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posted 03-03-2010 15:11
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Behold "Young Turks" by Rod Stewart.
I'm going through one of my intermittent phases of listening to loads of cocainey, white-suited, keyboard-driven 80s Success Rock (see also: Robert Palmer, Steve Winwood, Nick Straker Band).
Very random Kids From Fame dancers invading the 'runaway lovers' narrative in the video...
Feel free to post your own favourites in that vein (nostril?), if you have any.
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posted 03-03-2010 15:17
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"This video contains content from WMG, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."
Dang.
For reasons I can't quite define, I'm going through a 'didn't like it then, but like it now' phase which includes (remarkably) Toto's Africa and Rosanna; Robert Plant's Burning Down One Side and In The Mood; and a few others I'm too embarrassed to mention.
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posted 03-03-2010 15:33
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The Honeydrippers "Sea of Love" video is another masterpiece of the genre, with Robert Plant singing to the accompaniment of a lethargic, Speedo-clad xylophonist.
Would Roxy Music's Avalon fit into this category, or is it too somber? (Or too good?)
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posted 03-03-2010 15:44
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Not quite in the same vein but along similar lines (white ones... ho, ho), but does anyone recall a particularly deplorable Whitesnake video from the late 80's that featured a frighteningly-maned Dave Coverdale cavorting about with a similarly-coiffeured seductress in what one presumes was supposed to be a snapshot of an almost unbearably passionate affair?
It was a power ballad (natch), lots of thwacking snare drums, clanging guitars. Can't think of the name of the song at all. Ring any bells?
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posted 03-03-2010 15:52
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Thank god, no.
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posted 03-03-2010 16:04
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The only Whitesnake video I remember involved David Coverdale's girlfriend writhing around on the hood of a car. "Here I Go Again" was the name of the song, I believe.
Phil Collins/Genesis "Invisible Touch" and "Sussudio" and Starship's "We Built this City" might fit in the "Success Rock" category, too.
There's also Heaven 17's Penthouse and Pavement, but it was meant as a send-up of yuppie culture. The album cover is perfect, though, for this thread:
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posted 03-03-2010 16:29
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Back to theme - Don Henley's Boys Of Summer, while ostensibly white-suit-free, is pretty aurally synonymous with Cocaine Rock, in my opinion. Dead-eyed, drum machine back beat? Check. Looming Yamaha synth? Check. "Feelin' it, maaaaan" vocals? Check. Guilty pleasure? Definitely. It's fucking fantastic.
Glenn Frey's The Heat Is On, on the other hand, possesses all the elements of the above (synth apart, maybe) but is utterly abominable.
The music journos on here would be best placed to confirm this but I'm willing to bet that if you follow the solo careers of The Eagles throughout the 80's you'll find an awful lot of Success Rock.
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posted 03-03-2010 17:29
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Hang on, you can see (what I can only describe as) one of Tawny's boobs at 2.19 of that vid? have I stumbled across an unedited version or was this always there?
How did my 16 year old Kerrang-reading self miss this? Too busy with nonsense about Slayer & Public Enemy no doubt.
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posted 03-03-2010 18:00
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I thought this was a thread for the new meat loaf album "hang loose teddy bear" or something
of course, those of us into the snake in 1983 will have no problem recalling their best song
Lovehunter
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posted 03-03-2010 19:18
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Does "Smugglers Blues" by one of the Eagles who was'nt Walsh or Henley count?
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posted 03-03-2010 19:22
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Glenn Frey! (Again, as he's mentioned above, of course.)
I would also think "The Power of Love," by Huey Lewis and the News might fit the bill.
And "Simply the Best," by Tina Turner.
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posted 03-03-2010 20:18
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Harry Truscott wrote:
You people's ignorance of the work of Whitesnake and Mrs David Coverdale, aka Tawny Kitaen,repulses me.
Doesn't really belong in this thread though.
You know, I had hoped that perusing the Whitesnake videos available on YouTube would quickly tell me what Whitesnake video I saw all those years ago. But after watching a few of them it could have been any of them, really.
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posted 03-03-2010 21:13
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The whole of the Top Gun soundtrack would fit in here, I reckon.
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posted 04-03-2010 09:04
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Moroder's soundtrack for Scarface.
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posted 04-03-2010 10:20
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Ah, thanks for the reminder. The other day I said to myself I was going to listen to Robert Palmer. Spotifying now...
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posted 04-03-2010 13:24
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rick derris wrote:
I thought this was a thread for the new meat loaf album "hang loose teddy bear" or something
of course, those of us into the snake in 1983 will have no problem recalling their best song
Lovehunter
'Would I Lie to You?' surely?
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posted 04-03-2010 13:43
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He's been mentioned upthread already but the Robert Palmer/Duran Duran supergroup The Power Station surely deserves a mention
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