Hello and welcome to Part Twelve of the 1984 Hideaway 200. You can find all the previous parts HERE.
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"I Feel For You" made a spectacular splash with us from the first time we heard it and, in short order, we bought the 45, the I Feel For You album, and the Specially-Priced 2 Cut Maxi Single featuring a 7:12 Remix by the album's producer Arif Mardin. While the song itself gives off palpable energy, even in its single edit, the overloaded Remix immediately became the one we preferred to listen to and include on the mixtapes we were cranking out. The best-sounding version of the Remix of "I Feel For You" to our ears is a high-resolution digital rip of the 1984 U.K. twelve-inch vinyl single of "I Feel For You" that we attributed to DJPaulT yet while researching the 1984 Hideaway 200, we could find no record of that record on his website. Huh?
Here we are with the third of three Bryan Adams tracks to make the 1984 Hideaway 200. All three tracks are lifted from Bryan's Reckless album which was packed with the rockers we loved and the ballads we liked, all testaments to the songwriting skills of Adams and his writing partner, Jim Vallance. We still feel Reckless is underrated and disrespected when monster albums of The Eighties are discussed. We hear "Summer of '69" as a beautiful universal nostalgic phantom memory; everyone can relate to the lyrics and the sentiment. We all have a Summer of '69. Our favorite-sounding version of "Summer of '69" is on the 2012 Japan SHM pressing of Reckless.
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We were listening to the Vision Quest soundtrack earlier this summer and all was going well until "Shout To The Top!" came on with those hard-hitting strings. We had forgotten how dramatically the song begins and just how amazing it sounds. We played it again and again (and again and again) before continuing on with the rest of the soundtrack, including three songs heard in the film that were not originally included on the soundtrack album:
- "Time For Me To Fly" - REO Speedwagon
- "Harden My Heart" - Quarterflash
- "No More Words" - Berlin
The best-sounding version of The Style Council's "Shout To The Top!" to us is on the 1985 Japan pressing for the U.S. target compact disc of Vision Quest.
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Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It" is up at number 183 on the 1984 Hideway 200 and "I Wanna Rock" is down near the bottom at number 198. The latter song is every bit as rebellious and unruly as the former song but sounds even more primitive, much like the early KISS records. The lyrics are more like exultations, repeated punk rock style. None of the better-sounding versions of "I Wanna Rock" in the HERChives sounds that much different than the others so we picked the one with the highest measured dynamic range which is on the 2008 Time Life compilation disc Hard + Heavy: Lay It Down.
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We love the pop-flavored metal Mötley Crüe put out from 1983-1989. They made it easy to look past all the corny Satanic imagery of their album Shout At The Devil as a metaphor for "the man" and authority in general. The pile-driving riffage of "Looks That Kill" still rocks our world. The most-crankable version of Mötley Crüe's "Looks That Kill" here in the HERChives is on the 1985 West German pressing for the U.S. target compact disc of Shout At The Devil.
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In the film Streets Of Fire, "I Can Dream About You" is performed in the film's climactic concert scene. On-screen, it is performed by the fictional group The Sorels but what viewers hear is Winston Ford's voice. On the Streets Of Fire soundtrack album, Ford's vocals were replaced by those of the song's writer, Dan Hartman. We love the song and in addition to the soundtrack album, we picked up the 45, the twelve-inch single with remixes from Larry Levan and Jellybean Benitez, and Dan Hartman's album I Can Dream About You. Our favorite-sounding version of "I Can Dream About You" is on the 1992 U.S. compilation compact disc Cosmopolitan, Volume 4.
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Ray Davies has been one of our favorite songwriters since we decided we had favorite songwriters, combining clever witty lyrics with a dark intelligence, cynical attitude, and the innate ability to rock. In 1967, our favorite Kinks song "Waterloo Sunset" was released. The group kicked off the Eighties with our second favorite Kinks song, "Destroyer". Finally, our third favorite Kinks tune, "Do It Again" appeared in 1984. The best-sounding version of "Do It Again" in the HERChives is found on the 2004 Super Audio Compact Disc (SACD) pressing of Word Of Mouth.
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Dad was a big Billy Ocean fan. Scratch that. Dad was a big fan of the song "Caribbean Queen" and brought home the album Suddenly. He really didn't care for any of the other songs on the album so he gave it to us. We kinda sorta liked "Loverboy" but our lady loved the beat of "Caribbean Queen" doing a little shoulder dance whenever it came on. So the Suddenly album passed from me to her and lived happily ever after. Our favorite-sounding version of "Caribbean Queen" is the 3:41 single-edit found on the 1992 U.S. compilation Billboard Top Hits - 1984.
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The very first record we purchased in 1985 was the twelve-inch single of Prince and the Revolution's "I Would Die 4 U". It is not one of our favorites. We prefer the album version of "I Would Die 4 U" which segues straight into "Baby I'm A Star" rather than the single edit which ends on an echoed note. The Extended Version runs 10:15 and is edited down from a thirty-minute tour rehearsal jam recorded at the Minneapolis Auditorium on October 25, 1984. The best-sounding version of the album version of "I Would Die 4 U" in the HERChives is the withdrawn 2013 high-resolution digital download of Purple Rain we got from HDTracks.
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After over-the-top controversial chart-topping dance tracks "Relax" and "Two Tribes", Frankie Goes To Hollywood closed out 1984 with the gorgeous ballad "The Power Of Love". She liked it, I liked it and the song made it onto a mixtape I made for her that featured songs with the word "love" in the title. Some of the lyrics are perplexing if not downright illogical but Holly Johnson delivers them sincerely and Trevor Horn's team provides a sweeping romantic musical bed of a piano-led orchestra. "The Power of Love" or its voiceless version pairs well with Art of Noise's "Moments In Love." Our favorite-sounding version of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "The Power Of Love" is from the original 1985 German pressing for Europe of the Welcome To The Pleasuredome compact disc.
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