Misheard 80s Lyrics: "Go stupid, and fade away..."

"Go stupid, and fade away..."

Men At Work's debut single from their second album was "Overkill." Fresh off a Grammy win for best new artist, they found themselves as a global act. Colin Hay is quoted as saying that it "was the first song I wrote where I thought I might make a living as a songwriter. It was a song about what was happening at the time, the experience we were going through of stepping into the unknown. It's about having a fear about that, but also knowing that what was going to happen was inevitable. Leaving behind where you are and stepping into something which is out of your control to some degree. That's what it felt like at the time." (AmIRight.Com)

The lyrics "ghosts appear and fade away" are used during the song and also at the end of the song. I person I know, who will remain nameless, misheard that lyric as "go stupid, and fade away." Apparently, Men At Work also had a considerable amount of hate according to this nameless person!

AmIRight.Com also list these misheard lyrics for the same line:

So severe and fade away.
Goes up here and fade away.
Goats appear and fade away.

and my personal favorite for the entire verse (assuming Men At Work drank Foster's beer)

Day after day, I drink a beer
Night after night, my heartbeat shows the beer
Toast to beer and fade away.

What's your interpretation?

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The Incredible Turbo-Teen!

Turbo-Teen

Many of us who were children of the 80s remember watching and playing with Transformers. It's fair to say that we often dreamed of being one ourselves. Well, in September of 1984, the ABC network showed us what it would be like to be human and also a sports car at the same time with Turbo-Teen. During a thunderstorm, teenager Brett Matthews looses control of his car on a wet road and crashes into the government laboratory building. At that very time, he is zapped by a molecular ray that fuses he and his car as one, essentially becoming a human Transformer.

After his accident, the scientist Dr. Chase and a government agent Cardwell try to find a way to reverse the effects of the molecular ray and turn Brett back to normal. But in the meantime, Brett decides to use his new found ability to solve mysteries and help fight crime...wouldn't you? The recurring villain on the show, the mysterious monster truck driver Dark Rider, frequently attempts to capture Turbo-Teen and find the secret behind his morphing ability. One secret we do know is that extreme temperatures control his ability, in that heat turns him into the car and cold reverts him back to human. That secret was kept safe by Brett's friends Patti, Alex, and Brett's dog Rusty.

Rediscover the 80s Radio!

Rediscover the 80s is on the air!!

It's been my dream for many years to be a program director at a radio station. Well, my dream has somewhat been fulfilled! Thanks to Radionomy, Rediscover the 80s now has its own web radio station! It went live on Sat Mar 24 and I've begun to put the programming together. RD80s Radio will feature different themes each hour, so you'll consistently hear all sorts of 80s music!! 

So far I've got hourly themes of #1 US hits, New Wave, Rock, Movie Soundtrack hits, and a whole hour of  Michael Jackson's 80s hits! I'll be adding much more in the near future including some of the Ultimate 80s Playlists I've posted on this site, more genres like R'nB and Hip Hop/Rap, and more featured artists. You'll also be hearing my voice on some new jingles and liners in between songs. 

I need your help to make this web radio station a success! First, I want your feedback and comments to help RD80s Radio grow bigger and better each day! I'm also planning to give many listeners an opportunity to program an hour of their favorite 80s songs in the very near future! Also, Radionomy has two important listening goals to meet, a 3 month and then a 9 month goal, in order to keep the station on the air. I'll need your help to reach those goals, so I invite you listen to RD80s Radio anytime you want to stream 80s music to your computer or smartphone. If you have your own site or blog, you can also easily embed the station to your site for others to enjoy!

Here is how you can find your new favorite 80s webradio station!!

• Bookmark the Rediscover the 80s Radio webpage
• Use the icons in player below to share on Twitter or Facebook or embed to your site (smaller sized players also available)
• On your iPhone or Android, search your app store for the free Radionomy app and then search for Rediscover the 80s to listen on your phone!

You can also find the webradio player on the Rediscover the 80s homepage in the left-hand column. I'm so excited for this opportunity to share the music I love with everyone and look forward to your feedback!

The Man, The Machine...Street Hawk

Knight Rider on a motorcycle is the best way to described the short-lived 1985 television show Street Hawk. Lasting just one season of 13 episodes, most people I've talked to vaguely remember it. For me, it's a very clear picture of sitting in front of the TV and enjoying a great show with my dad. Recently that image came full circle as I've been reliving the show with my two boys. They've really enjoyed watching it, which has furthermore entrenched this show into my mind. Set in the streets of LA, a former motorcycle cop and a government agent team up on a top secret mission to fight crime using a $3 million motorcycle.

