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The Low Rider Is Revving In The Drive
Listen and compare basslines –
There’s even some similarity between the opening drum rolls.
Actual video here, I used the other one because this version skips over the opening drums.
I was something of a Thompson Twins fan when I was in junior high. I had the records Side Kicks and Into The Gap (on vinyl), and I think I had some 12″ remix album of “In the Name Of Love.” While I didn’t collect clippings or anything like that, I did read pieces about them in music magazines when I was in a store. I was rather into New Wave thanks to MTV.
I pretty much lost interest in the band not too long afterward, partly because their new single “Lay Your Hands On Me” sucked, and whatever residual interest I had in checking out their new album was likely snuffed by this. I suspect that it also helped kill their careers as well.
Red Days And Green Flowers
Uptown
It’s murder
Out in the street
So I’m talking to Allamagoosa while Pandora Radio is playing and this song comes on. “Oh, there’s a cheerful Valentine’s Day song… especially if you consider the massacre.”
Since she’s a fan of anime and many things Japanese, does that make her my Mandarin Plum?
The Faithful’re Not Gonna Take It
Someone is going to Hell for this –
Better quality here but it crops out the intro.
I can picture him cleaned up with a haircut in a cathedral and belting out a traditional version of this song.
For you know-nuthin’ kids who were unfortunate enough to have not lived through the 80s, watch this first.
Rocktober – Intermission
First a public service announcement from two legendary rockers…
Ozzy begins a new dietary plan
And now a promotional consideration for a Rock Legend without peer – Billy And The Boingers!
The metal band Deathtongue languished in remainder bins until a Senate Committee on Rock Music forced a name change to Billy And The Boingers. Their next song “I’m A Boinger” rocketed them to superstardom
Music will resume after a brief word from our sponsor –
And now back to our most irregular Halloween programming.
Dream Into Action
The four stages of technological progress –
Phase 1 – Origination and dissemination of idea, often through Science Fiction
Lila, The Build-A-Friend from OMAC
Phase 2 – Ideas hrönired into reality engineered by Science!
Phase 3 – Refinement, mass production and Integration into lifestyle [Hat tip to Wdydfae]
Phase 4 – Ordinary everyday horseshit drama
And you thought “Friends” was bad with mere humans
All 4 stages neatly summed up
Do not ride the hoverboard. BE the hoverboard!
Bonus round for anyone who caught the title reference
The Apocalypse of Exuberant Hairstylings was narrowly avoided when the 1980s, in a surprise move, ended.
