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Friday Night Open Thread

by John Cole|  November 18, 20117:50 pm| 332 Comments

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I had another day of drama that I don’t even want to talk about, so here is this:

Let’s have a trash 80’s night.

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  1. 1.

    cathyx

    November 18, 2011 at 7:54 pm

    I’ve been having a lot of those lately. And to add, I can’t type my comment without that stupid add next to me block my comment box. I know I mad some mistakes that I can’t see to fix.

  2. 2.

    Comrade Mary

    November 18, 2011 at 7:55 pm

    C.R.E.A.M delivered by some pasty-white English boys 30 years ago.

  3. 3.

    Baud

    November 18, 2011 at 7:55 pm

    I’m halfway through Jean Edward Smith’s “FDR.” Interesting stuff. If you’ve read it, don’t tell my how it ends. :)

  4. 4.

    cathyx

    November 18, 2011 at 7:57 pm

    @cathyx: And I know if I sign that stupid petition to get it off my screen, I’ll get some stupid virus on my already broken computer.

    ETA: I’ve been having a bad week.

  5. 5.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 8:00 pm

    Fine, try this. Or this. So they’re not trashy. Sue me.

  6. 6.

    Darkrose

    November 18, 2011 at 8:00 pm

    Does anyone have a Kindle Fire and know how to make it default to the mobile BJ skin?

  7. 7.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 8:02 pm

    @Darkrose: I don’t even understand the question.

  8. 8.

    PurpleGirl

    November 18, 2011 at 8:03 pm

    Everybody — any of you using FireFox… Use Adblocker. And that Ad will vanish. Also Flash blocker.

    I know that I should let ads show so the blog host gets credits, whatever for the ad. But so many of the ads have Flash content which creates problems for me visually. Really. Blocking ads and flash content has saved me many times over.

  9. 9.

    Baud

    November 18, 2011 at 8:03 pm

    @cathyx: Do you know why Target is needed to save Thanksgiving?

  10. 10.

    cathyx

    November 18, 2011 at 8:03 pm

    John, I hope you’re ok. My computer won’t let me have sound so I can’t hear what you posted, but I bet it would have calmed me down. Instead, I have wine to drink.

  11. 11.

    khead

    November 18, 2011 at 8:04 pm

    You’d think someone would at least make the original video available on youtube. The clown gave me nightmares.

    My wife found an 8 week old cat at a storage facility.

    Guess who just got a new kitteh….

  12. 12.

    Chris Wolf

    November 18, 2011 at 8:05 pm

    Born in 60…I was 20-30 in the 80’s. No way I’m trashing the 80s. Skiing on mushrooms was my winter tradition.
    We didn’t watch a lot of television in those days.

  13. 13.

    cathyx

    November 18, 2011 at 8:06 pm

    @Baud: All I know is some guy doesn’t want to work at midnight the day after Thanksgiving(I don’t blame him) so he’s petitioning to not have to.

  14. 14.

    Linnaeus

    November 18, 2011 at 8:07 pm

    I, for one, welcome our trashy 80s overlords.

  15. 15.

    AA+ Bonds

    November 18, 2011 at 8:07 pm

    Still works

  16. 16.

    gogol's wife

    November 18, 2011 at 8:08 pm

    @cathyx:

    The ad is driving a lot of us crazy. We’re just hoping it will be gotten rid of more quickly than Pam Anderson’s monstrous arm or whatever that was.

  17. 17.

    Baud

    November 18, 2011 at 8:08 pm

    @cathyx: Got it. Thanks!

  18. 18.

    cathyx

    November 18, 2011 at 8:09 pm

    @Chris Wolf: I have to say I’m a little partial to the 70’s myself, but I was a rammy 20 something in the 80’s so I can appreciate them.

  19. 19.

    Chris Wolf

    November 18, 2011 at 8:09 pm

    @cathyx: In the 80’s, NOBODY worked on the day after Thanksgiving.

  20. 20.

    suzanne

    November 18, 2011 at 8:09 pm

    I think “Everybody Dance Now” was released in the late 80s, and this is my favorite way to experience that horrible song.

  21. 21.

    schrodinger's cat

    November 18, 2011 at 8:09 pm

    @khead: Photos please!

  22. 22.

    lamh35

    November 18, 2011 at 8:09 pm

    I’ve no knowledge at all of NCAA rules and regulations, but this was posted on twitter by AP and I wad just wondering what someone who’s more knowledgable thinks can happen/will happen.

    The Associated Press
    @AP The Associated Press

    The NCAA will examine whether Penn State broke any rules with its handling of child sex abuse scandal: http://apne.ws/sMHXqa -MS

  23. 23.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 8:10 pm

    @Chris Wolf: I have a friend, really, it’s not me – hallucinogens have never been my thing, who when ‘shrooming at a ski chalet had to leave and go outside because he was getting larger and didn’t want to damage the building. I have always thought that was very considerate of him.

  24. 24.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 8:12 pm

    @lamh35: I left a link for you on the Song of the Week thread. Almost an hour of Maze live.

  25. 25.

    Chris Wolf

    November 18, 2011 at 8:12 pm

    @cathyx: I’m partial to the 70’s myself…it’s a small miracle that I made it to the 80’s.

  26. 26.

    Villago Delenda Est

    November 18, 2011 at 8:13 pm

    @Baud:

    I’m halfway through Jean Edward Smith’s “FDR.” Interesting stuff. If you’ve read it, don’t tell me how it ends. :)

    Uncle Joe, in the Kremlin, with an A-Bomb.

  27. 27.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 8:14 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: You bastard!

  28. 28.

    Chris Wolf

    November 18, 2011 at 8:15 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Shroom and Zoom…that was us. Can’t say I ever hallucinated, though. I was just hard to kill, is all.

  29. 29.

    Chris Wolf

    November 18, 2011 at 8:16 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:
    Uncle Joe, in The Junction, with a pitchfork.

  30. 30.

    Comrade Mary

    November 18, 2011 at 8:16 pm

    @suzanne: Awwwww!

    (C+C Music factory, late 1990, but could count as a 1980s hangover)

    I liked this one.

  31. 31.

    khead

    November 18, 2011 at 8:18 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    Gonna send an update to Anne to post, I think, since we brought in another stray last November and just celebrated its one year anniversary. 2 pounds of fluff, no fleas, and a clean bill of health. Woohoo!

    We just brought her home from the vet this evening. She’s the third kitteh in the House of Khead. Not sure how the other 2 girls are gonna take it…

    My wife is Snow White. Animals just love her.

  32. 32.

    burnspbesq

    November 18, 2011 at 8:19 pm

    @lamh35:

    It’s “lack of institutional control.” Which is what the NCAA typically uses to nail schools they don’t like. One minute it’s like SOX 404, e.g., we’re punishing you for not auditing the assistant coaches’ cell phone bills. The next minute it’s your AD is senile and asleep at the switch. Which may accurately describe Penn State.

  33. 33.

    Mike E

    November 18, 2011 at 8:20 pm

    Hey! Some of us got started on this ‘puter/innertoob journey via the TRS-80

  34. 34.

    Dee Loralei

    November 18, 2011 at 8:20 pm

    I think I have this album. If y’all aren’t nice, I’ll sic some Scritti Politi on you.

  35. 35.

    Comrade Mary

    November 18, 2011 at 8:21 pm

    @Dee Loralei: Do it! Do it!

  36. 36.

    khead

    November 18, 2011 at 8:22 pm

    @Mike E:

    Atari 400/800. I have some cassettes and floppy disks downstairs somewhere….

  37. 37.

    Cat Lady

    November 18, 2011 at 8:23 pm

    Great choice John. A man in my shoes runs a light and all the papers lied tonight…

  38. 38.

    fubar

    November 18, 2011 at 8:25 pm

    You want 80’s? I got 80’s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9Xh6cIWvFU

  39. 39.

    Baud

    November 18, 2011 at 8:28 pm

    I’m surprised no one has linked to this song.

  40. 40.

