Teenarama - The Records | The Midnight Special

[@richalderson6069]

All three albums by The Records are worth having but the debut album that this song is from is just pure power pop perfection. 🎸🎵

[@SLADDYBADFAST]

Still know the lyrics by heart and sang along as I watched. thanks for posting this, awesome quality.

[@kevinmuzerMetalMind64]

The Records...great Power Pop...Listen to their Anthology ..Many great pop songs like this...Late 70s, Early 80s.. 🌟 🌟 😊

[@that70sgirl90]

I'm going to look that up. Thank you for sharing! 💖

[@bene.divinocordeiro6196]

Vou pesquisar

[@thomasmartin2838]

I remember watching this episode...always LOVED The Records!!...and you had The Cars hosting, and Suicide as guests too! Can't wait for the whole episode to get shown again!

[@ardiris2715]

I had no idea that The Records were on TMS. I didn't think anyone in the US had even heard of them. Also good songs from their first album: Starry Eyes, Girls That Don't Exist, and Affection Rejected. (:

[@rogertemple7193]

Brings back the memories of the 70's and 80's the Records were a really great band that could've been bigger and i still like them.❤🎸🎸🎹🥁❤ 🎵🎶🎼🇺🇸📺📺🇺🇸🎼🎶🎵

[@timhoovermusicman]

Dont remember them at all.

[@SLADDYBADFAST]

@@timhoovermusicman you had to be at the forefront of new wave in the late 70s to know who they were. They played twice at the Bottom Line in New York City. The 1st time in 1978 on the B Stiff tour they were the backing band for Rachel Sweet and played their own songs too. In 1979 they came back and headlined the Bottom Line on their own. Wish I had been there in person, but I did listen to both shows live on WNEW-FM NY.

[@timhoovermusicman]

@@SLADDYBADFAST closest I got to new wave was then cars😁 and that one gary numan tune☺️

[@timbates6309]

They had a song called "Starry Eyes" that got played on the radio a bit back around this time. Good song. Wonder if they played it on this episode.

[@dailybackup8372]

They did play it

[@chrisVandalay]

"Teenarama" and all that melodrama..." My fav song by The Records!

[@DylanWhite-k5j]

This band needed more Tv appearances.

[@paulvincer199]

Britians answer to The Raspberries and The Knack. Would love to see the other performances from this Midnight Special episode. They performed 4 songs including their biggest hit "Starry Eyes". Thanks in advance.

[@gregoryduncan3067]

That's from the Cars 1979 episode. If I had seen this during the watch party, I would have issued an obscure alert on it. There was more than one obscure band in that episode.

[@StephanieJeanne]

You'll still get your chance.😊

[@gregoryduncan3067]

​@@StephanieJeanneOh, you know it. There's going to be an obscure alert fest that night.

[@StephanieJeanne]

@@gregoryduncan3067 I can't wait! I love those! 😆🙌

[@wajobu]

I saw them a couple of weeks before this at a concert in Syracuse, New York. They were every bit as good live as their excellent debut album.

[@josephwirtz8352]

Where did they play?

[@jaimelaverc2475]

Now, that's a band which knows how to rock. My gosh, I have to give them that.... All hail The Records!

[@EdStephan]

Quite good!

[@LarzGustafsson]

Marvellous!

[@seeburg220]

I grew up in the 70s/80s and have never heard of this band.

[@timhoovermusicman]

You're not the only one😅

[@JOHNWLOUCKS]

I had their album when it came out. Love that power pop !

[@sukie584]

They were played on the alternative stations like the short lived, but great WPIX in NYC.. Their Starry Eyes got more play than this, but this was played too.

[@MultiSweener]

In the NYC area they were mostly on college/ indie stations. WFMU, WSOU, and CSI radio. For 50 years I only listen to college radio to this day.

[@budnap47]

you werent cool enough i guess...

[@bene.divinocordeiro6196]

Primeira vez que ouço este Grupo

[@timhoovermusicman]

Me too... And i was 17 back then

[@curtisphilumalee1447]

I remember this band only because I had a cousin who was into them and thought they were going to be huge. The song Affection Rejected is the one song that sticks in my head from them.

[@Maltloaflegrande]

I saw them twice in late '78 supporting Rockpile and on the Stiff tour and that was the song that stuck in my head. I was greatly looking forward forward to hearing it again when the album came out the following spring, but Mutt Lange's production murdered it. The CD "paying for the summer of love" has an earlier, more workmanlike recording and it's every bit as fabulous as those early live renditions. A CD well worth seeking out.

[@KittyGrizGriz]

I like them, they have a great sound, the audience were digging them!

[@jrowdygi1837]

I was 18 and bought alot of albums in 1979 and I don't remember this band at all.

[@StephanieJeanne]

I don’t remember these guys, but they sound pretty cool. There was a little bit of The Knack vibes in there. Did they chart at all? Thanks, for something old but new to me,TMS!😊

[@JohnFromArlingtron]

Their song Starry Eyes peaked at #56 in Billboard. The band though had a outsized influence on many 80's New Wave bands.

[@that70sgirl90]

I don't remember them either. Thank you for the information. Happy Thursday... thank you for sharing! 💖

[@StephanieJeanne]

@@JohnFromArlingtron Thanks, I'll have to look it up. I probably heard it.

[@peterkuchenbrod5696]

Power pop legends! RIP John Wicks

[@Washington-Dreaming]

The only thing better than Bananarama: Teenarama. (It’s funny. Whenever a stupid song comes on the radio I ask my wife, “Is this Bananarama?” And she generally says, “No!” Occasionally a stupid song comes on and I get it right though. Even a vision-impaired rodent finds a legume now and then.)

[@AlanCowburn]

Thanks😃

[@timhoovermusicman]

Dont remember them.

[@peggysmyth6110]

Me either.

[@theoriginalchefboyoboy6025]

imagine this song being covered by Big Star or The Replacements...

[@Nobody_Important_Yea]

Greenday?

[@HellOnWheel]

This is what you would get if you asked chatgpt to write a bubblegum pop song.

[@NYCHFAN]

Never heard of these guys. ???

[@SuperAnimelover100]

British band.

[@Washington-Dreaming]

I guess the name of the band is “The Records”? Ironic a bit since I think they only released two. I think they should’ve changed their name to, “The Record.” ‘Cause the second one didn’t sell very well before they broke up in 1982 I believe.

[@dailybackup8372]

Stupid comment

[@Maltloaflegrande]

They made three, but the third one bombed even more spectacularly than the second and was a bit crap because they were persuaded to recruit a frontman who wasn't as well suited to the songs as Wicks and the other players who occasionally took lead vocals. The second LP is worth hunting for just for "Girl in Golden Disc" although there are several other great songs on there.

[@budnap47]

@@Maltloaflegrande "hearts will be broken" i think is my favorite

[@vfxtreme2023]

THIS is N O T Good - by ANY Stretch in ANY E r a . TMS had ALL the GOOD Bands & SOME that shouldn't have seen the Light Outside of their GARAGE . . .

[@In_Set]

You're so wrong about this I'm frightened to think what other opinions you have...

[@SuperAnimelover100]

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