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The evening’s “live” selection on deck; when you get a BBC crew to come to your place to record shenanigans.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#LearningToCrawl

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LOaCm91oy5M&ra=m

"If a thing's worth doing in this world, it's worth doing badly, baby."

Scritti Politti
"Small Talk"
1985

#80sPop #80sRock #SynthPop #80sMusic #Music

I learned yesterday the band’s Michael Sadler recovered from cancer and they’re planning a 50th anniversary tour. That’s pretty cool. On both counts.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#WorldsApart

I watch the tension grow
I see you keeping it to yourself
And then instead of reaching conclusions
I see you reaching for something else
No one could stop you now
Tonight you're On The Loose
No one to tell you how
Tonight you're On The Loose

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gx7XbV82JfQ&ra=m

Oh, Ann and Nancy. They didn’t write it but sure made it sound good as they made their way back in the mid 80s through all the new wave and hair band stuff of the era.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#Heart
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QwHouN3BeuE&list=RDQwHouN3BeuE&start_radio=1&pp=oAcB&ra=m

A little tuneage on deck this evening with some meaning day in and day out. Keeps me going through it all.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#RepeatOffender

Ignore the hesitation, that ties your hands
Use your imagination, and take a chance
I won't let my moment of truth pass me by
I've gotta make my move now or never
And if they turn me loose on this town
They're gonna have to hold me down
Don't you know, I won't give up until I’m Satisfied

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t2QRWHzpEJk&ra=m

Bruce’s piano, though. It fits nicely at the moment on deck.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#TheWayItIs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BVdw6vneYh8&ra=m

Speaking of CSN&Y.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#AmericanDream

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GTxr8pBlbyw&list=RDGTxr8pBlbyw&start_radio=1&pp=oAcB0gcJCWoCo7VqN5tD&ra=m

Musical Interlude: Indulged in some 80s smooth pop/jazz today...this artist's work still sounds stylish and contemporary, and she remains a significant influence. Here's one of her early iconic tunes...

"Smooth Operator,': performed by Sade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TYv2PhG89A

#MusicalInterlude #Sade #80sPop #Jazzy #Smooth #Music

Well, had to throw on something from Paul Simon’s wife and her band.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#EdieBrickellAndTheNewBohemians
#ShootingRubberbandsAtTheStars
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KBkSsJDXs5I&ra=m

One of Paul Simon’s best. If you like Paul Simon, I reckon.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#Graceland

It's a turn-around jump shot
It's everybody jump start
It's every generation throws a hero up the pop charts
Medicine is magical and magical is art
Think of The Boy In The Bubble
And the baby with the baboon heart

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K_gpHN5hA4U&ra=m

Definitely appropriate on deck at this particular moment.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#ThePrincipleOfMoments

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KuzAUV9OWsg&pp=0gcJCWgCo7VqN5tD&ra=m

It’s 40 this year and still as relevant as ever. With some really nice piano to boot.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#TheWayItIs

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gthpodDZJeQ&ra=m

Must be Monday as the school board meeting I was to cover is actually on Thursday (derp) but it never fails in the news biz as I had to switch gears and go cover a house fire in my (literally) neck of the woods just a few miles from my place. Now, I’m gonna just … chill on deck for a bit. Mr. Winwood, as he so often does, sets the tone.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#RollWithIt
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lOzLBWZQmWc&ra=m

I was thinkin, which is probably a REAL stretch for a Monday, that at nearly 62 I should probably be more mature but as I filled my pillboxes for the week before going to a school board meeting to cover those shenanigans for the newspaper, I decided “Grow up? More mature? Why in hell would I wanna do that?”
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#TheRomantics

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BihcE44msEY&ra=m

Everyday anymore is like … backward.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#TheCompletionBackwardPrinciple

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=diEaSlbTixI&ra=m

I was thinking about, as I putzed around preparing for some deck time at the end of my first day of vacation, how many times I’ve done this since June of 2011. Dunno why. It’s definitely not New York City and there’s no saxophone (there is, on occasion, air guitar 😉) but I guess it’s me (here it is - sorry, Steve) talking back to the night.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#TalkingBackToTheNight
#NorthernWayOfLife

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ftC6oGfxUgE&ra=m

I just needed to hear this ondeck at this precise moment in history. Guess I’m just one of those “woke” types. You can bet your ass Charlie Kirk disciples hate this which I play it at full blast every chance I get.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#TheUnforgettableFire

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IsJOkVwdaQQ&ra=m

Three o’clock break ear worm.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#TalkingBackToTheNight

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vkIZACGAKVw&ra=m

Free download codes:

Safiro - Azure

"Debut pop album exploring the start, and end of a first love."

https://getmusic.fm/l/rJwTUn

#pop #80spop #music

I never really cared for Michael McDonald much - he’s talented and all but I personally think he kinda fucked up the Doobie Brothers but that’s just me. He did team up with Kenny Loggins on the songwriting here, though, and I think it worked.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#MichaelMcDonald

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IBP1JzwseEI&ra=m

A Sunday evening drive (I seem to do a lotta Sunday driving) with my next favorite Eurythmics tune (after “Would I Lie To You?”) and definitely 80s.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#SweetDreamsAreMadeOfThis

Walked to a corner of the yard to get a sunset shot; the photo doesn’t do it justice. Now, I’m gonna walk back to the deck for Saturday shenanigans.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#ThePoliticsOfDancing
#ThePoliticsOfMmmmFeelinGood

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HwreZ3JZrgs&ra=m

A Saturday evening drive headed back to where it was I was going this morning that included brunch with a beauty. 😉 I do believe some deck time is in order once I get to the house.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#MenWithoutHats

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Carole King made a comeback of sorts in 1989 with some assistance here from Eric Clapton on lead guitar for the title track. This one got airplay at the second and third radio stations I worked at and I always believed it should have done better chart-wise.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#CityStreets

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TpOaiV_xsmQ&ra=m

I’d only been on deck for about 10 minutes, had some Bruce Hornsby and The Range goin’ when I happened to look to the right side of the yard and saw I had another visitor besides the squirrels and chipmunks scurrying around. Things like this can make this a pleasant place to be.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#ScenesFromTheSouthside
#NorthernWayOfLife

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1dR76WeK-N4&ra=m

One of those 80s … bangers (isn’t that what the kids say these days?).
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#IntroducingTheHardlineAccordingToTerenceTrentDArby

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Nd_lS9Kcs&ra=m

Some might wonder how it is I, at almost 62, am still listening to stuff that’s kinda … dark. I dunno - maybe I’m almost 62 with “the devil inside” and appreciates some good INXS. And some 63 year-old (possibly older!) Jim Beam. 😉
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#Kick

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w7TB2ZrBYAs&ra=m