Back to the 80s!
Greetings and salutations Hivers. Today let's go into another Three Tune Tuesday post.
As always, thanks to @ablaze for making this series. Lots of people participate in it! Follow the tags to find a ton of good music recommendation.
NOTE: I won't be embedding any videos this week. Hive.blog has a nasty bug where if you use the iframe tag (which youtube embeds use) the post will show up blank. Judging by how many messages I get from people pointing this out every week, I still have a lot of readers using that site. So until Hive.blog fixes their bug, I'll just give direct links.
Iron Horse - Sweet Child O’ Mine
How about we begin with a bluegrass cover of Sweet Child O’ Mine? These are the same guys I shared last week singing the bluegrass cover of Rocket Man. The funny thing is I'm often not much of a fan of bluegrass. I mean, it's better than country, but not my favorite genre. But it works well here. Or again, as I said last week, maybe these guys are just that good.
Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
And as long as we are playing old songs, let's jump back even earlier to 1982 with a song that became one of the sounds of the 80s. This is another of those songs, like Video Killed the Radio Star that is just burned in my brain.
Duwende - Man in the Mirror
And we'll finish with another from the same era. This is probably my favorite Michael Jackson song. This was Michael at his best, giving us a great message and good music, before he got too weird. And here is a great cover of it. That lead singer on this one is just amazing. The sound quality isn't so great, but his voice is perfect for doing Michael Jackson covers.
So what's your favorite?
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As much as I love the original of Come On Eileen, the punk/ska cover by Save Ferris is one of my favorites. They did a really good job of it. It's just a classic song in general. It warms my heart to see some more bluegrass in there this week!
You know I was considering going with that exact cover before deciding on the original.
This is getting creepy now... :)
I have to go with Dexys Midnight Runners, it was a classic song that is burned in my brain as part of my youth. It's a great song that I'll never get tired of hearing. Now Iron Horse was a clever twist on the GNR song, a bunch of old guys (damn, I'm one too now) doing a great cover! Cute blonde in the video too...
Michael Jackson got too damn weird over his career, I liked him best back when he was black with the Thriller album. Then there was the trial... And his propofol death... Everything he did he did weird. Man in the Mirror was a good song though and introspective. They did a good job covering it a cappella style.
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Yeah, MJ just got too weird. He could never get over his demons from childhood and the more famous he got, the more he let it warp him. Shame. I try to keep his bizarre personal life separate from his music in my head so that I can still enjoy those 80s hits from him.
It really was shame. The fame came too early and he had a toxic family. Britney Spears had the same kind of issues. I'm not sure if it's the fame or family or both, but child stars in the English speaking world rarely do well as adults. Especially those from the 80's and 90's.
It's odd when compared to the Spanish speaking world, those young stars tend to go on to have successful careers and rarely self destruct. It may just be the toxic US culture of fame and materialism. Who knows? I wouldn't have let me kid be a child actor, that much I know...
I'm with you!
What can I say?I love the 80s, it was a golden decade musically speaking.So many extraordinary voices, so many styles and genres coexisting for the good of music.Thanks for bringing these issues
I couldn't agree more!
What a good era for music. I was so into rap music during my teen years that I missed out on so much of it. Last summer my wife and I saw Duran Duran in concert at the Minnesota State Fair (they were phenomenal live) and since then I've been delving into a lot of that music for the very first time.
Oh man, you have a lot of catching up to do. So much great music back then. I'd love to see Duran Duran live—hell, I'd love to see any of them live.