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?
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!
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.
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.)
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.
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!!!
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...!
In the last couple of weeks I've rediscovered two of my favorite 80's songs that I hadn't heard in ages--"Give Me Tonight" by Shannon and "No More Words" by Berlin. Back in the day, my best friend and I used to ride around in her old Nissan Sentra listening to both of those. I downloaded them both from iTunes and surprised her with them on my car stero the other day. We had fun rocking out to them again!
I wonder what ever happened to Shannon and Terri Nunn (lead singer of Berlin)?
Both Terri and Limahl appeared last year on BANDS REUNITED on VH1. Personally, I thought both had aged very well!
Berlin's LOVE LIFE (which contains "No More Words") is probably the 80s cassette (yes I still have all my cassettes!!) I listen to the most today. Great album! Gotta get it on cd, that tape won't last forever. Don't know why I didn't already, I bought Berlin's PLEASURE VICTIM (also a lot of fun!) on CD years and years ago.
Well, speaking of "blasts from the past"--is anyone going to watch that NBC show "Hit Me Baby One More Time" Thursday night? Apparently it's American Idol-ish, but with former stars trying to win the chance for a comeback. Tiffany, Sophie B. Hawkins, Tommy Tutone, Wang Chung and a bunch of others. Apparently it was a show in the UK first? (Matthew?) I'm going to try to watch it, but it sounds a little sad!
I *loved* so many of the one-hit-wonders of the 80's, too. Lash, you mentioned Corey Hart. I liked "Sunglasses at Night" but I really preferred "Never Surrender." I used to dress sorta like Corey did in his videos, kinda like a boy Madonna. Gave some people the wrong impression, but being cheeky like that was great fun for me in the 80's. Aw, I was SO young then...
I once took a photo-sleeved 45 of Corey to a hair salon and said "Give me this haircut!" (the 45 was "It Ain't Enough", still my favorite Corey song! Yes, I still have it).
re: the HIT ME show... I awoke from a nap in time to see Arrested Development & Tiffany perform their old hits, but needed to go tan & work out so guilted myself out of the rest of the show. How was it? Who won?
Originally posted by knowjack: Well, speaking of "blasts from the past"--is anyone going to watch that NBC show "Hit Me Baby One More Time" Thursday night? Apparently it's American Idol-ish, but with former stars trying to win the chance for a comeback. Tiffany, Sophie B. Hawkins, Tommy Tutone, Wang Chung and a bunch of others. Apparently it was a show in the UK first? (Matthew?) I'm going to try to watch it, but it sounds a little sad!
Sad is right. At least for Loverboy. So far that's all we've seen perform. I thought it was a joke and they were going to say that a fan was really singing instead of Mike Reno.
Words fail me. And I fully blame NBC. The production values sucked as if they intentionally were trying to do something cheesy. It could have been much better. Well, maybe if they had changed the acts too. This just about killed my 80s music kick.
Arrested Developement gave one of the few decent performances. They shoulda made it like Running Man where like, they have to sing for their lives. I bet you get much better performances then...
As evidenced by the links I've been dropping all over LW, I've been watching plenty of music videos on YouTube. This includes plenty of songs that I don't hear that frequently. There was one, though, that I don't think I've come across since the 80s:
Well, thanks to Teeds I finally broke down and hit YouTube. I just watched Neil Young and Pearl Jam from the '93 VMAs tearing up "Rockin' In the Free World." I vividly remember seeing it live on air all those years ago - a transcendent moment of rock and roll. It made me feel 10 years younger and as though there's still some hope left for us all.
Just to show how old i am getting, Sundown, i think it is, by Gordon Lightfoot and "into the mystic" by Morrison...Van Morrison, that is.
Course, that was back when actual intruments were played instead of computers, dagnabit! And young whippersnappers didn't feel the need to show us their cracks with their pants down around their knees.
anyone remember a few years back when Listerine had "Tarzan boy" by Baltimora in it's commercial? if i'm in my cab and it comes on the radio and if i don't have any passengers in there with me i crank the radio up and blast that sucker on high. but for me even though i'm also a child of the 80's nothing beats some old AM gold of the 70's, the 70's was a good time for music too, i listen to that almost all the time on internet radio, it brings back fuzzy warm memories when i hear such classics like Starland Vocal band's "After noon delight" and blue suade's "hooked on a feeling".
I'm watching "Legends & Lyrics" on public television, and Randy Owen of Alabama just played "Mountain Music." Earlier, he played "Tennessee River," and Kris Kristofferson played "Me and Bobby McGee."
I used to hate country & western, but time has mellowed me. These songs are relaxing and involving, just what I need to cap a day off.
Just saw an advertisement for the Midnight Special of the 70's on DVD. Lots of crossgenre acts there, but still some really good old stuff. Every thing from Alan Parsons Project to Sly and the Family Stone.
I'm old enough to remember when Rick James's "You and Me" was a hit. It was probably the first funk record I ever bought and, therefore, one of my first forays into the "adult" side of rock'n'roll. (This was the era of Heatwave and Wild Cherry, after all.)
Around the same time, Foxy had a funky hit called "Get Off," though its sexual innuendo went way past my innocent head.
