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
Still can't believe Jeopardy was a big enough hit for Weird Al to parody it!
i want to say some foreigner stuff might fall in appropriately here. maybe somebody who's a bit more knowledgeable can chime in?
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
been thinking about this song a lot too -- quarterflash "harden my heart"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNFSED77-GM
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 21:39 (four years ago) link
Lots of nice chords in that one, and a good vocal performance. Def. peak AOR.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 21:48 (four years ago) link
the fixx
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 21:48 (four years ago) link
Red Rider?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 21:50 (four 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