The Cars Musical Montage

Happy Birthday Ric Ocasek!

Today is Ric Ocasek's birthday, so I couldn't think of a better way to celebrate
than to put together a musical montage of the Cars!

13 of their highest charting hits in almost nine minutes! Enjoy!


Songs included:
Just What I Needed, My Best Friend's Girl, Good Times Roll, Let's Go, Touch and Go,
Shake It Up, You Might Think, Magic, Drive, Hello Again, Tonight She Comes,
I'm Not the One, & You Are the Girl

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Lego'd Movie Scenes of the 80s

Lego'd Movies Scenes of the 80s

Lego blocks have been around for almost 60 years, enticing creative minds young and old. I recently stumbled across the above image and figured there had to be more great Lego creations based on 80s movies...I was right!

Back to the Future (Alex Eylar)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (Alex Eylar) 

80s Literal Music Video "Down Under"

Here's another hilarious literal music video, this time to Men At Work's "Down Under" from 1981. Abcdefgranger delivers a funny interpretation of everything happening in the video including a made-you-look monster prank, baguette volleyball, and roadies getting whipped. 

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

No better way to celebrate than with Ireland's native sons, U2!!

"I Will Follow" was their first single ever to chart. It peaked at #20 on the US rock chart and also charted in Australia and New Zealand. Their next single "Fire" in 1981 would be the first to chart in their home country.

Also check out this Celtic version of "With or Without You" 

The 80s Arcade: Out Run

OUT RUN

High Action Road Racing Adventure!

Out Run - Magical Sound Shower 

Out Run is one of my all-time favorite racing games. In the arcade and at home, I lived and breathed this driving game for years. This arcade classic released in 1986 by Sega, featured great graphics for the time, an interactive steering wheel, and a killer music soundtrack (that you could choose!) Critically acclaimed and achieving firsts for its gaming genre helped Out Run win the Golden Joystick Award for 1987's Game of the Year. The sit-down cabinet version was so revered, a fan turned it into an actual vehicle. Arcade and home version sequels were also released through the turn of the century, keeping Out Run at our fingertips for 25 years now. Invite your girl and climb aboard your favorite red Ferrari (sorry Magnum P.I.) for a drive back into the 80s!


Out Run had good reason for winning the Game of the Year award. It accomplished some firsts for arcade games, like being able to choose the background music via radio stations on the Ferrari's dash. The game play and graphics were likened to the 16-bit graphics of the 1985 motorcycle racing game Hang On. Although there were other drivers in game, the race was against the clock. Making it to the end of the racing stage with time left, meant you could choose one of two new stages. Courses varied from the beach to the desert to the English countryside on your way to the finish line.

80s Timeworn Twelves: "In a Big Country"

Big Country "In a Big Country" (1983)

Although known primarily for this single in the US, Big Country had a strings of singles chart in the UK from 1983-93. Several songs actually charted higher than "In a Big Country," but mostly they are known for this Scottish rock anthem.

The 12 inch single was only available in the UK. If you were lucky enough to snag one, you got a great remix. Side A included the "pure mix" that added over 2 minutes to the album version. Side B was the album version and an previously unreleased track called "All of Us"

Ultimate 80s Animals & Creatures Playlist

Cats, Dogs, Birds, Monkeys, and More!

From John Cougar to White Lion...from Eddie Rabbit to Echo and the Bunnymen...from Samantha Fox to RATT, there are many artists and songs from the 80s that feature animal and creature names. (Even one of my favorites, Flock of Seagulls!) This might have been the easiest playlist I've put together so far. I could easily come up with a compilation of about 50 songs, but for the sake of time I'll limit this playlist to 19. Let's go wild and howl at the moon at the Ultimate 80s Animals and Creatures Playlist!

Def Leppard "Animal" (1987)
Couldn't think of a better song to kick off this playlist! "Animal" was released on the album Hysteria in 1987, but it took about two and half years of development to record it just right. It paid off as it became the band first top ten hit in their native UK and was the first of ten consecutive singles to reach the Billboard Top 40 in the US.

CATS ON THE PROWL!
Stray Cats "Stray Cat Strut" (1982)
Thanks to a boost from MTV, these rockabilly felines reached #3 on the US Billboard charts. It would be the band's highest charting single and help their album Built For Speed achieve platinum level sales.

Joshua Tree 25th Anniversary

Joshua Tree 25th Anniversary

25 years ago today on March 9 1987, The Joshua Tree was released. It remains one of only 105 albums to be certified Diamond by the RIAA, selling over 10 million albums in the US. The Joshua Tree is also one of the top-selling albums worldwide with over 25 million total copies sold. Critics definitely agree that it is among the greatest rock albums of all time with Rolling Stone, Spin, Time, and Entertainment Weekly all placing it on their best lists. It transformed the Irish band U2 from "heroes to superstars" according to Rolling Stone. Had lead singer Bono not had such an "incredibly bad year" in 1986, the album most certainly would have been much different.

