met at work = those awkward intermission interviews during the met live in hd screenings
― balls, Monday, 10 February 2014 04:06 (ten years ago) link
I'd need to read Paul Grein or somebody at Billboard at the time who said Cargo flopped. Three million instead of six million units shipped is nothing to sneeze at, and the album woudl've gone to #1 had Thriller not parked itself. Another fun fact: Thriller dethroned Business as Usual months earlier.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 February 2014 13:00 (ten years ago) link
Maybe there was less of a "need" for Men at Work, with the Police returning at the same time?
― mr.raffles, Monday, 10 February 2014 14:02 (ten years ago) link
I have to say in Safety Dance's defense (I didn't vote for it): I heard it in a big LA dance club in '84, I forget how the fuck we ended up there but there we were, teenagers, and it came on. that synth sound, through a giant 80s system - playing that little dum-dum-dum da-da dum-dum-dum figure? it sounded like nothing else in the world. it came from the damn future, even though the dude's visual schtick was all ren-faire. it just sounded incredible. this left a huge impression on me & I'd guess on many others who heard in in this sort of context.
― joe perry has been dead for years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 10 February 2014 14:07 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Ey1Agtz.gif
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Monday, 10 February 2014 14:48 (ten years ago) link
that dance wasn't as safe as they said it was
― voodoo chili, Friday, 14 February 2014 04:32 (ten years ago) link
men without hats lied, ppl died
― balls, Friday, 14 February 2014 05:28 (ten years ago) link
man, I just consulted my Whitburn top ten book, and for a brief moment in May and June '83 Cargo and BAU sat in the top ten at the same time. From November '82 to summer '83 they were the biggest band in the US (BAU sat 15 weeks at #1).
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 February 2014 12:00 (ten years ago) link
Here's a bunch..
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 July 2021 10:18 (two years ago) link