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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: KevShmev on September 04, 2014, 12:22:17 AM
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Because I love the 80s, and because I miss the MTV in the 80s Song of the Day thread, I thought I'd start a new thread where we can discuss anything related to 80s music videos.
I still DVR the show Totally 80s whenever it's on VH1 Classic, and usually a few times a month, I'll flip through the many episodes merely to see what videos they played, and it's interesting because ideally you would think they would play videos that were played a lot in the 80s, which they do in some cases, but in other cases, they ignore certain bands and genres that got played a ton back then.
-Hair metal as a whole isn't played much at all, at least not when you consider how much it was played on MTV in the latter 80s.
-Stryper is NEVER played, even though MTV played the snot out of them in 1987 and 1988.
-Same goes for Europe, who were also played to death from 1986-1989.
-LL Cool J's Going Back to Cali is played all the time, and I don't remember it being played that much back in the day.
-Talking Heads are rarely played. Burning Down the House was played it seemed like every hour for months back in '83, yet you never see it on Totally 80s.
-Michael Jackson surprisingly isn't played that much, even though he all but owned the 80s.
Anyway, this is the new 80s thread. :hat
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Following. I gotta say the one video that really stands out to me from the 80s is Aha "take on me". Obviously I dont like the song, but that video is outstanding. Better then anything being released today.
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Anything that generates more discussion on the sort of stuff that was in my Top 50 , I'll be in it with bells on. I have a hard drive full of 80's rock vids somewhere and a few years back it was something of a treasure but now with the way Youtube's gone , it's mostly nothing special I suppose. Just about everything is out there somewhere.
We got almost zilch in Australia in terms of rock/metal video too, even back in the day.
I don't want to derail Kev's thread but I had an idea the other day for a new thread in a similar vein - a thread where people could post pics of rarities they have from the days of classic rock ( memorabilia, mag covers, posters, rare albums , photos etc....) but in the end I decided against it as I felt it would probably die a quick death or I might end up chatting to myself. In terms of memorabilia I could keep it going for years just with Van Halen stuff - same with magazine covers.
Anyway ..........if anyone has any thoughts on that idea (good/bad/idiotic) then please comment/PM me - if the silence is deafening I'll know I'm on to a dud. Anything that gets us talking about classic rock and metal is good in my book.
BTW the idea came to me the other day when I was going through a cupboard and found on old dish for nibblies etc.........it was a promo job for DLR's Eat Em And Smile ;D
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As a kid, I used to get up early every Sunday to watch an Australian clip show called Rage. I think it started at midnight, but I'd get up at five or six in the morning and watch it through to its completion at midday. I started doing this pretty early I think, around three or four, probably up until I was eleven or twelve (around 1996). I was born in 84, so I grew up wth all of these 80's and 90's songs and clips.
Anyway, I was obsessed with this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wSn81dLK6s) song around the time it came out and watched it pretty much every week for a while (until they stopped showing it, probably). It's not that great of a video really, but it is very 80's. :lol
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FYC - yikes ;D I mentioned Rage in my Top 50 ...........recording the rock/metal hour or two at 2am ( on VHS :-\ ) was what got me into Van Halen , Ozzy and metal in general. That'd be mid 80s so that makes me around 11 yo. That was about the only time you'd see anything other than the Top 40 stuff on Aussie TV when I was growing up.
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FYC - yikes ;D I mentioned Rage in my Top 50 ...........recording the rock/metal hour or two at 2am ( on VHS :-\ ) was what got me into Van Halen , Ozzy and metal in general. That'd be mid 80s so that makes me around 11 yo. That was about the only time you'd see anything other than the Top 40 stuff on Aussie TV when I was growing up.
Yeah I actually started taping it in my later years, in the early or mid 90's. I remember all the grunge they started to play around that time, and even things like Enter Sandman, and I didn't mind the eurodance stuff. But I pretty much had lost interest once they started with things like the Spice Girls and the Backstreet Boys. :lol
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-Talking Heads are rarely played. Burning Down the House was played it seemed like every hour for months back in '83, yet you never see it on Totally 80s.
In the very early days of MTV, I think they played Once In A Lifetime every hour.
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Those 2 videos were played all the time. Duran Duran's "Rio" was big and mid 80's Midnight Oil's "Beds Are Burning" got big airplay.
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Money For Nothing and Sledgehammer were played every hour.
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And we had to hear Alan Hunter show us that he was in Bowie's "Fashion" video every time he played it.
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Whenever I think of the 80s, I think of The Cure.
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Smiths were big too. I always dug Simple Minds and Big Country.
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U2
Dire Straits
REM
:metal
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Sabrina ;D
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Beastie Boys
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Sabrina ;D
Samantha Fox :zydar:
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Remember, naughty girls need love, too. :P
And yeah, TAC, Once in a Lifetime was played to death. I remember when we first got MTV, the videos that I remember seeing non-stop were Once in a Lifetime, Billie Jean, Greg Kihn Band's Jeopardy, Down Under, and Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
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Whenever I think of the 80s, I think of The Cure.
We don't come to you with our problems, do we? :lol
Forget the name of the show, but there was a video show on at midnight or something on Fridays, playing the top 10 vids of the week. I remember (in my later teenage years) going to "parties" (there was only a dozen or so, I never did like the huge house parties), getting stoned out of my mind, and endlessly watching Kickstart My Heart, I Remember You, Love Song etc... Those vids in '89 were on all the time.
1984 (the album) got a ton of video airtime too. My early 80s memories were Karma Chameleon and shit like that. Oh, and we can't forget Twisted Sister! So many good music video memories. DLR solo were the best.
As for Brent's suggestion, I don't have much memorabilia, so not much to contribute there.
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There was a period in 1984 where We're Not Gonna Take It was played at 7:00 CT every single weeknight, so I tried my best to always have MTV on at that time so I could see it as much as possible (this was before we had a VCR :lol). Oddly, that is another video that I never see on Totally 80s, which surprises me since Dee Snider is always on those specials VH1 does (like 100 best rock songs, etc.), so I would think they'd show his band's videos and whatnot as much as possible.
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I distinctly remember Heart's videos from the 80s. :biggrin:
And I had a Samantha Fox album on cassette. Wasn't bad, actually.
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I distinctly remember Heart's videos from the 80s. :biggrin:
And I had a Samantha Fox album on cassette. Wasn't bad, actually.
Heart yes! Fox, only for the eyes. My ears bled. :lol
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Smiths were big too. I always dug Simple Minds and Big Country.
Its a shame that Big Country will only be known for "In a Big Country". They made some great albums.
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Fellow child of the '80s reporting in!
My covers band does more '80s material than any other decade. Some of the ones currently in our set rotation are:
Sharp Dressed Man
White Wedding
Boys of Summer
Living On A Prayer (we have typically had Wanted Dead Or Alive in the set instead, but are prepping for a gig where the core audience will be middle-aged women, so...)
Any Way You Want It
Where The Streets Have No Name
Hazy Shade Of Winter (yeah, I know it is technically not an '80s song, but we pretty much do the Bangles' '80s version of it)
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-LL Cool J's Going Back to Cali is played all the time, and I don't remember it being played that much back in the day.
we must have been watching different versions of MTV. I saw this video all the time.
I remember there was a time in late 1988 I would rush home after school to watch the end of the top 20 video countdown because the last three videos in some order were invariably Guns 'n Roses - Paradise City, Def Leppard - Armageddon It, and Bon Jovi - Born to Be My Baby.
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I suppose. I mean, I remember Going Back to Cali being played quite a bit, but not so much where it should be the video played the most on Totally 80s these days (which it seemingly is).
Livin' on a Prayer and Pour Some Sugar On Me are two songs that are guaranteed to have girls flocking to the dance floor faster than the speed of light at any bar or club where the song is played or performed by a cover band. Every single time.
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Can I get some Whitesnake?
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Livin' on a Prayer and Pour Some Sugar On Me are two songs that are guaranteed to have girls flocking to the dance floor faster than the speed of light at any bar or club where the song is played or performed by a cover band. Every single time.
Yup. We were close to including Pour Some Sugar On Me, but it got axed. Living On A Prayer is tough to sing. We had to opt to NOT modulate up on the last chorus like they do in the actual song. I about pulled something trying to sing it that way the first time. :lol
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Hahaha, I can imagine.
Can I get some Whitesnake?
Oh, there you go again on your own.
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Livin' on a Prayer and Pour Some Sugar On Me are two songs that are guaranteed to have girls flocking to the dance floor faster than the speed of light at any bar or club where the song is played or performed by a cover band. Every single time.
Yup. We were close to including Pour Some Sugar On Me, but it got axed. Living On A Prayer is tough to sing. We had to opt to NOT modulate up on the last chorus like they do in the actual song. I about pulled something trying to sing it that way the first time. :lol
Girls, Girls, Girls has the same effect. It just has a way of bringing out the stripper that every woman secretly has lurking inside.
Oddly enough, I didn't fall in love with 80's music until the latter half of the 90's, after I'd missed all the good shit, and when the music at the time sucked in a major way.
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JBJ doesn't bother to sing LOAP live so why should anyone else? That's what the peeps are there for :D
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JBJ doesn't bother to sing LOAP live so why should anyone else? That's what the peeps are there for :D
Yeah, I plan on it being a major "audience participation" song. :biggrin: Problem is, most of us in cover bands don't play the big halls that Bon Jovi can play, so sometimes we simply do not have the option of making the "crowd" sing the chorus like he does.
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But https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxrwImCJCqk
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...did someone say the 80s? :rollin
Ahem.
Where I live was one of the first handful of markets to get MTV when it went live in the summer of 1981, which means that I got to see MTV in its embryonic days, before it became hip and cool and fashionable. And in those embryonic days, let me tell you, they played any music video they could get their hands on. New wave bands blew up as much because they had multiple videos to play as they did because they made music that interested people. Dire Straits made a full length video for all eight minutes of Tunnel of Love? We'll play it! Rod Stewart has music videos dating back three or four years? Playing it! You could sit down in front of your TV and see Juice Newton be followed by the Cars, Judas Priest (they made a video for Don't Go. REALLY.), Kim Carnes and live performances up the wazoo. If MTV played a concert by a band, it would get sliced up into separate videos (they got over 10 out of a REO Speedwagon concert) and played and played and played. Phil Collins waking my sister up with That Drum Fill from In The Air Tonight.
Early MTV was wild and freewheeling and had a massively distorting effect on the music industry. While early MTV did play the shit out of some acts that were breaking big-Billy Squier is one I am thinking of-and Duran Duran frankly was made by MTV, a lot of bands that got played massively on MTV were nowhere near as successful as you'd think when you'd look up their chart success. But that was later. At the time it came on, the notion of 24-7 rock and pop music television was not only massively novel, but for me perfectly timed: I turned 15 early in MTV's existence, and MTV was the soundtrack of my teen aged years. And as anyone who followed the other thread can attest, the soundtrack for my late teens and early 20s to boot.
