Invasion of the 80's Bands

I read on one of my favorite blogs, Isorski's Musings, that The Cars are in the recording studio after a 23 year break.  Hmmm.  I don't know how I feel about that since my favorite "Car" was Benjamin Orr so it won't be the same without him.

Can The Cars be labeled rock and roll?  Its a subjective topic placing music in specific genres.  But I have to say, even though rock and roll was invaded by New Wave, Pop, Arena Rock, Hair Metal and DISCO in the 80's - there sure was a lot of fun music to dance and party to!

It may taint my image as a die hard 70's rock chick to admit this, but in the 80's I also loved listening to:

Blondie

Culture Club

Depeche Mode 

Diana Ross 

Duran Duran 

Elvis Costello 

Erasure 

Eurythmics

Hall & Oates

Human League

Janet Jackson

Madonna 

Michael Jackson 

Paula Abdul 

Paul Simon

Phil Collins 

Pixies

Prince 

R.E.M 

Roxy Music 

Simple Minds

Simply Red

Spandau Ballet

Talking Heads

The Bangles 

The Cure 

The Fixx

The Stray Cats

Thompson Twins

Thankfully Seano doesn't read hear anymore he may disown me as a friend. I may have lost a lot of credibility admitting to a few of these - but honesty is the only way I roll. Even though its often very embarrassing.

What about you? Guilty pleasures of the 80's

The Cars w/Ben Orr

You can't have Moving in Stereo without All Mixed Up.



Saw these guys in concert more than once and they blew me away everytime. RIP Ben!
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Concert Memory.... Benjamin Orr

Sometimes you hear a song that takes you back to a good memory of hearing that song. Today I heard this:



and was immediately back at The Forum in Inglewood with my sister. We were there to see The Cars. It was a Monday night. I don't remember they year.

We had great seats up front (this was possible back in the day!). When Benjamin Orr started singing this I could have sworn he was singing it to me. Sigh.

Ben died in 2002 of pancreatic cancer. I know most people think of Ric Ocasek when they think of The Cars, but I always think of Ben.