (there's an oxy-moron) experience?
Yup.
Not a diss on Stevie - I actually like some of his 70s stuff quite a bit (He's Misstra Know It All is a beast of a song) - but Part-Time Lover is pure fluff, IMO.
Sure it is. But I'll take fluff from Stevie over a lot of artists' best work. :lol
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Wasn't this song supposedly based on Nikki's real-life near-death (there's an oxy-moron) experience?
Yup.
Not a diss on Stevie - I actually like some of his 70s stuff quite a bit (He's Misstra Know It All is a beast of a song) - but Part-Time Lover is pure fluff, IMO.
Sure it is. But I'll take fluff from Stevie over a lot of artists' best work. :lol
Better to make fluff than be a fluffer.
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What do you call Dolly Parton taking a bath?
Islands in the Stream
:lol :lol :lol
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Mötley Crüe - Kickstart My Heart
I'm one of the few who really never liked this song, or anything off of the Doc Feelgood album. Crue for me is all about their first two albums.
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I'm with Debra; by the time Kickstart My Heart came out I was totally over Motley Crue, and their first two albums are the ones to get. :biggrin:
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:hifive:
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Europe - Carrie
It seems like every band of this ilk in the later 80s had that one monster ballad that was a big hit, and Carrie was Europe's. Naturally, it was their biggest hit on the pop charts, going to number 3. I liked it, mostly cause I loved the first two singles from The Final Countdown (title track and Rock the Night), so I was probably gonna like whatever came next no matter what. Screw it, I was 13. That is my defense and I'm sticking to it. :biggrin: :lol
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Didn't we do this already? I know there was discussion on this forum of obscure Europe songs nobody ever heard of or cared about. I thought it was this thread.
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It might have been discussed in the midst of discussion on The Final Countdown, Rock the Night, Cherokee or Superstitious (all of which have been featured already), but Carrie had not been a featured song on its own yet. Considering that MTV played the snot out of Europe from 1986-1988, and Carrie was their biggest hit, it makes sense for it to be featured at some point.
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Been a while since this happened.
Around the time this song was a hit, a friend of mine was smitten with a lady of the same name who he had met during a high school chorus competition and they stayed in touch despite living on opposite sides of the state. Back then, that was actually a sizable feat, given that all the ways to keep in contact now didn't exist then, short of long distance telephone calls. Anyway, he decided he was going to go visit her at the college she went to because he needed to talk to her and tell that, no matter how much they cared for each other, the distance was just too far and they couldn't be a couple.
It is worth noting that they weren't actually dating, by the way. It is also worth noting that the previous time he visited Carrie with a friend of mine, she threw herself at my friend, who rebuffed her because he wasn't single. Disaster, of course, was likely looming. That same friend was corralled to go as the driver, and I was dragged in because I was the only one of us who was legal to buy alcohol. So we went up there and I spent the two days there largely getting shit faced, and...being hit on by Carrie. Repeatedly. Even did some necking in the back seat of my friend's car as we drove around. This was after my other friend had given her the speech about how they just couldn't be a couple. Clearly she was in shock from losing out on this relationship.
My friend stewed and grumbled, and then finally while we parked somewhere, fuck if I remember now, he stormed off. My other friend went after him, leaving me alone with Carrie. "What's wrong with him?" she asked. "Guess he's mad you're paying attention to me," I responded.
"Well, then, let's make him really mad," she said. And proceeded to give me the best blow job of my life, up until 1996 or so when it was finally surpassed.
Needless to say, whenever I hear the song Carrie... :rollin
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'Twas one of the sappy-est power ballads of that era. Even though I could rhyme off about 25 other power ballads I like better, I still liked it this tune. Said it before, but top-to-bottom, this is a top shelf album.
*Jaq's story
:hefdaddy
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That is my god-king, ultimate 80s music related story and I've been waiting for MONTHS for Kev to get to this song. :rollin
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pretty decent ballad
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Jaq, you're the man! :tup
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"When Jaq's penis goes down.............." *que in fading piano*
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Been a while since this happened.
Around the time this song was a hit, a friend of mine was smitten with a lady of the same name who he had met during a high school chorus competition and they stayed in touch despite living on opposite sides of the state. Back then, that was actually a sizable feat, given that all the ways to keep in contact now didn't exist then, short of long distance telephone calls. Anyway, he decided he was going to go visit her at the college she went to because he needed to talk to her and tell that, no matter how much they cared for each other, the distance was just too far and they couldn't be a couple.
It is worth noting that they weren't actually dating, by the way. It is also worth noting that the previous time he visited Carrie with a friend of mine, she threw herself at my friend, who rebuffed her because he wasn't single. Disaster, of course, was likely looming. That same friend was corralled to go as the driver, and I was dragged in because I was the only one of us who was legal to buy alcohol. So we went up there and I spent the two days there largely getting shit faced, and...being hit on by Carrie. Repeatedly. Even did some necking in the back seat of my friend's car as we drove around. This was after my other friend had given her the speech about how they just couldn't be a couple. Clearly she was in shock from losing out on this relationship.
My friend stewed and grumbled, and then finally while we parked somewhere, fuck if I remember now, he stormed off. My other friend went after him, leaving me alone with Carrie. "What's wrong with him?" she asked. "Guess he's mad you're paying attention to me," I responded.
"Well, then, let's make him really mad," she said. And proceeded to give me the best blow job of my life, up until 1996 or so when it was finally surpassed.
Needless to say, whenever I hear the song Carrie... :rollin
:lol :lol :lol
And congratulations! You just won the internet. :tup :tup
That is my god-king, ultimate 80s music related story and I've been waiting for MONTHS for Kev to get to this song. :rollin
Sorry for making you wait so long, man. I can only imagine your reaction every time I featured another Europe song that wasn't Carrie. There is that split second where you see Europe bolded, and then, shit, it's not Carrie. :facepalm: :rollin :rollin
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Well, I think Jaq can retire now. Damn, that was the story of stories
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Well, I think Jaq can retire now. Damn, that was the story of stories
Agreed. I need a smoke.
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Haha, I am pretty sure this thread has just climaxed (har har), and anything that comes now (har har) will be anti-climatic (booooooo!). :biggrin:
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While I still have plenty of stories from the 80s, yes, that's going to be as good as it gets from me. :lol
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While I still have plenty of stories from the 80s, yes, that's going to be as good as it gets from me. :lol
Then you got married in the 90's. I know. :lol
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No, what changed was I stopped drinking. At a guess, 90% of the stories I've told in this thread happened when I was shit faced drunk. :lol Though I did settle down with a lady for a few years as well...
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All those good vices fade away with age. :lol
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Well, might as well keep plugging away! :hat
The Human League - Don't You Want Me
Good song in its time. I liked it a lot more back then than I do now, but I can still sort of hear the appeal in it. Back then, I thought it was neat that it told the story of a man and woman and you had both male and female lead vocals to portray both sides of the relationship story.
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Also the cool awesome amazing keyboards sounds.
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One of the most 80s sounding songs in terms of keyboard sounds I can think of. I almost don't want to listen to it now because I probably will find it so dated it'll hurt. :rollin
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Europe - Carrie
Okay, I admit - I did KIND OF like this song back in the day, but now? EEEE YUCK. :puke:
*colossally awesome story*
Dude. I'd give you an internet, but you probably have about 11dy6 by now, based solely on that. :hefdaddy :rollin
The Human League - Don't You Want Me
Actually... NO. No, I don't want you. :laugh:
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Well, I'd gladly accept another one. :lol
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Oh, you. :lol :lol :lol
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Yeah, it is dated, but still a fun song
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Also the cool awesome amazing keyboards sounds.
Yeah, they do sound really good, especially for that time period.
One of the most 80s sounding songs in terms of keyboard sounds I can think of. I almost don't want to listen to it now because I probably will find it so dated it'll hurt. :rollin
Sounding dated isn't always a bad thing, though. Sure, timeless songs are great, but songs that sound dated can often have that "snapshot in time" feel, and I'd say a lot of 80s stuff has that. Whether that is good or bad is open to interpretation, of course. :lol
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Okay, I will throw a couple more out today, just for fun, so we'll have three songs today that anyone can discuss. :)
Survivor - High on You
Another keyboard-heavy song, this one is pretty catchy, and the vocal melodies are very nice. It isn't a song I really listen to anymore, but I liked it a lot at the time, even though the video was pretty ho-hum.
Prince - Little Red Corvette
I liked this song so much back in 1982 that I owned the 45 single of it. I don't want to say it hasn't aged well, as it still sounds like a damn fine song, but it doesn't appeal to me that much anymore. Only a handful of Prince songs get much attention from me anymore (most of which are from Purple Rain), and this just isn't one of them.
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I was never really big on High On You.
Little Red Corvette still smokes though. :hat
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Survivor and Prince were kinda similar in that they had some good songs and I wouldn't change the station if they came on the radio, but I never liked them enough to buy any of their albums. I had girlfriends with Prince albums, but I didn't know anyone with any Survivor albums.
The guy from Survivor had a great voice. Later, he did those awesome radio spots "Real American Heroes" which was changed to "Real Men of Genius" after 9/11 when everyone was talking about the firefighters and cops and how they're Real American Heroes. I once downloaded a whole bunch of them from some website, listened to them, and laughed much. Kinda wacky that I'd do that, but never bought a Survivor album.
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He also sang the theme to Baywatch.
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Whoa, you're right! Someone once told me that that was Hasselhoff singing, and since I knew he was a singer, I believed him. I've believed that that was Hoff for a long, long time, but I just Wiki'd it, and yep, that's Jimi Jamison.
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The real man of Genious is the orginal singer David Bickler who sang Eye of The Tiger and Caught In The Game. Jimi Jamerson came after. His first song was for the Karate Kid soundtrack, "The Moment Of Truth" and his first full lenght album with Survivor was Vital Signs which is a great album.
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Today must be Orbert's Day of Enlightenment. It happens. I didn't even realize that Survivor had two different singers. I just knew that the guy who sang "Real American Heroes" (and "Real Men of Genius") was the singer from Survivor.
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I was never really big on High On You.
Little Red Corvette still smokes though. :hat
Agreed
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Today must be Orbert's Day of Enlightenment. It happens. I didn't even realize that Survivor had two different singers. I just knew that the guy who sang "Real American Heroes" (and "Real Men of Genius") was the singer from Survivor.
Check out these 2 videos Bob. I just read that they are touring soon with both singers? I wonder how that will work?
David Bickler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9asPx5eYZY
Jimi Jamerson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtm2u-p92XQ
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Similar, yet different. As I said, I was never a big Survivor fan anyway, so when they switched singers, I noticed nothing.
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Little Red Corvette was fucking amazing. It was the only song in my time at high school that everyone liked. Didn't matter what your main interest was, everyone liked Little Red Corvette.
The Survivor song reminds me of my best friend, who bought the album it was on when he was in the throes of The Crush. You know The Crush, guys. When you first find a woman you like, and being that you're a teenager and every one of your emotional responses has been set to HORMONAL INSANITY, you're mistaking your attraction to her and the fact that she has a nice body for A Love That Will Transcend Time. And, of course, The Crush is never on a woman you actually stand a chance with, or, if you do (which was the case with my iteration of The Crush), you will do something that utterly destroys any chance you have with her. My friend was in the former case, and he decided, in the height of his crush, that every song on Vital Signs reminded him of the girl he liked. Which meant that, for a solid month, it was the only album he played whenever I was around.
Thank god I bought Ride the Lightning by Metallica to bring that to a close.
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Thank goodness I only had The Crush on girls who liked Little Red Corvette.
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Thank goodness I only had The Crush on girls who liked Little Red Corvette.
As they drove by you.
But now, hey, throw it back in their face.
Also, Prince's best music is always when his guitar playing was in the forefront.
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Little Red Corvette was fucking amazing. It was the only song in my time at high school that everyone liked. Didn't matter what your main interest was, everyone liked Little Red Corvette.
That's how it was in Houston too - same for the Thriller album.
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Whoa, you're right! Someone once told me that that was Hasselhoff singing, and since I knew he was a singer, I believed him. I've believed that that was Hoff for a long, long time, but I just Wiki'd it, and yep, that's Jimi Jamison.
Hoff sand the outro credits theme, "Current of Love", which was cheesy as hell. Like, even more than the Baywatch theme, if you can imagine that. :lol
I like High on You. A very safe song, but it's got strong melodies. It's just a consistently good album. I'm much more of a Jamison era fan than a Bickler one. I even love his solo stuff. One of his solo albums even includes a re-record of the Baywatch theme! And so I come full circle.
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Also, it took me way too long to notice the link between "Rap" and "Rapture".
Merciful Zeus!
We're talking 1980-81 here. Rap was known in some circles, all urban, and it didn't even have its own section in the record stores, at least not the ones I went to, being a non-black kid in the suburbs. Blondie had a new song out, and it's cool, but then there's this wacky part where she, like, talks.
Later, we learned that this was called "Rap". Ah... and the song is "Rapture". It all made sense.
My exclamation was due to consternation with myself. I never got the connection until seeing your post!
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Ah, in that case I apologize for going on the defensive. I tend to do that.
Is that a problem??
heh heh
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Men at Work - Who Can It Be Now?
Their other big hit from 1981, I was never overly wild about this one. Not sure why, given that it's catchy enough, and given all of the other stuff I liked back then, I should have dug this one a lot, but I just didn't.
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Down Under was the song that hooked me, but this one was great too. (the entire album was actually pretty good--this was the third album I even purchased, being Queen - The Game and Hall & Oates - Rock and Soul, pt I)
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Like a lot of Australian-born hits, I've just heard this song too many times, too many times.
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Overkill is more where it's at, but still an okay tune
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The first time I ever saw the video for Who Can It Be Now was at about 2AM on a Saturday night, and it may possibly have been when the album actually came out, since it was a while before the video crept out of the night and into the day as a hit. Looking back, I can't really say "wow, it was obvious from the start that these guys were going to be huge" because you could swing a stick and hit about 10 bands that could write quirky songs with catchy choruses on MTV back then. Had the first song MTV played been Down Under, I'm pretty sure my reaction would have been different.
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It's catchy and fun. We used to play this one; it was one of the few "Bob gets a saxophone solo" songs.
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Wait, Who Can It Be Now? was the first Men at Work single/video, not Down Under? Hmmmm, I thought it was the other way around. Then again, that was 32 years ago... :eek :eek :eek
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I can't remember for sure, but I seem to recall it went something like: Who Can It Be Now? was released as the first single/video, and did well enough for them to release a second one, but not quite well enough for most people to really take notice. Then Down Under was released and people took notice, which caused a resurgence in Who Can It Be Now? shortly after. ... And then they released Be Good Johnny, which was still excellent, but didn't make nearly as big a splash. But, yeah, it was a long time ago, and the memory is a bit hazy now.
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Men at Work - Who Can It Be Now?
Overplayed for sure, but still a great song.
Oh, and I want to say that Who Can It Be Now? was the first single too but... fogey brain.
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"Who Can It Be Now?" was definitely the first single.
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:tup
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Boston - Amanda
This was the first song I ever heard by Boston; I liked it right away. It was hard not to love Brad Delp's voice, and the song had a nice melody. It grew off of me a lot once I got into Boston's first two albums and heard the rest of Third Stage, and my love for this song has never really been rekindled, although it is still enjoyable enough.
