BubbaTUNESday - bub123
We're finally back with an all new BubbaTUNESday, I know, you've missed it. Well never fear for I am here.
Today we look at a Bubbatune that miraculously showed up in downloadable ways a few weeks after I made it - go figure. But just like any great album of yore, they miss the bonus tracks and snazzy azz artwork I come up with, so we still have something talk about today, as we venture into the late 80's dance/rock/pop of EG Daily and her debut album
Wild Child!
bub123 EG Daily - Wild Child
First a little background on our chanteuse, EG began as an actress under the name Elizabeth Daily where she appeared in one of my all time roles and films - as Loren in
Valley Girl, then she started singing doing two synthy dance songs with Giorgio Moroder for the
Scarface soundtrack (both 1983), before doing a little more acting, a little more singing
("Love in the Shadows" for 1984's
Theif Of Hearts). There's a few other things to note of our girl, 1. she was married to and has children by Rick Soloman, the slutty boy who slept with Paris Hilton and then released the sex tape and 2. She does a ton of voice over work including Tommy in The Rugrats and Babe, the pig in the second Babe movie...
but we are here to talk about her eighteenth career, her singing.
After scoring the aforementioned soundtrack cuts, she finally got her own record contract with A&M and that's where we come in. The album
Wild Child was released in 1986 and was produced by EG and her writing partner at the time, plus songs were also produced by
Harold Faltermeyer and
Jellybean "Benitez" who also wrote liner notes on the back of the album - something not really heard of in 1986.
As for the music, it's a hybrid of sounds from those producers - dance ditties in that Madonna True Blue tradition including EG's biggest hit,
"Say It Say It", some poppiness and rock, and even a bit of synthiness with her cover of Donna Summer's
"Sunset People" - produced by the original writer Faltermeyer.
It's probably no surprise that it's the rock/pop parts I like the best - opening with EG doing her best little girl imitation, the album starts with pounding on stairs, a knock on the door and a whisper, "Hey is anybody there?" before breaking into the opener, "Is Anybody Home?" - it's a great song, followed by the equally great
"Little Toy" - "
You keep pushing all the wrong buttons baby, one day this little toy is gonna break down, break down.." it's sassy and fun. The third song is my favorite of her early singles,
"Love In The Shadows" - a raspy, dance/rock hybrid that is steamy and fun.
From there we get a little ballad in
"Just For You" - a song she actually remade a few years ago for her more ballady album
Tearing Down The Walls (though it was cut from the original album), it's dedicated to Jon Erik Hexum, who was an actor/model who committed suicide in 1984 and I do believe dated Miss Daily for awhile. It's a touching song and not too sappy considering the premise.
Though the album doesn't have any duds per se, there are a few moments that don't shine as bright as the first four -
"Hey There Rocky" is a fun little dancy number with EG squealing in her Betty Boop-ish best voice but other than the fun of it, it's not much more than a filler before heading to the first single and hit (#1 on the dance charts people #1!)
"Say It Say It" which totally could've been done by Miss M but it wouldn't be as good as EG ("if you want my love say it say it")
The title track comes next and again it's not all that much to get excited by, but the following track,
"Don't Let Them Take The Child Away" is rocking in those oh so great 80's way, it's a poppy rock confection about something I can't quite grasp, it reminds me of Kim Wilde's
"Cambodia" - yet not quite as forboding.
The moody dance rock song
"Waiting" follows and it's yet another soundtrack EG did prior to recording the album, this time it's from the John Hughes great
The Breakfast Club. The song is one of her best and was somehow overlooked by that other big song on the soundtrack ("Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)" for those not in the 80s know)
The original Wild Child ends with her cover of Donna's
"Sunset People" and though she does a great job on it, mostly by not venturing too far off from the original, she is no
Donna Summer and the more poppy performance of the music takes away the cool and dark vibes of the original.
But with at least 7 of 10 songs being super cool and totally tubular, a few little not so great songs is nothing to shy from. Luckily for everyone, EG herself has taken to the web and you can now download this long out of print album on
Itunes and
Amazon! But this is the Bubbatunes version so we don't stop there - no siree bob, we head into the bonus tracks with the super cool 12" versions of
"Say It Say It", plus the even more cool 12" version of
"Love In The Shadows", plus a glimpse into EG's endless soundtrack work.
My ultimate favorite EG song ever is the rocking Rupert Hine produced song
"One Way Love (Better Off Dead)" from the 1987 film
Better Off Dead. It's a great song and should've been a big hit. But what I didn't realize was EG did a second song for the soundtrack album, a more poppy song called
"A Little Luck" full of overdubs and her more scratchy vocal take, it's a real gem to have.
