Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: PaulF on 09 June, 2012, 07:14:02 am
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SWMBO has requested that I make a playlist of "Cheesy 80's Music" Since I was way too cool for "chart music" back then ;D its a genre know nothingbabout so I need your help.
So what do you suggest?
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ABC - Lexicon of Love
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Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Human League - Mirror Man
These two seemed to be playing almost constantly everywhere I went in the '80s. I'd better go off and do something else before the flashbacks start.
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Not cheesy enough by half.
Agadoo - Black Lace
Club Tropicana - Wham!
Anything from Stock, Aitken and Waterman's enormous opus (e.g. I Should Be So Lucky - Kylie Minogue)
Shaddup Your Face - Joe Dolce
etc
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Just get "the Graztest Hots of Stock, Aitken and Waterman", if it exists, save you spending time compiling anything.
Oh, it does: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gold-Stock-Aitken-Waterman/dp/B000BM7U0K
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Crikey, I'd forgotten about all that sort of stuff; my cheezometer evidently requires recalibration. I do apologise. Disregard my last.
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Give It Up - KC and the Sunshine Band
Anything by Billy Ocean (any song, that is, not a song called anything)
Footloose by Watsisname
St Elmo's Fire by Watsisname
Cyndi Lauper.
Please don't invite me...
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Please don't invite me...
I'm not inviting me either :D
Thanks all keep them coming!
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All the above plus some,
I Think We're Alone Now - Tiffany
Drowning In Berlin - The Mobiles
Cry Boy Cry - Blue Zoo
Favourite Shirt - Haircut 100
One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head
The Riddle - Nick Kershaw
Gold - Spandau Ballet
Japanese Boy - Aneka
Falling In Love Again - The Techno Twins
Take on Me - Aha
and roll over for this (http://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ) one.
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We Built This City On Rock 'N' Roll - Starship (this has been known to make people homicidal, if anyone comes between them and the "Stop" button on the hi-fi).
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Heaven is A Place On Earth - Belinda Carlisle
The Final Countdown - Europe
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Nothing's Gonna Stop us Now -- Starship.
Time after Time -- Cyndi Lauper.
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When Will I Be Famous (Oo-er) - Bros
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Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
China in Your Hand - Tpau
The one from Top Gun
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Save Your Love - Renee and Renato, which is the very epitome of cheese.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqIbmu0ZO7E
You lot are going through all my wife's favourite records.
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Alone - Heart
Pop Muzik - M (MAKE IT STOP!)
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You lot are going through all my wife's favourite records.
No wonder you ride a bike!!!
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Africa -- Toto.
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Young Guns by Wham! See You by Depeche Mode. Wishing by a Flock of Seagulls. Shall I just post you my ipod? I lurve 80s cheese.
Nothing's Gonna stop us now by Starship.
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A Good Heart - Feargal Sharkey
Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
Karma Chameleon - Culture Club
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You have to go back to the 70s for real industrial-strength Radio 2 cheese like Manhattan Transfer and Brotherhood of Man, but I have found a few more horrors from the No.1 singles list (some of them are cover versions, but more famous than the originals):
Making Your Mind Up - Bucks Fizz
The Lion Sleeps Tonight - Tight Fit
Only You - The Flying Pickets
99 Red Balloons (or Neun-und-Neunzig Luftballons, if you prefer) - Nena
Hello - Lionel Richie
It gets better by the middle of the decade, but then there's this one, which I think was banned under one of the SALT treaties:
Swing The Mood - Jive Bunny
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St Elmo's Fire by Watsisname
Eno?
Surely not?
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Mickey by Toni Basil.
Especially for You - Kylie & Jason
Remind me later and I'll have a look through my hundreds of 80s compilation albums.
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St Elmo's Fire by Watsisname
Eno?
Surely not?
No! Some guy with very eighties hair.
*googles*
John Parr.
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St Elmo's Fire by Watsisname
Eno?
Surely not?
No! Some guy with very eighties hair.
*googles*
John Parr.
Ah! Fortunately that one passed me by.
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SWMBO has requested that I make a playlist of "Cheesy 80's Music" Since I was way too cool for "chart music" back then ;D its a genre know nothingbabout so I need your help.
What is it for? To enjoy? Cos many of the suggestions I wouldn't even inflict on Saddam Hussein and Boris Johnson.
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Clouds Across The Moon - The Rah Band
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So far I have not seen anything cheesy in this thread. I've seen a lot of people desperately trying to look cool though.
If you want real cheese then take a good look at the contemporary music charts.
