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You guys are just giving me material to add to my station.  ;D Hell, thinking of Madonna songs got me remembering the "Holiday Rap", I just got that one.  Feed me more!
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If you add Madleen Kane's You & I (Available in her greatest hits CD in CD Now), I'll forever be a devoted visitor. I make a good loyal fan, don't I WL?

Her song Cheri is disco-ish, but cool once you get past the first 3 seconds. Trust me.

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Poco - Call It Love

Freeze - AEIOU (& Sometimes Y)

Vitamin Z - Burning Flame

Boy George & Culture Club - It's A Miracle, The War Song

Chicago - Stay The Night
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Oh!!! I love that Poco song! I've got it on their greatest hits comp.  ;D

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How about "When Smokey Sings" by ABC? I never hear this anymore.
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Oh My! You're right! I haven't heard that since 1988!  :o

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Well, I found it, but all 3 sources are currently offline...
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Which one did you find? What program do you use for download?

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Donna Summer - Unconditional Love

Nancy Martinez - For Tonight, Move Out

Europe - Cherokee

Warrant - Where The Down Boys Go

Michael McDonald - I Keep forgetin'

Men At Work - Dr. Jekill & Mr. Jive


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Hairspray, were we twins separated at birth?  I have noticed that we like alot of the same music, including Metallica and other rock/metal acts.  You mentioned 3 of my favorite songs here: Cherokee, Where the Down Boys Go, and Dr Jeckyll and Mr Jive.  Then a little later you metioned Celebrate Youth by Rick Springfield.  It's nice to know I wasn't the only one who liked lots of different kinds of music. ;D

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Hairspray, were we twins separated at birth?  I have noticed that we like alot of the same music, including Metallica and other rock/metal acts.  You mentioned 3 of my favorite songs here: Cherokee, Where the Down Boys Go, and Dr Jeckyll and Mr Jive.  Then a little later you metioned Celebrate Youth by Rick Springfield.  It's nice to know I wasn't the only one who liked lots of different kinds of music. ;D
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Oh, heck yeah!!!  :D  That's great! We most likely have every 80's song we ever liked in common! It's sure good to know.  :)
(Will come-in handy for future 80's parties, when I plan them! ;) )

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That's Automatic by the Pointer Sisters. Apparently.
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Apparently?


I know they have one available. But I need an absolute confirmation on the particular song from someone who's heard it - not a guess. Thank you anyway.

Anyone else?

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Yes its definitly the pointer sisters - i have it. There's your confirmation :)
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Thank you very, very much. I thought I heard a guy in the song, so it really threw me off!  :o   ;D

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Hi!  I'm new here...anyway, I just watched the Rosanna video the other day, and the girl dancing around is the same girl from Dirty Dancing, I think her name was Penny.
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Welcome silentblue31! Great name!
Thanks for your added bit of trivia. I had never thought about it myself. Good observation.  ;)

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Sounds like luck to me.   ;)  I still get "offline" messages on AG.
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I mentioned before that I'm using Morpheus. But I just wanted to add that it really sucks for finding rarities.  :-[

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This is a great topic.  Alot of these songs I'd love to hear again.

I'll add Michael Jackson / Mick Jagger - State Of Shock
Duran Duran - Skin Trade
Stacy Q - Two Of Hearts

Some of these no longer apply here for me.  What was rarely heard a year ago suddenly got over played in the last 6 months around here:

Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter
Frida - I Know There's Something Going On
Talk Talk - Talk Talk
Berlin - The Metro

And Men At Work - Be Good Johnny (which my wife barely remembered over a year ago and can't stand now)

I too have jotted a few of these down to search for later.
(Love Of The Common People?!  been AGES since I've heard that)
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I LITERALLY jumped up from my chair and said - YES!!!

That's it!!!  :o  ;D

Just because I saw how you typed "Michael Jackson / Mick Jagger - State Of Shock".

I was beating my head trying to think of that one song for my list of Michael Jackson favorites. I kept coming up with "Torture" and saying - Nope. That's not it.
How thrilling. I really like that song. He made the effort as The Jacksons, not as the sole artist.

