does a noise dude think godley & creme's "cry" is one of the best pop singles of the '80s?

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― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

I liked the video

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

"Under My Thumb" was better.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

This song gives me chills.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

produced by trevor horn!

― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

which is funny because the song that came on shuffle play after it was "owner of a lonely heart."

― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

great song, but i have little use for "ranking" the "best pop singles of the'80s." get one baseball card collection.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

never collected baseball cards, but i did at one point have all the garbage pail kids.

― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

rank them in order, pls!

(jus' joshin')

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

i liked the video better when it had macauley culkin and george wendt in it.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

Mark Newgarden > Godley & Creme

http://www.wackypackages.org/stickers/91_topps/11_front_yuppie_chow_small.jpg

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

i'm thinking ray gun over marty gras and (of course) atom bomb for best gpk but i'm forgetting lots for sure. this song's awesome, it's an emo 'in the air tonight'.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

i don't know this song cuz i am a youngster.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

i bought the Owner of a Lonely Heart 12" this weekend. need to hear more trevor horn.

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

i'd never heard the song in question before. it reminds me of 10CC's "i'm not in love" (which one version i downloaded had a snippet of sampled into it), a really sad Wham song and a bit of maybe the Blue Nile. if i was a gay man in the 80s, i would have cried myself to sleep with this song every night

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

this song, which I HATED HATED HATED but can't remember how it goes now, had the first attempts at "morphing" in a video, which was later perfected by Michael Jackson.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

were they actual morphs or just very slow crossfades?

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

slow crossfades, I think.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

whoops:

However, they achieved their greatest success as the innovative directors of more than fifty music videos in the early 1980s. They created memorable videos for The Police ("Every Breath You Take", "Synchronicity II", "Wrapped Around Your Finger"), Duran Duran ("Girls On Film", "A View To A Kill"), Herbie Hancock ("Rockit"), Frankie Goes to Hollywood ("Relax", "Two Tribes"), among many others, up to Godley's video for the 1996 single from The Beatles ("Real Love"), featured in the Beatles Anthology.
Their innovation extended to their videos for their own songs, notably "Wide Boy" and "Cry". The latter groundbreaking and very popular 1985 video featured one of the first uses of the digital morphing effect, to sequentially blend faces of different ages and races into each other.

http://www.mvdbase.com/tech.php?last=Godley+.and.+Creme

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

yeah the video was a huge deal at the time, you rarely see it now though.

they did the video for u2's 'the sweetest thing' too, i always like it/notice when those old school video directors make something.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

i'll YSI this song later. vh1's website has the video but i think it only works if you're using IE.

― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

I take it back...I don't think it was real morphing, I think it was just really smart slowfades, with the eyes and faces matching well, and maybe not fading the whole thing at once to seem like a morph.

Anyway, they freaking directed Duran Duran's Girls on FIlm and Herbie Hancock's Rockit, and for those two alone they deserve a hallowed place in our pantheon of artists. And Everybody Have Fun Tonight by Wang Chung! Not bad...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/?v=hRB4WO9VuN4

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

mvdbase has been known to lie.

there's certainly no conventional 'morphing' going on in that video. i do remember loving it as a kid, though. the song, not so much. i'm amazed a rapper hasn't sampled it yet though.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

yeah it was just slow fades, at pretty much a constant pace for most of the video i think. odd nobody's mentioned 10cc yet - this song seems very much what you'd expect from trevor horn + "i'm not in love".

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

o wait jaxon did - strike that last bit.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/?v=hB-C2x4O5tE

― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

i'll YSI this song later.

as promised...

http://s62.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3C8QW0HWHAAV22AC6DMKHSX03P

― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

ok, yes, this is like the bes' song ever. segued really well outta minor threat into this.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

mediocre at best.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

dude, you're fired.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, that certainly wasn't the version of the rocket video they showed on MTV back in the day. I seem to remember something more like what's playing on that TV screen -- Herbie playing keyboards, and a more simple dancing robot.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

I have that duran duran vid as mpg from limewire!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

Cry sequed into Radar Eyes by the Godz. Pretty good, iTunes.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

speaking of, wanna see the coolest thing ever? Friend comes by last night to give me a copy of an italo record I've wanted for ages, extra special as it's the Disconet extending mix, anyway it's in a sleeve I just have to share. I assume it used to hold a Duran Duran record. The top says capitol. Excuse my photography:

http://www.acuterecords.com/dd.jpg

Yes, it has the name of all the members of Duran Duran. Nick gets a heart, Roger, Andy and John get stars, but Simon gets a star AND a heart! And look how perfectly within the lines she (he?) wrote Duran Duran. OK, not perfect. "Rules" is a nice touch. As is highlighting that Duran Duran classic, "Union of the Snake." For the record, I was at that tour...my first ever concert.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

one of my third grade teachers knew nick rhodes somehow and got me an autographed headshot of him. i wish i still had it.

― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 04:01 (nineteen years ago)

that scan looks suspiciously like something i would have owned when i was 8.

ps i love this song.

― maura (maura), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 04:04 (nineteen years ago)

fuck, I didn't notice above the capitol logo is the best part, a little weird seven and the ragged tiger eye logo.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

Cry sequed into Radar Eyes by the Godz. Pretty good, iTunes.
-- Dan Selzer

alphabetical order, natch.

on random, segued into "fatter than anything" by neil hagerty which was perfect.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

do i want the entire Godley & Creme album?

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

which one?

― Shelly Winters Death Clip (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

"Images"

― team jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

no, don't get that one, get consequences!

― Shelly Winters Death Clip (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 00:47 (nineteen years ago)

i always forget they're ex 10cc. i fell in love w/"I'm not in love" and searched for their album the Original Soundtrack and was pretty disappointed when i finally got it. way too upbeat, silly pop. i fear the same for their albums. especially with reviews like these:

Together, these two multi-instrumentalist studio freaks were the British Frank Zappa. Overwhelmed by their own cleverness, they often wasted brilliant production and gorgeous vocal harmonies on trite material.

Simply put, Consequences is a disaster: it's humor is labored, its musical content is dull, and the mind-numbing length of the album proved that neither Godley nor Creme knew when to quit.

― team jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 00:58 (nineteen years ago)

um, exactly.

― Shelly Winters Death Clip (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 01:02 (nineteen years ago)

so you're saying they're a singles band?

― team jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

goddamit

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

someone fix that, im privless

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

got 'em back

― HPSTRKRFT (haitch), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

danke

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 20 July 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

such a fucking wonderful song. i saw it last night in the commercial for Grand Theft Auto IV. o_0

― jaxon, Friday, 17 October 2008 16:19 (seventeen years ago)

― sexyDancer, Friday, 17 October 2008 17:01 (seventeen years ago)

ha. is that the nudge!

― jaxon, Friday, 17 October 2008 17:14 (seventeen years ago)

lol, nuge

― jaxon, Friday, 17 October 2008 17:15 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2250/2335425585_14deb15137_o.jpg

― eman, Friday, 17 October 2008 17:26 (seventeen years ago)

that episode is wall to wall great. "Definitely Miami"

― sexyDancer, Friday, 17 October 2008 19:07 (seventeen years ago)

five years pass...

Yes

― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Sunday, 15 December 2013 07:40 (twelve years ago)

I love this song too

― JacobSanders, Sunday, 15 December 2013 07:41 (twelve years ago)

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