I hope you are going to break your "one song per act" rule because it is a travesty if the only Duran Duran song in this competition is A View to a Kill. I know you need to have movie songs, but A View To A Kill would not even be a 3 seed in an all Duran Duran 80s-est bracket!
I say kill A View To A Kill in the first round and force Keith and Joe to consider Hungry Like the Wolf, Rio, or The Reflex for another bracket!
Vote Sheena! Upset special!
And yes, Joe, you are being bullied by a swing dancer!
I believe I had The Reflex also nominated as being a ridiculously 80s song. And while "A View to a Kill" is maybe not their BEST song...DAMN is that song superfucking80s! --Keith
I agree! However just about any Duran Duran song is one of the mostest superfucking80s ever. I have to give you props though... it had to be DAMN hard to select the songs you did. This just as easily could have been a 256 song bracket!
Thanks, man, there are legions of songs lying along the side of the road, almost all of which deserved a place in the tourney! Where do you come down on Bon Jovi?😆
Bon Jovi? Where did that come from? Bon Jovi definitely has its place, and there are certainly some earlier songs that possess certain 80s elements (Runaway, Livin' on a Prayer). However, they transcended the 80s to the point where most of their songs don't immediately make me think 80s. They may have a shot in an 80's hair band or even a general rock bracket, but not here.
Y'know, just thinking about bands like Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Poison, and where they fit into this for Side B of the tournament, and I know you know about these bands.
I was thinking about this too. In my opinion it is a different category altogether. This sounds like an "80s Rock!" bracket. All of those bands fit nicely into that category! I don't think any of them would be considered 80s-est in the same way the songs in the current bracket are. Not as much synth, very little sax, hardly any techno-beat, etc.
Keep up the good work! I am really enjoying this :).
I have to thank my friend Jenny, a lifelong Duran Duran super-fan, and listener of this podcast, for introducing me to that a couple years ago, it really paid off!
Yes Joel! Duran Duran rules the 80s! Poor Sheena Easton (who is a phenomenal singer). Keith and Joe just set her up to be demolished with this matchup.
To be fair to Keith, Joe set her up. (*throws Joe deftly under the bus*) But I won't be sad to watch Duran Duran cruise to the second round, even if Joel apparently hates the song!
Follow-up: I became a HUGE 007 nerd upon seeing A View to A Kill - sought out all the movies, collected the original paperbacks, read Fleming bios, etc. My reactions upon listenting to this episode - 1) For Your Eyes Only contains Roger Moore's absolute peak Bond moment. No pun, no smiling eyes, no glint of humor - dude straight up kicks a helpless assassin in a car off a cliff. He was never better than right then. 2) I had never heard Simon miss that Live Aid note before, so thanks for that. Also, we saw Duran Duran a couple summers back and this song was amazing - even though Simon struggled to a note or two. :) 3) Christopher Walken. Grace Jones. ::chef's kiss:: 5) Sheena Easton put out a great '80s album, but this song - from around the same time as her hit "Morning Train/9 to 5" - is more in line with that late '70s sound for sure. 4) The Living Daylights is an underrated song and I said good day sirs. See you in the comments.
Can confirm your 007 fandom, was unaware that this movie started it!
Glad we could share Simon's one bad note with you! I saw David Lee Roth with Van Halen on their final tour, and it was easier to count the handful of notes that he actually went for and hit than missed/unattempted notes.
5 minutes later, also me: Ope, wait, I've DEFINITELY heard For Your Eyes Only on Delilah in the car with my mom (though probably in the 90's). Nostalgia aside, knowing nothing about A View to a Kill, I'd definitely peg it as 80's if I heard it for the first time not on this show.
I'm going to listen to the episode, of course, but this one isn't even really close, despite my weak spot for Sheena Easton's "Best Kept Secret." More pressingly, after the last episode, I realized that you've split the '80s from 1980-85 and then (presumably) '86-'89, which means this first season covers six years, while the second will only cover four - is that right?
Yes, that's right, based on very few nominees from 80-81. putting 85 into the next bracket would just be too much good music for one bracket to bear. As it turns out, we probably should have done 3 shows. 80-83, 84-86, 87-89. But hey, we live and learn.
Do we regret some of our choices? 100%. Do we wish we could go back in time to do things differently? 100%. Do we like answering our own questions? You bet we do.
I hope you are going to break your "one song per act" rule because it is a travesty if the only Duran Duran song in this competition is A View to a Kill. I know you need to have movie songs, but A View To A Kill would not even be a 3 seed in an all Duran Duran 80s-est bracket!
