Mar. 14th, 2007 04:20 pm
Meme part 2
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textualdevianceHoly crap, this soundtrack meme is eating up chunks of time today. But I'm loving the nostalgia high. Given how much of my musical life happened in the 80s, I'll need to do this decade in two posts.
The 70s formed the backbone of my personality, and the 80s is when I got a chance to show it off. Thanks very much to MTV for fucking with my head during those years. Gah.
1980
This year, I really started coming into my own as a pop culture consumer. My parents were in a bowling league, so they dropped me off at the local skating rink every Wednesday night, and I spent many crazy hours skating to the hits of the day.
This was when my ABBA obsession started in earnest, thanks very much to this album.
A few more highlights:
Xanadu Quite possibly the cheesiest movie ever made. I loved it.
Another techo fave: Funkytown by Lipps, Inc. I also adored the remake made a few years later by Pseudo Echo.
Also, though it was actually released a couple of years earlier, I loved Emotion by Samantha Sang/Bee Gees.
1981
This must be the year I discovered hormones, because much of my favorite music involved people I had the hots for.
Daryl Hall
Private Eyes (And you KNOW you did the clapping, right?)
Rick Springfield
Jessie's Girl
Also: I had an inexplicable crush on Tommy Shaw, so I loved Too Much Time.
But this is sort of the key vid of that year for me:
I think this is kind of the soundtrack for my whole generation. We didn't have a major political or social movement to hang onto, like previous generations, so we identified ourselves with pop culture instead.
This was also the heyday of K-Tel compilations. I had Dimensions and Certified Gold and a few years later bought Star Tracks.
I was also into Pat Benatar, but didn't really appreciate her until a couple of years later.
1982
Up to my ass in MTV at this point, I also listened to the big pop station at the time (which, amazingly enough, was an AM station) and got some great stuff there. They had this whole big "Modern Music Summer of 82" thing going on that year, and I think the stuff they played is what firmly planted me in the "weird kid with weird hair" place I would more fully realize a few years later. This was such a huge year for me, there's no way to limit this to only a few vids.
A few highlights:
Don't You Want Me - Human League
Planet Earth - Duran Duran
Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
Our Lips are Sealed - The Go-Gos
Don't Go - Yazoo
Let Me Go - Heaven 17
Reap The Wild Wind - Ultravox (whom I eventually came to appreciate a heck of a lot more than I did then.)
Words - Missing Persons (Definitely a seminal influence on my later fashion choices. Also, Spring Session M was a fucking fantastic album.)
And of course, it wouldn't be 1982 without Tainted Love.
But the real big influence for me was Men At Work:
Thus began my obsession with all things Australian.
Also, I should acknowledge that yes, I saw Fast Times, and it changed my life. I had a big crush on, of all people, Judge Reinhold, for years after that.
1983
I did actually own a single of Beat It. That embarassment aside, a few more interesting highlights of my musical tastes of the year...
Blue Monday - New Order
Change - Tears for Fears
Don't Cry - Asia
Love is a Stranger - Eurythmics
Leave It - Yes
I also discovered Howard Jones this year, though I can't find a decent vid for New Song.
And of course, this is when my Duran Duran fan hysteria was rising, so I can't let this year go without acknowledging my utter, total lust for this song.
I also went nuts over all the tasty boyflesh in The Outsiders. Sigh...
1984
I started going to concerts this year, and also started getting myself in trouble. I had some weird school stuff going on, since I skipped basically all of 8th grade (long story.)
Although the album this was from was released a couple of years earlier, this song is more emblematic of the hours I spent listening to their stuff once I discovered them when Love Life came out.
Other highlights:
One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head (Admit it, you still sing along with this one!)
Magic - The Cars
I was also listening to Thompson Twins, INXS, Ratt (yes, my brief foray into hair bands), and Cyndi Lauper (who wasn't?) and had a major crush on Corey Hart. And of course, I owned Van Halen's 1984. That was kind of a given.
I also owned the soundtrack for Electric Dreams, a movie that I still enjoy watching, because hey, Virginia Madsen was seriously hot. And of course, I loved Footloose, and its soundtrack, too.
1985
This was kind of a bad year for me. Without going into details, let's just say I kind of went a bit nuts. Did some stupid stuff, lost my virginity, etc. It was also kind of a crappy year in music. Probably the only good stuff was most of the stuff on Listen Like Thieves and Voices Carry.
And then there was the album this came from, which totally catapulted the band into stardom.
Other things I was into:
The Dream Academy
Howard Jones' second album
A-ha (the full album--I was actually more fond of Living a Boy's Adventure Tale than Take On Me)
The big pop culture offering this year was, of course, The Breakfast Club, and I owned the soundtrack for that, too. Additionally, I was into Better Off Dead and its soundtrack. Didn't have the soundtrack for St. Elmo's Fire, but I did have major crushes on Andrew McCarthy and Ally Sheedy. (And yes, the shower scene kind of set my brain on fire where that was concerned. Gah.)
Okay. Need a break. More later!
ETA: Just added a few more, now that I've started recalling things better... 1986-89 coming up shortly.
The 70s formed the backbone of my personality, and the 80s is when I got a chance to show it off. Thanks very much to MTV for fucking with my head during those years. Gah.
