RAM Random Acts of Music

Hiatus

2009-04-06T23:52:00.000-04:00

Been bogged with work, and the dog and now vaycay. Will be back to daily vids on May 8th.

Sorry 'bout that.

How Many (Rivers to Cross)

2009-04-05T10:00:00.001-04:00

Luba

Thin Red Line

2009-04-04T10:00:00.001-04:00

Glass Tiger

Burning In Love

2009-04-03T10:00:00.000-04:00

Honeymoon Suite

(The Future's so Bright) I Gotta Wear Shades

2009-04-02T10:00:00.000-04:00

Timbuk 3

Fish Heads

2009-04-01T10:00:00.000-04:00

Barnes and Barnes

HAPPY APRIL FOOLS!

Word Up

2009-03-31T10:00:00.002-04:00

Cameo

Ball of Confusion

2009-03-30T10:00:00.000-04:00

Love and Rockets

Could I Be Your Girl?

2009-03-29T10:00:00.000-04:00

Jann Arden

Crying Over You

2009-03-28T10:00:00.000-04:00

Platinum Blonde

NOT gay, but really should be!

Snowbird

2009-03-27T10:00:00.001-04:00

Anne Murray

Inventory

2009-03-26T10:00:00.002-04:00

Meryn Cadell

Love is Everything

2009-03-25T10:00:00.000-04:00

Jane Siberry

Crying

2009-03-24T10:00:00.000-04:00

kd lang and Roy Orbison

You Don't Need

2009-03-23T10:00:00.003-04:00

Jane Siberry

Sacrifice

2009-03-22T10:00:00.001-04:00

Sinéad O'Connor

Troy

2009-03-21T10:00:00.001-04:00

Sinéad O'Connor

You Do Something To Me

2009-03-20T10:00:00.000-04:00

Sinéad O'Connor

Fire On Babylon

2009-03-19T10:00:00.000-04:00

Sinéad O'Connor

Don't Cry For Me Argentina

2009-03-18T10:00:00.001-04:00

Sinéad O'Connor

Nothing Compares 2 U

2009-03-17T10:00:00.001-04:00

Sinéad O'Connor

Jerusalem

2009-03-16T10:00:00.001-04:00

Sinéad O'Connor

Sensual World

2009-03-15T10:00:00.000-04:00

Kate Bush

Rubberband Girl

2009-03-14T10:00:00.000-04:00

Kate Bush

Experiment IV

2009-03-13T10:00:00.001-04:00

Kate Bush

Breathing

2009-03-12T10:00:00.002-04:00

Kate Bush

The Dreaming

2009-03-11T10:00:00.000-04:00

Kate Bush

Cloudbusting

2009-03-10T10:00:00.000-04:00

Kate Bush

Wuthering Heights

2009-03-09T10:00:00.002-04:00

Kate Bush

One of the first artists I loaded onto my new iTouch was none other than songstress extraordinaire... Miss Kate Bush.

The Beat Goes On

2009-03-08T10:00:00.000-04:00

Sonny & Cher

The beat goes on and I remain 39.

Doesn't Really Matter

2009-03-07T10:00:00.000-05:00

Awwww yea... Platinum Blonde

BIG BAD BLONDE HAIR... oh yea and bad riffy pop music! Fun no?!

Rober de Nero is Waiting

2009-03-06T10:00:00.000-05:00

Bananarama

Nothing like starting the weekend with some serious looking bubble gum. And who does that better than Bananarama?

French Kissing (in the USA)

2009-03-05T10:00:00.000-05:00

Debbie Harry

OK, this chick is a mere 5 years younger than my Mother... Age is just a number.

And how camp is this video! Very John Waters!

We Don't Need Another Hero

2009-03-04T10:00:00.000-05:00

Tina Turner

I think of three videos when I think of this star, this dive. What's Love Got To Do With It, Private Dancer and this one. This wins in our memory because of that dress! Who else could make a chain mail dress work like that in the 80's?!

2009-03-03T10:00:00.000-05:00

Limahl

The 80's are in overdrive now. That sound, that video, THAT HAIR!

Love is a Battlefield

2009-03-02T10:00:00.000-05:00

So are Mondays!

Pat Benatar

A CLASSIC video and song of the 80s. And for me, that skirt at 1 min 30... well it's all gold!

Revelation Sunshine

2009-03-01T10:00:00.000-05:00

Cree Summer

I don't know what it is about this song, but I can never seem to hear it often enough...

