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| From | kcronin <fiatluxury@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: one hitter |
| Date | Fri, 10 Jun 2005 12:43:51 -0700 (PDT) |
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Not that I need to defend blow-by-blow, but this
thread is interesting me b/c memory is so selective,
and (obviously) subjective - I lived in the market in
the same house as my brother, and he remembers radio
very differently from me. He says Chicago didn't have
any hits after 1980! Perhaps he is speaking
metaphorically.
will wrote:
>
> I absolutely LOVED "It Must Be Love."
I did too, but it was because it was a minor club hit
in the punkrock juice-bar teen dance places in Chicago
- Medusa's and McGreivie's, specifically, but also the
short-lived Student Body and the more metal-oriented
Thirsty Whale - they'd play it as a breather between
The Cure, Siouxsie, Hazy Fantazy, The Cult, New Order,
Smiths, etc...I don't remember it on the radio at all,
though I wouldn't doubt it made college stations. I
also very much loved "wings of a dove," but again, was
only introduced to that because i knew them from "Our
House." (Oh, you know, now I'm thinking of it, I think
"House of Fun" had a video too.)
>
> > *John Cafferty & Beaver Brown Band
>
> Maybe my memory's failing me here, but I think "On
> The Dark Side" and
> "Tender Years" were equally big hits...
I just went on to iTunes to play Tender Years and they
don't even appear to have "Dark Side," but I don't
remember Tender Years offhand.
Obviously, everyone knows "Missing You," but it was
> the video for "Change,"
> where a woman's on a ledge and Waite's playing a
> reporter (I think),
iTunes had this one, but I've never heard it. Well,
what the hell was I doing when these songs were out? I
must have been taking another hit off my Thriller
record.
>
> > *Rockwell
>
> This is probably my biggest '80s pet peeve: no-one
> ever seems to remember
> "Obscene Phone Caller."
I remember Obscene Phone Caller quite clearly, and as
a comparable-sized hit to "Watching Me," mainly from
the video shows (non-cable...like Air Conditioning and
Guess? jeans, cable was something my folks deemed we
did not need.) My contention is that this is really
one song anyway - variations on a theme, if you will.
Because that cute paranoid thing went over so well the
first time - there was a thread a while back about a
hit song spawning another song in the same vein or
relating to the same story (Like "it's my party" and
"judy's turn to cry") and I think this falls into that
category.
arma non servant modum
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