❌Monthly Song Challenge: Archived🎵
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ctarrantella
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That is also one of my favorite songs. And Fear of the Dark. Among all the other classics!
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7th son for me, the album. Hallowed be thy name for a song.
hotoldrguy
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Day 23: A song from the 80s
Girls Just Want to Have Fun Cyndi Lauper
The_spirit_of_oz
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Bumped into Billy Thorpe in a night club in Bryon in the mid 90s when it was still fun, legendDay 22: A song from the 70s
Some good old Aussie rock to shake it up a bit. If @Bry1313 picks the same song as me again today there may be fisticuffs
Most People I Know - Billy Thorpe and The Aztecs
Whiskeyjack
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Day 23: A song from the 80s
This song has been stuck in my head for a few days, so I'm glad there's an opportunity to post it.
1983 - "Gloria" - Laura Branigan
This song has been stuck in my head for a few days, so I'm glad there's an opportunity to post it.
1983 - "Gloria" - Laura Branigan
curious_slut
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Day 23: A song from the 80s
It seems that I must go all the way back to the 1880s today. Even if you don't listen to opera, you know this duet.
Delibes: Lakmé - Duo des fleurs, Sabine Devieilhe and Ambroisine Bré
It seems that I must go all the way back to the 1880s today. Even if you don't listen to opera, you know this duet.
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I don't but I do.
Wonderer67
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Day 23: A song from the 80s
UK Subs - Tomorrows Girls
UK Subs - Tomorrows Girls
BreukelenAnima
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Day 23: A song from the 80s - 1983
An odd choice, but Stewart Copeland's soundtrack was highly creative and innovative and has inspired many, many film soundtracks since its release.
An odd choice, but Stewart Copeland's soundtrack was highly creative and innovative and has inspired many, many film soundtracks since its release.
aussiegeekygal
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Day 23: A song from the 80s
Better Be Home Soon - Crowded House
Better Be Home Soon - Crowded House
AbsintheFather
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I saw them on that tour. I've been to see a lot of live music and that show stands out as one the most memorable concert I've seen.
AbsintheFather
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1985. I saw them on this tour too 
barefootgirl69
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Day 22: A song from the 70s
Cold As Ice - Foreigner
Day 23: A song from the 80s
Cold As Ice - Foreigner
MisterChillax
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Day 23: A song from the 80s
Shady_nz
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One of my favourites!
SluttyShannon
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Day 23-A song from the 80's.
UnquietDreams
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I love this song, but I have never heard the extended version (and holy cats and crows, that is an extended version!) Thank you!
UnquietDreams
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Day 23-A song from the 80s (with flowers!)
Shreikback's Oil and Gold is one of the great albums of the 80s, but you rarely hear about it. It has not yet been discovered and mined again, and maybe it never will be. But this was when they moved from New Wave funky post-punk to full, complex, amazing art rock. I am not a huge fan of art rock, unless it is done well. This is done well. It is bombastic and sad; it is literate and pretentious; it is intense and even more intense, all in turns. Experimental, artistic, brooding. Former XTC vocalist Barry Andrews's speaksinging is unique, and can run from a whispery baritone to a startling falsetto, but it always sounds otherworldly and wonderfully odd.
"These faded flowers
Precious as memory
A veil of cloud
Correct as energy
We had some good machines
But they don't work no more
I loved you once
Don't love you anymore..."
I discovered this song in the most 80s of all 80s movies, The Band of the Hand. (Go watch it. It is so worth it.) "Faded Flowers" leans into the brooding end of the spectrum, with ethereal keyboards, popular in the era, and one of the most crowded drum machine lines ever. But it all pulls together in a wonderfully melancholy love song, and maybe a post-love song -- wistful and sweet and sour. It uses the word "anacrucis," and you don't get any more artsy and pretentious than that.
"Faded Flowers," Shreikback
(Our hearts are breaking
One more song to go)
Shreikback's Oil and Gold is one of the great albums of the 80s, but you rarely hear about it. It has not yet been discovered and mined again, and maybe it never will be. But this was when they moved from New Wave funky post-punk to full, complex, amazing art rock. I am not a huge fan of art rock, unless it is done well. This is done well. It is bombastic and sad; it is literate and pretentious; it is intense and even more intense, all in turns. Experimental, artistic, brooding. Former XTC vocalist Barry Andrews's speaksinging is unique, and can run from a whispery baritone to a startling falsetto, but it always sounds otherworldly and wonderfully odd.
"These faded flowers
Precious as memory
A veil of cloud
Correct as energy
We had some good machines
But they don't work no more
I loved you once
Don't love you anymore..."
I discovered this song in the most 80s of all 80s movies, The Band of the Hand. (Go watch it. It is so worth it.) "Faded Flowers" leans into the brooding end of the spectrum, with ethereal keyboards, popular in the era, and one of the most crowded drum machine lines ever. But it all pulls together in a wonderfully melancholy love song, and maybe a post-love song -- wistful and sweet and sour. It uses the word "anacrucis," and you don't get any more artsy and pretentious than that.
"Faded Flowers," Shreikback
One more song to go)
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The_spirit_of_oz
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Day: Nebs
Bye sunshine
Bye sunshine
UnquietDreams
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I don't like Weezer. I have been listening to Weezer all day, on purpose. Fuck...
The_spirit_of_oz
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I know that would make her laugh - but take care
