If you're a Book of Love fan-- or an 80's Texas X victim-- you already know the band's best song is any one of the remixes of "Boy." It's a shame that so few people ever heard what they did with Mike Oldfield's classic "Tubular Bells." (Of course Mike did a pretty rockin' remix 30 years after the fact!)
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Compassionate Conservatism: Romney Meets Medical Marijuana Patient
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Bill Maher Takes a Shot at the Birthers With Parody on Romney's 'Wiferism' Scandal |
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Missouri Taxpayers Fund 24-Hour Security Camera for Limbaugh Statue |
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Tucker Carlson: Reporters Have 'Slavish, Dog-Like Loyalty' to Obama |
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Ed Schultz Brings National Attention to Florida Voter Roll Purge |
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Arizona Congressional Candidate 'Pulls a Coffman' |
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Bill Maher Knocks Liberty University: It Cheapens My Degree From a Real School |
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Compassionate Conservatism: Romney Meets Medical Marijuana Patient |
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Stockman: Romney Can't Say He Learned How to Create Jobs in the Leveraged Buyout Business |
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Krugman: Romney's Business Career is Fair Game |
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Arizona Congressional Candidate 'Pulls a Coffman' |
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NY Fox 5 Crew Pepper Sprayed And Assaulted By NYPD |
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Bill Maher Sends Alexandra Pelosi Out to Interview Mississippi Residents |
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This is Your Brain After Listening to Too Many Right Wing Talking Points on the Debt Ceiling |
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Frum: Fox News Creates an 'Alternative Knowledge System' |
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Olbermann gives dramatic reading of Palin emails as poetry |
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Book of Hate............for Bush/Cheney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJv5qLsLYoo&mode=related&search= dead or alive ... you spin me round.......another one for boosh.
I'm sorry to say I think song is lacking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFyBH-z6c1w&mode=related&search= the B52s....Private Idaho ...another one for booosh
My favorite part of the album-length "Tubular Bells" is near the end of side one, when the late, great Vivian Stanshall (of Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band fame) starts introducing various instruments as Oldfield layers them on. It's great music, but having Viv there just makes me smile.
"I came home late, very late. What could I say to my wife? 'Darling, I've been beaten up again.' Let's face it, she's credulous as hell." - from "Big Shot" by the Bonzos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVZ5KTxyOOY&mode=related&search= the B52s....PlAnET ClAIrE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbhIzN9-p0&mode=related&search= heehehehehhee.......Elvis Costello...Pump it up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0sVcWbqpug even better.....MADNESS.....ONE STEP BEYOND............anyone in the mood for some ska
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pieI3ctfMfM&mode=related&search= The Cult...She sells Sanctuary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpmWIyjilQo how about Billy Idol....Eyes without a face.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLBZjdrKSpY The Motels....good stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-SDmIAJVYo Chris Whitley.......big sky country.......this is a good one.....
Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love
gn all...i hope you enjoy all
Yay synth-pop! I'm just gonna keep going.....
Kraftwerk - Das Model
Landscape - My Name is Norman Bates
B-Movie - Nowhere Girl
Howie,
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I used to love love love this song! I grew up in Texas back in the 80s when X was cheap, pure and pretty much legal. I mowed the lawn to get the 10 bucks to buy my first hit. Ahhhhh...memories :)
Since it's '80s night, here's Talk Talk, which I consider one of the most underrated, underplayed '80s bands. The singer has one of the most distinctive voices, kind of like an '80s Steve Winwood, and in fact Winwood produced one of their albums. Recently, one of their songs, "It's My Life," was covered by Gwen Stefani, who made it a hit again. But, I hate to post the ones everyone knows, like "Life's What You Make It," but this is a pretty on live performance (even though the bass player is having a hard time staying on key) of "Such a Shame." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3dUHqj4pA
What the F, it looks like it is really big hair '80s night, so I will post another well underrated, underplayed band, Japan, with "Quiet Life." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhSPHm5AnHQ
omg that sucked!!
wheres the Public Enemy?
> wheres the Public Enemy?
In the White House. Oh, you're talking about Chuck D and Flava Flavs band, sorry. Post some and it will be here!!!! Please?
Ah, Tubular Bells.
I saw Mike Oldfield perform about 20 years ago.
That boy could really play.
Too bad he seems to be spending so much time with synthesizers now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFIMJxV2tjI Simple Minds......Belfast Child............you would of had to of been there...
Book of love? Man there is a band I haven't heard of in a looooonnngg time. I remember buying the first album on cassette. I always loved Modigliani (Lost in Your Eyes). Thanks for the memories.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbN7MWmvzoE&mode=related&search= U2 Sunday bloody Sunday
tell me those people don't want it to end.......just look at them and listen to them.........they've been livingwith war for too long................................................................finally.
Minimal Compact - When I Go - live
Take that!
In some ways, Mike Oldfield is responsible for Richard Branson's success.
Branson was basically a hippie businessman who had "Virgin" record stores and mail order record business, and he decided to expand it into a record label too.
While lining up some talent, he let Mike Oldfield (who was a young guitarist in Kevin Ayers band who couldn't get a deal with anyone else) use his newly acquired studio in the off hours.
There, Oldfield laboriously overdubbed all the instruments for what was released as "Tubular Bells," Virgin's first album release. It recorded 16 million in sales and set Branson on his way.