    PurpleGirl

    November 18, 2011 at 8:29 pm

    @Mike E: I never owned a TRS-80 but somehow I acquired the manual for one. I still have it somewhere in my stuff. My first computer was a Commodore 64, which I was given by a friend who worked for IBM.

  41. 41.

    khead

    November 18, 2011 at 8:29 pm

    This thread needs a hair band.

  42. 42.

    Mnemosyne

    November 18, 2011 at 8:29 pm

    Not only do I still love this song, but this is from the tour I saw them on at the height of their fame.

    These guys opened for them. It was a Chicago thing.

  43. 43.

    lamh35

    November 18, 2011 at 8:30 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: saw that thx :)

    My dad has that concert on VHS of all things…lol. The album from the concert was one of the things he was most happiest about still having after Katrina. I believe Frankie Beverly signed it or something.

    I’m telling ya, Frankie B & Maze are an institution…lol

  44. 44.

    gbear

    November 18, 2011 at 8:30 pm

    @Chris Wolf:

    In the 80’s, NOBODY worked on the day after Thanksgiving.

    In the 80’s nobody plopped down at the computer on Thanksgiving evening to shop online. It’s internet competition that has all these stores opening at midnight on friday.

  45. 45.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 8:33 pm

    More 80’s

  46. 46.

    fubar

    November 18, 2011 at 8:34 pm

    And another http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT4Kw3A0pHI

  47. 47.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 8:35 pm

    @Baud: I was going to wait until everyone was drunk.

  48. 48.

    gbear

    November 18, 2011 at 8:36 pm

    Here’s my 80’s contribution. One that gets overlooked (unjustly IMO)

    Stabilizers – One Simple Thing

  49. 49.

    Jebediah

    November 18, 2011 at 8:36 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    he was getting larger and didn’t want to damage the building.

    Might be the best thing I have read all day!

  50. 50.

    ruemara

    November 18, 2011 at 8:39 pm

    @Dee Loralei: Shorrup. I loves Scritti Polliti
    And C&C Music Factory. the 80’s were the bomb, that is all.

    Edited to assuage John for a rough day. http://youtu.be/nmoHQ2DC3zo

  51. 51.

    brettvk

    November 18, 2011 at 8:39 pm

    @gbear: Are internet purchasers and the people who trample WalMart temps really the same market segment?

  52. 52.

    gbear

    November 18, 2011 at 8:39 pm

    and this one too

    David & David – Welcome To The Boomtown

  53. 53.

    piratedan

    November 18, 2011 at 8:39 pm

    TY JC, that was one of the two songs that were played for my spouse and I at our wedding…. I guess it was an interesting combo to have Level 42 and Roberta Flack’s “the first time, ever I saw your face” and yet it still brings tears to my eyes to this day imagining how beautiful my wife looked while we danced together to those songs. ty for the unintentional flashback, these days I need it.

  54. 54.

    Linnaeus

    November 18, 2011 at 8:39 pm

    My 80s contribution. One of the first videos I remember seeing on MTV.

  55. 55.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 8:39 pm

    This is from the 80s as well…

    @Jebediah: Weird thing is that he really wasn’t that considerate a guy when he wasn’t ‘shrooming.

  56. 56.

    Baud

    November 18, 2011 at 8:42 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Wait, the people who comment here are normally sober?!

  57. 57.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 8:43 pm

    @Linnaeus: Love the Jam and that song in particular.

    How about something from NYC by way of NOLA and Paris?

  58. 58.

    Litlebritdifrnt2

    November 18, 2011 at 8:43 pm

    Hell Cole, you couldn’t even get a TOTP appearance instead of a crappy Youtube collection of photos?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUude8ivtDw&feature=related

  59. 59.

    khead

    November 18, 2011 at 8:44 pm

    General Public

    Thank you Night Tracks or I never would’ve heard a lot of this shit.

  60. 60.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 8:44 pm

    @Baud: Good point.

  61. 61.

    Litlebritdifrnt2

    November 18, 2011 at 8:45 pm

    @Baud: I don’t know about anyone else but I never am. Damn if I was posting here sober I would never make any sense.

  62. 62.

    kideni

    November 18, 2011 at 8:45 pm

    @Mnemosyne: I think I was at that show in Chicago. My ears rang for days after it, and not because of the bands but because of the high-pitched squeals of all the junior high-aged girls around me (I was a high school junior, so I was too cool to scream at that pitch except ironically).

    I miss my youth, I sometimes cry, so I’ll turn the last card down. The Wonders don’t care, since they were in the ’70s.

  63. 63.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    November 18, 2011 at 8:45 pm

    @Mike E: TRS-80. Beat me to it.

    You whippersnappers, I remember my first encounter with a Visicalc spreadsheet, and the sense of joy that arose when I realized I wouldn’t have to add up columns of numbers on a calculator ever again.

    Of course, that’s when we HAD calculators. I didn’t get my first one till I was out of college. Also, too.

  64. 64.

    gbear

    November 18, 2011 at 8:47 pm

    @brettvk: I agree that there’s probably not much crossover, but the Walmarts and Targets looked at how much money was being spent on-line on Thanksgiving evening and decided to try to grab some of that for their stores.

  65. 65.

    Linnaeus

    November 18, 2011 at 8:47 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    It’s a great, great song. I love the contrast between the uptempo melody and the bitter commentary in the lyrics.

  66. 66.

    Baud

    November 18, 2011 at 8:50 pm

    In the same genre as my last submission…

  67. 67.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    November 18, 2011 at 8:51 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’m sober as a judge at the moment (heh). And I am unreasonably delighted that Bootsy is now part of my network on LinkedIn. Yes perhaps I need more of a life, but still.

  68. 68.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 8:52 pm

    @PurpleGirl:

    I know that I should let ads show so the blog host gets credits, whatever for the ad. But so many of the ads have Flash content which creates problems for me visually. Really. Blocking ads and flash content has saved me many times over.

    I thought I was the only one! Vertigo problems with motion in the peripheral field. Damn those hopping, juddering, wiggling and jitterbugging ads. I block when I have to and keep it paused otherwise.

  69. 69.

    Southern Beale

    November 18, 2011 at 8:52 pm

    Hello all. What a crazy week. Is it Friday already? What happened to Mon-Thursday?

  70. 70.

    cathyx

    November 18, 2011 at 8:53 pm

    Since this is an open thread, I’m gonna post this:

    A Q and A from the guy who did the bat signal in NYC:

    XJ: How did you go about finding someone nearby who would allow you stage this from inside their home?

    MR: Opposite the Verizon building, there is a bunch of city housing. Subsidized, rent-controlled. There’s a lack of services, lights are out in the hallways, the housing feels like jails, like prisons. I walked around, and put up signs in there offering money to rent out an apartment for a few hours. I didn’t say much more. I received surprisingly few calls, and most of them seemed not quite fully “there.” But then I got a call from a person who sounded pretty sane. Her name was Denise Vega. She lived on the 16th floor. Single, working mom, mother of three.

    I spoke with her on the phone, and a few days later went over and met her.

    I told her what I wanted to do, and she was enthused. The more I described, the more excited she got.

    Her parting words were, “let’s do this.”

    She wouldn’t take my money. That was the day of the eviction of Zuccotti, the same day. And she’d been listening to the news all day, she saw everything that had happened.

    “I can’t charge you money, this is for the people,” she said.

    She was born in the projects. She opened up her home to us.

    She was in there tonight with her 3 daughters, 2 sisters. The NYPD started snooping around down on the ground while the projections were up, it was clear where we were projecting from, and inside it was festive.

    “If they want to come up they’re gonna need a warrant!,” her family was saying. “If they ask us, well, we don’t know what they are talking about!” They were really brave and cool.

  71. 71.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 8:54 pm

    @Linnaeus: Willy DeVille was amazing.

  72. 72.

    kideni

    November 18, 2011 at 8:55 pm

    My last comment’s in moderation; I thought I might be able to sneak three links in, but you caught me. So hang the DJ.

  73. 73.

