“Think I’m in Love” is a 1982 song by American rock singer Eddie Money from his album No Control. Written by Money and Randy Oda (who is perhaps best known otherwise for his collaborations with former Creedence Clearwater Revival member Tom Fogerty), the tune was released as a single and reached number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and number one on the Billboard Top Tracks chart

Music video

The music video included elements from classic vampire movies (with Eddie Money cast as a quasi-Dracula character).

In popular culture

The song has been featured in several movies, including Joe Dirt and Paul Blart: Mall Cop.

True Faith” is a 1987 track from New Order, produced by Stephen Hague. It was the first New Order single since their debut “Ceremony” to be issued in the UK as two separate 12″ singles. The second 12″ single features two remixes of “True Faith” by Shep Pettibone. Both versions of the 12″ (and also the edited 7″) also include the song “1963″. “True Faith” is one of New Order’s most popular songs.

The single peaked at number four in the United Kingdom on its original release in 1987. The single also became the first New Order single to chart on the Hot 100 in the United States that same year and their first ever Top 40 hit, peaking at number 32.

A “True Faith” remix 12″ single and CD single were released in 1994, and another “True Faith” remix 12″ single and CD single were released in 2001. The 1994 remix charted in the UK at number 9.

Music video
The release of “True Faith” was accompanied by a surreal music video directed and choreographed by Philippe Decouflé.[1] In it, bizarrely costumed dancers leap about, fight and slap each other in time to the music; while a girl in dark green makeup emerges from an upside down boxer’s speed bag and signs the lyrics. The video has often been voted amongst the best music videos of its year. Sky Television’s channel The Amp, for instance, has it rated as the best video of 1987, and it won the BPI award for Best Promotional Video in 1988. The video was inspired by Bauhaus artist Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadische Ballet.[2]

The overall tonality, themes and various elements from the video re-occurred in Decouflé’s scenography and choreography for the inauguration ceremonies of the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville.

The band was surprised by the fact that the single widened their audience with younger children despite the mature subject matter, because the video’s characters, some of them in primary bauhaus colours, were reminiscent of children’s programming

Lyrics
As is the case for many New Order songs, the words in the title do not appear anywhere in the lyrics.

The original lyrics included a verse that read “Now that we’ve grown up together/They’re all taking drugs with me”. Hague convinced Sumner to change the latter line to “They’re afraid of what they see” because he was worried that otherwise it would not get played on the radio. When performing the song live, the band have always used the original line.

Kashif Saleem (born Michael Jones in 1959) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and record producer. Kashif became well-known from playing keyboards in the renowned funk band B.T. Express. He played synthesizer bass using the miniMoog while touring with the group. After leaving the band in the early 1980s, Kashif recorded demos with the band Stepping Stone, which led to his eventual solo signing with Arista Records.

Introduced to Arista by Gerry Griffith, its A&R director in 1983, his self-titled debut Kashif (1983) spawned the hits “I Just Gotta Have You (Lover Turn Me On),” “Stone Love,” “Help Yourself to My Love,” and “Say Something Love.” With this release, Kashif was well received as an innovator in music, as R&B artists were only beginning to experiment with synthesizers and other electronic instruments. He is said to have been Arista Records’ attempt to respond to Warner Bros. Records’ Prince.

His other albums include Send Me Your Love and Condition of the Heart. On the album Love Changes, Exposé provided background vocals. 1989′s Kashif, with the cover of the Four Tops’ hit “Ain’t No Woman Like the One I Got,” “Baby Don’t Break Your Baby’s Heart,” and “Are You the Woman.”

As an in-demand writer/producer, Kashif can be heard on releases by Kenny G, George Benson, Evelyn “Champagne” King, Johnny Kemp, Melba Moore, Dionne Warwick, Giorge Pettus, Stacy Lattisaw, Exposé, The Wootens, Freda Payne, Whitney Houston, and others. His Grammy nominations are for the instrumentals “The Mood,” “Call Me Tonight,” “Edgartown Groove” featuring Al Jarreau, and “The Movie Song.”

In 1994, Kashif received an invitation from the U.C.L.A. Extension program and created a course called Contemporary Record Production with Kashif. In August 1995, Kashif authored a book entitled Everything You’d Better Know About the Record Industry, as CEO of his Los Angeles-based Brooklyn Boy Books, Entertainment, and Information. In 1998, Kashif signed with U.K. label Expansion Records and his album Who Loves You was released that same year.

Wright was offered a slot touring with Lenny White when he was 13, and he played with Tom Browne at age 16. GRP Records signed him in 1981 and released his debut LP, ‘Nard, tracks from which have been prominently sampled by Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Skee-Lo,and LL Cool J among countless others. He followed with Funky Beat on Arista and Mr. Wright on EMI. The latter of these albums included his biggest R&B hit, “Who Do You Love” for which a video was made. Wright has also appeared on recordings by musicians such as Cameo, Bobby Brown, Pieces of a Dream, Charles Earland, Marcus Miller and Miles Davis. He attended the Fiorello Laguardia High School of Music & The Performing Arts in New York. Classmates included writer Carl Hancock Rux, gospel recording artist Desiree Coleman Jackson, rappers Slick Rick and Dana Dane.

