Nolstalgic Singles

[cattygurl]

Anyone Remember These tunes? Some of these weren't huge hits.

Duran Duran Serious
Icehouse Crazy
Pete Droge If You Don't Love Me
Live Selling The Drama
King's X Over My Head
Saltwater Julian Lennon
Jane Child Don't Wanna Fall In Love
Jesus Jones right Here right Now
EMF Unbelievable
Freddy Johnston Bad Reputation
Gravity Kills Guilty
Everlasting Love Howard Jones
Ian McCulloch Honeydrip
Paranoia Harvey Danger
Crowded house Fall At Your Feet (love this song)
Belly Feed The Tree
Danny Wilson- Mary's Prayer (I adore this less known gem)
Scarlet and Black- You Don't Know
The System- Don't Disturb This Groove
Andy Taylor Take It Easy (Andy Taylor from duran duran)
Cinderella Gypsy Road
DADA Dizz Knee Land
Eels Novocaine For The Soul
Dan Hartman I Can Dream About you
Daryl Hall Dreamtime
Ocean Blue Ballerina Out Of Control
Escape club wild wild West
Everything But The Girl Miss You
Fine Young Cannibals Good Thing
Fun Loving Criminals Scooby Snacks (This was my closing song when I was working at a bar)
Gene Loves Jezebel Jealous
Gin Blossoms Found Out About You
Toadies Do You Wanna Die (My band did a cover of this way back when)
Sublime Date Rape (I loved this band back when they used to play @ Long Beach)
Goo Goo Dolls Slide
Toad the Wet Sprocket All I Want

[Vahz]

I think I remember 4 of them.

[cattygurl]

Just 4 eh? Which ones?

[Kuroyama]

Somebodys feelin that nostalgia bug eh??

"I can dream about you" - Dan Hartman? I can do better than remember it, my hand just wavered over the DVD of STREETS OF FIRE last week!! Had I rented it it wouldve been like the 20th time or so that Ive seen it.

Are there any white women hotter than Diane Lane *even now*?

Ill admit I had mad crush on a few of them growing up...

Olivia Newton John .... (Hell...XANADU? Nothing beats a fantasy girl like a MAGICAL fantasy girl... That of course includes Jeannie (Animated version...had red hair!), and on principle Samantha from Bewitched...who actually had WONDERFUL body...but they hid it on TV. You have to rent those old flicks to see it) Anyway...ONJ blew my high in her "lets get physical" stage as I went through a chubby phase at that point. Bad timing!

Virginia Madsen .... Electric Dreams... between her and the computer whose name I dont recall... that was magic enough!

Princess Leia ... I didnt even know she was smuggling produce under that robe! But something about her did it for me. Maybe hot chicks and X-wing fighters??

The French Girl from Better Off Dead... not magical perse...but how many girls you know that can transform dogpoop into a shiny, firebreathing 1967 Camaro SS?

Tabitha from Bewitched...not the child, but Lisa Hartmann when she had that show in...1980? Tabitha as a young woman...

Adrienne Barbeau.... Escape From New York, Swamp Thing, ...Fantasy Island...nuff said.

Dark Haired Chick from Battlestar Galactica. Not Athena... not frizzy blond Casseiopeia <sp?>...but there was a third girl who flew Vipers... cant recall her name.. and she wasnt the sexiest on the show...but she was for me.


Fine Young Cannibals...what happened to them??

[minbo]

I'm very bad with names, but good with tunes, so recognizing songs based on a list of titles/bands is hard for me. Off the top of my head, I recognize all these and/or have them in my MP3 library.

Duran Duran Serious
Icehouse Crazy
Saltwater Julian Lennon
Jane Child Don't Wanna Fall In Love
Jesus Jones right Here right Now
EMF Unbelievable
Gravity Kills Guilty
Everlasting Love Howard Jones
Cinderella Gypsy Road
Escape club wild wild West
Everything But The Girl Miss You
Fine Young Cannibals Good Thing
Gin Blossoms Found Out About You
Goo Goo Dolls Slide
Toad the Wet Sprocket All I Want

[silkie]

Anyone remember Petshop Boys: Left to my own devices?

[cattygurl]

I luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurve the Pet Shop boys, I have every single one of their singles. My personal fave is Domino Dancing.

[nskripchun]

I still have that Toad the Wet Sprocket joint as an MP3 on my comp.

[minbo]

How about this list of crap I culled from my iTunes just now... All stuff from the 90's or earlier. Some with one hit wonders, some slightly more lasting, some real groaners, but no super well known bands (possibly fill a decent sized performance hall at their peak for two weekend shows, but nothing near a sellout multiple shows on a multi-week run or stadium crowd), or at least not known for that type of music, some known but very niche market.

