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80s music, it didn't all suck - the forgotten, obscure, neglected (1 Viewer)

Debbie Gibson - Only In My Dreams

Pat Benatar - Little Too Late

Heart - Nothin' At All

Jane Wiedlin - Rush Hour, Cool Places

The Flirts - Jukebox (terrible song, but catchy)

Kim Wylde - Kids In America

Katrina & The Waves - Do You Want Cryin'

Marillion - Kayleigh

 
Candybar Express - Love And Money

Really nice guitar/bass riff. James Grant (singer, songwriter, lead guitarist) could really bring it.

Their album after this, Strange Kind Of Love was a switch, they went to a more slick, almost ez listening style, bringing in Jeff Porcaro on drums, a producer who worked with Steely Dan, and there are rumors that Donald Fagen himself had a hand in it. The production quality is ridiculous, it was engineered with the then new CD format in mind. There are some very pretty songs on it.

 
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Gr00vus said:
And they thought disco died in the 70's.

Sylvester - Do Ya Wanna Funk?

No this is not from Aretha Franklin's disco album (which was 1979 anyway), Sylvester is a man baby. He spent a lot of time in the bay area, I wonder if @Eephus ever saw one of his shows. Probably before E's time.

Who has been putting out their Kools on my floor!?!?
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By the time I moved here in 82, Sylvester's mainstream success was over and he was performing almost exclusively in gay clubs.  NTTAWWT but it's not my scene.

His masterpiece is I Need Somebody To Love Tonight

 
The Michael Schenker Group - Armed and Ready

Killing Joke - The Wait, Love Like Blood

Gino Vannelli - Black Cars

Eddie Money - Club Michelle, Big Crash

Honeymoon Suite - Feel It Again

Steven Bishop - It Might Be You

Rod Stewart - Tonight I'm Yours

Splodgeness Abounds - Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps Please, Two Little Boys

#### Sparrer - England Belongs to Me

 
Osaurus said:
Falling down the mountain.

Speaking of INXS, anyone else going to see Live Baby Live at your local cinema next Monday night? Its them live at Wembley from 1991 in front of 75,000 fans. Looking forward to seeing it on the big screen. 
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When I saw INXS in 1991 (in front of a half empty arena), a highly intoxicated or otherwise under the influence Michael Hutchence told a really bizarre story about the song What You Need. Slurring his speech, he said the song was about Madonna's cat. And I don't mean her kitty . . . I mean the five letter word that starts with a P. He went on an on about how it was the best P in the world and you haven't lived life until you got to play with Madonna's P. With his shirt off and while carrying on with some young co-eds, he bragged that she really loved it when he played with her P.

The whole thing was incredibly bizarre, as Hutchence hadn't really cursed throughout the show and then started dropping F-bombs about how much he loved Madonna and her erogenous zones. In the middle of the song he had the fans clapping and started chanting Madonna's P over and over again (and associated adjectives to describe it). 

It was pretty nasty and one of the strangest things I ever witnessed. Today, someone would have recorded it on a phone and been posted it on line and the band would have been done. More troubling for me, the girl I was dating at the time got REALLY offended and demanded we leave. I got lectured the whole ride back that men are pigs and only think about one thing and I should be ashamed of myself for taking her to the show. She actually got mad that I wasn't the one that insisted we leave and there would be nothing happening with her that night because of it.

The whole thing didn't make any sense to me, because as far as I know Hutchence hadn't dated Madonna and she was married to Sean Penn at the time the song came out. Not sure what got Hutchence so riled up 6 years after the song was released.

 
Gr00vus said:
Cold Shot - Stevie Ray Vaughn

I always get a kick out of the video, the blatantly obvious SRV dummy getting dragged behind a car, dropped off a building, his endless supply of guitars behind the couch.

He probably deserves his own thread. Right up there with Cold Shot is Riviera Paradise for my favorite song of his.

Sucks that he died so young.
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I went to see SRV on my 18th birthday out in California in 1984. I always liked him, but my jaw hit the floor when he whipped out Third Stone From The Sun. It went on and on for like 12 or 15 minutes to close the show. It was his third Jimi cover of the set (Voodoo Child and Little Wing being the others). Watching the video does not do the performance justice. It was one of those you-had-to-be-there moments.

 
Anarchy99 said:
I went to see SRV on my 18th birthday out in California in 1984. I always liked him, but my jaw hit the floor when he whipped out Third Stone From The Sun. It went on and on for like 12 or 15 minutes to close the show. It was his third Jimi cover of the set (Voodoo Child and Little Wing being the others). Watching the video does not do the performance justice. It was one of those you-had-to-be-there moments.
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Great clip, very jealous that you got to see it live. That poor guitar, and the poor roadie that has to get it back into playing shape after that.

Also, did Prince know SRV raided his wardrobe?

 
Gr00vus said:
Great clip, very jealous that you got to see it live. That poor guitar, and the poor roadie that has to get it back into playing shape after that.

Also, did Prince know SRV raided his wardrobe?
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That clip is not the show I saw. The show I went to was in a 2.000 seat indoor theater.  The performance was similar, but it felt like the theater was under attack. The building was shaking at the ending. 

 
Regardless of what he wore, SRV is on my short list of best guitarists I've ever heard. Maybe the best, but I don't go in for such distinctions. Except for Stewart Copeland - he's the best drummer ever in my book. ;)

 
Anarchy99 said:
That clip is not the show I saw. The show I went to was in a 2.000 seat indoor theater.  The performance was similar, but it felt like the theater was under attack. The building was shaking at the ending. 
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Understood, I'm just jealous you got to see SRV live period.

 
Anarchy99 said:
When I saw INXS in 1991 (in front of a half empty arena), a highly intoxicated or otherwise under the influence Michael Hutchence told a really bizarre story about the song What You Need. Slurring his speech, he said the song was about Madonna's cat. And I don't mean her kitty . . . I mean the five letter word that starts with a P. He went on an on about how it was the best P in the world and you haven't lived life until you got to play with Madonna's P. With his shirt off and while carrying on with some young co-eds, he bragged that she really loved it when he played with her P.

The whole thing was incredibly bizarre, as Hutchence hadn't really cursed throughout the show and then started dropping F-bombs about how much he loved Madonna and her erogenous zones. In the middle of the song he had the fans clapping and started chanting Madonna's P over and over again (and associated adjectives to describe it). 

It was pretty nasty and one of the strangest things I ever witnessed. Today, someone would have recorded it on a phone and been posted it on line and the band would have been done. More troubling for me, the girl I was dating at the time got REALLY offended and demanded we leave. I got lectured the whole ride back that men are pigs and only think about one thing and I should be ashamed of myself for taking her to the show. She actually got mad that I wasn't the one that insisted we leave and there would be nothing happening with her that night because of it.

The whole thing didn't make any sense to me, because as far as I know Hutchence hadn't dated Madonna and she was married to Sean Penn at the time the song came out. Not sure what got Hutchence so riled up 6 years after the song was released.
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Woah, that is crazy. 

I have been a huge fan of Kick since it first came out (one of my favorite 80's records), but never really dug into their other stuff too much until a few months back, and managed to discover a lot of good INXS songs I had not heard before.  Lots of good stuff. :yes:  

 
Anarchy99 said:
When I saw INXS in 1991 (in front of a half empty arena), a highly intoxicated or otherwise under the influence Michael Hutchence told a really bizarre story about the song What You Need. Slurring his speech, he said the song was about Madonna's cat. And I don't mean her kitty . . . I mean the five letter word that starts with a P. He went on an on about how it was the best P in the world and you haven't lived life until you got to play with Madonna's P. With his shirt off and while carrying on with some young co-eds, he bragged that she really loved it when he played with her P.

The whole thing was incredibly bizarre, as Hutchence hadn't really cursed throughout the show and then started dropping F-bombs about how much he loved Madonna and her erogenous zones. In the middle of the song he had the fans clapping and started chanting Madonna's P over and over again (and associated adjectives to describe it). 

It was pretty nasty and one of the strangest things I ever witnessed. Today, someone would have recorded it on a phone and been posted it on line and the band would have been done. More troubling for me, the girl I was dating at the time got REALLY offended and demanded we leave. I got lectured the whole ride back that men are pigs and only think about one thing and I should be ashamed of myself for taking her to the show. She actually got mad that I wasn't the one that insisted we leave and there would be nothing happening with her that night because of it.

The whole thing didn't make any sense to me, because as far as I know Hutchence hadn't dated Madonna and she was married to Sean Penn at the time the song came out. Not sure what got Hutchence so riled up 6 years after the song was released.
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were you dating one of your mom's friends?

 
Gr00vus said:
Good tune. Had forgotten about it, which means you just nailed the thread.
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It was on my list of 80's one hit wonders. I am sure there are a ton of other songs that would fit the profile of this thread all listed in the front section of that thread.

 
Gr00vus said:
Happy Mondays - 24 Hour Party People Plastic Face Can't Smile White Out

Had to drop the Mondays in here, though Pills N Thrills And BellyAches, which is my favorite album of theirs, was a 1990 release. 24 hour party people was from 1987 I believe.
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I have the Pills CD in my car and still listen to it pretty regularly. Another band in a similar situation was The Soup Dragons (mostly early 90's so just missed the cut). You can tell I am old because I still play CD's. LOL.

