For your listening & viewing pleasure (Updated Yet Again)
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OK…OK..It’s Friday night and we’ve got a real 80’s vibe happening. So, we decided to go You Tubing and look up videos we hadn’t heard since the glory days of shoulder pads and parachute pants.
It was indeed a tough week—-my, but work feels good! Yes, I’m working again and thank you for your inquiries–more on my new gig next week. So, until then, let’s enjoy a look back at wonderful temps perdu.
Fun can be had again. It never dies, just lies dormant.
Seek and ye shall find.
And the 80’s were fun, they were for me, at least. And wasn’t the music good back then? I loved it!
And here’s a reminder that Observations Part 3 will be published Sunday after 7pm (CST).
Enjoy the music and don’t forget to have a daily BM!!!
Superfluous ending,
Laurie
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I LOVED this song from 1986. It’s Franke and The Knockouts with “Sweetheart”. Haven’t heard this one in ages!
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This might be a chick song, but it’s a good one. It’s “Crazy” by Icehouse, a great and incredibly underrated band from Australia.
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Glass Tiger is a Canadian band. Even so, I like their hit “Someday”. It was big in 1986 and here it is again.
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And now here’s a little Psychodelic Furs with their hit from 1985….”Heartbreak Beat”. I sound like a DJ…..in print!
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I love Level 42 and “Something About You”
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This one is a great one. Simple Minds with a song that should be THEE 80’s anthem of a generation. Here’s “Alive and Kicking”.
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Here’s a kicky little number. The Blow Monkeys (and really, in the 80’s–weren’t we all???) and “Diggin’ Your Scene”. Tres 80’s.
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Alison Moyet is a British woman….and a rather mannish looking woman to boot. But in the post punk days in jolly old England, she was all the rage. Her song, “Is This Love” was one of my faves back in 1987.
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In the late summer and fall of 1985, I was in my mid 20’s. MTV had just turned two years old and “New Wave” music was what we were all listening to. I remember being home one Saturday night and watching MTV as we did when our coffers were running low and I saw this next video and thought the concept was extremely cutting edge. The process of “morphing” in the mid-80’s was just that. “Cry” is one of the first videos in which the technique was applied. It’s competely primitive by today’s standards but it’s an interesting look back from a technological standpoint.
It’s from the duo of Godley and Creme.
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Speaking of videos…it appears you have some smart cookies down in Houston.
http://www.myfoxhouston.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=4012862&version=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.2.1
“It’s always cold inside the icehouse”
I’m surprised to find some of my grey cells escaped the 80’s unscathed…thanks for sharing such great music, and viscious humor!
If you don’t mind my asking, are you working again?
If so, I’m glad. Keep it up.
I just love that song “Crazy” by Icehouse, I have never heard it before. Are you dropping hints that you are working? If so, Hooray!!!! You go Girl!!!!!!!!!!
I went through all of the videos you posted. They brought back some incredible memories. I agree with scottdammit-it’s a miracle that I have any at all. Like you, I too really, really “did” the eighties. I enjoyed hearing those songs again.
Hey, Laurie! Sorry for being a stranger. Congrats on the new gig–can’t wait to hear about it!
Before I fell into the “metal scene”, I was a confirmed new-waver. Simple Minds, Glass Tiger and Icehouse were all great. Because of Canadian Content laws, I also got exposed to acts like Frōzen Ghōst, Honeymoon Suite, dalbello and Platinum Blonde, which may or may not have been popular in the States at the time. Like David Lee Roth said of the 80s, “The clothes smiled and the music smiled.” There’s some great music out there now, but I think the music of the 80s has a special vibe. Thanks for the memory jog.
(Level 42 took their name from Douglas Adams–how can you not like a band like that?)
Hey Ape,
I’m familiar with Douglas Adams, though not a Sci-Fi zealot by any means. I’ve skimmed “Hitchiker’s Guide….”, but never made the connection. I had no idea that’s where the band derived it’s name.
Good to hear from you. Give Custer and Bagel my best. Here’s hoping everything is “42″ with you.
icehouse is one of my favorite bands of all-time, believe it or not! the album that featured “crazy” and “electric blue” is fantastic, as is the preceding album, measure for measure. honestly, i love the first five icehouse albums (hard to believe they didn’t really have a hit in the usa until their 5th album).