All those songs and videos you loved from your 80s/90s youth

This blog has it all….

songsuforgot — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:26:45 +0000

…all the songs you forgot from your favorite music video show: 120 minutes.

Let’s have an 80′s Happy Hour

songsuforgot — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:36:54 +0000

With the Housemartins Happy Hour…and let’s check out Fatboy Slim in his early days.

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songsuforgot — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:44:50 +0000

q and s

songsuforgot — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:42:39 +0000

They Eat Their Own

songsuforgot — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:25:06 +0000

Remember loving shouting this song in high school. This version sucks but I can’t find the one that says “But if you’d call me, I’d tell you to fuck off.” This one says “get lost.” Doesn’t have the same punch.

Ride

songsuforgot — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:41:28 +0000

Heard a remake of this song, Vapour Trail, recently. Reminds me of college:

Great song. The Wikipedia entry on them is pretty interesting.

Depeche Mode

songsuforgot — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:28:56 +0000

My all time favorite 80s/90s alternative band. I’ve seen them twice in concert. Here’s my favorite song by them, Strangelove:

And who doesn’t need a little Personal Jesus:

Another favorite of mine, Never Let me Down Again:

Connells

songsuforgot — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:50:26 +0000

Sorry I haven’t updated in awhile. This song has been in my head and playing on XM’s FRED station recently. I saw the Connell’s in concert in Alabama when I was in high school. Good show. “Over There” is not my favorite Connell’s song but can’t find too many videos by them on YouTube and it’s still a really good song, so here we go:

And here’s ’74 – ’75. Partial to this song since those are the birth years of my husband and I. This clip says in German “Live aus dem Alabama.” Hmm, maybe this was the concert I was at.

Morrissey

songsuforgot — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:15:14 +0000

My husband and I saw Morrissey in concert last weekend in Myrtle Beach at the House of Blues. It was a good show except for a few things:

1. I’m getting too old for concerts. It was hard to stand up for a long period of time. Oh my God, that sounds sad but it’s true. Plus, my husband and I had spent all day drinking by the pool so we were a little tired by concert time.

2. Morrissey mainly did songs from his most recent album. He opened with Panic by the Smiths so I thought we were in for a night of old skool classics but not so much. I know he’s touring to promote his new album but come on! I did buy his new album but just don’t like it as much as the old stuff and he has a LOT of old stuff to play.

3. We weren’t in the minority. When he played an older song, people went nuts. New songs, the crowd was much more subdued.

Here are 2 songs he did play:

Every day is like Sunday: One of my all-time favorites. Fun to hear this performed in an actual “sea-side town.”

Panic, a great opening:

Also played Girlfriend in a Coma. In fact, he started it once but someone got on stage and distracted him so he restarted it.

He should have played Ask. But no go. Here’s Ask done to Thomas the Train.

Pet Shop Boys

songsuforgot — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:30:09 +0000

NPR this week on Morning Edition played a snippet of a Pet Shop Boys song. Had to figure out what it was. At first I thought it was Being boring, which has a great video:

But it was actually Liberation:

Both are great songs!