Topic: Fanfic Lass' Fantabulous Land of Eighties Enchantment
cleome46
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I don't think I've heard any but the original version. I'll have to look it up.
I think it's funny that my spouse the ex-jock has Depeche Mode and the Furs on his playlist. I'm always ragging him about it.
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cleome46
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Doesn't ring a bell, but The Negro Problem has a song called "The Teardrop Explodes."
...Mister Mellencamp, find me a hip small town that's free Of them serial rednecks and all With a righteous deli, arty bookstore, with Chomsky Speaking down at the Veterans' Mall...
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Cleome bumping this thread reminded me that I was thinking just the other night about one post I made:
quote:Originally posted by Stealth: Mandy Moore did a surprisingly good cover of that song on her surprsingly good all-covers album "Coverage." Other 80s songs she covered were Joe Jackson's "Breaking Us In Two" and The Waterboys' "The Whole of the Moon." I wish that album had been a hit, because I would have loved it if she'd done a sequel where she covered Julian Cope's "World Shut Your Mouth."
I neglected to mention that besides "Senses Working Overtime", "Breaking Us In Two", and "The Whole of the Moon", she covered a fourth 80s song, Joan Armatriding's "Drop the Pilot."
cleome46
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D'awww...
Joan Armatrading was so awesome back then. I wasn't too impressed with what I heard of her last "Blues LP," but it's nice that she can still get out the crowds, right?
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cleome46
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The Eighties did have some good female belters. Laurie Sargent from Face 2 Face (?), for instance? They tried to recast her in the Lilith Fair soloist mode in the Nineties, but it didn't suit her personality as well. (Though I have nothing against solo female singers.)
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I have nothing against solo female singers, either, but I could never get behind Lilith Fair with its faux-crusty/faux-folkie/male-hating/transgender-hating vibe. That's also why I ended up exiling myself from the lesbian community as a whole, BTW.
cleome46
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I thought it was MWF that had an issue with transgendered women, not Lilith.
At any rate, I'll worry about their "man-hating" (???) when the industry proper gets over its misogyny-- but I'm not holding my breath.
Wiki says that one of the LF co-founders commented that you couldn't even get a radio station ten years ago to play two woman artists back to back. I remember from my stint listening to "hit" and "alternative" radio all day while temping in '09/'10 that nothing's changed in that regard.
The local "alternative" station played three songs by women during an eight-hour workday... if you were lucky. The "classic" rock station played maybe that many every two days. New decade, same old sh*t.
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I hate general radio...and honestly from what I've heard on Sat. Radio, it's not much better.
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cleome46
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I still like Wendy MaHarry a lot. I had "Fountain of Youth" as my sig line/link for a while there.
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I bought The Best of Altered Images CD for a dollar, and I got a lot more than my money's worth.
Clare Grogan was the original childlike frontwoman, paving the way for Liz Fraser and Harriet Wheeler.
I definitely remember hearing the delightful pop confections "I Could Be Happy" and "Don't Talk to Me About Love" when I was in grade school.
They also had the good taste to record T. Rex's "Jeepster" as a B-side, long before T. Rex became retro-hip.
The only duds on the album are the third-to-last and second-to-last singles, which hurt them so badly that their final single, a return to form titled "Change of Heart", didn't even chart in the UK.
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