    Datacine

    November 18, 2011 at 8:55 pm

    Pre Jenny Tommy Tutone for my 80’s throw

  74. 74.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 8:55 pm

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Bootsy Collins, the bassist?

  75. 75.

    Cat Lady

    November 18, 2011 at 8:55 pm

    Let’s not forget the ladies.

    Destination Unknown

    Goodbye to You

    Middle of the Road

  76. 76.

    Linnaeus

    November 18, 2011 at 8:55 pm

    These guys were a little too British, I think, to make it big in the U.S., but this one’s a fun song.

  77. 77.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    @gbear:

    I agree that there’s probably not much crossover, but the Walmarts and Targets looked at how much money was being spent on-line on Thanksgiving evening and decided to try to grab some of that for their stores.

    That and also logistical problems. 500 amped up supershoppers camped on your doorstep waiting to stampede in when the door’s unlocked is a nightmare. And people have been hurt in the rush. It makes sense for some retailers to just open early and avoid the crush.

  78. 78.

    Litlebritdifrnt2

    November 18, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    Never Ending Story…..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf1WT8VEZxk&feature=related

  79. 79.

    Linnaeus

    November 18, 2011 at 8:57 pm

    @Cat Lady:

    Chrissie Hynde is one of the finest songwriters of her generation. Flat out.

  80. 80.

    C.S.

    November 18, 2011 at 8:57 pm

    If you wanted a “trash” 80’s night, you shouldn’t have started it off with such an awesome song.

  81. 81.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 8:59 pm

    @Linnaeus: I’ll see your house and raise you one step beyond.

  82. 82.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    November 18, 2011 at 9:00 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: The very one. Granted, he has about 635 more connections than I do, but still. I thought it was cool that he accepted my invitation. I mentioned our connection in common, my old buddy the guitar player who had a band with Adrian in the late 80s.

  83. 83.

    Linnaeus

    November 18, 2011 at 9:01 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Let me add another to tonight’s house of fun.

  84. 84.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 9:04 pm

    @Cat Lady: How about Alison Moyet? Okay, Vince Clarke too, but still…

  85. 85.

    Cat Lady

    November 18, 2011 at 9:04 pm

    @Linnaeus:

    She’s kind of out of time – not really what you think of when you think of 80s. I think of her as putting Pat Benatar more or less out of business.

  86. 86.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 9:04 pm

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): You might be the coolest person I know. Damn.

  87. 87.

    MikeJ

    November 18, 2011 at 9:05 pm

    Back in the 80s, radio stations still had news at the top of the hour. I was at a CHR, and the new caster was a cute blonde named Angel. Guess what song got played very often at 3:57…

  88. 88.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 9:09 pm

    @Cat Lady: Speaking of out of time, here is Elvis Costello with “Man Out of Time.” And yes, I am using other people’s comments as inspiration to scour YouTube for 80s songs.

  89. 89.

    RalfW

    November 18, 2011 at 9:09 pm

    Extreme esoterica 80s.

    .

  90. 90.

    Poopyman

    November 18, 2011 at 9:10 pm

    Go ahead, trash the 80s all you want. Gettin’ born & shit in 1954 makes me a 70s kinda guy anyway. And tonight those of us caught up in the diaspora when Pittsburgh’s economy tanked in the late 70s can watch the 50-plus year old tradition of Light Up Night, which kicks off the holiday season, here – in sorta real time.

  91. 91.

    Mike G

    November 18, 2011 at 9:11 pm

    An antidote to trash and a reminder that occasionally the assholes DO get taken down:

    Artists Against Apartheid – Sun City

  92. 92.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 9:11 pm

    @RalfW:

    Even more esoteric, I think:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZR_ip7rm0E

  93. 93.

    BGK

    November 18, 2011 at 9:12 pm

    Apropos of nothing, but…
    +6 here: a Martini, 3/4 of a bottle of Primitivo, and two Last Words. The only sad part about the last is that my Chartreuse is almost gone, and it’s ridiculously expensive.

    75 degrees and breezy, sitting on my lanai with a Scottish Fold purr-monster on my lap.

    What?

  94. 94.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 9:14 pm

    @Poopyman: Okay you old bastard, this is 2 years pre-80s, but if it makes you feel better…

  95. 95.

    TooManyJens

    November 18, 2011 at 9:14 pm

    There’s a new Bad Lip Reading video featuring Ron Paul.

  96. 96.

    Chris Wolf

    November 18, 2011 at 9:17 pm

    @Linnaeus:

    It was Honeyman.

  97. 97.

    MikeJ

    November 18, 2011 at 9:20 pm

    @TooManyJens: How can you tell?

  98. 98.

    Mark S.

    November 18, 2011 at 9:22 pm

    Alan Keyes has emerged from his cave to remind everyone he’s an asshole.

  99. 99.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 9:22 pm

    @MikeJ: The BLR version seems to care more about people. He called an ambulance, for the love of Pete.

  100. 100.

    Baud

    November 18, 2011 at 9:22 pm

    @TooManyJens: The idea behind that site would have been really funny if actual candidates weren’t saying even crazier things…

  101. 101.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    November 18, 2011 at 9:23 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Not to pile on, but I saw the Police in a small local venue (~350-450 capacity) when they played those places. I thought I was pretty cool myself when I went backstage there at a Bears show years later and Adrian said “Hi Bella, how’s the law biz?” Then I realized I don’t actually like him as a person, though it could have been that he compared poorly to the rest of the band, who are all great guys.

    Enough about me, how’s your week been?

  102. 102.

    JGabriel

    November 18, 2011 at 9:23 pm

    Trash 80’s: Love Plus One (Extended 12″ Remix!) — Haircut 100

    .

  103. 103.

    master c

    November 18, 2011 at 9:25 pm

    you guys are good!
    lotsa good stuff.

  104. 104.

    Cat Lady

    November 18, 2011 at 9:25 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Thank FSM for teh google. I’m kind of out of time too and getting my decades confuzzled – a lot of the 90s stuff seems like it could have been earlier. Like this and this.

  105. 105.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 9:27 pm

    @JGabriel:

    Haircut:
    We loved that silly band! My original vinyl copy is still playable.

  106. 106.

    khead

    November 18, 2011 at 9:27 pm

    Overkill

  107. 107.

    Kifaru1

    November 18, 2011 at 9:28 pm

    You guys missed the one that I drove my mom nuts with….

  108. 108.

    MikeJ

    November 18, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    Headed out, but here’s what I think of when I think 80s.

  109. 109.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    I’ll see your Haircut 100 and raise you:

    Rank and File

  110. 110.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 9:32 pm

    @JGabriel: Excellent.

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Fine. Started with a Packer win. Settled, favorably to my client, the last pro bono case that I was doing as a solo. I am getting the feeling that I am playing my way into a permanent gig at the state agency where I am working. Moreover, I just poured myself a drink.

  111. 111.

    kideni

    November 18, 2011 at 9:33 pm

    Even middle-aged mamas can be punk rockers. We’re still cool. So much of my music doesn’t seem to have real videos.

  112. 112.

    Kifaru1

    November 18, 2011 at 9:34 pm

    Stupid link did not take!Michael Jackson – Thriller

  113. 113.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 9:35 pm

    @RossInDetroit: Lone Justice. You gotta love Maria McKee.

  114. 114.

    Southern Beale

    November 18, 2011 at 9:37 pm

    Woopsies!

    Mercedes-Benz manager from Germany arrested in Alabama under state’s tough new immigration law.

    Somehow the governor found out about it and called the state police for details. Hmm ….

  115. 115.

    Poopyman

    November 18, 2011 at 9:37 pm

    Cruisin’ on a Friday night looking at what I midded during the day and … looky here! Bill cited mnemosyne’s sig line in Cheers and Jeers this AM.</a

    Prolly somebody already pointed this out somewhere earlier, but I just got onto the intertubes. So there.

  116. 116.

    Cat Lady

    November 18, 2011 at 9:38 pm

    @khead:

    Very nice. Reminds me of Midnight Oil and INXS.

  117. 117.

    khead

    November 18, 2011 at 9:38 pm

    This is not Thriller.

