Author Topic: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day (Read 313061 times)

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #1610 on:** October 28, 2012, 11:54:05 AM »

I'm more of a fan of their earlier stuff, but yeah - GREAT band, great song.

Jaq · « **Reply #1611 on:** October 28, 2012, 02:42:22 PM »

Kick was a masterpiece of 80s pop-rock. Most of the album-one of the few that the manager of the Musicland I worked at let us play beyond his playlist of precisely three albums (the first Traveling Wilburys album, something by Anita Baker, and Don't Be Cruel by Bobby Brown) that normally got airplay in my store-was single worthy, and the tracks that weren't singles were still pretty damn good. One of the best albums of the 80s right here; even though I wasn't much of a fan of either this song or the album, I recognized how well done it was back then.

Orbert · « **Reply #1612 on:** October 28, 2012, 03:13:12 PM »

I didn't like everything by INXS, but they had some catchy songs, and I liked this one. Michael Hutchense could sing with incredible emotion in his voice, and that saxophone solo was killer.

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #1613 on:** October 28, 2012, 06:56:13 PM »

It's really a shame about Michael - I agree, Orbert, his voice was downright incredible sometimes.

wolfking · « **Reply #1614 on:** October 29, 2012, 05:27:27 AM »

This is one fellow homegrown band that I could never stand to be honest. They are absolutely huge over here, so overplaying of every single one of their hits didn't help. I appreciate their sound but for me they just repeated themselves too much. They use the same clean guitar riff in just about every song.

I actually had the displeasure of seeing them live a few years ago with JD Fortune and they were absolutely dreadful, Michael would be rolling in his grave with what this band has become.

KevShmev · « **Reply #1615 on:** October 29, 2012, 10:26:17 AM »

U2 - New Year's Day

Awesome song in every way possible, and a helluva video, too, one that matches the cold vibe of the song. I always loved watching MTV on January 1st back in the day since I knew they would play this video (this was when I was a kid and before I owned the War CD and before the video was easily viewed on youtube at any time).

Orbert · « **Reply #1616 on:** October 29, 2012, 11:06:51 AM »

I always liked this song, but probably liked it more back when U2 were new and different and not horribly overplayed on every pop (and now classic rock) station in America.

For some reason, I thought it was really cool that Bono sang "be with you, be with you". It would've been cool to sing it and have it echo in time, but maybe he thought that would be too cliché, or maybe he just thought it was cooler this way anyway. Which it is.

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #1617 on:** October 29, 2012, 12:00:42 PM »

Never dug that one - I'll take Sunday Bloody Sunday over New Year's Day ANY day of the week that ends in Y.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #1618 on:** October 29, 2012, 12:38:55 PM »

Quote from: DebraKadabra on October 29, 2012, 12:00:42 PM

Never dug that one - I'll take Sunday Bloody Sunday over New Year's Day ANY day of the week that ends in Y.

So, not tomorrow?

Zydar · « **Reply #1619 on:** October 29, 2012, 12:51:11 PM »

One of my favourite U2 songs. I have a tradition of playing this as the very first song I listen to on New Years day.

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #1620 on:** October 29, 2012, 01:22:22 PM »

Quote from: jingle.boy on October 29, 2012, 12:38:55 PM

Quote from: DebraKadabra on October 29, 2012, 12:00:42 PM
Never dug that one - I'll take Sunday Bloody Sunday over New Year's Day ANY day of the week that ends in Y.

So, not tomorrow?

Har har, very funny.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #1621 on:** October 29, 2012, 03:03:52 PM »

Quote from: DebraKadabra on October 29, 2012, 01:22:22 PM

Quote from: jingle.boy on October 29, 2012, 12:38:55 PM
Quote from: DebraKadabra on October 29, 2012, 12:00:42 PM
Never dug that one - I'll take Sunday Bloody Sunday over New Year's Day ANY day of the week that ends in Y.

So, not tomorrow?

Har har, very funny.

I'm here all week.

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #1622 on:** October 29, 2012, 03:37:13 PM »

I guess I should enjoy the veal while I'm at it...

Jaq · « **Reply #1623 on:** October 29, 2012, 08:24:54 PM »

War was the album that U2 started turning into the U2 we know them as today-before that, they'd been a kind of punky/New Wave type thing, not really the socially conscious activist rockers that they wound up spending most of the rest of the 80s as. They were still filing the edges off their sound, refining it, and War is pretty well a halfway point between their earlier approach and the band they became. You didn't really get the sense of how big they were going to be when New Year's Day came out, though there was a sense of seeing these guys mature pretty quickly over their early output and that they were going to be pretty successful. But wow, did they blow up HUGE over the next few years!

KevShmev · « **Reply #1624 on:** October 29, 2012, 11:17:07 PM »

Quote from: Jaq on October 29, 2012, 08:24:54 PM

War was the album that U2 started turning into the U2 we know them as today-before that, they'd been a kind of punky/New Wave type thing, not really the socially conscious activist rockers that they wound up spending most of the rest of the 80s as. They were still filing the edges off their sound, refining it, and War is pretty well a halfway point between their earlier approach and the band they became. You didn't really get the sense of how big they were going to be when New Year's Day came out, though there was a sense of seeing these guys mature pretty quickly over their early output and that they were going to be pretty successful. But wow, did they blow up HUGE over the next few years!

All true. I was pretty young at the time, but I sure didn't see it coming when they became the biggest band in the world with the release of The Joshua Tree.

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #1625 on:** October 29, 2012, 11:18:57 PM »

They were EVERYWHERE after The Joshua Tree came out. Great album though.

