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So I was waiting for my order at Burger King and Hall & Oates' Out of Touch came over the PA system. Made me smile. Can't say it was a big favorite but I liked it well enough, and I remember when it came out/seeing the video.
It's one I know I hear less frequently than its comtemporaries - and I listen to 80s stations sometimes, and certainly check out 80s CD compilations. It was a big hit - two weeks at number one, and ranked the #13 song for 1984 (between Owner of a Lonely Heart and Time After Time) per the Billboard Hot 100.
(But that's the nature of things, I guess. I get K-Tel records with hits or semi-hits that may very well have been the hottest thing at the time they were pressed - the 70s, of course - but were completely unfamiliar to me.)
Well, anyway...BIG BAM BOOM!
So, you guys hear any semi-long-lost stuff lately?
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m-e-t-h-o-d o-f l-o-v-e, that's the method to modern love .... totally !
I'm listening to an '80's music internet radio station as I type:
"I can't understand, what makes a man, hate another man ..."
I'm such a child of the '80s it's not funny -- I watch VH1's "I Love the 80's" almost whenever it's on.
I think '80s pop/new wave is just about the happiest music I can think of -- "Take On Me", "Time After Time", "Life in One Day", "Heart Break Beat" -- it's all good, baby!
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Private Eye by Hall and Oates and Physical by Olivia Newton John. I, too, am a child of 80's music.
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While I was at the store impulse-buying the pudding, the non-Muzak system played Elton John's Nikita. A little dated (lyrically at least) now. And remember the video? Elton wanted the wall to come down so he could show the hot border guard the joys of democracy, chiefly bowling.
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quote:Originally posted by MLLASH: SOMEDAY by Glass Tiger
Someday You'll be shedding your tears And you'll cry over me
I loved Glass Tiger. The lead singer was a cutie I loved "Don't Forget Me When I'm Gone"
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quote:Originally posted by MLLASH: I too had a BIG ol' crush on the Glass Tiger lead singer!
Yeah... that was back in the old days, when I would buy a cassette if I thought the band was cute. Goodness knows I would NEVER do that nowadays
Well, almost never
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This happened two years ago, but it touches on some things I've mentioned in other 80s music threads.
So I was out & about, thriftshopping and wandering around. It was raining & I was a little hungry. I saw a signboard outside a cafe advertising hot chocolate. That appealed; I went in. (The place was called Saints & Scholars and it's a good thing they didn't check credentials as I fail to qualify either way.) So while I was swilling my cocoa & having a bite to eat, Rebbie Jackson's Centipede came over the stereo system. It had been...15 years maybe? since I'd heard it. You could have told me the lyrics & they wouldn't have meant a thing to me. But once I heard the song start up....
(And that's why I'm looking up old charts - to find songs I've forgotten but want to hear again even though I don't know it.)
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Oddly, a song that was a hit (more of less, it was on MTV all the time) that I haven't heard on any station regardless of format since I don't know when: "T.V. Dinner" by ZZ Top. Oh, I know it's not the crowning moment of their career or anything but still... that video with the little monster creeping out from under the tin foil was pretty damn cool, all things considered.
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was doing some window shopping today in preperation for pay day tomorrow and in a little 2nd hand music place I heard "walk like a man" by Devine!!! oh my gawd!!!
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quote:Originally posted by MLLASH: Y'know who else I just adored? LIMAHL from Kajagoogoo. OH! The unspeakably debaucharous things I wanted to do to his hot bod...!
have you seen what LIMAHL looks like now !!??
he looks SCARY !!!!
Matthew.
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I loved "Don't Forget Me When I'm Gone"
