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[LucasM]

I may not have been clear.  I wasn't suggesting that "favorite 80s music" would WORK as an LoC, just that because my taste is so obscure, that my music wouldn't fit into "80s Top 40 Hits", which was why I wouldn't vote for (or participate in) that LoC.

Glad to know someone else here even knows who Brand X WAS.  After the first time I got to see them live I was able to go backstage where I got them all to sign the Moroccan Roll album cover (I'd taken it with me), and then talked to Robin Lumley for about an hour... during which I believe Percy Jones was snorting coke (it was the 80s after all).  WAY cool memory!  Even cooler because a local Chicago station recorded the concert, and aired it, so I had a cassette of the concert (since turned to a CD) in which I can hear myself cheering (I was right up against the stage while they played, close enough for mikes to pick me up out of the crowd).    During the talk with Lumley, we discussed a book that I later sent them a copy of, and I got a 'thanks' letter from Lumley in response in which he said he'd read it, then "pass it along to the other geezers in the group".  Incredibly rare to get that kind of documentation of such a cool life event.

very cool!  i wasn't born then .   i actually dont have any of their 80's stuff looking at my collection.  guess they had less LPs printed cause i never find them at record stores.(i dont buy cds too expensive).  i dont suppose they ever made the top 40 anyways.

I had never heard of "Brand X" until you mentioned them, but after reading about them on wiki, it seems like I should have.  They sound pretty cool, and I'll have to check them out.

Don't forget you can also use everyhit.com to look up bands  that may have hit the UK Top 40 during the 80's.  The UK charts were quite different from the US charts (still are really), and you may still be able to find enough to cobble together a list.  Just a suggestion.

For both gogikranz and Monty, the two albums of Brand X's I'd most recommend are (in order): Moroccan Roll and Unorthodox Behavior (which are, actually, mid-70s vintage rather than 80s, which was when I saw them live).  It's interesting on Unorthodox Behavior (an album where the band first got together and basically built every tune by just noodling around and saving and expanding on what sounded good, yet the thing sounds like it was composed by one person it is so flawlessly integrated), Percy Jones (bass) and Phil Collins (who was at that time playing drums with them) had just finished a stint with Brian Eno on Another Green World and one tune on Unorthodox Behavior starts EXACTLY like a tune from Another Green World, but then goes in a totally different direction after about 10-20 seconds.   


Regarding the 80s Hits list, the tunes by the bands I like that would've made any Top 40 charts anywhere (e.g. Yello's "Oh Yeah", , and even Peter Gabriel "Shock the Monkey") aren't the tunes I'd put as favorites/best of their work.  Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio" was probably a Top 40 hit, and possibly the only 'Hit' by a band that I actually liked enough to put on a list.  Oh well.  [We need a 'shrug' smiley.    ]

If the two people that voted for Top Rifftrax films or shorts had voted for my Riff O'Rama poll instead (which would include iRiffs, Film Crew and Cinematic Titanic offerings with the Rifftrax/Rifftrax Presents films and shorts), we'd have a closer race on our hands.

I've only just recently bought a couple QuipTracks (and have not yet bought any iRiffs, and wouldn't have had ANY of the Cinematic Titanic films on my list, or Film Crew either, but not as averse to them), so that didn't have anything in it that wouldn't have been in a RiffTrax-only selection for me.  Possibly that was the case with others, too.

Just because some people would not vote for anything other than Rifftrax in the poll, doesn't mean the poll shouldn't be done that way.  It also doesn't mean you should skip the poll if we end up with one.  Quite the opposite.  Having people like you (who would only vote for Rifftrax things because they don't find the other stuff worthy) is exactly what the poll would need to get a fair and representative sampling of the opinions of the forum on this topic.

I would hope that everybody would submit lists, even if they did not want to include iRiffs or the others.  Especially if they did not want to include the others.  That's the only way to get an accurate poll result.

OK... I get it: it's more a "what actually gets bought" list, rather than a "relative merits of each/comparative" list.  [i.e. how much is owned, versus which - of all of them - are actually 'best']  I do suspect that RiffTrax would completely dominate such a list tho, as I don't think there are that many people who get many of each.  But then again, the more die-hard forum members who submit lists may be more 'experienced' riff aficionados than the norm. 

