defend the indefensible: MR. MISTER

"don't forget me when i'm gone" (with a BRYAN ADAMS cameo!)

Thanks. Doesn't help one bit. Can you sing a few lines?

"Broken Wings" and "Kyrie" are both fantastic songs. Calling "broken Wings" a Jesus-freak anthem should probably make you rethink your grasp of the English language.

The tin-eared reactionaryism of ILMers who regularly got their books dumped in junior high appears to be on the rise again!

You take my breath away
Love thinks it's here to stay
There's still so much for me to do
And I can't stop loving you
Oh can this be true

If you could see what I have seen
(The) broken hearts and broken dreams
Then I wake up and you're not there
Pain finds me everywhere
Oh! but you don't care

CHORUS:

Don't forget me when I'm gone
My heart would break
I have loved you for so long
It's all I can take

You, you take my breath away
Love thinks it's here to stay
There's still so much for me to do
And I can't stop loving you
Oh! can this be true

CHORUS:

Then I wake up and you're not there
Pain finds me everywhere
Oh! but you don't care

hey, if dissing mr. mister and glass tiger is reactionary-ism then i'll wear it proudly.

Actually, (aside from confusing them with the Hooters), I have surprisingly pleasant memories of "Kyrie" and "Broken Wings", considering that they were released around late '85/early '86 - a particularly lousy period for radio (at least in my opinion.)

Circular logic. Isn't Mr Mr the indication that radio was lousy?

1985 Was When It All Started to Turn to Shit

(note that i don't agree w/ my original position any more.)

"Cry Wolf" - a-ha
"Let's Go All The Way" - Sly Fox
"Tarzan Boy" - Baltimora
"Right On Track" - The Breakfast Club
"West End Girls" - Pet Shop Boys
"Opportunities" - Pet Shop Boys
"Something About You" - Level 42
"Everybody Wants To Rule The World" - Tears For Fears
"Shout" - Tears For Fears
"Head Over Heels" - Tears For Fears
"Living On A Prayer" - Bon Jovi
"A Love Bizarre" - Sheila E.
"Kiss" - Prince & the Revolution
"Curiosity" - The Jets
"Crush On You" - The Jets
"Let The Music Play" - Shannon
"Touch Me (I Want Your Body)" - Samantha Foxx
"Like A Virgin" - Madonna
"Dress You Up" - Madonna
"Papa Don't Preach" - Madonna
"Take On Me" - a-ha
"Careless Whispers" - Wham!
"Out Of Touch" - Hall & Oates
"Wild Boys" - Duran Duran
"Sledgehammer" - Peter Gabriel
"Big Time" - Peter Gabriel
"True Colors" - Cyndi Lauper
"Take My Breath Away" - Berlin
"Secret Lovers" - Atlantic Starr
"Venus" - Bananarma
"I Can't Wait" - Nu Shooz

10 dud songs in 1985

http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1986/top100.htm

http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1986/top100.htm

5 dud songs in 1986

I despise Cutting Crew's "(I Just Died) In Your Arms Tonight," but their other hit "I've Been in Love Before" has that airy, synthy "Your Wildest Dreams"

Let's call this genre poof-rock (billowy synths, guitar wankery, HUGE mullets). I'm curious as to why the U.S. marketplace was vulnerable to such a hostile takeover. Mr Mister, Glass Tiger, and CC, Heart, Starship, Richard Marx. Anything else.

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touche'/whatever.

expressio unius est exclusio alterius, yo!

(that is, if (a) a song was in the top 40 of 1985, and (b) i did not include it in my "this song sucks!" list from that year, then (c) i like it (indie/emo cred or no.)

Like "Kyrie" and "Broken Wings."

The video for "We Built This City" is at least splendid, odiferous cheese.

Anyone remember Vitamin Z? They made Glass Tiger sound like Glass Pantera.

What about "White Rabbit"?

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Don't tell us you need us, 'cos we're just simple foooooools!"
-"We Built This City"

She sounds like a phony diva, rather like Pat Benatar.

-- dave225

Yeah, but "Kyrie" was less lousy than, say, "Silent Running" or "Russians".

I do have a nostagic love for the crapitude of 80's radio. But my god, it was awful.

There is nothing phony about Pat Benatar's divadom! She's a Juilliard-trained spinto!

I like posting this, where you can see Pat rocking the mullet *and* the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzl3AB5tw-w

I can't remember how Kyrie goes without mentally hearing it segue into Breakout by Swing Out Sister due to a 20 year old tv ad for a 'hits of the 80s' compilation that featured brief clips of both songs next to each other (Kyrie eleison, down the road that I must travel - BREAKOUT!)

― soref, Tuesday, December 12, 2017 1:

thanks for writing my suicide note

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, December 12, 2017 1:13 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haha, if you are talking about a UK TV ad there is at least a 70% chance I made that edit.

I actually remember the same TV ad! It used to air a lot on VH-1 circa 1996-1997.

This thread made me cry laughing.

Reason for revive: up until this year, this holiday season, I'd never heard "Kyrie." Now, I hear it whenever I go into almost any retail outlet, which isn't too often given the pandemic. Is anyone else experiencing this? Is this just the weird mid-Atlantic pocket of the east coast US where this is happening?

I was just looking for this band's name after hearing the new War On Drugs tracks/rough mixes they shared on an instagram stream and thinking "broken wings"

so that sound may be back on the way in?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMGxrHWq6Tg