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― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
Haha same here. I keep getting this thread.
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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
Voting "Karma Chameleon" because Boy George inspired a book called Like Punk Never Happened.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 30 April 2012 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
MTV used to constantly play the live video for Quarterflash Find Another Fool, which contained one of the great 80s sax solos.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 30 April 2012 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
does Huey Lewis get a pass for playing with the group that backed up on Elvis Costello's debut?
― President Keyes, Monday, 30 April 2012 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
huey had severed his ties with clover by that point iirc
would be kind of hilarious if the rest of this comp was filled with like "lexicon devil" and "police story" and this was just what they put in the commercial to grab the curious
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 30 April 2012 01:44 (eleven years ago) link
which makes the crucial point that many of the New Pop kewpie dolls started off as punks.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 30 April 2012 02:15 (eleven years ago) link
So one way to determine the most unpunk of the above is to determine which of them would have existed without punk.
It's really hard to determine whether x could happened if y had not happened (when y did happen - all these artists, including Quarterflash, exist in a reality where punk happened) but I have no trouble imagining that Cars-style new wave could have emerged without the Ramones or Sex Pistols also needing to emerge. Stuff like Flock of Seagulls or Erasure seems to me to owe more to disco and/or Kraftwerk than to punk rock.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 30 April 2012 02:57 (eleven years ago) link
Man, I wonder how many of those "only available from this TV offer" albums they sold. Had to be significant...
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 30 April 2012 03:19 (eleven years ago) link
Erasure seems to me to owe more to disco and/or Kraftwerk than to punk rock.
The Quietus had a nice roundup of Andy Bell's 13 favorite albums, many of which are slightly more punk than this compilation's offerings. "I had been a rather reluctant punk as a teenager, finding the whole movement too aggressive for a Peterborough gay boy..."
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Monday, 30 April 2012 03:22 (eleven years ago) link
can't find any evidence outside youtube that this thing ever existed
― Choc. Clusterman (contenderizer), Monday, 30 April 2012 03:43 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, it would make sense if it's a fake.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 30 April 2012 03:54 (eleven years ago) link
It's brilliant if so!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 30 April 2012 03:55 (eleven years ago) link
The reason I'm convinced it's legit is because the friend who posted it on fb had mentioned in the past seeing this commercial when it was new and was happy to finally find it online.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 April 2012 03:58 (eleven years ago) link
sessions (the label) definitely existed, but there isn't much about it online.
― Sgt. Dee Dee The Brass Cupcake McCall (get bent), Monday, 30 April 2012 04:07 (eleven years ago) link
apparently, a company at the same address produced two other 36 song collections:
All for Love - 36 '90s rock balladsTotally '90's - 36 original hits from the '90's
― Choc. Clusterman (contenderizer), Monday, 30 April 2012 04:09 (eleven years ago) link
I really hope everyone who "starred" in one of these ads was in on the joke and not really some struggling actor who thought of this as a stepping stone to fame.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 April 2012 04:13 (eleven years ago) link
xxp - is it a sessions release? the end of the ad says that it was put out by "westwood promotions". maybe that's the same thing, i dunno.
― Choc. Clusterman (contenderizer), Monday, 30 April 2012 04:15 (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