Rock Evolution – The History of Rock & Roll - 1985 - (page 203)

OB1 said:
I have added part 2 of the coda:
Kenny Loggins: Footloose
Huey Lewis and the News: The Heart of Rock & Roll
Howard Jones: Like To Get To Know You Well
Bruce Springsteen: Cover Me
U2: Pride (In The Name of Love)
Scorpions: Rock You Like A Hurricane
Van Halen: Hot For Teacher
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Get that Footloose abomination off the coda!
 
BimboBob said:
Get that Footloose abomination off the coda!
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You've just reminded me that I was dragged to a pretty empty matinee viewing of footloose by some college friends. One of them was a Ghanaian lad who loved to dance and spent a large proportion of the film in the aisle doing just that. Significantly better than Kevin Bacon it has to be said and he managed to get few random people to join him.
 
OB1 said:
It’s one of the big songs of the year and one of the early pop / rock soundtracks.

I’ll compensate you by giving you an extra pick should you want one.
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I'm disgusted that you think I can be swayed like that. It's an horrendous track from an horrendous album and all copies should be burned and then made into something that can be burned again.







Tears For Fears - Shout (12" Extended Version)

(Sort of nicked the drum pattern from When The Levee Breaks)
 
Time to get the pedals out and in the case of this track some Bonham samples from Led Zep IV.

I don't think we've had any Cocteau Twins yet but as by their third album they'd landed on both the core lineup and the trademark ethereal proto-shoegaze sound, now seems the time. From the album Treasure...

Cocteau Twins - Lorelei
 
Saddleworth2 said:
I’m going to show ignorance. Wtf is coda and how is it different from the playlist?
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It's just the extra tracks put at the end of the official playlist of mostly more popular songs if you want to "hear more about it" from the year.

We've had it for a few years now, and I took the time in 1982 to put a distinct marker that everyone could remember so once they heard that song from Pete Townshend on the Playlist, they'd know they were entering the "Coda".

I'll suggest "Hold Me Now" from Thompson Twins released in February 1984 in the US as that distinctive track that everyone knows to mark that.

(post-edit: or add that after the Christmas songs as OB1 just noted ;-)

You say I′m a dreamer
We're two of a kind
 
OB1 said:
You can have four song picks.
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In that case I shall go for The Colourfield - "Take"
The album came out the following year but this single and the big hit "Thinking Of You" came out in 1984.
"Take" - a tale of giving up everything for a relationship and is left on his own when the other half walks out, includes the brilliant lines
"The lads and the match
and the Friday night stags
were some of the things
that I gave up for you
(Chorus)
You just take (you just take)
you just take,
and pile on the agony....."

With a self depreciating ending, Terry Hall tells us
"but me and the cat
we'll live in the flat
and nothing you do
will ever change that
the milk gets delivered,
we sit by the fire
we're probably having
the time of our lives"
 
Black&White&BlueMoon Town said:
It's just the extra tracks put at the end of the official playlist of mostly more popular songs if you want to "hear more about it" from the year.

We've had it for a few years now, and I took the time in 1982 to put a distinct marker that everyone could remember so once they heard that song from Pete Townshend on the Playlist, they'd know they were entering the "Coda".

I'll suggest "Hold Me Now" from Thompson Twins released in February 1984 in the US as that distinctive track that everyone knows to mark that.

(post-edit: or add that after the Christmas songs as OB1 just noted ;-)

You say I′m a dreamer
We're two of a kind
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Not a band I have any great musical affection for but they and this song do very much evoke a time and a place and a girl that bring a half wistful half rueful smile to my face. Youth is indeed wasted on the young :-)
 
threespires said:
Not a band I have any great musical affection for but they and this song do very much evoke a time and a place and a girl that bring a half wistful half rueful smile to my face. Youth is indeed wasted on the young :-)
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Saw TT a few years ago. Just him on his own now. They weren't bad. Quite like Quick Step and Side Kick.
 
BimboBob said:
I'm disgusted that you think I can be swayed like that. It's an horrendous track from an horrendous album and all copies should be burned and then made into something that can be burned again.







Tears For Fears - Shout (12" Extended Version)

(Sort of nicked the drum pattern from When The Levee Breaks)
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Hope I've found the correct version.
 
I have added the third and final part of the coda:

Chequered Past: Let Me Rock
W.A.S.P.: I Wanna Be Somebody
Simple Minds: Up on the Catwalk
Bruce Springsteen: Glory Days
Prince: Purple Rain

Chequered Past,for those that don't know, featured Blondie's rhythm section, Sex Pistol's guitarist Steve Jones and vocalist Michael Des Barres.
 
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