Thursday, July 30, 2009

your daily 80s 7

With one of the last big hits for the Bangles, here's the always ever so hot Susanna Hoffs singing "Eternal Flame"

P.S. yes, i know Bangles is spelled wrong. blame Natasha8119

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

your daily 80s 6

if you think of Danny Elfman, the first thing that may come to mind is the movies, particularly Tim Burton movies, for which Elfman did most of the soundtracks. unless you grew up in the 80s. for before he became famous composing soundtracks for movies like Batman, Spider-Man, Men in Black, and Terminator Salvation (full list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Elfman#Filmography ) he was the lead singer for a little band called Oingo Boingo.
here's their 1984 hit from the movie of the same title, Wierd Science. OOOOOO

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Your Daily 80s 5

Now it'll actually appear to be daily!

Today we've got the Thompson Twins, which, I know everyone will be shocked to hear, are not actually twins. Gasp! here's their first really big hit "Hold Me Now"

Your Daily 80s 4

If you'd asked me when this song came out what it was about, I probably would have "No idea, it just sounds cool." (I was only 10 years old at the time) Hearing it again a few years later, it elicited a George Takei style "Oh my!"

Here's Frankie Goes to Hollywood with "Relax"

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Today we've got a double song from a little band from the land down under you may have heard of: INXS

Here they are with "I Need You Tonight/Mediate"
Trivia time: the video for "Mediate" is an homage to Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-xIulyVsG8

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Your Daily 80s 1

Hey there you crazy kids! Tonight, old Uncle Perc's gonna start sharing a new feature: Your Daily 80s! Each night we'll take a little trip down memory lane with the silly songs we grew up with. To start us off, here's one of our favorite one hit wonders, Wall of Voodoo, singing about life south of the border...

HELO I AM A NEW BLOG

So...here we are..alone, just the two of us. Why does this blog exist?

I've been wanting to do a blog style sort of thing for a while to publish my e-comic 10,000 A.D. (hence the fancy banner up top) but I am lazy and slow to update it. But I also like to post other things, such as 80s music videos on facebook, and random political and sociological rantings, so I figured with a blog I can do all of those things and let the tags take people to where they want to go. Originally I was going to do this on its own site, but that takes money I don't have right now. C'est la vie. Enjoy!