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Memories...

1981 Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPOIS5taqA8
1971 Pop Tops - Mammy Blue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKp9e1_YsWk
1980 Irene Cara - Fame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1gMQ_q3FSM
1958 Los Lobos - La Bamba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLAWPrCUQQ0
1962 The Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0dikX80Ed8

Great Ukrainian-Russian cover band doing an awesome version of Steely Dan’s My Old School.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_8aZZ9d_EA

Year of the Cat - Al Stewart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxy1eF_w7sU

Man I miss Art Bell.

The Robots - Kraftwerk, if they were a Latin Jazz Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-aXOJXreTk

Riders on the Storm - Doors, if they were a Latin Jazz Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRScW8UVsS0

I Could Have Lied - Red Hot Chili Peppers, if they were Joy Division
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzMBXLI0rXs

The German group Dschinghis Khan won fourth place at the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest
singing "Dschingis Khan."

1979 - Dschinghis Khan - Dschinghis Khan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AXlVZRpweI
1979 - Dschinghis Khan - Moskau https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPdn9_h2dCY
1980 - Dschinghis Khan - Machu Picchu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reNR3mO8olk
1980 - Dschinghis Khan - Rom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4chBbcava5o
1981 - Dschinghis Khan - Loreley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kytyPMTgQE

Dynomite Euro Disco, @The_Deplorable.

Bonnie Tyler...

I need a hero
I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night
He's gotta be strong
And he's gotta be fast
And he's gotta be fresh from the fight
I need a hero...

1984 - Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For A Hero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA48rDXh1_4

1977 - Bonnie Tyler - It's A Heartache https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEOl38y8Nj8

1977 - Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yziRK36wTU

1983 - Bonnie Tyler - Making Love Out Of Nothing At All https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8F96fxz1vg

The_Deplorable says

Bonnie Tyler...

I need a hero
I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night
He's gotta be strong
And he's gotta be fast
And he's gotta be fresh from the fight
I need a hero...

Like this:
https://youtu.be/U8lB_tXuOzc

Frank Sinatra - Smells Like Teen Spirit (AI Cover)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Num0q-l-ldc

Dave Brubeck - Golden Brown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qs1J612nZs

Dave Brubeck - Take Five

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9Eh8wNMkw

70s Rock

Robert Charlebois - The Frog Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=197q4P2ud3U

Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57g5Z_3kXOE

Sweet - Wig Wam Bam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyBFxjmJPqk

Disco/Pop Classics

M - Pop Musik

Oh the cans on that girl, I love the bounce.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSTnzWsyG6c
Dee Gees (Foo Fighters covering Bee Gees) - Night Fever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rffCEMl9QuQ

If the Cure did "Heart Shaped Box" by Nirvana:

https://youtu.be/DrklQHX8bkw?si=7Um-xWPEmxYhMSUK&t=70

Cocteau Twins "Iceblink Luck" - anybody thinks the lyrics are very Lou Reed?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Tj4bJ0VFw

Klaus Nomi & David Bowie - "Man Who Sold the World"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdlU8e9wBIE

@AmericanKulak,

Sweet City Woman

"And she feeds me love and tenderness and macaroons."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IRjl3SWC2U

Let Me Play With Your Poodle - Tampa Red

"Oh, when I went down to town with my hat in my hand
I was lookin' for a woman, didn't have no man!
I want to play with your poodle
I want to play with your poodle
I want to play with your poodle
I mean your little poodle dog!

Yes, two old maids that were layin' in a bed
Well, one turned over, this is what she said;
"Can I play with your poodle?
Can I play with your poodle?
Can I play with your poodle?
I mean your little poodle dog!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut9Nrw0qncA

Gregorian - Scarborough Fair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvbQE5tygXk
Gregorian - Stairway To Heaven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnd83xjNePQ
Gregorian - The Sound Of Silence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLXYI1J5Dfw
Gregorian - Nothing Else Matters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkblRFNEQWk
Gregorian - Bridge Over Troubled Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x0J6fdDW2A
Gregorian - Losing My Religion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sFO8Cx-wBY
Gregorian - Conquest Of Paradise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub9L8v-_ec

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

AmericanKulak,

Sweet City Woman

"And she feeds me love and tenderness and macaroons."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IRjl3SWC2U

@Al_Sharpton_for_President I raise you this classic. I will be playing this for my son in a few years.