Make Room for Daddy
mmm, I could go for a cool, refreshing smoke
Heretic @ 20:
And you know this man!!! Always a huge fan. I was so bummed by No Doubt's cover of "It's My Life".
I thought Book of Love was the greatest. They were the darlings of alternative music dj's during their heyday. Especially the song "Boy". I always thought their first two CD's, were their best. I watched them perform live in downtown Gainesville, FL, reknown for such dubious distinctions as having Police Department's that taser students that ask 'uncomfortable' questions of former Senators.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3n0NmhaYUM ok....this is from a time long past.........Traffic...John Barlycorn Must die.
Super Karate Monkey Death Car @ 30:
I'M ON IT!
Mary Tyler Moore
Slinky
mmm, 'burb booty
sharkcellar @ 31:
I'm actually glad No Doubt covered it because now everytime I play the original, people ask about it, and I tell them what's what. I'll post it because I always found the video very moving: Talk Talk - It's My Life
Armenia - Einsturzende Neubauten
The most amazing band I've ever seen live. Shit one of the most amazing bands ever, bar none.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUUwCW4ClPo&mode=related&search= me thinks it's time for some Bob Marley....Could you be loved....
When Things Were Rotten
get yer Dick Gautier on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFvuo41AoMU&mode=related&search= Bob Marley.....WAR!
Here's a little Ministry from back when they were a synth-pop act: Ministry - Everyday is Halloween
And another underrated band...Sparks!
Sparks - Angst in my Pants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac8wp_USp1E&mode=related&search= soory about the short Bob Vid......try this...Linton Kwesi Johnson......the Great Insurection
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
the caravan moves on, though the dogs do bark
Super Karate Monkey Death Car @ 43:
arf arf arf!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLKFEq6Zu14 Gary Newman................................cars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b20UzLecnHo&mode=related&search= Falco....Rock Me Amadeus
I grew up in Oklahoma City in the 80's... used to road trip to Dallas all the time back then. We would go to Club Sparx and get X for like, 10 bucks, and dance all night. Book of Love, Soft Cell, Bronski Beat... gotta miss those days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17QGYkFJj9M&NR=1 Falco.......Der Kommisar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEzphY-48lQ last one for the eighties...............Bob Dylan................Jokerman...........
gn folks...be well.
Book of Love... nice!
Here's the one that always makes me think of them:
Book Of Love - Pretty Boys And Pretty Girls
I was way into Book of Love. Thanks for the blast from the past. I always think of radio station 91X along with Book of Love.
I got yer Public Enemy...
Fight the Power: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jym-RtHHG0s
"Burn Hollywood Burn"
(Couldn't find a good "Your Gonna Get Your's" video.)
Remember this remix of their song "Boy?"
Book Of Love - Boy (Video - Big Red Mix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRiP7LWL9rQ
XTC: Making Plans for Nigel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C6bVckO_CM&NR=1
Talk Talk - Talk Talk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-epiDLZmma4
Saw Book of Love open for Depeche Mode at Merry Weather Post Pavilion in Maryland back in '86 (I think). Bleah, no one cares.
This is a great song, and I just downloaded to ITunes the other day in my on-going effort to get songs I have on cassette only into a digital format. Some othes downloaded:
I Still Believe (The Call)
All You Zombies (The Hooters)
Regina (The Sugarcubes)
So Alive (Love and Rockets)
In a Big Country (Big Country)
You'll dance to anything by the Communards
You'll dance to anything by Book of Love
You'll dance to anything by the Smiths
You'll dance to anything by Depeche Mode
You'll dance to anything by Public Image Ltd.
You'll dance to anything by any bunch of stupid Europeans with their big hairdos intent on taking our money instead of giving your cash where it belongs to a decent American artist like myself
You'll dance to anything.
Who could forget this refrain? It's going to be a fine night tonight...
Opus III - Fine Day (Mike Koglin Mix 2002)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FIXlKL805Q&mode=related&search=
Opus III - It's A Fine Day 2007 [Rafael Lelis Remix]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xoTtqklAIY&mode=related&search=
Erasure - Oh L'amour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psH7lpJllg4&mode=related&search=
ldzppln @ 58:
Well, I bloody well do! I was at the same show. :-)
PRODIGY - voodoo people
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fz85FE0KtQ&mode=related&search=
I'm sorry but I just can't sign on with "Boy" as the best Book of Love song. You Make Me Feel So Good will always be my favorite, mostly because of its sincere, gentle sweetness which was a fairly radical statement in the jaded, ironic alternative music scene of the 80s. I also loved Die Metrosen but damned if I know why.
It's a shame none of their subsequent releases came close to that fantastic first album, though I admit they had some good tracks.
Why are 9 out of 10 songs posted on Crooks and Liars just total and utter crap? Once again, stick to the politics!!!!
Shout outs on the pastes: That was awe-inspiring, Jess. You taught me something. Good call, Beth. Mudshark, dig a little deeper. Andrew, are you one of those guys who missed the '70s, 80's, 90's, and '00s? Post or zip it.
one of my fave groups of the 80s -- thanks for the break from Beltway malaise!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzORu1dqEE0&mode=related&search= hows this...Heretic?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLg-8Jxi5aE Peter Gabriel......Biko.
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