No plans Saturday night? Feel like rocking out to Depeche Mode and Madonna? Bring your big hair, big dress and your dancing shoes, the third annual 80s Prom fundraiser is here! DJ Steve Richmond will get you into the groove all night long again this year as we support PPAV’s political work in Virginia during a very important election year! (ages 21 and up).
You can choose from a couple ticket options:
”Don’t Stop Believin’” – $35
“Baby I Love Your Way” – $50
all of the above, plus a song request
“Take My Breath Away” – $100
all of the above plus a song request and special shout out during prom!
“Higher Ground” – $250
all of the above plus a song request and special shout out during prom!
Buy Your Tickets here.
RSVP on Facebook:
All sponsorship levels include entrance, open bar, one year membership to Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia and commemorative cup.
[pic from Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia website]
Related posts:
- Upcoming: 80s Prom Night
- For the High School Prom You Never Went To
- Non-Prom Costumes for cVillains who love the 80s
“Baby I Love Your Way” Um that’s 1975 and “Higher Ground” is Stevie Wonder 1971. Come on people get with it
Higher Ground is also The Feelies, from their second album right (not the one printed on white-vinyl)?
Same, not ONE of these songs reminds me in any way of the 80s, or of the bright-promise or dark-smiling fatalism of the music of that period. I’d walk outside to smoke a cigareeet and draw recuperatively from a flask if I heard any one of these godawful songs ooze across the sound-system.
I was expelled and never graduated/attended-prom, but the last dance I went to I suspect I remember XTC: Snowman, Men W/O Hats: Safety Dance, English Beat: Mirror in the Bathroom, Echo & The Bunnymen: Ocean Rain, Nena: 99 Luftballoons, Peter Schilling: Major Tom, New Order: Temptation, and (a nod to the reborn South) something off Chronic Town, etc.
What sick-twisted 80s were you guys living in?
Please tell me that one of these days, soon, people will stop thinking it’s fun or cool to dress up like 80’s prom.
I didn’t even really like the eighties in the eighties. I am, however, fond of open bars.
So its an extra $15 to request a song??!! I would think for that kind of money you’d get to demand one.
Will I get my $ back if they don’t have any Slayer?
dress up like an ’80’s prom? You mean ill-fitting tuxedos and bridesmaid-reject dresses, just like prom ‘09?
So if McAuliffe wins on Tuesday, I can look forward to my ticket money helping him get elected? Goodie.
No. 80’s proms in New York and California will take care of that.
Responding to the Moran campaign’s claim that McAuliffe lacks financial support from Virginia voters, McAuliffe’s campaign pointed out that they raised roughly the same amount from inside Virginia — at least $760,000 — as Moran.
However, that also means more than three-quarters of McAuliffe’s money raised in the first quarter came from donors outside the commonwealth.
And for $500 you get all of the above plus acne, insecurity and no action afterwards.
Lord people, it’s for a good cause, lighten up. Seems like a good deal for an open bar anyway. And not to split hairs, but UB40 did a version of Baby I Love Your Way, and the Chili Peppers did Higher Ground (both in the 80’s). Yep, I’m the old fart with both on cassette
You’re right, it IS for a good cause. But the word 80’s is just too creepy. And the word prom is even worse. If they had a fund-raiser that didn’t bring up so many frickin issues from my past I’d be tempted to go.
Plus, I’m older than you anyway, so keep your hands off my old fart cred.
there’s no way you’re older than this broad
Oh go ahead and split hairs- but they aren’t 80’s songs their covers of 70’s songs. You could have come up with many actually 80’s song to fit even better. Like what what you ask? Higher Love with Stevie Winwood would do nicely for.
Covers while nice are not true songs of the age.
unless people have never heard of the originals.
“Higher Love with Stevie Winwood would do nicely for.”
would do nicely for torturing detainees at Guantanamo/AbuGarib.
would do nicely for sound-design for the play EQUUS when the kid gouges out his own/horses’ eyeballs.
would do nicely for FEMA to play through a PA to survivors after some major natural disaster, with the message: “Yeah, sure it sucks to lose your home and all, but there are much worse and much sadder things in the world… like this sucky sellout song…”
This is astounding—I was just in Chapel Hill, and the goddam ENGLISH BEAT is playing there. I had no idea they were even still alive, much less together-and-touring. There’s an ’80s prom for you.