  118. 118.

    Southern Beale

    November 18, 2011 at 9:40 pm

    @cathyx:

    I saw that about the single mom who wouldn’t take money for letting the Occupiers use her apartment. That made me feel all warm and fuzzy!

  119. 119.

    Mnemosyne

    November 18, 2011 at 9:42 pm

    @kideni:

    I was a high school freshman, so I completely lost my voice that night. And the next day was my very first glimpse of Being Cool since some of the popular girls hadn’t been able to get tickets. (They apparently did not possess my supernatural powers of whining until their dads agreed to take them out in a snowstorm at 6 am when the Ticketmaster at Sears opened.)

    This was the very first Smiths song I ever heard, on that British music show they ran on WXRT. I remember it being called “London Calling,” but the Google is failing me.

  120. 120.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 9:42 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    You gotta love Maria McKee.

    Yup! I sure do!

    And because I can’t resist Declan, Bruce, Pete & Steve at their ubernerdiest.

  121. 121.

    burnspbesq

    November 18, 2011 at 9:43 pm

    @Dee Loralei:

    If y’all aren’t nice, I’ll sic some Scritti Politi on you.

    Don’t tease me like that unless you’re prepared to deliver.

  122. 122.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 9:45 pm

    The ‘Mats.

  123. 123.

    burnspbesq

    November 18, 2011 at 9:45 pm

    @lamh35:

    I’m telling ya, Frankie B & Maze are an institution…lol

    That’s true if your definition of “institution” is “a band that has been reduced to playing at Native American casinos in SoCal.”

  124. 124.

    Gilles de Rais

    November 18, 2011 at 9:46 pm

    Level 42. My favorite.

  125. 125.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 9:47 pm

    @Mnemosyne: XRT has always been a fantastic station.

  126. 126.

    khead

    November 18, 2011 at 9:47 pm

    Under the Milky Way

    Boy

  127. 127.

    Mnemosyne

    November 18, 2011 at 9:47 pm

    @Poopyman:

    Sadly, I am not the mnemosyne named. We are legion on the internet, it turns out.

    It was probably one of the cooler ones who use the same nym. :-(

  128. 128.

    handy

    November 18, 2011 at 9:48 pm

    Here’s my contribution. Cuz it’s a Friday.

  129. 129.

    Linnaeus

    November 18, 2011 at 9:50 pm

    @Southern Beale:

    Woopsies!
    …
    Mercedes-Benz manager from Germany arrested in Alabama under state’s tough new immigration law.
    …
    Somehow the governor found out about it and called the state police for details. Hmm ….

    They’ll apologize and say they meant only to catch brown people. So sorry.

  130. 130.

    burnspbesq

    November 18, 2011 at 9:50 pm

    @RossInDetroit:

    I’ll see your Haircut 100 and raise you Rank and File.

    Don’t make me pull out Jason and the Scorchers.

  131. 131.

    Comrade Mary

    November 18, 2011 at 9:50 pm

    OK, now that we’re doing GOOD punk-onwards-to-80s music:

    Undertones: Teenage Kicks


    The Fall: Telephone Thing

    And for you Fall virgins, an accessible cover.

    Yes, I am John Peel.

  132. 132.

    Linnaeus

    November 18, 2011 at 9:50 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    Why not? Jason and the Scorchers are good.

  133. 133.

    handy

    November 18, 2011 at 9:50 pm

    @Linnaeus:

    PAPERZ PLEAZE!

  134. 134.

    Southern Beale

    November 18, 2011 at 9:50 pm

    @Linnaeus:

    The Germans will understand.

  135. 135.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 9:51 pm

    Ministry.

  136. 136.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 9:51 pm

    @khead:

    Under the Milky Way

    I had recalled that as being Echo and the Bunnymen for some reason. Both baritones in a tenor world.

    Anyway, here’s E & the B;s

  137. 137.

    kindness

    November 18, 2011 at 9:51 pm

    For John. Soothe yourself with Halloween 1980 @ Radio City Music Hall, NYC.

    The Grateful Deal doing Cold Rain & Snow

  138. 138.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 9:52 pm

    @burnspbesq: Bring it.

  139. 139.

    handy

    November 18, 2011 at 9:53 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Ooh you picked the good Ministry. Here’s another one I like off that same album.

  140. 140.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 9:54 pm

    @handy: I am sneaky that way.

  141. 141.

    arguingwithsignposts

    November 18, 2011 at 9:54 pm

    Nic Jones – Canadie-i-o. You’re welcome

  142. 142.

    Datacine

    November 18, 2011 at 9:54 pm

    Golden Palominos

  143. 143.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 9:54 pm

    I had an interesting conversation with an elementary school lunchroom aide today about post-Clash bands & solo records.
    We both like Big Audio Dynamite and Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros.
    And we both have entirely white hair. Getting old is weird.

  144. 144.

    burnspbesq

    November 18, 2011 at 9:55 pm

    From the best record of the 80s, regardless of genre.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jaxdj4wLHnA

    Yes, that’s Mark O’Connor on guitar.

  145. 145.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 9:55 pm

    @RossInDetroit: I like both bands and my hair is still dark. That doesn’t help, does it?

  146. 146.

    Southern Beale

    November 18, 2011 at 9:56 pm

    @RossInDetroit:

    Oooh love me some Echo & The Bunnymen! I was a huge fan back in college. I need to revisit some of those old albums …

  147. 147.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 9:57 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    From the best record of the 80s, regardless of genre.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jaxdj4wLHnA
    Yes, that’s Mark O’Connor on guitar.

    My wife the banjo player loves you now.

  148. 148.

    Southern Beale

    November 18, 2011 at 9:58 pm

    @RossInDetroit:

    … and I love me some Mark O’Connor too but I don’t think of him as being an 80s artist for some reason!

    I really got into Nanci Griffith and Robin and Linda Williams and Claudia Schmidt in the mid-80s.

  149. 149.

    burnspbesq

    November 18, 2011 at 10:00 pm

    @RossInDetroit:

    If I had a billion dollars, I would spend whatever it would take to get those guys back together for one night to play at a barbecue in my back yard.

  150. 150.

    handy

    November 18, 2011 at 10:00 pm

    Damned if you do, Damned if you don’t.

  151. 151.

    RalfW

    November 18, 2011 at 10:01 pm

    @RossInDetroit: Cool.

  152. 152.

    khead

    November 18, 2011 at 10:01 pm

    @RossInDetroit:

    I always liked that tune because I could belt it out in the car on road trips. Not very well, mind you, but you don’t need a whole lot of range to sing along.

    Joe

  153. 153.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 10:01 pm

    @Southern Beale:

    And the amazing Edgar Meyer. Bass players get no love.

  154. 154.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 10:01 pm

    68 Guns, The Alarm.

  155. 155.

    Comrade Mary

    November 18, 2011 at 10:04 pm

    @handy: Neat^3!

  156. 156.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 10:05 pm

    @khead:

    I always liked that tune because I could belt it out in the car on road trips. Not very well, mind you, but you don’t need a whole lot of range to sing along.

    E & the Bs’ tunes are singable because Ian’s not a tenor. Same with The Doors and very few others. Most pop music is sung by mutants with tiny throats. We mortals just can’t cover most of the range. I studied voice for 12 years & still have a hard time with Van Morrison.

  157. 157.

    arguingwithsignposts

    November 18, 2011 at 10:05 pm

    @burnspbesq: The Violent Femmes would like a word with your obscurantist ramble.

  158. 158.

    RalfW

    November 18, 2011 at 10:06 pm

    Also, Ultravox.

  159. 159.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 10:07 pm

    X

  160. 160.

    burnspbesq

    November 18, 2011 at 10:07 pm

    The 80s were an unreal decade for bluegrass and new acoustic music. From the Skaggs & Rice duet album in 1980, to the Bluegrass Album Band, to New Grass Revival, to Tony Rice’s great work, to Ricky Skaggs making Nashville pay attention to its roots again, great solo work from Grisman, Bela Fleck and Jerry Douglas, to the emergence of Alison Krauss, to one-offs like Here Today (featuring Grisman and Vince Gill) to Strength in Numbers. I could probably keep going.