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Ahh................Billy Squier - he of the legenedary "moves". So bad it's good :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR0j7sModCI
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Van Halen? 1984 was a great year being that I was born then.
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Where I live was one of the first handful of markets to get MTV when it went live in the summer of 1981, which means that I got to see MTV in its embryonic days, before it became hip and cool and fashionable. And in those embryonic days, let me tell you, they played any music video they could get their hands on. New wave bands blew up as much because they had multiple videos to play as they did because they made music that interested people. Dire Straits made a full length video for all eight minutes of Tunnel of Love? We'll play it! Rod Stewart has music videos dating back three or four years? Playing it! You could sit down in front of your TV and see Juice Newton be followed by the Cars, Judas Priest (they made a video for Don't Go. REALLY.), Kim Carnes and live performances up the wazoo. If MTV played a concert by a band, it would get sliced up into separate videos (they got over 10 out of a REO Speedwagon concert) and played and played and played. Phil Collins waking my sister up with That Drum Fill from In The Air Tonight.
Early MTV was wild and freewheeling and had a massively distorting effect on the music industry. While early MTV did play the shit out of some acts that were breaking big-Billy Squier is one I am thinking of-and Duran Duran frankly was made by MTV, a lot of bands that got played massively on MTV were nowhere near as successful as you'd think when you'd look up their chart success. But that was later. At the time it came on, the notion of 24-7 rock and pop music television was not only massively novel, but for me perfectly timed: I turned 15 early in MTV's existence, and MTV was the soundtrack of my teen aged years. And as anyone who followed the other thread can attest, the soundtrack for my late teens and early 20s to boot.
*golf clap*
I still have some friends - some of whom are too young to get it since they grew up on 90s stuff, and some of whom are older and are classic rock purists who thought the 80s was somewhat of a travesty - who wonder why I love 80s music so much and I always tell them, "I grew up listening to that stuff!" I may have to steal your line and start calling it the soundtrack of my childhood and early teen years, because it really was. :coolio
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I remember when World Premier Videos were at 11pm at night. I had to beg my parents to stay up so I could tape Asia's "Don't Cry".
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Rick Springfield FTW
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You Better Love Somebody Hef.
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Livin' on a Prayer and Pour Some Sugar On Me are two songs that are guaranteed to have girls flocking to the dance floor faster than the speed of light at any bar or club where the song is played or performed by a cover band. Every single time.
Yup. We were close to including Pour Some Sugar On Me, but it got axed. Living On A Prayer is tough to sing. We had to opt to NOT modulate up on the last chorus like they do in the actual song. I about pulled something trying to sing it that way the first time. :lol
John could never do that out of the studio.
I was a teenager in the 80s. So much awesome music. The era of metal. I avoided the pop stuff like the plague (though I do have a best of Duran Duran, INXS and a couple of others. You know, for when I brought a girl home :o)
And Bosk1, that's pretty fine setlist.
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8675 309aaaaiiign.
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As a guy that was born in 1984, I love the 80's and mostly everything that came with it. I can't help but to think if I was were born 10 years earlier.
Two of my fav 80's bands that are not considered metal or melodic rock are Tears for Fears and Hall and Oates. Great music all round.
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The neat thing about Hall & Oates' videos is that they often had an alternate mix of the song. Family Man had the extended rock mix; Method of Modern Love had the beginning remixed slightly; and Out of Touch had a shortened version of Dance on Your Knees, which precedes it on the album, segue into Out of Touch, with the whole intro remixed with different vocals embellishments and whatnot.
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Yeah, the extended video mix is the best version of Out of Touch IMO.
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Two of my fav 80's bands that are not considered metal or melodic rock are Tears for Fears and Hall and Oates. Great music all round.
Two really fantastic bands right there. As I sit here, I find it hard to articulate a reason why I do not possess any albums from them at the moment.
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Tears For Fears verges on pop prog. They have the best choruses. I'll also throw my love for Midnight Oil
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You H&O fans will likely find some cool stuff on this site (if you're not already aware of the show)
https://www.livefromdarylshouse.com/archive.html
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Let me add my love for this band.
Mr. Mister - Is It Love: https://youtu.be/nWxxRlVNM30
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Let me add my love for this band.
Mr. Mister - Is It Love: https://youtu.be/nWxxRlVNM30
A fairly recent live performance by a pretty handy band - Page hasn't lost anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI1AhczKvwA&feature=youtu.be
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Two of my fav 80's bands that are not considered metal or melodic rock are Tears for Fears and Hall and Oates. Great music all round.
Two really fantastic bands right there. As I sit here, I find it hard to articulate a reason why I do not possess any albums from them at the moment.
Songs From the Big Chair is simply one of the greatest 80's albums, it's essential IMO.
You H&O fans will likely find some cool stuff on this site (if you're not already aware of the show)
https://www.livefromdarylshouse.com/archive.html
This is new to me, looks pretty badass, will have to check some of those out later.
Tears For Fears verges on pop prog. They have the best choruses. I'll also throw my love for Midnight Oil
I'm still a pretty big fan of Midnight Oil. I could imagine I would like them even more if they weren't played to death here in their homeland. Garret would be wise to quit his abysmal political career and resurrect the band. He's not doing good things for the bands legacy IMO. Great songs, harmonies, melodies ,choruses, everything. 10 to 1 is classic.
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Yeah, they need to record and tour again.
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Let me add my love for this band.
Mr. Mister - Is It Love: https://youtu.be/nWxxRlVNM30
A fairly recent live performance by a pretty handy band - Page hasn't lost anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI1AhczKvwA&feature=youtu.be
Damn he still has his pipes.