Okay, I gotta say, going back and pulling up the old stuff I used to listen to..I listened to some of the best stuff and never realized it. Great selections on my grandads old jukebox. Feel like I'm a kid again, lots of old and lost memories coming back.
Was also listening to Evanescence. That gal has an amazing voice. Was talking to my wife about it and she said she's left the band. So, being the curious fellow that I am, I tried to look it up and instead found some site with a bunch of goths and emo's going at it about whether she can sing or not.
I guess I'm really old. All that stuff just made me laugh. The goths hating her, the emo's loving her, and she's just smiling and headed to the bank.
The only info I could find on the subject is that she's currently writing songs for either a solo album or an Evanescence record. She's apparantly not sure yet.
The band itself isn't active at the moment, and given that she's the only original member left and the one running the show, she doesn't have to quit.
was sitting in my Cab last night listening to the radio and "Pets" by Porno for pyros came on and i wasl ike Whoa!! i really hadn't herd that sone in a good while. i always loved the line: " my friend says were like, the dinosaurs only we are doing ouselves in much faster than they ever did,..we'll make great pets." and then as i was station surfing i stopped at a station that was playing a Beach Boys song that i really hadn't heard in a VERY long while,.. Sail on Sailor
"Right Here, Right Now" by Fatboy Slim. Probably the best techno song of the whole 1990's. I never liked Techno, but no one can deny the awesomeness of that beat.
ELO's Twilight, from their Time album, was my favorite song for awhile as a teen. So techy and sci-fi sounding! (I also liked Yours Truly, 2095, from that album.)
Current inanely favorite not-really-oldie is Billy Idol's Adam in Chains, from his Cyberpunk album.
When I want to really blow peoples minds, I listen to some Krokus or New Order.
Been into the heavy thump tonight. Everything from Gretchen Wilson on Barracuda to old time AC/DC, HIM with wicked game and Butterfly, and even a little country lead in there.
Been wondering who Josh Turner is since he apparantly grew up about 17 miles from me. He's okay. Not something I'd listen to a lot, but hell, he's local so good job, amigo.
(Right now I've got some old Bellamy Bros. runnin' through my head. Nyt'all.
Dan Fogelberg with Tim Weisberg, "The Power of Gold," at Denny's.
#24 US, #51 CAN
I didn't know many Fogelberg songs other than the obvious ones until I bought a used copy of his greatest hits some years ago after reading a nice eulogy for him in this forum by He Who Wanders. "The Power of Gold" became my favorite song of his, and it was an unexpected delight to hear it this way.
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?
I heard "Out of Touch" on the local Lite FM station earlier today, and immediately thought of this thread. It's true, it hardly ever gets played. Most Hall & Oates hits other than "Kiss on My List" and "Maneater" don't seem to get played much anymore.
I don't think I've heard Out of Touch since I started this thread TEN YEARS ago.
Sara Smile, She's Gone, Private Eyes, I Can't Go For That, Maneater, Say It Isn't So, Kiss On My List --- all radio staples. I've also heard One on One a few times.
Adult Education and Family Man are H&O hits I don't remember from the time, and haven't heard on the radio much (if ever) in the intervening years. I had to go to YT to hear what people were talking about.
There are tons of older songs whose names I don't know, but I can recognize that it's "that" song when I hear a portion (usually, the chorus).
I know there are apps or websites out there that can help you find out the name of a song and its artist just based on whatever lyrics you can input. That is, if you don't find Google useful enough
I reached this when going through some top 40 links. I haven;t heard it for a very long time. The next day, it's playing from the front of a store as I go to the station.
Here's a song I didn't appreciate when it was a hit in 1981, but I've recently come to like it for its purity in emotion as well as its background story:
The Climax Blues Band were a British group whose only previous US hit was "Couldn't Get It Right" in 1977. "I Love You" was written by bassist Derek Holt (who sings lead and plays keyboards in the video). According to Songfacts.com, the other two mainstays in the band, guitarist Pete Haycock and saxophonist Colin Cooper, hated the song. (Cooper appears neither on the song nor in the video.) They refused to tour America to promote the song, which reached No. 12 anyway. Their lack of support was the reason Holt left the band in 1983. To this day, the CBB (which now contains none of the original members) refuses to perform this song, and it's been unavailable for some time since the album is out of print.
In some ways, this story reminds me of the division in Styx over the success of Dennis DeYoung's "Babe."
Learning details such as this is what makes the study of popular music so fascinating to me.
That was quite nice. Not saccharin, just honest, putting it above 95% of love songs instantly.
I've enjoyed the music threads a lot since I've joined the forum. I generally don't look at lyrics, inside covers or anything else. Learning a bit of the history has been really interesting.
Heard this "lost" Sade song yesterday in Starbucks.
It was only a moderate hit back in 2001 (I think), but still a testament to the loyalty of her fanbase (IIRC, at that time she hadn't even released a single since around 1993) and the quality of her best songs.
Also, I've had a really rough last couple days, so hearing this under those circumstances was the most soothing balm for my heart & soul. Thank you, Ms. Adu.
totally !
I loved "Don't Forget Me When I'm Gone"
