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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 135!!!!

2011-04-10T02:16:00.001-04:00

This is my last blog post. I'll update it it when asked or motivated but read on.

I'm tired of doing it each week and some people continue to hate on on it/me/and my life. LET THAT SINK IN.

If i'm going out, i'm out with style.

All Beasties.

Enjoy, FRIENDS.

Fight For Your Right - Revisited by DailymotionUSA

Beastie Boys - Hey Ladies by EMI_Music

Beastie Boys - Sure Shot by EMI_Music

Beastie Boys Off the Grid by Beastie_Boys

Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 134!!!

2011-04-03T12:26:00.000-04:00

First Sunday in April already?! WTF?

Get Down on It - Kool & the Gang

"Get Down on It" is a song originally recorded by the funk/R&B/pop band Kool & The Gang on their album Something Special in 1981. The song reached number 10 on the Billboard charts in early 1982, displaying some of the characteristics of a blend of disco and funk, with the title of the song repeating continuously. The song was released in the UK on the British charts on 19 December 1981 on the record label De-Lite and reached number 3, their highest chart hit in the UK at that time. It spent a total of 12 weeks in the charts before drifting out of sight.

Ten years later it was re-released in the UK charts on the record label Mercury but only reached number 69 and was on the chart for only one week. In 1997 the German rapper and DJ Der Wolf covered it for the German song “Gib's doch gar nicht”. In 2004, the song was re-recorded as part of a collaboration with Blue. The song was the last single from Blue to date. My Morning Jacket covered the song at their midnight set at Bonnaroo 2008. The concert featured many special covers, including "Hit It and Quit It" and "Across 110th Street". In 2008, the song was performed by Westlife on their Back Home Tour.

*PS: There's nothing wrong with your computer. This is actually how the video was released. Trippy huh?*

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Jungle Love - The Time

"Jungle Love" is a song from The Time's third album, Ice Cream Castle. The track was one of the first songs recorded for the album, being cut in late March 1983 during Prince's 1999 tour. "Jungle Love" was also one of the first Time tracks to involve other members of the band in the creation of the song. Morris Day and Jesse Johnson both contributed to writing the song. Day provided lead vocals and Johnson played guitar on the recording. Prince played all the other instruments.

"Jungle Love" is a funk-pop offering relying mainly on bass and drums (drum machines), although there are elements of New Wave keyboards and a rock guitar solo, allowing the song to cross musical boundaries. Added to this are animalistic sound effects by Day and good-humored sexual lyrics. All this, combined with the Purple Rain momentum, propelled the song to The Time's highest position thus far on the pop charts (#20 on the Billboard Hot 100).

The song is one of The Time's signature numbers and is played at every concert to this day. Live versions of the song have been released on two DVDs, including one of the band performing the song on Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. A live recording from 1998 was also included on the Morris Day release, It's About Time (released in 2004).

It can be heard in the movies "Bringing Down the House" (2003) and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. It is also featured in the movie Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, where it is performed by the full band. A cover version can be heard in the Super Mario Bros Super Show episode 'Jungle Fever" during the original run.

The Time - Jungle Love (morris Day) by coolfunk

When I See You Smile - Bad English

When I See You Smile is the second single of American/British hard rock band Bad English, taken from their self-titled debut album Bad English, released in 1989. The single was a huge success and went on to become the band's first and only US number one hit when it peaked there in the fall of 1989 for two weeks.

In the video the band are performing on a stage, which contains close-up shots of its members. The footage was taken at one of their arena concerts.

Bad English - When I See You Smile by mcard2006

Be Good Johnny - Men at Work

"Be Good Johnny" is a 1982 song by Australian band, Men at Work, from their first album, Business as Usual.

The song is written from the viewpoint of a 9-year-old boy who is constantly being told to be good, but prefers to daydream rather than concentrate in class or play sports. Johnny feels like he understands some of his instructions, but also that he is completely misunderstood by the adult world. The lead singer, Colin Hay, uses his voice in different ways throughout the song to imitate Johnny, Johnny's mother and father, and his teacher. The song also features spoken dialog by keyboardist Greg Ham as he tries to figure out what Johnny is like. The title of the song is a reference to Johnny B. Goode.

Although the song was played extensively on US radio stations, it did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100 as it was not released in the states as a physical single, a criterion that was still used by the Hot 100 at the time.

The melody of the chorus is used as the theme song of the British and US versions of the reality TV program Supernanny.

Men At Work-Be Good Johnny by adiis

Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 133!!!

2011-03-27T16:12:00.001-04:00

March is over!!! March is over!!! File your taxes...March is over!!!

Casanova - LeVert

"Casanova" is a 1987 single by LeVert. The song reached number five on the Hot 100 singles chart and number nine on the UK Singles Chart, their only top ten on either chart. The single also peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot Black Singles chart for two weeks, becoming Levert's second number one on the chart. It also peaked at number twenty-seven on the dance chart. The song has also become a standard number for New Orleans brass bands following its popularization by the Rebirth Brass Band.

Levert . Casanova .1987 by capitainfunkk

Animal - Def Leppard

"Animal" is a song recorded by British hard rock band Def Leppard in 1987 from the album Hysteria. It was the 2nd single release off the album, and became the band's first Top 10 hit in their native UK, reaching No. 6 on the UK Singles Chart.

"Animal" is usually noted by the band as having been the most difficult track to record for Hysteria. Although it was one of the first songs developed in early 1984, neither the band nor the producers who came and went (Jim Steinman, Nigel Green, & Mutt Lange) were able to produce the desired sound until two and a half painstaking years later.

However, the effort paid off when "Animal" was released as the lead single off the album in July 1987. In the UK, where the band was all but ignored during the Pyromania era, the song hit #6 on the singles chart and broke Def Leppard into the pop mainstream across Europe.

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Big Time - C.C. Catch

"Big Time" is the first single by pop singer C. C. Catch from her 5th studio album Hear What I Say, and was released in 1989 by Metronome. The single entered Top-30 German Charts, peaking at #26.

Big Time by Skagenstrand

Once Bitten, Twice Shy - Ian Hunter/Great White

"Once Bitten, Twice Shy" is a 1975 song by Ian Hunter, from his debut solo album Ian Hunter, which reached No. 14 in the UK Singles Chart.

It was covered in 1989 by the American hard rock group Great White on their fourth album ...Twice Shy. This version was also released as a single, which charted at No.5 on the Billboard Hot 100, at No.6 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and again in the UK. The song was also covered by the Australian rock group The Angels on their 1991 album Red Back Fever.

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Great White - Once Bitten Twice Shy by EMI_Music

Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 132!!!

2011-03-20T11:25:00.000-04:00

Going Back to Cali - LL Cool J

"Going Back to Cali" is single by LL Cool J from the Less Than Zero soundtrack and his third album Walking with a Panther. Produced by Rick Rubin and LL Cool J, the song was a success, peaking at #31 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #12 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, and was eventually certified gold by the RIAA on May 28, 1991. Rock band, Sevendust would cover the song on the Take a Bite Outta Rhyme: A Rock Tribute to Rap.

The music video and song were parodied in both "Going Back to Brooklyn" by Colin Quinn and "Going Back to Philly," a song promoting It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia with verses done by Jeru the Damaja.

LL Cool J - Going Back To Cali by UniversalMusicGroup

All That Money Wants - The Psychedelic Furs

"All That Money Wants" is a U.S. Modern Rock number-one hit from The Psychedelic Furs's album All of This and Nothing, released in 1988.

The single reached number seventy-five on the UK Singles Chart and number one in the U.S. on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart.

Psychedelic Furs All That Money Wants by Celtiemama

Follow the Leader - Eric B. & Rakim

"Follow the Leader" was the first single and title track from the hip hop duo Eric B. & Rakim's second album.

The song, with its pulsing bass line and almost-ambient use of samples, signaled a departure from the minimalism of the duo's first album, Paid in Full.

Rakim's lyrics showcase the rapper's lyrical prowess, as he takes the listener on a metaphorical voyage into outer space. The song peaked at #9 on the Rap/Hip Hop charts when it was released in 1988, and has since become one of Eric B. & Rakim's most recognized singles.

In the second verse Rakim says "by showin' & provin' and lettin' knowledge be born." and the "Showin' provin'" part was sampled for the Big Daddy Kane song "Show & Prove".

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Rhythm of Love - Scorpions

"Rhythm of Love" is a song by heavy metal band Scorpions which appeared on their 1988 album Savage Amusement. The music was composed by guitarist Rudolf Schenker and the lyrics by singer Klaus Meine.

The video featured model Joan Severance.

The song peaked at number six on the Mainstream Rock Chart and number 75 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, while it reached number 59 in the UK Singles Chart.

Scorpions - Rhythm Of Love by UniversalMusicGroup

Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 131!!!

2011-03-13T15:21:00.000-04:00

It's the Ides of March! THE IDES OF MARCH!!!

Free Fallin' - Tom Petty

"Free Fallin'" is the opening track from Tom Petty's 1989 solo album, Full Moon Fever. The song was written by Petty and his writing partner for the album, Jeff Lynne (and also features Lynne on backing vocals). The duo wrote and recorded the single in two days, making it the first song completed for Full Moon Fever. "Free Fallin'" is one of Petty's most famous tracks, as well as his longest charter. Petty and The Heartbreakers performed the song at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1989 with Axl Rose and at the February 2008 Super Bowl XLII Halftime Show. The song is ranked #177 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

The song topped Billboard's Album Rock Tracks chart the week ending August 26, 1989 and spent 33 weeks on the chart, making it Petty's longest charting track. The single peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January, 1990. Later in 2008, "Free Fallin'" made a brief appearance in the Ireland Singles Top 50, hitting #49.

Tom Petty Free Falling by Celtiemama

Can You Stand the Rain - New Edition

"Can You Stand the Rain" is a ballad by R&B/Pop group New Edition. Released in 1988, it is the third single from their fifth studio album, Heart Break.

Written and produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, "Can You Stand the Rain" is about a relationship presently going well, but the man is asking the woman if he can count on her to remain by his side should things ever become stormy. This ballad has become one of a handful of signature songs by New Edition. With its soothing adult contemporary production stylings serviced by Jam/Lewis, the booming introduction of Johnny Gill and familiarity of Ralph Tresvant sharing lead vocals, the song became not only the defining moment for the Heart Break album—but effectively transformed New Edition’s image from that of a ‘teen pop’ act to a grown up vocal ensemble as the decade drew to a close.

Despite "Can You Stand The Rain" failing to reach the Hot 100 top forty, peaking instead at #44, it became New Edition's fourth single to top Billboard's R&B singles chart.

New Edition - Can You Stand The Rain by UniversalMusicGroup

(Hurt Me, Hurt Me) But the Pants Stay On - Samantha Fox

"(Hurt Me, Hurt Me) But the Pants Stay On" is a Pop, Rock song by British singer Samantha Fox. The song was written by Doctor Ice, and produced by Full Force. It was released as the lead single from her fourth studio album Just One Night (1991). The single's B-side was "Hot Lovin'", which didn't appeared on her album. The song reached lower regions of the charts in central Europe, but failed to chart in the United States and United Kingdom.

Samantha Fox - (Hurt Me! Hurt Me!) But T by nextome

Rock Me - Great White

"Rock Me" is a single released by the American glam metal band Great White in 1987. It was a breakout hit for the band, and still receives significant airplay on classic rock radio. The original version clocked in at over 7 minutes, with the radio and video versions being trimmed down to between 3 and 5 minutes. Many of the lyrics to the edited versions are different from the original, though the music track remains the same.

Great White - Rock Me by EMI_Music

Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 130!!!

2011-03-06T13:57:00.000-05:00

It's raining, it's a March Miracle!!!

Too Late for Goodbyes - Julian Lennon

"Too Late For Goodbyes" is the first single (second in the US) from Julian Lennon's 1984 album Valotte. It featured the harmonica of Jean "Toots" Thielemans, and it was a top-ten hit in the UK and the US, reaching number six in the UK Singles Chart in November 1984, and number five on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in late March 1985.

"Too Late for Goodbyes" peaked at number one on the US Adult Contemporary chart in 1985, spending two weeks at the top of this chart. The music video for the song was directed by Sam Peckinpah.

Julian Lennon - Too Late For Goodbyes
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I Want You Back - Hoodoo Gurus

"I Want You Back" was the fourth single released by iconic Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus from their debut album Stoneage Romeos. It was released on Big Time Records (distributed by EMI) in March, 1984 (at same time as the album). "I Want You Back" was written by Dave Faulkner. The B-Side "Who Do You Love?" (aka "Hoodoo You Love?") was recorded live by 2JJJ. The single was released in the United Kingdom in 1984 by Demon Records, but with an alternative B-Side, "Be My Guru".

"I Want You Back" was one of the few songs of mine to ever be covered by another artist, a fellow mysteriously named Simon F, produced by Billy Idol's then-guitarist Steve Stevens (do you miss the 80's?). Some writers refer to their creations as their 'children', well this felt more akin to having your child grow up to be a serial killer. Their (per)version was not a hit, but then neither was ours." Dave Faulkner.

"I Want You Back" was Hoodoo Gurus first hit in America, reaching number three on the college radio charts.

In 1985 Simon F. (aka Simon Fellowes (UK Band Intaferon)) released a version of the song. "I Want You Back" was also performed by The Spazzys on the 2005 tribute album Stoneage Cameos (see Stoneage Romeos), with "Hoodoo You Love?" performed by The Drones.

In an interview with Harp Magazine in 2007, Faulkner revealed that the song was written not about a former lover but actually about former co-founder of the Hoodoo Gurus, Roddy Radalj.

"Basically, when Rod Radalj left the Gurus he was very dismissive of us, trying to move on and kind of burn everything behind him: ‘Oh, it’s not worth staying in that band. They’re terrible!’ So I basically turned that emotion around: ‘Here’s this guy who ditched us and he’s acting like the spurned lover!’ It was me saying, ‘You’ll regret it.’"...
"Well, yeah, I just turned all that stuff into a relationship song.” Faulkner says. “I don’t know why people don’t realize that it’s an anger song. You’re right, they think it’s a longing song. But it’s not a song about ‘I wish you’d come back,’ but — ‘You’ll wish you were back!’"

Hoodoo Gurus - I Want You Back
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Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell

"Somebody's Watching Me" is the debut single by R&B artist Rockwell, released on the Motown label in 1984. The song's lyrics relate the narrator's paranoid fear of being followed and watched. It featured former Motown artists Michael Jackson on the chorus and Jermaine Jackson on additional backing vocals.

Rockwell is the son of Motown CEO Berry Gordy Jr. At the time of the recording Rockwell was estranged from his father and living with Ray Singleton, his father's ex-wife. Singleton served as executive producer on the project and would occasionally play some demo tracks to Berry Gordy. The elder Gordy was less than enthusiastic about Rockwell's music until he heard the single with a familiar voice featured prominently on background vocals.

Produced by Curtis Anthony Nolen, the song featured backing vocals by ex-Motown artist Michael Jackson. "Somebody's Watching Me" peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984, and reached the top of the Billboard R&B singles chart, as well as reaching number six on the UK Singles Chart.

The single's music video underscores the song's paranoid tone with a haunted house-inspired theme, including imagery of floating heads, ravens, graveyards, and shower scenes referencing the novel Psycho. The mailman who appears in the music video for "Somebody's Watching Me" also stars in the video for "Obscene Phone Caller". This was a low budget video. Music video produced by The Wolfe Company, directed by Francis Delia, cinematography by Dominic Sena, production manager: Jason Braunstein, production coordinator: Jon Leonoudakis. Leonoudakis appears in the video as the visual metaphor "watching" Rockwell through the porthole of the front door.

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Mr. Brownstone - Guns N' Roses

"Mr. Brownstone" is a song written by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses. It appears on their 1987 album Appetite for Destruction. Slash relates that the song was written by him and Izzy Stradlin while they were at Izzy and his girlfriend Desi's apartment. He states that they were sitting around, complaining about being heroin addicts, when they started improvising lyrics and music ("Brownstone" is a slang term for heroin). The lyrics make a clear reference to the tolerance that the drug causes in the verse that says:"I used to do a little, but a little wouldn't do, so the little got more and more. I just keep trying to get a little better, said a little better than before". When they had the lyrics all together, they wrote it down on the back of a grocery bag and brought it to Axl. Slash said the lyrics describe a typical day in the life of Slash and Izzy. He also states that it was the first song the band wrote after being signed by Geffen Records.

Mr. Brownstone was the first Guns N' Roses single in the United Kingdom, appearing as a double A-Side, alongside "It's So Easy".

One of two plays by Seung-Hui Cho released after the Virginia Tech massacre is named after this song, and includes several references to its lyrics in the dialogue.

This song exhibits the Bo-Diddley beat originally created by Bo Diddley. This beat is often-used in many rock songs starting from the 1960s.

"Mr. Brownstone" was not released as a single worldwide like all the other singles from Appetite for Destruction, it was released as a single only in the UK but was rather known as a B-Side to "It's So Easy" and "Welcome to the Jungle" around other parts in the world, it was neglected from their Greatest Hits album possibly due to the fact it was a UK only single.

Although it was never released as a worldwide single, "Mr. Brownstone" is a staple at Guns N' Roses shows. It has been on the setlist at nearly every show since 1986 and is usually played early during the set. Velvet Revolver have also played this song live with Izzy Stradlin making a guest appearance on one occasion.

Guns N' Roses - Mr. Brownstone (Ritz)
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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 129!!!

2011-02-27T12:45:00.000-05:00

The world needs more naps.

Making Love Out of Nothing at All - Air Supply

"Making Love Out of Nothing At All" is a power ballad written and composed by Jim Steinman and first released by Australian rock band Air Supply for their 1983 compilation album Greatest Hits. It reached #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

The song has been covered by many other artists, with the most successful cover being by singer Bonnie Tyler.

The song was first recorded by Air Supply, giving them a number two hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. It was held off from the top spot by another Steinman production, Bonnie Tyler's recording of "Total Eclipse of the Heart".

The song subsequently was released as a new track from their 1983 greatest hits album. The B-side of the single was "Late Again". They have included the song on their numerous greatest hits and live albums, and recorded an acoustic version for their 2005 album The Singer and the Song.

Steinman offered the song, along with "Total Eclipse of the Heart", to Meat Loaf for his Midnight at the Lost and Found album; however, Meat Loaf's record company refused to pay Steinman for the material so Meat Loaf ended up writing compositions for the album himself. Steinman's songs were then offered to Bonnie Tyler & Air Supply.

By 1983, Air Supply had changed much of its classic musician line-up, both in the recording studio & on tour. But Steinman, known for his lavish, rock-opera-ish type productions, used Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band members Roy Bittan on keyboards and Max Weinberg on drums, to musically underscore the recording with like energies. 70s glam-rock icon Rick Derringer supplied the electric guitar solo that made the sound of "Making Love Out of Nothing At All" stand so drastically apart from most other Air Supply productions. At the time, Steinman described working with Air Supply as, "two boring idiots from Australia. Working with them was almost an accident. When I took that, I didn't have any other work at all and I needed the money."

The video for the Air Supply version begins with a couple driving to an airport. The male singer is leaving for "one more tour" and asks the woman to join him, as he "can give you anything". The remainder of the video intersperses the singer on stage with a microphone with various scenes of the relationship. Graham and Russell, who comprise Air Supply, leave their dressing room for the stage. As they sing with the band, the female is shown packing and leaving their home, placing their photograph face down on the table in the process. Nevertheless, she changes her mind and does a u-turn on the freeway, and now drives to the airport. She meets him at the side of the stage near the end of the song and they embrace.

Graham Russell: So, won't you reconsider?
Girlfriend: So, won't you?
Graham Russell: Come with me, I can give you anything.
Girlfriend: I've been there, all I want is you.
Graham Russell: But it's just one more tour, then I'll be back.
Girlfriend: But I won't...I can't...

Air Supply - Making Love Out Of Nothing
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Don't Cry - Asia

"Don't Cry" is the first single from progressive rock band Asia's second album Alpha. "Don't Cry" reached #10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 List and was the band's second and last top ten hit in the US Hot Billboard 100 Singles list, and their second and last #1 in the US Mainstream Rock Chart.

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All She Wants Is - Duran Duran

"All She Wants Is" is the eighteenth single from Duran Duran, and the second single from the Big Thing album. It was released in December 1988, and reached #9 on the UK Singles Chart and #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.

The video for "All She Wants Is" was shot in London with video director Dean Chamberlain, a well-known photographer who had previously taken pictures and filmed a video for the side project Arcadia. The clip won a 1988 MTV Video Music Award for innovation.

The video took nearly a month to shoot, using very long exposures to create unusual animated light effects around a girl and the surreal fixtures inside her flat. A photo from the shoot featuring the band members and the girl was used as cover art for the back side of the single.

As the band was in the middle of a hectic promotion schedule, and was unable to spend the necessary weeks standing still to shoot the video, the members each allowed a plaster death mask to be made from their faces, from which latex imitations of the band members' faces were cast. With the masks fitted onto mannequins, Chamberlain was able to use painstakingly slow stop motion special effects. Only a few brief scenes at the beginning and end of the video feature the real band members.

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Finally - CeCe Peniston

"Finally" is a 1991 song by the musician CeCe Peniston. A dance mix of this song was made, and this remixed version was used in many dance music compilations. "Finally" became Peniston's first (and biggest) hit song, peaking at number five on the US Hot 100 in January 1992 and becoming her only U.S. top-ten hit to date. Prior to that, it was also successful on the US Dance chart, where it spent two weeks at number one in late 1991. In addition, the song peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart in a remixed version.

In 2010, pop musician Lady Gaga used excerpts of "Finally" with her song "Dance in the Dark" during The Monster Ball Tour to open the show.

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 128!!!

2011-02-20T13:29:00.000-05:00

Here we go!

Prove Your Love - Taylor Dayne

"Prove Your Love" is a song recorded by dance-pop vocalist Taylor Dayne, released as the second single from her debut album in 1988. Like her previous single "Tell It to My Heart", it is a high energy dance track with aggressive vocal delivery.

The song's music video shows Dayne riding in her man's car around New York City.

"Prove Your Love" was Dayne's second U.S. Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the spring of 1988, where it peaked at #7. The song spent eleven weeks in the Top 40. It also appeared on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart, where it became Dayne's first #1 hit on that chart on April 23, 1988. Furthermore, the song was a hit overseas, going to #1 in Switzerland, #4 in Germany and #8 on the UK singles chart.

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Everyday Is Like Sunday - Morrissey

"Everyday Is Like Sunday" is the third track of Morrissey's debut solo album, Viva Hate, and the second single to be released by the artist. It made number nine in the UK Singles Chart and remains one of his best-known songs. "Everyday Is Like Sunday," as well as the single's B-sides "Disappointed" and "Will Never Marry," feature on the compilation album Bona Drag.

Morrissey has been quoted as saying that there is 'something strangely depressing about a seaside town out-of-season'. The lyrics are inspired by Nevil Shute's novel On the Beach, about a group of people waiting for nuclear devastation in a beachside town in Australia. Also, according to Morrissey, the song was originally inspired after visiting the Welsh sea-side resort of Borth.

The track has been covered by a number of other bands, including The Pretenders (on the Original Motion Picture soundtrack Boys on the Side), by 10,000 Maniacs (on their Candy Everybody Wants EP), the Armageddon Dildos (on their "Come Armageddon" maxi-single), Estonian 90s pop group Mr. Lawrence and Mikel Erentxun (on his album Acrobatas). Colin Meloy of The Decemberists also covers the track on his solo album Colin Meloy Sings Morrissey. Dave Couse (former lead singer of A House) has performed this live with his later band The Impossible and alternative rock band Fate or Trouble who released the song as their debut single. A mostly instrumental version (containing only the title lyric) was used in NFL Network's "When all you want is football" television ad campaign.

The single was re-issued on 27 September 2010, on CD and two 7"s, including the unreleased "November the Second"; an alternative mix of "November Spawned a Monster." This re-issue debuted at number 42 on the UK Singles Chart. It coincides with the 20th anniversary re-issue of his 1990 compilation, Bona Drag.

The video features clips from the film Carry on Abroad.

Billie Whitelaw appears in a supporting role. Despite rumours, the music video did not feature actress Drew Barrymore as a young fan, but rather Lucette Henderson.

The seaside town used as the location was Southend-on-Sea.

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Don't Lose My Number - Phil Collins

"Don't Lose My Number" is a song by Phil Collins from his third solo album No Jacket Required. The single was not released in the UK, though it peaked at #4 in the US during late September 1985. The B-side, "We Said Hello Goodbye" was released as a bonus track on the CD for No Jacket Required.

The song is addressed to someone called "Billy" whom the singer is hoping to find (and hopes Billy still has his number). Collins has said that he actually wrote most of the song during the recordings for his very first album, Face Value. Collins also states that the lyrics were improvised, and that he himself does not fully understand what they mean. Stephen Holden of the New York Times also agreed that the lyrics were very "vague, sketching the outlines of a melodrama but withholding the full story." The single was not released in the UK, but peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts during late September 1985.

Collins did not know what he would use as a video theme for "Don't Lose My Number," so he decided to create a video showing his decision process in selecting a theme for it. In the actual video, Collins talks to various "directors", who all give him bad ideas for the video. Their suggestions allow Collins to parody several other music videos of the time, including Michael Jackson videos, David Lee Roth videos, Elton John videos, The Police videos, The Cars videos, as well as movies such as Mad Max 2 and various samurai movies.

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Can I Kick It - A Tribe Called Quest

"Can I Kick It?" was the third single from A Tribe Called Quest's debut album People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm. It contains samples of "Walk on the Wild Side" by Lou Reed, "What a Waste" by Ian Dury, "Spinning Wheel" by Lonnie Liston Smith and "Dance of the Knights" by Sergei Prokofiev. The line "A Tribe Called Quest" is spoken by the British radio DJ Pete Tong.

The music video features A Tribe Called Quest and various others literally kicking the word "it" while rapping in a film set, an alley, and a construction site. On the film set, they are seen playing with the dot for the "i" in "it". In the alley, they are walking around and are flipping on top of the "it". Other things, such as throwing drumsticks around and landing them on drums, are also seen in the video. Also, there is a slightly different beat in the video, but the same lyrics from the album are used.

The intro of the album version also contains a sample of "Jagger the Dagger" by Gene McDaniels. The video uses a non-album version of the song, titled "Can I Kick It? (Spirit Mix)" which uses additional samples.

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Sunday Night Flashback Pt. 127!!!

2011-02-13T13:14:00.000-05:00

Happy Early Valentine's Day....

and shit.

Suddenly Last Summer - The Motels

"Suddenly Last Summer" is a song by The Motels released as a 7" single in September 1983, backed with "Some Things Never Change." The song reached number 1 on the U.S. Billboard Top Tracks chart and number 9 on the Billboard Billboard Hot 100 in November 1983.

Lead singer Martha Davis has said in various radio interviews that the song was written while reflecting on her life and how you know summer is ending when you hear the ice cream truck go by for the last time and you know he won't be back for a while. Tennessee Williams, writer of the earlier same-named 1958 off-Broadway one-act play, died in February 1983, the same month The Motels returned to the recording studio prior to releasing the associated album Little Robbers.

