The Year Was....1981

Random Playlist For 1981:
1. The Nails-44 Lines About 88 Women
Amaranda here's a kiss, I chose you to end this list....the best song written about 44 girls...in 88 lines.
2. The Go-Go's-Our Lips Are Sealed
Perhaps a top twenty guilty pleasure of mine of all time. Like sugar on your raisin bran.
3. The Psychedelic Furs-Dumb Waiters
She has got it in for me, yeah I mean in honestly...
4. New Order-Dreams Never End
The great awkward Feeling of Joy Division morphing into New Order...all in one song.
5. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers-The Waiting
You know Tom...it really is the hardest part.
6. Rick Springfield-Jessie's Girl
My wife called an old jeep of hers Jessie's Girl. It broke down in a snowstorm in 1999, never to be heard from again.
7. Duran Duran-Girls On Film
Wasn't this song taboo in 1981? Or was it the video? I think it was both...
8. Adam and the Ants-Stand and Deliver
As far as "What's with that extra drum bit and why is it there and why does it sound so good" songs go, "Stand and Deliver" takes the cake.
9. Human League-Don't You Want Me
You know, Dare! is stuck in 1981 like no other album. But it really is a great album, and "Don't You Want Me" has always been a winner in my book.
10. Depeche Mode-Just Can't Get Enough
What's better than hearing early Depeche Mode? Looking at how goofy the young lads looked.
11. The Clash-This Is Radio Clash

Please save us not the whales...
12. The Kinks-Destroyer
I always forget, the Kinks were still riding high through the late seventies and early eighties.

7 Albums Worth Revisiting From 1981:

1. Black Flag-Damaged
2. Rush-Moving Pictures
3. Human League-Dare!
4. Pshychedilc Furs-Talk Talk Talk
5. The Police-Ghost In The Machine
6. Echo & The Bunnymen-Heaven Up Here
7. X-Wild Gift




Random Quote From A Song From 1981:
"Your body gets much closer/I fumble for the clock/Alarmed by the seduction/I wish it would stop."
The song...


Random Thoughts On A Song From 1981:

The possibilities. Ozzy Osbourne had found a new soul-mate in 1980 with Randy Rhoads on Ozzy's debut solo album "The Blizzard Of Ozz". His guitar wielding sideman had chops that were probably only rivaled by Eddie Van Halen at the time. By 1981, "Diary Of A Madman" came out and the song "Flying High Again" from that day forward became my favorite Ozzy solo song. It grind-ed along. It soared in the solo. It had a simply great catchy chorus. "Mama's gonna worry, I been a bad bad boy/No use saying sorry, it's something that I enjoy...Flying high again!" Simply one of my favorite rock/metal songs of the early eighties. And I probably had a Columbia House cassette of "Diary Of A Madman" which is nowhere to be found now. Lent out, lost, who knows. But as bitter, cruel irony would have it, Rhoads died while flying high in a small plane piloted by the band's tour bus driver who was taking people up for some rides in between shows. The plane clipped the bus, crashed, burst into flames, and one of the most talented you guitarists of the eighties was dead at 25. Ozzy fell into abuse and depression and never really captured the thunder he had on his first two solo albums. It's a shame, because songs like "Flying High Again" showed there were much better possibilities ahead. Much.


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