I can't believe it took three pages for Susanna Hoffs to make an appearance.
Here are some I haven't seen yet
Here are some I haven't seen yet
Friday OT #2 - Before You Go-Go
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Fun fact that I've mentioned before- the original verse for "like a drifter I was born to walk alone" was "like a hobo I was born to walk alone". Cracked me up when I first heard it. Good call on the change.
I can't believe it took 6 pages and not mentions of these either
No, the 80s version would be, I'm totally making a mix tape of all of these songs.
And it would have to be on this exact cassete
Those foggy cool mornings. I did corn pollinating and had to cut the silks off the ear shoots. You could take you paring knife and slide it over your arm to get rid of all the yellow pollen off you arm. Those cool wet mornings were god awful!
Putting a country spin on this, you want to talk about a song that screams 80's this one also crossed over into the pop charts too
I know that one looked totally gnarly but, for quality sound and not getting eaten up in your boombox, they had to be TDK or Maxell cassettes.No, the 80s version would be, I'm totally making a mix tape of all of these songs.
And it would have to be on this exact cassete
My fandom of country music is pretty inconsistent but there was actually some pretty good country music in the 80's. This song is not one of the good examples though.
Oh I agree although I do like the Oak Ridge Boys and that song was a huge hit in the early 80's and heck even today people still recognize it. I actually do not like most of the current mainstream country songs lately that are charting and I bet I listen to mostly 80's, 90's and early 2000 country music anymore. It's really kind of sad where the country genre has shifted in the past 5-10 years that sound more like 90s/00 top 40 pop music more than it does country theses days. Really have started to listen to more Chris Stapleton in the past year, he has some great songs that sound more like the country music of the 80s and 90s and hasn't really sold out to what the mainstream country labels want everyone to be recording these days.
When I think of the 80's a lot of songs by Alabama and George Strait probably come to mind first. Kenny Rogers and Hank Williams Jr were pretty big back then too.
I never realized this song was so early 80s.
And anything pure 80s was celebrated perfectly in The Wedding Singer.
And anything pure 80s was celebrated perfectly in The Wedding Singer.
Since someone mentioned country, just for fun, I thought I'd conjur up a list of who won the CMA Entertainer, Male, and Female Vocalist awards in the 1980s. Some of the younger people here might not recognize a few of the names, but these were the biggest of the decade and the list doesn't even include the mega stars who won their awards in the 70s, but were still huge in the 80s (like Rogers, Dolly Parton, Ronnie Milsap, Crystal Gayle).
CMA Entertainer of the Year:
1980 - Barbara Mandrell
1981 - Barbara Mandrell (first artist to ever win the award twice)
1982 - Alabama
1983 - Alabama
1984 - Alabama (first artist to ever win the award three times)
1985 - Ricky Skaggs
1986 - Reba McEntire
1987 - Hank Williams, Jr.
1988 - Hank Williams, Jr.
1989 - George Strait
CMA Male Vocalist:
1980 - George Jones
1981 - George Jones
1982 - Ricky Skaggs
1983 - Lee Greenwood
1984 - Lee Greenwood
1985 - George Strait
1986 - George Strait
1987 - Randy Travis
1988 - Randy Travis
1989 - Ricky Van Shelton
CMA Female Vocalist:
1980 - Emmylou Harris
1981 - Barbara Mandrell (also won in 1979)
1982 - Janie Fricke
1983 - Janie Fricke
1984 - Reba McEntire
1985 - Reba McEntire
1986 - Reba McEntire
1987 - Reba McEntire
1988 - K.T. Oslin
1989 - Kathy Mattea
They may not be racking up awards or charting hits these days but of those on that list that appeared multiple times Alabama, Reba, Hank, and George are still very relevant today. Only George in that group is not touring anymore but he's still recording music. Saw Alabama in concert at the state fair a couple years ago and they sound just as good as they did decades ago. They were just in Cedar Rapids last week too, wish I could have gone. I've seen George and Reba in concert within the past 10 years as well.
Alabama's great. Didn't really appreciate them when I was younger, but as my musical tastes have matured, I've definitely upped them in my rotation. Now my 4 year old asks for sweet potato pie and shut my mouth.
Absolutely. I rarely used them, but they were cheap and they are the most 80s style of blank cassette. I loved TDK. Used them all the time but they cost more.
One more for the road. Using the Miami Vice version because I can. It was one of the first times a song was used in this manner for a TV show, and I believe it was a pioneer for filming techniques.