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Post by Kingpin on Feb 20, 2020 19:36:03 GMT 1
I can’t say I’m 100% correct Kingpin - I was also not in SA at that point! But this is the only chart resource I can find online which points this to an official SA chart of some sorts - I matched it up with another site that has Top 20s, but doesn’t publish anything past 1983. We have lots of Coca Cola or iTunes Charts now, and in last year published Spotify, but somewhere along the line an official chart seems to not exist! I will PM you the link I have - but can’t find anything about 18 weeks. Unless Our Haze has secret info. Sounds like it was wishful thinking on her part then!!
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Post by Kingpin on Feb 21, 2020 13:46:01 GMT 1
Really enjoying The Best Of Me hits compilation by Rick Astley, nice to have all the old and new hits on one CD. It’s become a permanent fixture in my car, my most played album since I had it at Christmas.
Surprised at how much I’m listening to the Reimagined tracks. I think this version of Never Gonna Give You Up is gorgeous
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Post by Smurfie on Feb 21, 2020 18:54:36 GMT 1
I had not visited this album yet (or in fact the last one), not sure why, but it’s probably down to the fact that I have had a RA greatest hits downloaded for a while. And then it’s a sparingly listen as over time Never Gonna Give You Up wearied me down through Rickrolling, though Together Forever and Take Me To Your Heart I never bore of, so I gave it a listen on your post today and really enjoyed the reimagined versions, so much so when the originals came up on shuffle I skipped through them. The first track on the album I didn’t even recognise his voice and thought I’d put on Rag N Bone man by accident. Thank you for alerting me to this Kingpin - I will be working through the rest of them tomorrow.
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Post by Kingpin on Feb 21, 2020 20:27:51 GMT 1
The new song on the album is fab, Every One of Us. He still looks and sounds great.
I played his first two albums to death and then got back into him with his last two studio albums. I always meant to check out the albums he did in his 'wilderness years'. I couldnt bear Cry For Help at the time but love it now. Not sure how many albums he did in between Hold Me In Your Arms and 50, I really need to get hold of them and give them a listen!
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Post by Smurfie on Feb 21, 2020 21:59:20 GMT 1
Happy 30th birthday erm.. single, Kakko Yamagata!
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Post by Kingpin on Feb 21, 2020 23:22:11 GMT 1
Love a bit of Kakko! Think I had this on cassette single. I remember a number of the SAW cassettes were issued in cute colours so I probably bought a lot more of them than I really wanted or needed regardless of whether they were any good or not. This wasnt bad though. Wasn't there a follow-up?
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Post by Gezza on Feb 21, 2020 23:32:25 GMT 1
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Post by Smurfie on Feb 22, 2020 9:17:41 GMT 1
That’s honestly the first time I’ve listened to What Kind Of Fool! I knew it existed, but have never actually searched for it, and automatically assumed as they reused so many of their songs that it was the same as the Kylie song!
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Post by Gezza on Feb 22, 2020 14:11:17 GMT 1
Haha- it's actually rather good
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2020 21:57:32 GMT 1
The new song on the album is fab, Every One of Us. He still looks and sounds great. I played his first two albums to death and then got back into him with his last two studio albums. I always meant to check out the albums he did in his 'wilderness years'. I couldnt bear Cry For Help at the time but love it now. Not sure how many albums he did in between Hold Me In Your Arms and 50, I really need to get hold of them and give them a listen! Just two Keep It Turned On from 2001 and Portrait in 2005 The latter was a standards album which featured a re-recording of When I Fall In Love Portrait reached no.26 and Keep It Turned On didn't chart He's previous two Greatest Hits both reached the Top 20 Greatest Hits from 2002 (No.16) and Ultimate Collection from 2008 (No.17) All his albums have charted well actually apart from Keep it Turned On i think Keep It Turned On never got any promo at the time which explains a lot Low key release www.officialcharts.com/artist/29941/rick-astley/He did release a single called Lights Out in 2010 which reached no.97 (19/06/10)
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Post by Kingpin on Mar 14, 2020 14:05:33 GMT 1
Thanks Mark , I'd heard Lights Out before, shame it didn't perform better for him, I think it's a really good song. So glad he's had renewed success, he seems such a nice bloke, I like all of his new stuff. I keep meaning to get hold of the Free and Body and Soul albums, the two that he did in the 90s before he went on his hiatus. I'd checked out at the time when Cry For Help came out but think I'd really like them now.
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Post by Kingpin on Mar 14, 2020 14:12:10 GMT 1
This is coming up soon on the Retro-Chart from Shooting Party. It was a total flop but will still do really well on my chart:
I'm assuming that this is from the same duo that did I Know That Mood. I charted this a couple of years or so before, it really grew on me, although their SAW sound is a real departure from this.
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Post by Smurfie on Mar 14, 2020 15:31:30 GMT 1
Shooting Party got a small hit in the end? Unlike Johnnie O.
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Post by Smurfie on Mar 14, 2020 15:52:11 GMT 1
Also happy 30th birthday to this, which I have just listened to five times in a row, which really cannot be healthy behaviour.
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Post by Kingpin on Mar 14, 2020 17:18:51 GMT 1
I'm not loving Let's Hang On. I love the Euro feel of Safe in the Arms of Love but this is a bit cringe. As amazing as most of the original SAW productions were, they churned out some dreadful cover versions!
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Post by Kingpin on Mar 14, 2020 17:21:03 GMT 1
Also happy 30th birthday to this, which I have just listened to five times in a row, which really cannot be healthy behaviour. I've got this on an exercise playlist so have listened to this quite a lot recently....including today too!! I still love this song, I just cant bring myself to dig the album out, I can't face Hey There Lonely Girl.
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Post by Smurfie on Mar 14, 2020 17:57:12 GMT 1
Thank goodness Martika got there first with their originally planned first single:
I didn’t know until today (probably as I had no desire to look for it) they went as far as a promo video before it got canned. Hey There Lonely Girl actually is a pile of cack, as was their rechurned version of Prince Charles favourite group “The Heaven I Need”.
I am pretty sure The Heaven I Need pops up somewhere else in the SAW discography - I cant believe they only resorted to the Three Degrees and Big Fun, probably Sam Fox or Our Haze who feasted on scraps recorded it too.
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Post by Kingpin on Mar 14, 2020 18:20:37 GMT 1
Yes I absolutely love Martika's version of I Feel The Earth Move, that whole first album of hers is brilliant. Don't be mad with me Smurfie but I do love the Big Fun hi-NRG take on this too!! Their dancing in that video is just embarrassing at times though. God, their album really was littered with cover versions and recycled songs wasn't it. I really am going to have to re-listen to that album again....the only non-single I can really remember was Fight For The Right To Party, I always thought that should have been a single.
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Post by Smurfie on Mar 14, 2020 20:23:00 GMT 1
I’m listening to it right now.! Not That Kinda Guy - dreadful rhyming, I don’t know anyone called Lee, appalling vocals. 9 out of 10.
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Post by Kingpin on Mar 14, 2020 20:40:01 GMT 1
Like a can of coke, they keep shoving it down your throat. It ain't no joke Be brave, just rave!
More great lyrics of our time! I'd forgotten how the start of Fight For The Right to Party sounded like Technotronic, which might explain why I love it!
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