What did come out of all that was this notion that it might be
Anyway, here you have it: the track list from the first one.
- Mountain - "Mississippi Queen"
- Loverboy - "Teenage Overdose/DOA"
- Dire Straits - "Espresso Love"
- XTC - "Senses Working Overtime"
- The Pretenders - "The Phone Call"
- The Cars - "Moving In Stereo"
- J. Giles Band - "Rage In The Cage"
- Pat Benatar - "Out of Touch"
- The Go-Gos - "This Town"
- The Cars - "Shooby Doo/Candy-o"
- Led Zeppelin - "Immigrant Song"
- The Babys - "Anytime"
- Nantucket - "Rug Burn"
- Rossington Collins Band - "Don't Misunderstand Me"
- Talk Talk - "Talk Talk"
- The Romantics - "Rock You Up"
- Baxter Robertson - "Green Light"
- Rush - "Distant Early Warning"
11 comments:
Wrong "Talk Talk". The one I mean was by an '80s band that appeared on the scene about the same time as Tears For Fears... not the one by The Music Machine.
Which, by the way, I remember (and like). I was actually 5, but precocious. There's all kinds of great '60s music I remember. Unlike a lot of my friends who didn't start taking an interest in popular music until high school, I was into it big time around the age of 5.
The Pretenders!! I love them.
Okay, how about the song that make you nuts in the 80s?
Suzanne Vega with Tom's Diner
Right Said Fred with I'm Too Sexy
Vanilla Ice with Ice Ice Baby (also previously heard with other lyrics as a much better song by David Bowie ~ Under Pressure which is one of my FAVS)
Frankie Goes to Hollywood with Relax
Eric: Oxo? Isn't that some sort of laundry detergent?
Emma: Another one of my favorite Pretenders songs was "Precious". I mean, how do you manage to work Howard the Duck into a new wave song? Genius.
When you say "songs that made you nuts", do you mean in a good way, or a bad way? Because "Tom's Diner" made me want to take an ice pick to my eardrums.
On the other hand, I still bounce when I hear Boys Don't Cry's "I Wanna Be A Cowboy". And as creeped out as I was by the lead singer for Dead Or Alive, "You Spin Me Right Round" was awfully good stuff at a night club (but not in my record collection).
Susie: Interestingly enough, Emma gave you the answer to "Luca". It was Suzanne Vega.
My memory's actually pretty good. Ask Turtle, who was quizzing me about old '70s and '80s artists while we were listening to Jack FM on the way home from church last night.
My problem with remembering your blog's name is that you keep changing it. I can't keep up. As to nobody caring about you, if it makes you feel any better, I haven't been making it around to anyone's blog very much, lately.
If your mix tapes don't include "99 Luftballoons" then what is the point?
Honestly, I never did the mix tape thing very often, which probably explains why I've been such a sluggish convert to MP3. If I like a song or two from an artist, I tend to be "all in" for the album(s). That little skip button on the CD player is all I need when the inevitable "Seasons in the Sun" track surfaces.
I guess I'm more in the "Desert Island Discs" camp. Late '70s Arena Rock at 12 paces... draw!
Foo? Is she gone yet? Tell her Im only 33 so it makes me younger than..well, other people.
Yes, definitely, crazy like 'dear Lord in heaven, don't make a song like that again'.
I have good memories of spinning like a record, right round, round, round.. :o)
The Cure always gets me dancing. So does anything on Van Halen's 1983 album. KC and The Sunshine Band is the BEST for waking up happy and getting on my treadmill. Def Leppard would be my vote for best air guitar with the kitchen broom. However, Passacaglia and Fugue by Bach was my favorite at age 6. (but I was a weird kid.)
PS.
I'm going back under the couch now...
I never did the mix-tape thing. Like Bret, I was "all in" if I liked an artist. I usually liked the "B" side stuff better anyway. But as a result, I can no longer remember song titles, only artists. Loverboy, Dire Straits, The Cars, The Pretenders, J. Giles Band, Pat Benatar, and Rush were all in my collection at one time. Gone now are Loverboy and the J. Giles Band (funny, these are the only two in that list that I saw in concert...but they're definitely not keepers...in fact, I haven't bothered to put much 80's stuff on my pod).
BTW, I was a big Suzanne Vega fan (go ahead, blacklist me if you must). Also Tracy Chapman...I call this my "goth" period. ;-)
Bret: "99 Luftballoons" would definitely fall into that "make you crazy" category Emmers was talking about. And pretty much anything by Christopher Cross or Air Supply. Most of what was playing the summer of 1981, in fact, caused me to retch. Including Pink Floyd's "The Wall".
Emmers: I'm more of a Gabrieli, Corelli, Telemann guy, myself.
Gwynne: I made a fair number of full album tapes too, but I was pretty fearless about my music purchases back then and too often ended up with albums that weren't worth a flip, except for one or two songs. That's where the mix tapes came in.
Tracy Chapman and Suzanne Vega are goth? I would have called them folk artists. To me, bands like Sisters of Mercy, The Birthday Party, Joy Division, Bauhaus, The Swans, etc. were goth.
The key word was "my" goth period. I've never been into real goth, but Suzanne Vega and Tracy Chapman are pretty dang depressing when you listen to their lyrics. But yeah, I'd classify them both as "girl with a guitar" folk.
That Christopher Cross album is way up high on my list of forgettable 80's junk.
I would say Marilyn Manson is the poster boy for goth and I don't see you, Gwynne, as a Marilyn Manson type. Call me crazy but I don't see it.
Foo,
By the way, what is this ipod I keep hearing about? Does it transfer onto 8 tracks? If so, I'll be able to cruise in style in my sweet minivan. (lift kit, glass packs and 24" spinners.) SWEET!
What, no Southern Culture on the Skids?
Walk like a Camel, boy!
Emma: Honestly, I don't know what Marilyn Manson is. He's the sort of thing I might expect to find someone had wiped under the seat in a movie theater.
Bill: I've heard of SCOTS for years and years, but it was only when I started listening to Yahoo! Music that I was introduced to their Mojo Box CD. It's still gathering dust on my Amazon.com wish list, I'm afraid.
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