Head East--Never Been Any Reason fits this perfectly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEkWa96pBkw
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V88yyayq6AYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb-2gFO1uUc
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
Men At Work's first couple of records perhaps?
Tuff Darts
― The 5 FPs (MaresNest), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
Oh and maybe some early/mid period Nits records would suit.
― The 5 FPs (MaresNest), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link
Oh man, Sniff'nThe Tears totally.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
Doll by Doll were maybe too much their own thing, but I guess some of their music might fit here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSajH3ijMgQ
― soref, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
The Brains - Money Changes Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLWbp3w2eqM
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
beat me to it!
― Brad C., Tuesday, 18 November 2014 22:25 (nine years ago) link
'82, but may be what you're looking for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRI_02EOsyI
Also in searching for that I found an NJ cover band from 1983:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXKsIFLfB64
― forbodingly titled It's True! It's True! (Eazy), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 22:26 (nine years ago) link
This is 80s, but it still fits. Translator--Everywhere That I'm Not
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEwwc1Vovkk
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 22:33 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XdaYYQZesY
― The Velvet Fog called me a motherfucker (Sandy), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 01:34 (nine years ago) link
Hawkwind had always been synth-y, but this was like they decided to be Sparks for 3 1/2 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFPLgGWMndc
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 02:01 (nine years ago) link
Looking at that clip makes me wish Marc Bolan had lived long enough to have gone full New Wave.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 02:05 (nine years ago) link
I don't know how new wave Mad Love was in the long run, but Ronstadt absolutely nailed "Party Girl."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxJib9v0buk
― Pict in a blanket (WilliamC), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 03:35 (nine years ago) link
Wait, "Never Been Any Reason" was number TWO FREAKING HUNDRED in the classic rock poll??? That's wrong by an order of magnitude.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 04:09 (nine years ago) link
(1981 technically)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-rEVVAw3-0
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 04:21 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVpSoj-kHEU
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 04:24 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m17rt_xo9x0
― cock chirea, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 04:41 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0xwSp1HVRE
― cock chirea, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 04:43 (nine years ago) link
it's from the early 80s but what about greg kihn's break up song?
― dynamicinterface, Thursday, 20 November 2014 03:01 (nine years ago) link
so was Trans the apex or nadir of this stuff?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om2Lt94Ltw4
― saki, Thursday, 20 November 2014 03:39 (nine years ago) link
Arlyn Gale. Kinda dumb song/video & maybe not classic rock enough, but look at this fuckin guy. Also Omar Hakim is on drums!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkVW-y1pbME
― nakh nakh nakhin on chivan's door (crüt), Thursday, 20 November 2014 03:48 (nine years ago) link
Gotta post some dB's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWN-adiDNtM
― that's not my post, Thursday, 20 November 2014 07:16 (nine years ago) link
and the Mystery Dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTS09Wo1xhI
― that's not my post, Thursday, 20 November 2014 07:31 (nine years ago) link
Random Hold
― rising tones cross (anagram), Thursday, 20 November 2014 08:57 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRFKRHa9ky0
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 20 November 2014 09:52 (nine years ago) link
Wait, "Never Been Any Reason" was number TWO FREAKING HUNDRED in the classic rock poll???
I think that song only got played on FM in the midwest. It was never on NY radio. Too bad, because it's a masterpiece.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 20 November 2014 14:35 (nine years ago) link
The Plugz would fit I think, although it's been a while since I heard any records.
― Rita, Sue and Peter Gabriel Two (MaresNest), Thursday, 20 November 2014 14:46 (nine years ago) link
Loved the Plugz I could find, but did they use keyboards? Mostly remember stomping beats and Tito's wail. For crate digging, try 15-60-75 The Numbers Band's Among The Wandering, in there between Graham Parker & The Roumour and a really butch Huey Lewis and The News, esp. on tracks like "High Heels Are Dangerous."But not to forget the obvious, overlooked since this thread's original references: Blondie. Parallel Lines and Eat To The Beat were the ones I've played the hell out of; s/t debut is good too, in a tres-garage-y way, though they're better w bigger production; Best of Blondie is handy car disc and has some remixes;Essential Blondie: Picture This Live has shows from their prime; No Exit is an unusually strong come-back album, though I've neglected it.
― dow, Thursday, 20 November 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link
"Rumour," that is (jeez)
― dow, Thursday, 20 November 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
I don't think I knew "Never Been Any Reason" before I moved to Europe in the late 90s. (was east coast US before then).
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 20 November 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMNU7yR1Gp8
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 21 November 2014 06:43 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yRRqxJHQmA
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 21 November 2014 06:44 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pFdkkjGiEs
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 21 November 2014 06:45 (nine years ago) link
'The Yachts' fit right into the original descrip.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 21 December 2014 22:20 (nine years ago) link
the Knack?
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Sunday, 21 December 2014 22:29 (nine years ago) link
the Cars pwn this thread
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
is it just me or has every youtube link in this thread vanished into copious white space?
― Brad C., Tuesday, 17 September 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
you can still access the links (though some of the videos have been deleted) if you view this thread with images turned off
― hoostanbank de reason lyrics mp4 hd video download (unregistered), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link
i.e. if you go to Preferences and uncheck "show images"
― hoostanbank de reason lyrics mp4 hd video download (unregistered), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
donnie iris to the rescue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH5Arbm47IQ
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
^_^
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
seeing that video after having known the song from childhood was quite a shock there was definitely a time when i thought this song was by the cars (i was a child, going by ears only bc radio) for me it has that rock/new wave sound + fire/desire hilarious lyrics
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
wow, that is a good one - total sub-Cars and a hilariously shitty video too!
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link
Donnie Iris was in the Jaggerz!
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
Canada represents pretty well in this category, The Kings, Aldo Nova, Max Webster/Kim Mitchell, Tom Cochrane ("Lunatic Fringe"), maybe even "Tom Sawyer"-era Rush.
― henry s, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
remember seeing this in heavy rotation during very early MTV.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
(this is probably one of the white spaces upthread)
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
That Donnie Iris song is awesome.
My friend and I talk about this transition era a lot, when the fashions (musical and clothing alike) were sort of hovering between decades. He brings up "Freaks & Geeks" a lot, which he thinks nailed the era perfectly. He's a bit older than me so remembers that period pretty well, when Zeppelin and the Who were still around but people were also getting into new wave and stuff. I mean, Dave Edmunds hovered around in limbo for a long time because he was signed to Led Zeppelin's Swan Song label! (fwiw Rockpile's "Seconds of Pleasure" was released just a couple of weeks after the death of John Bonham.)
Anyway, I want to say just pre-MTV these little subgenres hadn't quite been codified yet. Black music was totally cordoned off, most anything with a guitar was "rock" music, corporate rock ruled but metal and punk and whatnot were coming in from the margins ...
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
Greg Kihn "The Breakup Song" and others belong in here too? I loved "Jeopardy" when I was a super little kid. IDK which youtubes survived this thread and which don't but that song popped into my mind with Donnie Iris.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAJNwPWVmNc
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 21:29 (four 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