  161. 161.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 10:08 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts: The Femmes saved my ass in Soho in ’84.

  162. 162.

    Mnemosyne

    November 18, 2011 at 10:08 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I like “The Stand” myself.

    And a little number from a Wisconsin band — perhaps you’ve heard of them?

    I distinctly remember that this was the first song on side two. That’s how many times I listened to the album.

    ETA: D’oh! AWS beat me to it. (shakes fist)

    ETA #2: Though I believe I win on obscurity. Ha!

  163. 163.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 10:09 pm

    @Mnemosyne: See above.

  164. 164.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 10:09 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    X are touring at the moment. I Friended them on the ‘book and get updates. Just the southwest & left coast so far :-(

  165. 165.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 10:10 pm

    @RossInDetroit: If they hit driving distance from Madtown, I am going.

  166. 166.

    burnspbesq

    November 18, 2011 at 10:10 pm

    @RossInDetroit:

    It’s not from the 80s, but Edgar’s solo on “From Ankara to Izmir” on the Douglas/Barenberg/Meyer album is, IMHO, the most amazing 60 seconds of bass I’ve ever heard.

    And he just gets better. Heard “The Goat Rodeo Sessions” yet?

  167. 167.

    burnspbesq

    November 18, 2011 at 10:13 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    House of Blues in Vegas is as close as they are coming to you. December 11. Do it. You deserve it.

  168. 168.

    Mnemosyne

    November 18, 2011 at 10:14 pm

    @RossInDetroit:

    I saw an interesting documentary about rock music recently that pointed out that higher voices carry better in stadiums, so your really big stadium rock bands have singers with tenor voices. I can’t think of any really huge band — like Beatles or Stones or Who or U2 big — who had a baritone lead singer.

  169. 169.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 10:14 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    X’s ‘live’ album Unclogged is a great, great record. The versions of White Girl and Burning House of Love on it are absolutely transcendent.

  170. 170.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 10:15 pm

    @burnspbesq: I want to see them someplace like the Aragon Brawlroom in Chicago. You know, do it right.

  171. 171.

    RalfW

    November 18, 2011 at 10:15 pm

    Golden Palominos…with Syd Straw. Mmmmm.

    My first boyfriend got me into Syd Straw. Too bad the only album I have is on an ancient Maxell cassette.

  172. 172.

    wasabi gasp

    November 18, 2011 at 10:16 pm

    Here’s some dudes standing around.

  173. 173.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 10:16 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    I can’t think of any really huge band—like Beatles or Stones or Who or U2 big—who had a baritone lead singer.

    Lately, neither can I. There was Morrison, but The Doors were atypical in a lot of ways.

  174. 174.

    burnspbesq

    November 18, 2011 at 10:16 pm

    @RossInDetroit:

    Most pop music is sung by mutants with tiny throats.

    Getting old sucks. There was a time when I could sing Vince Gill songs in the same key he recorded them in. Now I have to transpose everything down at least a minor third.

  175. 175.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 10:19 pm

    Here’s a link to the Unclogged version of Burning House of Love. Heard it a hundred times and it’s always goosebumps.

  176. 176.

    burnspbesq

    November 18, 2011 at 10:20 pm

    I. Don’t. Fucking. Believe. This.

    X, Social Distortion, and the Adolescents. Friday, 12/16, Santa Monica Civic.

    Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

  177. 177.

    arguingwithsignposts

    November 18, 2011 at 10:21 pm

    @Mnemosyne: if you’re going to win with obscurity, you’d go with “Country Death Song.”

  178. 178.

    Mnemosyne

    November 18, 2011 at 10:21 pm

    Here’s an 80s bill I once saw: Mojo Nixon, the Violent Femmes, and the Pogues (when Shane MacGowan was still the lead singer).

    Actually, we missed most of Mojo Nixon because my idiot friend made us late, so all we got to hear from him was “Debbie Gibson is Pregnant with My Two-Headed Love Child.” Bastard.

  179. 179.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 10:21 pm

    @burnspbesq: Damn.

  180. 180.

    Mnemosyne

    November 18, 2011 at 10:21 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    Wrong album. :-p

  181. 181.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 10:22 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Mojo Nixon, meh. But the rest? Yowza.

  182. 182.

    Southern Beale

    November 18, 2011 at 10:23 pm

    LOL … anonymous racist trolling Florida newspaper comments sections turns out to be an elected Republican official … who trashed not just the people he serves but his coworkers, too

    Fellow politicians blasted Pinellas County Commissioner Norm Roche on Thursday for using a secret alter ego to zing them, straining city-county relations and the commission’s own dynamics at a crucial time.
    __
    Roche’s derogatory comments about St. Petersburg baffled Mayor Bill Foster.
    __
    “He comes from a darker place than I can even imagine,” Foster said. “And that’s kind of a window into the psyche of a county commissioner.”

    And this, my friends, is why Al Gore invented the internet…

  183. 183.

    burnspbesq

    November 18, 2011 at 10:23 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    http://www.united.com

  184. 184.

    arguingwithsignposts

    November 18, 2011 at 10:24 pm

    @Mnemosyne: That one’s a PITA to find though. i think IRS removed it from some of the albums.

  185. 185.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 10:24 pm

    @Mnemosyne: The fucking Violent fucking Femmes are not fucking obscure. Damn it!

    @burnspbesq: Don’t tempt me. The next couple of months are going to be insane at my agency with the Walker and other recalls.

  186. 186.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 10:24 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    X, Social Distortion, and the Adolescents. Friday, 12/16, Santa Monica Civic.

    Mike Ness is somehow younger than me but looks a generation older. That’s not fair, but then neither is my unauthorized Skelly tat.

  187. 187.

    Southern Beale

    November 18, 2011 at 10:25 pm

    Ah fuckit there’s a word that has my last comment embargoed and I don’t know what the offending word is. SIGH.

    You know … these settings can be CHANGED ….

    Anonymous racist trolling Florida newspaper comments sections turns out to be an elected Republican official … who trashed not just the people he serves but his coworkers, too …

    And this, my friends, is why Al Gore invented the internet…

  188. 188.

    Mnemosyne

    November 18, 2011 at 10:25 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I still have the Pogues t-shirt, thankyouverymuch. I wore it for Halloween last year with a black-and-white plaid skirt, shredded hot pink tights, and a studded belt.

  189. 189.

    arguingwithsignposts

    November 18, 2011 at 10:25 pm

    @Mnemosyne: I’ve still got you beat. Shane McGowan stole my fuckin’ hat!

  190. 190.

    burnspbesq

    November 18, 2011 at 10:26 pm

    The Crystal Cathedral was sold to the Catholic Diocese of Orange today. Guess that means no more Christmas shows with live camels. :-(

  191. 191.

    handy

    November 18, 2011 at 10:26 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    The bass player on this one isn’t so bad either.

  192. 192.

    Southern Beale

    November 18, 2011 at 10:26 pm

    Trying this for the third time:

    Anonymous commenting posting offensive items on Florida newspaper comments sections turns out to be an elected Republican official …

  193. 193.

    Southern Beale

    November 18, 2011 at 10:29 pm

    OH FUCK IT

    Four times my damn comment was embargoed. Go to the damn link and figure it out for yourselves.

    http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/local/norm-roches-anonymous-online-snark-strains-city-county-relations/1202287

  194. 194.

    Mnemosyne

    November 18, 2011 at 10:29 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    Actually, it’s on iTunes. That’s where I got my MP3 and it looks like you can buy it for 99 cents.

    I buy most of my MP3s from Amazon.com, but for some reason iTunes will get stuff that’s hard to find otherwise.

  195. 195.

    Southern Beale

    November 18, 2011 at 10:29 pm

    Jesus fucking christ. YOU CAN CHANGE THESE SETTINGS PEOPLE.

