Tears for Fears or PKI

I just heard that song on the radio over the weekend. I don't know if that's ironic or just scary.

Scarey was seeing Wang Chung at WDW on Grad Night in '87.

How did we miss Ms. Hoffs and the Bangles?
Go-Go's anyone... wonder if their lips are still sealed...

On the previous page I challenged:

OK...without going to a search engine can anyone name the "hits" by these bands:

--Barbie & The Kens
Just a Gigolo
No, not the David Lee Roth song.

--Killer Pussy
Teenage Enema Nurses [In Bondage]
Lyrics were not as adult as the title sounds, the song was very humorous.

--Suburban Lawns
Janitor

Guess these were more obscure than I thought!

mOOSH

Close your eyes. Give me your hand.
Can you feel my heart beatin'? Do you understand?
Do you feel the same?
Am I only dreaming?
Or is this burning an eternal flame?

That's still one of my favorite songs. No particular reason, I just really like it.

I'm just suprised that nobody mentioned The Fat Boys....
lata, jeremy

moosh: who did? Everybody run,
The Homecoming queen's got a gun...?
(now that one's stuck in my head....)
and yes, they were obscure, which is good. i've got to look those up...:)

Moosh-

I don't recognise any of those but if there's one thing this thread has taught me it's that I'd rather have you as a friend than an enema ;)

Tina-

Who do you want me to be to make you sleep with me :)
I have that song on my hard drive!

LOL @ Toni Basil - she got her break over here on the Tracy Ullman Show LOL I actually bought the sis in law Tracey Ullmans debut album "You Broke My Heart In Seventeen Places - Bootle Was Only One Of Them" *blushes profusely* The things you do when you're young and reckless LOL!

-Jim

*** Edited 11/8/2004 9:33:12 PM UTC by Invy***

Did Tracy have a show in the mid/late 70's? At that time Toni Basil was choreographing and occasionally directing music videos. Her best-known is Talking Heads' "Once In A Lifetime" music video. Anyone who's ever done the "...same as it ever was..." hand-chopping-down-arm maneuver is doing a Toni Basil-created move.

*** Edited 11/8/2004 10:12:19 PM UTC by Mamoosh***

Now there's a great song. Thanks for replacing the damn commercial. ;)

Moosh - she got her break over here on a show called "Three of a Kind" with Lenny Henry (still on the go, married to thee funnee Dawn French) and David Copperfield (best left unsaid lol)

Now that I think back, the Trac(e)y Ullman Show may have been states-side as it did introduce Toni Basil to the UK as well as some very crude early animations which then evolved into some unknown yellow family from Springfield ;)

-Jim

The US Tracey Ullman show began in 1897, a full 5 years after "Hey Mickey" was a hit. And I don't remember Toni on Tracey's show at all.

Flying Scooter -- that was Julie Brown that did that song, off of the "Trapped in the Body of a White Girl" record.

I liked the Bangles, but not the stuff that got really popular. I could do without Eternal Flame, and I despise Walk Like An Egyptian, but I love Be With You and Hero Takes A Fall. Their cover of Hazy Shade of Winter was also pretty amazing.

Moosh wants to go obscure?

Fuzzbox's "Love Is The Slug" anyone?

The Other Ones' "Holiday"?

(note that later some still-living members of the Greatful Dead formed under the name The Other Ones. This ain't them. Nor is it Madonna's Holiday.)

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Mamoosh said:
Anyone who's ever done the "...same as it ever was..." hand-chopping-down-arm maneuver is doing a Toni Basil-created move.

*** Edited 11/8/2004 10:12:19 PM UTC by Mamoosh***

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I thought that was a move that adolescent boys learnt by instinct ;)

-Jim

1981 was the year according to the BBC.

kpjb... Would that be the same fuzzbox as in We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It? If so, the cover of 'Spirit in the sky' was a seminal track to me :)

-Jim (bo!) *** Edited 11/8/2004 10:25:05 PM UTC by Invy***

FLYINGSCOOTER wrote:
"Scandal: Patty Smythe?"

Yep. Their 'big' hit was Goodbye to You. AKA 'Goodbye to Glue' to Beavis & Butthead.

Check out Red Rockers - China, Chilliwack - My Girl (they're still playing), Diesel - Sausalito Summernight.

Van Halen may have had a greater percentage of heavy tracks w/ DLR than w/ Hagar (not saying they do), but a lot of that has to do with...time! Look at the album 1984, they were already going that route (with DLR). Look at Metallica. Time. Age.

Howard Jones. I'm a huge HoJo fan too. Saw him in '98. He's never stopped touring. He's got a new album due out any day now. http://howardjones.com

Major Tom was a great song.
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diesel?!?!?... i remember that song like yesterday and could not remeber their name!
allll aboarrrrrrrd...
probibly the only song that made reff to a Rambler... lol
the ra-di-a-tor runnin' dry...
thanks, ya made my day!

Just wanted to say I just saw the Tears for Fears show in Milwaukee on 11/7 and it was great - they sounded really good and their new stuff (although I not familiar with it - yet) was good.

Bring on "Sowing the Seeds of Love" anyday - love that song!

Infy: You're my obsession;).

Moosh: Never knew that about Toni doing that move for the heads.

Tekno - Toni Basil choreographed a ton of early 80s music videos. Directed a few, too, I think.

Clint, should I be worried?

-Jim ;)