R.E.M. put out some high energy tunes in the 80’s and 90’s, including this song which became an unofficial theme song for the Denver Broncos, as I recall.

R.E.M. put out some high energy tunes in the 80’s

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Orange Crush

A classic 80’s smash from The Human League! It sounds to me like this song was recorded with a synth bass, rather than a bass guitar. Since it’s in Db, a 5-string in standard tuning works great. I dialed in a little synthy effect into the amp to try to replicate the original tone.

A classic 80’s smash from The Human League! It sounds

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It’s a new year and our band is always looking to add new songs to the set list. As a largely 80’s cover band, you can’t get much more “80’s” than this one — the song that launched MTV in 1981.

As much as I love this song, it’s always haunted me a bit. I became a radio personality in high school and pursued a career in commercial broadcasting out of college. For nearly 20 years, I worried my career would be destroyed by some video technology. Fortunately, that never happened. We can discuss what “killed” the radio star, but I would argue it was a lot of things, but not “video”.

Orange Crush - R.E.M. - 1988 - Pop/Alt/80s