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Mr. Mister is excellent. Think I might have to give it a spin
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Mr. Mister is excellent. Think I might have to give it a spin
Welcome To The Real World is the way to go Chad.
BTW, no love from you for Gowan?
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Oh, there's plenty of love. Strange Animal is a killer album, and that title track got a lot of Much Music airtime. Not sure whether you guys got as exposed to it as we did.
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Season 2 of The Goldbergs starts this month.
So far every episode has something in it that makes me jump out of my seat with nostalgic excitement. What a great show.
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Recently, for curiosity sake, i've been exploring RYM's Top 80's Singles Chart (https://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&chart_type=top&type=single&year=1980s&genre_include=1&include_child_genres=1&genres=&include_child_genres_chk=1&include=both&origin_countries=&limit=none&countries=) just so see what acclaimed singles were not just acclaimed but popular as well (plus, it's nice to find songs you always heard but never knew from what artist/band it was).
Some notable founds:
Talk Talk - It's My Life (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXQYyKzyDaE): I always thought this was a No Doubt song.
Soft Cell - Tainted Love (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeJkbqjQvnk): The sampled main rhythm is what drives Rihanna - SOS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXmF4GbA86E).
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9gKyRmic20): Hey now, heeeey now, don't dreeeeam it's ooooover :biggrin: (i only heard the cover versions for this song, never the original).
Talking Heads - Burning Down the House (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNnAvTTaJjM): Didn't know this song was written by Talking Heads.
Billy Idol - Eyes Without a Face (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OFpfTd0EIs): Always liked this ballad.
Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGNiXGX2nLU): The chorus is sampled in the famous Flo Rida song that everyone here already heard, Right Round (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcCw1ggftuQ) (way to ruin the original :|).
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Crowded House put out some quality music over the years and Neil Finn's solo work is excellent.
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Crowded House put out some quality music over the years and Neil Finn's solo work is excellent.
Was another band that was played to death on Aussie radio. I never was a big fan of them, but they did write some really great songs.
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Two of my fav 80's bands that are not considered metal or melodic rock are Tears for Fears and Hall and Oates. Great music all round.
Two fantastic bands.
I must say, I never liked Midnight Oil. Not one little bit.
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Two of my fav 80's bands that are not considered metal or melodic rock are Tears for Fears and Hall and Oates. Great music all round.
Two fantastic bands.
I must say, I never liked Midnight Oil. Not one little bit.
I can understand not liking Midnight Oil, they are an acquired taste really, and Garett is a frontman you either love or hate.
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Well, hate is a strong word, but I certainly don't love him.
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Well, hate is a strong word, but I certainly don't love him.
Many of us Aussie's feel the same way after his move into politics. :lol
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I don't know anything about that.
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I don't know anything about that.
I know. Let's just say he is a lot lot worse in his political role than in his lead singer role.
Here's one I don't see getting mentioned often enough that stinks of good cheese. Sunglasses at Night. Lots of guitar from Andy Barnett too who played with FM and Adrian Smith.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2LTL8KgKv8
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Two of my fav 80's bands that are not considered metal or melodic rock are Tears for Fears and Hall and Oates. Great music all round.
Two fantastic bands.
I must say, I never liked Midnight Oil. Not one little bit.
This.
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I wasn't aware Midnight Oil were even a thing outside of Australia. Never liked them at all myself. Too Australian, and thus terrible.
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I, too, never cared for Midnight Oil. My brother, who is two years older than me, was always a big fan, but they never did anything for me.
Outcrier, Talk Talk's It's My Life was a song I totally forgot about until a year or so ago, and when I heard it, I was like, "Oh yeah, I remember that!" And I now like it way more than I ever did back in the 80s.
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For those saying they don't like Midnight Oil, try this album. "Earth and Sun and Moon". I'd like to here your input on that one. Top 50 for me.
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The first thing that popped in my head was The Cars, then Pat Benatar, and then this.... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27Tj-Xo_eqI)
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And of course, the 80s gave us this gem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Boom!
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And of course, the 80s gave us this gem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Boom!
88 million views for that hunk of junk
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For those saying they don't like Midnight Oil, try this album. "Earth and Sun and Moon".
No thanks, king.
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For those saying they don't like Midnight Oil, try this album. "Earth and Sun and Moon".
No thanks, king.
You fail me.
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I'm with hef. I've heard more than enough Midnight Oil, thanks to my brother back in the late 80s, to know that I'm not a fan.
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Oh I get their early stuff is waaaaaay Aussie like INXS was early on but their later albums were not.
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Speaking of 80's. I saw TOTO last night.
I l: https://youtu.be/dereablwKoM
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Nice. Africa was one of my favorite songs when I first got into music around 1982, and to this day remains one of my favorite songs. :coolio
Also, on Totally 80s the other day, they played a Bangles video I do not remember seeing, although it's possible I did and it make no impact on me back then. Fairly enjoyable song, even if the video is a bit odd. :lol Then again, I could watch it for hours just to look at Susanna Hoffs. (https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v394/kevshmev/wub.gif)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj7OJeyhq2Q
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I'll probably be laughed at but I absolutely loved Wham back in the days and I still like George Michael a lot. I absolutely love his voice and singing. The Faith album is wonderful (even if I have a tendency to prefer The 1991 Listen without Prejudice album). Saw a live version of Praying for Time and it was astounding.
