You forgot the obligatory round brim hat perched way too back on the guy's head.

I have an 80s vintage Simmons drum kit in storage. I still use the tone generator occasionally - those analog drum sounds can't be beat - but the stick vibration from the pads kill your hands. They're literally hexagonal blocks of wood in a plastic/rubber case with a contact mic attached.

rekoil: those analogdigital drum sounds

FTFY

High male voice.

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ThatGuyGreg: FTFY

Before digital sampling, synthesizers/drum machines were analog electronic devices.

Roland TR-808 Analog Drum Machine (new window)

I love this song, I forgot just how much :)

I use to love icehouse, mostly at house parties. That was before I could go out and buy my own beer.

I blame Clarence Clemons. Don't get me wrong, C.C. was just pure awesome when he was playing with Springsteen and E Street, but he did unleash a wave of sucky, cheesy bleating saxophonists upon the music world in the 1980s.

Robo Beat

The abomination that was "You're A Friend Of Mine" w/ Jackson Browne is a perfect example

Long live the mullet!

Icehouse fits all the cliches of the 80's into one video: Mullets? Yep. Cheesy blatting sax solo? Sure. Hexagonal synth-drums? Yup. Keytar? Obviously. Moodily-lit brick wall? Indeed. Hot chick in the video for no reason? Certainly

Hey now, hey now the headline is over.

/headline was so long I forgot what I was reading about

Link that goes nowhere, check.

tricycleracer: ThatGuyGreg: FTFY

Before digital sampling, synthesizers/drum machines were analog electronic devices.

Roland TR-808 Analog Drum Machine (new window)

The module I have, an SDS9, has both - the snare and handclap are digital samples, but the kick and toms were analog. What was cool (for the time) was that there was an add-on chip programmer module...if you wanted to change the digital sounds, you literally burned the sample onto an EPROM and stuck it into the SDS9. Back at a time where real samplers were $5,000 and up this was a big deal.

Reportedly Neil Peart had an entire rack of these, one unit with the sounds for each song on its EPROMS.

Crazy (pops) is my all-time favorite 80s song.

I didn't think they made women that hot back in the day.

Hot chick in the video for no reason? Certainly

There's always a reason for hot chicks.

What an awful band. I'm not gonna look...is it the video for "Taking the Town?"

And it's a hell of a brew!

Saw them open for The Cars' last tour. Icehouse was ok. The Cars were spectacular.

/I am old.
//My lawn, stay off it.

I saw them in probably '85 or '86 - they were actually playing in either a high school or junior college auditorium. Everyone sat politely, but it was still pretty fun. I did love this song. And electric blue was a very popular color in the mid-80s.

Wow. This almost makes me embarrassed to own a black duster.

Ah an 80's favorite, damn fun song, and pretty good to boot.

It's a good tune, though.

remember when artists actually made things up instead of ironically hearkening back to the past?

And don't forget... KEYTAR !!!!

The video needed a loose, wild animal prowling city streets to have "every" '80's video cliche

/preferably a black panther or tiger

Oh and also there's "Random guy, who has nothing to do with anything, walking around watching band"

That's actually kind of a good tune. Worst hair I've ever seen on anything that walks and talks, though.

MizzouGuy: The video needed a loose, wild animal prowling city streets to have "every" '80's video cliche

/preferably a black panther or tiger

Don't be silly, they couldn't possibly afford live big cats for a music video in the 80s. The things were shot and edited in one day on a budget of about $1200.

I mean, unless you were Michael Jackson or Van Halen or someone.

I think the lead singer is totally sexay, even with the mullet ;)

This song got really annoying really fast, but I'm slightly biased after enduring my little sister playing it 137 times a day. "Great Southern Land", on the other hand, was a great song. It's on one of their earlier albums, and was on the "Young Einstein" soundtrack.

Asperger Jones: Wow. This almost makes me embarrassed to own a black duster.

Don't worry, that you own a black duster is embarrassing enough.

Say what you want. I still love that song and "Crazy." The video took me back, that's for sure.

The 80's seemed so simple.

Boy George hat on bass player's head

MikoSquiz: Don't be silly, they couldn't possibly afford live big cats for a music video in the 80s. The things were shot and edited in one day on a budget of about $1200.

