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Post by Wanderlust on Jul 2, 2013 19:42:42 GMT 1
Aqualung 'Strange and Beautiful'. Ploddingly relaxing.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Jul 2, 2013 19:45:30 GMT 1
great song, I loved aqualung
good times gonna come was awesome aswel, that's inspired me to add some aqualung to my spotify playlist
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Post by greendemon on Jul 3, 2013 15:09:47 GMT 1
aqualung! i bought his album on the strength of that song. think i still have it knocking around somewhere.
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Post by greendemon on Jul 3, 2013 15:11:52 GMT 1
i remember bellefire (not bad) and mad donna as well (hideous is right... worryingly i can still remember that song in far more detail than i care to!)
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Post by thehitparade on Jul 3, 2013 22:12:12 GMT 1
I actually sort of like the Mad Donna record as a parody of how far up herself Madonna was at the time. Not one I listen to every day though.
I didn't realise Aqualung was forgotten, but I think Matt Hales's previous band might have been.
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Post by thehitparade on Jul 3, 2013 22:14:10 GMT 1
Not sure why that posted twice. I suppose my original post was forgotten.
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Post by Panda on Jul 4, 2013 2:53:23 GMT 1
One of only two top 40 hits in the long and storied career of Lou Barlow, this one benefited greatly from a January release, which helped a lot of alternative acts get higher than usual chart positions in the 1990s:
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Post by thehitparade on Jul 4, 2013 19:35:38 GMT 1
Ah yes, I bought that Sebadoh single for 25p a couple of weeks ago. They were on TotP and everything.
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 4, 2013 23:47:43 GMT 1
A chart run of 48-13-10-12-18-23-out would fit in well in the 1990s onwards. But in 1977 it was unprecedented. Can't think of another top tenner that spent shorter in the charts.
I'd love to see Rock Follies repeated; I never saw it originally, but some of the songs on it (which, after all, benefitted from the input of Roxy Music) was blimmin' brilliant.
(It's also surreptitiously filthy.)
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Post by Wanderlust on Jul 5, 2013 17:10:41 GMT 1
The Wimbledon Choral Society 'Pavane'...something topical!
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Post by Wanderlust on Jul 5, 2013 17:12:55 GMT 1
And by stark contrast, D'Menace's funky tinged 'Deep Menace (Spank)'.
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Post by Wanderlust on Jul 5, 2013 17:16:59 GMT 1
Decent indie effort from Electrasy. 'Morning Afterglow' is anthemic and ever so slightly depressing.
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Post by Wanderlust on Jul 5, 2013 17:19:44 GMT 1
After 'Gunman' and 'Kung Fu', 187 Lockdown delivered this track. 'The Don' is not that memorable and uses the same ideas as its predecessors. So obscure, I could only source an extended with no video!
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Post by Wanderlust on Jul 5, 2013 17:26:32 GMT 1
The undisputed queen of the mundane lyric, Des'ree's big hit 'Life' gave us the provocative lyrics: 'I don't want to see a ghost, It's a sight that I fear most I'd rather have a piece of toast'
Here, she's still delivering those to-die-for lyrics:
'I'm a butterfly I like to play I'm always aiming into the sky I point my arrows extremely high'
Enjoy 'What's Your Sign' and try not fall aslee....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz'
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Post by Wanderlust on Jul 5, 2013 17:32:47 GMT 1
Shut your eyes and you can imagine it being the closing music to some big eighties teen film, starring Molly Ringwald or Corey Haim/Feldman.
Look out for the Undertaker from WWE on guitar.
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Post by Wanderlust on Jul 5, 2013 17:35:57 GMT 1
Nerada's 'Divine Emotions' is a burst of eighties synths, pop and soul and lots of tight leather.
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Post by Wanderlust on Jul 5, 2013 17:42:40 GMT 1
The late Ofra Haza's 'I'm Nin 'Alu'. Or a slight rejig of the lyrics 'I'm In A Loo'. Made all the more ironic because the full song title is 'I'm Nin 'Alu' (If The Doors Are Locked). Well, she wouldn't want someone catching her mid-flow.
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Post by Wanderlust on Jul 5, 2013 17:48:49 GMT 1
No idea what the title means, but he's not going to be able to see his reflection walking round dark factories in sunglasses. Scary video, scary song, scarily forgettable. This is Sisters of Mercy doing 'Lucretia, My Reflection'
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Post by Wanderlust on Jul 5, 2013 17:53:00 GMT 1
Robbie Robertson's 'Somewhere Down The Crazy River'. The kind of man who you would like to read to you before you go to bed, in that husky, commanding 'I've seen the world and I am well grounded and experienced, but prone to getting horrendously drunk every evening' sort of voice.
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 5, 2013 18:07:34 GMT 1
I well remember the above three. There was a legal fallout between Eldritch and Patricia Morrison, he claimed she was only there as eye candy and contributed nothing to SOM, so didn't pay her royalties...
And obviously their biggest hit was also Ofra's.
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