tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90664196888831411092024-02-19T02:09:28.183-05:00The 80's Refugee CampUncle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10477820593706523513noreply@blogger.comBlogger130125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066419688883141109.post-1757763981113380062010-04-19T16:29:00.000-04:002010-04-19T16:29:18.859-04:00Incoming."You Dropped A Bomb On Me (Special Disco Mix)" - The Gap Band I'm back from Station Nopost. The brothers Charlie, Ronnie and Robert wilson formed the Gap Band in 1967 as The Greenwood, Archer and Pine Street Band. Now most of you out there - who aren't high and aren't circling some weird planet with 3 breasted women (editor's note: Hmmm)- realize that that name was abbreviated (G.A.P., do I Uncle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10477820593706523513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066419688883141109.post-4728797826925332872010-04-01T15:25:00.000-04:002010-04-01T15:25:41.722-04:00Atari fever.Atari Force #1-5
To tie in with the hugely popular Atari home video gaming console in 1982, DC Comics came up with Atari Force. The first series was released packed in with actual Atari games. Issue 1 came with Defender and subsequent books followed in the games Berzerk, Star Raiders, Phoenix and Galaxian. The comics had an all-star cast of creators. Roy Thomas (X-Men and Avengers veteran writer)Uncle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10477820593706523513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066419688883141109.post-80209414621502006472010-03-26T12:42:00.000-04:002010-03-26T12:42:02.094-04:00Two dollars."Best Adventures (Remix)" - Thinkman
Long time between updates, I know. Rupert Hine tried to pull a Milli Vanilli back in 1986. Thinkman was a "virtual band" with hired actors as band members on live performances. Hine was mostly known as a successful music producer, having worked with the likes of Jon Pertwee (the 3rd Doctor Who, track that song down for a snicker), Tina Turner, Howard Uncle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10477820593706523513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066419688883141109.post-13330810745446716672010-03-19T13:20:00.001-04:002010-03-19T13:27:14.989-04:00Aboriginally."Beds Are Burning (Kintore East)" - Midnight OilAustralian super group.1987. The song was taken from the tribute LP to the plight of the Aborigines and the environment, Diesel And Dust. This version has also been released as the Kintoris Mix and the Tamarama Mix. It was covered by a female 80's group and called the BananaTamaRama Mix. Somebody's lyyyyying. The Yuendemu Percapella Mix I'm Uncle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10477820593706523513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066419688883141109.post-50983381130243805362010-03-15T17:52:00.001-04:002010-03-15T17:53:48.569-04:00Burning white heat."Rain In The Summertime (Through The Haze Mix)" - The AlarmFlashback to 1987 for The Alarm's 3rd studio album and dig today's meager offering to you and yours. Also available: The Lightning Mix. Both of these mixes were done by Steve Thompson for those keeping score, running 8:05 and 7:14 @ 320 kbs. The band is from North Wales and formed in the 70's. Less yapping = more downloading.Through The Uncle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10477820593706523513noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066419688883141109.post-4019710471827128972010-03-10T16:11:00.001-05:002010-03-10T16:13:21.229-05:00More beans, Mr. Taggart?The Black Hole #1-4 & Annual #1
At the time it was the most expensive film Disney ever produced and it was blasted by critics. The Black Hole movie was released in Decmber of 1979 but the Whitman comics here came out in 1980 - so yes, they belong on an 80's blog. Now (at the risk of unleashing a major spoiler on a 30 year old flick) the crew of the Palomino were sucked into the film's Uncle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10477820593706523513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066419688883141109.post-76786875325222844632010-03-07T14:58:00.000-05:002010-03-07T14:58:35.967-05:00Eyes of the world."Biko (Video Mix)" - Peter Gabriel
This version of Gabriel's tribute to South Africa's Steve Biko came out in 1987 as part of the movie Cry Freedom - about Biko's struggle against Apartheid. Some new guy named Denzel Washington was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for that movie too. Biko, the song, was originally released in 1980 and featured (you guessed it) on the 1st season Miami Uncle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10477820593706523513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066419688883141109.post-88043822842226477602010-03-03T18:25:00.001-05:002010-03-03T18:31:33.743-05:00By the power of...DC Comics Presents #47 & Masters Of The Universe #1-3 (DC Comics-1982)I must have read these comics 500 times when I was 10. First, in DC Comics Presents #47, Skeletor tries to enter Castle Grayskull with his half of the Power Sword and opens a rift between 2 worlds. Superman is pulled from Earth to Eternia and Kal-El teams up with He-Man and discussed who had the coolest hyphenated name. Uncle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10477820593706523513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066419688883141109.post-3609640098488563512010-02-28T17:19:00.000-05:002010-02-28T17:19:14.741-05:00Bullets on a hot tin roof."Wild Horses (Extended Remix)" - Gino Vannelli
You probably know him for his bigger hits like Living Inside Myself and I Just Wanna Stop as opposed to this #55 track from 1987. It did crack the Top 40 on the Adult Contemporary chart though and won Gino and his brother Joe a Juno award for recording engineer of the year. Joe+Gino=Juno. Oh, that was bad. It's not a remake of a Stones track either. Uncle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10477820593706523513noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066419688883141109.post-23336108709661155972010-02-27T15:12:00.000-05:002010-02-27T15:12:28.553-05:00A pig that don't fly straight."Hanging On A Heart Attack (Dance Mix)" - Device