Duran Duran would like to have a word with you

rekoil: tricycleracer: ThatGuyGreg: FTFY

Before digital sampling, synthesizers/drum machines were analog electronic devices.

Roland TR-808 Analog Drum Machine (new window)

The module I have, an SDS9, has both - the snare and handclap are digital samples, but the kick and toms were analog. What was cool (for the time) was that there was an add-on chip programmer module...if you wanted to change the digital sounds, you literally burned the sample onto an EPROM and stuck it into the SDS9. Back at a time where real samplers were $5,000 and up this was a big deal.

Reportedly Neil Peart had an entire rack of these, one unit with the sounds for each song on its EPROMS.





TEW TEW TEW!

ToxicAvenger: And don't forget... KEYTAR !!!!




That's Yamaha KX5 to you.

Back in the day NOBODY used the term "keytars." They were either "keyboard controllers" or "remote controllers" or "strap-on controllers." "Keytar" was some word that the people from VH-1 made up.

Yes, strap-on.

Onkel Buck: Hey now, hey now the headline is over.

That was Crowded House, not Icehouse.

This song will always remind me of Australia. I was there with my family when Icehouse came out, and my older brother must have played the tape 500 times.

The song about the cowboy who dies (Heartbreak Kid) used to make my little brother cry. He was maybe six, and cowboys were his heroes. So of course we played the song mercilessly over and over.

Good times. Life gets worse than being able to walk a block to one of the best beaches in the world.

Just in case anyone's interested, here's the current top of line Roland electronic drum set:

Link (new window)

(You can see me behind mine in my profile pic.)

This thread is useless without "here's what the hot chick and lead singer look like today" pics.

/Always liked the song

Godzilla: The 80's seemed so simple.

Indeed, so simple, upbeat and bright

MikoSquiz: The things were shot and edited in one day on a budget of about $1200.

Ummm Van Halen's Jump was noted for being cheaply produced and it cost I think $12,000

KrustAsian: TEW TEW TEW!

I love the sound of those.

hot chick was useless cause that singer's as gay as Liberace - for the quintessetial '90s video cliche look up Public Image Limited and that song "I could be wrong, I could be right....... Anger is an energy ....... May the road rise with you ....... etc"

/fergit its name
//cant paste a youtube link with a crappy iphone

rekoil "I have an 80s vintage Simmons drum kit in storage. I still use the tone generator occasionally - those analog drum sounds can't be beat - but the stick vibration from the pads kill your hands. They're literally hexagonal blocks of wood in a plastic/rubber case with a contact mic attached."

Oh yeah I have two sets of those SDS9s, a black set and a red set.

Had to replace a few of the piezos on those. It's just a piece of plywood with 1/8 rubber glued to the batter side and a piezo hotglued to the bottom.

I always found it fun to wire the kick pad to the snare input on the brain, snare pad to the kick input and try to play.

Really messes with your head.

KrustAsian "TEW TEW TEW!"

That's a Simmons SDS V (five), and yes I also own one of those.

But my baby is the TAMA Techstar brain. Analog TEW TEW TEW PEW PEW goodness without noise of the Simmons electronics.

Only two sounds are available for each pad though, factory and user BUT I can easily make tr808 sounding sine wavs or even get those crazy Prince 1999-ish sounds out of them quite easily.

I highly recommend picking up one if you see it somewhere. Only paid $75 at Atlanta Pro Percussion for mine.

solitary: hot chick was useless cause that singer's as gay as Liberace - for the quintessetial '90s video cliche look up Public Image Limited and that song "I could be wrong, I could be right....... Anger is an energy ....... May the road rise with you ....... etc"

/fergit its name

It's called "Rise." And it's a truly awesome tune. Here's the vid (new window)

A friend dated the lead singer during this era, she's a striking chick so based on her recollections solitary he's not teh ghey, but that leaves other conjecture open...

Good '80s pop like this just gets better and better as time goes on.

/I slashy once
//I slashy twice
///I won't TF at any price.

Even Stephen Colbert's spoof of 80's video cliches didn't
top this one.

/Lasted about 15 seconds before closing link prior to neurological damage
//Forgot the "Disinterested Bassist" cliche in the HL

The best part - halfway through the clip when the silhouetted sax player is blasting out his solo - you can see that they put dry ice inside his sax so that sexy smoke would trickle out of it while he played.


CHEESE, I love it.