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Post by Laurence on Dec 19, 2017 22:21:05 GMT 1
Beautiful, touching but atypical ballad from a group best known for their club bangers. Features Jamie Catto on vocals. Released twice making no.34 then no. 21 in 96/97. Sounds a bit Christmassy too.
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Post by borneoman on Dec 21, 2017 14:14:00 GMT 1
I love Faithless' slower number, they had Why Go in their second album which was kinda in the same vein also one of my fav Faithless tracks is Last this Day from their To all new arrivals, which is also a slowie
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 24, 2017 22:04:15 GMT 1
This is an interesting one. A sort of proto-"Enola Gay" as it has an upbeat and poppy tune while the lyrics are, well, not quite in sync with its optimistic tone...
It's good news week Someone's dropped a bomb somewhere Contaminating atmosphere And blackening the sky
And it's probably going to remain nearly forgotten, given that this charming ditty was written by Jonathan King. King also added the Anonymous to their name; they were originally just The Hedgehoppers, a name they got from them all being in the RAF - a hedgehopper was a low-flying bomber - and had started off as a sort of in-force band for the officers' mess at RAF Wittering.
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Post by Wanderlust on Dec 28, 2017 17:20:21 GMT 1
Ann Lee's followup to 'Two Times' was 'Voices'. Not a million miles off in style and Ann's extremely powerful vocal performance...
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Post by Wanderlust on Dec 28, 2017 17:23:56 GMT 1
Made In London singing about 'Dirty Water'. It's like Sugababes meeting Madasun meeting All Saints sort of.
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Post by Wanderlust on Dec 28, 2017 17:26:53 GMT 1
Boyz II Men 'Water Runs Dry'. Not one of their catchier moments.
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Post by vya on Dec 28, 2017 17:28:05 GMT 1
Peaking at no 34 in the first week of 1988, a crisp and refreshing soft rock number from Heart, "There's The Girl".
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Post by Wanderlust on Dec 28, 2017 17:29:47 GMT 1
Sid Owen 'Good Thing Going'.
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Post by Wanderlust on Dec 28, 2017 17:31:35 GMT 1
John Alford 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes' is UB40 lite.
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Post by vya on Dec 28, 2017 19:42:05 GMT 1
Another one from late 1987 - a gem indeed , I think. But although it did scrape into the top 10, it seems to have been largely forgotten now.
Jellybean featuring Elisa Fiorillo: "Who Found Who"
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Post by Laurence on Dec 30, 2017 2:53:30 GMT 1
Although response songs are usually terrible (think Frankee’s FURB) I really love this 2004 no. 8 hit and play it loads recently. Shola’s voice really works well here and the Enya sample/ minor key backing is more starker and haunting than the Mario Winans version. Plus Naila Boss is a great name for an MC.
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Post by Wanderlust on Dec 31, 2017 12:13:49 GMT 1
Monie Love 'in A Word Or 2'
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Post by Wanderlust on Dec 31, 2017 12:15:14 GMT 1
Rupaul doing 'Supermodel'
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Post by Wanderlust on Dec 31, 2017 12:18:23 GMT 1
Amy Grant 'Big Yellow Taxi'. I actually really like this version and it should have been a much bigger hit. It got to 20 in 1995.
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Post by Laurence on Jan 1, 2018 0:29:57 GMT 1
I really liked her near top 40 hit - House of Love (which was the B side to Big Yellow Taxi). Every Heartbeat was nice and catchy too!
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 11, 2018 22:00:13 GMT 1
Pop quiz, hot shots: how many points did the UK jury give to "Waterloo" in the Eurovision song contest? You know, the Europe-wide number 1 hit that launched the biggest artist ever to emerge from Eurovision, with a hundred million billion trillion sales in the greater London area alone?
Answer:
None.
Zero.
Zilch.
Not a single one.
That is how "with it" the UK jury was. They are presented with one of the most glorious singles on a plate right in front of them and they f***ing ignore it.
What did they vote for instead?
This heap of sh*te.
A dull as f*** ballad by numbers by an Italian who wasn't even in her first Eurovision rodeo. OK, she's cute, but, my God, this song would have been dated in 1964 let alone 1974.
And even in voting for this the BBC can't get off scott free. It was actually a bigger hit than the British entry was...
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Post by raliverpool on Jan 13, 2018 12:10:45 GMT 1
Take the biggest pop band of the 1980s who still sell out tours & gigs today, the lead single from an album that subsequently was not released in Europe (Medazzaland), which was released as a single from the soundtrack to the 1997 Val Kilmer film The Saint and was remixed for single release by Paul Oakenfold & Steve Osbourne, and a gothic video video filmed by director Dean Karr (who went on to direct award winning videos by Mariyn Manson; Korn; Evanescence; & Queens Of The Stone Age) in February 1997, at the historic Krumlov Castle in the city of Český Krumlov, in the Czech Republic peaking at UK #21:
Duran Duran - Out Of My Mind
^ A classic case of an out of vogue band being too far ahead of the curve, as this is miles better than anything off U2's Pop album; and had (at that time) The Smashing Pumpkins or even Depeche Mode made that record & video the music critics would have raved over it.
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 13, 2018 22:28:11 GMT 1
Who remembers 74-75 by The Connells? The rather sweet song with the rather touching video caught the imagination in Europe, but, bizarrely, not in their native States, topping the Swedish and Norwegian charts, and making our top 30 twice. Well, they updated the video in 2015. Be ready for the gut punch at 2m 24.
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Post by andrew07 on Jan 22, 2018 19:51:07 GMT 1
Was going through my singles collection and remembered that I have this on 7", a Charlatans single from 1991, that has never appeared on any album of theirs or even any greatest hits comp either, making it something of a "lost single".
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Post by SheriffFatman on Jan 24, 2018 13:29:39 GMT 1
Erasure are well remembered for their hugely successful up tempo late 80s and early 90s pop, but one of my favourites of theirs is this slow number...
It's the lead track from the Am I Right? EP, which reached number 15 in December 1991. Oddly, for some reason they released a remix of the entire EP a couple of months later, that reached number 22.
I guess the world was just never quite ready for an Erasure ballad, it's a gorgeous song though, and crying out for a cover version. Maybe an acoustic one, or something orchestral.
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