The song has the distinction of being the only Motels song to reach the #1 position on any music chart. Two bootleg dance versions have been made of the song, one with a techno-like dance beat and another with a semi-tropical beat to it.

The song was featured in a music video made for the song in 1983 directed by Val Garay. The video features one of Martha's daughters.

The song was included on the 1990 compilation album, No Vacancy: Best of the Motels.

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Broken Heart - White Lion

"Broken Heart'" is a song by hard rock band White Lion and was their debut single.

The song was originally from the band's Fight to Survive album in 1985, but was later re-recorded and re-released as a single for the Mane Attraction album in 1991 which peaked at number 61 on The Billboard 200.

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Living on My Own - Freddie Mercury

"Living on My Own" is a song by Freddie Mercury, from the album Mr. Bad Guy.

It was originally released as a single (backed with "My Love Is Dangerous") in September 1985 in the UK where it peaked at #50. The July 1985 release in the United States had "She Blows Hot & Cold" as its B-side.

In 1993, almost two years after Mercury's death, the No More Brothers Mix of the song was released and reached #1 in the UK, becoming Mercury's only solo #1 hit. It remained at the top for 2 weeks and was in the charts for a total of 13 weeks.

The video for "Living on My Own" featured footage of Mercury's 39th birthday party in 1985 in Munich.

On her 2000 Bohemian Summer tour, Hikaru Utada, a number-one selling J-Pop artist, did a cover of the song. She has quoted Mercury as one of her inspirations. She also alludes to "Living on My Own" in her song "This One (Crying Like a Child)" from her album This Is the One.

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All Around the World - Lisa Stansfield

"All Around the World" is a song by Lisa Stansfield released in late 1989 for her album Affection. It is her biggest hit to date. Written and produced by Lisa Stansfield, Ian Devaney and Andy Morris, the debut solo single by Stansfield became a massive international hit.

It spent two weeks at #1 on the UK singles chart in November 1989 and reaching the top in 11 other countries. In January 1990, it peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 but is the second single by a white female singer to top the Billboard R&B chart after Teena Marie's "Ooo La La La" completed this feat for the first time in 1988. The track also topped the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, and reached #7 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

The song was later recorded by Stansfield with popular R&B artist Barry White and featured on his compilation album The Ultimate Collection, a music video was also filmed.

This song was interpolated on the single "Been Around the World" from the Puff Daddy album No Way Out and Keith Duffy and Shane Lynch's version of "Girl You Know It's True".

It was sampled by R&B singer Aaliyah in "Where Could He Be", which was released in 2005, and by Swedish duo Air France in their song "Beach Party".

In 2005, trumpeter Rick Braun covered the 80's tune on album "Yours Truly." In 2006, the song was covered by Thomas Anders for his swing album Songs Forever.

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 126!!!

2011-02-06T13:34:00.000-05:00

SuperBowl Sunday!!!

Seven Seas - Echo & the Bunnymen

"Seven Seas" is a single by Echo & the Bunnymen which was released on 6 July 1984. It was the third single to be released from their 1984 album Ocean Rain. It reached number 16 on the UK Singles Chart and number 10 on the Irish Singles Chart.

The single was released as a 7-inch single and a 12-inch single. The A-side of the 7-inch single was the title track, "Seven Seas", and the B-side was a live cover version of The Beatles' song "All You Need Is Love". The A-side of the 12-inch single consisted of the title track and "All You Need Is Love". The B-side consisted of "The Killing Moon", "Stars Are Stars" and "Villiers Terrace".

"All You Need Is Love", "The Killing Moon", "Stars Are Stars" and "Villiers Terrace" were recorded live at Liverpool Cathedral for the Channel 4 program Play at Home.

A numbered limited edition 7-inch EP was also available on two discs, with all the tracks of the 12-inch single release and with the added title on the cover of Life at Brian's – Lean and Hungry.

American indie rock group Velocity Girl released a cover version of "Seven Seas" as a single on Heaven Records in 1995. A version recorded by Spanish musician Edwin Moses was also included on the 2005 Spanish tribute album Play the Game: Un Tributo a Echo & The Bunnymen.

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Don't Let Go - Wang Chung

"Don't Let Go" is a single by Wang Chung. It was released as the first single off their 1984 album Points on the Curve in Canada and the US in February 1984, peaking at #26 and #38 on those countries' respective pop singles charts. In the UK, "Don't Let Go" was the third single off the album, released in April 1984, and peaked at #81. The song also reached #16 on the U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks.

It also was a song on the game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.

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Eat the Rich - Motörhead

"Eat the Rich" is a song by the heavy metal band Motörhead. It was released as a single in 1987, in 7" and 12" vinyl pressings. Both formats featured the b-side "Cradle to the Grave", and the 12" also included "Just 'Cos You Got the Power".

The title song was written for Peter Richardson's 1987 film Eat the Rich, starring the regular cast of The Comic Strip: the song also features on the Motörhead album Rock 'n' Roll

The Dutch single released by Roadrunner Records took the title track of the album as the A-side in place of "Eat the Rich", keeping "Cradle to the Grave" as the B-side. The sleeve used the artwork on the album cover, both sleeve designs were created by Joe Petagno.

The chorus from the song is as follows:

C'mon baby, eat the rich
Put the bite on that son of a bitch

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Back to Life (However Do You Want Me) - Soul II Soul

"Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)" is a song by British R&B band Soul II Soul. It appeared on their debut album Club Classics Vol. One ("Keep on Movin'" in the United States) and was released as its second single in 1989. "Back to Life" was one of two songs on the album featuring British R&B singer Caron Wheeler and gained success in both the UK and in the U.S.

The album version of the song was an a cappella which was remixed and re-recorded before being released as a single. Two new versions were produced — the first taking the original recording with instrumentation added, and the second was a re-working of the song with new lyrics and chorus (also adding "However Do You Want Me" to the title).

It was this second version that became most popular. "Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)" peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming one of Soul II Soul's most successful singles in the U.S. (and the only one to enter in the top 10). In the UK it performed even better, reaching number one in the UK Singles Chart for four weeks in June 1989. For a time, the album was packaged together with a CD3 single including the new versions of the song.

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 125!!!

2011-01-30T13:12:00.000-05:00

NFL Pro Bowl.

NHL All Star Game.

Flashback Videos.

Human - The Human League

"Human" is a song recorded by British synthpop band The Human League. It was released as the first single from their 1986 album Crash. The track was written and produced by US producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.

In 1985 the recording sessions for the Human League's fifth album were not going well; and the band did not like the results which was causing internal conflict. Virgin Records executives, worried by the lack of progress from their at-the-time most-profitable signing, suggested the band accept an offer to work with producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis who already had material to work with; and had expressed an interest in the band from their U.S. releases. Jam and Lewis had recently emerged as in-demand talent due to their success with Janet Jackson and her Control album.

Of the ten songs on Crash, Jam and Lewis wrote three, "Human" being one of them. It is a mid-tempo ballad which lyrically is an exchange between a man and a woman in a relationship who have reunited after a separation. In the first two verses Philip Oakey is apologizing to his partner for being unfaithful during her absence, and in the song's breakdown Joanne Catherall's spoken-word confession reveals that she too was unfaithful. The song's title is derived from the chorus, in which both parties in the relationship explain that they are "only human" and "born to make mistakes".

"Human" became the second million-selling number-one single for The Human League on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 (after "Don't You Want Me") and their second chart-topper on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart (after "(Keep Feeling) Fascination"). Jam and Lewis' R&B-based production was also popular on American urban radio, bringing the Human League into the top ten of the U.S. R&B chart for the first time. In the UK, where R&B was less popular "Human" peaked at number eight in the UK singles chart.

It was a welcome success for the Human League, who were starting to suffer from creative stagnation and a slight decline in fortunes after a hugely successful start to the 1980s.

"Human" was reworked and re-released in 2003 as a remix in the form of "The Chinese Whispers Mix", principally in Asia. It was the creation of Hong Kong based British producer Ian Widgery who had recently had major success in the Asian music market with the album Shanghai Lounge Divas. Widgery took the original, mixed in traditional Chinese instruments and recorded a new chorus in Mandarin by female Chinese vocalist Li Ya, which is interwoven with Oakey, Catherall and Sulley's vocals. Oakey's lead vocals are faded to give the music greater impact.

The remix was so popular that it crossed over to the UK and U.S. markets where it received radio airplay and play on music television stations during the height of the electroclash revival. Although it was not released as a single in either country it appears on some versions of the band's The Very Best of the Human League album of 2003.

The music video for "Human" was filmed in London during June 1986, in a studio using Chroma key overlay. It is heavily stylized to give a 'water reflective' effect and blue hue throughout. In the first time that the band had been presented as a "Phil and the girls" trio, images of Oakey, Catherall and Sulley are constantly layered and blended. The video was conceived and directed by Andy Morahan.

In 2003, a new video was created and released to promote the Chinese Whispers mix. This music video used the original footage of Oakey, Sulley and Catherall from 1986 and interlaced it with traditional Chinese imagery of silhouetted water grass, water lilies and Cantonese characters. It was subject of a U.S. MTV featurette which was introduced by Oakey and featured Ian Widgery talking about the creative process in the reworking of the original Human.

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Walk on Water - Eddie Money

"Walk on Water" is a song by American rock singer Eddie Money, from his album Nothing to Lose in 1988 and Greatest Hits: The Sound of Money in 1989. Written by one-time Sammy Hagar keyboardist Jesse Harms (who also performed on the track), the tune was released as a single and reached number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

It was later featured in the film Joe Dirt.

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Naughty Girls (Need Love Too) - Samantha Fox

"Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)" is a song by Samantha Fox that appeared on her second album and was released as a single in 1987 and 1988.

The song was a collaboration between Fox and hip-hop group Full Force. It describes how a "naughty girl" has unexpectedly fallen in love. The Baltimore Sun described it as "not so much a song as a T-shirt with a rhythm section."

In the US, "Naughty Girls" peaked at number three on April 2, 1988. It was ranked as the 50th most popular song of that year. It was also a top ten hit in New Zealand and Canada.

The single's music video features Fox with pink hair and a leather jacket in front of a graffiti-covered building. She is surrounded by street toughs who join Fox in a dance routine. The members of Full Force are shown providing backing vocals.

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Planet Earth - Duran Duran

"Planet Earth" is the debut single by the English pop rock band Duran Duran, released on 2 February 1981.

It was an immediate hit in the band's native UK, reaching #12 on the UK Singles Chart on 21 February, and did even better in Australia, hitting #8 to become Duran Duran's first Top 10 hit anywhere in the world.

The song later appeared on the band's eponymous debut album Duran Duran, released in June, 1981.

"Planet Earth" begins with a slow synthesised sweep backed with electronic rhythm, but the real rhythm section of throbbing bass and crisp drums soon kick in. Muted guitar carries the up-and-down melodic hook of the song as the singer joins in.

The song was the first to explicitly acknowledge the fledgling New Romantic fashion movement, with the line "Like some New Romantic looking for the TV sound".

The music video for the song was directed by future film director Russell Mulcahy, who would go on to direct a dozen more for the group.

Fairly primitive by the band's later standards, the video features the band (dressed in frilly, floppy New Romantic fashions) playing the song on a white stage tricked out with special effects to look like a platform made of ice or crystal. Interspersed with the performance are shots of the band members alongside the four elements. The video focused closely on the band's faces. The instrumental middle section features friends of the band from the Rum Runner nightclub dancing in their outlandish outfits. At the end of the video, singer Simon Le Bon leaps from the stage, caught in a freeze frame shot above an apparently bottomless abyss.

The video was parodied in the music video for the Dandy Warhols' "You Were The Last High" (which was produced by Nick Rhodes, the band's keyboardist).

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 124!!!

2011-01-23T10:21:00.000-05:00

Snausages.

Waiting In Vain - Bob Marley

"Waiting in Vain" is a song written and recorded by reggae musician Bob Marley for his 1977 album Exodus. Released as a single, it hit number twenty-seven in the UK Singles Chart.

"Waiting in Vain" was covered by Annie Lennox for her album Medusa. It was released as the album's third single in 1995 and reached number thirty-one on the UK singles chart. Lennox's version was used in the 2001 film Serendipity and the 2002 film Changing Lanes.

In 1992, guitarist Lee Ritenour covered the song from his album "Wes Bound."

"Waiting in Vain" was covered by singer Jody Watley as part of her 2006 album, The Makeover.

Brazilian musician and former Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil covered the song for his 2002 album Kaya N'Gan Daya.

Filipino acoustic band MYMP covered the song for their 2003 album Soulful Acoustic.

The track was also covered as part of a Cocoa Tea song of the same name.

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It Can Happen - YES

"It Can Happen" is a song by the progressive rock band Yes, from their 1983 album 90125. It was released as the third single from that album, reaching number 51 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1984.

Following the 1981 breakup of the band, bassist Chris Squire and drummer Alan White joined with South African guitarist Trevor Rabin to form a new band, called Cinema. An early version of song "It Can Happen", sung by Squire, was written and recorded during this time.

Squire, White and Rabin eventually joined forces with former Yes members Jon Anderson, Tony Kaye and Trevor Horn, changing the name of their new band Cinema to "Yes" in the process. Anderson rewrote the lyrics of "It Can Happen" and it was included 90125, with Anderson singing the verses.

The Cinema version of the song was released on 1991's Yesyears box set, and later on the remastered version of 90125. The version sung by Anderson was released as a single in 1984, and was included in several later Yes compilations, including the In a Word: Yes (1969–) box set and The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection.

A video for the song is included in the Greatest Video Hits DVD, and a live performance appears in the 9012Live concert video.

Missing You - John Waite

"Missing You" is a song by British musician John Waite and was included in the album No Brakes. It peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 during the week of September 22, 1984, and number nine on the UK Singles Chart.

John Waite re-recorded the song with country/bluegrass artist Alison Krauss which appeared on her album A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection, and released it to country music radio in 2007. The re-recording peaked at #34 on the Hot Country Songs chart. The original recording has been featured in 1997's Selena, the popular 1980s inspired video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and the second episode of the TV series Miami Vice ("Heart of Darkness" - originally aired September 28, 1984). In 2010, it was used in a series of commercial spots for Conan O'Brien's upcoming show on TBS.

The music video was filmed in New York City. To start the clip, John Waite is sitting in a chair, and after seeing a picture of a woman begins to sing the song. When he tries to open a door, a woman comes to him and they embrace in bed. Later, the woman grabs her suitcase, which looks through the door slot Waite and she leaves him. Upon leaving, she slams the door open while Waite is behind the door and the door cracks with full force on him. Later, he finds himself in a bar and drink a glass of wine after visiting the woman he sees again in a film studio. She smiles at him. After Waite calls it in a phone booth, the woman picks up the phone and call to nervousness before he disappears from the cell phone. It runs along the city and sees a picture of the woman on a newspaper; again he goes into a bar. There, another woman tries to flirt with him, but for sheer sorrow shows he is not interested and then goes home again.

This song was also recorded by Tina Turner in 1996, and was released as the third single from the album Wildest Dreams. When Waite's original version of "Missing You" topped Billboard's Hot 100 in late 1984, the song that it knocked out of a 3-week reign at the top was none other than Tina Turner's "What's Love Got to Do with It". Turner's version of Waite's "Missing You" hit #12 in the UK and #84 in the U.S.

The single "Missing You" included an edited single version of the track, an alternative mix and certain formats also the European non-album track "The Difference Between Us", later featured on the U.S. edition of the Wildest Dreams album.

Chinese artist Wakin Chau released a cover of "Missing You" on his 1991 album "Blue Bird".

"Missing You" was recorded by American folk-pop musician David Wilcox for his 1994 album "Big Horizon."

The song was also recorded by Evan Dando and Tom Morgan as a part of Triple J's Live at The Wireless.

It was also recorded by country music duo Brooks & Dunn in 1999 on their Arista-released Tight Rope album; their version peaked at #15 on the country chart.

Another cover came from Rod Stewart in 2006 on his album, Still the Same... Great Rock Classics of Our Time.

A cover has also been made by actor/musician Tyler Hilton, exclusively for the soundtrack of One Tree Hill.

Declan Galbraith recorded a cover version on his album You and Me.

Orianthi also covered this song on her album Believe (II). There is too a cover in spanish by "La Trampa".

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Self Control - Laura Branigan

"Self Control" is the name of an international hit song recorded in 1984 by Laura Branigan, as well as the album on which it appears. The song was recorded that same year with the same English lyrics by Italian singer Raf, who co-wrote the song with Giancarlo Bigazzi and Steve Piccolo. Branigan's version first hit #1 in Germany on June 15, 1984. Raf's version first hit #1 in Italy on June 23, 1984. Branigan's version was the most popular song across Europe during much of the summer of 1984 and was the song of the year in Switzerland. Branigan's version peaked at #4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and also went to number two on the dance chart.

The song has become one of the defining pop songs of the 1980's, with a number of remakes recorded each year. Notable covers include Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin in 1993, a hit dance remake by Branigan in 2004 and two 2006 versions that hit the Top 5 in various European enclaves, by Danish dance group Infernal and Spanish singer Soraya Arnelas.

Branigan's first major hit had also been co-written by Bigazzi. "Gloria" (1982) was an English-language song written over a 1979 Italian song recorded by Umberto Tozzi. The following year Branigan recorded another new English song written over a Tozzi and Bigazzi song, "Mama", which was an album track on 1983's Branigan 2. Branigan chose two more Italian songs for her third album: one, "Ti Amo", featured new lyrics by Diane Warren over a song originally written by Tozzi and Bigazzi that had been a 1977 single for Tozzi. The other would become the title track to the album and her biggest international hit. "Self Control" was the only one of the four Italian songs recorded by Branigan which had been written with English lyrics, and Branigan chose to record the song as written. Also unlike the other songs, Branigan's version was contemporaneous with that of its co-writer.

The Branigan recording was arranged by Giorgio Moroder protege Harold Faltermeyer with Robbie Buchanan and produced by Buchanan with Jack White in Germany and Los Angeles. A keyboard hook in the Raf version was changed to a guitar riff for Branigan's version and a vocal break from the Raf version was repeated and paired with a sharper and repeated percussive element.

Branigan was one of the first artists of the video era to work with an Academy Award-winning film director on a music video when William Friedkin (The French Connection) directed the clip. Filmed in New Jersey and New York City, the video was produced by Fred Caruso and first aired in April 1984.[2] The video ultimately drew controversy, as it was considered so shockingly steamy that MTV required some edits before it could air. Entertainment Tonight aired a segment on the network's reaction to the clip, which was being played in late-night slots on other networks. Though Branigan resisted at first, her record company convinced her to allow a minor alteration and the video was aired on MTV, though by this time the single had peaked on the charts. Branigan would go on to be nominated for a 1985 American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Video Artist. Branigan's fellow nominees were Tina Turner and Cyndi Lauper, who won the award.

Branigan performed the song live in her debut on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on April 27. She also promoted the song during appearances on The Merv Griffin Show, Solid Gold (May 12), Dick Clark's American Bandstand (June 9) and the syndicated Dick Clark television special Rock Rolls On, which she also co-hosted.

Branigan's recording was a worldwide multi-format hit. In the U.S. the song became Branigan's fourth consecutive top ten hit on a Billboard chart in a year and a half, following "Gloria", "Solitaire" and "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You". "Self Control" peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot Dance/Disco chart, number four on the Hot 100 and number five on the Adult Contemporary chart. In Canada, it hit number one on both the pop and AC charts. Both the Raff original and the Branigan version of "Self Control" entered the German Top Twenty in May 1984: on 15 June the Branigan single assumed the number one position where it remained for six weeks while the Raf version was relegated to a number two peak. The Branigan version also reached number one in Austria, Sweden and South Africa. It peaked at number two in Norway and Ireland, number three in Australia and number five on the UK Singles Chart. Branigan's album Self Control went Silver, Gold or Platinum in several countries and further hit singles from the album, though not as big as the title track, included "The Lucky One", "Ti Amo" and "Satisfaction".

Branigan's record was featured on a November 1984 episode of the hit NBC series Miami Vice and was featured in the fact-based 1989 TV movie The Preppie Murder and a 2007 episode of the series Cold Case. In 2002 the Branigan recording was used as a track from fictional radio station Flash FM on video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and it appears on the CD collection Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Official Soundtrack Box Set as well as numerous other hits collections. It was often used as bumper music by late night radio talk show host Art Bell when he hosted Coast to Coast AM in the 1990s.

The song narrates the singer's slip into the world of nightlife, the allure of which has her "livin' only for the night" and deeming herself to "live among the creatures of the night". Rather than actually invoking control over herself, the singer repeatedly declares to a phantom protagonist that "you take my self, you take my self-control".

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 123!!!

2011-01-16T07:59:00.002-05:00

Up and at 'em early this week.

This way I can watch Football.

Here we go!

Love Will Find a Way - Yes

"Love Will Find a Way" is a song by the progressive rock band Yes, from their 1987 album Big Generator. It was released as the first single from that album, reaching number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in late 1987. It also topped the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart, holding onto the number one spot for three weeks.

Yes guitarist and singer Trevor Rabin originally wrote the song for singer Stevie Nicks to perform; however, Yes drummer Alan White encouraged Rabin to let Yes record the song instead, which they did.

"Love Will Find a Way" was the fifth of six Yes singles to crack the U.S. Top 40; it has been featured on several of Yes' later compilations, including the box sets Yesyears and In a Word: Yes (1969–). A video for the song is also included on Yes' Greatest Video Hits.

In 2003, Trevor Rabin released a pair of albums, each of which featured a different version of "Love Will Find a Way": Live in LA features a 1989 live performance of the song, and 90124 features an early demo of the song in which Rabin sings all the vocals and plays all of the instruments.

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Goodbye to You - Scandal

"Goodbye to You" is a new wave single and song by the 1980s band Scandal.

The song was written by band member Zack Smith. It appeared on Scandal's 1982 Scandal EP. The song was also released as a single, and reached #65 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The video shows Scandal keyboardist Benjy King playing a rare Digital Keyboards Synergy synthesizer, which provided the main 8th note foundation of the track, and also features Late Show with David Letterman's bandleader and sidekick Paul Shaffer playing a solo -- based on Del Shannon's "Runaway" on an Oberheim OB-Xa.

A cover version of the song was used for the school dance scene in the 1985 film Better Off Dead.

The song was also covered by Alvin and the Chipmunks in the season 3 episode "A Chip Off the Old Tooth" of the TV series Alvin and the Chipmunks.

The song was also covered in the season 5 episode "The Band Singer" of the TV series Kate & Allie.

Australian band The Veronicas covered the song for their second studio album, Hook Me Up, in 2007.

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Little Lies - Fleetwood Mac

"Little Lies" is a song by the British/American band Fleetwood Mac. It was the third single to be taken from their 1987 album Tango in the Night.

The song was composed by the band's keyboard player and vocalist, Christine McVie, and her then-husband Eddy Quintela.

When released, the song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. (#1 for four weeks on the American adult contemporary chart) and #5 on the UK Singles Chart.

The single was also available on the 12-inch format, featuring an extended dance version, a dub version, and the single's B-side, "Ricky", a non-album track penned by Christine McVie. A limited 12-inch picture disc was also released in the UK, and it was also the first Fleetwood Mac single to be issued on the cassette-single format.

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Hold On Tight - Electric Light Orchestra

"Hold On Tight" is a song written and performed by Electric Light Orchestra.

The song is track twelve on the band's (1981) album Time and was the first song released as a single, becoming ELO's last major hit single. The song went top ten in most countries, hitting the top spot in Switzerland, number two in Germany, number four in the UK, and number ten on the US pop chart, as well as number two on the US rock chart. It is known for having a verse sung in French; translated, the verse is essentially a French-language reprise of the first verse of the song.

The previous year, David Bowie had released his "Ashes to Ashes" music video which was considered as the most innovative to date at that time. But ELO were largely regarded to have surpassed that with their video for "Hold On Tight". At the time it was the most expensive ever made at around £40,000.

In the mid-1980s, the song was used in The Coffee Achievers television advertisements, which promoted the benefits of drinking coffee. This campaign from the National Coffee Association played in the United States starring celebrities including David Bowie, Heart and ELO. The campaign was later parodied on Saturday Night Live as "The Crack Achievers" in a sketch that also used "Hold On Tight."

In 2005, "Hold On Tight" was used in an Ameriquest commercial. The song was also featured in the season one finale of My Name Is Earl.

During 2007 and 2008, "Hold On Tight" was used in television promotions for the Honda Accord.

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 122!!!

2011-01-09T10:56:00.002-05:00

Yawn....

Got the Flu bug.

Sowing the Seeds of Love - Tears for Fears

"Sowing the Seeds of Love" is a 1989 song and single by the British group Tears for Fears from their 1989 album The Seeds of Love. A worldwide hit, it reached the top five in the UK, Canada, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand and the Netherlands. In the US, it peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100, while topping the Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song is a pastiche of The Beatles.

The music video, directed by Jim Blashfield, won two awards at the MTV Music Video Awards: Best Breakthrough Video and Best Special Effects.

It was also the first song ever played on Atlantic 252, an Irish radio station broadcasting across most of the UK, which went live at 7am on 1 September 1989, when Gary King greeted listeners to the new station.

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Everybody Wants You - Billy Squier

"Everybody Wants You" is a song written and performed by American rock singer and guitarist Billy Squier. It appeared as the first track of his 1982 album Emotions in Motion, and was released as the first single from that album, reaching number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It also reached number one on Billboard's Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, staying at the top spot for six weeks in 1982.

The song features three guitars and a bass playing a "hard-rocking and funky" riff, and a "sleekly new wave-oriented production". It became a huge hit on both radio and MTV, topping the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks charts for six weeks, from August 28 to October 8, 1982. It was also a hit on the pop charts, debuting on the Billboard Top 40 on November 27, 1982 and peaking at number 32. It was Squier's third Top-40 hit, following "The Stroke" (number 17) and "In the Dark" (number 35).

"Everybody Wants You" has appeared on a number of classic rock compilations, including Squier's 1995 greatest hits package 16 Strokes: The Best of Billy Squier. The song was also made available as a downloadable track for Guitar Hero 5 on October 8, 2009, along with the Squier songs "The Stroke" and "When She Comes to Me".

"Everybody Wants You" was one of the songs Squier has performed live with Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band; one version appeared on the Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band Live 2006 album, along with Squier's 1984 hit "Rock Me Tonite".

The song has also been covered by artists such as the American hard rock bands Damone and The Unband, whose version appeared on the soundtrack to the 2000 film Scary Movie.

The song was also featured in the episode 13 (title: 'Standards and Practices') of season 1 of the drama The Closer.

In 2004, a mashup of "Everybody Wants You" and "Emerge" by Fischerspooner was included on the Queer Eye soundtrack.

