The Tigers won. America won’t default. I’m functioning on very little sleep. This post is silly. I apologize.
Yes
Rhythm Of Love (Dance To The Rhythm Mix)
Rhythm Of Love (Move To The Rhythm Mix)
Rhythm Of Love (The Rhythm Of Dub)
City Of Love (Live Edit)
Fuck yeah, Yes remixes! Is synthpop Yes the best Yes? Probably not. But it is the “best” Yes.
I have a strange fascination with Yes that I still can’t really explain. I don’t know why. I only own a handful of Yes records, and I don’t even think I’ve listened to all of them. I actually know very little about the band, a fact that I’ve been wanting to remedy in recent months. Actually, I’ve toyed with the idea of buying all of Yes’ records and reviewing them all, in chronological order, simply as a writing exercise and as a personal quest to find out for myself what the hell they’re all about. I might still do it someday. Prog rock is hella big in Japan after all. This despite the fact that drugs of any kind are nearly impossible to find there. The wonders never cease.
Anyways, these remixes really aren’t prog rock. As I said before, this is synthpop Yes. Like all synthpop Yes, this song was co-written and produced by Trevor Horn, so sometimes I like to close my eyes and imagine Frankie Goes To Hollywood covering it.
Can you imagine a Frankie Goes To Hollywood/Yes collaboration!?! Oh man, why didn’t that happen? That’s the greatest tragedy of the 1980s.
Tangerine Dream
Streethawk (Radio Remix)
There was a TV show in 1985 called Street Hawk. It was about an ex-cop who fought crime with the help of a super-powered motorcycle. The theme song was by Tangerine Dream.
So…yeah. So…okay…so…I don’t even know where to begin with that entire statement. I need to let that sink in. Y’know what? Let me watch the opening credits to the Street Hawk TV show, maybe that will help me figure out how to put my thoughts to words.
Ahem.
Yeah, okay. I can’t comment on that. It speaks for itself. I got noting – maybe if I watch that opening again.
AND THE DUDE’S NAME IS JESSE MACH!? WHY? WAS “JOHNNY FAST” TAKEN?!
Wow. Okay, seriously, all of you need to read the Street Hawk wiki, because someone put a lot of effort into making sure everyone knows that Street Hawk is currently available on DVD (ORDERING NOW) and that at one point there were Street Hawk toys and even freakin’ Street Hawk novelizations.  And then check this incredible Street Hawk fansite. Because if you don’t, who will? Aside from the apparently millions of dedicated Street Hawk fans out there.
Wait a second, this site even has Street Hawk fan-fiction.
I have to go. I have reading to do.
Fuck your Breaking Bad nonsense, Street Hawk for life.
Streethawk!
Thank you sir.
Now… If only Air Wolf had such a great theme song.
I watched the shit out of Streethawk, along with Automan and the Blue Thunder TV series. My friend Just saw Goblin in concert. That has nothing to do with this post, I just thought I would add that.
I bought a Tangerine Dream album (Le Parc I think it was) simply because it had the theme on it.
Was a great show. There was also a game back in the C64/Spectrum days, but it got canned I believe right before release, or pulled right after (I forget which) but there are leaked copies on line.
I had a copy at the time and it was a bit crap.
Show was superb. My parents had stuffed me off to boarding school because they hated me and I made them record this and Miami Vice every week.