Lollipop

2009-02-28T10:00:00.000-05:00

Aqua

Say what you want. I effing love Aqua. It's complete and utter fluff. They know it. We know it. ....and there ain't a thing wrong with that!

Stop

2009-02-27T10:00:00.000-05:00

Sam Brown

This has fast become a one hits wonder week without my even planing it... I gotta stop.

C'est la Vie

2009-02-26T10:00:00.000-05:00

Robbie Nevil

And again from a long list of 'what ever happened to's..." Mr Robbie Nevil. He did have a good summer in 86 though, did he not?

Wishing Well

2009-02-25T10:00:00.000-05:00

Terence Trent d'Arby

So Again before I speak I do me some research. I *WAS* going to say how Terence was the serious soulful version of Michael Jackson, and then I read that he's no longer called TTd'A but as of Oct '01 has changed his name... nothing quite so esoteric as that name change of Prince, but nonetheless a skotch on the fruitcakey side... the name he took is Sananda Maitreya and comes from dreams he had back in the day... so yea... soulful but still got a bit of the bat-shit crazies... oh well.

We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off

2009-02-24T10:00:00.000-05:00

Jermaine Stewart

Tell me you didn't dance and sing your ass off to this one?

I was gonna make some snide remark about how no one in my high school thought Jermaine was at all gay - yea I know, right?! - but then while looking into what happened to him I see that AIDS happened to him and sadly he passed away from complications back in 1997... total bummer.

Crush on You

2009-02-23T10:00:00.000-05:00

The Jets

There was a time in my life I wished I was a part of a large Hispanic-American family so I too could be a part of a singing family group...

Salve Regina/Hail Holy Queen

2009-02-22T10:00:00.001-05:00

The Nuns
from Sister Act

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE this Movie and the music, well if it was reallyl like this in churches I'd likely attend! Shame.

Mater ad mater inter marata,
Sanctus sanctus dominus.
Virgo respice mater ad spice,
Sanctus sanctus dominus.

Aleluiah!

Sister of Mercy

2009-02-21T10:00:00.001-05:00

The Thompson Twins

A much lesser known song of the Twins, but one of my all time favs. In fact even I never knew there was a video!

Dominion

2009-02-20T10:00:00.000-05:00

Sisters of Mercy

Many will say this group are dark, and demented and horrid. I could not disagree more. They make me happy form my innermost core. What's that say about me? I don't care. They've always spoke to me.

Dominique

2009-02-19T10:00:00.001-05:00

Soeur Sourire; Sister Luc Gabriel
The Singing Nun
(Jeanine Deckers)

Oddly enough this is the only version I could find of the song actually WITH the Singing Nun herself... They call this the "Disco version" UM, yea. ok... I guess to nuns this would have passed for Disco, but to Disco Sister. not so much. still you can't help but sing along can you?

Breakout

2009-02-18T10:00:00.000-05:00

Swing Out Sister

Remember this one?

Damn I could NOT listen to their album enough...

...where are they now?!

Stay

2009-02-17T10:00:00.000-05:00

Shakespeare's Sister

Yet another case of a great sound not lasting nearly long enough... sad really; there's so much crap out there.

Comfortably Numb

2009-02-16T10:00:00.000-05:00

Scissor Sisters

I guess I was a couple years too young to really get into Pink Floyd but THIS version of Comfortably Numb has opened an interest.

I can think of few groups these days I'd rather listen to than the Sisters.

GREAT SONG!
GREAT VID!

Puppy Love

2009-02-15T10:00:00.002-05:00

Donny Osmond

We're heading out on a Puppy Play Date today with our little Santiago, so I thought this was at once an appropriate song for the end of the Week of Love and also reflected today's main activity.

Do I Love You?

2009-02-14T10:00:00.000-05:00

Aztec Camera

Mellow 90's vocals and Cole Porter Lyrics.

A Classic Love Song.

Happy Valentine's Day.

Bizarre Love Triangle

2009-02-13T10:00:00.002-05:00

Frente!

There's something remarkable in a synth-pop hit stripped down acoustically. And so soothing to start the weekend of Love.

Moments in Love

2009-02-12T10:00:00.002-05:00

The Art of Noise

Does it get much more deliciously avante guarde and fabulous than this?
Je ne pense pas.

All of my Heart

2009-02-11T10:00:00.001-05:00

ABC.