4 Non Blonds - Train
Alphaville - Forever Young
Anything Box - Living in Oblivion
Bauhaus - She's in Parties
Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl
Camouflage - The Great Commandment
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
The Distillers - Coral Fang
Einsturzende Neubauten - Salamandrina
Elastica - All-Nighter
Electronic - The Patience of a Saint
Eleventh Dream Day - Stalled Parade
Enon - Conjugate the Verbs
Falco - Rock me Amadeus
Human League - Human
The Hummingbirds - Blush
Kon Kan - I beg your pardon
L7 - Shitlist
Lightning Seeds - All I Want
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
Midnight Oil - Blue sky Mine
Ministry - Everyday
OMD - Locomotion
Peter Schilling - Major Tom
Pretenders - Hymn to Her
P.I.L. - Don't ask me
Real Life - Send me an Angel
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
Spin Doctors - Jimmy Olsen's blues
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hell
UB40 - Red Red Wine
When in Rome - The Promise
XTC - Dear God

[cattygurl]

Ooooh, lots of my favorites!

Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
Somebody's Crying is my fave (I love the entire album, actually...)

Electronic - The Patience of a Saint
Get the Message is my fave of theirs :D

Falco - Rock me Amadeus
Falco passed away, RIP

Human League - Human
Fascination is my fave song by them

L7 - Shitlist
Love Love Love L7. saw them first at a pro-choice benefit concert with Pearl Jam.

Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
I saw him when he opened up for... the Indigo Girls. Girlfriend was one of the first music vids to feature anime- I was a bit shocked to find my cousin's favorite anime as a teen featured in an ansty alterna singer's vid. HAHAHA

Midnight Oil - Blue sky Mine
I love MO- the frontman PG's now a up-and-coming player in the Liberal Party in Oz (and not as progressive as he used to be, it seems). The Dead Heart and King of the Mountain is my other favorite. I saw them when they performed for Surfriders foundation way back when.

Ministry - Everyday
I have Land of Rape and honey and Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste. I love ministry.

OMD - Locomotion
I liked Dreaming, so In Love and Talking Loud and Clear

Peter Schilling - Major Tom

Pretenders - Hymn to Her
Love that one and Thin Line Between Love and Hate. I used to have all their albums

Soft Cell - Tainted Love
and the remake of Where did Our Love Go!

Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
I remember that video. This song was popular when Polly Klauss disappeared. The guitarist liked them about would play/sing Misery when he got drunk.

Spin Doctors - Jimmy Olsen's blues
Lil Miss Can't Be Wrong! :D Two Princes was kinda... sucky.

Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hell
not the same artist, but Space's Female of the Specis was out @ the same time, and I love that song

UB40 - Red Red Wine
I like their remake of elvis' Fools Rush In (for the sliver soundtrack) and also Kingston Town

When in Rome - The Promise
I have that one! Whee!

XTC - Dear God
Mayor of Simpleton is my other fave.

Anyone remember Level 42? Something About You is a great song!

[cattygurl]

I wonder if anyone here remebers Tall Cool One by robert Plant (Now and Zen- album)

How about C'est La Vie (Robbie Nevil)

Barbie Doll Aqua
Machine Head- Bush
Head On- Jesus and Mary Chain
Semi charmed Life Third Eye Blind
Angry Johnny Poe
Buena Morphine- RIP Mark Sandman
Santa Monica Everclear
Falls Apart Sugar Ray
If you had my love JLo
You get what you want New Radicals
What it's like Everlast
Save Tonight Eagle Eye Cherry
The Alarm Refugee
Men without Hats Safety Dance
Blur boys and girls

Okay, gotsa get to bed, folks. Enough of feeling old...

[JadeDragon]

I don't really have a period where I feel nostalgic about, but I do have a few singles in my hard drive that might be considered nostalgic, I guess. I just like anything with a funky beat.

