cfsmtb said:
ps: "Aah, aah, we fade to grey; and I ran, I ran so far away; I'm lost and I'm found, and I'm
hungry like the wolf; heaven, must be there; city on a rainy day down by the harbour, this is
not the way that I remember it here..." Ten points for the name of the song, ten points for
the name of the group, fifteen points if you can name the album the song was from, and
twenty-five bonus points if you can remember seeing them on "Countdown"...
Hey ho lets go....
cfsmtb (also) said:
Albums,
1. Visage, 2. Flock of Seagulls, 3. Rio, 4. Possibly self titled, 5. Primitive Man.
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For a possible 60 x 5 = 300 pints said:1. Visage, Fade to Gray (1981)
6. Vid Clip on Countdown, much posing from Steve Strange & Co, plus a shop dummy wearing much
makeup,
* 10 points from the German (cf: Spandau Ballet) Judge for the song, 10 points from the Belgian
Judge (who would have scored you a zero if you'd mentioned "Ça Plane por Moi" by Plastique Bertand
[which is, of course, the quintessential 80s song because it was from 1979] for the band, 15
incidental points because the album was self-titled, but minus 5 because the self-titled album was
actually a "Greatest Hits" from 1983, 25 for seeing it on Countdown, but minus 10 for not
mentioning that Steve Strange was in the video for last cool David Bowie single, "Ashes to Ashes"
('... we get things done, you'd better not mess with...[you know who])
- for a total of 45/60, cumulative 45
Quoted message said:2. I Ran, Flock of Seagulls (1982)
2. Flock of Seagulls,
7. Vid Clip on Countdown, young tryhard English boys & girls running around in big baggy slacks,
birdsnest hairdo's, remember much orange and sheets of plastic in the background for some
reason. A wind machine was in there too.
* 10 points for the song, 10 points for the band, 15 points for the album, 25 points for seeing it
on Countdown, but minus 10 for not mentioning that Samuel L Jackson (as Jules Winnfield) calls one
of the guys they shoot in Pulp Fiction act 1, sc i, the name of the band, even tho it was in 1994,
and the 80s were still The Decade That Dares Not Breathe Its Name even tho The Face in Feb 1993 or
near enough wrote "an 80s revival - remember you read it here first". And while I think of it,
minus 5 simply because of all those nasty plastic pop covers of 80s songs they're doing now.
- for a total of 45/60, cumulative 90
Quoted message said:3. Hungry Like The Wolf, Duran Duran (1982)
8. Too many to mention, poncy English New Romantics (or alternatively read "Lombards"😉 make
classy "we're on holiday" video clips in Sri Lanka with hot looking chicks, DD made many
personal appearances on Countdown when in the country,
* 10 points for the song, 10 points for the band, 15 bonus points because (a) DD rooool! and (b)
I've regressed back to the hair-cut, 15 points for the album, 25 points for seeing it on
Countdown, 20 bonus points for mentioning Sri Lanka, but minus 10 for mentioning Sri Lanka without
mentioning Phillip K [censored], who lived there because... well, umm...
- for a total of 85/60, cumulative 175
Quoted message said:4. Heaven, Eurogliders (1982-3?)
9. Vid Clip on Countdown, cinematic big budget affair shot in either a big studio or on a farm,
Grace Knight singing her little heart out. Appeared live on the show too.
* 10 points for the song, 10 points for the band, 15 points for the album, 25 points for seeing it
on Countdown, 10 bonus points because Molly Meldrum got such a hard time when they filmed that
Channel 9 thing, but minus 10 because I (totally unrelatedly) can't find the lyrics to "Benchtop"
anywhere on the internet, but 5 more bonus points for mentioning Grace Knight.
- for a total of 65/60, cumulative 240
Quoted message said:5. Great Southern Land, Icehouse (1982)
10. Vid Clip on Countdown, Iva looking all surly and wearing big pants, trying not to stumble off
a quarry cliff somewhere in Kur-ing-gai Chase.
* 10 points for the song, 10 points for the band, 15 points for the album, 25 points for seeing it
on Countdown, but minus 10 for not mentioning how the picture on the back of the
"Flowers/Icehouse" album had a packet of St Moritz Menthol 20s which meant I immediately decided
to start smoking 'em, and minus 10 for not mentioning that Iva played oboe in some ABC youth
Symphony Orchestra, but 15 bonus points for mentioning Big Pants, The Cyclist's Thighs Friend, and
15 bonus points for mentioning Kur-ing-gai Chase, somewhere outside of Sydney that I've actually
lived near, but minus 10 points for not mentioning that the video for "Lets Dance" by David Bowie
[supra] was shot near the Three Sisters out of Katoomba, somewhere outside of Sydney that I've
actually lived near, so... (umm, that's 240 plus (10+10+15+25 = 60) minus (10+15) plus, umm...
300/300 !!!
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Ok, there were no sightings of bikes in any of these videos, but do I win a slab of Mountain Goat
? cheers 😄 😄 :p
(Umm. I don't understand this bit. But I think I should pretend to.) Mountain Goat! Why, of course!
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PS, this is all from memory and I didn't use Google once, I'm just reallyreally old)
And yeah, I just researched up on that stuff, umm, to impress you. I'm actually <coughs and
splutters, grasps walking frame> an 18/m... </coughs, splutters, grasps>
Quoted message said:Reckon that poor cyclists must have recovered by now, and you thought watching Lance almost
losing his remaining knacker in the TdF made you winch. I'm 50/50 on whether the photo was real
or staged.
Well, my score so far is, testicles 2, Tour de France wins 0. So.... I'm up there with Phil
Anderson. Except he won more stages that me (ie: ) Or something.
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life ain't much but there's nothing else to do
Music these days... It's not like the 80s... I liked Kylie's early stuff, when she <coughs,
splutters, grasps redux> was less commercial and more edgy...
