Continuing our memory exercise via song therapy. Rules are simple: listen to a random song, remember where/when i first heard it, and/or thoughts associated with the song. Or lack thereof. Especially if memory fails to serve.
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Got My Mind Set On You (1987)
George Harrison
From the thumping drums and the rousing horn section get-go, Georgie was determined to make a comeback. We were in my cousins' house when I saw the video (wasn't he like doing somersaults?), and my dad goes "aba! si George Harrison?". He probably thought the geezer died in the Himalayas or somewhere, smoking pot. Okay, that was cruel.
Everybody Have Fun Tonight (1986)
Wang Chung
The defining image of this was Pops and Martin performing it in some utterly forgettable movie, and probably covered by every wannabe in musical shows during that time. But if you think about it, at least at some point then, everyone would have wang chunged that night, even if they'd deny it years later.
Casanova (1987)
Levert
Not looking at the screen, I thought it was Donny Osmond's "Soldier of Love." Did he even pay these guys some royalties? Obviously I haven't heard the song before (snicker).
Automatic (1983)
Pointer Sisters
Why do they sound like drag queens? Did they hire Ru Paul secretly to front for them? Party and disco filler.
Neutron Dance (1983)
Pointer Sisters
The randomness factor demonstrates itself as it selects another Pointer Sisters song. Yeah, they really sound like Ru Paul. I must have forgotten that. And, oh yeah, Delphi and I saw them back in '99 performing at the Mardi Gras celebrations at the Universal Studio Theme Park in Orlando.
The Heat is On (1985)
Glenn Frey
Of course, Beverly Hills Cop was a hit back then. I had no clue who Frey really was, except of course, the guy who sang "The One You Love." This is also the standard track for beach/summer dance sequences in abominable Pinoy comedies.
Time Will Reveal (1983)
DeBarge
Why would someone name themselves after a boat? Found this song more appealing during the revival phase in the Pinoy music scene. Brix Ferraris. South Border. In some club on Annapolis St. in Greenhills. God bless the sister of the band's manager.
Waiting For A Star To Fall (1988)
Boy Meets Girl
Gorgeous, gorgeous song. Used in countless soundtracks.
Superfreak (1981)
Rick James
Never underestimate the original. If you need to play one song to get people back on the dancefloor, what would you play? Thought so. MC Hammer also thought so, that's why he got rich (and promptly lost it). Too bad James also lost it. But he lives on. He's Rick James, bitch!
Last Christmas (1986)
Wham!
Can we just forget that George Michael was ever in Wham? Or that he got caught in the men's room by cops? Can we just stick to his late 80's/early 90's maturation? At least before he got caught in the men's room.
More Than A Feeling (1976)
Boston
Okay, what is this track doing here??? Someone should get fired. Anyway, it sounds so 80s that I probably associated it with the era.
Aaaand we're getting off.
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Bitch. Tom Scholtz was a genius. It sounded "80's" because he was ahead of his time. The guitar sounded like that because he's an inventor who tinkered with audio equipment and later founded his own sound studio/lab called Scholtz R&D.
At videoke's I always sing the chorus to Der Kommissar during Superfreak. "Dont turn around, uh-uh-oh... Ayos ba, Der Kommissar?"
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