GOD!!!! I've had that song in my head for about a month now and for the life of me couldn't remember the name of the song or the group! Thank You! man I'm getting old
Am I the only guy to admit liking Duran Duran? I mean, they had some very impressive bass lines, didn't go crazy with guitar (though they had the talent to do so, if they wanted), had creative drum schemes, artistic vocals, and some pleasant (but not overbearing) synth work. Throw in some good melody, harmony, and rhythm and you've got yourself some kick-ass music. -- droxford
Well if you're gonna do that, then I'm just going to say it... Yes! YES!!! I like INXS! There! I said it!
There's a really big collection called "Just can't get enough: New Wave Hits of the 80's" (Rhino). Someone dropped a bunch of these things at a used CD store in San Antonio and I picked up several. Usually a few things you've heard of and a lot of obscure things (some you might really like... others, who knows), with good liner notes. Good for those of us who are curious about the music but didn't really hear it the first time around. (I was too young during that part of the 80's, and what I did hear was on commercial radio.)
here's a good one by the waterboys: I pictured a rainbow You held in your hands I had flashes But you saw then plan I wondered out in the world for years While you just stayed in your room I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon! The whole of the moon! You were there at the turnstiles With the wind at your heels You stretched for the stars And you know how it feels To reach too high Too far Too soon You saw the whole of the moon! I was grounded While you filled the skies I was dumbfounded by truths You cut through lies I saw the rain-dirty valley You saw brigadoon I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon! I spoke about wings You just flew I wondered, I guessed, and I tried You just knew I sighed But you swooned I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon! The whole of the moon! With a torch in your pocket And the wind at your heels You climbed on the ladder And you know how it feels To reach too high Too far Too soon You saw the whole of the moon! The whole of the moon! Unicorns and cannonballs, Palaces and piers, Trumpets, towers, and tenemets, Wide oceans full of tears, Flag, rags, ferry boats, Scimitars and scarves, Every precious dream and vision Underneath the stars You climbed on the ladder With the wind in your sails You came like a comet Blazing your trail Too high Too far Too soon You saw the whole of the moon! "this is the sea" is a great, great album
OMG! I think I've found it. Thanks droxford for helping me try to figure it out. It's Call it Heaven's Feeling like a Stranger. I think I went toooo obscure with that one. While looking for it I found more! Twin Hype - Do it to the crowd Lords of Acid - I sit on Acid Peter Godwin - Images of Heaven Colm III - You take me high Gene Loves Gezebel - Desire Big Supreme - Don't walk Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy - Kiss me
Images of Heaven...thats a good one. a few more I thought of... Cocteau Twins - From the Flagstones (currently my favorite song) Book of Love - Counting the Rosaries Ultravox - Reap the wild wind B52s - She brakes for rainbows The Cure - Hot Hot Hot!!! (great video) Psychedelic Furs - Sister Europe, All that money wants OMD - Neon lights Pretenders - Tradition of Love
yeah especially those. I dug like hell back in 99 or 00 in the hey day of NApster and basically recreated all of my song memories so I have them!
Man, five pages on '80's music and not one mention of Houston's own Judy's. Anybody ever heard of a band called Belfegore? I saw the video for their only American single "All That I Wanted" 2 or 3 times, but I could never find their only release. From what I remember of a song I heard two or three times about 20 years ago, it was really good.
Ok - here's a little local houston 80s The Judys The Haskells Hershell Berry and the Natives Mydolls The Dicks AK 47 The Volumatix The Explosives Fab Motion Mulberry Jane The Snakes Pain Teens No hits - unless you want to give Guyana Punch or All the Pretty Girls the "hit" status.
