Because Rivers Cuomo's version is unnecessary. It'd be like rebuilding Stonehenge , or the Great Sphinx of Giza. When you've already got one of these Wonders of the World, why does it need to be done again?
You'll never recreate the magic, the awe-inspiring beauty, the breathless audacity of these marvels of human achievement. Just listen to the original " Africa ," and feel gratitude for its abundance of musical riches.
You could be exhausted from a hour work week , under-slept and under-caffeinated, ready to crawl home and go to sleep, but the moment the opening chords to " Love Shack " hit your ears, you're on your feet and singing along like a crazed dance machine.
That's how much power this song possesses. We are all just mannequin dummies in its hands. We follow the rhythm that is dictated for us. You can try and fight it, but you're just kidding yourself. If you're truly depleted, you can always sing along with the Fred Schneider talking part. This hard-rocking song about sex was so vague, you could listen to it with your grandma and not feel awkward. So you sing it knowing it's all really dirty while not having any clue why it's dirty, and it feels like a victory.
You didn't have to be a Billy Joel fan to be addicted to this monster hit from the twilight of the '80s. It was the kind of song you listened to on cassette and then would rewind again and again as you tried to figure out every lyric.
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By Bob Larkin June 24, Read This Next. You must be an '80s kid. Latest News. Including some new holiday fare. Here's the latest on staying safe. Find out about the latest recall. And it was real. He needed to be sure they were real, and it wasn't his brain playing tricks on him.
Could it simply be another manifestation of his brain injury, like the personality change and face-blindness he had contended with? But if the flashbacks were real, how had his brain, finally, managed to unlock his memory? It was evening and still busy in central London when Thomas Leeds headed to Green Park station to pick up a lift from his father. The year-old was on a gap year before starting university and had been to meet a friend.
At GMT, he crossed the road and was hit by a car. The officer who witnessed the accident was visibly traumatised when he later recounted what had happened. Thomas had been thrown over the roof of the taxi and landed on his head.
The front of the vehicle had been dented, the bonnet wrecked, the windscreen smashed and the roof concaved by the impact of his body. Thomas's father, Dr Anthony Leeds, rushed to St Thomas' Hospital after the police called telling him there had been an accident. But Thomas, it seemed, had been extraordinarily lucky and escaped with a minor head injury. The next morning, Thomas was discharged from hospital. Over the next couple of days Thomas complained of nausea, a terrible headache and back pain.
When the police officer phoned for an update he was shocked to learn Thomas had been discharged. This unsettled Thomas's mother, Jacqueline. It revealed the "utterly shocking" truth - a blood clot had formed in his brain.
Thomas underwent surgery to remove the clot. And when he came around in the intensive care unit, he was said to be docile. I didn't know to be afraid," he says. He describes being in an "emotional bubble" - something brain injury charity Headway says is common after a head trauma because of the chemical imbalance caused. It can leave the patient feeling, surprisingly, content. Thomas enjoyed seeing the people who came to visit him as he recovered. Though they seemed familiar, when they told him they were his parents and his five siblings, he couldn't recall them.
Everyone put this early confusion down to the effects of the morphine. We all assumed Thomas was okay. But when he returned home, Thomas didn't remember the house - even though he'd lived there since childhood. People tried to jog his memory about what he had been doing in the months before the crash by mentioning friends and the interests he had. Realisation slowly dawned on the family - Thomas had lost all of his pre-crash memories.
Initially this didn't faze him. Turning jaunty Motown influences into icy synth pop may sound like sacrilege, but that's exactly what English duo Soft Cell did when it covered Gloria Jones's funky stomper in Ditching the original's energy for Marc Almond's cut-glass tones and unashamedly machine-driven melodies, Soft Cell's version soon became huge, paving the way for the '80s synth-pop explosion that followed. Looking back, it's hard to really realize the impact of The Go-Go's, the first studio-backed all-woman rock band that wrote their own songs.
That's because the Go-Go's arrived fully formed, ready to shake the industry with songs like this pop-fueled post-punk anthem that changed rock history the minute the first DJ hit play. Complexity, be damned! Sometimes all you really need for a truly memorable hit is economy, as proved by this stone-cold classic from On "Push It," all-gal Queens hip-hop trio Salt-N-Pepa made pop magic via a seemingly simple combination of Casio beats; a few big, dumb keyboard stabs; and a lot of impassioned, steamy cries of "Ooh, baby baby.
Hell, they're still ahead of their time. This is longing on a supernatural scale, and Tyler holds her own against the thundering arrangement as she roars out some of the least quiet desperation ever known to pop music. If you're in an '80s cover band and you're not playing this song on a nightly basis — well, there's just absolutely no way you're not. Of all of the iconic guitar riffs on this list, the opening line from "Sweet Child o' Mine" takes the air-splitting cake.
The third single from Guns N' Roses' shining debut, 's Appetite for Destruction , it was the band's first and only number one single. More than three decades on, it never fails to make us sing our fool hearts out on the dance floor. The Pasadena guitar heroes entered the synth era in a huge way with this powerhouse. Sure, it also might mark the band's transition from raw rock gods to elder statesmen — a metamorphosis they would complete a few years later with Sammy Hagar — but even now, the combo of that simple synth riff and Eddie's decimation of his guitar strings manages to lift you every time you hear it.
The Sugarhill Gang is largely credited as hip-hop's breakthrough in , but Kurtis Blow's hit arguably laid more road, ditching the goofier side of Sugarhill's opus in order to show a rawer, more visceral side of the genre mainstream America was still wrapping its head around. The former Genesis singer spent much of the '80s coming off like a more self-serious version of David Byrne, walking a parallel path incorporating world sounds, polyrhythms and blaring horns to match his personal brand of funk.
The singer's iconic stop-motion videos may be remembered more than the music itself, and that's a shame. This is Gabriel at his most playfully groovy. The bassline here is a stealthily funky ear-worm, and the sonic detrius that floats around in its wake is slinky, sexy and pure. Paul Simon's Graceland, in hindsight, seems like an ultra-square reaction to everything the '80s stood for: Here was a '60s folk rocker teaming up with a cadre of South African musicians for a folksy world-music pop album.
But Graceland slaps. Specifically, the lead single slaps, especially on the iconic slap-bass solo fired off nonchalantly by Bakithi Kumalo. What could have been a midlife-crisis misfire instead became a phenomenon. The Beasties went out of the '80s with the genre-changing Paul's Boutique , the first step in distancing themselves from the shouty frat-pack obnoxiousness that made them household names.
But while much of their landmark Licensed to Ill has aged poorly, "Paul Revere" absolutely slaps, from its sing-along cowboy lyrics to the innovative bass groove that would be aped for decades to come. The B-Boys briefly embraced the bro-y archetypes they lampooned on Licensed to Ill and spent their career atoning. But no, the song, shot through with the Genesis-drummer—turned—solo-hit-maker's post-divorce bitterness, still unfolds with a dramatic tension worthy of Stanley Kubrick, layering haunting guitar wisps, pillowy synth chords and Collins's ghostly vocodered lead turn over a rudimentary Roland CR beat.
Oh, and there's also the little matter of the greatest drum fill in pop history at the mark. With its driving beat and raw sexualtity, Duran Duran's signature hit remains a powerhouse in its simplicity and robust sound. It's also a sleeper hit on karaoke night… if you can pull it off. Whether you take this hit as a cheesy relic or the apex of steroidal FM rawk, Bon Jovi's tale of guitarist turned dock worker Tommy and his diner-waitress main squeeze, Gina, is essentially flawless, right down to guitarist Richie Sambora's iconic talk-box—assisted opening hook and that vertigo-inducing key change after the bridge.
The sexual innuendo is awesomely over-the-top did any teen couple in the '80s not make out to this song? So there's that. So grab the mic, knock back a drink and prepare to belt out one of these surefire hits. I love being a goth teen. I miss them! When can we go back?! The carnal, spontaneous desire to bump and grind with strangers underneath strobe lights is evergreen. You feel the heat. One of my all-time favorite Fleetwood Mac songs is this sunny, dreamy pop masterpiece that McVie wrote and sings lead on.
Bjork will always be one of my favorite artists, and I love that this song marries her signature quirk with an upbeat, poppy track. I want a new generation to fall in love with this song.
Tracy Chapman has a great twang to her voice, and I love the terse energy. Every time I heard it, I wanted to hear it again and again. And more. The song won a Grammy Award for best rap performance and remains a stone cold classic.
The song, brilliantly, mixes both of those concepts. Burning crosses! The horror!
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