696. Metroland - OMD (2013)

 

 

You say run away

I say here we stand

Today is yesterday

Everyday in Metroland

 

The first single from the 'English Electric' album. I have never seen the video for it before. The album version is seven and a half minutes long but I'm not sure it needs to be so this shorter version will do.

 

 

 

695. Follow Me - Muse (2012)

 

 

When all your strength has gone

And you feel wrong

Like your life has slipped away

Follow me,you can follow me

 

From 'The 2nd Law',Muse go all dubstep as they enlist the help of Nero to produce this song.

 

 

694. A Question Of Lust - Depeche Mode (1986)

 

 

It is all of these things and more

That keep us together

 

At the time,only the second Depeche Mode single to have Martin Gore on lead vocals. His pure voice is more suited to slower songs like this one and he can reach higher notes better than Dave Gahan.

 

693. Take Me Home - Phil Collins (1985)

 

 

Seems so long I've been waiting

Still don't know what for

There's no point escaping

I don't worry anymore

 

An anthemic song with Sting,Peter Gabriel and Helen Terry all helping out on backing vocals. Each line in the video was filmed at a different world location as his tour progressed. It seems Big Ben had scaffolding around it in 1985,just as it does now.

 

Not posted in a while so here are my comments since I last posted:

 

Great to see Electricity here, the synths are really inventive and one of the most memorable from that era I think

The Invisible Man is actually one of my favourite Queen songs, I do think it's a bit underrated. The resemblance to the Ghostbusters theme though...

Run makes me feel really nostalgic, one of the many indie tracks that was floating about during my childhood, really looking forward to their comeback :D

Elektrobank is nice but there are some much better songs by them for me. Similarly with Pulp, Disco 2000 is my second favourite song of all time so it'd be difficult to top that

Love Is A Bourgeois Construct is one of my favourite recent PSB tracks though, a really nice piece

 

And with all this Peter Gabriel, wonder if we'll get Games Without Frontiers any time soon...

Thanks for the comments Pete. I hadn't noticed the resemblance between The Invisible Man and Ghostbusters before but I see what you mean.

"A Question Of Lust" is a very nice song.

 

Depeche Mode seem to have changed it up a lot in the mid 80s with their singles, some slower songs and some faster dancier ones.

 

The beat in that Phil Collins song sounds quite modern and hip hop beat reminscent I think! "Take Me home" is a good song anyway.

 

The Muse song is not one of their best known but is very good!

The wiki page for 'Take Me Home' mentioned covers of it by hip hop and R&B acts so you are right that it has that sort of sound to it.

692. Chained To The Rhythm - Katy Perry featuring Skip Marley (2017)

 

 

So comfortable,we cannot see the trouble,trouble

 

You may have noticed an absence of top 40 singles from the last few years so far but here is one now. This is a great pop song with some thought put into the production,like the piano part and the hand claps.

 

691. Shameless - Pet Shop Boys (1993)

 

 

We will do anything to get our fifteen minutes of fame

We have no integrity

We're ready to crawl to obtain celebrity

 

This is the B side to 'Go West' but I know it from 'Alternative',their collection of B Sides. This was written well before any of these reality TV shows became popular so the lyrics are even more pertinent today than they were in the 90s.

 

690. Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited - The Move (1970)

 

 

Doctor pays a visit

Everyday I keep asking for my dad

They must think I'm going mad

 

Written by Roy Wood,this is an update of 'Cherry Blossom Clinic' from 1968. After about three minutes of vocals,the rest of the song is a medley of Bach and Tchaikovsky tunes played on guitars.

 

689. Am I Normal? - David (1983)

 

 

David is actually a woman,Virginia David. She was in the group Sailor who had a few hits in the 70s. This is a synth pop/Hi-NRG cover version of a song by a band called Eye To Eye from 1980. It got some airplay on Radio 1 but only got to number 98.

 

 

688. Scarlet Nights - Prefab Sprout (1990)

 

 

This is where your sleepless eyes will close

This is where the weary find repose

 

The third song in my chart from 'Jordan:The Comeback'. I like Wendy Smith's backing vocals on this one and Thomas Dolby's production.

 

687. Karma Police - Radiohead (1997)

 

 

Karma police,arrest this girl

Her Hitler hairdo is making me feel ill

And we have crashed her party

 

The first song I have chosen from Radiohead's masterpiece 'OK Computer' and it won't be the last. This video was shown a lot on MTV at the time.

 

686. Can You Hear? - The Open (2004)

 

 

There's a place underground

Where I go when you're out

I'm at home making sounds

 

The Open were a Liverpool indie band who only lasted four years. Four of their singles charted from no.46 to no.54 for one week each so I'm presuming it was the same people buying each one. 'Can You Hear?' was from the first of their two albums. It's not on youtube.

685. Clearest Blue - Chvrches (2015)

 

 

So please say you'll meet me

Meet me halfway

 

From Chvrches' second album 'Every Open Eye' which is part of the lyrics to this song. I heard it being played in the Vic in EastEnders a couple of weeks ago in the same episode that a character called Halfway made an appearance so some of the songs they play are not just random picks.

 

684. Fly From Here - Yes (2011)

 

 

Only ghosts are in the empty corridors

And they're all strangers

Who never cared

 

With Jon Anderson ill,Yes embarked on a world tour with a new lead singer,Benoit David,from one of their tribute acts. He was kept on for their next album 'Fly From Here'. This is the 24 minute title track,divided into six sections. It doesn't seem to be on youtube so I've just put the whole album on here. If you have the stamina,it runs from the start to 23.51. It's not the longest song on my chart,there will be one or two longer than this. Parts of this song were written in 1980 when Trevor Horn was the lead singer and he is the producer for this version.

 

Karma Police is great! A dark song like most of Radiohead's and I like the unique vocal style.

683. What Else Is There? (Thin White Duke Mix) - Royksopp (2005)

 

 

'What Else Is There?' is from Royksopp's second album 'The Understanding' but I prefer this remix by the Thin White Duke who is English record producer Stuart Price.

 

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682. Chelsea Monday - Marillion (1983)

 

 

Perform to scattered shadows on the shattered cobbled aisles

Would she dare recite soliloquies at the risk of stark applause

 

From Marillion's debut album 'Script For A Jester's Tear'. Steve Rothery's guitar playing throughout this song is outstanding.