TS: Belinda Carlisle's "Mad About You" vs Jane Wiedlin's "Rush Hour"

Every day is Jane Wiedlin day. Total underrated pop genius.

having another jane wiedlin day
she is an inspiration

i love belinda but never got into jane's solo stuff maybe I should investigate this matter and change that

omg you SHOULD
she is like a good mood machine

:)

What do you recommend I check out first. I will do this!

Fur!

OMG My sister had that first Belinda album when she was in grade school and used to sing along to it. So I heard it a thousand times. Cute kids with good taste are irresistable.

If you created an iTunes playlist with (in this order):

Mad About You
Rush Hour
Heaven is a Place on Earth
Leave a Light On
Circle in the Sand

you would convert anyone

i did a "heaven is a place on earth" at karaoke once, and twirled like my life depended on it

re: thread title - slight edge to "rush hour", just because sometimes i'm not into BC's quiver

and twirled like my life depended on it

awwwwwwwwww

Yo Alfred your list is missing "I Get Weak." It's essential to really cultivating Belinda fandom.

i get weak >> heaven is a place on earth >>>> circle in the sand which is p zzzz imo

that's how I feel about "I Get Weak," but the video (and hawt guy) puts it over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmMCXLdNrz8

circle in the sand my fave solo belinda by many miles

Tom and Marcello have good bits on "Heaven is a Place on Earth."

circle in the sand could've been such a great stevie nicks single, you could even get lindsey to nail that little solo

I think Heaven is my fav but Mad About you is pretty great too. I love her so much.

Rick Nowels went on to work with Nicks.

Rush Hour: the song that made me embrace pop gaiety.

I started following JW on Twitter and so far, this is an interesting interview where she talks about punk and punks and being a woman

http://www.examiner.com/pop-culture-in-seattle/go-go-s-return-to-seattle-jane-wiedlin-q-a-pt-1

And of course, that’s the only way it could be if you’re all women.

Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Thank you.

Is that the kind of obstacle you faced being an all female band?

Yeah. Not so much from within the punk movement; we got fairly good support really early on because it was such an inclusive movement. But the outside world for sure were like “This is ridiculous.” Like I remember going early on to local radio stations, and the DJs would just be like “What a joke. Girls?” It was crazy sexist. I mean, the things people used to say to us, a lawsuit would be started over today. Another funny thing about being women, there was the boring and obvious rumors that we had somehow slept with someone to get somewhere, which is just so cliché and stupid.

I'd never heard the full Fur album until last night. Am I crazy in thinking this sounds a lot like Madonna in places? The production is a lot like True Blue/Like a Prayer, and that probably plays a big part, but even Jane's voice sounds like her every once in a while.

Just now listening to Jane's Tangled album from 1990. It's vv good! Why have I never listened to it before?

I heard the title track on the Pretty Woman soundtrack.