80s Classic Albums (Featuring: King Crimson)

[TAC]

This was like the girl named Cindy that you convinced to come over to your place because she was really hot.    When you got her home, everything went really fantastic.   And when you both woke up in the morning....neither one of you wanted to leave.    So you hung out together like that for a whole decade.   And you still wonder where that girl is.   How she's doing?   And maybe if you were just one of the guys or one of the special guys.    Hmmmmmm

What? 

Dude, lay off the 

[jammindude]

This was like the girl named Cindy that you convinced to come over to your place because she was really hot.    When you got her home, everything went really fantastic.   And when you both woke up in the morning....neither one of you wanted to leave.    So you hung out together like that for a whole decade.   And you still wonder where that girl is.   How she's doing?   And maybe if you were just one of the guys or one of the special guys.    Hmmmmmm

What? 

Dude, lay off the 

 

Hard to believe it's been 22 years since I've touched the stuff.     Maybe it just made me wacky.   

[bl5150]

     Loverboy is an under rated band IMO and one that I've been meaning to dig deeper into next time I feel like some softer music.  I have a few albums and a Best Of but these days I could only name the big selling songs.  Reno has a great voice though..........I even have his rare solo album Renovation somewhere around here.

[bosk1]

Never, ever, ever cared for them, this album included.

[TempusVox]

I can recall watching the VERY first moments of MTV on August 1st of 1981. About 4 of us gathered at my aunts house (she had cable) and remained glued to the TV for the next several days, only taking breaks to sleep and eat and take care of normal hygiene issues or to smoke an occasional joint or get drunk. Since it was my last summer before college, I took a break from it before I went insane. After I got to school and got settled in, we had cable in our dorm, and just about everyone in my freshman dorm would sit around and stare at MTV all the time. After a while a bunch of guys noticed several things. 1) They repeated a ton of stuff. 2) David Byrne was one weird motherfucker, but we liked his music; and we realized that NOTHING was going to be the "same as it ever was" ever again. 3) We all would have sold our souls to bang either Martha Quinn or Nina Blackwood or both. And 4) MTV LOVED to play the heck out of "Fantasy" by Aldo Nova, or ANYTHING that "Loverboy" had released.

There were guys (I was NOT one of them...I had other issues) who started going around wearing the headband even. It was pathetic and scary. And I have to admit, they were okay. Again, it was during that corporate-rock period of the music industry, and they already were starting to overplay that damn "Turn Me Loose" from their first album, so the second one was a welcome change. I never owned any of their records, but thought they were okay. That is until the following spring when I came home for spring break and walked in one day while my mom was jamming out to 'Working for the Weekend" while she was running the vacuum cleaner.

Remember, my mom sang for the NY Met. She used to take me to rock, jazz, and blues concerts all the time when I was a kid. We used to sit together and listen to Pink Floyd records on rainy days. She turned my onto the Beatles when I was three.
She used to help out at this summer music clinic in upstate NY at this really cool camp. I still have a picture of me at like 5 sitting at a picnic table on the lap of Joan Baez and she's helping me stick toothpicks into some clay thing I was making, and my mom and Shirley Owens are sitting there looking on. My mom was musical cool man.

But when I saw her jamming to Loverboy while cleaning the house, I never got into them ever again. 

Of course, now I'd only listen to Loverboy for the rest of my life if I could have her back for just five minutes. 

[TAC]

Loverboy is an under rated band IMO and one that I've been meaning to dig deeper

Is that even possible?

[hefdaddy42]

Never, ever, ever cared for them, this album included.

This. 

In fact, for my money, the best Loverboy-related song ever produced was the Mike Reno/Ann Wilson duet "Almost Paradise" from the Footloose soundtrack.

[King Postwhore]

Never, ever, ever cared for them, this album included.

This. 

In fact, for my money, the best Loverboy-related song ever produced was the Mike Reno/Ann Wilson duet "Almost Paradise" from the Footloose soundtrack.

You are so wrong that your greatness just took a hit.


I really small one but still.

[TAC]

Yup, you really small.

[King Postwhore]

 

[hefdaddy42]

Never, ever, ever cared for them, this album included.

This. 

In fact, for my money, the best Loverboy-related song ever produced was the Mike Reno/Ann Wilson duet "Almost Paradise" from the Footloose soundtrack.

You are so wrong that your greatness just took a hit.


I really small one but still.

Since I don't know WTF you just said, I will just assume my greatness remains unabated.

