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The Saftey Dance was written by the group's singer because he went ot a concert in the early 80s and (this shows how long it's been going on) guys in the audience mostly were 'slam dancing'. (later known as 'moshing'..more likea lame excuse for pushing and shoving..
He, naturally, didn't like it and wrote the song.
Going back to Mmmbop for a moment, people make fun of this song because they don't listen to the lyrics.
The just get the chorus and go "Oh that sounds so stupid". Even when you explain the song, they don't care.
Mmmbop is another word for 'a moment'. I'll say this for Hanson, they wrote it and they were right.
'An Mmmbop's gone' , s many gone since this song was a hit...
it's hard for me to even fathom that it's been *GULP*! 21 years since it was a hit.
In redefending We Built this City, Starship wrote this 'as' a comment on being a sell out. Record labels in the 1980s wants 'simple' stuff for the people that bought records (my generation) and that's sure what we got. Acts like (Jefferson Airplane/Starship), Heart , Cheap Trick, Kenny Loggins and others basically either 'had to' MTV up or step aside (both visually and lyrically.)
I'd have said 'screw this!' After the 80s were over, real songwriting once again took over.
All the way back to 1977 when I was 8 & 1/2 and RUMORS was out.
I liked the music but many of the deeper tracks were (no pun intended) over my head at the time.
U got a better understanding a I got older. I can honestly say 41 years and never stopped liking them.
13 TV Series With The Word DAY/DAYS In The Title
01. One DAY At A Time
02. 7 DAYS
03. DAY By DAY
The Beatles. Easily.
Like the Beach Boys and can say this. Where the Beatles last top 40 hit only made it to
#11 ("Real Love" 1996) , the Beach Boys ended their top 40 run by hitting #1 with Kokomo for 1 week in Novmber of 1988.
Pretty cool to end with a #1 hit. :)
Oh that is TOOOO easy . :D LOL!
80s Rocker Billy Squier (Yes it's spelled right) was having a
great career between 1980 - 1984...UNTIL the song "Rock Me Tonite".
Now. There's nothing wrong with the song itself. It's he absolutely
laughable video he made for it (and for that matter agreed to be in.)
Picture a (then) 33/24 year old man n a torn pin shirt and more awful 80s wear, 'strutting' around like a teenager in a bedroom that has no girlfriend. On top of that, just scene after scene of rock video cliche's, guaranteed to leave you falling down laughing. It reached #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 but his next single "All Night Long" (not the Lionel Richie song) only reached #75. He never made the top 40 or top 50 again.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR0j7sModCI
He later fired his manager. He also does 'NOT' perform this song in concerts.
It's been downhill (but improving a 'little') since about 2002-2003.
I'm not saying this because I grew up with 70s music as a kid, 80s as a teen
and 1990s music in my 20s. I say this asa person who listens to music and own quite a bit of it.
If a song (from today) can't spark my interest emotionaly (any emotion) , then I feel tit has no real depth.
I'll make this very simple. I've collected music in all formats since age 11 in 1979 and I've
never stopped and I've gotten rid of only a handful of things since then. I own only two 8 tracks.
Simply put...too much to mention.
No American series with J but Here's one from Canada :
Jozi-H (2006-2007)
To 'CS' :
That's "This Is It" and it's not a ballad or a sad song, it's actually upbeat musically
and it's about having reached one's goals in life and notdoubting one's abilities to have done so.
If you want sad by Kenny Loggins (despite the '80s sound) listen to either
"Forever" (#40 in 1985 or "Meet Me Half Way" (#11 in 1987 and from the film "Over The Top" with Stallone.
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As for other songs :
You needed Me by Anne Murray (1978)
If by the light rock group 'Bread' (1971)
One Sweet Day - Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men (1995/1996)
Someone Saved My Life Tonight - Elton John (1975)
Concerto In D Major For Lute, Rv.93: ll. Largo - Antonio Vivaldi (Composed 1730's)
The Last Song - Elton John (1992/1993 - A song about a young man who contracts
the AIDS virus and hopes his father will not turn him out and stand by him, when he needs him the most.)