I say kill A View To A Kill in the first round and force Keith and Joe to consider Hungry Like the Wolf, Rio, or The Reflex for another bracket!
Vote Sheena! Upset special!
And yes, Joe, you are being bullied by a swing dancer!
I believe I had The Reflex also nominated as being a ridiculously 80s song. And while "A View to a Kill" is maybe not their BEST song...DAMN is that song superfucking80s! --Keith
I agree! However just about any Duran Duran song is one of the mostest superfucking80s ever. I have to give you props though... it had to be DAMN hard to select the songs you did. This just as easily could have been a 256 song bracket!
Thanks, man, there are legions of songs lying along the side of the road, almost all of which deserved a place in the tourney! Where do you come down on Bon Jovi?😆
Bon Jovi? Where did that come from? Bon Jovi definitely has its place, and there are certainly some earlier songs that possess certain 80s elements (Runaway, Livin' on a Prayer). However, they transcended the 80s to the point where most of their songs don't immediately make me think 80s. They may have a shot in an 80's hair band or even a general rock bracket, but not here.
Y'know, just thinking about bands like Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Poison, and where they fit into this for Side B of the tournament, and I know you know about these bands.
I was thinking about this too. In my opinion it is a different category altogether. This sounds like an "80s Rock!" bracket. All of those bands fit nicely into that category! I don't think any of them would be considered 80s-est in the same way the songs in the current bracket are. Not as much synth, very little sax, hardly any techno-beat, etc.
Keep up the good work! I am really enjoying this :).
Good lord I could not stop laughing at that clip of Simon's hitting that note. Or not hitting that note. Why have I never heard that before?
I have to thank my friend Jenny, a lifelong Duran Duran super-fan, and listener of this podcast, for introducing me to that a couple years ago, it really paid off!
Yes Joel! Duran Duran rules the 80s! Poor Sheena Easton (who is a phenomenal singer). Keith and Joe just set her up to be demolished with this matchup.
To be fair to Keith, Joe set her up. (*throws Joe deftly under the bus*) But I won't be sad to watch Duran Duran cruise to the second round, even if Joel apparently hates the song!
Follow-up: I became a HUGE 007 nerd upon seeing A View to A Kill - sought out all the movies, collected the original paperbacks, read Fleming bios, etc. My reactions upon listenting to this episode - 1) For Your Eyes Only contains Roger Moore's absolute peak Bond moment. No pun, no smiling eyes, no glint of humor - dude straight up kicks a helpless assassin in a car off a cliff. He was never better than right then. 2) I had never heard Simon miss that Live Aid note before, so thanks for that. Also, we saw Duran Duran a couple summers back and this song was amazing - even though Simon struggled to a note or two. :) 3) Christopher Walken. Grace Jones. ::chef's kiss:: 5) Sheena Easton put out a great '80s album, but this song - from around the same time as her hit "Morning Train/9 to 5" - is more in line with that late '70s sound for sure. 4) The Living Daylights is an underrated song and I said good day sirs. See you in the comments.
Can confirm your 007 fandom, was unaware that this movie started it!
Glad we could share Simon's one bad note with you! I saw David Lee Roth with Van Halen on their final tour, and it was easier to count the handful of notes that he actually went for and hit than missed/unattempted notes.
I love a-ha! This song just never hit me right.
Good day to YOU, sir! 😘
It’s …”kinda like sending a tank up against Don Knotts.
Don Knotts *today*.”
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Joe is a funny dude! So glad you are enjoying this! --K
Me: I don't know either of these songs.
5 minutes later, also me: Ope, wait, I've DEFINITELY heard For Your Eyes Only on Delilah in the car with my mom (though probably in the 90's). Nostalgia aside, knowing nothing about A View to a Kill, I'd definitely peg it as 80's if I heard it for the first time not on this show.
I'm going to listen to the episode, of course, but this one isn't even really close, despite my weak spot for Sheena Easton's "Best Kept Secret." More pressingly, after the last episode, I realized that you've split the '80s from 1980-85 and then (presumably) '86-'89, which means this first season covers six years, while the second will only cover four - is that right?
Yes, that's right, based on very few nominees from 80-81. putting 85 into the next bracket would just be too much good music for one bracket to bear. As it turns out, we probably should have done 3 shows. 80-83, 84-86, 87-89. But hey, we live and learn.
Do we regret some of our choices? 100%. Do we wish we could go back in time to do things differently? 100%. Do we like answering our own questions? You bet we do.