One of their lesser hits but a fair shot more appropriate for the Week of Love than "Shoot that Poison Arrow" and I previously posted "The Look of Love"

The Power of Love - 2000

2009-02-10T10:00:00.001-05:00

Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

This is a remix from somethime in the 00's and the video... Trés Fab sweeties.

Your Love is King

2009-02-09T10:00:00.001-05:00

Welcome to the Week of Love 2009.

Sade.

When you think of soulful love songs, you immediately think of Sade, or at least I do. IT wasn't so much a question of do I include her on the Week of Love, but rather which son do I pick... I think this one is an excellent start to the week.

My Sweet Lord

2009-02-08T10:00:00.001-05:00

(This is a S L O W loading video but sooooooooooooo worth it. so pause the stream, let it download and then enjoy)

Boy George

Hm, my lord (hallelujah)
My, my, my lord (hare krishna)
My sweet lord (hare krishna)
My sweet lord (krishna krishna)
My lord (hare hare)
Hm, hm (gurur brahma)
Hm, hm (gurur vishnu)
Hm, hm (gurur devo)
Hm, hm (maheshwara)
My sweet lord (gurur sakshaat)
My sweet lord (parabrahma)
My, my, my lord (tasmayi shree)
My, my, my, my lord (guruve namah)
My sweet lord (hare rama)

You Spin Me Round 2003

2009-02-07T10:00:00.002-05:00

Dead or Alive

Yup. That's the same singer... Pete Burns.

Glamfuckingfreekasstastic!

Lover Come Back To Me

2009-02-06T10:00:00.003-05:00

Dead or Alive

HATHOR is the Egyptian goddess Love, Music, Beauty ... Looks familiar, no?

In Too Deep

2009-02-05T10:00:00.001-05:00

Dead or Alive

Love this video!
Well, any video with Mermen actually! (
the mythological beasts not Ethel)

Brand New Lover

2009-02-04T10:00:00.001-05:00

Dead or Alive

Now taking orders!

My Heart Goes Bang Bang

2009-02-03T10:00:00.002-05:00

Dead or Alive

OH MY GOD! How I miss music like this in the clubs! MISS MISS MISS. GREAT beats, sounds and cheesy lyrics.... and you didn't need to drop good money on drugs of energy drinks!

You Spin Me Round

2009-02-02T10:00:00.000-05:00

Dead or Alive

...Like a record baby, right round, right round.

How fabulous were they?!
FAB U- LOUS!

What if God Was One Of Us?

2009-02-01T10:00:00.000-05:00

Joan Armstrong

What happened to her? She seemed to have promise. When was the last tie we hear from her?!

And just because I COULD NOT RESIST!...

Dr. Evil and Mini Me.

Blu blu blu blu blu blu blu.
Bla bla bla bli bli bli.

Space Age Love Song

2009-01-31T10:00:00.000-05:00

Flock of Seagulls

I think some people might be shocked that the FoS had more than one hit! This was a great one, and always reminds me of Blancmange's "Lose Your Love"

(Sorry about the interview clip at the beginning, but this was the best cut of the video... and DIG his glasses!)

Wouldn't It Be Good

2009-01-30T10:00:00.001-05:00

Nik Kershaw

This is what great 80's music was all about. Techno-poppy sound, kickin story based video, and effing awesome hair!

I HAD that hair in high school. I loved that hair. I miss that hair. Frosted tips and all! lol

Great Song.

La Fin des Etoiles

2009-01-29T10:00:00.000-05:00

Niagara

Not as 'spacey' as the rest of the week, but I think it works, and I just Love this groups outfits (and what's with the back up singers?! lol)

Rocket Man

2009-01-28T10:00:00.000-05:00

Kate Bush

Yea sure, I could have posted Sir Elton, but c'mon... it's KATE for christs sake. This is flipping awesome! I love the original, but I LURV this version!

Major Tom

2009-01-27T10:00:00.001-05:00

Peter Schilling

Ja, dieses ist gute Musik.

...and an interesting homage...

Space Oddity

2009-01-26T10:00:00.002-05:00

David Bowie.

Honestly. What can you say that hasn't been said...

Bowie is a Music God.

Church of the Poison Mind

2009-01-25T10:00:00.001-05:00

Boy George & Culture Club

Well not ALL churches are good for you now, are they?

What weel of gay 80's groups would be complete without a little Boy George and the Culture Club? ;-)

A Little Respect

2009-01-24T10:00:00.000-05:00

Erasure.

Well if the Pet Shop Boys are in my Top Ten, Erasure is bloody well right beside them. This band along got me through the coming out years. I'm sure I'm not alone in this sentiment... Bless em!

