I may or may not have had a bunch of cocktails.
I do, however, miss my dog. I bet I have called my folks 20 times in the last 36 hours to check on her.
This thread is for 80’s music. Or else.
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I may or may not have had a bunch of cocktails.
I do, however, miss my dog. I bet I have called my folks 20 times in the last 36 hours to check on her.
This thread is for 80’s music. Or else.
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Bret
Allow me to start it off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcOZ6xFxJqg
Bhall35
Wow, I was just thinking of Naked Eyes the other day. How about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3g5G0PFuXQ
Bhall35
On second thought, in honor of the teabaggers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcI-gUQNhOw&feature=related
MikeJ
Went to Mt Rainier today, hiked up to a glacier, stripped off nekkid and jumped in the river of runoff. I did not need to stay in it long to report my findings: melting glaciers are pretty fucking cold.
On the way home I passed the Muckleshoot amphitheatre thingie where Def Leppard were playing and had no trouble with the horrible backed up traffic because I was going the opposite way.
mai naem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjIrrL8gaNQ
Pop Goes The World, appropriate for our times.
jl
Know Your Rights!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL0CCphgmZ8
Yutsano
Meh, I’ll risk the “or else”. Lord knows it’s been long enough since I’ve been in a sin bin. I’m on for five more days after being on two (abrupt schedule change) but the crankiness over the change hasn’t sank in yet. That and my Marine’s been out of touch for two weeks now. Plus I’m still at work and can’t really Google around for the really good stuff anyway. Maybe I’ll make up for that when I get home (find some Roxette stuff of something). Okay, bitchfest done.
Cat Lady
Save it For Later
gbear
Chris Mars – Monkey Sees – 1992. So sue me. From Chris’ first post-‘Mats CD. Play it loud.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fuptlWpz30
(slow to load)
asiangrrlMN
Why won’t the liebrul media report THE TRUTH about the 9/12 rallies??????
In honor of the batshitcrazy nutters out there, I play their anthem from the ’80s:
Lies Lies Lies!
Also, Cole, it’s very sweet how worried you are about your baby.
gbear
@Cat Lady: Oooh. That’s such a great song. One of my all time faves.
General Winfield Stuck
Gawd, not again. Then it’s or else.
calipygian
Stone Roses. Fools Gold. The soundtrack to submarine training in Hawaii 20 years ago.
calipygian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4bHMVAKDao
Stone Roses. Fools Gold. The soundtrack to submarine training in Hawaii 20 years ago.
asiangrrlMN
@Bhall35: I love Adam Ant!
So, I add this one (also apropos for the Tea-Baggers):
Stand and Deliver!
Polish the Guillotines
In that case, Have A Drink On Me.
And I hereby promise I will stand down and only post links to good songs.
jl
So, Cole wants “80’s music”? OOooooKaaaay.
I’ll bum rush this show.
Here is some 80s music for you…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB17M8ErDR0
They rocked in 1688!
asiangrrlMN
@General Winfield Stuck: Well, we never got the jazz thread off the ground. Mebbe you can contribute to that?
And, my favorite Adam Ant song EVAH:
Strip
cleek
The Beat Goes On / Switchin To Glide, eh.
Bhall35
@asiangrrlMN:
I almost did that one too! He was quite the hottie back in the day.
Cat Lady
No other place I’d rather be
burnspbesq
Hell of a game. Props to Ohio State.
Fight On!
Oh, wait. 80s music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc3Sa4n0rS8
Polish the Guillotines
There’s been a lot of heartbreak on BJ the past couple of nights, so crank this up and piss off the neighbors.
The Cult: Love Removal Machine.
asiangrrlMN
@Bhall35: Yum. Yum. Yum. Thanks for reminding me how tasty he was!
gbear
@asiangrrlMN:
Lies – Knickerbockers. Best Beatles copy ever. The rest of their records sounded more like they look in that video, but they’ll be famous forever for this one song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n03a7cLf0M
JGabriel
The 80’s?
Johnny’s Gonna Die!
(The Mats, Live ’81, Remarkably good quality, sounding very Fleetwood Mac-y for a bunch of incompetent punks.)
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Dave C
While it’s associated with the ’90’s this was released in the late ’80’s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEW8riKU_tE
asiangrrlMN
Heard this one this morning, and it’s close enough to the ’80s:
Pina Colada Song
And, another for our brothers and sisters-in-arms:
Fight the Fuckin’ Power!
Litlebritdifrnt
What? Come on John is gone for the weekend, for gawds sake, we are obligated to trash his house, drink all his booze and eat all his snacks (oh and feed Tunch large amounts of cheese). Stop being minions, who is up for wearing the lampshade?
TX Expat
We’re livin’ in a powerder keg and givin’ off sparks…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=840B27zYfOk
JK
@asiangrrlMN:
Besides Ellington and Coltrane, did you like anything else I posted in last nite’s thread like After Hours, I’ll Be Your Mirror from Velvet Underground, Awaiting on You All, Ballad of Frankie Crisp – George Harrison, Darkness, Omegaman – The Police, the classical stuff?
Did you attend the Obama rally in Minneapolis?
Steve Winwood – Arc Of A Diver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIyX8jrd8jM
cleek
Swords of a thousand men!
@JGabriel: that Mats stuff is pretty amazing.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Is that second choice inspired by today’s events perhaps? It’s a delicious mockery nonetheless. Of course they’d have some issues with a rap group infringing upon their lily-white protestations.
burnspbesq
Not exactly “80s music,” but it’s from the 1980s.
Strength in Numbers: Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Bela Fleck, Mark O’Connor, Edgar Meyer.
They made one record. Y’all need to own it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jaxdj4wLHnA&feature=related
TX Expat
@Polish the Guillotines:
My all time favorite Cult song is “She Sells Sanctuary”. Reminds me of doing pharmaceutical grade ecstasy back when it was still legal in TX.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuQXS-AP_to
Comrade Coffin
Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Joe Wilson Said (you lie)
Gina
Good ’80s (okay, ’79 technically, but still): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXNhL4J_S00
Bad ’80s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2Lk9h2JFa4
Lavocat
You don’t drink, don’t smoke.
What do ya do?
Gina
@TX Expat: Oh, I love that song. I still have the vinyl LP, their album “Love”!
asiangrrlMN
@gbear: That’s sweeeeet, gbear. I don’t think it’s the ’80s, though, is it? Did you see the prez this morning at Target Center? I didn’t.
tripletee
@Litlebritdifrnt:
I will, but I have to finish peeing in the potted plants first. (Why should Tunch have all the fun?)
JK
Bus Boys – the Boys are Back in Town
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltFdS0SJ41s&feature=related
IndyLib
OK, if it’s 80’s I’ll play. No one here likes the music I regularly listen to, but I can harken back to a decade of mostly suck with the best of ya.
Rebel Yell.
mai naem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjIrrL8gaNQ
Robert Palmer
Lavocat
Polish the Guillotines
@TX Expat: They were such an odd band. Kinda never landed squarely in the punk or metal camps.
Speaking of punk and pharmaceuticals, here’s the Ramones: Psycho Therapy.
asiangrrlMN
@JK: I liked the Harrison stuff. Was meh on the Underground stuff. Haven’t listened to the rest yet. Will let you know! P.S. I am listening to Cat Stevens again, so you set your own bar pretty damn high.
@Yutsano: Yes! Old white people fighting the power, yo! They can dig them some Public Enemy!
Yutsano
@tripletee: Whart? Lily doesn’t get to play that game too?
gbear
@JGabriel: That ‘Mats recording came from a week at Seventh Street Entry where Twin Tone came in with a mobile unit and recorded three bands a night for the whole week. Replacements were the middle band and Husker Du headlined that saturday night. The band that I was in at the time headlined on wednesday night. The tapes sat around forever until about two years ago they were edited for a movie called 7 Nights In The Entry. I was going to go to the one and only showing of the movie but I got home from work that evening to find that someone had kicked in the back door and burglarized my house. The asshole who owns the rights to the stuff (Paul Stark) has said that he won’t put it out as a DVD.
jnfr
I’m into Brad Paisley these days. I do love the big brained country music.
JK
REM – Radio Free Europe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA57Pafq_NU
Cat Lady
If I Had a Rocket Launcher I’d make somebody pay.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: P.S. I am listening to Cat Stevens again, so you set your own bar pretty damn high.
I REALLY REALLY need to get my paws on the Yusuf Islam stuff he released a few months ago. I might do some crawling around the Net when I get home from work tonight and see what’s out and about.
Polish the Guillotines
@JK: Bus Boys! Minimum Wage Rock N Roll was a cool album: There Goes the Neighborhood.
mai naem
@JK:
Arc of a Diver was the first record I ever bought. Makes me feel really old. Arc of a Diver was so much better than the commercial crap he put out after that. Saw him in concert. He was okay.
Wag
Cyndi Lauper pre solo career fronting Blue Angel. One of my favorite records of ’81. A lot the of the songs are rockabilly (Maybe He’ll Know), and great power ballads too
I’m posting from my iPhone, and am not sure if the link works
Litlebritdifrnt
@TX Expat:
Singer + Song = total win. It is rare, but when it happens, it is brilliant.
IndyLib
@Gina:
I’ll match the bad one with sealed lips.
JK
Hey Nineteen – Steely Dan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipc9pL27krs
Bruuuuce
’80s twofer:
Marshall Crenshaw showing why he got cast as Buddy Holly
and
Joe Jackson kicking coccyx, ballad-style
JGabriel
@cleek:
Isn’t it? They’re so freaking young, Tommy must have still been about 15. It’s kind of unbelievable that anyone had the foresight or desire to tape them that early, much less with professional level quality for that time.
Anyway there’s a shitload of high quality 1981 footage of the Mats at youtube, if’n you want to check it out.
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Cat Lady
If I Had a Rocket Launcher link work plz?
TX Expat
@Gina:
Same here!
I’ve been waiting for an 80’s thread to whip out some metal. But unfortunately I can’t hang out to fully participate in the fun as I have to get up early to work on a law thesis. So take this as my parting shot.
You’ve got you’re balls to the wall:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph8kGPXOoUw
cleek
i am a patient boy
i wait i wait i wait i wait
Crashman06
Ok, I can play this game.
Nobody hurts you harder than yourself.
I was only a year old when that was filmed, but it still counts.
Cat Lady
@Cat Lady:
Fail.
IndyLib
@jnfr:
Wow, you’re the only person I’ve seen on here except me that will admit to liking any modern country.
Crashman06
@cleek: You get extra points for that one.
Gravenstone
Time to start dragging up some of the lost “classics” I listened to in the day.
