I think that video just out-gayed Sin With Sebastian.

Now I know where Vincent D'Onofrio got his inspiration for Private Pyle's vapid smile. Creepy.

Ah yes, Max Webster.
Buds with Rush - in fact, the fellas did "cameos" on one of his albums.
Pretty darn good entertainer, eh?

terrible. absolutely terrible.

in the same 80s power-pop vein, i'll see your kim mitchell, and i'll raise you Rocky Burnette!

/anyone want to add martin briley or the kings?

Song has a great hook. However the little dancing man on the table is some terrible hybrid of Billy Squire's Rock Me Tonight video and an amalgam of everything Aldo Nova ever did.

Thanks Kim, great song, even better live downstairs at the Genosha a long loooong time ago.

/we had patio lanterns

Dude is the afternoon drive guy on Q107 in Toronto now.

Q107 Kim Mitchell (new window)

Does anyone know where I can get an mp3 of that? I tried his web site and found nothing. There is nothing on Amazon either. I'm still in an iPissing Match with the iFarktards at iTunes so I won't be shopping there.


/triple billing mofos

apparently that tune is about a drunk driver that killed his wife.
if it's true, the song is way cooler.
if it's not true , i've liked that song for no reason.

moparedtn

Ah yes, Max Webster.
Buds with Rush - in fact, the fellas did "cameos" on one of his albums.
Pretty darn good entertainer, eh?


"Battle Scar" NSFGH (not safe for Geddy haters). Link

Go For Soda lyrics

so we're in one of our blue moods
you wanna have it your way and I want it mine
all this debating going 'round in our blue mood
makes me thirst for love
Might as well go for a soda...Nobody hurts and nobody cries
Might as well go for a soda...Nobody drowns and nobody dies
life seems to be a bomb inside your head
well the bomb in my head is love
all this debating going 'round in our blue mood
makes me thirsty for love
Might as well go for a soda...Nobody hurts and nobody cries
Might as well go for a soda...Nobody drowns and nobody dies
Might as well go for a soda...It's better than slander
It's better than lies
Might as well go for a soda...Nobody hurts and nobody cries

The Max Machine was my first real concert... '77. Pye Dubois is the Canadian Bernie Taupin.

Mid 80's? I was too busy listening to Level 42. Also, there was that whole thing with learning to masturbate. That was kind of a big deal, and once I had figured out my special purpose, there wasn't much time left over for this song.

TunaTacoTaster: Does anyone know where I can get an mp3 of that?

I won't link to it, but if you're at all familiar with torrents, it's out there (I just checked). Can't vouch for the quality of the encoding, tho.

TunaTacoTaster: Does anyone know where I can get an mp3 of that?

Happy to help out a fellow Farker--shoot me an e-mail or PM and I'll send it to you.

So, I listened to some American radio online the other day and was surprised by the amount of Canadian artists on the playlist. I mean, here in Canuckistan, radio stations are required by law to plan Canadian Content, but US stations just play it because they like it. Did Kim Mitchell really get a lot of US airplay? Cause I have an American friend who had never heard of Trooper, and I put them at nearly the same level of fame as Kim Mitchell.

I still hated this song!

I had to visit my relatives in Illinois for 2 weeks the summer this came out. My cousin thought this was the best song in the world. He played it constantly!

Me listening to UK Subs, GBH, Fear, etc; he could never understand why our musical tastes would never mesh.

Saw Kim Mitchell live last August when he did a show here during the Ex. Was quite awesome actually, although he kinda looks like a cross between Larry David and Paul Shaffer now. :)

Marisyana: TunaTacoTaster: Does anyone know where I can get an mp3 of that?

Happy to help out a fellow Farker--shoot me an e-mail or PM and I'll send it to you.

I would love to but there is no contact info in your profile. I would put mine up but it uses my name and I'm not comfortable with everyone having that.

TunaTacoTaster: Marisyana: TunaTacoTaster: Does anyone know where I can get an mp3 of that?

