Eurythmics are one of several bands who I didn’t care for when I was a kid and their music was new, but who I’ve learned to really appreciate as an adult.
@Cris: I liked them, but I was 18-19 at the time they hit.
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Keith G
One of the best of the 80s invasion.
One would think that it’s raining across Canada.
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Leelee fo Obama
I had the advantage of being past 30 when the Eurythmics were all over MTV, and I worked at home, so I had MTV on all day! I always thought they were fabulous, and Annie Lennox is just awesome.
I was recently killing some time and wandering through youtube, and ran across some old Pretenders and Clash tunes. The early 80s (when I was 16, of course) was the best time for music, ever. No logic, evidence, or reasoned argument can make me budge from that position, no way.
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Comrade Luke
Who the hell is TJ McCormack? Does “Fox News contributor” even mean anything?
I mean really, doesn’t that comment encapsulate everything?
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JGabriel
Still my favorite Eurythmics song, with Julia running a close second.
From the hockey thread, smudge and the bj t-shirt reax:
@WaterGirl: The answer is mixed. yes, she’s mad at me being gone again. she is not cooperating for many photos, and I haven’t pressed her for them. She’s like all models – temperamental.
But I did snap these two: that damned shirt and mad at you. The brush was the attraction, as you could tell.
@Comrade Luke: They still haven’t gotten over the Dixie Chicks? Sweet jeebus, it’s been seven years. Of course, these are the same people who still think Jane Fonda should be strung up in the town square after 40 years. So yeah.
Not as good a show as the GoGos with INXS opening.
It is odd now to think that INXS opened for anyone.
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JGabriel
@Yutsano: FYI, Pop Musik was, in fact, one of the songs I was trying to link to. The other was by The Buggles, featuring a song title that is apparently in the WP filter — no matter how badly you misspell it.
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Texpunk
I know most of you old fogeys probably hate even the idea behind mash-ups, but Annie Lennox’s fans should still check this out:
Just discovered their live concert on YouTube recently, I had no idea they were such a kick-ass live band.
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JGabriel
@Texpunk: I Go Crazy — which has no place in this thread, as it’s from 1977. Though I probably should have linked it the night we did Atrocities from the Seventies!
Don’t know why I didn’t think of it, at the time it broke the record for longest run on the Billboard Top 40, or Top 100, at 41 weeks. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he still holds that record.
The early 80s (when I was 16, of course) was the best time for music, ever. No logic, evidence, or reasoned argument can make me budge from that position, no way.
Word.
I was just a few years younger, but I still love the pop music of that time more than any other.
For those who share the new wave nostalgia, you might have noticed the waves of ’80s revivalism that have been building and breaking over the last several years.
One of the interesting newer examples is La Roux, who have topped the UK pop charts recently with music reminiscent of Eurythmics, Yazoo, etc. They’re my favorite pop discovery of 2009.
They have a young, androgynous lead singer with a very high, intense voice, and songs with killer hooks and decent lyrics. And very stylish videos:
I think WP is just trying to make an example of you. Exactly what the example is supposed to be is unfortunately beyond my ken.
Perhaps you’re right. It just ate my last submission, too, from: The Descendents.
Edited to add: Hmm, I’m detecting a theme here: song titles bad, band names ok.
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justme2
First ever concert — 1978, San Jose Civic, Peter Gabriel solo. Traded my brother’s 2-disc “Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” for the ticket. Took me about a year to pay him back (with interest) for that.
@asiangrrlMN: It gets worse. I found out one of my bosses is pregnant (yay her! number three!) and I’m having sympathy cravings. Like right now I really really want bacon. Don’t even ask me to figure that out.
The early 80s (when I was 16, of course) was the best time for music, ever.
I concur. Not sure if it was just because I was in my early teens, the prime age for getting into music in a big way.
Objectively, lots of new wave bands were breaking through because they’d jumped early into producing videos when more established record-company-favorite bands had not, and MTV was hungry for content to fill their airtime. There was a paradigm shift from radio to video, and a window of a few years when the innovative had a chance to break through before the industry dinosaurs caught up.
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Keith G
Being in the mood for a bluesy take on things, I offer this from Mick Hucknall and his band from 1986.
I am a little worried to travel to Toronto tomorrow after today’s victory by our hockey team. Maybe if I wear my sunglasses at night they will think I am one of them.
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Martin
Most of my big concerts were in Central Park starting with Elton John. One of my favorite 80s concerts was U2 in Philly when Bono had a broken arm and Bruce showed up to help out the band. Getting a free and unexpected Bruce show in Philly is a bit like having Jesus show up in Christmas mass.
But nothing beats a They Might be Giants show. I mean, if we’re gonna talk 80s music…
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Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: I am quite the bacon fanatic. My brother can’t stand to eat any kind of pork really. Kinda funny cause neither one of us actually keep kashrut worth a damn.
This goes out to FH #1: (he’ll hate me for it too!)
They really were good. I saw them a few times in Central Park, once in Sag Harbor, and a couple of other times of which I, uh, don’t remember where? They were probably the best ones. Oh, wait, also at The Bottom Line.
Ah, my wasted youth as a college DJ, and pseudo-hipster nerd-geek.
