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15 Dec 2014: it's... 1983
« on: December 15, 2014, 07:29:11 AM »
Return of the Jedi etc etc.  AL said "New Wave was all the rage" in the promo, so I'm assuming we're getting one of her patented alt-centric early-'80s thangs.
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Re: 15 Dec 2014: it's... 1983
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2014, 10:02:29 AM »
I've said this before, but I can't believe "Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand is 10 years old.
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Re: 15 Dec 2014: it's... 1983
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2014, 10:04:43 AM »
TOTHK: Duran2, "ITSISK"
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Re: 15 Dec 2014: it's... 1983
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2014, 10:09:16 AM »
Risky Business --> English Beat, ruining 3 lives with an uber-LN, "I Confess".
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Re: 15 Dec 2014: it's... 1983
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2014, 10:11:53 AM »
Risky Business --> English Beat, ruining 3 lives with an uber-LN, "I Confess".
This is still necessary for me. I dig it, and the English Beat were one of the few groups of this period making music that I liked.
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Re: 15 Dec 2014: it's... 1983
« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2014, 10:15:20 AM »
and we enter the Belly of the Whale. We're firmly in Morey-on-autopilot territory here.
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Re: 15 Dec 2014: it's... 1983
« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2014, 10:20:43 AM »
TFF, "Pale Shelter".  This is pretty meh, so far.
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Re: 15 Dec 2014: it's... 1983
« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2014, 10:23:05 AM »
TFF, "Pale Shelter".  This is pretty meh, so far.
Very MOR(ey).
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Re: 15 Dec 2014: it's... 1983
« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2014, 10:27:42 AM »
TFF, "Pale Shelter".  This is pretty meh, so far.

The first few bars of this had me thinking this was Lindsey Buckinghams's Trouble. Wrong year for that, of course, but that was my first reaction, and then realized it wasn't that song at all. Then again, I also thought the English Beat song was Men At Work, initially. So I'm a little off today.

No BOS candidates so far. Escalator of Life is at least a rarity, but not sure if it makes the cut for BOS.
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Re: 15 Dec 2014: it's... 1983
« Reply #9 on: December 15, 2014, 10:28:00 AM »
Hey, here's something. I don't know who's doing "Escalator of Life". Only heard this once or twice before.
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Re: 15 Dec 2014: it's... 1983
« Reply #10 on: December 15, 2014, 10:28:03 AM »
Reagan's missile defense scheme --> War Games --> "Escalator of Life", Robert Hazard (?)
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Re: 15 Dec 2014: it's... 1983
« Reply #11 on: December 15, 2014, 10:29:48 AM »
oy" WOS and uber-LN Tubes, "She's a Beauty"
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Re: 15 Dec 2014: it's... 1983
« Reply #12 on: December 15, 2014, 10:32:03 AM »
"Totally Tubular!" --> Missing Persons "Walking with LNs"
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Re: 15 Dec 2014: it's... 1983
« Reply #13 on: December 15, 2014, 10:36:00 AM »
BOS Sparks/Jane Weidlin, "Cool Places"
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Re: 15 Dec 2014: it's... 1983
« Reply #14 on: December 15, 2014, 10:38:53 AM »
BOS Sparks/Jane Weidlin, "Cool Places"

Finally, a serious BOS contender. I was beginning to think this would be one of those sets I just abstain from entirely.

Btw, anyone else think this set has a distinct "LA" theme to it?
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