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Title: 12 April 2006-it's 1986
Post by: urth on April 12, 2006, 10:00:28 AM
Someone gets a birthday request granted--and they ask for 86? No accounting for taste, I tellya.

ETA: Just realized I saw Level 42 in 1986 (they opened for Steve Winwood on his first solo tour). Or rather, I heard them--the night they played Shoreline was also Game 6 of the World Series that year, so I was with about 20 guys huddled around someone's battery powered TV trying to see what was going on. Winwood was good, but rather a depressing evening on the whole.
Title: Re: 12 April 2006-it's 1986
Post by: RGMike on April 12, 2006, 10:04:22 AM
Quote from: "urth"
Someone gets a birthday request granted--and they ask for 86? No accounting for taste, I tellya.


Well, she's 40 -- so she was 20 then. Fond memories I guess.  And the Level 42 is nice enough. But I still feel like I'm the only person with a milestone B-day who didn't get a request in the past year.

VHM Bryan & Tina, though I still feel like she could eat him alive.
Title: 12 April 2006-it's 1986
Post by: RGMike on April 12, 2006, 10:07:55 AM
Some Stevie Nicks for Gaz.

Y'know what I'd love to hear? Pat Benatar, "Sex as a Weapon".
Title: 12 April 2006-it's 1986
Post by: mshray on April 12, 2006, 10:12:05 AM
I gotta give a VHM to the Call, this was one of my favorite songs of that year.
Title: 12 April 2006-it's 1986
Post by: RGMike on April 12, 2006, 10:18:35 AM
VHM OMD.  I was so happy at the time that they finally had a sizeable US hit.  Their "best-of" is a must-own.
Title: 12 April 2006-it's 1986
Post by: RGMike on April 12, 2006, 10:22:11 AM
OMG! BOS XTC, "Summer's Cauldron" from the brilliant Skylarking.
Title: 12 April 2006-it's 1986
Post by: urth on April 12, 2006, 10:23:01 AM
Wow, segue of the day to the Reagan Challenger clip into Drowning in Summer's Cauldron. Don't think this is a bust out, but a far underplayed cut. And a red-letter day in general for XTC songs.
Title: 12 April 2006-it's 1986
Post by: RGMike on April 12, 2006, 10:25:37 AM
Quote from: "urth"
Wow, segue of the day to the Reagan Challenger clip into Drowning in Summer's Cauldron. Don't think this is a bust out, but a far underplayed cut. And a red-letter day in general for XTC songs.


actually "Fall on Me" woulda made a better seg. "Building towered foresight" indeed.
Title: 12 April 2006-it's 1986
Post by: Gazoo on April 12, 2006, 10:26:15 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
VHM OMD.  I was so happy at the time that they finally had a sizeable US hit.  Their "best-of" is a must-own.


Ditto VHM; I'd just discovered them via "So in Love" and was delighted.

Also HM for "Fall on Me"; I wish Mike Mills had gotten to sing more.

Missed Stevie -- which track?  (I was busy with a pitch letter; sometimes I need silence for my wordplay to work.)
Title: 12 April 2006-it's 1986
Post by: Gazoo on April 12, 2006, 10:28:13 AM
Whee, "Walk Like an Egyptian" still puts a smile on my face.  I always did love their shakers.
Title: 12 April 2006-it's 1986
Post by: yessongs on April 12, 2006, 10:28:52 AM
Best Guilty Pleasure -- The Bangles    8)
Title: 12 April 2006-it's 1986
Post by: RGMike on April 12, 2006, 10:30:10 AM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
Whee, "Walk Like an Egyptian" still puts a smile on my face.  I always did love their shakers.


lots of guys love Suzanna Hoffs', er, "shakers" :wink:

I still think there's a Rachel Sweet version of this in a vault somewhere...
Title: 12 April 2006-it's 1986
Post by: urth on April 12, 2006, 10:31:03 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
Quote from: "urth"
Wow, segue of the day to the Reagan Challenger clip into Drowning in Summer's Cauldron. Don't think this is a bust out, but a far underplayed cut. And a red-letter day in general for XTC songs.


actually "Fall on Me" woulda made a better seg. "Building towered foresight" indeed.


20-20 hindsight.
Title: 12 April 2006-it's 1986
Post by: mshray on April 12, 2006, 10:31:24 AM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
Quote from: "RGMike"
VHM OMD.  I was so happy at the time that they finally had a sizeable US hit.  Their "best-of" is a must-own.


Ditto VHM; I'd just discovered them via "So in Love" and was delighted.