That reminds me. My guilty pleasure from down under. FH#1 fervently agrees! She’s as cute as a button.
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MattR
@JGabriel: In a further attempt to appease our neighbors to the north, here is some late 80’s Rush with Aimee Mann on background vocals.
@inkadu: I don’t see a link, but I am guessing you are talking about Jake Shimabukuro. If so, he is absolutely amazing.
@JGabriel: I am pretty sure They Might Be Giants still play weekly in New York City.
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Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: I dunno. He might think me uncreative or something. I did sort of look for other possibilities but yeah that video makes me giggle to no end.
Oh and just because we never thought we’d make it to 2010 in the 80’s:
@MattR: So, I’m assuming that the US won today? You’re cracking me up.
P.S. I am watching the Olympics on DVR and just saw the end of the US/Canada game. Where’s my foam finger?
U-S-A! U-S-A!
@Yutsano: I linked that the other day as a weightless song. I was thinking of balloons, not of the message–as someone aptly pointed out was not light at all.
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MattR
@asiangrrlMN: Yep. The US won. Can you still see that comment? I edited it and I think it ended up in moderation.
Know why Canada lost tonight, not enough Rush songs during stoppages.
(I miss Tempest, great video game).
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Comrade Luke
NBC just broke into tape-delayed coverage of bobsledding – in the middle of a run! – to show the last 30sec and post-game analysis of a hockey game I watched live three hours ago on MSNBC. Then they came back to tell me they’re moving the bobsledding coverage to later so they can show me live ice dancing.
This is the worst coverage I’ve ever seen.
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Martin
@Comrade Luke: Yeah, this is pretty horrible. They couldn’t have edited that out from the live east coast feed?
@MattR: Nope. No can see it any more. You fix! J/K.
@Comrade Luke: No kidding! I was like, WTF? And then fast-forwarded through all the ice dancing. Granted, I’m watching it on DVR, but still.
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MattR
@Comrade Luke: Is it live ice dancing or live three hours ago ice dancing?
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MattR
@asiangrrlMN: It’s too late to edit. FYWP. Is there a limit to the number of links you can have? I can’t think what else tripped it in the bit I tried to add.
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Martin
@MattR: Live 3 hours ago, just as the skiing was live 3 hours ago when we saw who won the gold. And now the post hockey game commentary that we also saw 3 hours ago.
“Back to you, Bob”
Fuck you NBC.
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Yutsano
@mcd410x: I shit you not, first game I bought for my phone was Tetris. I play it every single night before going to sleep. I think I might need therapy over it.
@MattR: Two links, three comments directed in reply to someone else. One link, two comments directed in reply at someone. Yes, I know moderation very well.
I gotta say, I am fascinated by biathlon. I have no idea why as I am not a shooting aficionado, but something about the volatility of the shooting is riveting.
I hate Al Trautwig, though. it’s H-uge, Al, not Uge.
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JGabriel
More 80’s Classics:
Nona Hendryx – Design for Living (Yeah, that’s Laurie Anderson on violin, also: Gina Shock from The Go-Go’s on drums, Tina Weymouth on bass, Nancy Wilson from Heart on guitar, and Valerie Simpson from Ashford & Simpson and former bandmate Patti LaBelle on backup vocals.)
@asiangrrlMN: If the fact that Geena Davis is an Olympian in biathlon (yes she competed) doesn’t impress you, nothing in this universe will.
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Comrade Luke
@MattR: The ice dancing was live three hours ago I think. The skiing was from many hours ago, hence the sun :)
Here’s my theory as to why this is so fucked up.
First of all, NBC has admitted that they’re going to lose “several hundred million” dollars no matter what happens because that asshat Ebersol grossly overpaid for broadcast rights.
No matter what they say, NBC would delay the east coast feed if they could. But they can’t delay the east coast feed because if they did east coasters wouldn’t get results until after midnight in many cases.
So they delay the west coast feed so they can cut it up and add more commercials. They give us play, replay, commercial, commercial, commercial, play, replay, commercial, commercial, commercial. And then they cut down the actual events down to not only the events that the US medals in (like always), but to only the runs of the actual medal winners plus other US competitors.
They’re using the west coast to try and scrape up a few extra advertising dollars by basically fucking us over.
@MattR: More snow, please? Night. Wishing you safe travels.
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MattR
@Comrade Luke: I fel your pain. I am pissed about them not showing live coverage of alpine skiing and a couple other things. I would be livid if I was on the west coast.
And since it is almost 2 am here on the east coast and I have to be up early for my flight to the Great White North, I should probably go to bed.
Anyone need anything from Toronto? I already have a shopping list from various relatives for foods (and Olympic mittens) only available in Canada. And I just realized I did not account for that at all when packing my suitcase. Repacking on Thursday may be interesting.
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Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Funny, her Wiki says archery but I know I read biathlon somewhere. Oh well, it’s not like I’ve never been wrong before.
@asiangrrlMN: Thanks. I was reading earlier that Toronto was having an unusual lack of snow this year. And of course that they are expecting their first significant accumulation tomorrow evening/night.
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Yutsano
@MattR: I know what you can get me. You asleep. Something tells me you’re not a happy traveler tired.