Rankin’ Full Stop
nice, OD, I clicked and I “don’t get permission to view this”. WTF?
heck, sorry—it’s a link to the English Beat song, ‘Rankin Full Stop’. If you click, it would probably try to launch it in Media Player. Try right-click, then Save Target As to download the MP3.
and welcome back, backup planet.
Those are actually the sponsorship levels. Admission was $35 in advance. A good time was had by all…
Didnt Go: Do You Really Want To Hurt Me.
$35: Hungry Like the Wolf
$50: Wake Me Up Before You Gogo
$100: One Night In Bangkok
$250: Rock Me Amadeus!
Snuck In: Eyes Without a Face
i have NO idea what Gossip Girls is/are, but here’s a bunch of songs from their 80s episode (they are all free download MP3s):
http://personasauna.blogspot.com/2009/05/music-from-last-nights-gossip-girl_12.html
Billy Idol & Generation X – Dancing With Myself
Depeche Mode – Just Can’t Get Enough
The English Beat – Mirror In the Bathroom
Fountains of Wayne – Prom Theme
Freur – Doot Doot
Huey Lewis and the News – I Want a New Drug
Men Without Hats – The Safety Dance
Missing Persons – Destination Unknown
Modern English – I Melt With You
New Order – Blue Monday
No Doubt – Stand And Deliver
(yeah, some are pretty awful. and, Stand and Deliver should’ve been the Adam Ant version. Grosse Pointe Blank has the best 80s soundtrack I know.)
The Decline of Western Civilization has the best 80’s soundtrack I know.
/“it makes me wanna sing, it makes me wanna bite…”
I love Gossip Girl but that episode sucked.
I love Gossip Girl…
Step 1: Identify the problem.
@2 and 23: I find it highly creepy that there’s no Black music in those 2 lists. The music kings of the 80s were Black, yet your memory is this lily white? The 80s are not the 80s without Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson.
Of course you do, LaGrape. Your call of discrimination is totally accurate, as it always is. In fact, I am the host of “All White, All Night” on Grand Wizard Radio, WKKK. Anyone that knows me can tell you that. For a minute there I thought I could get away with my sly attempt to whitewash the eighties, totally, by making a small post on this world famous message boaerd, but no, you nailed me. Stone cold busted, I.
I thought maybe I could pass it off as just being sleep deprived, sitting here in my stupid cube and coming up with some lame eighties song TITLES, (without even considering the gender or racial diversity implications of a stupid little joke on a stupid little blog – I mean, how dare I?), but you ripped through that facade like Occam’s Chainsaw, and saw me for the TOTAL creep that I am.
Well played, Grape. I hope the justice league finally gives you your merit badge in windmill tilting.
Jesus.
Sorry UVA LaGrape:
The English Beat, The Specials, Bad Brains, Selecter, Linton Kwesi Johnson, etc.
Sorry UVA LaGrape:
UB40, True West, Herbie Hancock, Eddy Grant,
Sorry UVA LaGrape:
I didn’t realize your comment was directed at me. The first list was from a prep-school dance, the second from a TV show I’ve never even seen. Neither is my own Best-of-the-80s.
Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson were very mainstream and very popular and of no interest to me culturally or aesthetically. You should add Rockwell, who was very fun, and Kool Moe Dee.
I was a Mod, after the English manner, with cigarette-legged black suits and white shirts with skinny ties, black and white shoes and listened to mod and ska and invasion and punk bands–many of which were predominantly black in musical influence (The Jam and other true mod bands were constantly playing Motown covers) or had one or several black members or lead-singers. I also owned every Jimi Hendrix/Parliament & Funkadelic/Bootsy Collins album ever, almost every Piedmont blues record then available on vinyl, and could recite The Message and Rapper’s Delight down to the slightest inflection (i still can).
Accept please my apologies for my having seemed in providing those lists to have been caucaso-centric, quite contrarily to my past and current musical preferences.
I own all of Gift of Gab and not one album by Jewel.
To be offended is usually a rather unpleasant experience, one that can expose a person to intolerance, cultural misunderstandings, and even evoke the scars of the past. This is such an unpleasant experience that many people develop a thick skin and try to only be offended in the most egregious and awful situations. In many circumstances, they can allow smaller offenses to slip by as fighting them is a waste of time and energy. But white people, blessed with both time and energy, are not these kind of people. In fact there are few things white people love more than being offended.
