Where is the love for all these bands from my vinyl 12-inch "V" shelf who have rarely if ever been mentioned (unless I just never noticed) on ILM?

Hi Chuck! I like the Vels!

vixen = dreadful chick metal? i remember them from some "top 40 worst metal ever" thing i saw on pay tv the other day

Great., Scott! Did you have your new baby yet???

I like the Vibrators too! but not andreas vollenweider much.

Vixen = chick metal yes, but less dreadful than many numbskulls pretend

YES!! I should have e-mailed you, but i forgot. i started a thread on ILE, but i forget that ILMers don't go there sometimes!

Scott Seward & Maria D. Would Like To Announce...

I will actually send you pictures right now to your e-mail!

Congratulations, Scott!! That is wonderful!! No, I had no idea; I always forget to check ILE!! I can' t wait to see pictures of Cyrus tomorrow, when I am near my email! But now I am going to bed!!

same here. nighty nite.

Congrats Scott!

Yes, there have been some Vixen threads, mostly short ones. Their two albums were reissued just a few months ago after a VH1 "Bands Reunited" thing.

First album had a pop rock song written by Richard Marx -- "Edge of a Broken Heart" -- that made a dent on MTV. Second album they chose to write themselves with mixed results, although the tune "Rev It Up" is decent.

Third album came along many years later, called "Tangerine." Was the most metal of the three, the band pared down to a three-piece with a couple originals not in attendance and a new guitarist.

'Pure Mania' is one of *the* all-time great albums, but I suspect I don't have to tell Chuck this. Was it "London Girls" that made your bubblegum list in a late-'80s Creem, Chuck? A woman I was seeing at the time scoffed at that article, telling me "No wonder you like him so much." We used to argue about the merits (or in my opinion the lack of same) of stuff like Miracle Legion.

By coincidence, I bought the new issue of "classic rock" the other day, and there was a feature on Vixen in it! I can't rememeber much about it, though, they're still going, or they've reformed or something. There's something quite pleasing to me about all those hair metal bands who were supposed to have been ("supposed to have been") stomped by grunge who are still keeping on. One of Vixen was briefly in "the decline and fall of western civilisation the metal years" thus ends the sum of my knowledge about Vixen. In my ideal world, they'd be great.

Andreas Vollenweider, blimey, there's a name from the past! I had a friend who was very into the whole new-age music thing. He was/is a harp player, and I remember this friend had a 12" album of his that had the words "new age harp" in big letters on the cover. I kind of remember the guy had shoulder-length curly hair, and he was from Switzerland. Of the actual music, I can remember nothing.

Vixen were destined never to make it big in Germany, since their name is phonetically identical to the German "wichsen", meaning to have a wank.

There was a cute little pop group struggling to get out beneath the Vibrators' half-assed punk drag. I liked "Whips & Furs" from their Autumn 76 Peel session, and some of their almost power-poppy singles from c.78, such as "Judy Says (Gonna Knock You In The Head)", "Automatic Lover", "London Girls".

My "alternativen" hippy flatmates in Berlin were all into Andreas Vollenweider and his New Age harp-based noodlings. Not for me, shall we say.

Not desperately fond of Voggue's "Dancin' The Night Away"... supper-club schaffel, with THAT eighties sax sound, but the strings are pretty enough.

Voyage! "From East To West" and the immortal "Scots Machine"!! Proto-hi-NRG!!!

Congratulations, Scott Seward and Maria D!
I dunno any of those V people.

Alice from the Vels is still playing around NYC.

Vivien Vee is classic italo-disco, early tracks like Give Me a Break produced by Claudio Simonetti from Goblin. Pick Me Up is a really fun new wave song, and Blue Disease is a big electo-italo-disco classic, very popular with the I-F/cbs crowd.

Just because I want to get them one shout on the internets: Where is the love for The ...Vers?

Wisconsin new-wavey, late-70s, did a 7-inch and appeared on a couple of comps; "I Can't Get No Medication"; the singer, Mondo, wore like a trenchcoat with badges all over it; the first out-of-town club band (as opposed to arena-rock) that I ever used a fake ID to go see.

'Souvenirs' by Voyage is worth shimmering your hips to.

If you ever see an import record by Vic Vergat, get it. Definitely something to add to your "V" collection for next time around a couple years from now.

Theo Vaness...I remember his "Bad Bad Boy" from an old K-Tel disco sampler I owned (on 8-track tape!) back in '79 or so. A kind of harder-rocking Dan Hartman, as best as I can recall.

I was just listening to that Voggue song the other day and mike t-diva is right, all I could think about was how it's a schaffel song.

I really, really, really need to get around to buying that Vibrators album.

I am pretty sure Video Kids have been mentioned on several occasions here..

Chuck, I think your copy of 'Gonna get along without you' by Viola Wills has fallen down the back of the shelves, that's just one big lovely hug of a disco song and you *must* have it.

Oops, that should be on the W thread. Sorry.

Congrats, SkotxMaria! Vixen was on that VH-1 show where they try to get bands (all from the 80s, that I've seen) back together for a one-off gig. That trio album got them sued by co-founding guitarist, when they did it without her. Much back and forth on this; did she eventually show up for the one-off? Tune in and see!I didn't remember them at all, since I avoided that aspect of the 80s as much as possible (until getting brainwashed by working in record stores, but I'm still catching up).They sound okay now, at least on the show. Vollenweider I'm still avoiding (until the great New Age revival of Jeb's second term, when I'll be in an old folk's camp)