@asiangrrlMN: At least it’s you and not the Dawg. He’d be rubbing it in for about oh a couple hours or so.
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MattR
@Yutsano: Had to walk the dog before bed. I actually travel very well and am usually asleep shortly after the engines/propellars start up. My problem is actually waking up to get to the kennel and airport. But that is why I am digging out the extra alarm clock :) Good night all (for real this time)
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Yutsano
@MattR: I have to watch take-off (which I love) then the break through the cloud line. By the 10,000 foot bell I’m either ready to sleep or indulge myself in whatever entertainment is available. As long as you know how you travel and you know you’ll be all right.
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NineJean
@Texpunk:
“I know most of you old fogeys probably hate even the idea behind mash-ups…”
Probably being older than most of y’all… but I actually watched this, and saw about forty years of my life flash by. Have to think about that.
Love Annie. [And working on how to actually do quotes. Old, and all that, dontcha know…]
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JGabriel
And let’s not forget the 80’s contributions from the Irish:
When I was 12, in 1994, this song was a top 40 hit, and I fell in love for the first time. This is a song that takes me back to retarded innocent times every single time. This, the Gin Blossoms’ Til I Fall Away, and Jon Secada. I’m SO glad I grew up.
@asiangrrlMN: Ha! Not in a million. Jon is still out there making some good music and just having fun. Broke my heart when he finally got married though. Oh well.
I even tested the bloody thing. I about damn gave up. I was trying to avoid Andy being a major fruit before the song started but the other one I found won’t cooperate.
@asiangrrlMN: Not my first love mind you. But definitely a relationship that changed a lot of things for me.
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JGabriel
Yutsano @ 108: Still no joy. Maybe someone just blocked it in the past few minutes? Very weird – I mean, I can tell the link is properly formatted, but youtube takes it and converts it to the home page. What song is it? Got it now.
Anyway, here’s some more, probably forgotten, 80’s tunes, if anyone’s still listening:
Annie Lennox is one of the great unappreciated talents and I think the reason why is touched on by some above, that she could come off as weird. Compare her career to Madonna, who roughly became a hit at the same time (and is someone it doesn’t look like anyone mentioned in this thread). IMO Madonna is a talentless PR creation but yet she is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Annie could sing circles around her and the best of Annie’s is head and shoulders better then Madonna’s, but because Madonna was considered sexy or something everyone knows about her.
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Xenos
@Napoleon: Annie is indeed sexy, but in a more adult way than your typical pop princess. Most teenagers are attracted to lighter fare.
Chrissie Hynde was thrilling, if a bit terrifying. Someone just dug the original Tattooed Love Boys video out of the vault, and while the video is a bit dated the full glory of the music is preserved.
Can’t find a decent live version of The Wait, unfortunately.
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master c
Check out WOXY vintage internet radio….prompted me to
email friends from 30 years ago…to say “Up the Neck”
is still bad to the bone. Dont hear that on Jack FM.
Annie is great too
@Napoleon: Baloney. Madonna is an incredible performer who had the good luck of having just the right skill set for the age of video.
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master c
prefab sprout!!!!!!!!
Loved them…..saw that a 25 year old “steve mcqueen” or “two wheels good” depending on whether it was the import, was released.
I still listen to some of those songs.
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Joel
Not for nothing, but 1989 was the greatest year in hip-hop history:
De La Soul, “Three Feet High and Rising”
Beastie Boys, “Paul’s Boutique”
3rd Bass, “The Cactus Album”
Public Enemy, “Fear of a Black Planet”
Also, Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie, Jungle Brothers, etc…
Heck, if it hadn’t been for Lou Reed, there might not have been an ’80s.
Truth be told, the whole ’80s pop rock enterprise is largely an effort to repeal the late ’60s and ’70s in a way that still sounds on the surface like a step forward (which may be where the “irony” comes from, or else this was supposedly the best way to express ironically the situation at the time, or something)–the only difference between that and cultural Reaganism is that cultural Reaganism just wants to go further backward. New sound, old music.
Two thought experiments:
What might the ’80s have sounded like if they’d sprung from classic rock? (Mr. Mister, maybe? Van Halen? And the guys in the Police all had ’70s-rock histories; Andy Summers was a member of Soft Machine for a year or so back in 1967.)
If punk and new wave were really necessary, what might’ve happened in the ’70s to make them unnecessary?
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Yutsano
I SMELL 80’S MUSIC THREAD!!
Cris
Eurythmics are one of several bands who I didn’t care for when I was a kid and their music was new, but who I’ve learned to really appreciate as an adult.
Kobie
@Cris: Agreed. When I was a kid I just thought they were weird.
demkat620
Annie Lennox is a god.
That is all.
Omnes Omnibus
@Cris: I liked them, but I was 18-19 at the time they hit.
Keith G
One of the best of the 80s invasion.
One would think that it’s raining across Canada.
Leelee fo Obama
I had the advantage of being past 30 when the Eurythmics were all over MTV, and I worked at home, so I had MTV on all day! I always thought they were fabulous, and Annie Lennox is just awesome.
Omnes Omnibus
@Keith G: I saw what you did there.