Bono, the sole credited lyricist for the album, penned the words as he struggled with events in his life. He lost his personal assistant in a motorcycle accident. His marriage was struggling as he tried to balance his fame with his home responsibilities. His unsettling views of the United States and its foreign policy also came to the forefront. The imagery of the desert communicated the overall feeling of himself and the band, as a barren isolated place but also as a blank canvas according to bassist Adam Clayton. Working titles for the album were "Desert Songs" and "The Two Americas", but after traveling with photographer Anton Corbjin in the Mojave desert, encounters with Joshua trees prompted Bono to suggest the final album title. He liked the mystique of how Joshua trees were reportedly named by the Mormons who likened them to the Biblical character Joshua praying to God.

80s Toons: "The Pac-Man/Rubik the Amazing Cube Hour"

In September of 1982, the most popular arcade game at the time got its own animated television series. The first episode of Pac-Man was so anticipated, that ABC incorporated twice the normal amount of commercials to accommodate sponsors. The first season yielded 26 episodes from 1982-83. Pac-Man was teamed with two other shows during the first season, Richie Rich and the Little Rascals. After a full year of the trifecta TV show, Richie Rich and the Little Rascals would get their own hour together in the fall of 1983 and Pac-Man would team up with show based on a hot 80s commodity, the Rubik's cube. The 3-D puzzle that was named for its inventor Erno Rubik, was mass produced beginning in 1980. The popular toy, that's now sold over 350 million units, was transformed into the animated show Rubik, the Amazing Cube. These two new partnered shows would produce firsts for the animation industry.

The two shows became one of the most popular hours of television for kids everywhere, despite the newly created stories that were otherwise not associated with either the game or the toy. Pac-Man, the first animated show developed from a video game, revolved around the title character and his family in the town of Pac-land. Each episode usually involved the main antagonists in the video game, the Ghost Monsters. Their boss Mezmaron, a newly created character for the show, was determined to find the source for Pac-Man's power pellets and take for himself. After building a sinister plan, Pac-Man would use his power pellets to send the ghost monsters "packing" and chomp his way to victory. After joining up with Rubik, the Amazing Cube for the second season, new characters were introduced like his nephew P.J. and Super-Pac (not to be confused with Steven Colbert's political action committee.) The popularity of Pac-Man from 82-83 spawned the CBS network to try and mimic the game-to-television success by creating Saturday Supercade. Bally Midway helped the show come full circle and created Pac-Land, an arcade game in 1984 based on the cartoon story and characters.

Misheard 80s Lyrics: "Urchin"

Misheard 80s Lyrics: "Urchin"

I'll be the first to admit that I'm easily amused by many things. When I stumbled onto this video, I laughed so hard that I cried. Maybe you will too or wonder why you just wasted four minutes of your life. Even if you don't like it, you get to at least listen to a classic 80s track. Many thanks to wreznor for posting this one on Youtube.

80s Music Remade: "In The Air Tonight"

"In the Air Tonight"

Although many associate "In the Air Tonight" with Miami Vice, the song was actually released almost 4 years before appearing the pilot episode. In fact, it was the first single released by Phil Collins as a solo artist in 1981. It was a top ten hit in over 10 countries and would launch his award winning solo career.

Since then, many music artists have remade the classic song in many different genres...

COVERS

80s Timeworn Twelves: "Situation"

Yazoo (Yaz) "Situation" (1982)

"Situation" is one of those songs you've heard multiple times through samples on other songs or on commercials, but might not know who released it. Yazoo (also known as just Yaz in the US) was very popular in dance clubs. The two-member band only released two albums, but with great success in their native UK. They reached the top 3 on the UK mainstream charts three times and the #1 spot on the US Dance charts three times between 1982-83. They also returned to that #1 spot in the US in 1999 with a remixed version of "Situation."
You might recognize the laughing on this track. It was sampled for what VH1 calls the greatest one-hit wonder of all time, the "Macarena." It's also been used in many commercials including the NES classic edition of Gameboy Advance. "Situation" features a synthesizer hook which is the work of band member Vince Clarke (who also was with Depeche Mode) and vocals, including the laughter, provided by Alison Moyet.
The 12 inch single includes an extended version on Side A that is the most widely played version of the song in the US. Side B includes a "dub version" remix. Both tracks on the 12" single add about 2 minutes to the original version released on the Upstairs At Eric's album.

  

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