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Your Wildest Dreams - The Moody Blues

"Your Wildest Dreams" is a 1986 single by the progressive rock band The Moody Blues, and it was written by the band's lead guitarist Justin Hayward. The song was first released as a single, and was later released on the Moody Blues 1986 album The Other Side of Life. It was a top-10 hit in the United States, peaking at #9, which had not happened to a Moody Blues song since "Nights in White Satin". The song also became an Adult Contemporary number-one hit, and also charted at number two on the Mainstream Rock chart.

The Moody Blues' previous album, The Present, was relatively unsuccessful, although it did contain a couple of moderately successful singles. This caused the Moody Blues to lose some of their popularity among younger audiences. The success of "Your Wildest Dreams" reintroduced the Moody Blues to this younger audience, and their popularity was boosted even higher than before as a result.

With the band moving towards a more electronic sound, the Moody Blues relied less upon band member Ray Thomas and his flute skills—"Your Wildest Dreams" was one of the first singles not to feature Thomas at all—though Thomas would continue to be a major asset to the Moody Blues' concerts, as he would continue to play flute on their earlier songs, in addition to being a back-up vocalist.

The lyrics of "Your Wildest Dreams" tell the story of a man who is remembering his first love, and wonders if she remembers him the way he remembers her. "Your Wildest Dreams" was followed up by a sequel in 1988. The sequel is titled "I Know You're Out There Somewhere", and it appears on the Moody Blues album Sur la Mer.

A music video was also produced for "Your Wildest Dreams", which received a Billboard Video of the Year award. The video was frequently featured on MTV. The model in the video is Janet Spencer-Turner.

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The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3

"The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" is a song by Timbuk 3. It is the opening track from their debut album, Greetings from Timbuk 3. It was released by I.R.S. Records in 1986. The song made the Top 20 in the United States (#19) and The United Kingdom (#21).

The inspiration for the song, and the title specifically, came when Barbara K. MacDonald said to her partner and husband Pat MacDonald "The future is looking so bright, we'll have to wear sunglasses!" But, while Barbara had made the comment in earnest – it was the early '80s, the two had met and married and were starting a family, their first EP was coming, their book was filling up with gigs – Pat heard the comment as an ironic quip and wrote down instead, “The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades.”

From there, the lyrics to the song were born, but not the song as it ended up in the minds of popular culture. While Pat wrote a song of a youthful nuclear scientist and his monied future, listening audiences heard a graduation theme song.

Pat revealed on VH1's "100 Greatest One-hit Wonders of the '80s" list that the meaning of the song was widely misinterpreted as a positive perspective in regard to the near future. Pat somewhat clarified the meaning by stating that it was, contrary to popular belief, a "grim" outlook. While not saying so directly, he hinted at the idea that the bright future was in fact due to impending nuclear holocaust. The "job waiting" after graduation signified the demand for nuclear scientists to facilitate such events. Pat drew upon the multitude of past predictions which transcend several cultures that foreshadow the world ending in the 1980s, along with the nuclear tension at the height of the cold war to compile the song.

The group's EP Looks Like Dark to Me contains a slower version of the song with an additional verse, making clear the dark nature of the song's intent:

"Blowin' up the lab,
Blowin' the professor,
Torn between two evils,
I always pick the lesser."

That same EP's title track also refers back to this song:

"The future's been bright for so long now, it looks like dark to me"

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 121!!!

2011-01-01T23:27:00.001-05:00

Happy New Year.

Yeah that happened.

Oh well, back to the videos.

Oh Sheila - Ready for the World

"Oh Sheila" is a 1985 single by Ready for the World. The song went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, the Hot Black Singles and the Hot Dance Club Play charts. It was the first of two chart toppers for the band on the Billboard R&B chart, preceding their 1986 number-one R&B hit, "Love You Down". The song's introduction has a brief spoken word section, done in a pseudo-Australian accent, possibly a reference to the fact that Sheila is a slang term in that country for a woman.

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Turn Me Loose - Loverboy

"Turn Me Loose" is a hit song recorded by the Canadian rock band Loverboy. It was released on their eponymous debut album in 1980, and as a single in 1981. With a solid rock synthesised start to the song, followed by a steady build on the guitars, it proved to be a huge hit and peaked at #7 on the RPM singles chart in 1981 and #6 on the Billboard Top Tracks chart in the US.

The song was used in the movies Wet Hot American Summer (2001), Crank (2006), and Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006).

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Take Me Home - Phil Collins

"Take Me Home" is the 10th track on Phil Collins' third solo album, No Jacket Required. The song was released as a single in the UK in July 1985 and in the US in March 1986. It did reasonably well in the UK, peaking there at #19. It wasn't as successful as other singles from the album, like "Sussudio" or "One More Night" in the United States, but managed to peak at #7 there. The "Extended Mix" of "Take Me Home", released on the 12" single was one of the six songs to be included on Collins' 12"ers album.

"Take Me Home" is considered one of Collins' more well known songs, and has been in all of his tours since the No Jacket Required Tour. The song has remained popular among fans and is very popular at his live shows. Common misconceptions regarding the song's topic are that it is about a man returning home, or that it is about the psychological manipulations of the totalitarian government from George Orwell's novel 1984. In reality, however, Collins has stated that the song lyrics refer to a patient in a mental institution, and that it is very much based on the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. While recording "Long Long Way to Go", Collins asked Sting to provide backing vocals for this song as well. The song also features Collins' old Genesis band mate, Peter Gabriel, and Helen Terry on backing vocals.

The music video features Collins singing in various places around the world, including London, New York, Tokyo, Chicago, Moscow, Sydney, Paris, St. Louis, Los Angeles (Hollywood), San Francisco, and Memphis (Graceland). At the end of the video, Collins arrives home and hears a woman from inside the house asking him where he has been. He replies by saying he's been to some of the cities mentioned above. The woman replies "You've been down at the pub, haven't you?"

Reception for the song was mostly positive. Jan DeKnock of the Chicago Tribune said that the song was "hypnotic". Geoff Orens of allmusic said that the song was an AMG Track Pick, and that the "pulsating "Take Me Home" utilizes the drama of "In the Air Tonight" on a more wistful track". David Fricke of Rolling Stone said that the song had "engaging, circular rhythm and languid melodic texture". Marty Raccine of the Houston Chronicle thought that "Take Me Home" was one of the few songs that "[rose] above the crowd [on the album]".

"Take Me Home" appeared on the opening episode of the second season of popular Miami-based crime show Miami Vice, much like Collins' own "In the Air Tonight" appeared in the season one opening episode. The song was included on the Miami Vice II soundtrack album. The song was also the closing theme song for the World Wrestling Federation's television show, Saturday Night's Main Event for several years in the late 1980s.

In 2003, the hip-hop group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony based their song "Home" on this single. That version of the song featured the original song's chorus, and hit number 19 on the UK charts. The group flew to Geneva, Switzerland in order to feature Collins in the video.

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Wrapped Around Your Finger - The Police

"Wrapped Around Your Finger" is the second UK single from The Police's 1983 album Synchronicity. It was released worldwide by A&M Records and featured non-album track "Someone To Talk To" as a b-side.

The song is a tale of an apprentice who seeks esoteric wisdom under the tutelage of an exotic teacher, eventually superseding the mentor to become the master; this revelation "turn[s] [the mentor's] face to alabaster" (i.e. makes him go pale), suggesting he can expect harsh treatment from his former student.

Like other Police songs from this period, it features mythological and literary references, notably to the Scylla and Charybdis monsters of Greek mythology, and the German legend of Faust. It has a relatively slow, almost foreboding feel in the beginning verses, modulating to evoke a lighter, triumphant feel as the student achieves mastery. It reached #7 in the UK charts in July 1983 and was the fourth single from Synchronicity to chart in the US, making it to #8 on the Billboard chart in March 1984.

The music video furthers the ethereal feeling the song gives off, by having footage of the band performing in a candle-lit, gloomy room, interspersed with scenes of Sting running among several tall candlesticks carefully arranged in a sort of maze.

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 120!!!

2010-12-26T10:23:00.001-05:00

It's snowing. Hard.

Almost 12 inches.

That's what SHE said.

Rhythm Is Gonna Get You - Gloria Estefan

"Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" is a song written by Enrique Garcia and Gloria Estefan, and released by Gloria Estefan & The Miami Sound Machine in 1987 as the lead single from the album Let it Loose (and the European version of the album Anything for You).

It was their fourth Top 10 (and second Top 5) single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number five.

It was sampled in a 1989 Bollywood film, Tridev in the song Oye Oye.

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Don't Let's Start - They Might Be Giants

"Don't Let's Start" is a song by alternative rock band They Might Be Giants, from their eponymous debut album They Might Be Giants. It was the first single released from the album, released as a maxi-single. The song is one of the band's most popular and well-known songs, despite failing to chart or achieve commercial success. The single was later re-released by Elektra in 1990 after the success of the band's third album, Flood.

Its lyrics are typically abstract for an early They Might Be Giants song, though its musings on love and life appear to stem from an impending romantic turmoil suggested in the chorus. Although the song is known for such dreary, pointed statements as "everybody dies frustrated and sad, and that is beautiful," John Linnell has repeatedly insisted (as in a 2003 interview with NPR's Terry Gross) that some of its lyrical twists, though pondered extensively by fans, were constructed merely to complement the melody and have no deep meaning. This is re-instated by Linnell's ambiguity when asked about the meaning of the song, stating the song was simply about "not let's starting."

The song also led to a music video that was popular for some time on MTV. In it, the band is featured wearing rolled up cardboard with fabric stapled to the outside on their heads. The location in which the video was filmed is the site of the 1964 New York World's Fair in Queens, which would later be mentioned in "Ana Ng". The face used in the video is that of William Allen White. His face has also been used for props at TMBG concerts. It appears on the Don't Let's Start CD single, and otherwise can frequently be found associated with TMBG.

The song was covered by the band Common Rotation on their album The Big Fear, and is quoted by Jimmy Eat World in "A Praise Chorus" on their 2001 CD, Bleed American.

Don't Let's Start is also the name of an upcoming film, with characters that take their names from various They Might Be Giants' songs, such as Ana Ng.

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She's a Beauty - The Tubes

"She's a Beauty" is a song by San Francisco based rock band The Tubes. The song was released in 1983 on The Tubes' Outside Inside LP from Capitol Records. It went to number 10 on the U.S. Hot 100 list, and number 1 on the Billboard U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks list which charts the frequency of songs played on mainstream rock stations.

"She's a Beauty" is Track 1 on Side 1 of the Outside Inside LP, on which it runs 4:01 minutes long. It is Side A on the single; the B-side is a non-album track "When You're Ready to Come".

The popularity of "She's a Beauty" was largely driven by a very inventive, provocative video that became a staple of then-fledgling MTV. This video was directed by the choreographer of The Tubes' famous stage shows, Kenny Ortega, who has since gone on to great success choreographing movies such as Dirty Dancing and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. He has also directed the movies High School Musical, High School Musical 2, and High School Musical 3: Senior Year.

In the video, The Tubes' lead singer Fee Waybill (real name John Waldo Waybill) plays a carnival barker who extols a crowd with the virtues of a sideshow attraction: "Step right up and don't be shy/because you will not believe your eyes/She's right here behind the glass/and you're gonna like her/'cause she's got class." He takes money from a young boy who then rides a carnival car through hallucinogenic scenes of a mermaid, female trapeze artist, prehistoric women dressed in furs, etc., the recurring theme being that he is attracted but is unable to reach them. At the end of the video we see the boy exiting the ride aged to an old man, the message apparently being the financial and emotional cost of falling in love with a stripper, prostitute or other type of sex worker.

"She's a Beauty" was co-written by Fee Waybill, producer David Foster and Steve Lukather, and the role of the young boy was the first acting job for 12-year-old Robert Arquette, who later became Alexis Arquette. Waybill says the song was originally inspired when he passed a booth on a San Francisco street outside a massage parlor, the booth marked with a sign reading "Talk to a Naked Woman for a Dollar", and the frustrating conversation that ensued between him and the woman inside the booth. Thus the lines in the song, "She'll give you every pennies' worth/but it will cost you a dollar first."

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Repetition - Information Society

"Repetition" is a 1989 ballad by Information Society. The song peaked at #76 in the Billboard Hot 100.

The music video, shot in black and white, shows the band between building ruins and old things, that complete the sad line of the lyrics.

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 119!!!

2010-12-19T11:35:00.002-05:00

Uptown Girl - Billy Joel

"Uptown Girl" is a song written and performed by musician Billy Joel, first released in 1983 on his album An Innocent Man. The lyrics describe a working-class "downtown man" attempting to woo a wealthy "uptown girl." The single peaked at #3 on the Billboard charts in the US, and #1 in the UK, staying at that position for 5 weeks; it was the second biggest selling single of 1983 in the United Kingdom behind only Culture Club's "Karma Chameleon", which Joel had knocked off the number one position on November 1, 1983; in 1988, Rolling Stone ranked "Uptown Girl" #99 on their list of the 100 most important singles of the period 1963-1988. The song was the 19th biggest selling single of the 1980s in the United Kingdom.

The style of music, including the doo-wop beat, the close harmonies and Joel's use of falsetto singing, is reminiscent of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. The song also has the uncommon feature of changing key twice before going back, for a total of three keys.

According to Joel in a Channel Five interview, the song was written about his relationship with his girlfriend, supermodel Elle Macpherson, but ended up becoming about his soon-wife Christie Brinkley. Joel also has said that the song was inspired by the Motown sound of the early 60s.
The title character in the music video was played by Christie Brinkley. Joel and Brinkley married in 1985 and divorced in 1994. Subsequently, the song was missing from the setlist during Joel's 1994 "River of Dreams" tour.

Different versions of the music video opening were produced, in which an auto mechanic is watching the end of Joel's previous hit "Tell Her About It" on a small TV. Then, depending on the version, the next image on the TV is either a blank screen or the logo of the network or TV show the video was on. The only logos known to be used are MTV and Friday Night Videos. A fourth version, which skipped the prologue segment, aired on Night Tracks, America's Top 10 and other music video shows. This is also the version posted on the music video website Vevo.

In the most common music video, the mechanics gather around waiting for a customer just before closing time. A billboard for "Uptown Cosmetics" is above the mechanic shop. A towncar drives up with a beautiful woman with her hair hidden under a chic black hat, wearing a sexy sleeveless dress and high heels (played by Christie Brinkley) in the back seat, and the men realize the woman is the model on the billboard. Joel begins singing as his mechanic friends help him clean the car and they serenade the woman, who watches, happy to be the center of attention. Joel leads her out of the car and the driver looks on at his passenger, urging her to come back, but instead she walks flirtatiously away, causing the men to follow her. Joel convinces his friends that the "uptown girl" is the one for him, and a dance sequence with everyone follows. Afterwards, Joel takes the woman's hand and leads her to his motorcycle. The woman takes off her hat and lets her long blond hair fall over her shoulders, the two grin before driving off, as Joel's friends cheer him on and continue dancing. Once the motorcycle drives off, the video shows the billboard once more.

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Good Thing - Fine Young Cannibals

"Good Thing" is a song recorded by Fine Young Cannibals, the second single pulled from their album The Raw & the Cooked. The song was their second U.S. number one, topping the Billboard Hot 100 on 8 July 1989. It also peaked at #7 on the UK singles chart.

The song made its first appearance in the 1987 film Tin Men. Fine Young Cannibals portrayed a nightclub band in the movie, performing this song and three others (including the single's b-side "Social Security"). The film is set in Baltimore in 1963, and the song's retro-soul style is consistent with that setting.
The video features many scenes with motor scooters, both at rest and in motion as well as scooter culture. The scooters featured include stock scooters, as well as highly stylised scooters and minimalist cutdown scooters.

The song was used in an advert for the Chevrolet Captiva SUV automobile in the United Kingdom. It was also used in the 2008 film Doomsday, starring Rhona Mitra, in a surreal scene involving the film's main antagonist.

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When You Close Your Eyes - Night Ranger

"When You Close Your Eyes" is a power ballad by Night Ranger from their Midnight Madness album. It reached number 14 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks charts in the U.S.

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Kokomo - The Beach Boys

"Kokomo" is a song written by John Phillips, Scott McKenzie, Mike Love and Terry Melcher and recorded by The Beach Boys in spring 1988. Its lyrics describe two lovers taking a trip to a relaxing Caribbean island called Kokomo. It was released as a single in July 1988 by Elektra Records and became a No. 1 Hit in the United States, Japan and Australia (where it topped for about two months). The single was released to coincide with the release of the Tom Cruise movie Cocktail, and its subsequent soundtrack. It was nominated in the Grammy Award category: Best Song written specifically for a Motion Picture or Television in 1988, but lost to Phil Collins's "Two Hearts" (from the film Buster).

The place referred to as "Kokomo" in the song is fictional. The name was later used by resorts in Sandals Cay, Jamaica, and Grassy Key, Florida. The song also mentions many places in or near the Caribbean: Aruba, Jamaica, Bermuda, Bahama(s), Key Largo, Montego, Martinique, Montserrat, and Port-au-Prince.

In addition to the Beach Boys' signature layered-singing style, the song's instrumentation makes heavy use of steel drums played by Terry Melcher. Van Dyke Parks, who had worked on some of the group's earlier albums, played accordion, while session veteran Jim Keltner played drums. Other players are Jeff Foskett (acoustic guitar), Ed Carter (bass), Joel Peskin (saxophone) and Stevie Heger (additional drums).

In the original version, lead vocals were performed by Mike Love and Carl Wilson. The harmonies include Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and Jeff Foskett. The only active Beach Boys member not involved with the recording was Brian Wilson, who, according to his autobiography, was given short notice of the recording session and unable to attend. He was, however, included in concert recordings of the song, including a live concert filmed for the television show Full House (episode 028). The 2008 A&E Network Biography on Brian Wilson stated that Mike Love "bragged" about having a #1 hit without Wilson's help.

The "Kokomo" single backed with "Tutti Frutti" by Little Richard was first released through Elektra Records in July 1988. It peaked at the #1 position on the Billboard charts on November 5, 1988 after knocking out "A Groovy Kind of Love" by Phil Collins. This meant that it was The Beach Boys' first #1 hit in the United States since "Good Vibrations" in 1966, making it the longest time span between two number one hits in America for a band (22 years). It is also their only #1 hit not written or produced by Brian Wilson. After spending just one week at the top of the charts, the single was knocked out of the number one spot by The Escape Club song "Wild, Wild West". After being signed to Capitol Records following the success of the initial single, Capitol issued the song in the United States for a second time. The song was re-released in July 1989 as the B-side of the "Still Cruisin'" single, which peaked at number 93 on the Billboard chart. Capitol again re-issued the song, just two months later, as the B-side of the "Somewhere Near Japan" single, but the single failed to chart.

In the United Kingdom, the single was first issued by Elektra in October 1988. The single peaked at number 25 on the charts. After Capitol had signed the band, as they had in the U.S., they released the single for the second time as the B-side of the "Still Cruisin'" single, however it failed to make any impact on the charts. In Australia the single became the band's third number one hit in Australia after "Do It Again" in 1968 and "Cottonfields" in 1970. In New Zealand the single peaked at the number 5 position. In the Dutch singles chart, the single peaked at the number 6 position. The song also peaked at number 19 in Belgium and at number 7 in Germany.

"Kokomo" was first released on an album in 1989 on the band's Still Cruisin' album. The band had been given a one-off album contract by their former label Capitol Records after the song became a number 1 hit in both the United States and Australia. Brian Wilson, who did not perform on the original recording of the song, did later contribute vocals to a Spanish-language version.

In 2006, Beach Boys member Mike Love recorded a critically panned Christmas remake of the song, titled "Santa's Going To Kokomo".

The video for Kokomo was filmed at the then-recently opened Grand Floridian Resort at Walt Disney World in Florida. The resort had not opened when the video was shot and the band were their first guests. The staff of the hotel practiced their menu on the band by trying out recipes and drinks. The crowd on the fake beach contained college cheerleaders from University of Nevada, Las Vegas. It took less than 2 hours to shoot the video because it threatened to rain. The members of the Beach Boys in the video are: Carl Wilson (playing guitar), Al Jardine (playing tambourine), Bruce Johnston (playing bass guitar), and Mike Love (playing saxophone). Actor and part time Beach Boys band member John Stamos can be seen playing the conga steel drums.

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 118!!!

2010-12-12T15:08:00.002-05:00

It's cold....and it's raining.

IT'S AWESOME.

What's Love Got to Do with It - Tina Turner

"What's Love Got to Do with It" is the second single released from Tina Turner's breakthrough solo debut album, Private Dancer. In the UK and Continental Europe it was the third single, following Turner's cover of The Beatles' "Help!". The song is widely credited for the huge success of the Private Dancer album itself. "What's Love Got to Do With It" is arguably Tina Turner's most popular and successful single, becoming her first number-one hit in the United States and establishing Tina Turner as a mainstream Pop and Rock artist, while also reaching number one in Australia and number three in the UK. In 1993, the song's name was used as the title for What's Love Got to Do With It, a biographical film about Turner's life leading up to the actual release of the song. The music video was directed by Mark Robinson. It is ranked #309 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". It also ranked #38 on Songs of the Century. It was the 17th best-selling single of 1984 in the UK. The song was originally recorded by UK pop group Bucks Fizz, but unreleased until 2000.

Tina Turner had not had a top twenty single in thirteen years, and Capitol Records did not expect the song to turn out to be the hit it became. The song was originally written for the R&B singer Phyllis Hyman. "What's Love Got to Do With It" went straight to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, and remained there for three weeks, becoming Turner's first number one hit. Billboard ranked it as the number two single of 1984. Tina Turner's first single ("A Fool in Love" with her then-husband Ike) had charted in 1960, and she achieved her first number-one single on September 1, 1984, which set a new record from the longest span between an artist's first charted record and first number-one single (a difference of 24 years, to the exact week). It also established another record, as Turner was 45-years-old when the song went to number one, making her the oldest female artist to place a number-one single on the Hot 100, until Grace Slick (with Starship) broke the record twice (in 1985) with "We Built This City" and 1987 with "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"). Cher later broke Slick's record in 1999, who was 53 when "Believe" hit #1.

The video features Turner walking down the street, intercut with scenes when she's singing directly to the viewers. The video was shot in New York City during the summer of 1984. There's also an alternative black and white video for the song aimed at more mature audiences.

The song was honored with several awards welcoming Turner's comeback, including the Grammy Awards of 1985. The music video for the song also claimed a prize at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1985, as the "Best Female Video". The song received the following awards at the 1985 Grammy Awards:

Record of the Year
Song of the Year
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

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Like to Get to Know You Well - Howard Jones

"Like to Get to Know You Well" is a single by musician Howard Jones released in the second half of 1984, which was subsequently included on his twelve inch remix album The 12" Album. The single climbed to number four on the UK Singles Chart.

The sleeve carried the motto "Dedicated to the original spirit of the Olympic Games". The extended version, subtitled "International Remix", featured Jones singing in English, German and French.

The song was included as a bonus track on the singer's second studio album, Dream Into Action.

The song was featured in the 1985 movie Better Off Dead starring John Cusack. It was also featured in the Rockstar game Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories. The dance music artist mohito sampled this song heavily in their song "Slip Away".

Two different videos were made. The first featured Jones walking around the streets of London greeting members of the public, accompanied by his bandmates of the time. When the single was released in the US, a new animated video was produced for that market.

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Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul

"Forever Your Girl" is a 1989 hit song by Paula Abdul, taken from the album of the same name. It was written and produced by Oliver Leiber.

After the sudden massive success of "Straight Up", Virgin Records quickly released another single to satisfy the public's newfound interest in Paula Abdul. It became the second #1 from her debut album, which would eventually yield a record of four #1 singles.

The song is about loyalty in a relationship. The female vocalist proclaims that, despite rumors that others may be interested in her, none of those matter because she will remain faithful to the man she loves; she will remain "forever his girl." The single version differs slightly from the album version, as it uses more of the background male vocal and denser instrumentation.

The song was part of a medley Abdul sang at the 1989 MTV Music Video Awards.

"Forever Your Girl" spent two weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1989, and charted at #24 in the UK and #17 in Germany.

The video was directed by David Fincher, and featured Abdul acting as a choreographer and director of a children's performance (a 7-year-old Trevor Wright, 8-year-old Elijah Wood and 10-year-old Nikki Cox were among them). The "Forever Your Girl" video spent two weeks at number one on MTV's video rotation and helped establish Abdul as a leading visual entertainer.

The video also satirized Robert Palmer videos, having three little girls dressed like the three women who play backup guitars in his videos (black dresses, red lipstick, white makeup, and hair tied in buns).

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Who's Johnny - El DeBarge

"Who's Johnny" is a dance-pop hit recorded by El DeBarge. Released in 1986 off the Gordy label, the single was used for the film Short Circuit and reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Hot R&B Singles chart.[1]. It was the only solo #1 single DeBarge released after he left his surname-based family group in the same year.

"Weird Al" Yankovic recorded a parody for his Polka Party! album called "Here's Johnny" about The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson announcer Ed McMahon.

The video features El Debarge singing in a courtroom, where a judge is presiding over Number 5's trial, attended by Stephanie Speck and a NOVA security guard. They play a VHS tape, labeled "Short Circuit", containing various clips from the movie. Number 5 wreaks havoc in the courtroom (only his robotic hand is visible to the viewer) with his various hi-jinks, including giving the prosecuting attorney a pair of funny-nose glasses, turning up the ceiling fan to create a windstorm of papers, and swapping the judge's normal gavel for an exploding one and calling the fire department, resulting in the judge being sprayed with water. Stephanie and El Debarge sneak out at the end, covering the camera with a slate on their way out. The prosecutor, still wearing the trick glasses, pops up to deliver the last "Who's Johnny?"

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 117!!!

2010-12-05T14:35:00.001-05:00

It snowed yesterday. It's not even technically Winter yet.

I still live in NC.

What is wrong with this picture?

Here we go!

Rock Me Tonite - Billy Squier

"Rock Me Tonite" is a single by Billy Squier from the album Signs of Life.

The song is his highest charting U.S. single, peaking at number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Top Rock Tracks chart in late 1984.

The video for the track (directed by Kenny Ortega - Xanadu, High School Musical), which shows Squier dancing around a room in a pink tank top, frequently appears on "worst music video ever" lists.

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Pop Muzik - M

"Pop Muzik" is a 1979 hit song performed by the British band M, fronted by Robin Scott.

Robin Scott describes the genesis of "Pop Muzik" this way:

I was looking to make a fusion of various styles which somehow would summarise the last 25 years of pop music. It was a deliberate point I was trying to make. Whereas rock and roll had created a generation gap, disco was bringing people together on an enormous scale. That's why I really wanted to make a simple, bland statement, which was, 'All we're talking about basically (is) pop music.

The single was released in the UK first, peaking at number 2 on 12 May 1979, unable to break Art Garfunkel's 6 week stint at number 1 with "Bright Eyes". In August of that same year, it was released in North America, where it eventually climbed all the way to number one in Canada on 27 October and in the U.S. on 3 November.

Along with Scott, other musicians who played on the track were his brother Julian Scott (on bass), then unknown keyboardist Wally Badarou, Canadian synthesiser programmer John Lewis (who died of AIDS in 1985) and Brigit Novik, the backing vocalist.

