80s Music Thread: what you got?

[EJ3]

Share your opinion on Bob Dylan´s music. Quite good, excellent even!, as long as it´s not performed by him

And some that he specifically wrote for others, such as Jimi Hendrix with 'All Along the Watch Tower'.

 

[EJ3]

Brought Aerosmith back from the dead

And Run DMC into world wide notoriety for the first time. A brilliant collaboration for both.

 

[EJ3]

And some that he specifically wrote for others, such as Jimi Hendrix with 'All Along the Watch Tower'.

A few interesting things about that particular song:
The original lyrics are in twelve lines, which the Financial Times writer Dan Einac commented, make it "akin to a truncated sonnet". The lyrics feature a conversation between a joker and a thief, whilst they ride towards a watchtower.
Scholar Timothy Hampton comments that the pair are "overwhelmed by circumstances". Reviewers have pointed out that the lyrics in "All Along the Watchtower" echo lines in the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5–9

Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise ye princes, and prepare the shield./For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth./And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed./...And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.

Other writers such as Keith Negus have indicated that Dylan also drew on verses from the Book of Revelation to write the song. https://en.wikipedia.orgElliot Wolfson found that Dylan's lyrics also reflected his own response to a melancholy reading of his own approach to Jewish gnosis. https://en.wikipedia.org The general theme of justice is commented upon by Lisa O'Neill-Sanders, who states that Watchtower presents a "thief in the song... who consoles the victimized and exploited joker. The thief sympathizes but urges the joker to 'not talk falsely'".
Dave Van Ronk, an early supporter and mentor of Dylan, made the following criticism:

That whole artistic mystique is one of the great traps of this business, because down that road lies unintelligibility. Dylan has a lot to answer for there, because after a while he discovered that he could get away with anything... So he could do something like 'All Along the Watchtower', which is simply a mistake from the title on down: a watchtower is not a road or a wall, and you can't go along it.

 

[EJ3]

Brought Aerosmith back from the dead

Another great collaboration with Steven Tyler:

 

[GroeneLeeuw]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2052221895144272338

 

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I thought it was kate bush, but realized she's not green coloured.

 

[El_Duderino]

 

[EJ3]

I do not know what the first one was, as it won't upload at my location for whatever reason. (That is the case for about 10% of things that SHOULD upload. I guess that Not all works the everywhere all the time).
I do wish people would at least type in the songs name and artist for what video the songs is so people in places where they will not upload could maybe find them from another source.
Yep, I need to start doing that also!
Corey Hart-Sunglasses At Night:
Great song: This is the first time that I have seen the video.
It's quite good also!

 

[El_Duderino]

It's "Everything is coming up roses" by Black

Try this video:

 

[EJ3]

It's "Everything is coming up roses" by Black

I usually like "live": better than "super polished" studio, too!
Thanks!

 

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Are these all entries for Eurovision?

 

[drewdawg999]

Again I am struck with nostalgia, for days gone by when MTV actually played music videos. Some that are burned into my memory:

Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town

The Human League - Don't You Want Me

Grateful Dead - Touch of Grey

 

[drewdawg999]

...and songs that weren't in heavy rotation on MTV, or didn't even have videos:

Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes

(Actually seeing this vid for the first time today.)

Richard & Linda Thompson - Walking on a Wire

(I was not aware of them as a child, but found them in the '90s. Incredible song about the end of a marriage.)

David Bowie - Modern Love

(Was this in heavy rotation? Well I enjoy this much more now than I did as a child, when he must of resembled an alien.)

 

[EJ3]

David Bowie - Modern Love

(Was this in heavy rotation? Well I enjoy this much more now than I did as a child, when he must of resembled an alien.)

Maybe he was an alien (a movie that I like):
The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1976 British science fantasy drama film The_Man_Who_Fell_to_Earth directed by Nicolas Roeg and adapted by Paul Mayersberg. Based on Walter Tevis's 1963 novel, the film follows an extraterrestrial named Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie) who crash-lands on Earth seeking a way to ship water to his planet, which is suffering from a severe drought, but finds himself at the mercy of human vices and corruption. It stars David Bowie, Candy Clark, Buck Henry, and Rip Torn. It was produced by Michael Deeley and Barry Spikings. The same novel was later adapted as a television film in 1987. A 2022 television series with the same name serves as a continuation of the film 45 years later, including featuring Newton as a character and showing archival footage from the film.