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Just check out Tarzan Boy by Baltimora on Youtube and choose from the stuff on the side bar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r0n9Dv6XnY
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Just check out Tarzan Boy by Baltimora on Youtube and choose from the stuff on the side bar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r0n9Dv6XnY
And the definitive cheesy 80s track is Boys, Boys, Boys. by Sabrina.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiuHdUkuRi0&feature=fvwrel
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Anything by Duran Duran
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Oh, Call Me by Spagna. She had a frightwig.
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So far I have not seen anything cheesy in this thread. I've seen a lot of people desperately trying to look cool though.
If you want real cheese then take a good look at the contemporary music charts.
Cheese doesn't have to be Tesco Value Mild Cheddar.
If you only allow shit to pass your quality test then I propose:
this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cD9cBEaNBc)
and
this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE&feature=related)
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So far I have not seen anything cheesy in this thread. I've seen a lot of people desperately trying to look cool though.
If you want real cheese then take a good look at the contemporary music charts.
Cheese doesn't have to be Tesco Value Mild Cheddar.
If you only allow shit to pass your quality test...
Or people could grow the fuck up and accept that different people have different tastes.
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I took a look at this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adk1ujjmguo&feature=related
It combines 60s and 70s cheez in a whole new 80s cheezy package, and only 2mins 22sec.
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So far I have not seen anything cheesy in this thread. I've seen a lot of people desperately trying to look cool though.
If you want real cheese then take a good look at the contemporary music charts.
Cheese doesn't have to be Tesco Value Mild Cheddar.
If you only allow shit to pass your quality test...
Or people could grow the fuck up and accept that different people have different tastes.
Oooooooooooh.
Mine's the Lulu Guinness, is this Birkin yours?
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The cheesiest I can come up with are
Nothing's Gunna Change my Love for you- Glen madeiros
The One and Only - Chesney Hawkes
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Chesney is 90s cheese, not 80s. :D
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Sabrina - Boys boys boys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiuHdUkuRi0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiuHdUkuRi0)
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The B52's : Love shack
Deee-Lite : Groove is in the heart ( Actually it's 1990)
Cheesy yes, but they keeps the party going...
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Chesney is 90s cheese, not 80s. :D
Holy shit I had no idea he was that recent! He's definitely cheesy though :D
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Early 90s.
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Anything by Pat 'n' Mick
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I can't believe I forgot this:
mullet haired footballer cheese (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KEMMfV5-Qg).
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I actually might still have that somewhere. :-[ :D
Don't tell bobb. I think it might be a dumpable offence.
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Quite a few nominations have been records that were supposed to be funny (or ironic, or ... something). Cheesy isn't really the right word for those. I'll let the reader decide which ones are which ...
Talking of football cheese, there was a classy world-cup song on telly last week. I think it was Bobby Robson's squad, not sure which competition, but probably 80s or 90s. It was about the most cringe-worthy thing I've seen in a while - Terry Butcher looked suicidal (despite having bagged an exercise bike to avoid joining in the synchronised arm-waving).
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I think you might all have just compiled the music list for MFWHTBAB's and my wedding reception...
;D
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Obsession - Animotion
Even if only for the "Antony and Cleopatra" video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_qDftr0VVA
We seem to have touched a nerve with AndyK; I think he may actually have a large collection of Hit Factory records :o
Some of this stuff is actually good music, but that doesn't preclude it being cheesy.
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I actually might still have that somewhere. :-[ :D
Don't tell bobb. I think it might be a dumpable offence.
:o
Well, it did get into the charts so you can't be the only one.
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We seem to have touched a nerve with AndyK; I think he may actually have a large collection of Hit Factory records :o
Some of this stuff is actually good music, but that doesn't preclude it being cheesy.
There's nothing wrong with SAW as such, they did some fine pastiches.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF28Z_lr3t4
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mQwPlp43dY (Toto: Africa)
Has one of the most 80s "feels" of any song I can think of. Particularly the drum lick into the chorus and the key change that follows. I'm probably influenced by it appearing in the soundtrack of Grand Theft Auto:Vice City, which was a celebration in interactive form of the decade (at least, the populist, American version of it).
EDIT: Goddamn, I've just been flicking through the soundtrack. Here's another gem, from Flock of Seagulls. Speaks of 80s teen movie to me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Pq0xYr3L4&feature=related
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I'm not sure I can endure the whole thread, but wasn't nearly everything in the 80's cheesy? Might be quicker to mention things that weren't ... t'would be a shorter thread.
