Rhode Island's Beaver Brown Band, led by lead singer John Cafferty had toiled on the bar band scene in the Northeastern US since the '70s when they were tapped to provide the music for the film Eddie & The Cruisers . Amiable, yet non-descript, few could have predicted that the soundtrack would launch them to a brief time in the pop music spotlight (especially after the movie and soundtrack made barely a ripple when initially released). Eddie & The Cruisers arrived in theaters in the early fall of 1983 to lukewarm reviews and audience [...]
Video of late rocker Wendy O. Williams of the Plasmatics in a St. Louis production of Rocky Horror Picture Show , 1984.
Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? - Richard Hamilton (1956) Six Sed Red - Bang 'em Right (1984) The superbly named Cindy Ecstasy provides vocals on this.
Glam rockers Slade were basically ignored in the States for the first fifteen years of their career despite scoring a slew of massive hits in their native UK. They did manage a handful of minor hits in the US, but none of them managed to climb higher than #68 (which they did in 1973 with the song Gudbuy T' Jane ). However, Quiet Riot's Top Ten cover of Slade's song Cum On Feel The Noize (which had stalled at #98 when they originally released it) set the stage for US success on the heels [...]
Although inspired by the art rock of Roxy Music - a sound they would imitate in their earliest incarnation - Spandau Ballet found fame as one of the leading acts in the New Romantic movement that became popular in the UK in the early '80s. They group became a sensation in their homeland, but attracted little attention in the States until the release of their True album in the summer of 1983. With their sleek, sophisticated look and the crooning vocal style of lead singer Tony Hadley, True took aim at more romantically-inclined music [...]
From the time they arrived off the assembly line with their 1978 debut, Boston's The Cars had become one of the most popular bands in America on the strength of their uptempo fusion of classic power pop and New Wave. Four albums had produced a string of hits including Just What I Needed , Let's Go , and Shake It Up . It was their 1984 release, Heartbeat City which had launched them to superstardom. Released in early 1984, the album quickly spawned two major hits - the Top Ten You Might [...]
Add It Up - Violent Femmes October 1984 The Lyceum, London, UK In further commemoration of our 20 year high school reunion, I bring you this gem from the Femmes.
Girl groups have been around as long as there has been popular music, reaching their heydey in the '60s when acts like Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, The Ronnettes, and The Supremes were ubiquitous hitmakers. The '70s saw a decline in such musical formations, but the '80s arrived with The Go-Gos who, unlike their predecessors, wrote and performed their own material. They were followed by British trio Bananarama in 1983 who more resembled early all-female acts. Their debut, Deep Sea Skiving made Bananarama stars in their native UK, but they caused little more than a minor [...]
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Following nearly fifteen years of major commercial success despite being an enormously popular live draw, the J. Geils Band broke through in a major way with the release of their album Freeze-Frame in late 1981. By tempering their blues and R&B-based sound in a more pop-friendly direction, the group saw the album and lead single Centerfold become #1 smashes, as well as subsequent singles Freeze-Frame and Angel In Blue become US Top 40 hits. However, at the height of the success, tensions between lead singer Peter Wolf and primary songwriter [...]
More than a few acts from the '80s had their sound overshadowed by their video image and the New York band Scandal is one example. The quintet had one of the best-selling EPs of all time in 1983 when their self-titled debut spun off two hits, Goodbye To You and Love's Got A Line On You (although both failed to reach the US Top 40). In 1984, they released their first full-length album, The Warrior , and like their debut, it was filled with catchy, straight-ahead pop-rock. The title song was tabbed as [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =b5t5GukrWOU Van Halen, "Hot for Teacher" (Warner, 1984) Detour is too busy redesigning its Twitter page to study the why's and how's of it, but there's a real problem in this country with teachers "having their way with" their students. It's part of a larger social trend, to be sure. But rather than theorize, or even trot out a few experts to spout their theories, most news outlets just use a reference to this, the iconic 1984 single from Van Halen. Every joke, every shot, every Diamond Dave "WHOOOAAA" – [...]
Singer John Waite was hardly unfamiliar to radio listeners when his album No Brakes arrived in the summer of 1984. As lead singer for the British band The Babys, Waite's voice was the one on that group's hits Isn't It Time , Everytime I Think Of You , and Back On My Feet Again , prior to their breakup in 1981. Waite's solo debut Ignition had misfired in 1982, failing to produce any sizable hits (although the single Change would belated chart in 1985 after appearing on the Vision Quest [...]
<center Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - The Proposition #1 Okay, so the FISA bill passed. Barack Obama supported it. People have other issues to contend with. It's time to move on, right? Well, no, it isn't. Obama posted an explanation to his position on FISA over a week ago (reprinted here on The Huffington Post). The following excerpt worries me most (emphasis added): Given the choice between voting for an improved yet imperfect [...]
Great Jazz Rock Fusion Video featuring Allan Holdsworth - Guitar, Chad Wackerman - Drums, Jimmy Johnson - Bass. They are performing Heavy Metal Fatigue live in Tokyo - 1984 . This Video is from YouTube . Watch here or go to the YouTube Page . WPvideo 1.10 You can hear Allan Holdsworth and music like this great band at Latch Music Radio . Be sure to go to the website [...]
Great Jazz Rock Fusion Video featuring Allan Holdsworth - Guitar, Chad Wackerman - Drums, Jimmy Johnson - Bass. They are performing live in Tokyo - 1984 . This Video is from YouTube . Watch here or go to the YouTube Page . WPvideo 1.10 You can hear Allan Holdsworth and music like this great band at Latch Music Radio . Be sure to go to the website Allan Holdsworth [...]
1984 A26 verso sud 2007 Paleo's diary : one song, each day somewhere there is a mountain (française version) teheiojeneqagdh;hldhfdmmmmmmmm mmmmm je ne sais plus écrire. Mon clavier pas plus. Si je le laisse seul, rien ne se passe. Aucune force mentale intérieure n'en vient à bout. Il demeure silencieux. A26. J'ai regardé sur une [...]
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