Who's with me on this? I was thinking about this on the way in today. You remember those hideous 80's pop disco hits? Sequencer porn like:

"You Are an Obsession" by WHO KNOWS?
"Sex" by Berlin
"Don't Go" by Yaz.

So, I was thinking, shoot, we oughtta do a little contest - each of us take a crappy pop disco song from back then and re-do it without the 16th-note babababababa sequencer running, just to see what we'd come up with.

Am I insane? You guys interested? Or - hey - the old uptempo-80's bop songs - like Footloose, Lets Go Crazy, Neutron Dance, I'm So Excited, there were a million of them. You guys wanna do it?

Obsession is by Animotion.

It would be fun to cover a Duran Duran song.

You're on...
Timeline?

VinaBlue said:

I KNEW I could count on you Vina!
I think I'm going to tackle Situation by Yaz. I won a dance contest to that tasty classic, long long long ago.

otan said:

I dunno. This is nothing major, so, one week? Really, I could knock it out in one night, I spose, but I know we're all on kooky schedules. And I'll need a day to line up the boys choir.

hmmm, i would like 2 contribute "You Make Me Feel Mighty Real"

i have 2 learn the lyrics, but i can play with that.

saftey dance.

PLEESE!

Ooooh, you know what song I REALLY love? "I can't wait" by Nu Shooz.

paisleypark4 said:

THAT would be awesome! Love that song. Sylvester was kickass.

So it can't just be any 80's song?? No Culture Club or A-Ha?

HAHAHA This sounds like so much fun! I'll take a crack at "She Blinded me with Science!" forgot the guy who made it? Hopefully its up on Winmx.

Littlewing said:

Thomas Dolby

marcdeondotcom said:

That is a GREAT song.

I found some 80's midi files!

http://briansworld.nova.o...0midi.html

Can't wait to go home and mess around with these.

A View to a Kill is there! I'm all over that one.

Markin my territory...
[This message was edited Thu Feb 5 11:45:03 PST 2004 by VinaBlue]

"If you wanna ride, don't ride the white horse" - I'll take this one. I think the group was Laidback

psykosoul said:

U gonna rock da house with that one!

VinaBlue said:

Cool cool. I was going for the disco crap - like what was that band - Escape? "Taking me to the Point Of No Return". Real CRAP songs... Debbie Gibson, Gorgio, Dead or Alive - pure disco fluff.

Thomas Dolby, Laid Back - now, those are damn good songs already. I was thinking of - "resurrect the dead" kind of thing. But hey go for it...

We'll call this ORG-ING IN THE 80's

SOMEONE COVER A DEBBIE GIBSON SONG!

Illusions said:

Foolish Beat is a great song. The melody plays in my head even today.

Okay.. come with it

Ha OTAN, u don't care about a contest, u just want to play a 80's disco song, but don't want to be corny, so u invited everyone.

I can't wait to hear your song OTAN, ur such a solid player.

I actually love some old 80's songs, like Belinda Carlisle's "heaven is a place on earth"
I love it cause i always wanted to hear Bon Jovi play it, cause it would have been a bon jovi song, has that feel to it.

Jem said:

Funny you should say that 'cuz Orbital



mixed Belinda's Heaven with Jovi's You Give Love in their live sets. The album above, their second album, is a masterpiece.

marcdeondotcom said:

As much as Debbie is FULL of 80's cheese, as far as I know, she wrote and produced her own album. So, I give her props, even though I think her music sucks.

Shake Your Love.

VinaBlue said:

If only she'd show her boob on national TV. THEN, and ONLY then, I'd have some respizznect for the girl.

otan said:

What kind of piercing would DG wear?
Shake Your Love and Electric Youth both make me wanna

oh come on now, nothing like a little sterile cracker bumpty music.

Oh...somebody please do me something by the 'Originals'...maybe 'Down to Lovetown'or Car Wash (Rose Royce), or Brick House (Commodores).

what about wham?
:p

I should do "Perfect Way" by Scritti, but i think "U Make Me Feel Mighty Real" would be more of a challenge 4 me.

paisleypark4 said:

OR Do Ya Wanna Funk by Sylvester. Mebbe I'll try that one.

I got a nasty cover of Hair, but it's totally not in the "80's" catagory. It segues into a first date kinda senerio, zipper in the down possition and fluxs into a crazy "doin' it till the sun rise" situation.

Maybe I'll upload it at a later date.

It's pretty trippy.