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80s Genre/Categories Mixtape Draft - Draft Underway (2 Viewers)
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Vike Me
Footballguy
I am shifting Precious by The Pretenders to "Punk/Post Punk" and taking this for 1st song off 1st album:
20.19 I Will Follow - U2 - 1980 - (1st song off first album)
20.19 I Will Follow - U2 - 1980 - (1st song off first album)
simey
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Eephus
Footballguy
I think 22 songs is plenty for the official mix but I'd encourage people to post links to the songs that just missed the cut.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Generally a good song but that funky background guitar sound diminishes it for me.
El Floppo
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El Floppo
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sn0mm1s
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Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
That squealing sound isn't their normal sound. I like U2 lots.
El Floppo
Footballguy
You don't like Edge's guitar in I will follow, because it's somehow a different sound than the rest of their songs? Is that it?
John Maddens Lunchbox
Footballguy
Gonna do some housekeeping before I make my next picks
Adam and the Ants go from Punk/Post Punk to Title Track
Remaining categories:
Soft Rock
New Wave/Synth Pop
Non US/UK Band
Guilty Pleasure
Cover Songs
Punk/Post Punk
Silly/Funny/Weird
Adam and the Ants go from Punk/Post Punk to Title Track
Remaining categories:
Soft Rock
New Wave/Synth Pop
Non US/UK Band
Guilty Pleasure
Cover Songs
Punk/Post Punk
Silly/Funny/Weird
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Eephus
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The foundation of U2's sound was pretty much established on side one of their first album. I don't think I Will Follow is all that typical but Twilight and Into the Heart contain elements that they've repeated and embellished for the last 30 years. The Eno/Lanois albums sound different but it's like looking at the same picture through a different lens.
John Maddens Lunchbox
Footballguy
This little ditty was first done by Bananarama and is basically unrecognizable in this cover version. Frankly the original version is terrible.
The original was written by the 3 girls in Bananarama and Siobhan Fahey's then boyfriend Robert Hodgens.
Hodgen's band decided to revamp the track and boy did he do a great job in this infectious tune.
It first reached number 8 in the UK in 1984 after a couple of release attempts went awry,
It then was re-released on the back of an ad for a Volkswagen Golf in 1993 and became one of the few tracks to reach the top 10 twice in different decades and this time improved to reach #1 in that year.
Great to see the awfully yummy Altered Images singer Clare Grogan in the film clip too in the first 20 seconds and at the 1:41 mark.
5:10 (Replacement pick) - The Bluebells - Young at Heart - 3:13 - Cover Song
The original was written by the 3 girls in Bananarama and Siobhan Fahey's then boyfriend Robert Hodgens.
Hodgen's band decided to revamp the track and boy did he do a great job in this infectious tune.
It first reached number 8 in the UK in 1984 after a couple of release attempts went awry,
It then was re-released on the back of an ad for a Volkswagen Golf in 1993 and became one of the few tracks to reach the top 10 twice in different decades and this time improved to reach #1 in that year.
Great to see the awfully yummy Altered Images singer Clare Grogan in the film clip too in the first 20 seconds and at the 1:41 mark.
5:10 (Replacement pick) - The Bluebells - Young at Heart - 3:13 - Cover Song
John Maddens Lunchbox
Footballguy
The Matterhorn Project song Muh! is definitely silly, but this is more of what I want on my mix.....weird.
This song consistently delivers creepiness and this youtube clip beautifully uses Clowns to deliver the full on weirdness.
I've used this song to scare many a womenfolk and I can imagine the effect on someone who is stoned when it gets to the 1:55 mark until the end. Any volunteers to try it?
13.10 (Replacement pick) - The Stranglers - Waltzinblack - 3:38 - Silly/Funny/Weird
This song consistently delivers creepiness and this youtube clip beautifully uses Clowns to deliver the full on weirdness.
I've used this song to scare many a womenfolk and I can imagine the effect on someone who is stoned when it gets to the 1:55 mark until the end. Any volunteers to try it?
13.10 (Replacement pick) - The Stranglers - Waltzinblack - 3:38 - Silly/Funny/Weird
Time Kibitzer
Footballguy
Really surprised how long it took for a Sonic Youth song to go, though I guess Alternative is quite a deep category.JZilla said:
John Maddens Lunchbox
Footballguy
Nice to see I'm not the first to pick a Hoodoo Guru's song.
