Remedy du Jour -- August 4, 2012

Don't blame me — nostalgia made me do it!

The 80s. Parties, night clubs, women, MTV, VHS tapes, dancing, blow & new wave music. I even worked sometimes when I wasn't otherwise engaged. What a drag!

Looking back, I don't regret a single second of it. It all seemed so innocent at the time. I didn't know then that it would eventually lead to this crapola in 2012. Here's the playlist.

• Relax — Frankie Goes To Hollywood (1983)
• One Of Our Submarines — Thomas Dolby (1982)
• Why Can't I Be You? — The Cure (1987)
• Blue Monday — New Order (1983, live in Glasgow)
• To Live And Die In LA — Wang Chung (1985)

 

 

 

 

 

Comments

[Ben]

Aww cmon Dave. smh I have to get you listening to hip hop.

Pete Rock & C. L. Smooth "They Reminisce Over You"
http://youtu.be/FiOcVWQY2bc

(ps thanks for going easy on me)

[spynetkilla]

Oh man, this is the first time you lost me! (Good thing it was over a music pick). And Ben, you're right, I would add Rakim and KRS-One as well as a bunch of others. I'm old, but I rank the hip-hop greats along with some of the best "real" music.

Of course I have my low-brow guilty pleasures too: Dance-Pop like Bell Biv DeVoe, Boys II Men and TLC.

For those who seek a reality check, the lesser-known roots Reggae artists have been singing about it since the late '60s. The truth-telling is one of the things that drew me to Reggae at a young age.

[Anywhere But Here Is Better]

Thanks Dave, ahhh... the mammaries oops memories :)

I just want to pass on a little nugget that I learned the other day. Many people assume Frankie's Relax lyrics are a not very subtle gay thing about delayed orgasm. In fact, according to my sources, the band were much more deep than that. They were speaking of the time of conception, when Mr Squiggly Sperm is on the point of hitting it off with Miss Ova. Just when fertilisation is about to occur, suddenly there's a chorus from recently departed souls, quite forcefully recommending - in the immortal line - Relax, don't do it ... when you're gonna come.

In other words, we just left, that planet is shit, don't bother going there.

Unfortunately for me (as it turned out), Frankie Went To Hollywood too late for my parents to hear that sensible advice.

[Northern Troll]

Sorry Dave. Maybe it's because I came of age in the 70's, but 99% of 80's music was crap! This stuff is a case in point. Except for the Police, U2, Big Country...maybe a few others I can't recall at the moment...the 80's was a music wasteland that inspired me to pop a cassette into my car radio as soon as I got a weather and traffic report.

I blame it on MTV and all that garbage music video. In the 70's, rock musicians...even lead singers could be ugly (Steely Dan) and no one cared, because you rarely seen them unless they happened to include a picture on the back of the album. But it was about the music, not what you looked like!

I remember in 81...my girlfriend was working in a record store, and that RIO Album by Duran Duran sat on the shelf and didn't sell hardly any copies for almost a year. But then more people got MTV (Much Music here in Canada) and all of a sudden the videos of these prissy Brit bonvivants prancing around and trying to keep their hair in place started selling the record...and we heard Hungry Like The Wolf and the title song for the next two years! It wasn't until their music could be sold as a 3 minute TV commercial that they finally started selling records in North America.