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Everything
#thebangles #everything #eightiesmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #rockmusic #poprock #janglepop #susannahoffs #vickipeterson #michaelsteele #davidlindley The Bangles release their third on October 18, 1988. It followed that monster from 1985, Different Light, and the band was able to produce a couple of major hits. "In Your Room" was co-written by Susanna Hoffs, Tom Kelly and Billy Steinbert and reached the US Top 5.
Storm Front
#billyjoel #stormfront #eightiesrock #eightiesmusic #arenarock #artrock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky
Billy Joel's 11th turns 35 today ... released on October 17, 1989. It's his 3rd #1 album in a row, pushed by "We Didn't Start The Fire" which was nominated for a Grammy for Record and Song of the Year. Joel parted ways with his longtime producer Phil Ramone, replacing him with Foreigner's Mick Jones. The change resulted in a tougher, ar ...
Vinylsamstag: @randynewmanofficial – Land of Dreams (1988 🇺🇸)
#vinylsamstag #semmehorcht #VinylSaturday #vinylmatinee #LandofDreams #randynewman #LandofDreams #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylcollector #vinylcommunity #vinyladdict #vinyljunkie #vinyllovers #recordcollection #recordcollector #nowspinning #spinningnow #ontheturntable #33rpm #lp #RepriseRecords #singersongwriter #eightiesmusic #neworleans #markknopfler #jefflynne #tompetty #albumoftheday
Mirror Moves
#thepsychedelicfurs #mirrormoves #eightiesmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #progrock #artrock #rockmusic The P-Furs release Mirror Moves on August 21, 1984 -- produced by Keith Forsey -- fresh off his work with Billy Idol. Trimmed down to the core trio of Richard Butler on vocals, Tim Butler on bass and John Ashton on guitars -- the band relied on Forsey's synthesized percussion after drummer Vince Ely departed.
Can’t Stand Still
#donhenley #icantstandstill #eightiesrock #rock #rockmusic #eightiesmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #hardrock #softrock #dannykortchmar #benmonttench #garthhudson #steveporcaro #stevelukather #waddywachtel #joewalsh #lelandsklar #jeffporcaro #russkunkel #timothybshmit #billwithers #warrenzevon Released on August 13, 1`982, the debut solo album from Don Henley arrived two years after the turbulent spit up of the Eagles. But, it proved Henley could…
One Trick Pony
#paulsimon #onetrickpony #eightiesrock #eightiesmusic #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #stevegadd #movies Paul Simon releases his fifth album on August 12, 1980 -- the soundtrack album to the film of the same name. Simon wrote and starred in the movie as an aging rock star dealing with a music industry that was changing fast in the '80s. Quite the reach (sarcasm mine.)
Shot of Love turns 45 …
#bobdylan #shotoflove #eightiesmusic #eightiesrock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #gospel #christianrock #ronwood #ringostarr #donaldduckdunn Orpheus releases his 21st album -- Shot of Love -- on August 12, 1981. It's the last bookend to his gospel/Christian albums -- Slow Train Coming in '79 and Saved in '80. Unlike those albums, this one deals with mostly evangelical stuff and integrating rock 'n roll into religion.
Voices
#hallandoates #voices #eightiesmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #darylhall #johnoates #gesmith #jerrymarotta #poprock #blueeyedsoul July 29, 1980 -- Hall & Oates release their 9th album -- the one where they took complete creative control behind the mic and in the studio. Blue-eyed soul blended with the synth-pop dynamo that dominated the 80's charts. After working with high profile producers throughout the 70's, Hall & Oates decided to produce Voices at…
The Lexicon of Pop – Explained
Once upon a time (cliché) I started to study (alliteration and sibilance) rhetoric and figures of speech (tautology), and because I’m an absolute idiot (understatement) I decided to embed the learning by writing a short poem about each one (anti-climax). The results were somewhat less than spectacular (litotes). In fact ‘litotes’, a term describing the figure of speech whereby we state or imply one thing in order to emphasise the opposite (usually for very negative or positive effect) and pronounced, “lih-toe-tees”, was one of the three or four that I managed to write before I gave the whole thing up as a bad idea. See for yourself:
Litotes
Dating him isn’t all bad, she thought. It could be worse
He’s no Adonis, and he doesn’t quite fit in his shirts.
He could tidy up more and his cooking could be better.
And he could use more common sense because he’s not that clever.
He’ll never win an Oscar, never run a marathon,
His sense of fashion in the 80s is something we won’t dwell upon.
I won’t play his CDs in the car until his choices are less dour.
I couldn’t stand to hear him sing much longer in the shower.
I can say all these things to him, although he hates complaints like these
Because surprisingly enough, he’s never heard of litotes.
The best thing that you can say about it is that I was inspired by Wendy Cope’s poem “Faint Praise”; a phrase, like the poem it recalls, also being an example of litotes.
I never gave up wanting to learn more about them. I listened to the audiobook of Mark Forsyth’s ‘The Elements of Eloquence’ (sassily and snarkily spoken by Simon Shepherd), I collected new examples that I found in writing and on the web, and I made digital flashcards out of them which helped me understand that I do not learn anything from using flashcards.
