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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #840 on: July 16, 2012, 12:53:49 PM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #841 on: July 17, 2012, 08:09:45 AM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #842 on: July 17, 2012, 08:43:51 AM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #843 on: July 17, 2012, 10:23:53 AM »
that song always sounded like a TV commercial/jingle to me
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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #844 on: July 17, 2012, 10:39:29 AM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #845 on: July 17, 2012, 11:38:48 AM »
Quote from: KevShmev on July 17, 2012, 08:09:45 AM
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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Quote from: Jaq on July 17, 2012, 10:39:29 AM
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #846 on: July 17, 2012, 11:48:02 AM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #847 on: July 17, 2012, 11:50:20 AM »
Fucking love it.  Catchiest riff ever.
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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #848 on: July 17, 2012, 11:55:01 AM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #849 on: July 17, 2012, 11:56:24 AM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #850 on: July 17, 2012, 11:59:57 AM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #851 on: July 17, 2012, 08:53:48 PM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #852 on: July 18, 2012, 12:28:08 AM »
Safety Dance - Loved that song and still like it. Yeah it's kinda silly but I don't mind.
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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #853 on: July 18, 2012, 08:20:53 AM »
Quote from: KevShmev on July 17, 2012, 11:48:02 AM
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #854 on: July 18, 2012, 10:33:20 AM »
Quote from: Jaq on July 17, 2012, 10:39:29 AM
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #855 on: July 18, 2012, 10:36:47 AM »
Interesting. Doesn't make We Built This City suck any less though.
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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #856 on: July 18, 2012, 10:43:08 AM »
Quote from: jeebustrain on July 18, 2012, 10:33:20 AM
Quote from: Jaq on July 17, 2012, 10:39:29 AM
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #857 on: July 18, 2012, 11:02:46 AM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #858 on: July 18, 2012, 11:13:14 AM »
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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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #859 on: July 18, 2012, 11:51:17 AM »
Quote from: KevShmev on July 17, 2012, 08:09:45 AM
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #860 on: July 18, 2012, 11:55:01 AM »
Back to WBTC for a moment.  The extended club remix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h12Lmvyvb3c

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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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #861 on: July 18, 2012, 11:55:28 AM »
Quote from: lonestar on July 18, 2012, 11:13:14 AM
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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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #862 on: July 18, 2012, 12:20:25 PM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #863 on: July 18, 2012, 01:29:21 PM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #864 on: July 18, 2012, 03:40:48 PM »
More proof that the Grammys are bogus.
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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #865 on: July 18, 2012, 04:10:23 PM »
Quote from: Big Hath on July 18, 2012, 01:29:21 PM
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #866 on: July 18, 2012, 05:19:32 PM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #867 on: July 18, 2012, 07:30:00 PM »
Quote from: Cool Chris on July 18, 2012, 05:19:32 PM

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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #868 on: July 18, 2012, 11:08:55 PM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #869 on: July 18, 2012, 11:30:14 PM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #870 on: July 18, 2012, 11:51:34 PM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #871 on: July 19, 2012, 12:24:10 AM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #872 on: July 19, 2012, 01:03:35 AM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #873 on: July 19, 2012, 02:09:09 AM »
Pretty impressive list. :tup
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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #874 on: July 19, 2012, 08:34:30 AM »
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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