B.Lee
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Oops. Wrong thread lol
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Nice. Africa was one of my favorite songs when I first got into music around 1982, and to this day remains one of my favorite songs. :coolio
Also, on Totally 80s the other day, they played a Bangles video I do not remember seeing, although it's possible I did and it make no impact on me back then. Fairly enjoyable song, even if the video is a bit odd. :lol Then again, I could watch it for hours just to look at Susanna Hoffs. (https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v394/kevshmev/wub.gif)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj7OJeyhq2Q
Must be an older video.
Leonard Nimoy?
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Damn, I have never seen that video!
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I'm all over this thread.
Love me some Tears for Fears https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZyGDiUnta4 ooooohhh
Speaking of 80's. I saw TOTO last night.
I l: https://youtu.be/dereablwKoM
Your post reminded me of this Lukather gem (although its from the early 90s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHeOAQZsnFA
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Whenever I think of the 80s, I think of The Cure.
Definitely, them and The Smiths for me.
I would say Depeche Mode and Pet Shop Boys too but my favorite albums by these two fantastic groups are from the 90's.
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Nice. Africa was one of my favorite songs when I first got into music around 1982, and to this day remains one of my favorite songs. :coolio
Also, on Totally 80s the other day, they played a Bangles video I do not remember seeing, although it's possible I did and it make no impact on me back then. Fairly enjoyable song, even if the video is a bit odd. :lol Then again, I could watch it for hours just to look at Susanna Hoffs. (https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v394/kevshmev/wub.gif)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj7OJeyhq2Q
Must be an older video.
Leonard Nimoy?
Haha, looks like it. I am not a Star Trek fan, but even I recognized him.
Damn, I have never seen that video!
It really makes me wonder if MTV played that at all back in the day.
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Yeah, that is an odd video. I have no recollection of it either. And before they showed the driver's full face, I thought it might be a younger Ian McKellan. Kinda looks like it when they are just showing part of his face.
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Hero Takes The Fall was the first video I remember from the Bangles that I remember.
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A little research shows that the song was originally done by Katrina & The Waves. The Bangles cover was the second single from their major label debut, All Over The Place, and failed to chart in the U.S., and peaked at # 79 in the UK. The Bangles then hit big with their next album, Different Light.
Little known fact: all three of the band's big hits from Different Light (Manic Monday, Walk Like An Egyptian, If She Knew What She Wants) were written by songwriters outside the band.
Littler known fact: my favorite track from The Bangles is their cover of Hazy Shade of Winter, which was a non-album track originally released on the soundtrack for the film Less Than Zero, which is a mediocre film at best.
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Littler known fact: my favorite track from The Bangles is their cover of Hazy Shade of Winter, which was a non-album track originally released on the soundtrack for the film Less Than Zero, which is a mediocre film at best.
It is mine as well. My band covers it and we usually use it as our set closer. It tends to get great reaction, even among folks who many not be familiar with it.
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Littler known fact: my favorite track from The Bangles is their cover of Hazy Shade of Winter, which was a non-album track originally released on the soundtrack for the film Less Than Zero, which is a mediocre film at best.
It is mine as well. My band covers it and we usually use it as our set closer. It tends to get great reaction, even among folks who many not be familiar with it.
(https://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i238/hefdaddy42/other/thehorns_zps591810b3.gif)
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I'm guessing everybody knows who wrote Manic Monday.
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And of course, the 80s gave us this gem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Boom!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txuWGoZF3ew
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I'm guessing everybody knows who wrote Manic Monday.
I forget. Was it Prince?
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And let's not forget the popular theory as to why he gave that song to them (that lucky sod).
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I'm guessing everybody knows who wrote Manic Monday.
I forget. Was it Prince?
Yes
And let's not forget the popular theory as to why he gave that song to them (that lucky sod).
Amen.
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I can't remember whether I actually knew that and forgot, or if it was just an educated guess. I definitely do not remember there being a popular theory about why, but I can guess.
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Also, on Totally 80s the other day, they played a Bangles video I do not remember seeing, although it's possible I did and it make no impact on me back then. Fairly enjoyable song, even if the video is a bit odd. :lol Then again, I could watch it for hours just to look at Susanna Hoffs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj7OJeyhq2Q
Hmph. Short-haired Susanna Hoffs looks a lot like Christy Canyon here. :tup
Also, here is the Apollonia 6 demo of Manic Monday, if you're a glutton for punishment. I can guarantee you, Prince did NOT cast her in Purple Rain for her talent (though she wasn't the original choice anyway).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8da5Ls7RZWQ
Seriously, don't listen to it. Also, it features plenty of very scantily clad pics of A6, so consider it NSFW, depending on your work.
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Hey, I made it 30 seconds. Do I get a prize?
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The prize is the silence after turning it off.
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That wasn't completely awful, but I doubt I'll ever listen to it again.
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You guys are silly. Videos are for watching, not listening to.
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The prize is the silence after turning it off.
:tup
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Well, if you mute the music we all can sit through a Su Su, Samantha Fox video.
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Exactly. In the 80's, we spent hours watching MTV to find songs we could cover because these were the "hot" songs. Then we'd turn the sound on the TV all the way down (no Mute button in those days) and crank some real tunes and watch the videos for the babes but also for tips on stage presence and lighting and stuff.
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It was better than watching Cinemax scrambled.
Admit it. We all did it.
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Skinemax :metal
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It was better than watching Cinemax scrambled.
Admit it. We all did it.
Yep.
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Skinemax :metal
:lol
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Goldbergs did it! Goldbergs did it!
Ah, the time before the Internet when you really had to work your ass off to maybe see boobs.
