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Post by vastar iner on Jan 20, 2011 20:24:28 GMT 1
I came onto this thread today to post this one. So here's something else instead.
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Post by vya on Jan 22, 2011 2:52:59 GMT 1
Not a proper video, but what a song. "Honey be Good", by The Bible, from 1989
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Post by vya on Jan 22, 2011 2:56:01 GMT 1
And from a couple of years later, another thing of gentle beauty, that somehow just scraped into the top 40.... The Big Dish, "Miss America"
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Post by raliverpool on Jan 22, 2011 15:01:26 GMT 1
Here are some indie/pop singles from the 1980s that failed to make the Top 40 that I loved:
This Belfast outfit's second single 4 years before their solitary UK Top 40 hit "Broken Land".
UK#62 (1984)
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Post by raliverpool on Jan 22, 2011 15:08:39 GMT 1
Welsh outfit World Party fronted by Karl Wallinger. Note future songwriter supremo Guy Chambers is on the piano.
UK#42 (1987)
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Post by raliverpool on Jan 22, 2011 15:18:43 GMT 1
When this came out in 1989, and Radio 1 played it, I thought this was going to be a massive hit single, how wrong I was (as the public were too busy lapping up the latest fartings by PWL to notice) that Terry Hall (The Specials/Fun Boy Three) latest project Terry, Blair & Anouchka would fail so miserably. The female vocalist Blair Booth went on to sing with Oui 3.
UK did not chart, (1989)
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Post by raliverpool on Jan 22, 2011 15:27:48 GMT 1
Terry Hall was also famous for co-writing the 1981 debut single "Our Lips Are Sealed" by the US female rock/pop group The Go-Gos (fronted by Belinda Carlisle), as he was dating their songwriter/guitarist Jane "Rush Hour" Wiedlin at the time.
This track was their last (USA#11) of four US Top 20 hit singles:
UK did not chart, (1984)
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Post by raliverpool on Jan 22, 2011 15:38:57 GMT 1
I remember being spellbound in the late 1980s listening to John Peel, and one day I watched ITV's The Chart Show, and this come on. Face facts Nirvana ripped this band off so badly it is untrue (I've never forgiven them for it), but the difference was they weren't on an indie label like 4AD, and had the full weight of a David Geffen media campaign behind them (fresh off the back of his success breaking Guns'N'Roses .... so Nirvana were never going to fail. Taken from their visceral 2nd album Surfer Rosa (produced by Steve Albini, 5 years prior to In Utero).
Hell I even borrowed a bass guitar for a month to try and learn Kim Deal's bass riffs, but my relatively small hands, and the fact my brain was completely incapable of being able to play & sing simultaneously made me soon give up .......
UK did not chart, (1988)
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 24, 2011 21:13:06 GMT 1
The Go-Go's...despite the butcher's apostrophe, one of my favourite groups of all time. Probably my favourite American one. The third album, "Talk Show", is one of the bitterest I have ever heard, you can almost feel them breaking up on it. Note that they all get roughly equal time on the "Head Over Heels" video and the cover of "Talk Show" has equal-sized photos of them on it...
Some Go-Go spin-offs:
^ features Meredith Brooks
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 25, 2011 3:54:22 GMT 1
This top American rock band had 3 NM #1s. Everyone in the UK knows Babe and "The Best Of Times" isn't that obscure even though it wasn't top 40 here. Their other NM #1 is much lesser remembered:
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 25, 2011 23:22:42 GMT 1
I remember being spellbound in the late 1980s listening to John Peel, and one day I watched ITV's The Chart Show, and this come on. ^ This, only for this particular version of a particular record. A low budget fuzzy blue screen, resolving itself into a pixellated pixie warbling in Tolkien, whilst the music behind staccatoed around in a fractured jazz agony. I was totally spellbound. All that was going through my head was "am I the only person on the planet who likes this?" It was so different to anything I had ever heard before I could not imagine that anyone else would get it. Like watching the first-ever Vic Reeves Big Night Out. I asked almost tentatively at school if anyone had heard of the Sugarcubes. It instantly translated my Cool Quotient up from somewhere near the temperature of the centre of the sun to that of liquid helium. Very bizarre. One of a very few records that changed everything about the way I thought about music. Utter, utter genius. A Desert Island Disc.
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Post by TheThorne on Jan 26, 2011 0:56:14 GMT 1
agree completely when I first heard that on The Chart Show, I was like wtf is this!!! But I so fell in love with it,one of the best indie records ever,in a similiar vein although I did hear this before I saw it on The Chart Show.
One of the most beautiful voices ever
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 27, 2011 8:41:25 GMT 1
To celebrate the resignation of Richard Keys:
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 30, 2011 19:46:45 GMT 1
Here's a sad one... ...because Ms Fassbender, troubled by depression, committed suicide in 1991. Although that didn't stop that clueless, brainless, godless defecatory waste of DNA Steve Wright making one of his typically anal comments. They got rid of Gray and Keys, can't someone get rid of Wright? From this planet?
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 7, 2011 22:23:05 GMT 1
TOYAH TOYAH TOYAH!!!!
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Post by Wanderlust on Mar 16, 2011 21:42:51 GMT 1
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 17, 2011 0:03:09 GMT 1
Lush made their chart debut 20 years ago this week. I'm amazed ^ never became a terrace anthem.
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Post by Mic1812 on Apr 16, 2011 19:36:10 GMT 1
This i remember watching on Top Of The Pops. Loved it so much i went out and bought the 7" and 12".
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