vastar iner
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 17, 2019 0:04:16 GMT 1
Various nude singles and album bags for the different countries where this (and the eponymous album) were released was about as interesting as it got for Hi Gloss. Perfect name really for something that was all packaging and no content. Studio group who left no trace at all.
Other than...one of the session singers who did backing vocals was Luther Vandross.
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Post by Robbie on Mar 24, 2019 0:35:10 GMT 1
^ I bought 'You'll Never Know' at the time. I still like it but that was all I ever heard by Hi-Gloss (well, the B side too though that wasn't anywhere near as good). You're right, they were another studio group who were put together simply to record a single (and this time, an album) aimed at the dancefloors.
I'd forgotten about the (almost) nude picture bag - I remember thinking back then it was quite risque for a single that Woolies were selling!
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Post by Robbie on Mar 24, 2019 0:40:05 GMT 1
I'm sure this one has been posted before, probably by me and possibly more than once, but any time is a good time to post one of my favourite singles of the 80s by a group who never got the recognition they deserved, at least certainly not with this 1984 release. Its very modest chart run in August / September 1984 of 96-87-87-x-91 beggars disbelief (and possibly stretches the definition of being a hit for the purpose of this thread). I owned the single on 12":
The Blue Nile - Tinseltown In The Rain
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Post by ManicKangaroo on Mar 24, 2019 1:09:20 GMT 1
It's just been featured in the Time Machine contest in the Retro forum You should check it out Robbie
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Post by Wanderlust on Apr 12, 2019 7:31:32 GMT 1
DJ Quicksilver 'Planet Love' was a top twenty hit, but nowhere near as big as Belissima.
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Post by Wanderlust on Apr 12, 2019 7:33:08 GMT 1
Best known for Seven Days and One Week, here is BBE's lesser discussed Deeper Love
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2019 19:59:08 GMT 1
This wasn't a hit but it should've been. I was spinning this 45 earlier. Good song!
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2019 23:48:31 GMT 1
This wasn't a hit but it should have been, i remember it being played on the radio. released in 1991
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Post by Wanderlust on May 25, 2019 9:10:37 GMT 1
Gloria Estefan 'Seal Our Fate' is one of her lesser discussed tracks.
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Post by Wanderlust on May 25, 2019 9:12:46 GMT 1
T99 'Anasthasia' is suitable for those who like 90s rave.
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Post by TheThorne on May 25, 2019 9:23:12 GMT 1
You can be fairly recent and almost forgotten. Ten years ago, a song could be a hit just through word of mouth and the hype of one DJ and I feel we will never see a day when a new indie band will score a hit with their first or second single again. It reached #33 in 2009.
The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight
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Post by Wanderlust on May 26, 2019 9:50:34 GMT 1
The Blessing 'Highway 5' is a great piece of nineties pop music and a very minor hit.
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Post by Wanderlust on May 26, 2019 9:56:39 GMT 1
Cola Boy '7 Ways To Love'
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Post by Wanderlust on May 26, 2019 9:58:13 GMT 1
Praise 'Only You' - this is fantastic.
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 2, 2019 12:01:18 GMT 1
^ Miriam Stockley was the original voice for Adiemus.
I thought Fairground Attraction would have a lengthy career. No.1 single, top ten follow-up, album only denied the no. 1 spot by the musicocide atrocity that is the lesser-talented Minogue.
Then the first single from the second album missed the chart entirely and that was basically it.
This was the fourth single from First Of A Million Kisses - should have been the third.
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Post by Robin on Jun 7, 2019 22:34:25 GMT 1
Cola Boy '7 Ways To Love'
Weren’t Cola Boy really Saint Etienne. I seem to recall this
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Post by Wanderlust on Jun 15, 2019 11:51:34 GMT 1
This from The Divine Comedy 'The Frog Princess' spent just one week in the chart.
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Post by Wanderlust on Jun 22, 2019 10:20:57 GMT 1
This from Rebel MC 'Better World'
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Post by Wanderlust on Jun 22, 2019 10:22:57 GMT 1
Beats International never repeated the success of 'Dub Be Good To Me', one of the followup singles was 'Won't Talk About It'.
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Post by Smurfie on Jun 22, 2019 11:04:29 GMT 1
Cola Boy '7 Ways To Love'
Weren’t Cola Boy really Saint Etienne. I seem to recall this Yep, a side project by them. It was written and recorded as a white label by them, but then re-recorded by a different vocalist (Janet Lee Grace) who fronted the act on TV and promos with a friend of theirs Andrew Midgely. Sarah was on the original white label, but they were not able to release with her vocals due to record contract reasons. I liked He Is Cola too.
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