O.K., this thread is just driving me insane! How have you people never heard of some of these songs??? How could you have never heard of Starship or that terrible song!?! WOW!!!

 

I just talked to a 17-year-old who had never heard of He-Man.

 

As a comparison, I may not have been alive when he was popular but at least I knew who Howdy Doody was. :headshake

My first tip that I might be "different" was when I would wake up early to watch "Jem" on TV and would turn "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" off right after.

I just talked to a 17-year-old who had never heard of He-Man.   

 

im only 23 and i loved heman. had the heman, battle cat, and skeletor action figures...

Some of you younger ones need to watch VH1, when they do the I love the 70's, 80's and 90's music....

I'm surprised by your age that you are as into Bea as you are. I had no idea you were a young kid. But I guess that makes more sense than my slight obsession with Lillian Gish. And your interest in 70's stuff helps make the Bea stuff more understandable.

 

Bea Arthur is a comic genius. I love 70s kitch a lot, and my parents pop culture development stopped at about 1973. I wasn't allowed to listen to anything but Oldies until I got to 7th grade or so.

 

There's something I see about the 1970's that we lack today. It's not because the decade was anything special, its just that a lot of things changed so radically in the 80s and 90s about the way we did things and the way children grew up.

 

Everyday, I find it so shocking the way that things have changed so radically over the last few years.

im only 23 and i loved heman. had the heman, battle cat, and skeletor action figures...

 

I still have my entire collection and I'm only missing a handful of figures. They're sitting in a box in the garage right next to my star wars, gi joe and thundercats toys.

 

Considering I have 3 daughters who will probably never be interested in them, I will someday have a huge number of Ebay auctions.

 

I just haven't had to heart to get rid of them yet...

There's something I see about the 1970's that we lack today. It's not because the decade was anything special, its just that a lot of things changed so radically in the 80s and 90s about the way we did things and the way children grew up.

 

Everyday, I find it so shocking the way that things have changed so radically over the last few years.

 

There is something fitting about how in the 70's people became obsessed with the 50's. Both era's have much in common. The country was realing from wars, yet still immersed in a strange innocence. The 70's had a lot of the 60's grime still all over it, but the nation was still fairly innocent and just happy to be here. I see alot of parallels between the two time periods. Though I think I would have been better suited for the 50's. I was born in 70, so much of the decade I remember.

 

Good for your parents and raising you as they did! My daughter has fallen in love with Sam Cooke all of a sudden! She's only 7 and asking me to put him on when we get in the car. She'll be just fine.

Edited April 15, 200520 yr by Kid Gleason

I stole my Mom's copy of "The Soul Album" by Otis Redding.

Wooden Heart - Joe Dowell WTF

 

Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton WTF

 

 

At 18

 

My Sharona - The Knack (Steve Dahl had a better version)

 

Cliff Richard We Don't Talk Anymore

You have heard the song, trust me.  When you hear it, you will go "oh yeah, THAT song"

 

 

 

Exactly... That happens to me all the time.

For me it's

 

We were an American Band - Grand Funk - US

Eye Level - The Simon Park Orchestra - UK

 

 

I don't think I've heard Eye Level though.. I'm not much into orchestra music.

October 13, 1983

 

Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler (US)

Karma Chameleon - Culture Club

im only 23 and i loved heman. had the heman, battle cat, and skeletor action figures...

Skeletor was one of Brian's nicknames from HS. Hence he has a bunch of those figures buried in the house somewhere.

 

My aunt bought us (from a garage sale) the skeltor castle to play with when we would stay by her house. I had a blast with that thing.

Walk Like An Egyptian - The Bangles (US)

Reet Petite - Jackie Wilson (UK)

 

never heard of either of them

Edited April 15, 200520 yr by chi-guy2

May 23 1989

 

Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul (US)

 

Ferry 'Cross The Mersey - The Christians, Holly Johnson, Paul McCartney, Gerry Marsden & Stock Aitken & Waterman (UK)

Videos were so bad then. Half the time they would just be sitting in a white room or on a stage playing their song. Wtf is with that? I mean how cheesy does it get. I would rather not waste the money on that garbage if i were them.

"The first time ever I saw your face" Roberta Flack - May 16, 1972. Perfectly worthy of being butchered on American Idol.

 

What's really sad about the old videos is that I used to watch them and try to record the songs I liked by holding a little radio up to the tv and pressing record. Poor, poor quality. Kids today have it made.

August 23. 1987.

 

Whos That Girl - Madonna

August 23. 1987.

 

Whos That Girl - Madonna

That was a lame movie.

August 28th, 1988

 

George Michael - Monkey

Shock the Monkey was a controversial song/video, before Marilyn Manson and NIN got onto there.

Edited April 17, 200520 yr by knightni

O.K., this thread is just driving me insane! How have you people never heard of some of these songs??? How could you have never heard of Starship or that terrible song!?! WOW!!!

 

On a side note with that one, Starship guitarist Craig Chaquico has actually turned into one of the best guitarists working today, and if you like kind of cool Jazz stuff, check him out. A little too "radio friendly Jazz" for me, but still some dang great stuff he has done.

I'm surprised by your age that you are as into Bea as you are. I had no idea you were a young kid. But I guess that makes more sense than my slight obsession with Lillian Gish. And your interest in 70's stuff helps make the Bea stuff more understandable.

 

 

Easy man, I don't listen to a lot of 80's music. Maybe I've heard it before but I don't recall. I'm not born in 1970 like you are. I wouldn't remember it.

But these songs are still everywhere. That's the point he's trying to make.

 

Is Holly Johnson still alive?

Oct. 23, 1988

 

US-Groovy Kind Of Love - Phil Collins

UK-Orinoco Flow-Enya

 

ive heard of both the artists, but i dont think ive heard the songs....

Groovy Kind of Love is an old 60s song redone horribly by the balding (at that time) front man from Genesis. I think it was the Loving Spoonful that did it originally.

 

You've heard that Enya song. You really wish you never did though.

Shock the Monkey was a controversial song/video, before Marilyn Manson and NIN got onto there.

 

It is also still a superior song. NIN and Manson fans, don't get in a tizzy, I like both of those bands, I just think Gabriel did a better job with a message.

 

William, I wasn't addressing you exactly, so much as all of the people that have never heard some REALLY big hits from back then. And yes, I am sure many of the songs you have heard but are just not familiar with the bands and titles. But there have been a few listed that have seriously shocked me for people to have NOT heard or to know the name of. "Come On Eileen" is a song where he says the title almost every single line. I'll list the songs I am surprised got the "never heard of it" if you would like. Trust me though, some of these songs are better to be forgotten.

 

Though "Come On Eilleen" is a cool song...