|
|
Favorites 80's cheesy pop song? (Page 2)
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Yorktown, VA
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by andi*pandi
I actually have the entire Chess soundtrack on vinyl, and tape (worn out), I thought CD but haven't found it yet.
topic: cheesy is: walk like an egyptian, anything by boy george.
...except "Time (Clock of the Heart)." That song is, dare I say, soulful. It's definitely my favorite Culture Club tune—it's hard to believe it wasn't even on the tape (CD only).
|
"I'm virtually bursting with adequatulence!" - Bill McNeal, NewsRadio
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Yorktown, VA
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by Dork.
Forgot all about "We Built This City". Pure cheddar.
I immediately thought of that song when I saw the title, but it's not what I'd call a favorite.
|
"I'm virtually bursting with adequatulence!" - Bill McNeal, NewsRadio
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Landlockinated
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by Googer-Giger
Mine: Rock the Cashbah- The clash.
Seriously, anything by the Clash is not qualified to be called cheese!
I noticed the conspicuous lack of a couple of songs:
"My Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" by Timbuk 3 (although I had that album and loved it when I was 10 or so.)
And another overlooked gem:
"Pac Man Fever" by Buckner & Garcia (who made an entire album about classic games of the time - Pac Man, Frogger, Centipede, Asteroids, Donkey Kong, Defender, etc.)
|
[ sig removed - image host changed it to a big ad picture ]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Administrator
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
Status:
Offline
|
|
I first saw the video for "Rock the Casbah" shortly after I moved to Austin, TX. Wonder of wonders, that's where they filmed it! Cool!!!
"My Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades)" is a very cool song. Not cheesy at all.
|
Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Landlockinated
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by ghporter
"My Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades)" is a very cool song. Not cheesy at all.
There was some cheesy stuff on that album though. That song was a subtle political song, which doesn't happen today. Subtle that is. Hit you over the head is what they do now.
How about "Hairstyles and Attitudes" for a cheesy song from Timbuk 3 instead?
|
[ sig removed - image host changed it to a big ad picture ]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Administrator
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
Status:
Offline
|
|
Timbuk 3 was very much about "statements," but "Future" is all pop. Gotta pay the bills, right?
|
Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Landlockinated
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by ghporter
Timbuk 3 was very much about "statements," but "Future" is all pop. Gotta pay the bills, right?
I always took it to be an Reagan-era anti-nuke statement...
|
[ sig removed - image host changed it to a big ad picture ]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senior User
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: A crappy place in Canada
Status:
Offline
|
|
"Love Plus One" and "Boy Meets Girl" by Haircut 100.
|
"Why did this thread cross the line? Because its **** got stuck in a chicken." - Demonhood
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Forum Regular
Join Date: Oct 2005
Status:
Offline
|
|
[QUOTE=Dork.When I think of cheezy 80's stuff, I think of Wham, followed by a collection of Hair Metal power ballads. (They all sounded the same after a while.)
[/QUOTE]
Hair Metal rocks! makes me want to
|
“Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - George Orwell
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senior User
Join Date: Sep 2005
Status:
Offline
|
|
Subtle that is. Hit you over the head is what they do now.
Thank you, Yoda.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: The Sar Chasm
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by davesimondotcom
I always took it to be an Reagan-era anti-nuke statement...
This is the correct answer. My band opened for them a few times, just as they were hitting their stride, and Barbara is a client of mine, now. Cool lady.
I'm sick of it now, but another of my guilty pleasures for a few years was Def Leppard's Love Bites, which is inexplicable as I've always hated everything else they did with a passion.
The 80's were not all cheese, though. Radio always plays the cheese because that's what sells, but no matter what decade it is, there's plenty of awesome music just under the radar. The 80s gave us the best of King Crimson, the Police's Synchronicity, XTC's Skylarking, Talking Heads' Remain in Light, Toy Matinee (a hugely overlooked pop masterpiece), Peter Gabriel was at the height of his career, Reggae & Rap were flowering, many of the old Blues masters were still alive and touring, and punk was still somewhat vital.
I pity anyone who gets all their listening cues from FM radio, because so much is missed by them.
|
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: 888500128
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by kernokerno
at least a click would be nice - there's no way to identify your timing.
details - singing? male? female? black? white? lots of synths? guitar rock? bleepy pop? WHAT.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by analogika
at least a click would be nice - there's no way to identify your timing.
details - singing? male? female? black? white? lots of synths? guitar rock? bleepy pop? WHAT.
sorry i know the timing is bad, when i recorded that there was a little delay... anyway.......
singer: male
black or white: i guess white
synths: that part played by me it's a synth that sound like a childrens song.
no guitar rock.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Aug 2012
Status:
Offline
|
|
sorry guys, i know i`m new here but i love the 80`s music. as for cheese...well if some of you guys are in your 40`s and living in the UK then the cheesy songs i remember are as follows:
rene & renato - save your love
anything from black lace
the tweets - the birdy song
the snowman - the hokey kokey
the goombay dance band - seven tears
joe dolche - shutup your face
now guys what can i say but that is cheese on cheese, the songs you try to get rid off from the back of your mind but its still there.....ahhhhh!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Arizona
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
I like chicken
I like liver
Meow Mix, Meow Mix
Please de-liv-er
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Rochester, NY
Status:
Offline
|
|
Wow. I saw myself quoted in this thread, and said "I don't remember writing that!", and then looked at the date.
Now, my favorite cheezy "80s" band is Love Händel.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: UKland
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by Hash
Chris De Burgh: lady in red
You have defiled yourself, your family, your family name, this forum, me, any readers of this thread, your computer and by inference any other Mac users anywhere in the world.
Mods any chance you could remove references to the talentless, whinging, toneless, monobrowed irish gimpmeister?
Things will never be clean again. Never.
|
This space for Hire! Reasonable rates. Reach an audience of literally dozens!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Boynton Beach, Florida, USA
Status:
Offline
|
|
This thread is a disgrace without mention of this cheesy 80's song:
I Wanna Be A Cowboy by Boys Don't Cry
How about any song by Twisted Sister?
I Wanna Rock
We're Not Gonna Take It
etc...
|
2.7Ghz 15" Mid 2012 MBP 16GB RAM 7.2k 750GB HD anti-glare display|64GB iPad4 ATT LTE|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|