All Good (Can 7 Supermarket Remix) - De La Soul featuring Chaka Khan
All I Do - Stevie Wonder
A Rose Is Still A Rose - Aretha Franklin featuring Lauryn Hill
Because I Got It Like That - Jungle Brothers
Buddy X - Neneh Cherry
Chocolate Sensation - a remix of Loleatta Holloway's "Love Sensation" by Lenny Fontana and DJ Shorty
Connection - Elastica
Disco Revenge - Gusto
Dress You Up In My Love - Madonna
Fantasy - Mariah Carey featuring ODB
Get Down Saturday Night - Oliver Cheatham
Glory Box - Portishead
Got To Give It Up - Marvin Gaye
I Love The Nightlife (Disco Roun' Remix) - India and Nuyorican Soul
I Want You (Forever) - Carl Cox
Just Gets Better - TJR featuring Xavier
Last Night A DJ Saved My Life (Francois K Klassic Radio Edit) - Indeep
Lucky Star - Superfunk
Nessun Dorma (Live) - Aretha Franklin
Paper Bag - Fiona Apple
Peanut Butter (Larry Levan Remix) - Gwen Guthrie
Play With Bootsy - Bootsy Collins featuring Kelli Ali
Professional Widow (Armand Van Helden Helden Star Trunkin' Radio Edit) - Tori Amos
Pull Up To The Bumper - Grace Jones
Say A Little Prayer - Aretha Franklin
September - Earth, Wind and Fire
Sexy Boy (Cassius Remix) - Air
She's A Bad Mamma Jamma - Carl Carlton
Teardrops - Lovestation
Tearin' It Up (Larry Levan Vocal Remix) - Chaka Khan
Wannabe - Spice Girls
Without You - Lucy Pearl (Anyone remember them? They were this supergroup formed by Raphael Saadiq of Tony! Toni! Tone!, Dawn Robinson from En Vogue, and Ali Shaheed from A Tribe Called Quest. Broke up after one album, but the album was so good that it hurt.)
You Got The Love - Candi Staton

That playlist really makes me look like a club kid. Almost everything's a remix or a 70s house/garage tune.

[minbo]

Level 42 is great! I also liked the UB40/Pretenders "I got you babe" collaboration.

When I was a kid, I would always mix up Men without hats and Men at Work. I know, lame, but as I've said, I'm bad with names! That dyslexia kicking in.

I should have also put in Everything but the Girl, Fugazi...

Going into the very beginning of 2000 and staying with fairly obscure, how about Ladytron, Le Tigre, Mogwai and Queens of the Stone Age?

I think part of the reason I like the well known John Cusack films so much is that they always have so many old 80's songs. High Fidelity, Grosse Point Blank. But then, I guess I like his films without the 80's soundtracks also, but a good 80's soundtrack really gives a movie a good boost, like Six String Samurai, Wedding Singer, Trainspotting, Donnie Darko. Nostalgia music films...

[JadeDragon]

Ladytron - 17
Le Tigre - Decepticon
Queens Of The Stone Age - In My Head

Are they really obscure? I figured they just didn't hit Britney-style levels of fame. But then all I've heard from them were in remixes/mash-ups. I've never really heard anything from Mogwai, though.

[Lum]

Mogwai's alright, but maybe not yer thing Jade...guitar noodlers. They're like Godspeed-lite.

I know there aren't many wavers/shoegazers here, but Loveless by My Bloody Valentine is quite possibly the best damn guitar record of the 90's. It coulda come out yesterday and still be cool. Only thing on it resembling a single is "Soon", though. :)

[cattygurl]

Loveless by My Bloody Valentine... fuck! forgot about that one. I'll hafta go find it now...

[Ike]

I don't think I can be nostalgic for something that I wasn't around for the first time, but I've been in an 80's ballad mood today.
Sister Christian, Jessie's Girl, Don't Stop Believing...

[silkie]

Kuro, I thought your first thread was about music videos. For a while I was lamenting my repressive childhood without MTV and all the sexed up videos. I do remember Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher," which did me in pretty well until I looked at my own teacher at school.

Catty, yeah, "Domino Dancing" and "Left to My Own Devices" are both on introspection, which I think is one of their best albums! Remeber "Alright"? What a great tune! I played it once at the end of a hectic house night at the Roxy (Boston), and it surprising worked really well. But I still remember a documentary with an interview with Frankie Knuckles, and he mentioned his remix of "Left to My Own Devices," and there is a beautiful image of a disco with people grooving to that song. Gosh! There is also a Plastic Avengers remix of "I Want to Wake Up" (from another album), which took the hook from the last part of that song and loops it. It's called "Welcome to the Future."

Funny, while I was listening to Pet Shop Boys I was also listening to death metal. I pretty much kept it from letting all my skater friends know that I listen to PSB. And it was only about 2 years ago that someone told me they are a gay act.

Minbo- great tunes!

