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Oct. 24th, 2003 10:23 amtrying out that PocketLJ thang.
nothing to see here....move along...
nothing to see here....move along...
Oct. 24th, 2003
I don't know WHY I keep saying this...
Oct. 24th, 2003 06:41 pmEvery time somebody says to me, "hey, can you bring some cd's along to a party" I keep thinking "geeze, not again...dammit, I don't have any party music...".
So I dig through the collection. The key stuff to look for is early-to-mid 80s, mostly "new wave".
Lemme see here.
Duran Duran, Big Country, Dexy, Roxy Music, King Crimson '81, Tears for Fears, A-Ha, U2, Simple Minds, Depeche Mode, Howard Jones, Thomas Dolby, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, The Police, Chris De Burgh, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Psychedelic Furs, Planet P, The Cars, Nik Kershaw, Dream Acadamy, Madness, The Motels, Naked Eyes, Men at Work, Flock of Seagulls, 'Til Tuesday, Strange Advance, 10000 Maniacs, and The Cure.
Then there's my "totally 80s" cd set which includes Culture Club, Wang Chung, The Escape Club, Kajagoogoo, John Waite, The Romantics, Nena, and Mr. Mister.
Then there's the arena-rock and pop-80s mix in all that, including Journey, REO, GTR, [Jefferson] Starship, Queensryche, Foreigner, Asia, Rush, Hall & Oats, Paul Simon, Yes, Billy Joel, The Who, String, Quarterflash, and Queen...oh, and on totally 80s: Buster Poindexter, The Bangles, the late Robert Palmer, Katrina and the Waves, Rick Springfield, Glenn Frey, J. Geils Band, Stray Cats, Eddy Grant, Laura Branigan, Tommy Tutone, Corey Hart, and Mike & the Mechanics...
...crap, I didn't even put a Genesis/Phil Collins hit in there...
I really need to make some pop-only cdroms for this sort of thing. Right now, if I bring all that, I'm looking at 4 boxes worth...
oh, and just found 2 80s CD's in cyd's collection, hits from 84 and 86, including Kenny Loggins, Eddie Money, Huey Lewis, Bananarama, Survivor, The Bangles, Wham!, and Tina Turner...
The World Is My Oyster. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA...
So I dig through the collection. The key stuff to look for is early-to-mid 80s, mostly "new wave".
Lemme see here.
Duran Duran, Big Country, Dexy, Roxy Music, King Crimson '81, Tears for Fears, A-Ha, U2, Simple Minds, Depeche Mode, Howard Jones, Thomas Dolby, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, The Police, Chris De Burgh, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Psychedelic Furs, Planet P, The Cars, Nik Kershaw, Dream Acadamy, Madness, The Motels, Naked Eyes, Men at Work, Flock of Seagulls, 'Til Tuesday, Strange Advance, 10000 Maniacs, and The Cure.
Then there's my "totally 80s" cd set which includes Culture Club, Wang Chung, The Escape Club, Kajagoogoo, John Waite, The Romantics, Nena, and Mr. Mister.
Then there's the arena-rock and pop-80s mix in all that, including Journey, REO, GTR, [Jefferson] Starship, Queensryche, Foreigner, Asia, Rush, Hall & Oats, Paul Simon, Yes, Billy Joel, The Who, String, Quarterflash, and Queen...oh, and on totally 80s: Buster Poindexter, The Bangles, the late Robert Palmer, Katrina and the Waves, Rick Springfield, Glenn Frey, J. Geils Band, Stray Cats, Eddy Grant, Laura Branigan, Tommy Tutone, Corey Hart, and Mike & the Mechanics...
...crap, I didn't even put a Genesis/Phil Collins hit in there...
I really need to make some pop-only cdroms for this sort of thing. Right now, if I bring all that, I'm looking at 4 boxes worth...
oh, and just found 2 80s CD's in cyd's collection, hits from 84 and 86, including Kenny Loggins, Eddie Money, Huey Lewis, Bananarama, Survivor, The Bangles, Wham!, and Tina Turner...
The World Is My Oyster. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA...
Is the grand selection of tunes you just can't do 'cause they're all breakup songs. A great selection of hits, many hitting number one, that just say "well, this marriage has a great future ahead of it..."
Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' (Journey), Do you really want to hurt me (culture club), Pictures of You (the Cure...I love how its being used as a postive thing in that commercial, considering its one of Smith's most depressing lyrics ever), about half of Billy Joel's repotoire, Harden my Heart, Always something there to remind me AND promises promises (makes you wonder if the reason Naked Eyes didn't have another hit was 'cause they committed suicide soon after writing the damn songs), Seagull's I Ran (why did that end up included in the wedding singer?), Men at Work's Its a Mistake (lyrically unrelated to romance at all, but still...).
Or things that just say, maybe a little too much about what kinda marriage it is? (This Woman's Work, Kate Bush...or on the other side, Madness's Our House and House of Fun...'cept i'll play those anyways 'cause they're just great songs)
And hell, I'm not even talking about the great music that goes with lyrics that just go "what are these doing together like that?" (Suzanne Vega's Luka?)
of course, then there's groups' secondary songs that you just wanna play to piss people off...if i actually didn't like either my mom or my future mother-in-law, you can guarentee that The Police's "Mother" would be in the set list...
Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' (Journey), Do you really want to hurt me (culture club), Pictures of You (the Cure...I love how its being used as a postive thing in that commercial, considering its one of Smith's most depressing lyrics ever), about half of Billy Joel's repotoire, Harden my Heart, Always something there to remind me AND promises promises (makes you wonder if the reason Naked Eyes didn't have another hit was 'cause they committed suicide soon after writing the damn songs), Seagull's I Ran (why did that end up included in the wedding singer?), Men at Work's Its a Mistake (lyrically unrelated to romance at all, but still...).
Or things that just say, maybe a little too much about what kinda marriage it is? (This Woman's Work, Kate Bush...or on the other side, Madness's Our House and House of Fun...'cept i'll play those anyways 'cause they're just great songs)
And hell, I'm not even talking about the great music that goes with lyrics that just go "what are these doing together like that?" (Suzanne Vega's Luka?)
of course, then there's groups' secondary songs that you just wanna play to piss people off...if i actually didn't like either my mom or my future mother-in-law, you can guarentee that The Police's "Mother" would be in the set list...