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If you had a crush on a girl named Amanda when this song came out, like I did, it truly was a fantastic song. Listening to it now, well... it is still enjoyable, if not totally memorable.
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I remember the first time I heard Amanda on the radio, when the DJ said pretty much what I would have in his position. "No, really, it is new Boston. At last!" :lol
Of the first three Boston albums, though, Third Stage is the one, oddly enough, that has aged worst in terms of production values. The first two Boston albums, while recorded in basically a basement by largely one man, sound organic and huge. Third Stage sounds almost plastic in comparison, despite being created in the same way as the first two albums. Not sure why, either.
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Sometimes I think it's a bit cheesy, but it's still a decent song
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Sometimes I think it's a bit cheesy, but it's still a decent song
:iagree: I think they got caught in the everyone-must-do-a-baldly-song trend in the late 80s. Like Carrie, it's not a bad song, but one of my least-liked ones by the band.
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Sometimes I think it's a bit cheesy, but it's still a decent song
:iagree: I think they got caught in the everyone-must-do-a-baldly-song trend in the late 80s. Like Carrie, it's not a bad song, but one of my least-liked ones by the band.
An attempt to distance themselves from hair-metal?
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I absolutely love the harmonies in the Chorus. Whenever that comes on in the car I'm singing my brains out.
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Sometimes I think it's a bit cheesy, but it's still a decent song
:iagree: I think they got caught in the everyone-must-do-a-baldly-song trend in the late 80s. Like Carrie, it's not a bad song, but one of my least-liked ones by the band.
An attempt to distance themselves from hair-metal?
Stupid iPhone autocorrect. "ballady"
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I had a brief crush on a gal named Amanda when this song came out /swoons. Once that crush ended, this song lost some appeal, but it is still a pretty good song. Amanda has always been one of my favorite names, and something I would name my child if it didn't sound silly when said with my last name.
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I absolutely love the harmonies in the Chorus. Whenever that comes on in the car I'm singing my brains out.
Ooh, I bet that is quite a sight! :lol
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I absolutely love the harmonies in the Chorus. Whenever that comes on in the car I'm singing my brains out.
Ooh, I bet that is quite a sight! :lol
You should see me drum on the steering wheel and dash! :lol
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I remember the first time I heard Amanda on the radio, when the DJ said pretty much what I would have in his position. "No, really, it is new Boston. At last!" :lol
Of the first three Boston albums, though, Third Stage is the one, oddly enough, that has aged worst in terms of production values. The first two Boston albums, while recorded in basically a basement by largely one man, sound organic and huge. Third Stage sounds almost plastic in comparison, despite being created in the same way as the first two albums. Not sure why, either.
This is not the kind of post I was looking forward to you from you. :facepalm: I think you spoiled us with the epic Carrie story. :lol :hat
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Yeah, I was hoping he knew an "Amanda" in 1996.
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:lol
Sometimes I think it's a bit cheesy, but it's still a decent song
Totally agreed.
Although, one of my really good friends named her daughter Amanda after the song.
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I remember the first time I heard Amanda on the radio, when the DJ said pretty much what I would have in his position. "No, really, it is new Boston. At last!" :lol
Of the first three Boston albums, though, Third Stage is the one, oddly enough, that has aged worst in terms of production values. The first two Boston albums, while recorded in basically a basement by largely one man, sound organic and huge. Third Stage sounds almost plastic in comparison, despite being created in the same way as the first two albums. Not sure why, either.
This is not the kind of post I was looking forward to you from you. :facepalm: I think you spoiled us with the epic Carrie story. :lol :hat
1986 was one of my calmer years, as it was the year that my circle of friends had spread across the country briefly and I didn't go out much. By 1987, they'd all returned for one reason or another, and I was back to being up to my ears in adventures. :lol
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1986 was one of my calmer years, as it was the year that my circle of friends had spread across the country briefly and I didn't go out much. By 1987, they'd all returned for one reason or another, and I was back to being up to my ears in adventures. :lol
Hehe, I hear ya.
*searches for a 1987 song that could possibly have a great Jaq adventure story*
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Come on Jaq, you at least must have some good puking stories from 1986 down?! :lol
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Actually, I didn't drink for half of 1986 because of a night where I drank far too much grain alcohol and nearly gave myself alcohol poisoning...but that WAS the weekend I bought Third Stage! :lol
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See! I knew it because I was in the same boat. :lol
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:lol
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Okay, a 1987 song it is...
Aerosmith- Angel
Pretty good song; it was my 2nd favorite of the three Permanent Vacation big hits (liked it more than Dude Looks Like Lady, but not as much as Rag Doll). Sounds like a run of the mill 80s ballad to me now, but it does remind me a lot of 8th grade. #nostalgia :coolio
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Sorry, I never really liked that one at all - too cheesy.
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Too cheesy?? Uh, you do remember that this is the 80s thread, right? ;) :lol :biggrin:
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Silly me. :lolpalm:
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Okay, a 1987 song it is...
Aerosmith- Angel
Pretty good song; it was my 2nd favorite of the three Permanent Vacation big hits (liked it more than Dude Looks Like Lady, but not as much as Rag Doll). Sounds like a run of the mill 80s ballad to me now, but it does remind me a lot of 8th grade. #nostalgia :coolio
Kev I was at the concert they filmed for the video. They did 3 takes and it took a 1/2 hour. So the world premier happens on MTV and they used maybe 5 seconds panning the crowd?! WTF?! :lol Dokken opened for them. It was a very good show. I also had fake printed tickets that worked! The only time I did it. I was nervous as all hell.
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Haha, that's great!
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Sadly, I've already blown my 80s Aerosmith story talking about my high school crush who was huge on them back before their more commercial 80s turn, and how she reacted to them when I asked her about it a couple of years ago. :rollin
I could say that there were certain things she did better than Carrie, but let's face it, I'd just be trying to top that damn story and that ain't happening!
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Like Amanda, its on the lower end of the scale on where I'd rank the obligatory ballady song from a late 80s album. Was pretty meh about it, and I still am.
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Mike + the Mechanics - The Living Years
The least best of the three big hits by them, IMO, so naturally it did the best on the pop charts. :lol It's a decent enough song, and I get the widespread appeal it had at the time, but it was never a favorite of mine at all.
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I defy you!
This is a great song. It is a poignant song, deep and personal. Listen to the words, place yourself in the shoes of the man who wrote it, feel the regret, feel the pain. Now, feel the catharsis which comes from writing a song to him, which he of course will never hear (or maybe he will), expressing all the regret and pain.
It did the best of all their songs because it is the best.
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Angel and The Living Years are just okay songs
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The Living Years was fine enough the first time I heard it... before radio ran it into the ground, that is... >.>
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Mike + the Mechanics - The Living Years
The least best of the three big hits by them, IMO, so naturally it did the best on the pop charts. :lol It's a decent enough song, and I get the widespread appeal it had at the time, but it was never a favorite of mine at all.
Great song, great band. I have a greatest hits by them and it's awesome.
Silent Running was their best song though, very underrated.
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What Bob said. I always found it to be a very touching and emotive song.
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What Bob said. I always found it to be a very touching and emotive song.
Same here. I listened to this album a lot and this song but I really haven't listen to them at least a decade plus.
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It's a great song, given a bit more resonance by the unexpected death of a father of a friend of mine mere weeks after it became a hit. Did get a bit overplayed, but there were far worse songs that happened to.
One of the oddities about this song, at least to me, is that a casual listener to the career of Mike Rutherford would go from the heartfelt, emotional Living Years...to the song's antithesis with Genesis and No Son of Mine. :lol
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Like Amanda, its on the lower end of the scale on where I'd rank the obligatory ballady song from a late 80s album. Was pretty meh about it, and I still am.
Not the best Aero-ballad (that would be Janie's Got A Gun or any of the Pump ballads for me) but it's ok.
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Interesting. I never thought of "Janie's Got a Gun" as a ballad. Yeah, it's a slower, mellower song, but I guess the subject content keeps me from thinking of it as a ballad. Technically, a ballad is a specific type of poem in a specific meter, but nowadays it's usually a mellow love song, often from a band not necessarily known for mellow songs. "Janie" is definitely not a love song.
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How is "Janie's Got a Gun" a ballad? :lol
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Well, Janie does fit the traditional definition of a ballad in that it tells a story :lol
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Michael Jackson - Man in the Mirror
I was never a fan of this song really at all, but the song does make me chuckle now because of a friend, Almira, who is often referred to by just Mira (pronounced with a thick accent, almost like Me-da). Well, one day, I jokingly sang the main line of this song by changing "mirror" to "Mira," and she thought it was awesome and that has stuck as one of our running gags. In fact, at a mutual friend's wedding last summer, she requested that song to be played and when it came on, her and another mutual friend ran over and dragged me out to the dance floor because we just had to dance to Man in the Mira. :lol :lol
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Michael Jackson - Man in the Mirror
I was never a fan of this song really at all, but the song does make me chuckle now because of a friend, Almira, who is often referred to by just Mira (pronounced with a thick accent, almost like Me-da). Well, one day, I jokingly sang the main line of this song by changing "mirror" to "Mira," and she thought it was awesome and that has stuck as one of our running gags. In fact, at a mutual friend's wedding last summer, she requested that song to be played and when it came on, her and another mutual friend ran over and dragged me out to the dance floor because we just had to dance to Man in the Mira. :lol :lol
So she made it about getting laid?
:facepalm:
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Haha, no, I think it was more about fitting her "Mira" moniker into the main line of the song, rather than making a lyrical statement. :lol
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No, if it had been one of MY stories, then yeah, it would have been about sex. Because you know how my stories roll. :lol
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No, if it had been one of MY stories, then yeah, it would have been about sex. Because you know how my stories roll. :lol
:rollin :rollin :rollin :tup
As to "Man in the Mirror"? Like Mister Shmev, I was never really a fan of it either. Cute story though. :)
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:tup :tup to the last two posts.
The Motels - Only the Lonely
Nice little song, featuring some nice-sounding 80s synths. MTV played the snot out of this for a while, so I remember the video really well. It really wasn't a notable video by any means, but it is just one I saw a ton.
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The Motels - Only the Lonely
Nice little song, featuring some nice-sounding 80s synths.
Nothing really to add beyond that. Didn't hate it. Didn't love it. It was just a slice of typical, everyday '80s that was there.
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Nice little one hit wonder
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Phil Collins - Two Hearts
While I found the vast majority of his latter 80s hits fairly crappy, even back then at the time, I did like this one a lot. It was catchy, and the video was entertaining, featuring Collins playing every instrument, albeit with wigs, bad clothes and dorky glasses. :lol The song is still catchy enough for me to enjoy it when it comes on, although I never go out of my way to hear it.
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Phil had a minor obsession with Motown music, which sometimes resulted in some good stuff. This one's a bit cheesy, but I guess it's okay. It's a nice, happy song.
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Huey Lewis & the News - The Heart of Rock & Roll
This is the only major hit from Sports I haven't featured yet, so here it is. I loved most of the other hits from this record, but this was one I thought was just okay. Plus, the video wasn't as fun or creative as the others from the same album.
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Huey and Phil are both pure, unadulterated win.
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Once again, another great Huey tune
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The Motels - Only the Lonely
Eh. Was never a fan of it.
Phil Collins - Two Hearts
Yick. *insert _floyd's puking emote here*
Huey Lewis & the News - The Heart of Rock & Roll
I respectfully disagree with Mister Shmev's opinion of this one - I've always LOVED this song. So much so that it's probably my favorite of the hits from Sports. The video was pretty entertaining too, from what I remember.
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Carly Simon - Let the River Run
This is another one of those 80s songs that is impossible to not associate it with the movie it was from, in this case, Working Girl. This apparently was a pretty big hit, but I didn't really know it until I caught the movie on cable TV years later, as MTV either didn't play it much or I simply tuned it out when it came out and didn't remember it. It's not a bad song, but I can't imagine going out of my way to hear it.
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From what I remember this was an okay enough song but... I'm more of a fan of her older music to be honest.
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I didn't think this song existed outside of the movie, and honestly wondered why it had such a bombastic chorus. Bordering on pretentious, actually. :lol
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It was good for it's time, but she has better movie songs ("Nobody Does It Better" comes to mind)
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Peter Gabriel - Big Time
This was my favorite song of his back in the 80s. It wasn't as popular as Sledgehammer, but I always thought it was better, and the video is just as good. That bass line of Tony Levin's is :hefdaddy :hefdaddy.
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Yeah, I definitely liked this one more than Sledgehammer. Really great blend of pop and prog.
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I probably like it as much as Sledgehammer, but In Your Eyes is still his best 80's song
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Peter Gabriel - Big Time
This was my favorite song of his back in the 80s. It wasn't as popular as Sledgehammer, but I always thought it was better, and the video is just as good. That bass line of Tony Levin's is :hefdaddy :hefdaddy.
I wasn't a Peter Grabriel fan at all (still not a fan), but still a great song and cool video.
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I spent months after this song came out saying HI THERE like Peter Gabriel does at the start of this song.
Sorry, that's all I got, I used up my story telling quota over in the Styx thread. :rollin
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Big Time is definitely a more fun song than Sledgehammer. And I think I enjoy it more. Sledgehammer is one of those songs that was made more popular by its video, in the era when that happened. Like Money For Nothing (a good, not great, song, made into a mega-hit by a good video.)
But anyway, yeah, Big Time deserves more love.
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"Big Time" and "Sledgehammer" are both great, and Nick Park's claymation videos were awesome. Win + Win.
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Peter Gabriel - Big Time
[Stewart Copeland] Hi there! [/Stewart Copeland]
I freaking LOVE that song, and that album. :hefdaddy
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Peter Gabriel - Big Time
This was my favorite song of his back in the 80s. It wasn't as popular as Sledgehammer, but I always thought it was better, and the video is just as good. That bass line of Tony Levin's is :hefdaddy :hefdaddy.
I didn't know until now that the bass line was produced by having Tony fret the notes and having then drummer Jarry Marotta hit the strings with drumsticks. Wow.
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Whoa - I didn't know that either. That's COOL. :o
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The Traveling Wilburys - End of the Line
Like Handle with Care, I absolutely loved this song when it was out, and I still do. It's catchy as hell, has a great pace and I love how they rotate vocalists, a different guy doing each verse, Petty doing the choruses while the others do the harmonies, and then finally them rotating on the final verse. Great, great song!!
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Back then, I didn't like it and didn't like the band, primarily because of Orbison. I might have to check it out again. I have a feeling I might feel completely differently about it now.
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At the end of jr high, our principle put together a slideshow of pictures he took that year and played it to some songs. This was one of them. It was very touching, I still think of that today when I hear this song.
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Good song, and a really good album. :metal
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I grew to like this album later, but as I've mentioned before, during my tenure as a seasonal employee at a local record store, it was one of only three officially sanctioned albums that the manager allowed us to play, and while I breathed a sigh of relief when it would come on-the other two were something by Anita Baker and Bobby Brown's Don't Be Cruel, neither of which were my thing-hearing it every day at work wore it out QUICK.
