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I’ve got 80s compilation CDs and there’s a new station in town that plays 80s music (or so they say). All of them can come back and talk to me when they play:

A 'til tuesday song that’s NOT “Voices Carry” (or Gang Green’s version, hee hee)

A Smiths song that’s not “How Soon is Now”

A Howard Jones song that’s not “Things Can Only Get Better,” “You Know I Love You,” or the incredibly sucky version of “No One is to Blame” with Phil Collins on drum mach - errr, drums.

A Violent Femmes song that’s not “Add it Up”

A Simple Minds song that’s not “Don’t You Forget About Me” or “Alive and Kicking”

A Level 42 song that’s not “Something About You”

A Peter Gabriel song that’s not “Sledgehammer,” “Steam,” or “In Your Eyes”

A Men Without Hats song that’s not “Safety Dance”

A Berlin song that’s not “Take My Breath Away”

A Prince song that’s not any of the billion rdio pieces…“Little Red Corvette” - “1999” - “Raspberry Beret”…I mean when was the last time anyone heard “Pop Life?”

A Depeche Mode song that’s not “People are People”

A Tears for Fears song that’s not “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” or “Shout”

A Crowded House song that’s not “Don’t Dream It’s Over” (or a Split Enz song that’s not “I Got You”)

A New Order song that’s not “Shell-Shock”

A Suzanne Vega song that’s not “Tom’s Diner” or “Luka”

You get the idea. When I listen to 80s CDs and radio stations, what stuns me the most is that, with ten solid years of artists and tunes from which to choose, they STILL play the same solid bullshit (excuse me) over and over and over and over…

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Sweet Dreams by the Eurythmics

Out of Touch by Hall and Oates

Wake Me Up Before you Go-Go by Wham!

Karma Chameleon by Culture Club

I Just Called to Say I Love You and Part-Time Lover by Stevie Wonder

I Want to Know what Love Is by Foreigner

One Night in Bangkok by Murray Head

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Cartoon Network is as close as it gets:
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/

rooby-roo!

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“Pleasure Victim” and “Riding On the Metro” by Berlin.

Anything by the Primitives.

The Bangles’ first two albums.

These are a few of my favorite things.

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Ooh, now there’s something else for me to listen to when I go visit my parents! One can only handle so much 101.1 the Fox.

Now, if only there was a network TV station that would play 80’s music videos non stop… Mmmm.

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Well, there’s me.

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:::Puts a comforting arm around jayjay:::
Aww, jayjay, there, there, would you like swig of my Geritol? :wink:

Yeah, nothing to make you realize you’re OLD like being somewhere they’re playing Muzak, you hear a song, you vaguely know it but can’t quite place it, and then…Oh, my God, it’s Can’t Get No Satisfaction/Dirty White Boy/Freebird/Kharma Chameleon/Working For The Weekend/Let’s Get Physical, something you never thought you’d hear in Muzak form.
[Indignent]
Hey, I like Safety Dance !! It has a cool video! But what a “safety dance” is, and what is has to do with that Renaissance-y video, I’ll never know.
{/Indignent]

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Thank you, thank you all for reminding me what a joyous thing it is to have put a decade between me and that culturally and morally bankrupt slice of the previous millenium tha was the ninteen eighties. Come on, seriously, the music was purely pants. No, all of it. 80’s music was bobbins from start to finish. It was 57 flavours of pure drivel.

Well, except Souxie. I mean, obviously I didn’t mean Souxie.

And some of the Smiths’ stuff, that was alright.

Oh, and maybe the odd Pet Shop Boys number. They were sort of fun.

(Darn- where’d I put that Depeche Mode album?)

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Sigh. We, in the LA area, used to have two really good '80s stations. One went Christian and the other one went, ummmmm - Spanish, I think. KROQ is wonderful ‘n’ all, and I’m glad to have it, but must my only alternatives to it be the dreaded Star 98.7 (“the same seven songs played every hour until you get home or throw up or both”) and 104.3 (“sometimes we play good stuff but if you don’t recognize the song, switch fast - it could be Britney or Backstreet Boys or something equally god-awful”)?