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Here are some that I can come up with. From listening to the crappy "flashback" hours that some stations have, I gather some of the songs in my list might seem overplayed, but that's because flashback hours are pre-pregrammed junk with very little time for requests (think: STAR 98.7 and KBIG 104 - two stations I wouldn't mind if they "went Spanish"). I have to find out what the psychological term is for those that like making lists...

"Fade To Grey" by Visage
"Doot-Doot" by Freur
"Susanna" by The Art Company
"Get The Balance Right" by Depeche Mode
"Don't Answer Me" by The Alan Parson's Project
"Why?" by The Bronski Beat
Anything by The Smiths besides "How Soon Is Now?"
"Geography" and "U-Men" by Front 242
"Only You" by Yaz
"Love And Pride" by Paul King
"The Voice," "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes," and "Vienna" by Ultravox
Anything by The Cure besides "Friday, I'm In Love" and "Just Like Heaven"
"Everybody" by Madonna
Anything by Alphaville!!!
"Promises, Promises" by Naked Eyes
"Sex Dwarf" by Softcell
Anything by New Order beside "Bizarre Love Triangle," "True Faith," and "Blue Monday"


...phew, I can think of more, but I could take the whole topic to new lenghts!!! I can't express how bad radio is here - absolutely awful!

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Excellent list! See, you add some pazzaz to the board.
Join Us permanently (brainwashing experiment in progress).  ;D

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Glad to help, Hairspray!  ;D

I never OWNED the Jacksons' album (Victory?  Destiny?  Somebody here knows) with Torture & State Of Shock, but had a VERY bad copy on cassette that I lost years ago.  Have the album now thanks to the wife's album collection!  :)  But, we have no turntable!  :'(  

Luckily State Of Shock is on another compilation I made (from my cousin's single), so I can hear that song once in a while.  :)
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It was Victory.  :)

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T'Pow (sp?) - Heart & Soul
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That's T'Pau.  And as a bit of trivia for the Trekkers out there, that was the name of a Vulcan matriarch, seen briefly in the series, and I think they brought the character back in one of the films.

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That's T'Pau.  And as a bit of trivia for the Trekkers out there, that was the name of a Vulcan matriarch, seen briefly in the series, and I think they brought the character back in one of the films.
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I had the trouble with the (sp?), but at least I got it right phonetically!  ;D

On the Trekkie or Trekker trivia- I actually knew that one.  ;)

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How about "When Smokey Sings" by ABC? I never hear this anymore.
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Speaking of this song, I once saw a mondegren (misheard lyric) where somebody had thought the singer was saying, "When Smokey sings I hear violence"!  Those of us who are familiar with the song know he is actually saying "violins".  I thought that was pretty funny!  LOL!  ;D

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Tony Carey-Fine Fine Day
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Love that song!  It's probably one of my all-time favorites from the 80's!!!  :)

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"Let's Go All The Way" - Sly Fox
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Another really good one!  ;)

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(Love Of The Common People?!  been AGES since I've heard that)
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Wasn't that a Paul Young song?  I remember it but haven't heard it in probably 15 years at least!

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Go West - Call Me
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How about Go West's "We Close Our Eyes"?  That's the first song I ever heard from them and although it didn't make the charts I always thought it was their best.  

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Wasn't that a Paul Young song?  I remember it but haven't heard it in probably 15 years at least!
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Yes, that's a Paul Young song - I loved it then, and I love the Everly Brothers version that I am, strangely, listening to right now.

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How about Go West's "We Close Our Eyes"?  That's the first song I ever heard from them and although it didn't make the charts I always thought it was their best.  
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I quite like that song - and it did make the charts in england, '85 i think. I also like 'kind of wishful thinking', but that was early 90's.

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Tony Carey-Fine Fine Day

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Ok, there's another song where Tony Carey was the singer, but as part of a group.  I used to have the LP, but not anymore, so I can't just go look at it.  I'm goin on memory, which is spotty at best.

The song was "Why Me?" and I think the band was called Planet P Project.  The whole album was a concept album, all the songs were about astronauts and space travel. There was another, double album they put out where the concept was the end of the world, possibly due to nuclear war (a common theme in the 80's).  I loved  both albums and would love to have them again, but I'm neither sure of the band name nor of whether or not the music is still in print.

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"Let's Go All The Way" - Sly Fox

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They play this one all the time, here.  In fact, I am getting close to being sick of it. :-/