Another 1-hit wonder...
 

In the movie, a black group sang it on a street corner. Shockingly, I thought one of the black guys was so cute.

Even(cannot believe I can remember this shit)Odds

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I saw The Band, without Robbie Robertson, at that cheezy club in Stamford (i think the word "tree" is in the name) that is on the Post Rd. right next to the Old Greenwich border. Take a load off fannie. And I think I also saw BTO there as well. Or are they the same band? You aint seen nothing yet, buh buh buh baby.

Also saw Modern English open up for UB40 on the Pier. UB40 played for about 45 minutes. I was so totally disappointed.

Men Without Self Respect.
 

It looks like you are confusing Men at Work with Men Without Hats, a common but serious error.

Ack!
 

I am pretty sure that Truckin' hit the Top 40.

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OK, you want obscure. The Surf Punks opened for Joe Jackson. It was in a place called "the Place" and I had to get fake ID to get in, but it was a hell of a show. Not anywhere near as good as Kiss in the Coliseum, but it rocked. "This is my beach babaaay go home!"

Bizarre Booking
 

I saw Public Enemy on the same bill as the Tom Tom Club.

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I have seen They Might Be Giants twice. I used to have a prosthetic forehead on my real head.

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I prefer the cover done by Peter Boyle and Gene Wilder

Men Without Self Respect.
 

Dont you know by now never to take ANYTHING the pretty one says about anything literally? He was clearly mocking the "Men" of the 80s and their stupid band names.

Dont worry, Pretty. I get you. Though I love Pushy a little more.

Men Without Self Respect.
 

Go to hell, again. Men Without Hats did the medieval ideo with leaping midgets doing the "Safety Dance" around a maypole and are not to be confused with a band of respectable Aussies.

If it's any comfort, the drug and alcohol binges are severaly showing on the Duran boys' appearance now.

P(none of 'em compared to Rick Springfield, anyway...)J

Men Without Self Respect.
 

You know what they say about your wish and my command.:D

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I saw UB40 in a gymnasium at SUNY Geneseo or Oswego or one of those little SUNY schools (can't keep them straight), and really enjoyed it. Also saw Violent Femmes at one of those places. Back when slam dancing was soooo fun!!! No women were picked up and carried overhead, as is the rage today (add groping).

American Pie
 

My nomination for the ultimate 1HW is Don McLean. Yes, I know he also did "Vincent," but the song sucks and the only people who like it aer the semi-literate mongoloids who think they're impressive because they know that "Vincent" refers to Van Gogh. Don't know if it ever became a hit.

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Confusing SUNY-Geneseo with SUNY-Oswego is almost as grave an error as confusing Men At Work with Men Without Hats.

Men Without Self Respect.
 

They also did Pop Goes the World.

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wait, it was FineYoung Cannibals. Werent they the reincarnated version of Modern English?

Men Without Self Respect.
 

Men at Work is one of the few bands that seriously make me cringe with their badness. I saw their cd in Tower the other day and thought back to my youth with disdain. Most other acts that I have liked hold up to me scrutiny today. Not Men at Work or Bryan Adams tho.

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That's only about 6 less times than I have seen them, which included a benefit for McSweeney's magazine hosted by PLF - I mean, Dave Eggars, but TMBG are local icons.

And weird.

not7yS

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Also, I used Joan Jett's tour bus bathroom. I talked with her about it, and apparently it's no joke: She really *does* love rock and roll.

(The bathroom part is true. My conversation with her was not all that involved--she was talking to my companions).

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No. Modern English was the reincarnated version of Modern English, what with releasing Melt With You, remixed, on some album 12 years later.

FYC was some bizarre New Order/General Public cross. They drove me crazy.

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Not obscure band anymore, but they were then. Barenaked Ladies played at my friend's birthday party in 1989. I barely remember them - I think they had just met each other and hadn't played any clubs yet. I didn't meet them - I remember thinking they were pretty goofy. but catchy.

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I saw Marshall Crenshaw in college. He played on our campus in college. I would be amazed if half the people on board had even heard of this guy.

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I saw Howard Jones in concert in a college gym. It took me 15 minutes to remember his name for purposes of this poll.

Neither of these artists is obscure, but I saw both Lou Reed and Warren Zevon during somewhat obscure tours, that is, when they were touring college campuses. Warren Zevon did a promotional bit in the student union -- I forget the product that was being promoted, but the contest involved howling and was co-sponsored by a fraternity. It was all terribly dignified.

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Fine Young Cannibals were half of the English Beat.