They scored several hits in their early career, but were launched to international attention in 1986 when the film director John Hughes borrowed their song title “Pretty in Pink” for his movie of the same name. A newly recorded version of the song became the Psychedlic Furs’ biggest hit to that time. “Heartbreak Beat” from their 1987 album Midnight to Midnight, was to be the Furs’ biggest Top 40 entry in the US.

The Psychedelic Furs went on hiatus in 1991, and the Butler brothers formed a new band called Love Spit Love. The Psychedelic Furs later regrouped in 2001 and continue to perform around the world.

“Whip It” is the title of a 1980 single by the American New Wave band Devo. It appears on the album Freedom of Choice. There were two 7″ single releases of “Whip It”, one backed with a remix of the track “Snowball” (which appears on Freedom of Choice) and one backed with “Turn Around” (a song later covered by Nirvana). “Whip It” was Devo’s biggest hit, and peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, number three on the Canadian Singles Chart and number 77 on the Australian Singles Chart (Kent Music Report).

It is ranked #63 on VH1′s 100 Greatest Songs of the ’80s as well as #15 on the same channel’s 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the ’80s.

Devo funded the music video for “Whip It” with $15,000 USD of their own money. The main visual of the video, Mark Mothersbaugh whipping the clothes off a woman, was inspired by an article in a 1962 issue of “Dude” magazine. In an interview for Songfacts, Casale explains “There was a feature article on a guy who had been an actor and fell on hard times, he wasn’t getting parts anymore. He moved with his wife to Arizona, opened a dude ranch and charged people money to come hang out at the ranch. Every day at noon in the corral, for entertainment, he’d whip his wife’s clothes off with a 12-foot bullwhip. She sewed the costumes and put them together with Velcro. The story was in the magazine about how good he was and how he never hurt her. We had such a big laugh about it, we said, ‘OK, that’s the basis for the video. We’ll have these cowboys drinking beer and cheering Mark on as he’s in the barnyard whipping this pioneer woman’s clothes off while the band plays in the corral.’”

In the video, Devo wears black, sleeveless turtlenecks, and their famous Energy Dome headgear. When the video begins, all the members, except for Mark Mothersbaugh, wear the turtlenecks pulled over their faces. During the performance, each member lowers the turtleneck. Robert Casale (Bob 2) plays a red Rheem Kee Bass, and Alan Myers plays a set of Synare electronic drum pads.

Not surprisingly, the S&M overtones of the video caused controversy. Devo was forced to abandon a television appearance after the host deemed the video offensive to women. Despite this, “Whip It” received heavy rotation on MTV and Channel

“Mickey” is a 1982 U.S. New wave song recorded by singer and choreographer Toni Basil. Written by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn as “Kitty”, it was first recorded by UK popular music group Racey during 1979.

A music video for the song, featuring costuming and choreography inspired by cheerleader dance routines, was played heavily on MTV.

The single scored number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week and number two in the UK singles chart. The song was Basil’s only top 40 success, making her a “one-hit wonder”. It is named #5 on VH1′s 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of all time, #16 on 20 to 1′s top 20 One Hit Wonders Countdown and #7 on VH1′s 100 greatest songs of the 80′s. It has also appeared on countless Greatest or Best lists and countdowns.

In 1981, they advertised for a lead singer, ultimately auditioning and choosing Christopher Hamill, who then went under the stage name Limahl (an anagram of his surname). The name of the group was then changed to Kajagoogoo, coined by phonetically writing out a baby’s first sounds, which gave them ‘GagaGooGoo’ – and with a minor alteration, it became ‘Kajagoogoo’

The song was recorded under different titles for different parts of the world—resulting in versions such as “European Queen” and “African Queen”.

In 2004, the song was re-released as a digital single for its 20th anniversary, shooting up to #25 on the Billboard digital singles chart and garnering radio play across the US and UK.

Music video
Among the various eponymous song is the clip of the same. At the beginning of the video a poster for Billy Ocean song is suspended, then you see a stage and there are actors preparing for a gig. The way to maintain two types, and as the caretaker of the theater building where the floor is wiped an old man by a Türatrappe. Behind the door appears and presents the Billy Ocean song, dance to a few female actors. While the performers dance whistles to them a man on a ladder behind her and suddenly Ocean disappears in a cloud of smoke. By the entrance of the room he appears again, the downward trend of the stairs he plays air guitar and enjoys his wine in the ring. As a dancer comes in, he lets drop the glass and it shatters. Later, Ocean and the woman in a bar again find there the woman receives a gift of a top and she smiles to Ocean. Again, behind the stage sprayed the woman with a perfume. After her Ocean is again on the stage and performed the song, but this time in public. When performing with a wind plays in light effects and plays his solo. At the door of the arena, knocking on a boy and goes in, while Ocean delivers his performance.[3]

The music video synopsis from this very page was read out by Andrew Collins on his BBC 6 Music radio show on Monday October 4th 2010 after he had played the song.