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Ah, the time before the Internet when you really had to work your ass off to maybe see boobs.
:lol This is so true!
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Except if you had that ONE friend whose parents had the 8-foot satellite dish in the backyard.
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Except if you had that ONE friend whose parents had the 8-foot satellite dish in the backyard.
Did you cross streams?
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Except if you had that ONE friend whose parents had the 8-foot satellite dish in the backyard.
I did, in fact, have that ONE friend.
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80s Thread? OK, I'm following.
I was born in 1970, so I spent all my teenage years in the 80s and therefore have a natural interest in (almost) everything 80s and I still like a lot of bands/artists from that time.
Regarding Livin' On A Prayer in a cover band: in my now long abandoned cover band we also played this tune. We had a female singer with a very powerful voice and she nailed the ending every time, but you could see it was very hard for her.
I'm actually a bit on a nostalgia trip in the past months, listening to a lot of music from my youth like Nik Kershaw, Level 42 (are they known outside europe?), Rick Springfield, Mike Oldfield, Bruce Hornsby, Police & Sting, Huey Lewis, Richard Marx.
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I was born in 1970, so I spent all my teenage years in the 80s and therefore have a natural interest in (almost) everything 80s and I still like a lot of bands/artists from that time.
Same here. And being born in the first year of a decade makes it easy to figure out how old I am when memory starts failing and I forget. :lol
Regarding Livin' On A Prayer in a cover band: in my now long abandoned cover band we also played this tune. We had a female singer with a very powerful voice and she nailed the ending every time, but you could see it was very hard for her.
We actually decided to drop it. Or, more accurately, the rest of the band decided to drop it. I am kinda bummed, actually. I think it came off really well.
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Level 42 fan here from the USA.
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We tried "Livin' on a Prayer" too. I had the keyboards down, our one guitarist had the talkbox down, it sounded sweet. Until the end when it goes up a step and a half, no one could do the high harmony. She couldn't hit it; I have a pretty good falsetto and at least the note would've been there, but I couldn't hit it, either. So we had to drop it. It's one of those songs where you have to do that part, you have to do the insane killer ending, because if you don't, then everyone knows why, and it doesn't matter how great the rest of the song sounded, you suck for not doing the ending.
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That really is a crazy part.
I could probably do it, if it was the first song of a set.
Maybe. I don't know.
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That leads to the obvious question: can Jon Bon Jovi still do that high part?
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That leads to the obvious question: can Jon Bon Jovi still do that high part?
This is all hearsay, but I have heard from several people that he has never been able to replicate it live. But let's put in context what we are talking about to make sure we are talking about the same thing as well. As far as the live version of the song goes, here is who is singing what:
red = Jon
blue = band/Ritchie
So, live, the last chorus after it modulates up goes:
Whoa!
We're halfway there!
Whoa-oh!
Livin' on a prayer!
Take my hand; we'll make it I swear.
Whoa-oh!
Livin' on a prayer!
Jon has to drop out on the "whoa" parts, even though he doesn't on the album. There just isn't enough room to breathe and sing the entire thing. He even does that on the lower choruses before the solo. That is understandable, and I assume we all acknowledge that.
But in terms of whether he actually goes for the notes, he doesn't try. And if what I have heard is correct, he never really has. The first time through, from versions I have heard, including the One Wild Night album, he goes for the notes on "we're halfway there," and sometimes tries on the rest of his parts (other times, he either drops down, just speaks the lines, or makes the audience sing). The second time through, he just drops down and ad libs a bit and/or makes the audience sing.
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It was better than watching Cinemax scrambled.
Admit it. We all did it.
Or, you know, you had the cable package that had Cinemax included in it.
The Playboy channel? Yeah, trying to watch that scrambled was my thing. :lol
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It was better than watching Cinemax scrambled.
Admit it. We all did it.
Or, you know, you had the cable package that had Cinemax included in it.
The Playboy channel? Yeah, trying to watch that scrambled was my thing. :lol
That was a little later for me as well. :lol
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This is all hearsay, but I have heard from several people that he has never been able to replicate it live. But let's put in context what we are talking about to make sure we are talking about the same thing as well. As far as the live version of the song goes, here is who is singing what:
red = Jon
blue = band/Ritchie
So, live, the last chorus after it modulates up goes:
Whoa!
We're halfway there!
Whoa-oh!
Livin' on a prayer!
Take my hand; we'll make it I swear.
Whoa-oh!
Livin' on a prayer!
Jon has to drop out on the "whoa" parts, even though he doesn't on the album. There just isn't enough room to breathe and sing the entire thing. He even does that on the lower choruses before the solo. That is understandable, and I assume we all acknowledge that.
But in terms of whether he actually goes for the notes, he doesn't try. And if what I have heard is correct, he never really has. The first time through, from versions I have heard, including the One Wild Night album, he goes for the notes on "we're halfway there," and sometimes tries on the rest of his parts (other times, he either drops down, just speaks the lines, or makes the audience sing). The second time through, he just drops down and ad libs a bit and/or makes the audience sing.
Our singer used to sing all the lines before and after the modulation, even the "whoa" parts, and as I said she nailed it every time. She was just freakin' amazing and I never understood why she stuck with us in an amateur cover band (but sure was glad that she did). I think with a little more effort and ambition she could have made it big time. She certainly had the voice and the looks too.
I don't know if JBJ did it live, but as Orbert said, if you cover that song you have to go there. If you drop it down after the modulation everybody thinks "they can't sing it" and that is what is remembered, not the performance of the rest of the song.