 
Gr00vus said:
Cold Shot - Stevie Ray Vaughn

I always get a kick out of the video, the blatantly obvious SRV dummy getting dragged behind a car, dropped off a building, his endless supply of guitars behind the couch.

He probably deserves his own thread. Right up there with Cold Shot is Riviera Paradise for my favorite song of his.

Sucks that he died so young.
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I have always loved unplugged, acoustic music. It started to became huge at the end of the 80s. Had this off of an MTV Unplugged CD back in college.

SRV - Pride and Joy

 
Mr. Ected said:
I have always loved unplugged, acoustic music. It started to became huge at the end of the 80s. Had this off of an MTV Unplugged CD back in college.

SRV - Pride and Joy
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Among the finest pleasures of my life was singing p&j w my son's mother. Friends heard us together (she was a casino lounge singer) at parties and one asked us to sing at her wedding reception. We worked up some loveydovey song arrangements, and splitting Pride and Joy was among them. I have terrible stagefright so i did not take my eyes off Kathie's the whole time, but we were good enough together to be asked to play a couple other events and it made my heart glow each time i sang this into the eyes of my own p&j

 
I might be on an island with this...

Grace Jones

Slave To The Rhythm - I lead with the video because it was a jaw dropper when it was released, done with minimal (if any) assistance from computers. Worth a watch (particularly if you've partaken), if nothing else than because Al Swearengen does the voice over (which is not part of the original recording of the song). As to the song itself, it's a ridiculous piece of writing, musicianship and sound engineering. Grace herself does a decent job on the vocals,  but beyond that it's one of the tightest tracks you'll ever hear. In looking at it now I learned this was Trevor Horn's baby, he had originally intended it to be done by Frankie Goes To Hollywood on their debut album. I can't find why he switched to Grace, and though I can hear Holly Johnson singing this, I think it works better with Grace.

Past all that, my favorite track of hers is still her cover of Love Is The Drug. The "original" version of her cover was written, produced and played by Sly and Robbie, who were heavies in the reggae world in the 80's. This track isn't as much reggae as much as it is a straight ahead rock/new wave tune. I like it a tad more than the Roxy Music original because of this drive and her less lilting/somewhat menacing (compared to Bryan Ferry's) delivery of the lyrics. Around 85/86 it got a roided up remix treatment and was rereleased along with another signature Grace Jones boffo video.

Grace herself I really didn't get at the time. Though I liked these songs I thought she was some sort of flimsy gimmick (her performances in A View To A Kill and Conan The Destroyer put a campy taint on her that was tough to shake for me). As I've gotten older I don't know that I really get her still, but I appreciate her more. She seems to be a continuous work of performance art, at all times, in all things, everywhere (at least in public). I think she may be an alien of some sort. It's just a phone video, but here she is doing Slave To The Rhythm, live, from July of 2019. She's 71 years old.

 
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I might be on an island with this...

Grace Jones

Slave To The Rhythm - I lead with the video because it was a jaw dropper when it was released, done with minimal (if any) assistance from computers. Worth a watch (particularly if you've partaken), if nothing else than because Al Swearengen does the voice over (which is not part of the original recording of the song). As to the song itself, it's a ridiculous piece of writing, musicianship and sound engineering. Grace herself does a decent job on the vocals,  but beyond that it's one of the tightest tracks you'll ever hear. In looking at it now I learned this was Trevor Horn's baby, he had originally intended it to be done by Frankie Goes To Hollywood on their debut album. I can't find why he switched to Grace, and though I can hear Holly Johnson singing this, I think it works better with Grace.

Past all that, my favorite track of hers is still her cover of Love Is The Drug. The "original" version of her cover was written, produced and played by Sly and Robbie, who were heavies in the reggae world in the 80's. This track isn't as much reggae as much as it is a straight ahead rock/new wave tune. I like it a tad more than the Roxy Music original because of this drive and her less lilting/somewhat menacing (compared to Bryan Ferry's) delivery of the lyrics. Around 85/86 it got a roided up remix treatment and was rereleased along with another signature Grace Jones boffo video.

Grace herself I really didn't get at the time. Though I liked these songs I thought she was some sort of flimsy gimmick (her performances in A View To A Kill and Conan The Destroyer put a campy taint on her that was tough to shake for me). As I've gotten older I don't know that I really get her still, but I appreciate her more. She seems to be a continuous work of performance art, at all times, in all things, everywhere (at least in public). I think she may be an alien of some sort. It's just a phone video, but here she is doing Slave To The Rhythm, live, from July of 2019. She's 71 years old.
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Big fan

Libertango and pull up to the bumper went on lots of mixed tapes

 
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