Is all that linked text a reference to “highly creepy”?
…In fact there are few things white people love more than being offended…
…Oh, but it looks like our time is up for this session. I think we made some real progress today Mr. Whitey. Lets work on realizing the fact that you are not allowed to be offended by the rash and misguided sweeping generalizations of an albeit marginalized people because of *your* skin color. Remember: Two wrongs make a right. I’ll see you next week at the same time yes? You can just leave your check with Martha in the front lobby.
/direct your anger at those who directly oppress you, and not the scapegoats that they create.
rash and misguided sweeping generalizations of an albeit marginalized people because of *your* skin color. Remember: Two wrongs make a right.
Obligatory?
More for those that don’t remember: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/04/18/MN109646.DTL
Lighten up grape, I mentioned Stevie Wonder ealier
i’ve always wished that blog was called “what upper middle class liberal white people like”. it would be more accurate. but perhaps not as funny.
it’s not me against the world, guilty dieter. It’s me against 2 posts. that’s all.
Pop music is raced. Bring it, b-yo.
Wow…. way to destroy your cred Uva LagripeaboutanythingIcanturnintoaracistdiscussion.
FFS I like classical music. I will get my “I am a racist” t-shirt made immediately.
guilty dieter? for what pray tell?
I hate 80’s parties. Does that mean I’m black?
but didn’t i, while apologize for no wrongdoing at all, correct your impression that the two posts were in any way an effort to encyclopoedically catalogue the music of a given decade…. and were rather snapshots of cultural USE (exhibits) of music from that period?
And even the original list included women, germans, canadians, brits, homosexuals, and black performers (performing a style not even skimpily veiled to have been drawn from island ska-reggae/dancehall… an entirely black form from the carribean islands/african traditional imports). Did you even listen to the English Beat link i included?
the term ‘pop music’ covers a lot of ground. What I call ’sweater-pop’ is a category executed principally but not exclusively by white upper-middle-class kids with identity/selfesteem problems. Pop music more correctly would be more likely to denote P. Diddy, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Beyonce—inasmuch as those artists and their music is more… how-you-say… popular (Top Ten Forever). Pop music also implies it being a ‘music of the people’ as opposed to more rarefied forms—so appalachian-folk, country blues (as much black as white, cf Jimmie Rodgers), piedmont and delta blues, soul, motown, rap, etc. are pop-music over-against ‘highbrow’ classical (with the exception of mozart and vivaldi and copeland, which are unregenerately pop) and experimental music (john cage, morton feldman, steve reich…).
there is certainly a sense in which we use the term ‘pop’ music to mean whitey singinging like the 1954 Yale Acapella Ensmble. But it is a special use of the term, and usually requires a modifier such as Bubblegum, Sweater, etc. to make any real sense out-of-context. And THIS discussion is only using the term out-of-context.
Oh for fucks sake, bring what? You are not offering any sort of counterpoint at all, merely linking to your favorite novelty site, which at this point I believe you must be an administrator of, as you have been linking to it for a solid year. Ok. So I will acknowledge it. Ha. Ha. Ha. It is easy to stereotype white people. What a fucking hoot. Awesome. It was really funny the first twenty times you linked to it. It was even funnier the first hundred times such a concept was used as the bread and butter of hundreds of black stand up commedians from Richard Pryor on. Aren’t us white folks a kick? My knee is red from slapping it so many times. Happy?
Now that we’ve got that out of the way, I would simply like to state that your carrying multiple decks of race cards in holsters, flinging them hither and yon at every little thing actually, in my humble opinion, serves to hurt the causes you seem to care, nay obsess, about. The causes you embrace are real, and valid, and important, and the world is a better place to have folks out there raising consciousness about them. But when a post pops up wth five random songs – which were obviously chosen for the contents of their titles, without consideration for the artists at all, let alone the race or gender of the artists – for you to bring the passive agressive fury out of nowhere serves absolutely no purpose. It actually just kind of annoys people. Further, when you use the buckshot method for issues like these, the end result can be to dilute your message when it actually is more apt and resonant.
Coming from california, the epicenter of the “politically correct, inclusive” movement, perhaps I am more prone to be annoyed and dissappointed in situations like this. I have seen that there is no end to the levels that this sort of conciousness raising. It reaches the point of patently ridiculous really quickly, and the whole message is lost in the miasma of total inclusivity. It is my main complaint with the american left. If we didn’t have so many people flying of the hook about 80’s soundtracks, transgender restrooms and wholistically obtained colrabi then perhaps more attention could be paid to preventing the next James Byrd Jr. or Mathew Shepard.
To some degree I understand where you are coming from (yes yes I know, I am in the white hetero male bubble and CANNOT possibly understand – how dare I even try… got it). Way back when you were just a black panther cub, I was a radical youth who railed against injustice wherever I could find it. Sometimes though, in my passion, I would see it where it did not exist. I am old now, and for right or wrong, I have learned to choose my battles. Even still, my choices are not always good ones, but that is what it is. I think perhaps the choice to adress this particular ‘discussion’ at length may be fruitless, but I figured it would be worth a shot.
I guess the tl/dr of this would be: If forced between the two, would you rather be thought of as Cynthia McKinney or Maya Angelou? Of course its up to you and only you how you choose to conduct your affairs. But dont think for a second you can jump down my throat with a hit and run gratuitous accusation of racism and have me just let it slide. Homey dont play that.
*applause*
Further, when you use the buckshot method for issues like these, the end result can be to dilute your message when it actually is more apt and resonant.
Aaaah, the old Al Sharpton methodology.
The English Beat, image
floozy: woops! nice assumption that black people have nothing to do with classical music. also nice demonstration that black people can’t even mention race (a daily facet of our lives) among a mostly white crowd (cVillain) without “destroying our cred”.
shenan: your inability to take any shit is what makes you a black woman.
otter: thank you.
fuck yeah
Name a black composer from the Classical Period. Oh and that’s 1750-1825 just to save you a trip to Wiki.
BTW I hope you are applying SPF 30 to that chip on your shoulder now that summer is here.
What I learned here is be careful not to step on Lagrape or you will get a little whine.
LMBWAO
this is fun. then again, this should be considered, if there’s ANY question of racism. from the US Census, US population:
White: 80.0%
Hispanic: 15.1%
Black: 12.8%
So, in the first list the ratio of black performers to white performers is more than proportional to population.
HOWEVER, not one Hispanic performer was included in my lists OR in your tirades.
Soooooooo, if anyone should be pissed off, it is Hispanics, who have contributed hugely to American popular music and culture, and who statistically outnumber black americans.
Viva Otterdung!
that is of course meaningless, just numbers-annoyance.
the contribution/innovation of black americans to american music, popular and otherwise, has always been ackowledged to be the most significant factor in defining it as ‘American’ music. Most music critics agree that Jazz is the only truly American musical genre, and almost no music critic would argue anything other than that modern popular music largely arose from borrowings or outright theft from blues and black-carribean styles.
he’s a bit obscure, but it’s very interesting stuff (if you can FIND it):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/3647828/The-mixed-race-Mozart.html
“This coming Monday, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment will play a symphony by a little-known 18th-century composer, the Chevalier de St-George, who was born 20 years before Mozart and lived long enough to see the rise of Napoleon. … He was born Joseph Boulogne in the French colony of St Domingue (Haiti), the son of a minor French aristocrat and member of the Parlement at Metz and a slave woman known variously as Anne and Nanon.”
hahaha—this website calls him “The First King of Pop”, and “Le Mozart Noir”
chevalierdesaintgeorge.com/index_unabridged.php
Then again, when was the last time you met a white guy named Amadeus?
/have nothing to add
i’m out of my depth here, being one of the last people on the planet who still considers ‘Irish’ to be a race, thinks often of the Great Shame, the treatment of miners that led to the Molly McGuires, and above all the IRISH NEED NOT APPLY signs.
omg really? all this? I’ll be back later
Gawd.
in the local idiom, relating to the heated badinage of the thread, it should probably be “Lawd”.
Oh, and just so I have it clear in my mind, I always get them mixed up, are Planned Parenthood the unrepentent baby-killers, or the Group that drags unwed mothers deeper into poverty and despair by forcing them to have and keep children for whom they cannot provide?
PP does the abortions. “The Pregnancy Center” is the place where they tell you to go ahead and have the baby, Jesus will help you take care of it.
I asked him to babysit last Tuesday night and the bastard never turned up.
Maybe if Jaysus realizes how fucking LAME you all are, he’ll drop by cvillain and heal you all.
(not you, Floozy).
Jesus can’t babysit cuz the baby goes through his hands