I am really, really happy with this one. It's actually a double tribute, because Todd In The Shadows has brought so many amazing songs to my attention with his One Hit Wonderland retrospective reviews. I watched his video on The Buggles' Video Killed The Radio Star and it blew my mind to learn how many songs and bands the lead guy, Trevor Horn, has been involved with. ELEVEN out of the 25 tracks here were performed or produced by him. I honestly could have had the entire album be nothing but his projects. I was extra-delighted to realize that he composed/compiled the music for one of my favorite movies, Toys, and it's just a huge party of artists he'd worked with over the years (Hans Zimmer is one of the guys playing keyboards in the Video Killed The Radio Star music video!!!). There's a reason he's called The Man Who Invented The 80s.
Todd's videos are also a constant source of cool underappreciated songs from bands we usually only know one song from, so there's a healthy sprinkling of those in here. His video on The Waitresses popped up just a day ago. There's also a couple more soundtrack songs from movies I love, stuff I never would have known existed except for YouTube sidebar recommendations while searching for other stuff, plus, do you remember that posthumous Michel Jackson/Justin Timberlake song? Did YOU know it was a cover by the same guy who sang Wonderful Wonderful back in 1956!? I like the synchronicity of having that, plus the Take On Me guys covering an Everley Brothers song from 1962. I had no idea it existed, and... wow. Had to be the album closer. Had to be.
01 - The Buggles - Living In The Plastic Age 02 - The Art Of Noise - Close (To The Edit) 03 - Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasuredome 04- The Weather Girls - Land Of The Believer 05 - Cameo - Candy 06 - Johnny Mathis - Love Never Felt So Good 07 - Mariya Takeuchi - September 08 - The Blow Monkeys - Digging Your Scene 09 - The Waitresses - No Guilt 10 - The Spinners - Spaceballs 11 - Lawrence Gowan - (You're A) Strange Animal 12 - ABC - All Of My Heart 13 - Grace Jones - Slave To The Rhythm 14 - Godley & Creme - Cry 15 - Yes - Hold On 16 - Kick Axe - Hunger 17 - Living In A Box - Living In A Box 18 - Act - Chance 19 - Jellybean - The Mexican 20 - The Buggles - Lenny 21 - Gazebo - I Like Chopin 22 - Dollar - Give Me Back My Heart 23 - Mecano - Hijo De La Luna 24 - Trevor Horn & Hans Zimmer - The Closing Of The Year (Long Instrumental Version) 25 - A-ha - Crying In The Rain
Ooh, I missed this one! I haven't heard the full 2nd Buggles album yet. It was enough of a monumental task getting through the Wikipedia page on all the singles he's produced.
Ooh, I missed this one! I haven't heard the full 2nd Buggles album yet. It was enough of a monumenta
This man either understood the feel of the '80s, or was the feel of the '80s. "I honestly could have had the entire album be nothing but his projects" Then why didn't you if you were going to name this the Trevor Horn Edition? The movie Toys? The one with Robin Williams? Yeah, that always felt a little "set in the world of Willie Wonka" to me. I really aught to rewatch that.
This man either understood the feel of the '80s, or was the feel of the '80s. "I honestly could have
>Then why didn't you if you were going to name this the Trevor Horn Edition?
Had too damn many good songs that weren't his. That simple, really.
>The movie Toys? The one with Robin Williams?
Absolutely. I think the weird pacing hurt it, and people going in expecting a kids' film and getting a bizarre, whimsical, unexpectedly-dark story about how evil will encroach when good men hold back out of politeness. Goddamn, the sets in the film are astonishing.
>Then why didn't you if you were going to name this the Trevor Horn Edition? Had too damn many goo
