Posts Tagged ‘1980′s music’
Jones, Oran ‘Juice’ – Curiosity / The Rain
Well well well. What was I thinking of? Again, this is far more my brother's taste than mine so I really must confess that I don't know what took me when I bought it. Listening to The Rain, the more senior of the pair in this two record set, it seems like Oran 'Juice' is at times whinging about his girl going with another man then standing over her hustling her out of his apartment having cancelled all of her credit cards and such like. Indeed in the video the last shot shows her trying to cross the freeway with her worldy possessions in a single holdall. It's the worst kind of naked misogyny and deserves to be stuck in the 80's.
For the record (I can't even be bothered to make the point that I just made a pun there), the single The Rain with reference Def Jam A 7303 was a hit in the UK singles chart between November 1986 and February 1987. Its highest chart position was number 4 and it spent a total of 5 weeks in the top ten over the Christmas period. There is no listing on any of my sources for the double pack that I bought (Def Jam OJJD 2) - and this is another of those singles that I didn't get round to scribing my name and the day that I bought it on the sleeve.
UK finishes last in Eurovision – musicweek.com
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UK finishes last in Eurovision
musicweek.com Dubovie's song - That Sounds Good to Me - was written by Waterman, Steve Crosby and Mike Stock, hit maker for Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan in the 1980s. ... and more » |
Tags: 1980's music
Heaven 17 Announce UK Tour of Seminal Penthouse and Pavement Album & Tickets…
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Heaven 17 Announce UK Tour of Seminal Penthouse and Pavement Album & Tickets
Stereoboard.com Penthouse And Pavement was the debut album by Heaven 17 and considered as one of the first concept albums of the 1980s. The first single, '(We Don't Need ... and more » |
Mel and Kim – That’s The Way It Is
As far as my street cred goes, I really really wish that I hadn't bought any of Mel and Kim's offerings. Not through any slight intended towards them you understand. They were a pair of perfectly pretty young girls living the life of pop stars - albeit as puppets controlled by Stock Aitken and Waterman, but pop stars nonetheless. Their career was only a short one, with four singles and four entries into the top ten of the UK singles chart. This was the fourth such offering and the only one that I bought on 7" - I bought the others on 12"!
This one was released in February 1988 after Mel had been diagnosed with spinal cancer. Indeed her illness was made public at the time of its release. It spent a total of 7 week sin the UK singles chart, scoring its highest position of number 10 in the w/e 12th March. In truth, it's probably the least well known of the girls' offerings - I certainly can't remember how it goes! Here's a link to a youtube video anyway:
Oh, no I've just had a listen. It really is as bad as all the other SAW offerings. Really dated and stuck in the 80's - that plastic sounding drum machine and synth. Ach!
80′s revival – GMTV
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80's revival
GMTV Britain is going through an eighties revival with 25 million Brits saying they still enjoy music and culture from the decade, according to new research. ... |
Observations: Still Hup for the Wonder Stuff – Independent
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Observations: Still Hup for the Wonder Stuff
Independent In my class at school in the West Midlands, some time around the turn of the 1980s, your indie credentials rested on whether you were a ... |
Paul Weller gets engaged to his 24-year-old girlfriend – Daily Mail
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Paul Weller gets engaged to his 24-year-old girlfriend
Daily Mail She sang with him in his 1980s outfit The Style Council and they married in 1988. They had two children together, Natt, 22, and 18-year-old Leah, ... and more » |
Calmer chameleon: Boy George on doing drugs, doing time and stomping the ……
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Calmer chameleon: Boy George on doing drugs, doing time and stomping the ...
Independent After 16 years of sobriety, in 2003 he fell back into the drug-taking ways that claimed so much of his life during the 1980s, and began again to use heroin, ...and more » |
Cure (The) – Just Like Heaven
1980's music gold.
Maybe, just maybe The Cure weren't a singles band? I mean, this one released in October 1987 was another peach of a single, yet it only made number 29 in the UK singles chart, staying for just 5 weeks. Were they bothered? Probably not.
Anyway, enough about the ins and outs of chart positions. Fact is, this was a peach of a single. Melodically it's very upbeat, as usual, and initially so lyrically too. But then Smithy wakes from his dream to realise that his girl is gone - taken and drowned by the raging sea. Well that's how I read the lyrics. The single is probably most important as the one that finally broke The Cure into the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA. It was the third of four singles taken from 1987's album Kiss Me,Kiss Me,Kiss Me.
Cure (The) – Close To Me
If In Between Days highest chart position was a travesty, then what about this one? Released in the w/e 21 September 1985, hot on the heels of its predecessor, it managed only number 24 in the UK singles chart. I faithfully did my bit, buying it on 18 October, but it was to no avail.
Cut this open and it says 1980's music, like a stick o' Blackpool rock.
In terms of dark themes this goes even further than In Between Days. To start with, there's less of an attempt to jolly the melody along - the hand-claps at the start really do set the tempo for the entire piece, although there are a couple of uplifting solos from wind instruments. And the lyrics, in which Smithy sings about wishing that the day would end; that the night could be close to him and hoping that seeing his head on the door was a dream, are even more gloomy. That said, it really is a great song, another which really does have 1980's music stamped all over it.
