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August 7, 2008
Tarzan Boy
Were you one of those kids who begged his parents to drive him down to the Record Theater to purchase the latest Howard Jones 12" extended remix, causing your parents to look at each other and say, "Our son is a total fag, isn't he?"
Well if you were, then you will love the web site Burning the Ground from DjPaulT. He has compiled an extensive database of hard-to-find remixes and imports, all available for your listening pleasure. From Eurythmics "Sexcrime" to The Art Of Noise (featuring Max Headroom!) "Paranoimia" -- he has the majority of obscure (and some not-so-obscure) songs you haven't heard in years. And he continues to add songs weekly to his already vast online catalog.
He looks a bit like Bubala, no? And they're both HUGE music fans. Hmmm.
I'm sure many of you are already aware of the site, but I wasn't. I'm always late to a party.
Another wonderful source for all that is 80's and 90's is music aficionado Johnny's Lost in the 80's blog. But you already knew that, too.
Remember all those cheesy, manufactured dance girl groups, like The Cover Girls, Seduction, Sweet Sensation and Exposé? One thing I noticed about all these girl groups is how awful their album covers were. For some reason one of the women always poses as if she has period cramps. I've added arrows to help identify the cramper:
The last cover photo is unfortunate on so many levels. What is the chick on the right doing? Who does that? It's not so much her bent over pretzel pose; it's the surprised finger-up-her-butt-without-lube look of shock and horror. Did she accidentally stumble upon the Lazy Bear festivities? If those other two women were true friends, they would have tapped her on the shoulder and said, "You might not want to do that. Seriously, stop it."
Anyway, take a gander over there and wallow in nostalgia.
And then watch "I Seen Beyonce At Burger King" by gay rapper Cazwell. It will get stuck in your head. Great to annoy your co-workers with:
Posted by durban bud at August 7, 2008 12:59 AM
Comments
you are a RIOT! lol.
yep -- this blog is definitely an A+. what's scary is that i actually owned most of the postings in one form or another. my vinyl collection WAS scary. fast foreward 25+ years and i'm slowing gaining that long lost collection back via this site.
Posted by: Mike A at August 7, 2008 2:11 AM
When I see a title like "Tarzan Boy" on my RSS feed I expect to see a blogger in a loin cloth ;-)
Anyway.. you would get along great with my husband, he owns like ever extended club mix ever made :)
Posted by: scott at August 7, 2008 10:22 AM
Ha! I just downloaded the Tarzan Boy remixes right before I read your blog. I have been downloading from there for a few months or so now. Great stuff. I do kinda look like Paul. I never noticed that before.
Posted by: Bubala at August 7, 2008 10:26 AM
I was giggling like an idiot in the office while reading "it's the surprised finger-up-her-butt-without-lube look of shock and horror."
I never begged to get the latest Howard Jones 12" extended remix, but my parents did get me a cheery red Hello Kitty wallet when I was 4. They honestly held my hand and ran me to the finish line of gayness. Hope they're proud of me now!
Posted by: Sorata at August 7, 2008 11:43 AM
Wheeee! Don't forget, new Lost In The '80s posts every week at Popdose!
Posted by: johnny at August 7, 2008 12:16 PM
I have that Expose album...yes on Vinyl. I remember trying to find it in DC after hearing the music in Florida during Spring Break. You didn't mention Company B....
I actually saw Expose open for Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam at DAR Constitution Hall on Halloween Night. Ah, Good Times!
Thanks for the mammaries DB, ur ah Memories!
Posted by: tonkamanor at August 7, 2008 1:57 PM
Well, it appears that Evil really does walk the Earth. Not only that, but he also writes a blog out of DC. As per Your suggestion to drive my co workers crazy, I have put the Cazwell YouTube video on non stop repeat on the computer in the office and am forcing my staff to watch it all the way through. Now, we are all boppin' around singin' "I saw Beyoncé at Burger King" like a pack of fools - job well done! Oh, and tell Satan I said HI!
Posted by: ElfBear at August 7, 2008 2:12 PM
I was one of those kids, except I was 30, and it was the ex-boyfriend who'd roll his eyes and ask if we really had to listen to Baltimora again.
Posted by: Mark at August 7, 2008 2:38 PM
well i have a story to tell u...back in the late 80s to mid 90s i was a dj and music director here in denver. i had the "pleasure" of meeting expose...very nice and very short! the girl on the left (ann) was married to a friend of mine in new york. very nice person. oh nostalgia!
Posted by: john in denver at August 7, 2008 2:51 PM
Jeez, I feel really old. En Vogue was the only group mentioned that I've even heard of. When I discovered world music I stopped listening to what was playing on the airwaves (around '85) and now I find that I'm hopelessly out of the loop when these topics arise.
Posted by: Lucky Pierre at August 7, 2008 5:57 PM
Oh, my parents had nothing to worry about--I just had thirty Boy George posters in my room when I was a senior in high school...
Posted by: Sean at August 8, 2008 10:55 PM
Thanks for the links! I love the 80s and 90s!
Posted by: Nivek at August 8, 2008 11:22 PM
Why is Burger King so much more represented in song than McDonald's or Wendy's? De La Soul's Bitties in the BK Lounge, Humpty Hump getting busy in the Burger King bathroom, Rob Base prefers the Whopper to the Big Mac, the list goes on and on. It's a mystery of our time.
Posted by: chrisafer at August 9, 2008 3:39 AM
Oh, how wierd is that. I was searching for that Italo-disco song "Love and Devotion" today and it brought me to, you guessed it, Burning the Ground.
I have that and a whole bunch of other good 80s music sites on my blog sidebar. That I haven't posted in two months...well, that's another story.
Posted by: stebbins at August 14, 2008 5:08 PM