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”.

It’s a new year and our band is always looking to add

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Video Killed The Radio Star

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

While driving my younger daughter, Gemma, to the airport this weekend as she headed back to school, she asked me if I heard the new Miley Cyrus song. I said, “No, I didn’t know she had one.”

She said, “That’s because it just came out yesterday.” Then she played it.

It hooked me on the first listen. This song is pure pop, and for me, seemed oddly familiar. It took a while, but I finally realized this song strikes me as very similar to “Beautiful Life” by Ace Of Base, a song released in 1995.

It’s catchy, hooky, fun, and pretty easy to play.

Gemma at CU/Boulder, this is for you. ❤️

Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles - 1981 - Pop/80s