Music

Summertime Girls

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Gen X Flashback Friday Music Video.

Today’s video is Summertime Girls from 1985 by the band Y&T. The song was released as a single from the band’s seventh album, Down for the Count. It was also a studio track that appeared on the band’s live album, Open Fire that came out in early 1985.

Summertime Girls was the band’s highest charting single on the Hot 100 peaking at #55. The song got airplay on rock radio and went as high as #16 on the Mainstream Rock chart. The video was in heavy rotation on MTV and the song still gets played on classic rock radio.

Y&T was formed in 1974 in California and was originally called Yesterday and Today. The band has sold over four million albums and is still touring the world.

Click on the image below to stream, or download, Best Of Y & T ’81-’85 via Amazon.

Music

ADDICTED TO LOVE. THE #1 SONG THIS WEEK IN 1986.

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Addicted to Love by Robert Palmer was the #1 song the week of May 3rd, 1986. It was the second single from Palmer’s double platinum album, Riptide. The song was #10 on the year-end charts.

Bernard Edwards, former bassist of Chic produced the single. Andy Taylor of Duran Duran played lead guitar. Taylor and Palmer were bandmates in The Power Station, which had a big hit album the year before. The song was originally intended to be a duet between Palmer and Chaka Khan, but her record company would not let her appear on an album that was on Island Records.

The music video for the song is one of the most iconic of the early MTV era. The video featured Palmer with a band made up of mannequin looking models with pale skin, dark hair, and bright red lips. The video is ranked #3 on VH1’s Top 20 Videos of the 1980s. Several music videos by other artist paid homage to Addicted to Love, most notably, Man, I Feel like a Woman by Shania Twain.

Music

Gen X Music Genres

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When many people think of music in regards to the Generation X era, they might think of the New Wave and Hair Metal scenes of the eighties. While those styles might provide the most common visual reminders of the time, the years from the mid-seventies to the mid-nineties also brought us Rap, Disco, Techno, Industrial, Goth, Thrash, Death Metal, Grunge and don’t forget the Urban Cowboy country boom of the early eighties.

Can you think of any other genres? What was your favorite of the era?

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