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Check Out These Hooters
| Hangin on a Heartbeat | 0 votes |
| And We Danced | 4 votes |
| Day By Day | 1 votes |
| Where Do the Children Go | 0 votes |
| All You Zombies | 2 votes |
| Satellite | 1 votes |
| Karla with a K | 3 votes |
| I'm Alive | 0 votes |
| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 11 2010 11:09 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 11 2010 11:23 AM |
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Today your eternal solitude on a desert island will be accompanied by Penn students who started off as a shitty ska band, but wrote a few good songs, experimented with some new instruments, exploded onto MTV in the mid 80s and disappeared into near obscurity soon after but for places like Germany and Holland, where they're still revered, and in Philly where you're required to dig 'em, and wherever Cyndi Lauper and Joan Osbourne are remembered: The Hooters! Choose the one song you must take with you. No "I can't vote for any" responses will be accepted (nor should they!) Hangin on a Heartbeat [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X68qSpibAqc And We Danced [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXADx5ZosNc Day By Day [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW5rg5ONq6I Where Do the Children Go [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-gizY8_18M All You Zombies [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qvz9JlPRzU Satellite [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lwYK8EHd_M Karla with a K [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb5ho07rigY I'm Alive [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X68qSpibAqc
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| TransMonk Jan 11 2010 11:17 AM Re: Check Out These Hooters |
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I thought All You Zombies was a cool tune when I was a kid. Hadn't heard it in close to 25 years though.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 11 2010 11:23 AM Re: Check Out These Hooters |
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I''m gonna step in here and disqualify '500 Miles' from consideration, being a cover and all.
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| Edgy DC Jan 11 2010 11:29 AM Re: Check Out These Hooters |
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Just when I start leaning towards it, it comes off the board.
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| metsguyinmichigan Jan 11 2010 12:15 PM Re: Check Out These Hooters |
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GREAT band. We saw them in the late 1980s at Toad's, a club in New Haven. It was the Zig Zag tour, opened with "Zombies." Didn't realize they wrote "Time After Time," a live version is on the greatest hits CD. I went with "Danced" in the poll, but could have picked "Karla" and "Satellite" and "Day by Day."
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 11 2010 12:24 PM Re: Check Out These Hooters |
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I actually accompanied a friend to a Joan Osbourne show during school just after "One of Us" broke big (I owed her-- she'd been to three Roots shows and a Rancid show that went awry with me). This is at the Electric Factory, in Philly. Wouldn't you know, when it's time for the number, she mutters something sultry about "home cookin,'" introduces Eric Bazilian, who takes the keyboard for "One of Us"... and sticks around for a jazzy swing version of "And We Danced"... sans melodica. (Sacrilege!) I made the same choice.
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| Nymr83 Jan 11 2010 12:41 PM Re: Check Out These Hooters |
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| Edgy DC Jan 11 2010 12:45 PM Re: Check Out These Hooters |
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[quote="metsguyinmichigan"]GREAT band. We saw them in the late 1980s at Toad's, a club in New Haven. |
| Farmer Ted Jan 11 2010 01:03 PM Re: Check Out These Hooters |
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Was on the stage crew when they toured my college in '85. Chick I was dating was sooooo into the Hooters. I grabbed some drum sticks and a play list for her. Paid off for the Ted Man. Can't believe they got the call for Live Aid. Rob Hyman also wrote Time after Time for Cyndi Lauper.
