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Music's Lost History Artist Edition MTV Wanted One Focus And Lost · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to Music's Lost History, the Artist Edition.
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  Speaker 1: For some reason, I've never seen this band as part
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  Speaker 1: of the 1980s Los Angeles club scene. And how about
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  Speaker 1: this as a business model? It must feature jangly guitars
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  Speaker 1: and irresistible harmonies. But before we get to how the
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  Speaker 1: world would fall in love with them, they still faced
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  Speaker 1: that huge ache in the heart inside the band's lineup
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  Speaker 1: of singer-songwriters. They never really agreed upon what the band
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  Speaker 1: was to become. It was founded by two sisters completely
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  Speaker 1: influenced and infatuated by the British invasion of the 1960s.
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  Speaker 1: This while still being full participants of the L.A. Paisley
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  Speaker 1: underground scene, a movement that blended psychedelic, rock folk, and
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  Speaker 1: garage band energy. The band's early chapters were heavily guitar-driven
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  Speaker 1: and alternative, not really the published pop band they eventually became.
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  Speaker 1: They were far from being a manufactured group assembled to
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  Speaker 1: look good on MTV. They played a lot of instruments,
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  Speaker 1: wrote songs, and built their own reputation. One that put
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  Speaker 1: them on the road with Cyndi Lauper, but it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: that artist that brought them to fame. mtv said hey
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  Speaker 1: we like you but we want to put focus on
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  Speaker 1: only one member the band said ain't gonna happen who
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  Speaker 1: is this Are you ready? Music's Lost History. Name the
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  Speaker 1: artist before we do. Errol Collins is back. Back, back. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for coming back to Music's Lost History, the artist edition.
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  Speaker 1: The band's breakthrough arrived in 1984. The debut album earned
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  Speaker 1: critical attention, especially from a performer whose name was Prince.
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  Speaker 1: With album sales up, it was time to hit the road.
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  Speaker 1: So they did. They toured with Cyndi Lauper. But it
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  Speaker 1: was anything but an overnight sensation. One of the biggest
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  Speaker 1: songs the band pushed out there to radio listeners and
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  Speaker 1: those addicted to 1980s-style MTV was a tune written by
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  Speaker 1: a very famous artist. And unless you looked at those
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  Speaker 1: names attached to the tiny print of a 45 or
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  Speaker 1: a CD, some dude by the name of Christopher gets
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  Speaker 1: all the attention. A total pseudonym. It was Prince. Now...
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  Speaker 1: the one wall that kept standing in the way was
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  Speaker 1: all over their identity. The real thing was, was that
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  Speaker 1: MTV wanted to put focus on one member only yet.
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  Speaker 1: It was the chemistry of all the members in the
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  Speaker 1: band that made manic Monday walk like an Egyptian and
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  Speaker 1: hazy shade of winter and eternal flame forever. The band
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about? The Bangles. I'm Arrow, and that's Music's
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  Speaker 1: Lost History, the Artist Edition.