I played a Rickenbacker 360 at Guitar Center a month or so ago and it was like, wow, this is truly a beautiful musical instrument.
― timellison, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 03:34 (eight years ago) link
It was like two grand or something.
nah they picked the right H&O
― brimstead, Monday, August 24, 2015 10:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
song is played
― mods = chickenshit idiots (D-40), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 05:02 (eight years ago) link
anyway idk why people are mocking the george benson cut when its a certified quincy jones / rod temperton slapper in the vein of 'rock with you' 'stomp' and 'ai no corrida'
20 favs that didnt make it
Bananarama: "Cruel Summer"Marshall Jefferson: "Move Your Body"Audio Two: "Top Billin'"Bernard Wright: "Who Do You Love"Michael Franks: "Lotus Blossom"Shirley Lites: "Heat You Up"SOS Band: "Just Be Good to Me"Prince: I Could Never Take the Place of Your ManDebarge: "I Like It"Billy Idol: "Rebel Yell"Paris: I Choose YouNick Straker Band: "A Little Bit of Jazz"Gwen Guthrie: "7th Heaven"Eric B and Rakim: My MelodyGypsy Kings: "Bamboleo"Lil Louis: "French Kiss"Spoonie Gee: Love RapAnita Baker: Sweet LovePaul Simon: "The Boy In the Bubble"Cameo: "She's Strange"
― mods = chickenshit idiots (D-40), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 05:09 (eight years ago) link
also, everything on Hotter than July by Stevie Wonder
― mods = chickenshit idiots (D-40), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 05:10 (eight years ago) link
5 more
Keith Sweat: "How Deep Is Your Love"Alicia Meyers: I Want To Thank YouLL Cool J: "I'm Bad"Jan Hammer: Crockett's ThemeRegina Belle: "Baby Come To Me"
ok im done
― mods = chickenshit idiots (D-40), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 05:11 (eight years ago) link
Hmm, just noticed they didn't rate Pump Up the Volume by M/A/R/R/S. That's kinda inexplicable.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 05:12 (eight years ago) link
loooool yessss
they should have put "pump up the jam" on in honor of this timeless thread: PUMP UP THE VOLUME /V/S/ PUMP UP THE JAM (clearly the p4k staff has read all of ilm's classic threads)
― dyl, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 06:33 (eight years ago) link
oh hey, i did this (because of course i did)ILX's 200 Songs of the 80's That Aren't in Pitchfork's Top 200 Songs of the 80's Spotify PlaylistWe're only short 60 or so. Make your case.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 08:07 (eight years ago) link
^compiles most everything available on the service that's been mentioned since the list came up, if it wasn't clear
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 08:08 (eight years ago) link
(plus, you know, a number of tracks i wanted on)been listening to dazz band while compiling this, worth the work
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 08:11 (eight years ago) link
some of my adds include 6'n the mornin, cokane in my brain, when i hear music, always on my mind, 9 to 5
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 08:18 (eight years ago) link
also: africa must be free by 1983, the glamorous life, nightmare on my street, electric avenue
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 08:20 (eight years ago) link
Ace of Spades is on the PF list, btw.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 08:20 (eight years ago) link
(switching out for master of puppets)
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 08:21 (eight years ago) link
or orion actually
also sekoi fali by the bulgarian women's radio choir
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 08:24 (eight years ago) link
aw that hugh mundell is 78 and not 80's till it hit the uk/us so i'll remove on a technicalityso subbing in Byron Lee's "Tiny Winey", the cover of which was an early heterosexual awakening markeralso yellowman's zungguzunngguguzungguzeng because i'm tired and it feels right
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 08:32 (eight years ago) link
Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Stool PigeonJunior - Mama Used to Say (original version not on Spotify, just a re-recording)Marshall Crenshaw - Whenever You're on My Mind
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 08:37 (eight years ago) link
Ready for the World - Oh Sheila
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 08:42 (eight years ago) link
the glamorous life is on the list too
― mods = chickenshit idiots (D-40), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 08:49 (eight years ago) link
seems lke a dumb exercise imo once ppl just start naming 80s songs but w/e
― mods = chickenshit idiots (D-40), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 08:50 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I mean I already mentioned the three songs upthread I thought absolutely should've been included (and I'd stan just as hard for "Oh Sheila"), but I guess I'm just contributing good stuff to forks' playlist at this point...which, btw, got me to listen to S.O.S Band for the first time and now they're my new favorite thing.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 09:01 (eight years ago) link
never been wild about 'oh sheila', feels like something wrote on a napkin that sheila e rejected & is more hook than song imho
― mods = chickenshit idiots (D-40), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 09:26 (eight years ago) link
something *prince* wrote
― mods = chickenshit idiots (D-40), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 09:27 (eight years ago) link
it ain't best-of-decade material but it's dope
― some dude, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 09:46 (eight years ago) link
Why is there no Tom Waits? 80s are his best decade by far.