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Between this and Handle With Care, I prefer End of the Line more
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Back then, I didn't like it and didn't like the band, primarily because of Orbison. I might have to check it out again. I have a feeling I might feel completely differently about it now exactly the same.
FFM
Between this and Handle With Care, I prefer to stuff my ears with thumb tacks
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I'm kinda surprised that you guys don't like Roy Orbison. I guess his voice IS kind of an acquired taste, but I've always loved it. I have this disc from 1987 that's basically a 19-songs Orbison "best of" where he completely re-recorded all of the songs. One of my favorite albums, still. That recording of Blue Bayou is amazing, not to mention the duet with k.d. lang on Cryin' from the movie Hiding Out.
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Orbison was a great vocalist, plus he had a great look about him. Kind of like Ray Charles meets Johnny Cash
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The Traveling Wilburys - End of the Line
I love this song, and the first TW album.
I'm kinda surprised that you guys don't like Roy Orbison. I guess his voice IS kind of an acquired taste, but I've always loved it. I have this disc from 1987 that's basically a 19-songs Orbison "best of" where he completely re-recorded all of the songs. One of my favorite albums, still. That recording of Blue Bayou is amazing, not to mention the duet with k.d. lang on Cryin' from the movie Hiding Out.
YES! :heart
Roy O did have a VERY distinctive voice, but he was truly one of a kind. He was originally from Texas too. :coolio
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Jeez, I didn't think it was possible to not love Roy Orbison's voice. ??? Speaking of which...
Roy Orbison - You Got It
Really nice song, one that was released after his death, so I am sure part of its success was due to that, but it was still a really good song, and the video received extensive airplay on MTV. You can really hear the influence of having worked with Jeff Lynne in the music (Lynne being a co-writer and the producer).
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Soon as I read the song, I heard the tympani part from the chorus.
BOM BOM! :lol
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Roy Orbison - You Got It
Love it. It's pretty cool that just about anything Jeff Lynne co-writes/produces turns into gold, but has problems getting that same reaction for anything remotely related to ELO (not the older stuff, I'm talking about what he's tried to put together in about the last 5 years or so).
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U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love)
It seems weird that this song only went to number 33 on the pop charts, given that it was played to death both on radio and MTV; it seemed like a bigger hit than I guess it was. But it helped put U2 on the map, as they had already broken out thanks to the two hits on War and their performance at Live Aid, and Pride (In the Name of Love) kicked them up even a bit more, before they massive uphill surge in 1987. Great song, and one that always sounds great live.
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By this time, Billboard had the separate Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, which is based on radio airplay, and on that one they peaked at #2 with this song, which is a better reflection of rock song success by then. My memory of this album was pretty much it was a one song album to most people, and honestly I can't tell you another song off of it or how the rest of the album even sounds. :lol
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Songs with a great title, and then a more "commercially acceptable" title in parentheses are stupid. "Pride" would be a great name for a song. It is a great name for a song, and he does say it in the song ("they cannot take your pride"). And it is what the song is about.
But the refrain repeats, over and over and over until you want to smash your head in with a brick, "In the naaaame of love!" so they had to include that in the title, in parentheses, because people are stupid and won't buy the single on iTunes unless they know the name of the song. Hell, for that matter, "In the Name of Love" isn't a bad title, either. Why not just call it that?
♫ Stop, in the name of love
♫ Before you break my heart
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Got me started with U2
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U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love)
Still love this one.
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Songs with a great title, and then a more "commercially acceptable" title in parentheses are stupid. "Pride" would be a great name for a song. It is a great name for a song, and he does say it in the song ("they cannot take your pride"). And it is what the song is about.
But the refrain repeats, over and over and over until you want to smash your head in with a brick, "In the naaaame of love!" so they had to include that in the title, in parentheses, because people are stupid and won't buy the single on iTunes unless they know the name of the song. Hell, for that matter, "In the Name of Love" isn't a bad title, either. Why not just call it that?
Dang, U2 really were ahead of their time, considering iTunes didn't come out till 17 years after the song. ;) :lol
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It's true. I read it on the Internet somewhere.
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Great song. I don't get the rant about the title. Whatever...
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It has two titles, one cool, one lame and conventional and in parentheses. I just think it's stupid when bands do that. Almost, but not quite, as stupid as my rant.
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Great song. I don't get the rant about the title. Whatever...
Exactly.
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Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
I know this song was huge, but I think a lot of that had to do with a lot of people thinking it was this huge patriotic song, and with tensions being what they were with Russia at the time, the Cold War and all, I think the song resonated with a lot of people. I never really cared for it and still don't.
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I never really cared for it and still don't.
Same here.
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I never really cared for it and still don't.
Same here.
Same here.
Too damned repetitive.
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I never really cared for it and still don't.
Same here.
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I never really cared for it and still don't.
I'm with ya, dude.
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Big fan of the Boss here, but I've never cared for that song.
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It's just so overrated and really doesn't go anywhere.
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The acoustic demo version (from the Tracks box set) is pretty interesting, very low key and definitely not the stomping arena anthem that it turned into.
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It's just so overrated and really doesn't go anywhere.
:clap:
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Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes
A fun little song, with a video that I enjoyed a lot at the ripe old age of 8. :lol I remember the lady reporter (the one he dances with near the end of the song) being literally my first celebrity crush, if you can call some no-name in a video a celebrity. When she lets her hair down and her clothes look a little disheveled...that is good stuff. :tup :tup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o41A91X5pns
Had to bump this just to point out that I just realized that the version in the video is slightly different than the regular version. The regular version has a more basic drum beat, while the single version, featured in the video, has a more pounding and reverberating drum beat, which I prefer. And thanks to amazon having it, $1.29 later, I have it as well. :lol
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As for Born in the USA, wolf nailed it. It was however, the entrance music for Windham/Rotunda.
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Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes
A fun little song, with a video that I enjoyed a lot at the ripe old age of 8. :lol I remember the lady reporter (the one he dances with near the end of the song) being literally my first celebrity crush, if you can call some no-name in a video a celebrity. When she lets her hair down and her clothes look a little disheveled...that is good stuff. :tup :tup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o41A91X5pns (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o41A91X5pns)
Had to bump this just to point out that I just realized that the version in the video is slightly different than the regular version. The regular version has a more basic drum beat, while the single version, featured in the video, has a more pounding and reverberating drum beat, which I prefer. And thanks to amazon having it, $1.29 later, I have it as well. :lol
No kidding? I never really noticed a difference in the two. :blush
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We should be smacking ourselves for not noticing before.
The video/single version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o41A91X5pns
The regular version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahuKT8jMYTc
The difference is now sooooo obvious. :facepalm: :facepalm: :lol :lol
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Way overrated. There is so much better stuff on that album
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As for Born in the USA, wolf nailed it. It was however, the entrance music for Windham/Rotunda.
LOL.........i used this song as my wrestling entrance when i was 5yrs old and wrestling a neighbourhood punk. Not sure why, I wasn't even remotely born in the USA.
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The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Good song, although not really a Police favorite of mine. This video was played seemingly non-stop in MTV's early days, and it was hard to not take a liking to the band, thanks to their energetic silliness. They were obviously still getting along great at the time. :lol
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^All of that.
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It's my personal favorite of theirs so :hefdaddy
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Fun song, even if MTV's near constant airplay of it kind of wore it out for me. Also, much like U2, you had no idea from this album how big the Police were about to become, albeit briefly, before they imploded. For a while the Police were arguably the biggest band in the world, but you certainly didn't see it coming from this video.
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I really like that one, one of my favs from them.
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INXS - What You Need
I didn't hear this song until I got into the band through the Kick singles, but despite being nutty over nearly everything on that record, What You Need didn't do a whole lot for me. And it never has since then. I guess it's a pretty good song, but it just doesn't do anything for me.
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The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
It's a big enough umbrella
But it's always me that ends up getting wet...
LOVE this song, still. :heart
INXS - What You Need
Kev, I must disagree - this song SMOKES. Always has.
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The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
It's a big enough umbrella
But it's always me that ends up getting wet...
those same lyrics are in two other songs he wrote. "O My God" and "Seven Days" (a cool, fun little song from his Ten Summoner's Tales solo album)
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Oh yeah! I forgot about that. :tup
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INXS - What You Need
I didn't hear this song until I got into the band through the Kick singles, but despite being nutty over nearly everything on that record, What You Need didn't do a whole lot for me. And it never has since then. I guess it's a pretty good song, but it just doesn't do anything for me.
It's my favorite from that album. I love the funky backbeat. Impossible not to move to this one.
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I figured I'd be in the minority on this one. :lol
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Paul McCartney - Spies Like Us
Ah, another song I completely forgot about until seeing it recently on Totally 80s. :lol It seems like quite the oddball song for McCartney, as the song structure is rather unconventional, but it kind of works; it is oddly catchy. The video was quite entertaining, too, featuring Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd (the stars of the movie of the same name).
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Well, I just never liked INXS at all, so no point in making the effort to try to remember how that particular song does.
I have no recollection of Spies Like Us.
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I recall it. It was one of the first things I did with my dad after my parents split up - seeing that movie. Don't really remember it, but I do recall the song. Haven't heard it in eons, but it was a funky little tune.
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As far as the INXS tune goes, very groovy song. I like it
Will have to get back to you about Paul's song, although I remember the movie
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Tony Carey - A Fine, Fine Day
A friend played this song for me the other day and I was like, "OMG, I totally forgot about that song!" Checking out the video, it sort of looks familiar, but I cannot remember how often MTV played it. Fairly catchy song, one that I will have to throw on my 80s playlist to see how well it fits in.
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I have no memory of this song. Nor the video. :lol
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Haha, I thought that, too, when he mentioned the name of the song, but as soon as it started playing, it all started coming back to me and the chorus was kicking back into my subconscious before the song even got to it.
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I have no memory of this song. Nor the video. :lol
wat he sed
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I had to youtube it and I also never heard this song!
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Alrighythen, on to something a bit more familiar:
Billy Joel - Tell Her About It
Another one of Joel's awesomely fun 80s videos. I have said before that Billy Joel was the 70s star who did the best job of taking advantage of the video explosion of the 80s without compromising or selling out at all. He just kept doing his thing, and started making great videos to boot, and Tell Her About It is another great one. The Ed Sullivan Show angle was great, and the Rodney Dangerfield bit was fantastic as well. Great song and video! :coolio
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Can't add anything more than that. Completely agreed
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Paul McCartney - Spies Like Us
Cute song, funny vid from what I remember.
Tony Carey - A Fine, Fine Day
Who?
Billy Joel - Tell Her About It
One of his better 80s songs, for sure.
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Billy Joel in the early 80s especially did pull off the neat trick of remaining pretty much the artist he was in the 70s while adapting to the music video, image heavy era of the 80s with ease. There were some that updated themselves for the decade nicely-ZZ Top comes to mind-and some that more or less re-invented themselves (Bruce Springsteen went from the guy who wrote sprawling epics about the American Dream to a guy cranking out jingoistic claptrap, yeah, I don't like Born in the USA much)-but Billy Joel was just Billy Joel, with music videos. A neat trick.
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Never was a fan of Billy Joel.
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David Bowie - Modern Love
Fun, catchy song, and the video, while enjoyable, was kind of strange to me at first, as I hadn't quite figured out how "out there" David Bowie could get, so his appearance being fairly different from those in Let's Dance and China Girl threw me at first. And when the Blue Jean video came out a year or two later, there was no doubt anymore as to Bowie's weirdness. :lol
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The height, the sheer height, of David Bowie the pop superstar. I always liked how the chorus, lyrically, was a series of apparent tangents that gradually made their way back around to the start. David Bowie has a reputation for being weird and all about re-inventing himself every ten minutes, but the man's a damn clever songwriter, and rarely gets credit for that.
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Modern Love is AWESOME. LOVE that song. :heart :heart :heart :heart
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My favorite song off of Let's Dance
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The height, the sheer height, of David Bowie the pop superstar. I always liked how the chorus, lyrically, was a series of apparent tangents that gradually made their way back around to the start. David Bowie has a reputation for being weird and all about re-inventing himself every ten minutes, but the man's a damn clever songwriter, and rarely gets credit for that.
So true. :hat
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(Bruce Springsteen went from the guy who wrote sprawling epics about the American Dream to a guy cranking out jingoistic claptrap, yeah, I don't like Born in the USA much)
I don't like Springsteen at all, but I think you misunderstood the point of the song.
Lyrically, the song deals with the negative effects of the Vietnam War on Americans, but is often misunderstood to be a patriotic or nationalistic anthem.
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No, I didn't. Compared to what Springsteen used to do-saying the same sort of message with far better songwriting-Born in the USA is jinogistic claptrap. Yes I know what it's about, and how idiots thought it was about something it wasn't, especially Ronald Reagan's campaign managers. But compared to what he was CAPABLE of...claptrap.
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Modern Love is one of my fav Bowie songs.
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When "Modern Love" was released, I knew nothing of David Bowie other than "Let's Dance". I couldn't believe it was the same guy singing both songs.
Both songs are great.
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The Power Station - Some Like It Hot
Decent song, but one that never appealed to me. Every time I hear it, I think of the parody lyric a friend of mine used to do for it: "Some like it hot, so I microwave my cock and balls!" :lol :lol
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Modern Love was a damn good Bowie tune. VERY catchy. Also it was a VERY long time before I realized that SRV did the guitar on Let's Dance.
Some Like it Hot = meh.
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This album's sound pretty much was the blueprint for the rest of Robert Palmer's career, and damn near killed Duran Duran stone dead. My enduring memory of the Power Station wasn't this song, or even their cover of Get It On (Bang A Gong), but, rather, their somewhat hapless appearance at Live Aid. For whatever reason, Robert Palmer wasn't able to make it, so they brought in Michael Des Barres to replace him, and to say it was a mess would be an understatement. (Actually, a LOT of Live Aid was a mess, but people tend to remember the glorious bits like Queen's set.) The way he sang Get It On was particularly hilarious, with his voice oddly warbling on the chorus. "Get itttttttttt onnnnnnnnnnnn, Bannngggggggg a gongggggggggggg"-it sounded like he was sitting in a car driving over a bumpy road and singing at the same time. :lol
This was around the same time that New Coke came out, and failed miserably. I was out one summer night with the usual gang of misfits I ran around with, and one of them had made some rum and coke with New Coke, and we were really less than impressed with it. The New Coke. The rum we were just fine with. The Power Station came on the radio, and I started ragging on their dreadful performance at Live Aid, and imitated how Des Barres had mangled the chorus of Get It On. One of my friends then came up with the brain wave that given how shitty New Coke was, perhaps the Des Barres led Power Station could do commercial jingles for Coke, and sang a sample. "Coke is itttttttttttttttttttt, it's the shitttttttttttttttttttttt, Coke is ittttttttttttttttttttt!"