Strangelove

2009-01-23T10:00:00.001-05:00

Depeche Mode

I'm not saying that Depeche Mode are ALL gay, but I'm not saying they're not.

With songs like "People ar People", "Strangelove", "Just Can't Get Enough", "Somebody", "Master and Servant"... the list goes on... Something is just a skotch PINK if ya know what I mean...

3ème Sexe

2009-01-22T10:00:00.000-05:00

Indochine

Oh la la.
Francais et gai!

No, it's not only the Brits that nailed down the gay 80's.

Smalltown Boy

2009-01-21T10:00:00.000-05:00

Bronski Beat
(Jimmy Somerville)

True musical genius can be found in Jimmy Somerville.

What I Love more about this song, this group, Jimmy Somerville, the unabashedly direct and open depiction of homosexuality, is the fact that my asstard of a brother not only loved this song, but bought the album... totally oblivious to the uber gayness of it all. Good times.

Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)

2009-01-20T10:00:00.001-05:00

The Pet Shop Boys.

Not their first hit, but the one they cinched them in my personal top 10.

Relax

2009-01-19T10:00:00.000-05:00

Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

Relax dont do it
When you want to go to it
Relax dont do it
When you want to come
Relax dont do it
When you want to come
When you want to come

Relax dont do it
When you want to to go to it
Relax dont do it
When you want to come
Relax dont do it
When you want to suck it to it
Relax dont do it
When you want to come
Come-oh oh oh

But shoot it in the right direction
Make making it your intention-ooh yeah
Live those dreams
Scheme those schemes
Got to hit me
Hit me
Hit me with those laser beams

Im coming
Im coming-yeah

Relax dont do it
When you want to go to it
Relax dont do it
When you want to come

Relax dont do it
When you want to suck it to it
Relax dont do it (love)
When you want to come
When you want to come
When you want to come
Come-huh

Get it up
The scene of love
Oh feel it

Relax relax relax
Higher higher relax

Nows the time, its party time

Hey

...Seriously is there a gayer song on earth?

GOD I love this song. It's as fresh today and as dancable as it was back in the day.

Sanctify Yourself

2009-01-18T10:00:00.002-05:00

Simple Minds

It's incredible, but you could NOT have had 80's music to the level we did without Brit-Pop. I always love Simple Minds and this song as well...

If You Leave

2009-01-17T10:00:00.001-05:00

OMD

Talk about a group that defined the 80's... Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark. That it was used in one of the 80's most successful brat pack flixs; Pretty in Pink, only further cements this group and their music as thoroughly 80's!

The Wild Life

2009-01-16T10:00:00.001-05:00

Bananarama.

The title is somewhat dishonest in that this is not one of the girls more lively songs, but it is quintessentially typical and screams SAW productions (Stock, Aitken and Waterman) also known for producing Rick Astley, Dead or Alive, and Early Kylie; among others. Their sound was unmistakable. And this track of course, as the video attests was a title track from the soundtrack of the movie of the same name...

La Corrida

2009-01-15T10:00:00.000-05:00

Mitsou

Say what you will about Mitsou, she's the first to appaer 3 times on this blog...

...OLE!

Tell It To My Heart

2009-01-14T10:00:00.000-05:00

Taylor Dayne

How such a fanfuckingtastic voice could end up in a video with such terrible lip-syncing and BEYOND bad hair is, well, beyond me. And this was the 80's! and STILL I think it's a travesty!

Don't Go

2009-01-13T10:00:00.000-05:00

Yazoo.

A rather unique sound: Yazoo. Vince Clark and Alison Moyett would together as well as apart contribute a LOT to the British Music scene.

Don't Stop Beleivin' (Midnight Train)

2009-01-12T10:00:00.000-05:00

Journey as depicted by Spongebob Squarepants

I'm not sure WHY it's so hard to find the actual video of this song, it's a GREAT song... but there's a ton of home made videos of it. When I saw THIS version I knew I had to use it.

It.
Is.
Brilliant!.

It's a Sin

2009-01-11T10:00:00.000-05:00

Pet Shop Boys.

And there's no better day to sin and get absolved, don't you think?

I Want You Back

2009-01-10T10:00:00.001-05:00

Sherry Kean

I cannot tell you just how much I love this song. It's top ten for me for the 80's and all time. there's just something about the beat, the melody, the lyrics, her voice, the dancers in the video... It's just in my estimation what good music is.

