I recently bought the Dare CD as it was in a sale for £4. Don't You Want Me is the best track on it!!!

 

rubbish.

Coolio had few hits but everybody knows just Gangsta's Paradise

 

maybe thats a good thing! ;)

rubbish.

 

 

So which tracks were better in your opinion then?

Elastica are largely remembered for just 'Connection,' which is a pity as their album is one of my favourites.

So which tracks were better in your opinion then?

 

 

See my review of "Dare" here

 

http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?s...hl=human+league

 

IMO the best track on the album is "The Sound of the Crowd"

whenever i mentioned bjork people are like ohhh the one who sang it's oh so quiet so i'd say that's what she's mainly remembered for..

^ A Fantastic album, but I still think "The Things That Dreams Are Made Of" is the stand out track.

The most apt for this thread:

 

Amazulu - Too Good To Be Forgotten.

 

Well can anyone honestly name and sing one of their other 4 Top 40 hits!

Modern Talking - "Brother Louie"

 

Legendary group across Europe but not so much in the UK.

The most apt for this thread:

 

Amazulu - Too Good To Be Forgotten.

 

Well can anyone honestly name and sing one of their other 4 Top 40 hits!

 

 

Can't even think of another! :(

So which tracks were better in your opinion then?

 

all of them, which is why i suggest 'dont you want me' is the worst.

 

i agree bri, 'sound of the crowd' is my fav track from '81.

 

 

The most apt for this thread:

 

Amazulu - Too Good To Be Forgotten.

 

Well can anyone honestly name and sing one of their other 4 Top 40 hits!

 

theres that one they performed on 'the young ones' .... cant remember what its called though!

The Love Affair often just remembered for Everlasting Love. They had numerous other hits including Rainbow Valley and Bring On Back The Good Times.

Edited January 29, 201015 yr by fiesta

Manaun - Wide Open Space

James - Sit Down

Baby Bird - You're Gorgeous

Chumbawamba - Tubthumpin

 

 

The Love Affair often just remembered for Everlasting Love. They had numerous other hits including Rainbow Valley and Bring On Back The Good Times.

 

thought they were great, even though they were largely manufactured.

to be fair though russ, many younger people are too busy exploring their own music to be that bothered to explore the back catalogues. its hardly their fault that radio stations, tv ads, backing tracks etc concentrate on one large hit.

 

This would have been my opinion as well, though I guess out of all the ‘outlets’ that were mentioned, I would think that it is advertising would play the largest part today. If I was the person who had made this comment initially I would also have made the generalisation that I would have expected young radio listeners to all be listening to stations like 1xtra and Galaxy, if any at all, rather than “The 80s Hour” on Absolute.

 

I remember when I was younger in the 1980s it was seen as being very ‘uncool’ if you liked the same music as your parents [which for me would have mainly been the music of the 50s & 60s]. I guess there will be many teenage music fans whose parents grew up with the music of the 1980s and perhaps there will be only a certain amount of 1980s music they can get away with listening to ‘ironically’. On the other hand I know quite a few music fans aged in their early 20s who largely listen to older music [including 1990s Grunge as well as 1960s or 1970s tracks] and I would say that I was at this [mainly University-based student] age when I started fully discovering music made before the era I grew up in.

 

I noticed earlier in the discussion that Heaven 17 were mentioned and I was wondering whether if it would have been the original version of “Temptation” that was being remembered or the remix from 1993. I may be wrong but I would like to have a guess at the latter, especially with Heaven 17 performing with La Roux tonight on BBC 6Music I would expect more people, especially those of a student age, to be buying those 1980s albums now in a way similar to the Britpop/Baggy [my student] era when I would have started to be interested in 1960s and 1970s music.

 

Looking at many of the recent discussions on the site I see that there are a lot of passionate music fans contributing their opinions and knowledge to the site. I suppose if many of the people contributing here grew up in 1980s Britain like me, then they probably would know a wide range of Heaven 17 hits, whether from radio, TV or “Now Music” compilations.

 

Even though it was never a big hit I would guess that “(We Don’t Need That) Fascist Groove Thang” would be well known by the contributors posting here. This is one of my favourite Heaven 17 tracks and features on many 1980s collections that have been recently released such as the “Ashes To Ashes” TV soundtrack and that EMI 80s Hits compilation which had the 1993 re-recording put on the disc instead. “(We Don’t Need That) Fascist Groove Thang” was also from “Penthouse and Pavement”, an album that does not actually include “Temptation” but would normally feature in any ‘Greatest Albums of The 80s’ list, in fact this album features in my “1001 Albums To Hear Before You Die” book, the only Heaven 17 album to do so. I will guess that if anybody is a true connoisseur of early 1980s artists then you will probably have this album in your collection alongside “Dare” and “Sulk”.