I Could Be Good For You – 707
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pr5GJ7nU30&feature=PlayList&p=EC7A2F0C290DCCA2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=11
Rock and Roll Party in the Streets – Axe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6br72fE4GkA&feature=related
Wag
Ok, so the link didn’t work. I hate to miss out on the fun for a second Saturday night when I’m out of town again.
As I cannot figure out how to link YouTube through my iPhone, I would also strongly recommend searching “R.E.M. Passiac” and checking out any of the songs from their set in 1985. Amazing stuff
And Micheal even had hair!
JK
The Police – When The World is Running Down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psxLPRP65dA
jnfr
@IndyLib:
I’m half Mississippi. I can’t hide it.
Ed in NJ
As someone who hated almost all new wave music, I can’t explain why a quarter of a century later, I still regularly listen to, and love the album Planet P Project. It makes no sense. I should hate it, mostly for it’s cheesiness. But I find songs like Static, King for a Day, and especially Tranquility Base, haunting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYlSzV4rODE
MikeJ
Those people are far, far more sober than I ever saw the Replacements.
And since you can’t talk about the ‘Mats without thinking of Jim Dickinson, here’s Mojo Nixon with a video in which he (Dickinson) appears.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn74LNt3V9E
Gina
Cheesy pop ’80s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkXV5O5GfJ8
First U2 song I ever heard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2BqLlVHlWA
This is fun. Brings me back to my teens, listening to college DJ Bob Noxious in suburban Philly.
IndyLib
@TX Expat:
Thanks for that, I had forgotten all about that song.
JGabriel
@Bruuuuce:
I’ll see your Real Men, and raise you an Androgynous.
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IndyLib
@jnfr:
I grew up listening to it in Colorado, when I was a kid all we had was 2 very small local AM stations and all they played was country.
BTW Welcome to the Future is a great song. Did you see the vid of Brad singing it at the White House?
cleek
aw, look at little kim.
gbear
@asiangrrlMN: I wasn’t in a mood for all the craziness of going to the Target Center. Did you see that people had started getting in line for that on Friday evening? I rode my scooter up to that North Oaks restaruant I told you about a while back and then took a ride out thru Stillwater.
That video was from the mid-60’s. I broke protocol.
TX Expat
Ok, went to go brush the teeth and couldn’t resist posting this one. What’s better than heavy metal love???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhVVD7_4CGA
The guitar wankery and general ridiculousness really is top notch.
Polish the Guillotines
Wow. An actual video for a cool Romantics tune from their brief “We’re not wearing matching suits” phase: National Breakout.
JK
@asiangrrlMN:
That’s a first. I’ve never heard anyone respond to the Velvet Underground with Meh.
I’m curious to get your reaction to Aquarium by Camille Saint Saens and Sentimental Walk by Vladimir Cosma because you seem to have a strong preference for laidback, somber music and these 2 pieces fit that description.
I thought you said the other day you were going to try and see Obama in Minneapolis? Did your plans to see him fall through?
Gina
@IndyLib: OMG. Saw them in a big concert at Liberty Bell Raceway. It was Oingo Boingo, The Specials, The Go-Gos and The Police. 1982 I think. Bought myself a “Rock Against Russia, Guns for the Afghan Rebels” t-shirt.
gbear
@Polish the Guillotines: I saw the Bus Boys play at First Avenue and the show was great fun. The singers all summersaulted onto the stage at the same time.
Gravenstone
And now for something with a bit more depth…
Hallowed Be Thy Name – Iron Maiden (recent performance, classic tune)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsbhhr5A6tA
Take Hold of the Flame – Queensryche
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AQM-KdepuM&feature=related
MikeJ
@Gina: I saw them with some little nobody band opening for them. INXS
JK
@Polish the Guillotines:
I love the scenes in 48 Hours when the Busboys are performing on stage.
@mai naem:
I’m a big fan of Traffic, so I’m inclined to give Steve Winwood a pass for his lesser efforts in recent years.
Wag
…and JK beat me to Stipe with hair. Great clip
, JK!
JGabriel
Gina:
Damn, U2 is lookin’ very Knack-like in that video. I know U2 comes along only 2 years after the Knack, but in my own personal memory there’s a HUGE gulf between 1979 and 1981. Maybe it’s because of my age — 14 in ’79, 16 in’81 — but I think it’s something more, a break maybe, between which New Wave became Post-Punk?
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Gina
@TX Expat: Okay, metal. I can work with that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8_OerWWEQ4
jnfr
@IndyLib:
Haven’t seen that video, no, though I heard he had been there for the Country Music night.
I live in Colorado now. I love it.
asiangrrlMN
@JK: I like The Police’s Darkness, and that saying a lot because I don’t like The Police in general.
Love Rosalita. Waaaay back when I was depressed and asked for some cheer up music, that was a song that got suggested. I liked it before then, and that day, it really made me smile.
Le carnaval des animaux (L’aquarium) was soothing and yet, subtly erotic at the same time.
Fucking hate the Stones. Sorry, man.
jl
thanks for link to Brad Paisley. Here is the Grand Ol’ Opry Star playin’ fer that Obomer feller at the White House.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCvUy540I7o\
JK
Clash – Police on my Back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq_HtgGOIfE
Clash – The magnificent seven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMkpRtqJwbw
mai naem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjIrrL8gaNQ
Todd Rundgren -the Theme Song for The Bush Years – I wanna bang on the drum(s of war) all day
burnspbesq
When I was in law school, the hot unsigned local bands were X, the Blasters, Los Lobos, and these guys. This is, in my humble opinion, the best rock’n’roll song of the 1980s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qei8FeFcjMk&feature=related
JGabriel
@cleek:
Damn, that’s a great song. I haven’t heard it in more than 20 years. Gotta find a copy of EVOL; I don’t think I appreciated properly when it first came out.
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John Cole
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: He was on Colbert a couple months ago and played a song. It was beautiful. I’ve seen clips on YouTube of him, too. He’s still got it.
West of the Cascades
A friend of mine put me in the mood of “Going Underground” the other night — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whSYTSXm8wo — “braying sheep on my TV screen” – some things never change … not to mention:
“You choose your leaders and place your trust
As their lies wash you down and their promises rust
You’ll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns”
JK
U2 – Gloria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GyTdo1nGO0
U2 – I Will Follow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2BqLlVHlWA
John Cole
Gina
@MikeJ: INXS! That’s what I was missing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL7FY7rwVtQ
IndyLib
@jnfr:
What part of the state?
jnfr
Okay, IndyLib got to me look up this video of Brad Paisley singing at the White House. It’s wonderful. Thanks for that pointer.
drillfork
@Polish the Guillotines:
Was just about to chime in and say how shitty 80s music was, and then you reminded me of The Cult. They. Rocked.
Anyway, here’s something else that caught my ear at more or less the same time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWnoSAPkXQY
JGabriel
Let the brass band play and feet POUND! POUND! POUND!
I’m Going Underground!
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John Cole
jl
Futuristic Country reminds me of funk, hydraulic pump, in particular
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NARMzyfyus
more than it reminds me of Junior Brown, which is futuristic punk-style old country about gittin’ it on and heartbreak seks, which I remember from my younger days in the… um… ‘Okie’ parts of California.
You’re wanted by the police and my wife thinks your dead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRMNeoaosQw
Great steel guitar.
Highway patrol came up too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_wLVCLPx0M
JGabriel
@West of the Cascades:
Whoa, freaky synchronicity. I swear I pulled up Going Underground before reading your comment.
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Shygetz
Danny Elfman’s best work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-HujOAlbTg&feature=related
Technically the ’70’s, but still in the spirit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzORu1dqEE0
asiangrrlMN
@gbear:
@JK: I didn’t see Obama for the reason gbear cited. It was just too wild crazy to even get anywhere near The Man.
@JK: I really liked the first piece. The second (Sentimental Walk) just missed for me for some reason. As for my reaction to the Velvet Underground–yeah, I have odd reactions to things.
Yutsano, this is the Cat Stevens’ song JK posted for me, and this is the Yusuf Islam version:
Father and Son
JK
@JGabriel:
I didn’t see you had already posted I Will Follow by U2. That song sounds as hot and fresh as when I first heard it. Great minds think alike.
Gina
@burnspbesq: Nice! Great chorus, I’m blasting it now.
IndyLib
Cheesy hair band.
And yes, I saw them in concert. Took my roommate, a very naive, former sorority girl from Texas. She wore a matching pink and baby blue guess short set and had her hair in pigtails. We lost her at one point and worried for her safety/sanity.
Polish the Guillotines
@JK: Police On My Back is my favorite Clash tune. Of course, their cover of I Fought the Law is awesome.
burnspbesq
Dang – I can’t find a video of “Strangers When We Meet” by the Smithereens.
So here’s “Behind the Wall of Sleep.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNZbP3ZVem4&feature=channel
asiangrrlMN
First part of post:
@gbear: @JK: I didn’t see Obama for the reason gbear cited. It was just too wild crazy to even get anywhere near The Man.
@JK: I really liked the first piece. The second (Sentimental Walk) just missed for me for some reason. As for my reaction to the Velvet Underground—yeah, I have odd reactions to things.
asiangrrlMN
Second part of post:
Yutsano, this is the Cat Stevens’ song JK posted for me, and this is the Yusuf Islam version:
Father and Son
John Cole
IndyLib
@Gina:
I love that song, I played on the 80’s thread last week.
My senior year in high school I was on the knowledge bowl team and we wore Defenders of the Faith t-shirts to state finals. We were headbanger geeks who drank a lot.
JK
@Wag:
I never get tired of that REM clip from Letteramn. Letterman has had some great musicians on his show over the years. I’d like to see a dvd of musical clips from the Letterman show ( either from his NBC years or his CBS years)
jl
The boingo again?
I don’t understand the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZws6Z5OamU
I’m over my head with the boingo.
Polish the Guillotines
@burnspbesq: This was always one of my favorite Smithereens songs: House We Used To Live In.
The singer, Pat DiNizio was a total Reform Party Perot supporter.
JK
@Polish the Guillotines:
If my memory is correct, I Fought the Law is played during the closing credits of a documentary about Lenny Bruce. I love that song too.
Cat Lady
Bryan Ferry looks better now than he did then. He’s still very cool.
More Than This
cleek
OT, but: BTW, did you know The Republic is Falling ?
General Winfield Stuck
Something interesting senor Cole, I cannot see any of you you tube postings. I don’t know what’s wrong but have been having trouble even playing you tube the last week or so. Everything else works fine. Flummoxed.
If any one has a clue what’s the problem, It would be appreciated.