I'm going with their 2nd single which references both the Japanese failed invasion of Darwin in WW2 and the devastating Cyclone Tracy which hit Darwin on Christmas eve and then came back and whacked the city again a 2nd time on the way out to sea on Christmas day.
18.10 - Hoodoo Gurus - Tojo - 3:11 - Punk/Post Punk
I'm going with their 2nd single which references both the Japanese failed invasion of Darwin in WW2 and the devastating Cyclone Tracy which hit Darwin on Christmas eve and then came back and whacked the city again a 2nd time on the way out to sea on Christmas day.
18.10 - Hoodoo Gurus - Tojo - 3:11 - Punk/Post Punk
Chaos Commish
Footballguy
18.6 R&B/notnewJack -- The Busboys, The Boys are Back in Town
yeahyeahyeah... favorite scene in a great 80s comedy
yeahyeahyeah... favorite scene in a great 80s comedy
Chaos Commish
Footballguy
The Bolshoi fell? Oof. I think I have a different view of 80s dance than most you and the internet. But I lived it, dern it. The Politics of Dancing was played in every dance club in LA every night.
zamboni
Footballguy
If it's good enough for the L.A. dance scene, then I'm putting it back in my mix.
rockaction
Footballguy
Thank Heaven For Little Girls or Sugarfix were the two I used to listen to. Also a 7' with Free Cocaine on it. It's probably the most emblematic song the Dwarves ever cut. Personally, I don't really listen to them anymore. Sort of outgrew it.
Jesus, Acer, we have similar tastes.
simey
Footballguy
Who is most of you? I didn't see anyone say anything about The Politics of Dancing. I went to college in Greenville, NC in the 80s, and there were plenty of clubs there that played new wave, post-punk, etc. that people danced to.
John Maddens Lunchbox
Footballguy
The Guilty pleasure category is a hard one to define apart from one's own opinion of something you shouldn't like, but not only like you love.
David Sylvian clearly comes into that category for me (sorry Floppo). I hated few artists with as much passion as I did him and Japan.
Arty, pretentious ####s that thought they were better than everyone else. Most beautiful man my ####.
Then came this song which I first heard upon watching Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence and I didn't recognize that awful tinny voice.
Of course this track is brilliant and it still is the only thing I can listen to completion from Sylvian. Call it irrational, but this definitely falls into the guilty pleasure category.
I had to even find a clip that didn't feature his "beautiful" face
19.10 - David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Forbidden Colours - Guilty Pleasure - 4:41
David Sylvian clearly comes into that category for me (sorry Floppo). I hated few artists with as much passion as I did him and Japan.
Arty, pretentious ####s that thought they were better than everyone else. Most beautiful man my ####.
Then came this song which I first heard upon watching Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence and I didn't recognize that awful tinny voice.
Of course this track is brilliant and it still is the only thing I can listen to completion from Sylvian. Call it irrational, but this definitely falls into the guilty pleasure category.
I had to even find a clip that didn't feature his "beautiful" face
19.10 - David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Forbidden Colours - Guilty Pleasure - 4:41
John Maddens Lunchbox
Footballguy
Non US/UK band is so hard to narrow down to 1 song, but do it I must.
Again I'm going with an artist already picked by someone else.
I'm glad no one picked that stupid Forever Young song. Hated it from the beginning.
This debut album however is fantastic and with Big in Japan gone, I was tempted with Jet Set and Sounds like a Melody, as well as stuff off Afternoons in Utopia and Breathtaking Blue, but ultimately went with Track 1, Side 1 of the debut.
It builds beautifully and delivers a knockout blow.
20.10 - Alphaville - A Victory of Love - 4:14 - Non US/UK Band
Again I'm going with an artist already picked by someone else.
I'm glad no one picked that stupid Forever Young song. Hated it from the beginning.
This debut album however is fantastic and with Big in Japan gone, I was tempted with Jet Set and Sounds like a Melody, as well as stuff off Afternoons in Utopia and Breathtaking Blue, but ultimately went with Track 1, Side 1 of the debut.
It builds beautifully and delivers a knockout blow.
