Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by bilmore
I guess that could be true. I do know that those songs played on the radio constantly when they were new.

Edited to add: How sad if that song becomes their only "Top-40" legacy.

True, but it's better than if either Truckin' or Casey Jones was their only legacy.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Yes, Pink looks like a trailer tart, but you gotta dig a chick who wears duct tape as pasties in her video (the video for that heavy song about pills... I can't recall the name).

Yeah, I know, she's supposed to be a really 'tough' tart...but she dressed like a regular old girly tart in "Lady Marmalade," where she was brutally out-tarted by XTina and out-toughed by Lil' Kim, so how tough can she really be?

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by purse junkie
'Cause it was one guy with a synthesizer wearing a top hat and tails to do a cover of an old song who never did anything else with his career. And it didn't play nearly so long nor so often as "Tainted Love."

Am I the only one who remembers that Soft Cell did "Sex Dwarf" and "Baby, Baby" or were those two songs never hits? Also, I was suprised not to see Squeeze's "Tempted" on the VH1 list -- or was it and I missed it? I hearted Squeeze when I was like 12 but never knew that Tempted was popular at all until one of those VH1 specials -- I prefer just about any one of their other tunes over "Tempted."

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch


Does anyone else remember the 1HW band with the lead singer who looked a bit like Maude Lebowski with a man's hat? I think the video had them kicking over cans of pastel paint, and no, it's not Debbie Gibson. I'm wracking my brain but can't think of it.

Was it Toni Basil (Mickey) or Katrina and the Waves (Walkin' on Sunshine)?

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by evenodds
96.

I have no idea who did the Politics of Dancing.

Your Score: 100
Excellent! You must be a child of the 80's - you really know your 80's music!


Major 80's geek. The "Politics of Dancing" was the only one I didn't know off the top of my head... used process of elimination. The quiz was a tad too easy... here are a few slightly harder ones:

1. Tarzan Boy
2. Life in a Northern Town
3. One Night in Bangkok
4. Mexican Radio
5. Love Plus One
6. Talk Talk


My view of the one-hit wonder is also more limited. For me, if I can think of another song they did that was somewhat well known and got airplay, then they're not a true 1-hit wonder... For me, it's 1 hit and never heard from again...

(PS, Taco was a solo act... German, I think.)

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
Pretty sure we're talking about the same song, although I have not seen the commercials because I kayak rather than sit through commercials. The words are something like "Iiiiiiiiii'm coming up, so you better get this party starte-ed (I'm coming up, you better)" repeat ad nauseum.

FYI -- a lot of gyms ARE gay clubs.

Oh fuck. Thats it. And now its going through my head. So you are too good for tv and choose to spend your free time Kayaking, but you listen to the reality tv equivalent of music?

btw, I am starting to think you are quite funny.

And no gay man worth his waxed chest and shaved balls would club at Ballys.

[Sparklehorse]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Re-flex.

Not only that, but I owned the album and actually thought it was pretty good, back in the day.

I got an 84 on the quiz which isn't very high considering how many of those songs came from albums I owned or bands I'd seen perform in their heyday.

Speaking of 80s bands, I saw Mission of Burma open for Wilco last night. It was a good show (maybe why my head is fuzzy today).

[SlaveNoMore]

paigowprincess
I think I am going to write in that woman who sings one of the worst songs ever. A song so bad that I first heard it on Bally comercials and thought it was a jingle until I heard it on a commercial for a car. "Lets Get This Party Started". That person could not possibly have a second hit.

She's had about 6 hits already and she's only had 2 full-length albums.

You should lay off the bong every now and then and watch something other than tennis.

not7y(my god)S

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Rick Astley is not a 1HW. He also scored with "Together Forever," making him a 2HW, and the blackest-sounding man England has produced since Steve Winwood.

I gotta disagree on this one. Paul Young has the most soulful/black voice to ever come out of England. Take a listen to "Soldier's Things" one time and you will see.

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Yes, which was my original point. The Grateful Dead will not be remembered solely by Touch of Gray. And Midnight Oil will not be remembered only by Beds are Burning. And Duran Duran will not be remembered only by Hungry Like the Wolf. Even Falco had two hits: Der Kommissar and Rock Me Amadeus.

Taco will always be remembered by Puttin' on the Ritz (a fucking cover, at that).

Which, btw, would not be a bad FB theme song:

If you're blue and you don't know where to go to
why don't you go where fashion sits,
Puttin' on the ritz.

Different types who wear a day coat,
pants with stripes
and cutaway coat, perfect fits,
Puttin' on the ritz.

Dressed up like a million dollar trouper
Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper (super duper)

Come let's mix where Rockefellers walk with sticks
or "umberellas" in their mitts,
Puttin' on the ritz.

Have you seen the well-to-do up and down Park Avenue
On that famous thoroughfare with their noses in the air
High hats and Arrow collars white spats and lots of dollars
Spending every dime for a wonderful time

If you're blue and you don't know where to go to
why don't you go where fashion sits,
Puttin' on the ritz.
Puttin' on the ritz.
Puttin' on the ritz.

Shouldnt that be Puttin on the TITS?

I gave that song to Falco, not Taco, though I note i had the chocie of both of them for two answers. I thought Taco was a red herring designed to confuse me bc it is close to Falco. I got a little too Multi State Bar on this quiz.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
My view of the one-hit wonder is also more limited. For me, if I can think of another song they did that was somewhat well known and got airplay, then they're not a true 1-hit wonder... For me, it's 1 hit and never heard from again...

Yes, but then, a-ha really *was* big in Europe after "Take on Me."

Remember, they did a Christmas thing last year at a store commenting on the consumerism of the season by covering a tree with money, which in the spirit of Christmas people promptly all stole from the tree?

[SlaveNoMore]

Did you just call me Coltrane?
Pink is brutal.

And fucking-A ugly to boot.

She is soooo not.

She actually has talent. And she seems so filthy. Love that.

not7y(got a 100 on that quiz - waay too easy)S

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by purse junkie
Yes, but then, a-ha really *was* big in Europe after "Take on Me."

True, but I would consider US charts and airplay only. I consider David Hasselhoff a no-hit schlump, is that so wrong???
The Germans love him...

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Was it Toni Basil (Mickey) or Katrina and the Waves (Walkin' on Sunshine)?

You didn't mean 4 Non Blondes did you, with that heinous singer with the butt-length blond dreads who sang "What's Going On?"

Hard to remember. Too-small fedoras were endemic in the 80s.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
True, but I would consider US charts and airplay only. I consider David Hasselhoff a no-hit schlump, is that so wrong???
The Germans love him...

Agreed. And having given us both Taco and Falco, the Germans have a lot to apologize for, so our shipping over our talentless dreck to them is fair play.