There is a blank space where they should be and the cursor doesn’t pick up anything when moved over it.
asiangrrlMN
@John Cole: Foul, Cole! You used Girls on Film for the other ’80s thread. Methinks you just wanted to show half-nekkid women again!
The Monroes:
What Do All the People Know?
Shygetz
Politically Incorrect Pop:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSfndZfKFNU
One of my all-time favorites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5StFADI9NM
TEL
Another possible Bush anthem by The Cure (apologies if someone else beat me to it):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7lULaE6kv4&feature=PlayList&p=039A04D46198CCF7&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=15
drillfork
@Gravenstone:
Wow. I just heard this song on the radio the other day for the first time in years. One of those deals where you hadn’t heard something in so long you completely forget you knew it in the first place.
Anyway, in honor of the pending return to the airwaves of a certain faux-conservative commentator, some classic faux 80s:
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/59061/february-09-2006/charlene–i-m-right-behind-you-
burnspbesq
It’s not from the 1980s. But it’s priceless.
Richard Thompson covers Britney Spears.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNZbP3ZVem4&feature=channel
Gravenstone
Because they’re important attitudes to hold in this shitty hour.
Never Surrender – Triumph
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYde7a8V2-8
Fight the Good Fight – Triumph
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR7fLk1kyKM
(both from the US Festival)
And to think I saw them almost booed off the stage at the ’82 Toledo Speedway Jam (everyone wanted to get to Loverboy).
wasabi gasp
Angel of the Morning – Juice Newton
JGabriel
You can’t have the 80’s without a little New Order. Everyone better be the Age Of Consent.
(That’s actually the first song I ever head by New Order — sometime around April or May 1983 I’d guess.)
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Gina
@John Cole: You are a very bad man.
burnspbesq
And now some RT from the 1980s. With a very young Christine Collister singing Linda’s part.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw1ZDzBoUf8&feature=related
Shygetz
Alright, last one before bed:
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out – The Smiths
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INgXzChwipY
This has been a great way to end the day.
asiangrrlMN
@Gravenstone: Never surrender? Surely you meant to post this one:
Never Surrender, Corey Hart style
And, just because I can, I am still obsessed with this song:
Mr. Brightside
If anyone can suggest a song that might match it in spirit, I would much appreciate.
Polish the Guillotines
@Gravenstone: Oh, man. That reminds me of a Day On the Green at the Oakland Coliseum around the same time frame: Gamma, UFO, Kansas, and the headliner — wait for it — REO Speedwagon.
Good times.
JGabriel
JK:
Not me, Gina.
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The Moar You Know
Rush – Tom Sawyer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btcvSWoQWV0
“Failed – 31%”
Polish the Guillotines
Okay, it’s from ’78, but fuck it. It’s good. UFO: Only You Can Rock Me.
TheFountainHead
It’s threads like these that keep me coming back Time After Time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTNpaaPHENE
SIKE!!!
TheFountainHead
@The Moar You Know: Oh man, we need Rush thread, eh?
JK
@asiangrrlMN:
Darkness is one of my favorite Police songs. I think it’s one of their most underrated, underappreciated, and overlooked songs. I’d love to find a live version of that song, but something tells me the Police probably never performed it in concert because it would be too obscure for most concertgoers.
The Aquarium by Saint Saens is one of the most moving, etheral pieces of classical music I’ve ever read. It’s played during the opening credits of Days of Heaven starring Richard Gere and it’s also played in the opening and closing credits of Visions of Light, an incredible documentary on the history of cinematography.
Rosalita is a great song. I guess you’re not a fan of Incident on 57th Street which leads into Rosalita since you didn’t mention it. I think those songs back to back make an incredible segue.
It sounds like nothing I’ve found thus far has hit a home run like Father and Son, but I guess singles, doubles, and triples aren’t the worst thing.
cleek
another vote for ‘Darkness’.
JK
@Gina:
Thanks for U2. Sorry I missed your clip before posting. I Will Follow and Gloria never get old for me.
The Moar You Know
@TheFountainHead: Hell yeah we do.
asiangrrlMN
@TheFountainHead: You suck. That is all.
And, just because I was expecting it, Cyndi Lauper:
Drove All Night
What? I like this song better.
selskie
Danny and Dusty – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtqBzsVYfwQ
Chaz Jankel – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf0JKWSLd3I
dB’s – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKEqGcES4Xw
wasabi gasp
Cry – Godley & Creme
Yutsano
One for the online wifey:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW9MlEFwdNc
IndyLib
Phil Collins at Live Aid.
Polish the Guillotines
Crappy sound quality, but epic humor quality. Beat Farmers: Happy Boy.
Gina
@JK: Same here. ‘Boy’ blew me away.
TheFountainHead
@asiangrrlMN: Come on, you loved it! How could you not, it’s a classic!
asiangrrlMN
@JK: I dug the instrumental part of Incident on 57th Street–just not his vocals. Reminded me too much of Dylan.
Hey, you hit enough singles, doubles, and triples, and you will eventually score!
IndyLib
@asiangrrlMN:
My high school boyfriend loved Corey Hart.
I think we had this one last week, but what the hell.
Sunglasses at Night
Trinity
Any one know this 80s song? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWhV2l9QPxw
selskie
also:
XTC – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gikoBV25fXc
and here’s a weird one:
X-Teens – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt_zFOpNL10
IndyLib
@The Moar You Know:
That song brings back some blurry memories of drinking cheap beer in the middle of the chico bushes somewhere in the vicinity of ’83.
asiangrrlMN
LOVE this song (roughly the right time period) by Lords of Acid:
Rough Sex
JK
Do they know it’s christmas /Feed the world – Band Aid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT9lKyi0dDM&feature=PlayList&p=370C93299CACC4EB&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=3
Pretenders – 2,000 Miles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cekm-dpiTjU&feature=PlayList&p=A8BDC502E5DE5B78&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=8
khead
Wrong format for late weekend night 80’s videos. It should be three videos in a row and then commericals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Tracks
That Girls on Film video sort of grew on you once you passed out enough times in front of it.
Trinity
This was an 80s jam! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8x7ip9-emE
Yutsano
What the hell it’s an 80’s thread and I promised some Roxette:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCorJG9mubk
Polish the Guillotines
Plimsouls: Million Miles Away.
Gravenstone
@JK: I’ll see your BandAid and raise you Hear’n Aid – Stars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZktrrqT1A0
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Hey, was that Morissey song directed at me? If not, I’m taking it, anyway. I like!
@JK:
I have the record of the Band-Aid song! Love that song.
JK
People Who Died – Jim Carroll Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQbzGOKb6xg
I’m the Man – Joe Jackson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el66jnuItYc
Trinity
How about some Chris De Burgh! Tell me you don’t remember this one… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMwni9RwO4g
Gina
Did I miss it, or was there no Haircut 100 yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7ayawh378Q
Take THAT Mr. Cole.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: My online wifey is absolutely obsessed with Morrisey. However, feel free to steal as you wish!
Trinity
Okay…confession…Duran Duran is my favorite band of all time!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn0D1RfBrrw
asiangrrlMN
@Gravenstone: Oh-mah-god. I have never heard that before (Hear N’ Aid). Wow. Um, no. Just–no.
Polish the Guillotines
@JK: Sweet.
JGabriel
Here’s a forgotten classic: Maria McKee/Lone Justice — Sweet, Sweet Baby (I’m Falling)
(First link is a 1985 live version, second link is the original video – but the sound is little weak)
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Gina
@Trinity: Oh the *interesting* things this album was the soundtrack for…
Gravenstone
@asiangrrlMN: With full guitar solo bonus action, for your enjoyment.
@Polish the Guillotines: Nice find!
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Oh. I thought I had fake-married you, too, and just didn’t remember it. Thanks!
@Trinity: Ain’t no shame in that. I loved them back in the day.
Union of the Snake
wasabi gasp
Genetic Engineering – Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Trinity
More Duran Duran just because I’m tipsy… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M0hogZyRyU
Alan
Anyone remember Lawyers in Love
Polish the Guillotines
Every time I hear this, it makes me smile. The Plugz from the Repo Man soundtrack: El Clavo y La Cruz.
IndyLib
@Gravenstone:
And the final card with We Are the World.
asiangrrlMN
Martika!
Toy Soldiers
And, Moving Pictures. Loved this song!
What About Me????
mcd410x
Whatever you do, don’t change.
asiangrrlMN
@Alan: I do! What do I win?
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Ohhh don’t make me do it…don’t…oh okay all right you forced me!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDAzP7BDHe4
Trinity
@Gina: Gah! I don’t know. What was it the soundtrack for??
JGabriel
You know sometimes, I dont know why, but this whole town just seems so hopeless. I aint really sure, but it seems I remember the good times were just a little bit more than hopeless.
But when she puts her arms around me, I can somehow rise above it. Yeah man, when I got that little girl standing right by my side, you know I can tell the whole wide world SHOVE IT:
Hey, here comes my girl.
.
JK
Turn it on Again – Genesis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brbufFuWXRE
John Lennon – Watching the Wheels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp9dc9im3-M
asiangrrlMN
Mah favorite INXS song (and then I’m taking a break. Honest!):
Need You Tonight & Mediate
The latter part is my favorite part.
Trinity
More Duran Duran because I’m lost in it and you all must be punished…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY3iQGkjyxE
Gravenstone
@IndyLib: Because that drek cries out for a palate cleanser, might as well Go For Soda (Kim Mitchell)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QylncpJy5Rc
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Oh. I thought I had fake-married you, too, and just didn’t remember it. Thanks!
Wouldn’t be the first time, prolly won’t be the last, but having to explain to my brothers why I get all the chicks with zero usage for them (well sexually anyway) gets a wee bit old. Oh and no apologies for NKOTB. It had to happen at some point!
shoutingattherain
Tell me you don’t remember all the words to this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNT7uZf7lew&feature=fvw
Still a great little ditty.
wasabi gasp
Institutionalized – Suicidal Tendencies
Polish the Guillotines
@JGabriel: Nice. Damn the Torpedoes was one of those formative albums for me. My personal theme song during high school was Even the Losers.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: I am ashamed to say I liked them when they first debuted.
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You made me bust a gut, though. Heh.
Alan
867-5309/Jenny Tommy Tutone
I saw them play it live at Disney World on Grad Night, a Florida tradition.
You have to suffer through a commercial to watch it.
Polish the Guillotines
@wasabi gasp: All I wanted was a Pepsi.
Gravenstone
@JGabriel: Petty is always welcome, but I preferred this one.
