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Post by rtm on Aug 30, 2015 18:12:47 GMT -5
Classic! know this song from A to Z and so should you!
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Post by errbt on Aug 30, 2015 18:15:51 GMT -5
Another two that define the early '80s sound perfectly, and were both two of my first records ever bought:
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Post by rtm on Aug 30, 2015 18:18:06 GMT -5
This video is terrible, and everyone usually remembers The Metro more, but I often seem to have a thing for the lesser hit "followup" single (for example, I think The Sun Always Shines On TV by A-Ha blows away Take On Me), and this song is just plain magical, one of my all-time '80s faves: Wow...this sounds like early Kim Wilde to me....never ever heard anything by Berlin besides ' Take my...." so thanx for filling me in  |
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Post by rtm on Aug 30, 2015 18:23:33 GMT -5
Another two that define the early '80s sound perfectly, and were both two of my first records ever bought: |
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Post by errbt on Aug 31, 2015 0:37:18 GMT -5
Wow...this sounds like early Kim Wilde to me....never ever heard anything by Berlin besides ' Take my...." so thanx for filling me in Yeah, of course their most known (& hugest hit) is Take My Breath Away, but their first album, Pleasure Victim, is '80s synth pop at its finest! The first single was The Metro, which made a decent splash on MTV, followed by the lesser known Masquerade. It might sound like blasphemy, but I've always preferred After the Fire's version to Falco's original for this song. I just think that ATF's kicks more ass sonically. It just has that perfect blend of guitars and synths that our boys from Birmingham of course also perfected (and utilized perfectly again and again on all their '80s gems). Lyrically I prefer ATF's as well (which is weird, because usually I think that the original language is preferable and flows better in songs that also offer a translated to English version, as in the case of Nena's original German recording of 99 Luftballons which kills the goofy English version IMO). |
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Post by rtm on Aug 31, 2015 1:00:40 GMT -5
^ Completely agree with you on Nena  |
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Post by errbt on Sept 1, 2015 10:44:44 GMT -5
Some find this song cheesy, but it's pure '80s to me. This long version blows away the short version, and is a reminder about how original this period of music was. So many of these classic songs sounded unlike anything before (or since).
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Post by errbt on Sept 1, 2015 10:59:14 GMT -5
...and of course, let's not forget this awesomely bizarre bit of '80s surrealism that somehow manages to combine a rap about picking up a beautiful woman with musings on the universal narure of vowel sounds in language, wrapped up in music so weird it borders on sinister at times, as if straight out of The Omen. The fact that they managed to make a video just as dorky, twisted, & dark as the song itself is quite an achievement IMO:
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Post by rtm on Sept 23, 2015 12:30:12 GMT -5
Some find this song cheesy, but it's pure '80s to me. This long version blows away the short version, and is a reminder about how original this period of music was. So many of these classic songs sounded unlike anything before (or since). Classic! Love this one |
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