Posted February 25, 201411 yr There should be more hits in the Retro Lounge, so with apologies to Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie for nicking the idea, here's a Chain Challenge. RULES: 1. You must find a link with the previous record, and state it clearly - this can be as tenuous as you like, using a word, a producer, a sample, a previous duet, a song. Be inventive! 2. You must love the record you nominate. 3. The record should pre-date 2010 (it IS retro after all) and must not be an artist that has already been used (so no nominating of 25 Girls Aloud records allowed!) I'll start the ball rolling with a classic I love to bits, a perfect record: The Sun Always Shines On TV by aha Find or invent a link and nominate away! :lol: ACTS GONE: 10CC 5000 Volts 808 State A Flock Of Seagulls a-ha A House Abba Adam & The Ants Adamski Adverts All About Eve Allman Brothers Altered Images Alvin Stardust Angelettes Amy Winehouse Anne Murray Annie Lennox Arab Strap Archie Bell & The Drells Art Of Noise Ash Associates Aston Gardner & Dyke Atomic Kitten Avalanches B*Witched Beach Boys Beastie Boys Beatles Beats International (and Daddy Freddy) Beautiful South Beck Beirut Belle & Sebastien Ben E King Big Audio Dynamite Billy Joel Billy Ocean Black Box Black Grape Bloc Party Blondie Blue Blue Mink Blur Bo Diddley Bob Dylan Bob Marley & The Wailers Bobbie Gentry Bobby Womack Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band Boo Radleys Booker T & The MG’s Boomtown Rats Boston Brian Eno Broken Social Scene Bruce Springsteen Bucketheads Bucks Fizz Buffalo Springfield Cardigans Carl Anderson Carmen Twillie (and Lebo M from The Lion King) Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine Cat Stevens Cathy Dennis Catwalk Chad Jackson Charlatans Chemical Brothers Cher Chris Isaak Church Cilla Black Clash Cliff Richard Clifford T. Ward Coldplay Communards Coral Cozy Powell Crash Test Dummies Cream Creedence Clearwater Revival Crowded House Cure Cutting Crew Cypress Hill Daft Punk Darkness Darts Dave Brubeck Quartet Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich David Bowie David Dundas Dead Kennedy's Dead Or Alive Deacon Blue Denim Depeche Mode Des’ree Destiny’s Child Dexy’s Midnight Runners Diana Ross Dionne Warwick Dolly Parton Don Henley Don McLean Donna Summer Donovan Doves Duran Duran Dusty Springfield Dylans Eagles Echo & The Bunnymen Eels Eighth Wonder Elastica Electronic Elkie Brooks ELO Elvis Presley Embrace EMF Emmylou Harris Emotions Erasure Eric Carmen Eric Clapton Fairground Attraction Family Cat Farm Fine Young Cannibals Five thirty Fleetwood Mac Flowered Up Fortunes Fox Frank & Walters Frankie Goes To Hollywood Garbage Gaye Bikers On Acid George Baker Selection George Harrison Georgie Fame Gerry & The Pacemakers Gilbert O’Sullivan Glen Campbell Godley & Creme Grandmaster Flash Greyhound Haircut 100 Happy Mondays Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes Heaven 17 Hollies Hot Chip Hot Chocolate Housemartins Human League Hybrid Iggy Pop and Deborah harry Ivor Cutler Jackie Wilson Jackson 5 Jam James Japan Jesus And Mary Chain Jesus Jones Jimi Hendrix Experience Jo Jo Gunne Joan Armatrading John Lennon John Leyton Johnny Cash Johnny Nash Jona Lewie Joy Division Julian Cope Junior Walker And The Allstars KC & The Sunshine Band Kanye West Kate Bush Katrina And The Waves Kid Creole & The Coconuts Kim Wilde Kinks Kirsty Maccoll KLF Kraftwerk Kylie Minogue Labi Siffre Ladytron Lana Del Ray Landscape Laura Nyro Laurie Anderson Led Zeppelin Lemon Jelly Levellers Lightning