A Woman in Love (It’s Not Me)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT46zxd3f48&feature=related
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: I liked the gay one in the group. Story of my life. Sigh. Gay menz and str8 women. Gah!
Trinity
Surely someone has covered Thomas Dolby… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fI8834iCgo
Alan
And on the bizarre side, Kate Bush — Running Up That Hill
General Winfield Stuck
Add one more to the insurance company Death Panel.
Gina
@Trinity: One of my personal favorite Duran Duran tracks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzo-1ILpIeQ
Trinity
@Alan: Love this song!
Gina
@Polish the Guillotines: Oh! I recently watched Repo Man with my kids. Part of their education, I’m nothing if not thorough.
Gravenstone
What’s an 80’s music thread without the Fixx?
Stand or Fall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HRUSX-XW0s
asiangrrlMN
@General Winfield Stuck: Aw, crap. That fucking sucks. I can’t even click on the link because I’m so down about the whole healthcare ‘debate’. Interesting. I typed whore for whole at first. I must have been thinking about the insurance companies.
@Gina: That’s one of my fave Duran Duran songs, too. Plus, they always have weird-ass videos.
Trinity
Anyone remember Romeo Void? “Might like you better if we slept together”….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SigRPr7OS84
drillfork
@burnspbesq:
Swear to gawd, the Smithereens were giving a free concert — in the park — in my town (about 120,000) a few weeks back.
Shooting Star has to be the most lost rock band of the 80s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsbjeLupyMQ
Trinity
@Gina: Oh yes…good one. Simon in the water windmill…too hot!
IndyLib
@JGabriel:
What the hell is it with guys and Tom Petty? I don’t know any women who like him.
@Gravenstone:
Well played, sir. I love that song.
Yutsano
@Gravenstone: I see you Fixx and raise you the classic artist of many a prepubescent boy of the 1980’s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFkgbK7VTmY
Brachiator
Kate Bush, “Hounds of Love”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-0KdYr1ys4
Polish the Guillotines
@Gina: You are one great mom. I hope they appreciate what you did for them. Kinda reminds me how my dad took me to see Animal House.
Gina
Psychedelic Furs, Mr. Jones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbk8dBl39io
I like air drumming to this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DWzQPB7YrA
My poor husband actually thought he’d be able to go to sleep, HAHAHAAHAAAA!
JK
OT
I just saw this story on the Internet and I’m shocked
Serena Williams loses match for conduct violation
http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/blog/busted_racquet/post/Serena-Williams-berates-official-loses-match-fo?urn=ten,189028
RIP Larry Gelbart
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/12/arts/12gelbart.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
asiangrrlMN
Arcadia, spin-off of Duran Duran:
Election Day, extended
Election Day, shortened
Gravenstone
@drillfork: Hehe, I was going to break out Last Chance from them earlier, but thought better of it. Screw it, thinking time is over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5BqpvcWuyo
Trinity
Oh this is good time…. Look of Love by ABC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkwEK9AYQHg
Gina
@Trinity: ROMEO VOID!!! Yes, I had this on a mix tape one conquest or another gave me. Too appropriate ;-)
canuckistani
Repo Man is one of my top 5 movies of all time, but since it’s been covered, I’ll get the Talking Heads doing Life During Wartime in Stop making Sense:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzORu1dqEE0
Trinity
OMG. This is one of the songs that was first on MTV! Haircut 100, Love Plus One!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7ayawh378Q
Polish the Guillotines
@JK:
Wow. That’s sad. MASH became unwatchable, but Gelbart is in the pantheon of comedy writers.
wasabi gasp
Somewhere Down The Crazy River – Robbie Robertson
asiangrrlMN
Two Petty songs I can stand:
Free Fallin’
Alice in Wonderland song“
Alan
@Trinity:
Funny thing, I had only heard that song about three times back in the 80s–and never from beginning to end. I didn’t know who did it or its name. But I remembered it well, it was mesmerizing.
Last night I saw a show called Vampire Diaries and a song was playing in the background. I instantly realized the lyrics were from THAT song. That’s when I began my google search. And that’s how I found the video I remembered. :)
drc
Guadalcanal Diary- Litany (Life Goes On) can’t find a link.
Jane Child- Don’t Want to Fall in Love
Anything by the SOS Band produced by Flyte Time
Trinity
@asiangrrlMN: Free Fallin’ is one of my all time favorite songs.
Polish the Guillotines
@canuckistani:
That and Big Lebowski are easily two of the most quotable movies I’ve ever seen. I consider them both perfect.
JGabriel
I’m looking at some of these old Maria McKee / Lone Justice videos, and I gotta say I’m absolutely puzzled as to why McKee never hit it bigger. Girl’s a fuckin’ dervish on stage, with good songs and an unbelievably good voice.
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Trinity
Okay who remembers Danny Elfman before he got all composer-y on us? Oingo Boingo baby!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iypUpv9xelg
Yutsano
@Trinity: Gotta go with the VERY first video EVER on MTV!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvvCupfpric&feature=related
JK
@asiangrrlMN:
Many thanks for Free Fallin. Great song. You definitely have eclectic tastes.
@Polish the Guillotines:
A few months ago, I saw Gelbart in the PBS documentary Make Em Laugh (worth watching if you haven’t seen it). He had some great insight on the Sid Caesar Show and the early days of comedy on tv. I was very sorry to read of his passing.
wasabi gasp
I don’t know why I’m letting John fuck with me like this. The 80s can suck the beef baloney.
Jay in Oregon
Holy crap does fluoxetine make a difference. I’ve gone through most of the day feeling like a normally-functioning human being again.
I may actually get a good night’s sleep (if I can get off of this damn computer, that is).
@calipygian:
Stone Roses is good stuff. I was listening to a little of them earlier tonight. In honor of my current straits, let’s have:
Stone Roses — “I Wanna Be Adored”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cme2q0N7nM&feature=related
Bruce Cockburn — “Lovers In A Dangerous Time”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dGNDUdtNh8
Cowboy Junkies — “Misguided Angel”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zufpr8BwY9U
Joy Division — “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yTIpcwBTTs
Sugar — “If I Can’t Change Your Mind”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHnFIaLp_ys
The Cure — “Pictures of You”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG0Q3kR7_9c
but I can’t leave it on a downer note, so:
Deee-Lite — “Groove is in the Heart”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-nHNR_dVsw
Len — “Steal My Sunshine”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOCRPrEAVxU
Death Cab For Cutie — “I Will Follow You Into the Dark”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CSVpdphFGA
Gravenstone
@IndyLib: /bows
My pleasure, madam.
And now, because I’m an oddball mood – time to resurrect portions of my mixtape devoted to nuclear annihilation (yah, I was that weird).
Nuclear Attack – Greg Lake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSbsa4e-OoI&feature=PlayList&p=7FC74E0A3DA85139&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=12
Strike Zone – Loverboy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvB6DZtVEp4&feature=PlayList&p=4F536327472FF807&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=35
Trinity
@Yutsano: YES. I actually watched that when MTV premiered. Too crazy. My little sister and I were like “what the hell is this??”.
IndyLib
@shoutingattherain:
Yep remember all the words to that.
How bout this one? Mony, Mony (yes I know the original is from the 60’s)
asiangrrlMN
A little sexy tune for the lovers out there:
Marvin Gaye:
Sexual Healing
And, because I cannot post sexy tunes without one from Barry White, I don’t care it’s from the ’70s:
Can’t Get Enough of Your Love
JK
@JGabriel: @Gravenstone:
Great Tom Petty choices
Alan
I’m always reminded of great times surfing when Tom Petty’s Refugee is played. But that’s a different decade.
This one is from the MTV days, Don’t Come around here no more
And of course this one: You Got Lucky Babe
Trinity
Okay confession time…
I am a black girl that grew up in all white suburbs. Needless to say the first album I ever bought was Def Leppard Pyromania. Yeah. This was my first jam ever…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ5bS3_BCDs
Gravenstone
@asiangrrlMN: Sorry, but if we’re going 70’s sexiness, there can be only one – Al Green.
Let’s Stay Together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5AS_l71-Wc
Yutsano
Never knew Christopher Cross looked so much like an overgrown fratboy. Great voice on him though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMkIuKXwmlU&feature=related
JK
@asiangrrlMN:
Let’s Get It On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKPoHgKcqag
Polish the Guillotines
@JK: Yeah, I saw that too. Your Show Of Shows was the breeding ground for some of the greatest comedy writers of all time, Gelbart included.
asiangrrlMN
@shoutingattherain: Every. Single. Fucking. Word.
However, I like this song of theirs better:
Who Can It Be Now?
And, a little Dennis DeYoung from Styx, just for fun.
Desert Moon
IndyLib
@Yutsano:
The ultimate MTV song.
Money for Nothing
Jay in Oregon
Blah, my YouTube playlist is stuck in moderation hell ATM.
I was going to publish my playlist as an iMix in iTunes, but the damn store only has 4 of the 9 tracks I put in — even though I bought them all from the iTS.
Trinity
@asiangrrlMN: YES! to Who can it be now. That was THE JAM.
Brachiator
General Public,
“Tenderness”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04il74pijpY
Alan
@Trinity:
Men at Work — Down under
Who Can It Be Now
Overkill
JK
@asiangrrlMN:
What about this song?
Too late to turn back now – Cornelius Bros and Sister Rose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfYkhQblYjY
Alan
Dire Straights — Skateaway
Gina
Madness, One Step Beyond: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwbHLlwyQzc
My best friend sophomore year of high school was ska-krazy.
Alan
Dire Straights — Skateaway
shoutingattherain
@asiangrrlMN:
OK this is the 70’s, but anytime you can hear a Marilyn McCoo torch song is a good time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2z0KmhK95Q&feature=fvw
Yeah She’s hot.
Polish the Guillotines
River Cats! Sorry SeaTac-area Balloon Juicers, but Sacramento just beat the crap out of the Tacoma Rainiers. It’s off to Memphis to take on the Redbirds for the PCL championship. The Guillotine family will be at Raley field for game three.
/minor league baseball
Yutsano
@IndyLib: I think that vid really made MTV right there. I remember my brother and I were all agog over that when we first saw it.
asiangrrlMN
@Trinity: Substitute Asian for black, and you got me. I love me some Def Leppard, too.
@JK: I love that song (Marvin Gaye). He’s smooove.
Yes, I have very eclectic taste. One of my favorite groups is an Irish band called The Saw Doctors.
Bless Me Father
Gravenstone, tasty. Still, I prefer me some Barry.
Polish the Guillotines
@Alan: Yes!
Alan
Trinity, I have one in moderation that accidentally is addressed to you. It’s not.
I was going to say yeah, Photograph is a great Def Leopard song. :)
drillfork
Gawd we’re white…
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=33559588
asiangrrlMN
@Brachiator: Love that song. Good times.
On a more sobering note:
Paul Hardcastle’s 19
JK, groovy song. Not exactly a sexy tune, though.
shoutingattherain, she’s just lovely.
Gina
Oh! SEXY? Howzabout The Brothers Johnson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guJ3fHkTGts
mmmm-mmm-MMMNH!
JK
@asiangrrlMN:
What about this for a sexy tune?
The Spinners – Could it Be I’m Falling in Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knLgWxhyt98
JGabriel
How’d we get to over 250 comments in an 80’s thread, and there’s still Husker Du? Makes no sense at all.
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Trinity
@asiangrrlMN: Oh asiangrrlMN then you can feel me on this one too. AC/DC baby!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bomv-6CJSfM
Gravenstone
@Alan: I realize it’s from their “commercial” success, but this is my favorite Dire Straits tune.
Brothers in Arms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6oWvAGmiCo
Yutsano
@Polish the Guillotines: Oh boy, not a good idea to mention Seattle area sports here, at least around me. I hate to admit it but I’m still not over Super Bowl XL. At the risk of permanent banning, I’m gonna get this off my chest now.
:: deep breath ::
BIG BEN NEVER BROKE THE PLANE!!!
That is all.
Brachiator
Burning Spear – Live In Paris, Zenith 1988
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ele6fFZq5o
Gina
And my favorite love song, ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjsAy7HFeX0
Trinity
Who remembers Billy Squier?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLHc-yIAPbg
I am such a white girl at heart. lol
Alan
After The Fire — After The Fire – Der Kommissar
Yutsano
Waitaminute…no one? No one’s gonna bring up the ultimate German 80’s song???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQYQTFudrqc
IndyLib
@Trinity:
My favorite Def Leppard.
Love Bites
JGabriel
@gbear:
Gbear, somehow missed this post until just now. Anyway, thanks for the info.
What band were you in? If you recorded an album on Twin Tone in the early 80’s, I probably played it on my radio show. We might even have some acquaintances in common.
.
Gravenstone
@Gina: @JK: Now we’re talking some good shit, Maynard! Somewhere I think I still have the Spinner’s greatest hits album at my folks’ farm.
Alan
My post that’s caught in moderation has three songs by Men at Work.
JK
@asiangrrlMN:
You didn’t use the hyperlink for my screen name so I presume you were referring to Too Late to Turn Back as groovy but not sexy. I’ll buy that assessment.
This is another potentially groovy but not sexy song
5th Dimension – Wedding Bell Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkMhWQgkZ8c
Trinity
@Gina: Madness was awesome. I loved Our House
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p4RWBCEFRo
Alan
@Yutsano:
I was thinking about that one.
Brachiator
Kool & the Gang – Fresh (live TOTP 1985)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zYLOWU76KM&feature=related
Gravenstone
@Trinity: Had that album (well, 8-track), but this was the song that really stood out for me.
In the Dark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHeighGFZT0&feature=related
asiangrrlMN
@drillfork: White????? You want white???? I give to you, Tom Jones, doing the same song!
Kiss
@Trinity: Oh, god, yes. The only AC/DC song I know!
And, I gotta do it:
Billie Jean.
PanAmerican
Night Ranger sucks w/o a coked up Alfred Molina in a silk night gown. My Awesome Mix Tape #6
Eddy Grant wrote Police on my Back.
IndyLib
@Trinity:
Classic AC/DC
How about For Those About to Rock we Salute You.
Trinity
@IndyLib: Great song. Do you remember a similarly titled Love Stinks by J Giles band?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GluCM_ggMvw&feature=PlayList&p=04C1170B3808959E&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=6
shoutingattherain
Everybody Wang Chung tonight. My fav Chung:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBVxvFxRClM&feature=PlayList&p=DCA411876D8DCB6C&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2
Linkmeister
More JB: For America
Polish the Guillotines
It’s not the 80s without Modern English, but not the one everybody knows: Ink and Paper.
asiangrrlMN
WTF?
First part:
@drillfork: White????? You want white???? I give to you, Tom Jones, doing the same song!
Kiss
IndyLib
@Trinity:
LOL
More white girl rock.
Renegade
Brachiator
DeBarge – Rhythm Of The Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXEKhLe0MY0
Polish the Guillotines
@IndyLib:
I’ll see that and raise you Bedlam In Belgium.
JK
@Trinity:
I’m not a true heavy metal fan, but I always liked this song
AC/DC – Back in Black
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXaZmY52gHM
asiangrrlMN
@Trinity: Oh, god, yes. The only AC/DC song I know!
And, I gotta do it:
Billie Jean
Linkmeister
@shoutingattherain: The New York City guy in the room next to mine at U of Az used to call that song “One Less Pancake to Flip.” Didn’t stop him from playing 5th Dimension, though.
Trinity
@Gravenstone: Great song. I’d forgot about that one.
Polish the Guillotines
@asiangrrlMN: Do NOT mock Mr. Jones. He is the chosen. He is the one.
Alan
Spandau Ballet — True
Polish the Guillotines
Ugh. Link fail. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSnrWiHrz4Q
PanAmerican
Apparently I existed in some alternative timeline 80’s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5ZKEuRrR3E
After seeing Black Flag I had some future McCain voter tell me Henry was the anti-Christ.
Gina
@Gravenstone: Here’s some more Brothers Johnson ‘I’ll Be Good To You”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7gtGeAjtFI
70’s funk and soul threadjack?
Trinity
@IndyLib: Yessssss! I haven’t heard that in forever. GREAT song.
Okay…I got my first kiss to this song…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmQVWH9u8Xo
Yutsano
Since we’re going for 80’s themes, gotta go with the quintessential 80’s movie soundtrack. I like the nice touch along the bottom in tribute to John Hughes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAdaQhitdKg
drillfork
@asiangrrlMN:
I was just sayin, there are almost no black artists on this thread.
I’ve never been a big Prince fan, but through the years “Kiss” has grown to amuse me…
Alan
The Motels — Suddenly Last Summer
Trinity
@Trinity: sorry…better link to my first kiss song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmQVWH9u8Xo
asiangrrlMN
@JK: Yes. Spinners’ song is sexy. Ahem.
@Yutsano: I see your Nena and raise you a Peter Schilling:
Major Tom
My fave Leppard song:
When Love and Hate Collide
Alan
@Yutsano:
Simple Minds — Alive and Kicking
IndyLib
@Trinity:
Oh, yes. J Geils Band played at the tiny college in my hometown in 1984. It was my first concert ever. The only song any of us wanted to hear was Centerfold.
Gravenstone
@IndyLib: Guess I am just being a contrarian tonight with picking other songs off the albums from everyone else’s selections.
Queen of Spades (ex. Pieces of Eight)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ejjZhcv7Ho
asiangrrlMN
Fuck. Part one.
@JK: Yes. Spinners’ song is sexy. Ahem.
@Yutsano: I see your Nena and raise you a Peter Schilling:
Major Tom
Yutsano
312 posts and NO ONE is gonna touch him? Really?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WjOn5TNjBM
asiangrrlMN
Part two:
My fave Leppard song:
When Love and Hate Collide
Alan
@IndyLib:
Excellent.
drillfork
@Trinity:
This Culture Club song actually makes me think of the 9-12ers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVzAH0FtNwg
Polish the Guillotines
@drillfork:
Well let’s just remedy that situation right now. Living Colour: Cult Of Personality.
Gravenstone
@Gina: Actually, they listed Stomp as one of the “related” videos from your original Strawberry Letter 23 vid. That was truly a kickass piece of work.
Linkmeister
@drillfork: But didn’t Motown kinda hit the skids in the 80s? I’ve got a lot of 60s Supremes, Miracles, and 4 Tops stuff in my iTunes library, but not much after that.
Trinity
@Alan: love this one too. omg you guys should never have got me started on 80s music. I supposed to be sober and sleeping like two hours ago. oof
Was anyone into the Dead Milkmen?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzPr4NkNeSo
Jay in Oregon
(sacrified YouTube links to the moderation spirits…)
In honor of my current straits, let’s have:
Stone Roses—“I Wanna Be Adored”
Bruce Cockburn—“Lovers In A Dangerous Time”
Cowboy Junkies—“Misguided Angel”
Joy Division—“Love Will Tear Us Apart”
Sugar—“If I Can’t Change Your Mind”
The Cure—“Pictures of You”
but I can’t leave it on a downer note, so:
Deee-Lite—“Groove is in the Heart”
Len—“Steal My Sunshine”
Death Cab For Cutie—“I Will Follow You Into the Dark”
asiangrrlMN
@drillfork: Yeah, I know. I thought it was funny to shoot back with Tom Jones.
Hey, Steeplejack! This one’s for you!
The Rain
JGabriel
What would the 80’s be without a little Scottish dream pop? Life in a fuckin’ northern town, that’s what.
Alan
The Smiths — Reel Around the Fountain
Trinity
@drillfork: lol. perfect!
shoutingattherain
@Linkmeister:
Back in the early 70’s I did a bit of bartending at a small dinner theater outside of Baltimore, and they used to book some great talent. The 5th D, The Spinners, Stanley Clarke, and even Count Basie once. I got free concerts and free booze to boot. Life was good. Once.
JGabriel
@Jay in Oregon:
Gotta limit the links in a comment to three. I wish Cole would raise it to 5, but presumably it’s a spam filter.
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jl
@drillfork:
Ornette Colemana and Jerry Garcia, some kind of twain meet there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFIAC918-Vs
IndyLib
@Polish the Guillotines:
That’s good AC/DC but it’s not Anything Goes
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Dear fake-wifey–see my post at #301. That is all.
Trinity
@Yutsano: You are right. That is “criminal”!
Alan
Big Country — In a Big Country
Brachiator
Klymaxx – Meeting In The Ladies Room
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6A4LbAZ0pg
Gravenstone
@drillfork: I see Living Colour has already been invoked, so allow me to offer a couple of “atypical” black artists.
Tears of Sahara – Tony Macalpine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zmhY20ZZkY
High Gear – Howe II (Greg and Albert Howe)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2OOqwJwQDo
Yutsano
@JGabriel: Have you heard this remake? Seven artists and damn they put their foot in it. That and I have a HUGE gay man crush on Jennifer Nettles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLGt_c0noTA&feature=fvw
Trinity
Woo. I love you people to death but I have got to get some sleep.