Please, all I ask is one decent '80s (and '90s) station. Please.

OK, now I’m really depressed. Thanks a ton, sdimbert.

::sniff::

::sniffle::

::sob::

Anyone have a tissue?

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“Safety Dance” goes down a lot easier when you hear Weird Al sing the melody to the Brady Bunch theme.

If it doesn’t make your head explode first.

Seriously, I got you all beat. I just moved up to the Harrisburg, PA, area, and heard the local station (the River) advertise itself
Are you ready?

This is a rock music station . . .

As “Rock ‘n’ Roll Without The Edge”
That’s right! For all those who were scared by the Rolling Stones as a child, who believed that Alice Cooper really did those naughty things on stage, who had nightmares that Jim Morrison was going to be your back-door man, here’s the station for you.

“Rock ‘n’ Roll . . . without the edge.” Sheesh. :rolleyes:

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Well, well. Welcome to the neighborhood, SoMoMom.

Or, welcome the the Board.

One or the other, since I’ve never “met” you before.

Me, you, Ender and Homer make 4. Ooohh… Anthracite lives in KC, also. 5 of us!! :slight_smile:

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“What is Love?”

???There was such a thing?

“No More Words”

“Strangelove”

“Sowing the Seeds of Love”

Ummm…that was supposed to be a trivia quiz, right?

You can watch Barney Miller
You can watch your MTV
You can watch 'till you eyes fall out of your head
That’ll be OK with me…

…

Why yes, I’m a Weird Al fan…how could you tell?

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So, when do we start sounding like those ol’ folks we grew up with, who used to demand: “Have you ever heard the Andrews Sisters?”

Then they turned their music up.

Are we the ones to say that today’s music doesn’t [b/]ROCK[b/]?

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Sounds like a winner, thanks for the heads-up on the radio station. My favorite kind of music!

And who knows - Fierra may be in KC by this time next year…

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I’m with you. The closest thing Tampa has is 101.5 – Jammin’ Oldies from the 70s and 80s (heavy on the 70s). 95.7 does the Retro Bistro from 12-1 every afternoon and does Retro Saturday night from 10PM-12 AM. Big whoopee.

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Oh! ‘The La’s’! There She Goes is playing on Spinner right now. Much better than the ‘Sixpence None the Richer’ version.

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KROQ, 106.7FM, here in L.A. County, often has 80s flashback shows, usually on the weekends. They do a decent job of playing a wide variety of the songs I remember from high school and college.

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Yeah, I can’t handle the Jamming Oldies station for very long. There are too few "Little Red Corvette"s and too many "Caribbean Queen"s.

The Retro Bistro is big fun, though. But only one hour! That’s no good.

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I’m 32, and I like some 80s music. My personal belief is that we have too damn many of these 80s stations! Most of the ones I’ve heard play the same crap over and over. I had a job where we were forced to listen to the 60s, 70s, and 80s station all the time, and you knew it was 7 PM because that’s when “Stairway to Heaven” came on! Grrrr.

I have never understood the appeal of listening exclusively to music that came out when you were a teenager. To me, that’s like saying your emotional and intellectual development stopped when you were in high school!

katiekilldare, you ever hear any of The Creatures stuff? Siouxsie and the drummer from the band put out two albums under that name. Great stuff.

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No, that’s saying that you happened to like the music that was being produced at that point in history. It’s not your fault if good music happened to be produced while you were a certain age. I don’t think ABBA sat around thinking “I’ve got a really great idea for a song, but we should really hold off until Tuckerfan hits adolescence.”

Personally, I like the classics. Should it matter if my musical tastes happened to peak when I was a fetus? And apparently only Strom Thurmond is allowed to listen to classical stations.