Author Topic: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day (Read 308399 times)

jingle.boy · « **Reply #1540 on:** October 23, 2012, 09:15:51 AM »

Great tune. Open Up was a monumental improvement over Look What the Cat Dragged in. It actually had intelligent writing. This too was probably my initial favorite from the album. Nice video too.

TAC · « **Reply #1541 on:** October 23, 2012, 09:58:13 AM »

I actually do not remember that Poison song. They were one band that I had NO respect for.

Bon Jovi, on the other hand was the real deal. I actually saw them open for the Scorps in 1984, and they were incredible.

Slippery When Wet just blew up and really opened up the airways and charts for the hard rock/hair rock movement. But the follow up, New Jersey, is fantastic and has a heck of a lot more to do with Thin Lizzy than it does with hair metal.

Jaq · « **Reply #1542 on:** October 23, 2012, 10:56:55 AM »

I have no memory of that Poison song, though I did own and like the debut album, even if the band looked HILARIOUS on the cover.

wkiml · « **Reply #1543 on:** October 23, 2012, 11:01:33 AM »

Quote from: TAC on October 23, 2012, 09:58:13 AM

I actually do not remember that Poison song. They were one band that I had NO respect for.

Bon Jovi, on the other hand was the real deal. I actually saw them open for the Scorps in 1984, and they were incredible.

Slippery When Wet just blew up and really opened up the airways and charts for the hard rock/hair rock movement. But the follow up, New Jersey, is fantastic and has a heck of a lot more to do with Thin Lizzy than it does with hair metal.

I saw them on that same tour and MSG was completely empty during Bon Jovi's set, Jon actually made a comment along the lines of how he wanted to take a couple of underage girls back to his hotel room before intoducing the song Runaway...

jjrock88 · « **Reply #1544 on:** October 23, 2012, 08:57:14 PM »

TAC, what are the odds of Poison cracking your top ten? one in a trillion or just zero?

KevShmev · « **Reply #1545 on:** October 23, 2012, 11:16:01 PM »

David Bowie - China Girl

Always liked this song a lot, and still do. The video was always one that was easy to get sucked into, as it was oddly appealing. Pretty much everything about this song is great.

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #1546 on:** October 23, 2012, 11:56:40 PM »

I didn't like China Girl too much back in the day, but it grew on me BIG TIME over the years. Love it now.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #1547 on:** October 24, 2012, 05:03:34 AM »

I didn't like David Bowie back in the day, and I still don't.

Zydar · « **Reply #1548 on:** October 24, 2012, 05:05:16 AM »

Great song.

TAC · « **Reply #1549 on:** October 24, 2012, 05:21:16 AM »

Quote from: jjrock88 on October 23, 2012, 08:57:14 PM

TAC, what are the odds of Poison cracking your top ten? one in a trillion or just zero?

Zero in a trillion!

Actually I came very close to seeing them in a small club before they broke. On the fall of '87 a slew of LA bands toured out here. I saw Faster Pussycat (who absolutely sucked) and Guns n Roses ( who were incredible). Poison came shortly after, I believe, and I had full intentions of going. I hadn't heard anything by them, but for some reason I didn't go.

Orbert · « **Reply #1550 on:** October 24, 2012, 07:58:41 AM »

I never liked "China Girl" even though I like most David Bowie. The song itself is weird, with the pentatonic harmonies meant to evoke Chinese music, and what's with the "Oh baby, just you shut your mouth"? I've never understood love songs where someone tells the other to "just shut up and..." whatever. Maybe because I babble a lot and am always being told to shut up. Um, yeah.

Also, the girl in video was completely hideous. Fucking hell, you write a song about a Chinese babe and you make a video with the ugliest fucking Asian girl you can find? I didn't like the song anyway, but shit, when I saw the video it certainly did not help. I don't think I've ever actually made it through the video, though. Does she turn into a flower or something at the end? 'Cause as it is, you could hit her in the face with a brick and I still think it would be an improvement.

