When I was a little kid there was a fantastic TV show on one of the TV channels, entitled "Tropical Heat" aka "Sweating Bullets". It was a story of Nick Slaughter, a former policeman and now private investigator, who - along with his friends, Sylvie, Ian, Spider, Carillo and others solved the most puzzling criminal mysteries - all in a wonderful scenery of a fictious tropical town called Key Mariah. The series had several trademarks. Among of them were Nick's ponytail, his jeep, passion for women, Sylvie's red hair and wit, Spider's charming foolishness and many other things - including a fantastic intro song "Anyway The Wind Blows" by Fred and Larry Molin. Around 8 months ago I stumbled upon this song on youtube, here it is: http://youtube.com/watch?v=7MyCWj-If2Y Reading the comments of guys saying "My childhood flashes before my eyes", I felt in a moment how many years have gone by and shall never return... I wanted to see what other people write about the song and series, and therefore started reading the comments. One of them was written by a person from Canada. I clicked on his profile and saw that among his favourites there was an enigmatic song "Eyes Of A Stranger" by Payola$. I had never heard it before, but the mysterious face of man with a lot of make-up on his face that featured the video made me curious... I went on to watch the video and listen to the song. It was one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have heard. Then came the standard process of "googling", and soon I knew a lot about the band. They were a sort of another "one hit wonder", who lighted up like a candle and faded so fast that almost no one noticed... it didn't discourage me though. I got several mp3s of the band ("The Best Of The Payolas") and to be honest I didn't like them too much - they were nowhere near as good as "Eyes..." As far as I remember, the video that the Canadian posted was watched around 200.000 times and had lots of comments, often including very wise remarks of people all over the world. Unfortunately, this amazing song was removed from youtube some time ago, along with hundreds of other great tunes. It makes me wonder - for whom is the music created? Who found anything bad in the fact that people came to this website every day, finding some joy in those beautiful songs and enlightning their sad, bleak lives? Anyway, I wanted to do something to change the matter. With the help of my good friend (and by the way - one of the most intelligent and promising youngsters of the world - and I'm not exaggerating) Sz.G. I made this video. It doesn't show the actual teledisc, as it would probably be treated as exceeding copyright laws and therefore deleted within a few days. It just shows the photo of the wonderful group of people, who became famous in the 80's with their great hit, "Eyes Of A Stranger". The rest, as they say, was history... Here's the lyrics to the song: Can I touch you to see if you're real? Is it nothing this something I feel? Can my heart take the strain? Or will it break down again? In your lips I sense a danger You've got the eyes of a stranger Have I been sleeping for all these years? Is it magic that makes you appear? When you walked in the room I felt my heart race But you acted rude and I looked in your face In your lips I sense a danger You've got the eyes of a stranger In your lips I see a danger You've got the eyes of a stranger In your lips I sense a danger You've got the eyes of a stranger In your lips I see a danger You've got the eyes of a stranger... ============================= I've got two small requests my friends. If you found the text above helpful in any way, could you please: 1) try to help me with the "???" in the lyrics? I'm not able to figure out what was sung there... I'm not a native English speaker, but I'm sure that some of you are and would be able to hear those few words. I'd be very grateful. EDIT 6th May 2007: thanks for submitting the correct lyrics Liskacz! Now everything is OK. 2) If you enjoyed this song, try this one... the band is from Britain, and that's the only major difference - they also released one big hit and later faded from the music scene, they were the members of the New Wave... Their biggest song is beautiful, touching and the type of the ones that you'll never forget. After hearing about the flowers screaming their joy in summer light you'll too find that no matter how sad and bad is everything around us - there's still beauty, charm and happiness that is within the reach of our hands... it's just our task to find it and never let it go. Follow this link, you won't regret it. http://youtube.com/watch?v=52wuwbJGC_c

Paga por que te "escuche" más gente: ¿La Payola llega a MySpace?; Otros temas escabrosos MySpace, acosos, vioaciones, etc.. Denuncian a un presuto violador universitario a través de un grupo de Facebook; Asociated Press permite monetizar videos en otros sitios; Aparición de MobuzzTV en la Keynote de Steve Jobs en la Macworld Expo 2008

FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein talks about the current case of Payola against the media companies Clear Channel, CBS, Citadel and Entercom. The FCC announced an agreement to settle charges against these companies, fining them 12 million dollars and a commitment for them to air a minimum amount of hours of independent music.

Gracias a Daniela Y a Ludsa Producciones y A Payola , UN saludo desde torreon!! Aki esta El Video De Rojo Espero que les guste como quedo la edicion =) El que sale cantando es Mauricio un Guey de la calle , no se crean es mi Baterista de un Proyecto y un buen amigo mio!!!

The Old Payola Roll Blues (Like The Beginning) - Stan Freberg f/ Jesse White, Music By Billy May w/ The Toads

Influenced by Scorsese "Last Waltz" and "Rust Never Sleeps" and Jonathon Demmes "Stop Making Sense" , Director Marc Swadel has gone for the classic live onstage with band performing to an audience that is never seen. This has the effect of putting the viewer onstage with the band, or putting the act live and raw in your living room.

PSA about Payola.

The Hottest crew of Promoter from the mid-west colab for another classic event Downtown Chicago hosted by Peeda Pan, meRk muRphy and Mr.dyNasty.Shout out to Flyy City and K-Legacy

Metallica is working hard to get back to metal and hard rock's king of music and airplay, and Lars Ulrich discussed the current scenes in both.

Of the video director Marc Swadel (Bailter Space, Liam Finn) stated, " Payola are a band doing completely their own thing with complete disregard for the insidious nature of the musical landscape at the moment, they have more charisma,style and attitude then most bands can dream of here.." " Oscillator is the perfect middle finger to the blur of "the the" bands and alt rock fizzlers that litter the air waves and tv channels, its heavier than most americanized metal drop outs and sexier than any NZ band dare be...the future is clear and its soundtrack is PAYOLA..." Marc Swadel 2007

Michael Bracy, policy director for Future of Music Coalition, talks about the history of Payola and how it fits into the larger problem of Media Consolidation.

Paul Porter, co-founder of Industry Ears, talks about how the Payola issue fits in with other media justice issues, and why it is more than about music.

video by artist Naomi Bolser for PAYOLA from the E.P. 'Dirt and Stars" http://www.myspace.com/officialpayola

VIDEO MUSICAL vida y politica Rep Dom

The #1 rated college night in Chicago! Hosted by Payola & Blu Diamond Productions. Shouts out to Flyy City and K Legacy, new members of click.. we got Chicago on lock every Friday, scream back.

"Soldier" by the Payola$, off of the 1982 12" single.

This is the new video for NZ Band PAYOLA directed by Marc Swadel from the EP "Dirt and Stars"

What's this? Here's a very general explaination on the concept of Payola in America. This is why Radio sucks.

Vivo Por El Poder De Las 12...

MONKEY BLACK PAYOLA A LA GAYARDA unlimited records el chacalchael matalo records.rap dominicano mundord.com lomarankiao.com

Este es un paseo por la historia de la banda en unas cuantas imágenes desde sus inicios hasta las fotos mas actuales q encontré jajaja

Vivo Por El Poder De Las 12....

http://www.raysongs.com - Ray Melana and Sebastian Barrotta covering Eyes of a Stanger by: Payola$ at the Reverb on Jan 4/07 in Toronto.

concrete pouring over clay. video for our "lost wind craze" from the album 200 YEARS. shot at the metro gallery in baltimore july 2007 by owen and peter, edited by owen. www.myspace.com/payolareserve

Freddy Beras ataca locutores malos, la radio y la payola en la República Dominicana.