  196. 196.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 10:29 pm

    I once went to a Primus show just to see the Meat Puppets open. The Meat Puppets were pissed at the crowd and just played Texas swing for 25 minutes to annoy us. I still liked it though.

  197. 197.

    burnspbesq

    November 18, 2011 at 10:30 pm

    If there was a better country song than this recorded in the 80s, I’d like to know what it was.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j4cu-MuLgc&ob=av2e

  198. 198.

    Southern Beale

    November 18, 2011 at 10:30 pm

    Sorry folks. That last comment is because I’ve tried FOUR times to post a link to a newspaper story and there’s some word in there that’s embargoed. I give up. You’ll just never know.

    I’m outta here. I hate stupid shit.

  199. 199.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 10:30 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts: That is hard to beat. Although, my guess is that Shane has stolen lots of hats and also is it really stealing if he didn’t know he did it? The man is a feckin’ genius though.

  200. 200.

    Southern Beale

    November 18, 2011 at 10:31 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    I dunno, you’re competing with Lyle Lovett’s best work, kd lang’s country stuff …

  201. 201.

    burnspbesq

    November 18, 2011 at 10:32 pm

    @handy:

    Playing bass with a pick is cheating.

  202. 202.

    Mnemosyne

    November 18, 2011 at 10:32 pm

    I feel I’m among friends here, so I can safely say that, though I never saw them in concert, I still love the Boomtown Rats. I even read Bob Geldof’s autobiography (it was pretty good).

  203. 203.

    Gravenstone

    November 18, 2011 at 10:32 pm

    Inspiration for Nigel Tufnel? I think so!

  204. 204.

    arguingwithsignposts

    November 18, 2011 at 10:33 pm

    @burnspbesq: Pancho and Lefty. You might recognize the singers.

    That’s not even touching the rest of the TVZ oevre.

  205. 205.

    Mnemosyne

    November 18, 2011 at 10:34 pm

    @Southern Beale:

    You can run the link through something like http://www.tinyurl.com and it will eliminate the problem since it assigns it a whole new URL with no forbidden words.

  206. 206.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 10:37 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    I still love the Boomtown Rats.

    We played the hell out of The Fine Art of Surfacing and I think it still stands up well. Especially on Mondays.

  207. 207.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 10:38 pm

    @Mnemosyne: I never did dress the part for concerts. This, of course, is how, after wandering the backs streets of Soho dressed like posh gits while looking for the club in which the Femmes were playing, a friend and I were almost beaten silly by a group of punks, who on discovering we were Yanks – not Sloane Rangers, were on our way to the same club they were, and had seen the Femmes several times before were adopted for the evening. It was epic. The punks kept having to explain us to new people. One of my best nights in London.

  208. 208.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 10:38 pm

    Okay, some Aussies.

  209. 209.

    burnspbesq

    November 18, 2011 at 10:39 pm

    Another great 80s country song. Check out the Nashville Big Hair.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFb4tg9vUGU

    Sorry, Cole, she’s still my favorite West Virginian.

  210. 210.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 10:39 pm

    @RossInDetroit: Diamond Smiles.

  211. 211.

    TooManyJens

    November 18, 2011 at 10:42 pm

    Didn’t see this coming: Netflix is bringing back Arrested Development.

  212. 212.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 10:43 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Diamond Smiles.

    That’s ridiculous. Duly bookmarked…

  213. 213.

    Mnemosyne

    November 18, 2011 at 10:43 pm

    @RossInDetroit:

    Bzzt. They’re Kiwis.

    These guys are Aussies.

  214. 214.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 10:45 pm

    A gay friend insisted that Mental as Anything were obviously gay but I couldn’t see it.

    If You Leave Me Can I Come Too? is a pretty great song title.

  215. 215.

    burnspbesq

    November 18, 2011 at 10:45 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    The definitive recording of “Pancho & Lefty” is on “Luxury Liner,” which was released in 1976. Still a great song, but I’m trying to play by Cole’s rules and stay in the 80s.

  216. 216.

    kideni

    November 18, 2011 at 10:46 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Definitely. I’ve never found a station with as broad a selection of tunes (a bit too much Rolling Stones for my taste, but that’s my only quibble [don’t hate me: the early Stones is fine, but XRT seems to think they can do no wrong]).

  217. 217.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 10:46 pm

    I don’t think anyone has posted this one yet.

  218. 218.

    burnspbesq

    November 18, 2011 at 10:46 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    But now that you mention it, it is past time for some Crowded House on this thread.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82JZh3VyE2M

  219. 219.

    arguingwithsignposts

    November 18, 2011 at 10:47 pm

    You know who else didn’t get the country love in the ’80s? Lyle Lovett’s roommate.

  220. 220.

    Mnemosyne

    November 18, 2011 at 10:48 pm

    You know you’re big when Archbishop Desmond Tutu busts your chops in public.

  221. 221.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 10:49 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    Bzzt. They’re Kiwis.

    Yeah, I spotted that too late to edit.

    I like that Hoodoo Gurus track.

    BTW, if someone posts Men at Work, I’m out. Just sayin’

  222. 222.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 10:50 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I will get you for that.

  223. 223.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 10:51 pm

    Let’s get a little more “urban.”

  224. 224.

    arguingwithsignposts

    November 18, 2011 at 10:51 pm

    @RossInDetroit: I think you’re too late, but here’s some grown up Colin Hay for ya.

  225. 225.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 10:52 pm

    @RossInDetroit: Someone had to do it.

  226. 226.

    burnspbesq

    November 18, 2011 at 10:55 pm

    More Aussies that aren’t Men at Work. Love this song, but never really got into the rest of their stuff.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD-58aVlPYk

  227. 227.

    handy

    November 18, 2011 at 10:56 pm

    Maybe I missed it, or there are not enough Massholes reading this thread because I didn’t see these guys making an appearance yet.

  228. 228.

    Mnemosyne

    November 18, 2011 at 10:57 pm

    @kideni:

    XRT is a lot less eclectic than they used to be (they used to go from a Smiths song to Johnny Adams and back again) but they’re still better than 90 percent of what’s out there.

  229. 229.

    suzanne

    November 18, 2011 at 10:58 pm

    I’m feeling kind of crappy and tired tonight, but look how much mah puppeh takes care of me

    Love. That. Dog..

  230. 230.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 10:58 pm

    Pixies.

  231. 231.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 10:59 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    I like that. It’s a bit Midnight Oil-ish in a good way.

  232. 232.

    kideni

    November 18, 2011 at 10:59 pm

    Undead undead undead undead. Peter Murphy will bring the baritone for you.

    My best ’80s concert: The Smiths with Billy Bragg as the opening act.

  233. 233.

    burnspbesq

    November 18, 2011 at 10:59 pm

    Did Dee Lorelei ever make good on her threat?

    No?

    OK. I will act on her behalf.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7qCaCcfjXg

  234. 234.

    Dr. Squid

    November 18, 2011 at 10:59 pm

    Back in the day, MTV only had 100 videos. Which they cycled through constantly.

    This was one of them.

  235. 235.

    arguingwithsignposts

    November 18, 2011 at 11:00 pm

    @handy: did anyone mention the Smithereens?

  236. 236.

    arguingwithsignposts

    November 18, 2011 at 11:01 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Raise the Pixies!

  237. 237.

    burnspbesq

    November 18, 2011 at 11:01 pm

    Gotta go, but can’t leave without dropping this one on y’all.

    Dance, fools!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8PjjxJ7v78&ob=av2e

  238. 238.

    Gravenstone

    November 18, 2011 at 11:01 pm

    Just to bookend the 80’s

    The Graces

  239. 239.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 11:02 pm

    @handy:

    Massholes

    Misses the ’80s by a year but from Boston MA.

  240. 240.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 11:04 pm

    Gap Band.

  241. 241.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 11:07 pm

    How many bands from Hawaii?

    The Dambuilders.

  242. 242.

    Gravenstone

    November 18, 2011 at 11:11 pm

    And because you can never have too much big hair.

    Femme Fatale

  243. 243.

    arguingwithsignposts

    November 18, 2011 at 11:11 pm

    @RossInDetroit: Poi Dog Pondering!