Bobby Bare - "The Winner" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv_fuejbELc

Jerry Reed - "Eastbound and Down" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QAEmCuBnck (My Kids love this one)

Tatjana Simic: Dutch You Want Me Baby? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkA-H-HJpTk

@AmericanKulak

Jerry Reed, heckuva guitar player, too, and succesful actor. One of my faves, in the storyteller mode:

She Got The Goldmine (I Got The Shaft.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV67FuREdSc

And of course: When You're Hot, You're Hot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMvjhc8SiNg

Delaney & Bonnie - Groupie. A much better name for the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b2xa6cYNpU

Karen Carpenter - Superstar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Nm_0pC4FM

Ultra Vivid Scene - "Staring at the Sun"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-wxO4v0Xy4
Guy's a bit of a mopey dope, but check out the guitar, esp. if you like some psychedelic stuff.

The Glove - "Orgy" and "Punish Me With Kisses", Jeanette Landray, a Top of the Pops dancer, sings instead of Robert Smith who is contractually restricted by Fiction Records
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlVhcPJQ6NQ

The Cure - "A Forest" -- earliest "Evil Dead Plot Lyrics" It's not actually based on the "Evil Dead" since that movie didn't come out until a year later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RKD6f1watM

And to take a break from the Psychedelia, some versions of the very earliest industrial tracks, "Warm Leatherette"

The Normal (Original) - 1978
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlEOsXG619w

Laibach - In German
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlEOsXG619w

Grace Jones - Jazzy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi6VE5BaePY

Trent Reznor, Twiggy, Peter Murphy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo7ONZlN5Zg

The Plimsouls - “A Million Miles Away”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIxgBMNhsKU

The Jesus and Mary Chain - “Blues From a Gun”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIOim3J-jpU

Echo & The Bunnymen - “Never Stop”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwvcUgmPbXg

Dave takes to the drums in this epic tribute.
Bob Mould and Dave Grohl - New Day Rising (Husker Du Tribute) 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHjHBojMsRs

Original
Husker Du - “New Day Rising”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YTJ807KK7I

All great choices @Al_Sharpton_for_President

Live from Daryl's Place

Al Stewart in Daryl Hall's basement- "Year of the Cat"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKVtDKGK0Lc

Daryl Hall with Robert Fripp cover Bowie's "Heroes"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbe2_TYliTo

New Wave

More Trent Reznor with Bauhaus Gothfather, Peter Murphy - "Bela Legosi's Dead" mostly sung by Reznor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9bXpA-JxI - Fixed Link

NIN with Gary Numan - "Metal"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehMqEXUspfs

Everything

America - "Magic"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt4cR9szMS8
You know darn well, when you cast that spell...

Rev. Horton Heat - "My Fucked Up Ford"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9UF33CSiTA

Pink Floyd without the Commie Asshole but with David Bowie - "Comfortably Numb"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkzahLRlHHA

Where would be without

"Metal Health" - Quiet Riot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EbiRRpaYB4

"New York Groove" - Ace Freeley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXeeY9D9u94

Legs, by Legs

"Legs" - ZZ Top Cover by Tina Turner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCgZfxDAANU

.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J39LK_wDzKw

,

Most nights I end up back in the 70's....

Led Zeppelin - Boogie With Stu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wCZOm0k8WQ
Joe Cocker - Hitchcock Railway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVWqURFISzk
Joe Cocker - Woman to Woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffklJc_vfuk
Leon Russell / A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4sMSSm0x2A

Les McCann died last year. Here he and Eddie Harris (& Benny Bailey) dig a groove visible from space.

Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Compared To What (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCDMQqDUtv4

Before Daft Punk - "Robot Rock"...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFZjqVnWBhc

There was Space - "Magic Fly" (late 70s), also a French Group
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_ukfGAd8T4

Even kinda imitated something of the style.

Daft Punk's sample source: Breakwater - "Unleash the Beast" (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVeDs5ExrF0

Other Shit
Iggy Pop - "Nightclubbing"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3OaMZojJRg

Bowie - "Rebel Rebel" 1987 Live Glass Spider Tour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Xd_uD3cKc

Exotica
Been getting into this for background music now.

Tak Shindo - "Flamingo"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1q_nWWcxuM

"Song of Delilah"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClpKWKfQnOA

Jack Constanzo - "The Inchworm"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73OCllFcqO0

Santana - “Soul Sacrifice”. 1969, Woodstock. Michael Shrieve shredding it on drums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaaT_HRb4GU

They’re coming for you, Joe. ‘Mericans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSFDV-Bc3xI&t=187s

The amazing INXS.

The One Thing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJyKTNdPL5s

What You Need - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoEPrbdfmT4

New Sensation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azfG5H-pCVg

Beautiful Girl - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLmQ2vxMbn0

Suicide Blonde - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma4TOv2f_WY

70s wild shit. Motorrik and lots of other shit in development

Can - "Mother Sky"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDBpZdQNp9E

Tubeway Army - "Listen To The Sirens"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA6smLm8cog

Neu - "Fur Immer"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V85AjBFDmbI

Kraftwerk - "Ruckzuck"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWKfo3LDI1Q

Amon Duul - "Wolf City"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2iQCEL7-ak

Memories...

The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQlByoPdG6c

Lion King - Circle of Life and He Lives In You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNSjgay9GYA

Lea Halalela (From "Rhythm Of The Pride Lands") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7QqZiGUb2M

A little Helmet to start your day. Must be played at maximum volume.

Unsung: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBfygUiS50g

In the Meantime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9346rQ1d8ik

And you gotta love a band that covers the Gigantor theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVsolv_FGw8

Irresistible Force by JA. Fantastic song
https://youtu.be/rVOi5Hdbd7Q?si=zcY9WPhK9RQl3ZTl

Unfortunately PF suffers from mild TDS and globull warming, but musically ingenious

Quiet Riot - "Bang Your Head"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_1ruZWJigo

Needed this Metal Health dose!

Son got in a huge fight with mom told him some fights you can't win and I text him this.

https://youtu.be/7hx4gdlfamo?si=EdtJn7mcW2xvbM7w

From France the golden voice of Marie Laforet...

Marie Laforet - Mon amour mon ami https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc2Rsd7n7JM

Marie Laforet - nie chocoladnaia konfietka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_9gzN0CCSY

Marie Laforet - Ivan, Boris & Moi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEMUHE1O2mM

Marie Laforet - Mes bouquets d'Asphodèles (1969) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue4eY47f2bI

Marie Laforet - Ciccerenella (Naples) 1968 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVoftt17K1o

Cinderella - Shake Me
https://youtu.be/ptPekKOigkQ?si=a5MFSC_T7Djm2E1N&t=10

Cheri - "Murphy's Law" with Zoo dancers. Supercute and Slender "Downtown Julie Brown" in 1982.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlEU_aAzCS0

Bird and the Bee - "Again & Again" Mighty haunting / sentimental vibes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMy6X5cQul8

Just because of the animation, tho not opposed to the tune.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Iron Lung

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njk2YAgNMnE

In olden daze, this might be called Prog Rock.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Catching Smoke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L3-HOdMeuM

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Iron Lung

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njk2YAgNMnE

Nice Space out around 3:20

Over 8 minutes long, after all it Can't be Prog Rock if it's under 7 minutes. haha

https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1815679190546473075