Catty (second list). Aqua??!!! AHHH!!!! And I thought you...Oh, my head....:D

Jade Dragon- Smashing list, with some great house tunes. I used to shop at Vinyl Mania in NYC, where they would have tons of pictures of Larry Levan in the store. RIP. I actually get more of a nostalgic bug from 90's house tunes. "Disco Revenge" reminds me of my first trip to London and my sister would bring me to clubs as opposed to national monuments. I only saw Big Ben when I was in a cab coming home from a long night.

"Sexy Boy"- Cassius's mix is awesome--what about Beck's remix?
Le Tigre- Decepticon- only heard the DFA remix, but loves it


Stepping back, anyone like:
Peter Murphy-Roll Call
The Pixies- anything from them
Kool and the Gang- Fresh
The Commodores- Machine Gun
Bad Brains- Sacred Love
Bad Brains- House of Suffering
Megadeth- the Conjury
Q Lazarus- Goodbye Horses (original Silence of the Lambs version)
Evelyn Thomas- High Energy
Losoul- Lies (Watch Your Lift)
CAN- Vitamin C (both original and U.N.K.L.E remix will do)
DJ Krush- Meiso (DJ Shadow remix)
Taylor Presents Libra- Calling Your Name
Chaka Khan- Ain't Nobody
Nightwriter- Let the Music Use You
Deep Dish- Dreams

[cattygurl]

Silkie! Great tunes! My fave commodores - Night Shift (so pedestrian, i know) , Brick House and Easy (Like Sunday Morning). LOOOOVE the Pixies. Bad Brains, Megadeath....

Funny you mention that. We were going through a Death Metal phase at the same time... man, my DM friends used to roast me over the open fire for even mentioning that I liked PSB's cover/medley of "Where The Streets Have No Name" and Frank Sinatra's "Can't Take My Eyes Off You." I loooved Depeche Mode's Violater and Erasure's Chorus, so yeh, I was ribbed rather often for liking "fluff". I've found that as of late, I still love metal but damn, I can't listen to it for hours on end anymore, and headbanging gives me a bad headache.

Kool and the Gang- holy shit!!!!!!!! Celebration! Are you old enough to remember De Barge (Rhythm of the Night). Kajagoogoo- Too Shy. If anyone remembers, the lead singer of Kajagoogoo did the made soundtrack tune to the movie Neverending Story.

[cattygurl]

Oh, and how could anyone not like Peter Murphy (loved Bauhaus and all their side projects). I missed the Bauhaus reunion like 8 years ago and I'm still kicking myself for missing it.

[Kuroyama]

I dont know about Peter Murphy...But I had to just go Isohunt some Peter Gabriel...

Also... Level 42 !!!
Something About You
Lessons in Love
Children Say

[minbo]

Ahh, in regards to the "fairly obscure", I meant what I wrote, but did not write what I meant. They are not incredibly obscure, but I don't think that they are widely known, hence the 'fairly obscure". It seems that everyone I run into is a "top 40's" "light rock" "whatever is playing on the crappiest radio station in the spectrum" fan. I have gradually but firmly come to the conclusion that the masses are an ignorant, badly behaved, smelly, sweaty lot with poor music tastes, and everyone I associate with in real life or online are members of the elite 99% of the population in some way, mostly good.

I once went out with a girl who had never heard of New Order. I had not known that people like that who actually went to college existed in America.

Can't believe that I forgot the Pixies!

While I have never thought to myself to go out of my way to listen to them, when they are are on I do enjoy them... Aqua definitely belongs in Kuro's guilty pleasure music thread, along with Right Said Fred.

[Lum]

Can't believe that I forgot the Pixies!

While I have never thought to myself to go out of my way to listen to them, when they are are on I do enjoy them...

Dude, no time like the present.

I used to watch my roommates play GTA Vice City for hours on end. They kept asking if I wanted to try it and I'd say "nah, just put the new wave station back on." Hee!

[cattygurl]

girl who had never heard of New Order

Regret and Love Vigilantes are my faves!!!!!!

Wha? Also, anything by Joy Division brings back really terrible times in my life but I still love their shtuff.

I love aimee Mann's solo stuff, but god I still love Til Tuesday's Voices Carry.

also, Tori Amos' Crucify brings back lots of bad memories of my ex. Great song, but nostalgic in a bad way.

Sundays- I have good memories of Here's Where The Story Ends
Social D- Ball and Chain (that was my fave smoking tune back in high school).

Actually have a few of the Orbital's stuff- I *liked* the Saint soundtrack (don't kill me).

Oh, and I don't know about anyone here, but I really like STP's freshman album. Sex Type Thing is a rockin' tune man.

10k Maniacs- I love Trouble Me and the enitre album, actually.