Gifted Man
Ben Casey
Chicago Hope
Doogie Howser
ER
Frontier Doctor
General Hospital
House
In Treatment
The Good Doctor
Grey's Anatomy (How was this forgotten>? )
Chicago Hope is CBS and ER is NBC. HOUSE is FOX. I thought this was ABC only. ???
01. Ticket to the Moon - ELO
02. Space Oddity- Bowie
03. Starman - Bowie
04. Rocket Man - Elton John
05. Major Tom - Peter Schilling
06. Another Space Song - Failure
07. Spaceman - Babylon Zoo
08. Space Cowboy- Steve Miller
09. The Galaxy Song - Monty Python
10. Fly Me To The Moon - Frank Sinatra (and many more)
Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby kiss me
Fill my heart with song and
Let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words, I love you
Fill my heart with song and
Let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words
In other words, I love you
Infinity cheers for Robert DeNiro! He 's got every right to his opinion as any of us do in this country.
If a person does not like the person running the country, they don't and they have not only the legal right
to say so, it's a God given right to speak your mind and to use it. I wouldn't have said the F word but that's me.
As for anyone's opinion of DeNiro as an actor...what does that have to do with main a statement politically?
Nothing. Stick to the topic of him making a statement, leave his
career out of it. If you want to excercise your free speech, at least do it properly.
There was a 1984/1985 TV movie called 'Special Bulletin', where some
people take over a nuclear ship off the coast of NC. There are nuclear missiles on board.
The movie plays like a live World News broadcast and was recorded on video-tape and not film, to seem more real.
SPOLIER!! : At the end of this film (I forget how) they all explode/
go off and a large portion of the surrounding coast and towns and people are obliterated.
Personally, I don't believe 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger'.
I've been through some things that I never want to experience again and I'm pretty much the same person I've always been.
I'm not weaker or stronger in any real sense. They're just things that happened and now they're over.
That expression sounds more like, "Bad experiences you can live through, can make you jaded, cynical and indifferent."
Besides, other people make bad things happen to others, if they didn't do these things, we wouldn't 'have' to be 'stronger'.
We could just live our lives.
The 100% compltely 'mobile' or 'cordless' phones came out in 1984. They
pretty much looked like a painted brick with an 'antenna' that was pointy, thick and fat at the bottom.
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Earlier examples can be one I saw on an episode of ABC's Barney Miller". (1974-1982) . A man brings a weird looking phone iinto the police station. Looks like a house phone but is battery operated and has an antenna for reception. The episode was late 1970s or else 1980.
Before that was the few '70s and 1960s shows where we see some with a phone in their car. These had cords though.
As someone who seen formats of entertainment come and go OR
come (decline in popularity) and then return....don't rule DVD's out just yet.
People have said CD's are over but they still sell, same for vinyl records, which younger people are actually into right now.
A lot of time and effort between 1980 to 1996/1997 was invested in making those huge (record album sized) laser discs that played movies, 'compact' (smaller) size. Which is of course why they're called Compact Discs , or in this case Digital Video Discs.
Not everyone has the knowledge/ability to stream or download and hey...they may not want too. Besides that there's plenty of movies and Tv shows that actually aren't available in the streaming and even less s, on DVD. Some films I ownare only on VHS (Video Home Service) tape. o even streaming or DVD isn't an option because it's though certain filmsor uch aren;t worth the effort cause there's no $ to be made.
We've only had dvd's 21 years and Blue Ray even less. So let's not say it's over just yet. ;)
godewey ,well you sure did beat my list, wow! Like what you may have left out,
there's some 1 Season wonders I 'might' have seenall the shos of, but couldn't say for sure now.
One current show I'm close to seeing every one of is PBS's , "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood". Why? I find it an amusing show and of course I grew up with Mr. Rogers too. There's also just moments in it that are unintentionally funny too. Right now it's bordering on 100 shows and I've seen over 80 of them. (New ones coming out next month.)
