MR

Posted: **Mon Feb 14, 2011 11:46 am**

Just curious to see if there are any other fans of cheesy 80's pop in here? I like a lot of the mid to late 80's pop, and one of my favorites was Thompson Twins. I honestly don't own a cd of theirs, but have always been a fan. I have several of their songs on 80's compilation cd's, and think they were a great band! Here are a few of my favorites from them...

Hold Me Now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpZ9gEKBoYI

Lay Your Hands On Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzjpHYZXELw

Doctor Doctor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_66L4wd ... re=related

Here are a few of my other favorites, and I'm sure I'll catch almighty hell for them! :shock:

Pet Shop Boys- West End Girls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIQCI1re ... re=related

Frankie Goes To Hollywood- Relax

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WZ33w3B ... re=related

Eurythmics- Here Comes The Rain Again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzFnYcIqj6I

Peter Gabriel- Steam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1qOUfGUD2Y

I could go on all night, but I'll stop the humility here. :wink:

Any other fans here? BTW... I also love Ozzy, Whitesnake, Metallica, Dokken, Europe, Bruce Hornsby, Journey, Chicago, Survivor, Foreigner, etc... Cut me some slack please.

Posted: **Mon Feb 14, 2011 11:52 am**

Relax is a great tune. I haven't heard that in ages.

Posted: **Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:05 pm**

Just a few of the bands I liked that weren't considered quite as cool as some of the main stream acts.

The Psychedelic Furs
Love My Way
Pretty In Pink
The Ghost In You

Altered Images
I Could Be Happy
See Those Eyes

Icehouse
Hey Little Girl
Electric Blue
Crazy
We Can Get Together

Breathe
How Can I Fall
Hands to Heaven

Posted: **Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:12 pm**

Don wrote:Breathe
How Can I Fall
Hands to Heaven

2 dynamite songs!

Posted: **Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:13 pm**

Rick wrote:Relax is a great tune. I haven't heard that in ages.

I guess musical taste is so very subjective. That might be one of the worst songs I've ever heard. It's sort of like "Feliz Navidad"...same painful lyrics over, and over and over, and over...

Posted: **Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:25 pm**

Dead Or Alive-You Spin Me Round :oops:

Posted: **Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:46 pm**

Posted: **Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:47 pm**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku6w-0bd7gY

Cheesy movie...cheesy acting...bad actually...but the Commodores are great!

Posted: **Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:54 pm**

Stepping Out joe jackson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0FyGeaC_mI

Godly and creame- cry.......great vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxtPRF6NG7I

Posted: **Mon Feb 14, 2011 2:08 pm**

Saint John wrote:Dead Or Alive-You Spin Me Round

Doctor and the Medics - Spirit In The Sky ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FvGpzYTS6w

Eddie Murphy - Party All The Time ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDbpzjbXUZI

Mark Walberg - Good Vibrations ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj3joGzdyqk

Posted: **Mon Feb 14, 2011 3:18 pm**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk0tkZrP ... re=related
Dynamic Hepnotics. Definitely got some stick for loving these guys.

Posted: **Mon Feb 14, 2011 3:24 pm**

Modern English ~ I Melt With You ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG-3XqcXbbE

Til Tuesday ~ Voices Carry ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5XJMoVzPD4

Posted: **Mon Feb 14, 2011 3:45 pm**

Rick wrote:Relax is a great tune. I haven't heard that in ages.

While you are waiting to hear it, look up the lyrics....

And to think kids were going around wearing shirts that say "Frankie says Relax"...

Posted: **Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:14 am**

JSS Rocks! wrote:
Rick wrote:Relax is a great tune. I haven't heard that in ages.

While you are waiting to hear it, look up the lyrics....

And to think kids were going around wearing shirts that say "Frankie says Relax"...

lol ...bend over and cough!! :wink:

Posted: **Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:20 am**

T'Pau-Heart and Soul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwrYMWoqg5w

Meatloaf-Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiTT6CWncp8

Posted: **Tue Feb 15, 2011 1:09 am**

The Safety Dance.

Posted: **Tue Feb 15, 2011 1:38 am**

Here's just a few favorites off the top of my head, though I am the queen of cheesy 80's music! :lol:

I would have picked Heart and Soul also, but Dan already picked it

All Cried Out - Lisa Lisa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-fSv9jClCw

You Keep Me Hangin On- Kim Wilde

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izGwDsrQ1eQ

Eternal Flame- Bangles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_iISmExEGo

Careless Whisper- Wham

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izGwDsrQ1eQ

Posted: **Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:35 am**

Rhiannon wrote:The Safety Dance.

Posted: **Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:45 am**

bluejeangirl76 wrote:
Rhiannon wrote:The Safety Dance.

*Likes this*

Posted: **Tue Feb 15, 2011 3:02 am**

No love for the Miami Vice soundtrack in here? :lol:

Posted: **Tue Feb 15, 2011 3:14 am**

Rhiannon wrote:*Likes this*

I knew you would. :lol:

As to the topic, half of my iPod is chesey 80s pop, so listing them is pointless. :lol:

May as well just screencap my iTunes screen. :lol:

Posted: **Tue Feb 15, 2011 3:41 am**

Melissa wrote:No love for the Miami Vice soundtrack in here?

Definitely! One of my favorite AT songs is from the soundtrack. :mrgreen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONoLo68Xi6g

Posted: **Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:28 am**

Big Country - Big Country
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw2o_Go4QWI

Toto - Africa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmueY8N3Jrs

Trevor Rabin - Something to Hold On To
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM25s5Cn1Vg

Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27Tj-Xo_eqI

Slade - Run Runaway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHoPYLQvnQM

Posted: **Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:29 am**

*Laura wrote:

One of the gayest man alive

Posted: **Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:17 pm**

From an 80's movie that I love also, lol...

Berlin- Take My Breath Away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DARX9nzNE3E

Posted: **Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:22 pm**

Melissa wrote:From an 80's movie that I love also, lol...

Berlin- Take My Breath Away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DARX9nzNE3E

I love that one too!

Posted: **Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:48 am**

where is the love for tiffany and debbie gibson... just saying... LOL... :wink:

oh and have to say I liked Til Tuesday... opened for Rick Springield way way back in Des Moines...

adam ant...yep...

**parachute pant** days... ;-)

yes I admit i had a pair... god was that geeky and lame!!

hated to admit that Michael Jackson's **beat it** was good, with Eddies solo on that song...

Posted: **Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:55 am**

lights1961 wrote:where is the love for tiffany and debbie gibson...

There isn't any. :lol:

Posted: **Wed Feb 16, 2011 9:58 am**

Some students look at their lives as if they are entitled to receive high marks for little to no efforts.

It was progress report time. I had quite a few students mad at me. Their grades had dropped somewhat because of apathy towards their work.

It has been like pulling teeth to get them to do anything in class.

I had students today telling me they did not deserve having their grades dropped to a B. They deserved an "A!"

I said what did you do to deserve an A? They said I do work in class.

Let me describe the work of these students.

Little Johnny or Susie come into class, they sit down, knowing what there assignment is, and where all the supplies are, but don't get started till about 15 to 20 minutes into class. This is usually when I get fed up with their procrastination to work, and I have to tell them to find something to do.

They take a long time getting their paper, mostly because they spot a buddy and start talking to them about their latest date, or the TV show they watched last night. Mind you this takes 5 to 10 minutes on average. The urge to get to work again has to be coaxed out of them by me telling them to get on task.

They sit down, maybe draw a 2 inch circle, then throw something at their buddy across the room when I am helping someone at another table. Of course this gets the other student to get off task then they retaliate in kind. Wasting of another 5 minutes.

They laugh at a joke their friend tells, and their pencil never touches the paper for at least another 5 to 10 minutes.

The time has come for everyone to clean up and all they have to show for their work is a 2 inch circle. The class is 45 minutes long, and they have spent all of 1 to 2 minutes drawing.

An A means excellence...........a concentrated effort to do ones dead level best, to put your best work forward. To strive for neatness in your work, and using your class time wisely. You are not ...entitled to receive an A. You must earn it. :evil:

Posted: **Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:00 am**

Some students look at their lives as if they are entitled to receive high marks for little to no efforts.

It was progress report time. I had quite a few students mad at me. Their grades had dropped somewhat because of apathy towards their work.

It has been like pulling teeth to get them to do anything in class.

I had students today telling me they did not deserve having their grades dropped to a B. They deserved an "A!"

I said what did you do to deserve an A? They said I do work in class.

Let me describe the work of these students.

Little Johnny or Susie come into class, they sit down, knowing what there assignment is, and where all the supplies are, but don't get started till about 15 to 20 minutes into class. This is usually when I get fed up with their procrastination to work, and I have to tell them to find something to do.

They take a long time getting their paper, mostly because they spot a buddy and start talking to them about their latest date, or the TV show they watched last night. Mind you this takes 5 to 10 minutes on average. The urge to get to work again has to be coaxed out of them by me telling them to get on task.

They sit down, maybe draw a 2 inch circle, then throw something at their buddy across the room when I am helping someone at another table. Of course this gets the other student to get off task then they retaliate in kind. Wasting of another 5 minutes.

They laugh at a joke their friend tells, and their pencil never touches the paper for at least another 5 to 10 minutes.

The time has come for everyone to clean up and all they have to show for their work is a 2 inch circle. The class is 45 minutes long, and they have spent all of 1 to 2 minutes drawing.

An A means excellence...........a concentrated effort to do ones dead level best, to put your best work forward. To strive for neatness in your work, and using your class time wisely. You are not ...entitled to receive an A. You must earn it. :evil:

MR

favorites from the 80's (you won't admit to!)

favorites from the 80's (you won't admit to!)

What is in an A?

What is in an A?