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Re: Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’80s, Part 60

Statejohn1 — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:01:36 -0000

Thank you for giving a shout out to Millions Like Us. I used to have the cassette, back in the day and there are times when I wished I could find it again! Like you said it's vitually impossible to find, and I was having a 80's moment and I couldn't remember any of the songs of the album. I knew Ashley, who managed them back in the day. Shame they never got their just due. Very groovy...

Re: Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’80s, Part 60

Frank — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:45:36 -0000

Wow, once again the commentary is fascinating. I'm going to watch the video for "She Loves My Car" next (if it hasn't already been pulled from YouTube, damn record companies!)

I've always thought Missing Persons made really fun music, and I see that no one has mentioned perhaps their most notable acheivement - two members of the band have appeared in full-nudity, hard-core porn pictures. :) I love how all my music reference books refer to Dale Bozzio as a "former Playboy bunny". Well, she actually was a model in Hustler before she hit the big time with MP. And for some odd reason, Warren Cuccurullo, the guitarist, posed nude for a Brazilian gay men's magazine a few years back. He's in pretty amazing shape for a guy in his 40s, but still... odd. So they definitely win the award for the new wave band who like clothes the least. :)

I think Stephanie Mills' voice is an acquired taste. I've always liked her stuff, but it definitely has an edge.

Ronnie Milsap has an AWESOME voice. He just didn't get to show it off as much on the songs he sang. His range, though, is pretty phenomenal.

I've always had a soft spot for the Millions Like Us single, and I just ordered the CD used from Amazon so I can have a good copy of the song.

There are a number of songs here that I really wish I could download. I've always wanted to hear "Go For Soda" and "Mistrusted Love" in particular.

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Nifty — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:22:27 -0000

I own the CD by Millions Like Us. It was one of my favorites back in my teen years in the 80s. (My neighbor had it and I'd listen to it non-stop when I was over there babysitting his kids.) A few years ago I searched out my own copy and when I was listening to it, something about one of the singers kept reminding me of Julia Fordham. I dug a little deeper and discovered that he had sung on one of Julia's albums!

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jim — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:49:15 -0000

check out the first two max webster albums. they totally stand up to anything done today.
Kims ego kinda ruined them after that but he always had the guitar skills.

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Ray — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:13:53 -0000

Missing Persons has always been a favorite. Love all five of the singles, as well as the entire SPRING SESSION M album and their first EP. The dance mix version of "GIVE" that appears on their Classic Masters CD compilation is killer! I'm chomping at the bit for the 1981 movie LUNCH WAGON to be issued on DVD, although I'm not holding my breath (they appeared in this cheesecake comedy flick before they hit it big).

Not only did Kim Mitchell's "GO FOR SODA" get a bit of airplay on the rock stations in Chicago back in the day, but his (obviously non-charting) song "PATIO LANTERNS" did as well... both cool tunes!

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MichaelFortes — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:17:27 -0000

I always treat numbers as words when sorting, so 10,000 Maniacs would be filed under T (if I owned any of their stuff). And the jazz records, i.e. "Miles Davis Quintet," last name of the band leader. Comps I file at the end of each genre, and soundtracks get their own section. It's not perfect, but it has been working for me for a good number of years now.

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steed — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:02:52 -0000

I honestly didn't realize that so many people knew "Go For Soda". I had never heard the song before building my collection and now I can't get enough of it.

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steed — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:01:42 -0000

My knowledge of .38 special ended on 12/31/1989.

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Joel Thompson — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:55:49 -0000

"Might as well go for a soda" became quite the linguistic currency in my high school for the brief period. The classic "complete the sentence" ending to "oh, well" -- the more people tossing in a word or phrase like a verbal hot potato, the better. Kinda like our own "c'est la vie" and "que sera sera" rolled into one only better.

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jefito — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:21:25 -0000

Wasn't it just one Thirty-Eight record? I thought they made the switch for 1988's Rock & Roll Strategy and then moved back for 1991's platinum-in-Bulgaria Bone and Steel, or whatever it was called. (I'm too lazy to look.)

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steed — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:47:17 -0000

I completely understand the Elvis Hitler situation, I mean that's why Tiggi Clay showed up for a brief minute within C in this series.

Funny that I have Batman under B instead of Prince - and Prince is my favorite artist so you'd think I'd lump that together. Maybe I really have no order at all.

