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

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
Squeeze is a good example of a group that doesn't belong. While they only had one major hit, they had enough of a career and a body of work to merit exclusion... "Black Coffee in Bed" and "Mussels From a Shell", among others, are great songs.

"Now-w she's gone..."

"Cool for Cats" deserves a mention as well.

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand

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

ANSWERS BELOW --

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1. Baltimora (Chorus: "Oh-oh-oh, wa-oh, wa-oh, wa-oh, wa, oh wa...")
2. Dream Academy
3. Murray Head ("I get my kicks above the waistline, Sunshine.")
4. Wall of Voodoo ("Wish I was in, Tijuana, eating barbecued iguana...")
5. Haircut 100
6. Talk Talk (Song named after band or vice versa... now used in cell phone commercials...)

Congrats to all, especially Not_Bob and GWNC for getting in first...

Edited to add: and Slave too.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
True, but it's better than if either Truckin' or Casey Jones was their only legacy.

The Dead's legacy is The Other One, the riff from which has appeared in innumerable popular songs in genres from heavy metal through reggae for the last 30 years.

S(Damn tune is infectious - never gets old)D

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by purse junkie
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.

How dare you disparage the late Falco.

S(God knew he was too beautiful to remain with the likes of us)D

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
(Chorus: "Oh-oh-oh, wa-oh, wa-oh, wa-oh, wa, oh wa...")

I wish that listerine ad (was that the product?) had led to a posthumous resurgence of Baltimora airplay.

[bridge of love]

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.

Altered Images, "I Could Be Happy"- I don't remember the hat, but the paint cans and look are there

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
How dare you disparage the late Falco.

S(God knew he was too beautiful to remain with the likes of us)D

He also provided another group with their one-hit wonder:

After the Fire's "Der Kommissar"

[SlaveNoMore]

ThrashersFan
What about, uhhhhh, Big Country? Was that on VH1s list??

Wasn't "Fields of Fire" a minor hit? I actually had a few of their [cassettes].

And it was "Head Murray"? - not "Murray Head". D'oh.

While we're at it - how about these idiots:

Haysi Fantaysee
Total Coelo
T'Pau
Heaven 17
Sigue Sigue Sputnik
The Alarm

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
I wish that listerine ad (was that the product?) had led to a posthumous resurgence of Baltimora airplay.

It was indeed Mint Listerine... As I recall it featured a CG Listerine bottle swinging on a vine...

And it was Murray Head (it's a person...)

http://www.murrayhead.com

I will now outslave slave by showing off both my knowledge of all that is music and all that is porn by pointing out that Wall of Voodoo currently compose ditties for porn.

[purse junkie]

This entire thread vindicates my lonely argument that Duran Duran was seriously underestimated then and now.

Ditto Men at Work, incidentally, who had much more interesting material than just "Down Under."

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
You forgot the hirsuite Nena.

not7yS

PS - the Germans did give us MSG, the Scorpions and Accept

Accept. Holy shit is that the best obscure reference of the year.

Only an exceptionally clueless band could put out a tune with the lyric "lets plug a bomb in everybody's ass" sung by a dwarvish-looking singer who appeared to have a touch of down's syndrome.

In theory, they're funnier than Spinal Tap.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore


And it was "Head Murray" - not "Murray Head". D'oh.

No, it was Murray Head.

http://www.murrayhead.com/

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Those are harder. Without googling, I know that 3 [One Night in Bangkock] is Murray Head (from the musical "Chess").

Very good -- it always cracks me up when I hear that song on the Retro Bistro show on one of the local ClearInfinity radio stations. I can't help but laugh at the original Judas from Jesus Christ, Superstar singing the lines "one town's very like another/when your head's down over your pieces, brother."

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Saw both Squeeze and Paul Young in an old theater venue during the 80s, so maybe now I can be TF's best friend... Well maybe not.

n(got a 92)cs

Which might pose a good poll question --

Best band you ever saw live

I bet that one has been done before so how about

Most obscure band you ever saw live. This has to be a band that others know but most likely nobody else on the FB has been to their live show.

I saw the Goo Goo Dolls play in their apartment in the early 80s pre-MTV but that prolly doesn't count so it would be a toss-up between The Tubes (opening band was Utopia) and The Exploited (I got to sing the chorus to Sex and Violence with Wadi because I was "close enough to the stage to scare the band").

The 1986 Black Flag concert might count for both questions. I was trying to remember the exact date and came across this account --

"The next show was the following spring, Friday, April 25, 1986. It took place at Sunship Studios on Main Street, the least ventilated, most hazardous and least-friedly-to-shows hall I've ever seen (and later working as a roadie for 4 years, I've now seen a LOT of nasty halls). There was mayhem outside the show, being in a rough part of downtown: drugs, violent homeless clashing with violent skineads, etc... the place is likely abandoned now, and was surely condemmned soon after this show. 'furnace like' and 'human rat's nest' are 2 apt phrases that come to mind. All there was was sweat, dirt, noise and pain. (perfect for a Flag show!) The most intense show I've ever seen. I think I saw my first 'crowd parting' for a portly stage diver at this show."

At one point I recall somebody ripping out the toilets and flooding half of the hall.