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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 15, 2024 16:48:51 GMT -5
I have no idea what a LiMahl is. (...) Having been, like me, a teen in the '80s, you may be familiar with this song, "Too Shy" ...
Which was a pretty much the only hit (pretty big one as I recall) by this band called Kajagoogoo. LiMahl was their lead singer who then embarked on a solo career. The only song of his with which I'm familiar is the theme song to the movie Neverending Story.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 15, 2024 17:00:16 GMT -5
I have no idea what a LiMahl is. (...) Having been, like me, a teen in the '80s, you may be familiar with this song, "Too Shy" ...
Which was a pretty much the only hit (pretty big one as I recall) by this band called Kajagoogoo. LiMahl was their lead singer who then embarked on a solo career. The only song of his with which I'm familiar is the theme song to the movie Neverending Story.
I do remember that song, in that it was on MTV and played at dances. I did not, however, go out of my way to listen to it, nor could I have named any of the band members. |
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Post by commond on Nov 15, 2024 17:25:54 GMT -5
He was also the inspiration for Longshot's hair.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 16, 2024 9:54:46 GMT -5
No wonder Martha Argerich is a legend.
Holy Moly. And I can't play the triangle to save my life.
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Post by impulse on Nov 16, 2024 10:29:19 GMT -5
That album came out in '82, so Willie was 49 at the time. Well, “young.” That’s the youngest I’ve ever seen him. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 16, 2024 11:10:23 GMT -5
No wonder Martha Argerich is a legend. Holy Moly. And I can't play the triangle to save my life. My youngest son, who was a percussionist all through school, says that the triangle is deceptively hard to play correctly. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 16, 2024 12:48:51 GMT -5
My ego is soothed somewhat, but not a lot!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2024 10:15:25 GMT -5
No wonder Martha Argerich is a legend. Holy Moly. And I can't play the triangle to save my life. She's a wonderful pianist indeed, very nice video. I have a much watched DVD of her playing some Ravel and Chopin pieces with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, it's always a delight seeing and hearing her perform. |
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Post by Farrar on Nov 17, 2024 15:54:22 GMT -5
Oh, I love her! I've seen her several times over the years at Carnegie Hall--always tremendous performances. I'm a devotee of her Chopin and her Bach ain 't too shabby either.
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Post by berkley on Nov 17, 2024 18:18:01 GMT -5
Having been, like me, a teen in the '80s, you may be familiar with this song, "Too Shy" ...
Which was a pretty much the only hit (pretty big one as I recall) by this band called Kajagoogoo. LiMahl was their lead singer who then embarked on a solo career. The only song of his with which I'm familiar is the theme song to the movie Neverending Story.
I do remember that song, in that it was on MTV and played at dances. I did not, however, go out of my way to listen to it, nor could I have named any of the band members.
I'm not sure if I've heard this before or not but it sounds familiar anyway because it's so much of its time, so typical of the kind of thing that was on the radio back then. I think it sounds all right, not the kind of music I would ever buy for myself but I wouldn't have cringed or blocked my ears if it came on the radio or was played in a club. The waitress in the video is very pretty.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 18, 2024 4:43:01 GMT -5
I'm not sure if I've heard this before or not but it sounds familiar anyway because it's so much of its time, so typical of the kind of thing that was on the radio back then. I think it sounds all right, not the kind of music I would ever buy for myself but I wouldn't have cringed or blocked my ears if it came on the radio or was played in a club. The waitress in the video is very pretty.
Yeah, it's a pretty catchy tune and perfectly enjoyable to listen to for what it is. As with many songs from that period, I sort of went full circle on it: liked it well enough when it was first released and got a decent amount of radio airplay (I would have been about 14 I think) and then, only a few years later (esp. when I was a pretentious college kid), thinking it was just atrocious and making fun of it with my friends. And now I think it's fine, nothing great but not ear-gougingly bad, either. I think it's kind of the way the kids slightly older than me, like my sister and brother, who were in their teens in the late '70s, went from liking disco to absolutely despising it as soon as the trends changed.
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Post by commond on Nov 18, 2024 5:31:38 GMT -5
Limahl rules.
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Post by berkley on Nov 20, 2024 1:52:16 GMT -5
This one I'm pretty sure I've never heard until now - it sounds from roughly the same era as the previous one, perhaps a few years later into the 80s? |
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Post by commond on Nov 20, 2024 6:12:31 GMT -5
Yeah, it's from '86. It's a single from his second album, which failed to chart in the UK and was panned by critics. I don't think it was ever released on CD.
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Post by impulse on Nov 20, 2024 8:56:24 GMT -5
Okay, this is meant in good faith and is a serious question. It's top of mind due to the recent hubbub about the reunion and tour and all that. Can someone explain Oasis to me? Specifically, why they were so massively famous, why there was so much buzz about them potentially reuniting, and now that they have, the level of excitement?
I am not super familiar with them, but of what I've heard of their well known stuff, it's just the most generic, cookie cutter 90s radio fare I've heard. There is, to my ears, nothing remarkable whatsoever in music, lyrics, vocal performances, anything. There are a dozen other bands that sound exactly like them, so I don't get the fuss?
Is this a matter of they did that sound first and everyone else copied them, so in hindsight it seems generic? Similar to how some younger folks see the Beatles? Was it just the lucky combination of the right album at the right time? Am I just on my own on this one?
Just wondering.
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