Showing posts with label Pop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pop. Show all posts
Monday, April 18, 2022

Peter Wolf - Come As You Are

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Peter Wolf remains one of the more interesting characters in rock and roll, although we are still a bit sad about his untimely departure fro...
Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Hipsway - The Honeythief

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Ah, the one hit wonder - such an interesting phenomena.  The category is comprised of major bands where only one single hit the Top 40 (such...
Sunday, January 30, 2022

Sting - Fortress Around Your Heart

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By the early 1980s, The Police were one of the biggest bands in the world, so Sting's 1985 solo album was huge news. Interestingly, The ...
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Monday, November 22, 2021

The Outfield - My Paradise

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The 1980s musical equivalent of a sunny summer day, The Outfield recorded a bunch of bright power pop gems, but somehow never became big sta...
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Sunday, October 24, 2021

Billy Ocean - Loverboy

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Rounding out our All Hallows Even celebration is "Loverboy" by Billy Ocean.  This is definitely one of the oddest 1980s videos, w...
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Thursday, September 9, 2021

Eddie Money - I Wanna Go Back

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This is Eddie Money's second appearance on ERV; " Think I'm in Love " was posted more than 10 years ago (way back in Augus...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Split Enz - I Got You

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Split Enz (the NZ is a reference to New Zealand, where the band originated) formed in 1973 in Auckland.  The founders - Tim Finn and Phil Ju...
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Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Poco - Call It Love

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Casual music fans may view Poco as an answer to the trivia question: What group did The Eagles raid for their bass players?  In truth, Poco ...
Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Mental As Anything - Live It Up

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"Live It Up" is an upbeat song with an interesting history from a cool, quirky band from Australia.  Mental As Anything were an ar...
Sunday, March 28, 2021

Cutting Crew - One for the Mockingbird

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Many ERV readers will recognize Cutting Crew as the band behind "(I Just) Died in Your Arms," a #1 song from 1987.  In typical Eig...
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Laura Branigan - Gloria

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Long time ERV readers will know that we love to feature covers, especially when the remake is a big hit.  For instance, we have previously p...
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Monday, December 21, 2020

Elliot Easton - (Wearing Down) Like a Wheel

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As we've mentioned before, The Cars appeared to be running out of steam by the mid-1980s, which led to three of the five member releasin...
Monday, November 30, 2020

Stephanie Mills - Never Knew Love Like This Before

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"Never Knew Love Like This Before" was a catchy pop/R&B hit from Stephanie Mills that became her biggest hit.  The song reache...
Friday, October 30, 2020

The Cure - Lullaby

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For the final selection of our 2020 All Hallows Even celebration, we are going with The Cure's "Lullaby."  Skeptics might poi...
Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Sheena Easton - Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)

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Nine years ago (!), we started an ERV tradition - the posting of the All Hallows Even videos.  We are justifiably proud of the 22 (and count...
Saturday, October 3, 2020

Robbie Nevil - C'est La Vie

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"C'est La Vie" was the song that was played at every party in 1987, before fading away.  It was the debut single from Robbie N...
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Thursday, September 24, 2020

Daryl Hall & John Oates - Private Eyes

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Long time viewer(s) may recall that this is Hall & Oates second appearance on ERV; " How Does It Feel To Be Back " (a truly ra...
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Saturday, March 28, 2020

Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)

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While Billy Ocean may have seemed like an overnight success, nothing could be further from the truth.  In fact, he had been in the music bus...
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Monday, October 28, 2019

Fun Boy Three (With Bananarama) - It Ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)

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Way back when, in 2013, we featured the excellent " Ghost Town " by The Specials as part of ERV's All Hallows Eve n celebratio...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Walter Egan - Fool Moon Fire

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Our long time reader(s) will know that we love this time of year - to the point that we have an All Hallows Even celebration every year (si...
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