Tears for Fears or PKI

Oh, and about the whole Van Halen thing...

I can't pretend to say I'm a huge fan, but I'll give you my thoughts anyhow, since you can't live without them:

With David Lee, the band truly was classic rock. Sex, drinking, rock n roll. And The Cradle Will Rock, Hot For Teacher, Ain't Talkin' About Love. It may not be my favorite music, but I can respect how great it is to those who do love it.

Sammy Hagar jumps aboard, all of a sudden it's Why Can't This Be Love, C'mon Baby Finish What You Started, Love Walks In. No comparison. Richard friggin' Marx writes less sappy songs than this guy. They went from real rock to light rock. Blech.

(Remeber when Ian McCulloch left Echo & The Bunnymen and then they released a record without him? That sucked, too. Sorry -- just had to bring it back to new wave. :) )

All I want to know is....

Whatever happened to Taco? ;)

I knew it would be just a matter of time before someone started singing "Safety Dance.
"

I loved that song as well. I thought the extended version that was being played on the radio was better than the video version.

I swear to you, when I first heard that song, I thought for sure they were saying, "wiga nuns. wiga nuns."

-Sean

I liked Van Halen at the time but was never a *huge* fan.

"Eruption" is still sends chills down my spine though.....:-D Talk about the ultimate "air guitar"!

I just heard "The Safety Dance" earlier today. :-D

Rob,

I remember Taco......whatever happened to Oingo Boingo? Bananarama? Falco? The Hooters? Talk Talk?

Speaking of Talk Talk, NO Doubt did an AWESOME cover of "It's My Life". :-D

-Tina *** Edited 11/6/2004 2:28:06 AM UTC by coasterqueenTRN***

Taco Ockerse.

kpjb said:

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With David Lee, the band truly was classic rock. Sex, drinking, rock n roll. And The Cradle Will Rock, Hot For Teacher, Ain't Talkin' About Love. It may not be my favorite music, but I can respect how great it is to those who do love it.

Sammy Hagar jumps aboard, all of a sudden it's Why Can't This Be Love, C'mon Baby Finish What You Started, Love Walks In. No comparison. Richard friggin' Marx writes less sappy songs than this guy. They went from real rock to light rock. Blech.

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So love is a bad thing? How did you forget about these Roth era tracks:

Ain't Talkin' Bout Love
You Really Got Me
Jamie's Cryin'
Feel Your Love Tonight
Little Dreamer
Ice Cream Man
Dance The Night Away
Outta Love Again
Spanish Fly
Women In Love...
Beautiful Girls
So This Is Love?
(Oh) Pretty Woman
Dancing In The Street
Hot For Teacher

Plus the little wierd ditties like Could This Be Magic, In A Simple Rhyme, Catheral, Big Bad Bill Is Sweet William Now (is that New Orleans style jazz?), Happy Trails, etc.

Link:
and given the fact that I'm not a huge Hagar fan, I have to give the guy credit. His songwriting skills are stronger than Roth's and gave Van Halen the ability to write a wider variety of songs that have now become classics.

Thanks for the Taco link. :)

MY WORLD IS NOW COMPLETE.

BTW, the song was originally called It's Safe to Dance, but the label, amongst others, had difficulty (as is typical) understanding the lyrics, and said......

Hey! It's the Safety Dance. ... and there you go. They added the "S....A....F....E....T....Y.... safety dance" part after the fact.

True Story.

Thanks for MWH trivia, nasai. My world is now complete. :)

Another strange thing, I just heard Puttin on the Ritz (Taco version) on TV a few minutes ago.

All this 80's and nobody has mentioned Nu Shooz?

I I I can't wait...;)

OK...you wanna go obscure? Hazy Fantaysey, anyone?

Shiny shiny, right down behind me! Shiny, shiny, sha, la, la, la!

mOOSH [wondering if anyone remembers THAT one-hit UK wonder]

Yep!

They had a few hits over here Moosh, including John Wayne is Big Leggy :) Jeremy Healy went on to become a DJ and Kate Garner a photographer...

Now Sigue Sigue Sputnik on the other hand...;)

-Jim (it's like being 16 again...)
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LOL! LOL! I think I have Sigue Sigue Sputnik(and most of the songs mentioned in this thread) on (gasp) vinyl. I still have more vinyl than CD's believe it or not, just haven't played them in years. I still have all my tapes too, but the sound always sucked on those.

I have a better one.......remember Sly Foxx?

-Tina

<------who is the Queen of one-hit wonders

*** Edited 11/6/2004 11:44:02 AM UTC by coasterqueenTRN***

Let's go all the way? I now have the chorus looping in my head - make it stop already lol

One of my fave bands around that time (my goth days lol) was Alien Sex Fiend - and they're still going strong :) Some of their song titles were hilarious (and unquotable);)

-Jim

yeahyeahyeahyeah ye-ah, let's go all the way.... lol :)

JIm - did I spell the band's name right? I tried searching for them and had no luck at all.

Good cheese! Bet Tina liked Matthew Wilder?

Hmm...How about Diesel? The White Animals? Red Rockers? Yeah not that obscure. And less so...Chilliwack, Scandal.

or better yet:
Missing Persons? The Cars? The Motels?
the list is endless...
oh wait: Wendy-o williams and the Plasmatics!

Moosh - Try Hayzee Fantayzee, just googled it and that's the right spelling :)

-Jim (who could also be called the Queen of the One Hit Wonders heh heh) ;)

Ah...thanks Jim!

While we're at it, any Lene Lovich fans out there? I was so jazzed to see Target use "New Toy" in their Christmas commercials last year. Man, I wish she would release another CD. Kate Bush and Nina Hagen, too.

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

--Barbie & The Kens

--Killer Pussy

--Suburban Lawns

mOOSH [who promoted the last few albums by two great 80's artists: Oingo Boing and Thomas Dolby!]

Queen of the 1-hitters...
Laura Branigan(sp?)...
didn't she go into porn?