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What should have been played in the 80s

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qid937

This thread is intended to belt out those lost tracks that you feel could have had success on radio air play in the 80s, had they been given a decent chance or chance at all. With that said I'll start with the following:

"High School Confidental" Rough Trade

"Getting Away With It" Electronic

Pretty much any cut off Don Henley's Building the Perfect Beast album expect for "Your Not Drinking Enough". "The Boys of Summer" and "All She Wants To Do Is Dance" both where released as singles and Henley's best charting solo hits. Still so many great album tracks that would have fit on radio.

Ok, that gets us started, feel free to add on!
 
qid937 said:
"The Boys of Summer"
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Maybe radio should begin playing "All She Wants to Do is Dance" or "Dirty Laundry", (much better songs) because I've about had it with "Boys of Summer". Every A/C or classic hits station and even Muzak (FM-1) at work plays this song to death....enough!!
 
oldies76 said:
qid937 said:
"The Boys of Summer"
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Maybe radio should begin playing "All She Wants to Do is Dance" or "Dirty Laundry", (much better songs) because I've about had it with "Boys of Summer". Every A/C or classic hits station and even Muzak (FM-1) at work plays this song to death....enough!!
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Personally, "The Boys of Summer" is what turned me on to Don Henley and music in general. Great song, great video. Not sure where you are located, but it only plays once in a blue moon where I'm at.
 
oldies76 said:
qid937 said:
"The Boys of Summer"
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Maybe radio should begin playing "All She Wants to Do is Dance" or "Dirty Laundry", (much better songs) because I've about had it with "Boys of Summer". Every A/C or classic hits station and even Muzak (FM-1) at work plays this song to death....enough!!
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There was a song on his first solo album called "Johnny Can't Read" that should have been a hit for him, but it only made #42. I don't think I ever heard it during the time that it should have been a hit, never hearing it until years later on Retro Lightning on Lightning 100 here in Nashville.
 
qid937 said:
Personally, "The Boys of Summer" is what turned me on to Don Henley and music in general. Great song, great video. Not sure where you are located, but it only plays once in a blue moon where I'm at.
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Colorado Springs

It's a good song, don't get me wrong, but there are other good songs too by Don Henley to be played. I'd even go for "New York Minute" from 1990.
 
firepoint525 said:
oldies76 said:
qid937 said:
"The Boys of Summer"
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Maybe radio should begin playing "All She Wants to Do is Dance" or "Dirty Laundry", (much better songs) because I've about had it with "Boys of Summer". Every A/C or classic hits station and even Muzak (FM-1) at work plays this song to death....enough!!
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There was a song on his first solo album called "Johnny Can't Read" that should have been a hit for him, but it only made #42. I don't think I ever heard it during the time that it should have been a hit, never hearing it until years later on Retro Lightning on Lightning 100 here in Nashville.
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"Johnny Can't Read" (which took issue to the quality of education much like 'Dirty Laundry' slammed the news media) got respectable airplay in L.A., but not nearly the recognition it deserved. I last heard it on the radio on KEDG around 1989.

In 2011, Avril Lavigne had a hit with "What the H---", which was very similar to Johnny Can't Read, but I'll always say that "What's Your Hurry Darlin'" by Ironhorse was one of the best '80s tunes never heard.
 
firepoint525 said:
oldies76 said:
qid937 said:
"The Boys of Summer"
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Maybe radio should begin playing "All She Wants to Do is Dance" or "Dirty Laundry", (much better songs) because I've about had it with "Boys of Summer". Every A/C or classic hits station and even Muzak (FM-1) at work plays this song to death....enough!!
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There was a song on his first solo album called "Johnny Can't Read" that should have been a hit for him, but it only made #42. I don't think I ever heard it during the time that it should have been a hit, never hearing it until years later on Retro Lightning on Lightning 100 here in Nashville.
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My favorite song by Don Henley would have to be "End of the Innocence".
 
"End of the Innocence" was a good one for Henley, but he sounded like a guest vocalist on a Bruce Hornsby record. Had Hornsby put that one out himself, music fans would have seriously started groaning, because it sounded exactly like everything else that Hornsby had done, up to that time. Even Hornsby himself started joking about that "stupid drum machine" sound on all of his records.
 
I've got no beef againsit Hornsby, he wrote several good songs. A couple of years ago I was at a concert featuring Henley and he preformed an amazing version of the end of the Innonce, almost achapalla through the first verse.

