Eye In The Sky - The Alan Parson's Project (the progressive rock band from 1982, not the giant "laser beam")
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Fact: The 1980's was one of the greatest decades for music. It was post-hippie, and pre-technology. They had to play instruments, and there was no autotune robot-assist voice. They had too much integrity to lipsync and screw their fans.
Milli Vanilli really pioneered the sleaze-bag phony stuff. But even they are a special exception, because I believe the real vocalists just felt that they weren't presentable and didn't want to be the face of the band... Blues Traveler did that at first too. When they came out of nowhere with The Run-Around, the video had some Counting Crows lookalikes on stage miming to the music. Pretty lame, they got crap for that, and they didn't do it again. I think everyone would prefer to see that back-woods fat guy singing, he's awesome. Also I think he lost like, 300lbs or something.
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From Malaysian Architects, a Parallel Prison World in the Sky
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Mystery in the sky; Loud boom and streaking light across the eastern US shore
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Eye In The Sky
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Eyes in the Sky! Pt-3/5
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Eyes in the Sky! Pt-5/5
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Eyes in the Sky! Pt-2/5
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Eyes in the Sky! Pt-4/5
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Alan Parsons
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Frank Zappa - In the Sky (Live 1969)
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Eyes in the Sky! Pt-1/5
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Turkey: Someone is watching us from the sky!
Celebrity? What the f'?... Mods are smokin that shit again!
Posted Aug-25-2010 ByST0N3PONY (5025.12) 
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And, if you didn't get the giant "laser beam" reference, then you need to reevaluate your priorities.
Posted Aug-25-2010 ByST0N3PONY (5025.12) 
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No Sirius? That's like You Really Got Me without Eruption.
Posted Aug-26-2010 ByChumCannon (1454.82) 
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Should just played a Wang Chung video over the audio.
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LOL! Great song. Thanks for sharing...Mr. Celebrity.
Posted Aug-26-2010 ByArizona_Patriot (3118.66) 
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Nice 'Flock of Seagulls' reference at 1:16 ;-)
Cheers for the memory trip Stoney.
Posted Aug-26-2010 ByDonovan301 (975.28) 
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Oh Flock Of Seagulls, nice. I can only really think of one song of theirs but it was amazing. It's on the Vice City soundtrack I believe.
Posted Aug-26-2010 ByST0N3PONY (5025.12) 
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http://www.last.fm/music/A Flock of Seagulls/_/I Ran (So Far Away)
Posted Aug-26-2010 ByDonovan301 (975.28) 
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i ran is prob a flock of seagulls best tune.wishing was good as well.i'm defo giving my age away here.lol
Posted Aug-26-2010 Byasylumta2 (812.48) 
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80's were the best... but... just for music...and movies... you'd get tits and bush before the name of the movie had even shown... I'm thinking of Carrie... maybe that was late 70's... but I digress...
Posted Aug-26-2010 ByStovepipe (299.10) 
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The plethora of independent labels which sprung up made for some truly innovative music in the eighties. The problem came when they were bought up by the larger labels and quite signing unique talent, finally dissolving.
The one single bad across a lot of the music of the time wasn't so much the synthesizers, but those damned drum machines.
Of course, most of the worthwhile experimental music still holds up.
Posted Aug-26-2010 Byrapscallion (322.32) 
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That being said, I'll take even the bad 80's music, the cheesiest stuff, over the mainstream auto-tuned crap being made today.
Fortunately the major labels were stupid enough to waste their time fighting the inevitable with electronic distribution. They chose to sue grandmothers out of their retirement savings because one of their grandkids downloaded some mp3s on her computer... They should have recognized the market trends when Napster was big. They missed the boat and their days are numbered More..
Posted Aug-26-2010 ByST0N3PONY (5025.12) 
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I'll bet there's a treasure trove of stuff that never was mainstream you'd love if you came across it.
Today's "music" is formulaic because that is the only viable market which is profitable under the old system; mindless blather that is instantly familiar.
Yeah, there is nothing worse than that autotuned crap. As a gimmick, it was passe as soon as Cher used it. As a crutch, it's given us "artists" which are devoid of talent.
A computer and some freeware will provide a be More..
Posted Aug-26-2010 Byrapscallion (322.32) 
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So what's you're opinion on Guitar Hero and all the subsequent variations that have come along? I keep hearing people complain that it turns kids off music, because it's not a real guitar... Doesn't make sense to me. I think those games (I only ever had the first one), could trigger a rock renaissance. The kids playing the game, would have never heard most of the tracks. I'm glad when kids are listening to ZZ Top and Heart and Bowie and RHCP and B.O.C., they might come to appreciate it.
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Posted Aug-26-2010 ByST0N3PONY (5025.12) 
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I'm with you on that one. One of my boy's friends has gotten massively into the Beatles as a result. The exposure is invaluable. Where else are they going to get it? Disney Channel is the scourge of society.
I drop a CD on in the car of new/old music and the kids talk and ignore, only picking up on the odd sounding bits, or lines. About a week later they're singing along and asking me to play a specific song. Every evening we have classical with dinner.
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Posted Aug-26-2010 Byrapscallion (322.32) 
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Another cool thing about Guitar Hero is that they created a new genre of music-games. There are already "games" made as a result that you plug a keyboard in to and learn to play piano.
Posted Aug-26-2010 ByST0N3PONY (5025.12) 
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LOL great tune.
Posted Aug-26-2010 Bycho0hzy (755.00) 
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wuh? I grew up in the 80's and music was not as good as the 70's. HEAVILY synthesized music. Even this song. Don't get me started about the "music" now...ugh
Posted Aug-26-2010 Byduanekimball (48.08) 
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great song.. danced to this song at the club when the girls would dance if you asked them to.
Posted Aug-26-2010 ByFukmup (573.80) Fukmup View Channel Send Message
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The vast majority of today's pop music is utter crap.
Posted Aug-26-2010 Byhoosfoos (51.42) 
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Parson's was awesome, Time was my favorite song.
Posted Aug-26-2010 ByOLDNAZIWINO (162.86) 
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Oh, and now you can sing along in spanish (or, Portuguese?). I chose this video because it had the highest audio quality.
Posted Aug-25-2010 ByST0N3PONY (5025.12) 
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wasnt Carl Palmer the drummer? back then the used real drummers too
Posted Aug-26-2010 Bythunderbear (311.34) thunderbear View Channel Send Message
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Thanks for the tuneage.
When I breakdown is my favorite.
ELP,Yes,...Rocked also.
V for sure
Peace
Posted Aug-26-2010 ByGitErDoneDammit (718.74) 
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I'm pretty much sick of autotune now.
Posted Aug-26-2010 Byjuchat (345.34) juchat View Channel Send Message
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