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| metsguyinmichigan Jan 11 2010 01:06 PM Re: Check Out These Hooters |
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[quote="Edgy DC"][quote="metsguyinmichigan"]GREAT band. We saw them in the late 1980s at Toad's, a club in New Haven. |
| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 11 2010 01:09 PM Re: Check Out These Hooters |
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Way back whenever I wrote here about Bazilian opening solo for a concert I saw once, and his coming off almost pissed off for not getting credit for having written "One of Us." Maybe he didn't intend it, but his tone was all like I wrote this fucking song. you ungrateful assholes before playing it and the crowd vibe was uncomfortable at best. I believe the version of Heartbeat here is from their independent release Amore (1983?), which thanks to local radio support was something that almost every boy and girl where I went to kollege had in their LP collection, no matter how shitty or good the rest of it was. They all had this 80s party vibe to them. And We Danced was the lead single from the major label first record, Nervous Night. A strong dance-pop song, but very slick to the edge of artificiality with me. You can tell Day By Day was the 3rd single (or was it the 4th?) from Nervous Night just by the video featuring concert footage mixed with location shoots and slo-mo tour-bus scenes. One of the things you might notice here is how Bazilian is dressed in black, Hyman in grey, the bass player in blue, the drummer in yellow and the guitar guy in red. That was ALWAYS the case with them and part of the icky packaging that I think probably cost them some currency as musicians over the longer term. 25 years ago I found Where Do the Children Go to be much too wussy for a man of my exploding masculinity to handle but a little perspective reveals a nice melody and would-be Cyndi Lauper smash. It's a contender, that's Patty "I am the Warrior" Smyth doing the harmonies. All You Zombies was also re-recorded from Amore. I always found that Yeah! They were the Isrealites! to be kinda stoopit. Satellite. Jeez, for a song played on an accordion, do they smash it out of the park or what? I think the heyuh! they get in there before they last bit of chorus is the same sound Rocky makes when he punches Apollo Creed in the face. In retrospect they should have called it Katrina with a K. Kinda like an American answer to Come on Eileen or something. I like this one too. I'm Alive is from the inevitable reunion album. Nice enough. It's always between satellite and Katrina for me, going with Satellite.
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| Fman99 Jan 11 2010 03:47 PM Re: Check Out These Hooters |
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I broke my finger clicking on the "Hooters" thread with record speed... and for this? Fuck you man.
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| smg58 Jan 11 2010 04:12 PM Re: Check Out These Hooters |
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I saw them at a place called Archies on the Island in early 1990. They were great, but given how popular they were not that long prior, it was a shame that they were playing small venues. I consider Zig Zag to be one of the great lost albums of the 80s, and would have probably voted for "Give the Music Back" if it were on the list. I was tempted to vote for "I'm Alive" just to give props to the new album, but settled for "Karla with a K."
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| Edgy DC Jan 11 2010 05:03 PM Re: Check Out These Hooters |
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We tend to accept write-ins.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 11 2010 06:06 PM Re: Check Out These Hooters |
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I kinda screwed the poll up by rushing it, and I also had trouble locating some songs on the web. Geez I was ready to argue No Way Home (Satellite, Karla) was a lost album of the 80s. I guess by the time Zig Zag (out of print!) came along MTV Nation already had developed a taste for young boys and the hair-metal bands that appealed to them. But I think it was a two-edged sword for the Hooters. They arrived just a little bit too prepared for the video age and as a result didn't really age well. On the director's cut I'll include your suggestions from Zig Zag plus a few other cuts from the first album I like just as much as those included: Nervous Night: [url]http://lala.com/zFe2I and South Ferry Road: [url]http://lala.com/zde2I Here's Give the Music Back: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GtNPhXv5hQ
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| Edgy DC Jan 11 2010 07:04 PM Re: Check Out These Hooters |
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Nobody's told you yet, but your "Hangin' on a Heartbeat" link goes to "I'm Alive."
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| metsguyinmichigan Jan 11 2010 07:20 PM Re: Check Out These Hooters |
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I like Zig Zag a lot. But I think they were drifting too close the "bands who take themselves too seriously" stage. ""Brother Don't You Walk Away" about homelessness, "Heaven Laughs" about death. Both really good songs, though. Of course then you have "Mr. Big Baboon." I didn't know the band released a live CD this year -- 26 songs for $9.99 on iTunes is a deal! I'll be downloading tonight.
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| Edgy DC Jan 11 2010 07:34 PM Re: Check Out These Hooters |
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1) "Hanging on a Heartbeat" is amateur hour from where I stand. Open with a rock refrain, but with a ska verse, before a rock bridge, makes the syncopations switch around too much, causing wrecks on the dancefloor. But they really can't be so excited about those lyrics, can they? "Can't you see the fire in my eyes?!" 2) "And We Danced" is the forced merriment I can't get past. I like the way his voice cracks on the bridge ("She's walkin' mah way"), but not much else. The opening phrase on the melodia sounds like it was lifted from "One of My Submarines Is Missing." (Hey, have we ever done this with Thomas Dolby?) 3) "Day by Day," as a video, is a good showcase for their haircuts. As a song, it sounds like a montage in a budget teen romantic comedy. "Maybe if we fix up the guest house, we can show your dad how responsible you are. We've got the weekend!" (Cue "Day by Day.") 4) As for "WDtCG?," sheesh, but opening with "Surrender into the night!" is the Hooters in a nutshell. Cliched lyric perfect for matinee montage scenes. I hear it and I see James Spader slow dancing with Diane Franklin, with his jacket sleeves rolled up --- cut to the two of them running to the beach to make out in the old shack, riding ("Where do the Children... GO!") on his bike, play-fighting in her painting studio appointed with old mannequins. Good harmonies on the refrain, though. 5) I don't need to listen to "All You Zombies" to recall every note about it, but finding out that they started out as a ska act makes the reggae swing of "AYZ" make more sense. Strange how this song caught a lot of airplay but the fist-pumping Jewish pride it seemed to call for got no response in the zietgeist whatsoever. 6) By the time of "Satellite," portraying the espousers of mid-American mid-century Evangelical values as horror shows was old hat, but that's fine --- they're still a worthwhile target. The hard part is trying to figure out if the overblown vocal delivery is a parody of the televangelical rapture or just the dang Hooters. The jigging hook is hard to resist, though. 7) More neo-Celtic action from mandolin on "Karla with a K" is winning me over in the intro. Maybe should have stayed instrumental. The mandolin hook has more melody than the vocal line. 8) The uncharacteristically restrained vocal delivery on "I'm Alive" had me won over until they got to the end of the bridge with the weak-o lyric "you're the rock in my roll." That's when I remembered they did have a lot of generic cliched rock lyrics back in the day. They sang them as if they were burning up their soul, but that kind of made them a bit more unintentionally comic. Nonetheless, I was pleasingly surprised by "I'm alive." I feel like I saw the Hoots more than once as the openers --- opening for Squeeze at Nassau Colliseum and maybe for Sinead O'Connor or somebody at Jones Beach Theater. I'll go with "Karla." It's sort of like G-Rated Pogues.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 11 2010 09:12 PM Re: Check Out These Hooters |
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Sounds like LWFS, Farmer Ted, me and perhaps Michigan and maybe James Spader all got some hot sexytime Action as a result of seeing and/or knowing the Hooters way back when.
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| G-Fafif Jan 11 2010 09:22 PM Re: Check Out These Hooters |
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I'm pretty sure I placed "Hangin' on a Heartbeat" on a tape that was meant to attract and not repel a girl I knew after college.
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| HahnSolo Jan 12 2010 06:44 AM Re: Check Out These Hooters |
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No love for Johnny B? Was actually working in the CBS mailroom when Nervous Night came out. Every time you'd go to the CBS records floor they'd be blasting the album. I saw them in concert three times . Twice as an opening act (Bryan Adams maybe?) and once in a free show I think at the Seaport. Bucket, I believe All You Zombies was actually the first single from Nervous Night. And We Danced came second. But I could be wrong. This vote goes to Day by Day.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 12 2010 09:39 AM Re: Check Out These Hooters |
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[quote="John Cougar Lunchbucket":3r2x4cao]Sounds like LWFS, Farmer Ted, me and perhaps Michigan and maybe James Spader all got some hot sexytime Action as a result of seeing and/or knowing the Hooters way back when.[/quote:3r2x4cao] And we Dry-Humped. If God truly were one of us, he would have had massively-sore God-testes by night's end.
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| Ashie62 Jan 12 2010 11:43 AM Re: Check Out These Hooters |
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Not my type..Saw em open for the Stones at JFK, not a great venue for them but... They did make some money..Philly's version of Southside Johnny
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| Edgy DC Jan 12 2010 11:56 AM Re: Check Out These Hooters |
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[quote="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr"][quote="John Cougar Lunchbucket"]Sounds like LWFS, Farmer Ted, me and perhaps Michigan and maybe James Spader all got some hot sexytime Action as a result of seeing and/or knowing the Hooters way back when. |
| metsguyinmichigan Jan 13 2010 10:45 AM Re: Check Out These Hooters |
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That live CD rocks! Came out in 2009. One disc is a concert in Philly, the other is an acoustic show before about 35 friends and family. The set list reads like it was picked by the Forum. Great sound quality. Some of the rockers translate well to acoustic. And you can't beat 26 songs for $9.99. I was unaware of "Time Stand Still," and there are some good songs on that -- a fair sampling on this disc. But I don't like the slowed-down version of "Boys of Summer."
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