Currently I'm sitting in the bar of a Russian hotel where there's a wedding reception in progress, it's an 80s cheese fest ... apart from Depeche mode of course :thumbsup:
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I'm not sure I can endure the whole thread, but wasn't nearly everything in the 80's cheesy? Might be quicker to mention things that weren't ... t'would be a shorter thread.
Cheesy Wotsits?
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I'm not sure I can endure the whole thread, but wasn't nearly everything in the 80's cheesy? Might be quicker to mention things that weren't ... t'would be a shorter thread.
Cheesy Wotsits?
Wotsits? What's that?
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We seem to have touched a nerve with AndyK; I think he may actually have a large collection of Hit Factory records :o
And you'd be wrong. I just find all this student-union snobbery towards anything deemed 'uncool' a tad tiresome.
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We seem to have touched a nerve with AndyK; I think he may actually have a large collection of Hit Factory records :o
And you'd be wrong. I just find all this student-union snobbery towards anything deemed 'uncool' a tad tiresome.
Awww misery guts, tell us what you really think ....
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Roseanna - Toto (?)
Rabbit - Chas n Dave
Someone nominated 99 Red Balloons - I must confess to having rather liked that at the time (but I was in Germany at the time on a school exchange and I was only 14!)
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Almost everyone who was a British teenager in the 1980s remembers the TOTP performance as the first time they saw a woman with hairy armpits.
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Buck's Fizz - The Land of Make Believe
Boy Meets Girl - Waiting for a Star to Fall
Aneka - Japanese Boy
Taylor Dayne - Tell It To My Heart
Debbie Gibson - Shake Your Love
John Farnham - You're The Voice
Matchbox - When You Ask About Love
Latin Quarter - Radio Africa
Christopher Cross - Arthur's Theme
Maria McKee - Show Me Heaven
Chris de Burgh - Lady in Red
Patrick Swayze - She's Like The Wind
In Deep - Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
Miami Sound Machine - Dr Beat
Lionel Richie - Hello
Lionel Richie - All Night Long
Junior - Mama Used to Say
Five Star - Rain or Shine
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Im going to up the stakes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFacWGBJ_cs
Pissed all over Midge Ure and what was probably one of the best songs of the 80s (if not one of the best songs of all time) :facepalm:
I put this forward as a pinnacle of the genre of soap star songstrel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E66uNEzBWvk
For some reason, I still remember the Mary Whitehouse Experience joke that if it had another note, it would have been "anyone can fall in custard". Milky milky ;)
(PS: the 80s had some great music. I could probably rattle off a list of awesomeness that would no doubt have featured in my early teenage mix tapes, created on my tape-to-tape "boom box" from copies from the charts on a Sunday evening. Complete with the click and whirr of the pause button being pressed).
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I can (and regularly do) sing the chorus to Shaddap You Face (much to the consternation of my wife, the cats, and passing strangers).
I also hum Baltimora's fabulous Tarzan Boy very loudly every time my train pulls into Baltimore station. I can't help myself. One day Amtrak Police will remove me.
Also, Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart, you get that in your head, it takes glorious weeks to get rid of it. When I die they're going to have encase my iTunes library in concrete for next 40,000 years to make it safe.
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I'd put forward, Funkytown as one of those cheesy guilty pleasures. It was 1980, so on the cusp of the 70s, it even manages to incorporate 'Sunshine of your Love' by Cream into its structure.
It seems to have generated an amusing line in comments.
Some of you are too young to understand. This video is a LITERAL depiction of what the 70s were like on a daily basis. You'd walk down the street and come across a short haired wild eyed blond funking out. There was always a brunette in a see-through blouse not far behind. The technology of the era guaranteed that people were always followed by multiple mirrored images of themselves. Reagan banned that tech in 1980. On every horizon was a giant moon, lights, lasers and a huge ass disco ball!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6pg18bJt-A&feature=related
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I've always rather liked that track. It's... disco funky! But the video, which I've never seen before, is pure
(http://www.babybel.co.uk/img/li-bb-org.jpg)
It's like Jane Fonda, before the Smiths and OMD.
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Hey! I had Joe Dolce (Joe Dolce Music Theatre, technically) on page 1!
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I like how the percussion on Funky Town is essentially someone hitting pans with spoons.
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Oh, for the playlist, Kissing with Confidence by Willpowers.
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"Do you have spinach on your teeth?"
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Is your breath fresh? Is your deodorant strong enough?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teGJHiA7jwg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teGJHiA7jwg) :'( :sick: