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Pink is brutal.

And fucking-A ugly to boot.

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I guess that could be true. I do know that those songs played on the radio constantly when they were new.

Edited to add: How sad if that song becomes their only "Top-40" legacy.

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Pretty sure we're talking about the same song, although I have not seen the commercials because I kayak rather than sit through commercials. The words are something like "Iiiiiiiiii'm coming up, so you better get this party starte-ed (I'm coming up, you better)" repeat ad nauseum.

FYI -- a lot of gyms ARE gay clubs.

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Yes, Pink looks like a trailer tart, but you gotta dig a chick who wears duct tape as pasties in her video (the video for that heavy song about pills... I can't recall the name).

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'Cause it was one guy with a synthesizer wearing a top hat and tails to do a cover of an old song who never did anything else with his career. And it didn't play nearly so long nor so often as "Tainted Love." :)

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Yes, which was my original point. The Grateful Dead will not be remembered solely by Touch of Gray. And Midnight Oil will not be remembered only by Beds are Burning. And Duran Duran will not be remembered only by Hungry Like the Wolf. Even Falco had two hits: Der Kommissar and Rock Me Amadeus.

Taco will always be remembered by Puttin' on the Ritz (a fucking cover, at that).

Which, btw, would not be a bad FB theme song:

If you're blue and you don't know where to go to
why don't you go where fashion sits,
Puttin' on the ritz.

Different types who wear a day coat,
pants with stripes
and cutaway coat, perfect fits,
Puttin' on the ritz.

Dressed up like a million dollar trouper
Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper (super duper)

Come let's mix where Rockefellers walk with sticks
or "umberellas" in their mitts,
Puttin' on the ritz.

Have you seen the well-to-do up and down Park Avenue
On that famous thoroughfare with their noses in the air
High hats and Arrow collars white spats and lots of dollars
Spending every dime for a wonderful time

If you're blue and you don't know where to go to
why don't you go where fashion sits,
Puttin' on the ritz.
Puttin' on the ritz.
Puttin' on the ritz.

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Yawn. Wendy O. Williams was wearing electical tape for the same purpose like 20 years ago.

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Rick Astley is not a 1HW. He also scored with "Together Forever," making him a 2HW, and the blackest-sounding man England has produced since Steve Winwood.

Does anyone else remember the 1HW band with the lead singer who looked a bit like Maude Lebowski with a man's hat? I think the video had them kicking over cans of pastel paint, and no, it's not Debbie Gibson. I'm wracking my brain but can't think of it.

BTW, speaking of stupid hat bands from the '80s, I was under the impression that "Meet Danny Wilson" was the name of the band, no members of which were named Danny Wilson. Amazon disagrees. Anyone else remember it this way? (They/he did "Mary's Prayer," which made the otherwise excellent Something About Mary soundtrack.)

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If you were hung over for the wrong three-day period, it would have been very easy.

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So much is clear to me now.

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True, but it's better than if either Truckin' or Casey Jones was their only legacy.

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Yeah, I know, she's supposed to be a really 'tough' tart...but she dressed like a regular old girly tart in "Lady Marmalade," where she was brutally out-tarted by XTina and out-toughed by Lil' Kim, so how tough can she really be?

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Am I the only one who remembers that Soft Cell did "Sex Dwarf" and "Baby, Baby" or were those two songs never hits? Also, I was suprised not to see Squeeze's "Tempted" on the VH1 list -- or was it and I missed it? I hearted Squeeze when I was like 12 but never knew that Tempted was popular at all until one of those VH1 specials -- I prefer just about any one of their other tunes over "Tempted."

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Was it Toni Basil (Mickey) or Katrina and the Waves (Walkin' on Sunshine)?

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Your Score: 100
Excellent! You must be a child of the 80's - you really know your 80's music!


Major 80's geek. The "Politics of Dancing" was the only one I didn't know off the top of my head... used process of elimination. The quiz was a tad too easy... here are a few slightly harder ones:

1. Tarzan Boy
2. Life in a Northern Town
3. One Night in Bangkok
4. Mexican Radio
5. Love Plus One
6. Talk Talk


My view of the one-hit wonder is also more limited. For me, if I can think of another song they did that was somewhat well known and got airplay, then they're not a true 1-hit wonder... For me, it's 1 hit and never heard from again...

(PS, Taco was a solo act... German, I think.)

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Oh fuck. Thats it. And now its going through my head. So you are too good for tv and choose to spend your free time Kayaking, but you listen to the reality tv equivalent of music?

btw, I am starting to think you are quite funny.

And no gay man worth his waxed chest and shaved balls would club at Ballys.

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Not only that, but I owned the album and actually thought it was pretty good, back in the day.

I got an 84 on the quiz which isn't very high considering how many of those songs came from albums I owned or bands I'd seen perform in their heyday.

Speaking of 80s bands, I saw Mission of Burma open for Wilco last night. It was a good show (maybe why my head is fuzzy today).

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She's had about 6 hits already and she's only had 2 full-length albums.

You should lay off the bong every now and then and watch something other than tennis.

not7y(my god)S

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I gotta disagree on this one. Paul Young has the most soulful/black voice to ever come out of England. Take a listen to "Soldier's Things" one time and you will see.

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Shouldnt that be Puttin on the TITS?

I gave that song to Falco, not Taco, though I note i had the chocie of both of them for two answers. I thought Taco was a red herring designed to confuse me bc it is close to Falco. I got a little too Multi State Bar on this quiz.

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Yes, but then, a-ha really *was* big in Europe after "Take on Me."

Remember, they did a Christmas thing last year at a store commenting on the consumerism of the season by covering a tree with money, which in the spirit of Christmas people promptly all stole from the tree?

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She is soooo not.

She actually has talent. And she seems so filthy. Love that.

not7y(got a 100 on that quiz - waay too easy)S

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True, but I would consider US charts and airplay only. I consider David Hasselhoff a no-hit schlump, is that so wrong???
The Germans love him...

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You didn't mean 4 Non Blondes did you, with that heinous singer with the butt-length blond dreads who sang "What's Going On?"

Hard to remember. Too-small fedoras were endemic in the 80s.

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Agreed. And having given us both Taco and Falco, the Germans have a lot to apologize for, so our shipping over our talentless dreck to them is fair play.

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,90296,00.html

Spree: NEW YORK — The city violated the First Amendment rights of two firefighters and a police officer when it fired them for riding on a parade float in blackface in 1998, a judge ruled Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge John E. Sprizzo said the government "may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because a segment of society finds it offensive."


I totally did not hear about this when it happened but the decision seems solid. I gotta ask though, what were these guys thinking???

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Well, they had at least one other hit -- the much beloved "Black Coffee in Bed." Good video, too.

And I happen to like "Tempted."

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You forgot the hirsuite Nena.

not7yS

PS - the Germans did give us MSG, the Scorpions and Accept

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This on the day after the SC rules that the Fed can order libraries to filter porn?

I sense a conflict . . .

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I don't not like Tempted, but I love so many of their other tunes that it isn't my fav by any stretch. In a nutshell, their sound is classic and I always love to sit on the deck at night and listen to them after a game while slurping beers. I guess I didn't realize that Black Coffee had been a hit either -- I just wasn't in touch in the 80s.

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Where are the 4 choices?

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1. Baltimora
2. Dream Academy
3. Murray Head
4. Wall of Voodoo
5. Haircut 100
6. Talk Talk (edited to correct error based on GWNC's post)

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Granted, I have only seen her on Punk'd but based on that , I wouldnt bang her with Less's dick. Can you post a pic of her where she looks attractive? I have actually been told I look like her and this was before I got my own baby butch haircut.

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Those are harder. Without googling, I know that 2 is Dream Academy, 3 is Murray Head (from the musical "Chess") and 6 is Talk Talk (I think, wasn't the band name the same as the song). I forget who sang 1, 4, and 5.

Did you all have the one hit wonder band the Payola$? That song was stuck in my head the other day. They may have been mercifully confined to Canadian airplay.

I also had the Romantics' Talking in your Sleep in my head the other day as well. Ugh.

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Squeeze is a good example of a group that doesn't belong. While they only had one major hit, they had enough of a career and a body of work to merit exclusion... "Black Coffee in Bed" and "Mussels From a Shell", among others, are great songs.

"Now-w she's gone..."

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The City plans to appeal so we may one day get to see how the Supreme Court goes on this one and whether or not it can uphold this while keeping the porn filters ("I know it when I see it").

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1) Baltimore-A [a great song]
2) Dream Acadamy
3) Murray Head [?]
4) Wall of Voodoo (Celtic Frost also did a cover)
5) Haircut 100
6) Talk Talk

I scare myself sometimes.

not7yS

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I totally agree. Then again, I don't think there is total agreement on the definition of one-hit wonder.


What about, uhhhhh, Big Country? Was that on VH1s list??

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I liked that song. They also did "What I Like About You."

Though visually, those guys were the embodiment of "Video Killed the Radio Star."

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Woo hoo! I have no life! I got 92.

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Talk Talk's better song was It's My Life. The video had animals running across the plains and drawn in birds (and this was pre-Lion King). I also knew the Murray Head one, but I wouldn't have remembered the name if it wasn't on the quiz. Saw both Squeeze and Paul Young in an old theater venue during the 80s, so maybe now I can be TF's best friend... Well maybe not.

n(got a 92)cs