I find it strange that eighties music is constantly thrown at us, especially in shopping malls and supermarkets, yet it is very targeted and some songs are rarely heard.
Were the eighties revered? I think not, but it was listenable and pleasant.
When I was younger, and the eighties was current, all you heard in such places was seventies music. This was as cheesy in its own way as I see the eighties as now.
Shouldn't we now be paraded with music from the noughties or the tens? If history would repeat itself, then this is what we should be listening to.
...'or it is so bad that old ladies would fall over in fear and the explicit language would revolt them..., as much of it is rap crap?'...
Rain or Shine – Five Star (Silk & Steel – 1986)
Five Star; a replica pop outfit that you never hear of, unless you were knocking about in 1986 and followed the music charts.
They arrived in Spring of that year, and ran out of steam eighteen months later, but during that time period showered us with a string of hits.
Unashamedly modelling their image on 'The Jacksons', with the groups' father dictating the flow, the outfit was indeed an English clone, both looking the part and sounding like them, except if anything they sounded a little better.
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...'the similarities between Denice Pearson and Janet Jackson were more in the style than the looks, if you discount hair'...
The hits were not to last, and in their waning months America started to take notice. It's a shame that they caught the embers as the best songs were smack bang in the middle of their success.
'Rain or Shine' did see some airplay over the pond, and I am left wondering if the likes of @bozz have heard of Five Star? This one still plays away in my mind, and I have to occasionally listen to some heavy metal to forcibly displace it if I feel an earworm starting up.
With debt creeping up and most of the band members owning supercars while living at a large mansion in the south of England, they were forced to sell up amid bankruptcy.
The life of the average pop band can be short, and some people don't know how to handle success.
We Take Mystery (To Bed) – Gary Numan (I, Assassin – 1982)
Even longer ago than the previous offering, Gary Numan was some kind of pin-up boy for alternative female teenyboppers, reaching out with this new 'electronic sound' that was emerging in the UK.
Like many of the early pioneers of synth-sound, I do remember the 'Tubeway Army' appearing on Top of the Pops with Gary at the helm looking like some kind of alien donning ghostly white skin, while sneering at his audience.
Yet he garnered lots of attention, and the girls loved him. I liked his music but that's as far as my fanboy attention went, and for a while guitars became distinctly uncool to be replaced with keyboards.
Gary was ridiculed by the press for this new sound 'not being music', and eventually it bought on his demise. With a lifespan of perhaps two or three years, he did a little better than Five Star, made waves in America and is still current and creating music.
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…'why is it, almost all of these 80's male artists are bald and yet Gary Numan now sports more hair than he did in 1979?, ah..this is why'…
Such a ridiculous title as 'We Take Mystery (To Bed)' was not one of his enormous hits, but I remember buying it at the time, as well as most of his other singles.
All you needed then was a voice that was almost indecipherable, create a stupid dance, be able to yell in the chorus and adorn some wailing synthesizer in the background. I should have gone and done it myself.
A Little More Love – Olivia Newton-John (Totally Hot – 1978)
I seem to be going further back in time with each Three-Tune Tuesday song revealed, and they are not getting any less cheesy.
Around the time that 'Grease' rubbish that followed 'Saturday Night Fever' in 1978, there was a certain girly singer originally from the UK, who would eventually emigrate to Australia and claim citizenship.
While I was just a kid when this one was released, I liked the gritty sound this new image Olivia portrayed. Leather jackets and guitars, what was all this? She was previously known to sing soppy ballads, that were admittedly quite good.
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...'a raunchier Olivia got my attention. If she was just a little younger I might have fallen in love'...
Being in my mid-teens, I didn't have the hots for her.., she was the ‘older woman’ to me, but I was always one for some janky sound such as the one throughout, 'A Little More Love'. Over dramatization, perhaps but it did the trick and forced me to see her in a different light.
The leather jacket look was perhaps a warm-up for her role in 'Grease', a soap opera I was not fond of. Saturday Night Fever, even with the wailing Bee Gees in charge was always far superior to my teenage ears and still is.
Ack, this music is quite cringe-worthy, especially when watched. We all have our vices. It's back to Iron Maiden, Metallica, Ministry or AC/DC next week.
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