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I saw them on the Monsters of Funk tour at Headliners in Madison WI late 80s with Thelonious Monster and RHCP. I had seen them featured in a John Cusak movie - Tapeheads. The tour tshirt said “Rock Out With Your C*** Out” on the back and both Kiedis and Flea obliged that night, but Fishbone stole the show.
I think I saw them with RHCP at least once. The LA bands seemed to play together in SF when they came up.
On some podcast I was listening to earlier this year, the host and guest were coming up with a list of juvenile song titles. Fishbone got a nod for Bonin' in the Boneyard but they were no match for RHCP.
Where I lived (New England), All Fired Up came out and was played hourly on every rock station for a week or two. The song was everywhere. Then it quickly fell out of rotation and pretty much was never heard again. It was shaping up to be a mega hit and then was in the discount bin in a heartbeat. I don’t remember other songs that flamed out so quickly.
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At the time, Now And Zen was hailed as Plant's "return to rock" after spending 7 years (and 3 albums) in a staunchly anti-Zep new-wave-ish musical direction. In retrospect, the album's tone was arguably closer to his previous solo work than it was to "Whole Lotta Love". Much of the album's musical content was created and produced by a guy named Phil Johnstone (RIP May 2021), who earned the ire of Zep fans for having the audacity of not being Jimmy Page. Many have argued that if not for Johnstone, Plant would have abandoned his solo career and agreed to do a full-bore Led Zeppelin reunion. And it's probably true. But such a reunion would have ultimately tainted the legacy of Zep and dropped them into the tiers of the Deep Purples and Vanilla Fudges of the world. So, for that, I'm glad that Now And Zen exists.
I might volunteer to do a 3rd 100 for 1988 when you're done. Then again, I threatened to do a 4th 100 for 1969 and I never got around to finishing that, so...
Definitely will be a lot to still choose from, especially from mainstream rock and pop.
Just the opposite for me. I always thought that Cinderella was underrated compared to some bigger bands such as Poison or Warrant. I liked the bluesy style of hair metal that Keifer was doing.Even when I was knee deep in hair rock in the later 80s, I never thought Cinderella was anything more than just okay. The ballad from the 2nd record was the biggie that every girl in high school loved. Gypsy Road is solid. Next.
That's where I was going. I would say Cinderella was firmly towards the top of the second tier for hair metal bands. But especially by their third record, the bluesy rock that had bled into Long Cold Winter was now front and center. Still love "Shelter Me."
Has one of the best lyrics in all of hair metal, "And who's to care if I grow my hair to the sky!?"
I meant to do a third 100 from 1971 this year — which rockaction and wikkid thought I had already done — but life and work got way too busy. So you’re not the only countdown slacker.
Not only have I messed up thinking that you'd done one that you never did, I've forgotten that I even thought that.
Proclaimers were overplayed on stations we listened to. Debbie was overplayed on stations we didn’t listen to.
I dunno about the "we" part. I got plenty of Debbie on MTV, and it still wasn't enough.
Not much to share. It was kind of her song of the summer. I was kind of her dude for the summer (because most people didn't stay in Harrisonburg for the summer). She used to sing "Paul Anka!" instead of "Na na na!" when the chorus started. When classes started back up in the fall, the song and I were afterthoughts.
KMD in a leather duster riding a white horse thru the snow is way harder than LL in a boxing ring.
KMD's attempt to make a direct response to Mama Said Knock You Out, Deathblow, was not his finest moment.
1988 was my freshmen year of college so a lot of these songs hit an emotional, nostalgic chord.