Move Away

2009-01-09T10:00:00.002-05:00

Boy George & Culture Club.

This has to be in my top 10 songs of the 80's Not their biggest hit but for me, it's classic CC.

Bye Bye Mon Cowboy

2009-01-08T10:00:00.001-05:00

Mitsou.

Mais Oui! Mitsou!

Say what you want this song totally holds up! It's infinitely danceable and singable 20+ years later!

They Don't Know

2009-01-07T10:00:00.000-05:00

Tracy Ullman.

Not only is she an incredibly funny lady, but she can sing!

We Three Kings

2009-01-06T10:00:00.000-05:00

OK! Before you wonder what the frick?... Today is Epiphany and since I AM the freak I am when it comes to Christmas, I feel I must recognize the day... Traditionally this is the Twelfth day of Christmas. Or "Old Christmas" The day that the Three Wisemen arrived in Bethlehem and gave their gifts to the holy family...

And if you question my placement of the video in the month seemingly devoted to the 80's... the special from which this comes from "A Claymation Christmas" was form the 80's so I'm doubly covered! ;-)

We Run

2009-01-05T10:00:00.000-05:00

Strange Advance

... considering this is the first 5-day week in 4 weeks for me, I'll indeed be running.

And yet another great Canadian sound that didn't weather past the 80's. Only in Canada you say? Pity.

Angel in my Pocket

2009-01-04T10:00:00.002-05:00

One to One.

It's a shame more Canandian groups from the 80's didn't have more lasting power, I so loved their sound.

Wishing (If I had a Photograph of You)

2009-01-03T10:00:00.000-05:00

A Flock of Seagulls.

It's a shame more did't come of this group I really did enjoy them...

Seems I'm gonna go on a little retro 80's trip for January '09. So sit back, relax and enjoy the fond memories...

Lies Lies Lies

2009-01-02T10:00:00.000-05:00

The Thompson Twins

I have to say I was a HUGE T.T. fan back in the day.... This one always takes me back!

New Years Day

2009-01-01T10:00:00.001-05:00

U2.

OK so it might not be a traditional song, but, well you can't argue with the name!

Auld Lang Syne

2008-12-31T10:00:00.001-05:00

Delcan Galbraith.

I swear I never heard of him before, but the king ain't half bad! Take a look around his site, why dontchas?

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

What Are You Doing New Years Eve?

2008-12-30T10:00:00.001-05:00

Diana Krall.

Romance and the Holidays. You're doing it right.

Coming Out at Christmas

2008-12-29T10:00:00.001-05:00

The London's Gay Mens Chorus.

Love them. Love them Muchos!

Sing along... you knwo the lyrics...

Away in a Manger

2008-12-28T10:00:00.001-05:00

Celtic Women.

Just charming.

R*A*M Random Acts of Music

Hiatus

How Many (Rivers to Cross)

Thin Red Line

Burning In Love

(The Future's so Bright) I Gotta Wear Shades

Fish Heads

Word Up

Ball of Confusion

Could I Be Your Girl?

Crying Over You

Snowbird

Inventory

Love is Everything

Crying

You Don't Need

Sacrifice

Troy

You Do Something To Me

Fire On Babylon

Don't Cry For Me Argentina

Nothing Compares 2 U

Jerusalem

Sensual World

Rubberband Girl

Experiment IV

Breathing

The Dreaming

Cloudbusting

Wuthering Heights

The Beat Goes On

Doesn't Really Matter

Rober de Nero is Waiting

French Kissing (in the USA)

We Don't Need Another Hero

Love is a Battlefield

Revelation Sunshine

Lollipop

Stop

C'est la Vie

Wishing Well

We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off

Crush on You

Salve Regina/Hail Holy Queen

Sister of Mercy

Dominion

Dominique

Breakout

Stay

Comfortably Numb

Puppy Love

Do I Love You?

Bizarre Love Triangle

Moments in Love

All of my Heart

The Power of Love - 2000

Your Love is King

My Sweet Lord

You Spin Me Round 2003

Lover Come Back To Me

In Too Deep

Brand New Lover

My Heart Goes Bang Bang

You Spin Me Round

What if God Was One Of Us?

Space Age Love Song

Wouldn't It Be Good

La Fin des Etoiles

Rocket Man

Major Tom

Space Oddity

Church of the Poison Mind

A Little Respect

Strangelove

3ème Sexe

Smalltown Boy

Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)

Relax

Sanctify Yourself

If You Leave

RAM Random Acts of Music