Xenos
I was recently killing some time and wandering through youtube, and ran across some old Pretenders and Clash tunes. The early 80s (when I was 16, of course) was the best time for music, ever. No logic, evidence, or reasoned argument can make me budge from that position, no way.
Comrade Luke
Who the hell is TJ McCormack? Does “Fox News contributor” even mean anything?
I mean really, doesn’t that comment encapsulate everything?
JGabriel
Still my favorite Eurythmics song, with Julia running a close second.
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mcc
Did someone say 80s music thread
JGabriel
Yutsano:
The 80’s. It was the end of an era. It was the end of pop musik. New York, London, Paris, Munich, video killed the radio star.
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arguingwithsignposts
From the hockey thread, smudge and the bj t-shirt reax:
@WaterGirl: The answer is mixed. yes, she’s mad at me being gone again. she is not cooperating for many photos, and I haven’t pressed her for them. She’s like all models – temperamental.
But I did snap these two: that damned shirt and mad at you. The brush was the attraction, as you could tell.
JGabriel
The Eighties. It was the end of era. It was the end of pop muzik. New York, London, Paris, Munich, video killed the radio star.
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JGabriel
Pop Musik.
Video Killed the Radio Star.
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Kobie
@Comrade Luke: They still haven’t gotten over the Dixie Chicks? Sweet jeebus, it’s been seven years. Of course, these are the same people who still think Jane Fonda should be strung up in the town square after 40 years. So yeah.
Kobie
@JGabriel: HI
JGabriel
The Eighties. It was the end of an era. It was the end of PopMusik. New York, London, Paris, Munich, video killed the radio star.
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JGabriel
Jesus H. Christ, I keep getting marked as spam. Either Pop Music or:
JGabriel
video killed the radio star.
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JGabriel
video killed the radio star
Yutsano
@JGabriel: As long as you’re not gonna break the Ballon Juice. That would make me haz a sad.
Oh and you brought this upon yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJ27TgBvJE
MikeJ
@Omnes Omnibus:
I saw them live. With Howard Jones opening.
Not as good a show as the GoGos with INXS opening.
JGabriel
@Yutsano:
Ballon Juice is breaking my spirit! Okay, here’s what I was trying to post, with misspellings to avoid the spam filter:
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JGabriel
The Eighties. It was the end of an era. It was the end of pop muzik. New York, London, Paris, Munich, videe-o killd the radee-o star.
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JGabriel
The Eighties. It was the end of an era. It was the end of pop muzik. New York, London, Paris, Munich, videe-o killd the radee-o staar.
JGabriel
Forget it! I fucking give up!
FUCK YOU WORD PRESS!
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JGabriel
Great, now my monday is gonna be frickin’ blue.
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Yutsano
@JGabriel:
That’s the spirit lad!
JGabriel
Kobie: Hi, Kobie. Sorry the post you responded to is gone.
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Omnes Omnibus
@MikeJ:
It is odd now to think that INXS opened for anyone.
JGabriel
@Yutsano: FYI, Pop Musik was, in fact, one of the songs I was trying to link to. The other was by The Buggles, featuring a song title that is apparently in the WP filter — no matter how badly you misspell it.
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Texpunk
I know most of you old fogeys probably hate even the idea behind mash-ups, but Annie Lennox’s fans should still check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akE0VnS6N88
Yutsano
@JGabriel: I think WP is just trying to make an example of you. Exactly what the example is supposed to be is unfortunately beyond my ken.
Omnes Omnibus
@Yutsano:
More or less the example made with Job.
Joel
Greetings, girl and welcome to my world of phrase…
freelancer
@Yutsano:
Not just him, WP ate my submission.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOA4ixV-3jU
Everybody wants to Rule the World
Texpunk
My First Real Stadium Concert:
Thompson Twins w/ INXS opening
at the Colosseum, Houston Tx – 1982? maybe.
(my earlier “Paul Davis” concert shouldn’t be held against me!
I was 16 for God’s sakes)
Bonus points to anyone who can name Paul Davis’s big hit.
JGabriel
I don’t wanna grow up!
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Omnes Omnibus
@Texpunk: I Go Crazy?
Mike G
The quintessential 80s song —
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JsKlZaYNnM
Just discovered their live concert on YouTube recently, I had no idea they were such a kick-ass live band.
JGabriel
@Texpunk: I Go Crazy — which has no place in this thread, as it’s from 1977. Though I probably should have linked it the night we did Atrocities from the Seventies!
Don’t know why I didn’t think of it, at the time it broke the record for longest run on the Billboard Top 40, or Top 100, at 41 weeks. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he still holds that record.
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Keith G
@Omnes Omnibus:
Spring ’83 at the now gone Houston Coliseum, INXS openned for….wait….
Adam Ant.
We were all like, “Who are these guys? They rock!”
MaximusNYC
@Xenos:
Word.
I was just a few years younger, but I still love the pop music of that time more than any other.
For those who share the new wave nostalgia, you might have noticed the waves of ’80s revivalism that have been building and breaking over the last several years.
One of the interesting newer examples is La Roux, who have topped the UK pop charts recently with music reminiscent of Eurythmics, Yazoo, etc. They’re my favorite pop discovery of 2009.
