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Mon 28 Apr, 2003 09:51 pm
Remember when Phil Spector was just making a killing on the radio???
The series, Just Can't Get Enough
The tracks:
Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi;
The Normal - Warm Leatherette;
Blondie - One Way Or Another;
Flash & The Pan - Hey, St. Peter;
Nick Lowe - Cruel To Be Kind;
D-Day - Too Young To Date;
Graham Parker - Local Girls;
Ramones - Rock N Roll High School;
The Knack - My Sharona;
Dave Edmunds - Girls Talk;
Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star;
Tim Curry - I Do The Rock;
The Inmates - Dirty Water;
Tin Huey - I'm A Believer;
Suburban Lawns - Gidget Goes To Hell;
The Flying Lizards - Money (That's What I Want)
M - Pop Muzik;
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick;
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart;
Human Sexual Response - What Does Sex Mean To Me?;
The Kingbees - My Mistake;
Tonio K - The Funky Western Civilization;
The Beat - You Won't Be Happy;
Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays;
Split Enz - I Got You;
The Motels - Dnager;
Martha & The Muffins - Echo Beach;
Devo - Whip It;
Ultravox - VIenna;
Fischer-Z - So Long;
Klark Kent - Away From Home;
Vapors - Turning Japanese
Gary Numan - Cars;
B 52's - Private Idaho;
XTC - Making Plans for Nigel;
Rockpile - Teacher Teacher;
Robert Palmer - Looking for Clues;
Humans - I Live In The City;
Pearl Harbor & The Explosions - Drivin';
Romantics - What I Like About You;
Nails - 88 Lines about 44 Women;
Lene Lovich - New Toy;
Visage - Fade to Grey;
Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Stool Pigeon;
Squeeze - Tempted;
Selecter - Too Much Pressure;
Fools - It's A Night for Beautiful Girls;
Gleaming Spires - Are You Ready For The Sex Girls?
Devo - Freedom of Choice;
XTC - Generals and Majors;
Kings - Switchin' To Glide;
Boomtown Rats - Up All Night;
Greg Kihn Band - Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em);
Motors - Love and Loneliness;
Magazine - About The Weather;
Phil Seymour - Precious To Me;
Duran Duran - Girls On Film;
Translator - Everywhere I'm Not;
Altered Images - I Could Be Happy;
Members - Working Girl;
Monroes - What Do All The People Know;
Undertones - It's Going To Happen!;
Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust;
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy;
Waitresses - I Know What Boys Like;
Kim Wilde - Kids In America;
Haircut 100 - Love Plus One;
Marshall Crenshaw - Someday Someway;
Great Buildings - Hold On To Something;
Jam - Town Called Malice;
Tommy Tutone - 867-5309/Jenny;
Go Go's - Vacation;
Frank & Moon Zappa - Valley Girl;
Flock of Seagulls - I Ran;
Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf;
Gang of Four - I Love A Man In Uniform;
Japan - Art of Parties;
Pete Shelley - Homosapien;
Toni Basil - Mickey
Mr Stillwater:
that track listing reminds me of the days when my friends and I would bike down to the Korean market downtown and the guy would only sell us crappy Black Label beer which we would then drink warm in some cul de sac of some new suburban housing development. Later we would puke and pass out on the front lawn of the little old lady next door's house. Gosh...those WERE the good old days. Now I have yet another nostalgia box to purchase!
:wink:
When is DEVO going to do a reunion tour??
Phoenix: That 70's box that looks like a rack of 8-track tapes is one of my faves! Go Rhino!!
Dishpan - those are golden memories :wink:
I think I could chart a big chunk of my earlier years by just organising that list in the correct order. However, I think I'd lay of the herbal refreshments this time, ahemm!
D-pan, quick search on GOOGLE reveals that Devo are still out there.
Quote:In true Devo-style, we don't get a new Devo-album. Instead a reunion album of the strange, probably fictional surf band The Wipeouters, that Mark Mothersbaugh claims to have been in together with the rest of the Devo core. Which might be just as well. This is a light-hearted, wacky record to enjoy independently of the group's previous recordings. The title pretty much says it all. Twangy guitars and fast going are the main rules. Vocals disrupt the instrumental surf concept on a few tracks, otherwise this is more or less the soundtrack of life on some weird beach in a place called "Goon Island".
Included is the title theme to an animated children's show called "Rocket Power", one of the many commissioned television, movie and computer game works that Mothersbaugh has been working on since the demise of Devo. It's a relief to see some people really never grow up.
Mr Stillwater:
Do you remember back during the "Whip It" era DEVO opened for themselves disguised as hippies
and called themselves DOVE The Band of Love?? Mark and Co.= pure crazy conceptualists...I'll have to keep my ears open. Neil Young said that when he heard them that he was polluted by their sounds and ideas! There's a scene in the Rust Never Sleeps film where the show is interupted by a guy coming down from the lights wearing one of those orange DEVO jumpsuits....if it's good enough for Neil, it's good enough for me!
I was just taking a closer look at the lengthy list above and one song seems to be missing IMO:
The Fixx: One Thing Leads To Another. How could they leave that off?
OMG, I own a clear vinyl pressing of Devo's 'We are not men, we are Devo', a treasure of my 600+ record collection
Yes, records!
Hey, didn't Black Label make a sort of comeback in the 80's?
Yes, there are some missing gaps there. I'd assume that it's a work in progress rather than a definitive collection.
The bands that SHOULD be included are:
-The Cars
-The Bangles
-The Go-Gos (love 'em)
-Steely Dan
-Wings
-Madness
-Adam Ant
-Men at Work
Any other omissions you mob can think of?
well no collection is compete without "The Moray Eel Eats the Holy Modal Rounders" by, of course, THE HOLY MODAL ROUNDERS
and it's a recording of them being EATEN by a moray eel? Very new-wave, with a touch of Charlie Manson.
well, they made it to the soundtrack to Easy Rider
No Psychadelic Furs!?
C'mon - "Pretty in Pink" was great.
The Go-Go's ARE on there with "Vacation"!
I would substitute BowWowWow's "Baby oh no" for "I want candy" though.
And for the Ramone's I would have picked "I wanna be sedated" instead of "Rock and roll highschool".
The biggest omissions that I see are The Clash and Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson.
No Talking Heads?
No Madness?
No English Beat?
No J. Giles?
The Holy Modal Rounders, dyslexia? A great group, for sure, but weren't they, like, from the '60s?!?!
J. Geils! Must you?! I was THIS CLOSE to recovering completely from that flu...
Blondie's coming into town soon. They look a bit greyer, but Deb Harry appears to have skipped the usual pop-star washed-up look induced by excessive intake of booze, smack, speed or all three.
Did any of you Mum/Dad types pick up on the cover of "One Way or Another" from the 'Rugrats Movie'. Music supplied by Mark Mothersbaugh, and covers of Devo and Elvis Costello.
And no, they way I look is not drug-related. Hey - I was
BORN this way!
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