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

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by evenodds
96.

I have no idea who did the Politics of Dancing.

Re-flex.

Originally posted by evenodds
96.

I have no idea who did the Politics of Dancing.

I thought that was the album that gave us Beds are Burning? Who sang the song that had Rick AStley (say who?) and Outfield as choices? I went with Rick astley.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by bilmore
Hey, what about Uncle John's Band? Casey Jones? Friend of the Devil? Truckin? They all made the Top-40 lists, I think.

I've always been told that Touch of Grey was their only Top-40 song.

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
Alicia Moore = Pink

I don't know the commercials you are talking about, but I'm pretty sure we are talking about the same song.

*That* is Pink? I am speaking of the song where she just drones over and over again "lets get this party started". Its on a bally's commerical where they make the gym look like a gay club and then its on another commercial. That is a bad fucking song. I have no idea what else Pink sings, but I saw her on Punk'd and if she isnt a baby dyke, I dont know who is. NTTAWWT.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I thought that was the album that gave us Beds are Burning? Who sang the song that had Rick AStley (say who?) and Outfield as choices? I went with Rick astley.

Rick Astley was Never Gonna Give You Up.

I hearted Rick Astley.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
*That* is Pink? I am speaking of the song where she just drones over and over again "lets get this party started". Its on a bally's commerical where they make the gym look like a gay club and then its on another commercial. That is a bad fucking song. I have no idea what else Pink sings, but I saw her on Punk'd and if she isnt a baby dyke, I dont know who is. NTTAWWT.

Pink is brutal.

And fucking-A ugly to boot.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I've always been told that Touch of Grey was their only Top-40 song.

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.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
*That* is Pink? I am speaking of the song where she just drones over and over again "lets get this party started". Its on a bally's commerical where they make the gym look like a gay club and then its on another commercial. That is a bad fucking song. I have no idea what else Pink sings, but I saw her on Punk'd and if she isnt a baby dyke, I dont know who is. NTTAWWT.

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.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Pink is brutal.

And fucking-A ugly to boot.

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).

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
84, How is that possible? Was there really a band called Taco? If so, how did I not know of them?

'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."

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

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.

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.

[Shape Shifter]

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).

Yawn. Wendy O. Williams was wearing electical tape for the same purpose like 20 years ago.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by evenodds
I hearted Rick Astley.

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.

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.

BTW, speaking of stupid hat bands from the '80s, I was under the impression that "Meet Danny Wilson" was the name of the band, no members of which were named Danny Wilson. Amazon disagrees. Anyone else remember it this way? (They/he did "Mary's Prayer," which made the otherwise excellent Something About Mary soundtrack.)

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
84, How is that possible? Was there really a band called Taco? If so, how did I not know of them?

If you were hung over for the wrong three-day period, it would have been very easy.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss

FYI -- a lot of gyms ARE gay clubs.

So much is clear to me now.