10 hours left and I still can't decide between "Liverpool" (which will get some votes, judging by this thread, but not enough) vs "Egyptian" (which has nobody repping for it as first choice on this thread, but maybe it will get the lurker vote)
― falling while carrying an owl (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 14:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 11 March 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
"Walking Down Your Street" deserved a vote, esp. for its video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NjGAaQtRjc
― The Magnificent Colin Firth (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 March 2010 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Voted for "Egyptian" here -- didn't meant to lurk, just forgot to post. If you plotted every #1 hit of the 80s on the plane there would be giant clusters and then some small strands and then there would be "Walk Like an Egyptian," this sonic singularity, way off along the abcissa. An essentially perfect record.
But "Hazy Shade of Winter" would have been my second choice and I'm surprised and happy to see so many people are into it. I knew the S&G version first but the Bangles' cover is so much better that in my opinion it should now be considered the original.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 11 March 2010 01:34 (fourteen years ago) link
My all-time fave now is the Todd Terje "Dub Like an Egyptian" deal.
― Mark, Thursday, 11 March 2010 04:18 (fourteen years ago) link
winner deserves a video embed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG9PVucS9aw
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 11 March 2010 04:28 (fourteen years ago) link
hoffs is all-time smash material (still!) but i always had a thing for m. steele
― just do a close reading, all will be revealed (velko), Thursday, 11 March 2010 04:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Would vote in a poll of tracks off the first album.
― Zing Can Really Hang You Up the Most (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 August 2012 04:35 (eleven years ago) link
Don't think I was around for this..."Where Were You..." is one of my all time favourite covers.
― Wandering Boy Poet, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 12:37 (eleven years ago) link
Where by "the first album" you mean the s/t EP on IRS of course
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
All Over the Place would make more of my all-time lists if I didn't forget its existence.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
ok I don't know how it is that I'd never heard this track before today, but it is SO GOOD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3NDyw7b5XU&feature=player_embedded#!
― rocky dennis horror show (Pillbox), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i thought so too when i discovered it years after their 'hits' era.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 04:49 (eleven years ago) link
yeah same, i first heard it on "poptopia 80's"
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 05:10 (eleven years ago) link
spock
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 05:35 (eleven years ago) link
Huh, never knew it was a Katrina and the Waves cover.
― ledge, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 10:20 (eleven years ago) link
Me neither - was wondering how the Los Angeleno Bangles knew what a UB40 was though...
― That symptom is fucking my wife (stevie), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 10:35 (eleven years ago) link
Technically it's a "Waves" cover -- song is written by K Rew and first recorded, with Rew on lead vocals, for the pre-Katrina version of the band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQRNy0AxL6U
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
Youtube just recommended this recent Susanna Hoffs show to me which I am enjoying right now. Check out the medley from about minute 11 to 14.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoAFzv-qEKQ
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 December 2012 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
Always had a soft spot for "be with you" which is unusually eerie and unsettling for the Bangles. Also I think it's sung by Vicky.
― Poliopolice, Sunday, 30 December 2012 08:12 (eleven years ago) link
Debbie actually
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 December 2012 13:03 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, that's right. It was the blonde one.
― Poliopolice, Sunday, 30 December 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
Bunch of their albums on MySpace; really liked most of 2011's Sweethearts of the Sun---the cover of The Nazz' "Open My Eyes" sure seems like would've been Top Ten in their heyday http://www.myspace.com/thebangles/music/albums Think there's a prev 00s album not here?
― dow, Sunday, 30 December 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
On MySpace, you gotta hit Play All; try to choose tracks one by one, and MySpace Radio inserts itself--but can Pause the Play All whenever you get too excited.
