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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #910 on: July 22, 2012, 12:30:22 AM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #911 on: July 22, 2012, 05:58:44 AM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #912 on: July 22, 2012, 07:15:14 AM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #913 on: July 22, 2012, 07:32:49 AM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #914 on: July 22, 2012, 08:12:33 AM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #915 on: July 22, 2012, 10:06:07 AM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #916 on: July 22, 2012, 10:28:03 AM »
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:

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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #917 on: July 22, 2012, 10:40:28 AM »
HA!

Drinking wine, douchebags!
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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #918 on: July 22, 2012, 11:57:26 AM »
Quote from: Orbert on July 22, 2012, 07:32:49 AM
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #919 on: July 22, 2012, 12:14:42 PM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #920 on: July 22, 2012, 04:47:18 PM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #921 on: July 22, 2012, 04:49:11 PM »
The first 4 Dokken albums are the definition of 80's hair metal.  Plus, an amazing live album.  Great song.
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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #922 on: July 22, 2012, 04:54:08 PM »
Quote from: DebraKadabra on July 22, 2012, 04:47:18 PM
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  ............

   
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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #923 on: July 22, 2012, 04:58:09 PM »
Quote from: CrimsonSunrise on July 22, 2012, 04:54:08 PM
Quote from: DebraKadabra on July 22, 2012, 04:47:18 PM
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  ............

   

That and living in the boonies with no cable, brah. :hat
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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #924 on: July 22, 2012, 05:13:13 PM »
Or Radio??   :biggrin:  I hear ya sistah  ;)
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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #925 on: July 22, 2012, 05:24:21 PM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #926 on: July 22, 2012, 05:53:45 PM »
Quote from: CrimsonSunrise on July 22, 2012, 11:57:26 AM
Quote from: Orbert on July 22, 2012, 07:32:49 AM
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #927 on: July 22, 2012, 06:22:30 PM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #928 on: July 22, 2012, 07:28:42 PM »
That's crazy that we all collectively "hazed" out. :lol
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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #929 on: July 22, 2012, 11:47:21 PM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #930 on: July 23, 2012, 12:17:45 AM »
I think I liked the song better than the video. :lol
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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #931 on: July 23, 2012, 08:42:09 AM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #932 on: July 23, 2012, 08:56:49 AM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #933 on: July 23, 2012, 08:59:17 AM »
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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #934 on: July 23, 2012, 09:08:59 AM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #935 on: July 23, 2012, 09:32:04 AM »
Quote from: KevShmev on July 22, 2012, 11:47:21 PM
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #936 on: July 23, 2012, 11:25:56 AM »
Quote from: KevShmev on July 22, 2012, 11:47:21 PM
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #937 on: July 23, 2012, 11:48:57 AM »
Quote from: Orbert on July 23, 2012, 11:25:56 AM
Quote from: KevShmev on July 22, 2012, 11:47:21 PM
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #938 on: July 23, 2012, 12:00:11 PM »
Quote from: KevShmev on July 23, 2012, 08:56:49 AM
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #939 on: July 23, 2012, 12:18:36 PM »
Quote from: DebraKadabra on July 23, 2012, 12:00:11 PM
Quote from: KevShmev on July 23, 2012, 08:56:49 AM
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #940 on: July 23, 2012, 12:25:11 PM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #941 on: July 23, 2012, 01:19:56 PM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #942 on: July 23, 2012, 01:24:14 PM »
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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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #943 on: July 23, 2012, 01:29:03 PM »
Did you wear makeup during the sex like Patty Smyth did in the video? ;)
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Re: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day
« Reply #944 on: July 23, 2012, 03:01:13 PM »
Quote from: KevShmev on July 23, 2012, 01:29:03 PM
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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