Ruined a perfectly good shirt, knowing the time likely pastel colored, spitting out my shitty New Coke and rum at that one. :lol
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I will forever associate this song with Rusty's dance club fantasy in European Vacation
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This album's sound pretty much was the blueprint for the rest of Robert Palmer's career, and damn near killed Duran Duran stone dead. My enduring memory of the Power Station wasn't this song, or even their cover of Get It On (Bang A Gong), but, rather, their somewhat hapless appearance at Live Aid. For whatever reason, Robert Palmer wasn't able to make it, so they brought in Michael Des Barres to replace him, and to say it was a mess would be an understatement. (Actually, a LOT of Live Aid was a mess, but people tend to remember the glorious bits like Queen's set.) The way he sang Get It On was particularly hilarious, with his voice oddly warbling on the chorus. "Get itttttttttt onnnnnnnnnnnn, Bannngggggggg a gongggggggggggg"-it sounded like he was sitting in a car driving over a bumpy road and singing at the same time. :lol
This was around the same time that New Coke came out, and failed miserably. I was out one summer night with the usual gang of misfits I ran around with, and one of them had made some rum and coke with New Coke, and we were really less than impressed with it. The New Coke. The rum we were just fine with. The Power Station came on the radio, and I started ragging on their dreadful performance at Live Aid, and imitated how Des Barres had mangled the chorus of Get It On. One of my friends then came up with the brain wave that given how shitty New Coke was, perhaps the Des Barres led Power Station could do commercial jingles for Coke, and sang a sample. "Coke is itttttttttttttttttttt, it's the shitttttttttttttttttttttt, Coke is ittttttttttttttttttttt!"
Ruined a perfectly good shirt, knowing the time likely pastel colored, spitting out my shitty New Coke and rum at that one. :lol
Stellar, as always! :lol :lol :tup :tup
I will forever associate this song with Rusty's dance club fantasy in European Vacation
I don't remember that, but then again, I never liked European Vacation that much. As awesome as the original Vacation and Christmas Vacation are, European is very much of a dog.
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The Power Station - Some Like It Hot
Well, I'm apparently the aberration today - I still really dig this one, MUCH more so than Palmer's solo stuff and some of 80s Duran Duran. :dunno:
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No, I didn't. Compared to what Springsteen used to do-saying the same sort of message with far better songwriting-Born in the USA is jinogistic claptrap. Yes I know what it's about, and how idiots thought it was about something it wasn't, especially Ronald Reagan's campaign managers. But compared to what he was CAPABLE of...claptrap.
Call it "claptrap" all you want. I don't care for the song (or Springsteen in general), but, it's clearly not jingoistic.
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I liked this song when it was out, though I can't imagine listening to it today.
I do recall it from European Vacation (once someone mentioned it), and isn't it in "It's a Trap" when Lando tells Wedge to shoot the Power Station in the middle of the Death Star?
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The Power Station - Some Like It Hot
Decent song, but one that never appealed to me. Every time I hear it, I think of the parody lyric a friend of mine used to do for it: "Some like it hot, so I microwave my cock and balls!" :lol :lol
I loved that album. I also have the second CD that they released 10 years after and it's a rocker. I love it.
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Debbie Gibson - Shake Your Love
This pretty much sounds like your standard 80s pop hit. Catchy enough to have been a hit at the time, but while not awful, not much staying power.
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Her looks have passed the test of time. Her music on the other hand.......
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Ha ha, I was just thinking something along those lines.
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Ha ha, I was just thinking something along those lines.
She really is a stunning woman. But you know us old guys...... :eyebrows:
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these comments are absolutely useless without pics
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When her and Tiffany hit the scene, every teenage boy on the planet wanted to bone both of them. Fortunately for us all, both of them ended up in Playboy in recent years. On the other side of that coin, I can't imagine there was a single guy that wanted to actually listen to any of their music. I mean it's good pop songwriting, for certain and she did have a pretty good voice, so there's that. Haven't heard any of her recent output to see how she sounds nowadays, but I'm sure she sounds great.
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When her and Tiffany hit the scene, every teenage boy on the planet wanted to bone both of them. Fortunately for us all, both of them ended up in Playboy in recent years. On the other side of that coin, I can't imagine there was a single guy that wanted to actually listen to any of their music. I mean it's good pop songwriting, for certain and she did have a pretty good voice, so there's that. Haven't heard any of her recent output to see how she sounds nowadays, but I'm sure she sounds great.
All of that.
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I liked Tiffany more than Deborah
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Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
Somehow, this song spent three weeks at number 1 on the pop charts. I guess it shouldn't be surprised given the nature of the song, but listening to it now, it's like, "Really?"
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I had the same reaction going back and watching old G.I. Joe cartoons on Hub recently. I was like "Why am I watching this and why did I ever, because wow this is some extremely ridiculously dialogued stuff." I guess the same case could be made for Rock Me Amadeus. Even though it's kinda dated and facepalm-worthy, there's still something oddly catchy about it.
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Just a really odd song
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I had the same reaction going back and watching old G.I. Joe cartoons on Hub recently. I was like "Why am I watching this and why did I ever, because wow this is some extremely ridiculously dialogued stuff." I guess the same case could be made for Rock Me Amadeus. Even though it's kinda dated and facepalm-worthy, there's still something oddly catchy about it.
:lol Perfect description.
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Coz nailed it. We could also rhyme off The A-Team and Knight Rider as part of the pop-culture that was "what the fuck were we thinking".
Plus, mullets.
I dug this song 25 years ago, but now, I'm not sure why. And I certainly only tolerate it now for nostalgic reasons.
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The video helped a lot. The idea of a classical composer being hailed as some kind of badass by biker dudes is awesome.
I always liked the song anyway, probably because Mozart is one of my favorite composers, but also because it's catchy and fun. What's not to love?
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Coz nailed it. We could also rhyme off The A-Team and Knight Rider as part of the pop-culture that was "what the fuck were we thinking".
What? I still love to stay up late and sit there at 2:00 a.m. in nothing but my red, white & blue boxers watching the A-Team while cleaning my guns.
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I was a much bigger fan of Knight Rider than I was of The A-Team, but I caught an old Knight Rider episode on cable somewhat recently and was amazed at how absurd it was.
Fun fact about it, though: the voice of Kitt was by the same actor who played Benjamin's father in The Graduate.
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Well, while on the momentary 80's TV tangent, I REALLY would like to go pick up a Miami Vice box set. Something tells me that I would still enjoy those.
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Well, while on the momentary 80's TV tangent, I REALLY would like to go pick up a white or pastel colored Miami Vice suit and slip on shoes to wear with no socks. Something tells me that I would still enjoy those.
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That too.
Seriously.
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I was a much bigger fan of Knight Rider than I was of The A-Team, but I caught an old Knight Rider episode on cable somewhat recently and was amazed at how absurd it was.
Fun fact about it, though: the voice of Kitt was by the same actor who played Benjamin's father in The Graduate.
I think of him as Mr. Feeny from Boy Meets World. Or as Dr. Craig on St. Elsewhere.
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Well, while on the momentary 80's TV tangent, I REALLY would like to go pick up a white or pastel colored Miami Vice suit and slip on shoes to wear with no socks. Something tells me that I would still enjoy those.
What do you think I was wearing during most of my adventures from this thread? :lol
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Seriously, I had the rolled up suit sleeves and all. :lol
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I was a much bigger fan of Knight Rider than I was of The A-Team, but I caught an old Knight Rider episode on cable somewhat recently and was amazed at how absurd it was.
Fun fact about it, though: the voice of Kitt was by the same actor who played Benjamin's father in The Graduate.
I think of him as Mr. Feeny from Boy Meets World. Or as Dr. Craig on St. Elsewhere.
I think of him as William Daniels. He's been around for a while, certainly long enough for people to know his name.
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Debbie Gibson - Shake Your Love
Debbie Gibson, Tiffany, Rick Astley, Diet Coke, "mall culture" and Jimi Hendrix - all brought to you by a VERY NSFW Bill Hicks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-zhfWDzUtE)
:xbones
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
Ooo, rock me I'm a danish! :lol
Yeah.... how did this dreck ever make it to #1?
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Not 80s, but I have to say I'm amazed MTV actually played this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0wnd8B6O_I
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Well, it WAS on Alternative Nation... :lol
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Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
Pass. This song was huge, largely because it appealed to both men and women, but I never cared for it. Sure, the main guitar melody is really cool, but Axl Rose's vocals just kill this song. There are some GNR songs where he sounds pretty good, but this is not one of them. I remember MTV playing this video seemingly every 20 minutes for months when it was first out. :lol :lol
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Still love the song to pieces
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Classic. Timeless. Awesome. This album is where it's at. There's a reason it's such a huge selling album. I got to see a stripper dance to this song. Which is something you could potentially say about every song on the album. Great tune and any time it comes out at a gig, a bar, or a party, people seem to love it.
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Great song from one of the best hard rock albums of all time. Also one of the highest selling thanks largely to this song (and the rest of the iconic hits, of course).
So many memorable bass leads and fills throughout the song, killer guitar solo and leads, and one of those crazy good vocals that I've only ever heard a few people do justice to. Not just the huge range, but the melodies too. Even tuned way down, everyone seems to fall flat on their face attempting it.
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THE rock album of the 80s. I almost don't like to listen to it anymore because of the sheer potential this band had and how Axl squandered every bit of it, but when Appetite came out, it was like a thunderbolt from heaven that blew away all the bad hair metal that was starting to accumulate and made rock and roll exciting and dangerous again. Even the nominal balladry of Sweet Child O' Mine kicked your teeth down your throat. Man, what could have been.
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Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
Pass. This song was huge, largely because it appealed to both men and women, but I never cared for it. Sure, the main guitar melody is really cool, but Axl Rose's vocals just kill this song. There are some GNR songs where he sounds pretty good, but this is not one of them. I remember MTV playing this video seemingly every 20 minutes for months when it was first out. :lol :lol
I know a lot of people like this song, but Kev pretty much summed this up for me. Axl's voice works for me sometimes, but this is not one of the times. He just sounds whiny and annoying. And let's face it: the break comes out of nowhere and is completely stupid. A good break might possibly have saved this song, but instead it's the last nail.
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Well, at least someone agrees with me on this one. :lol :lol :tup :tup
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Paula Abdul - Straight Up
Ick. More bubblegum 80s pop that not only did nothing for me at the time, but has aged pretty badly. It sure doesn't help that her normal singing voice sounds like that of an 11-year old who is grating on your nerves merely by opening their mouth. :lol :lol
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At the time, it wasn't her voice that I wanted to nail, so that didn't bother me much. :lol
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It's harmless, and it's catchy with that slide-whistle synth patch or whatever the hell it is.
But most importantly, Paula was hot, the deadly cute kind of hot. She was one of the reasons I started watching MTV with the sound off.
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If there was a straight man in the 80s who said they didn't want to nail Paul Abdul, they were lying. :lol
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If there was a straight man in the 80s who said they didn't want to nail Paul Abdul, they were lying. :lol
You could likely say the same about the 90's and Mariah Carey.
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Paula Abdul was my first pre-teen/teenage crush. Good lord, was she hot!
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Definitely a hottie, and yeah, the song was alright
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If there was a straight man in the 80s who said they didn't want to nail Paul Abdul, they were lying. :lol
You could likely say the same about the 90's and Mariah Carey.
And the 00s and Britney Spears (pre-meltdown/shaved head).
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If there was a straight man in the 80s who said they didn't want to nail Paul Abdul, they were lying. :lol
You could likely say the same about the 90's and Mariah Carey.
Well, here's one who never considered Mariah Carey much to write home about.
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Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
Never liked this song, or AFD. I've tried too.
Paula Abdul - Straight Up
Eeeehh... no thanks.
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But was she hot? :P
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:lol
Arsenio Hall sure bragged about banging her so... yeah, back in the day she was pretty hot.
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:lol
Arsenio Hall sure bragged about banging her so... yeah, back in the day she was pretty hot.
So that's where he got the "Wup wup wup" fist swing then.
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If there was a straight man in the 80s who said they didn't want to nail Paul Abdul, they were lying. :lol
You could likely say the same about the 90's and Mariah Carey.
Well, here's one who never considered Mariah Carey much to write home about.
Well, I am pretty sure she was the kind of girl you'd bang and not tell your mom about, so I don't disagree. :hat
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Maybe I don't understand. I'd have banged her and told anyone who would listen. :lol
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Same here
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"Dear Mom,
Hooked up with Mariah Carey after the MTV thing last night. Damn! Five times, and that's not counting all the times she... oh sorry, ha ha, got carried away a little.
Anyway, I'll see you at Thansksigiving.
Love ya,
Coz"
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(https://executivetrusteetraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/like-a-boss.jpg)
She better look like being happy for me.
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I was a much bigger fan of Knight Rider than I was of The A-Team, but I caught an old Knight Rider episode on cable somewhat recently and was amazed at how absurd it was.
Fun fact about it, though: the voice of Kitt was by the same actor who played Benjamin's father in The Graduate.
I think of him as Mr. Feeny from Boy Meets World. Or as Dr. Craig on St. Elsewhere.
I think of him as William Daniels. He's been around for a while, certainly long enough for people to know his name.
Yeah, but then I get him confused with Anthony Daniels and start thinking that KITT was the voice of C3PO.
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Anthony Daniels is the one I tend to forget. I've been a William Daniels fan since I was 10 years old; I'd recognize his voice anywhere. The first Star Wars movie didn't come out until five years later, and I didn't even know Anthony Daniels' name until many, many years later. And of course there's no way to confuse the two voices anyway.
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"Dear Mom,
Hooked up with Mariah Carey after the MTV thing last night. Damn! Five times, and that's not counting all the times she... oh sorry, ha ha, got carried away a little.
Anyway, I'll see you at Thansksigiving.
Love ya,
Coz"
:rollin :rollin :rollin
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Well-played, Orbert. :tup :tup :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
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That sounds like something I might write, actually.
[CSB]Many years ago, when my brother and his wife were stil dating, she and her family had gone on vacation in Florida. My brother and his friend had decided "Hey, neither of us have anything to do tonight, neither of us have to work tomorrow, let's inexplicably drive to Florida and pay them a visit." Just out of the clear blue, a desire to do something out of the ordinary. They gassed up and hit the road within a half hour. My parents weren't home to dissuade said road trip. I left them a note:
I'm at Tina's, Chris and Derek went to Florida. Be home later.
Coz
Many lulz were had by my brother and I when he returned home and found out about the note I left them and the "WTF" that ensued when my parents got it. :lol[/CSB]
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Paula Abdul - Straight Up
Ick. More bubblegum 80s pop that not only did nothing for me at the time, but has aged pretty badly. It sure doesn't help that her normal singing voice sounds like that of an 11-year old who is grating on your nerves merely by opening their mouth. :lol :lol
This song used to play all the time at the bowling alley / arcade we used to hang out at in high school. I kinda liked it.
The other day I was listening to JLB's Static Impulse and there's a song on there (I can't remember which one at the moment) that has a melody that suddenly reminded me of "Straight Up". Bizarre coincidence.
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Roxette - The Look
My favorite song of theirs was from 1991 (Fading Like a Flower), but this was one was enjoyable enough. Forgettable video, though.
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Wow, I figured this song was well-known enough to get a few comments. ???
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It's actually a really cool song. I've always liked it and I always thought Roxette had a pretty cool vibe in general.
