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			<title><![CDATA[Re: 1980s music discussion]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Here's another 1980s song thatI just discovered for the first time.  It's called "Call time" by Vision.  It's a high-energy synth with a bit of Disco elements added to it.  Let me see if it's anywhere on YouTube.

...

Yes.  Here's a link:
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNnEiZ98eZU[/url]

I think it's from 1983.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (HoldingOurOwn)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 13:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[The thing about the 80s music is that there is so much variety, and so much to be discovered even by hardcore 80s fans, especially in the third rail.  I just discovered this gem in the synth pop category.  It's called "Dumping Cart Motion" by Glass Museum, from their self-titled 1984 album.  It is so sad that I've gone all these years without ever hearing this song.  And like a lot of the 80s synth acts, they talked a lot about technology and computers as a metaphor for humans and social interaction.  Much like "A Circuit Like Me" by The Metronomes, a third-rail 80s band that uses a lot of moog and has that German technoppop late 70s early 80s sound.  The warmth of those type of synths gave the coldness of computers as a topic a strange emotional quality of its own.

Anyway, for those who were on this forum who were interested in exploring the third rail, I recommend these two songs for a way different experience.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (HoldingOurOwn)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: 1980s music discussion]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hey, if you don't know 80s song titles, but remember some lyrics, I may be able to discern the songs 4ya!  Just post here.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (HoldingOurOwn)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Most of the songs from the 80's that I remember I only remember because they get played on "oldies" radio stations or I've got them on my iPod. Most of the obscure songs that I liked at the time I can't remember. I know because when downloading mp3's became a thing *ahem* I tried to recall the titles to go looking for them and either couldn't remember them or didn't find any matches so promptly forgot them.

I was about to do a "kids these days don't appreciate music" speech, but I'd just be repeating my dad from when he said it to me. I really do like it when a song I liked and haven't heard in ages comes on the radio. With the capacity to pirate music these days and cheap, massive storage space, you just don't get that little jump inside when a forgotten favourite comes on.

I still have my cd collection, bought at the start of the 90's - I was an amateur dj at the time and spent I have no idea how much on cd's. Too much, considering what they are worth now...

Ha, I'll go invite some local kids over so I can tell them to get off my lawn!]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Dr Neo Lao)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[[quote=HoldingOurOwn]Oh, another thing about Jazz.  I just finished a song that was nearly-completed for a while.  It's my 1st smooth jazz song.  Now I'll provide a link when it's up, but I want to mention that although I NEVER do anything obscene, once in a while some content of my music can be a bit risque, usually as satire or social commentary.  Anyway, the title of the song is not obscene, but does include the clinical name for part of the reproductive anatomy.  So when I post it, you can decide the family-friendliness of it before letting yr kids visit the link.  All that aside, I'm pretty proud of the way it sounds, and I'll post on this thread when it's on YouTube.[/quote]


Here's the song.  I actually have the video posted twice: 1x with a G-Rated title, and 1x with the PG-rated title.  Here's a link to the G_Rated title:
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4higMlVG47k[/url]
A back-handed tribute to Natalie Portman.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (HoldingOurOwn)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[[quote]I'm sure in 30 years time people will laugh at everyone's quiff's and cringe at the dubstep-inspired fuzz of today's music.
[/quote]

Not to mention AUTOTUNE!!!!!!!!
BLAGH!!!!!!
In fact, I composed & recorded a song about how much I hate Auto-Tune (I have a half-completed music video).
Listen to it here:

[url]http://www.last.fm/music/Tinnitis/The+Year+We+Make+Contact/Auto-Tune[/url]

And click the "free dl" link to keep it & put it on your mp3 player!

Oh, and there are samples from Stern's Arcade game "Berzerk" (1980) during the bridge.

You can click "Learn more about "The Year We Make Contact" to hear 30 second clips of the entire album AUTO TUNE came from, featuring these songs I recorded:

Underground Bunker 
Nina's Dead! (Kim Bauer's mix)
FON Phreakin' 
Hannah Montana's Driving Me Bananas
Parmesan
Auto-Tune
Tanstaafl
This Is a Test 
Nina's Dead! (Chloe's CTU mix)
Last Dance
It Came From The First Grade  

LMK what you think.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (HoldingOurOwn)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: 1980s music discussion]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[quote=Onion]The drums from the 1980s make me want to throw up then curl up and die. And the hairstyles.[/quote]

That's fair enough, but yeah - as Brick7 pointed out - trends and styles change rapidly. I'm sure in 30 years time people will laugh at everyone's quiff's and cringe at the dubstep-inspired fuzz of today's music.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Max Butcher)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 21:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Oh, another thing about Jazz.  I just finished a song that was nearly-completed for a while.  It's my 1st smooth jazz song.  Now I'll provide a link when it's up, but I want to mention that although I NEVER do anything obscene, once in a while some content of my music can be a bit risque, usually as satire or social commentary.  Anyway, the title of the song is not obscene, but does include the clinical name for part of the reproductive anatomy.  So when I post it, you can decide the family-friendliness of it before letting yr kids visit the link.  All that aside, I'm pretty proud of the way it sounds, and I'll post on this thread when it's on YouTube.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (HoldingOurOwn)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[[quote=Brick7]Isn't it nice to know, Onion, that someday kids will be complaining about the "weirdness" of your generation? :) History always repeats itself.  I have to admit, though, that when I watch the old 80's videos, all the make up and the "wall o' hair" hairdos are rather frightening.

