25 YEARS OF RECORD COLLECTING: MEMORIES 1982 - 2007

Hello everybody, here are some musical memories from the vaults of my record collection...


1. The Beloved

“Hello Peter, Hello Paul, Saints and Sinners, Welcome All, Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball, hello, hello, hello”

“So welcome to the world all you latecomers just step onboard, I’m happy glad you came”

I suppose the Beloved could be categorised along with ‘the Shamen’, as one of the quintessential ‘indie-dance’ bands of the late 1980s and early 90s, especially since they too started out as an indie 4 piece on the ‘flimflam’ label and ended up as a (married male/female dance) duo on ‘eastwest’.

Can you believe it is now about ten years since they last graced the pop charts with some new material (well the excellent ‘Deliver Me’ was a ickle hit for ‘John Martyn and Sister Bliss’ a few years ago, but that doesn’t count), and even though you might be able to find Jon Marsh DJing at your local club, it would be great to have his blissful vocals in the charts again.

If you are a fan of dance music, then ‘Happiness’ has to be in your record collection, it is a must, as it stands beside ‘Electribe 101’s ‘Electribal Memories’, Pet Shop Boy’s ‘Introspective’ and the KLF’s ‘White Room’ as one of the essential dance albums of that period. Still brilliant after all these years.

The only one of theirs that really does it for me is 'The sun rising'. An absolute fave of mine from that era.

A brilliant record, a very good choice

prefered the shamen, loved the album and track 'boss drum'... got me into spiritual dancey type music, and ultimately trance.

I never liked "Hello", "The Sun Rising" was pretty good but their last big hit "Sweet Harmony" is by far my favourite track of their's.

 

I also preferred Jesus Jones & The Shamen myself.

My top five is:

 

1. Satellite (X)

2. Deliver Me (X)

3. Tome After Time (Happiness)

4. Hello (Happiness)

5. It’s Alright Now (Blissed Out)