20.10 - Alphaville - A Victory of Love - 4:14 - Non US/UK Band
Chaos Commish
Footballguy
I don't know. I read quickly and felt like it was getting kicked back. Then I decided to google 80s dance. Landed on digital dreamdoor and was kind of perplexed. That list of theirs is less than half right from my experience, but honestly, I don't know simey. Maybe "we're" wrong thinking new wave etc., qualified as dance and there was a whole nother world I missed.
Vike Me
Footballguy
NIce, never would have thought of that song, but loved it in the movie and what little i've heard it outside the movie.
John Maddens Lunchbox
Footballguy
Total Time = 92:06
Still to go:
Soft Rock
New Wave/Synth Pop
simey
Footballguy
I didn't hear new wave etc. in dance clubs that would play like Billy Ocean, but there were specific clubs/bars that played new wave, college rock, etc. that had a dance floor, and people danced to it. Premiums was one of those clubs. Sometimes it had bands, and sometimes it played music like the Furs, Femmes, The Cure, Smiths, etc., and people danced. The New Deli was the same way. The club that played the best music in town was a place called the Paddock Club. It was behind the Harley Davidson shop. This was a gay bar (I'm straight) that both gays and straights went to, but it catered to homosexuals. I didn't go there a ton, but when I did it was fun. They had stage for drag queen contest on Friday Nights (which is the only night I have ever been there), and a big dance floor. It was fun, and a mystery. Since it was a mix of gays and straights, you sometimes wondered who was gay and who wasn't when it wasn't obvious.
Eephus
Footballguy
I like Sonic Youth as much as the next guy unless the next guy is way cooler than me but it's hard to mix and even harder to skip rope to.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Yeah, I think it's best if we just stick to the 22 for the official mix. No reason people can't add a couple extra on their mix or have a b-sides mix or something.
Between Zilla's and my extra credit mixes, there are 80 more metal/hair metal songs ready to be unleashed on y'all.
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KarmaPolice
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Oh, and I do curse whoever keeps adding these country categories to the drafts.
Vike Me
Footballguy
Didn't see this when you picked it. Love this song. Thought about it for dance, but god (and Ephus) only knows what counts for 80s dance.
What's good for the goose...
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KarmaPolice
Footballguy
It doesn't even work in a hipster, ironic way?I like Sonic Youth as much as the next guy unless the next guy is way cooler than me but it's hard to mix and even harder to skip rope to.
Eephus
Footballguy
hula hoop maybeIt doesn't even work in a hipster, ironic way?I like Sonic Youth as much as the next guy unless the next guy is way cooler than me but it's hard to mix and even harder to skip rope to.
Eephus
Footballguy
Like Simey said, 80s dance depended a lot on the city, the club, the clientele and the night of the week. "Dance Music" has become a lot more strictly defined nowadays but that regimentation is a byproduct of fragmentation.
Time Kibitzer
Footballguy
That is probably true.I like Sonic Youth as much as the next guy unless the next guy is way cooler than me but it's hard to mix and even harder to skip rope to.
Vike Me
Footballguy
Indeed. Finding this out. (I didn't dance in the 80s - too cool (⌐■_■)
Was looking to change my dance out for something more 80s ish, but it is 12 minutes long and I can't put that on my mix.
Or can I???
Ramsay Hunt Experience
Footballguy
Ramsay Hunt Experience
Footballguy
Eephus
Footballguy
Chaos Commish
Footballguy
This is for my friend, Andy Dufresne...
19.14 Ahead of its time -- Time Zone, World Destruction
Afrika Bambaataa and John Lydon
19.14 Ahead of its time -- Time Zone, World Destruction
Afrika Bambaataa and John Lydon
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Eephus
Footballguy
Chaos Commish
Footballguy
Huh. I'd hear Whitney Houston followed by Depeche Mode followed by Culture Club then Michael Jackson and some post punk. But New Wave/Alternative seemed dominant... on the oh so white west side.
I was going with something (aggressive new wave) I think probably isn't dance just because we danced to it. So here's a compromise I like enough. I think ABC has been overlooked:
20.14 Dance/Disco/House -- ABC, When Smokey Sings
Chaos Commish
Footballguy
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
Always like them - kind of a cross between a more popish Bowie and Brian Ferry. They have a handful of pretty strong ones that I won't mention ...
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