  244. 244.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 11:12 pm

    The Time doing the Walk.

  245. 245.

    RossInDetroit

    November 18, 2011 at 11:15 pm

    Late. Long day. Gonna call it, but one more.

    Dunno if we’ve had any B-52s yet.

  246. 246.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2011 at 11:26 pm

    Simply one of the best rock songs ever.

  247. 247.

    Canuckistani Tom

    November 19, 2011 at 12:00 am

    80s rock, Toronto, and Subways

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vubMfPh7URs

  248. 248.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 12:00 am

    Night shift checking in. Just got home from work. We had the first of our holiday season school “book fairs” at the store, which basically means inattentive parents clogging the aisles and yakking with one another while their children run amok and tear the store apart. Good times.

    Haven’t started reading the thread yet, but here’s my all-time favorite ’80s song to get me started: Tears for Fears, “Everybody Wants to Rule the World.” (Awesomely great video, too.)

  249. 249.

    Canuckistani Tom

    November 19, 2011 at 12:04 am

    @Southern Beale:

    ‘Ve Germans are not all smiles und sunshine…’

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRTngtsOY8Q

  250. 250.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 12:05 am

    @Comrade Mary:

    Depeche Mode?!

  251. 251.

    Gravenstone

    November 19, 2011 at 12:08 am

    @Canuckistani Tom: Did someone call for Germans?

  252. 252.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 12:17 am

    Little whitey white up in here. Cameo, “Single Life.”

  253. 253.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 19, 2011 at 12:20 am

    @Steeplejack: Dude, I did my part. Grandmaster Melle Mel, the Gap Band, and Prince. Damn.

    ETA: Also too, the Special AKA. So step back, Jack.

  254. 254.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 12:23 am

    Bryan Adams, “Run to You.” Angst and a good guitar hook. Can’t beat it.

  255. 255.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 12:26 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Still reading the thread. Carry on.

    Oh, yeah, Jesse Johnson, “(I Wanna) Be Your Man.” Horns!

  256. 256.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 19, 2011 at 12:28 am

    @Steeplejack: Look, mate, are you trying to pick a fight? Bryan F-ing Adams?

  257. 257.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 12:29 am

    Gipsy Kings, “Bamboleo.”

  258. 258.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 19, 2011 at 12:31 am

    @Steeplejack: Alright then. We’re cool.

  259. 259.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 12:35 am

    Biel Ballester Trio, “When I Was a Boy.” Not from the ’80s, but I had to play it after “Bamboleo.” It’s from the soundtrack to Vicky Cristina Barcelona, which is excellent.

  260. 260.

    suzanne

    November 19, 2011 at 12:35 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: Hush now. Bryan Adams is cheese, yes. But sometimes cheese is Brie.

    My favorite 80s song EVAR.

  261. 261.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 19, 2011 at 12:39 am

    @suzanne: Good tune, but my New Order song is this.

  262. 262.

    FlipYrWhig

    November 19, 2011 at 12:45 am

    OK, I didn’t even try to follow all the links, but from what I’m gathering, y’all are being way too alternative. If the mission is ’80s TRASH, it begins and ends with…

    Van Stephenson, Modern Day Delilah.

  263. 263.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 12:46 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    What’s wrong with that song?! It wasn’t “Summer of ’69,” for God’s sake. And, no, I will not link to that. But I will do “Cuts Like a Knife.”

    Whoa, did you see the part where that totally hot chick dived into the empty swimming pool, but she came up wet, but like it still didn’t have any water in it? I was trippin’ balls, man.

    Maybe we need some John Mellen Cougarcamp to mellow us out.

  264. 264.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 19, 2011 at 12:49 am

    @FlipYrWhig: I have no idea where that came from, but I did not voluntarily listen to commercial radio in the 80s after August 1982.

  265. 265.

    suzanne

    November 19, 2011 at 12:52 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: This is my other favorite New Order. One of the best songs of the last decade, IMHO.

    @Steeplejack: Love that stupid song. And I will totally admit to belting out “Heaven” at the top of my lungs when in my car alone.

  266. 266.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 19, 2011 at 12:53 am

    @Steeplejack: Cherry Bomb is okay, but it’s not Cherry Bomb.

  267. 267.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 12:55 am

    @khead:

    Hair band, you say? Then you need some Whitesnake with added Tawny Kitaen goodness.

  268. 268.

    FlipYrWhig

    November 19, 2011 at 12:58 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: “Modern Day Delilah” was, in my memory at least, an MTV staple… during that era when every other video seemed to be by Rod Stewart. Must have been ’83. It’s like a dogpile of every cliche from the early days of music vids.

  269. 269.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 19, 2011 at 12:59 am

    @suzanne: This is #2 . Okay, Blue Monday is sui generis.

    @Steeplejack: This is cheese with which I can work.

  270. 270.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 1:00 am

    @Mnemosyne:

    Makes me think of the Romantics, “Talking in Your Sleep.”

  271. 271.

    Mnemosyne

    November 19, 2011 at 1:01 am

    @FlipYrWhig:

    Holy crap. I didn’t even know I remembered that song.

    Then I was compelled to follow the link to “On the Loose.” Someone really needed to tell that guy that he was not actually Freddy Mercury.

  272. 272.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 1:02 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Catching up on the thread. I do love “Free Nelson Mandela.” Kudos.

    Is it wrong that this makes me think of Bananarama?

  273. 273.

    FlipYrWhig

    November 19, 2011 at 1:03 am

    @Gravenstone: If it’s Germans you want, how about…

    Peter Schilling, Major Tom.

  274. 274.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 1:07 am

    @Steeplejack:

    And what is with all those English groups dressing up like 1930s street urchins?! I am medically barred from linking to “Come on, Eileen” by Dexy’s Midnight Runners, but I will refer you to “Just Got Lucky” by the JoBoxers.

  275. 275.

    Mnemosyne

    November 19, 2011 at 1:07 am

    Here’s another early MTV staple: “Temporary Beauty”

    I would post “Electric Avenue,” but MTV played that one so many times that I almost stuck red-hot knitting needles in my ears to stop the pain.

  276. 276.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 19, 2011 at 1:08 am

    @Steeplejack: I am not sure how you get there, but chacun …

    @FlipYrWhig: Don’t make me bring the Bauhaus.

  277. 277.

    FlipYrWhig

    November 19, 2011 at 1:10 am

    @Mnemosyne: That was godawful. Well played! :P

  278. 278.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 1:10 am

    @Steeplejack:

    Okay, I’m getting a little overheated. I need something like the Style Council to bring me down.

    And I always liked that cute chick from Swing Out Sister. Her name is Corinne. Great haircut!

  279. 279.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 1:11 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Maybe just came out around the same time. Maybe just in my mind. Heh.

  280. 280.

    Mnemosyne

    November 19, 2011 at 1:13 am

    Okay, an early staple that was actually good: XTC’s “Senses Working Overtime”

  281. 281.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 1:14 am

    Matt Bianco, “Whose Side Are You On?” Haven’t listened to this in ages. Isn’t the girl singer Basia?

  282. 282.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 19, 2011 at 1:14 am

    @Mnemosyne: Graham Parker is is a fucking genius. Squeezing Out Sparks is an almost perfect album. He could have recorded only that and he would deserve to be called brilliant.

  283. 283.

    FlipYrWhig

    November 19, 2011 at 1:15 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: Unprompted by any theme suggestion or notion of guilty pleasure, I was listening to Yaz’s “Don’t Go” in my office at full blast earlier today. Then it turned out to be too hard to concentrate on writing. Which I need to go back to doing now, alas…

  284. 284.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 19, 2011 at 1:16 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C2SkcC3TXc

  285. 285.

    FlipYrWhig

    November 19, 2011 at 1:16 am

    @Mnemosyne: The thing I like about that song is that Andy Partridge says “All the world is football-shaped.” And, because it’s English, I guess that just means “round.”

  286. 286.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 1:17 am

    Gotta get back to my dark divas. Pebbles, “Mercedes Boy.”

