can we just agree all these songs are awesome but Huey Lewis
― suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
I was gonna say the same thing, except I like Huey Lewis too.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
Huey Lewis was my first concert, on the sports tour, went with my mom. I thought I was cool.
― JacobSanders, Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
Little did you know you were punking it up out there.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
i think i was wearing a blue mesh sleeveless shirt
― JacobSanders, Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
disco being the opposite of punk obvs
I thought prog was the opposite of punk.....
Nick Lowe and Billy Idol about the only ones here that have even some connection with punk rock.
I'll vote for Toni Basil, though Huey Lewis (which also has a sax hook) is a close 2nd.
And yes, for me at least, Rumours is more subversive than Never Mind the Bollocks, though i only *wish* it was as influential...
― Lee593 (Lee626), Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
Billy Idol is probably most A-to-B punk tied artist here, but Love and Rockets and Madness at least came from something adjacent to the scene. idg the Nick Lowe thing.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/7WOj5.gif
― suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
Patti Smith and the Pretenders took the major labels money, but Quaterflash probably listened to the major labels advice on how to make records?
Pat Benatar the obvious missing link in this equation (though she applies way more to Q-flash's followup hit "Find Another Fool" than to the one above.)
― xhuxk, Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
Nick Lowe and Billy Idol about the only ones here that have even some connection with punk rock.Billy Idol is probably most A-to-B punk tied artist here, but Love and Rockets and Madness at least came from something adjacent
Again -- Why not Devo? (Not arguing; just curious if some people really think they had no link to punk.)
― xhuxk, Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
wonder if Robert Palmer deserves a mention
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:33 (eleven years ago) link
Devo, true. Those pre-first album recordings that were compiled at some point in the 90s were pretty punky, but would anyone outside of Ohio locals have heard them at the time they were made?
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
Robert Palmer has roots ore in prog jazz rock than punk, coming from the Alan Bown.
― JacobSanders, Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
not that he's punk exactly -- he's a fellow traveler. "Johnny and Mary" or "Looking For Clues" woulda made sense on this comp though
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
Nick Lowe's punk credentials mainly from producing Elvis Costello and The Damned
― Lee593 (Lee626), Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
I've been hunting to the full tracklist to see what's missing from the list, but to no avail.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
to
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
Haha same here. I keep getting this thread.
xxpost
Also from being the main force behind the proto-punk, pub rock Brinsley Schwarz.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
Oh cmon Devo is totally punk
― albert rotman (loves laboured breathing), Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
Nick Lowe and Billy Idol about the only ones here that have even some connection with punk rock.I'll vote for Toni Basil
I'll vote for Toni Basil
toni basil had a connection to punk (or post-punk): devo played on/produced "mickey" and the album it was on.
― Sgt. Dee Dee The Brass Cupcake McCall (get bent), Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
I'd forgotten about Lowe's Damned production turn, but the EC and Brinsley Schwarz things don't really cut him into punk imo.
Toni Basil did a bunch of Devo covers at some point, too.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_4L_ZIES4g
― Sgt. Dee Dee The Brass Cupcake McCall (get bent), Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
oh lol I guess it was that very album. I've only ever heard them as standalones, so I had no idea they were on the Word of Mouth album.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
"So it Goes" was ~~kind of~~ linked to the punk scene, no?
― GoT SPOILER ALERT (Gukbe), Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
and "mickey" came from a power-pop song called "kitty":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOXVcyVEO6A
― Sgt. Dee Dee The Brass Cupcake McCall (get bent), Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
Wow. I don't think I ever knew about that.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
Early Elvis Costello (i.e. "Pump It Up") sounds plenty punk to me, but ymmv
― Lee593 (Lee626), Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
"kitty" was co-written by mike chapman, blondie's producer.
― Sgt. Dee Dee The Brass Cupcake McCall (get bent), Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
Toni Basil, the unacknowledged punk pioneer
― Lee593 (Lee626), Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
She's in the Monkees film "Head",,
― Mark G, Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
And Easy Rider...
― emil.y, Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
And Five Easy Pieces. And helped choreograph The T.A.M.I. Show.
― clemenza, Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
get bent, that's amazing.
― skip, Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
i think this compilation was put together by a punk scholar who just wanted to fuck with everyone.
― Sgt. Dee Dee The Brass Cupcake McCall (get bent), Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
voted Karma Chameleon. just come on.
― skip, Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
(xpost) that said, i think quarterflash probably has the most degrees of separation from actual punk culture. i voted for escape club but in retrospect i'd change my vote.
― Sgt. Dee Dee The Brass Cupcake McCall (get bent), Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
xxp - Wiki sez Toni Basil changed "Kitty" to "Mickey" in honour of Mickey Dolenz (and to make the song about a man).
There's some serious gender-bending going on in that cover though given all the lyrics she didn't gender-flip, like "i'll take it like a man". Kinda have new respect for Toni Basil....
― Lee593 (Lee626), Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
quarterflash were from portland; did they ever play at satyricon? did rindy ross ever have a beer with the wipers?
― Sgt. Dee Dee The Brass Cupcake McCall (get bent), Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
I've never even heard of Quarterflash.
― emil.y, Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
"harden my heart" and "find another fool" were fairly big hits, but somehow they weren't swept up with the current wave of '80s nostalgia.
― Sgt. Dee Dee The Brass Cupcake McCall (get bent), Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
quarterflash were from portland...did rindy ross ever have a beer with the wipers?
Probably not, but maybe with Nu Shooz. (Led by another husband-and-wife team -- maybe they double-dated!)
― xhuxk, Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:26 (eleven years ago) link
i recall liking 'harden my heart' a lot as a wee lad
― mookieproof, Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
"harden my heart" would be a good song for someone like carrie underwood to cover.
― Sgt. Dee Dee The Brass Cupcake McCall (get bent), Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:41 (eleven years ago) link
Voted for "She's A Beauty" just on principle. I will take any opportunity to cast a vote against that ghastly song.
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Monday, 30 April 2012 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
I really loved this ad though! If there were a DVD of compilation ads I would totally buy it. They are the perfect kind of ad.
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Monday, 30 April 2012 00:16 (eleven years ago) link
Abbbottt super-otm, unsurprisingly
― albert rotman (loves laboured breathing), Monday, 30 April 2012 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
voting huey lewis because
a)the bouncy groove and yuppie sentiment of "i want a new drug" represent everything fucked about the 80s
b)he just sounds and looks too wholesome to be anything but UNpunk
― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Monday, 30 April 2012 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
Secret Love!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIAhBaLap-g
Freedom Rock!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eGWW8KOQiom
"Hey man, remember the good old days? You know, war. Protests.""Going to JAIL!!"
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 30 April 2012 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eGWW8KOQio
OK sorry to hijack this thread with old '80s compilation commercials. Carry on...
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 30 April 2012 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Thursday, 3 May 2012 01:25 (eleven years ago) link
I noticed the resemblance to Pat Benatar too when I looked at the video. Mind you, Justin Bieber sometimes looks like Darby Crash to me.
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 May 2012 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
I could see that actually.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 3 May 2012 01:31 (eleven years ago) link
bieber/crash
― billstevejim, Thursday, 3 May 2012 01:32 (eleven years ago) link
bieby pyn
― Sgt. Dee Dee The Brass Cupcake McCall (get bent), Thursday, 3 May 2012 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
Franz Biebercrash: the punishment begins.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MuhwxTZs8M8/SZW8pE3mdZI/AAAAAAAAAMA/jI8iU7rYw3Y/s400/displayimage.jpg
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 May 2012 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
i'm thinking that westwood promotions put this out via warner/time-life or warner special products, but discogs' warner special products entry doesn't mention it.
― get wolves (get bent), Friday, 4 May 2012 05:55 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, you can see the Warner "W" logo on the cds in the commercial. It's become my mission to find a real world copy of this fucker.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 May 2012 05:58 (eleven years ago) link
^ saw that, but then decided it was maybe just a warner-like westwood logo, dunno
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Friday, 4 May 2012 06:03 (eleven years ago) link
it would probably belong somewhere on this page:
http://www.bsnpubs.com/warner/wsp/wsp4500.html
― get wolves (get bent), Friday, 4 May 2012 06:05 (eleven years ago) link
Everlasting Lovehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZfxyhG12y8
"Do you recognize this dance? It's called The Shag"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lSFDVhcD1g
Senior Promhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVsrcl55fmU
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 4 May 2012 12:35 (eleven years ago) link
the Totally '90s comp contendo referred to upthread is actually comparably peculiar.
Tracklisting:
1. Unbelievable - EMF 2. The Only Living Boy In New Cross - Carter 3. Real Real Real - Jesus Jones 4. Sleeping Satellite - Tasmin Archer 5. Mr. Wendall - Arrested Development 6. Trouble - Shampoo 7. Well Did You Evah - Deborah Harry & Iggy Pop 8. Rubberband Girl - Kate Bush 9. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight - Robert Palmer & UB40 10. It Should Have Been Me - Adeva 11. Live Your Life Be Free - Belinda Carlisle 12. Outstanding - Kenny Thomas 13. I Like To Move It - Reel II Real 14. Independence - Lulu 15. Careful - Horse 16. Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
― the endless white snow has never felt more textile (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 4 May 2012 14:23 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know, that is way more 90s than PUNK is punk
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Friday, 4 May 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
yeah but it's like three or four no-brainers buffering a whole lot of pretty counterintuitive picks
― some dude, Friday, 4 May 2012 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
that's three or four more than the PUNK compilation has!
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Friday, 4 May 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
I guess the idea of hardening your heart is a punk sentiment, but I'm not sure it's worth a distant finish behind bands with clear new wave affiliations.
at a guess, Quarterflash may have lost votes by being the only one on this list to be completely unknown in Europe?
that 90s comp looks like it came free with 10 purchases of a soft drink in early 1994, so I guess it is pretty 90s
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 4 May 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry for bumping such an old post, but, I have been searching for this for at least 5-6 years. I think I finally solved the mystery last night. Rather than bore you with all the details, I'll just refer you to the Reddit post where I explain the full story: https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/3o3ens/minor_mystery_solved_90s_punk_cd_commercial/
The bolded titles are the songs not in the commercial (10), the other 26 match up with the known track listing featured in the commercial.
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80's Retro (Warner Special Products OPCD-3536) (discog info here: https://musicbrainz.org/release/43b18d5a-f488-4880-bac1-b8335c64a43c)
CD 11 - Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar2 - Who Can It Be Now? - Men At Work3 - Voices Carry - Til Tuesday4 - Our House - Madness5 - One Thing Leads To Another - The Fixx6 - Rock Lobster - The B-52s7 - What You Need - INXS8 - And We Danced - The Hooters9 - She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby10 - I Want A New Drug - Huey Lewis & The News11 - Whip It - DEVO12 - Talking In Your Sleep - The Romantics13 - Be Near Me - ABC14 - She's A Beauty - The Tubes15 - Human - The Human League16 - Send Me An Angel - Real Life17 - Harden My Heart - Quarterflash18 - Eyes Without A Face - Billy Idol
CD 21 - Hold Me Now - Thompson Twins2 - Stray Cat Strut - Stray Cats3 - So Alive - Love and Rockets4 - Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles5 - Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe6 - Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House7 - Someday, Someway - Marshall Crenshaw8 - Jeopardy - Greg Kihn Band9 - Karma Chameleon - Culture Club10 - My Sharona - The Knack11 - 867-5309 (Jenny) - Tommy Tutone12 - Chains of Love - Erasure13 - I Ran (So Far Away) - A Flock of Seagulls14 - Wild Wild West - The Escape Club15 - Mickey - Toni Basil16 - Precious To Me - Phil Seymour17 - You Might Think - The Cars18 - Here Comes The Rain Again - Eurythmics
― LinkTGF, Friday, 9 October 2015 14:15 (eight years ago) link