The single was bolstered by a promotional video that was well received in its day; the clip featured Scott as a DJ singing into a microphone from behind an exaggerated turntable setup, at times flanked by two female models who sang and danced in a robotic manner. One of the sight gags in the video depicted Brigit Novik dressed in blue who actually recorded the backup vocals which are then mimed by the models, something that seems to foreshadow a number of incidents that occurred much later in the music industry with groups such as Milli Vanilli, C&C Music Factory, and Black Box.

The single's B-side, "M Factor", was featured in two different versions. The original cut appeared on the first UK and European releases of the single, while a slightly remixed version appeared on the single released in the United States and Canada.

The image of the baby on "Pop Muzik"'s single disc pictures Robin Scott's daughter, named Berenice, actually a singer and piano/keyboard player and composer herself, and involved with his father's friend Phil Gould and Wally Badarou projects.

The subsequent full-length album New York • London • Paris • Munich was recorded in Montreux, Switzerland, at Queen's Mountain Studio, using their regular engineer David Richards, as well as Julian Scott, Wally Badarou (who would later work with Level 42 and Compass Point All Stars, among others) and Brigit Novik. Additional musicians on the album included drummer Phil Gould (later of Level 42), Gary Barnacle on saxophone and flute and (at the time) local Montreux resident David Bowie, who did occasional handclaps. The album was also released in the U.S. on Sire Records (with a different track listing / order) but it was not a commercial success.

The UK 12-inch single version was notable for the A-side having a double groove such that the two tracks ("Pop Muzik" and "M Factor") both started at the outer edge of the record and finished in the middle (with a long silence at the end of "M Factor" since the track was the shorter of the two). This resulted in a random selection of the two tracks, depending on which groove the needle landed in the lead-in. To further market this idea, the UK record sleeve stated "B side included on A side, full length disco mix of Pop Musik on Seaside". 'Seaside' (in other words "C side") was a simple play on words as the letter C, apart from being the logical next "side" after the A and B sides, is pronounced the same way as the English word "sea", and "seaside" means "beside the sea."

A cover version by male vocal and instrumental band All Systems Go entered the UK Singles Chart on 18 June 1988. It reached a peak position of number 63, and remained in the chart for 2 weeks.

The Barron Knights recorded a brief parody of Pop Muzik ("Chop Suey") as part of their comedy medley "Food for Thought".

Other remixes and remakes recorded by other artists have come from all sides since its creation, including Marcus' "Pop Muzic 2001", eX-Girl in 2001, and by Junior Vasquez and the Dub Pistols in 2003.

A dance remix of the original M track by Steve Osborne was used by U2 during the introduction to each concert on their 1997-1998 PopMart Tour. The remix was later released as the "Pop Mart Mix" on U2's "Last Night on Earth" single, with new vocals by Bono and slightly altered lyrics.

Tricky released a cover version of the song as a B-side to his 1999 single "For Real".

A cover of "Pop Muzik" by 3rd Party appeared on the soundtrack album to the 1998 movie A Night at the Roxbury.

A version of this song is performed in Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical by Cynthia for the ping pong scene in the pub.

In 2001, MTV used a new version for one of the special programs aired to celebrate the channel's 20th anniversary. The lyrics were altered mentioning popular pop artists, mostly at the time, but also for the past 20 years, including Britney Spears, N'Sync, Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls.

In 2009, a CD of remixes by various artists was released to celebrate the song's 30th anniversary.

British pop punk band Buck Brothers released a cover of the song to promote their first tour of America in March 2008. They are planning to release a new revised version of the cover (featuring new guitarist Dom Beckford) in 2011.

There is a misconception that the Band Devo actually made the song this however is not true, but Devo did release a remix of Pop Muzik on the aforementioned remix CD.

We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It used the song as the first single of their 2010 reunion.

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On Our Own - Bobby Brown

"On Our Own" is a song by Bobby Brown recorded in April 1989 and released the following month as a single from the Ghostbusters II soundtrack. It peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard R&B chart and number two on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. It reached number four on the UK Singles Chart.

The video was filmed in early June 1989 and released later that month. The video features several guest appearances by celebrities including Jane Curtin, Malcolm Forbes, Iman, Sally Kirkland, Rick Moranis, Joey and Marky Ramone of The Ramones, Christopher Reeve, Lori Singer, and Donald Trump. Additionally, there are scenes from Ghostbusters II, interspersed with New York City locations such as the Trump Tower, World Trade Center, and Plaza Hotel.

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When Smokey Sings - ABC

"When Smokey Sings" is the name of a song by the New Wave band ABC. The lyrics and name of the song are a tribute to R&B and Soul singer Smokey Robinson. It was released in mid-1987, on ABC's album Alphabet City.

"When Smokey Sings" and its B-side, "Chicago" also topped the Hot Dance Club Play chart. The song reached number 11 on the UK chart and proved to be their second American Top 10 hit, peaking at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. There is a slight difference in the lyrics between the album and single version in the bridge of the song.

In the album version, references are made to "Luther", "Sly", "James" and "Marvin" (most likely referring to Luther Vandross, Sly & the Family Stone, James Brown, and Marvin Gaye respectively). In the single version, this is replaced by alternate lyrics, followed by a short saxophone solo.

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 116!!!

2010-11-27T22:33:00.002-05:00

Merry December?!

Is that what people say?

Oh, it's "don't get trampled season."

Good Luck! :0)

Love Is a Battlefield - Pat Benatar

"Love Is a Battlefield" is a song written by Holly Knight and Mike Chapman, after Pat Benatar asked Chapman to write her a hit song. It was released as a single from Benatar's album Live from Earth, which was popular in 1983 and 1984. The single has been certified gold and is her highest charting single in the United States, as it topped Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for four weeks and made number five on the Billboard Hot 100. It topped the Australian singles chart for five weeks in 1984. The song was finally released in the United Kingdom in March 1985 and reached #17.

The music video, which depicted Benatar as a teenage runaway trying to survive the mean streets of New York City, was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video and was viewable on the DVD for the movie 13 Going on 30. The single was unlike most of Benatar's previous work, as it featured an electronic dance element, but guitars and drums were still present. The song won Benatar a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.

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Parents Just Don't Understand - DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince

"Parents Just Don't Understand" is the third single from DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince's second studio album, He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper. The song was a massive hit, earning it a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance in 1989, one of only two songs to ever do so. It peaked at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was released as a single in spring 1988. The single was only released on Vinyl. The song was referenced several times in the television show The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air. In the pilot, where the main instrumental of the song is played. In the first series episode "Not With My Pig, You Don't," James Avery mentions to Will that "Sometimes, parents just don't understand." In both instances of the song being used, Will turns to the audience with a puzzled look on his face. The song was ranked #96 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop, and the music video was featured in the 2003 film Malibu's Most Wanted.

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Crimson and Clover - Joan Jett

"Crimson and Clover" is a song by American rock band Tommy James and the Shondells. Written by the duo of Tommy James and drummer Peter Lucia Jr., it was intended as a change in direction of the group's sound and composition. The song features a tremolo effect on the guitar and an ending section with a tremolo effect on the vocals.

"Crimson and Clover" was released in late 1968 as a rough mix after a radio station leaked it. It spent 16 weeks on the U.S. charts, reaching number-one in the United States and other countries. The single has sold at least 5 and a half million copies, making it Tommy James and the Shondells' best-selling song. An extended version was released on the eponymously titled Crimson and Clover, and the song has been covered by many artists such as Joan Jett.

In 2006, Pitchfork Media named it the fifty-seventh best song of the Sixties.

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One Good Woman - Peter Cetera

"One Good Woman" is a popular song from 1988 by Peter Cetera, formerly the lead singer of the rock band Chicago. Cetera co-wrote and co-produced the track with Patrick Leonard, and the song was included on Cetera's 1988 album One More Story.

The song was originally to be included in the Tom Hanks film Big, but Cetera withdrew "One Good Woman" from consideration because 20th Century Fox had proposed too many changes. Instead, it became the lead single from his One More Story album and reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in October 1988. It also spent four weeks atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart.

Great song choice Pankil.

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 115!!!

2010-11-21T17:18:00.002-05:00

It's almost Thanksgiving.

Fuck.

I Can't Hold Back - Survivor

"I Can't Hold Back" is a song recorded by the band Survivor. It was the first hit single from their 1984 album Vital Signs. The song peaked at #13 in December 1984 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It also peaked at #1 for three weeks on the Billboard Top Tracks chart.

The song was featured in the 2009 film Paul Blart: Mall Cop... TWICE.

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Love Touch - Rod Stewart

"Love Touch" is the name of a song by Rod Stewart. It was released as a single in 1986 and peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100. The song comes from the Robert Redford romantic comedy, Legal Eagles, and appears on Stewart's album, Every Beat of My Heart. The song is a plea from someone who has been fighting with his lover, but is apologizing and asking for another chance to "be good".

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I Wanna Go Back - Billy Satellite/Eddie Money

"I Wanna Go Back" is a 1984 song by American rock band Billy Satellite, written by band members, Monty Byrom, Danny Chauncey, and Ira Walker, that achieved major popularity when recorded by Eddie Money in 1986.

Billy Satellite version
Released in 1984 as their debut single, it reached the Billboard Hot 100 chart on 8 December 1984, charting for three weeks and peaking at number 78. The mid-tempo song is reliant on synthesizers but contains a short guitar solo in the bridge and some guitar in the outro. The music video begins with the members of Billy Satellite driving a jeep to Alameda, California to the site of a previous live show and the latter portion features the band playing in a bar there.

Eddie Money version
American rock singer, Eddie Money, covered the song for his 1986 album, Can't Hold Back, and it was released as the follow-up to his top-ten hit, "Take Me Home Tonight". It reached number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number three on the Album Rock Tracks chart in early 1987. Money's version, which Allmusic's Mike DeGagne says has "sincere, semi-ballad charm," still relies heavily on synthesizers but includes more guitar and adds saxophone in the intro, bridge, and outro. The music video to his version features Money revisiting a high school interspersed with him and his band playing before a concert audience.

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The Best of Times - Styx

"The Best of Times" is the first single release from Styx's 1981 triple-platinum album Paradise Theater. It reached #3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

The basic melody line for "The Best of Times" is used in two other places on the album: As a bold greeting to the listener in "A.D. 1928", and a softer, more subdued version for the farewell track, "A.D. 1958".

The song was featured in the 1999 movie Big Daddy, in which Adam Sandler's character is a Styx fan.

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 114!!!

2010-11-14T13:25:00.002-05:00

Let's Get Started!!!

Alone Again - Dokken

"Alone Again" is a power ballad rock song written and released by the American heavy metal band Dokken on their 1984 album Tooth and Nail. The single reached #64 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Top Twenty on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The song was written by singer Don Dokken and bassist Jeff Pilson. Its lyrics talk about a man's depression after a break-up. The music video had a story similar to a lot of other power ballads. Almost the 70% of it is filmed in black and white along with some coloured scenes. It shows the band performing the song live along with some shots of Don Dokken being alone in a room.

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Shoot to Thrill - AC/DC

"Shoot to Thrill" is the second song on the album Back in Black by hard rock band AC/DC. This song is also the second track of AC/DC Live and AC/DC Live: 2 CD Collector's Edition, and is included on AC/DC: Iron Man 2.

On January 26, 2010, the music video for "Shoot to Thrill" was released with exclusive footage from the film Iron Man 2. The live concert footage used in the video was filmed in December 2009 at a concert in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the Estadio Monumental.

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I Want to Know What Love Is - Foreigner

"I Want to Know What Love Is" is a 1984 power ballad recorded by the British-American rock band Foreigner. The song hit #1 in both the UK and the U.S. and is the band's most successful single. It remains one of the band's best known songs and most enduring radio hits, charting in the top 25 in 2000, 2001 and 2002 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Recurrents chart.

Written by Mick Jones, with some degree of uncredited contribution by Lou Gramm, and produced by Jones and Alex Sadkin, it was the first single released from the album Agent Provocateur (1984). The song features backing vocals from the New Jersey Mass Choir (of the GMWA), Dreamgirls star Jennifer Holliday, and the Thompson Twins. The choir appears in the song's music video.

"I Want to Know What Love Is" reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on 15 January 1985 and stayed there for three weeks. It reached the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 on 2 February 1985 where it stayed for two weeks. It was Foreigner's first and only pop chart topper in either country, although the band had four #1 Mainstream Rock and one #1 Adult Contemporary radio hits in the US. This was the band's third of four #1 singles on the mainstream rock chart. The song spent five weeks at #1 in Australia and also hit the top of the charts in Canada, Norway, and Sweden, peaking at #2 in Switzerland and South Africa.

The song was also issued as a 12" single with a slightly longer time length of 6:23. This version contains a slightly longer intro and an extended vocal chorus/fadeout ending.

The single's B-Side "Street Thunder (Marathon Theme)" is an instrumental track originally appearing on The Official Music of the XXIII Olympiad - Los Angeles 1984 and later on the band's 2-CD compilation Jukebox Heroes: The Foreigner Anthology in 2000.

Soon after Foreigner's single topped the charts, the New Jersey Mass Choir released its own similar-sounding version of the song on an album also titled I Want to Know What Love Is. Their single peaked at #37 on the Hot Black Singles chart and #12 on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart.

The Foreigner song was ranked by Billboard as the number four Hot 100 single of the year 1985. It was the band's fourth Gold single in the U.S.[5] and their first and only Gold single in the UK.

Originally consisting of three verses, a pre-chorus and a chorus, the song was extended with a bridge written by original songwriter Mick Jones specifically for Tina Arena's cover in 1998.

In 2004 "I Want to Know What Love Is" was voted #476 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. In 2006 this song was included on VH1's program "Top 100 Songs of the 80's" at #65.

The song was used on the 16th episode of Miami Vice in the first season, entitled "Rites of Passage" on 8 February 1985. The song was made part of the videogame Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories soundtrack in 2006, and was the background music for the game's first trailer and intro cutscene. In 2007, the game SingStar '80s included the song. The song was played in a scene in Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector and in the "Valentine's Day" episode of the TV show Ed. The song also features in the 1998 Swedish film Show Me Love. The song was sung twice on General Hospital in 2009; first by the character Spinelli to his girlfriend Maxie at Jake's karaoke night, and second by guests at a reception, to Spinelli and Maxie. The song appears in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.

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Second Chance - .38 Special

"Second Chance" is a song by American rock band 38 Special, from their eighth studio album, 1988's Rock & Roll Strategy. Written by keyboardist Max Carl, guitarist Jeff Carlisi and Cal Curtis, the song was released as the album's second single in 1989 and became the band's highest-charting song in the United States.

Jeff Carlisi wrote "Second Chance" five years before it was first recorded. The song, about love labor's lost remained on the shelf until Max Carl joined the band following the departure of Don Barnes. Carl loved the song and rewrote the chorus. Carlisi recalled, "[Carl] really brought it home and had such a marvelous voice. I mean, the guy could sing 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' and you'd go buy it, he was so good. He really sold that song."

"Second Chance" entered the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart at number 78 in February 1989. The song was the highest-charting Hot 100 single of the band's career, as it peaked at number six in May and spent 21 weeks on the chart. The song reached number five on the Singles Sales chart and number nine on the Hot 100 Airplay chart. It also peaked at number two on the Mainstream Rock chart, and became the band's first number one single on the Adult Contemporary chart. It was Billboard magazine's "Adult Contemporary Song of the Year" for 1989. The single peaked at number two in Canada and number 14 in Australia, where it spent 12 weeks on the chart.

Although "Second Chance" became 38 Special's biggest commercial hit, their label, A&M Records, did not renew the band's contract. The group's next album, Bone Against Steel, was released on Charisma Records in 1991.

Jamaican reggae singer Dennis Brown's version of the song appears on various 1990s dancehall compilation albums. Tongan-American Jawaiian trio Kontiki covered the song on their 2008 album Free Again.

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 113!!!

2010-11-07T15:21:00.001-05:00

Yup Yup!!!!!

Tell It to My Heart - Taylor Dayne

"Tell It to My Heart" is a song recorded by dance-pop vocalist Taylor Dayne, released as her first single from her debut album of the same name in late 1987. The single was Dayne's first major exposure, and she soon became known for her up-tempo, dance-oriented music.

The song was written by Seth Swirsky and Ernie Gold. A Chappell Music staff songwriter, Swirsky almost didn't deliver the song to his publisher after he and his girlfriend decided they didn't think it was good enough. Swirsky also wrote (along with Arnie Roman), Dayne's follow-up single "Prove Your Love".

When the song was originally mastered, Arista Records sent a copy to Seth Swirsky who thought that having four bars before the bridge was too short. He called Arista President Clive Davis to have him add an additional four bars to allow the bridge to breathe, which Davis did, scraping the mastering.

The song took off so unexpectedly in the fall of 1987, that Taylor was forced to make the rest of her debut album in six weeks. For almost two months, people could only buy the 12-inch record of "Tell It to My Heart" with four mixes of the song on it. That 12-inch sold 900,000 copies alone.

Dayne was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal, Female for her performance on "Tell It to My Heart" in 1988. Producer Ric Wake said in a 1994 interview with Vibe magazine that Tell It To My Heart "...really blew people away". Commenting on Taylor Dayne's voice he said "They thought she was, like, black or some kind of ethnic...".

The music video was very low budget but it displayed Taylor's aggressive and sexy style. In the video she follows pretty much the same look featured in the cover of the album.

"Tell It to My Heart" appeared in the Top 40 of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 the week of November 14, 1987, rising to number 39 from number 43. Ten weeks later, the single peaked in the number seven spot, during the week of January 23, 1988. The song was on the Hot 100 chart for 26 weeks. The song also reached number three in the UK. It was the 23rd best-selling single of 1988 in the UK, one of the best selling singles that didn't get to number one that year.

"Tell It to My Heart'" was remixed and re-released in 1995 to promote Dayne's Greatest Hits package. This version climbed to number 23 on the UK Singles Chart.

Fergie, of the Black Eyed Peas, sang "Tell It to My Heart" when she was a 12-year old member of the TV show Kids Incorporated.

Australian group Young Divas covered the song on their sophomore album New Attitude.

Spanish duet Amistades Peligrosas included a cover of this song called "Díselo a mi corazón" in their 1993 album La última tentación.

Kelly Llorenna's cover version was released as a single and reached #9 in the UK in October 2002.

In 2005, the song was covered by Laura Ponzo for the album MusicStars and in 2006 by Thomas Anders on his album Songs Forever.

In 2008, the song was covered by Korean hip hop group YMGA and featured Uhm Jung Hwa.

Devendra_Banhart has been covering the song as part of his 2010 tour.

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Holding Out for a Hero - Bonnie Tyler

"Holding Out for a Hero" is a song written by Jim Steinman and Dean Pitchford, originally recorded by Bonnie Tyler. It was released in 1984 on the soundtrack to the film Footloose. It later appeared on Tyler's Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire album. It hit #96 for the first time in UK in 1984,#2 in 1985, #69 in 1991. The opening couplet - "Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods?/ Where's the street-wise Hercules to fight the rising odds?" - could be seen as an example of the Ubi Sunt motif in literature.

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I Want to Wake Up with You - Boris Gardiner

"I Want to Wake Up with You" is a song made popular by Boris Gardiner.

Written by Bill Peters and produced by Ken Lindo, veteran reggae artist Boris Gardiner took the song to #1 on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in August 1986. The song has subsequently been covered by John Holt and Engelbert Humperdinck. It was the 3rd best-selling single of 1986 in the UK.

China in Your Hand - T'Pau

"China in Your Hand" is a song by British band T'Pau, released from their album Bridge of Spies. A re-recorded version was released as a single in October 1987, spending five weeks at number 1 in the UK and is arguably the song for which the group is best known in their native Britain, though their debut single "Heart and Soul" was a much bigger hit in the United States. "China in Your Hand" was the 600th song to top the UK charts, famously stopping George Harrison's "Got My Mind Set on You" from hitting the top spot.

The song's lyrics refer to the novel Frankenstein and its author Mary Shelley. This is more readily heard on the longer album version of the song, as the re-recorded single edit omits most of the more obvious references to the book. The song's title was more unclear however and when quizzed, co-writer Ron Rogers was unsure of to what it referred. Lyric writer Carol Decker explained that it is the effect that if you hold a china cup to a light, you can see your hand through it - therefore 'china in your hand' means something that is transparent.

The song is in the key of B-Flat major on the original album version but the radio edit version is slightly sped up to reduce its length resulting in the tuning being mid-way between B-Flat and B Major.

In 2007 the song was featured in a commercial for PG Tips that starred Johnny Vegas alongside his sidekick, Monkey.

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2010-10-31T12:19:00.003-04:00

Happy Halloween!

Maybe the Saints will dress up as last year's team and beat the Steelers.

I can only wish.

Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers

"Monster Mash" is a 1962 novelty song and the best-known song by Bobby "Boris" Pickett. The song was released as a single on Gary S. Paxton's Garpax Records label in August 1962 along with a full-length LP called The Original Monster Mash, which contained several other monster-themed tunes. The "Monster Mash" single reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on October 20 of that year, just in time for Halloween. It has been a perennial holiday favorite ever since.

Pickett was an aspiring actor who sang with a band called The Cordials at night while going to auditions during the day. One night, while performing with his band, Pickett did a monologue in imitation of horror movie actor Boris Karloff while performing The Diamonds', "Little Darlin'". The audience loved it and fellow band member Lenny Capizzi encouraged Pickett to do more with the Karloff imitation.

Pickett and Capizzi composed "Monster Mash" and recorded it with Gary S. Paxton, Leon Russell, Johnny McCrae, Rickie Page, and Terry Berg, credited as "The Crypt-Kickers". The song was partially inspired by Paxton's earlier novelty hit "Alley Oop", as well as by the Mashed Potato dance craze of the era. A variation on the Mashed Potato was danced to "Monster Mash", in which the footwork was the same but monster gestures were made with the arms and hands. Mel Taylor, drummer for The Ventures claimed to play on this, and that fact is repeated many places, including Taylor's N.Y. Times obituary.

The song is narrated by a mad scientist whose monster, late one evening, rises from a slab to perform a new dance. The dance becomes "the hit of the land" when the scientist throws a party for other monsters. The producers came up with several low-budget but effective sound effects for the recording. For example, the sound of a coffin opening was imitated by a rusty nail being pulled out of a board. The sound of a cauldron bubbling was actually water being bubbled through a straw, and the chains rattling were simply chains being dropped on a tile floor. Pickett also impersonated horror film actor Bela Lugosi as Dracula with the lyric "Whatever happened to my Transylvania Twist?"

The song was re-released several times and appeared in the Billboard charts on three occasions after the original release — December 1962, August 1970 and May 1973. The BBC had banned the record from airplay in 1962 on the grounds that the song was "too morbid". It was eventually released in the United Kingdom in 1973, where it peaked at #3 in early October. It re-entered the British Charts again on November 2, 2008 at #60.

"Monsters' Holiday", a Christmas-themed follow up, was recorded by Pickett and released in December 1962, peaking at #30 on the Billboard chart. The tune was penned by the renowned novelty song composer Paul Harrison. In 1985, with American culture experiencing a growing awareness of rap music, Pickett released "Monster Rap", which describes the mad scientist's frustration at being unable to teach the dancing monster from "Monster Mash" how to talk. The problem is solved when he teaches the monster to rap. A movie musical based on the song starring Pickett was released in 1995.

"Monster Mash" became a pop music standard, and many cover versions have been recorded over the years.

The Beach Boys covered the song just two years after its original release, on their 1964 album Beach Boys Concert.

That same year in 1964 the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band covered it on Tadpoles and in 1968 performed it on the British television series Do Not Adjust Your Set.

Boris Karloff was so taken with the song that he performed it himself on a 1965 episode of Shindig!.

In 1972 horror film actor and DJ Mike Raven performed a version of "Monster Mash" on the music show 2 G's and the Pop People.

Actor Vincent Price recorded a version of it as well in 1977.

A 1978 Halloween episode of Happy Days featured Ron Howard performing a rendition of the song, using a Peter Lorre impression rather than Pickett's Karloff one.

In 1980, the British ska band Bad Manners covered "Monster Mash" on their debut album Ska 'n' B.
Hardcore punk band Ill Repute covered it as well on their 1985 album Omelette.

In 1988, The Big O covered it for the Return of the Living Dead Part II Soundtrack.

In 1994, Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song for their Halloween special "Trick or Treason."

The 1996 album Test for Echo by the Canadian rock trio Rush includes an instrumental track, Limbo, which contains several samples from "Monster Mash" including the line "Whatever happened to my Transylvania Twist?".

In 1997, the horror punk group The Misfits released a music video of them covering "Monster Mash" live. They also released a studio version as a single in 1999, and recorded a separate version for their 2003 album Project 1950 (see below).
In the Walt Disney Records album Mickey's Monster Bash, Goofy sings the cover version of "Monster Mash".

A Kidz Bop cover version appeared on the 2004 album Kidz Bop Halloween.

Mannheim Steamroller also covered the song for their 2006 album Halloween, Vol. 2: Creatures Collection.
The song has also been covered by Zombina and the Skeletones.

In 2008, The Smashing Pumpkins released a live recording of the song from Halloween of that year through Live Smashing Pumpkins.

In 2010, Gary Gelfand's Hollywood Haunts released a covered version of the song with the slightly different title.

Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.

"Ghostbusters" is a 1984 song recorded by Ray Parker, Jr. as the theme to the film of the same name starring Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd. It hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on August 11 in 1984, and stayed there for three weeks. It also peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart on 16 September 1984, where it stayed for three weeks. The song is performed in the key of B major.

It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song, but lost to Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called to Say I Love You".

According to Parker, he was approached by the film's producers to create a theme song for the film. Unfortunately, he only had a few days to do so and the film's title seemed impossible to include in any lyrics. However, when watching television late at night, Parker saw a cheap commercial for a local service that reminded him that the film had a similar commercial featured for the fictional business. This inspired him to write the song as a pseudo-advertising jingle that the business could have commissioned as a promotion. The line "I ain't scared of no ghosts" came from a 1937 Mickey Mouse short, Lonesome Ghosts.

Parker was later the defendant in a copyright-infringement lawsuit which claimed "Ghostbusters" was too similar in musical structure to "I Want a New Drug", written and performed by Huey Lewis and the News (more specifically, the guitar riff which runs through the song). "I Want a New Drug" was a U.S. top-ten hit earlier the same year. The two parties settled out of court. Details of the settlement (specifically, that Parker paid Lewis a settlement) were confidential until 2001, when Lewis commented on the payment in an episode of VH1's Behind the Music. Parker subsequently sued Lewis for breaching confidentiality; the lawsuit is ongoing. Ironically, Lewis had at one point been asked to record a theme song for the movie, but turned it down for other commitments.

In later years, AutoNation adopted the theme for their advertising campaign. In the United Kingdom, the song is parodied with Parker himself being featured in a commercial advertising direct enquiries line 118 118.

The song re-entered the UK Top 75 on 2nd November 2008 at #49.

