80s Genre/Categories Mixtape Draft - Draft Underway (3 Viewers)

[JZilla]

sorry

Better get this out of the way

Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCEexG9xjw

silly/funny/weird

 

[zamboni]

sorry

Better get this out of the way

Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCEexG9xjw

silly/funny/weird

Every time I see a potful of beans, I think of this song.

 

[zamboni]

Did valence time out?

 

[Northern Voice]

JZ picked at :06, valence timed out at :21, which means I'm up.

This category is/was pretty tough for me. Not sure whether to go with a really well known song being covered or just pick the best song that is a cover, this one falls under the best song, plus it was Nirvana's first single, so influential, etc...

8.13 - Love Buzz - Nirvana (Cover Songs)

 

[simey]

I'm going to be gone for about an hour. Skip me if it lands on me during that time.

 

[Northern Voice]

Skips are piling up, maybe at the end of round 8 we should stop and let everyone make up any picks owed, then everyone can make their round 9 pick on Saturday and their round 10 pick on Sunday. We'll go back to 15 minute clock on Monday.

 

[zamboni]

8.14 The Jim Carroll Band - "People Who Died" (punk/post-punk)

album released January 3, 1980

 

[sn0mm1s]

scooped on the Missile

my go-to weirdos.

are we doing the one/artist, or is that a zilla rule?

I am attempting to do that. I am assuming that part of the reason for this thread is folks want to discover new/forgotten songs/artists. I may get painted into a corner in the end but, for now, I am trying to avoid repeating artists.

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

Ok I'll pretty up later. On my phone

7:18-- The Devil's Right Hand. -- Steve Earle (Country)

Another quickie. Will provide links later. Going for a mini-theme of story songs at this point.

8.2 -- Children's Story -- Slick Rick (Hip Hop)

Prettied these up.

 

[Eephus]

8.15 Love Is All Around - Hüsker Dü (TV/movie theme)

I have no current way to work this into my mix so I may end up throwing it back next week but the theme for Pee Wee's Playhouse and Holiday Road aren't on Spotify

 

[El Floppo]

8.6: Rich- Yeah Yeah Yeahs (80s wannabe)

Siouxie in a blender.

 

[AcerFC]

Skip me when I get up

 

[JZilla]

8.15 Love Is All Around - Hüsker Dü (TV/movie theme)

I have no current way to work this into my mix so I may end up throwing it back next week but the theme for Pee Wee's Playhouse and Holiday Road aren't on Spotify

Nor is the theme from Headbangers' Ball

 

[sn0mm1s]

Skips are piling up, maybe at the end of round 8 we should stop and let everyone make up any picks owed, then everyone can make their round 9 pick on Saturday and their round 10 pick on Sunday. We'll go back to 15 minute clock on Monday.

Fine by me. No timer over the weekend then? One song each day first come first served?

 

[Northern Voice]

Skips are piling up, maybe at the end of round 8 we should stop and let everyone make up any picks owed, then everyone can make their round 9 pick on Saturday and their round 10 pick on Sunday. We'll go back to 15 minute clock on Monday.

Fine by me. No timer over the weekend then? One song each day first come first served?

Exactly.

 

[El Floppo]

8.15 Love Is All Around - Hüsker Dü (TV/movie theme)

I have no current way to work this into my mix so I may end up throwing it back next week but the theme for Pee Wee's Playhouse and Holiday Road aren't on Spotify

That would be a cover of a tv theme, though- right?

 

[Northern Voice]

I'm going to mess around with a VPN this weekend and see if I can get access to Spotify (and US Netflix).

 

[Eephus]

I'm going to mess around with a VPN this weekend and see if I can get access to Spotify (and US Netflix).

 

[Eephus]

8.15 Love Is All Around - Hüsker Dü (TV/movie theme)

I have no current way to work this into my mix so I may end up throwing it back next week but the theme for Pee Wee's Playhouse and Holiday Road aren't on Spotify

That would be a cover of a tv theme, though- right?

 

[Mr. Ected]

Not sure if this exactly qualifies, but...

8.16 - Don’t Worry Be Happy – Bobby McFerrin - R&B/New Jack Swing

 

[El Floppo]

8.15 Love Is All Around - Hüsker Dü (TV/movie theme)

I have no current way to work this into my mix so I may end up throwing it back next week but the theme for Pee Wee's Playhouse and Holiday Road aren't on Spotify

That would be a cover of a tv theme, though- right?