― dow, Sunday, 30 December 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
Their last album was well liked 'round these parts.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 December 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
Worth noting here that Susanna's album of this year is very nice too. It didn't hit me much at first, but has really grown on me.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 30 December 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
Thread should be called Going Down To LiverPOLL
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 December 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
2012 album on her MySpace, but doesn't play, although 2009's When You're A Boy seems to be ready. Also, on the Music tab, lots of tracks from Under The Covers Vol.2 http://us.myspace.com/susannahoffs
― dow, Sunday, 30 December 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
That would be the best thread title!
ha -- I was such a Bangle fan that I swallowed a lot of disappointment in '91 when WYAB was released.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 December 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
however "Boys Keep Swinging"!
John Entwistle plays bass on that song, oddly enough (and it's hard to tell, the way it was recorded).
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Sunday, 30 December 2012 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
You mean Bowie's or their version?? Although I imagine he'd do anything to get close to a Bangle (understandably so)
― dow, Sunday, 30 December 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
I'm still fond of "My Side of the Bed," which has those kittenish qualities that Hoffs could project so effortlessly.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 December 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
xp Susanna Hoffs' solo version (on When You're A Boy). (and yeah, haha)
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Sunday, 30 December 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
She's still O Susanna, yet doesn't seem *too* kiddie on Sweethearts..., nor does she get all autumn leaves broody or blearly like so many rockers past 40.
― dow, Sunday, 30 December 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
'blearly" yeah and bleary, beery
― dow, Sunday, 30 December 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
I never saw this video for "The Real World" until just a few minutes ago. I'd guess it's from 1982 or so, and Susuanna looks like a kid (she was 23-ish).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7uSyTZN0xk
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 30 December 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
And here she is 30 years later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCVz-Kn3xEs
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 30 December 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
Posted this in the Paisley Underground thread
The Bangles played a stunningly gorgeous cover of "I'm Waiting For The Man" that merged seamlessly into "Manic Monday." After that Vicki announced "tonight we're playing as The Bangs - nothing later than 1984!" Time travel ensued. They were the best band back then. Certainly the best now.Noted that during the big finale with everyone + Rodney on stage that no one sang with Wynn.― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, December 7, 2013 3:59 AM
Noted that during the big finale with everyone + Rodney on stage that no one sang with Wynn.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, December 7, 2013 3:59 AM
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 7 December 2013 12:04 (ten years ago) link
Never heard of the top four results.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 7 December 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
are you having a bubble?
― one sexual away from HOOOOOOOOOOMO (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 7 December 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link
"Walking Down Your Street" 0
;_;
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Saturday, 7 December 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
Their biggest hit still sucks.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 June 2018 01:42 (five years ago) link
Totally spot-on, Al, especially Everything is All Over the Place recorded by a parody band.I remember my copy of Daydream Nation had “Star-strangled Bangles” written in the runout groove.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 29 June 2018 02:57 (five years ago) link
yeah i've never liked this song either
― stoker (Ross), Friday, 29 June 2018 03:00 (five years ago) link
I liked it, and to some degree still like it, because it came out when I was 8.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Friday, 29 June 2018 03:21 (five years ago) link
I thought Alfred was ragging on 'Manic Monday' or 'Eternal Flame', which wouldn't have been acceptable. However WLAE is fair game.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 29 June 2018 10:58 (five years ago) link
ditto crypto. i liked the song cos i heard it when it came out and i was six. "oh-way-oh" is still pretty cool but kind of amazing the main hook is that all the instruments drop out and the title is just spoken.
that write-up was otm on the video's impact tho. i recently re-watched it cos i saw the thumbnail of Hoffs rolling her eyes on youtube. babe appeal. lot of comments said the same. the video came during peak era MTV.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 29 June 2018 12:09 (five years ago) link
Free show last night in downtown LA. Annette is back full-time, so it's 1982 all over again - the first EP, some spot-on covers ("Pushing Too Hard" being the best), and played the hits as if they were a killer garage rock band. Which they always were.
pic.twitter.com/x3FTKdE9lB— Chris Barrus (@quartzcity) July 15, 2018
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 15 July 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
"If She Knew What She Wants" should've been #2 for weeks, not "Manic Monday."
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 August 2023 14:02 (nine months ago) link