Comments on: CHART ATTACK! #14: 1/14/84

By: Broad

Broad — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:24:59 +0000

@ Robert: It was indeed.@ Jason: Appropos of little, my dad was a huge fan of Doris Day, so you’re in fine company. Now, if you say you found ONJ hot after Sordid Lives (which was a great film, btw), you might need a little ostracizing.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:12:55 +0000

Maybe this says something about my taste in women, but I always thought she was much sexier as the goody two-shoes.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:09:46 +0000

Good point, Broad. And wasn’t the climax of Grease, in which Sandy shows up at the carnival or whatever (I’ve never seen the movie all the way through) in tight black spandex, the initial coming-out of Olivia’s sex appeal?

By: tres

tres — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:12:39 +0000

Oddly, I’m cool with that Matthew Wilder clip. I can deal with the hair, and I dig his Star Trek meets V top that is appropriatly unbutton and folded down in one corner – giving him that essential sci-fi dishelved look…but oh that moustache. He’s the fey man’s Oates. He looks like Adam Sandler’s limo driving friend in The Wedding Singer.
"Break My Stride" was like a bonding song for my mom and me. She’d pick me up from 4th grade, I’d be all pissy to her, than break my stride would come on and we’d be laughing like school girls in no time. Now THAT’S a gift. – thank U Mr. Wilder!

By: Broad

Broad — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:37:11 +0000

@ D-Dubs: What about ONJ’s Totally Hot album of 1978? It was right after Grease came out, and she was all in black and looking sultry standing against the wall and everything …Or are y’all going to make me start backing my stuff up with Billboard charts? Don’t I get credit for just remembering some of this stuff?

By: Christy

Christy — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:17:19 +0000

I think View to A Kill is the best Bond them there is. Followed by The Spy Who Loved Me by Carly Simon.
Please don’t come to my website and make fun of me.

By: Dave P

Dave P — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:28:25 +0000

As a big Jon Anderson fan, I’m almost embarrassed to mention this, but as a solo artist Jon dabbled in "smooth" wussy music in the late 80s with his album "In the City of Angels." He worked with some of the fellows from Toto on it, and it’s slick as all get out. You can watch the atrocious video for the album’s single, "Hold on to Love," at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yMCKk9Qtug … it’s as if Jon is trying to channel Al Jarreau or something. This from the man who sang "Roundabout" and "I’ve Seen All Good People." Yeesh!

By: Scraps

Scraps — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 23:35:03 +0000

I think the early to mid-eighties are particularly heavy with songs that became bigger in retrospect, because of the influence of MTV, in that brief period when they played non-guaranteed-hit videos. The songs we’ve mentioned weren’t played on pop radio, but they were all played on MTV.

By: woofpop

woofpop — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:44:53 +0000

Yeah, big typo on my part with Hurt.. D’oh.
Scraps, there are tons of those songs that have become bigger in retrospect. "I Melt With You", Squeeze’s "Tempted" are just a couple that come to mind right now..

By: Dw Dunphy

Dw Dunphy — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 15:42:33 +0000

Scraps, it’s a testicle reference.