Seeds Linx Livin' Joy Liza Minnelli Longpigs Los Del Rio Louis Armstrong Love Love Unlimited Orchestra Madness Madonna Mamas & The Papas Manfred Mann's Earthband Maria McKee Maria Muldaur Martha & The Muffins Martha Reeves & The Vandellas Martin Grech Marvin Gaye Mary Hopkin Mary J. Blige Massive Attack Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs McAlmont Butler Menswear Michael Jackson Middle Of The Road Mika Moloko Monkees Moody Blues Morrissey Motors My Life Story Nancy Sinatra Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood Ned's Atomic Dustbin New Christy Minstrels New Fast Automatic Daffodils New Order Nick Cave Nick Heyward Nightingales nine inch nails Nomad Northside Oasis OMD Orange Juice Other Ones Other Two Paris Angels Pat Benatar Patrick Wolf Pato Banton Patti Labelle Paul & Linda McCartney Paul Young Perez Prado Pet Shop Boys Peter gabriel Peter Sarstedt Piero Umiliani Placebo PJ Harvey Pointer Sisters Pop Will Eat Itself Portishead Presidents Of The USA Pretenders Primal Scream Primitives Prince Proclaimers Prodigy Pulp Queen Radiohead Ran-Dells Ram Jam Ray Parker Jnr Ray Stevens Real Thing Redbone REM Rezillos Richard Harris Rick James Ricky Valance Ride Right Said Fred Righteous Brothers Rilo Kiley Ringo Starr Rita Coolidge Roberta Flack Robbie Williams Rocky Sharpe And The Replays Rolling Stones Ronan Keating Roxette Roxy Music Roy Orbison Runaways Run-DMC S’Express S*M*A*S*H Saint Etienne Sandie Shaw Scissor Sisters Scritti Politti Seahorses Seal Senser Shades Of Rhythm Shadows Shamen Shara Nelson Sheena Easton Sheila B. Devotion Simon & Garfunkel Simple Minds Sinead O’Connor Siouxsie & The Banshees Sister Sledge Sky Slowdive Sly And The Family Stone Sly Fox Small Faces Smashmouth Smiths Smokin Mojo Filters Snow Patrol Soft Cell Space Sparks Specials Spoon Status Quo Stealers Wheel Steve Winwood Stevie Nicks Stevie Wonder Stone Roses Stranglers Stray Cats Sub Sub Suede Sugarcubes Super Furry Animals Supergrass Supremes Sweet T.Rex Talk Talk Talking Heads Teardrop Explodes Tears For Fears Ted Chippington Telephone & Rubber Band Temptations Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs Texas Thin Lizzy Thompson Twins Throbbing Gristle Thunderthighs Tiger Todd Rundgren Todd Terry Tom Jones Tom Robinson Band Tommy Roe Tony Christie Tori Amos Toto Cuelo Tourists Traveling Wilburys Travis Tubes Tubeway Army Typically Tropical U2 UB40 Ultravox Undertones Underworld Velvet Underground Visage Waldo De Los Rios Walker Brothers Warren Zevon We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It Wet Wet Wet Where's The Beach Whistle Who Womack and Womack Wonder Stuff Would Be's Yazoo Yellow Magic Orchestra Edited October 15, 201410 yr by popchartfreak
February 25, 201411 yr Spare Snare covered 'Wired for Sound' for a special Christmas single in 1995 (then, in true contrary indie style almost immediately released another song of the same name early in 1996) as part of a special release schedule from Steve Lamacq's Deceptive Records. Easily the most famous act on that label were Elastica who won a lot of fans early on with the track 'Vaseline'. 2608iYI5pgE
February 25, 201411 yr We had one of these going a few years ago but it eventually died a death. Good to see somebody having another go. I could have avoided the obvious but I'm not going to so here goes. Elastica singer Justine Frischmann was originally a member of Suede. wS2jjjmkGw4 BTW, even though there is no fixed date for Retro, I think 2010 is a bit too recent. Perhaps 2000 would be a better cut-off point.