I leave you with some Billy Joel…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_Dl9Q4jCPg
JK
Three Degrees – Everybody Gets To Go To The Moon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFh3krPei7M
Unfortunately, YouTube removed the clip of the Three Degrees playing this song in The French Connection
jl
jimi Hendrix and Johnny Winter jamming (that’s what it says, though I read someplace it might not be Winter), which is close to the 80s, sort of, if you round off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqvBXqfOZiM
I think the Coleman and Garcia piece is good old 80s music as requested.
I posted some 80s George Clinton above, but it didn’t ‘take’ for some reason.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: D’OH!!!
JGabriel
@Alan: Nice Smiths choice. What a great song to start off your first album.
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asiangrrlMN
@JGabriel: Fucking love that song, man. Life in a noooooorthern town! I can relate.
And, as I am going to bed, I thought this song apropos–though it was released in 1991.
The Divinyls:
I Touch Myself
Night, all. See ya in four hours. I expect you to be going strong.
Polish the Guillotines
@IndyLib: I seriously dig Black Ice. Great album. War Machine is pretty awesome.
Alan
@asiangrrlMN:
heh.
JK
@jl:
Great stuff.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Crap! I was hoping you played for my team, but apparently, no (wishful thinking on my part). So, you are fake-hubby number 2!
IndyLib
@JGabriel:
I adore that song. Here’s a new version if you’re interested.
Gravenstone
@asiangrrlMN: A better Divinyls song (perhaps?) to take to ones repose.
Pleasure and Pain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aYzQb6cc5E
I vaguely remembered that one when I Touch Myself came out a few years later.
Alan
The Breeders — Cannonball
Divinyls made me think of that one…..but I think it may be a 90s song.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: HA! It had to be done though. And in my defense, it still took 300 posts to get around to MJ.
Polish the Guillotines
Since folks are turning in for the night, just remember that the Dream Police are waiting for you.
Alan
The Tubes – She’s A Beauty
IndyLib
@IndyLib: Well, hell. I can’t keep up with the damned thread. You do know Sugarland and Little Big Town are country, right? (snark)
Ezra_rlz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJAJkE6Uu8o
Classic Gabriel and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiCRZLr9oRw
Kate Bush
Alan
@Polish the Guillotines:
That was a great song.
How ’bout She’s Tight…well it was on MTV. :)
Linkmeister
@shoutingattherain: You did better than I have. Closest I’ve come to fame was meeting Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) in the Officers Club lounge at Travis AFB in 1968. She was performing there.
Yutsano
@IndyLib: Oops! GMTA! Even if they are (and John did say 80’s, he said nothing about genre) that version totally does that song justice. The original made me want to be an English horn player though, so that song inspired my life. But what Sugarland et al do is VERY difficult, especially live, so it’s just great music!
drillfork
@asiangrrlMN:
Ya I figured. :)
Gawd how could I forget what is, IMHO, the best band of the past 20 years?
From the Arsenio Hall Show in ’89:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw-XK_X8Rm0
Gravenstone
@Polish the Guillotines: But are they Gonna Raise Hell?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX20qaEyzrg
IndyLib
@Yutsano:
I saw them in concert this summer. Jennifer has a strangly beautiful voice. Have you heard her sing Stay?
Alan
Here’s some more Tom Petty but with Stevie Nicks:
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around
asiangrrlMN
@Gravenstone: Oooh, I likey. I’ve never heard of it. Mix that with their other song, and it’s perfect!
@IndyLib: That’s a sweet version of Life in a Northern Town.
Gina
Genius of Love, before Mariah Carey ruined it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnC1Xzm5uKM
asiangrrlMN
And, just to say good-night again, here is the smash hit, We Belong, by one of my other favorite groups, Lowen & Navarro. They wrote it, then sold it to Pat Benatar:
We Belong
Yutsano
@IndyLib: She reminds me of a girl I went to college with. Beautiful, amazingly talented, made every other girl jealous like mad. Or as I described Val once, she looks like she should be a total bitch but she isn’t. I bet Jennifer’s voice live is fantastic!
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Do I need to come tuck you in??
Gravenstone
@asiangrrlMN: It’s off their album before their “breakthrough”.
And with that, I think it’s time to be Heading Out to the Highway (Judas Priest).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoDbAd4fYBA
I’ll check the carnage when I wake up.
@Alan: I’ll always have a soft spot for that song. I sang it as a duet with this girl I was hitting on in college. Sadly that’s as far as anything went, but the moment was there.
Alan
@asiangrrlMN: That is a great song. But I only remember Pat Benatar’s version.
jl
KRS One, Jah Rulez
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YBXOxmvlSA
I guess I was never into standard 80s rock, ‘cept for the boingo, of course. And the Chili Peppers were good too, thanks.
What was that electronic voice thing Frampton did way back in my grandpappy’s time? I thought after Frampton it would die and go to hell. But I still hear it.
Gina
@Gravenstone: Right behind you on the highway. My rotten children still are awake, I have to wrangle them into bed, then see what I can wrangle from my husband who went to bed early ;-)
Gravenstone
@Gina: I still have trouble believing that song came out the year I graduated HS.
/old
Alan
Has this one been posted?
Missing Persons – Words
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: You’ll have to talk that out with the Marine I’m afraid. Of course if his ass don’t show up soon he’s gonna get chewed out! (If anyone is curious he’s stateside, just going through some advanced training right now.)
asiangrrlMN
Ok. Really. Final two links:
O.P.P.
And, the uncensored version (seriously uncensored for the pearl-clutchers out there):
Me So Horny
Night, bitchez!
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: That would be nice. I don’t sleep well. How about making me a hot toddy? I hope you hear from your Marine pretty soon!
@Alan: Yeah, they sold it to her, so they never got to release it as a single. Sucky.
OK, OK, really going now. Scout’s honor. (And yes, I was a Brownie for a hot second back when I was a wee lass).
Linkmeister
@jl: That’s a Talk Box, youngster. ;)
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: At this point I’m going for warm milk with nutmeg! GET TO BED GIRL! :)
IndyLib
@Yutsano:
The song is done with another band, Little Big Town. They do some gorgeous 4-part harmony. This example is very country and a little twangy, but I love the harmony. Boondocks.
JGabriel
@Gina:
Tom Tom Club? Hmm, well, while we’re talking heads, maybe we could use a more naive melody.
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arguingwithsignposts
The Alarm: The Stand. Jealous of the hair.
Linkmeister
@Alan: Interesting. Petty in pre-Rickenbacker days.
Alan
I’ve got to hit the sack too. But just one more from the early days of MTV:
John Cougar – Hurts So Good
IndyLib
@Gravenstone:
If you think that’s the best of Judas Priest You’ve got Another Thing Coming.
Night, nice playing head banger with you.
Yutsano
@IndyLib: The seventh voice is Jake Owen (YUM), I know Little Big Town well, though this is my fave from them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCZel71Ip_s
I’m a weird queer, I like jazz and country and football. I think I’m costing someone a toaster oven!
jl
@Linkmeister:
“That’s a Talk Box, youngster. ;)”
I’m don’t like those things.
This thread is crashing my browser. I need something smooth to put me to sleep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VTHHQo8xC0
Alan
@Gravenstone:
At least you tried. :)
TheFountainHead
Ack!
HALP! HALP! We need a new thread!
Alan
The Alarm – Strength
Phoenician in a time of Romans
Oh, you people asked for it.
Toy Love – Bride of Frankenstein.
Yutsano
@TheFountainHead: C’mon man! we’re almost to 400!!
IndyLib
@Yutsano:
Wow, I’m amazed, usually I can’t get anybody here to admit they like country. I usually don’t participate in the music threads, because everyone who plays usually has…well, let’s just say, not nice things to say about it.
I love A Little More You. This is my favorite.
TheFountainHead
Man, can’t believe I didn’t hit you guys with this first. By fair the best song to come out of the decade:
You Can Call Me Al:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULjCSK0oOlI
IndyLib
@Yutsano:
LOL Different strokes for different folks.
Alan
R.E.M. – Fall On Me
drillfork
@IndyLib:
Country? I can do this, I suppose:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrUs_FWqj9s
IndyLib
Who could forget Sister Christian.
TheFountainHead
@IndyLib: Hey, I’ll admit I have a soft spot for this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m43Xz1Wwb7k
Alan
@Linkmeister:
I had to google it to see you were talking about his guitar. :)
JGabriel
How have we come so far without anything from Roxy Music?
Avalon.
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Steeplejack
Late to the thread, as usual. “Promises, Promises” is a great song. Good guitar, good beat. What more can you ask?
After the marathon ’80s throwdown of the other night, I am more convinced than ever that there was a lot of great music in the ’80s, but it was sort of “distributed”–lots of songs from one- or two-hit wonders, rather than monolithic bodies of work from a small core of supergroups. (There some of those, of course.)
Will start reading the thread now. Here’s my bookend to “Promises, Promises”–the Motels, “Only the Lonely Can Play.”
Alan
@JGabriel:
Roxy Music – More than this
Linkmeister
@IndyLib: I used to drink and play with a country band in Japan (while in the Navy). They used to sing the old stuff, like Kaw-Liga.
I’m more partial to the Waylon, Willie, and later eras like the Dixie Chicks and the Johnny Cash American series.
IndyLib
@TheFountainHead:
I still love Alabama, rednecks that they are. Their first album was the first cassette tape I ever bought with my own money.
This was my favorite song.
Linkmeister
@Alan: Hah! He has almost exclusively played Rickenbackers with the Heartbreakers; that’s why I was surprised. I perk up when I see those guitars, since I own one.
Alan
@IndyLib:
I don’t know why but Sister Christian reminded me of this:
Queensryche – Silent Lucidity
That may be an early 90s song though.
shoutingattherain
Play this one real loud:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R82OM5tzcrk
Just don’t try to go to sleep right after.
IndyLib
@Linkmeister:
I grew up listening to everything. I love Mary Robbins cowboy songs.
Like Streets of Loredo.
And old Glen Campbell. Witchita Lineman.
IndyLib
@Linkmeister:
I think I’ve asked you this before, but damned if I remember the answer. When were you stationed in Yokosuka? My husband was on the Indy the last 2 years it was there, and on the Kitty the first year it was there – so that would be 97-2000.
JGabriel
Must be a sucker for it. Save it for later – The English Beat.
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Steeplejack
It’s Immaterial, “Driving Away from Home.”
TheFountainHead
@JGabriel: Cat Lady has you beat @ #8, but it’s such a good song, why not listen to it twice?
Linkmeister
@IndyLib: Much much earlier. Dec 1972 – March 1974. I was at NCS Japan.
Steeplejack
@gbear:
Amen. Greatest Beatles song ever not by the Beatles.
