Deathless

Stan · Post by **Stan** » Sun Mar 14, 2021 3:58 pm

I tried listening to a Billie Eilish song to find out who she was. Now, youtube bombards me with ads to stop vaping.

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Sun Mar 14, 2021 4:03 pm

SPOKE TOO SOON

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Sun Mar 14, 2021 4:30 pm

1989 #10:

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Sun Mar 14, 2021 10:20 pm

Spoke SPOKE TOO SOON too soon. Awesome!

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 4:53 am

1989 #11:

Post by **Mike** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 7:39 am

I knew there was a reason I had forgotten Richard Marx.

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 7:43 am

Richard Marx is the Sugar Ray of his era.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 7:47 am

1989 #12:

Phoebe · Post by **Phoebe** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 7:51 am

Stan wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 3:58 pm I tried listening to a Billie Eilish song to find out who she was. Now, youtube bombards me with ads to stop vaping.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 8:45 am

1989 #13:

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 11:26 am

Her best song, maybe?

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 12:58 pm

1989 #14:

Post by **Mike** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 3:28 pm

Next!

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 3:58 pm

1989 #15:

Post by **Mike** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 4:31 pm

Nope. Not picking up for me.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 4:59 pm

1989 #16:

Post by **Mike** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 5:39 pm

That's weird. I remembered each piece of that song only as it was being sung to me. I could not anticipate anything coming, but once it was there, I was like, "Oh yeah... this."

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 7:36 pm

1989 #17:

Post by **Mike** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 8:08 pm

I just added this song to my current playlist about a month ago. Still love it.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 4:59 am

1989 #18:

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 5:13 am

Amazing how much is in out brains that Girl I'm Gonna Miss You is there but not there. Like looking at an old yearbook and seeing someone unfamiliar at first.

Last two songs were old friends.

Post by **Mike** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 5:59 am

poorpete wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 5:13 am Last two songs were old friends.

So much.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 6:42 am

1989 #19:

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 7:12 am

Good morning!

Post by **Mike** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 7:16 am

Hey... you.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 7:21 am

1989 #20:

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 7:28 am

It's Coming Up, like my hair line! BTW this is great and Phil Collins is underrated.

On Our Own had an outsized importance when I was eight, as was the theme to the second film I remember being excited to see (the first was Back to the Future 2, released a month earlier). Still very good and very silly.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:06 am

1989 #21:

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:18 am

Their backlash was an overreaction, the fake band made good music, and their ruse should have been laughed off and not destroyed lives. Look, they're acting in the video. Those aren't their real girlfriends or exes. That's not rain falling in the studio. They if anything perfected the performative nature of music videos. It's all fake and it's all good. Good music, good actors.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:50 am

1989 #22:

Post by **Mike** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:52 am

poorpete wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:18 am Their backlash was an overreaction, the fake band made good music, and their ruse should have been laughed off and not destroyed lives. Look, they're acting in the video. Those aren't their real girlfriends or exes. That's not rain falling in the studio. They if anything perfected the performative nature of music videos. It's all fake and it's all good. Good music, good actors.

Could have happened if they had revealed the ruse themselves on their own terms. But then they won a Grammy--which they deserved--and the integrity of the Grammys themselves was in question. *Dunh dunh DUHN* The overreaction makes perfect sense.

But I agree, Milli Vanilli was a hit making apparatus that involved songwriters, singers, musicians, and actors. The problem was that people don't like being deceived when they aren't in on the joke. But then, I also don't think the whole thing would have worked if everyone knew the gimmick up front either. It would have seemed dumb to an 80's audience, IMO.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 10:52 am

1989 #23:

Post by **Mike** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 11:14 am

I would have sworn that this song was released in 1988. I distinctly remember it being played at my senior prom in 88. But Wikipedia also says 89. So to prove to myself that I'm not crazy, I started singing the lyrics to myself. When I finally got to the chorus, I realized I was thinking of Never Say Goodbye.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 11:42 am

1989 #24:

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 11:48 am

Mike wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:52 am The problem was that people don't like being deceived when they aren't in on the joke.

Why didn't you tell me this BEFORE we recorded over 100 episodes of the Animalcast?

Stan · Post by **Stan** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 11:55 am

Kyle wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 11:48 am
Mike wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:52 am The problem was that people don't like being deceived when they aren't in on the joke.
Why didn't you tell me this BEFORE we recorded over 100 episodes of the Animalcast?

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 12:03 pm

Simply Red's version won the R&B Song of the Year Grammy, and the last time a white artist won that award. Then again, it's rewarded to the songwriters, so Gamble and Huff technically won it for a song they wrote 15 years prior.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 12:56 pm

1989 #25:

Phoebe · Post by **Phoebe** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 1:06 pm

During this period of life, completely cut off from normal radio tunes and listening only to mixtapes, thank you many friends, thank you, I was clearly spared some misery in the early 90s.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 2:14 pm

1989 #26:

Is this the beginning of the modern boy band era?

Post by **Mike** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 2:28 pm

Kyle wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 11:48 am
Mike wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:52 am The problem was that people don't like being deceived when they aren't in on the joke.
Why didn't you tell me this BEFORE we recorded over 100 episodes of the Animalcast?

I haven't laughed this hard in a week! Thank you.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 3:08 pm

1989 #27:

Post by **Mike** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 3:16 pm

The worst.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 3:28 pm

1989 #28 (another one!):

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 7:54 pm

A Madonna all timer snuck in up there

Current Top 4

Like a Prayer
Miss You Much
Giving You The Best I Got
She Drives Me Crazy

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Wed Mar 17, 2021 4:51 am

1989 #29:

Stan · Post by **Stan** » Wed Mar 17, 2021 4:52 am

morning

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Wed Mar 17, 2021 4:59 am

Mike wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 3:16 pmThe worst.

Wow. No kidding. This came out when I lived in Japan, so this is the first time I’ve heard it. So bad.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Mar 17, 2021 5:53 am

Good morning!

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Wed Mar 17, 2021 6:49 am

Good morning to you, gentle friend!