They have a young, androgynous lead singer with a very high, intense voice, and songs with killer hooks and decent lyrics. And very stylish videos:
In For The Kill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXtATeQ7GKg&feature=fvst
Bulletproof
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk8eJh4i8Lo&feature=channel
Quicksand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kErEUhlPoMU&feature=channel
MikeJ
When I was 15 I was still sneaking into clubs, not even daring to have a beer for fear I might get caught and thrown out of shows like this.
And my first stadium concert was probably The Police, either Ghost in the Machine or Synchronicity, I forget which tour.
JGabriel
Yutsano:
Perhaps you’re right. It just ate my last submission, too, from: The Descendents.
Edited to add: Hmm, I’m detecting a theme here: song titles bad, band names ok.
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justme2
First ever concert — 1978, San Jose Civic, Peter Gabriel solo. Traded my brother’s 2-disc “Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” for the ticket. Took me about a year to pay him back (with interest) for that.
asiangrrlMN
I am another who thought the Eurythmics were odd in the 80s and came to appreciate them later.
@Yutsano: Fucking love this song.
And, no 80s thread is complete without Duran Duran.
Texpunk
@JGabriel
Okay. What about his big hits:
“65 Love Affair” and “Cool Night”
They’re pretty Eighties: In a Journey/Hall&Oates kinda way.
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@KeithG
Maybe it *was* Adam Ant, i saw w/ INXS ???
Who opened for the Thompson Twins, then?
:sigh:
Oh, the memory is really going.
asiangrrlMN
@Keith G: Oddly enough, I’ve been grooving to this Adam Ant song lately. I think it fits me to a T.
JGabriel
Hush hush, keep it down now…
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Omnes Omnibus
@asiangrrlMN: And I expected “Desperate, but not Serious.”
Mike in NC
Poor Adam Ant. Another one hit wonder.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike in NC: Not remotely.
asiangrrlMN
@Omnes Omnibus: Ha! That would be a good one, too.
@Mike in NC: Not at all! He did Stand and Deliver and this one, too–which is my favorite of his, actually.
freelancer
@asiangrrlMN:
Or Depeche Mode
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diT3FvDHMyo
JGabriel
Do we have to wait till Tuesday to get some Aimee Mann around here? Anyone remember when she was dating Jules Shear?
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inkadu
Here’s Bowie and Lennox covering a Vanilla Ice tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xokHofcS3ik&feature=related
Heh.
KRK
My first concert ever: Eurythmics at Bumbershoot Festival 1984. Also the first time I smelled pot.
asiangrrlMN
@freelancer: Here is one of my favorite Depeche Mode songs.
And, a new song by them that I absolutely love (great vid, too. h/t TattooSydney).
inkadu
And here’s my favorite 80’s tune, as done by a three-year-old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmWOlm6Yo08
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Bah. I’m home now and I got nothin’. Maybe it’ll hit me in a few.
asiangrrlMN
@inkadu: Ha! Good one.
@JGabriel: I absolutely love this song.
Man, I really dig me some 80s music.
@Yutsano: You got nothing? You got a big heart and a warm smile!
JGabriel
Nor is an 80’s thread complete without:
Husker Du
or
The Replacements
or
Mission of Burma
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Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: It gets worse. I found out one of my bosses is pregnant (yay her! number three!) and I’m having sympathy cravings. Like right now I really really want bacon. Don’t even ask me to figure that out.
@JGabriel: Okay ya done inspired me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnqj31VPNoE
Mike G
I concur. Not sure if it was just because I was in my early teens, the prime age for getting into music in a big way.
Objectively, lots of new wave bands were breaking through because they’d jumped early into producing videos when more established record-company-favorite bands had not, and MTV was hungry for content to fill their airtime. There was a paradigm shift from radio to video, and a window of a few years when the innovative had a chance to break through before the industry dinosaurs caught up.
Keith G
Being in the mood for a bluesy take on things, I offer this from Mick Hucknall and his band from 1986.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG07WSu7Q9w&feature=related
freelancer
@asiangrrlMN:
as far as their new stuff, I’m partial to Dream On and the newer Corrupt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dgrMSTalZ0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuAwVCZUOWg
asiangrrlMN
@JGabriel: The Replacements never got their just due, sad to say. Great local band. You are rolling out the primo music!
@Yutsano: That’s so funny! Do you eat pig?
MattR
I am a little worried to travel to Toronto tomorrow after today’s victory by our hockey team. Maybe if I wear my sunglasses at night they will think I am one of them.
Martin
Most of my big concerts were in Central Park starting with Elton John. One of my favorite 80s concerts was U2 in Philly when Bono had a broken arm and Bruce showed up to help out the band. Getting a free and unexpected Bruce show in Philly is a bit like having Jesus show up in Christmas mass.
But nothing beats a They Might be Giants show. I mean, if we’re gonna talk 80s music…
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: I am quite the bacon fanatic. My brother can’t stand to eat any kind of pork really. Kinda funny cause neither one of us actually keep kashrut worth a damn.
This goes out to FH #1: (he’ll hate me for it too!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNT7uZf7lew
JGabriel
And an 80’s thread should never forget:
R.E.M.
or
Robyn Hitchcock (That’s two links!)