Happy to help out a fellow Farker--shoot me an e-mail or PM and I'll send it to you.

I would love to but there is no contact info in your profile. I would put mine up but it uses my name and I'm not comfortable with everyone having that.

I'm not saying you should do anything such as the following:

google: "index of"+"go for soda"+{file extension}

I've heard rumors of stuff like this working......

moparedtn: Ah yes, Max Webster.
Buds with Rush - in fact, the fellas did "cameos" on one of his albums.
Pretty darn good entertainer, eh?

Yes, that Max Webster guy is great. I hear that he released an album with Steely Dan on bass, Jethro Tull on guitar, and Pink Floyd on drums.

Just to be pedantic, submitter, it's "Go For Soda," not "Go For *A* Soda." Doesn't make any more sense the right way, but there you go. For soda.

FlashHarry: terrible. absolutely terrible.

in the same 80s power-pop vein, i'll see your kim mitchell, and i'll raise you Rocky Burnette!

/anyone want to add martin briley or the kings?

Hey now, don't be hatin' on "Salt In My Tears"! I used to play air guitar to that song.

/ashamed

It still does, subby. It still does.

that and "patio lanterns" [man that song brings me back to childhood at the lake/cottage].

[and that stupid canadian tire commercial ---- shudder ----]

Wow, I was watching the last episode of Trailer Park Boys season 7 and saw this headline at the same moment Ricky started playing "Go For Soda". No "A" in the title on the actual CD, which seems odd for a Canadian band, eh?

Damn you, subby... you just made me smell the kitchen of my teenage burgerflipping job. Damn you!

This still plays quite regularly on the radio of my hometown, North Bay. And not in the ironic sense, either.

TunaTacoTaster: Does anyone know where I can get an mp3 of that?

Try this:

http://www.convertmytube.com/

Truly awful.

And I like DECENT pop music.

Watching that brings me back to simpler times.

/oldish

Midnight Rambler: FlashHarry: terrible. absolutely terrible.

in the same 80s power-pop vein, i'll see your kim mitchell, and i'll raise you Rocky Burnette!

/anyone want to add martin briley or the kings?

Hey now, don't be hatin' on "Salt In My Tears"! I used to play air guitar to that song.

/ashamed

never. i LOVE salt in my tears. one of the great guitar solos evAr!

Awesome song. Never saw the video before.

Hilarious

I f'n LOVE the ride cymbal in that song. TING TING TING TING goes the bell.

My Zildjian 22" Platinum Ping sounds pretty close.

Sure, this song's a bit dorkish but that was the 80s... look up Autograph "Turn up the Radio" for more ugh 80s cheesiness.

I was very much into Black Sabbath and anything NWOBHM at that time but I watched a LOT of MTV (back when they actually played these things called VIDEOS.

FlashHarry: Midnight Rambler: FlashHarry: terrible. absolutely terrible.

in the same 80s power-pop vein, i'll see your kim mitchell, and i'll raise you Rocky Burnette!

/anyone want to add martin briley or the kings?

Hey now, don't be hatin' on "Salt In My Tears"! I used to play air guitar to that song.

/ashamed

never. i LOVE salt in my tears. one of the great guitar solos evAr!

Agreed! Not to mention a great kiss-off song.

Uncle_Slacker: NWOBHM

Ok, I've spent the last 5 minutes trying to figure out wtf NWOBHM is with a personal difficulty level of no internet search. I can't figure it out.

Can we all stop the acronyms at 5 letters?

You couldn't have just said British Metal?

phartnocker: Uncle_Slacker: NWOBHM

Ok, I've spent the last 5 minutes trying to figure out wtf NWOBHM is with a personal difficulty level of no internet search. I can't figure it out.

New Wave of British Heavy Metal (^), ie. Def Leppard, Iron Maiden

Let's try that link again (new window)

TunaTacoTaster: Marisyana: TunaTacoTaster: Does anyone know where I can get an mp3 of that?

