And this would have to be up there too, lots of quality mid-80s post-disco pop and with an absolute historic chance to see Run-DMC before they played Live Aid?! Maybe not as killer a line up as some of those disco jams, but def would be the bragging rights pick
1985 — Midnight Star, Shalamar, Teena Marie, Animotion, Run DMC, Shannon
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 12 September 2016 18:44 (seven years ago) link
Did you go to one PW?
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 12 September 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
Like KC in the 70s, Stevie B was reppin' Miami two years in a row as the 80s wrapped
My relationship with school got too contentious to get invited...although I went to WDW every 3 years or so back then.
By the mid'90s, I had season passes to obsess over the background music in the parks and act as one of Eisner's guinea pigs.
― PappaWheelie V, Monday, 12 September 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
75 or 84 for me
― MarkoP, Monday, 12 September 2016 19:25 (seven years ago) link
It was a while ago, but my memories of Grad Nite '98 include walking past Reel Big Fish playing in Adventureland — maybe by the Tiki birds? — to a basically empty floor. I'm sure they got paid just fine
And I recall a big crowd for Backstreet Boys, maybe in Tomorrowland?, and walking by and being like "booooo," which I'm sure would get me called a raging homophobe or something from the ILX poptimism-uber-alles Carly Rae Jepsen B-side tears squad
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 12 September 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
raging homophobe!
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 12 September 2016 19:41 (seven years ago) link
1985 — Midnight Star, Shalamar, Teena Marie, Animotion, Run DMC, Shannon1986 — Ready For The World, Rene & Angela, Animotion, Nu Shooz, Starpoint, Klymaxx, Miami Sound Machine, Sly Fox
ugh don't make me choose
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 12 September 2016 19:42 (seven years ago) link
i know there was one at Anaheim that was The Vandals and Oingo Boingo maybe 87
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 12 September 2016 19:49 (seven years ago) link
I'm trying to imagine hearing the snap of Rene & Angela's programmed snares in "I'll Be Good" on the Tomorrowland Stage.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 September 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link
2006 — Fall Out Boy, Omarion, Teddy Geiger, Simple Plan, Farnkie J, Fefe Dobson
my year
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 September 2016 00:27 (seven years ago) link
1985 for me
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 00:34 (seven years ago) link
omgggg
1986 — Ready For The World, Rene & Angela, Animotion, Nu Shooz, Starpoint, Klymaxx, Miami Sound Machine, Sly Fox
― savvinesslessness (map), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 02:43 (seven years ago) link
Trying to figure out who Liberation was in '74 and '75, best guess so far was these guys:http://southerngaragebands.com/liberation.html (also about halfway down this page: http://heybabydays.blogspot.com/2008/12/jokers-wild-metros-liberation-willie.html)
who only released a couple of singles but were on the same label as the Skull Snaps
http://www.45cat.com/artist/liberation
― los blue jeans, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 02:58 (seven years ago) link
also, who the hell is Duck?
Australians? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB1K9gnwbaY
I guess they along with Crickett might have been Disney house bands (which apparently is what Saltwater Express was http://www.disneyavenue.com/2015/06/a-musical-souvenir-of-walt-disney-world.html)
― los blue jeans, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 03:20 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 2 October 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
2005 lowkey goes the fuck off so i voted 2005
― j. winters (josh), Sunday, 2 October 2016 03:06 (seven years ago) link
Either '94 (to see Tag Team trying to clean it up for a literal Disney crowd) or '99 (to see RBF on the same stage as Britney Spears)
― Tom Violence, Sunday, 2 October 2016 03:40 (seven years ago) link
I was at the '86 one! I don't remember Animotion being there, but I remember all the others. Miami Sound Machine played in front of Cinderella's Castle, which was the prime performance area with the most visibility. Sly Fox played indoors in that circular cafe/restaurant off of Main St. USA, whatever it was called. Nu Shooz played outside in Frontierland and Klymaxx played outside in Tommorowland - or maybe vice versa.
For those who don't know, the format was such that each act performed a set of about 30 minutes, took a break, then came back and repeated the same set, and this went on all night so that every act ultimately played 6 or 7 sets I'm guessing. Thus once you figured out which acts were playing in which locations you could go back and see the ones you liked multiple times. I was fascinated by Nu Shooz and kept coming back to them, so I probably caught bits of at least three of their sets.
I remember a rumor going around the crowd that Whitney Houston was going to perform somewhere, but that never happened.
― Josefa, Sunday, 2 October 2016 04:09 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 3 October 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
CLASS OF '86 RULEZ!!
I recused myself from voting, but I think these results are perfect. The top three are the ones I'd most want to see (again).
1973 is intriguing, however, for Helen Reddy at her peak. I wonder if the conservative Disney organization had any problem with her singing "I Am Woman"
― Josefa, Monday, 3 October 2016 00:35 (seven years ago) link
wait, duck a disney house band? why are they covering so many frank zappa songs? also, memo to turner? that doesn't seem super family-friendly to me!
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Monday, 3 October 2016 00:48 (seven years ago) link
oh wait you're saying it's a different duck. sorry. i'm slow.
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Monday, 3 October 2016 00:49 (seven years ago) link
Fantastic history. By the time 1992 came around all acts were on the Tomorrowland Stage iirc
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 October 2016 00:52 (seven years ago) link