Go back to the 80\'s with 12-inch single remixes and comic books and whatever else I can think to post from this decade.
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Published on 2010-04-19 15:29:00
"You Dropped A Bomb On Me (Special Disco Mix)" - The Gap Band I'm back from Station Nopost. The brothers Charlie, Ronnie and Robert wilson formed the Gap Band in 1967 as The Greenwood, Archer and Pine Street Band. Now most of you out there - who aren't high and aren't circling some weird planet with 3 breasted women (editor's note: Hmmm)- realize that that name was abbreviated (G.A.P., do I
Atari fever.
Published on 2010-04-01 14:25:00
Atari Force #1-5 To tie in with the hugely popular Atari home video gaming console in 1982, DC Comics came up with Atari Force. The first series was released packed in with actual Atari games. Issue 1 came with Defender and subsequent books followed in the games Berzerk, Star Raiders, Phoenix and Galaxian. The comics had an all-star cast of creators. Roy Thomas (X-Men and Avengers veteran writer)
Two dollars.
Published on 2010-03-26 11:42:00
"Best Adventures (Remix)" - Thinkman Long time between updates, I know. Rupert Hine tried to pull a Milli Vanilli back in 1986. Thinkman was a "virtual band" with hired actors as band members on live performances. Hine was mostly known as a successful music producer, having worked with the likes of Jon Pertwee (the 3rd Doctor Who, track that song down for a snicker), Tina Turner, Howard Jones
Aboriginally.
Published on 2010-03-19 12:20:00
"Beds Are Burning (Kintore East)" - Midnight OilAustralian super group.1987. The song was taken from the tribute LP to the plight of the Aborigines and the environment, Diesel And Dust. This version has also been released as the Kintoris Mix and the Tamarama Mix. It was covered by a female 80's group and called the BananaTamaRama Mix. Somebody's lyyyyying. The Yuendemu Percapella Mix I'm
Burning white heat.
Published on 2010-03-15 16:52:00
"Rain In The Summertime (Through The Haze Mix)" - The AlarmFlashback to 1987 for The Alarm's 3rd studio album and dig today's meager offering to you and yours. Also available: The Lightning Mix. Both of these mixes were done by Steve Thompson for those keeping score, running 8:05 and 7:14 @ 320 kbs. The band is from North Wales and formed in the 70's. Less yapping = more downloading.Through The
More beans, Mr. Taggart?
Published on 2010-03-10 15:11:00
The Black Hole #1-4 & Annual #1 At the time it was the most expensive film Disney ever produced and it was blasted by critics. The Black Hole movie was released in Decmber of 1979 but the Whitman comics here came out in 1980 - so yes, they belong on an 80's blog. Now (at the risk of unleashing a major spoiler on a 30 year old flick) the crew of the Palomino were sucked into the film's namesake at
Eyes of the world.
Published on 2010-03-07 13:58:00
"Biko (Video Mix)" - Peter Gabriel This version of Gabriel's tribute to South Africa's Steve Biko came out in 1987 as part of the movie Cry Freedom - about Biko's struggle against Apartheid. Some new guy named Denzel Washington was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for that movie too. Biko, the song, was originally released in 1980 and featured (you guessed it) on the 1st season Miami Vice
By the power of...
Published on 2010-03-03 17:25:00
DC Comics Presents #47 & Masters Of The Universe #1-3 (DC Comics-1982)I must have read these comics 500 times when I was 10. First, in DC Comics Presents #47, Skeletor tries to enter Castle Grayskull with his half of the Power Sword and opens a rift between 2 worlds. Superman is pulled from Earth to Eternia and Kal-El teams up with He-Man and discussed who had the coolest hyphenated name. Written
Bullets on a hot tin roof.
Published on 2010-02-28 16:19:00
"Wild Horses (Extended Remix)" - Gino Vannelli You probably know him for his bigger hits like Living Inside Myself and I Just Wanna Stop as opposed to this #55 track from 1987. It did crack the Top 40 on the Adult Contemporary chart though and won Gino and his brother Joe a Juno award for recording engineer of the year. Joe+Gino=Juno. Oh, that was bad. It's not a remake of a Stones track either.
A pig that don't fly straight.
Published on 2010-02-27 14:12:00
"Hanging On A Heart Attack (Dance Mix)" - Device From 1987. Device keyboardist, bassist & co-vocalist Holly Knight was formerly a member of the band Spider in the early 80's. Tina Turner covered one of their songs, Better Be Good To Me, and it was a bigger hit than this song. It's still catchy and you can bug out to it. What? You can. You kids today. I'm shaking my fist at you! Knight also wrote