That damn "." I'd just call it "38" but that brings up an interesting point as well - what to do with them when they called themselves Thirty-Eight Special. Do I split the catalog of the group? And does it really matter because frankly, when will I ever be looking for the Thirty-Eight Special records anyway?

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mojo — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:32:50 -0000

so is .38 the first because it's the smallest number, as in 0.38, or does it go with the 3's?

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mojo — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:29:41 -0000

yeah and then there's the blues jazz and folk issue because there's a lot of VA comps in all those subcategories.

We ended up just combining everything into one stew of 2 categories: Compilations and not. We have some stuff stuck in the end (a few classical CDs...because composer, conductor, orchestra...too much sort criteria, some spoken word stuff) but for the most part it's comps+soundtracks first (By name of the album or movie unless it's Batman, in which case it's Prince) and then individual artists.

The main issue is trying to comprehend the interpretation of the sorter when going back to the stacks to get a disc out: For instance is Elvis Hitler a band or a person, and did the person sorting care anough to google or did he/she just guess...or did I send that one to the used store and I don't have it anymore?

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steed — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:28:54 -0000

The two that have always confused me are numbers - I suppose you're supposed to spell those out as well, but if you look at my collection, 10,000 Maniacs, .38 Special, 702 - they are all right up front. Numbers before letters. But in the series I spell them out.

And Comps and Soundtracks? Soundtracks I've always filed under the name of the movie....but Various Artist comps, I've always filed under VA - then in order of the name of the album.

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steed — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:13:30 -0000

Yikes. Must have been a bad week for me.

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what the what — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:10:24 -0000

Even growing up in So California, I also got caught up in that "Urban Cowboy" period and acquired some Milsap, Rabbitt and Gilley albums and 45s. They're probably responsible for my early influences(excluding Mr Denver) to the Country genre (Contemporary & Traditional). And I agree, Milsap was the better of the bunch, but Gilley did/does have the bar thing going for him.

I cannot believe that Missing Persons didn't chart higher. "Words", "Destination Unknown" and "Walking in LA" are all huge favorites and I hear them constantly. Of course, that may be just my internal music player. "Walking in LA" tends to be referenced here in LA, because it's true, nobody walks in LA.

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jabartlett — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:58:28 -0000

"Stranger in My House": Ronnie Milsap meets Foreigner, and Foreigner wins.

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mojo — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:11:41 -0000

I had never seen moonwalk in high heels before I watched this right now. Awesome indeed!!!!!!!!!

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mojo — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:07:25 -0000

the mister mr dialog here is what defines popdose as the most interesting place for music discussion on the web.

I had help a couple years ago organizing my 8 billion CDs when dumping the jewel boxes and archiving them as hardcopy in sleeves in dj cases because we only listen to MP3s here anyway and I can't find anything (like, Cannonball Adderley quintet is in the C's not A's, WTF?)

I need a music freak with a library science degree to sort this crap out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can rip anything you want if you just make sense of it!

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kingofgrief — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:37:14 -0000

"Canvas of Love" appears in the Quick Hits. Shoulda clarified, soory...er, SORRY.

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DwDunphy — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:17:01 -0000

Now prepare for the next shower karaoke mash-up: Get Out Of My Dreams, She Loves My Car, And Baby, I Love You, Beep-Beep, Beep-Beep, Yeah.

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Rebecca — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:02:55 -0000

While it goes into a McDonald-esque b-side, the beginnning of the Millions Like Us song just reminds me way too much of TTOMO from Mr. Show. "Ewwww, girl. Ewwwww." Awesome.

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The Flyin Hawaiian UK — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:17:36 -0000

The opinion of a PhD candidate in English lit:

It's an arbitrary decision. You can safely put it under "MR" or "MI" so long as you're consistent (so, so long as you also put, say, Dr. & the Medics under "DO," you're OK.)

That said, at least in the US the inclination would be to do it under "MR." Alphabetizing "Mr" under "MI" is of those quaint and unnecessary grammar/usage conventions, akin to "never end a sentence with a preposition" or "always avoid the passive voice." These kinds of rules don't really help your writing, they just show that you know a lot of useless grammar trivia...

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Jack Feerick — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:50:01 -0000

They were named after a brand of spray bottle. You know, for "misting" your plants. I didn't figure that out 'til years later.

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Chris X — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:35:49 -0000

I just watched the "She Loves My Car" video. Holy shit, this might be the greatest thing ever put to film. And Detective Olivia Benson as a big-haired, car-hood-rolling, rock video babe? AMAZING.