JGabriel
I’m really tempted to play something from Squeeze…
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Steeplejack
A message with this song embedded went into moderation. Can’t think why.
RedKitten
Man, oh man, this thread is giving me so many flashbacks, it’s not even funny. The sad thing is that I’ve forgotten much of what I learned in school during the 1980’s, yet I remember the lyrics to almost every damn song mentioned here.
They should have set our math classes to synthesizer music — maybe I would have retained something.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Okay, that’s weird. I got moderated with virtually no content in the message. Could it be something in the link? WTF. Or maybe Yahweh just doesn’t want me to post this song.
IndyLib
@Linkmeister:
My first response is lingering in moderation hell for some weird reason.
I grew up listening to everything from Hank Williams Sr. to Kenny Rogers. I love the old Marty Robbins stuff, Glen Campbell, Charlie Pride. The outlaw country is OK, I love Willie and Kris, but just not that big a fan of Waylon or Johnny Cash ( I know, sacrilege). I love the Dixie Chicks and Garth. The newer stuff I like is Dierks Bentley, Gary Allen, Cross Canadian Ragweed, and Nickle Creek (blue grass).
I don’t like being preached at in my country music however, which makes listening to country on the radio almost impossible these days.
JGabriel
@TheFountainHead:
Damn. I did a search for “beat”, but not on the song title.
Ah well, as you say, worth hearing twice. And it is later, which, frankly, it should have been saved for.
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JGabriel
@TheFountainHead: Actually, I wanted to do “I Confess”, but couldn’t find a link with good audio quality.
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IndyLib
@Alan:
OMG I forgot how much I like this song. Thanks.
Steeplejack
The other song I associate with “Promises, Promises”–Johnny Hates Jazz, “Shattered Dreams.”
God, I’m in a maudlin mood tonight.
IndyLib
@RedKitten:
You up with the babykit?
I know it’s sad isn’t it. I’ve often wondered what I would remember if my memory paths weren’t clogged up by music lyrics?
JGabriel
Link Fixed: I’m really tempted to play something from Squeeze…
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Linkmeister
@IndyLib: I like blue grass like Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Don’t like the jingoistic crap (take THAT, Marshall Tucker and Toby Keith!). Don’t like the preachy stuff either. I admire Glen Campbell’s guitar work and his way with Jimmy Webb’s songs.
Really really like Emmylou Harris and Roseanne Cash. I love everything Ronstadt has ever sung, even her early country albums. For example.
arguingwithsignposts
I know nobody has posted this: The Reivers (formerly Zeitgeist) – Secretariat.
Linkmeister
Silver Threads and Golden Needles.
arguingwithsignposts
@JGabriel:
Props for the Squeeze. Annie Get Your Gun.
JGabriel
arguingwithsignposts:
I thought of looking for something by Zeitgeist – loved their first album before the name change – but then I thought, god, what are the odds? Of either finding anything by them, or anyone here remembering them. Should have known better.
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IndyLib
@Linkmeister:
That’s a really good song. I like Emmylou, also. There aren’t very many women in country that I’m that fond of. Most of the ones out now with the exception of Trisha Yearwood make me want to yack.
I like this, though.
I wonder how much Yokosuka changed in the years between when you and I were there?
arguingwithsignposts
@JGabriel:
never say never. Saw them live back when they were Zeitgeist, too. Hit on the bass player. Got nowhere. :(
In Your Eyes. Also.
BTW, I just looked up “Also” on urbandictionary.com, and there’s no entry yet. That’s surprising.
JGabriel
I wanna help you, Ann!
(The Lyres)
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arguingwithsignposts
REM’s first TV appearance: So. Central Rain.
IndyLib
Well, hell. It’s after 3:00 AM here so I guess I better call it a night.
This was funner than a box of wet cats in a closet.
g’night all.
JGabriel
arguingwithsignposts:
Had a friend who saw REM in a Long Island skating rink during the Murmur tour. Not ran into them, saw them playing there, in a fucking skating rink. Jefferson apparently wasn’t the most competent of managers…
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arguingwithsignposts
@JGabriel:
Jefferson, I think we’re lost. Funny/sad wikipedia entry on that guy. I used to have a page from the REM fanclub (order a t-shirt and suchlike) that was hand-colored with crayons. good times.
arguingwithsignposts
I think everyone went home. Damn, I need to time my sleep pattern better.
Steeplejack
@arguingwithsignposts:
I’m still up, trying to sift through all the videos. But I think I’m about to pack it in and start up again tomorrow morning.
I’m out with this–Don Henley and Bruce Hornsby, “The End of the Innocence.” (Song starts at 1:00.)
Steeplejack
@asiangrrlMN:
Thanks for the shout-out. I like the rain and other things.
arguingwithsignposts
Just watching that Life in a Northern Town vid by Sugartown. I think it’s cool that a country band kept up with some english proto-emos. That is all.
Bill E Pilgrim
Good god, 438 comments.
Is it possible that when John leaves it for the weekend like this, the blog could get so bloated with comments that it starts expanding, bursting the hard drive and finally glorping over the sides of the computer onto the floor into a green sludge that takes on a life of its own, adriven by a DNA of snark and arguments and links to god knows what that finally overcomes the pets and walls and furniture, so when he returns its like those directors-cut-only scenes from “Alien” where Captain Dallas and the others are sort of glued to the wall half-covered in some sort of slime that’s living off their vital organs as they murmer “Kill me…. please”?
Er, you know, sort of thing?
arguingwithsignposts
i hate waking up this early. weekend’s been crappy so far and today is going to be even more so. all that’s here is thinking about how much i miss the person who shall not be named. oh, joy. everything i do reminds me of you. Clare Burson.
JGabriel
John Cole
Don’t let’s start. I’ll be up till 5:30 in the morning…
Oops.
Oh, well. Everybody dies frustrated and sad. And that is beautiful.
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mclaren
Obscure but classic 80s songs:
“Germany Calling” by Tone Band
“Walking In the Air” by Aled Jones
“Down In the Park” live by Gary Numan from the film “Urgh! A Music War” (1981)
“Pacific State” by 808 State from 1988
“Algebra Of Darkness” by Harold Budd from 1988. YouTube doesn’t have it, alas.
“Glass Candle Grenades” by the Cocteau Twins
“Atomic” by Blondie
“Walking Away” by Information Society live from 1989
“Sunset Grill” by Don Henley.
“He’s a Liquid” by John Foxx.
Actually done in 1979. The 80s started a year or two before 1980 and lasted a couple of years beyond 1990.
daryljfontaine
@JGabriel: They want what they’re not, and I wish they would stop saying “soc1alist death panels teabag stalin hitler, soc1alist death panels teabag stalin hitler.”
What do you mean that’s not the original lyric?
D
RedKitten
@IndyLib: Yeah, I was up with the tiny weasel. I was just letting him get a bit settled in after eating, and so came downstairs to check my Facebook and see what the BJ gang was up to.
BTW, speaking of 80’s music, at the end of October, I’m going to see Blondie, and I have seats in the centre of the third row! Yay!
Laura W Darling
@RedKitten: That’s funny, Krista. I have been regretting not posting this one for a week so here’s my very belated chance. Love walking to it when it comes on the iPod:
Rip Her to Shreds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-P_MDXq_oY
Stuck: I had the same problem with John’s videos last week and this morn but just emptying the Firefox cache and refreshing cured it.
R-Jud
@JGabriel:
Memo to myself: do the dumb things I gotta do.
TOUCH THE PUPPET HEAD.
chopper
@PanAmerican:
never was the biggest fan of rollins, but damaged is a hard as fsck record. i’ll always give him that.
JGabriel
De La Soul — Cuz eye know we all like a little Steely Dan and Otis Redding sample in our hip hop.
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Laura W Darling
@Steeplejack:
I heard this today, for the first time in decades. Really touched me. I suspect you like it as well.
When are we gonna get a 60s thread, anyway?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1DWdexSO9M
Cat Lady
I think I left the thread at around 200, just scrolled through all the posts, and yet it’s up to me to come back at 456 and be the first to add The Beastie Boys? WTF people?
JGabriel
I want you to know… Debaser.
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Cat Lady
Quintessential 80’s one hit wonder.
Quarterflash
JGabriel
It’s Sunday, the day of rest. Take your cue from Barnaby, hardly working.
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Cat Lady
One more then it’s Good Bye to You!
Oh, those hairdos. Like no one owned a mirror. Good times.
Cat Lady
Talk To Ya Later!
Fee Waybill – best name in rock.
JGabriel
Why can’t we just get along with our fellow citizens on the right and the skinheads on our lawn? Let’s just take the skinheads bowling!
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Jay in Oregon
Morning all.
I see my playlist made it out of the moderation spirits’ hands; good. Hope people enjoyed it.
I’m off to church in about 2 hours, then it’s back to cleaning. We’ll see how the rest of it goes for the day.
arguingwithsignposts
@JGabriel:
In our bitchin’ camaro!
arguingwithsignposts
@Jay in Oregon:
I hope your day goes better than mine is starting. If I prayed, I would. rooting for the love.
JGabriel
A reminder that sometimes things change for the better: Free Nelson Mandela.
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TX Expat
Should have posted this one last night. It’s one of my all time favorite songs and not just from the 80’s.
“I’ll give you candy, give you diamonds, give you pills, give you anything you want, hundred dollar bills”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9V2OpsTbAw
Gravenstone
Damnation! Nearly 100 posts since I retired. You folks remain impressive as always. Now, where’d asiangrrlMN wander off to?
Gravenstone
Aw hells, just because it popped up on my teevees
Owner of a Lonely Heart – Yes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWvzZCZF1gw
Laura W Darling
@Steeplejack: This is freaky. I was just thinking about The End of the Innocence while putting on the hiking ensemble.
I missed your post this morning when I was scanning the thread and was thinking back to memorable times in the 80s. I moved to Monterey, CA, (the first time) in 84. I lived smack on the sand on the Bay in an amazing townhouse.
Boys of Summer forever evokes those wonderful times. I LOVE THIS SONG:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oR-VGMuiAI
But even more maudlin and fitting for the heartbreak theme some have goin’ on here, I found this last week. Omigod.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLgUuHl2xJo
asiangrrlMN
@Gravenstone: Here I am! Damn, you guys are hell for a grrl with a touch of CDO (OCD in proper alphabetical order). I am valiantly trying to listen to every. damn. link.
arguing, go out with some friends! Get out of the house. I know when I’m really depressed, being alone only exacerbates it.
And, for all the lovers in the crowd, I give to you, Chicago.
Will You Still Love Me?