Lindsey Buckingham claims to have been approached to write the Ghostbusters theme based on his successful contribution to Harold Ramis's National Lampoon's Vacation (the song "Holiday Road"). He turned down the opportunity as he didn't want to be known as a soundtrack artist. He mentions this on the "Words & Music" interview disk.

A music video for the song featured a young woman, played by Cindy Harrell, who was being haunted by a ghost portrayed by Parker, roaming a nearly all-black house interior with vibrant neon designs outlining the sparse architectural and industrial features. It also contained footage from the film Ghostbusters, and featured cameos from many celebrities of the day, including Chevy Chase, Irene Cara, John Candy, Melissa Gilbert, Nickolas Ashford, Jeffrey Tambor, George Wendt, Al Franken, Danny DeVito, Carly Simon, Peter Falk, Teri Garr and Casey Kasem; all of whom exclaim the "Ghostbusters!" line of the song when shown.

The video concludes with Parker and the stars of the film, in full Ghostbuster costume, dancing down the streets of New York City. The Ghostbusters also performed the similar dance in the closing credits to the Real Ghostbusters cartoon series as well as in a trailer for the 2009 Ghostbusters video game.

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I Put a Spell on You - Screamin' Jay Hawkins

"I Put a Spell on You" is a 1956 song written by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, whose recording was selected as one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. It was also ranked #313 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Although Hawkins' version did not make any charts, several later cover versions have done so. Nina Simone's version reached # 23 in the US Billboard R&B chart in 1965; it also reached # 49 in the UK singles chart that year, and # 28 when it was reissued in 1969. The version by The Alan Price Set reached # 9 in the UK in 1966, and # 80 on the Billboard Hot 100. Creedence Clearwater Revival's version reached # 58 on the US Hot 100 in 1968. In the UK, Bryan Ferry's version reached # 18 in 1993, and the version by Sonique reached # 36 in 1998 and # 5 on reissue in 2000. The song has been recorded by numerous other artists.

Hawkins had originally intended to record "I Put a Spell on You" as a refined love song, a blues ballad. He reported, however, that the producer "brought in ribs and chicken and got everybody drunk, and we came out with this weird version. I don't even remember making the record. Before, I was just a normal blues singer. I was just Jay Hawkins. It all sort of just fell in place. I found out I could do more destroying a song and screaming it to death."

Some sources claim that "I Put a Spell on You" had been released earlier than 1956 in a more sedate form, but this has not been verified. The date of 1949 for an original release on the Grand label would appear unlikely, since it predates both the formation of the record label and the beginning of Hawkins' performing career.

"I Put a Spell on You" became a quick success, despite being banned by some stores and radio stations. A softer version, minus certain sounds deemed "cannibalistic", did not chart but brought Hawkins together with Alan Freed and his "Rock and Roll Review".

Up to this time, Hawkins had been a blues performer; emotional, but not wild. Freed suggested a gimmick to capitalize on the "demented" sound of "I Put a Spell on You": Hawkins wore a long cape, and appeared onstage by rising out of a coffin in the midst of smoke and fog.

The act was a sensation, later bolstered by tusks worn in Hawkins' nose, on-stage snakes and fireworks, and a cigarette-smoking skull named "Henry". The theatrical act was one of the first shock rock performances, and a basis for much that came later in rock and roll, including Dr. John, Alice Cooper, Eric Burdon, Screaming Lord Sutch, Warren Zevon, Arthur Brown, Black Sabbath, Ted Nugent, George Clinton, The Butthole Surfers, The Cramps, and Marilyn Manson.

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Michael Jackson's Thriller

Michael Jackson's Thriller is a 14-minute music video for the song of the same name released on December 2, 1983 and directed by John Landis, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Jackson.

Often referred to as the greatest music video ever and has also been voted the most influential pop music video of all time, Thriller proved to have a profound effect on popular culture, and was named "a watershed moment for the [music] industry" for its unprecedented merging of filmmaking and music. Guinness World Records listed it in 2006 as the "most successful music video", selling over 9 million units. In 2009, the video was inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, the first music video to ever receive this honor, for being “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant.

Co-starring with Jackson was former Playboy centerfold Ola Ray. The video was choreographed by Michael Peters (who had worked with the singer on his prior hit "Beat It"), and Michael Jackson. The video also contains incidental music by film music composer Elmer Bernstein, who had previously worked with Landis on An American Werewolf in London. The video (like the song) contains a spoken word performance by horror film veteran Vincent Price. Rick Baker assisted in prosthetics and makeup for the production. The red jacket that Jackson wore was designed by John Landis' wife Deborah Landis to make him appear more "virile".

To qualify for an Academy Award, "Thriller" debuted at a special theatrical screening, along with the 1940 Disney motion picture Fantasia.

As Michael Jackson was a practising Jehovah's Witness at the time, the first scene includes a disclaimer by Jackson stating that, "Due to my strong personal convictions, I wish to stress that this film in no way endorses a belief in the occult."

In a 1950s setting, a teenaged Michael Jackson and his female date (Ola Ray) run out of gas in a dark, wooded area. They walk off into the forest, and Michael asks her if she would like to go steady. She accepts and he gives her a ring. He warns her, however, that he is "different". A full moon appears, and Michael begins convulsing in agony — transforming into a horrifying werecat. His date screams and runs away, but the werecat catches up, knocking her down and begins lunging at her with his claws.

The scene then cuts to a movie theater where Michael and his date, along with a repulsed audience, are actually watching the scene unfold in a fictional Vincent Price movie titled "Thriller". Michael's date leaves the theater as Michael hands his popcorn to another moviegoer, catches up to her, and tells her that "It's only a movie". Some debate follows as to whether or not she was scared by the movie: she denies it, but Michael disagrees. They then walk down a foggy road as Michael teases her by singing the verses of "Thriller". They pass a nearby graveyard, in which the undead begin to rise out of their graves as Vincent Price performs his rap.

The zombies corner the two main characters threateningly, and suddenly, Michael becomes a zombie himself. The zombies then break into an elaborate song and dance number, followed by the main chorus of "Thriller" (during which Michael reverts back to human form), frightening his date to the point where she runs for cover.

Michael (who has turned back into a zombie) and his fellow corpses back the frightened girl into the corner of a nearby abandoned house. Michael then reaches for his date's throat as she lets out a bloodcurdling scream, only to awake and realize it was all a dream. Michael then offers to take her home, and she happily accepts. As they walk out of the house, Michael eerily looks at the camera, revealing his yellow werecat eyes, as Vincent Price offers one last haunting laugh.

During the closing credits, a reprised scene of the zombies dancing is shown. At the end of the closing credits, a disclaimer appears, saying that "Any similarity to actual events or characters living, dead, (or undead) is purely coincidental." The same disclaimer appeared in An American Werewolf in London, also directed by Landis. After this, the zombies then dance back into their graves, ending with one of them (an uncredited Vincent Price, in full prosthetic makeup) giving the audience a terrifying grimace as the scene fades to black.

In December 2009, it was selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress along with 24 other films. It was the first ever music video to be selected.[9] The Registry titled Thriller as “the most famous music video of all time”. The co-ordinator of the National Film Preservation Board, who decides upon candidates for inclusion in the National Film Registry, Steve Legett, said “The time is right” for Thriller to be included, because of the death of Jackson that year.

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 111!!!

2010-10-24T11:15:00.001-04:00

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Here we go!

You Might Think - The Cars

"You Might Think" is a single by The Cars from their fifth studio album, Heartbeat City, which came out in 1984. The track was written by Ric Ocasek, and produced by Mutt Lange and The Cars. Ocasek sang lead vocals.

The track was the first single to be released off Heartbeat City. Thanks in part to a striking video, "You Might Think" became a substantial hit in the US (peaking at #7) and in Canada (peaking at #8). It also peaked at #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the US, the first song by the band to do so. In the UK, however, the track only made it to #88 on the pop charts.

The music video is one of the first videos to use computer graphics. The video features band leader Ric Ocasek and model Susan Gallagher in a series of encounters. Ocasek appears in her bathroom mirror, in her mouth, as a fly, and as the Robot Monster, among other incarnations.

"You Might Think" won the first MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year and was nominated for five more awards (best special effects, best art direction, viewer's choice, best concept video, and most experimental video) at the 1984 MTV Video Music Awards. The video also won five awards (best overall, best conceptual, most innovative, best editing, and best special effects) at Billboard's 1984 Video Music Awards and four awards (best achievement in music video, best editor in music video, best engineer in music video, and best camera in music video) at the Videotape Production Association's 1985 Monitor Awards.

Jeff Stein and partners/founders at/of production/VFX company Charlex, Alex Weil and Charlie Levi, directed and produced the video. Danny Rosenberg and Bill Weber served both as editors and video engineers, Kevin Jones was the lighting director, Danny Ducovny the cinematographer and Bob Ryzner the art director. The video cost $80,000 to make which was almost triple the average music video budget of the time.

The model in the video is often mistaken with Ocasek's future wife, Paulina Porizkova, although there is little resemblance. Porizkova appears in the video of "Drive".

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Everytime You Go Away - Paul Young

"Everytime You Go Away" is a song written by Daryl Hall and covered by Paul Young in 1985.

The original appeared on Hall & Oates's 1980 album, Voices, although it was not released as a single. Hall & Oates also recorded it for their 1985 concert album Live at the Apollo. Young's version hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on July 27, 1985. It remains his only number-one hit and one of only two top 10 hits he had on the U.S. pop singles chart. It also topped the U.S. adult contemporary chart for two weeks. The song peaked at No. 4 in the UK, Young's home country. The song won Best British Video at the 1986 Brit Awards.

Young's version features a haunting combination of echoed piano, Pino Palladino's distinctive fretless bass and an electric sitar, the latter a long-neglected instrument by the mid-1980s.

At the end of the 1987 movie, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, the song is performed by Blue Room. In 2006, Clay Aiken covered the song on his CD A Thousand Different Ways. In 2009 the original Hall & Oates song appeared in the movie The Rebound.

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All Cried Out - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam

"All Cried Out" is a song recorded by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam that appeared on their 1985 album Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force. The song hit number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in October 1986. The song was a major hit on the R&B singles chart, peaking at number three. On the Adult Contemporary chart, it reached number twelve.

In the autumn of 1997, "All Cried Out" was covered by the pop vocal group, Allure (and featured the band 112). It became their biggest hit, outperforming the original on the pop chart, peaking at number four on the Hot 100.

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Refugee - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

"Refugee" is the second single from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' album Damn the Torpedoes. It peaked at #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1980.

A cover version was recorded by The Chipmunks in 1980 for their Chipmunk Punk album.

It was covered by Melissa Etheridge in 2005 for her Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled album, and reached #96 on the Billboard Pop 100.

It was covered by Amy Ray and The Butchies while on tour in San Francisco

The song is frequently covered live by Vains of Jenna, and included on their 2009 album The Art Of Telling Lies.

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 110!!!

2010-10-17T14:38:00.001-04:00

A high of 72?

I can get used to this.

Perfect World - Huey Lewis and the News

"Perfect World" is a song performed by Huey Lewis and the News and released as the first single from the album Small World in late June 1988. The single peaked at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 and #48 on the UK Singles Chart.

The song, which was written by Alex Call, is about how we don't live in a perfect world, even though we like to believe to, and that there is nothing wrong with keeping on believing that we do. The song was mostly positively received, and the music video, which featured the band singing in a garbage dump, was in heavy rotation at MTV.

The song was written by Alex Call, a former bandmate of Lewis and Sean Hopper from the band, Clover. Call had previously co-written the hit song "867-5309/Jenny" for Tommy Tutone. Huey Lewis gave the song a reggae flavor. The song is an optimistic commentary on a human being's hopes and dreams, as well as our private thoughts. The song tells the person to "keep on dreaming," because there will never be a perfect world. The song admits that life isn't perfect, but tells the listener to use the power of positive dreaming to cope with the reality. The B-side to the single was an instrumental album track, "Slammin'"

The music video features the band playing on a stage in a garbage dump field, with various pieces of garbage flying in the air, hitting various members of the band. Throughout the video, Huey Lewis dances and strolls through a pathway as work is done by garbage trucks behind him. At the end of the video, the band is seen posing by more garbage. The video received heavy rotation on MTV.

Reception for the song was mostly positive. Lynn Van Matre of the Chicago Tribune said that the song was "Wry," and it seemed "destined" to be another top ten single from the band. According to Martin Moynihan of thee Albany Times Union, the song was "a pop music mix of Lewis' usual musical optimism tempered with an element of reserve" Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic said of the song, "None of the musical diversions work as well as the bouncy Top Ten hit 'Perfect World.'" Erlewine also believed that the song ranked "with the group's best material." Jerry Spangler of Deseret News said that the song was a "captivating rocker." New York Times reviewer Stephen Holden considers the song a "companion piece" to the first song off of the Small World album, "Small World, Part One".

"Perfect World" was the first single released from the album Small World. Originally to be released in mid-June, the single's release was held off until later in the month. It was the last top-ten hit for the band, peaking at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and was prevented from moving further up the chart by Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child O' Mine", and Robert Palmer's "Simply Irresistible".

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Our Lips Are Sealed - The Go-Go's

"Our Lips Are Sealed" is a song written by Go-Go's guitarist Jane Wiedlin and Specials and Fun Boy Three singer Terry Hall. It was first recorded by The Go-Go's as the lead-off song on their 1981 album Beauty and the Beat and served as their debut American single. In 2000 Rolling Stone named it one of the 100 Greatest Pop Songs of all time.

Although originally written and performed with three verses, it is an abbreviated version of the song which appears on Beauty and the Beat. This version of the song was released as a single in June 1981 and peaked at number twenty on Billboard's Billboard Pop Singles chart, and fifteen on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart. A song of unusual longevity, it remained on the Billboard charts for much of 1982 as well, long after its peak.

The accompanying video was an early favorite of the fledgling MTV channel, and helped establish the Go-Go's energetic persona. It features sequences of the band members in carefree tableaux (riding around in a convertible, stopping at a lingerie shop and splashing around in a city fountain) interspersed with footage of the band playing a club booking.

The following year, co-writer Terry Hall re-recorded the song with his own band, Fun Boy Three; it was a major hit, reaching no. 7 on the UK Singles Chart.

Wild Orchid covered the song for their second album, Oxygen (1998).

Poe recorded a version of the song, renamed "My Lips Are Sealed" for the soundtrack to the 2000 film Gossip. It features an interpolation of nonsense verse riddle, "One bright day in the middle of the night / Two dead boys got up to fight."

Fredo Viola's cover appeared in the 2006 film Man About Town.

Nouvelle Vague covered the song on their 2009 album 3 together with Terry Hall.

The Hippos recorded a version for the Before You Were Punk 2 compilation.

Everclear covered the song on their single for Everything to Everyone.

The popular Canadian teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation, which is known for having named each episode after a 1980s hit song, named a two-part episode after this song.

The song is featured in the 2002 film Home Room, in which Alicia (Busy Philipps) tells Deanna (Erika Christensen) that the lips of the song's title are referring to labia because the song is about keeping one's virginity.

The song was made available for download on November 24, 2009 for the Rock Band video games, and is a playable track for the music video game Band Hero.

In Australia, the chorus/song title is sometimes jokingly referred to as 'Alex the Seal,' due to many people mistaking the lyrics for thus.

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In Your Room - The Bangles

"In Your Room" is a 1988 song by American rock group The Bangles, written by Susanna Hoffs, Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg. The song was released as the first single from the band's third album, Everything. It reached the top five of the U.S. singles chart, and also charted in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

According to songwriter Billy Steinberg, "In Your Room" was written in the same batch of songs as "Eternal Flame". Steinberg recalled, "[The Bangles] liked everything from Petula Clark to The Beatles and all the Sixties music they loved. So when we got together to write with Susannah it was right up our alley because of course Tom and I grew up in the sixties and that was what we loved. So we had that in common with Susannah". He added that the song's style was somewhat similar to "Mony Mony", the 1968 hit single by Tommy James and the Shondells.

Released in October 1988, "In Your Room" entered the Billboard Hot 100 the following month and peaked at number five in January. It reached number four on the Singles Sales chart, number nine on the Hot 100 Airplay chart, and number five on the Modern Rock chart. The song also peaked at number 11 in New Zealand, number 41 in Australia, and number 35 in the United Kingdom.

Allmusic writer Matthew Greenwald praised the band's rhythm section for the song's chorus and bridge sections, and noted that the song's lyrics were ideal for Hoffs' "kittenish sexuality". Rolling Stone writer Jim Freek said "In Your Room" was perhaps the band's best song to be released after their debut album.

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Say You, Say Me - Lionel Richie

"Say You, Say Me" is a song written and recorded by Lionel Richie for the film White Nights starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines. The single hit number one on the soul singles chart and on the Billboard Hot 100 on December 21, 1985. In addition, "Say You, Say Me was Richie's ninth number one on the Adult Contemporary chart. The track is not available on the soundtrack album to the film because Motown Records did not want Richie's first single since the Can't Slow Down album to appear on another record label. It finally appeared on the Dancing on the Ceiling album released in 1986.

In 2008, the song was ranked at #74 of the top songs of all time on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, commemorating the first 50 years of the chart.

Richie partially parodied his own song to "Hey You, Beer Me" for Homer Simpson when he guest starred as himself on The Simpsons.

Parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic featured a segment of the song in his "Polka Party!" polka medley.

Richie parodied his own song in an advert for British crisp manufacturers Walkers.

The song was featured in a second season episode of Valerie, later the Hogan Family, entitled "A Night to Remember".

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 109!!!

2010-10-10T16:37:00.002-04:00

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to my friends and family up North. You all know who you are.

Hold on to the Nights - Richard Marx

"Hold On to the Nights" is a ballad and number-one hit for singer Richard Marx. This was the fourth and final single released from his self-titled debut album, and the first to reach the top of the Billboard Hot 100.

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Situation - Yazoo

"Situation" is the title of a 1982 single by the British synthpop band Yazoo. The song was originally released in the UK as the B-side to Yazoo's debut single, "Only You", which went to number two on the UK Singles Chart. Released as a single in its own right in the U.S., the song peaked at number 73 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. However, it became Yazoo's first song to top the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in the late summer of 1982, and it remained at number one on this chart for four weeks, and even crossed over to the R&B chart, peaking at #31 there. The song features a memorable synthesizer hook by Vince Clarke (similar to the work he had done with his previous band, Depeche Mode) combined with the vocals by Alison Moyet (including her laughter, which has since been sampled in countless other songs including the international dance hit "Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)"). The song has been featured on various 1980s compilation albums, as well as an appearance in a commercial for Nintendo's NES Classics series.

Its most famous version is the American 12-inch remix by François Kevorkian. This version was included on the U.S. version of Yazoo's album Upstairs at Eric's, and is the version of the song which receives the most radio airplay in the United States (where the song, despite its modest showing on the Hot 100, is still played on alternative, variety-hits, and dance-oriented radio stations).

It was covered by welsh singer Tom Jones in 1994 on his album The Lead and How To Swing It.

The song was featured in the 2002 film The Rules of Attraction.

In 1990 and again in 1999, the song was remixed by various noted DJs, including Peter Rauhofer and Richard "Humpty" Vission. The 1999 remixes were released to dance clubs, and this renewed interest in the song sent "Situation" to #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart for a second time in October of that year.

The song has been sampled numerous times for its synthesized beat. The following artists have sampled "Situation" :

The Saturdays - "If This Is Love"
Heidi Montag - "Body Language"
Flying Steps - "In Da Arena (Situation)"

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So Far Away - Dire Straits

"So Far Away" is a 1985 rock song by Dire Straits. It appears on the album Brothers in Arms. It became the band's fourth top 20 hit on the Billboard charts, peaking at #19.

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Oh Sherrie - Steve Perry

"Oh Sherrie" is a song written by American singer Steve Perry, Randy Goodrum, Craig Krampf, and Bill Cuomo. It was recorded and released on Perry's Street Talk album, his first solo album which he released while still a member of Journey.

The song was Perry's biggest hit as a solo artist and written for his then-girlfriend Sherrie Swafford, who also appeared in the music video. The song hit #3 on the pop charts and #1 on the mainstream rock charts in the United States, partly aided in its success by a music video released to promote the song, which received heavy airplay on MTV.

One of the song's co-writers, Bill Cuomo, performed the keyboard riff on "Oh Sherrie," and was the musician that was also responsible for the keyboard riff on Kim Carnes' signature song, "Bette Davis Eyes," in 1981. Cuomo, Krampf and Perry had started composing the song at approximately midnight with little more than the simple chorus of "Oh Sherrie" and "Hold on, hold on" plus a few simple sounds. Sherrie Swafford had been in the room with them initially, but had gone to sleep because of the late hour.

Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 108!!!

2010-10-03T13:48:00.002-04:00

Happy October.

Feels like Autumn. Sweatshirts and shorts.

Gotta love it.

Heat of the Moment - Asia

"Heat of the Moment" is the first single released by arena rock band Asia from their 1982 eponymous debut. The song was the most popular of the album, and a big hit in the USA, peaking at #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart and #4 on the Billboard Top Singles chart. It was written by John Wetton and Geoff Downes. "Heat of the Moment" is featured at the beginning of another Asia song called "Don't Call Me" as a dialing number from a telephone.

The lyrics contain the line, "And now you find yourself in 82". While this is often interpreted to refer to the year 1982, Wetton has said that it refers to a location. However, in live versions, Wetton has often substituted the current year for "82" in the second verse and rhymed it with another word.

"Time Again" is the B-side of the UK release. The song was written by all the band members, Geoff Downes, Steve Howe, Carl Palmer and John Wetton, and can also be found on the Asia album.

"Ride Easy" is the B-side of the singles released outside of the UK. This song was written by Wetton and Howe. It was never given a regular release on a studio album, but it was included in the EP Aurora, released only in Japan in 1986. During an interview on the 2007 released Asia DVD Fantasia: Live in Tokyo, Wetton indicated that "Ride Easy" is one of his favourite Asia songs.

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Why Can't This Be Love - Van Halen

"Why Can't This Be Love" is a song by Van Halen, off the album 5150, the band's first with lead singer Sammy Hagar, who had replaced founding member David Lee Roth in late 1985. It was the initial single from that album, released in March 1986.

The song, driven by bouncy lead keyboard work from Eddie Van Halen, rose to number 3 on the US Billboard singles chart, and helped 5150 reach the number one slot on the albums chart, a first for the band.

During the 5150 and OU812 tours, Eddie Van Halen played the keyboard parts while Hagar played the guitar parts and the solo. Since the For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge tour, Van Halen has taken over the guitar parts and the keyboards are played backstage. Starting during the 1995 Balance tour, Michael Anthony and Eddie Van Halen would sing the second verse of the song during live performances. They would continue to do this on both the 1998 and 2004 tours.

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Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode

"Enjoy the Silence" is Depeche Mode's twenty-fourth UK single, released on February 5, 1990, and the second single from the then upcoming album Violator. "Enjoy the Silence" was re-released as a single in 2004 for the Depeche Mode remix project Remixes 81 - 04, and was titled "Enjoy the Silence (Reinterpreted)" or, more simply, "Enjoy the Silence 04". The "Reinterpreted" version was remixed by Mike Shinoda, the rapper and producer for the American nu metal/alternative rock band Linkin Park. As it is one of Depeche Mode's most well-known songs to date, it has been recorded as a cover version by many other artists, including Breaking Benjamin, Keane, Tori Amos, Lacuna Coil, Nada Surf, Entwine, Failure, It Dies Today, Evergreen Terrace, Tanghetto, The Academy Is... with Cobra Starship, Anberlin, HIM, Matthew Good, Bell X1, Apoptygma Berzerk, and No Use for a Name. Today, many people consider this as Depeche Mode's signature song.

The single is Gold certificated in the US and Germany.

The song won Best British Single at the 1991 BRIT Awards.

When "Enjoy the Silence" was written by Martin Gore, it was intended to be a slow-paced ballad in C minor; the demo featured a harmonium with Gore singing. Alan Wilder saw hit potential in the track, and composed an upbeat tempo and structure for the song. Despite initial resistance from songwriter Gore, who felt the spirit of the song was not suited to an upbeat track, the rest of the group liked it. After some self-described "sulking", Gore came around and added more to the embryonic fast version together with producer Mark "Flood" Ellis, notably the guitar riff heard throughout. Depeche Mode lead singer David Gahan contributed his distinctive lead vocals to the track and within hours the band was convinced they had a hit single on their hands. At Gore's insistence, the demo would later be remade into the "Harmonium" version (available on the limited edition 12" vinyl and Maxi CD releases), featuring Gore on vocals.

"Enjoy the Silence" became one of the band's most successful singles, and its first UK Top 10 hit since 1984. The single rocketed up the UK Singles Chart to #6, remaining there for three weeks. This was the band's highest-charting single since "People Are People" peaked at #4 in 1984. Additionally, other than "People Are People", only two other singles released by the band had reached as high as #6: 1982's "See You" and 1983's "Everything Counts".

On top of this, the song reached #8 on the US Billboard Hot 100, to date the only Depeche Mode single to achieve top 10 status. At the time, the only other Depeche Mode single to hit the US Top 20 was "People Are People", which hit #13. The single also topped the US Modern Rock Tracks chart, another first for the band (as this chart had been created in 1988). The chart measures radio airplay on US modern rock stations.

"Enjoy the Silence 04" was almost equally successful in the UK, peaking at #7 on the UK Singles Chart. In the US, it reached #25 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play. In addition, the limited edition vinyl releases also charted, but due to the fact that their lead track was not "Enjoy the Silence", these releases charted separately. As a result, "Something to Do", the A-side to the L12 release, spent one week at #75 on the UK Singles Chart.

The original release of the single included a wide variety of remixes. The standard 12" version of the song is the "Hands and Feet Mix", while the B-side of the 12" version included a dub mix called the "Ecstatic Dub". The limited edition 12" release included three more remixes: the aforementioned "Harmonium" version which follows the structure of the original demo, the "Bass Line" version, and the "Ricki Tik Tik Mix." The latter one is actually an edit omitting a synth part in the middle because Mute had to fit everything on a 3" CD. The boxed rerelease finally had the full version. One of the more unusual mixes is "The Quad: Final Mix" which expands the song to over fifteen minutes in length, making it the longest commercially available Depeche Mode track.

In addition to the "reinterpretation" by Mike Shinoda, there were several more remixes of the song released in 2004. The 12" version of the release included remixes by Timo Maas and Ewan Pearson, while one of the limited edition CDs included a remix from Richard X.

"Enjoy the Silence 04" also included a variety of remixes of other Depeche Mode songs, including a Goldfrapp remix of the Violator track "Halo", a Black Strobe remix of the Some Great Reward track "Something to Do", a Cicada remix of the single "World in My Eyes", and a Rex the Dog remix of the Speak and Spell track "Photographic".

The album version on Violator contains a hidden track called "Crucified", which has Andrew Fletcher on vocals, albeit highly distorted.

