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

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.

So, um, don't recall ever seeing this video before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAbYsxd3ADg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_otzlonv1o
Thread of missing Tim E.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMdvPYw0hA4
1984 Hero Takes A Fall/Going Down to Liverpool on Letterman. Don't worry, no ringers. Great live sound.

Although beware of mysterious appearance of Sting in the middle.

Don't remember seeing this either, at least the first part in the car with the mysterious driver.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj7OJeyhq2Q

Chris O'Leary just completed a Bangles entry for his 64 Quartets project that will have you rethinking the band entirely, in a great way. It's subscribers-only right now but will go live in the near future. In the meantime he linked this equally striking and sadly necessary read from November:

https://rachel-macari.medium.com/you-cant-always-get-what-you-want-being-a-bangles-fan-2c3886497e1e

And Chris's aforementioned piece is now live:

https://64quartets.wordpress.com/2021/03/19/6-the-bangles/

Just saw that, wonder when I will have time to read it, looks amazing.

It is.

That was really good, thanks. Things I never knew include:

Its foundation was an Alesis drum machine, a garbage can lid, a Peruvian shaker, a gong, and an Emulator-generated bongo sample, the latter via Mitchell Froom, who was recording at the Sunset Sound Factory at the same time (the “Egyptian” rhythm tracks are a kooky ancestor of the Latin Playboys album that Froom and Different Light‘s engineer Tchad Blake did a decade later).