https://imageevent.com/halpen/1977montypunk
― Julius Caesar Memento Hoodie (bendy), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link
‘Driver’s Seat’ by Sniff n’ the Tears, little too polished for punk, bit too edgy for classic rock. No surprise PTA used it on Boogie Nights when things started going south.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpo_BO5vFII
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 17:37 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzOrbhiaw_s
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B0hmevx1R8
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 17:51 (four years ago) link
1980, but Alice Cooper - "Clones (We're All)" is classic
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 20:22 (four years ago) link
― Together Again Or (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 20:38 (four years ago) link
Dug out the Pretty Things 1980 reunion LP (and cheapie bin perennial) Cross Talk. Quite Costello-y, Post-Pub Rock. Phil May even affects a tongue in cheek Sting accent at one point.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 April 2020 01:43 (four years ago) link
1980: X-Teens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqnonXMqstw
― that's not my post, Thursday, 23 April 2020 01:56 (four years ago) link
Now spinning Phil Lynott's Solo In Soho, a good bit of which fits in here.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 April 2020 03:23 (four years ago) link
Carolyne Mas? His first three albums were in an album haul given to me. Surprised that I still remembered "Stillsane," which only made it to #71 in the States, but turns out it was Top 10 in Toronto (the follow-up, "Quote Goodbye Quote" was a hit here too). I suspect she has completely vanished from playlists by now. She's 65 and keeps a homepage.
https://carolynemas.com/
― clemenza, Saturday, 16 January 2021 22:09 (three years ago) link
"Her first three albums..."
Okay, Shaun Cassidy has zero rock cred...but I had no idea about his bit w Todd Rundgren.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgT98lU7aws
― Santiago de Compostelo (I M Losted), Saturday, 6 February 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link
...really caught on to the new wave "paranoid man" theme going around at the time.
― Santiago de Compostelo (I M Losted), Saturday, 6 February 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
Is he trying to sound like Iggy Pop?
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 February 2021 21:10 (three years ago) link
(ctrl+f "the only ones" zero results)
hrmph.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, 6 February 2021 21:39 (three years ago) link
yeah I like that Shaun album it’s cool!!
― brimstead, Sunday, 7 February 2021 00:25 (three years ago) link
think utopia plays on it?
My friend does a '80s Rock video TwitchStream every Saturday night. Tonight my socks were knocked off by Heart's 1980 B-52's move "Break" (see what they did there?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygM6rQebOoM
Not sure if the promo vid is up. It's a cheapie performance clip on a white set with Nancy rocking some tight tartan trousers.
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 6 June 2021 02:50 (two years ago) link
I think this thread is mainly looking for power pop bands that embraced synths. Only thing I can really suggest is the band 20/20 and their self titled debut album.
― ClimbingThieves, Monday, 7 June 2021 22:17 (two years ago) link
There was another thread strictly about Classic Rock bands and their New Wave moves, but this thread's been revived more often.
There were a couple of really good examples of what this thread was really about in that TwitchStream; I'll DM my friend to see what they were, as I didn't take good enough notes.
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 7 June 2021 23:04 (two years ago) link
This is waaay too late, but HOLY FUCK at this Devo/B-52's move by...Styx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx2xB4CJj5U
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 13 June 2021 00:18 (two years ago) link
More early Oingo Boingo than B-52s IMO. Terrible either way.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 13 June 2021 00:38 (two years ago) link
I forget that Oingo covered a lot of the same junk culture territory the B's did.
Of course the song is terrible, but of all the dinosaur bands to go out the New Wave window, was not expecting STYX to commit so fully (was one of their final singles before the first breakup, a studio bait track on a double live set).
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 13 June 2021 01:15 (two years ago) link
of all the dinosaur bands to go out the New Wave window, was not expecting STYX to commit so fully
It's kind of amazing the other four guys didn't just back Dennis DeYoung into a corner and beat his ass whenever he brought one of these stupid faux-Broadway ideas in.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 13 June 2021 01:47 (two years ago) link
“Music Time” is my all-time favorite “sorry bout the last album!” single
― I Occasionally Post on ILX (2x5), Sunday, 13 June 2021 03:10 (two years ago) link
There's a couple of songs on the Woman Love LP (1980) by Burton Cummings that fit this: "Feels All Wrong" and maybe "Mile a Second". The rest is the typical ballads and 50s style rockers. In my defence, I found this record in a box on the street with no cover.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 13 June 2021 03:12 (two years ago) link
1983, but still, how many of Mitch’s contemporaries could cover Prince this well?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJOy8oT20qs
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 13 June 2021 04:16 (two years ago) link
xhuxk's essay pertains:
https://accidentalevolution.wordpress.com/2021/06/11/150-best-albums-of-1979/
― Thus Sang Freud, Sunday, 13 June 2021 15:29 (two years ago) link
I have an obsession with this genre / period...and had forgotten all about this! Not an obscurity - I remember this from the radio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK4zm7SLvbk
― Night of Olay: The Resurrection (I M Losted), Saturday, 11 December 2021 23:27 (two years ago) link
That's great, sounds as if La Düsseldorf is his backing band!
― willem, Monday, 13 December 2021 15:46 (two years ago) link
It's most probably Midge Ure?
― Maresn3st, Monday, 13 December 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
Yep, Midge Ure. Wikipedia also says this was used as the TOTP theme song for 5 years:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Pearl_(song)
― enochroot, Monday, 13 December 2021 18:59 (two years ago) link
1984, but...NEW WAVE RONNIE MILSAP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aiim9sVWWXA
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 5 March 2022 02:07 (two years ago) link
Herve is that you?
― calstars, Saturday, 5 March 2022 02:14 (two years ago) link
Belated thanks for that Ronnie Milsap video, unbelievably, wonderfully, over-the-top 80s.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 21:31 (two years ago) link
Yes, everything about it is deeply of its moment. If it was indeed the first country video played on MTV, they checked every single box for a veteran act’s makeover.
― bendy, Friday, 11 March 2022 12:11 (two years ago) link
Good faux-Cars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVrILDo5CZg
Clocks: "She Looks Alot Like You", 1982
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 12 March 2022 03:07 (two years ago) link
Not quite 1970s (1980) and never played on classic rock stations afaik, but I've always had a soft spot for Gary Myrick's "She Talks in Stereo." I saw him back then for like a dollar for some low-admission record label promotion night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKhmK_sD2uo
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 14 March 2022 20:18 (two years ago) link