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Post by pieter on Aug 17, 2017 14:26:58 GMT -7
Stop Making Sense Talking Heads at Hollywood's Pantages Theater, LA, december 1983
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Post by pieter on Aug 17, 2017 15:05:46 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Aug 17, 2017 15:14:19 GMT -7
My sister was crazy about these Norwegian chaps like many Dutch teenage girls from the eighties. She had posters and images of these Scandinavians on the walls of her room. My room walls were filled with posters of Chicago and New York, the American flag, and images of blond and black women from the world of Pop music and cinema. I remember that Sade and Whitney Houston were amongst them.
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Post by pieter on Aug 17, 2017 15:25:33 GMT -7
Eighties synthpop bands
I can get melancholic when I look back at the typical eighties youth subculture, the pop music of that time, the atmosphere of that time and the fact that that time is gone. The time of Miami Vice, Fame, the A-team, Hillstreet Blues, the Canadian police drama series Night Heat, Coolcat jackets and pale blue jeans, mopeds and discotheques. And you dramatic teenage love affairs were part of that deal. I was more a loner and a late blossomer, but saw the teenage 'drama's' taking place at highschool and outside high school. Summer loves, because girls from other parts of the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France came to the beautiful North sea coast of Zeeland. Wen the summer ended these girls were gone, back to Rotterdam, The Hague, Eindhoven, Antwerp, Düsseldorf and Kleve. The country boys from the Zeeland coast left behind. Thank god I liked local girls from the few towns around, so I knew that it wasn't wise to get hooked up with a girl from a large city who would go away at the end of the summer.
But pretty girls were around everywhere, because hundreds of thousands (probably millions) went to the coasts of the West-European North sea. Some of the girls from my school and highschool class reminded me of later American movies I saw about American youth, road movies, good Hollywood movies and art house movies.
The youth culture is probably the same everywhere. Cars, motorbikes, mopeds, windsurfing, swimming, and hanging around with groups of boys and girls and trying to get into discotheques or nightclubs to dance and watch other people. Beer, Coca Cola Whiskey mixes or Bourbon (Four Roses, Jim Bean), Bacardi, Dry Martini's, Gin 'n Tonic, Vodka and etc. Black lights, Disco ball with their glitter and shine, green laser lights and smoke machines, Gogo (dance) girls on stage, heavy sound systems, girls in mini skirts, guys with Ducktails, white T-shirts, jeans and leather shoes.
Driving many miles to reach the country disco, and getting back very early in the morning (5/6 'o clock). The bad thing of Western-Europe that we drank as 16/17/18 year old teenage boys in bars and discotheques. A lot of smoking , drinking, firting, dancing and doing to the dunes, beach after going out. Sometimes watching the sun rise. That was magic.
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Post by Jaga on Aug 18, 2017 10:04:59 GMT -7
Karl, this is what I figured out, that this is probably your favorite music and you want to share it with us. I appreciate it a lot! I had some German folk music on my electronic radio some time ago and I also enjoyed it.
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Post by Jaga on Aug 18, 2017 10:06:27 GMT -7
Pieter,
the video of Toto "Africa" is something I can listen over and over again. I have a chill every time I listen to it. I wish there was more music of this caliber/force available.
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Post by pieter on Aug 19, 2017 10:20:15 GMT -7
Jaga,
I remember a girl from my highschool class who was a huge Toto fan. I was sitting next to her on a long busjourney to Austria where we had a winterholiday ski vacation with my highschool class. In Saalbach-Hinterglem. This girl played Toto on a cassette tape on her walkman. During the long trip she rewinded the tape over and over again, to hear "Africa" and other Toto hits. So, sure I do remember Toto very well. Toto ofcourse was on the Dutch radio a lot too. They had several hits in the Netherlands too. "Africa" reached number 2 in the Dutch Singles Chart and number 1 in the Canadian RPM Top Singles and U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
Groups like Toto, Chicago, White Snake, Level 42 (Lessons in Love, for instance), the Dire Straights, the Simple Minds, Queen (Bohemian Rhapsody is number 1 in the top 2000 for years now), the Eagles (Hotel California), Led Zeppelin (Stairway to Heaven), Deep Purple (Child in Time) and Billy Joel (Piano man) were and are played a lot of in Dutch pubs, romantic bars and private homes. Anglo-Saxon music is hugely popular over here next to Dutch folk music, Dutch pop music and some Italian, Spanish and Italian music.
Toto and their song "Africa" will be always connected in my memory to the Dutch pop radio of the eighties (with their American and British pop music, soul music, Disco, Funk, Rock and Synth-electro-Pop and New Wave) and that girl from my class who was a Toto fan and also went to their concerts in the Netherlands. Yeah, we were rather British oriented, but inclusive the good American bands. Fleetwood Mac, the Doors, Elvis Presley, Michael jackson, Diana Ross, Madonna, Blondy, Iggy Pop, Jimmy Hendrix, Jannis Joplin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Beegees and other American bands and singers like Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Joe Cogar, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, James Brown, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Lionel Richie, Paul Simon, Princ, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash were hugely popular over here too.
Cheers, Pieter
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Post by pieter on Aug 19, 2017 10:32:25 GMT -7
The eighties was also the era of unusual pop songs.
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Post by pieter on Aug 19, 2017 10:37:09 GMT -7
Jaga, Karl, Kaima, Jeanne, John, Eric, Ludwik,
I realise that I haven't got a standard, mainstream, Top 40 taste. It would be nice if others posted their American, Canadian, Southern-American, European, Asian or African eighties music video's.
Cheers, Pieter
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Post by karl on Aug 19, 2017 10:41:30 GMT -7
Pieter
How well I do agree with you, of late, my self have begun to become hesitate with posting music of my taste. It would be interesting to hear music of anothers taste to perhaps add flavour to our stew of music.
Karl
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Post by karl on Aug 19, 2017 14:42:05 GMT -7
A little bit from our friends to our west, love, music and life..
Karl
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