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mziemba
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response 25 of 151:
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Mar 19 12:11 UTC 1997 |
Just check out that Rhino collection, _Just Can't Get Enough_. I think
there are about 15 volumes that cover some of the great 80s new wave
stuff.
Between that and the _Billboard Top Hits_ series, you ought to have it
covered...
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anderyn
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response 26 of 151:
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Mar 20 03:03 UTC 1997 |
But I don't like New Wave. I'm terribly retro, I think -- I like Blue
Oyster Cult and Warren Zevon and all the horrid glam-rock bands (even
Whitesnake *shudder*) -- and so I got one of the Rhino _Heavy Metal
of the 80s_ compilations, though only the first one... I have some
of the Billboard, but I'm still looking for a few songs that I liked
and no one ever puts on compilation albums (things like Rockpool's
Tehy're watching Me and the one that I can recall the video for very
well, but can't recall who or what... it's an older male in his apart-
ment, and a teenbopper (neighbor? Friend's daughter?) comes in and
attempts to seduce him, his fishtank explodes -- and it was late
eighties, I believe, though I'm not positive, I keep thinking Billy
Joel, but nothing of his clicks for that...)
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mziemba
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response 27 of 151:
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Mar 20 11:27 UTC 1997 |
Blue Oyster Cult was very cool...although they made their mark a little
earlier.
I'm willing to bet the video you're describing was a Billy Idol video. I
think the song was "Cradle of Love", which was out around 1990.
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anderyn
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response 28 of 151:
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Mar 20 13:26 UTC 1997 |
Thanks, Mark. I kept thinking Billy, but didn't think it could be
Idol.
As to BOC, yeah, I know they started out earlier, but some of my favorite
stuff is early/mid eighties.
I'm pretty sure that the albums I like best were eighties. But I'm
balnking on which they are -- the one with the Tarna song, and Club
Ninja -- which no one else likes, sigh. I still think that some of that
is my favoirite music ever.
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mziemba
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response 29 of 151:
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Mar 20 15:17 UTC 1997 |
Well, *I* liked _Club Ninja_. And _Fire of Unknown Origin_ ('81) was pretty
good, too...
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tpryan
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response 30 of 151:
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Mar 29 18:08 UTC 1997 |
Rockwell's "Watching me" -- wasn't that a Michael Jackson
song produced under heavy Motown records influence?
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anderyn
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response 31 of 151:
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Mar 29 18:16 UTC 1997 |
Really?
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mziemba
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response 32 of 151:
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Mar 29 18:37 UTC 1997 |
I'm pretty sure it was a Rcokwell song. Michael Jackson did serve as a guest
vocalist on the song, however, for the refrain...
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bruin
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response 33 of 151:
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Mar 29 19:50 UTC 1997 |
RE #30-32 BTW, the artist named Rockwell was in reality the son of Motown
Records founder Berry Gordy, Jr., and Michael Jackson provided vocals in that
song.
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mziemba
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response 34 of 151:
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Mar 30 10:52 UTC 1997 |
Jackson provided the refrain. Kennedy Gordy (Rockwell) did most of the
vocals.
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senna
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response 35 of 151:
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Apr 7 04:31 UTC 1997 |
In 89X's top 500 alternative tracks of all time, they had a suprising
number of 80's groups. If I recall correctly, though, alternative
wasn't really a genre back then, was it? Not with these groups, anyway
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kewy
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response 36 of 151:
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Apr 7 18:49 UTC 1997 |
that thing was pretty screwy anyways...
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krj
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response 37 of 151:
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Apr 7 20:49 UTC 1997 |
Nah, the 80's were when the term "alternative" actually meant
something. OP magazine's run was from about 1979-1985.
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mcnally
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response 38 of 151:
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Apr 8 02:42 UTC 1997 |
re #35: is "alternative" really a genre now?
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senna
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response 39 of 151:
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Apr 14 01:09 UTC 1997 |
Well, 89X now has a regular sunday morning show called time warp sundays
from10-12 featureing the best alternative music of the 80's. go figure.
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kewy
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response 40 of 151:
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Apr 14 01:21 UTC 1997 |
if only i was home during that time..
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mziemba
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response 41 of 151:
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Apr 14 10:42 UTC 1997 |
I've caught that show, occasionally. A real kick in the head...
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kewy
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response 42 of 151:
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Apr 15 19:07 UTC 1997 |
a good kick in the head? tho i find that hard to imagine..
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senna
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response 43 of 151:
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Apr 18 04:06 UTC 1997 |
where are you, katy?
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kewy
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response 44 of 151:
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Apr 21 00:37 UTC 1997 |
where am i? i'm here. in katyland... yeah, that's it.
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krj
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response 45 of 151:
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Apr 21 02:42 UTC 1997 |
(senna means, where are you on Sunday mornings, that you can't listen
to the 89x 80's show.)
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bruin
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response 46 of 151:
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Apr 21 11:43 UTC 1997 |
Also, Q95-5 (WKQI Detroit) is apparently reviving its "Club 95-5" show on
Sunday nights, with emphasis on 1980's music.
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kewy
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response 47 of 151:
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Apr 22 00:49 UTC 1997 |
oooh, gotcha.. usually i'm being dragged to church, and if that's not
happening, usually i'm trying to get in that last little bit of hang out time
in with greg before he goes back up north, but that's about to change, but
that's off topic.... i'll try to catch it sometime, is it any good? (the show
on 89x)
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senna
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response 48 of 151:
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Apr 24 04:12 UTC 1997 |
I wouldn't know, nor would I care, being someone who hates 80's music.. take
it off the modern rock stations and put it in it's own category, please. it's
time for 80's music stations to play stuff so i can avoid them.
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lumen
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response 49 of 151:
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Apr 29 06:33 UTC 1997 |
You'd better avoid this item altogether then, Steve. Well, I guess I'm just
a synth lover-- and that's why I love the 80's so much. I also like the fact
that it was a hit-factory decade, although I don't adore all the 80's hits.
I am glad that technopop is making a resurgence after all this love affair
we have had with guitar music. I love guitar music, but somehow the 90's has
found a way to show mostly the worst of it. Also the feminist folksy-blues
style is beginning to grate on me just a tad.
I believe Alanis Morrisette's career should die a agonizingly painful death
if she puts out any more of this feminazi whining. One example she is of why
I am not too pleased with the current music of the decade. But I digress--
perhaps things are improving.
btw, wouldn't it be just crazy if fusion came back into style, or if musicians
, er more musicians started jazzing up their rock acts?
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