Posted on 07/05/2022 10:51:22 AM PDT by nickcarraway
All these years and this is the first time that I am aware of who performed this song and where they were/are from.
Seen Duran lately? Simon has a paunch. Shouda gone on a strict diet before touring again.
I have no special memories associated with the song, so it’s not particularly sentimental to me. I just liked, and still do like, the catchy tune and the artwork which was innovative at the time. It must be difficult for a lot of musicians to have to play their hits for years.
Nope. I have not.
Got you beat — I never heard of the song or the group.
Not as bad as Irish folk bands being asked to do the Unicorn Song.
LOL
I have heard snippets of that song over the years, never from start to finish. Not quite my style of music.
It wasn’t so much the song, it was the video. The song, without the video, would be on the ash heap of history by now.
80’s bubble gum pop. It was an MTV staple. Back when MTV played music video’s.
Great song.
Here’s the North Korean version, with accordians no less.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBgMeunuviE
Agreed. IMHO, the video itself is half responsible for implanting the song in the minds of young Gen-Xers, and the success of the song over 4 decades.
Technically Andy Wickham, head of A&R at Warner, signed them to the label, although Slater set everything in motion by setting up the studio audition and later suggesting the Richards contact as (first) producer.
I would fit in well because I hate that song too, as well as the aholes who performed it.
The chick in the video was pretty cute.
Now I may have to find it on YouTube, sometime when I can’t think of anything else to do. It’s possible that I’ve heard it at some time without remembering it.
Oh no! I had a hit song and video that captured the zeitgeist! Waaaa.
Dang. 1,485,343,937 views on YouTube.
I have a soft spot for this song because it takes me back to my junior and senior years of high school. Granted, this was not my style of music — I was into the punk/alt stuff that was coming out. Lots of industrial, techno, dark wave/goth. I get it — not everyone’s taste.
As for Take on Me — I loved the video for Take on Me. Their other tunes, I thought, were better. Like Train of Thought and The Sun only Shines on TV. Again, personal taste, whatever.
I never knew they hated each other that much. Funny.
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