Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

Thank God!!!!

alternate headline: George Michaels fails to follow through on threatened Wham! reunion....

I remember a funny news story from the 80s. A driver, in Georga, had driven off the road, and was pinned in his overturned car. He landed out of sight of the highway, and wasn't rescued for about 8 hours. When interviewed, he said the worst part of the ordeal was a Wham! tape in his stereo, that kept playing over, and over. He said at first he was afraid the vehicle would catch fire, but after a few hours he started to wish he'd burn.

I guess this means I'll have to put my "CHOOSE LIFE" t-shirt back into mothballs. Damn!

I always love Kate's "Careless Whispers"

I'm quite certain had the news been of a Wham! reunion, we'd instead have gotten one of Kate's "Headline of the Apocalypse". :)

Wham reunion? Young guns flee from it...

"He said: "Wham! was about being young and exuberant and you can't recreate that feeling at a certain age."

Will someone please tell that to that senior citizen band "Rolling Stones" and the hordes of other balding, fat rockers who just won't move on in their lives and do something else. Not that their replacements are any good, but enough already.

No, if there is a Culture Club reunion that will be a certain sign that the end is near, lol.

A Duran Duran Album and World Tour would = the 3rd Horseman...

Abe OT but when I saw this I thought of you. No malice intended.

http://supertremendous.com/Galleries/Funny/13-WTF-Foreign-Signs/No-Smoking-Or-Anything-sign-1415.html#joomimg

Damn Kate, I could have went alday and not seen that, ;-)

But, Hey, I just heard the Who is suppose to play the 1/2 time at the Superbowl. Aren't they like 70 or something ?

Praise Jay-sus!

Loverboy has been making the rounds as of late,he might want to change the name to lover of anything fattening boy.

Whew, Abba's still dead, right?

Rich,

Well, Abba is being inducted into the rock and roll Hall of Fame this spring....no concert though.

Soccermom,

Boy George is slated to do a duet with lady gaga, the woman currently topping the carts, so I suspect you'll be hearing me from the eternally effed up george O'dowd.

And Duran...well they keep releasing albums and touring, so they havent really gone away.

incoming plague of locusts on its way.

"Boy George is slated to do a duet with lady gaga, the woman currently topping the charts"

EEEEEEEEEK!

Stephen - really!!!???

I guess I've blocked it out - extreme denial; the mind can do wonderful things.

Oh, but didn't the New Kids on the Block get back together?

So probably I should go repent or something...

Culture Club reunion = end of days.

Other signs of the apocalypse will include a communist being elected US president, Democrat Senator Harry Reid saying the word "n*gr*" on TV, Elvis Presley, the Big Bopper and Marylin Munroe crash-landing a UFO in the Reflecting Pool at Washington DC.

And Michael Jackson moonwalking out of his crypt, singing "Thriller".

BTW, have you guys seen that Lady Gaga chick? One word: Ew. She looks like Nina Hagen having a bad face day. Talk about signs of the frickin' apocalypse...

Wham! was just part of some really bad 80's music -- Tears for Fears, Flock of Seagulls -- it seemed like an endless parade of blah. Music pretty well stopped about 1980.

maybe go-go wham some seals, or if that's not do-able, kick McCartney

We all have to grow up someday.

I can get people tickets for the BayCityRollers reunion tour, any takers?

What's sticky and white on a bathroom wall in LA?

George Michael's latest release

Arch Conservative here. Former Infantry Officer. Former cop who worked the underbelly of Calgary. I give my boys 'high and tight' haircuts.

And. I. Like. Wham.

I mean, c'mon. *Jitterbug*...*Jitterbug*...Wake me up before you go-go.

Listening to it makes me *HAPPY*

There is dreck in every decade. There is also some good stuff. So i like a lot of the 80's stuff....but Culture Club and Wham werent my taste.

I did learn that there are many things to get upset about and have really strong opinions about in life, but I learned music was one of those things you need to be pretty open about....you can miss some really good things if your too much of a snob about it.

Nonetheless, Wham still doesnt pass the test.

I'm not a Wham / George Michael fan, but there's a lot worse music about than Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go and Careless Whisper.

Another example of attrotious spelling: everyone knows the proper spelling of Wham is "LAME".

As you were.

Credit where credit is due.....George Michael understands what wham was about, youth. And that at his age it is impossible for him to pull that off, good for him.

And yes there was worse music than Wham....but its, by design, lack of substance got blown all out of proportion. But that always happens.

Once again, even if you dont like something I think one shoudl always be open to it, and respect others enjoyment of it. Be it Wham or Norwegian death metal. It all finds a home in the marketplace, for whatever reason. And if you dismiss stuff to early you might just miss out on something great. But to each there own, music really should be a libertarian pursuit.

REO Speedwagon...Now there's a reunion. NOT!

"Will someone please tell that to that senior citizen band "Rolling Stones" and the hordes of other balding, fat rockers who just won't move on in their lives and do something else. Not that their replacements are any good, but enough already."
Abe Froman

Like you kinda say, until there are bands that can output more than 1 or 2 good tunes and endlessly milk them on tours, I'll take the aging rockers anyday. I go to a lot of rock/metal concerts and most bands I see now have at least 40 year old plus members. The latest and "youngest" band I've seen was Stone Temple Pilots.
In 2 weeks from now I'm seeing Guns & Roses...Another band with original members that are 45 +.

There seems to be no more good bands coming out that eventually become legendary with full catalogs of classic songs that you can enjoy one after the other in a concert.

I predict that, like classical music in which their creators died centuries ago but their music is still played to crowds, classic rock bands like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith etc...will live on with replacements taking the lead. The hair, moves and manoeurisms will be copied too. Unlike cover bands though, these bands will officially bare the original band name.

Someday, my great great grandson might be asked this question to HIS senior :

"Grandpa, is it true your grandfather saw all the original Black Sabbath guys perform?

"Yes he did, and with both era lead singers; Ozzy Osbourne and Ronnie James Dio"

"Cool!!!"