Popdose: Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’80s, Part 33 | Popdose
WHarrisBullzEye
· 1 year ago
S-S-S-S-Samantha Fox. Man oh man oh man, she unabashedly milked her sexiness more than anyone else of her era, and I had no complaints. I still feel warm all over when I hear "Touch Me" and "Naughty Girls Need Love, Too."
I remembered the name Frozen Ghost, but I never really listened to their music. Wow, I had no idea they sounded so much like the Fixx.
jefito
· 1 year ago
"Milked" and "warm." Heh, heh, heh. Mr. Harris is a tit man.
Pete
· 1 year ago
This note's for Terje: have you heard about this? From the NY Times:
Betty Boop Wiggles Onto Broadway By Dave Itzkoff She has already survived one Great Depression, so could there be any better time for Betty Boop to make her comeback? The curvaceous cartoon character, who starred in a popular series of animated shorts produced by Max Fleischer in the 1930s, will be the subject of a new Broadway musical planned to open in the 2010-11 season, its producers announced. The “Betty Boop” musical will feature music by David Foster, the Canadian musician and pop composer who has written songs for Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand and Whitney Houston, among others, and a book by Oscar Williams and Sally Robinson, a screenwriter whose credits include “Medicine Man” and “Iron Jawed Angels.” “Betty Boop” is expected to open in a Nederlander theater; no director or casting details have been announced yet.
Malchus
· 1 year ago
Love Frozen Ghost. I wish that first album was available on CD because I wore it to death in college. Alas, I gave it away in my "alternative" days in the 90's. One of the best shows I saw was Frozen Ghost and Howard Jones. Lots of positive energy.
Eric S.
· 1 year ago
Nice to see some love for Frozen Ghost, as I have all three of their original Atlantic CDs. Being across the border from Canada, they managed to get quite a bit of airplay in Detroit. They also seemed to get a lift when Arnold Lanni's Sheriff song "When I'm With You" recharted in 1989 and went to #1. Lanni also wrote and produced all three Frozen Ghost albums and then went on to produce other Canadian acts like Our Lady Peace and Simple Plan. That's quite a resume for a guy you hear almost nothing about.
Malchus
· 1 year ago
I grew up in Cleveland and the smaller, Akron station played a couple of their songs from the first record.
So, uh, how does someone get you to send them a copy of the 1st two Frozen Ghost cds?
Eric S.
· 1 year ago
Check your Popdose e-mail
Eric S.
· 1 year ago
Sorry, that bounced back. I'll try your Thunderbolt address
wags
· 1 year ago
to WHarrisBullzEye:
What about Madonna? I'd say she's just as guilty of playing the sex card if not more so than Samantha Fox. Only she had some musical talent to go with it.
Dave, looking forward to the wrap up. I never heard of Frozen Ghost but I'd love to hear the backmasking sometime...
DwDunphy
· 1 year ago
Yeah, but Madonna was... skeevy.
:::theroux
· 1 year ago
Madonna was a total 80's skank, but Miss Fox wasn't exactly Doris Day either. She (Sammy) just oozed and dripped all kinds of cheapness.
EricL
· 1 year ago
I have nothing against either. If rock is about sex, pop and dance are about sex just as much. Those two selected their archetypes perfectly and embodied them better than anyone else. It's all a pose.
WHarrisBullzEye
· 1 year ago
Oh, she's definitely guilty of playing the sex card. But it wasn't until a few years later that she did so quite as actively and unabashedly as Samantha Fox did. And what I mean by that is that Madonna spent most of the '80s distancing herself from her nude photos that turned up in this magazine and that, whereas Samantha Fox was a topless Page 3 girl in the UK and proud of it. There was even a Samantha Fox Strip Poker video game...and, no, I'm not kidding!
wags
· 1 year ago
I'm living in the wrong country! Point well made, though I do wonder how much of that distancing was the material girl's doing and how much of it came from her record label handlers. Topless equaled porn in America in those days...
