In Which Doctor Casino Listens to Classic Rock Classics for the First Time

I remember it being fairly big at the time-Billboard shows it as a #6 in the US. I think it's a great little pop one off, but I definitely see how CR adopted it.

Musically it's not that far from what Bryan Adams was doing, and I think it's fair to cast mid-80s classic rock as either hair metal, or having a vague MTV/new-wave image (if not sound).

will be interesting to hear the Doc's reaction.

Yeah, I can see Bryan Adams or Mike and the Mechanics comparisons. I think I want a dangly gold cross earring now. Can we bring those back for dudes?

yeah, this Mike & the Mechanics entry is definitely the most wtf nominee

campreverb otm about 80s classic rock being either hair metal or new-wavey. Choogling and boogie rock doesn't make it very far into the 80s. I think the only other category of 80s classic rock is the holy trinity of earnest rocking': Petty/Mellencamp/Springsteen.

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/ZZ_Top_-_Eliminator.jpg

yeah, definitely nothing new wavy in that one.

love that record, of course, made my side ballot of top 5 classic rock records. And not "new wavy" in the same way the Cars or Outfield are. But I don't think it emphatically contradicts my point.

ah yes, roots rock.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8f/Allentown_Billy_Joel.jpg

van halen also secretly carrying the boogie banner

Yeah, boogie rock didn't totally disappear in 1980, you still saw it in hybrid with new wave and hair metal.

Unalloyed boogie of the 70s variety no longer a cultural force, though. Even, like, "Hold On Loosely" kind of sounds like the Cars.

The Stray Cats were pretty popular for about one year, right?

they neither choogle nor boogie

they strut.

What about The Georgia Satellites?

'your love' is the worst most abominable garbage, i have never stopped hating that fkin song in its near 30 years of existence.

and i love the referents it is adopting, just the song itself is such shit

Georgia Satellites, Van Halen (Hot for Teacher), and AC/DC are the best counter-arguments to the "death of boogie" theory, and they all have boogie asterisks attached.

And as for chooglin', there was virtually none that decade asterix or no

"Boogie Asteriks" also an underrated Earth, Wind & Fire b-side.

Unalloyed boogie of the 70s variety no longer a cultural force, though. Even, like, "Hold On Loosely" kind of sounds like the Cars.
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Specifically, "just what I needed"

I guess I'm thinking of boogie as descriptive of a particular approach to rhythm rather than tone or production style. Boogie survives and adapts even as bloozrock gives up the ghost. Just relocates from the swamp to the Sunset Strip.

AC/DC lost about 2/3 of their boogie power when Bon Scott died. (Seriously, the songs on Back in Black and everything after are routinely half the speed of the '70s material.)

what the fart is "choogling"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azt-0StLZOk

Your Love has been the first song this thread that I knew. From that recent SNL sketch with Josh Hutcherson and HAIM. So know I'm listening to HAIM. Good stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RxBHRZpIdg

Is this not a boogie? If not, what am I missing?

I'm sorry I cannot support "chooglin'" as a word or a concept.

If I saw the aged singer of The Outfield on the streets of manhattan my pacifist ethos would be stretched beyond its limit.

It's like a cross between butt chugging and one of those "comedy" sex moves like the dirty sanchez or whatever.

i have confidence that ilx massive can convert carl agatha to a chooglin' adherent with just a few well aimed YTs

It's going to take some doing to overcome my revulsion for the word, but I'm open to further examples.

"chooglin'" too close to "chive on" or somethin

If I can't choogle, I don't want to be part of your classic rock revolution.

carl agatha, most extensive discourse on choogling probably in this thread:

Creedence Clearwater Revival vs the Grateful Dead vs the Band

It's a pretty long thread though, so ctrl-f.

KEEP
CALM
AND
CHOOGL'ON

The Outfield might be a poor man's police but I find this song better than anything on Sting's output.

everything he says sounds like almost words but to me mostly this:

BABA BA BABA BA BAAAAAAAA BAAA BAAA

Solo sting mostly sucks but the outfield dude could never aspire to the profundity of hoping the Russians love their children too

bet outfield guy can't even sing a canticle

HEY OUTFIELD HOW'S YOUR LUTE

I actually never noticed the Sting vocal resemblance, though now I can't unheard it. I actually thought "Your Love" was a Rick Springfield song until this polling process started.

unheard it, i mean.

*unhear* it! autocorrect killing me.

I actually thought "Your Love" was a Rick Springfield song until this polling process started.

Was actually gonna reference Rick Springfield in my post upthread.

"Your Love" sounds like The Cure.

don't really hear cure or police tbh. like yes there's some chorus and dude's in a higher register but rhythmically and melodically the sensibility is miles away. closer to men at work if anything.

Your Love: Sounds like the Cars. Not Classic Rock. But nice. Good opening, ready for some action here. Okay. I think you've...played that enough. Song? There we go.

OH THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISS! That guy! yeah! I don't wanna lose your love tonight, that's where this is going. Riiiiiight. Sorry, y'all - false alarm. Never knew this had a title, or an artist - just part of the background noise of "Eighties, Nineties, and Today!" stations. Never really paid attention to the words or anything. The way the guitar brushes in on "un-der-cover!" is really lovely. I totally hear the soundscape of Synchronicity-era Police, especially in the break around 1:40 and the bridge that follows that. Unfortunately these guys aren't as inventive, or technically skilled, as the Police, so this only has so many places it can go, and the long ending gets seriously busy and annoying - I'm sure that gets faded a lot earlier when this gets played on the radio. But it's fine.

The video is bland but at least kind of sweetly charming - now these are some goofy looking guys. Love the one creep in the trenchcoat and the huge shades. Are they showing up to a gig or an art class? Main guy is trying so hard for Paul McCartney stage presence, though the hair is more directly 80s and he seems distinctly mismatched from the other members of the band, especially Hi-Tops guy. LOL at the paint effects... very Nickelodeon. Hahah, yeah, so it's an art class happening during the shooting of their video? What a weird premise, I wonder how that was explained to the band at the time.

We elect you to explain it to them.

P.S. died at all the frog dance extrapolations, bravo everyone

TS: Colin Hay (Men at Work) vs. Tony Lewis (The Outfield) vs. Sting (The Police)