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Post by eurofandave on Nov 14, 2011 20:45:30 GMT 1
Thanks Mark I shall enjoy listening to the shows.
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Post by eurofandave on Oct 23, 2011 22:48:15 GMT 1
Voted
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Post by eurofandave on Aug 25, 2011 13:37:52 GMT 1
I have really enjoyed reading this thread.Charts wise,i wasn't particularly fussed on 1989 but my fave number 2 hits from the year were Michael Ball's Love Changes Everything,London Boys' London Nights and Jason Donovan's When You Come Back To Me Thanks again gezza76 for a fantastic thread
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Post by eurofandave on Aug 17, 2011 20:54:04 GMT 1
Other than Fairground *everything* Simply Red did was dull I agree! I never got the love for Simply Red either
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Post by eurofandave on Aug 16, 2011 20:28:27 GMT 1
25TH FEBRUARY- LOVE CHANGES EVERYTHING- Michael Ball (2 weeks)It's a tale of two Michael's up next. This one is awful, consider him a Rhydian of 1989 if you will, but Michael Ball was an opera star who got the lead role of Alex in the new Andre Lloyd Webber miusical "Aspects Of Love" which had just opened in London's West end, and from it "Love Changes Everything" was released as a single. It outperformed all expectations when it duly became a No 2 hit, Webber had already acheived that chart topper with "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" with vocalist Julie Covington in 1977, and the explanation as to why this was such a big hit may lie in the fact that "Aspects Of Love" was teh follow-up, if you like, to "The Phantom of The Opera" probably the biggest musical opera of the 80s. Naturally it's dross, I've never been an opera/ Musical kinda guy, though I love "Blood Brothers", but whereas bombastic delivery was all very alluring in 1984, by 1989 this seems curiously out of place. It's nice to be putting a bit of variety into this thread, its almost a bit of an anacronism now though, you just couldn't imagine something like this being a top 10 hit now (watch, i'll be proved wrong next month probably), and you can't fault Ball's voice when he belts out the tune, it's just empty and full of cliches though, there is no subtly, this song is designed to beat you down with sheer force, the musical equivalent of being in a wind tunnel I suppose. At the end you feel no more enlightened about love and how it changed "everything" than you did at the beginning- FAIL.... Lol,your review made me smile as i love this song from Michael Ball
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Post by eurofandave on Aug 16, 2011 20:22:51 GMT 1
gezza76,i find your threads a fantastic read,and this one is no exception.well done
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Post by eurofandave on Dec 7, 2008 11:58:45 GMT 1
Many thanks Mark :-) Now having a nostalgic trip down memory lane! lol.
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