[King Postwhore]

Nope.  I said your greatness took a hit of .00000000000001



So there.

[hefdaddy42]

My greatness hasn't "taken a hit" in at least 20 years.

[King Postwhore]

I bet your girls would say different.   I have the exact day that I became "Old" & "Less Cool".  Star Wars has something to do with it.

[hefdaddy42]

I bet your girls would say different.  

My girls know nothing about my sordid past.

[King Postwhore]

Which means you're not as cool as you were.  No shame Hef.  Us aging guys are in the same boat.  Remember when black socks pulled up was an old man thing?  Now it's cool to do that and your white tube socks are just wrong crumpled down.

[hefdaddy42]

Which means you're not as cool as you were.  No shame Hef. 

I'll be perfectly honest with you, and this is no bullshit. 

I'm getting cooler as I go. 

[TAC]

Which means you're not as cool as you were.  No shame Hef.  Us aging guys are in the same boat.  Remember when black socks pulled up was an old man thing?  Now it's cool to do that and your white tube socks are just wrong crumpled down.

What? I still wear white socks, and yes, I crumble them down.

[King Postwhore]

Which means you're not as cool as you were.  No shame Hef.  Us aging guys are in the same boat.  Remember when black socks pulled up was an old man thing?  Now it's cool to do that and your white tube socks are just wrong crumpled down.

What? I still wear white socks, and yes, I crumble them down.

I rest my case.

[King Postwhore]

Which means you're not as cool as you were.  No shame Hef. 

I'll be perfectly honest with you, and this is no bullshit. 

I'm getting cooler as I go.

I need to have a drink with you.

[TAC]

Which means you're not as cool as you were.  No shame Hef.  Us aging guys are in the same boat.  Remember when black socks pulled up was an old man thing?  Now it's cool to do that and your white tube socks are just wrong crumpled down.

What? I still wear white socks, and yes, I crumble them down.

I rest my case.

(I knew that was coming!)

[King Postwhore]

I remember listening to Loverboy, playing basketball, telling my nerdy friends to push their socks down.   

[hefdaddy42]

Which means you're not as cool as you were.  No shame Hef. 

I'll be perfectly honest with you, and this is no bullshit. 

I'm getting cooler as I go.

I need to have a drink with you.

Yes you do.

[Lowdz]

Loverboy - Notorious music video from 1987
That was the first and only real time in my life I even became aware of Loverboy.  I'm sure I heard their songs before and just didn't know it was them because the radio was on a lot in my youth. The only reason I even remember that video is because, well, I'm barely a teen and this video with tons of hot chicks are on.  Basically a long beer commercial from that era.

Working for the Weekend is the only song from that album I can be 100% sure I was aware of at the time.  It feels like it should be in that movie around the same time called Flashdance.  Was it?

This was my first exposure to Loverboy too. They weren't really on the radar in the uk. Bought this album but only really rated 2-3 songs. I have the Big Ones best of and it's ok, but I'm not a fan as such. They had a few decent songs though but not enough to fill that best of with greatness.

[TAC]

The worst band name ever.

[Calvin6s]

A little kissassery here:

The thread has been quite a success.  I'm really glad that this isn't about the usual suspects that have probably been discussed to death in a prog metal forum:  Rush, Metallica, Iron Maiden, etc.  I honestly had totally forgotten about Loverboy and my true realization of their existence with that Notorious music video.  So it really has been a nostalgia trip (and rediscovery) for me.

[KevShmev]

Yeah, I am trying to space out the most obvious classics, many of which we have discussed here in the band threads many times before.  Thanks for noticing!

[Lolzeez]

Lmao I had never heard of this band till now. So not my thing but those music videos were pretty entertaining. 

[King Postwhore]

Lmao I had never heard of this band till now. So not my thing but those music videos were pretty entertaining. 

You leave our 80's music alone!

[Calvin6s]

The 80s drummers were the best.

[TAC]

The 80s drummers were the best.

I loved Matt Frenette.

[bl5150]

Mmmmm- videos.  Don't forget the Shaguar and Tawny Kitaen Kev 

[jjrock88]

I think Loverboy is a very solid rock band

[jammindude]

I think Gangs in the Street sounds like it could have been done by Motley Crue....



....granted, not the badass, SatD MC, but the panzy, spandex wearing, ToP MC....but still.

 
https://youtu.be/qk7Fzf4aF7M

[Calvin6s]

....granted, not the badass, SatD MC, but the panzy, spandex wearing, ToP MC....but still.