Angela Bofill, "In Your Lover's Eyes."

Ten-twenty-seven p.m. as I first heard, and heard of, this song. From Intuition (Capitol, 1988). Very lush, like a spritz of Opium perfume.

The 1988 Academy Awards

Eurobeat F.C.F. 1988 / Mirukomeda 138

01 Somebody's Loving /Jenny Kee
02 Duri Duri / Click
03 Chica Cubana / Tatjana
04 Love & Devotion / Co Co M
05 Go Go Boy / Ross
06 Hot Love / Jenny Kee
07 Come Come Come / Lilac
08 Jump To The Music / Lilac
09 Come Back & Do It / Malcolm J. Hill
10 I'll Be There / Dandy
11 Voice Of The Night / Molto Carina
12 Lies / King Kong & D'Jungle Girls
13 It's So Funny / King Kong & D'Jungle Girls
14 Never Can Change My Mind / Gary Cooper
15 Hey Robin / Alpha Town
16 Stop Me Baby / Mike Hazzard
17 You Can Set Me Free / Coo Coo
18 Crank It Up / Thomas & Schubert
19 Up Side Down / Coo Coo
20 Help Me / Mela

More Good Stuff This New Year's Eve

Happy New Year's to everyone!

Weather Channel Greets the New Year

New Year's Eve 1988

Watch the New Year's ball drop as 1988 ends and 1989 begins.

Dr. Calculus, "Full of Love"

This song is from the soundtrack of She's Having a Baby (1988). The movie was screened in my senior-year religion/social issues class, along with Kramer vs. Kramer, Father of the Bride (the 1991 remake with Steve Martin), and Mrs. Doubtfire, as examples of family life and problems faced by families. Anyway, when "Full of Love" played during the movie, one of my classmates cracked, "This is cherry music." (It is.) The lyric, Your mind goes yo, has stayed with me all this time, though I remembered it as Your mind says yo.



("Full of Love" is the kind of musical confection that could only be made at this time.)

Rebecca: "Vanity Angel"

The Style Council: 'Why I Went Missing' and 'Walls Come Tumbling Down'

From their album Confessions of a Pop Group (Polydor, 1988).



From their 1985 album Our Favourite Shop (Polydor, 1985).


23 September update: It dawned on me that Tears for Fears' lyric (see below) was a reference to Paul Weller's bands The Jam and The Style Council. (He'd dissolved The Jam and founded TSC so he could explore soul and jazz.)

The line "kick out the style, bring back the jam" that's in that and "Seeds of Love" Was that aimed at Mr. Weller?

Curt: Yeah.

I take it you guys were Jam fans and not Style Council fans?

Curt: Absolutely. But again, it was just meant to be funny. But people hear it and go, "Oh, that's very cutting." But it wasn't, it just sounded good and it also happened to mean something. That's funny, definitely a product of when you grew up. I love the Style Council and didn't "discover" the Jam until years later. I think the Style Council is awesome, but when I talk to a Jam fan they're like,"No that's crap!" Yeah, don't like the Style Council at all. Of course I can remember Vince Clark when he was in Depeche Mode and I liked him better then.

Phoebe Snow's Version of "A Different World Theme"

was perfectly mellow and funky.

The Eaties and Grindies

Recipes of the eighties and nineties. Good overview of the decades' food trends, too.

This Ain't No Hula!

It's a Hard Ticket to Hawaii.



And to think I've never heard of this movie until 5:50 P.M. today while I was browsing on YouTube.

A Guide to 1980s Decor

This is meant as a guide to avoid eighties decor, but if you like such, the article is full of great tips to recreate that look.

And they like it!

Very much.

This is a reprint of an article on 1980s home decor no longer on Wikipedia. There were several styles as the decade progressed, not just the hard, glitzy looks popular in the early eighties.

The Return of Gekko

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/05/arts/web0505-fmwall-46347.php

Milli Vanilli

From an Allmusic.com review of Girl You Know It's True

...The problem is, he did this at a time when acts were more visible than they ever were. Ironically, at the end of the '80s, MTV changed the rules for mainstream pop, putting the emphasis on image and overall package, to the extent that major artists lip-synched in concert so they could deliver better dance routines. So, it really wasn't that extreme to have a group with two faces — one to make the music, one to market it. And, face it, the fluffy dance-pop and slick ballads on Girl You Know It's True were of their time, hardly far removed from that of such peers as Paula Abdul, Debbie Gibson, or even the more substantive Janet Jackson. Audiences enjoyed the sound and the look, the entire package of Milli Vanilli. ...And [the album] was massively popular, no matter how many people denied owning the record after the news spread. And why shouldn't it have been? The height of the Bush era was a weird, giddy time, when the mainstream was filled with effervescent, transient pop, and nothing sums up that era as well as Girl You Know It's True. ...