Three-Tune Tuesday: Seriously Guilty Pleasures from the Past
I find it strange that eighties music is constantly thrown at us, especially in shopping malls and supermarkets, yet it is very targeted and some songs are rarely heard.
Were the eighties revered? I think not, but it was listenable and pleasant.
When I was younger, and the eighties was current, all you heard in such places was seventies music. This was as cheesy in its own way as I see the eighties as now.
Shouldn't we now be paraded with music from the noughties or the tens? If history would repeat itself, then this is what we should be listening to.
...'or it is so bad that old ladies would fall over in fear and the explicit language would revolt them..., as much of it is rap crap?'...
Rain or Shine – Five Star (Silk & Steel – 1986)
Five Star; a replica pop outfit that you never hear of, unless you were knocking about in 1986 and followed the music charts.
They arrived in Spring of that year, and ran out of steam eighteen months later, but during that time period showered us with a string of hits.
Unashamedly modelling their image on 'The Jacksons', with the groups' father dictating the flow, the outfit was indeed an English clone, both looking the part and sounding like them, except if anything they sounded a little better.
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The hits were not to last, and in their waning months America started to take notice. It's a shame that they caught the embers as the best songs were smack bang in the middle of their success.
'Rain or Shine' did see some airplay over the pond, and I am left wondering if the likes of @bozz have heard of Five Star? This one still plays away in my mind, and I have to occasionally listen to some heavy metal to forcibly displace it if I feel an earworm starting up.
With debt creeping up and most of the band members owning supercars while living at a large mansion in the south of England, they were forced to sell up amid bankruptcy.
The life of the average pop band can be short, and some people don't know how to handle success.
We Take Mystery (To Bed) – Gary Numan (I, Assassin – 1982)
Even longer ago than the previous offering, Gary Numan was some kind of pin-up boy for alternative female teenyboppers, reaching out with this new 'electronic sound' that was emerging in the UK.
Like many of the early pioneers of synth-sound, I do remember the 'Tubeway Army' appearing on Top of the Pops with Gary at the helm looking like some kind of alien donning ghostly white skin, while sneering at his audience.
Yet he garnered lots of attention, and the girls loved him. I liked his music but that's as far as my fanboy attention went, and for a while guitars became distinctly uncool to be replaced with keyboards.
Gary was ridiculed by the press for this new sound 'not being music', and eventually it bought on his demise. With a lifespan of perhaps two or three years, he did a little better than Five Star, made waves in America and is still current and creating music.
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…'why is it, almost all of these 80's male artists are bald and yet Gary Numan now sports more hair than he did in 1979?, ah..this is why'…
Such a ridiculous title as 'We Take Mystery (To Bed)' was not one of his enormous hits, but I remember buying it at the time, as well as most of his other singles.
All you needed then was a voice that was almost indecipherable, create a stupid dance, be able to yell in the chorus and adorn some wailing synthesizer in the background. I should have gone and done it myself.
A Little More Love – Olivia Newton-John (Totally Hot – 1978)
I seem to be going further back in time with each Three-Tune Tuesday song revealed, and they are not getting any less cheesy.
Around the time that 'Grease' rubbish that followed 'Saturday Night Fever' in 1978, there was a certain girly singer originally from the UK, who would eventually emigrate to Australia and claim citizenship.
While I was just a kid when this one was released, I liked the gritty sound this new image Olivia portrayed. Leather jackets and guitars, what was all this? She was previously known to sing soppy ballads, that were admittedly quite good.
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...'a raunchier Olivia got my attention. If she was just a little younger I might have fallen in love'...
Being in my mid-teens, I didn't have the hots for her.., she was the ‘older woman’ to me, but I was always one for some janky sound such as the one throughout, 'A Little More Love'. Over dramatization, perhaps but it did the trick and forced me to see her in a different light.
The leather jacket look was perhaps a warm-up for her role in 'Grease', a soap opera I was not fond of. Saturday Night Fever, even with the wailing Bee Gees in charge was always far superior to my teenage ears and still is.
Ack, this music is quite cringe-worthy, especially when watched. We all have our vices. It's back to Iron Maiden, Metallica, Ministry or AC/DC next week.
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It's true music is every where sometimes we hear those we have not heard before. But regarding outfits of the musicians from what I see their outfit change over time. Thanks for sharing this with us that's just my little opinion. Have a good day.
Lol, hair transplants. A guy on my last project went to Turkey and got one. Much to his dismay it is starting to thin and it's only been a couple of years!
