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Post by gabriel on Nov 25, 2009 7:35:27 GMT
Yes I know that one. It's from Xanadu. 1980, if I'm right. I like Cliff. Always have. This one was huge for him in '76.
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Post by Liberator on Nov 25, 2009 12:22:06 GMT
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Post by gabriel on Nov 25, 2009 21:18:19 GMT
Sorry man. I didn't realise that was a link. Yeah, I think that song by Kim Carnes was great. Thanks for posting.
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Post by Liberator on Nov 25, 2009 22:42:55 GMT
I didn't answer because I guessed somebody would find the way. I even tried some fancy HTML hacking but it only produced a youtube screen that said embedding was disabled by request when it tried to run. I don't know whether Florence did or not because I've only seen Bette Davis in monochrome. She had cow eyes though - big and brown that you'd feel you could fall into This meant a lot to me. It speaks for everything I have ever valued and wanted and felt denied since even before I stripped off for the Wiccan five-fold kiss and after I felt that was all rather Tolkienesque trying to take itself seriously. It is the 1980s anthem of rebellion and personal liberation as much as The Prisoner was the 1960s foreseeing of the dehumanised horror to come. While we were all watching out for 1984, Brave New World ensnared us - and we can't get enough of it! . I used to ram it on a jukebox incessantly and even bought the 'LP' tape. At the time, I did not know that she was a born-again conservative religious nutter. I just read it as the yearning to be a truly emotional human being that I felt against the shallow materialism of the 1980s and what has followed. Just because she is a woman she naturally addresses herself to a putative woman but could be just as much a man. "Unborn children who might have made me complete" - Humanity's cry for freedom from The Great Economic Machine - so much harder for men than for women to achieve that freedom! I reckon she may have come up with the wrong answer (from what I've heard since) but that doesn't mean her question about the 'Human Condition' wasn't right!
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Post by gabriel on Nov 27, 2009 10:44:43 GMT
This lady is still going after all these years. An American who got her fan base in England. I think she's great.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Nov 29, 2009 12:58:19 GMT
And much retro goodness was observed... Oh, and huge props to Pumpkinette for posting SAFETY DANCE...awesome. AH
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Nov 29, 2009 13:03:44 GMT
These deserves their own post... Ant Hooligan
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Post by gabriel on Nov 29, 2009 13:18:47 GMT
ant hooligan. Good one.
I think my fave.
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Post by beth on Dec 3, 2009 5:34:52 GMT
Gabriel, I think it's kind of strange how so many good groups were there to entertain you guys in the 70s and 80s and we didn't get to hear them at all. Bet things would have been different if the PC had advanced to todays norm. I'm going to add a long song and a short story - true story. When I was in college (in the 70s - eons ago it seems) I took a performing arts class. In place of a final exam, our prof chose Elton John's Yellow Brick Road album for us and told us to turn it into a stage musical. We all worked together to choose a (kind of) story and then were divided into small groups, assigned particular tracks and told to arrange the scenes for the music. My group was given Harmony, Funeral for a Friend and Love Lies Bleeding in My Hand. It was a wonderful and terrible experience. I still remember every chord, every riff, every drum beat - it was riveted into my brain. Live isn't exactly like the album, but close enough.
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Post by gabriel on Dec 3, 2009 6:46:16 GMT
Thanks beth for that. Always enjoyable to hear Elton. I would have liked to hear your version.
That's the great thing about these boards. I've heard so many songs for the 1st time and like you I wonder how come I've never heard them before? I think you were talking about the Ants and Cockney Rebel in your post. Massive songs in their times.
This one from an Australian band called The Models from '87. Guaranteed to get you on your feet and dancing.
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Post by beth on Dec 4, 2009 4:52:10 GMT
Thanks Gabe. I enjoyed that. You're right, it's great to see what we missed.
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Post by gabriel on Dec 5, 2009 11:31:02 GMT
So I'll go for Rick Springfield.
I don't think any of you know who he is but he was a rock star.
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Post by beth on Dec 6, 2009 23:52:46 GMT
Wasn't Springfield the guy who was a soap opera actor turned singer, or am I thinking of someone else?
Here are a couple who were hugely popular in this part of the country during the '70s.
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Post by gabriel on Dec 8, 2009 11:19:58 GMT
Thanks for the Steely Dan beth. I haven't heard that for a while and it's a good song. Springfield was on General Hospital I think. He was big there for a while.
This is pretty sweet. Again, I haven't heard it for a long time. Good song.
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Post by beth on Dec 17, 2009 14:57:47 GMT
This is soooo '80s. It's a good song, but the video turned it in to a phenomenon. I don't know how it did outside this country, but, here, it was much loved. Hope the embed works, but if not take the trouble to click and go. Tom Petty Don't Come Around Here No More
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Post by gabriel on Jan 27, 2010 11:22:02 GMT
Great Aussie band. Chrissie Amphlett with the schoolgirl uniform and the long fringe. From '79 I think.
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Post by gabriel on Feb 20, 2010 11:48:13 GMT
A great Aussie band from the 80's.
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Post by gabriel on Feb 21, 2010 10:49:31 GMT
beth you've seen them live. I wish I had. There's just something about that song that screams West Coast 70's. Great guitar work at the end. Thanks for posting it.
I'm gonna continue with an Aussie band from the 80's that put out great albums. I should know, I have all of them. This is just a great song and clip was filmed in Tunisia of all places. But, I suppose if you want a street cafe you go where they are exotic.
Mind you, I've walked the Casbah in Tangiers and the streets of Casablanca and I never found anywhere as friendly as in this clip.
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Post by beth on Feb 21, 2010 22:12:07 GMT
I like that one, and especially the video. Think I'll watch it again. Gabe, I went to find this particular song by this particular group, and it was a wild chase to find something with decent audio AND video. Finally, I settled for one that is fairly recent - tho' an 80s group and song. Sorry I couldn't get an earlier one.
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Post by beth on Feb 21, 2010 22:17:41 GMT
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