There are two instrumental B-sides to "Enjoy the Silence". "Sibeling" (the 12" B-side) is a soft piano-tune while "Memphisto" (the 7" B-side) is a darker, eerier track. The title of "Sibeling" refers to Finnish classical composer Jean Sibelius. Regarding "Memphisto", according to Martin Gore, "Memphisto is the name of an imaginary film about Elvis as a Devil, that I created in my mind". As such, the title is a portmanteau of Memphis and Mephisto. "Sibeling" was produced by the combination of the band and Flood, who produced much of Depeche Mode's work from 1990 to 1993, while "Memphisto" was produced by the band alone.

The Anton Corbijn-directed music video for "Enjoy the Silence" references the themes and storyline of the philosophical children's book The Little Prince. Footage of Gahan dressed as a stereotypical king wandering the hillsides of Scotland, the coast of Portugal and finally the Swiss Alps with a deck chair is intercut with black-and-white footage of the band posing. Brief flashes of a single rose (which is also on the album cover of Violator) appear throughout the scenes.

When Corbijn presented the concept of the video to the band, which at the time was simply "Dave dressed up as a king, walking around with a deck chair", they initially rejected it. They changed their minds, when he explained that the idea was that the King (Dave) was represented "a man with everything in the world, just looking for a quiet place to sit"; a king of no kingdom. Andy Fletcher jokes that he favoured the video because "[he] only had to do about an hour's worth of work".

The video uses a slightly different mix of the song (the most notable difference being a new and extended introduction) that has not been released in any audio format. The final long shots of the king walking through the snow are not Gahan but rather the video's producer, Richard Bell. Gahan had left the set, tiring of the cold in Switzerland (recounted by Gahan in the intro to The Videos (86-98)).

In 1990 a promotional video for Enjoy the Silence was shot by French TV featuring Depeche Mode lip-syncing the song while standing atop the World Trade Center at the WTC rooftop World observatory.

One of the two videos for Coldplay's 2008 song "Viva La Vida" is a homage/tribute to the "Enjoy the Silence" video (it was also directed by Corbijn and features Coldplay singer Chris Martin walking around dressed as a king).

Mike Shinoda's "Enjoy the Silence 04" was a distortion guitar-driven version of the song, in which he imprinted Linkin Park's distinctive nu metal sound. Uwe Flade directed an animated music video for "Enjoy the Silence 04". Monitors in the animation show performances of "Enjoy the Silence" excerpted from Devotional and One Night in Paris, as well as footage from a concert from The Singles Tour filmed in Cologne in 1998 for MTV.

A version of the song by Anberlin, from the album Punk Goes 90s, was used in the Vampire Diaries episode "Lost Girls" (episode 1.06).

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Blue Eyes - Elton John

"Blue Eyes" is a song by Elton John. It was released in 1982, both as a single and on the album Jump Up!, which reached #8 in the UK. In the US, the song went #12 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and went to #1 on the adult contemporary chart, becoming John's sixth chart-topper on this list.

The video to the track was filmed in Australia.

Musically, the song is complex, with the verses in the key of B flat, and the chorus in the key of D minor. An instrumental solo, in the related flat major key of E flat, serves as a middle and outro.

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 107!!!

2010-09-26T13:55:00.001-04:00

Almost October!!!!

Jet City Woman - Queensrÿche

"Jet City Woman" is a song by progressive metal band Queensrÿche appearing on their 1990 album Empire.

The song talks about coming home to family after a long road trip. "Jet City" is a nickname for Seattle, the band's hometown. It was written about Geoff Tate's first wife, who was a flight attendant. He now tells how it's about his current wife, Susan (also band manager and ex-dancer), but it was written before he met her.

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I Don't Care Anymore - Phil Collins

"I Don't Care Anymore" is a song by Phil Collins from his second solo album Hello, I Must Be Going!.

The song is very dark, which follows a vast majority of songs from the album. The song can be compared to his earlier hit single "In the Air Tonight", as both have very "powerful" drums along with simple keyboard chords and guitar riffs, along with the lyrics which are directed at the anger that Collins had over his first marriage.

In addition to Chester Thompson, touring band members Daryl Stuermer (guitar), Peter Robinson (keyboards), and Mo Foster (bass) also appear. Aside from Stuermer, the rest of the band does not appear on the actual recording and are instead miming Collins' parts.

The video is staged entirely in a dark room, with spotlights appearing over each band member as they begin to play. Foster is clearly visible in Robinson's spotlight for about a minute before he begins to play, hands in pockets, shuffling his feet occasionally, and looking more like a loiterer than a band member. When he begins to play (at the beginning of the first chorus), he plays the song's synthesised bassline on Moog Taurus bass pedals. Instead of playing them with his feet as intended by the manufacturer, he strikes them somewhat dramatically with the sides of his closed fists. He plays considerably more notes than what is actually heard, and frequently manipulates the Taurus's filtre controls with one hand while striking with the other.

Live concert footage from the same year shows that he did, in fact, play the Taurus with his hands (whereas future touring bassist Leland Sklar played the Taurus with his feet while simultaneously playing electric bass). He did not strike the pedals with his fist, however, instead simply depressing each pedal with the flat of his hand. He did frequently manipulate the Taurus's filters to great effect, but the bassline he performed was the simplified version heard on the recording rather than the overzealous part he mimed in the video.

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Think I'm in Love - Eddie Money

"Think I'm in Love" is a 1982 song by American rock singer Eddie Money from his album No Control. Written by Money and Randy Oda (who is perhaps best known otherwise for his collaborations with former Creedence Clearwater Revival member Tom Fogerty), the tune was released as a single and reached number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and number one on the Billboard Top Tracks chart.

The music video included elements from classic vampire movies (with Eddie Money cast as a quasi-Dracula character) with a twist ending.

The song has been featured in several movies, including Joe Dirt and the 2009 film Paul Blart: Mall Cop.

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Road to Nowhere - Talking Heads

"Road to Nowhere" is a song by Talking Heads, from the 1985 album Little Creatures. It also appeared on Best of Talking Heads, Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites, the Once in a Lifetime box set and the Brick box set. The song was released as a single in 1985 and reached number 25 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks and number 6 in the British and German singles chart. It also made #8 on the Dutch Top 40.

The video, released to promote the single, was directed by David Byrne and Stephen R. Johnson and features the band and various objects revolving, as if in their own "road to nowhere," and it was nominated for "Best Video of the Year" at the MTV Video Music Awards 1986.

According to the sleeve of Talking Heads compilation Once in a Lifetime, Byrne added the choral intro after deciding the song in itself was embarrassingly simplistic and monotonous.

"Road to Nowhere" is heard during the ending of the 1985 movie The Peanut Butter Solution and the 1989 film Little Monsters. It is also featured in the 1994 film Reality Bites. It was featured on an advertisement for the 2006 final of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. It is also heard at the end of the 2008 film Religulous.

The protagonist of Gex: Enter the Gecko sings a brief line of the song during gameplay.

The song also got some play on comedic television and radio shows when the Gravina Island Bridge "Bridge to Nowhere" scandal in Alaska surfaced in 2005.

Portuguese musician João Coração adapted part of "Road to Nowhere" in the last minute of his song "Muda que muda" from the album with the same name. What is heard is a musical parody of the verses "We're on a road to nowhere / Come on inside" translated to Portuguese.

Australian singer-songwriter Sarah Blasko uses the lyrics and composition to end her song "Over & Over" on her album As Day Follows Night.

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 106!!!

2010-09-19T15:15:00.001-04:00

Another Sunday, another few videos...here we go!

I Can't Go for That (No Can Do) - Hall & Oates

"I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" is a 1981 song recorded by Daryl Hall and John Oates.

It was the fourth number-one hit single of their career on the Billboard Hot 100 and the second hit single from their album Private Eyes. It features Charles DeChant on saxello.

On January 30, 1982, "I Can't Go for That" ended a 10-week run at the top of the Hot 100 by Olivia Newton-John's song, "Physical" (which had knocked out Hall & Oates' "Private Eyes" from the top spot). The song also went to number one on the Hot Dance Club Play chart for one week in January 1982.

Thanks to heavy airplay on urban contemporary radio stations, "I Can't Go for That" also topped the U.S. R&B chart, a rare feat for a non-African American act. According to the Hall and Oates biography, Hall upon learning that "I Can't Go For That" had gone to number one on the R&B chart, wrote in his diary, "I'm the head soul brother in the U.S. Where to now?"

"I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" is one of the 14 Hall and Oates songs that have been played on the radio over one million times, according to BMI.

The single 45 version is actually not just an edit of the album song, but an edit of the dance mix rather than the version from "Private Eyes".

Daryl Hall sketched out the basic song one evening at a music studio in New York City in 1981 after a recording session for the Private Eyes album. Hall began to play a bass line on a Korg organ, and sound engineer Neil Kernon recorded the result. Hall then came up with a guitar riff, which he and Oates worked on together. The next day, Hall and Sara Allen worked on the lyrics.

"I Can't Go for That" was voted number six on VH1's list of "The 100 Greatest Songs of the '80s."

The song has been covered by a number of recording artists including Brian McKnight, The Nylons, Les Go (with Alfredo Alias), Donny Osmond, East End, Kansascali, Orson.

In 2010, The Bird and the Bee covered this song for their tribute album Interpreting the Masters Volume 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates.

Olivia Ong recorded a Bossa Nova based version on her 2010 album, called Olivia.

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Veronica - Elvis Costello

"Veronica" is a single from Elvis Costello's 1989 album Spike, co-written by Costello with Paul McCartney. The song "Veronica" was co-produced by T-Bone Burnett and Kevin Killen, and features Paul McCartney on his iconic Höfner bass. In 2004, Entertainment Weekly voted it as one of Costello's top ten greatest tunes.

The song focuses on an older woman who has experienced severe memory loss. Costello's inspiration for this song was his grandmother, who suffered from Alzheimer's. When talking about the song on a VH1 interview, Costello reminisced about his grandmother having "terrifying moments of lucidity" and how this was the inspiration for "Veronica".

"Veronica" was also Costello's highest-charting Top 40 hit in the United States, peaking at #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, #1 on its Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, and #10 on its Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

"Veronica" and its accompanying video depicts an aged woman, probably nearing the end of her life in a retirement home, engaging in detached reminiscences from her life from young girl to young womanhood (played by Zoe Carides). The video for "Veronica" featured Costello delivering a spoken-word monologue to the camera, and occasionally singing the song softly over the original vocal track from the recording. The video earned an MTV Video Music Award nomination for Best Male Video.

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Jane Says - Jane's Addiction

"Jane Says" is a song by alternative rock group Jane's Addiction. It was first released in live format on the group's 1987 live debut album, Jane's Addiction. It was re-recorded in the studio for their first studio album, Nothing's Shocking. Another live version appears on the band's 1997 rarities compilation Kettle Whistle.

The title refers to lead singer Perry Farrell's ex-housemate, Jane Bainter, who was a heroin addict. By day, she works in an office, and, at night, she uses. The song carries drug references such as "kick" (stop using). Toward the end of the song, the lyrics say that Jane has never been in love, and that she doesn't know what it is. She only knows if someone wants her; the stanza ends with "I want them if they want me". The fourth verse contains a reference to St. Andrews St. in Los Angeles, CA.

"Jane Says" uses only two chords and makes extensive use of steel drums. It is one of Jane's Addiction's most famous songs and frequently ends their concerts, despite never being released as a single.

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Home Sweet Home - Mötley Crüe

"Home Sweet Home" is a song by the American hard rock band Mötley Crüe.

Originally released on the band's 1985 album, Theatre of Pain, the song was accompanied by a music video which documented the band's undertakings over the course of a concert, or several concerts. "Home Sweet Home" was later remixed and re-released as a single in 1991, as "Home Sweet Home '91". This version is featured on the band's Decade of Decadence compilation album. The song is often referred to as a power ballad, and its success was a prelude to similar marketing formula for other hair bands in the late 1980s. The song ranks #12 on VH1's chart of the greatest power ballads of all time.

The original release of "Home Sweet Home" charted at #89 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "Home Sweet Home '91" peaked at #37 on the same chart in 1992. To date, "Home Sweet Home '91" is the last Mötley Crüe song to chart in the American Billboard Top 40.

Carrie Underwood recorded a cover version in 2009 for the American Idol season 8 send-off song. On the chart week of March 28, 2009, "Home Sweet Home" made a debut at #21 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart based on sales of the digital single. It debuted on the Hot Country Songs chart at #52. On the Billboard Hot Digital Songs chart, the song made its debut at #10. It also debuted at #33 on the Canadian Hot 100.

Carrie Underwood performed the song live on May 19, 2009, following the final performances of American Idol's eighth season.

Her Version appears on American Idol when they play flashbacks of the person on The Big screen.

Her version of this song was used in the Glee episode "Home" that was aired on April 27, 2010.

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 105!!!

2010-09-12T15:48:00.001-04:00

NFL is back. It's getting cooler.

I like this time of year.

We'll Be Together - Sting

"We'll Be Together" is a song performed by Sting on his 1987 album Nothing Like the Sun. The song was also released as a single, and reached #7 and #41 on the U.S. and UK singles charts, respectively. Sting also recorded a version of the song with Annie Lennox for the soundtrack for Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (film).

Sting originally wrote the song for a beer commercial for Kirin Brewery Company. The original recording included Eric Clapton on guitar, while other takes feature Brian Loren instead. The original would surface later on Sting's 1994 greatest hits album.

The video for the song, directed by Mary Lambert, was based on the film Orpheus, and includes an appearance by Sting's wife Trudie Styler. Sting wears a homemade jumper in the video based on the Belgian cartoon The Adventures of Tintin.

Near the end of the song, there is a snippet of "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free".

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Shake It Up - The Cars

"Shake It Up" is a song by American New Wave band The Cars from their 1981 album of the same name. Although appearing for the first time in 1981, it was actually written years earlier by Ric Ocasek, who composed the vast majority of the band's music. As the title track of the album, "Shake It Up" combines the hard-rock feel of the band's earlier work with synthesizers and electronic drum machines to create a futuristic dance beat characteristic of later singles from their 1984 album Heartbeat City. The song would go on to become The Cars' most popular party song (peaking at number two on the US mainstream rock chart and number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1982). Along with the track, "Cruiser", it also hit number fourteen on the US dance chart and continues to be a staple of dance parties. In the music video for it, some of the models crossdress.

The song references dance moves, hair styles and having fun. However, bassist Benjamin Orr has stated the song tells the story of how important it is to make a mark in life, to "let them know what you really mean" Thus, the hit song has an existential element as well as a simple message.

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Runaway - Bon Jovi

"Runaway" is a Bon Jovi song, written in 1980 and originally recorded in 1981 for the so called "Power Station Demos". The recordings were primarily done by an ensemble simply known as Jon Bongiovi & The Rest. Lead guitar on the original 1980's track was Bon Jovi's neighbour, Dave Sabo (a.k.a. The Snake), who would later form the group Skid Row. One night after a show, Richie Sambora found Bon Jovi backstage and told him that he should be the guitarist. Bon Jovi wrote him off and didn't think much of it but told him to learn the material and show up for rehearsal. Sambora was early and knew the material and Bon Jovi was impressed; in that moment, Sambora became the band's lead guitarist and Bon Jovi was born.

The track released in 1983 was recorded in 1982 by Jon Bon Jovi and a group of studio musicians known as "The All Star Review," which included Hugh McDonald (bass), Tim Pierce (guitar) and Roy Bittan (keyboards). The keyboard intro was written by Mick Seeley, then of John Bongiovi and the Wild One's and later with Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes.

In 1983, local radio station WAPP 103.5FM "The Apple" had a contest, held in conjunction with St. John's University, to search for the best unsigned band. After the song won the contest, it became an instant hit in the summer of 1983.

Runaway was later released as the first song from their debut album Bon Jovi in 1984. It hit the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 at #39 in early-1984 and became the band's first Top 40 hit in US. It should also be noted that, up until The Circle Tour in 2010, Runaway was the only song from the bands' first two albums that was still performed live. In recent live performances, frontman and occasional rhythm guitarist Jon Bon Jovi has been known to do a short guitar solo near the end of the song instead of hitting the usual high notes at the end, something which he has rarely (if ever) done before onstage. Although on the live album One Wild Night: Live 1985-2001, it features Jon Bon Jovi hitting the high notes at the end of the song.

A dance/club remake of "Runaway" was released in July 2008 by "DJ Freddy Retro featuring Jim Davis Jr." on Casa Records.

The song was featured on a MasterCard television commercial and in the movie Paul Blart: Mall Cop.

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The Promise - When In Rome

"The Promise" is a dance song performed by the British band When in Rome from their self-titled debut album.

The song made the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1988 and is the band's biggest commercial hit. More recently, it gained publicity after being featured over the end credits of the 2004 film Napoleon Dynamite.

"The Promise" was initially released as a 12" record and reached the top of the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. After the release of the group's self titled debut the song was re-released and peaked at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100. However, the single was unsuccessful in the band's native Britain, narrowly missing out on the Top 75.

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 104!!!

2010-09-05T21:04:00.002-04:00

Here we go!!!!

Mr. Roboto - Styx

"Mr. Roboto" is a song written by Dennis DeYoung and performed by the band Styx on their 1983 concept album Kilroy Was Here. It reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving the band their first notable hit since "Too Much Time on My Hands" in 1981. Mr. Roboto is one of Styx's most popular songs. It was also released as a 45 RPM single, with the song Snowblind (from their previous album Paradise Theatre) as the B-side.

The song's chorus features the line, "Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto", which has become a catch phrase. Dōmo arigatō is one of several Japanese phrases that translate to English as "thank you very much".

The Japanese lyrics at the beginning of the song are as follows:
どうもありがとうミスターロボット (dōmo arigatō misutā Robotto)
また会う日まで (mata au hi made)
どうもありがとうミスターロボット (dōmo arigatō misutā Robotto)
秘密を知りたい (himitsu wo shiritai)

The lyrics translate into English as follows:
Thank you very much, Mr. Roboto
Until the day (we) meet again
Thank you very much, Mr. Roboto
I want to know the secret

The song tells part of the fictitious story of Robert Orin Charles Kilroy (ROCK), in the rock opera Kilroy Was Here. The song is performed by Kilroy (as played by keyboardist Dennis DeYoung), a rock and roll performer who was placed in a futuristic prison for "rock and roll misfits" by the anti-rock-and-roll group the Majority for Musical Morality (MMM) and its founder Dr. Everett Righteous (played by guitarist James Young). The Roboto is a model of robot which does menial jobs in the prison. Kilroy escapes the prison by taking over a Roboto prison guard and hiding inside the emptied-out metal shell. When Jonathan Chance finally meets Kilroy, at the very end of the song, Kilroy says, I'm Kilroy! Kilroy!, ending the song.

This song also represents the use of technology and robots in the 1980s.

The robot-like catch phrase was created with a vocoder. The song heavily features the Oberheim OB-XA and PPG Wave synthesizers.

Stan Winston designed the Roboto costume and mask, which is displayed prominently on the cover of the album Kilroy Was Here. The track was released as the first single from the album at the last minute instead of "Don't Let It End" at the request of A&M Records.

The song's video, directed by Brian Gibson, depicts Jonathan Chance (played by guitarist Tommy Shaw) walking in Rock Museum to meet Kilroy and a robot approaches. After this, it morphs into five robots moving and dancing. Shortly thereafter, the robots transform into the members of Styx and including a clean-shaven Dennis DeYoung (he shaved his trademark moustache off at the conclusion of the Paradise Theater tour in 1982 and has remained clean-shaven to this day). The video then alternates between the band playing the song on a stage and scenes from the Kilroy Was Here backdrop film. Then, the members of Styx morph back into the robots and DeYoung confronting the robots before collapsing after screaming in the ear of one of the robots. Then DeYoung awakens to see he is being experimented on and runs off. Then, we cut back to the ending of the first scene of the video and Jonathan Chance climbs on to the stage and before the robot reveals his mask to be Kilroy, another shot of the robot with lights on was used to end the clip.

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(I've Had) The Time of My Life - Bill Medley

"(I've Had) The Time of My Life" is a song composed by Franke Previte, John DeNicola, and Donald Markowitz. It was recorded by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes, after having been selected to be the finale song for the 1987 film Dirty Dancing by choreographer Kenny Ortega and his assistant Miranda Garrison (who also played Vivian in the film).

Due to the massive success of Dirty Dancing, the single topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart in November for one week and also went to number one on the Adult Contemporary for four weeks. In the United Kingdom the song had two chart outings. Firstly, in November 1987 after the film's initial release the song peaked at #6, and again when the film was shown on mainstream television the song reached as high as #8 (January 1991).

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Let's Dance - David Bowie

"Let’s Dance" is the title album track on David Bowie's album Let's Dance. It was also released as the first single from that album in 1983, and went on to become one of his biggest-selling tracks.

The single was one of Bowie’s fastest selling to date, entering the UK singles chart at number five on its first week of release, and deposing Duran Duran’s “Is There Something I Should Know?” two weeks later, staying at the top of the charts for three weeks. Soon afterwards, the single would top the Billboard Hot 100, Bowie’s only single to reach number one on both sides of the Atlantic. It narrowly missed topping the Australian charts, peaking at number two. Let's Dance is the fourth best-selling single of 1983 in the UK, selling over 500,000 copies.

“Let’s Dance” would introduce Bowie to a new younger audience oblivious to his former career in the '70s. The track was a regular on the Serious Moonlight Tour (the name derived from a lyric in “Let’s Dance”), the 1987 Glass Spider Tour and the 1990 Sound + Vision Tour, and was then reworked for the 2000 tour. Most recently a remix version of it appears on a commercial for the March 22, 2010 episode of the ABC television show Dancing With The Stars.

Heavily influenced by producer Nile Rodgers’ work with his band Chic, "Let’s Dance" features a thumping bassline, and was arguably Bowie’s most commercial record up to that point. While the lyrics are ostensibly just those of a dance song, there is some discord struck by lines such as “Let’s dance, for fear tonight is all”. The 7:38 album version was heavily edited for single release, though the 12” single retained the full length.

This loneliness and desperation seeps into the music video, made with David Mallet on location in Australia including Sydney Harbour, which features Bowie watching an Aboriginal couple’s struggles against metaphors of Western cultural imperialism impassively while playing with his band.

Bowie featured blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan on the track. Vaughan was asked to go on tour with Bowie, but declined so he could continue to play with his band Double Trouble. Reportedly, Vaughan, who was still driving a delivery truck to support himself, was furious when he saw Bowie pantomiming over Vaughan's guitar solo in the video.

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Love My Way - The Psychedelic Furs

"Love My Way" is a 1982 song by English band The Psychedelic Furs from their third studio album, Forever Now. Written by the four members of the group and produced by Todd Rundgren, the song reached the top 10 of the charts in New Zealand and the top 50 in the United Kingdom and United States.

Released in 1982, "Love My Way" peaked at number nine in New Zealand, where it spent 21 weeks on the chart. The song peaked at number 42 in the UK and number 44 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It also reached number 30 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart and number 40 on the Dance Music/Club Play Singles chart.

Allmusic writer Ned Raggett called it "one of the slyest and best singles from the early '80s, a deserved cult hit in the States well-remembered in modern rock circles." Raggett praised the song's "big and crisp" beats provided by drummer Vince Ely, in one of his last credited songs before leaving the group.

The song featured on the soundtrack of 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, on new wave radio station Wave 103.

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 103!!!

2010-08-29T17:41:00.007-04:00

Last weekend in August already? I can't wait for Fall to finally be here.

Cooler weather means Sweatshirts and Shorts. Awwwwww Yeah.

When the Children Cry - White Lion

"When the Children Cry" is a power ballad, performed by the rock group White Lion on their 1987 album Pride. The single peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, #53 in Canada, and #88 in the UK in early 1989.

In early 2003, just before the beginning of the Iraq War, it was re-released as a cover by Christian indie rock group Seventh Day Slumber. In 2008, the song was sampled by Sabac Red on "As Children Cry".

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Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes

"Bette Davis Eyes" is a song made popular by the American singer-songwriter Kim Carnes.

The song was written in 1974 by Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon. DeShannon recorded the song that same year on her album New Arrangement. But it was not until 1981, when Kim Carnes recorded her version of the song, that it became a commercial success.

The Kim Carnes recording of the song spent nine non-consecutive weeks on top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 (interrupted for one week by the "Stars on 45 Medley") and was Billboard's number one single of 1981. The single also peaked at number twenty-six on the dance charts . The song won the Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Record of the Year. The song was also a number one hit in 31 countries, including Germany, Australia, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, Japan, and Brazil, but it achieved more moderate success in the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number ten. The music video was directed by Russell Mulcahy.

According to producer Val Garay, the original demo of the tune that was brought to him sounded like "a Leon Russell track, with this beer-barrel polka piano part." Keyboardist Bill Cuomo came up with the signature synth riff, using the then-new Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 synthesizer, which now defines Carnes' version. The song was recorded completely live in the studio on the first take.

Bette Davis admitted to being a fan of the song and approached Carnes and the songwriters to thank them for making her "a part of modern times."

The song was ranked at number 12 on Billboard's list of the top 100 songs in the first 50 years of the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

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Burning Heart - Survivor

"Burning Heart" is a song by Survivor. It appeared in the 1985 film Rocky IV, and its soundtrack album. It was also released as a single, and peaked at #2 in February of 1986.

Jimi Jamison re-released "Burning Heart" on his album Empires. On the album the song's title was misspelled as "Burning Hart", presumably to avoid legal troubles.

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Panama - Van Halen

"Panama" is a song from Van Halen's album 1984. It was the third single released from that record and is one of their most recognized songs.

The song was written about a car. According to David Lee Roth this was because critics accused him of writing about nothing more than partying, sex, and cars, but Roth realized that he had yet to write a song about cars. In an interview with Howard Stern, Roth explained the meaning behind the trademark song. Although the song features some suggestive lyrics, it is about a car that Roth saw race in Las Vegas; its name was "Panama Express", hence the title of the song.

Panama was the name of Dave's Car. Dave had the hood and bumper mounted in his hallway, which the bumper/hood is visible in Dave's video for SHOOBop. Dave has a stuffed deer's behind crashing through the front windshield. A plaque underneath reads, "Your First deer, courtesy of PANAMA."

David Lee Roth was quoted during a VH1/CMT television show showcasing his, "Strummin' With the Devil" album.

DLR : "You heard me talking about my Opel Cadet 1969 station wagon in Dance the Night Away. The nickname for that blue 1969 Opel Cadet station wagon was, "Panama" cuz that was the farthest south that you could possibly go and still have a really corrupt good time. That car now, what I did is I had a friend of mine torch off the front engine lid, and at my house in Pasadena, California we have it bolted to the wall in the front hallway. You have the front engine compartment in the grill and the two front halves of wheels like that, and we mounted the windshield right up on the top of it okay? Like it came crashing through the wall of the hallway. And then what we did, is we went to a place called Ellis Mercantile which is where you rent all of the movie props that they make in Hollywood and all of these environments. There's a section that's very famous at Ellis Mercantile where all of the cowboys and Indians stuff is. So there's a whole stack of stuffed deer at Ellis Mercantile. And I bought one, and we sawed it neatly in half and took just the butt, the tail and the back legs and positioned it like it was coming through the windshield of my Opel Cadet station wagon, and hit it and ran through the wall of my house like that. And we painted the hooves blue, "Blue Suede Hooves." And underneath we have a little plaque that says, "My first deer, courtesy of Panama."