He needs to go to Elton's barber, the trick may be to get rid of the lot and start again, much like 'Turkey Teeth' 😀
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Can't say I have ever heard of Five Star before. I gave the song a listen and the lyrics were pretty god awful. The sound definitely fits into the 80's though. It was the era of excess. I think everyone has a bit of nostalgia for pieces of it.
LOL, I never thought to listen to the lyrics, the tune and harmony did it for me. There's that minor tinge that I like. You have never heard of them, it's hardly surprising!
Good stuff! Never heard of Five Star, not too bad. Gary Numan still has plenty of hair, good genetics? He wrote some good music back in the day... You can't go wrong with Olivia Newton-John, she was one pretty woman, RIP. Cancer is a bitch!
Great TTT! Some songs I haven't heard in more than a decade!
A good hair transplant surgeon more like haha!
Wouldn't surprise me, if you got the cash you can put in as many hair plugs as you want!
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He's getting that zombie look with make-up, a little like Robert Smith.
Robert Smith has had that look perfected since the 80's!
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His new music is also awesome! It’s strait up hardcore synth, heavily Nine Inch Nails influenced.
Haha yeah all quite cringey! It's been a long time since I've heard of Five Star. Gary Numan was quite big with his Cars and Friends hits but nothing much after that.
I try and listen to this stuff alone usually in the car. Things can get embarrassing otherwise 😀
Gary had quite a few hits here besides the ones you mention, top ten stuff but I was a fan at the time.
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I had very little idea about the songs in the eighties. My mom tells me all the time that, they were more sensible and meaningful than what we listen to now. I can't argue that though, lol
Have a listen to them, my daughter wont listen to anything new, just 80's.
Interesting! I'll give it a try too
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I remember the human league, Duran Duran, and yazoo from that era, they were very cringe worthy, seemed like someone discovered a synthesizer and every band went crazy with it.
I still love these bands, not so much Yazoo, though the sound is now dated.
Yeah me too, but it was new order, blue Monday and kraftwork in the clubs, in stoke-on-trent. can you send me a witness vote if you have a spare one
Kudos for Five Star and coincidentally, I just dumped my collection of 12" singles on a charity shop when I was over at Christmas, one of which was 'The Slightest Touch' . I loved them at the time!
Gary Numan had to have a hair transplant as his physical similarity to the bald Gary Glitter would have finished him!
ONJ...nahh never did anything for me, neither musically nor as wank fodder!
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I think I had that one, 12' as well. They were going sour then. Silk and Steel was the highlight.
LOL, he did like his flying and a NumanAir plane, reportedly came down in India.. and he got arrested for spying. I remember the news.., but can't find any record of it now..., what would they make of him there?
There's another ONJ one, that's far to embarrassing to post, what would you think me..., normal? That wouldn't do.
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FIVE STAR!!!!?????
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I think a lot of the young ones don't go to malls much anymore. So the music being 80s caters to most of the people still going there. But I do agree that a lot of 2010s music might not be as family friendly as the 80s music, so that might have contributed as well.
A lot of the young ones do work in Supermarkets, at least here. Many are Uni graduates who then get bombarded with this 80's music! Not a bad things.
Had no clue "A Little More Love" is that old, lol! Those are the real gems that will survive with the passage of time. Yet a record that very few manage to reach in the 21st century.
I thought it was older, around '76. Was surprised it was this late. You have heard it before?
I did! My parents are still listening music from that period and some of the songs are hard not to remember when listening to them again.
And it would have been a peice of nostalgia art
Gary Numan ain’t no guilty pleasure! He’s the man! But I feel ya 💯
Sometimes we need some simple corny hits they just vibe! Here are some of my “Guilty Pleasures” I go full cheese when I say guilty pleasures 😂
Some nineties hits ⬆️
Then 2000’s ultra pop pick ⬇️
Verdaderamente que no los había escuchado antes; por lo menos en mi entorno de esa época no se escuchaban.
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Nice tunes here by the way, Five Star were new to me, pure 80s vibe going on there!! Gary Numan the pick of this bunch for me, but all made for good listening here as I get a few things done.
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Nice one dude, as I say great to see you taking part, which helps more people to see it. I've discovered tonnes of great music as a result of #ttt
Fuck it i'll stick a bit of rain or shine on!
olivia newton john.... no matter how old was a stunner.... i also reckon that her breakfasts would have been decent as well...
No clue ever hearing first two, Olivia in small doses.
Eighties was a weird era every time you went to dine out Richard Clayderman (Philippe Pagès born in Paris) piano music was played, get another LP! Over and over and over.
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rap is trash now,bring back the good ole stuff today's rnb n rap has no good vibe thats why the old stuff sounds good today
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