LudwigVan · « **Reply #1551 on:** October 24, 2012, 09:10:11 AM »

Quote from: Orbert on October 24, 2012, 07:58:41 AM

I never liked "China Girl" even though I like most David Bowie. The song itself is weird, with the pentatonic harmonies meant to evoke Chinese music, and what's with the "Oh baby, just you shut your mouth"? I've never understood love songs where someone tells the other to "just shut up and..." whatever. Maybe because I babble a lot and am always being told to shut up. Um, yeah.

Also, the girl in video was completely hideous. Fucking hell, you write a song about a Chinese babe and you make a video with the ugliest fucking Asian girl you can find? I didn't like the song anyway, but shit, when I saw the video it certainly did not help. I don't think I've ever actually made it through the video, though. Does she turn into a flower or something at the end? 'Cause as it is, you could hit her in the face with a brick and I still think it would be an improvement.

I had a laugh when I read this, cause those were my exact same thoughts when I first saw the video way back when. She certainly has an 'androgynous' look which probably appealed to Bowie:

Geeling Ng is a New Zealand model, actress and restaurateur who is best known as the title character in David Bowie's music video "China Girl". She was a waitress when Bowie spotted her and wanted her in the video.[1]

Ng hosts the cooking segment for TV ONE's Asia Downunder and is the operations manager at Soul Bar & Bistro in Auckland's Viaduct. She was also a contestant on Dancing with the Stars in 2008. [2]

KevShmev · « **Reply #1552 on:** October 24, 2012, 09:33:18 AM »

Yeah, I always thought she was less than attractive as well, but the nature of the video helps her out a little bit, I think. And Bowie is kind of a weird guy anyway, so pairing him up with a gal like that in a video kind of makes sense.

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #1553 on:** October 24, 2012, 11:56:25 AM »

David Bowie, weird?! Naaaaaah...

Jaq · « **Reply #1554 on:** October 24, 2012, 12:02:20 PM »

Quote from: DebraKadabra on October 24, 2012, 11:56:25 AM

David Bowie, weird?! Naaaaaah...

This period of David Bowie's career was always interesting to me because it was obvious to me that he sat down and said "you know what? I'm going to jump headfirst into this whole 80s rock thing and just make a shit ton of money." He would later have a lot of bad things to say about Let's Dance and the videos and what not, but everything about Let's Dance was custom built to make huge amounts of money. I remember on this tour he played TWO dates in Norfolk, VA because the first one sold out. I can name only a handful of acts who pulled that off around here, and one of them was the Rolling Stones. Bowie might not look back too fondly on this period, but for a while he was huge.

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #1555 on:** October 24, 2012, 12:07:51 PM »

Oh God, Let's Dance (album) was HUGE. It also put one Stevie Ray Vaughan (RIP) in the spotlight, and well deserved too.

Orbert · « **Reply #1556 on:** October 24, 2012, 12:32:20 PM »

I was aware of 60's and 70's weirdo Bowie while growing up, but when Let's Dance came out, that's when I actually thought he wasn't too bad. Rewatching the "Let's Dance" video now, it's hard to believe, but I distinctly remember watching it and thinking "Yep, the dude's still way weird". But I love Let's Dance and the follow-up Tonight ("Loving the Alien" is so cool) and they inspired me to take a real look at his back catalogue. Lots of cool stuff back there.

So even if David himself views the 80's as a time of artistic compromise, which it totally was, it got a lot of people into his past work, which he presumably holds in higher regard.

KevShmev · « **Reply #1557 on:** October 24, 2012, 12:37:56 PM »

Speaking of guys that were big in the 70s...

Rod Stewart - Lost in You

I have to admit that I had completely forgotten about this song. In fact, I hadn't heard it probably since the late 80s until it popped up on VH1 Classic a few weeks ago, and I was like, "Oh yeah! Good song, and nice video." As a 15-year old, it was even better at the time.

The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoOytXDDWT0

I am not a strip bar guy at all, but 1:38-1:44 is glorious.

KevShmev · « **Reply #1558 on:** October 25, 2012, 09:39:31 AM »

No one remembers that one, eh?

