Best Decade Tournament - 80s: Koopee wins!

[William Bloke]

It's about time I turn this fucker on it's ear...

Don't post the dick gif!

[stip]

Crestfallen sidekick in an old cafe
Never slept with a dream before he had to go away
There's a bell in the tower, Uncle Ray bought a round
Don't worry about the army
In the cold cold ground




I don't know that I have a favorite Tom Waits song anymore. But this was my first favorite. That we still have a relationship fifteen years later is all thanks to this song. It's just a perfect expression of the romance he can find in ruined and lonely places.

[stip]

that's the live version from Big Time/ Beautiful Maladies. I'm not sure if I like it more than the studio version, but this was the first one I heard. There was simply nothing in my life like this when I first heard it.

[Iholdthepain]

I saw TWaits at BSB'99... He freaked me the fuck out!

[koopee27]

It's about time I turn this fucker on it's ear...

Don't post the dick gif!

is there any music in it?

kp

[Iholdthepain]

Yeah, I grew up in Texas...

This is a great Townes Van Zandt song, but I like it Willie's way



Pancho and Lefty - Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard

[numbers]

A-Ha- Take On Me

Video to come later

[William Bloke]

A-Ha- Take On Me

Video to come later

This is a good song. Generally speaking I'm on numbers wavelength when it comes to tunes.

[stip]

dsb1218 takes



and dedicates it to a certain brief magical moment he once shared with a certain RMer

Bruce Springsteen - I'm On Fire

[Iholdthepain]

A-Ha- Take On Me

Video to come later

This is a good song. Generally speaking I'm on numbers wavelength when it comes to tunes.

I just think there's too much New Wave minutiae from the 80's... Only having 10 picks, I'd only go for the absolute best of New Wave...

Spoiler: show

[DeLima]

A quick word about My Father's House, since I picked it during softball last night.

This is another Springsteen tune that helped me realize how much more there was to this guy than Dancing in the Dark. I don't know if I've heard a song that illustrates family wounds and the often unrealized hope for reconciliation so starkly and beautifully.

I awoke and I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart
Will never again sir tear us from each others hearts
I got dressed and to that house I did ride from out on the road I could see its windows shining in light

I walked up the steps and stood on the porch a woman I didnt recognize came and spoke to me through a chained door
I told her my story and who Id come for
She said "Im sorry son but no one by that name lives here anymore"

My fathers house shines hard and bright it stands like a beacon calling me in the night
Calling and calling so cold and alone
Shining cross this dark highway where our sins lie unatoned


Great live version here with a nice intro

[numbers]

A-Ha- Take On Me

Video to come later

This is a good song. Generally speaking I'm on numbers wavelength when it comes to tunes.

I was going to pick Drive there until I saw you took it rounds ago.

[Jorge]

Do we really need a video for "Take On Me"?

I'm sure everybody knows that song

[numbers]

Stip insists on all selections having videos.

[William Bloke]

Do we really need a video for "Take On Me"?

I'm sure everybody knows that song

"In the United States, the song was the only A-ha song to ever reach the top position of the Billboard Hot 100 in October 1985, due in no small part to the wide exposure of its memorable and cutting-edge music video on MTV, directed by Steve Barron. The video features the band in a pencil-sketch animation method called rotoscoping, combined with live action. The video won six awards and was nominated for two others at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards."

I remember the video being absolutely cutting edge when it came out.

[Iholdthepain]

Do we really need a video for "Take On Me"?

I'm sure everybody knows that song

"In the United States, the song was the only A-ha song to ever reach the top position of the Billboard Hot 100 in October 1985, due in no small part to the wide exposure of its memorable and cutting-edge music video on MTV, directed by Steve Barron. The video features the band in a pencil-sketch animation method called rotoscoping, combined with live action. The video won six awards and was nominated for two others at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards."

I remember the video being absolutely cutting edge when it came out.

Bam!

[Jorge]

Do we really need a video for "Take On Me"?

I'm sure everybody knows that song

"In the United States, the song was the only A-ha song to ever reach the top position of the Billboard Hot 100 in October 1985, due in no small part to the wide exposure of its memorable and cutting-edge music video on MTV, directed by Steve Barron. The video features the band in a pencil-sketch animation method called rotoscoping, combined with live action. The video won six awards and was nominated for two others at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards."

I remember the video being absolutely cutting edge when it came out.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. We don't need the video in the thread. Everybody's seen it and knows the song because of it.

[Jorge]

But anyway, here it is, for anybody who doesn't know the song

[numbers]

Thanks!

[i got bugs]

Shit.. I was gonna take that Bruce song.. hold up