Steeplejack, I like the Rain song you posted. Glad you saw the shout-out.
getsmartin
Sunday morning Furs anyone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P09gm_I5RI
Steeplejack
Must achieve closure.
I could not think of the name of this group or the song last night, although I could remember almost all of the lyrics. Couldn’t find it by searching the Google with the lyrics. Damn.
Then this morning the title came to me: “Tenderness.” Blessed relief. Must be because I’m making biscuits for the first time in ages.
Steeplejack
@Cat Lady:
Damn! My receiving manager was punkin’ me all the time. “Uh, we can’t accept this delivery, because there’s no fee waybill.”
I stil like “Sushi Girl.” Used it in the Labor Day massacre with Cole. Can’t find the link I used now, although I did find the one where the Tubes were on The Fishin’ Musician on SCTV. They went fishing for large-mouth bass with Gil Fisher and did “Sushi Girl” after. (Execrable clip quality.)
My second favorite Fishin’ Musician, after the one where Gil Fisher took the reggae group Third World antiquing. Good times.
asiangrrlMN
@Steeplejack: See Brachiator at #258! Coulda saved you a sleepless night. Heh.
@getsmartin: Nice! I like this song, too, original version.
Pretty in Pink
Steeplejack
@JGabriel:
Excellent! I was going to post that last night, but I got distracted by my fruitless search for “Tenderness.”
Cat Lady
@getsmartin:
Yes, this. Which just has to be followed by Ghost in You.
Steeplejack
@asiangrrlMN:
D’oh!
asiangrrlMN
@Steeplejack: Is this it?
Sushi Girl
Never heard it before. Um, interesting.
burnspbesq
@drillfork:
Swear to gawd, the Smithereens were giving a free concert—in the park—in my town (about 120,000) a few weeks back.
Did you go?
Steeplejack
@Laura W Darling:
Well, that takes me back to my angsty teenage days. Reminds me again of how Paul Simon is a great songwriter but no one seems to do his songs. Sort of the reverse Dylan effect.
I always though “Hazy Shade of Winter” would make a great full-on rocker, but then the Bangles sort of tried to prove me wrong. I dunno; I’m ambivalent. Maybe it was just the movie (Less Than Zero) that was bad.
When are we gonna get a ’60s thread, anyway?
I’m not sure that yoot Cole properly appreciates his musical heritage. Although, come to think of it, he does like James Brown, so the boy’s got taste.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Less Than Zero leads to “Saved by Zero.”
I think I need an intervention.
Cat Lady
@Steeplejack:
One Thing Leads to Another
Enough.
Steeplejack
@Laura W Darling:
Don Henley has always left me a little cold, but he hit it out of the park with “The End of the Innocence.” I attribute it all to Bruce Hornsby, of course. (“The Way It Is” always chokes me up.)
And I know you’re a live-performance purist, but the video of “The Boys of Summer” was teh awesome.
asiangrrlMN
All right. I gotta bring it with the Jovi, and then I’m done.
Never Say Goodbye
Where the hell is my lighter?
Steeplejack
@Cat Lady:
Har! I knew that was coming.
Steeplejack
@asiangrrlMN:
That’s the song.
Um, interesting.
You know rock songs don’t have to make sense, right?
And bonus points if the video makers have never listened to the song.
Steeplejack
@Laura W Darling:
“Heart of the Matter” is good. Henley’s slightly preening intro is exactly what puts me off about him.
asiangrrlMN
@Steeplejack: I love that song by Don Henley. And, this one:
Last Worthless Evening
As for the Sushi Girl song/video, yeah, I know. Still. Bee-zarre.
And, since I posted a Dennis DeYoung song yesterday, I have to even it out with a Tommy Shaw song today:
Girls With Guns
It’s strangely apropos for yesterday’s shouty white people fest.
Laura W Darling
@Steeplejack: Less Than Zero leads to Less Than Zero:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msAIYGBzcks
And since you brought Hornsby into the mix, I am obligated:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shnHm8D-XRk
(I am very irritated. A month ago Bonnie doing Burning Down the House from this same Road Tested Live CD/Concert popped up on youtube finally. Now it is gone. Sigh.)
I have to go have a real life now.
Laura W Darling
@Steeplejack: Also, Valley Road is my favorite Hornsby ever but youtube never has a good version. Months ago there was a really freaky church service scene set to it I never understood, but even that is gone.
I challenge you to procure a good clip of Valley Road. Take your time.
You can drive this thread to 500 if you want to, you know.
Steeplejack
@Laura W Darling:
Found a couple of versions of “The Valley Road,” but nothing I would consider Laura-worthy. Will put it on the back burner for subliminal searching.
Steeplejack
@asiangrrlMN:
“Last Worthless Evening” is good. Damn, I might have to reconsider that one Henley album that has all those songs on it.
“Girls with Guns”–I kept waiting for the big chorus with that phrase, but apparently I missed it. Good song, though.
Laura W Darling
@Steeplejack: I love Last Worthless Evening but way too overlaid with sad memories at this point.
You just got lucky…I was gonna link the demo tape of Stevie Nicks and Don H doing “Leather and Lace” but it wouldn’t load. I like it. You’d hate it, no doubt.
I’m sure you’ll probably not be overly fond of this one, but I played the shit out of this album in college:
Buckingham Nicks: Frozen Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ho56wSdbpc
This one you might be OK with. Heard the original the other day but couldn’t find a good clip. This one is decent: Fleetwood Mac Hypnotized:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yOFh2DAP-g
C’mon Steep! Toss out the lucky 500th post!
Steeplejack
@Laura W Darling:
A little Stevie goes a long way for me. Although “Gypsy” always hits me hard in the gut, because that was the song that I remember playing on the radio when I went to have one of my cats put down. Oof.
I heard/saw a clip of her doing “Leather and Lace” with someone just in the last few days. I don’t think it was Henley. It couldn’t have been Tom Petty. Could it?
Now, “Hypnotized” is possibly my all-time favorite Fleetwood Mac song. I’ve got it on several of my mix CDs.
Oddly enough, it fits perfectly with this little gem:
Pieces of a Dream, “Fo-Fi-Fo.”
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Okay, damn it, I’ll take that 500 spot. Wasn’t gonna, but it was practically forced on me.
asiangrrlMN
@Steeplejack: Thank you. I was resigned to filling the spot, but now I don’t have to because you beat me to it.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Damn, I’m a Pavlovian prisoner to my mixes. Was compelled to look up the third piece of the trifecta: “Hypnotized,” “Fo-Fi-Fo” and “Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get.”
Steeplejack
@asiangrrlMN:
OCDCDO is a terrible thing, isn’t it?Well, I’m off to the grocery store to buy one lousy potato.
I’m having my long-delayed steak and potato dinner tonight, and I made the mistake of inviting my cranky older neighbor, whose wife is away visiting relatives for a week or two. I mainly just wanted to check to make sure he’s still alive, but I got carried away in the conversation. I didn’t think he’d take me up on the invitation, but damned if he didn’t.
I have a two-pack of rib-eye steaks but only one potato, which is infuriatingly just that much too small to stretch for two people. Damn. So I will have to think of something good to buy at the store that will partially redeem the trip. I hate going out at all on Sunday, which is the first day of my weekend and which follows (usually) a particularly grueling evening shift at the part-time gig (and late-night blog-wallowing here, of course).
Damn, damn, damn. Maybe I’ll get a bottle of champagne.
asiangrrlMN
@Steeplejack: Break out of the box, Steeplejack! Only you can save yourself.
I can’t believe we made it past 500!
My Oh My!
Linkmeister
@Steeplejack: Well, by inviting him you’re storing up chits when you get to — wherever you get to after you die.
asiangrrlMN
@Steeplejack: Aw, what a good man you are. Have fun!
Steeplejack
@Laura W Darling:
And, hey, I like “Frozen Love” and most of the Buckingham Nicks stuff. It’s unadulterated Stevie that I have a bit of a problem with. Like I said, a little goes a long way.
Steeplejack
@Linkmeister:
Well, hopefully I’m storing up chits for when I’m the crabby older guy next door.
And the champagne is not for him. It’s for me to recuperate with after dinner with him.
And, yes, I’m procrastinating on going to the store. Oh, look, the Chiefs just tied the Ravens with a field goal. How interesting . . .
Laura W Darling
@Steeplejack: Well here ya go then, you Long Distance Thread Winner you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_vQ7swJ7xU
(I love Gypsy and Sara.)
And STAND BACK! This is for me, not you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBemoEBontk
Steeplejack
@asiangrrlMN:
Slade! Man, that takes me back.
Steeplejack
@Laura W Darling:
I forgot “Stand Back.” That’s a damn good song.
And that clip reminds me what a great singer–and quite the fox–Marilyn McCoo is.
Must go to store before I start cross-referencing Fifth Dimension/Laura Nyro clips.
Too late.
Linkmeister
@Steeplejack: Streisand with Stoney End.
Jay in Oregon
That playlist I made up last night has been playing very well for me on my iPod.
“If I Can’t Change Your Mind” is a perfect description of what I am feeling right now:
Tears fill up my eyes
I’m washed away with sorrow
And somewhere in my mind
I know there’s no tomorrow
I see you’re leaving soon
I guess you’ve had your fill
But if I can’t change your mind
Then no one will
And all throughout the years
I’ve never strayed from you my dear
But you suspect I’m somewhere else
You’re feeling sorry for yourself
Leaving with a broken heart
I love you even still
But if I can’t change your mind
Then no one will
Even though my heart keeps breaking
Don’t you know that I’ll be waiting
Here for you
Then when you return
When will you return
I hope you see I’m dedicated
Look how long that I have waited
If you come back then you will find
A different person
If you change your mind
How can I explain away
Something that I haven’t done
And if you can’t trust me now
You’ll never trust in anyone
With all the crazy doubts you’ve got
I love you even still
But if I can’t change your mind
Then no one will
Someday you’ll see I’ve been true
I’ll stay that way until
But if I can’t change your mind
Then no one will
Step2
Don’t Walk Away
Toni Childs, strong voice, cool video.
asiangrrlMN
@Jay in Oregon: Aw, Jay, that’s a beautiful song, but maybe you should shelve it for the time being?
Keith G
When i got home from work (right now), read John’s post and saw it had 500+, i had a good laugh. Good god, you guys. Sorry i missed it. I’ll tag it and enjoy the music later.
Guess i need to get my work sched changed.
Polish the Guillotines
500+? Woah.
arguingwithsignposts
@Jay in Oregon:
bob mould is teh awesome.
Pop Lock
Junior – Mama Used To Say
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwTTGnDcwoA