If She POLLED What She Wants: The Bangles "Greatest Hits" Poll

Don't think I was around for this..."Where Were You..." is one of my all time favourite covers.

Where by "the first album" you mean the s/t EP on IRS of course

All Over the Place would make more of my all-time lists if I didn't forget its existence.

ok I don't know how it is that I'd never heard this track before today, but it is SO GOOD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3NDyw7b5XU&feature=player_embedded#!

yeah i thought so too when i discovered it years after their 'hits' era.

yeah same, i first heard it on "poptopia 80's"

spock

Huh, never knew it was a Katrina and the Waves cover.

Me neither - was wondering how the Los Angeleno Bangles knew what a UB40 was though...

Technically it's a "Waves" cover -- song is written by K Rew and first recorded, with Rew on lead vocals, for the pre-Katrina version of the band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQRNy0AxL6U

Youtube just recommended this recent Susanna Hoffs show to me which I am enjoying right now. Check out the medley from about minute 11 to 14.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoAFzv-qEKQ

Always had a soft spot for "be with you" which is unusually eerie and unsettling for the Bangles. Also I think it's sung by Vicky.

Debbie actually

Yes, that's right. It was the blonde one.

Bunch of their albums on MySpace; really liked most of 2011's Sweethearts of the Sun---the cover of The Nazz' "Open My Eyes" sure seems like would've been Top Ten in their heyday http://www.myspace.com/thebangles/music/albums Think there's a prev 00s album not here?

On MySpace, you gotta hit Play All; try to choose tracks one by one, and MySpace Radio inserts itself--but can Pause the Play All whenever you get too excited.

Their last album was well liked 'round these parts.

Worth noting here that Susanna's album of this year is very nice too. It didn't hit me much at first, but has really grown on me.

Thread should be called Going Down To LiverPOLL

2012 album on her MySpace, but doesn't play, although 2009's When You're A Boy seems to be ready. Also, on the Music tab, lots of tracks from Under The Covers Vol.2 http://us.myspace.com/susannahoffs

That would be the best thread title!

ha -- I was such a Bangle fan that I swallowed a lot of disappointment in '91 when WYAB was released.

however "Boys Keep Swinging"!

John Entwistle plays bass on that song, oddly enough (and it's hard to tell, the way it was recorded).

You mean Bowie's or their version?? Although I imagine he'd do anything to get close to a Bangle (understandably so)

I'm still fond of "My Side of the Bed," which has those kittenish qualities that Hoffs could project so effortlessly.

xp Susanna Hoffs' solo version (on When You're A Boy). (and yeah, haha)

She's still O Susanna, yet doesn't seem *too* kiddie on Sweethearts..., nor does she get all autumn leaves broody or blearly like so many rockers past 40.

'blearly" yeah and bleary, beery

I never saw this video for "The Real World" until just a few minutes ago. I'd guess it's from 1982 or so, and Susuanna looks like a kid (she was 23-ish).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7uSyTZN0xk

And here she is 30 years later

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCVz-Kn3xEs

Posted this in the Paisley Underground thread

The Bangles played a stunningly gorgeous cover of "I'm Waiting For The Man" that merged seamlessly into "Manic Monday." After that Vicki announced "tonight we're playing as The Bangs - nothing later than 1984!" Time travel ensued. They were the best band back then. Certainly the best now.

Noted that during the big finale with everyone + Rodney on stage that no one sang with Wynn.

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, December 7, 2013 3:59 AM

Never heard of the top four results.

are you having a bubble?

"Walking Down Your Street"	0

;_;

Their biggest hit still sucks.

Totally spot-on, Al, especially Everything is All Over the Place recorded by a parody band.

I remember my copy of Daydream Nation had “Star-strangled Bangles” written in the runout groove.

yeah i've never liked this song either

I liked it, and to some degree still like it, because it came out when I was 8.

I thought Alfred was ragging on 'Manic Monday' or 'Eternal Flame', which wouldn't have been acceptable. However WLAE is fair game.

ditto crypto. i liked the song cos i heard it when it came out and i was six. "oh-way-oh" is still pretty cool but kind of amazing the main hook is that all the instruments drop out and the title is just spoken.

that write-up was otm on the video's impact tho. i recently re-watched it cos i saw the thumbnail of Hoffs rolling her eyes on youtube. babe appeal. lot of comments said the same. the video came during peak era MTV.

Free show last night in downtown LA. Annette is back full-time, so it's 1982 all over again - the first EP, some spot-on covers ("Pushing Too Hard" being the best), and played the hits as if they were a killer garage rock band. Which they always were.

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— Chris Barrus (@quartzcity) July 15, 2018

cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFaVFcPPHdM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jeZtxB_pGI

Nice, James Redd! The real deal.

Thanks, Tim. Was actually a bit afraid I had already posted those.

Seven years now since Sweetheart of the Sun, but that's one of those albums that is so good that it persists with the air of something masterful until they venture to try it again. Hoffs' solo album from the following year is also top drawer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPjxgRf7PHo

People dont talk about BBC by Ming Tea enough.