February 25, 201411 yr Author I was originally going to go for 20th century only but thought it might be fun to get younger fans interested in retro stuff. Try for 20th Century then, but not TOO worried if it spills over (it is almost a decade and a half ago now, ancient to a 15-year-old :lol: ) I'm going for the obvious too: Bernard Butler, once of Suede, gave us the best affirmative of all time in partnership with David McAlmont with.... SJSaRw1vjxM If anyone gets daunted by links, it can be anything - a song or group with yes, no, in the title, a record that was in the charts then, something produced by Bernard Butler, another recrod that peaked at 11, for example. Anything!
February 26, 201411 yr Sadly, McAlmont and Butler only ever performed one gig. The good news is that I was there and also enjoyed the support act, Edwyn Collins. Here then is his former band, Orange Juice. ESy-Z8vqMrE
February 26, 201411 yr Author Sadly, I only ever saw Bernard in concert, but Orange is adjacent to Red in the rainbow spectrum as taught at school: Richard Of York Gained Battle In vain. Obviously that means a wealth of Red Songs, and I choose this one, cos it's a great 60's-flavoured soul chugger B-) Red Light Spells Danger by Billy Ocean xXSGKOMbIa8
February 26, 201411 yr Billy is not technically an Ocean, but the Pacific is...which leads us nicely to a house classic from 1989 -ugimRSsRLA
February 26, 201411 yr 808 state were signed to Trevor Horns ZTT label, also on the label was Seal - one of my faves of his Future Love Paradise www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tasDtq7028Similar Edited February 26, 201411 yr by fiesta
February 26, 201411 yr Seal's Kiss From A Rose featured on the Batman Forever soundtrack. Another gentleman who featured notably on a Batman film soundtrack was Prince. He released a few records in the past so here's one from him and a friend. Kr36ePM_oLg
February 27, 201411 yr Author enjoying the choices and links B-) David Bowie's real name is David Jones. Another David Jones of the 60's was The Monkees Davy Jones. Here's his greatest record as lead singer... Daydream Believer nU615FaODCg&feature=kp
February 27, 201411 yr Tempting though it is to move to another mis-spelt animal I shall go from a Daydream Believer to some more Dreaming r4-1MhH7dwQ
February 28, 201411 yr Blondie's 1981 single Rapture paid tribute to several of the stars on the fledgling New York hip hop scene including Grandmaster Flash (Flash is fast, flash is cool....) so here's Flash being somewhat less fast, but still very cool with Melle Mel from the following year. O4o8TeqKhgY
February 28, 201411 yr Grandmaster Flash were on the Sylvia Robinsons Sugarhill label, Sylvia had a US hit with Mickey with Love Is Strange in the 50's, anothe act who had a hit with a song with starnge in the title was Echo & The Bunnymen and their cover of the Doors song. KxzhiyQj6zI how do you get the YouTube videos to display on here? Edited February 28, 201411 yr by fiesta
February 28, 201411 yr how do you get the YouTube videos to display on here? Click on Insert Special Item (you can't do this from the quick reply box), select Youtube video then paste the youtube ID (just the bit after the = sign) into the box.
February 28, 201411 yr From Echo and the Bunnymen to a great song with the word Echo in its title QEQkIEkxm7k
February 28, 201411 yr Author great choices so far. Must. avoid. obvious....nooo, I can't let the opportunity pass to put on one of the greatest 3 minutes of anyone's life. Echo Beach meet the Beach Boys, God Only Knows... AOMyS78o5YI
February 28, 201411 yr The Beach Boys suffered from some family feuds over the years. Several other bands have include feuding brothers and I have chosen The Kinks fvDoDaCYrEY
February 28, 201411 yr The late great Kirsty McColl covered The Kinks' "Days" rather successfully - lOKWqtocXWs
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