The Man Who Fell to Earth retains a cult following for its use of surreal imagery and Bowie's first starring film role as the alien Thomas Jerome Newton. It is considered an important work of science fiction cinema and one of the best films of Roeg's career.

 

[drewdawg999]

Maybe he was an alien (a movie that I like):
The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1976 British science fantasy drama film The_Man_Who_Fell_to_Earth directed by Nicolas Roeg and adapted by Paul Mayersberg. Based on Walter Tevis's 1963 novel, the film follows an extraterrestrial named Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie) who crash-lands on Earth seeking a way to ship water to his planet, which is suffering from a severe drought, but finds himself at the mercy of human vices and corruption. It stars David Bowie, Candy Clark, Buck Henry, and Rip Torn. It was produced by Michael Deeley and Barry Spikings. The same novel was later adapted as a television film in 1987. A 2022 television series with the same name serves as a continuation of the film 45 years later, including featuring Newton as a character and showing archival footage from the film.

The Man Who Fell to Earth retains a cult following for its use of surreal imagery and Bowie's first starring film role as the alien Thomas Jerome Newton. It is considered an important work of science fiction cinema and one of the best films of Roeg's career.

Yes, I have it on Criterion DVD, it came with the book (that I've yet to read). It's excellent quality film but kind of a bummer. I should watch it again, though it might make me want a drink... (There's a drinking game in there somewhere, if you try to keep up you will wind up completely sloshed.)

Though I prefer Walkabout, which I consider Roeg's masterpiece. What a trip!

 

[drewdawg999]

And some that he specifically wrote for others, such as Jimi Hendrix with 'All Along the Watch Tower'.

I must dispute this, as the song first appeared on Dylan's album, John Wesley Harding. It was originally an acoustic number, quite haunting and lovely. Hendrix just covered it, though he transformed it into what's considered the now definitive version. Dylan says the Hendrix version informed his live performances of the song from there on out.

 

[EJ3]

Yes, I have it on Criterion DVD, it came with the book (that I've yet to read). It's excellent quality film but kind of a bummer. I should watch it again, though it might make me want a drink... (There's a drinking game in there somewhere, if you try to keep up you will wind up completely sloshed.)

Though I prefer Walkabout, which I consider Roeg's masterpiece. What a trip!

Walkabout: my mother took me to see that when I was young. I have not seen anything about it at all since then. Until you mentioned it. But I thought that was great, also. Is it still available?

I must dispute this, as the song first appeared on Dylan's album, John Wesley Harding. It was originally an acoustic number, quite haunting and lovely. Hendrix just covered it, though he transformed it into what's considered the now definitive version. Dylan says the Hendrix version informed his live performances of the song from there on out.

I am aware of that.
But, somewhere along the way, either heard or read that he wrote it with the intent of Hendrix doing it. (Probably heard).
Like many things, I have actually seen no proof (even though I was around people that covered it in their bands when I heard it, as I was a running the sound board guy for them at the timeIt could be that getting it out there so Hendrix could hear it may have been part of getting Hendrix to do it.
On the other hand, maybe not.

 

[Robin L]

Walkabout: my mother took me to see that when I was young. I have not seen anything about it at all since then. Until you mentioned it. But I thought that was great, also. Is it still available?

Watched a Blu-Ray of it recently, there are discs of various sorts from multiple sources, including Criterion. My understanding is that transfers are less than ideal, but you should have no problem finding a physical copy if that's what you're looking for.

 

[EJ3]

Watched a Blu-Ray of it recently, there are discs of various sorts from multiple sources, including Criterion. My understanding is that transfers are less than ideal, but you should have no problem finding a physical copy if that's what you're looking for.

Thank you!
Yes, a physical copy would be ideal.
I'll hunt again. But it will have to be sometime in June.
Preparing 3 people (including myself: medical, papers, all that stuff) to travel to
other continents to do some family history research for a few weeks now, if all goes well.

 

[El_Duderino]

Chris de Burgh has a handful of really epic and great songs. Two of them from the 80s:

Revolution from the album "Getaway" (1982)

The Leader (Trilogy) from the Album "Into the Light" (1986)