K-Tel Records: Neon Nights

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1982 K-Tel compilation, subtitled "Rock's Danceable Side"

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Controversy - Prince	12
Don't You Want Me - Human League	9
Let It Whip - Dazz Band	5
Super Freak - Rick James	3
Murphy's Law - Cheri	3
A Night To Remember - Shalamar	3
I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) - Hall & Oates	3
Get Down On It - Kool & the Gang	2
Circles - Atlantic Starr	1
Mama Used To Say - Junior	1
You Got The Power - War	0
Call Me - Skyy	0

― enochroot, Thursday, 15 February 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Eice7-SyPk

― enochroot, Thursday, 15 February 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link

Tough call

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 February 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link

Tough call

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 February 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link

Tough call

― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 February 2018 23:19 (six years ago) link

Tough call

― pplains, Monday, 19 February 2018 00:27 (six years ago) link

Tough call

― del griffith, Monday, 19 February 2018 00:33 (six years ago) link

Strong comp

― flappy bird, Monday, 19 February 2018 00:48 (six years ago) link

This is an impressive list, but with the utmost rigor and taking all factors into account I feel pretty confident voting for “Let It Whip”.

― You're all losing so many points on your progress bars (Champiness), Monday, 19 February 2018 03:27 (six years ago) link

(Also, props to curmudgeon for getting your own joke chain started off with a double-post, deliberate or not)

― You're all losing so many points on your progress bars (Champiness), Monday, 19 February 2018 03:28 (six years ago) link

From this distance Human League seems like an outlier, but it's a good reminder of how much overlap there was between New Wave and electrofunk. I guess I'll go with Prince, but yeah tough call.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 19 February 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link

i don't know if I could pick between H&O and Prince

― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 19 February 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link

Tough call

― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 00:30 (six years ago) link

Sorry--speaking as a K-Tel purist, a 1982 compilation is like Willie Mays in 1973 or Tiger Woods today.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 00:41 (six years ago) link

so... not a tough call then?

― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 02:45 (six years ago) link

love that ad up top! they are almost copping some moves from the Showroom Dummies video

― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 03:06 (six years ago) link

Sorry--speaking as a K-Tel purist, a 1982 compilation is like Willie Mays in 1973 or Tiger Woods today.
― clemenza, Tuesday, February 20, 2018 7:41 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So as a K-Tel dilettante, when was peak K-Tel? Because this track list makes it look like they still had their game on.
BTW, no one's mentioned the last 2 songs (by Cheri and Junior), but those two stand up impressively to some of the better remembered tracks on the comp.

― enochroot, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 12:47 (six years ago) link

K-Tel for me is the first half of the '70s, when abysmal junk--but sometimes fascinatingly abysmal junk--swamped Top 40 radio. The DeFranco Family, Sister Janet Mead, Rick Dees, Vicki Lawrence, etc. The Reservoir Dogs/K-Billy K-Tel. Some of that junk, of course--Edison Lighthouse, Wild Cherry, etc.--was pretty great. And I'm partly kidding: "K-Tel purist" is the ultimate oxymoron.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 12:56 (six years ago) link

I would say 1977-78. I associate K-Tel with things like Disco Fever and Star Party from that era.

― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 12:59 (six years ago) link

Also wondering why K-Tel's marketing department felt the need position this as a "rock" compilation (it's subtitled "Rock's Danceable Side"). Was this just a way to sell more copies by tricking Foreigner fans into listening to the Dazz Band? Or was the 1982 definition of rock really that elastic?

― enochroot, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 13:38 (six years ago) link

Like how they start with Human League, and then Hall & Oates, and finally - oh here's Rick James.

― pplains, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 14:02 (six years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Thursday, 22 February 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link

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