1980
This year, I really started coming into my own as a pop culture consumer. My parents were in a bowling league, so they dropped me off at the local skating rink every Wednesday night, and I spent many crazy hours skating to the hits of the day.
This was when my ABBA obsession started in earnest, thanks very much to this album.
A few more highlights:
Xanadu Quite possibly the cheesiest movie ever made. I loved it.
Another techo fave: Funkytown by Lipps, Inc. I also adored the remake made a few years later by Pseudo Echo.
Also, though it was actually released a couple of years earlier, I loved Emotion by Samantha Sang/Bee Gees.
1981
This must be the year I discovered hormones, because much of my favorite music involved people I had the hots for.
Daryl Hall
Private Eyes (And you KNOW you did the clapping, right?)
Rick Springfield
Jessie's Girl
Also: I had an inexplicable crush on Tommy Shaw, so I loved Too Much Time.
But this is sort of the key vid of that year for me:
I think this is kind of the soundtrack for my whole generation. We didn't have a major political or social movement to hang onto, like previous generations, so we identified ourselves with pop culture instead.
This was also the heyday of K-Tel compilations. I had Dimensions and Certified Gold and a few years later bought Star Tracks.
I was also into Pat Benatar, but didn't really appreciate her until a couple of years later.
1982
Up to my ass in MTV at this point, I also listened to the big pop station at the time (which, amazingly enough, was an AM station) and got some great stuff there. They had this whole big "Modern Music Summer of 82" thing going on that year, and I think the stuff they played is what firmly planted me in the "weird kid with weird hair" place I would more fully realize a few years later. This was such a huge year for me, there's no way to limit this to only a few vids.
A few highlights:
Don't You Want Me - Human League
Planet Earth - Duran Duran
Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
Our Lips are Sealed - The Go-Gos
Don't Go - Yazoo
Let Me Go - Heaven 17
Reap The Wild Wind - Ultravox (whom I eventually came to appreciate a heck of a lot more than I did then.)
Words - Missing Persons (Definitely a seminal influence on my later fashion choices. Also, Spring Session M was a fucking fantastic album.)
And of course, it wouldn't be 1982 without Tainted Love.
But the real big influence for me was Men At Work:
Thus began my obsession with all things Australian.
Also, I should acknowledge that yes, I saw Fast Times, and it changed my life. I had a big crush on, of all people, Judge Reinhold, for years after that.
1983
I did actually own a single of Beat It. That embarassment aside, a few more interesting highlights of my musical tastes of the year...
Blue Monday - New Order
Change - Tears for Fears
Don't Cry - Asia
Love is a Stranger - Eurythmics
Leave It - Yes
I also discovered Howard Jones this year, though I can't find a decent vid for New Song.
And of course, this is when my Duran Duran fan hysteria was rising, so I can't let this year go without acknowledging my utter, total lust for this song.
I also went nuts over all the tasty boyflesh in The Outsiders. Sigh...
1984
I started going to concerts this year, and also started getting myself in trouble. I had some weird school stuff going on, since I skipped basically all of 8th grade (long story.)
Although the album this was from was released a couple of years earlier, this song is more emblematic of the hours I spent listening to their stuff once I discovered them when Love Life came out.
Other highlights:
One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head (Admit it, you still sing along with this one!)
Magic - The Cars
I was also listening to Thompson Twins, INXS, Ratt (yes, my brief foray into hair bands), and Cyndi Lauper (who wasn't?) and had a major crush on Corey Hart. And of course, I owned Van Halen's 1984. That was kind of a given.
I also owned the soundtrack for Electric Dreams, a movie that I still enjoy watching, because hey, Virginia Madsen was seriously hot. And of course, I loved Footloose, and its soundtrack, too.
1985
This was kind of a bad year for me. Without going into details, let's just say I kind of went a bit nuts. Did some stupid stuff, lost my virginity, etc. It was also kind of a crappy year in music. Probably the only good stuff was most of the stuff on Listen Like Thieves and Voices Carry.
And then there was the album this came from, which totally catapulted the band into stardom.
Other things I was into:
The Dream Academy
Howard Jones' second album
A-ha (the full album--I was actually more fond of Living a Boy's Adventure Tale than Take On Me)
The big pop culture offering this year was, of course, The Breakfast Club, and I owned the soundtrack for that, too. Additionally, I was into Better Off Dead and its soundtrack. Didn't have the soundtrack for St. Elmo's Fire, but I did have major crushes on Andrew McCarthy and Ally Sheedy. (And yes, the shower scene kind of set my brain on fire where that was concerned. Gah.)
Okay. Need a break. More later!
ETA: Just added a few more, now that I've started recalling things better... 1986-89 coming up shortly.
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I was a Durannie, had the posters all over my bedroom of John Taylor and Nick Rhodes, had the "Duran" style mullet - to which one girl commented " I really like your hair, but I'm too scared to wear mine like that..." - uhh...ok. Wore parachute pants, capezios, fedoras, knew the names of all the latest bands to come out of Britain, and thought Def Leppard was cool, too.
It wasn't until the late '80s that I ditched the whole "British" thing, and went completely "Metal Chick" due to my new infatuation with Heart's comeback album, and discovering Led Zep and all the cool metal bands. Total turn-around.
Ha! My mom bought all those K-tel albums! My first K-tel was "Rock 80", and it had Gary Numan's "Cars", and Blondie, and that's what led me into innovative, unique music.