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I had a dream one time, my wife and I were at some kind of convention. Huge hall, thousands of people, and we somehow got separated. They had the bad piped-in music really loud. "The Look" by Roxette was playing. So I'm trying to find my wife in this huge crowd, and my ears are being bombarded the whole time by
♫♫ Na na na na na
♫♫ Na na na na na
♫♫ Na na na na na, na na
♫♫ Na na na na na
♫♫ Na na na na na
♫♫ Na na na na na
♫♫ Na na na na na
♫♫ She's got The Look
That one part of the song kept playing over and over. I awoke feeling very angry and frustrated. Also, I now hate that song.
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I don't really listen to Roxette anymore, but I remember it being a cool song
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Roxette - The Look
It's okay - nothing especially special.
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Time for a big ball of cheese!!
Nelson - (Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection
This song just reeks of cheese, but it is annoyingly catchy. I say annoyingly because it is probably a song you should hate with the fire of a thousand suns, but it is just catchy enough to make you kind of enjoy it. Sometimes. :lol :lol
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Aw jeez... really? :lol
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I just listened to this album yesterday, actually. One of my "go to" wimpy albums. Really strong album, although definitely a layer of cheese on it (which is fine by me, as cheese is delicious! :biggrin: )
Even though this was the biggest hit of the album, it's not one of the better ones from the album. Still good and catchy with those trademark Nelson harmonies, but not a stand-out on the album.
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I admit to enjoying it when it first came out. Catchy and harmless
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This song rocks.
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Catchy song from a catchy album.
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I always liked it.
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I like it so much, I will still roll down the window on a summer day and unashamedly blast it for all the unsuspecting drivers in other vehicles to be made to listen to, whilst I sing along (in harmony).
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I like it so much, I will still roll down the window on a summer day and unashamedly blast it for all the unsuspecting drivers in other vehicles to be made to listen to, whilst I sing along (in harmony).
Well if it was going to be anybody here... :rollin
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I like it so much, I will still roll down the window on a summer day and unashamedly blast it for all the unsuspecting drivers in other vehicles to be made to listen to, whilst I sing along (in harmony).
Well if it was going to be anybody here... :rollin
(https://24.media.tumblr.com/942c1c881a46bacd0af79bbcb12c2ffe/tumblr_mlpmuzatTB1ql45tto1_400.jpg)
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:tup
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I like it so much, I will still roll down the window on a summer day and unashamedly blast it for all the unsuspecting drivers in other vehicles to be made to listen to, whilst I sing along (in harmony).
:rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
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I like it so much, I will still roll down the window on a summer day and unashamedly blast it for all the unsuspecting drivers in other vehicles to be made to listen to, whilst I sing along (in harmony).
:lol :lol :lol
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The Fixx - Saved by Zero
This was the other Fixx song that I thought was great back in the day (along with Stand or Fall, which was already featured). I love the rhythmic nature of it, and I like how the guitar is in lock and step with the rhythm for pretty much the whole song. I had zero recollection of the video before checking it out just now, and it looked sort of familiar, but nothing special or anything.
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FINALLY, after such a long string a bad songs, a song I can finally say rises to the level of, "eh, I guess I wouldn't change the channel if it came on, but don't hate on me too much if I have a tendency to doze a bit."
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The Fixx had some cool, catchy songs, and this was one of them. I like.
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I just saw them live in April and they played this song. I've always loved The Fixx. They have a bit of prog in them with pop sensibility. Great tune.
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I've only really heard One Thing Leads to Another by them. Will maybe have to remedy that
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FINALLY, after such a long string a bad songs, a song I can finally say rises to the level of, "eh, I guess I wouldn't change the channel if it came on, but don't hate on me too much if I have a tendency to doze a bit."
Hehe, well, I have done around 350+ songs in this thread now, and I think I have done most of the major ones that people here are most likely to like a lot, so I am kind of scraping the bottom of the barrel at times just to keep the thread going.
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You've even went outside the decade. The Nelson tune came out in 1990 :lol
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The Fixx - Saved by Zero
LOVE that song, and the album it's on. I was pleasantly surprised at how good it holds up when I listened to it recently.
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The Fixx - Saved by Zero
LOVE that song, and the album it's on. I was pleasantly surprised at how good it holds up when I listened to it recently.
And they still sound damn good live. Ty still has his voice and is an awesome front man.
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CY, you mean? ;)
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Oops! Yes Cy. Why the hell did I type that. LOL
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:lol
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You've even went outside the decade. The Nelson tune came out in 1990 :lol
True, but I think the song is actually from 1989, even though it was a hit in 1990. Besides, it sounds totally 80s, so, uh, yeah. :lol
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Thread resurrection!!!!!!!!!!!
Def Leppard - Rock of Ages
My least favorite of the three big MTV hits from Pyromania, but it's still a good tune. It just wasn't as good as the other two, and it has aged as well as the others, too: still a good song, but not as good as I thought it was back then.
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Great tune. I remember when "Cum On Feel The Noize" ruled Friday Night Video Fights for weeks on end. It was glorious. Then one night, it went up against "Rock of Ages". I didn't even bother to stay up to see how it ended.
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Ah, the good ole Friday Night Video Fights. I remember Photograph dominating for like 10+ weeks back in '83. I can't even remember if it was ever defeated, or if they just eventually "retired it" from competition and started over with two new videos. But yeah, Def Leppard was mad over with the MTV crowd even back then, which was nothing compared to 1987, when the whole world was seemingly worshipping at the feet of Hysteria (although not Women, which flopped as the first single).
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Pretty low on my list of DL singles. So the aging drop-off is not steep, since it wasn't high to begin with.
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Thread resurrection!!!!!!!!!!!
Def Leppard - Rock of Ages
My least favorite of the three big MTV hits from Pyromania, but it's still a good tune. It just wasn't as good as the other two, and it has aged as well as the others, too: still a good song, but not as good as I thought it was back then.
This is where it all started for young bosk. Yes, I had dabbled in hard rock before this. But then I saw this video and my reaction was:
"This is the coolest thing I have ever seen."
:icwomangs:
Oh, and:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRSHAP0HNrM
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Pyromania was just so solid top to bottom.
Ohntun gleebin gloutin globun.
(and then the real reason there must be MOAR COWBELL!!!!)
It's better to burn out, than to fade away (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bOKsOveYD0)
:tup :tup on today's entry. Thanks for the resurrection Kev (I'll selfishly take an assist)
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I could never get into Def Leppard. Their songs weren't bad, I guess, but I really hated that overproduced, pushing-the-redline sound. The vocals especially sound distorted to me.
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I know what you mean, Orbert. I think that was the Queen influence, those layered harmonies, but while Queen's sounded lush and like a big choir of voices, Def Leppard's often sounded overproduced and, like you said, distorted. It probably didn't help that no one in Def Leppard could sing as well as the guys from Queen. I always chuckle at Tie Your Mother Down at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. Brian May sounds better singing the first verse of that song than Joe Elliot does singing the rest of it.
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Oh hey it's my thread again. :lol
Sadly, I was a few years before my adventuring days when Pyromania was out, so I can't bring out one of my stories to celebrate the return of the thread though. Pyromania is a classic, though, and Rock of Ages is just a killer rock anthem type song. Audience loved it when I saw them WAY back when on this tour.
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Ah, the good ole Friday Night Video Fights. I remember Photograph dominating for like 10+ weeks back in '83. I can't even remember if it was ever defeated, or if they just eventually "retired it" from competition and started over with two new videos. But yeah, Def Leppard was mad over with the MTV crowd even back then, which was nothing compared to 1987, when the whole world was seemingly worshipping at the feet of Hysteria (although not Women, which flopped as the first single).
Love the album but this is one song I just don't want to hear again.
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Talk Talk - It's My Life
I have to admit that I had completely forgotten about this song until recently. I never paid much attention to it back when it was popular, but it was on enough to where it was recognizable. When I heard it a few weeks ago, for the first time in probably nearly 30 years, I was like, "Oh yeah, I remember that." It's an enjoyable enough tune, albeit not really noteworthy.
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Def Leppard - Rock of Ages
Still a-rollin'
Rock and rollin'
We got the power
Got the glory
Just say you need it
and when you need it say YEAH! :metal
I've listened to this one I don't know HOW many times. Still a damn good song, I tell you what.
It's better to burn out, than to fade away (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bOKsOveYD0)
AW YEAH! :hefdaddy
Talk Talk - It's My Life
After Rock of Ages?! :lol ;) Yet another mediocre 80s song that got way too much attention.
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Eh, I like the No Doubt cover though
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Aren't Talk Talk, for who only knows why, one of the grandfathers of post-rock? :-\
Invoking the old "no story, it sucks" rule here. :lol
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Invoking the old "no story, it sucks" rule here. :lol
Seems like a good rule.
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Aren't Talk Talk, for who only knows why, one of the grandfathers of post-rock? :-\
Invoking the old "no story, it sucks" rule here. :lol
I call shenanigans. I know there's some kind of story in one of those "no story, it sucks" rules!! :lol
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Van Halen - Dreams
Love this song; definitely one of my favorites of the Hagar era. But I was never quite sure back then why they did a video featuring the Blue Angels. Seemed odd, considering none of the other songs from 5150 had a proper video.
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I agree, definitely a Hagar-era highlight. :metal
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One of my Van Hagar favourites too. :tup Excellent album all around.
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I always wondered about that video too. It was almost as if the Blue Angels made the video and MTV played it as Van Halen's. Dreams is one of the songs I like to point to when people say things got bad when Roth left, because there's no fucking way Van Halen could have done that song with Roth in the band.
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as everyone has said, great Van Hagar song
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Dreams would be tied with Human Beings as my favorite Van Hagar song.
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One of VH's best - with or without Roth. Personally, I like the Hagar era better, but that's just me.
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One of my all time favorite VH songs. Such a great vocal.
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Mötley Crüe - Home Sweet Home
Decent enough song, but I was never a huge fan of it. But the video was played to death, and the MTV crowd just ate it up. Interestingly, it was not that big of a hit on the pop charts, which I guess shows how massive MTV play did not always guarantee you a big hit on the charts. But, back to the song, I do like how the piano starts the song and then comes back at the end; that is a nice touch.
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My enduring memory of this song will always be how Tommy Lee placed very highly-I want to say top five-in Circus Magazine's year end readers poll as "best keyboardist." And as all he played was the piano on Home Sweet Home... :rollin
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:rollin :rollin :rollin
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My enduring memory of this song will always be how Tommy Lee placed very highly-I want to say top five-in Circus Magazine's year end readers poll as "best keyboardist." And as all he played was the piano on Home Sweet Home... :rollin
Circus Magazine
Well, there you go. :P
I take your point, though. Since he did technically play "keyboards" on that album, he's eligible, and since they were quite popular at the time, he was bound to get a lot of votes. But yeah, it's pretty silly.
Reminds me of the old Playboy Magazine Music Polls, which otherwise were actually very good. Billy Joel and Elton John always did really well as "Best Keyboardist" and screwed up the rankings with true keyboardists like Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman. Nothing against Billy or Elton, they're both immensely talented, but they're pianists, not keyboardists, and yes there is a difference. It didn't take long for Playboy to add the category "Best Pianist" to keep things sorted (and from which point Elton and Billy constantly beat each other up for Best Pianist while Keith and Rick beat each other up for Best Keyboardist).
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I love the song, although mostly the Decade of Decadence version. The original version sounds cheesier (relatively speaking) with the synth piano, the drum sound, and Vince Neill's pitchier (again, relatively speaking) vocals.
A fun and easy song to play on piano too, which is probably why their drummer can do it. :lol
My enduring memory of this song will always be how Tommy Lee placed very highly-I want to say top five-in Circus Magazine's year end readers poll as "best keyboardist." And as all he played was the piano on Home Sweet Home... :rollin
Slow year, huh? :lolpalm:
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I think I remember Eddie Van Halen doing well a few years in the Best Keyboard polls in certain magazines, too. :lol :lol
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[nosurprise]My memory of that video is the part where the chick's on the someone's shoulders and someone from behind starts to lift her shirt and just before the reveal, it switches to Tommy with his eyes all wide. Every time I watch it, I think "It's gonna happen this time, I just know it". Then there's Tommy's face. :tdwn [/nosurprise]
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[nosurprise]My memory of that video is the part where the chick's on the someone's shoulders and someone from behind starts to lift her shirt and just before the reveal, it switches to Tommy with his eyes all wide. Every time I watch it, I think "It's gonna happen this time, I just know it". Then there's Tommy's face. :tdwn [/nosurprise]
^This. Great little power ballad though. Motley's first too I would suspect. Theatre of Pain is an otherwise forgettable album.
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I think I remember Eddie Van Halen doing well a few years in the Best Keyboard polls in certain magazines, too. :lol :lol
At least he did a few notable songs on keys (and did a good job on the few he did), so it's not quite as bad as Tommy Lee, but it was the '80s! There were a ton of bands with prominent full-time keyboardists to choose from!
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I remember Geddy doing pretty well in the keyboardists rankings for a while, which was pretty cool since he tended to do really well in the bassist rankings as well. But better than Wakeman or Emerson, or even Geoff Downes from Asia?
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I think I remember Eddie Van Halen doing well a few years in the Best Keyboard polls in certain magazines, too. :lol :lol
Yeah, he was a consistent winner in the Circus poll post-1984-replacing Geddy Lee as Orbert mentioned. The Circus poll was a little on the whacky side on its best years, but once it transitioned into largely a metal magazine, keyboardist votes tended to go to guys who moonlighted at the position rather than actual keyboardists. The Tommy Lee thing was horrible even by those standards.
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Stryper - Calling On You
IIRC, this was the song that introduced me to Stryper, and I have to admit that this song sounded pretty awesome to my ears back in 1987. The video was played to death on MTV (like all of their videos in the later 80s), so if you were an MTV watcher back then, there was no way to avoid it. Still a good tune, although I can no longer listen to Stryper without it being oh so obvious how much Michael Sweet was trying to sound like Dennis DeYoung. :lol
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After owning the white vinyl version of Soldiers Under Command, I owned the original "controversial" first cover of To Hell With The Devil, which featured a group of angels beating up on a demon that looked like...your average metal head. Down to the Randy Rhoads model Jackson guitar he held in one hand. :lol I like to think someone eventually saw the cover and said "for fuck's sake, guys, you're selling albums to people who look like this, what the hell are you doing?" and the album was changed to a plain black sleeve. So it looked like Spinal Tap. :lol I really liked Stryper, though, as they were a pretty talented melodic metal band, but the second Honestly broke big the writing was on the wall for me with them. Calling On You was catchy enough that a carload of drunk metalheads would sing along with it, especially the end...as me and my friends did fairly often.
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Yep, the ending was easy to want to sing along to.
I liked Honestly a lot, too, and I have to admit that when a girlfriend and I went to my cousin's wedding a few years later, that was the song we requested to slow dance to. :biggrin:
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For some unknown reason, Stryper never hit my listening radar back then. And I've never made the effort to rectify that.
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For some unknown reason, Stryper never hit my listening radar back then. And I've never made the effort to rectify that.
All of this.
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Calling On You is awesome. I got to see them do this at M3 last year and it's no surprise that Oz Fox sings the first line of the chorus live. Undoubtedly Michael Sweet is winded by that point. :lol They put on one hell of a show, despite it having been a very short set.