  287. 287.

    Mnemosyne

    November 19, 2011 at 1:17 am

    @Steeplejack:

    Did someone say Bananarama?

    Though this one by themis still one of my favorites.

  288. 288.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 19, 2011 at 1:19 am

    @FlipYrWhig: I love Alison’s voice. I posted “Midnight” somewhere above.

  289. 289.

    FlipYrWhig

    November 19, 2011 at 1:20 am

    @arguingwithsignposts: Best Smithereens IMHO is Only A Memory. One of the all-time great obsessive-love / break-up songs.

  290. 290.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 1:20 am

    @Steeplejack:

    Can’t forget Jody Watley. Yes, I want you, baby.

  291. 291.

    suzanne

    November 19, 2011 at 1:21 am

    Another favorite.

  292. 292.

    FlipYrWhig

    November 19, 2011 at 1:21 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: Vince Clarke is a genius. Although when I listened to a preview of the new Erasure album I thought it was, as they say, bollocks.

  293. 293.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 19, 2011 at 1:23 am

    @Mnemosyne: I had forgotten how good a sugary confection the song “Robert Deniro’s Waiting” is. Damn.

  294. 294.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 1:23 am

    @Steeplejack:

    Sheila E., “Glamorous Life.” Mrowr!

  295. 295.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 1:25 am

    @Mnemosyne:

    Definitely a classic. There’s another Fun Boy Three collaboration that is on the tip of my tongue. Driving me crazy.

  296. 296.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 19, 2011 at 1:27 am

    @Steeplejack: This one?

    @Steeplejack: Well, yeah.

  297. 297.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 1:30 am

    “Trouble Me,” 10,000 Maniacs. Think this is ’80s (just in under the wire).

  298. 298.

    Mister Papercut

    November 19, 2011 at 1:30 am

    Oh Cole, please tell me you’re not saying you think one of my favorite songs ever is “trash 80’s.” For a 26 year-old one hit wonder, it still holds up IMO.

  299. 299.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 1:34 am

    Nu Shooz, “I Can’t Wait.”

  300. 300.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 1:35 am

    How could I forget the Motels? “Only the Lonely.”

  301. 301.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 19, 2011 at 1:38 am

    Marshall Crenshaw, Mary Anne.

  302. 302.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 1:40 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Thanks for the memory jog. It was this one.

  303. 303.

    Mnemosyne

    November 19, 2011 at 1:41 am

    Okay, I wandered down an interesting rabbit hole while looking at Dave Edmunds (and Nick Lowe) covering Elvis Costello, Elvis Costello covering Nick Lowe, and Johnny Cash covering Nick Lowe.

    Apparently, Nick Lowe’s first wife was Johnny Cash’s stepdaughter (June Carter’s daughter from her first marriage) and they stayed friendly even after the divorce.

  304. 304.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 19, 2011 at 1:43 am

    Josie Cotton. And an interesting modern version by Josie.

  305. 305.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 1:44 am

    Did everybody go upstairs to Cole’s new thread? Crikey.

    Okay, this is totally ’70s–early ’70s, even–but I love this song, and I was always pissed that it never got any recognition: Dwight Twilley Band, “I’m on Fire.” 1:45:

    I remember the feeling that I could be free
    Now I know it could never, ever be me

  306. 306.

    Mnemosyne

    November 19, 2011 at 1:49 am

    I need to go to sleep soon, but would it be an 80s pop thread without Nik Kershaw?

    (Okay, it’s a crappy-looking version, but if you’re willing to sit through a goddamned commercial, this one looks much better.)

  307. 307.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 1:52 am

    Nick Lowe: I always loved “Cruel to Be Kind.”

  308. 308.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 1:53 am

    Another non-’80s song: “There Goes the Sun,” the Pernice Brothers.

  309. 309.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 1:58 am

    @Mnemosyne:

    Guys dressed as detectives! Or maybe reporters. John Waite, “Change.”

  310. 310.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 2:07 am

    A perfect ’80s video: Golden Earring, “Twilight Zone.”

  311. 311.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 19, 2011 at 2:08 am

    Lay down your arms….

  312. 312.

    Mnemosyne

    November 19, 2011 at 2:20 am

    @Steeplejack:

    Nothing can ever beat Eddie Money as Dracula.

    You think you’re hallucinating, but it really happened.

  313. 313.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 2:21 am

    Okay, I’m losing thread discipline. I pretended to hear “Marshall Tucker” instead of “Marshall Crenshaw” and went to “Heard It in a Love Song,” which is another non-’80s song. But I can’t help it. I’m getting maudlin, and it’s a great song.

    I have to stop now or I’ll be linking to Dwight Yoakam.

    Steep out with Radney Foster, “Just Call Me Lonesome.”

    Buenas noches from a lonely room.

  314. 314.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 2:23 am

    @Mnemosyne:

    Ngrr! Good one. Yeah, when I think of Old World elegance and sinister style, Eddie Money is who immediately comes to mind.

  315. 315.

    HI

    November 19, 2011 at 2:34 am

    The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades

  316. 316.

    PIGL

    November 19, 2011 at 3:15 am

    @RalfW: Saw them in New York last year. Astonishing.

  317. 317.

    PIGL

    November 19, 2011 at 3:18 am

    Nobody has mentioned Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians

    You got Heavan, from Fegmania.

  318. 318.

    PIGL

    November 19, 2011 at 3:20 am

    Or Avalon which pretty much caps it.

  319. 319.

    Jebediah

    November 19, 2011 at 3:39 am

    @Steeplejack:

    I have to stop now or I’ll be linking to Dwight Yoakam.

    Don’t know much Dwight Yoakam but I do like Blame the Vain.

    (Don’t care too much for the video but I like the song.)

  320. 320.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 4:21 am

    @Jebediah:

    I really do like Dwight Yoakam. He does a great countrified cover of Cheap Trick’s “I Want You To Want Me.”

  321. 321.

    RossInDetroit

    November 19, 2011 at 8:49 am

    It’s morning and I woke up with That Song in my head. If it’s still there after I listen to Too High to Die I won’t be responsible for what happens next…
    @Omnes Omnibus:

  322. 322.

    Spike

    November 19, 2011 at 10:58 am

    “Trash 80s”? As Col. Jessup asked regarding the phrase “grave danger”: “Is there another kind?”

  323. 323.

    Jebediah

    November 19, 2011 at 2:34 pm

    @Steeplejack:
    When I get back from my haircut I will have to listen to that…

  324. 324.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 3:00 pm

    @Jebediah:

    Just saw your comment. A couple of late additions: Yoakam covering the Beatles’ “Things We Said Today” and the Grateful Dead’s “Truckin’.”

    He seems to have a good ear for what songs mesh with his style. “Things We Said Today” is close to the edge, though.

  325. 325.

    Steeplejack

    November 19, 2011 at 3:01 pm

    @Jebediah:

    By the way, that Dead tribute album Deadicated is great, if you can find it. Might be out of print. Suzanne Vega’s “Cassidy” is my favorite.

  326. 326.

    Jebediah

    November 19, 2011 at 6:30 pm

    @Steeplejack:
    I guess I got some listenin to do! thanks!

  327. 327.

    Jebediah

    November 19, 2011 at 6:31 pm

    @RossInDetroit:

    after I listen to Too High to Die

    An all-time favorite album of mine, that one is.

  328. 328.

    Little Boots

    November 19, 2011 at 10:56 pm

    can it be doug’s fault?

    can it?

  329. 329.

    Little Boots

    November 19, 2011 at 11:02 pm

    I like when things are doug’s fault.

  330. 330.

    Little Boots

    November 19, 2011 at 11:16 pm

    speaking of doug’s fault:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puVmKfCwb4M

  331. 331.

    Little Boots

    November 19, 2011 at 11:18 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puVmKfCwb4M

    come on people,

  332. 332.

    4jkb4ia

    November 20, 2011 at 3:40 pm

    @suzanne:

    “Gonna Make You Sweat” is 1990.

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