Apart from Doves Cry would change all Prince songs to SOTT-songs lol
― niels, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 10:52 (eight years ago) link
Hows about an opinion (positive or negative) on a blurb for a change eh?
― Tim F, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 11:08 (eight years ago) link
no If I Was Your Girlfriend is a genuine 0_o as that's become the hip pick from SOTT era of late in polls and lists.
SOTT at number 3 here too. not sure if ILX has kicked this list around yet in this thread as it's impossible to open/read in full. http://www.spin.com/2015/05/the-300-best-albums-of-the-past-30-years-1985-2014/5/
― piscesx, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 11:18 (eight years ago) link
Hopper's "Gypsy" blurb is great.
also applaud anytime a song was prominently sampled in a post-'80s hit and the blurber managed NOT to mention it.
― some dude, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 11:50 (eight years ago) link
I enjoyed deej and Tim F's blurbs quite a bit.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 12:00 (eight years ago) link
thanks alfred, though I will at least try to claim I wasn't fishing for compliments. Comment above more born of frustration that these tentpole features often have really fascinating writing - not just fascinating as in "good" but fascinating as in it tells you about the strengths and weaknesses of modern crit (e.g. see below) - but then all we tend to talk about is whether X song ought to have made the cut. Ultimately I think a much more interesting question is "what do these blurbs say about modern perspectives on the 80s" and etc. Especially when the voting process that leads to the final list makes the actual song choice as meaningless as any other qualitative population sampling.
yeah in general I think the "let's connect this with modern stuff and trends" imperative often came across quite hamfisted or even worse ass-backwards (justifying past masterpieces by reference to contemporary stuff that isn't fit so much as to gather up the crumbs from under the table of etc.). That kind of thing can be really interesting in a think piece but it's really hard to pull of successfully in a capsule review. Best case scenario you sound glib.
I didn't do it but I don't think the songs I had to write about lent themselves to the approach anyway.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 12:17 (eight years ago) link
it's like edm but old
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 12:31 (eight years ago) link
i'm still reading through the blurbs but tim's on "teardrops" is wonderful and so is meaghan garvey's on "how will i know"
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 12:39 (eight years ago) link
I enjoyed Katherine St. Asaph's blurbs, I enjoy her writing on The Singles Jukebox as well.And for what it's worth, I thought the Madonna picks were spot on-but I suppose her position in the 80s has never been subject to reappraisal.
― campreverb, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 12:44 (eight years ago) link
the "how will I know" blurb is so surprisingly dark! I love it.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 12:54 (eight years ago) link
seems lke a dumb exercise imo once ppl just start naming 80s songs but w/e― mods = chickenshit idiots (D-40), Tuesday, August 25, 2015
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 13:04 (eight years ago) link
I can name a lot of 80s songs, but I give them different names and make them sound better.
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 13:07 (eight years ago) link
also really great: douglas wolk on "white lines" and eric on "back to life"
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 13:11 (eight years ago) link
"(the snares sounding like they’ve ricocheted off every building in Minneapolis)" damn tim (re: "saturday love")
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 13:16 (eight years ago) link
with this and Marcello's reappraisal of the first Soul II Soul album a couple weeks ago I've been playing them a lot.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 13:17 (eight years ago) link
deej completely nails "never too much"
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 13:27 (eight years ago) link
yep
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 13:40 (eight years ago) link
also, katherine on "sweet dreams," meaghan on "your love" etc.
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 13:52 (eight years ago) link
Man I'm really suffering from pfork PTSD cuz I skipped the blurbs in a "fool me once, shame on you" way but then everybody's listing specific author names and its like "oh right, I like a bunch of those critics, maybe I should read the blurbs."
― da croupier, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 14:25 (eight years ago) link
Tim f otm about the frustration in people only talking about song choice not writing content when it comes to lists, though sometimes I think sites could do a better job featuring that content over song choice
― da croupier, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 14:29 (eight years ago) link
Didn't expect these to make it, but still sad that they didn't:
'Til Tuesday - "Coming Up Close"Commodores - "Nightshift"The Jets - "You Got It All"
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 14:46 (eight years ago) link
Overall I think it's a really good and interesting list. Feel like synth pop/new romantic music isn't represented as much as I'd like. I wasn't expecting Party Fears 2 to be in there (Which is my favourite ever) but it would have been nice to see something by any of these, Duran Duran, Human League, ABC, Soft Cell, OMD, Yazoo, Adam & The Ants, Japan Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Heaven 17, Propaganda, Erasure etc.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 15:10 (eight years ago) link
admittedly I have only skimmed the list so far, but not because I'm not interested, because it crashes my browser
(so does this thread if I click view all)
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 15:10 (eight years ago) link