Cool Chris · « **Reply #1559 on:** October 25, 2012, 09:51:00 AM »

Doesn't sound familiar.

* watches clip

Ok, that was painful, almost had ot fast-forward to 1:38. The chorus sounds vaguely familiar. But maybe it just has that generic Rod Stewart sound I had to listen to all the time since my mom was a big fan of his.

Looking back through this page, didn't like China Doll, and never got in to Bowie for whatever reason.

bosk1 · « **Reply #1560 on:** October 25, 2012, 10:05:58 AM »

I don't specifically remember that one either, but I do like me some Rod Stewart.

KevShmev · « **Reply #1561 on:** October 25, 2012, 11:39:58 PM »

Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight

This duet with Ronnie Spector was wildly popular, reaching the top 5 on the pop chart here in the States, and the video was played to death on MTV. I don't remember the video being anything noteworthy, but I always liked the song.

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #1562 on:** October 25, 2012, 11:45:23 PM »

Ick... sorry...

KevShmev · « **Reply #1563 on:** October 25, 2012, 11:46:23 PM »

This is not your week in this thread, is it?

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #1564 on:** October 25, 2012, 11:47:54 PM »

Quote from: KevShmev on October 25, 2012, 11:46:23 PM

This is not your week in this thread, is it?

Heh, not really.

Jaq · « **Reply #1565 on:** October 25, 2012, 11:49:53 PM »

Ahh, yes. As far as I was concerned, until he popped up in that Geico commercial about being as happy as Eddie Money at a travel agency, this pretty much was the end of Eddie Money's career for me.

Honestly don't know how he followed it up on this ALBUM, let alone the next one.

KevShmev · « **Reply #1566 on:** October 25, 2012, 11:57:08 PM »

Fine, I'll throw another out there now and both can be up for discussion for now (not like I don't do two or three some days already anyway)...

David Lee Roth - Yankee Rose

An awesome video in every way possible. The intro is incredible - "Gimme a bottle of anything, and a glazed donut...to go!" And then when the song starts, it is just as good. Say what you want about DLR, but the guy had charisma, and he could make a great video even just out of him and his band performing on stage. And wearing assless pants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsC7oEjCHAM

2:24-2:25 is possible the funniest moment in any DLR video ever. Roth shaking his butt in the screen goes perfectly with that emotive guitar lead by Steve Vai.

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #1567 on:** October 25, 2012, 11:58:48 PM »

Home run!

Cool song, MUCH better video. I always loved how much David Lee Roth embraced the video medium - he really made the most of it back then.

Jaq · « **Reply #1568 on:** October 25, 2012, 11:59:38 PM »

I can't do it anymore, but for AGES, I could recite every crazy line in the introduction of this video, and "Give me a bottle of anything and a glazed donut...to GO" was pretty much my catchphrase. The rest of the video was a fairly standard performance video to introduce DLR's new band-and good fucking god, what a band-but that intro was fucking dynamite.

BlobVanDam · « **Reply #1569 on:** October 26, 2012, 12:06:17 AM »

I just listened to this one the other day.

Great song, and as usual DLR shines in the video. What he lacks in vocal ability, he's always made up for with charisma.

KevShmev · « **Reply #1570 on:** October 26, 2012, 12:10:33 AM »

Yes! I am gonna have to steal that.

BlobVanDam · « **Reply #1571 on:** October 26, 2012, 12:14:16 AM »

Dare I even ask what for?

KevShmev · « **Reply #1572 on:** October 26, 2012, 12:26:21 AM »

I have several cousins who are big fans of VH/DLR. They will get a chuckle over that. That's all. Swear.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #1573 on:** October 26, 2012, 04:11:45 AM »

Give me a bottle of anything and a glazed donut.

To Go.................

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #1574 on:** October 26, 2012, 04:14:03 AM »

Quote from: BlobVanDam on October 26, 2012, 12:06:17 AM

I just listened to this one the other day.
Great song, and as usual DLR shines in the video. What he lacks in vocal ability, he's always made up for with charazma.

FTFY

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Author Topic: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day (Read 308399 times)