KevShmev · « **Reply #1626 on:** October 29, 2012, 11:29:43 PM »

The Bangles - Manic Monday

Written by Prince, because he apparently had a huge crush on Susanna Hoffs (who in the hell didn't?!?!?!?!?!?!), Manic Monday is a fantastic pop song: catchy as hell and with a brilliant hook. The video wasn't anything ground-breaking, but any video that shows a lot of Hoffs is a good one.

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #1627 on:** October 29, 2012, 11:36:10 PM »

Decent enough song, but it got WAY overplayed at that time IMO. I didn't know that Prince had written it at first though, but that upped its cool points.

Jaq · « **Reply #1628 on:** October 30, 2012, 06:53:40 AM »

The song that proved that Prince, in fact, wrote every pop single in the 80s that didn't have much of anything to do with Michael Jackson.

I remember hearing around the time that this song came out that Prince had offered Susannah Hoffs a spot in his band, which prompted me to remark that "Prince can't have ALL the good looking women in music!" and crack up my friends with its earnestness. I actually owned this album, and recall how it left my life...sold at a family yard sale.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #1629 on:** October 30, 2012, 08:59:25 AM »

Excellent tune. Hoffs has aged quite well to boot.

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #1630 on:** October 30, 2012, 11:51:58 AM »

Quote from: Jaq on October 30, 2012, 06:53:40 AM

The song that proved that Prince, in fact, wrote every pop single in the 80s that didn't have much of anything to do with Michael Jackson.

Say what?!

Jaq · « **Reply #1631 on:** October 30, 2012, 12:18:44 PM »

In the mid-80s, it seemed like every time you turned around, the new hit single had been written by Prince. So in my circle of friends, we had a running joke that Prince wrote every hit single of the 80s with the exception of Michael Jackson's hits. Which could get funny when a song came on the radio and we raced to declare it was written by Prince.

Did I mention that generally a lot of alcohol was involved in these inside jokes?

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #1632 on:** October 30, 2012, 12:19:30 PM »

Aha, that would 'splain it.

KevShmev · « **Reply #1633 on:** October 30, 2012, 12:40:16 PM »

New Order - True Faith

One of the more entertaining videos of the later 80s, as it features a bunch of characters dressed in colorful outfits slapping each other (humorously, to the beat of the song), beating each other up and dancing, all at the same time. Pretty entertaining, to say the least. Good solid dance song, too.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #1634 on:** October 30, 2012, 12:46:35 PM »

Was never my genre, so I don't even recall the song.

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #1635 on:** October 30, 2012, 01:24:57 PM »

I'll have to YT that, as I don't remember it either.

bosk1 · « **Reply #1636 on:** October 30, 2012, 01:30:10 PM »

Quote from: DebraKadabra on October 30, 2012, 01:24:57 PM

I'll have to YT that, as I don't remember it either.

Did you say Y&T?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QR4O0-G9HA

Cool Chris · « **Reply #1637 on:** October 30, 2012, 03:01:22 PM »

Quote from: KevShmev on October 29, 2012, 11:29:43 PM

The Bangles - Manic Monday

Good song, never knew Prince wrote it.

Quote from: KevShmev on October 30, 2012, 12:40:16 PM

New Order - True Faith

One of the more entertaining videos of the later 80s, as it features a bunch of characters dressed in colorful outfits slapping each other (humorously, to the beat of the song), beating each other up and dancing, all at the same time. Pretty entertaining, to say the least. Good solid dance song, too.

I have a remix of this that I listen to all the time. I love it. And I honestly can’t say I recall the video, or even the last time I heard a non-remix version of this song. New Order had some good tunes, especially Blue Monday – another song with some great remixes.

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #1638 on:** October 30, 2012, 03:39:50 PM »

Quote from: bosk1 on October 30, 2012, 01:30:10 PM

Quote from: DebraKadabra on October 30, 2012, 01:24:57 PM
I'll have to YT that, as I don't remember it either.

Did you say Y&T?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QR4O0-G9HA

YOUTUBE, silly.

bosk1 · « **Reply #1639 on:** October 30, 2012, 05:28:35 PM »

Oh, my bad. But while we're on the subject of really good Y&T videos, why waste the opportunity?

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #1640 on:** October 30, 2012, 05:30:55 PM »

True enough - I'll scope it out either when I get home or later on this week.

bosk1 · « **Reply #1641 on:** October 30, 2012, 05:36:02 PM »

Just an advance word of caution: brace yourself for mid-'80s neon pink jumpsuit. But otherwise, outstanding performance.

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #1642 on:** October 30, 2012, 07:15:15 PM »

Thanks for the warning.

Jaq · « **Reply #1643 on:** October 30, 2012, 08:25:26 PM »

Quote from: bosk1 on October 30, 2012, 05:36:02 PM

Just an advance word of caution: brace yourself for mid-'80s ~~neon pink jumpsuit~~ band in PASTELS, NOTHING BUT PASTELS. But otherwise, outstanding performance.

Fixed that for you.

Awesome song though.

bosk1 · « **Reply #1644 on:** October 30, 2012, 08:49:31 PM »

Quote from: Jaq on October 30, 2012, 08:25:26 PM

Quote from: bosk1 on October 30, 2012, 05:36:02 PM
Just an advance word of caution: brace yourself for mid-'80s ~~neon pink jumpsuit~~ band in PASTELS, NOTHING BUT PASTELS. But otherwise, outstanding performance.

Fixed that for you.

True.

Quote from: Jaq on October 30, 2012, 08:25:26 PM

Awesome song though.

Definitely. As Rob Halford said of that song, "FOREVER! Best heavy metal song ever written!" But...since it doesn't have a "proper" video, and it wasn't posted by Kev, I should probably stop hijacking his thread now.

News: Track-by-track video for Paralyzed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd5TbGbalPs&feature=youtu.be

Author Topic: MTV in the 80s Song of the Day (Read 313061 times)