OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark)

I have chosen two videos from this band, because I like them both equally. I first heard the song, 'If you leave', when I saw the movie, 'Pretty in pink', back in the mid 1980's. I liked that movie so much I went out and bought the DVD. 

This song brings back memories of a time, when I had a crush on a guy, who I had met during the summer of 1976, and then was lucky enough to see again in 1980, before I had to leave for my stint in the Army. We both had a great time together. Whenever I hear this song, I wonder if he still remembers me.

I like the second song because the music seems to be very soothing to the soul, especially when so many scary things are going on all around us, which sometimes makes it very hard to sleep at night. 

This band was formed in 1978. The founding members are Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys, who met at primary school. They are from England.
The song, 'If you leave' was on the the billboard chart at #5 in the U.S. However, the song,'Forever live and die', only reached #11 in the UK.

Waiting For A Star To Fall

The song 'Waiting For A Star To Fall' peaked at #5 on the U.S. billboard hot 100 chart in 1988. George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam formed the band 'Boy Meets Girl'. George and Shannon were married until they got divorced in 2000. 

This song was offered to Whitney Houston because George wrote the song after seeing a falling star at one of her concerts. Thankfully Whitney rejected the song, and Boy meets girl finally had a hit song.

I like this song because it is a happy song. A song about love is always nice to listen to especially if you are in a loving relationship. I am currently in a loving relationship, with a childhood sweetheart, who treats me like a queen. We enjoy each others company very much, and I am grateful that he never gave up looking for me after we parted ways in 1981.

With everything that has been happening all around the world, whether it be earth quakes, volcanoes erupting, or gigantic oil spills (thanks to British Petroleum and others), we all need a refreshing break from all this disaster, so watch and listen to this video so that you can smile for a little while.

Dangerous

I was a fan of Roxette because their vocals seem to blend well together. My favorite song from this band is called, 'Dangerous". Although, there are other songs from them that other people might have liked better, than this song, I still like this song the best because of the twisted lyrics, and of course, the cool sounding music, which accompanies those lyrics.
Roxette is from Sweden, and they enjoyed world wide success, from the late 80's, until the mid 90's, when their second album 'Look Sharp', was released.
This song hit #2 on the Billboard charts, when it was released near the end of 1989, and stayed at #2 at the beginning of 1990.
This song was written by Per Gessle, the male member of the singing duo, who is also a songwriter and guitarist. The other member of the singing duo is Marie Fredriksson. She is a singer and pianist. Before she became a member of Roxette she was experience a lot of success on her own, until after some years of talking about forming a band named Roxette with Per Gessle. They finally agreed to form the band in 1986, even though her friends, and people in the music industry were skeptics, about this band, when Marie was discussing the union, with Per Gessle.




What is the name of your favorite song from Roxette?

Life In A Northern Town

When I first heard this song it made me think about the small northern town that I grew up in. I have been told that we were kind of like in a backwards time warp, because we were a hair behind with progress, when compared to more populated areas like cities. And when we talked, we didn't talk like we were well educated, even though our school taught difficult subjects.
I use to remark to others that if you would blink your eyes, while you were driving through our small town, you would miss seeing it.
I know, it wasn't that bad, but we even talked different than people, whom I met when I was in the Army. Kind of like a mix of french Canadian English, and American Indian English, which gave us a weird sounding accent, which I didn't realize that I had until I moved away from my home town.
I don't really know, what else to compare it to, so don't hate me if you are originally from my small town, because it is not meant as an insult. The accent is what makes us unique as individuals.
I hope that you enjoy this song as much as I do when I listen to it, because it really is a very peaceful sounding song.



Did you grow up in a small town?

Buffalo Stance

The song 'Buffalo Stance' came out in 1989, and I thought that it was a really good song to dance to. Neneh Cherry is a Swedish singer-songwriter. She comes from a very musically talented family. Eagle-Eye Cherry, is one of her siblings, who also had a hit song in the U.S., that played a lot on the radio, which I also liked, and I may put it on this site, in the near future, so that you can check it out.
When my kids were little, I would turn the stereo's radio on, and we would dance, whenever the fast songs would play. When this song would play, I remember that we had a lot of fun, when we were dancing to it. When I was a kid, my gram did the same thing with me, and some of her other grandchildren, when we were helping her clean. She was a pretty cool grandmother, who could make cleaning seem like it wasn't a chore. She is never very far from my thoughts.
I hope that you will play this video, even if you have never heard of this song, because it will put you in a good mood, and possibly make you want to get up and dance. Enjoy :)

Toy Soldiers

This song is actually a break up song, but I found myself liking it because I have been through a couple of sad break ups, which actually brought tears to my eyes. I had mistakenly believed that we were on the same page, when it came to our feelings for each other, when in reality, we were not.
I have come to the conclusion that we are put on this earth to live and learn through our mistakes, and that if we find ourselves in a relationship, where the love chemistry isn't really there, then we start to learn that there is no place for the relationship to go, except down hill, without it.
Being married to the wrong person for 21 years, turned out to be a devastating disaster for me and my children, because as the years went by, it slowly emerged that the ex and I had very little, if anything in common, which he had kept hidden from me, because my ex pretended to like the same things that I did, for a long time, but then one day he finally told me to turn down my head banging music, because he didn't like it. It wasn't even that bad really, but it helped me to see, what a farce of a marriage I had actually been experiencing. I chose to stick it out until my youngest child turned 18 regardless, by putting my feelings aside, so that I wouldn't have to put my two children through a court battle, which could have possibly been devastating for them to deal with.
With that said, I am happy to report that the current relationship I have been in, for a little over 5 years, has the right kind of love chemistry, and we really do like the same things as each other, so three cheers: WOO WHO! WOO WHO! WOO WHO! are in order.



Have you ever been in a relationship that didn't work out because one of you pretended to be like the other person?

Wishing Well

This song is one of the cool, different sounding songs, that came out, in the late 80's. I thought that Terence Trent D'Arby, was very refreshing to listen to.
When I first saw the video for this song, I was like, cool he can do the split, although I can imagine it would be a painful thing to do, when you are a guy, but since I am obviously, not a guy, I really wouldn't know for sure, if it does hurt.
Okay, enough about that. Enjoy the video.




What is your favorite song from Terence Trent D'Arby?