943. Hymn Of The Big Wheel - Massive Attack (1991)

 

 

The earth spins on its axis

One man struggle while another relaxes

 

From Massive Attack's debut album 'Blue Lines',this track features vocals from Jamaican Horace Andy.

 

942. Birthday Boy - Pet Shop Boys (2002)

 

 

If you knew his name

Would you feel the same?

 

From their eighth album 'Release'. If you exclude the Introspective and Disco albums,I think this might be their longest song. Unlike most of their music,there's quite a lot of guitar on this one and they brought in Johnny Marr to play it.

 

941. My Culture - 1 Giant Leap (2002)

 

 

I'm the sum total of my ancestors

I carry their DNA

 

1 Giant Leap are musicians Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman. This was a top 10 single and featured vocals by Maxi Jazz from Faithless and Robbie Williams. Not the most obvious coupling but it works very well on this.

 

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940. Devotion - Hurts (2010)

 

 

Forgive my thoughts when I'm asleep

 

From Hurts' debut album 'Happiness',this features vocals from Kylie Minogue. The song is my favourite from the album but it wasn't one of the six tracks released as singles.

 

939. Secret - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (1985)

 

 

This is getting very hard for me

I guess you'd better just wait and see

 

A minor hit for OMD,reaching no.34. Paul Humphreys sings lead vocals on this one and his mid 80s mullet can be seen in the video which was filmed in Walton-on-the-Naze.

 

938. Little Love - Syntax (2004)

 

 

Childen dying for our war

Politician warm behind closed door

 

The second song on my chart from Syntax's only album 'Meccano Mind'. I like the production on this one and in places Jan Burton's vocals sound a bit like Chris Rea.

 

937. Superheated - New Order (2015)

 

 

But it's not your fault,no not at all

I was the reason,for our downfall

 

From their most recent album,'Music Complete',their first without Peter Hook. This track features Brandon Flowers from The Killers who were named after the fictional band in the video for New Order's 2001 single 'Crystal'.

 

936. Assault And Battery - Howard Jones (1985)

 

 

A life of misery

Ending in a shock

 

From his second album 'Dream Into Action',this was Howard Jones' protest against the treatment of animals.

 

935. How To Disappear Completely - Radiohead (2000)

 

 

I'm not here

This isn't happening

 

The 'Kid A' album was disappointing after how good 'The Bends' and 'OK Computer' were. I didn't like the experimental electronic sound to the album but this haunting piece of music stands out.

 

934. For The Love Of A Woman - ELO Part II (1991)

 

 

Money and gold mean nothing

 

In 1988,Jeff Lynne decided to disband ELO. Their drummer Bev Bevan wanted to carry on and Jeff allowed him to do so as long as he changed the group's name. ELO Part II were born with new members added. Although ELO weren't the same without Jeff Lynne,there are some good songs on their first album and this is one of them. The orchestra,which ELO stopped using in the 80s,was back with Louis Clark returning to do the string arrangements.

 

933. And You And I - Yes (1972)

 

 

A clearer future,morning,

evening,nights with you

 

Some classic prog rock now. This is from Yes' fifth album 'Close To The Edge'. The song is divided into four sections,the first two of which were released as a single which got to no.42 in the US.

 

Hi Rollo, lots more highlights for me, Days Of Pearly Spencer is a classic (either version), I also liked that My Culture track, Stupid Girl is one I adore these days but it underperformed in my charts at the time - I need to have a nice excuse to rechart it!

 

Who doesn't love Golden Brown, just an 80's classic, One & One is gorgeous, love The Cutter, I'm a huge Sweet singles fan and Love Is Like Oxygen was their last great record. I saw Brian Connolly performing not that long before he died, and he didnt look at all well. Republica were great fun when I saw them though. Same Old Scene is the fab best post 1975 Roxy moment, most of my faves were the early stuff.

 

Plenty of album tracks I don't know, and yet again choices from albums I own that have never really jumped out at me which leaves me wanting to check out what I missed when I get a mo...!

 

I'm currently nearing 850 "sales" hits in my "millions'sellers or nearly million sellers" list so I might shadow you (just the listing though, no comments till I get to 610 at which point I will wait to restart mine) and see if we "snap!" on any :lol:

Thanks for the comments,John. Looking forward to seeing your list as well. :)

932. Live - Ultravox (2012)

 

 

Don't you know you'll learn to live again

 

One of the good things about doing this thread is I'm watching,for the first time,a lot of amateur videos for songs I like that don't have official videos. This person says he actually asked Midge Ure for his permission to do one and he was given the go ahead. He's done a good job with his video. The song is from Ultravox's comeback album 'Brilliant'. It's a really confident sounding song which wouldn't sound out of place on one of their early 80s albums.

 

931. Spread Your Wings - Queen (1977)

 

 

Sammy,who do you think that you are?

You should've been sweeping up the Emerald Bar

 

A great ballad from Queen's album 'News Of The World' which was recently given the luxury boxset treatment for its 40th anniversary. 'Spread Your Wings' was written by John Deacon and was the first Queen single without any backing vocals.

 

930. Seven Cities (Stone's Atlantis Mix) - Solar Stone (1999)

 

 

Some Balearic trance now,the second instrumental in my chart. Solar Stone were a trio of producers from Birmingham but by 1999,they were down to a duo,Richard Mowatt and Andy Bury. This just sneaked into the top 40 at no.39.

 

929. Where The Streets Have No Name - U2 (1987)

 

 

The city's a flood and our love turns to rust

We're beaten and blown by the wind,trampled in dust

 

From 'The Joshua Tree',the best part of this song is the intro,which is almost two minutes long on the album version,starting quietly with the keyboards and then building up with the guitars.

 

928. Little Fictions - Elbow (2017)

 

 

A muffled battle cry across the kіtchen table

Bridges up portcullis down and round the Tower of Babel

 

The title track from last year's album. Guy Garvey may not be the best singer around technically but he gets so much character and personality into his vocals,it doesn't matter. I like the last three minutes of this song in particular. I'm not sure how they created that screechy sound but it works.

 

 

927. Sleep - Archive (2004)

 

 

Night time,gruelling,just time to waste

Heights they kill me,leave scarring on my face

 

The second song on my chart from Archive,this is from their fourth album,'Noise'. I love the string arrangement on this.

 

926. Ode To Don Jose - The Art Of Noise (1987)

 

 

From their third album 'In No Sense? Nonsense!'. By this time The Art Of Noise were reduced to a duo,Anne Dudley and J J Jeczalik. As always,they are having great fun creating different sounds from their samplers. Watch out for them on TOTP 1985 on Thursday on BBC4 making their debut with Close (To The Edit).