Same here. And being born in the first year of a decade makes it easy to figure out how old I am when memory starts failing and I forget. :lol
No kidding. My wife was born in 79 and I always have a hard time figuring out how old she gets on her next birthday. :blush With 1970 the math is so much easier.
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Level 42 fan here from the USA.
I think we could be the only ones, at least considering that this is a prog/metal board. I've made the experience that they are not that popular with metalheads.
Personally I think the funkier stuff from the beginning up to World Machine is way better than the pop stuff that came after. Standing In The Light or True Colours would be my favorites. The more success they had, the less I liked them.
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Littler known fact: my favorite track from The Bangles is their cover of Hazy Shade of Winter, which was a non-album track originally released on the soundtrack for the film Less Than Zero, which is a mediocre film at best.
It is mine as well. My band covers it and we usually use it as our set closer. It tends to get great reaction, even among folks who many not be familiar with it.
(https://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i238/hefdaddy42/other/thehorns_zps591810b3.gif)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGVNz_KXkSw&feature=youtu.be
Not too bad for a bunch of weekend garage warriors, right? (although I don't know where the guys disappeared to for the vocal harmonies :lol)
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:facepalm: Youtube is blocked here at work. I will check it out soon!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGVNz_KXkSw&feature=youtu.be
Not too bad for a bunch of weekend garage warriors, right? (although I don't know where the guys disappeared to for the vocal harmonies :lol)
Time for the "Hottest Bosk gif " thread!
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Middle aged bands always have the best equipment! Check out those guitars!
:jawdrop:
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Middle aged bands always have the best equipment! Check out those guitars!
:jawdrop:
:lol Well, yeah, because we've been around long enough that we can afford stuff.
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That was great, bosk! :metal
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Thanks. I know it isn't perfect, but it's a tricky song to pick out which notes to sing. Even in the original, it is difficult to pick out which are the "lead" notes and which are the harmonies. The harmonies the Bangles do are even more confusing to me.
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Bosk1................ :metal
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Nice. But I think your band doesn't have enough guitar players. ;) :biggrin:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGVNz_KXkSw&feature=youtu.be
Not too bad for a bunch of weekend garage warriors, right? (although I don't know where the guys disappeared to for the vocal harmonies :lol)
Bosk, those jeans are a crime against humanity :lol
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGVNz_KXkSw&feature=youtu.be
Not too bad for a bunch of weekend garage warriors, right? (although I don't know where the guys disappeared to for the vocal harmonies :lol)
Bosk, those jeans are a crime against humanity :lol
Didn't even notice the jeans. I couldn't get past that vest!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGVNz_KXkSw&feature=youtu.be
Not too bad for a bunch of weekend garage warriors, right? (although I don't know where the guys disappeared to for the vocal harmonies :lol)
That was brilliant! Your voice reminds me of Geddy... I dunno don't call me out on that I don't even like Rush all that much :lol
RE: Living On Prayer. We do it in our covers band, but we medley it with something else, just before the modulation. Like, "You live for that fight blah blah ALL THAT YOU'VE GOT" then instead of everyone hitting the modulation, the drummer just does an 8th note stomp on the kick and we start the vocals for You Give Love a Bad Name. Its the Bon Jovi super medley and I want to uppercut myself just thinking about it.
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Wow. I usually hate medleys, which is why it didn't even occur to me (or apparently anyone else in my band) to cover the modulation by jumping to a different song at that point. I know some people don't mind them, and in the case of a cover band, it can be kinda cool if you do it well. In this case, you've played most of the song, and if the jump is done well (it has to be done well), then you can probably get away with it. People don't think you suck for not doing the ending (even though you secretly still do) if they're distracted by "Oh hey, this song!"
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Didn't even notice the jeans. I couldn't get past that vest!
At least it's not denim and he's not smoothing it. Great cover, though. Nice!
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Wow. I usually hate medleys, which is why it didn't even occur to me (or apparently anyone else in my band) to cover the modulation by jumping to a different song at that point. I know some people don't mind them, and in the case of a cover band, it can be kinda cool if you do it well. In this case, you've played most of the song, and if the jump is done well (it has to be done well), then you can probably get away with it. People don't think you suck for not doing the ending (even though you secretly still do) if they're distracted by "Oh hey, this song!"
Definitely! We do a couple medleys. I'd recommend it personally, its a great way to keep things moving, and keep people dancing without having to stop and start another song, which can kill the vibe sometimes. I think ever since we started we've done a dance megamix (LOL) of I've Gotta Feeling (Black Eyed Peas, ugh)/Moves Like Jagger (Maroon 5, ugh)/Long Train Running, all those songs pretty much start with a single guitar, so its easy to transition into them, and it works really well, even though I hate the first two songs haha. But crowds dig it, and we have a busy gig schedule so I guess we are doing something right.
Its also super fun trying to think up medleys, when you're playing a song and think 'hey, so-and-so other song is in the same key and same(ish) tempo, we should medley them'. I love playing the music nerd and thinking those things up.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGVNz_KXkSw&feature=youtu.be
Not too bad for a bunch of weekend garage warriors, right? (although I don't know where the guys disappeared to for the vocal harmonies :lol)
This is actually really kickin', good work, good vocals too. It looks like you are having the vest of times up there.
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It looks like you are having the vest of times up there.
That's copyright Mindcrime Enterprises :P
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It looks like you are having the vest of times up there.
That's copyright Mindcrime Enterprises :P
(https://www.darkside.ru/band/12848/n58942.jpg)
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:lol
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Littler known fact: my favorite track from The Bangles is their cover of Hazy Shade of Winter, which was a non-album track originally released on the soundtrack for the film Less Than Zero, which is a mediocre film at best.
