Great_Scot
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I don't but I do.
🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵
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Wonderer67
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Day 23: A song from the 80s
UK Subs - Tomorrows Girls
UK Subs - Tomorrows Girls
BreukelenAnima
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Day 23: A song from the 80s - 1983
An odd choice, but Stewart Copeland's soundtrack was highly creative and innovative and has inspired many, many film soundtracks since its release.
An odd choice, but Stewart Copeland's soundtrack was highly creative and innovative and has inspired many, many film soundtracks since its release.
aussiegeekygal
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Day 23: A song from the 80s
Better Be Home Soon - Crowded House
Better Be Home Soon - Crowded House
AbsintheFather
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I saw them on that tour. I've been to see a lot of live music and that show stands out as one the most memorable concert I've seen.
AbsintheFather
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1985. I saw them on this tour too 
barefootgirl69
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Day 22: A song from the 70s
Cold As Ice - Foreigner
Day 23: A song from the 80s
Cold As Ice - Foreigner
MisterChillax
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Day 23: A song from the 80s
XShadynzX
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One of my favourites!
SluttyShannon
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Day 23-A song from the 80's.
UnquietDreams
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I love this song, but I have never heard the extended version (and holy cats and crows, that is an extended version!) Thank you!
UnquietDreams
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Day 23-A song from the 80s (with flowers!)
Shreikback's Oil and Gold is one of the great albums of the 80s, but you rarely hear about it. It has not yet been discovered and mined again, and maybe it never will be. But this was when they moved from New Wave funky post-punk to full, complex, amazing art rock. I am not a huge fan of art rock, unless it is done well. This is done well. It is bombastic and sad; it is literate and pretentious; it is intense and even more intense, all in turns. Experimental, artistic, brooding. Former XTC vocalist Barry Andrews's speaksinging is unique, and can run from a whispery baritone to a startling falsetto, but it always sounds otherworldly and wonderfully odd.
"These faded flowers
Precious as memory
A veil of cloud
Correct as energy
We had some good machines
But they don't work no more
I loved you once
Don't love you anymore..."
I discovered this song in the most 80s of all 80s movies, The Band of the Hand. (Go watch it. It is so worth it.) "Faded Flowers" leans into the brooding end of the spectrum, with ethereal keyboards, popular in the era, and one of the most crowded drum machine lines ever. But it all pulls together in a wonderfully melancholy love song, and maybe a post-love song -- wistful and sweet and sour. It uses the word "anacrucis," and you don't get any more artsy and pretentious than that.
"Faded Flowers," Shreikback
(Our hearts are breaking
One more song to go)
Shreikback's Oil and Gold is one of the great albums of the 80s, but you rarely hear about it. It has not yet been discovered and mined again, and maybe it never will be. But this was when they moved from New Wave funky post-punk to full, complex, amazing art rock. I am not a huge fan of art rock, unless it is done well. This is done well. It is bombastic and sad; it is literate and pretentious; it is intense and even more intense, all in turns. Experimental, artistic, brooding. Former XTC vocalist Barry Andrews's speaksinging is unique, and can run from a whispery baritone to a startling falsetto, but it always sounds otherworldly and wonderfully odd.
"These faded flowers
Precious as memory
A veil of cloud
Correct as energy
We had some good machines
But they don't work no more
I loved you once
Don't love you anymore..."
I discovered this song in the most 80s of all 80s movies, The Band of the Hand. (Go watch it. It is so worth it.) "Faded Flowers" leans into the brooding end of the spectrum, with ethereal keyboards, popular in the era, and one of the most crowded drum machine lines ever. But it all pulls together in a wonderfully melancholy love song, and maybe a post-love song -- wistful and sweet and sour. It uses the word "anacrucis," and you don't get any more artsy and pretentious than that.
"Faded Flowers," Shreikback
One more song to go)
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The_spirit_of_oz
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Day: Nebs
Bye sunshine
Bye sunshine
UnquietDreams
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I don't like Weezer. I have been listening to Weezer all day, on purpose. Fuck...
The_spirit_of_oz
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I know that would make her laugh - but take care
UnquietDreams
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I mention this in my song choice, but if you liked Miami Vice, watch The Band of the Hand. It isn't a good movie (currently 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, for what that is worth) but it is a fantastic bad movie, and I love it. Miami Vice with teenagers! Laurence Fishburne as a villain pimp! Lauren Holley as a teenage coke dealer! John Cameron Mitchell, of Hedwig and the Angry Inch fame, with a machine gun fighting drug dealers! And the soundtrack is unironically brilliant, including the theme by Bob Dylan and the Heartbreakers. It is the most 80s movie ever to 80s.
fakingadulthood
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Day 23-A song from the 80's
Here comes your man - the pixies
Here comes your man - the pixies
aussiegeekygal
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Haha- I am listening to that on my playlist RIGHT NOW and see your answerDay 23-A song from the 90's
Cosmic Girl
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great minds think alike.... and so do we!Haha- I am listening to that on my playlist RIGHT NOW and see your answer
LustfulIntentions2
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Day 23-A song from the 90's
I missed out on some of the other decades this last week or so, but some combo of the different emotions of the day led me down a bit of a deep cuts rabbit hole. I remember nabbing the maxi-CD single that this came on and laughing at the back cover. It's a mild rarity that I loved having in my collection because the B-sides were absolute jams that totally could have been on the first record.
I missed out on some of the other decades this last week or so, but some combo of the different emotions of the day led me down a bit of a deep cuts rabbit hole. I remember nabbing the maxi-CD single that this came on and laughing at the back cover. It's a mild rarity that I loved having in my collection because the B-sides were absolute jams that totally could have been on the first record.
FunLi
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I feel like I would be doing myself a disservice by not responding to this today. I introduce you to the performance that lives rent free in my head..and one of my favorite karaoke songs if you get enough liquid courage in me 
Day 23-A song from the 90's
Day 23-A song from the 90's
