Today is EARTH DAY!!!

What have you done today to keep the earth healthy??

Think about the future.....

The Great Commandment : Camouflage

I have found it!!!!

The group that sounded like Depache Mode & Yazoo, which I kinda liked better, which again got my lil' sister saying them to be copycats.

But I liked them and so did my 2 good buddies YunSiang & TeeBeng.

Here's to 80's Disco Time with baggy pants and loafers mixed with hair-styles like Malcolm McLaren (see my previous blog entry)

















Song : The Great Commandment
Album : Voice & Images
Release : 1988

















For you information.... They survived longer than Depache Mode
Last released album or compilation : 2007 with this : ARCHIVE#01

Buffalo Girls : Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm McLaren - Cool man, sorta papa of punk and new wave music.

Then he looked like this



Now he's an old man


Buffalo Girls Video :

Decade of Apple II Computer

Remember those days of Green Monitors, Floppy Disk Drives that looks like 2 pieces of bricks put together???

Disk Drive that read only 1 sided five-quarter inch disks (MD-1DD) and the non-stop sound of [Crack... Crack...] When the drive was reading the disks!

WOW!!! That was wayyyy.... before Bill got rich!!

My favorite game then was of course LODE RUNNER





Those non-stop hours of trying to go-to-next-level and with six fingers crumpled in a lump in the middle of the keyboard... How did we manage? HAHAHA!!!

Watch this video... Sure brings back fond memories!

I Feel for You : Chaka Khan

Song : I Feel for You
Album : I Feel for You
Release : 1984

West End Girls : Pet Shopt Boys

Pet Shop Boys...
Duo from UK, Lead singer Neil Tennant and Keyboardist Chris Lowe.

Remembering them for our disco parties that we organised. Renting sound systems, compiling song with our double deck Sony Mini-Compo.... Ah.... How nice if there were I-Pods then.

But we enjoyed ourselves too.

Song : West End Girls
Album : Please
Release : 1984








Look at that hair style!!!

Ahhh.... The Eighties

Eighties are the times when we were teenagers... The time of maybe what your sons' and daughters' age now!

Are those memories still vivid or are they seem a little faded?

Remember when we still ride our bicycle around, not so much traffic, fly kites during [Kite Flying Season], going to Pasar Malam just for the sake of "going to pasar malam" and when most importantly the weather is not as HOT as now....

Come to think of it, if I'm not mistaken, The Eighties was the time of the first Space Shuttle Mission. All that awe and excitement. That was when we first heard "Mission Control... This is Columbia... [crack]".

FYI the 1st space shuttle mission was Columbia (OV-102), launched on 12th April 1981.


Nasa Orbital Vehicle Designation
: OV-102

Designation
: STS-1

Launch Pad
: 39A

Landing Location
: Edwards Air Force Base


Fond memories.

And of course the songs of the eighties.... Songs by Madonna, Howard Jones, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Tears for Fears, Leslie Cheung (the late), Jacky Cheung, Alan Tam, Anita Mui (the late, again), just to name a few.

So I will try to put an eighties song a day here so that we can all reminisces the days of better weather (less global warming)

For today, I want to suggest "In A Big Country" by Big Country
Was this band BIG then? I'm not sure cos' during that time there was no internet or Wikipedia. We only rely on US & UK Billboard reports in newspapers and how many of us read the newspapers at that age...

Song : In A Big Country
Album : The Crossing
Release : 1983
(info got from Wikipedia : you see how good is the World Wide Web)



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