Kinda opens the category up in a big way.

 

[Mr. Ected]

Looks like we are on Vike for the last pick of the 8th round.

 

[Eephus]

8.15 Love Is All Around - Hüsker Dü (TV/movie theme)

I have no current way to work this into my mix so I may end up throwing it back next week but the theme for Pee Wee's Playhouse and Holiday Road aren't on Spotify

That would be a cover of a tv theme, though- right?

Kinda opens the category up in a big way.

Big is a bit of an overstatement

 

[simey]

Here's a nice murder ballad...

8.18 - LA County - Lyle Lovett (Country)

 

[Fiddles]

No defense needed for Whitesnake.

Unless you select the version of Here I Go Again where he sings "hobo" instead of "drifter." Hobo generally doesn't work in a song unless you're Roger Miller.

Could be a good category. Songs that mention hobo.

ETA - I'm wrong about 70's, that was 82

I was pretty sure you knew more about David Coverdale than I know about anything.

I know his overall best stuff is on "Slide It In"

But Still Of The Night is the teets

Agreed on both counts.

 

[Vike Me]

Looks like we are on Vike for the last pick of the 8th round.

I'm here but getting ready to go home. Skip me I'll pick up in about an hour...

In the meantime can someone explain "post punk"

 

[Fiddles]

Gotta run to lunch. Here you go....

7.12 - Magic Power, Triumph (Non US/UK band)

Thanks again, Canada!

The song is just so...freaking...triumphant.

Haven't we all felt like this before?

She climbs into bed, she pulls the covers overhead

And she turns her little radio on

She's had a rotten day so she hopes

The D J's gonna play her favorite song

Or this?

The world is full of compromise

The infinite red tape

But then this happens...?

But the music's got the magic

It's your one chance for escape

So turn me on, turn me up

It's your turn to dream

A little magic power

Makes it better than it seems

I'm young now, I'm wild now

I want to be free

I got the magic power

Of the music in me!!!!!

OUCH! Sniped. Was going to use this as my guilty pleasure. One of my favorite songs, easily fits into my top 10.

ETA: Here is the video. Very cool.

Just wow. Flyin v as the enterprise. Doesn't get much more guilty pleasure than that

 

[El Floppo]

8.15 Love Is All Around - Hüsker Dü (TV/movie theme)

I have no current way to work this into my mix so I may end up throwing it back next week but the theme for Pee Wee's Playhouse and Holiday Road aren't on Spotify

That would be a cover of a tv theme, though- right?

Kinda opens the category up in a big way.

Big is a bit of an overstatement

hUGE?

 

[valence]

8.8 - Kayleigh, Marillion (Soft Rock)

Kayleigh, I'm still trying to write that love song,
Kayleigh it's more important to me now you're gone.
Maybe it'll prove that we were right
Or it will prove that I was wrong.

I really like how he delivers that last line.

love these guys, saw them open for Dream Theater once in SF.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

OUCH! Sniped. Was going to use this as my guilty pleasure. One of my favorite songs, easily fits into my top 10.

ETA: Here is the video. Very cool.

Just wow. Flyin v as the enterprise. Doesn't get much more guilty pleasure than that

Oh man, I missed that link to the video before.

 

[Fiddles]

New Google sheets has filter views in addition to filters. Filter views are only visible by you

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/3540681

 

[Andy Dufresne]

8.12 Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me) (New Wave)

kinda surprised this is still here and that no one took it for movie theme.

It was. At 3.4.

 

[simey]

9.02 - Can't Hardly Wait - The Replacements (post-punk)

 

[AcerFC]

We are stopping at 8 right

 

[AcerFC]

8.17 Knowlege, Op Ivy, First song on debut album

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cS1DgpNGy78

 

[Vike Me]

Fun, natural fun.

8.19 Genius of Love - Tom Tom Club - 1982 - (One Hit Wonder)

 

[El Floppo]

repick

8.12 Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (80s cover song)

for clarity (and look at me- uppity rules guy), is this category songs made in the 80s and covered later, or covers of earlier songs that were recorded in the 80s?

 

[El Floppo]

Fun, natural fun.