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Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
I think this was the one song by them I actually liked at the time when it was first out. It has aged well, too. Good tune.
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It would appear this thread is 'enjoying the silence' with that pick
Honestly, don't know the tune.
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I don't mind this one. One of their better singles but wasn't played much here in Australia. Actually Depeche Mode never really took off here. I Just Can't Get Enough was a smash, but that was pretty much it.
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Survivor - Burning Heart
I was a huge fan of this song in 1985, as we were all big fans of the Rocky movies, and this was the main song to Rocky IV, so we almost had to love the song, right? I can't say it has aged that well for me, but I still always think of Ivan Drago every time I hear it. :lol :lol
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It's definitely not aged well, but then neither has Rocky IV. We were a handful of years from the end of the Cold War, and honestly the writing was already on the wall for the end of it, we just didn't quite realize it. So it's a bit of an anachronism in a lot of ways. The video, as I recall, was one of those "band plays song interspersed with clips from the movie" things, which meant there was a LOT of punching in it. :lol
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Yeah, the luster from this one is long gone. I still have it on one of my workout playlists for nostalgic purposes. Otherwise, I doubt it would get any playtime at all.
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The Training Montage song from the Rocky IV soundtrack (it plays during Rocky's first extended workout session in Russia, before Adrian shows up) is a phenomenal workout tune. It's guaranteed to get you pumped up and sweating like mad.
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The Training Montage song from the Rocky IV soundtrack (it plays during Rocky's first extended workout session in Russia, before Adrian shows up) is a phenomenal workout tune. It's guaranteed to get you pumped up and sweating like mad.
You mean the instrumental diddy by Vince DiCola? He also did the Transformers cartoon movie soundtrack the year after that, which sounds just like it. :lol Lots of '80s proggy stuff with synth leads and changing time sigs on that one.
As for Burning Heart, it's ok. Fits right in with the style of Vital Signs. Good, but nothing standout. I've only seen the movie once or twice, so I don't know it too well considering how much I'm into their other stuff from that period.
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The video, as I recall, was one of those "band plays song interspersed with clips from the movie" things, which meant there was a LOT of punching in it. :lol
Haha, pretty much. That was the standard 80s "song from a movie" video: constant clips from the movie jumping out at you in between shots of the band. :lol
The Training Montage song from the Rocky IV soundtrack (it plays during Rocky's first extended workout session in Russia, before Adrian shows up) is a phenomenal workout tune. It's guaranteed to get you pumped up and sweating like mad.
You mean the instrumental diddy by Vince DiCola?
Yes. He also did the one called War, which is the music that plays during the rounds 3-14 montage.
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Survivor was so far off my radar back then that I can honestly say I hadn't ever heard this song until a few minutes ago when I fired up their video on Youtube. Yea, still not my cup of tea but their lead vocalist sure has a clear and powerful voice! :omg:
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Survivor was so far off my radar back then that I can honestly say I hadn't ever heard this song until a few minutes ago when I fired up their video on Youtube. Yea, still not my cup of tea but their lead vocalist sure has a clear and powerful voice! :omg:
Jimi Jamison does have a great voice. :tup So good that I'll even let him off the hook for also singing the Baywatch theme (which is even cheesier, but has even better vocals).
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I didn't know that song was used for Rocky IV, but then I've never seen it all the way through. It's definitely not Eye Of The Tiger
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I didn't know that song was used for Rocky IV, but then I've never seen it all the way through. It's definitely not Eye Of The Tiger
No, it definitely isn't.
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Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
Honestly, don't know the tune.
wait, really!? This was a huge hit for them.
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Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
Honestly, don't know the tune.
wait, really!? This was a huge hit for them.
I was wondering that, too. I mean this is called the "MTV in the 80s Song of the Day" thread, the emphasis mostly being on songs that were played a lot of MTV, and if you were an MTV viewer in the 80s, I don't know how you could have missed that song. ???
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Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
Honestly, don't know the tune.
wait, really!? This was a huge hit for them.
I was wondering that, too. I mean this is called the "MTV in the 80s Song of the Day" thread, the emphasis mostly being on songs that were played a lot of MTV, and if you were an MTV viewer in the 80s, I don't know how you could have missed that song. ???
MTV = US.
Don't recall it being on MuchMusic up here. Plus, wasn't a fan of Depeche Mode at all, so if it ever did come on (radio or tv), it was sure to get an instant channel/station change.
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Love Enjoy the Silence
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I'll back Chad up a bit here. I know and like the tune, but as I said in Australia this wasn't a hit and was never played. There wouldn't be many people here that would know the song unless they are a fan of the band.
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Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
I think this was the one song by them I actually liked at the time when it was first out. It has aged well, too. Good tune.
OH yes - hell of a song there. Which is funny, considering how "against" Depeche Mode I was in high school - our group used to call them Douche Commode. :lol :lol :lol
Almost forgot - Failure did a BANG UP cover of it, too.
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Rocky 4 is my favorite from the series. Love the Rocky soundtrack, but not the material from part 5. Too much rap shit.
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Billy Joel - Pressure
Really good song, one of his better hits in the 80s, and a very cool video that was played to death by MTV in '82. Like I have said before, Joel was one of the few 70s stars who managed to take advantage of the video age of the 80s without changing his sound or style much at all. Very cool live song, too, especially the way the lights and lasers move to the main keyboard lead.
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No one??
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For months after this song came out, I would randomly just yell "PRESSURE!" during times of stress. Strange the things that stick to you about music. :rollin
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The song was catchy, but honestly, I thought it was rather annoying. Billy's a great songwriter, but most of his later hits just don't work for me. It might just be because they were so damned overplayed. My wife has some of his albums from the 90's, and I like some of the album tracks. They're good songs that I haven't heard a thousand times.
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This is another one I don't know/remember
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For months after this song came out, I would randomly just yell "PRESSURE!" during times of stress. Strange the things that stick to you about music. :rollin
:lol :lol
The song was catchy, but honestly, I thought it was rather annoying.
You sound like my mom. She loves most of his hits, but doesn't like this one at all, mostly because of that keyboard lead.
This is another one I don't know/remember
:eek :eek :eek
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Dokken - Heaven Sent
Another example of a song that if you just watched MTV, you would have thought it was a monster hit, as they played the shit out of this video, but if my memory serves me correctly, this song failed to make any dent on the pop chart. I was a fan of the song, and while I don't really remember the video that much, I remember liking it, too. Very cool mellow song, and one that managed to kick ass by being mellow yet not cheesy at all, not always easy for those 80s bands of similar ilk to pull off. :lol
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The song was catchy, but honestly, I thought it was rather annoying.
You sound like my mom. She loves most of his hits, but doesn't like this one at all, mostly because of that keyboard lead.
Please post pics of your mom. She sounds hot.
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I've said before that Dokken was a band which had far less ACTUAL success than their presence on MTV led you to believe, and here's another bit of proof of that theory. :lol
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Dokken was not a band I followed back in the day. Tried a few albums after Coz gave me a song of theirs in my roulette. Good stuff, but wasn't compelled to go whole hog into them like I have other bands of late.
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I can't help but think of that song without thinking of the transition into Mr. Scary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkVW1pHs0LY). If you aren't familiar, do yourself a HUGE favor and click the link. In fact, even if you ARE familiar, do yourself a HUGE favor and click the link. Do it.
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Heaven Sent is a good example of why I like George Lynch so much. His guitar tone is just shit-your-pants scary. I have to assume this is why he (and the above solo) are referred to as Mr. Scary.
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Heaven Sent is a good example of why I like George Lynch so much. His guitar tone is just shit-your-pants scary. I have to assume this is why he (and the above solo) are referred to as Mr. Scary.
Not hearing shit-your-pants-scary tone.
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Then you're not listening right.
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Then you're not listening right.
Trying to figure out what a scary tone should sound like.
Jason Voorhees or Chucky kind of scary?
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Edgy, slightly trebly, and with a liberal dose of reverb.
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I do have to say, this is probably my favorite Dokken video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hsKsUu3Qeo
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I would totally choke that chicken...
Wait...no...
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I do have to say, this is probably my favorite Dokken video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hsKsUu3Qeo
:rollin :rollin
Heaven Sent is a good example of why I like George Lynch so much. His guitar tone is just shit-your-pants scary. I have to assume this is why he (and the above solo) are referred to as Mr. Scary.
Chocolate cake scary. :dt12:
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I do have to say, this is probably my favorite Dokken video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hsKsUu3Qeo
:rollin :rollin
Aside from maybe the Isaiah Mustafa Old Spice commercials, those are perhaps the best series of commercials ever. Here is a montage of a few of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeH-BAm17pk&list=PLA9FE3F0C22E1BB14
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Early Dokken is amazing. The band had such good chemistry back in the day and they wrote a lot of excellent songs. Love those first few albums.
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Early Dokken is amazing. The band had such good chemistry back in the day and they wrote a lot of excellent songs. Love those first few albums.
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Night Ranger - Don't Tell Me You Love Me
I have zero recollection of the video, although it could be one of those that I see and think, "Oh yeah, I remember that," but for now it is drawing a blank. And I am not seeing it on YT, so no luck there. But that aside, good song, featuring a helluva solo by Brad Gillis.
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I totally remember it. They are playing on a train track and the wind is blowing everywhere. It's just a black background. I love this song.
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Night Ranger is a good solid rock band. Nothing fancy, but I enjoy all of their songs that I've heard including this one.
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I totally remember it. They are playing on a train track and the wind is blowing everywhere. It's just a black background.
Oh yeah, I remember that.
:lol :lol :lol
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I totally remember it. They are playing on a train track and the wind is blowing everywhere. It's just a black background. I love this song.
Actually had remembered it as being standing in the middle of a road myself. :lol
Night Ranger, like a lot of bands, really peaked with their very first single, since after the debut the band became something of a power ballad machine in later days. Don't Tell Me You Love Me is one of my favorite album openers ever, and it just KILLED live. Saw Night Ranger two times-once opening for Kansas at a club show, the other opening for Kiss on the Creatures of the Night tour-and they were awesome live. I tend to forget about the Kiss show for some reason. Maybe it was seeing Vinnie Vincent in make up?
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The ankh threw you off Jaq. :lol
BTW Here's the video.
https://vimeo.com/59277429
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Yep, that sort of does look familiar.
Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere
Another one of those great Talking Heads songs, with another great video. I always got a kick out of the clips of David Byrne running in place in a little box in the lower right hand corner of the screen for most of the video. :lol
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David Byrne seemed to do a lot of weird stuff just to be weird. It usually works for me because he was good at it, and I like his brand of weird. Or maybe he really is that weird. Either way.
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Byrne seemed to be someone who really WAS that weird, but found ways to make it commercially acceptable. He had the advantage of working in the precise decade to be doing that sort of thing in, to be fair-music video seemed to be more accommodating to weirdness than radio was.
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Not my favorite Talking Heads song but still a great one at that.
David Byrne seemed to do a lot of weird stuff just to be weird. It usually works for me because he was good at it, and I like his brand of weird. Or maybe he really is that weird. Either way.
^ All of this.
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John Mellencamp - Small Town
Not a bad song, but not one I really was ever that crazy about. It being one that was literally played non-stop didn't help, as I got tired of it real quickly. Listening to it now, it is still an okay song, but nothing special.
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So bland, it warranted no replies. That's the spirit! :lol :lol
Yes - Leave It
People can say all they want about 80s Yes and Trevor Rabin, but this song is great, and so was the video. I remember hearing that there were many other versions of the video, but I never saw any of them.
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So bland, it warranted no replies. That's the spirit! :lol :lol
Yes - Leave It
People can say all they want about 80s Yes and Trevor Rabin, but this song is great, and so was the video. I remember hearing that there were many other versions of the video, but I never saw any of them.
great song. don't remember there being different videos, but I do remember there was an acapella version and non-acapella version of the song.
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There were a ridiculous number of versions of the video, some of them with slight differences, some of them sizable-there was one version where five other people did the song. I remember a day when MTV played every version of the video back to back and it took like an hour. :lol
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I don't hate on 80's Yes as much as some Yesfans do, and "Leave It" was indeed a pretty good song. The a capella version is pretty cool. You don't realize how much vocal work is going on in that song until they take all the instruments out, which is all that mix really is.
John Mellencamp - Small Town
So bland, it warranted no replies. That's the spirit! :lol :lol
Yep.
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Awesome song. Was never in to 70s yes, and 90125 was my first Yes album - and only one for a very long time.
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the a capella version is still a strong song. I agree with Orbert. The amount of talent and work that went into that song are incredible once the vocals are isolated.
If i recall, the videos really weren't really much. It was the 5 of them standing there, singing. One had them flipping around and stuff, like cardboard cutouts. But all i remember is the regular version and the a capella version. Were there others? It's so hard to remember that far back when MTV actually played music.
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John Mellencamp - Small Town
Not a bad song, but not one I really was ever that crazy about. It being one that was literally played non-stop didn't help, as I got tired of it real quickly. Listening to it now, it is still an okay song, but nothing special.
Good song just so damn overplayed.
Yes - Leave It
People can say all they want about 80s Yes and Trevor Rabin, but this song is great, and so was the video. I remember hearing that there were many other versions of the video, but I never saw any of them.
It was so different at the time and the video added to the allure.
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Night Ranger - Don't Tell Me You Love Me
:heart
Meh on Small Town (agree with King), LOVE Leave It.
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Might have said it already in the Yes Thread, I love me some Rabin-era Yes. Leave It is such a great song and the vocal work is awesome.
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Speaking of great 70s bands that went more of the pop rock route in the 80s...
Genesis - Mama
I believe this was the first song I ever heard by Genesis, and I can safely say that I thought it was pretty awesome. I loved the eerie nature of it, and I still do. I think the breaks with Phil Collins doing that evil laugh are a bit corny, but I suppose they work within the context of the song. But ultimately this song is a great demonstration that, while their sound may have changed over the years, the greatness of Tony Banks always stayed in tact; his keyboard work totally makes this song.
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I've pretty frequently mentioned that, whenever I think about people saying Genesis was a pop band in the 80s, I always remember that Mama debuted on MTV the same night as Heart and Soul by Huey Lewis and the News, which should go a great way towards explaining just how different Genesis was from most pop bands. I always loved how Mama built from being quiet and eerie to thundering and loud. especially around the time the drums come in. Genesis had that huge gated drum sound down to a science by then. Great song.
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Mama was such a weird but awesome song to release as your first single from a new album.
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One of my favorite Genesis songs. And yeah, I'm an old-school Genesis fan and this is one of the "later" songs, but I don't care; good music is good music.
I still remember putting this album on for the first time, and "Mama" is the first song. There was this low hum coming out of my speakers, and I thought that my ancient stereo was finally dying, and I was bummed. Turns out it was a low E, part of the song, that I'd never heard before, because I'd only ever heard the song on MTV, and our crummy old TV speakers could never reproduce that low E. Once I figured out what was going on, the song went from good to great.
Trivia: There is exactly one cymbal crash in this song.
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Trivia: There is exactly one cymbal crash in this song.
Then it is not metal enough. :tdwn
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Good thing it's not a metal song, then. :P
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Trivia: There is exactly one cymbal crash in this song.