Happy to help out a fellow Farker--shoot me an e-mail or PM and I'll send it to you.

I would love to but there is no contact info in your profile. I would put mine up but it uses my name and I'm not comfortable with everyone having that.

Crap. Get this--my job doesn't block FARK the site, but blocks my profile so I can't update it. Let me do so, check back after six eastern time tonight and I'll get it to you.

I always liked this song. The video is ass.

Wow, the song and video are just so incredibly horrible it's actually kind of good.

Corn-tacular. And I've never heard that song before.


/s'cool that so many peeps did

Midnight Rambler: Hey now, don't be hatin' on "Salt In My Tears"! I used to play air guitar to that song.

I can one-up you on that! I played actual guitar to this song; my band played this song, in 1983, when it was current. I seriously hadn't heard this song in over 20 years until just now when the mention of it made me look it up on YouTube. I'm pretty sure that someone somewhere has the soundboard tape of us playing this song (among many other early 80's "new wave" hits) at the Port Angeles HS Homecoming dance in September 1983. Ugh, that was a long time ago.

/get off my lawn you damned kids!

shadowself: moparedtn: Ah yes, Max Webster.
Buds with Rush - in fact, the fellas did "cameos" on one of his albums.
Pretty darn good entertainer, eh?

Yes, that Max Webster guy is great. I hear that he released an album with Steely Dan on bass, Jethro Tull on guitar, and Pink Floyd on drums.

That video actually IS of the entire band named Max Webster, of which Kim was but one member.
Yes, I'm aware it's the bands' name and not the persons', twit.

I was 13 or 14 years old when I first saw "The Salt in My Tears" on MTV. At the time, I didn't any money to buy the album, and by the time I did have money, it was out of print (I tried special order and everything). Finally, in 1994, I found a compilation that had it, but most of the guitar solo was cut!

I eventually got the whole song on The Mercury Years boxed set, and it also auto-plays on the Martin Briley Website [martinbriley.com].

Here's another song from early MTV. I bought it just the other day on Amazon MP3:
YouTube - The Sherbs- We Ride Tonight [youtube.com]

moparedtn: shadowself: moparedtn: Ah yes, Max Webster.
Buds with Rush - in fact, the fellas did "cameos" on one of his albums.
Pretty darn good entertainer, eh?

Yes, that Max Webster guy is great. I hear that he released an album with Steely Dan on bass, Jethro Tull on guitar, and Pink Floyd on drums.

That video actually IS of the entire band named Max Webster, of which Kim was but one member.
Yes, I'm aware it's the bands' name and not the persons', twit.

When you said "one of his albums", it looked like you were referring to Webster, not Mitchell.

/was just listing to Universal Juveniles very loud yesterday

moparedtn: That video actually IS of the entire band named Max Webster, of which Kim was but one member.

Also: that video is of Kim Mitchell, who used to be but one member of Max Webster. Go For Soda only features one musician from Max Webster, and that is Kim himself. Pye Dubois wrote the lyrics, as he did for Max Webster.

Back before there was the interwebs, I worked in radio as a producer and the guy that trained me loved this song and was looking for it in the back room one day so he could put it on DAT. Remember DAT? I remember this moment mostly because:

A. Never heard it before
B. Grew up where WE called it POP, not SODA

/will listen to it now
//Alan?

My Composition teacher (Todd Booth) in school played keys on that album. Ignorant_McNugget may know him too.

Apropos of nearly nothing, Kim's power ballad "All We Are" (a link to the video for which is on that "Go For Soda" vid...and also from the Akimbo Alogo record) takes me straight back to the warm night air drive back to my apartment on Campbell Avenue after a passionate booty call, er, visit with a college girlfriend in Paradise Valley. Good times.

I regret never having him teach the elderly how to play guitar.

This tune did flash across my radio for the brief time it took me to change the station.