 

Skipping a few years to the mid-1980s now, I think the first Amazulu record that would come to mind for me would be “Montego Bay”, probably as Zulu and Jamaica would be subconsciously associated together in my mind as some kind of Afro-Caribbean mnemonic device.

 

To be honest, unless you were an 80s music obsessive, I do not think a lot of people would bother to remember who Amazulu were and I can image many people in pub quizzes getting mixed up with The Belle Stars and The Mint Juleps at that point.

 

The only other record by Amazulu I could remember would be “Mony Mony” but only because of the Billy Idol version that was in the Top 10 around the same time. I remember reading either Smash Hits or Number One magazine at the time, and like the Thompson Twins they were one of those acts who ended up with only a couple of members after losing about 6 or 7 other people during the 1980s.

 

I think the Thompson Twins would be another band people would like to forget. I guess that most people would only think about that phrase in relation to Thomson and Thompson from the Tintin comics. I liked the group as a child and was actually playing “The Saint [of the Sonic Groove]” a couple of weeks ago, but generally they seem to be filed under the “Best Forgotten” label by most reviewers of their re-issued works.

 

I suppose if any critics wanted to remember any of their songs it would be the original version of “In The Name Of Love”, recorded in their punk-funk days when I suppose they would have looked more like the Ozric Tentacles or Back To The Planet, than the trio of which they became. I may never get around to buying their re-issues on CD but I think I may want to play my old Thompson Twins video when I get home, that is, once I have listened to Glenn Gregory and La Roux on the radio.

 

 

Loz

 

Even though it was never a big hit I would guess that “(We Don’t Need That) Fascist Groove Thang” would be well known by the contributors posting here.

I was never a big Heaven 17 fan but loved that song. Still like to play it occasionally :)

Small Faces - Itchycoo Park - though they had 2 bigger hits.

Amen Corner - Half As Nice

2 Unlimited - No Limits

Blancmange - Living On The Ceiling

The Tremeloes - Silence Is Golden

Barry Ryan - Eloise

Bryan Adams - Summer Of 69 -- this peaked at only #42

Ace Of Base - All That She Wants

A-ha - Take On Me

Soft Cell - Tainted Love

Aqua - Barbie Girl

Beach Boys - Good Vibrations

Dave Berry - The Crying Game

Cilla Black - Anyone Who Had A Heart

Bon Jovi - Living On A Prayer

Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays

Boney M - Rivers Of Babylon

James Brown - Sex Machine

Bucks Fizz - Making Your Mind Up

Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights

Chairmen Of The Board - Give Me Just A Little More Time

Fleetwood Mac - Dreams

Wayne Fontana - Game Of Love

Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That

Herman's Hermits - I'm Into Something Good

Billy Idol - White Wedding

Frank Ifield - I Remember You

Gladys Knight - Midnight Train To Georgia

Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Tears Of A Clown

Otis Redding - Dock Of The Bay

Paula Abdul - Opposites Attract

Kraftwerk - The Model

Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun

Lisa Stansfield - All Around The World

Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams

Haddaway - What Is Love

The Cars - Drive

Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

 

Edited February 14, 201015 yr by euro music

So which tracks were better in your opinion then?

 

IMO Sound Of The Crowd and Things That Dreams Are Made Of

 

Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights

 

you'd have to be a VERY casual music fan to think Kate Bush is only remembered for Wuthering Heights, I think - she was, and remains, Britain's most iconic female vocalist ever, surely?

 

Loz - great that you mentioned The Associates' 'Sulk' album - a masterpiece if ever there was one...in fact, I'd say it ranks with 'Dare', Depeche Mode's 'Violator', Yazoo's 'Upstairs at Eric's', Visage's 'The Anvil', Soft Cell's 'Non-stop Erotic Cabaret' and the Heaven 17 album you mentioned as one of THE electropop albums of the whole decade (although electropop does seem a flimsy genre to include such greats as the ones mentioned - especially Violator).

 

I grew up in the 80s, too, but I remember that it was pretty cool to go looking for music from the 60s and 70s - especially early Bowie, Roxy Music, TRex, The Doors, Beatles, Stones etc.

 

I am pleased that The Smiths are now being given the recognition and acclaim they so richly deserved all along, too - a friend of mine was telling me this week, her 2 sons (16 and 11) have played her Smiths, Morrissey and Cure albums to death - so maybe not all youths are wasting their time on shoddy camp pop trash a la 95% of Buzzjack members on the other threads.