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inkadu
If you play fingerstyle guitar, here’s a good reason to stop. Cover of Billie Jean by what looks like a twelve year old kid.
JGabriel
Martin @ 62:
Don’t let’s start…
They really were good. I saw them a few times in Central Park, once in Sag Harbor, and a couple of other times of which I, uh, don’t remember where? They were probably the best ones. Oh, wait, also at The Bottom Line.
Ah, my wasted youth as a college DJ, and pseudo-hipster nerd-geek.
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asiangrrlMN
@freelancer: Those are marvelous! Thanks for the links.
@Yutsano: No he won’t. Men at Work Rocks.
That reminds me. My guilty pleasure from down under. FH#1 fervently agrees! She’s as cute as a button.
MattR
@JGabriel: In a further attempt to appease our neighbors to the north, here is some late 80’s Rush with Aimee Mann on background vocals.
@inkadu: I don’t see a link, but I am guessing you are talking about Jake Shimabukuro. If so, he is absolutely amazing.
@JGabriel: I am pretty sure They Might Be Giants still play weekly in New York City.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: I dunno. He might think me uncreative or something. I did sort of look for other possibilities but yeah that video makes me giggle to no end.
Oh and just because we never thought we’d make it to 2010 in the 80’s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9whehyybLqU
inkadu
@inkadu:
Urgh. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgVqX0a49HM
asiangrrlMN
@MattR: So, I’m assuming that the US won today? You’re cracking me up.
P.S. I am watching the Olympics on DVR and just saw the end of the US/Canada game. Where’s my foam finger?
U-S-A! U-S-A!
@Yutsano: I linked that the other day as a weightless song. I was thinking of balloons, not of the message–as someone aptly pointed out was not light at all.
MattR
@asiangrrlMN: Yep. The US won. Can you still see that comment? I edited it and I think it ended up in moderation.
@inkadu: So not Jake Shimabukuro (who plays the ukelele and not the guitar)?
mcd410x
Know why Canada lost tonight, not enough Rush songs during stoppages.
(I miss Tempest, great video game).
Comrade Luke
NBC just broke into tape-delayed coverage of bobsledding – in the middle of a run! – to show the last 30sec and post-game analysis of a hockey game I watched live three hours ago on MSNBC. Then they came back to tell me they’re moving the bobsledding coverage to later so they can show me live ice dancing.
This is the worst coverage I’ve ever seen.
Martin
@Comrade Luke: Yeah, this is pretty horrible. They couldn’t have edited that out from the live east coast feed?
asiangrrlMN
@MattR: Nope. No can see it any more. You fix! J/K.
@Comrade Luke: No kidding! I was like, WTF? And then fast-forwarded through all the ice dancing. Granted, I’m watching it on DVR, but still.
MattR
@Comrade Luke: Is it live ice dancing or live three hours ago ice dancing?
MattR
@asiangrrlMN: It’s too late to edit. FYWP. Is there a limit to the number of links you can have? I can’t think what else tripped it in the bit I tried to add.
Martin
@MattR: Live 3 hours ago, just as the skiing was live 3 hours ago when we saw who won the gold. And now the post hockey game commentary that we also saw 3 hours ago.
“Back to you, Bob”
Fuck you NBC.
Yutsano
@mcd410x: I shit you not, first game I bought for my phone was Tetris. I play it every single night before going to sleep. I think I might need therapy over it.
Martin
@MattR: Yes, it’s 3, I think. Something smallish.
freelancer
@Comrade Luke:
No kidding, their coverage from Beijing was SO much better. How do they fuck this up so much?
asiangrrlMN
@MattR: Two links, three comments directed in reply to someone else. One link, two comments directed in reply at someone. Yes, I know moderation very well.
Cyndi Lauper, bitchez.
MattR
Martin: Well that would have done it. I tried to respond to three posts and added a link. I did not think the acronym TMBG was the trigger.
Since this part of the comment does me no good in moderation, I guess I have to repost it.
In a further attempt to appease our neighbors to the north, here is some late 80’s Rush with Aimee Mann on background vocals. @
MattR
@asiangrrlMN: Thanks for the info. Here is Jake Shimabukuro covering Time after Time
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: This. No further comment given.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPn0KFlbqX8
asiangrrlMN
I gotta say, I am fascinated by biathlon. I have no idea why as I am not a shooting aficionado, but something about the volatility of the shooting is riveting.
I hate Al Trautwig, though. it’s H-uge, Al, not Uge.
JGabriel
More 80’s Classics:
Nona Hendryx – Design for Living (Yeah, that’s Laurie Anderson on violin, also: Gina Shock from The Go-Go’s on drums, Tina Weymouth on bass, Nancy Wilson from Heart on guitar, and Valerie Simpson from Ashford & Simpson and former bandmate Patti LaBelle on backup vocals.)
Rickie Lee Jones – A Lucky Guy
Richard & Linda Thompson – It’s Just The Motion
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Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: If the fact that Geena Davis is an Olympian in biathlon (yes she competed) doesn’t impress you, nothing in this universe will.
Comrade Luke
@MattR: The ice dancing was live three hours ago I think. The skiing was from many hours ago, hence the sun :)
Here’s my theory as to why this is so fucked up.
