sadchild
Dude
Nope (not that I know of anyway). Lou's is actually quite a pop song. But his voice is incredible and I love the lyrics.
Sadchild's "high fives" (every artist I like at least five songs from)
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sadchild
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Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Genre: new wave, alt rock
Discovered: MTV "Two Tribes"
Other: I'm a much bigger fan of this band than most would expect me to be. Pleasure Dome is one of my all time fav albums.
HIGH FIVE:
1. Relax
2. Welcome To The Pleasure Dome
3. Born To Run
4. The Power Of Love
5. War
HecticArt
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I had forgotten about that one. It hadn't rung a bell when you mentioned it before.
Poppy 80's for sure, but it's got a good melody, sound, and is well produced.
sadchild
Dude
Frente
Genre: indie pop
Discovered: don't remember
Other: Back in the early 90s, I only knew their very-different-sounding cover of New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle" (which I love, despite not liking the original) and "Labour Of Love". It wasn't until less than 10 years ago I listened to more of their stuff. While it isn't as good as those two, it's still pretty good.
HIGH FIVE:
1. Bizarre Love Triangle
2. Labour Of Love
3. Ordinary Angels
4. Accidentally Kelly Street
5. Dangerous
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Genre: new wave, alt rock
Discovered: MTV "Two Tribes"
Other: I'm a much bigger fan of this band than most would expect me to be. Pleasure Dome is one of my all time fav albums.
HIGH FIVE:
1. Relax
2. Welcome To The Pleasure Dome
3. Born To Run
4. The Power Of Love
5. War
Surprisingly I know the top 3. I have you to thank for "Born To Run".
HecticArt
Administrator
This version is lovely, but I like the original better.
sadchild
Dude
fun
Genre: pop rock, alt rock
Discovered: super bowl ad
Other: "We Are Young" peaked at #53 on the Hot 100 in late 2011. Then it was covered by Glee (*shudder*) and re-entered the chart in early 2012. Then it was featured in a Super Bowl ad and shot to #1 (86 - 89 - 63 - 41 - 3 - 6 - 3 - 1). If it weren't for that ad, most of the world (including me) probably would never have known the song and their other great songs. And Jack Antonoff may not have ended up writing with Taylor Swift either (for whatever that's worth besides gobs of money in his pocket).
HIGH FIVE:
1. Some Nights
2. We Are Young
3. Sight Of The Sun
4. Carry On
5. Out On The Town
sadchild
Dude
Fu-Schnickens
Genre: hip hop
Discovered: MTV
Other: Their rapping is crazy fast and they throw in a lot of fun pop culture references like Looney Tunes and old martial arts movies.
HIGH FIVE:
1. What's Up Doc (with Shaq)
2. Aaahhh Ooohhh!
3. True Fushnick
4. Ring The Alarm
5. La Schmoove
HecticArt
Administrator
I'd write some soul sucking drivel for T Swift for some gobs of money.
Maybe even one gob.
I don't know how much a gob is,
but it sounds like a lot.
I kinda remember that one.
sadchild
Dude
Genesis
Genre: rock, pop rock, soft rock, alt rock (they were prog rock too, but I don't know that material)
Discovered: don't remember
Other: I kinda knew about them all throughout growing up (at least since around 1980) but aside from "Mama" I was only a casual fan of a half dozen of their songs until 1991's "No Son Of Mine". Their late-70s/early-80s stuff didn't go from "it's pretty good" to "it's really good" for me until at least the mid-90s.
HIGH FIVE:
1. No Son Of Mine
2. Mama
3. Abacab
4. Illegal Alien
5. Just A Job To Do
sadchild
Dude
George Harrison
Genre: rock and roll, pop rock
Discovered: don't remember, probably heard "My Sweet Lord" as a young kid on FM?
Other: Mainly a fan of Cloud Nine. And of course his work in The Beatles.
HIGH FIVE:
1. When We Was Fab
2. Devil's Radio
3. This Is Love
4. Got My Mind Set On You
5. Wreck Of The Hesperus
sadchild
Dude
George Thorogood
Genre: rock, boogie rock
Discovered: MTV
Other: My uncle started saying "b-b-b-b-b-b-bad" once in a while and I had no idea why. Weeks (or months?) later, MTV helped me understand why. And for all the shock I've had over songs on the Hot 100 that never made the top 40, the thought that "Bad To The Bone" not only never made the Hot 100 at all but only peaked at #27 on the Rock Chart blows them all away.
HIGH FIVE:
1. Bad To The Bone
2. Get A Haircut
3. I Drink Alone
4. If You Don't Start Drinkin' (I'm Gonna Leave)
5. Move It On Over
sadchild
Dude
Gerardo
Genre: hip hop, latin club
Discovered: MTV
Other: Guilty pleasure. He's probably the only artist born in Ecuador on my list. And I'm probably the only person in the world who has listened to more than "Rico Suave" since about 1995.
HIGH FIVE:
1. Rico Suave
2. Fandango
3. We Want The Funk
4. Latin Til I Die
5. Christina
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
I'm sure he's comforted by the billions he's made in royalties from that song.
