"Life? Don't talk to me about life. " Marvin the Paranoid Android.

 

Marvin Gaye. If you get 3 minutes watch this image compilation, it's not a bad philosophy, and sums up 1971 pretty well. This record has criminally never charted in the UK. It's utter brilliance...

 

What's Going On...

 

From Marvin Gaye to an early openly gay musician

 

Tom Robinson is a character in To Kill a Mockingbird...and so is Boo Radley...so...

 

From Boo Radleys to Betty Boo...err in second thoughts we dont want her so we'll have this instead

 

Edited March 14, 201411 yr by fiesta

Black... Amy Winehouse made the 2nd biggest album of the 21st century with Back To Black which included Rehab

 

Edited March 14, 201411 yr by Leonardo

Amy sampled an Ashford & Simpson song for Tears Dry On My Own.

 

Here's their finest moment courtesy of Diana "Frock" Ross...

 

Talking of mountains, how about The Shamen - Move Any Mountain?

 

The week "Move Any Mountain" entered it entered one place in front of Cher with "Love & Understanding", here's her with my favourite Cher song "Half-Breed"

 

 

 

A 'half breed'... well that surely has no place on a PC forum like Buzzjack in this day and age! I am both shocked and appalled. :D

 

Let's collectively censor the word and instead replace it with HYBRID.

 

 

oh all right then, I'll do the obvious response, it's a classic after all in it's own right.. :lol:

 

finished to unfinished

 

Edited March 16, 201411 yr by popchartfreak

The vocalist with Masive Attack was this lady

 

Down That Road :wub:

 

Shara Nelson shares a surname with a certain Horatio Nelson who was of course famous for being reasonably effective in battle. Of all his victories I guess the most famous is the one in which he sustained a shot from a French sniper, the battle of Trafalgar. Of course Nelson is now the subject of a memorial in Trafalgar Square but there are no good tracks with that name so let's head across the capital to another square, namely Soho Square and the rather wonderful Kirsty MacColl.

 

 

 

Kirsty MacColl had her debut Top 20 hit in 1981 with a song titled "There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis", the Chip Shop is something that is synonymous with the British seaside resort and it is a place where you can indeed buy chips. Chips are usually sold hot, which leads us tenuously to Hot Chip and "Over and Over", twice a Top 40 hit- but on re-release eventually a number 27 hit from October 2006.

 

Hot Chip were nominated for the 2006 Mercury Music Prize, as was Richard Hawley. Before becoming Sheffield's most beloved troubadour, he was the guitarist in Britpop's Longpigs, who gave us this ruddy marvelous song -

 

Great choice. The Longpigs got their name from the term used by a tribe of cannibals to describe human flesh. No doubt some of them were fine young cannibals in their youth.

 

Fine Young Cannibals later had consecutive #1s on Billboard with "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing", the first of which knocked this off the top spot:

Roxette - Sweden - Abba - Eagle

 

Best track never to be a UK single. They even had a clear 6-month Abba free Summer of '78 period to release it in and knock a few weeks off the top for Grease (as a double A with Thank You For The Music and a movie to promote it, this being from it). I'm not bitter....

 

 

A double link really and avoiding the more obvious Eagle link. Crystal Palace are known as The Eagles. Their vastly superior rivals are Brighton and Hove Albion (The Seagulls). Brighton is also where Abba won Eurovision so here are a Brighton band, The Levellers.

 

The word "battle" reminds me of "Love Is A Battlefield" by Pat Benatar, but I prefer "Hit Me with Your Best Shot"

 

 

 

 

As mentioned above "Love Is A Battlefield" is the highest charting single by Pat Benatar in the UK reaching #17 in 1985. A battlefield is somewhere in 1485 you may have former King of England, and Battle of Bosworth casulty - Richard III. Which links us rather tenuously to Supergrass and "Richard III", a song released 512 years after said battle.