Love "New York Minute" to, great song with a powerful theme. To bad it never gets airplay. Another good Henley song was his cover of "Everybody Knows" by Leonard Cohen.
 
I would say the theme for Tears of Endearment should have been played more
Joe Jackson Stepping Out
Micheal Jackson's Speed Demon
Air Supply's Even the nights are better, and longer than
Zapp and Roger's Heard it through the Grapevine, So Ruff, Dance Floor, Do Wha Do Wha Diddy
Mary Jane Girls All Night Long
Stephanie Mills Put your body in it
Issac Hayes Don't Let Go
Double D Captain of Her Heart
Don Henley's Sunset Grill
Peobo Bryson In my arms again
Hall and Oates Say it isn't so
Lakeside It's all the way live
Lionel Ritchie Only You, Running with the Night
Technotronic Tough, Take it Slow, Raw, and Wave
Simply Red Money's Too Tight to Mention, Holding back the Years (extended mix)
SADE Smooth Operator (12" version)
Christopher Cross, Arthur's Theme
Rolling Stones Sad Sad Sad
 
Hornsby wrote some great songs ( I even liked Huey Lewis' cover of Jacobs Ladder) but that horrible mid-late '80's production ruined his records for me.
 
honeymoon suite Feel it again
Opus life is life
Big Audio Dynamite - Emc2
 
Anything from Tracy Ullman's short lived music career. Tarzan by Baltimora, something by A-Ha other than "Take on Me" Great song but what about others like "The Sun Always Shines on TV".
 
willdav713 said:
I would say the theme for Tears of Endearment should have been played more
Joe Jackson Stepping Out
Micheal Jackson's Speed Demon
Air Supply's Even the nights are better, and longer than
Zapp and Roger's Heard it through the Grapevine, So Ruff, Dance Floor, Do Wha Do Wha Diddy
Mary Jane Girls All Night Long
Stephanie Mills Put your body in it
Issac Hayes Don't Let Go
Double D Captain of Her Heart
Don Henley's Sunset Grill
Peobo Bryson In my arms again
Hall and Oates Say it isn't so
Lakeside It's all the way live
Lionel Ritchie Only You, Running with the Night
Technotronic Tough, Take it Slow, Raw, and Wave
Simply Red Money's Too Tight to Mention, Holding back the Years (extended mix)
SADE Smooth Operator (12" version)
Christopher Cross, Arthur's Theme
Rolling Stones Sad Sad Sad
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"Longer" was by Dan Fogelberg.
 
gamefreak said:
Anything from Tracy Ullman's short lived music career. Tarzan by Baltimora, something by A-Ha other than "Take on Me" Great song but what about others like "The Sun Always Shines on TV".
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We played "Sun" the other day at WRSG (before the storm roared through-we're still down). Great song.
 
qid937 said:
Pretty much any cut off Don Henley's Building the Perfect Beast album expect for "Your Not Drinking Enough". "The Boys of Summer" and "All She Wants To Do Is Dance" both where released as singles and Henley's best charting solo hits. Still so many great album tracks that would have fit on radio.
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"Sunset Grill" is among his most underrated songs that doesn't get enough airplay today. I also second "New York Minute". I still get chills when I hear that song. Unfortunatly, it is too slow, deep and almost depressing for a lot of stations, then and now.
 
firepoint525 said:
willdav713 said:
I would say the theme for Tears of Endearment should have been played more
Joe Jackson Stepping Out
Micheal Jackson's Speed Demon
Air Supply's Even the nights are better, and longer than
Zapp and Roger's Heard it through the Grapevine, So Ruff, Dance Floor, Do Wha Do Wha Diddy
Mary Jane Girls All Night Long
Stephanie Mills Put your body in it
Issac Hayes Don't Let Go
Double D Captain of Her Heart
Don Henley's Sunset Grill
Peobo Bryson In my arms again
Hall and Oates Say it isn't so
Lakeside It's all the way live
Lionel Ritchie Only You, Running with the Night
Technotronic Tough, Take it Slow, Raw, and Wave
Simply Red Money's Too Tight to Mention, Holding back the Years (extended mix)
SADE Smooth Operator (12" version)
Christopher Cross, Arthur's Theme
Rolling Stones Sad Sad Sad
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"Longer" was by Dan Fogelberg.
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I'm lost ???
Does the OP mean 80's songs that are not played today or when they were currents? Longer was played to death on KFRC back in 1980.
 
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