From 1987. Device keyboardist, bassist & co-vocalist Holly Knight was formerly a member of the band Spider in the early 80's. Tina Turner covered one of their songs, Better Be Good To Me, and it was a bigger hit than this song. It's still catchy and you can bug out to it. What? You can. You kids today. I'm shaking my fist at you! Knight also Uncle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10477820593706523513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066419688883141109.post-64206591413187835242010-02-25T17:15:00.000-05:002010-02-25T17:15:31.262-05:00Show Me The Way To Go Home.Rom Spaceknight Annual #4 & #73-75
Rom Annual #4 - Mantlo/Ditko. The Shi'Ar (an alien race brought to prominence during the Chris Claremont & John Byrne years of Uncanny X-Men) encounter one of Rom's fellow Spaceknights, Pulsar, which leads one of their doctors to transform himself into a cyborg. Look for Gladiator and the rest of the Imperial Guard in this double-sized issue.Uncle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10477820593706523513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066419688883141109.post-26777359741412069042010-02-22T17:52:00.000-05:002010-02-22T17:52:50.071-05:00Yo Yippy."I Wanna Be A Cowboy (12 inch Saddle Mix)" - Boys Don't Cry
Inspired by the Spaghetti Westerns that I love so much, here comes one-hit wonder Boys Don't Cry with this campy #12 hit from 1985. The band was discovered by talent scout (now remixer) Paul Oakenfold in London. Their name came from a line used in 10cc's "I'm Not In Love" (and later on the full-length version of "Cry" by 10cc's Godley &Uncle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10477820593706523513noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066419688883141109.post-31471500641122894942010-02-13T14:27:00.001-05:002010-02-13T14:28:31.209-05:00Rom's In Spaceee-suh!Rom Spaceknight #67-72All by Bill Mantlo and Steve Ditko.
Rom #67: What does a warrior do without a war? Go 56 light years into space to some other freaky ass planet and get in a fight with something that looks like Godzilla's little brother of course. The quest for Rom's fellow Spaceknights begins! It's time for them all to reclaim their humanity. Rom's war with the Wraiths ending was kinda Uncle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10477820593706523513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066419688883141109.post-82494162243903755882010-02-12T19:24:00.001-05:002010-02-12T19:25:13.986-05:00Weird.There are a lot of blogger sites disappearing thanks to big brother. Most likely it's the blogs hosting downloads of stuff that just hit your favorite music outlets in the last week or so and not 20+ year old stuff like you find here. I have set up a mirror blog on wordpress just in case. Here's the url:
http://eightiesrefugeecamp.wordpress.com/
Bookmark it, whatever you need to do. Hopefully Uncle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10477820593706523513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066419688883141109.post-75984704156911204582010-02-08T17:36:00.001-05:002010-02-08T17:38:13.879-05:00Arm Your Soul."Tumblin' Down (Remix)" & "Have You Ever Been to Hell (Remix)" - Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers
Bomb Squad guru Hank Shocklee remixed these tunes back in 1988 and I looked for quite a while to find them to share. Big thanks to Sandman74 for this. The Melody Makers were all Marleys too: Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky and Mike...if I like the girl, who cares who you like? In reality (and not some Uncle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10477820593706523513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066419688883141109.post-77385531164476755032010-02-04T16:57:00.004-05:002010-02-04T17:21:32.708-05:00War Is Over.Rom Spaceknight #61 - 66
Rumor control: These are the facts. The creative team remains Bill Mantlo and Steve Ditko. The war for Earth with the Dire Straits Wraiths ends in this batch. Rom, that Sultan Of Swing, has some help from Forge (who turned up in the last batch of Wraith/X-Men stories I shared with you all last time) and The Mighty Avengers to name a few to end the conflict - once and for Uncle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10477820593706523513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066419688883141109.post-70210281607079401172010-02-02T16:38:00.000-05:002010-02-02T16:38:09.759-05:00In The Mist"These Dreams (Extended Remix)" - Heart
Bernie Taupin (who worked with Elton John on many a hit song) and Martin Page (writer of Starship's "We Built This City" and Go West's "King Of Wishful Thinking") wrote the tune. The song was first offered to Stevie Nicks but, in a moment of great stupidity, she passed on it. Hindsight sucks, don't it? Heart grabbed the song and decided Nancy would sing it Uncle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10477820593706523513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066419688883141109.post-41394795097483678802010-01-23T17:21:00.000-05:002010-01-23T17:21:59.214-05:00Knew mootants.Rom Annual #3 & Bonuses
Again with the bonus stuff. Included in this pack are two issues of The Uncanny X-Men, by Chris Claremont and John Romita, Jr.(2nd best team ever on Uncanny), #187 and 188. They feature the Wraiths as the main baddies right after Storm lost her mutant powers due to Forge's mutant-powersapping thingamadoo. Forge created that gun, because he's a mutant with the ability Uncle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10477820593706523513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066419688883141109.post-7217329054384355912010-01-20T15:34:00.003-05:002010-01-20T18:28:21.109-05:00Conforming trends.