Also included are the two songs she did for
Scarface, the dancy songs
"Shake It Up" and
"I'm Hot Tonight" both of which are pretty good but are mostly exciting in only to have that piece of Giorgio Moroder 1983 sound - this is the same soundtrack that launced Debbie Harry's
"Rush Rush".If EG's
"Say It Say It" is her most 'famous' hit, then a close second has to be
"Mind Over Matter" from the
Summer School soundtrack. The original was recorded by
Debbie Harry (one more DH reference) and produced by Stock Aiken Waterman but had the kabush put on it when Debbie's record company Geffen wouldn't let her release it so EG got it and totally ran with it. One of the best of those late 80s dance drum machine beats. - Meanwhile A&M (EG's label) released the 12" while Chrysalis Records released the soundtrack and the 7" single version. Record companies are so strange. (EG did one more song on the Summer School soundtrack but we didn't have enough room kids)
After Wild Child, EG took a bit of time off from making an album but came back in 1989 with
Lace Around The Wound - which was totally hard to find, but since finding a vinyl copy of it for $12 and a CD version of it for $5 (love Ebay!), EG has released that for download as well. I'm currently working on a Bubbatunes version with some bonuses but we'll see where it goes. Meanwhile check out EG's website and download her music - she needs some moolah to pay for her kids you know.
EG Daily - Wild Child (bub123)Track List:01. Is Anybody Home? 02. Little Toy 03. Love In The Shadows 04. Just For You 05. Hey There Rocky 06. Say It, Say It 07. Wild Child 08. Don't Let Them Take The Child Away 09. Waiting 10. Sunset People
Bonus Tracks11. One Way Love (Better Off Dead) 12. A Little Luck 13. Say It Say It (Extended Version) 14. Mind Over Matter 15. Love In The Shadows (Extended Version) 16. Shake It Up 17. I'm Hot Tonight
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New To You
First and foremost - THERE ARE ONLY 20 DAYS UNTIL MY BIRTHDAY!!!okay now that my announcement is out of the way, let's look at a few
Bubbatunes I put out a few weeks ago but forgot to talk about...
so let's take a look at a bit of 80's pop/rock new wave and
reminisce as we all get ready for my birthday... today we look at some gems by Martha Davis, Toni Basil and Bonnie Hayes & The Wild Combo, so let's hop to it.
bub81 Martha Davis - Policy (March 27, 2007; 1987)
Nearly 20 years after its initial release, I took my vinyl copy of the Motels' lead singer Martha Davis' solo album. As it is,
Policy actually started as a Motels album but midway through it, Martha took each boy of the band to the bar, bought them a drink and told them the Motels were over. No one seemed all that horrified as it turned out and Martha just went back to the studio with Richie
Zito and continued on. For some reason, the album didn't catch fire at all reaching #127 on the Billboard album charts in November of 87 while the first single
"Don't Tell Me The Time" another of Martha's clever little love done gone wrong lyrics hit #80 in the US. The music is all 80's rock though not as obvious as the Motels' Shock album from 1985. In fact, a renewed fire seems to be in Martha's gullet after the demise of the Motels but even the catchy opening tune
"Tell It To The Moon" (written by wonder hits writer Dianne Warren) didn't score on radio or in the public. But I get more and more into the album each time I hear it, the jazzy reggae-
ishness of
"Don't Ask Out Loud", the sassy and jumpy
"What Money Might Buy" and
"Lust" (another new Martha
fav of mine) and my ultimate, the revenge tale found in
"Rebecca" where the title character is there describing the dead man on the floor as if she didn't know him or anything about him while under breath she sighs,
"I'm free/ he'll never do this to me again." It's awesome.
Policy was put out on CD when it initially came out and a quick double check at Amazon just found some used copies going for $35 which is a little less than the $80 I found Little Robbers going for, but still, come on. The big credit to the original CD is it has a bonus cut called
"Bridge Of Sighs" - a song I never heard and still don't have in my collection, so for our bonus cuts it appears we are one short. But that doesn't mean
Bubbatunes didn't put some great ones on here. Included as bonus cuts is Martha's demo version of
"Take My Breath Away" which ended up being recorded and released by Berlin,
"Nightmares" a rocky little song she recorded for her friends film
Night Of The Creeps (1986), "Next In Line" a 1986 demo, a duet with Sly Stone on Joan
Armatrading's "Love & Affection" from the film Soul Man, a little ballad ditty of
"I Can't Believe" from the film Miracle Beach, and a duet with Ivan Neville called
"You Got What It Takes" which ends with a bonus in a bonus as there is a hidden track called
"Mary & Billy", and one of the coolest finds, a version of Patsy Cline's
"Crazy" that Martha recorded with her friend Bobby Woods in her garage, made just because he wanted to hear her do it.
