friday random ten, 1979 edition
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1. Michael Jackson, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough." Anybody remember this guy?
2. The B-52's, "Dance This Mess Around." The video is terrific, the B-52's before their first album had come out.
3. Earth, Wind & Fire, "Boogie Wonderland." More popular than Funkadelic.
4. Marianne Faithfull, "Working Class Hero." She was far from working-class, but she's always done right by this song.
5. Gang of Four, "Anthrax." Love'll get you like a case of anthrax, and that's something I don't want to catch.
6. McFadden & Whitehead, "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now." This enormous hit waited 29 years for Barack Obama to win the nomination for president.
7. The Specials, "A Message to You Rudy." Better think of your future.
8. Pearl Harbour and the Explosions, "Drivin'." For some reason, in the late-70s/early-80s, this band opened for just about every punk and New Wave band we saw. The list of bands I saw fewer times than I saw these guys would include some pretty good acts.
9. Nick Lowe, "Cruel to Be Kind." This one goes out to Charlie.
10. The Village People, "Go West." Fans of the Gunners will enjoy this video:
Comments (8)
Helluva mixed bag, Masoo, but I'd expect no less - and, as usual, there are more than enough winners.
Ah, that video brings a nostalgic tear to my cheek - the original ground. This list is wonderful. It was normal to hear all those records at the time, shifting between punk clubs and gay discos and. if you lived in Britain, Radio 1. People focus on 1977 as the legacy of punk, but I reckon it was what came after - the years when music this wide and original was all OK, each track inspiring the other. OK, maybe EWF weren't checking Gang of Four, but would 'Against All Odds' and 'Easy Lover' have come about if Phil Collins didn't get a big kick in his originality from '77 and '78?
mmm some 79 goodness
thanks
RAWK
3. Earth, Wind & Fire, "Boogie Wonderland." More popular than Funkadelic.
But were they more popular than Parliament and Funkadelic..yeah,probably. To me EWF started out good and went wrong as they went on in time. But then again most funk bands did.
Aint No Stopping Us Now was also a world cup theme for some country a few cups back.
79..the last gasp of differentness with MTV getting ready to come in and homogenize..
i remember '79 as the end of disco
he he he
"30 years ago a Chicago radio disc jockey had an idea for a promotional event. Steve Dahl invited his listeners to bring a disco record to a double-header White Sox game. Between games he was going to blow them up. What happened was a full scale riot that caused the White Sox to forfeit and disco to die."
i had 3 bumper stickers on my ride @ 16 years old
1.AC\DC
2.Disco Sucks!
3.Sex,Drugs & Rock n Roll
AND i actually was PERPLEXED why the cops pulled me over so much :)
RAWK
Well I was 2, but I am proud to say that my musical education brought me into healthy contact with all of this except Lowe, Faithful, and the Explosions (that song is great). Gicing the nod to G.O.4, MJ, and the 52's for personal fave's.
Good to know that Wenger will be sticking around. Looking forward to a whole year of Arshavin.
Disco didn't suck.
Some of it did. This didn't: