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And then there was the 80s !
« on: January 23, 2010, 09:30:51 am »


 Who was Melissa's yum ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyE9wFdq0yQ&NR=1

Enjoy !

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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2010, 06:13:48 pm »
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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2010, 06:34:22 pm »
Not a clue  !!  :o


No clue either, Ray...

To me the 80's are all about:

1) The Smiths
    - How Soon Is Now? - The song that at the age of 9 made me realise that I was queer and different...
    - Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before - Cleverly remade a couple of years ago by Mark Ronson, this is late 80s at its best.

2) Depeche Mode
    - Strangelove: One of the most perfect singles ever released.
   - Personal Jesus: Summer of '89, a nice way to head into the 90s.
"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2010, 07:01:48 pm »

 Who was Melissa's yum ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyE9wFdq0yQ&NR=1

Enjoy !

 That's the dude from Scarface and he was Antonio Montana's right hand man, well before Antonio shot him for dating his sister.  If you are slightly familiar with Miami's 80's television programming he also played on the hit sitcom Que Pasa USA...  the show responsible for my limited bilingual capabilities!

Steven Bauer 

« Last Edit: January 23, 2010, 07:03:54 pm by skeebo1969 »
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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2010, 07:04:58 pm »
That's the dude from Scarface and he was Antonio Montana's right hand man, well before Antonio shot him for dating his sister.  If you are slightly familiar with Miami's 80's television programming he also played on the hit sitcom Que Pasa USA...  the show responsible for my limited bilingual capabilities!

Oh, Esteban Ernesto Echevarria (AKA Steven Bauer)?  I knew about him and Melanie Griffith, but not Ms. Manchester.

Que Pasa USA was actually fun.  The real Hialeah!
"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2010, 07:17:10 pm »
Que Pasa USA was actually fun.  The real Hialeah!

  It sure was.  Talk about some memories...

  Music wise the 80's was a dark period for me.  I was into groups like Suicidal Tendencies and Black Sabbath

I despise the song Love is in the Air, you should too.

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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2010, 07:35:14 pm »
   Nice Post  my choice   Cyndi Lauper    Time after Time
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m73dZFTgzX0

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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2010, 09:06:40 pm »
I love 80's music! That's an excellent mix!  Talk about a blast from the past, I remember Que Pasa USA - well, the only thing I really remember was Steven always wearing tight jeans but then again it was the 80's, everyone wore tight jeans and he wore them well!  ;)
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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2010, 10:48:10 pm »
Great vids!

Culture Club & Boy George rocked my world in the 80's.  I almost tossed out my two-tone jeans and Serucchi jacket for a Boy George frock in the 80s!

Vid: Do you really want to hurt me?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpFmEvdJjvw

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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2010, 11:55:11 pm »
As the song goes, I'm still preoccupied with 1985. There was a lot of good music. This is one of my favorite songs and the video still is effective today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXQYyKzyDaE

Unfortunate this video was cringe-worthy back then and has only gotten more embarrassing with age.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZvl2aqIyNg

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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #11 on: January 24, 2010, 02:00:29 am »
I loved the 80's
These capture the feel of the time for me

Yazoo - Situation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eoLTou2kfg

Yazz - The only way is up
(I danced to this one so many times)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UQEl9oZNio

A Flock of Seaguls - I ran
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx6IMuOu1mk

Dead of Alive - You spin me round
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUatnbaNfEo

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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #12 on: January 24, 2010, 08:36:28 am »

Although released in 1990, she is still an icon of the 80s:

Madonna ---  Vogue


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWyqjVjBMe4&feature=related

Notice the M. Jackson-like move by the ensemble --- A Hoot!

Skeebo,

Thanks for finding that ---- I remember him now.

v

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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #13 on: January 24, 2010, 01:17:30 pm »
Human League is coming out with a new album and tour during 2010.

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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #14 on: January 24, 2010, 01:27:33 pm »

One of my favorite Human League tunes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqtXyQEHC58

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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #15 on: January 24, 2010, 05:16:57 pm »
Human League is coming out with a new album and tour during 2010.
that's great to hear, especially after Oakley did his little collab with the PSB on the extra material from their "Yes" cd

ah, it was in the late 80s when Randy and I owned our little pop-n-pop pet shop (WE were the original "pet shop boys" ;D), and the Pet Shop Boys were our heroes.

how could the Boys go wrong singing with Dusty in 87
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn9E5i7l-Eg

or with Liza in 89
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR_mjkxc7Ys
leatherman (aka Michael)

We were standing all alone
You were leaning in to speak to me
Acting like a mover shaker
Dancing to Madonna then you kissed me
And I think about it all the time
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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2010, 05:38:16 pm »
how could the Boys go wrong singing with Dusty in 87
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn9E5i7l-Eg

or with Liza in 89
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR_mjkxc7Ys

I'm with you on that one.  Can't think of one bad tune in their entire catalogue.

Another band that released flawless music was New Order:

- Round & Round (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kHgMvWmIs4

- True Faith (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kHgMvWmIs4

- Blue Monday (1983)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1IsJEOVfnw
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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #17 on: January 24, 2010, 07:33:50 pm »
Ah the Eighties, when men wore spandex shorts to the gym.  Bring back those halcyon times!
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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #18 on: January 24, 2010, 07:54:08 pm »
I'm with you on that one.  Can't think of one bad tune in their entire catalogue.

Another band that released flawless music was New Order:

- Round & Round (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kHgMvWmIs4

- True Faith (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kHgMvWmIs4

- Blue Monday (1983)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1IsJEOVfnw


Okay I have to add to this thread now...

New Order, "Bizarre Love Triangle"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOWBX_xP5y8

Til Tuesday, "Voices Carry"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uejh-bHa4To

Depeche Mode, "Everything Counts"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t-gK-9EIq4

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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #19 on: January 24, 2010, 11:10:28 pm »

Til Tuesday, "Voices Carry"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uejh-bHa4To


Great one hit wonder.  The stuff she released under her own name in the 90s (especially the soundtrack to 'Magnolia') was really good.

And here's one of the best rock songs of the 80s (long before the whole "alternative" wave became mainstream):

Janes' Addiction - Mountain Song (1988)
"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #20 on: January 25, 2010, 12:07:18 am »
So much to chose from in the 1980s.  Going in the direction of dance music, here are a few gems:

Pet Shop Boys - "Always On My Mind" - 1987 - [link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDe60CbIagg[/link]

Nu Shooz - "I Can't Wait" - 1986 - [link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Yx0X-eHn8[/link]

The Dazz Band - "Let It Whip" - 1982 - [link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE7-tWEEejU[/link]

Blondie - "Rapture" - 1981 - [link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g[/link]

I could go on and on and on....

Henry




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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #21 on: January 25, 2010, 12:16:59 am »
Nu Shooz - "I Can't Wait" - 1986 - [link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Yx0X-eHn8[/link]

Henry

I love that song. Here is another great dance song, Shannon - "Give Me Tonight" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH1URg8wsM0&feature=fvw

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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #22 on: January 25, 2010, 04:48:08 am »
Some of the break dance/electric boogie and hip hop, that I remember from the 80's

Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam feat Full Force - I wonder if I take you home
Break Machine - Street dance
Rock Steady Crew - Hey you
Whodini - Magic's wand

Great time back then ... loved the 80's :)
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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #23 on: January 25, 2010, 09:35:55 am »


Kraftwerk:  Electric Cafe


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIZxfBJHVhU

Not sure if this one was the 70's or 80's


The telephone call :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DdcfjmStWk&feature=related



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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #24 on: January 25, 2010, 11:17:53 pm »
How about this Shalamar hit:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5d23xNp5EE
(remember who is the female lead singer?) edited because sexy Jody Watley had left Shalamar by then  :(

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« Reply #25 on: January 25, 2010, 11:26:24 pm »
How about this Shalamar hit:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5d23xNp5EE
(remember who is the female lead singer?) edited because sexy Jody Watley had left Shalamar by then  :(

I was about to tell you that :)

Still... here's the fantastic Ms. Watley and the David Fincher directed video to her (criminally ignored) "Most of All"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4dT9axFOYk

And then there was her gigantic #2 hit "Real Love" (video directed by Fincher as well)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl8MrB7MlJ4

Last, "Looking For A New Love"... Hasta la vista baby...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foq2yMj2QgQ

"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #26 on: January 26, 2010, 12:20:23 am »
How about this Shalamar hit:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5d23xNp5EE
(remember who is the female lead singer?) edited because sexy Jody Watley had left Shalamar by then  :(
just a few questions:
where was jermaine stewart? ???
why were they dressed like prince and andre cymone? ;D

and why did they go into the bldg where Olivia Newton John had the Xanadu club?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m1UWSD-FaA (Xanadu 1980)

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We were standing all alone
You were leaning in to speak to me
Acting like a mover shaker
Dancing to Madonna then you kissed me
And I think about it all the time
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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #27 on: January 26, 2010, 12:49:54 am »
And then there was her gigantic #2 hit "Real Love" (video directed by Fincher as well)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl8MrB7MlJ4

Last, "Looking For A New Love"... Hasta la vista baby...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foq2yMj2QgQ

God I had such a crush on Miss Whatley....  I don't know if many remember this, but it's Shannon.  She played at 6 Flags Atlantis in Hollywood, Florida in the mid 80's.  I wrote her fan club many times professing my love to her.  She never responded and it has really left a mark on my psyche.. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btTFMnpPuk0
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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #28 on: January 26, 2010, 12:52:03 am »



  My lord is this woman beautiful or what...  Shannon, write me!!!!
I despise the song Love is in the Air, you should too.

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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #29 on: January 26, 2010, 07:26:29 am »

Men at work == From the Land Down Under:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNT7uZf7lew

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« Reply #30 on: January 26, 2010, 07:35:18 am »

Remember when there was a question as to BOY George's sexual identity == Everyone's gadar was abuzz (one had to be deaf,dumb and blind).

Culture Club:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmQVWH9u8Xo&feature=related

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« Reply #31 on: January 27, 2010, 01:23:33 am »
First I will tantalize the board with various personal transmogrifications during the 80's, from Ian McCulloch-inspiration through Morrissey and to Vogue.

Then I will throw out some more suitable obscurities to trump the other offerings here, in my typical elitist fashion:

Best Instrumental Ever Made, Any Genre:
Simple Minds - Theme For Great Cities
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FfCxLvV2nc

Fiercest Homo to Have Off'd Himself with Prescription Sedatives in a Room of Whippets
The Associates (f/Billy MacKenzie) - Skipping
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZeC5zOkroQ

So Gay He Wasn't Gay
Japan (f/David Sylvian) - Quiet Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-ROH5SqNV0

Just Plain Fiercely Gay
Pete Shelley - Witness The Change
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH4RpQ1JgX8

Why Settle for Boy George When You Can Have A French Goth Transexual?
Richenel - L'Esclave Endormi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H9nFbFWcaI

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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #32 on: January 30, 2010, 09:32:20 am »


Are you looking for love? Start "Searching":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUs6BZPQAj0&feature=related

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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #33 on: January 30, 2010, 09:45:47 am »
Men at work == From the Land Down Under:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNT7uZf7lew

Now that brings back some memories for sure!

Check this out, you think your computers a bit dated?  Check out what Shannon's working with:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKPvqa26En4

Had to edit to add Shannon, Give Me Tonight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKkiNwG3NGE&feature=related
« Last Edit: January 30, 2010, 09:49:27 am by skeebo1969 »
I despise the song Love is in the Air, you should too.

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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #34 on: January 30, 2010, 10:04:18 am »

Skeebo,

If we still had to use that machine, most would probably go back to "Britannica". lol

Liked the song though.

Any "Rumours"?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsayCi8DDIs

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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #35 on: January 31, 2010, 12:51:27 am »
Now that brings back some memories for sure!

Check this out, you think your computers a bit dated?  Check out what Shannon's working with:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKPvqa26En4

Had to edit to add Shannon, Give Me Tonight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKkiNwG3NGE&feature=related

Great Shannon!  I forgot that song even existed!  :D

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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #36 on: January 31, 2010, 01:33:45 am »
First I will tantalize the board with various personal transmogrifications during the 80's, from Ian McCulloch-inspiration through Morrissey and to Vogue.

Then I will throw out some more suitable obscurities to trump the other offerings here, in my typical elitist fashion:

Fiercest Homo to Have Off'd Himself with Prescription Sedatives in a Room of Whippets
The Associates (f/Billy MacKenzie) - Skipping
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZeC5zOkroQ


Again 'cause I'm a Smiths-head, here's Morrissey's best solo single (along with two of his 90s' releases), which is supposedly an ode to MacKenzie.

Morrissey - Suedehead (1988 - UK #5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AvuweztG4Q

PS./ You look fierce in your little 80's collage.

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God I had such a crush on Miss Watley....  I don't know if many remember this, but it's Shannon.  She played at 6 Flags Atlantis in Hollywood, Florida in the mid 80's.  I wrote her fan club many times professing my love to her.  She never responded and it has really left a mark on my psyche..  

And for you Tom, I bet you also loved this lady (I had a crush on her in the same way that you loved Shannon).

Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance (1988 - UK & US #3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWsRz3TJDEY

Neneh Cherry - Manchild (1989 - UK #5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ9VBMBS3qE

Neneh Cherry - Kisses On the Wind (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymIprE2AXdg
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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #37 on: January 31, 2010, 04:06:17 am »
The eighties were incomplete without my girl Taylor Dane and "Prove your Love" and "Tell it to my Heart" I remember pulling folks to the dance floor and just go crazy. Those were my San Diego coming out days and as I reflect soem of the best of my life...and then the virus took hold and things never were the same.

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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #38 on: January 31, 2010, 09:31:28 am »
Love the Smiths...

Here's Musical Youth's "Pass the Dutchie" (1982)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFtLONl4cNc

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« Reply #39 on: January 31, 2010, 09:59:16 am »
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And for you Tom, I bet you also loved this lady (I had a crush on her in the same way that you loved Shannon).

Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance (1988 - UK & US #3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWsRz3TJDEY

Neneh Cherry - Manchild (1989 - UK #5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ9VBMBS3qE

Neneh Cherry - Kisses On the Wind (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymIprE2AXdg


LMAO thanks man that put a smile on my face for real-needed that.  Miss Cherry never got the airplay she deserved in the US.

Had to edit to add:

Love the Smiths...

Here's Musical Youth's "Pass the Dutchie" (1982)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFtLONl4cNc

That baseline use to have my neighbors pissed when I would drive down the street.  You didn't hear me coming, no you felt me coming.  My 1985 Cutlass Supreme was a rolling dance club with 8- 10" EV Force speakers in ithe back.... can still remember the police finding it laying flat on the ground in Liberty City.  You could look through the hood straight through to the trunk, they stripped that car bare, engine and all !
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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #40 on: January 31, 2010, 10:11:07 am »
I loved Neneh Cherry -- I'd just moved to NYC and it was all about her and Soul II Soul and Technotronic.

And of course this one:

Black Box - Ride on Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lOb799cTxM

ps: back in the day when it was still acceptable to snort poppers on a dance floor, not to mention a rag soaked in ethyl chloride!
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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #41 on: January 31, 2010, 10:59:51 am »
I loved Neneh Cherry -- I'd just moved to NYC and it was all about her and Soul II Soul and Technotronic.

And of course this one:

Black Box - Ride on Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lOb799cTxM

ps: back in the day when it was still acceptable to snort poppers on a dance floor, not to mention a rag soaked in ethyl chloride!

Ooh, major choon; when House went pop :).  When that song was #1 we used to annoy my mother by singing its most screechy parts from the back seat of the car, eventually she had to join in.  Martha Wash gave life to so many great dance ditties.

I remember when there was a rumour that Katrin (the one who lip-synched for Black Box) was a transgender male.  She really looks like there a re some male hormones going on there in the video for "Fantasy" (1990).

Since you mention Technotronic, and on the subject of lip-synching (I guess Ya Kid K was too tomboyish and having a hot model from Zaire ghosting the vocals made things better), here's the pop-house song that led us into the 90's (I'm sure veritas will start a thread for the best decade ever pretty soon):

Ultra-cheesy video, still one of the best dance tracks to go mainstream.
Technotronic Feat. Felly - Pump Up The Jam (1989 - UK & US #2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E9Wu1rhalo
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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #42 on: January 31, 2010, 11:58:53 am »


   Listening to a lot of this  makes me realize how much good music came out during this era.  The other night they had Freddie Mercury and Billy Idol back to back on the show Biography.  While we all know Mercury was a God, I think Billy Idol's music was a bit underated :

Eyes Without a Face :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXrWtcAiVJc

Then there was this, if you were into rap that is.  To tell the truth this may have never made airplay outside of Miami.  Ignore the name on the label and I think everyone would be surprised at how different this was from the garbage they put out later, of course this was before Luke came along:

The Revelation :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LANHKbIDFeA
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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #43 on: January 31, 2010, 12:23:19 pm »
The Revelation :
reminds me of the soundtrack to "Break Dancin'", "Krush Groove"
or something Kurtis Blow would have done  ;)
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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #44 on: January 31, 2010, 11:53:31 pm »
The eighties were incomplete without my girl Taylor Dane and "Prove your Love"
you were supposed to link us up to Ms Dayne, Darker! So here 'tis from 1988
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeOe_G-Nx8U

also from 1988, long before AI and being buddies with Simon,
Paula Abdul was fierce with C-C-C-Cold-Hearted Snake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7aShcmEksw

thanks for the memory trip of Black Box and ethyl chloride rags, Philly.
Ah! Those were da daze!
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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #45 on: February 01, 2010, 12:10:47 am »
thanks for the memory trip of Black Box and ethyl chloride rags, Philly.
Ah! Those were da daze!

  I have to ask, what is that used for?  I thought that was the stuff people used to make others pass out or something.  After being here roughly 4 years I finally figured out what poppers were, I was wrong when I thought you guys were talking about something from Chile's restautant obviously. 
   
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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #46 on: February 01, 2010, 12:25:00 am »
I loved Black Box...  I can even forgive the get vocals from one singer and give it to the model to lip sync.

Another highly produced band at the time was the KLF.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaQW7e8DfKY

Although not a huge Rap fan... I loved Snap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z33tH-JdPDg&feature=related

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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #47 on: February 01, 2010, 12:43:48 am »
thanks to the net, I was able to find and replace a lot of old KLF that I lost in a house fire years ago,
so I gotta mention this one too - Justified and Ancient (with Tammy Wynette)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPjggN-KByI

the KLF had been working on a movie project in 89 which was canceled near the end. the soundtrack (the white room) was finally released a couple years later
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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #48 on: February 01, 2010, 12:49:39 am »
After being here roughly 4 years I finally figured out what poppers were, I was wrong when I thought you guys were talking about something from Chile's restautant obviously.  

LOL...

ps: back in the day when it was still acceptable to snort poppers on a dance floor, not to mention a rag soaked in ethyl chloride!

Those must have been the days.  Too bad I was nowhere near clubbing age to experience that sight.

I bet one song that required heavy consumption of poppers was the [arguably] first House track ever.  I know Philly will fight me on this one.

1) Jesse Saunders - On And On (1984)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUeMFG4wjJw

And then came this lovely Deep House melody (in my opinion this should have been huge)

2) Mr. Fingers - Can You Feel It (1985)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckujrmo3sPw

3) And one of my all-time favourites whether House or not (perhaps the first cross-over house anthem to hit #1)

M|A|R|R|S - Pump Up the Volume (1987 - UK #1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGPhUr-T6UM
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Re: And then there was the 80s !
« Reply #49 on: February 01, 2010, 12:58:54 am »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP_2qjzj73Y
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And I think about it all the time
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