I wanted to include many of the Sid & Marty Kroftt shows I watched on Saturday mornings but again, not 100% on if I've seen them all.
This is a reply to the topic at hand, not the person above this message. :) There are TONS of worst songs, there really is ONE worst over all.
I like Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off". It's a fun song, that reminds me of the likes of Tiffany and Debbie Gibson.
As for worst songs?
From this decade there's that one song that has the
lyrics , "I don't wanna know,know,know - where it is that you go,go,go."
I honestly find "I'm In Love With (The Shape
Of) Your Body" to be boring and I don;t why it won a Grammy.
Going back to the a decade I know far better, if you
guys wanna hear some cruddy songs from the '80s . Here's a short list :
"Tomorrow Doesn't Matter Tonight" - Starship (People called 'We Built This City' the worst song by them ever? Try this one, it's got absolutely no point and is boring at that. As well as their final top 40 hit "It's Not Enough" from 1989.
"He's A Liar" - The Bee Gees (1981 & barely made the top 40.)
"Danger Zone" - Kenny Loggins, "Take My Breath Away" - Berlin and the rest of the 'TOP GUN' soundtrack. The schmaltziest (easy word suckiest) movie sound track out that decade. Listen to Kenny's 1970s music or Berlin's 1983 album
1986 : Lot of lousy songs masquerading as 'hits'.
Love Touch- Rod Stewart
Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight - The Models (One hit wonder) .
Something Real (Inside Me / Inside You) - Mr. Mister
Friends and Lovers - Carl Anserson and Gloria Loring
(#2 pop hit but the song makes me want to self induce vomiting.
Before I go, if you want the worst #1 hits of the 1980s?.......
Love songs (tie) : Can't Fight This Feeling - REo Speedwagon and Always - Atlantic Starr. POP/ROCK : Together Forever - Rick Astley (a rewrite of 'Rock a Bye Baby) or Heaven is A Place On Earth - Belinda Carisle...a rip off of Bon Jovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name" . Ill skip Milli Vanilli.
Maybe . :) I'd have to get out my Billboard Book of #1 Hits and Top 40 hits again.
I don't have them out and haven't looked at them in awhile.
(They only span 1955 to 2009. After that, my wife may
have to help me with most things from the last 8 years. : D LOL. )
I can't pinpoint one or another as the 'worst' but I'll name five (in no particular order):
1. 2003 : Outbound phone agent for The Republican Party - On my a** the 1st day. Not trying to help me be 'better' but a just do this or else attitude. The floor mgr. embarrassed & insulted me in front of the whole room. I went to his manager, stated what he'd done and (keeping it cool as possible) let them know... "I resign!"
2. Fast Food Chicken (1985 age 17: A place called Pioneer Chicken now out of business). - Unfortunate;y worked with two jerks from my high school. Harassed me all the time and worst, made me clean a grease trap. Our actual manager did nothing. (This is long before laws about ANY kind of harassment were thought of. (School was starting back up so I'd have left one way or another.)
3. 2007 : a 'temp' job. Painting 'red zones' for an apartment complex. A 2 week job and the cheap-o's at the place gave me 2 paint brushes and 3 cans of red paint. In that time, I painted ever single place they indicated...this place was HUGE. Top things off, it was summer and humid. The last day, when I finished, not even a 'thank you for all your hard work."
4. 2015 : A place that 'sold vacations' outbound over the phone. It's a legitimate place but I don't want to name them here. You never know who's reading. Anyway, the training for this place was a big joke. "let's sit you in a room, tell you all about us, write it all down, rake a tour of the place." Next day comeback and they give you more lecture and a few more bits o info. , then, sit you down at a phone station and basically say, "Well? Go ahead, do the job." Yep, next day, I went there and immediately resigned and told them exactly (cleanly) what I thought of their so called 'training'.
5. 2011 : Outbound calling/sales. Run out of business, after I left. Imagine a place with broken down chairs,cubicles& carpet. LOUD music,. Foul language and 'antics' from others. 3 weeks kater, I found far better work.