re: 80's Club Music

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moved to houston in 90 and started going to trash disco at tower theater then red square and power tools (my all time FAV club!)

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My buddy was a bouncer at Tower Theater. I saw CCCP-American Soviets, Oriental Express fame there. It was them playing a record and two dudes lip syncing. It was bad but pre Milli Vanilli scandle. Another buddy DJ'd at Pwer Tools on Sunday nights summer of '91. So we were there a good bit.

In high school, we would have school mates that had access to commerical/industrial units and we;d set up or own house parties. Those ended up being some killer parties. I don't know if you remember a band called The Hunger from Houston, but we got them to play at one of them. Good times.

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Another buddy DJ'd at Pwer Tools on Sunday nights summer of '91. So we were there a good bit.

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help me out with the themes:

- i remember school with the go-go girls dressed up like cheerleaders complete with pompoms running through the crowd and an old dude on stage with a megaphone shouting NO RUNNING

- nursery rhyme night complete with 'bo peep' and a couple of actual fricking sheep running around

- stream-of-conciscious night (kinda lame) some chicks laying down or on various stages would just talk random shite into microphones hooked up to tiny amps nearby

- workshop night where they had actual power tools, sprinklers & shite.

- remember Pop goes the weasel cuz th weasel goes pop and some go go dancer on a cube covered in glow-paint wearing a hat with one long flower on it and she was popping the frick out of that little daisy. i was spellbound for hours.

- always loved to 'chill' outside under the interstate. great to get a little fresh air and catch some guy with a guitar singing.

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I don't know if you remember a band called The Hunger from Houston, but we got them to play at one of them. Good times

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absolutely remember the hunger

eta power tools always had the funky shite playing

Dimples D - SUCKA DJ

I can barely remember those power tool nights. I think Sundays were just music and not any themes that I remember. Everybody was a ferak back then to me.

The Hunger played way before they became real popular. I think one of the bandmates graduated from my high school or soemthing and came back to play a warehouse party.

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Here's me circa '88 trying to get my game on.
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Haha... I know plenty of those kinda dudes that went to my HS...

Lil Louis- French Kiss

Do you guys listen to Matt Sebastian's Sunday Night "Darkwave" show on Siriusxm ch 34? That is one show that exemplifies the sound we are talking about. His playlists are awesome and it is easy to get a request in.

Dynamix II--"Just Give the DJ a Break"

Cameron Paul's Late Great 88 Remix

The Beat Club--"Security"

Cameron Paul--"This is a Test"

Dimples Tee--"Jealous Fella's" [sic]

Cybotron--"Clear"

Will to Power--"Say It's Gonna Rain"

Hashim--"Al Naafiysh(The Soul)" (This was the song sampled for Paul Hardcastle's "19")

Gucci Crew II--"Sally (That Girl)"

Freestyle--"Don't Stop the Rock"

M.C. A.D.E.--"Bass Mechanic"

Afro-Rican--"Give it all You Got(Doggy Style)"

Beatmaster Clay D.--"Boot the Booty" Ain't nuttin' but tutti frutti, get on the floor if ya got dat booty

The Megatrons--"Rock the Planet"

Trinere--"They're Playing Our Song"

Debbie Deb--"When I Hear Music"

Royal Cash--"Radio Activity" Twilight 22--"Siberian Nights"

Nice & Wild--"Diamond Girl"

911--"Twenty Four/Seven (Cameron Paul Remix)"

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Back in the day there was a great alt radio station in Toronto CFNY

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That was one of the best commercial radio stations ever. I learned about so many good bands from that station. Squeeze, Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, Bruce Cockburn, FM, Nash the Slash, on and on. Phenomenal.

I look forward to this thread each year. Probably my favorite thing to talk about on the Music Board.

I own about 7000 12 inch singles from 1970s-2005.

Almost every song mentioned in this thread so far is on my wall of vinyl in my home office right here next to me. When all of the local DJs started selling their collections in the late 90s/early 2000s, I started scooping these up for 2 or 3 dollars a piece.

There are a few things that I don't have. I'll eventually locate them :)

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All that stuff seems quaint and innocuous now but I absolutely hated it while it was going on. South Louisiana clubs mostly went for that kinda thing and shied away from the better, more exotic sounding music.

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Well, that's fine. There weren't going to be large areas of the South that picked up on the "more exotic" stuff (and I put Shriekback("Nemesis") and MCL("Rigor Mortis") in that group.

"Quaint and innocuous" or not, it's what was played, and generally, I liked most of it. It was still based on funk, soul, and R & B, which I loved at the time (and still do). And most importantly, it put asses on the dance floor. "Nemesis" and "Boing, Boom, Tschack" weren't ever going to find a big audience down here. Playing too many songs like that was a sure way to drive the girls away.

And "exotic" doesn't necessarily mean "better".