First of all, NBC has admitted that they’re going to lose “several hundred million” dollars no matter what happens because that asshat Ebersol grossly overpaid for broadcast rights.
No matter what they say, NBC would delay the east coast feed if they could. But they can’t delay the east coast feed because if they did east coasters wouldn’t get results until after midnight in many cases.
So they delay the west coast feed so they can cut it up and add more commercials. They give us play, replay, commercial, commercial, commercial, play, replay, commercial, commercial, commercial. And then they cut down the actual events down to not only the events that the US medals in (like always), but to only the runs of the actual medal winners plus other US competitors.
They’re using the west coast to try and scrape up a few extra advertising dollars by basically fucking us over.
It’s a disgrace.
asiangrrlMN
@MattR: I like him. He’s gooood. And, he’s easy on the eyes.
@Yutsano: Cyndi’s version of a Prince song.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Seriously? Awesome! I dig her, anyway.
@JGabriel: You are bringing it hardcore!
@MattR: More snow, please? Night. Wishing you safe travels.
MattR
@Comrade Luke: I fel your pain. I am pissed about them not showing live coverage of alpine skiing and a couple other things. I would be livid if I was on the west coast.
And since it is almost 2 am here on the east coast and I have to be up early for my flight to the Great White North, I should probably go to bed.
Anyone need anything from Toronto? I already have a shopping list from various relatives for foods (and Olympic mittens) only available in Canada. And I just realized I did not account for that at all when packing my suitcase. Repacking on Thursday may be interesting.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Funny, her Wiki says archery but I know I read biathlon somewhere. Oh well, it’s not like I’ve never been wrong before.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Gasp. You’re wrong? Say it isn’t so. And, it’s archery.
@MattR: Grumble grumble grumble.
MattR
@asiangrrlMN: Thanks. I was reading earlier that Toronto was having an unusual lack of snow this year. And of course that they are expecting their first significant accumulation tomorrow evening/night.
Yutsano
@MattR: I know what you can get me. You asleep. Something tells me you’re not a happy traveler tired.
@asiangrrlMN: At least it’s you and not the Dawg. He’d be rubbing it in for about oh a couple hours or so.
MattR
@Yutsano: Had to walk the dog before bed. I actually travel very well and am usually asleep shortly after the engines/propellars start up. My problem is actually waking up to get to the kennel and airport. But that is why I am digging out the extra alarm clock :) Good night all (for real this time)
Yutsano
@MattR: I have to watch take-off (which I love) then the break through the cloud line. By the 10,000 foot bell I’m either ready to sleep or indulge myself in whatever entertainment is available. As long as you know how you travel and you know you’ll be all right.
NineJean
@Texpunk:
“I know most of you old fogeys probably hate even the idea behind mash-ups…”
Probably being older than most of y’all… but I actually watched this, and saw about forty years of my life flash by. Have to think about that.
Love Annie. [And working on how to actually do quotes. Old, and all that, dontcha know…]
JGabriel
And let’s not forget the 80’s contributions from the Irish:
Sinead O’Connor – Her0ine (First single, back when she still had hair.)
The Pogues – Body of an American
U2 – Bad (Live)
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Yutsano
Don’t judge me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSMeUPFjQHc
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: LOVE Erasure, so no judgment here.
Now, don’t judge me!
JGabriel
Yutsano @ 100: Speaking of Vince Clarke, remember this one-shot he did with Feargal Sharkey from The Undertones:
The AssembIy – Never Never
Also, we’ve forgotten:
The Smiths – ReeI Around The Fountain
and
Elvis Costello – UncompIicated (It’s In Your Eyes)
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freelancer
@Yutsano:
@asiangrrlMN:
When I was 12, in 1994, this song was a top 40 hit, and I fell in love for the first time. This is a song that takes me back to retarded innocent times every single time. This, the Gin Blossoms’ Til I Fall Away, and Jon Secada. I’m SO glad I grew up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggrZMe86i0
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Ha! Not in a million. Jon is still out there making some good music and just having fun. Broke my heart when he finally got married though. Oh well.
Oh BTW I fell in love to this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHvU79x9w5Q&feature=related
@freelancer: Dear God you’re a pup yet. :)
freelancer
@freelancer:
for further edification.
JGabriel
@Yutsano: Link’s not working.
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JGabriel
@asiangrrlMN: I am sorry, I cannot follow you there. I just cannot. I must draw the line somewhere, and hair metal it is.
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Yutsano
@JGabriel: Oh bother. Hang on a moment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYgc57rW0xA&feature=PlayList&p=3E393F130D3CD47F&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=19
I even tested the bloody thing. I about damn gave up. I was trying to avoid Andy being a major fruit before the song started but the other one I found won’t cooperate.
asiangrrlMN
@JGabriel: Sniff sniff sniff.
@freelancer: Holy shit. You just made me feel olllllld.
@Yutsano: Where’s my damn lighter so I can wave it in the air?
And, I cannot tell you the song to which I first fell in love. Girl’s gotta have some secrets.
Yutsano
@JGabriel: You are just bringing out all my naughty tendencies tonight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlN3oEjMpUQ
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Not my first love mind you. But definitely a relationship that changed a lot of things for me.