It is mine as well. My band covers it and we usually use it as our set closer. It tends to get great reaction, even among folks who many not be familiar with it.
(https://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i238/hefdaddy42/other/thehorns_zps591810b3.gif)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGVNz_KXkSw&feature=youtu.be
Not too bad for a bunch of weekend garage warriors, right? (although I don't know where the guys disappeared to for the vocal harmonies :lol)
:metal
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(https://www.darkside.ru/band/12848/n58942.jpg)
:metal
:lol
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That leads to the obvious question: can Jon Bon Jovi still do that high part?
Having seen BJ several times back in the day he never got anywhere near it.
Tough part though.
I remember reading that Scorpions got Don Dokken in to sing a high note in Rhythm Of Love and I always wondered why you would record something your singer couldn't do even in the studio. If it becomes a hit you're stuck having to do it forever!
Reminds me of the Joe Walsh quote re Rocky Mountain Way - "If I'd have known then that I was going to have to play this song for the rest of my life, I'd probably have written something else".
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For some reason, Jon Bon Jovi is an extremely underrated vocalist, mostly cuz people tend to only focus on the Livin' On A Prayer key change.
If you really want to hear him bust a nut, check out the Always Demo from the box set and the key change at about 4:30 until the end. I can't link it on Youtube cuz it's not official but when I first heard this part of the demo I almost crapped my pants.
I'm probably the biggest BJ fan (hehe) here. I've seen them a lot live and in-person. I've read the books and biographies. I know their entire history. Jon Bon Jovi and BJ are the real deal through and through. They never fake it at their shows, they'd rather make the effort and miss the note a little than give up. They play for 2.5 hours every show. The crowd gets exhausted a few times and Jon, the greatest front-man of all time in my opinion, keeps bringing us back to life. I could go on and on...
They even saw a psychologist before Keep the Faith that really helped them get over their issues and nobody knew about it until recently but then you get Metallica who made a movie about it with the same guy who helped BJ.
The Goldbergs season two starts this week!
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Nice. But I think your band doesn't have enough guitar players. ;) :biggrin:
Ha! Yeah, but since we cover a couple of Skynrd tunes, it's okay, right? :lol Actually, the truth behind that is, last May when we played the local Tour De Cure diabetes ride, they told us they wanted us to play 3-4 hours, which about doubled the amount of material we had to learn. Our drummer (a former forum member, coincidentally) left us awhile back, so our bass player jumped over to drums, and we brought in a new bass player. Problem is, Dave does not know nearly as many songs on drums as he does on other instruments, and our new bass player did not know as many either, and we had a short time to prepare. Enter my neighbor Vince (the bald guy with the sunburst Les Paul). He plays multiple instruments and knows a lot of songs. By bringing him in and shifting people around on different instruments throughout our sets, we were able to more easily work up enough material to fill the time that this great charity wanted us to play for.
It looks like you are having the vest of times up there.
That's copyright Mindcrime Enterprises :P
(https://www.darkside.ru/band/12848/n58942.jpg)
I hate you all so much right now.
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Nice. But I think your band doesn't have enough guitar players. ;) :biggrin:
Ha! Yeah, but since we cover a couple of Skynrd tunes, it's okay, right? :lol
Haha, of course. Just messing with ya a little. :coolio
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Such a strange, but cool, video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXQYyKzyDaE
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Howard Jones getting all fancy for his video for "The Prisoner"......well, fancy for 1989.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6kQvJcpjBY
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I went to college, for the third time, in the mid 80's. My Calculus professor was Dr. Howard Jones. He was awesome and I ended up taking all four terms of Calculus from him.
To this day, when I think of Dr. Jones, I hear the line from "Things Can Only Get Better" by Howard Jones in my head.
♫♫ Whoa, whoa, whoa-oh-oh, whoa, oh, oh-oh-oh ♫♪♫
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:)
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I liked that Howard Jones.
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You guys ever see the video for the Robert Palmer song, Looking for Clues? I had never heard the song or seen the video, but it was on Totally 80s recently, and I couldn't believe how unbelievably cheesy the video was, even by 80s standards. :lol :lol The song actually wasn't bad; it was oddly catchy. But that video, man oh man. :lol
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Yup. He's transposed on a kids xylophone. :lol
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LOL, I about fell off the couch laughing at that. :rollin :rollin
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I remember that, and the xylophone is the first thing I think of. Actually, the only thing I think of. It was bad.
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Oh yeah, the guitar solo that seemed to be one chord played over and over. Or one note. Or something. Just BWANG BWANG BWANG BWANG BWANG.
Robert Palmer turning into the well dressed guy singing in front of a wall of miniskirted ladies badly miming the song on their instruments might have been the biggest transformation in music history, after that video. :lol
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Yeah, it was hard to believe that was the same guy. :lol :lol
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My reaction to the announcement of the formation of the Power Station was not to remark that two guys from Duran Duran were apparently forming a hard rock band, nor to remark that the drummer from Chic was playing with them, but to say "the guy who did the Looking For Clues song is their singer? What are they thinking?
In fact given how much of Palmer's music had the same sort of sound the Power Station used, that project might have had a lot to do with him becoming the Robert Palmer we knew from then on.
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Love almost anything 80's: music (not hair metal), games, TV, movies. There's the new TV show The Goldbergs about life in the 80's, good show.
I wanted to do a metal cover of HSOW but my band didn't last long enough. Great cover video though.