[D.B. Barnes]

With what I really liked from the 80s, there would only be possibly one or two tunes that could be called "hits".  If it was "favorite music from the 80s", then I could submit a list, but likely no-one else would have the stuff I did on their lists (so my spending time on it would have been a waste of energy).  [Band samples: Brand X, Coulourbox, Al DiMeola, Yello, Wall of Voodoo, Jerry Harrison, Phil Manzanera]

Unorthodox Behaviour rocks! And Race with the Devil on Spanish Highway is one of my all-time favorite songs.

70s/80s prog is the bomb!

[gojikranz]

Unorthodox Behaviour rocks! .

70s/80s prog is the bomb!

yes unorthodox behaviour is great.  ive got some live bootlegs of them it sounds like they put on a good show.

[D.B. Barnes]

Easy there, Celebrity Crushes. I already started my hits list!

[Smoky]

Would anyone else find it a bit embarassing sending in a Celebrity Crush list?

[LucasM]

So you think people who buy iRiffs don't buy Rifftraces, and vice versa?

No, from the thread's past, what I was saying was that more people would buy regular RiffTraxes in general, and only a small portion of them (in comparison) would also buy iRiffs, so iRiffs wouldn't be fairly represented on such a list because of small quantity sold, not because they lacked in quality.

Hopefully that's clearer.

[Courtney]

I'm waiting for "50 Best Years for Minted Coins" to come from behind to win it all.

[goflyblind]

I'm waiting for "50 Best Years for Minted Coins" to come from behind to win it all.

1963 was the best, imho.

[LucasM]

With what I really liked from the 80s, there would only be possibly one or two tunes that could be called "hits".  If it was "favorite music from the 80s", then I could submit a list, but likely no-one else would have the stuff I did on their lists (so my spending time on it would have been a waste of energy).  [Band samples: Brand X, Coulourbox, Al DiMeola, Yello, Wall of Voodoo, Jerry Harrison, Phil Manzanera]

Unorthodox Behaviour rocks! And Race with the Devil on Spanish Highway is one of my all-time favorite songs.

70s/80s prog is the bomb!

yes unorthodox behaviour is great.  ive got some live bootlegs of them it sounds like they put on a good show.

Oh, yeah!  Their shows were incredible [the first time I saw them was at a smaller venue, hence my being able to get close enough to be invited backstage].

And yeah, Unorthodox Behavior remains one of my top 15 albums after almost 35 years, even though I slightly prefer Moroccan Roll (which has been in my Top 10 since '77, only being ousted as 'favorite album' by Yello's One Second in 86).

Other vintage faves (actually most from the 70s):  Return to Forever Where Have I Known You Before, Kraftwerk Ralf & Florian, The John Payne/Louis Levin Band The John Payne/Louis Levin Band, Al DiMeola Elegant Gypsy.  From the 80s, the top one would be Yello One Second (the European version, without 'Oh Yeah' because that was already on Stella, but shoved on the US release of One Second thanks to its popularity from Ferris Beuller).  In the 80s I finally found music that I hadn't really known I'd been searching for, with 'Westernized World' music (e.g. Bill Laswell, Nicky Skopelitis, Monsoon, etc.)

OK... rather than turn this into a music thread  , I'll cease putting up album titles here.

It is great to realize that there are fans of 'my music' here.  So much of my life people would ask "what the hell is that?" 

[THE QUEEN!!!]

Would anyone else find it a bit embarassing sending in a Celebrity Crush list?

heck no--less embarrassed than the guilty pleasure thing, I imagine

[Tripe]

So you think people who buy iRiffs don't buy Rifftraces, and vice versa?

Nice logically correct plural there.

Would anyone else find it a bit embarassing sending in a Celebrity Crush list?

I'd just treat it as "famous chicks I'd like to nail."

I'd do something along hose lines as well.

[TeamRAD]

Would anyone else find it a bit embarassing sending in a Celebrity Crush list?

I'd just treat it as "famous chicks I'd like to nail."

I'd do something along hose lines as well.

I think it would be a ton of fun and am guessing the list would be rather eclectic.

[Tripe]

You know it 

[BBQ Platypus]

I don't think I can even name 25 hit songs from the 80s that I can tolerate, much less like.  What is it with the Internet and the 80s?  They weren't THAT great.

[gojikranz]

I quite like 80s music.

some 80's albums are my favorites of all time and very important to me, but admittedly they never had hit singles. 

i think i might be voting for some songs based more on the band behind it than the song in question.  but still researching.