Martha Davis - Policy bub81
Track list: 01. Tell It To The Moon 02. Just Like You 03. Heaven Outside My Door 04. Don't Tell Me The Time 05.
Rebecca 06. What Money Might Buy 07. Don't Ask Out Loud 08. Hardest Part Of A Broken Heart 09. Lust 10. My Promise -
bonus tracks - 11. Take My Breath Away (demo) 12. Nightmares 13. Next In Line 14. Love & Affection 15. Crazy 16. I Can't Believe 17. You Got What It Takes
bub82 Bonnie Hayes & The Wild Combo - Good Clean Fun (March 27, 2007; 1982)
One of the more overlooked gems of the early 80's new wave movement, Bonnie Hayes still makes albums every now and then but they aren't of the same type of music as this. Opening with the one two bang of
"Girls Like Me" and
"Shelly's Boyfriend" which though neither hit on any chart I'm aware of, became synonymous with the film
Valley Girl which featured them,
particularly "Girls Like Me" which not only opened the film but was also the girls anthem at their slumber party (though if you look at the record on the turntable you'll see it isn't Bonnie Hayes - oh those crazy film people.) Besides the ultimate thrill of those two cuts, the rest of the album continues a similar vein, due I'm sure to the fact that every song is written or co-written by Bonnie Hayes. The female empowerment of the opening tracks is also found on other little gems and the fast paced
hiccupy delivery of Bonnie Hayes keeps all of
Good Clean Fun rallying through a genre that brings back so many memories. After one listen I have to go back and play it again, then listen to Josie Cotton and finally end up watching
Valley Girl, it's a very tiring process.
Bonnie Hayes & The Wild Combo - Good Clean Fun bub82
Track List: 01. Girls Like Me 02. Shelly's Boyfriend 03.
Separating 04.
Dum Fun 05. Coverage 06. Inside Doubt 07. Joyride 08.
Loverboy 09.
Raylene 10. The Last Word
bub83 Toni Basil - Toni Basil (April 3, 2007; 1983)
Toni Basil's
Word Of Mouth from 1982 launched the
phenomenon that was
"Mickey" but that album was so much more than just that single, using members of
Devo and new wave producers,
Word Of Mouth is a great little gem of early 80's new wave pop and one of the most overlooked of all time, and though Toni Basil, a choreographer and dancer by day, made that album just so she had some videos to dance to it was inevitable that Chrysalis would have her put out another album. Her self titled follow up came out a year after the huge success of
"Mickey" and I'm sure it's no surprise to learn nothing off of
Toni Basil scored quite as big. There may be several reasons for that. The main one perhaps is that "Mickey" was just too damn catchy for its own good, it overshadowed anything on that first album so there wasn't really a way to redo that same thing on another song and album, and the main thing is
Word Of Mouth is really a new
wavey album where Toni moved into dance
synth pop for her followup. It makes sense as she is the dancer girl and if you want to dance why bother making a rock album right? But the album itself is good, no matter what others may have said in the past, the opening single
"Over My Head" is catchy while
"Suspense" is a riot, combining the dance
synth pop with total 80's new wave lyrics about espionage, I love it.
"Space Walkin' The Dog" tries to recreate some of the more silly elements of
Word Of Mouth and doesn't completely fail but doesn't actually succeed either.
"Street Beat" puts out the
cheerleading stomps of
"Mickey" with mixed results only if you compare it to the hit single, on its own it's catchy as all hell. Regardless,
Toni Basil is a nice look at the early 80's dance pop that was taking off and would be utilized in another album that came out that year, the self titled Madonna. The bonus cuts include the dance 12" remixes of the singles
"Over My Head" and
"Suspense" plus the edited single version of
"Street Beat" and the ultimate for any Toni Basil fan, her performance of the song
"The Night" from the film
Rockula, though I must admit my version isn't all that
prestine. I had to tape it off a You Tube version of the song and the sound, though I fixed it up is still relatively poor. So if there's anyone willing to part with an mp3 version of
"The Night" I'd gladly send you a copy of this entertaining
Toni Basil album. And for those of you, not familiar with the hotness that is
"The Night" and Toni Basil, check this out at
You Tube. Toni Basil - Toni Basil bub83
track list:01. Over My Head 02. I Don't Hear You 03. Easy For You To Say 04. Suspense 05. Go For The Burn 06. Space
Walkin' The Dog 07. Street Beat 08. Do You Wanna Dance 09. Best Performance
bonus tracks - 10. The Night
next week we have a few more Bubbatunes on the way... for now, we return you to shopping for my birthday!Labels: Bonnie Hayes, Bubbatunes Brad's Birthday, Girls Like Me, Martha Davis, Policy, Rockula, Shelly's Boyfriend, Toni Basil, Valley Girl
