[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM_v3Vd5ay4[/youtube] My brother Richard used to have a Kim Wilde album, Kids in America, which he listened to a lot, and so I listened a lot. I’d like to say that I was really into her, but I was too dorky for that, and at the time was more likely to be listening to Air Supply. Then a few years later, she covered “You Keep Me Hanging On“, which I loved loved loved. Is that dorky of me, to get into a cover? (Ted’s answer…yes)* Anyway, a year or so after that, when Ted and I were dating, he made me a mix-tape (a sure sign of 80s love…the mix-tape…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL7FY7rwVtQ[/youtube] I remember when I worked at my college job, in a big San Francisco hotel, one of my coworkers is a German girl named Denise.  We were talking about music one day, and she said something to the effect of “you know that group, INXS, with that skinny little singer…he’s so sexy.”  Yeah, he’s too skinny, but Michael Hutchence was indeed a sexy singer, with that sort of Jim Morrison vibe going, but better.  I think “Need You Tonight” is probably my favorite of their songs.  Enjoy.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1N4X3VMUHI[/youtube] I always liked this song…it’s a little different from Human League’s earlier hits, notably Don’t You Want Me and (Keep Feeling) Fascination. It’s that Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis influence. Don’t you kind of expect Miss Jackson to pop out and start dancing at some point?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLY0X_eY3OY[/youtube] When I was deciding which “G” group to use for this weekly feature, the three that came to mind most readily were Green Day, Garbage, and Goo Goo Dolls.   I chose Garbage to make Ted and Maya happy, because Shirley Manson is the lead singer, and she was a recurring character (evil Terminator type…or was she really evil?) on The Sarah Conner Chronicles.   Which of course brings up bitter feelings around here, because Fox cancelled Sarah Conner, but kept Dollhouse.  What’s with that?  Idiots.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvRveRCx-lM[/youtube] Any Bjork fans out there? We used to listen to a lot of Bjork, both on her own and as a member of The Sugarcubes. Frou Frou reminds me of a cross between Bjork and the electronica songs by Everything But the Girl. I think the first song I heard them perform was a remake of “Holding Out for a Hero”, which I believe was on the Shrek 2 soundtrack. I immediately recognized the song as being from “Footloose”, because I not only saw the movie a million and one times way back when, but I owned the “Footloose” soundtrack. I went looking for a youtube video, and couldn’t…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY5v9tt62IY[/youtube] We’re up to E on our A to Z Music Monday Meme. There are plenty of great options for ‘E’. I thought of Evanscence, Eurythmics, and Everything But the Girl. (The links all go to the songs I probably would have chosen, on Grooveshark) But instead, I decided to go for Emmylou Harris, even though I don’t really know her music. I do know she worked with Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch on this very sexy song that the Sirens used to draw Ulysses and his mates to the rocks in “O Brother, Where Art Thou”. He wasn’t smart enough to have himself lashed to a mast, so I…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBCmmEt6a3o[/youtube] I was a late adapter to The Cure, discovering them 6 years after they released their first album, Boys Don’t Cry (Three Imaginary Boys in England, but Boys Don’t Cry had several different, superior, tracks.)   My first Cure album was The Head on the Door, which I loved loved loved.  After playing the hell out of that album (casette tape in the boom box in my VW Bug), over and over and over, I started looking at their older work.  My favorite was Boys Don’t Cry.  I loved “10:15 Saturday Night”, “Fire In Cairo”, “Killing an Arab”. I don’t think there’s a single song on that album that I…

Belly – New Music – More Music Videos Anybody else remember when MTV used to play actual videos, and some of them were actually cool, and maybe, just maybe, they had songs on them that you hadn’t heard before but actually liked? Yeah, me too. Sigh. Now you have to subscribe to super premium expensive cable to see videos that aren’t “I LOVE THE X’s”, and full of really annoying people commenting on the songs. Hate that crap. Anyway, way back in 1993, MTV used to play some music sometimes, and a group that got into semi-heavy rotation, that I really liked, was Belly. Liked Belly. Liked Blake Babies. The…