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She played after a hockey match here last season (what was she thinking?). She fawkin rawked. Joan Jett is the epitome of a hard rockin bitch icon. She is also hot in a way that I think some people were trying to lay on Pink and XTina -- but Joan Jett really is. What was that band flick she did with Michael J. Fox??? Damn, I can't remember -- but I saw it the other day and it was a bit better than I recalled.

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Are you kidding??? His greatest hits CD "This is Easy" is in my briefcase as we speak... "Whenever You're On My Mind" and "Someday Some Way" are two of my favorite 80's songs. Consummate songwriter. Deserves more fame than he got...

Little known fact -- he played Buddy Holly in the movie "La Bamba".

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I thought that was General Public.

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I loved Marshall Crenshaw.

Obscure bands
 

My first concert was Frankie Goes to Hollywood. I won the tickets on the radio, and was just shocked! I tell you, shocked! when the corridors of the Memorial Coliseum were packed with leathermen.

Their encore was a cover of "Born to Run," and they came out in big hair-band wigs.

I won a bunch of concert tickets when I lived in Hell's Kitchen--they always seemed to give them away on WNEW about 7:30, when I had just turned my radio up and settled in for a productive evening at work. I won Jewel/Deep Blue Something (talk about your one-hit wonders!), PUSA, and Foo Fighters. Very fun. Also in NYC, I saw Pond at CBGB (so obscure you've never heard of them), Mudhoney at Town Hall, and The Ramones at Carman Hall ($5!).

I saw Nu Shooz at Willamette University on the eve of the release of "I Can't Wait."

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Obscure bands
 

I saw the Ramones at an under-age club outside of Buffalo (SPIT - Special Place in Town) and they let me help them with their gear after the show cuz I knew the club manager or DJ or some such thing -- I was on cloud nine. :grinning:

This was also a place that I saw Platinum Blonde. I cannot recall what their one hit was but if I could I would do a write-in on VH1.

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I can name that Marshall in four notes . . .

For obscure shows - in another life, I spent about ten hours in a Zep backstage after-show drugged-out party. Various luminaries were wandering in and out. At one point, I was listening to Page on guitar, Muddy Waters singing, and Tiny Tim gamely plucking away on his little . . . thing.

Now, THAT was obscure.

Obscure bands
 

Yikes - Platinum Blonde. They were at least a 2 hit wonder in Canada.

Standing in the Dark
It Doesn't really matter

I am very embarrased to be remembering that, but because of Cancon we were blasted with this stuff and Corey Hart all through the 80's, so I guess I have an excuse.

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Light of Day, if memory serves. She and Michael both sang the title track.

About the only other thing I remember from the movie is that Fox's character worked in a factory that was making commemorative plates for the wedding of Fergie and Prince Andrew.

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Re: the 1HW with the dark-haired chick in the hat with the paint.

It just came to me. Swing Out Sister. "Break Out." Utter pablum. Based on the video stills, apparently I was wrong about the hat, but not about the resemblence to Maude Lebowski.

http://www.swingoutsister.com/galler...out_video1.jpg http://www.swingoutsister.com/galler...out_video6.jpg

Apropos of nothing, I'd say that the Blow Monkeys was a great name for a band.

Mirror in the Bathroom
 

You are thinking of the English Beat

and now, off to steak dinner

not7y(adieu)S

Men Without Self Respect.
 

"Johnny played guitar, Jenny played bass
The name of the band was the human race . . ."

Thanks, asshole.

Obscure bands
 

hehehe
I just recalled that I won the Platinum Blonde tix for my lip-sync performance as Xene Cervanka of X singing oh, now I can't remember the name -- it went

"I am a black and white ghost.
In a black and invisible dress.
Oh, what a mess I'm in.
What kinda fool am I.
I am the married kind.
The kind that saiys I do.
Forever searching -- for someone new."

I can't believe I remember this.

Men Without Self Respect.
 

I'm not entirely sure why I'm encouraging this, but...

The original five members of Duran Duran have gotten back together for a 20 year reunion this year. They're touring Europe and Japan right now and they'll probably hit state-side (assuming Roger Taylor doesn't have another nervous breakdown) by fall.

Uh, I saw the Samples, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Tool, A Lighter Shade of Brown, Catherine Wheel, The Violent Femmes, No Doubt, Soundgarden, and a few others that blackoutting has totally eliminated from my mind when I was in college in the early 90s.

I'm seeing the White Stripes tonight.

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Resolved: The ultimate embodiment of "video killed the radio star" was Journey, because Steve Perry is too fugly to live.

http://home.attbi.com/~oneofus/images/perry1lg.jpg

Men Without Self Respect.
 

Your drinking must really be getting out of hand if you not only are hallucinating, but can predict which particular hallucination is coming.