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Post by Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action on Jan 13, 2008 0:18:16 GMT -5
Okay, stop the tournament. We need Meat in here for a history lesson. MJ (although a freak now) WAS the 80's. How can he keep losing? He's already had plenty move on to round 2, and has more to come. And yes, we need Meat in here because Meat's cool. Also Chilly, Phil won. Also, If everyone keeps on voting I'll boost the needed votes up to 4. New match coming up.
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Post by Insomniac on Jan 13, 2008 0:18:56 GMT -5
Okay, stop the tournament. We need Meat in here for a history lesson. MJ (although a freak now) WAS the 80's. How can he keep losing? Phil Collins was all over the 80s as well. Obviously he didn't define 80s pop like MJ, but he's no slouch either.
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Post by Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action on Jan 13, 2008 0:21:36 GMT -5
Coming off an upset, but not the biggest upset (that belongs to Devo, IMHO) let's see what happens with the voting to see if I raise it to 4 (I feel more votes helps give a more accurate result). Huey Lewis & The News - do you believe in love"Do You Believe In Love" was the first top ten hit for the American rock band Huey Lewis and the News, peaking at number seven in May 1982, off their second album Picture This. The song appeared in The Wedding Singer, although it was absent from both volumes of the film's soundtrack. Vs. The Vapours - Turning JapaneseThe Vapors were a New Wave and power pop band from England that existed between 1979 and 1981. They had a hit with the song "Turning Japanese" in 1980.
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Post by Insomniac on Jan 13, 2008 0:22:12 GMT -5
Huey Lewis & The News. Everything about their sound screams "80s Pop".
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Post by Drillbit Taylor on Jan 13, 2008 0:22:22 GMT -5
The Vapours - Turning Japanese
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Post by humanoid on Jan 13, 2008 0:22:31 GMT -5
Huey Lewis, but I refuse to vote for the News.
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Post by Widow's Peak on Jan 13, 2008 0:23:13 GMT -5
Turning Japanese
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Jan 13, 2008 0:23:55 GMT -5
Turning Japanese just cause I'm feeling goofy today.
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Post by #Classic Hi-Definition X on Jan 13, 2008 0:25:36 GMT -5
Turning Japanese
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Post by humanoid on Jan 13, 2008 0:25:59 GMT -5
Turning Japanese just cause I'm feeling goofy like a big smelly jerkass today. fixed
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Jan 13, 2008 0:26:52 GMT -5
Turning Japanese just cause I'm feeling goofy like a big smelly jerkass today. fixed Between you and Meat... you both have a swift kick in the rear coming your way in the mail.
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Post by Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action on Jan 13, 2008 0:29:18 GMT -5
The Vapours are Turning Japanese and I'm turning up the heat. ----------------------------------------------------- 4 Votes needed starting now. If it slows it down (sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't) I'll move it back down to 3. Tough match-up here and this is the perfect test on how much we'll be slowed down since votes should be split. Styxx - Mr. RobotoThe song tells part of the fictitious story of Robert Orin Charles Kilroy (ROCK), in the rock opera Kilroy Was Here. The song is performed by Kilroy (as played by keyboardist Dennis DeYoung), a rock and roll performer who was placed in a futuristic prison for "rock and roll misfits" by the anti-rock-and-roll group the Majority for Musical Morality (MMM) and its founder Dr. Everett Righteous (played by guitarist James Young). The Roboto is a model robot which does menial jobs in the prison. Kilroy escapes the prison by overtaking a Roboto prison guard and hiding inside the emptied-out metal shell. The robot-like catch phrase was created with a vocoder. Stan Winston designed the Roboto costume and mask, which is displayed prominently on the cover of Kilroy Was Here. The track was released as the first single from the album at the last minute instead of "Don't Let It End" at the request of A&M Records. Vs. Talking Heads - Burning Down The House"Burning Down the House" is a 1983 song by Talking Heads, from their album Speaking in Tongues. It became one of their more popular songs, reaching #9 on the US Charts in the year of its release. Chris Frantz thought of the titular chorus after seeing a Parliament-Funkadelic show where the crowd chanted "Burn down the house." The initial lyrics were considerably different, however. In an interview on NPR's "All Things Considered" aired on December 2, 1984, David Byrne played excerpts of early worktapes showing how the song had evolved from an instrumental jam by Tina Weymouth (bass) and Chris Frantz (drums). Once the whole band had reworked the groove into something resembling the final recording, Byrne began chanting and singing nonsense syllables over the music until he had arrived at phrasing that fit with the rhythms-- a technique influenced by former Talking Heads producer Brian Eno-- "and then I [would] just write words to fit that phrasing... I'd have loads and loads of phrases collected that I thought thematically had something to do with one another, and I'd pick from those."
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Post by Widow's Peak on Jan 13, 2008 0:30:18 GMT -5
Burning Down the House
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Jan 13, 2008 0:30:19 GMT -5
Domo Arigato.
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Post by Insomniac on Jan 13, 2008 0:30:20 GMT -5
Roboto.
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Post by Drillbit Taylor on Jan 13, 2008 0:30:31 GMT -5
Styxx - Mr. Roboto
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Post by #Classic Hi-Definition X on Jan 13, 2008 0:32:12 GMT -5
Mr. Roboto
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Post by Chilly McFreeze on Jan 13, 2008 0:33:03 GMT -5
Domo... domo....
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto.
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Post by Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action on Jan 13, 2008 0:33:43 GMT -5
Domo... domo.... Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto. That's Styx, Er. New match coming up.
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Post by Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action on Jan 13, 2008 0:36:42 GMT -5
Gotta say I'm surprised at the lack of Talking Heads love there. ------------------------------------------------------ I want to see what happens here... Cher - If I could turn back timeAfter a small comeback with "I Found Someone" in 1987, Cher's career hit big with the release of "If I Could Turn Back Time", which charted at number 1 in Australia and Norway, number 3 in the United States and number 6 in the United Kingdom. It was very successful and it became Cher's second consecutive number 1 in the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. It topped the charts in two countries and it became a top ten hit in nearly ten countries. Cher had several subsequent hits including "The Shoop Shoop Song", "Strong Enough" and "Believe". In episode 3-07 (first aired on November 16, 2000) of Will & Grace, Jack meets Cher in a café and mistakes her for a drag queen. She sings a few notes of If I could turn back time to make him understand she's the real Cher. Vs. New Kids On The Block - You Got It (The Right Stuff)"You Got It (The Right Stuff)" is a 1988 single from New Kids on the Block. The second single from the group's second album Hangin' Tough, it peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart in early 1989, while topping the UK charts. The single appeared in the Top 40 for the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart the week of January 14, 1989, rising from #45 to #37. "You Got It" reached it's peak of #3 the week of March 11, 1989. Altogether, "You Got It (The Right Stuff)" spent 5 weeks in the Top 10, 8 weeks in the Top 20, and 13 weeks in the Top 40. The song was number one in Australia in August '89. In 1992, "Weird Al" Yankovic parodied the song on his "Off The Deep End" album as "The White Stuff," a loving ode to Oreo cookies.
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