Reading this reminds me od Neil Peart's playing on Grace Under Pressure. Neil does not use his 6", 8" & 10" concert toms for the album. I never caught either. Interesting.
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Good thing it's not a metal song, then. :P
And with only one cymbal crash, it never will be.
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Such a unique song from them. I never knew it was made into a video. Will have to check that out
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The video is unfortunately of the "short" version of the song, but still pretty interesting and powerful.
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Heart - What About Love
This song was my introduction to Heart, and I was a fan right away. Nice melodies, and how could you not love that voice of Ann Wilson's? The video wasn't anything special, but being that it was my introduction to the Wilson sisters, it was memorable. This was probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite of the five hits from that record.
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Saw them om the Bad Animals tour. Ann Wilson is a powerhouse on this song. Raw and emotional.
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A good 80's Heart tune
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Ann Wilson is a powerhouse on this song. Raw and emotional.
Well said. :tup :tup
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Madonna - Who's That Girl
I liked this song a lot back in 1988 at the ripe old age of 15, and I inexplicably enjoyed the movie of the same name. :facepalm: But hey, I was only 15, so, uh, yeah, that is the only excuse I got. The movie is laughably cheesy and dumb now, but the song itself ain't bad. In fact, it is relatively enjoyable, but she has many that are better.
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It is a surprisingly good song, actually.
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Laura Branigan - Gloria
This was a monster hit back in 1982. It was catchy enough, and I guess I enjoyed it to some extent, but it wasn't a favorite or anything. All I remember about the video is that it was about as cheesy as cheesy gets; it was like something you would have seen on Solid Gold. :lol
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The refrain was catchy. So catchy that I couldn't get it out of my head, even though I didn't like it and actually found it annoying. Thanks.
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I've got to stop reading this thread...too many annoying ear worms. :lol
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The video probably WAS something you saw on Solid Gold. :lol A lot of early promotional videos were shown on shows like that to try to pass them off as performances-I particularly remember Blondie's video for Heart of Glass turning up on more than one music show as a "live" performance. It took a few years of MTV for videos to move away from that format.
Since I'm not discussing the actual song, that should tell you what I thought of it. :lol
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Jaq, admit it, after Solid Gold you watched Real People.
We all have skeletons in our closet. :lol
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KILL IT BEFORE IT MULTIPLIES!!!! Oh, wait... :facepalm:
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The song is okay.
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Hey, in my life time, having cable television meant "you have maybe 20 channels" rather than several hundred. Sometimes Solid Gold WAS the best thing on TV at the time :lol
To be fair, it was usually my sister who watched it. Damn remote control hog.
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Nothing wrong with this tune. A nice blend of pop and rock.
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Yeah, Gloria is an alright tune. I think Self Control is a bit better song of hers
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Hey, in my life time, having cable television meant "you have maybe 20 channels" rather than several hundred. Sometimes Solid Gold WAS the best thing on TV at the time :lol
To be fair, it was usually my sister who watched it. Damn remote control hog.
Haha, so true.
Saga - Wind Him Up
Very nice little tune. I had no recollection of the video, and after checking it out a minute ago on YT, it still doesn't look that familiar. But I remember hearing the song quite a bit back in '82, so it must have gotten a lot of airplay; the video just didn't stick in my memory banks. But really good song, one that has aged very well.
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Saga is like mini-me for Asia. They are some awesome melodic-prog. Formed in the town that I grew up in. Great music.
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Saga is like mini-me for Asia. They are some awesome melodic-prog. Formed in the town that I grew up in. Great music.
Great band
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Wind Me Up got more radio airplay around here than the video did on MTV, but then, as I mentioned here a long time ago, the area of Virginia where I lived was one of the first regions Saga broke big in, so we were hardly the average barometer for Saga's success. Wind Me Up's an awesome song though, top five Saga track for me.
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Europe - Open Your Heart
I absolutely loved this song when it came out on the Out of This World record, and was a bit saddened when it wasn't a hit here in the States, especially since other ballads, vastly inferior IMO, by other hair metal bands were big hits. But shit happens, right? This is still an enjoyable tune, although I don't call it one of my favorite songs ever anymore. Europe was definitely a band whose actual popularity had no correlation to the amount of play they got on MTV.
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Out of This World took a while to click for me. I didn't pick it up until a few years later along with Prisoner's in Paradise - which completely overshadowed it. You're right... it's as good as any other power ballad from the late 80s.
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Steve Perry - Oh Sherrie
This is one of those songs that I was a big fan of at the time, but don't much care for anymore. The video being kind of funny and entertaining, especially the pre-song intro, probably helped in me liking it so much back then, but that was then and this is now. :lol
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I loved this song as a kid. I had to look it up again recently (last year?). Still enjoy it, but the video sure is lulzy.
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I liked the video because it made fun of videos. I simple love song, but the director has this grand vision for the video and Perry can't even do it with a straight face. The song itself is okay, nothing special, but fine for the time.
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It's an alright song
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Perry had much better solo stuff, but this was an ok tune. "Sherrie" from the video wasn't anything special tho.
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This song always seemed a bit too melodramatic in the verses. The chorus is catchy though. The intro/outro keyboards are so 80s! :) Steve Perry's voice, you can't go wrong with, but I would much rather hear just about any Journey than this.
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This is one AOR song that never really grabbed me. Love Perry and all, but I didn't find anything in the melodies too catchy.
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Perry had much better solo stuff, but this was an ok tune. "Sherrie" from the video wasn't anything special tho.
Wasn't that his actual girlfriend, wife, whatever at the time? :lol
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Correct. Her name is Sherrie Swafford and she was Perry's girlfriend. He wrote the song for her.
I thought she was pretty. Maybe not supermodel quality or anything, but certainly not ugly.
(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yQTJWeONhtM/UegK1J6zopI/AAAAAAAAJwg/10MH_qZ5vo8/s400/Oh+Sherrie+-+screenshot+6.jpg)
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When this song came out I thought it was alright...a little light-weight for my tastes. But, I'm sorry, Baseketball totally ruined any enjoyment I've ever had with Steve Perry's voice. :lol
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I hated it which lead to Raised On Radio which is a terrible album sans 3 songs.
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The Hooters - All You Zombies
Kind of a neat song that I never really gave much thought to, but always thought was pretty interesting. I like the rhythmic drive of it, and while the song is fairly repetitive, the nature of the song makes that work in its favor. It kind of gives it a hypnotic feel. Good tune.
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This is a cool song! My wife is a big fan of The Hooters, so I ended up getting exposed to them more than I otherwise would have, and I ended up actually liking some of it. I don't know; they just struck me as yet another band with a silly name and a gimmicky sound and getting MTV exposure. But like a lot of things, you hear it enough, you start to appreciate it.
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chiming in just to type "hooters".
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Good band. Saw them life at a free radio show. Like that tune a lot.
Little known fact, Cyndi Lauper's first solo album with the big hits, the Hooters as a band played on that album backing her up in the studio and Rob Hyman, the keyboard player in the Hooters co wrote "Time After Time" With Cyndi.
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Pretty sure that's been mentioned in this thread already. :lol
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But like a lot of things, you hear it enough, you start to appreciate it.
Lets set you up a Beiber and a Miley Cyrus channel for you and see how that pans out.
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Pretty sure that's been mentioned in this thread already. :lol
Jaq, I can't read that far back dammit! :lol
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The Hooters - All You Zombies
Kind of a neat song that I never really gave much thought to, but always thought was pretty interesting. I like the rhythmic drive of it, and while the song is fairly repetitive, the nature of the song makes that work in its favor. It kind of gives it a hypnotic feel. Good tune.
This is a great song.
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Off the top of my head, I cannot recollect this song.
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Off the top of my head, I cannot recollect this song.
Look it up, I'm sure you'll know it.
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Elton John - I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That
This is one of those forgotten 80s songs - probably because John has had so many hits that this is just one that got lost in the mix over time - but it was a big hit at the time and MTV played the snot out of the video. I liked it quite a bit in 1988, and while it doesn't come close to being one of 80s favorites nowadays, it is still a good tune. Good pace, and some tasty piano work, as always.
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Fedoras with one dangly earring is an under utilized fashion statement! :) Good song.
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Not a bad song, but not exactly a fave, either. I prefer Elton's mellower stuff.
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Not a bad song, but not exactly a fave, either. I prefer Elton's mellower stuff.
It's not every day that you can use the exact same post for two different threads! :lol
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(https://i.imgur.com/ClNBTMy.gif)
(yeah, I figured you'd probably catch that)
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Ha, at first I thought it was a mis-post. Nice one.
I enjoy this song. It has a funky groove.
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I literally copied and pasted my response from the other thread when I realized that I felt exactly the same way about both songs.
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Asia - Only Time Will Tell
I preferred this song to Heat of the Moment back when I was 9 :lol, but for some reason the video didn't resonate with me. In fact, I saw it recently and had zero recollection of it (unlike Heat of the Moment, which I remember very well). Weird. But seeing the video made me realize now how awful some of those edits were. A line here, a line there, was taken out to make it more single-friendly, but being so used to the regular version now, the single edit sounded like a mess. But anyway, this is still a very good tune from an album that is pretty damn good from start to finish.
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No Asia chatter? ???
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Steve Howe and chick doing ballet over TV's are not a good fit. :lol Always liked the song and album. While there are better songs on the self titled album, this is a very good tune.
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No Asia chatter? ???
I started my usual rant about how Asia was a major disappointment, the first prog supergroup turned out to be another powerpop project, blah blah blah, and how because of this I've never really been able to objectively listen to Asia, but I figured no one would even get to that part because the rant is the same one I know I've posted a few times.
Then I started a story about how we actually used to play this song in the band I was in, and our lead singer plays trumpet, so we did the fanfare and the break with a real trumpet, which was cool. Then I realized that that was just a story and I still had nothing to say about the song itself (for the above mentioned reasons).
So I just didn't post anything.
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Fair enough. :lol :biggrin:
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Prince and The Revolution - Kiss
I never got the fascination with the song at all. Sure, it's got a great dance groove, but the way he sings in that super high voice doesn't do squat for me. But girls were absolutely bananas over this song, and if you play this song at a club or bar anywhere, girls still go crazy for it. So, it's not a total loss... :lol :lol
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I wasn't a fan of the song when it first came out. When I witnessed what the song does to my wife I became a huge fan!
Well, maybe not huge...but bigger.
Okay, it's only big to me. But, yes, I love this song now!
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The Asia song is interesting because it was a single version that was just different enough from the album version-a couple of instrumental sections are actually swapped-that to this day the album version makes me turn my head sideways, barely realizing why I am.
The video for Kiss is MADE by Wendy, who sits on her stool playing guitar and barely manages throughout the entire video to not laugh her ass off at Prince's hijinxs. One wonders what the outtakes looked like.
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Kiss is pretty cool, and you really need to listen to the extended version to get the full effect.
I'm not all that crazy about that Elton song. It's okay, but nothing special for me
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Good tune but not one I would gravitate from his collection
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Bon Jovi - Born to Be My Baby
This was the other song from New Jersey that I liked a lot (the previously-featured Lay Yours Hands on Me being the other). Very catchy chorus and a nice 80s-sounding tune. I enjoyed the parts of the video back in the day where it sounded like they were having trouble with takes. It gave it that "the video was recorded while recording the song" feel, even if it was probably manufactured. :lol
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One of my favourites off New Jersey. Such a nice big '80s pre-chorus.
Never seen the video though. Off to the Youtube!
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Having already told my story about how the album New Jersey was responsible for ending a teenaged relationship WAY down thread, I have nothing to offer for this song. :lol
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:lol That's disappointing. >:( :biggrin:
As for the video again, all I knew was the video version at first, and when I finally heard the real version, I remember being disappointed that the guitar fill at 1:17 of the video was not in it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahf2B_eZUc4
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My favorite BJ song. (Mmmmn, I guess to get BJ's as well?! :lol)
But seriously I love this tune and I loved the video with the separation of each instrument.
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New Edition - Cool It Now
I had completely forgotten about this song until several weeks ago when I saw it on Totally 80s. I wish I could return to when I had forgotten about it. :lol What an awful, awful song. The 80s are the butt of a lot of jokes for a lot of people, and stupid ass songs like this do not help the cause for those of us who generally like 80s music. Awful song. Just awful.
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*cites either the No Story, It Sucks rule, or the Debra BLECCHHHHHH clause, as his comment*
:lol
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Bon Jovi - Born to Be My Baby
Fave tune from New Jersey. Otherwise it was a pretty bland album for me.
New Edition - Cool It Now
I had completely forgotten about this song
Thankfully, I still forget it. Guess this is the token song every few pages where we get to release our pent up hatred of some of the 80s shit we had to endure?
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Suzanne Vega - Luka
I never got the fascination with this song. It's just so bland and boring. But somehow was hugely popular.
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It was the social message, the content, more than the song itself. It took maybe two or three listens, but once you figure out what she's saying, it's kinda powerful, and this was one of the first pop songs to address the topic. That's why it was popular.
Also, it's slightly catchy. Not a lot, but a little.
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Prince and The Revolution - Kiss
I never got the fascination with the song at all. Sure, it's got a great dance groove, but the way he sings in that super high voice doesn't do squat for me. But girls were absolutely bananas over this song, and if you play this song at a club or bar anywhere, girls still go crazy for it. So, it's not a total loss... :lol :lol
I like the Tom Jones / Art of Noise version better.
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So do I. It's not unusual.
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Suzanne Vega - Luka
I never got the fascination with this song. It's just so bland and boring. But somehow was hugely popular.
I have a friend who loves her but I was never a fan of her singing. The same goes for Natalie Merchant.
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It's not unusual.
:footloose:
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Heh heh. :orbert:
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Suzanne Vega - Luka
I never got the fascination with this song. It's just so bland and boring. But somehow was hugely popular.
Wholeheartedly agree. Couldn't stand this one.
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Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - What I Am
Speaking of female-led songs from the late 80s that I never liked, here is another. For some reason, this song annoyed the living crap out of me at the time. But my brother Tim liked it a lot, so I was subjected to it more than I wanted to be. :facepalm: Listening now, it doesn't really annoy me anymore, and I can sort of hear the appeal of it, but I still can't call myself a fan of it.
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What I remember most about this video is Beavis and Butthead watching it and Butthead saying "This chick is deep".
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This album slipped onto the playlist of the manager of the record store I worked at as a seasonal employee right at the tail end of my tenure there, when my hours were cut so low the last time I worked one of the girls who worked there hugged me because she hadn't seen me in ages. Wish I had a story to tell about her, but she was out of even 1980s Jaq's league. :lol This song was actually one of the "least good" on the album, which makes the success it had all the stranger. And yeah, I remember the Beavis and Butthead episode with this song in it.
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I like this song. I love Edie's laid-back style of singing. Also, I think she's pretty.
Caught her and Steve Martin on TV recently doing their latest song. Yes, that Steve Martin. He's a hell of a banjo player. I have a couple of his albums, and they're awesome.
(https://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/04/21/arts/21STEVEMARTIN_SPAN/21STEVE-MARTIN-articleLarge.jpg)
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Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - What I Am
The mastering on that song just killed it. Clipped and Brickelled to death.
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Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - What I Am
I never got the fascination with this song. It's just so bland and boring. But somehow was hugely popular.
Wholeheartedly agree. Couldn't stand this one.
I'll simply re-quote this as my feeling for this song.
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This is probably the worst two-song duscussion run in the history of dtf.org.
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More like three. :lol
Time to get back to some good stuff...
David Lee Roth - Goin' Crazy
Another DLR video that had a long intro before the song actually started. This was another good one, although neither the song nor the video compared to Yankee Rose from the same record, but it was still highly enjoyable. And like every other video he made in the 80s, MTV played the living shit out of it. But this song failed to make even the top 40, so this is another case of a song not being nearly as popular as you would think it would have been based on how much MTV played it.
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Wait, I finally put a pretty good one out there and no one replies?? What the hell?? :lol :lol
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I would say the song, and the video, is pretty generic. not as entertaining as just a gigolo or califonia girls. I think the videos were the most entertaining part of DLR solo stuff anyway.
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I've never heard of this one. At least, the title isn't familiar.
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Wait, I finally put a pretty good one out there and no one replies?? What the hell?? :lol :lol
It's like hitting a home run and no one acknowledges you when you get to the bench. :lol
I've never heard of this one. At least, the title isn't familiar.
Surprised Bob. This was constantly played on the radio and MTV played the crap out of it. It always sounded like a soundtrack song to me.
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I am surprised, too. If you watched MTV in 1986, there was no way to miss it.
nicmos, I agree with you. I find that I rarely can get through a whole DLR song when I have one of my 80s mp3 CDs going, but the videos are always so much fun to still watch. Classic case of the video making the song way more enjoyable than it is on its own.
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I might recognize it if I heard it. After a while, I kinda started ignoring David Lee Roth. I actually like him, and sure, he's over the top, but that was his persona, his thing. Still, there's only so much of that that I can take. The title really doesn't ring any bells. I didn't watch much TV in 1986.
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David Lee Roth - Goin' Crazy
I didn't like this one as much as I liked California Girls and Just a Gigolo. I think the shine was wearing off by then.
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Deb you are depressing me. I hate those two other songs.
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Hall & Oates - Kiss On My List
I am pretty sure that this song was my introduction to Hall & Oates; I liked it. Hall & Oates were one of those acts that dominated airplay on MTV in the early 80s - along with Michael Jackson, Duran Duran, Prince and Madonna - so it was impossible not to know their hits. This isn't one of my favorites by them, but it's an enjoyable tune, and it is easy to see why it was so popular.
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Hall & Oates had some good songs, and this was one of them. Catchy, not too offensive.
For a long time, I thought he said "Your kiss is on my lips". It made more sense.
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catchy, fun, light. like cotton candy. you wouldn't want to subsist off it, but it worked for what it was.
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Journey - Faithfully
A wildly popular song, largely because the girls absolutely loved it, and it was somehow one of those ballads that most guys had no problem admitting that they loved. Funny how that works sometimes. I don't mind it; I never did. But I can't call it a favorite. It's a good tune though, especially by monster ballad standards. :lol
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Time to shave off that mustache Kev. :lol
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I don't get it. ???
P.S. It's still early. :biggrin:
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:lol
I just remember seeing the video for the 1st time and Perry had that stache and I thought it looked terrible. He heard me of course and proceeded to shave if off during the video. :lol
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:lol
I just remember seeing the video for the 1st time and Perry had that stache and I thought it looked terrible. He heard me of course and proceeded to shave if off during the video. :lol
Oh man, I'd never seen that before. :lol Not a good look. They don't seem to have a great track record of music videos.
One of their best ballads, especially once it hits that big outro. I seem to recall they extended the outro with more guitar when I saw them live.
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A Journey double today? No complaints here. :biggrin:
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This one came out when I was on the road a lot with the band, so it was particularly relevant to the situation between my girlfriend and myself. She thought it was an awesome song, so romantic, blah blah blah. It just made me feel guilty sometimes. Yeah, read between the lines.
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just watched the video for the first time. Cheesy like usual for Journey and their videos, but I like it.
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This might not have been the first "oh the life on the road is long and hard" music video, but it might as well been. At least Neal Schon got to solo on Faithfully. :biggrin:
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Second favorite Journey song
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too schmaltzy for me. Journey could rock when they wanted, but I'm really not a huge fan of monster rock ballads. Perry's performance nails it though, I have to give him that.
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Eurythmics - Missionary Man
Pretty good song. I had some friends who were absolutely nutty over this song, especially the intro, which they loved cranking up, but while I always enjoyed it, it was never a song I went out of my way to hear. I barely remember the video.
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Is this the song where the band suddenly added electric guitar and a full band after being all synths and programmed drums? I barely recall it at all :lol
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I remember thinking that Annie singing a song about being a Missionary Man worked well with her androgynous look. Also, the song is catchy.
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I remember thinking that it was cool to here them get a little rock into their sound. Besides Annie, could adapt to any style of music.
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Is this the song where the band suddenly added electric guitar and a full band after being all synths and programmed drums?
No, I think that was Would I Lie to You? I remember seeing that video and thinking, "Since when does this band have guitars?" :lol
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Shows you how well I remembered Missionary Man then :lol
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Eurythmics - Missionary Man
You know, I think it really says a lot for the talent for Eurythmics/Annie Lennox to have won me over after I just couldn't stand Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) back when I was 13. Annie is just such a talented singer and Dave Stewart is extremely underrated as a musician. I think the turn started somewhere around the time of the video for Don't Come Around Here No More (Tom Petty).
I think my 13 year old self just died. :lol
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Sting - Russians
Despite loving The Police, I didn't go crazy over Sting's solo career at first. I believe this was one of his first solo hits, and while I thought it was kind of cool, it wasn't one I was excited to hear. The main vocal melody is really neat, but it always seemed like it was a build-up to a cooler part that never came. That is still kind of my impression: kind of a cool song, but somewhat of a tease.
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I feel pretty much the same about Sting's solo stuff, but I've come to appreciate him a bit. Not everything he does, but some of it. I think the concept behind this song, the message, is a bit more profound than the song itself, but it's still a pretty good song.
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That album was jarring to me when it first came out but over time I came to love it. Like Bob said, I appreciate the content and the sad, melody. It's a good song but there are better songs on the album.
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Stars on 45: Stars on 45 (Medley)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7skQvj-aBV8
An abomination by rock standards, but I LOVE IT! One of the few songs I remember from when I was a child. I can't help but groove to this when I hear it.
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Not to be a bitch or anything, dparrott, but KevShmev is the one who picks the songs for the thread.
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Haha, true, and that song was already featured.
But honestly, I have ran the gauntlet to the point where there aren't a ton of really worthy songs left to feature, so I am almost to the point, especially given that I don't do songs in this thread very often anymore, where I am ready to say that anyone who wants to feature an 80s song, even if it is one I already did, have at it. Just make sure you bold it and try to keep it to 80s songs that were MTV mainstays at some point.
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I'm pretty well out of stories anyway. Well, the ones that end with "and Jaq got laid." I got tons that end with "and Jaq woke up, hungover and uncertain of where he'd been the night before"
Which if you made a Venn diagram of the two types WOULD have some overlap, to be fair. :lol
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Kev, I don't remember: Have any Cory Hart songs been featured?
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I don't think so. Sunglasses at Night is probably the only Corey Hart song I remember, and I don't think I ever featured it.
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Well, you should. And I woudl add Never Surrender as well. I mean, you know, if it were my thread.
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Big Country *Cough*
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If Kev is running out, I think we should all take turns posting, say, 5 songs of our own.
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Well, you should. And I woudl add Never Surrender as well. I mean, you know, if it were my thread.
I love this song. I have very fond memories as a kid linked to it and enjoy everytime I hear it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4pg6Jh94Lo
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Well, while you all fight over who is gonna post what song when, I'll throw another out there:
Bruce Hornsby & the Range - Mandolin Rain
Another one of the hits from their debut album, I have always liked this song a lot. It has catchy, memorable melodies all over the place, and Hornsby's distinctive piano playing is great as always.
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Yep, another winner from Bruce and Company.
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One of the few piano-men that made hay with a purely piano-led melody. Loved both their radio hits.
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U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
This song was a grower for me. I liked it when I first heard it, but I didn't love it. However, the more MTV played it, the more I liked it, and before I knew it, I was loving it to death. And I still do. I do still chuckle at Edge strumming an acoustic guitar the whole video, when his electric guitar lead is such an important part of the song. But given the nature of the video, them wandering around the streets of Vegas, having him strum an acoustic, rather than playing his electric lead, goes along with the laid back feel of the video.
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One of my favorites from them
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Bruce Hornsby & the Range - Mandolin Rain
Good song is VERY good. :tup
U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
I didn't like this one at first either - but it grew and now I dig it.
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White Lion - When the Children Cry
This song fitted in perfectly with much of the other music that was so popular on MTV in the late 80s, but I never liked it. Even though I liked a fair amount of hair metal at the time, the monster ballads by such bands were usually more miss than hit for me, and this one was definitely a major miss. I don't remember this band ever having a hard rocking popular tune, so it's almost like they went straight to the monster ballad to get fans, instead of having the few rockers and then busting the ballad out.
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White Lion - When the Children Cry
This song fitted in perfectly with much of the other music that was so popular on MTV in the late 80s, but I never liked it. Even though I liked a fair amount of hair metal at the time, the monster ballads by such bands were usually more miss than hit for me, and this one was definitely a major miss. I don't remember this band ever having a hard rocking popular tune, so it's almost like they went straight to the monster ballad to get fans, instead of having the few rockers and then busting the ballad out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXayy0ncwRE not sure if this came before or after
Edit Wait was the first single from the album...When the Children Cry was the 3rd
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I'm in the other camp. I loved this song. Vito Bratta was a unique guitarist is a cloned guitarist time.
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I'm in the other camp. I loved this song. Vito Bratta was a unique guitarist is a cloned guitarist time.
This so much. Loved the band. Bratta was so under-rated. I loved power ballads (still do), and this was completely unique, with such a killer solo, but no 'power'. Loved the tune, loved the message. One of my favorites.
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The interesting thing about White Lion was that, yes, they had the inevitable ballad as most commercial metal bands did in the 80s-you really couldn't call White Lion glam, they were more a melodic metal band than a flat out LA glam ban-but after that they spent the rest of their career getting heavier and heavier, and generally to the detriment of their success. Go dig up their fourth album Mane Attraction sometime, and listen in particular to Lights and Thunder. It barely sounds like the same band.
Another interesting note is that, despite the common belief at the time, Pride was not their debut. They actually signed with Elektra in 1984, recorded their debut album, which Elektra promptly refused to release. The line up that recorded it fell apart, where the line up we came to know re-recorded it, released it in Japan, and then on a small US label before they got their big break when they got picked up by Atlantic and put out Pride. It also amuses me that among the bands White Lion opened for included AC/DC. These days, bands tour together on largely like minded bills. Back then the pop-metal bands toured with the gritty hard rockers and no one but the idiots who called bands they didn't like posers gave a fuck.
Never really liked this SONG, mind you, but there's some good shit on Pride. All You Need Is Rock and Roll is pretty much the title line sang a few times and Vito Bratta soloing like a boss for the rest of the song. Good shit. :metal
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Never really liked this SONG, mind you, but there's some good shit on Pride. All You Need Is Rock and Roll is pretty much the title line sang a few times and Vito Bratta soloing like a boss for the rest of the song. Good shit. :metal
That. Not really a fan of this song. White Lion were soft enough on that album without needing to do a ballad. :lol It's otherwise a solid album though.
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Eh. Never was a fan of White Lion. Sorry.
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For that, you are a horrible horrible person!
Tastes... why doesn't everyone just have mine? :lol
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I'm in the other camp. I loved this song. Vito Bratta was a unique guitarist is a cloned guitarist time.
I liked Vito, too, and the solo for "Wait" is outstanding, but I don't believe I would say he was unique. His Eddie Van Halen influence was about as subtle as a kick in the balls, as it was with many other players at the time.
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That's true but what makes JP different from all the technical guitarists? Same goes for Vito during the 80's.
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Kim Wilde - Kids in America
I remember MTV playing the living crap out of this video in their very early days. If you watched MTV, you knew this song, bottom line. And yet it never broke the top 20 in America, becoming another one of those songs that was way more of a MTV darling than a radio one. Personally, I think it is an okay song, but I have never gone out of my way to listen to it, and on my iTunes 80s playlist, which is around 600 songs, it ain't on it.
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another one of those songs that was way more of a MTV darling than a radio one.
Yep. It's not horrible, even kinda catchy, but nothing special. Kim was kinda cute when she was younger, I guess, and that helped.
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That helped, for sure, but the song kind of had one of those anthemic choruses, which had to have helped immensely as well.
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Rush - Subdivisions
I actually remember this video getting heavy airplay on MTV back in 1982, and it plays all of the time on Totally 80s, so it fits in this thread, right? Oddly, the audio in the video is slightly off, almost like the settings are slightly tweaked the wrong way or something, like it is not as clear as it should be (this is not referencing the original Signals mix either); very strange. But the video is actually pretty cool, probably the best Rush has ever done (given the time period), and the song is an obvious classic, for obvious reasons, too.
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I wasn't a huge fan of 80's Rush, but I'm slowly coming around, and this was always a good one. And yeah, pretty good video, for Rush.
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I don't remember the video much-pretty sure if I watched it I'd go "oh yeah"-but I'll just take the time here to ask a question about the song itself.
Show of hands, when you see the title of the song, do you hear "SUBDIVISIONS" as it is in the song?
Because I sure do. :lol
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Jaq, you're kidding me right?! :lol MTV played that video all the time man!
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If you've read my adventures in this thread, you can probably understand why some things-including videos by one of my favorite bands-might have slipped my memory over the years. :rollin
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I certainly don't remember, but I was like 7 at the time
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For that, you are a horrible horrible person!
:yeahright
Kim Wilde - Kids in America
Eh.
Rush - Subdivisions
:hat
Show of hands, when you see the title of the song, do you hear "SUBDIVISIONS" as it is in the song?
Guilty as charged. :lol
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Guilty as well. :lol
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Love the pure cheesiness of the Subdivisions video. Like I mentioned in the Rush survivor, Subdivisions is my all time favorite song by any band.
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Tom Petty - Free Fallin'
I get the appeal of this song - I really do - but this is one song where his voice really annoys me, most notable during the chorus. And those random shots in the video of his ugly face wearing those shades didn't help. :lol In fact, it was probably the reason I often turned it off.
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My favorite part of the video is how they show the blonde girl all ready to skateboard, and they make it look as if she's going to be going down this huge ramp at high speed...and then they cut away to Petty singing the song with the ramp in the background, and it's not exactly HUGE, and the girl might be moving at a snail's pace if you're charitable :rollin
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OMG, I had totally forgotten about that. :lol :lol
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I think this thread has officially ran its course. I'd like to thank everyone who participated in it, including those who often had good stories (Jaq, I am looking at you! :lol). I covered I think close to 500 songs, and it was a lot of fun. :hat :hat :hat
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A moment of silence for the thread where I got noticed here on DTF. It's been real. :lol
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:hefdaddy :hefdaddy
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Thanks for running this!!
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Yeah, thanks! It's been fun.