And then, one day, while I was in the shower, which is where I often do my best thinking and my worst singing, it occurred to me that in order to learn these figures I needed an appropriate setting. I needed some way of locating them within a context that was both informative and memorable, something that I could readily quote from memory, that would help illustrate concepts and examples. If only there was a way to make it like A-B-C, as easy as 1-2-3, as simple as Do Re Me… and that’s literally how the idea came about. I would, I decided, collect as many rhetorical, grammatical and syntactical devices as I could, and find examples from pop songs to help us all understand them. And by ‘pop’ I really do mean ‘popular music’, and I reserve the right to plunder from rock and R&B, soul and skiffle, glitch and gaba as required.
The last piece of the puzzle was a name. Names are so important to me; they set my mental expectations, like knowing the genre of a book. I needed a name that (like me) was camp, eloquent, and often dressed in a gold lamé suit. And so, taking inspiration from the 12th bestselling album of 1982 in New Zealand, “The Lexicon of Pop” was born.
There’s also a more serious side to this. Like a lot of people in my social media echo chamber, there’s weariness of social media in general. Posting has now become such hard work and the days of “twitter on the shitter” and of spewing 140 characters of word salad every time you have 6 unoccupied seconds are long gone. The emphasis is on such heavy curation, social media is no longer any fun. And that’s not taking into account how hate-filled social media spaces have become; and when they are not hate-filled, they are AI slop-filled. The emphasis on short-form video that is chosen for you destroys any semblance of social; sharing has become asynchronous.
I regularly see Gen X speaking on-line about how much they lament that blogging has died. Not those overly polished travel influencers who get paid to stay in Abu Dhabi hotels, or mummy bloggers who use their children as content. But real people, just talking about their lives, obscure obsessions that they harbour, or random shit that they are into. The comments of those blogs were the original media. That’s where you got to know people.
And that last – random shit – is really where I come in. I love writing, but I struggle when I don’t have a purpose. I worry too much about what the audience needs from me, but that’s what I’m trying to change here. I wanted to pick something that I was hugely into (pop music) alongside a purpose (learning something new about language, but also the mental health benefits of being creative).
“When you blog purely for the intrinsic joy of the craft—the mental exercise of untangling an idea, crafting a sharp sentence, and playing with language—it transforms from a performance into a genuine creative sanctuary.And ironically, that “writing for an audience of one” approach is almost always what produces the best, funniest, and most authentic work. When you aren’t trying to game an algorithm or chase engagement, you have total freedom to be as pedantic, absurd, and ridiculously niche as you want.”
And what could be more pedantic, absurd and ridiculously niche than examining pop music lyrics to learn about language?
Santana
#Santana #birthday #seventiesmusic #eightiesmusic #ninetiesmusic #y2kmusic #classicrock #carlossantana #rock #rockmusic #musicsky #musiciansky Santana. Birthday.Turn it up.
https://robinbannks.com/2026/07/20/santana-born-july-20-1947/
The Bridge turns 40 …
#billyjoel #thebridge #eightiesmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #rockmusic #rock #philramone It's Billy's least favorite album but it's still damn good -- his 10th is released on July 9, 1986. It's the last of Billy's albums to be produced by Phil Ramone and the last with Doug Stegmeyer and Russell Javors. The bassist and guitarist had been working with Billy since the early days.
Uprising
#bobmarleyandthewailers #uprising #eightiesmusic #reggae #music #musicsky #musiciansky Bob Marley releases his final album on June 10, 1980 .. just a months before his death in '81. It's a fierce album full of Rastafarian spirituality, political commentary and some of the most memorable Marley-melodies of his life. Marley was battling some significant health issues at the time but the album prevails. Chris Blackwell's production acumen and The Wailers' heavy…
A Sense of Doubt blog post-4109 - Know Your Tools and the Music of Danielle Dax - Music Monday for 2605.18. https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-4109-know.html #MusicMonday #MondayVibes #EightiesMusic #womeninmusic #DanielleDax
💖🖤 Nina Hagen explains hair extensions to David Letterman in 1985 🖤💖
#ninahagan #davidletterman #hairextensions #the80s #theeighties #the1980s #talkshow #80smusic #hairstylist #boygeorge #godmotherofpunk #eightiesmusic
"We're setting sail
To the place on the map
From which no one has ever returned
Drawn by the promise of the joker and the fool
By the light of the crosses that burn
Drawn by the promise of the women and the lace
And the gold and the cotton and pearls
It's the place where they keep all the darkness you need
You sail away from the light of the world
On this trip, baby
You will pay tomorrow
You're gonna pay tomorrow, yeah
You will pay tomorrow"
- Ship of Fools, World Party, 1986.
