Brace Yourselves for a tough one

**pluche** · June 3rd, 2006, 12:00 PM

Sorry guys for the flashy title but I'm desperate and I don't have much to go with... But since you came through for me before I thought I'd give this one a try: It goes like this:

Hang on down
Meet my heart
It knows the best time for us to start

This is definitely a british neo-romantic pop-style song of the mid-80s that could very well belong to Simple Minds, Naked Eyes or... Modern Talking.

Thanks for anyone's help.

**needlefingers** · June 3rd, 2006, 12:21 PM

Hi,

Is it Hang On Now by Kajagoogoo?

**pluche** · June 3rd, 2006, 03:12 PM

Well, what can I say, someone's scratchy head is one's easy lay... Needlefinger you got it, and in so little time... THANK YOU for your help. You have just solved, a long-live obsession, a mystery that I have been trying to solve since the mid-80s.

**needlefingers** · June 4th, 2006, 10:35 AM

You're very welcome. I remembered the song from KROQ in LA.

**maarten** · June 4th, 2006, 09:16 PM

Originally Written by pluche

This is definitely a british neo-romantic pop-style song of the mid-80s that could very well belong to Simple Minds, Naked Eyes or... Modern Talking.

Thanks for anyone's help.

Let's never EVER call Modern Talking "british", "neo", "romantic", "pop" or "style". Lets call it German faux gay kitsch. Coz thats what it was. To even mention them in the same sentence as Simple Minds... Go wash your brain with bleech. :-)

**pluche** · June 11th, 2006, 12:57 PM

Originally Written by needlefingers

You're very welcome. I remembered the song from KROQ in LA.

Well, Needlefinger, I'm from the North East (Montreal) but I visited California once in 1997. Now I seem to recall KROQ as being Q104.7 in Oxnard, now when I was around and was tuning to 104.7 all the time, they were playing pure R&D, Urban and Dance&House mixes, quite a change of format!

**needlefingers** · June 11th, 2006, 01:34 PM

You have to be talking about another station.

This is KROQ in Los Angeles: http://www.kroq.com/music/

KROQ in the 80's was what we called "alternative music" in the 80's. And while they did play pop stuff like The Flirts and Culture Club, they were great at introducing Depeche Mode, The Cure, New Order, English Beat, Madness, Soft Cell, Erasure, Duran Duran, Billy Idol. And even more obscure like The Europeans, The Stranglers, Robert Hazzard, B Movie, Wall of Voodoo.

And Kajagoogoo.

Here is there playlist from their flashback lunch hours: http://www.kroq.com/flashbacklunch/index.html

This is the station you are talking about:
http://www.q1047.com/default.asp

Oxnard is not LA. Never was.

**pluche** · June 11th, 2006, 01:44 PM

As Yoda would put it: "Wrong I am, and corrected I stand. The station I was referring to while I was staying in Santa Barbara was KCOQ 104.7 Oxnard.

Very few LA stations made it that far otherwise, I'd have lasting memories of KROQ considering the playlist, which at age 43, is so much more up my alley. Now Needlefinger, please go sink your teeth in my latest little puzzle and see if you can "make amends of it"... You seem to be particularly knowledgeable at this stuff!