JGabriel
Yutsano @ 108:
Still no joy. Maybe someone just blocked it in the past few minutes? Very weird – I mean, I can tell the link is properly formatted, but youtube takes it and converts it to the home page. What song is it?Got it now.Anyway, here’s some more, probably forgotten, 80’s tunes, if anyone’s still listening:
Prefab Sprout – Bonny. From Steve McQueen, aka Two Wheels Good.
Aztec Camera – Jump, Van Halen Cover. Killing two 80’s birds with one stone.
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions – Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken? Not even the government are gonna stop you now! Are you ready to bleed?
Kind of reminds me of pulling a late night at the college radio station, back in the day …
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freelancer
@asiangrrlMN:
Sorry, hon. What can I say, I’m precocious.
asiangrrlMN
@JGabriel: I cannot resist. Forgive me.
And, I love this 80s song.
Yutsano
@JGabriel: How bizarre. That link goes right to it for me. Huh. Worked for wifey too. I don’t get it. It’s “Rock Me Gently” by Erasure.
Heh. The Aztec Camera one sounds like Van Halen on Halcyon.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Still not telling.
@JGabriel: Holy shit. I don’t know any of these.
@freelancer: No fucking kidding!
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: It’s cool. I’m patient. :)
I think my wall is coming up fast. I’ll give it a few more minutes though.
JGabriel
80’s Synthpop for Yutsano: Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy
Hair Metal for AG & Y (Skip to the 1:55 mark for the song.)
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asiangrrlMN
I will say, I’ve had awesome sex to this song by Prince.
Pat Benatar.
JGabrielI like Bonny. I haven’t listened to the others yet.
asiangrrlMN
@JGabriel: Love Twisted Sister!
@Yutsano: Yes, you are. Night, babe.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Isn’t the whole point of any song by Prince sex? Just sayin’.
And on that note, I’m gone.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Yes! Night!
freelancer
@asiangrrlMN:
Who doesn’t?
ETA: Fitting with the Neidermeyer! Dead! theme of the last thread!
asiangrrlMN
@freelancer: OK, this is definitely not 80s music! I like it, though.
Don’t judge me!
And I’m out. Night, bitchez!
JGabriel
Just me left?
Sigh.
The Jazz Butcher – Angels
Cowboy Junkies – Sweet Jane
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JGabriel
Fine, I’m outta here too then. And what better way to close off the 80’s but with a trio from the 90’s, from Yo La Tengo:
From A Motel 6
Blue Line Swinger
I Heard You Looking
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Napoleon
Annie Lennox is one of the great unappreciated talents and I think the reason why is touched on by some above, that she could come off as weird. Compare her career to Madonna, who roughly became a hit at the same time (and is someone it doesn’t look like anyone mentioned in this thread). IMO Madonna is a talentless PR creation but yet she is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Annie could sing circles around her and the best of Annie’s is head and shoulders better then Madonna’s, but because Madonna was considered sexy or something everyone knows about her.
Xenos
@Napoleon: Annie is indeed sexy, but in a more adult way than your typical pop princess. Most teenagers are attracted to lighter fare.
Chrissie Hynde was thrilling, if a bit terrifying. Someone just dug the original Tattooed Love Boys video out of the vault, and while the video is a bit dated the full glory of the music is preserved.
Can’t find a decent live version of The Wait, unfortunately.
master c
Check out WOXY vintage internet radio….prompted me to
email friends from 30 years ago…to say “Up the Neck”
is still bad to the bone. Dont hear that on Jack FM.
Annie is great too
JGabriel
Buzzcocks – I Believe – Technically ’79, but not released in the US until ’80.
Best listened to LOUD.
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Tim F.
@Napoleon: Baloney. Madonna is an incredible performer who had the good luck of having just the right skill set for the age of video.
master c
prefab sprout!!!!!!!!
Loved them…..saw that a 25 year old “steve mcqueen” or “two wheels good” depending on whether it was the import, was released.
I still listen to some of those songs.
Joel
Not for nothing, but 1989 was the greatest year in hip-hop history:
De La Soul, “Three Feet High and Rising”
Beastie Boys, “Paul’s Boutique”
3rd Bass, “The Cactus Album”
Public Enemy, “Fear of a Black Planet”
Also, Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie, Jungle Brothers, etc…
jake the snake
Teh ’80’s sucked.
Here’s something worth listening to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiVUqwXAXx0
Panurge
Heck, if it hadn’t been for Lou Reed, there might not have been an ’80s.
Truth be told, the whole ’80s pop rock enterprise is largely an effort to repeal the late ’60s and ’70s in a way that still sounds on the surface like a step forward (which may be where the “irony” comes from, or else this was supposedly the best way to express ironically the situation at the time, or something)–the only difference between that and cultural Reaganism is that cultural Reaganism just wants to go further backward. New sound, old music.
Two thought experiments:
What might the ’80s have sounded like if they’d sprung from classic rock? (Mr. Mister, maybe? Van Halen? And the guys in the Police all had ’70s-rock histories; Andy Summers was a member of Soft Machine for a year or so back in 1967.)
If punk and new wave were really necessary, what might’ve happened in the ’70s to make them unnecessary?