Also HM for "Fall on Me"; I wish Mike Mills had gotten to sing more.

Missed Stevie -- which track?  (I was busy with a pitch letter; sometimes I need silence for my wordplay to work.)


Stevie was "I Can't Wait", but I missed the OMD, which was that?
Title: 12 April 2006-it's 1986
Post by: Davefish on April 12, 2006, 10:32:20 AM
HM for Icehouse.  Although I just started listening, so it's BOS so far.  Just spent 20 minutes on the Mountain Winery trying to buy tickets for their new season.  Couldn't get closer than row Q.  Kinda disappointing.
Title: 12 April 2006-it's 1986
Post by: RGMike on April 12, 2006, 10:33:25 AM
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VHM OMD.  I was so happy at the time that they finally had a sizeable US hit.  Their "best-of" is a must-own.


Ditto VHM; I'd just discovered them via "So in Love" and was delighted.

Also HM for "Fall on Me"; I wish Mike Mills had gotten to sing more.

Missed Stevie -- which track?  (I was busy with a pitch letter; sometimes I need silence for my wordplay to work.)


Stevie was "I Can't Wait", but I missed the OMD, which was that?


well, how many "sizeable hits" did they have in 1986?  :wink:  ("If You Leave")
Title: 12 April 2006-it's 1986
Post by: Gazoo on April 12, 2006, 10:33:34 AM
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Quote from: "RGMike"
VHM OMD.  I was so happy at the time that they finally had a sizeable US hit.  Their "best-of" is a must-own.


Ditto VHM; I'd just discovered them via "So in Love" and was delighted.

Also HM for "Fall on Me"; I wish Mike Mills had gotten to sing more.

Missed Stevie -- which track?  (I was busy with a pitch letter; sometimes I need silence for my wordplay to work.)


Stevie was "I Can't Wait", but I missed the OMD, which was that?


"If You Leave."
Title: 12 April 2006-it's 1986
Post by: mshray on April 12, 2006, 10:34:41 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
Quote from: "Gazoo"
Whee, "Walk Like an Egyptian" still puts a smile on my face.  I always did love their shakers.


lots of guys love Suzanna Hoffs', er, "shakers" :wink:  


I saw a stand up comic do the following bit:

"Hey wanna see my Susanna Hoffs impression?"  (he then rolls his eyes sharply from right to left just like she did in the video.)
Title: 12 April 2006-it's 1986
Post by: Gazoo on April 12, 2006, 10:34:55 AM
Quote from: "Davefish"
HM for Icehouse.  Although I just started listening, so it's BOS so far.


Kudos on naming-the-artist; I haven't heard this in 20 years, I don't suppose.
Title: 12 April 2006-it's 1986
Post by: RGMike on April 12, 2006, 10:35:18 AM
VHM Icehouse, doing their best Roxy Music imitation.
Title: 12 April 2006-it's 1986
Post by: mshray on April 12, 2006, 10:36:29 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"

well, how many "sizeable hits" did they have in 1986?  :wink:  ("If You Leave")


I didn't listen to hit radio then, and they were all over the alt stations I was listening to.

Very BOS to JJ, "Right & Wrong", love Graham Maby's bass on this.
Title: 12 April 2006-it's 1986
Post by: Davefish on April 12, 2006, 10:39:45 AM
Quote from: "mshray"
Quote from: "RGMike"

well, how many "sizeable hits" did they have in 1986?  :wink:  ("If You Leave")


I didn't listen to hit radio then, and they were all over the alt stations I was listening to.

Very BOS to JJ, "Right & Wrong", love Graham Maby's bass on this.

I'll second the BOS for JJ.  I'm gonna see him do weird versions of his songs at Montalvo.
Title: 12 April 2006-it's 1986
Post by: RGMike on April 12, 2006, 11:11:38 AM
Bonus: T.Heads, "Love 4 Sale" (tho' she coulda picked "Puzzling Evidence").
Title: 12 April 2006-it's 1986
Post by: urth on April 15, 2006, 01:57:51 PM
Catching up...

4/12/06 - Midweek!  Time to re-visit...1986!!!

Level 42 - Something About You
Bryan Adams - It's Only Love
Stevie Nicks - I Can't Wait
Call - I Still Believe
OMD - If You Leave
XTC - Summer's Cauldron (B-O-S!!!)
REM - Fall on Me
Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian
Icehouse - No Promises
Joe Jackson - Right & Wrong
BONUS TRACK:  Talking Heads - Love For Sale