During the bridge of the song where Roth says "I can barely see the road from the heat comin' off of it," guitarist Eddie Van Halen can be heard revving his Lamborghini in the background. The car was backed up to the studio and microphones were attached to the exhaust pipe to record the sound for the song.

The music video for the song, directed by Pete Angelus, features mostly on-stage antics by the band. It heavily uses shots of band members flying through the air attached to a cable. During the breakdown, David Lee Roth is seen sword dancing and ribbon dancing. Bassist Michael Anthony's Jack Daniel's whiskey bottle guitar is also seen.

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 102!!!

2010-08-22T14:39:00.002-04:00

Another week down. Hopefully Fall will get here quick. It's too hot.

Here we go...

The Lover in Me - Sheena Easton

"The Lover in Me" is a 1988 single by pop singer Sheena Easton. It was one of her biggest hits in the US and became her first top 20 hit in the UK after an eight-year hiatus.

The song was the first single off the The Lover in Me (album). It reached US#2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #15 in the UK (in 1989), and became her biggest American hit and stay on the pop chart for 12 weeks since "Morning Train".

"The Lover in Me" was produced by L.A. Reid and Babyface, who were at the peak of their success at the time as a songwriting and production team.

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Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson

"Steppin' Out" is a song written by Joe Jackson, originally included on his 1982 album, Night and Day.

The song is about the anticipation and excitement of a night out on the town. Released as a single in August 1982, it became Jackson's biggest Billboard Hot 100 hit in the U.S., peaking at number six. It was his second biggest hit on the UK Singles Chart, also reaching number six. Only "It's Different for Girls", which reached number five in the UK in 1980 did better. The music video for the song, directed by Steve Barron, featured a housekeeper pretending she was a Cinderella figure. It was filmed over one night in the St. Regis Hotel in New York.

"Steppin' Out" eventually earned Grammy nominations for Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male.

The song was covered by Fantastic Plastic Machine for their 1998 self-titled album. Gabriella Cilmi sampled the bassline on her 2010 song On a Mission.

In 2002, "Steppin' Out" appeared in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, playing on pop radio station Flash FM. A loop of the instrumental portion of this song is used as the theme music for the WYES-TV (New Orleans, Louisiana) weekly arts and entertainment program, Steppin' Out.

The song is heard as background music in the 2009 film, L'affaire Farewell. It is used in a scene set in 1981, which predated the actual release of the song.

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The Glamorous Life - Sheila E.

"The Glamorous Life" is a song written by Prince in 1984 and first recorded by singer/percussionist Sheila E. The dance song has lyrics which reflect a cynicism for the decadence and materialism of the song's protagonist, referred to in the third person, who "wants to lead a glamorous life", although she is aware that "without love, it ain't much".

"The Glamorous Life" was originally intended to be recorded by the short-lived replacement act for Vanity 6, girl group Apollonia 6. Prince allegedly had several tracks lined up for the trio to record for their 1984 debut album (and by some accounts, their follow up album as well), but abandoned the idea when he learned that lead singer Apollonia Kotero had no desire to stay in the group beyond her contractual obligations as designed for her movie role in Purple Rain.

Prince decided to give the song to Sheila E. who was fresh off her duet on Prince's "Erotic City". "The Glamorous Life" would be recorded by Sheila and go on to launch her solo career.

"The Glamorous Life" was the title track and closing song on Sheila E.'s debut solo album, and reached number 7 on the U.S. pop charts, as well as number 1 on the U.S. dance charts, and earned a Grammy Award nomination.

Sheila's live performances of the song became memorable events, most notably for her percussion solo towards the end of the song. Depending on the occasion, she would either spin around several times while drumming without missing a beat during the rigorous solo, place one highly elevated foot on a snare while standing on the other leg mid-solo, or perform with glow-in-the-dark drumsticks. While the solo featured in the song helped to bolster Sheila E.'s fame, all subsequent versions of this song have no drum solo at all.

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Been Caught Stealing - Jane's Addiction

"Been Caught Stealing" is a song by Jane's Addiction. The song was released on their 1990 album Ritual de lo Habitual, and was re-released on their 2006 compilation Up From The Catacombs. The song was Jane's Addiction's biggest hit, spending 4 weeks at #1 on the U.S. modern rock chart.

The song has been featured regularly on television and in movies. It could for example be heard during the opening scene of NBC's Chuck episode 214 (Chuck Vs. The Best Friend) in 2009, in the pilot episode of TV series My Name Is Earl and it runs over the credits of Eric Bogosian's Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll.

Moreover, the song was heavily used by NBC's Sunday Night Football when broadcasting a New England Patriots game, in light of their scandal of stealing signals from opponents. It was also featured in the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, on the fictional Alternative radio station Radio X, and could be heard at the end of Gone in 60 Seconds. It was recently confirmed to appear in the soundtracks for the music video games Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock & Rock Band 3.

The song is featured on The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll (the list has no particular ranking). The music video for the song is voted #47 on VH1's 100 Greatest Videos. The song is featured on The Prodigy's The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One (1999).

It's also featured in the trailer for the movie The Other Guys.

It was also covered by Richard Cheese on the album of Aperitif for Destruction and jacksoul on the album mySOUL.

There is an outtake version available on the 1997 rarities compilation Kettle Whistle.

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 101!!!

2010-08-15T14:49:00.002-04:00

NFL preseason started. Thank God.

Let's do this...

Solid - Ashford & Simpson

"Solid" is a hit single recorded by the husband-and-wife songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson. It was featured on their album, also titled Solid and released as a single in late 1984.

It was written by the two and follows a similar template of most of their hits for other artists, except with a slight 1980s inflection to the music. In the lyrics, the narrators of the song celebrate the fact that, through all the difficulties and problems their relationship has faced, they made their love stronger by learning how to forgive and trust each other, and their love for one another remains "solid as a rock."

It remains as their biggest hit single as performers, topping the U.S. R&B chart, peaking at number twelve on the Billboard Hot 100, and peaking at number three on the UK Singles Chart in 1985. It was the 16th best-selling single of 1985 in the UK.

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Lawyers in Love - Jackson Browne

"Lawyers in Love" is the first single and title track to Jackson Browne's 1983 album of the same name, Lawyers in Love. Though not being as successful as Browne's previous single "Somebody's Baby", it nonetheless peaked at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 US charts, making it one of Browne's highest achievements on the chart. Like most songs on the Lawyers in Love album, the song was written by Jackson Browne himself.

The music video for the "Lawyers in Love" took the title phrase and created a series of visual images surrounding it, especially themed on the Cold War. Browne played at least two or three parts, one as a yuppie-ish lawyer and one as an ordinary man sitting in a catatonic state in front of a television, unable to assimilate the world's events.

Some analysts later saw "Lawyers in Love" as an evolving "bridge" between Browne's personal works and his 1980's political works. Others saw it as dry commentary on American social mores, something that had been present in Browne's work as far back as "Take It Easy".

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Call Me - Blondie

"Call Me" is a song by the American new wave band Blondie. Released in 1980, "Call Me" topped the singles charts in both the US (where it became the band's biggest selling single) and the UK (where it became their fourth no.1 hit).

The song was the main theme of the film American Gigolo. European disco producer Giorgio Moroder originally asked Stevie Nicks from Fleetwood Mac to help compose and perform a song for the soundtrack, but she declined (as a recently signed contract with Modern Records prevented her from working with Moroder). It was at this time that Moroder turned to Debbie Harry and Blondie. Moroder presented Harry with a rough instrumental track called "Man Machine." Harry was asked to write the lyrics and melody, a process that Harry states took only a few hours. The completed song was then recorded by the band, with Moroder producing. The bridge of the original English language version also includes Harry singing "Call Me" in Italian ("Amore, chiamami") and French ("Appelle-moi, mon cheri").

In the US the song was released by three different record companies: on the soundtrack album by Polydor, the 7" and 12" on Blondie's label Chrysalis, and a Spanish language 12" version, with lyrics by Buddy and Mary McCluskey, on disco label Salsoul Records. The Spanish version, titled "Llámame," was meant for release in Mexico and some South American countries. This version was also released in the US and the UK and had its CD debut on Chrysalis/EMI's rarities compilation Blonde and Beyond (1993). In 1988, a remixed version by Ben Liebrand taken from the Blondie remix album Once More into the Bleach was issued as a single in the UK. In 2001 the "original long version" appeared as a bonus track on the Autoamerican album re-issue.

The single was released in the United States in February 1980. It peaked at #1 for 6 weeks, and was certified Gold (for one million copies sold) by the RIAA. It also spent four weeks at number two on the U.S. dance chart. The single was also #1 on Billboard magazine's 1980 year-end chart. It was released in the UK two months later, where it became Blondie's fourth UK no.1 single in little over a year. The song was also played on a British Telecom advert from the 1980s. Twenty-five years after its original release, "Call Me" was ranked at #283 on the list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

The song lists at #44 on Billboard's All Time Top 100.

There were two videos made:

One was compiled clips and video footage in New York and Manhattan of Deborah Harry. The video can be found on the 1991 UK video compilation The Complete Picture: The Very Best of Deborah Harry and Blondie.

The other, which came out in 1980, was non-representational, not featuring any of the band. It depicted a New York taxi driver (who had in fact appeared in numerous other Blondie music videos) driving his Checker through Manhattan traffic. This version was part of the 1981 "Best Of Blondie" compilation video.

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Nite and Day - Al B. Sure!

"Nite and Day" is a 1988 single by Al B. Sure! from the Warner Bros. album In Effect Mode. It reached number seven on the Hot 100 and number one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart.

The song was executive produced by Benny Medina and Andre Harrell. It was produced, arranged and musically programmed by Kyle West for Key West International, co-produced and written by Al B. Sure! for Al B. Sure! International and Uptown Enterprises. The song was recorded at Unique Recording Studios.

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 100?! WTF?

2010-08-08T04:28:00.005-04:00

August!!!!! Gotta love it! Or not. I don't care..

Here's blog 100. This was a fun project. It started when my buddy Matt Miles responded to a video post i did on MySpace.

Thanks for putting the ball in motion asshole. BEOWULF PROJECT sucks!!!!
Anyway, here we go...

Edge of a Broken Heart - Vixen

"Edge of a Broken Heart" is a song by American rock band Bon Jovi. It was one of the songs written during the making of the album, Slippery When Wet, but was not featured on the final version of the album. It appeared on the soundtrack to the 1987 film, Disorderlies, and although no physical single was released in the United States, the song received enough airplay to peak at number 38 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart. The song was later included on the band's 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong 2004 box set as well as the special double-CD edition of Cross Road.

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Let's Go! - Wang Chung

"Let's Go!" is a single by Wang Chung. Although the song was on their 1986 album, Mosaic, it didn't get released as a single until January, 1987. The single was a hit for Wang Chung in the United States, and it provided the band with their second (and so far, last) top-10 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in April, 1987, peaking at #9. The single also formed the basis for a music video.

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Human Wheels - John Mellencamp

Human Wheels is the 12th album released by John Mellencamp in 1993. Released on Mercury Records, it peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard 200. The single "What If I Came Knocking" was Mellencamp's last No. 1 single on the Album Rock Tracks chart, staying atop for two weeks in the summer of 1993.

The album is dedicated to band member John Cascella, who died unexpectedly about halfway through production.

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Caught Up in You - .38 Special

"Caught Up in You" is the first single released from Southern rock band 38 Special's 1982 album, Special Forces. It became the band's first #1 single on the Billboard Top Tracks chart, which would later become known as Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks. It also became one of the band's two Top 10 pop hits, reaching #10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Their other Top 10 single, "Second Chance", reached #6 in 1989.

"Caught Up in You" gained prominence when it was featured in the hit 1983 movie, Spring Break. It also appears in the soundtrack to the 2009 movies The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard and Whip It.

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"Let's Go!" is a single by Wang Chung. Although the song was on their 1986 album, Mosaic, it didn't get released as a single until January, 1987. The single was a hit for Wang Chung in the United States, and it provided the band with their second (and so far, last) top-10 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in April, 1987, peaking at #9. The single also formed the basis for a music video.

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Human Wheels - John Mellencamp

Human Wheels is the 12th album released by John Mellencamp in 1993. Released on Mercury Records, it peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard 200. The single "What If I Came Knocking" was Mellencamp's last No. 1 single on the Album Rock Tracks chart, staying atop for two weeks in the summer of 1993.

The album is dedicated to band member John Cascella, who died unexpectedly about halfway through production.

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Caught Up in You - .38 Special

"Caught Up in You" is the first single released from Southern rock band 38 Special's 1982 album, Special Forces. It became the band's first #1 single on the Billboard Top Tracks chart, which would later become known as Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks. It also became one of the band's two Top 10 pop hits, reaching #10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Their other Top 10 single, "Second Chance", reached #6 in 1989.

"Caught Up in You" gained prominence when it was featured in the hit 1983 movie, Spring Break. It also appears in the soundtrack to the 2009 movies The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard and Whip It.

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 99!!!

2010-08-01T17:27:00.001-04:00

Got some requests to fill this week.

The first two videos were requested by @yancyscot and the last two by @iMacMe.

Enjoy the videos!!!

P.S. - It's SHARK WEEK!!!

I Want Action - Poison

"I Want Action" is the third single from Poison, originally from the album Look What the Cat Dragged In.

The song was released as a single in 1987 on the Enigma label of Capitol Records, and peaked at number 50 on the Billboard Hot 100. "I Want Action" was followed by the hit "I Won't Forget You". The video-clip for the song had a really strong appearing at MTV, being one of the best videos of 1987 in MTV.

"I Want Action" is on the following albums:

Look What the Cat Dragged In
Swallow This Live (live version)
Poison's Greatest Hits: 1986-1996
Power to the People (live version)
The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock
Look What the Cat Dragged In - 20th Anniversary Edition

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Nothin' but a Good Time - Poison

"Nothin' But a Good Time" is the first single from the second Poison album Open Up and Say...Ahh!. The B-sides are "Livin' For the Minute" and "Look But You Can't Touch".

The song was released as a single in 1988 on Capitol Records and reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #19 on the Mainstream rock charts. It also charted at number 10 on the Australian charts and number 35 on the UK Singles chart.

The music video features as a restaurant employee washing dishes while listening to the Kiss hit single Rock and Roll All Nite, performed by Poison. The manager enters, turns off the radio, and delivers to the employee a scathing reprimand, reminding the employee that he's being paid "to wash dishes, not to listen to that... that rock 'n' roll," and accusing him of "moving in two speeds: slow, and stop." The manager exits, whereupon the employee abandons the dishes and kicks open a nearby door to reveal a concert hall stage, upon which the band then performs the song. When the song is over, the manager returns, discovering, to his surprise, that all the dishes are washed.

"Nothin' But a Good Time" is on the following albums:

Open Up and Say...Ahh!
Swallow This Live (live version)
Poison's Greatest Hits: 1986-1996
Power to the People (live version)
The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock
Open Up and Say...Ahh! - 20th Anniversary Edition

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Emotional Rescue - The Rolling Stones

"Emotional Rescue" is a song by the English rock 'n roll band, The Rolling Stones. It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and is featured on their 1980 album Emotional Rescue.

Recorded between June and October of 1979, "Emotional Rescue" is a disco-influenced number, somewhat similar to the band's 1978 hit "Miss You". The song is notable as one of the earliest songs by the group to show the growing rift between main songwriters Jagger and Richards. Although Richards plays guitar and added backing vocals towards the end of this track, he is noted to not have liked the direction in which Jagger was trying to take the band with disco-like compositions, although this may have been exaggerated by the press and Richards' hard-rock-oriented image. The song is based around a bass line played by Ronnie Wood. Also notable is Jagger's singing of the song in a falsetto, popular on many disco-era songs. Bassist Bill Wyman plays synthesizer on the record, while Jagger and Ian Stewart play electric piano.

Released as the album's lead on June 20, 1980, "Emotional Rescue" was well-received by some fans. Other fans of the Rolling Stones' work took note of the change in direction and were disappointed by it. Reaching number nine on the UK Singles Chart and number three in the U.S., "Emotional Rescue" became popular enough to feature on all of the band's later compilation albums.

Noted jam band Phish occasionally covered the song, usually stretching it to the 15 minute mark.

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Miss You - The Rolling Stones

"Miss You" is a 1978 hit song by The Rolling Stones, from their album Some Girls.

"Miss You" was written by singer Mick Jagger jamming with keyboardist Billy Preston during rehearsals for the March 1977 El Mocambo club gigs (yielding Side Three of the Love You Live album). Although guitarist Keith Richards is credited for co-writing, Jagger is generally regarded as the principal composer.

Mick Jagger and Ron Wood insist that "Miss You" wasn't conceived as a disco song, while Keith Richards said "...Miss You was a damn good disco record, it was calculated to be one". In any case, what was going on in discos did make it to the recording. Charlie Watts said that "A lot of those songs like Miss You on Some Girls... were heavily influenced by going to the discos. You can hear it in a lot of those four-to-the-floor and the Philadelphia-style drumming." For the bass part Bill Wyman started from Billy Preston's bass guitar on the song demo. Chris Kimsey, who engineered the recording of the song, said Wyman went "...to quite a few clubs before he got that bass line sorted out.", which Kimsey said "made that song". Jagger sang a good part of the chorus using falsetto "ooh"s often in unison with harmonica, guitar, and electric piano.

Unlike most of Some Girls, "Miss You" features several studio musicians. In addition to Sugar Blue, who according to Ron Wood was found while busking on the streets of Paris, Ian McLagan played understated Wurlitzer electric piano, and Mel Collins provides the saxophone solo for the instrumental break.

The 12" version of the song runs over 8 minutes, and features additional instrumentation and solos, particularly on guitar . It was remixed by Bob Clearmountain, then an upcoming mixer and engineer . This song, the first edit the Rolling Stones did for a 12" single, also contains an additional set of lyrics in the second verse, after the line "Hey, let's go mess and fool around you know, like we used to". However, this version did use some "repeats & tape-loops" in order to construct its length.

"Miss You" became The Rolling Stones' eighth number-one hit in the US on its initial release in 1978. It reached number three in the UK. The song was originally nearly nine minutes long, but was edited to four-and-a-half minutes for the album version, and to three-and-a-half minutes for the radio single, although an eight-and-a-half minutes long "Special Disco Version" was also released on 12-inch single - featuring the track at its longest and most complete. The B-side of the single was another album track, "Far Away Eyes", a tongue-in-cheek country and western tune sung by Jagger in a pronounced drawl.

A live recording was captured during the Rolling Stones' 1989-1990 Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour and released on the 1991 live album Flashpoint. Justin Timberlake collaborated with The Rolling Stones for a live performance of "Miss You" at the Toronto Rocks festival. Jagger inserted the chorus of Timberlake's hit "Cry Me a River" during the song's breakdown.

In 2010, Rolling Stone magazine rated "Miss You" number 498 in its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

"Miss You" was used in the opening scene of the pilot episode of Miami Vice, which first aired on 16 September 1984.

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 98!!!

2010-07-25T23:39:00.002-04:00

Ugh...i'm late. Sorry folks. The heat made me nap.

Hazy Shade of Winter - The Bangles

In 1987, The Bangles were approached to record a song for the soundtrack of the film Less Than Zero. They chose to record a cover of "A Hazy Shade of Winter", a song they had been performing since their early days as a band.

Their cover, simply titled "Hazy Shade of Winter", was vastly different from the original, turning it into a harder-edged rock song, and removing most of the bridge section. The record, like the rest of the soundtrack album, was produced by Rick Rubin. After a fruitful but disappointing experience with the producer of their Different Light album, David Kahne, where they were given little input in the production of the songs, the group decided to take more control for the recording of this song, and they were given an additional producer credit. Michael Steele later commented that "we sounded the most on this record the way we actually sound live", and that "If we hadn't been so messed up as a band, it could have been a turning point for us"

Lead vocals were performed jointly by all four members of the group, with a short solo lead by Susanna Hoffs towards the end of the song. This was a rare occurrence in the Bangles songs, as they mostly had just one member singing lead on their songs. Due to pressure from their record label, The Bangles removed the verse from the original song that contained the line "drinking my vodka and lime."

When released as a single in November 1987, "Hazy Shade of Winter" became a huge hit, surpassing the popularity of the original version, peaking at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #11 in the UK. It was also a hit around Europe.

The music video for the song featured the band singing in a studio surrounded by TV screens on the walls, similar to a scene of the Less Than Zero film. Scenes of the film also appear throughout the video.

"Hazy Shade of Winter" was not included on any of the band's studio albums, but was it later included on the band's first official Greatest Hits in 1990, and on many of the band's later compilations. The accompanying Greatest Hits video compilation did not feature the "Hazy Shade of Winter" video, due to complications with the licensing of the movie rights of the Less Than Zero scenes that appear on the videoclip.

The Bangles version was commonly used as bumper music for late night radio talk show Coast to Coast AM hosted by Art Bell in the mid to late 1990s.

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Heaven Help Me - Deon Estus

Deon Estus (born Jeffery Deon Estus, 1956 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American bassist and singer, best known as the bass player of Wham! and as George Michael's bassist on all of the latter's subsequent projects.

In 1989, Estus released a solo album entitled Spell, produced by Colin Campsie & George McFarlane, with several tracks produced by George Michael. Released before the album, the single "Me or the Rumours" reached #15 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play charts in 1988. In 1989, the album's title track hit #11 on the Adult Contemporary charts. The album also scored a #5 Billboard Hot 100 single "Heaven Help Me" with Michael supplying backing vocals. It peaked at #3 on both the Adult Contemporary and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop charts. The album itself ultimately reached #89 on the Billboard 200 and #44 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts.

Estus recorded two albums with Brainstorm as a teenager, scoring a hit with "Popcorn." He toured China with Wham!, performed at Rock in Rio, and with George Michael on his Faith tour. He also played with Marvin Gaye, Tina Turner, Frank Zappa, George Clinton, Annie Lennox, Edgar Winter, Aaron Neville, and Elton John. He most recently produced and co-wrote songs for aspiring singer Julie Anne, who boasts a five-octave range.

Estus was born in Detroit and was graduated from Northwestern High School in 1974. He sang second tenor in the choir at Northwestern under the direction of Brazel Dennard. His bass teacher was the late James Jamerson of Motown's The Funk Brothers.

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Stop Draggin' My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks

"Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" was the first single from Stevie Nicks' debut solo album Bella Donna. It was written by Tom Petty and Mike Campbell as a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song, but Jimmy Iovine, who was also working Stevie Nicks at the time, arranged for her to sing on it. Petty sang with Nicks in the chorus and bridge, whilst his entire band played on the song.

A performance of the song on stage was used as the promotional video.

The song reached #3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and in reaching #7 in Australia remains the only Top 10 hit which Petty has played on or written. It was not a success in Europe, however: reaching only #50 in the UK. The lyrics are about a woman who feels weighed down by relationships and wants to part despite a strong sentimental attachment to her lover. The melody is described by All Music as "dark and sinister", probably because of the dense drumming of Stan Lynch which is the most prominent feature of the song's rhythm. Apart from the intro before the first verse and a solo following the second verse (where there is some fairly heavy riffing), however, the guitar sound is laid-back in typical Heartbreakers style. The song was originally recorded for Petty's album Hard Promises but the producers felt the song came from a female point-of-view and was left unreleased until it was agreed to be put on the Bella Donna album instead.

The two singers performed another duet on Petty's 1981 album Hard Promises, "Insider".

The song was parodied by "Weird Al" Yankovic as "Stop Draggin My Car Around" on his debut album.

Change of Heart - Cyndi Lauper

"Change of Heart" is the second single released by Cyndi Lauper from her second album, True Colors in 1986. The single went gold in the US and peaked at #3 in the Billboard Hot 100. The song has become a fan favorite and Lauper still often performs it. Lauper re-recorded it acoustically, and her official site later made it available free as a digital download.

Popular remixes by Shep Pettibone were also released. A music video was filmed in Trafalgar Square in London. It features Lauper and her band performing the song in front of a large group of people.

The Bangles sang background vocals on the original recording.

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Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 97!!!

2010-07-18T01:41:00.002-04:00

Well we're halfway through the year!!!

Somebody - Bryan Adams

"Somebody" is a rock song written by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance for Adams fourth studio album Reckless (1984). It was the second single released from the album Reckless. It is arguably one of Adams' most recognizable and popular songs. The song topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Stewart Mason from Allmusic said "Following the Big Rawk Anthem ("Run to You") and the Sensitive Power Ballad ("Heaven"), "Somebody" covers the third base as a straight-ahead singalong pop song with a killer chorus. A gift to an entire generation of cover bands working the bar circuit, "Somebody" has a chorus so simple and catchy that you can actually sing along to it even if you've never actually heard the song before, and Adams and his indispensable musical partner, Jim Vallance, helpfully point out the feasibility of said activity by incorporating a large, somewhat ragged group of backing vocalists for the lengthy vamp of a fadeout. Rather like "Run to You," "Somebody" is just slightly too schematic to qualify as an all-time heartland rock classic, but it still sounds good on the radio."

"Somebody" was released in the winter of 1985 and became one of the most successful songs from Reckless on the American rock charts and arguably one of Adams most recognizable and popular songs. "Somebody" was released worldwide in 1984. The song was Adams second number one hit on the Top Rock Tracks chart and number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Somebody" reached the top twenty on the Canadian album chart and remained in the top twenty for six weeks. "Somebody" was Adams third top twenty hit on the Canadian chart. "Somebody" was released the following month in Europe and peaked at the top twenty in Ireland at number 20 and reached the Top 40 on the UK Singles Chart at 35 and was his third single to chart in Europe.

Somebody was part of the 24 songs, for which the first file-sharing copyright infringement lawsuit brought by major record labels to be tried to a jury. Jammie Thomas, single mother of four, was found liable in a 2007 trial for downloading the 24 songs from Kazaa and ordered to pay $222,000($9,250/song) in damages, in a second trial, in 2009, a jury again found against Thomas, this time awarding $1,920,000($80,000/song) in damages.

Don't worry, the tab is on DailyMotion and Universal Music Group for you to watch the video. They hosted and posted it.

Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx

"Right Here Waiting" is a ballad recorded by Richard Marx on his second album, Repeat Offender. "Right Here Waiting" hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. It also made it to #2 in the UK.

"Right Here Waiting" was the second single from Repeat Offender, after "Satisfied". Marx wrote it on the road as a love letter to his wife, actress Cynthia Rhodes, who was in South Africa shooting for a film. In an era of power ballads, "Right Here Waiting" distinguished itself by its understatement; the track was arranged by Marx with Jeffery (C.J.) Vanston to feature none of the heavy drums and synth popular at the time, with Marx's vocal accompanied only by guitar (by Bruce Gaitsch) and keyboards (by Vanston). It is one of Marx's most frequently covered compositions.