8.19 Genius of Love - Tom Tom Club - 1982 - (One Hit Wonder)

####.

I had that lined up with my last pick and thought it would hold out.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

repick

8.12 Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (80s cover song)

for clarity (and look at me- uppity rules guy), is this category songs made in the 80s and covered later, or covers of earlier songs that were recorded in the 80s?

It's 80's songs that were covers.

It's not 80's songs that were covered by someone after the 80's.

 

[Vike Me]

Make a wish, baby.

9.01 Biggest Part of Me - Ambrosia - 1980 - (Yacht Rock)

 

[sn0mm1s]

8.17 Knowlege, Op Ivy, First song on debut album

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cS1DgpNGy78

Nice snipe - I didn't think anyone would pull out Op Ivy.

 

[Vike Me]

Here's a nice murder ballad...

8.18 - LA County - Lyle Lovett (Country)

Like!

 

[simey]

Make a wish, baby.

9.01 Biggest Part of Me - Ambrosia - 1980 - (Yacht Rock)

That song has such a 70s vibe to it.

 

[AcerFC]

If we are making 9th rounders, I'll go with a cover song (within the rules )

9.3 Steppin Stone, Minor Threat, cover

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U0uSGsB59ko

 

[Vike Me]

Jesus, what this is what happens when someone gets sick and pukes for most of the afternoon. Tom F'kin Petty?

Sorry, please skip me if I'm not here for the rest of my life.

4.19? Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old) - Garth Brooks - 1989 (Country)

Just found out Garth is not on Spotify, so I may change this Country pick but for now I'll let it stand.

Turns out a few artists are not on Spotify (mild spotlighting) Not on Spotify

Garth being one of them, so if it pleases the court I'm changing my Country pick to one I thought was more of a soft rock cross-over but it turns out was number one on the country chart in 1981 so here it is:

4.19 Step By Step - Eddie Rabbit - 1980 - (Country)

 

[Usual21]

8.04 - Centerfold, J. Geils Band - Guilty Pleasure

I just LOVE this song. The video helped too. the hiney

 

[El Floppo]

If we are making 9th rounders, I'll go with a cover song (within the rules )

9.3 Steppin Stone, Minor Threat, cover

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U0uSGsB59ko

damn- love that song and never heard this one. very nice.

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

Okay, my turn to be a Richard about a bunch of the picks that have been made all at once in one post.

Time for my next Genre Bending pick.

This song would be ineligible for every other category except this one.

Originally released in 1978 it was eventually included as a B-Side to Computer Love in 1981 and some DJ's realized that the B-Side was better than the A and it fit well with the burgeoning New Romantic movement in Britain. Kraftwerk were the era's equivalent to the Beatles in influence and many artists helped get this to Number 1 in the UK in 1982. It was released as an A-Side against the bands wishes.

4.09 - Kraftwerk - Das Model - UK Number 1 - 3:38

In case I haven't made it clear by now, I'm not in here to worry about genres/rules, etc... I just want to find new music and discuss some great songs that came out in the 80s, sure people are stretching the rules but don't expect me to come down with some great ruling.

Who stole your lollies?

I wasn't expecting you to come down with some great ruling. I like the way you are running this draft.

I've been guilty in the past of getting too involved in the minutae of detail, but it ultimately is pointless. People gonna draft what people draft.

Peer pressure is a great leveller if someone wants to circumvent the spirit of the draft.

If someone seriously wants to sneak a Flock of Seagulls into the Rap/Hip Hop section they will do so in the last few picks whenever everyone is too busy with 3ITC or whatever monstrosity is employed to finish the draft quickly.

If more than 5 people listen to a mix it will be a surprise. When we were able to use megaupload to download and burn, we had a much higher uptake of people listening to other peoples stuff.

Ultimately I want to see more post draft posting and reviews of peoples mixes incorporated. Too many times once the draft is finished it dies and the mixes never get listened to.

 

[Mr. Ected]

9.04 - 1999 - Prince - Disco/Dance/House

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

6.18 - Perfect Skin - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions (1st song off 1st album)

7.02 - The Zoo - Scorpions (Non US/UK band)

Love that Lloyd Cole album.

I hated Lloyd Cole in the 80s. All the cool indie kids loved him, so I naturally hated it.

Now I can play Rattlesnakes on repeat for an hour and love every minute