Coming up, we’re telling the stories of songs that shaped one of the best years in popular music, songs that define today's year more than any other... including Icehouse's Electric Blue that was inspired while an artist was nervously walking along a topless beach. Plus, the breakout song Wishing Well by Terrance Trent D'Arby, who thought the industry was conspiring against him so that he wouldn’t become bigger than Michael Jackson… Then one bad interview was the last straw and killed his career virtually overnight. Also, a wishful smash by Richard Marx, an artist who broke the record for consecutive top 5 hits, even though every record label had initially passed on him… Plus, Gloria Estefan, the legendary artist everyone forgets about, even though this icon had sold 100 million records and had 2 dozen hits. And finally, the Foreigner song that Lou Gramm despised so much, he tried to sabotage it by delivering a lukewarm, uninspired performance. But everyone praised it, and it was a major hit… Let's do it.
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Hey Music Junkies, Professor of Rock, always here to celebrate the greatest songs and the greatest artists of all time. If you watched the Thursday night lineup on NBC from Family Ties to Cheers…You’ll dig this channel of deep musical nostalgia. Make sure to subscribe and like, share, and comment. So we’ve done a handful of these countdowns, we’ve called Dated: songs that sound exactly like the year they came from, and we decided, because many were confused by its explanation, that we’d retitle it Time in a Bottle: the songs that take you right back to the year they ruled the charts. So today we are jumping into a great year in the 80s, Who Framed Roger Rabbit ruled the box office, and Kirk Gibson hit a massive home run to give the Dodgers the World Series, plus Super Mario Bros 2 came out. It’s the year 1988! LET’S DO IT!
We’re gonna start off by Cover the ongoing career of one David Lee Roth: at
#10 we have Just Like Paradise” by Damond Dave
“Just Like Paradise” came together after the Eat ’Em & Smile tour, DLR’s inaugural solo tour. Brett Tuggle, the keyboardist, put down a chord progression and rough drum beat on a keyboard, then brought it to Steve Vai to layer in some guitar parts. Steve showed the demo to David Roth (DLR) in his basement. Once Tuggle had the chords and drums roughly down, he recorded a demo and played it for Roth’s guitarist, Steve Vai, who added a guitar part. Tuggle then took the cassette to Roth’s house in Pasadena and played it in his basement rehearsal space. When it finished, Roth lit up a joint, asked him to run it again, and the energy clicked.
David had the lyrics ready by the next rehearsal. Tuggle says Roth was always incredibly fast with lyrics, usually jotting them down shortly after hearing the music.In fact it was in the news jut recently that Roth claimed he wrote every word of Van Halen’s songs in his time in the band.
Here, the song’s core vibe is about the joy of young romance and that feeling of being “magnificent.” The video features real footage of David Lee Roth climbing Half Dome in Yosemite, shot by award-winning mountaineer David Breashears. Roth, who’s been climbing for a long time, said that the climb embodies the mix of excitement and fear he wanted the song to convey after leaving Van Halen: Diamond Dave’s initial solo stuff was very guitar-driven, but the Skyscraper LP rolled out a cleaner, more polished, keyboard-heavy sound. Which is hilarious since he gave Eddie Van Halen such a hard time for years about using synths, but he used them here to get a huge hit. Brett Tuggle’s synthesizers sit up front here, a hallmark of late-80s rock leaning toward pop-friendly vibes. As for “Just Like Paradise”, critics and fans slagged it as having an “ultra-saccharine” pop sheen—a glossy, highly polished take that mirrors how heavy metal started leaning into mainstream, radio-friendly textures in the late 80s.
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#9 on our 1988 countdown is one that sound exactly like 1988! “Electric Blue” by Icehouse: “Electric Blue,” by Icehouse, came out of a chance meeting between Iva Davies and John Oates.
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