POLLnight Blue: 80s Debut Singles from Lead Singers Who Went Solo

That's it: he's just as full of himself but with few solo songs commensurate with his self-regard.

http://youtu.be/E9x-Mu5xyXE

bah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9x-Mu5xyXE

lindsey buckingham's 'trouble'

ooh that's a bad miss. Would be strongly impelled to vote for this.

Don't think I've heard "I Found Somebody", but Frey's second solo single "The One You Love" still gets tons of airplay in my area and I've developed a certain appreciation for it, such a sweet saxophone groove

DON: Well, yeah.

is it just pavlovian at this point

It is interesting, on their first solo records, how closely Frey hewed to the Eagles sound while Henley was like "LOL time to make a new wave record!"

yeah i'll ride for the one u love. It has a v unfreylike grace.

still can't not love dirty laundry even though the scoldy judgy lyrics are abonimable. I just love the arrangement and production so much.

all she wants to do is dance can GTFO though

i have my limits

FM is a tough one. They have less of a lead singer than they do three singers who sing lead.

Not gonna lie, I stopped reading and voted after I saw the first choice.

I'm the one voting for Ice Cube, though I don't know if he would qualify as a "singer," per se.

Never even heard this album but i've been thinking about the ritchie/commodores lately:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/Lionel_Richie_(self-titled_album_-_cover_art).jpg

Ian Anderson - Fly By Night

i'm going to be a good boy and not embed this clip of Ian twirling his flute around alone with a keyboard player on the leo sayer show, but it's fucking hilarious

Boy George Everything I Own

croup that reminds me, that top 40 tumblr you do is fantastic

yeah I listened to the early eighties top 20 playlist the other morning

oh Boy George's 'Everything I Own' -- that was a favorite song when it came out, I haven't heard it in so long

thanks croup

you're welcome, y'all!

croup that reminds me, that top 40 tumblr you do is fantastic

― balls, Wednesday, July 23, 2014 5:19 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whats it called this tumblr

http://50yearsoftop40.tumblr.com/

o i meant his other one - http://my40plusplusfetish.tumblr.com

jk. DO NOT CLICK THAT. DO NOT DO NOT CLICK THAT.

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nothing wrong with some hot ladies. Gives me something to grab for. My vote.

I wash hoping someone would talk about that first Ric Ocasek solo, supposedly more synth-heavy than his Cars stuff.

That particular song is more guitar heavy than The Cars at that moment. It might as well have been a Cars album. I like the single. Have the 45 with the picture sleeve.

DON: Well, yeah.

never not funny

literally just learnt that AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted was a single. If I'd known that all along, I might vote for it, but that whole album just feels like a piece to me. I Want Your Sex would be a contender, if it had been Yog's debut. If DLR was listed as the Crazy From The Heat EP, not just California Girls, hands-down winner. So that leaves me with .... voting for Suedehead?

:( you guys

Suedehead popped up on my giant spotify playlist this evening. It's still fantastic.

just listened to Midnight Blue for the first time

how do any of you people remember that you ever heard this

it helps that the cute older boys cover band performed it on my v first day of high school :D

someone edited the Suedehead video to fit the Sparks remix

i think midnight blue is quite memorable

mongrel fite!

sic u r so evolved, how do you cope with us mere mortals

I saw R.E.M. do this on this tour in '87. A friend of mine who was at the same show ended up working out next to Lou Gramm at a gym sometime the next year and told Lou that R.E.M. had done his song. Lou was apparently very excited to hear it.

http://youtu.be/SQbAizfsvrQ

I heard midnight blue for the first time today as far as I know and had exactly the same reaction as sic.

can't wait to find out what kind of ennui you guys deal w/ when you discover getting laid

balls will u marry me

jim you're thinking of Electric Blue, by Icehouse

now I am too, good times

if a boy had a chance...

can't wait to find out what kind of ennui you guys deal w/ when you discover getting laid

― balls, Wednesday, July 23, 2014 11:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

balls will u marry me

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl),

leave him alone he's mine

arg u greedy bitch you get all the good ones

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

just knowing about crazy train and homosapien means i must vote other, but i'm sure these scores more.