Happy Birthday, Milly_Gal!

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The happiest of birthdays to the gal who's a big part of what keeps us going and having fun around here.

We've been talking a lot about music lately, specifically (early) '80s music and our shared love for it. I was there for it, she wasn't.

So I made this playlist for you, Milly. Imagine you and I and septembers_coda are all hanging around together sometime circa 1985 and it's a really, REALLY good day on MTV. This is what we would watch:

Or, if you'd rather watch it on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0iv-zWyvE9iM-nnQQiafdUr93bjGeJke


A few notes:

I know you know your '80s music! So I tried to make this a list of rarer songs so they aren't boringly familiar to you. In most cases, I just picked my very favorite song by the band in question. This is a pretty good sampling of some of the greatest bands of the '80's, imo.

I tried to include the original video, but in a few cases, there wasn't one, or it didn't have the version of the song I wanted (or it was just so bad, I couldn't bring myself to include it :-D). Contrarily, sometimes I included the video BECAUSE it was so bad. That damn Journey video played CONSTANTLY. You wouldn't get the full MTV experience if that wasn't here. (I also wanted to include a Journey song.) The Billy Squier video also showed constantly for a time ... but that's simply a video everyone should see once in their lives, because it's HILARIOUS.

You must think I'm the biggest Talk Talk fan in the world! Actually, I only had three of their albums. It's just that, well, one of those songs is one of my favorite songs ever ever, one has a simply great video I like to go back and watch now and then, and one has one of the worst videos ever, that so bewildered s_c and me back when that we quote it often to this very day. I'll let you guess which is which!

From this playlist, you might also get the impression I was the biggest Police fan in the world! This would be closer to true. ;-) "Don't Stand ... '86" was widely maligned when it came out, but personally I think it's underrated.

I wrote a Psych/SPN crossover fic that mentioned no small number of these bands, BECAUSE I LOVE EARLY '80S MUSIC SO MUCH! If interested, folks can find that fic here. But I didn't include the title song. :-(



I could literally talk for posts upon posts about each of these songs and everything they meant to me, then and now. So if anyone wants to start up a conversation in the comments on such subjects, by all means, do so! I'd love to hear anyone's memories of MTV or their favorite songs of the era or their favorite videos; anything.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MILLY_GAL! I hope you enjoy your gift.

Comments

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

Oh my giddy aunt!!
*rolls around in this post* I have my headphones in, I'm listening as we speak/type, Steve's got this goofy look on his face every time he wanders in because he knows just HOW MUCH I love chatting about music with you and he can see the stupid sized smile on my ugly mug, lol!
This is one of the most thoughtful and fantastic gifts honey, THANK YOU! Love you!! Expect me to pop back once in a while when I get the overwhelming urge and ramble about each of those songs *runs off to bop* ♥

[jj1564.livejournal.com]

Wow, this is a FANTASTIC playlist! You have so many of my faves here, the 80's were my era! I was lucky enough to see Nik Kershaw, The Thompson Twins, The Cure and U2 live back in the day! And I love Talk Talk's 'Life is What You Make It' and Tears For Fears 'Head Over Heels' they are both songs that still give me chills.

I'm going to be playing this playlist a lot!

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Some classic tunes from my formative era there!

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[septembers-coda.livejournal.com]

Well, you already know how much I love this playlist, but let me reiterate: I LOVE THIS PLAYLIST AND EVERYONE SHOULD PUT IT ON REPEAT AND PLAY IT FOREVER AND I AM LIVING FOR IT NOW. <3 <3 <3 Can't wait to hear again tonight and wish I was listening to it now instead of working, and I want a CD for our vegas trip, and you should be a DJ. <3 <3

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

I promised I'd be back didn't I?!? WOULDN'T IT BE GOOD! *dodadooodoodadooo!* this is the fifty thousandth time I've listened through this playlist (It's still epic) and I just had to come back and say how fucking amazing you and it are :D You have picked some of my all time TOP faves :D ♥

Men Without Hats! ♥-♥ Seriously woman, your brain is so awesome!