Entries categorized as ‘1980s’
While playing my 12 String Yamaha acoustic guitar, I recklessly careened through a bunch of songs from the 1980s. I pulled “Punk Rock Girl” and “Big Lizard In My Backyard” out of my memory. Ihad to make it the clean version as my children are all under 10, but it went over very well. They had formed what was the embryonic stage of a mosh pit. My sons and daughters were “whoopin’ it up.”
Afterwards, I was hit with “Hey, Dad. What was that song you were playing?”
I am thinking tomorrow’s music lesson may include The Cramps.
Categories: 1980s · Dead Milkmen · Music · neat stuff
Fathers’ Day brought me several cool things, including a book on Cascading Style Sheets. It also brought be 2 burned CDs of older music. Not just ANY older music, mind you, but really good stuff I requested.
Cars - Gary Numan
Funky Poodle – Wild Horses
She Makes Me Feel (Big Big Big) – The Fools
Girls Like You – Combonation
Sister Havana – Urge Overkill
My Sister – Julianna Hatfield
Psycho Killer – Talking Heads
Centerfield – John Fogarty
Talk It Over – Grayson Hughes
Dance With Me – Lords Of The New Church
Don’t Box Me In – Stan Ridgeway/Stewart Copeland
19 (extended version) – Paul Hardcastle
Anarchy In The UK – Sex Pistols
Lucretia My Reflection - Sisters Of Mercy
Neverending Story – Limahl
Planet Earth – Duran Duran
Whisper To A Scream (Birds Fly) – Icicle Works
Wind Him Up – Saga
Alive & Kicking – Simple Minds
Stay Hungry – Twisted Sister
Categories: 1980s · Music
I don’t think anyone could fill his shoes glasses. His work with Match Game and Hollywood Squares will be studied by comics for years.
Categories: 1970s · 1980s · humor
For those of us old enough to remember when corduroy parts and polyester shirts were the fashion, we have instructed by the Federal Government to provide important information to the younger generations. It may not be life-saving tips, but still very helpful.
1) The current popular song, Gone Daddy Gone, by Gnarles Barkley is actually a cover of a song originally done by the Violent Femmes on their first album, released in 1983.
2) Just a reminder: the stuff Madonna isn’t new. It’s called disco, and she was there for it the first time, too.
3) When car dealership commercials tell you that you don’t have to be “trapped” with payments on your current car (and still own on it) THEN tell you that if you buy one of their cars that they will PAY YOURS OFF. Don’t get excited. You still get to be “trapped” with paying that, too. However, you are just giving money to Dealership #2 instead of Dealership #1. It’s called NEGATIVE EQUITY, not FREE MONEY.
Categories: 1980s · Music
This is a shout-out to anyone old enough to remember these guys. Back when MTV played music videos….you know, in the OLDEN DAYS.
Categories: 1980s · Music
Suzanne Vega website links
This woman is incredibly talented and has a great voice. Unfortunately, I was only able to really get into her first two albums. Her first album, Suzanne Vega is an interesting batch of songs that, to me, induce all sorts of mental pictures when I listen to it. The second album, Solitude Standing has a much fuller sound, but still is very simple. While I have never grown tired of hearing “Luka,” as some may have; “Ironbound” is also a great song, too. The rest of the album is good, but begins to lose the appeal. Like I said, she does great stuff but for some reason, I never really kept up with listening to her stuff.
Categories: 1980s · Music
Neither do I.
Categories: 1980s · Flashback · Music
October 17, 2006 · 1 Comment
This song rocks. Write that down.
My favorite lines from the song (at the 2:40 mark):
“Here we are in our summer years
Living on ice cream and chocolate kisses
Would the leaves fall from the trees
if I was your old man and you were my missus?”
Categories: 1980s · Flashback · Music
For those of you old enough to remember when MTV (music television) actually played music videos, I have discovered something very cool. It seems that bands like Missing Persons, Iron Maiden, Pretenders, Duran Duran, BlancMange, Stan Ridgeway, and XTC live again. Only this time, as really small, grainy video footage converted to the computer. If you enlarge the screen, the sound quality is still there, but the visual quality drops to less than the Zapruder film (an even older reference than the MTV one!!)
Here are links to some of my favorite videos. Enjoy!
Shadow Of Love by The Damned
Senses Working Overtime by XTC
Talk Of The Town by The Pretenders
Living On The Ceiling by Blancmange
Categories: 1980s · Music · stjarna
September 20, 2006 · 1 Comment
After listening to a mix CD in my car, I felt compelled to share some of my favorite songs with my entire blog readership….which, after extensive calculations, turns out to be approximately 7 people. Thanks, and here we go.
In no particular order,
1) Shadow Of Love – The Damned
2) Do Ya Wanna Hold Me – Bow Wow Wow
3) Mercy Street – Peter Gabriel
4) More Than This – Roxy Music
5) Stay Hungry – Twisted Sister
6) stjarna – Depeche Mode
7) Cars & Girls – Prefab Sprout
This Corrosion – Sisters Of Mercy
9) All I Can Do – The Cars
10) Don’t Fear The Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult
11) Surrender – Cheap Trick
12) Flight Of Icarus – Iron Maiden
13) Jesus Built My Hotrod – Ministry
14) It’s A Sin – Pet Shop Boys
15) Avalon – Roxy Music
16) Head Games – Foreigner
17) I Don’t Mind – Bourgeois Tagg
18) Temporary Beauty – Graham Parker
19) Born To Run – Bruce Springsteen
20) Solid Rock – Goanna
That’s all I can think of right now…..I may add more later
Categories: 1980s · Music · stjarna
