"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!
― The Ghost of OH NO HE DIDN'T (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link
You take my breath awayLove thinks it's here to stayThere's still so much for me to doAnd I can't stop loving youOh can this be true
If you could see what I have seen(The) broken hearts and broken dreamsThen I wake up and you're not therePain finds me everywhereOh! but you don't care
CHORUS:
Don't forget me when I'm goneMy heart would breakI have loved you for so longIt's all I can take
You, you take my breath awayLove thinks it's here to stayThere's still so much for me to doAnd I can't stop loving youOh! can this be true
Then I wake up and you're not therePain finds me everywhereOh! but you don't care
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link
hey, if dissing mr. mister and glass tiger is reactionary-ism then i'll wear it proudly.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link
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.)
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link
Circular logic. Isn't Mr Mr the indication that radio was lousy?
― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link
1985 Was When It All Started to Turn to Shit
(note that i don't agree w/ my original position any more.)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link
"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
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link
10 dud songs in 1985
http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1986/top100.htm
5 dud songs in 1986
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Christopher R. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of ILM posters (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost
touche'/whatever.
― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:09 (nineteen years ago) link
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.)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Like "Kyrie" and "Broken Wings."
The video for "We Built This City" is at least splendid, odiferous cheese.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Anyone remember Vitamin Z? They made Glass Tiger sound like Glass Pantera.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:15 (nineteen years ago) link
What about "White Rabbit"?
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link
(xpost)
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link
-- dave225
Yeah, but "Kyrie" was less lousy than, say, "Silent Running" or "Russians".
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link
I do have a nostagic love for the crapitude of 80's radio. But my god, it was awful.
― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link
There is nothing phony about Pat Benatar's divadom! She's a Juilliard-trained spinto!
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 18 April 2005 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 18 April 2005 18:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 18 April 2005 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 April 2005 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 18 April 2005 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link
!
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 18 April 2005 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 18 April 2005 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link
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?
― "Bi" Dong A Ban He Try (the table is the table), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
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"
― StanM, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link
so that sound may be back on the way in?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMGxrHWq6Tg
― xzanfar, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 18:32 (three years ago) link