#PrivateRevolution #EightiesMusic #80s #WorldParty #ClimateCrisis #Trump #ShipOfFools #SaveMeFromTomorrow #FridayNightMusicVideos #Fascism #Project2025 #RestInPowerKarlWallinger
Listening 80s love ballads while working on the yard. 😭🥺😭
A Sense of Doubt blog post #3863 - Thela Hun Ginjeet - SoD Reprint of Hey Mom #874 - Music Monday for 2509.15. https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-3863-thela.html #MusicMonday #MondayVibes #MondayBlogs #KingCrimson #EightiesMusic
A Sense of Doubt blog post #3793 - Ten Years of Sense of Doubt (and Hey Mom) - The Theme Song. https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-3793-ten.html #MusicMonday #MondayVibes #MondayBlogs #TenYears #TearsForFears #Blogging #Grieving #coping #selfcare #EightiesMusic #MOM
Happy Sunday! Join me in the DeLorean!
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Happy birthday to two albums I listened to countless times in the 80s, both released in the UK exactly 40 years ago today, on June 17, 1985.
1. Marillion: "Misplaced Childhood"
2. Sting: "The Dream of the Blue Turtles"
A Sense of Doubt blog post #3730 - Martha and the Muffins - Musical Monday for 2505.05. https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-3730-martha.html #MusicMonday #EightiesMusic #MondayVibes #MondayMood #MondayBlogs #EchoBeach #FarAwayInTime
You Deserve A Pizza Party! All Vinyl 80s party with delicious pizza! Let me feed ya these tunes!!! https://twitch.tv/pdsmix #DJ #EightiesMusic #Pizza #Twitch #Music
A Sense of Doubt blog post #3688 - SoD Reprint of #1361 - Hanging on in Quiet Desperation is the InDiscipline Way mix for Musical Monday for 1811.12. https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-3688-sod.html #MusicMonday #EightiesMusic #PinkFloyd #KingCrimson #TalkingHeads #KateBush
HALLLO, MUSIC PEOPLES!
you def need to listen to THIS, NOW
#Stump #Buffalo #AlternativeMusic #IndieMusic #EightiesMusic
One of the best 12" remixes ever. And a #PorkyPrimeCut of course.
#DepecheMode #LeaveInSilenceLonger #EightiesMusic #Synthpop #Electropop #ResonantFilterRandomModBreakingGlassSound
I'm back at
THE ALBION HOTEL CASTLEMAINE
to DJ some 80s retro fun - this will be a blast!! next Saturday night - free entry!
152 Duke Street Castlemaine
6PM onwards Saturday 15th February 2025
A Sense of Doubt blog post #3636 - BOWIE MONTH: More on "Ashes to Ashes" - The meaning of NOTHING (DAY 3500). https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-3636-bowie.html #Bowieforever #BowieMonth #Nothing #AshestoAshes #EightiesMusic
A Sense of Doubt blog post #3635 - BOWIE MONTH: "No More Free Steps to Heaven." https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-3635-bowie.html #BowieMonth #BowieForever #DavidBowie #Lyrics #EightiesMusic #ItsNoGame
Nina Hagen, 1980
The 25 year old singer was photographed in Paris by Benjamin Auger for Paris Match Magazine
#ninahagen #benjaminauger #photoshoot #parismatch #1980s #music #musicworld #godmotherofpunk #womeninrock #alternativemusic #musicscene #the80# #theeighties #80smusic #eightiesmusic #marilyn #singer
What do you wanna be when you grow up?
The Dude in AI No Corrida...
Quincy Jones - The Dude _ VINYL (1981) !
1 - Ai no corrida 2 - The Dude 3 - Just Once 4 - Betcha' wouldn't hurt me
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=wcWgzyV5kOM
#QuincyJones #TheDude #AiNoCorrida #JustOnce #BetchaWouldntHurtMe #EightiesMusic
Charming Nina Hagen enlightening David Letterman in a 1985 interview
#ninahagen #singer #newwave #punk #godmotherofgermanpunk #davidletterman #80s #the80s #theeighties #the80 #80smusic #eightiesmusic #rockmusic #womenofrock #musicworld #interview #hairextensions #extensions #80sstyle
🏁⚡🎶 Modern Science... :thinking: 🎶⚡🏁
I just found this song of other "unsung heroes" with entirely 80's #Ska 2-Tone vibes... and that's exciting even if no one has listened to it... enjoy this rare jewel.. 👇 ⚛️ 👨🔬
https://soundcloud.com/toneandwave/lancaster-band-01-modern
#ska2tone #skatwotone #skarevival #music #80smusic #eightiesmusic #skank #skaonmastodon
Tom Tom Club & Talking Heads’ bassist, Tina Weymouth, from the August 1985 issue of Vogue.
Photo by Oliverio Toscani
#tinaweymouth #tomtomclub #talkingheads #bassplayer #bassist #oliveriotoscani #italianphotographer #photography #photographer #celebrityphotography
#fashionphotographer #vogue #voguemagazine #music #musicworld #alternativemusic #música #musica #geniusoflove #funnaturalfun #eighties #the80s #theeighties #80smusic #eightiesmusic
#Dgar Now listening to:
Mickey
~ Toni Basil