"Hip To Be Square (Dance Remix)" - Huey Lewis & The News
Shep Pettibone remixed this top 5 hit for Huey Lewis & The News in 1986 from the LP, Fore!. Joe Montana and Ronnie Lott from the San Francisco 49ers of the time sing backup on this song. If you've ever seen American Psycho you might have other memories of this song. In that movie the song is played and danced to by Christian Bale Uncle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10477820593706523513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066419688883141109.post-89085490867001615022010-01-16T16:45:00.001-05:002010-01-16T16:45:56.431-05:00Alpha Ant-Men.
Rom Spaceknight #56-60 & Bonuses
I'm throwing in issues 244 & 245 of The Mighty Avengers because they feature the Dire Wraiths with today's update. Meanwhile in Rom: #56 features Canada's claim to fame in the Marvel U, Alpha Flight, in the first of a two-parter. Mark Bright fills in for artist Sal Buscema on that same comic. Buscema is back for #57 & 58. Legendary Steve Ditko handlesUncle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10477820593706523513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066419688883141109.post-64245700431988877312010-01-14T15:26:00.000-05:002010-01-14T15:26:28.902-05:00Charlie Over There With 3rd Degree BurnsEddie Murphy - Party All The Time (Extended Version)
Come back with me to the time when comedian Eddie Murphy was an aspiring singer and enlisted Rick James to help out with this tune from his debut musical LP, How Could It Be. I suspect this was all happening sometime around the "Eff your couch" days documented so eloquently by Eddie's brother, Charlie on Chappelle's Show. This song climbed all Uncle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10477820593706523513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066419688883141109.post-19987781413321576012010-01-11T16:34:00.001-05:002010-01-11T16:38:06.448-05:00Rom's Total War!Rom Spaceknight #49-55
Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema's classic Marvel comic book from the 80's continues with this latest batch for you kind readers. The Dire Wraiths have now stepped up their game in their evil plan to take over the Earth like all good evil aliens tend to do. Issue 50 is a double-sized affair pitting Wraiths against Skrulls and finds Rom fretting over the love of his life's lost Uncle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10477820593706523513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066419688883141109.post-86925961207662135712010-01-05T15:35:00.001-05:002010-01-05T15:35:51.622-05:00Do ya think he's randy?
"Passion (12" Mix)" - Rod Stewart
November of 1980 saw the debut of Stewart's tenth solo album, Foolish Behaviour (you'll note the British spelling since Rod is, in fact, British). This song was the first release from that album, making it all the way to #5 here in the USA and I've always liked it the most-est. In the LP's liner notes Rod lovingly attached this note:
This album is dedicated to Uncle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10477820593706523513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066419688883141109.post-25150512137107991542009-12-29T16:59:00.001-05:002009-12-29T17:00:20.668-05:00I am Jack's smirking....not that Ed Norton. Sorry.
"Honeymooners Rap" - Joe Piscopo & Eddie Murphy
Hope everyone had happy holidays! In 1985 Piscopo released the comedy album New Jersey (Bon Jovi had the same idea in '88) and this track was included as part of it. He and Murphy recorded the song during their Saturday Night Live days over at NBC. A lot of people think SNL went into the toilet after the original Not Ready For Prime-Time Uncle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10477820593706523513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066419688883141109.post-63182959528808426892009-12-21T11:39:00.002-05:002009-12-21T11:43:43.870-05:00Peng.
Rom Spaceknight Annual #2 & #47-48 Not the Knights Who Say Ni. This is more of Galador's finest. Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema are once again your creative team. <------- badass cover to your left for #47. Neee-Wom. Neutralizer. You can just feel me struggling for a laugh from you here.
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