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Post by vastar iner on Mar 2, 2018 22:05:25 GMT 1
Yes, Weller is a bit of a plagiarist pixie, isn't he? That and "Taxman".
Some of the proceeds of "Soul Deep" also went to the family of David Wilkie, the taxi driver killed by striking miners. Kim Howells destroyed all the evidence linking the NUM to the murder. He went on to become a Cabinet minister.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2018 16:15:00 GMT 1
New Seekers - Never Ending Song of Love
UK # 2 in 1971, behind T Rex - Get It On
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 13, 2018 0:13:05 GMT 1
This is a bit bandwagon-jumpy. The Banned rode the punk wave, but they were basically the prog rock band Gryphon who decided they could do with a hit record. It was all very committee creation, even to their noms de disque (Paul Sordid, John Thomas, Rick Mansworth...).
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Post by Wanderlust on Mar 18, 2018 11:29:18 GMT 1
This from En Vogue 'Too Gone Too Long'
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Post by Wanderlust on Mar 18, 2018 11:32:26 GMT 1
Not one of the more widely well known N Trance songs 'The Mind of the Machine'
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 25, 2018 21:37:53 GMT 1
On 4 April 1993, according to the Official Charts Company website, this was at no. 90. In which case it is a hit. A most palpable hit. One of eleven The Fall had in the hinterlands from 76 to 100; nine of them in the nineties, which might be a record. Possibly my favourite Fall single. Just joyous.
Meanwhile, the no. 1 single was by a puppet and had precisely one note. And the no. 2 were a bunch of latex Danes.
Whenever I am worried that I might be wrong and everyone else might be right, I look at that chart and remember, yeah, I win. I completely, totally, and utterly win.
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Post by andrew07 on Mar 26, 2018 16:58:08 GMT 1
I really don't think we hear too much of Ian Brown's solo career on the radio, except maybe "My Star" and "FEAR". Obviously he's not the best singer in the world but I don't mind his solo stuff. And this one, the follow-up to "My Star", I haven't often heard on the radio much, maybe the title was a bit too much, though it was shortened to "Corpses" for single release:
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Post by Wanderlust on Apr 5, 2018 10:14:39 GMT 1
Massivo Feat. Tracy 'Loving You'
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Post by Wanderlust on Apr 5, 2018 10:19:32 GMT 1
Dina Carroll doing the funky 'Express'
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Post by Wanderlust on Apr 5, 2018 10:23:08 GMT 1
Pop Will Eat Itself 'Can You Dig It'
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2018 18:02:01 GMT 1
This reached No.19 in February 1998 Brilliant song.
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 16, 2018 19:06:56 GMT 1
James Last never had a significant singles chart hit, but the similar 1,001 Strings sound of his countryman Horst Jankowski did. This slice of cheasy listening made the top five in 1965. Does this ever get played today?
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Post by raliverpool on Apr 16, 2018 19:47:53 GMT 1
Having caught a bit of tonight's Emmerdale ..... and Thinking of something which has made the news again in the last few days, and doubtless will when the court verdict is reached ... Here is a UK #30 hit from 1986 with its title seemingly reflecting the events surrounding the riot and the band’s subsequent imprisonment on the French riviera in 1980. Where the band were in all essence framed as scapegoats for a local riot at a French concert by the post punk group www.thestranglers.net/?p=3657But this tracks lyrical content (& musically a slight homage to his former backing band) reflects a different incident in May 1984 with an older then 43 year old English pop star who was caught in bed at his hotel with a young one 29 years his junior. Because of who he was and his connections with Conservative Government (past as well as the current Thatcher Government) & royal family with the UK due to this personality being an Establishment wholesome pillar of respectability who holds the record of 13 "Fix Its" appearances on Jim'll Fix It. That whole affair got hushed over, with his only real punishment being BBC Radio 1 dropping his new singles from their playlists, which resulted in him going for a more MOR sound moving forward.... The Stranglers - Nice In Nice
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 19, 2018 0:40:53 GMT 1
There can never be too much Stanley Unwin. He had a no. 1 album (backed by The Small Faces) in 19689, but had to wait 30 years for a singles chart hit. At the ripe old age of 87.
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 19, 2018 23:37:27 GMT 1
I was not the target audience for Dale Winton's programmes, but I was definitely the target audience for one pop video in which he appeared...
...and listening it with as neutral an ear as I can, this is a bloody, bloody, bloody brilliant single. Sleeper never got their due, perhaps because Louise was one of those dread things to the average music journo, namely a woman with opinions, but, my God, this shits all over everything released this decade, doesn't it? I mean, it has a tune, meaning, sweet delivery and chutzpah.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Apr 20, 2018 11:43:44 GMT 1
Is Inbetweener a nearly forgotten hit? I find making that judgement the difficult thing about this thread! I listen to it all the time, one of the best singles of the whole of the 90s I reckon. Sleeper had some cracking singles, some bands are mediocre for years, they were absolutely brilliant for a few months.
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Post by Robin on Apr 20, 2018 18:43:31 GMT 1
This reached No.19 in February 1998 Brilliant song. Didn’t their career implode after allowing this song to be used in an advert for the Sun newspaper. Because they were a Liverpool band it was a rather dumb move that they never recovered from.
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 25, 2018 21:37:58 GMT 1
Thought this was easily the best of S'Xpress' three top tens. Billie Ray Martin, Eric Robinson & the Good Good Feeling, a stoned blonde a la Flying Lizards...what's not to like? The video was a shoestring but they all look like they're having fun times.
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Post by Winged_Robi on Apr 28, 2018 11:45:37 GMT 1
Most of the #1’s from lat year
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 30, 2018 0:06:23 GMT 1
The top 10 for the week ending 15 September 1991 is pretty epic. Reading upwards, Utah Saints, GnR, Erasure, Prodigy, Zoe, Oceanic, Salt n Pepa, and Right Said Fred. Only spoilt by the overwrought Loose Women soundtrack from Bryan "let's not credit the band" Adams.
I've missed one out. This was at no. 9.
I suppose the garage backing was for the airplay, but the gospel vocals made it a hit. Seems to be just about it for Sabrina Johnston, a few desultory follow-ups and that was all she wrote. But at least she had this stormer.
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