HoldingOurOwn, I read that [i]Fishheads[/i] came out in '79, but didn't become popular until the 80's, but that date could be wrong. I bet a "Weird Al" concert is a blast!  In the 90's I saw "They Might Be Giants", and they were amazing.  Now days, I am more into classical music, jazz, or big band.  Every once in a while I'll feel in the mood for something more lively or different, but one time when I put on one of my old "Oingo Boingo" CDs, my kids thought I'd lost my senses.  You should have heard the commotion they raised when I played Kate Bush.  It was quite hilarious.

1011Ev, that song (speaking of radios) reminded me of another 80's song, [i]Mexican Radio [/i]by "Wall of Voodoo."[/quote]

"Weird Al" concerts ARE a blast!  Very theatrical and with lots of costume changes & audio/visual!  A great song fom Stan Ridgeway from Wall of Voodoo is "I Want TO Be a Boss".  I have an interview CD called "Fly on the wall" from around that period.  Thanks for the 1979 date for Fish Heads.  You know, one version of that record was shaped like a fish head! 

Now I don't know too much about Jazz, but I really love "Massive Transit" by Cindy Bradley.  You may have notived that it's in the Holding Our Own ep 2 script.  I'm trying to learn more about classic jazz, having become interested in it while researching my film "The Complete History of Recorded Music, Part 1":

 [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7VFdKZoDXU[/url]

I love 80s hair & Roland 808 drums.  Big hair reminds me of my sad 80s prom story, which I'll tell sometime.

And Lamplight: I absolutely LOVE New Order's "Blue Monday".  And I've been really into Alphaville pretty recently, esp. "Big In Japan".]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (HoldingOurOwn)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: 1980s music discussion]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I love all of you. Joy Division, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Hall and Oates, Alphaville have been on top of my recent plays lately.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[lamplightfilms@aol.com (Lamplight)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 04:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Isn't it nice to know, Onion, that someday kids will be complaining about the "weirdness" of your generation? :) History always repeats itself.  I have to admit, though, that when I watch the old 80's videos, all the make up and the "wall o' hair" hairdos are rather frightening.

HoldingOurOwn, I read that [i]Fishheads[/i] came out in '79, but didn't become popular until the 80's, but that date could be wrong. I bet a "Weird Al" concert is a blast!  In the 90's I saw "They Might Be Giants", and they were amazing.  Now days, I am more into classical music, jazz, or big band.  Every once in a while I'll feel in the mood for something more lively or different, but one time when I put on one of my old "Oingo Boingo" CDs, my kids thought I'd lost my senses.  You should have heard the commotion they raised when I played Kate Bush.  It was quite hilarious.

1011Ev, that song (speaking of radios) reminded me of another 80's song, [i]Mexican Radio [/i]by "Wall of Voodoo."]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[brick7seven@gmail.com (Brick7)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 03:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[The drums from the 1980s make me want to throw up then curl up and die. And the hairstyles. 

halp]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Onion)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Been enjoying this song a little too much. [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwuy4hHO3YQ[/url]]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (1011Ev)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Brick7, I never went to concerts younger.  But I did see Weird Al 4 times starting in 1997, and The Residents once in Phialdelphia.  Now my brother is a punk rocker.  He goes to all their shows, and there are some real characters there.  But he attended the Residents show w/ my wife and I, and he said, "at that show, _I_ was scared!"  They really have gotten more disturbing lately.  The guitarist in my band was going to go see They Might Be Giants back in the 1990s when they expanded their lineup (about 1994), but it fell through.  I also had a ticket to see Pop Will Eat Itself, but again, I didn't have a way to get there.  So I keep the ticket as a memento.

Another band that plays occasionaly at Atlantic City is Devo, and it's my dream to see one of their concerts.  I had to pass up the last 2 times.  It's hard when your child has autism to get out.

THe song "Fish Heads" is actually from the 1970s, thought it was big in the 80s.  Dr Demento is in the video as the homeless  guy.  I think it's 1977, but my 80s knowledge is much more accurate.  That is my own character trait that I put into Angela in "Holding Our Own".  And her philosophy on pop music is an exaggeration of my own.  I love the music, but could care less about the artists themselves.  (Except Weird Al).  I am traditional and conservative in everything except the music.

Like Grace Jones.  The music is great, but she's really perverted for me to like her.

Max, That song "Quiet Please" in my video is by Negativland.  The best thing about them is that all their music is copyright free.  I also think "Computer Love" by Kraftwerk could have been a hit.

And another band that is in the third rail is the electronica band "Radio Free Europe".  Check out their song "It Likes You", which can be another contender vying for "Weirdest song of the 1980s."  Not for the uninitiated.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (HoldingOurOwn)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Speaking of weird/funny 80's songs, how about some of the "Barnes and Barnes" hits including [i]Fish Heads [/i]and [i]Boogie Woogie Amputee[/i].  [i]Star Trekkin'[/i] by "The Firm" is another.  "They Might Be Giants" always has creative songs.  From the 80's [i]Youth Culture Killed My Dog[/i] is one of my favorites.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[brick7seven@gmail.com (Brick7)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
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