Smiths- How Soon Is Now

Siouxie and the Banshees- Kiss Them For Me. i used to love playing Siouxie after all the drunks are out and the bar's empty while I smoked and cleaned up the bar (the little dive bar I was at let me smoke indoors as soon as the custies were out).

Concrete Blonde- Bloodletting was a great album. I loved Tomorrow, Wendy. that was my boarding school days, late at night. My roomie and I would make screwdrivers and smoke while listening to this album. good times.

jim Carroll Band- People Who died

alice in chains- they were actually my fave grunge band. RIP Les. I don't think I've heard anything by them that I didn't like.

Sublime- their remake of GD's Scarlet Begonias on 40 oz to Freedom- that entire album rocked.

Big Audio Dynamite- I freakin' loved Looking for a Song.

Soupdragons- Divine Thing.

[cattygurl]

Fugazi!

Pigfaceeeeeee!

GWAR!!!! They're still around, but good times, those bands.

Oh, and Skinny Puppy. I fucking love them and Rammestein.

[cattygurl]

Ah, and slayer's stuff from the 90's (Raining Blood, Angel of Death, etc) as well as Sepultura's stuff brings back good, good times. They had some killer tours back the the day...

[minbo]

If you are going to go Skinny Puppy, I'll have to go Misfits.

I did not mean that I didn't listen to the Pixies, the I don't seek them out but enjoy when they are on was for Aqua and Right Said Fred. Bangles...

[JadeDragon]

"Sexy Boy"- Cassius's mix is awesome--what about Beck's remix?
Le Tigre- Decepticon- only heard the DFA remix, but loves it

The Sex Kino mix by Beck is pretty good too, if a little sluggish for my discofied tastes; I'll always like the Cassius one better, hee. But Beck's own work is great, and "The New Pollution" will always have a place on my playlists.

And because I like sharing, here's a mash-up of Le Tigre's "Decepticon (DFA Remix)" with Rod Stewart. =D It's by this New York guy, DJ Lobsterdust.
http://www.divshare.com/download/717954-dfd

[cattygurl]

Minbo,

I like Misfits, Samhain and Danzig too, although one of my ex roommates took off with all their cds that I had...

In that vein, you gotta love the Ramons and Black Flag.

[cattygurl]

I love Here Comes Your Man from the Pixies (my old band used to cover that one). I loved surfer Rosa and played it so much my roomie learned to hate that album.

fuck, I am officially over-caffinated, buzzing outta my chair, and been up for right about 23 hours straight finishing up a deadline. I wanna get my ass to bed, but I can't. fall. asleep. UGH.

[AZN MAN]

Hey Catwoman -

Since you're on the nostalgic singles kick, I thought I'd offer up this list of tunes. These are all songs that I either played, was made to listen to, or got educated on by someone.

1955 Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
1956 Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino
1957 Keep A Knockin' - Little Richard
1958 That'll Be The Day - Buddy Holly
1959 That's Why (I Love You So) - Jackie Wilson
1960 Georgia On My Mind - Ray Charles
1961 Michael - The Highwaymen
1962 Twistin' the Night Away - Sam Cooke
1963 Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto
1964 No Particular Place To Go - Chuck Berry
1965 Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
1966 Paint It Black - Rolling Stones
1967 Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry
1968 Honey - Bobby Goldsboro
1969 Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye - Steam
1970 War - Edwin Starr
1971 Proud Mary - Ike & Tina Turner
1972 All the Young Dudes - Mott the Hoople
1973 Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group
1974 Rikki Don't Lose That Number - Steely Dan
1975 Lovin' You - Minnie Riperton
1976 Tear the Roof Off The Sucker - Parliament
1977 Got to Give It Up - Marvin Gaye
1978 Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) - Styx
1979 Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? - Rod Stewart
1980 Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
1981 Ah! Leah! - Donnie Iris
1982 Mickey - Toni Basil
1983 Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
1984 When Doves Cry - Prince
1985 Perfect Way - Scritti Politti
1986 Kyrie - Mr. Mister
1987 In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
1988 Cult of Personality - Living Color
1989 Back To Life - Soul II Soul
1990 You Do Me - Ryuichi Sakamoto

[nightshade]

Anyone Remember These tunes? Some of these weren't huge hits.

Toad the Wet Sprocket All I Want

Here's a funny take by Annie Choi on "All I Want."

http://www.ruinedmusic.com/2006-all-i-want-is-to-feel-this-way-to-be-this-close-to-feel-the-same.html

[Kuroyama]

Excuse me I MUST go download some Mr. Mister.