Blinded by Science - Thomas Dolby

No greater tune did I hear throughout the '80s ...

(Although I admit that I can listen to "Shiny Shiny" by Haysie Fantasie more times than is probably good for me. And I really liked Paul Hardcastle's "19")

I listen to a lot of 80s music ... pop, punk, and metal.

I LIKED Twisted Sister dammit ... even went to see then in concert.

Oh, in other 80s heavy metal news ... Great White burned down a nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island last night when their unlicensed pyrotechnics display ignited some foam on the ceiling of the club ... 75 dead thus far and they're still bringing bodies out of the club.

Dad asked me if I wanted to run up to Touch of Texas tonight. It seems he's expecting a club fire trifecta to take out a buncha C&W freaks. He's a strange man.

Texas touch...is that like Texas toast?

Touch of Texas is neitherYummy, Freaky, Crunchy norFun but rather Lame

Oh My! I do recall part of the 80s was the whole Travolta-Urban-Cowboy thang. "Lookin' fa lub in aw da wong paces"
Do they have a bull? TOT's layering of that with American Idol marketing projects in the North East I find particularly... well...I'm at a loss.:)

If'n they hadda bull Ah'd think about it. :) What they have is white people, lots of them, in cowboy hats, fancy shirts, boots, mini skirts and pressed jeans, dancing in lines, as instructed by the Man, getting loaded and driving their oh so shiney 4x4's back to suburbia. Hmmm... theres a stage play in there somewhere.

Hey! Who hijacked Davids thread?

Mullets, Parachute Pants, Flock of Seagulls, Cindy Lauper.... discuss.

(forcing 80s link)
Amazingly true, I went to a middle school musical production of "Footloose" last night. I believe one pivotal scene was set in a place not unlike Touch of Texas (this was rendered in painted plywood). The kids made the most of 80s fashions. The red leather Jackson jacket was present. cowl necks and low cuffed boots. This sounds like its not true, but it is. And it was great! Bacon, Kenny Loggins would be proud. (Last year they put on "Tommy".)

the vapors, "turning japanese". i checked, its 80's, just barely. :)

~james

Mine's a guilty pleasure -- I'd have to go with Tears for Fears "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"

My sister-in-law votes for "Manic Monday"...
The brother-in-law votes for the Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams are made of This" (good choice!)

Badger votes for A-ha, "Take on Me" (Yeesh...) :whofart:


- Pie

I just informed Rho of this thread...she will probably come on here and post her entire CD collection (which is heavy on 80s stuff).

I can't pick just one...too many good songs to choose (from the obscure to the obvious), so I present a list:

Ozzy Osbourne--"Crazy Train"
Wham--"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"
Depeche Mode--"Never Let Me Down Again"
New Order--"Bizarre Love Triangle"
Erasure--"Chains of Love"
10,000 Maniacs--"Like the Weather"
Living Colour--"Cult of Personality"
Talking Heads--"Once in a Lifetime"
Nitzer Ebb--"Captivate"
Elvis Costello--"Veronica"
John Lennon--"Nobody Told Me"
The Church--"Under the Milky Way"
Van Halen--"Jump"
B.D.P--"Criminally Minded"
Bryan Ferry--"Kiss and Tell"
Dead Milkmen--"Punk Rock Girl"
Ministry--"Stigmata"
Nine Inch Nails--"Head Like a Hole"

I'll fess up to starting it ... it's my job, after all. But I did have help. ;)

I've been pretty much watching the death toll climb on the club fire throughout the day ... (96 when I left work, but was 75 when I left FOR work. I'm also expecting deaths of a number of critical patients in hospitals, as that is the way of the 3rd degree burn victim) ... My fascination relates to the fact that it was a big damn fire, apparently caused primarily by human stupidity, has the extra sardonic touch of all the video footage being shot by a local TV station who wouldn't have given a damn about Great White's performance otherwise, but they were shooting a series on "club safety". Talk about synchronicity, the interconnecting causal principle, of course, not the cool song by The Police. Also, my sister lives in West Warwick, RI. I'm still waiting to hear from her. She has a total dislike of any heavy metal music and the club scene so she wouldn't have been at the club, but I'm anxious to find out if anyone she knows was.

In an attempt to make minor amends, in re: thread piracy ... I was listening to my 80's New Wave Millenium CD in the car on the way home (switched over from Soundtrack from OZ halfway home) and was reminded of another Oh-So-Great tune ... Sweet Dreams by the Eurythmics.

Cool! Thanks for the tip. Cusack's musical taste is spot on.

I called John today and he agrees that "Rock the Casbah" is the greatest song of the 80's.

Watch "High Fidelity" as well. It rules.

Yah, caught that one. Rule it does.