Old_Davy
· 1 year ago
More love for Frozen Ghost here. I totally forgot about that track, but glad to hear it again. I would have sworn it got better chart than 69. And consider this another request for that backmasking.
twostepcub
· 1 year ago
Hey Dave - great post (as always)...
1) It's ironic that Charles Fox's track makes David Foster sound downright peppy.
2) I vote Glenn Frey's "Livin' Right" the worst if not only because the craptastic Bally's (or some other exercise) ads he used this trash for. Still gives me shivers.
3) I thought the talking point about Frozen Ghost is that they're members of Sheriff, who Bottom-fed their way to #1 with "When I'm with You", that refused to reunite with the lead singer, causing him to form the band Alias (can we fit any more mullet bands without Winger here?)
4) My vote for the best (besides the Frankie tracks, they're too much ringers here) is the Tops' "I Just Can't Walk Away". Pure class. Levi is certainly missed.
Cheers! Ernie 2sc
DavidMedsker
· 1 year ago
Always liked that Frozen Ghost song. Can't believe it only got to #69. Heh heh, 69. Oh, Samantha...?
I'm also stunned that "Two Tribes" never cracked the Top 40. MTV played the daylights out of that video (in a number of forms), as did the pop stations in central Ohio.
DavidMedsker
· 1 year ago
Oh, and is there anything funnier than coke fiend Glen Frey singing about living right? What a shitty, shitty song.
Ray
· 1 year ago
Didn't realize Fortune (or as I know them, The Fortune Band) had more material out there. I dig their song "Airwaves" from The Last American Virgin... here's hoping some label will put out a COMPLETE soundtrack CD, although I'm not holding my breath!!!
Chris X
· 10 months ago
Is it me or is the intro to "Do Ya Do Ya" an almost note for note recreation of "Rock Me Amadeus"..and then the music turns into the best song the Sisters of Mercy never wrote. I think I've got some remix/mashup work to do now, thanks for digging this up!
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I remembered the name Frozen Ghost, but I never really listened to their music. Wow, I had no idea they sounded so much like the Fixx.
Betty Boop Wiggles Onto Broadway
By Dave Itzkoff
She has already survived one Great Depression, so could there be any better time for Betty Boop to make her comeback? The curvaceous cartoon character, who starred in a popular series of animated shorts produced by Max Fleischer in the 1930s, will be the subject of a new Broadway musical planned to open in the 2010-11 season, its producers announced. The “Betty Boop” musical will feature music by David Foster, the Canadian musician and pop composer who has written songs for Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand and Whitney Houston, among others, and a book by Oscar Williams and Sally Robinson, a screenwriter whose credits include “Medicine Man” and “Iron Jawed Angels.” “Betty Boop” is expected to open in a Nederlander theater; no director or casting details have been announced yet.
So, uh, how does someone get you to send them a copy of the 1st two Frozen Ghost cds?
What about Madonna? I'd say she's just as guilty of playing the sex card if not more so than Samantha Fox. Only she had some musical talent to go with it.
Dave, looking forward to the wrap up. I never heard of Frozen Ghost but I'd love to hear the backmasking sometime...
1) It's ironic that Charles Fox's track makes David Foster sound downright peppy.
2) I vote Glenn Frey's "Livin' Right" the worst if not only because the craptastic Bally's (or some other exercise) ads he used this trash for. Still gives me shivers.
3) I thought the talking point about Frozen Ghost is that they're members of Sheriff, who Bottom-fed their way to #1 with "When I'm with You", that refused to reunite with the lead singer, causing him to form the band Alias (can we fit any more mullet bands without Winger here?)
4) My vote for the best (besides the Frankie tracks, they're too much ringers here) is the Tops' "I Just Can't Walk Away". Pure class. Levi is certainly missed.
Cheers!
Ernie
2sc
I'm also stunned that "Two Tribes" never cracked the Top 40. MTV played the daylights out of that video (in a number of forms), as did the pop stations in central Ohio.