"Right Here Waiting" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart at #44, the week of July 8, 1989, and became his third consecutive #1 single on August 12, 1989. Certified Gold on August 21, the record spent three consecutive weeks at the summit, dislodged by Paula Abdul's "Cold Hearted", the week of September 2, 1989. The song was his first of several to go to #1 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Chart. Certified Platinum on October 16, 1989, "Right Here Waiting" is Marx's best selling single. It is also his most enduring, charting in the top 15 of Billboard's Hot Adult Contemporary Recurrents chart for four years running—from 2000-2003, more than ten years after its release.

In the UK the song was released in September 1989 and peaked at #2.

Pop Goes the World - Men Without Hats

"Pop Goes the World" is a song by Canadian New Wave group Men Without Hats, featured on the group's 1987 album of the same name.

The song very generally tells a story of "Johnny" and "Jenny," the two members of a fluid musical group (both the members' instruments of choice and the band name appears to change throughout the song) on their quest for fame in the industry, though at one point the lyrics note that they come to the realization that they could make "more money on a movie screen." The lyrics imply that the fictional group's best-known single is, in fact, called Pop Goes the World.

Interjected in the narrative about Johnny and Jenny are more abstract (or less sensical) lyrics such as "One two three and four is five/Everybody here is a friend of mine/Whatever happened to the Duke of Earl?/Pop Goes The World".

The music video for the song features lead singer Ivan Doroschuk and a female companion (the two presumably representing Johnny and Jenny) dancing around a bubble-filled stage along with numerous other characters including a keyboard-playing baby, Bonhomme Carnaval (the mascot of Quebec City's annual Winter Carnival), and Stefan Doroschuk dressed as a type of Elvis impersonator. The word "Pop!", in writing reminiscent of a comic book appears periodically on screen, often timed with the popping noises that punctuate the song. The Video was released on a CD Video in 1988.

The song was featured in the 1987 film Date with an Angel, which starred Phoebe Cates, Emmanuelle Béart and Michael E. Knight. The song was also featured very briefly in the 1991 film Scanners II: The New Order.

The main tune of the song has caught up among sports fans cheering for their teams in several countries across the world. It, for instance, is used by fans of the Yokohama F. Marinos soccer team in Japan.

Alive and Kicking - Simple Minds

"Alive and Kicking" is a song by the rock band Simple Minds, released as a single from the band's 1985 album, Once Upon a Time.

Following on from the success of previous non-album single, "Don't You (Forget About Me)", "Alive and Kicking" was released as a single, reaching #3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and #7 on the UK Singles Chart.

The music video for "Alive and Kicking" was directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński, who directed the video for "All the Things She Said", the third single from the same album.

It was re-released in 1992 as a double A-side with "Love Song" to promote the band's Glittering Prize 81/92 collection. Around the same time, it was used on trailers for bSKYb's recently acquired coverage of FA Premier League matches . The double A-side reached #6 on the UK Singles Chart.

Spin magazine's review of the album Once Upon a Time had mixed messages about the song saying that the song was an "ornate epic", but that the lyrics are so vague that the band "only describes nirvana without attaining it.'

Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 96!!!

2010-07-11T14:34:00.002-04:00

World Cup is FINALLY over!!!! Death to the Vuvuzela!!!!

Yay!!!!

In Too Deep - Genesis

"In Too Deep" is the fourth track on the 1986 Genesis album Invisible Touch. It was released as the second single from the LP in the UK (was the fifth single in the US). A performance of the song was included on the 1992 live album The Shorts.

In a 2007 interview with the website Genesis-The Movement, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford remarked that "In Too Deep" may make its way onto the setlist for the North American leg of the Turn It On Again tour. It was not played on the European portion, but said this song may replace "Ripples", as "In Too Deep" was a bigger hit in America than Europe and vice versa. Ultimately, however, the set list was not changed for the North American tour.

The song went to number three on the American pop chart in mid-1987, and number 19 on the British pop chart. The B-side of the single was the instrumental song, "Do the Neurotic". It would be the band's final hit single until "No Son Of Mine" in 1991. "In Too Deep" also spent three weeks atop the American adult contemporary chart, also in mid-1987.

The music video for the song features the three band members playing on a minimalist set composed of steps and platforms. Tony Banks plays a grand piano, although the recording itself is mainly electric, while Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins mime acoustic guitar and vocals, respectively.

A version of the song was covered on the kid oriented show, Kids Incorporated, with the lyrics changed to more of a friend's standpoint rather than a lover ("love" is replaced with "like"). Also, the singer (Rahsaan Patterson) is singing to another young male cast member, Richard Shoff.

Rosanna - ToTo

"Rosanna" is a song by the American rock band Toto, the opening track from its 1982 album Toto IV. This song won the Record of the Year Grammy Award in the 1983 presentations. Rosanna was also nominated for the Song of the Year award. In musician circles, the song is known for its highly influential half-time shuffle, as well as a blowing ending guitar solo played by guitarist Steve Lukather.

The song Rosanna peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 for five consecutive weeks, and also peaked at #12 on the UK Singles Chart.

The B-side of the vinyl single was the song "It's a Feeling," which is also on the album Toto IV.

"Rosanna" was written by Toto's primary songwriter, David Paich. This song has been widely misunderstood to refer to the band member Steve Porcaro's defunct relationship with the actress Rosanna Arquette. However, this was actually just a coincidence. The rest of the song had already been finished, and Paich needed a name that fit well into the chorus.

The music video features Cynthia Rhodes as the lead dancer and a young Patrick Swayze as one of the male dancers. They would reunite as members of the cast of the 1987 movie Dirty Dancing.

Art of Noise used a one second sample of "Rosanna" on their 1983 track "Beat Box (Diversion One)," featured on both Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise? and Daft.

This song is routinely referenced by drummers as being a perfect example of a triplet shuffle (or Purdie Shuffle after its namesake).

Tenderness - General Public

"Tenderness" is a song by General Public from their album All the Rage, produced by I.R.S. Records. The song's lyrics tell about a man who really needs tenderness to feel like a man. It was one of the band's first singles. The single cover of the extended versions has a sentence reading "words like conviction can turn into a sentence".

It was featured in the 1985 movie Weird Science, where the song was played near the end of the movie. It was also featured in the 1995 movie Clueless, where the song was played at the end of the film as well as during the credits. It was also covered by Galactic on their album Ruckus.

Let Me Be the One - Exposé

"Let Me Be the One" is a 1987 song by the freestyle girl group Exposé. The song was written by producer and group founder Lewis Martineé and appears on their debut album, Exposure. The lead vocals on the song were performed by Gioia Bruno.

Released as a single in August 1987, "Let Me Be the One" became the group's third consecutive top ten single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in October of that year, when it peaked at #7. The song also reached #2 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. In the United Kingdom, the song reached #76 on the British pop chart.

Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 95!!!

2010-07-04T02:13:00.001-04:00

Happy July 4th everyone. If you're drinking, don't be driving!!!

I Want to Be Your Man - Roger

"I Want to Be Your Man" is a 1987 hit single for funk singer-songwriter Roger Troutman, from his Unlimited album.

Written by his brother, Larry Troutman, and produced by the Roger, who sung in both his natural tenor (at parts) and his trademark talk box, it became his biggest solo hit to date reaching number-one on the Billboard Hot R&B Singles chart and number-three on the Billboard Hot 100 becoming the biggest crossover hit of the career of Roger and the Zapp collective.

Troutman topped that success nearly ten years later with his featured collaboration with 2Pac and Dr. Dre on their 1996 single, "California Love".

The chorus was later interpolated by Ja Rule and Ashanti on the Murder Inc. single, "Down-Ass Chick".

The track was sampled by T.I. on the track Let Me Tell You Something which was produced by Kanye West.

The track was also sampled by Lil' Troy on a track titled "Where's the Love" on his album "Sittin' Fat Down South"

Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar

"Heartbreaker" is a song recorded by Pat Benatar on her 1979 album In the Heat of the Night. Written and composed by Geoff Gill and Clint Wade, it reached #23 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Pat Benatar and "Heartbreaker" appeared in a television ad (along with Cheyenne Kimball) for Candie's Clothing Company. This song was also performed by Benatar and her band in the Charmed episode "Lucky Charmed". The song was named the 72nd best hard rock song of all time by VH1.

While not confirmed as an influence, the lyrics of "Heartbreaker" are similar to the song of the same title by the Crystals with "Heartbreaker, dream-maker, love-taker" being strikingly alike to the Crystals' lyric "Heartbreaker, hip shaker, troublemaker".

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Don't Tell Me You Love Me - Night Ranger

"Don't Tell Me You Love Me" is a hard rock song by Night Ranger from their 1982 album, Dawn Patrol. It was released as a single in January 1983 and peaked at number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was ranked as the 92nd best hard rock song of all time by VH1.

The song was re-recorded for the music video game Rock Band and was released as Downloadable content.

Watching the Wheels - John Lennon

"Watching the Wheels" is a 1981 single by John Lennon, released posthumously after his assassination the year before. It was the third and final single released from Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy album, and reached #10 in the U.S and #30 in the UK.

"Watching the Wheels" concerns Lennon's dismissal of those who were confounded by his "househusband" years, 1975-1980. During this period, he stayed away from the music industry and raised his son Sean with Yoko. The song's second verse seems to contain an allusion to Plato's "Allegory of the cave".

The song features a hammered dulcimer accompanying the lead piano.

The B-side features Yoko's "Yes, I'm Your Angel."

The photograph on the cover was taken by Paul Goresh, a fan of John Lennon. Goresh also took the infamous photo of Lennon signing a copy of Double Fantasy for his assassin. Both photos were taken at the same place, in front of the Dakota building, which was the site of his 1980 shooting.

The acoustic demo of "Watching the Wheels" is featured in the ending credits to the 2009 film Funny People starring Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen.

Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 94!!!

2010-06-27T00:32:00.001-04:00

Last Sunday in June already? What?

Circle in the Sand - Belinda Carlisle

"Circle in the Sand" is a song recorded by Belinda Carlisle and released in 1988 from her album Heaven on Earth.

"Circle in the Sand" was written by Rick Nowels and Ellen Shipley, who wrote many of Carlisle's hit singles in the late 1980s and into the early 1990s. The first known appearance of the song in progress is from the Lost Heaven Demos bootleg which features a solid drum beat, lead keyboard line and simple bass with no guitars present, and completed lyrics. The final album version of the song features a unique lead keyboard theme provided by Thomas Dolby, combined with a thumping bassline and accentuated with swirling and shimmering guitar effects. The combined effect has been compared to songs by the Shangri-Las, such as their song "Remember (Walking in the Sand)".

The memorable music video was directed by Peter Care and features Carlisle singing with various beach scenes in the background. The video mirrors the lyrical content of the song with "cold wind", "tide moves in" and "waves crash"-ing throughout. It makes effective use of video editing tricks, by displaying different images of Carlisle and the surf against sheets hanging on a clothes line with another surf behind it. The combined effect gives the resemblance of a video-based collage. Carlisle's look in this video is the same long, red hair look she features on the back cover of the Heaven on Earth album.

The video uses the single edit version of the song (length 3:40) and was released by MCA in March 1988. Universal Records subsequently posted the video for free viewing on YouTube in March, 2007.

Midnight Blue - Lou Gramm

"Midnight Blue" is the first single released by Lou Gramm from his debut solo album Ready or Not in 1987. The single spent five weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot Album Rock Tracks, starting on February 14, 1987, and peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100.

The song was covered by R.E.M. on their 1987 tour.

The KKK Took My Baby Away - The Ramones

"The KKK Took My Baby Away" is a song written by Joey Ramone. It appears on the Ramones' 1981 album Pleasant Dreams.

The KKK Took My Baby Away was covered by Marilyn Manson on the We're a Happy Family tribute album. The song has also been covered by The Datsuns, Pearl Jam, Face to Face, Relient K, Dead Kennedys, The Ordinary Boys, The Misfits, Dragonfly, The Huntingtons, Die Ärzte, Beatsteaks, The Ataris, Guttermouth, The Dwarves, NOFX, MXPX, Rough Bullet, Alkaline Trio (Koko London 16th Feb 2009, House of Blues Orlando 9 May 2009).

Blue Jean - David Bowie

"Blue Jean" is a song from the album Tonight by David Bowie. One of only two tracks on the album to be written entirely by Bowie, it was released as a single ahead of the album.

Loosely inspired by Eddie Cochran, the song was an uncomplicated composition, recalling earlier Bowie rockers such as "The Jean Genie", and is generally regarded as one of the better parts of a disappointing album.

Following the huge commercial success of Bowie's previous album, Let's Dance, its singles and the Serious Moonlight Tour, "Blue Jean" was launched with massive promotion. Julien Temple was engaged to direct a 21-minute short film to promote the song, Jazzin' for Blue Jean. The song performance segment from this was also used as a more conventional music video.

"Blue Jean" was a hit in the UK and America, reaching #6 and #8 respectively. In some quarters this was seen as something of a disappointment compared to the success of the Let's Dance singles, and was the first hint of the long-term commercial failure of Tonight.

The song would remain in Bowie's live repertoire throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Interviewed in 1987 and asked to compare a track like "Time Will Crawl" to "Blue Jean," Bowie said "Blue Jean is a piece of sexist rock 'n roll. [laughs] It's about picking up birds. It's not very cerebral, that piece."

Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 93!!!

2010-06-20T03:52:00.001-04:00

I'm still hot. Happy Father's Day Fuckers.

Turn Up the Radio - Autograph

"Turn Up the Radio" is a song by glam metal band Autograph from the album, Sign in Please.

Released in 1984, "Turn Up The Radio" was Autograph's only hit, reaching #29 in the Billboard 100 and receiving massive MTV airplay.

Turn Up the Radio was used in the Miami Vice episode Little Prince in 1984.

The song was also featured on the soundtrack of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, on the fictional radio station, VRock.

A demo version of the song appears on the bands "odds and ends" collection entitled Missing Pieces, featuring a slightly different chorus.

The song was named the #93 best hard-rock song of all time by VH1.

The song was used in the opening credits of "Hot Tub Time Machine"

"Turn Up the Radio" was also used in "Alpha Protocol" as incidental music during a boss fight against an 80's-obsessed Russian mafioso.

The video opens with the band walking in a metal theater through automated door. A robocop like figure points saying "sign in please". The band gives their signatures on the names of the instruments on a paper after a ray of light shows the pen. One of them gives an X which an error alarm starts and he erases it and signs properly. The metal of the robot reflects the light as the song starts. Fans are seen watching them throughout the song. The video ends with the band boarding a limousine similar to a DeLorean DMC-12 by its gull wing doors. The lead vocalist, Steve Plunkett throws a pen to one of the female fans in the show before leaving. The robot hand in the steering wheel turns out to be the robot's in the start of the video.

Angel - Aerosmith

"Angel" is a song performed by American hard rock band Aerosmith. It was written by lead singer Steven Tyler and professional songwriting collaborator Desmond Child. It was released in 1988 as the second single from the band's massively successful 1987 album Permanent Vacation. It quickly climbed to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, the second highest chart performance for any Aerosmith single.

A power ballad style, it incorporates many of the characteristics of rock ballads, including driving electrical guitar riffs by Joe Perry and Brad Whitford, pianos and violin sounds (from a keyboard), an emotional delivery of lyrics by Steven Tyler, a strong rhythm by bassist Tom Hamilton, and well-placed steady drum beats by Joey Kramer.

The music video for "Angel" focuses primarily on a character played by Steven Tyler who is hypnotized by an intangible angel, presumably his ex-lover. There are also scenes of him playing the piano.

The other band members can be seen playing their instruments on city streets, and there is a notable guitar solo by Joe Perry on a rural highway.

Take Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money

"Take Me Home Tonight" is a song by American rock singer Eddie Money, from his album Can't Hold Back, released in 1986. It was released as a single and reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks. The song has seen a recent resurgence in popularity which has become the basis for a number of 1980's-themed parties.

The song starts with a synth playing and is then joined by a guitar playing the same notes. This song was recorded in a duet with Ronnie Spector. The song has Spector singing the chorus from The Ronettes' hit, "Be My Baby", (on which Spector sang lead vocals) after Money sings "just like Ronnie sang." The song is credited as being inspired by an unknown person who is called "Garth" by the main band members when questioned about the song, who when they were young was a friend of all of theirs who was constantly looking to sleep over at other people's houses. Other sources say it relates to Producer Jacob Dooley's obsession with convincing the drunkest girl in the bar to take him back to their house for further sessions of drinking, drugs, and debauchery.

The video, shot entirely in black and white, opens with Eddie alone with a metal ladder and a folding chair on an otherwise empty stage. He performs to an absent audience, and Ronnie Spector is seen in a make-up room during cut-aways. Ronnie's face isn't completely revealed until well near the end of the video. Interestingly, the two are never together on the stage through the entire video.

Overkill - Men at Work

"Overkill" is a song by Australian band Men at Work and featured on their 1983 album Cargo. It was written by lead singer Colin Hay. The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at #28 in April 1983 and peaked at #3 in early June. The song found a second life nineteen years later through its relation to hit sitcom Scrubs. A solo acoustic version by Hay featured in the episode "My Overkill", along with a cameo of him singing it. When it was first released, it was a departure from the typical Men at Work's style of reggae pop. "Overkill" instead had hard-hitting lyrics and blues and roots feel.

Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 92!!!

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92? It's also 92 degrees outside right now! Damn it's getting hot!

Here we go...

Brand New Lover - Dead or Alive

"Brand New Lover" is the name of a song recorded by the British new wave band Dead or Alive. It was the first single to be released from the band's third album, Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know. It achieved international success when released as a single in 1986. The song proved to be more successful in the U.S. and in Japan than in the band's native U.K.; it peaked at #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, whereas the song reached #31 on the UK Singles Chart. In addition, "Brand New Lover" spent two weeks atop the American dance chart in December 1986.

The lyrics describe the singer's desire to leave his current partner for one who is more exciting. His motivation is that he admittedly does not desire a stable relationship with one partner, but rather is "a pleasure seeker."

The song became Dead or Alive's second Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as their first number-one single on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. The song was a moderate international success.

Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams

"Summer of '69" is a song written by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance originally for Adams' fourth studio album Reckless (1984). It was the fourth single released from the album. It is one of Adams' most recognizable and popular songs. The song peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #40 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The song has appeared on all of Adams' compilation albums.

After a tour supporting his breakthrough album Cuts Like a Knife he started the recording for Reckless. "Summer of '69" was written on January 25, 1984 with Jim Vallance. The recording took place at Little Mountain Sound, Vancouver, Canada and was mixed in New York by Jim Vallance. The recording for "Summer of '69" started shortly after and went through the winter and was recorded three times before it was mixed on November 22, 1984.

Upon the release of the album Reckless in November 1984, "Summer of '69" received some airplay on album-oriented rock radio stations but was mostly overshadowed by the tracks "Run to You" and "It's Only Love", only managing to reach #40 on Billboard's Top Rock Tracks chart. After it was released as a single in June 1985, "Summer of '69" climbed to #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and helped push Reckless to the #1 position on the Billboard 200 in August 1985.

In Canada "Summer of '69" was officially released to radio on November, 1984. The song reached the top twenty on the Canadian Singles Chart and remained in the top twenty for another month. "Summer of '69" was the highest charting single from Reckless with Heaven.

The song was released in Australia, Europe and New Zealand in 1985. "Heaven" reached the UK top forty, while "Summer of '69" peaked outside the top forty. "Summer of '69" continued the trend of higher-charting singles when it debuted and peaked at top twenty in most of the European countries it charted. Adams' previous singles had charted much weaker in Europe and "Summer of '69" would be Adams' second single to chart in mainland Europe.

Although "Summer of '69" reached the top ten in Norway and then the top twenty in Austria, Ireland and Sweden, it was a moderate top hundred success in Germany where it peaked at 62.

The music video was directed by Irish director Steve Barron in 1985. In 1985 it was nominated for the MTV Video Music Awards in one category for Best Male Video. While the song didn't win the award, it was one of four nominated songs from Adams' fourth studio album Reckless. The video includes appearances by Lysette Anthony and Michael Brandon.

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I'm on Fire - Bruce Springsteen

"I'm on Fire" is a song written and performed by American rock singer Bruce Springsteen. In 1985 it became the fourth single released from his massively successful album Born in the U.S.A.

"I'm on Fire" was recorded in February 1982 during the first wave of Born in the U.S.A. sessions. This took place in impromptu fashion when Springsteen started making up a slow tune on guitar for some lyrics he had, and drummer Max Weinberg and keyboardist Roy Bittan, hearing it for the first time, created an accompaniment on the spot. The result was a moody number that merges a soft rockabilly beat, lyrics built around sexual tension, and synthesizers into an effective whole; it was one of the first uses of that instrument in Springsteen's music.

The song peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles charts in early 1985. It was the fourth of a record-tying seven Top 10 hit singles to be released from Born in the U.S.A. It is also remarkable that the single reached #1 in the Netherlands for 3 weeks in August 1985, at the same time as 2 other Springsteen singles ("Dancing in the Dark" and "Born in the U.S.A.") were occupying the Top 12.

Unlike the first three singles from the album, no remixes were made for "I'm on Fire" (nor were any made for any of the subsequent singles released).

The music video for the song was shot in March 1985 in Los Angeles, and was directed by filmmaker John Sayles. Unlike the previous videos from the album, this video was not a performance clip but rather portrayed a dramatic storyline that alluded to some of the song's emotions. In it, Springsteen plays a working class automobile mechanic with an attractive, married, very well-to-do, mostly unseen female customer who brings her vintage Ford Thunderbird in for frequent servicing, always requesting that he does the work. She gives him all her keys, not just the ones for the car. Later that night, he drives the T-Bird up to her mansion high in the hills above the city. He is about to ring the bell, when he thinks better of it, smiles wistfully, drops her keys in the mailbox next to the door and walks away down towards the lights below.

The video began airing in mid-April, received extensive MTV airplay, and later in the year won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video.

Love Stinks - J. Geils Band

Love Stinks is the eleventh album by American rock band The J. Geils Band, released in 1980.

The title song is a rant against unrequited love. It has been covered by industrial metal band Bile, by Ms. Toi in the film Love Stinks, Joan Jett in the film Mr. Wrong and Adam Sandler in the movie The Wedding Singer. The song was also featured in the film Opie Gets Laid. As of late July 2009, "Love Stinks" is heard in a series of Swiffer commercials.

Sunday Night Video Flashback Pt. 91!!!

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JuneFest is in full swing!!!!

Tell Her About It - Billy Joel

"Tell Her About It" is a hit 1983 song performed by Billy Joel, from the hit album An Innocent Man. An apparent homage to the Motown Sound, the song was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for one week on September 24, 1983, replacing "Maniac" by Michael Sembello, which like "Tell Her About It" was produced by Phil Ramone. The single reached Gold certification from the RIAA for sales in the US.

In the lyrics of the song, the singer exhorts a young man to tell the woman he loves how he feels about her before he misses his chance.

The video for the song shows Joel singing the song as if he was on The Ed Sullivan Show of the 1960s. The cover shot for the UK release of the song was taken from the video, as seen below. An Ed Sullivan imitator (Will Jordan) introduces Joel after Topo Gigio, the talking mouse, finishes his skit. At the end of the song, comedian Rodney Dangerfield is there preparing to go on "stage" thanking Joel for warming up the crowd.

The song was performed once on American Idols LIVE! Tour 2009 by Joel with finalists Matt Giraud and Scott MacIntyre. Due to fan reaction, they also performed it on the 2010 season of American Idol during the announcement of the top 12.

Heaven - Warrant

Heaven is a song by American hard rock/glam metal band Warrant. A power ballad, it was released in 1989 as the second single from Warrant's debut album Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich. The song was Warrant's most commercially successful single, reaching number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and number three on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and spawning a music video starring top Scottish model, Tracy Allan.

"Heaven" was re-visited by the band in 1999 on their Greatest & Latest album. The song was used in Tool Academy's series finale, and was covered by American punk band New Found Glory on the compilation album Punk Goes Metal.

Devil Inside - INXS

"Devil Inside" is a song by Australian band INXS. The song was written by Andrew Farriss and Michael Hutchence and is one of INXS's best known songs.

It was released as a single in February 1988. The song is well remembered for its catchy riff and Michael Hutchence's whisper of the lyrics.

The song went to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, #47 in the United Kingdom, #20 in France, #25 in Ireland and #6 in Australia.

Guitarist and saxophone player Kirk Pengilly stated in an interview that he did not like the music video for "Devil Inside," because he thought that it was "too American."[citation needed]

The video was filmed in Balboa, California and directed by Joel Schumacher.

The song was featured in the 2001 film, Rock Star.

Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone) - Glass Tiger

"Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)" is a 1986 song by Canadian pop-rock band Glass Tiger, from their debut album, The Thin Red Line. Released as the band's first single, it reached number one in Canada and number two in the United States. The song features backing vocals by rock singer Bryan Adams.

In 1985, Glass Tiger chose Jim Vallance to produce the band's debut album. This marked Vallance's debut as a producer; he had been known primarily as the songwriting partner of Bryan Adams. The band's lead vocalist, Alan Frew, recalled: "It worked out great because we were all at the same stage of development. He didn't change the sound of the band at all. He let us experiment but wasn't afraid to get heavy-handed when he had to." Vallance composed "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)" with the band, while Adams provided backing vocals.

"Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)" topped the Canadian Singles Chart in March 1986, and spent two weeks at number one. The single was certified platinum by the Canadian Recording Industry Association in July. The song entered the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in July, peaked at number two in October, and spent 24 weeks on the chart. It reached number one on the Singles Sales chart and number six on the Hot 100 Airplay chart. The song also peaked at number 17 on the Mainstream Rock chart, number 30 on the Adult Contemporary chart, and number 34 on the Billboard Year-End singles chart of 1986. The single reached the top 15 in Australia, number 27 in New Zealand, number 29 in the United Kingdom, and number 40 in the Netherlands.

Frew credited the song's chart performance to "solid record company involvement" and the band's international appeal. "We aren't rewriting musical history by any means," he added. "But our melody lines are strong and mature enough to appeal to the English-speaking world." The song won the 1986 Juno Award for Single of the Year, and was named top Canadian single in the Rock Express magazine readers' poll awards in 1987. In 1996, the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada honored the song for airing more than 100,000 times on Canadian radio. Glass Tiger performed the song during an episode of the 2005 NBC reality television program Hit Me, Baby, One More Time.

The song's original music video, made for the Canadian market, mixed performance footage with a storybook concept. Directed by Rob Quartly, the video was nominated for Best Video at the Juno Awards of 1986. This version was the first video to air on the MuchMoreRetro digital cable music video channel when it launched on September 4, 2003. A second video was created for other markets, according to Manhattan Records Vice President of A&R Bruce Garfield. He noted that "Steven Reed, our senior vice president of marketing, took a very strong stand because the Canadian video was too cutesy and directed solely toward the youth market." Garfield added, "It didn't focus enough on the artistic integrity and entertainment aspect of the band." The newer version received heavy rotation on MTV.