Posted April 12, 200817 yr I've avoided all female groups as that is possibly another thread/theme for the future.......... 1. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Peek-a-boo - This track from 1988 remains my favourite track by Susan Ballion, Steve Severin and co. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PjUY8IXvnA 2. Yazoo - Nobody's Diary - Forget Annie & Dave, Alison Moyet & Vince Clarke were the greatest male/female synth-pop duo of the 1980s. This was their final single from 1983. 25 Years on, they are reforming with this track being remixed for release. 3. Eurythmics - Savage - Proof that Annie Lennox & Dave Stewart could make stunning music when they'd put their mind to it. This glacial title track of their most critically acclaimed album met with public apathy at the time. But what does the British public know about good music. 4. Blondie - Rapture - This was the first ever US#1 single to feature rapping. For me this just pips Atomic has Deborah Harry, Chris Stein & co's finest single. 5. Propaganda - Duel - My favourite ever ZTT track. This German group featured Claudia Brucken on vocals. A stunning synth-pop classic from 1985. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w_q58CFfAo 6. Pretenders - Back On The Chain Gang - Chrissie Hynde, Martin Chambers & co had a string of successful hit singles from 1979 to 1986 before becoming a defacto solo project for the former lover of Bob Geldof, Ray Davies & Jim Kerr. The video was directed by Don Letts. 7. 'Til Tuesday - Coming Up Close - Rarely in popular music has a singer been so critically acclaimed and admired by her peers (Elvis Costello, Difford & Tilbrook (Squeeze), Andy Partridge (XTC), Neil Finn (Crowded House), etc are all well known fans of Boston's finest Singer/songwriter), yet has met with apathy from the record buying public than Aimee Mann. She has been making great music for nearly 25 years. This song is yearning and regretful, hoping for a thing that had long vanished. A sad and beautiful song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7xX3lQ3qms 8. Berlin - You Don't Know - Terri Nunn, John Crawford & co will forever be associated with that awful Top Gun movie song, but they actually made some really good records. This brooding, slightly menacing, atmospheric ballad being one of them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN0lsOEtWyY 9. Fleetwood Mac - Gypsy - This mystical track from 1982 features Stevie Nicks on lead, but I could have easily gone for track like Little Lies, Everywhere or As Long As You Follow featuring Christie McVie on lead vocals. It will be interesting to hear Fleetwood Mac's next album rumoured to feature Sheryl Crow as their new member replacing Christie McVie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56AygasQZx4 10. Miami Sound Machine - Bad Boy - It is hard to believe that Gloria Estefan started off as just the singer in this band. As time went on it became obvious to the band & the record company that the lead singer was the bands greatest selling point along with her Lionel Richie/Phil Collins-esque ability at writing memorable (but slightly annoying) ballads. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6o9ucVP8BU 11. Heart - Alone - Looking back now, it is hard to remember that Heart always were a five piece act fronted by female vocalists sisters Nancy & Ann Wilson who at one time each had romances with band members & brothers Roger & Mike Fisher. Still this is a great power ballad (Not a sentence I utter too often :lol:) & saving the best to last........ 12. Abba - The Day Before You Came - To this day I just don't understand how the best thing the band ever recorded only made UK#32. It actually was their last ever recording (as the likes of Under Attack were recorded before hand for an aborted album), but I guess this track with no chorus was so far ahead of its time in terms of structure & melody. In 2007 Bjorn Ullvaeus on a Radio2 documentary revealed that this is his favourite Abba track. Whilst on a 2007 VH1 Classic countdown Duran Duran named this track as the greatest lost track of the 1980s. And on April 1st 2008, when Radiohead were performing live on Radio 2's Radcliffe & Maconie show, they requested this track to be played surely tells you everything you need to know about its brilliantly bleak melancholy vocal performance by Agnetha Faltskog. c6XSPSz-_tw
April 12, 200817 yr an interesting theme, and one that needs some consideration from old mushy! lol... some good choices there m8... 'nobodies diary' is superb imho.
April 12, 200817 yr 1. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Peek-a-boo - not a huge fan of her but do remember this one :) 2. Yazoo - Nobody's Diary - superb song :cheer: 3. Eurythmics - Savage - this one seems to have slipped by me :( 4. Blondie - Rapture -one of those tracks you love or hate, i Love it 5. Propaganda - Duel - :huh: 6. Pretenders - Back On The Chain Gang - Love most of their stuff, especially this one :dance: 7. 'Til Tuesday - Coming Up Close -I suffer from the same apathy I'm afraid :( 8. Berlin - You Don't Know - don't know this one 9. Fleetwood Mac - Gypsy -Ace track, bit of a closet Mac fan :D 10. Miami Sound Machine - Bad Boy - remember it well, but not a huge fan 11. Heart - Alone - Liked this one, my brother was a huge fan :rolleyes: 12. Abba - The Day Before You Came....................good pop song Some good choices there
April 13, 200817 yr 1. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Peek-a-boo - not a huge fan of her but do remember this one :) 2. Yazoo - Nobody's Diary - superb song :cheer: 3. Eurythmics - Savage - this one seems to have slipped by me :( 4. Blondie - Rapture -one of those tracks you love or hate, i Love it 5. Propaganda - Duel - :huh: 6. Pretenders - Back On The Chain Gang - Love most of their stuff, especially this one :dance: 7. 'Til Tuesday - Coming Up Close -I suffer from the same apathy I'm afraid :( 8. Berlin - You Don't Know - don't know this one 9. Fleetwood Mac - Gypsy -Ace track, bit of a closet Mac fan :D 10. Miami Sound Machine - Bad Boy - remember it well, but not a huge fan 11. Heart - Alone - Liked this one, my brother was a huge fan :rolleyes: 12. Abba - The Day Before You Came....................good pop song Some good choices there hey brian, you can add your own compilation to this thread you know :) (just in case theres any confusion anywhere .... these threads arnt open to the threat starter only)
April 13, 200817 yr Right-o here goes! Eurythmics - Aqua I adore this brooding track from Annie and Dave that is from the Touch album. Sugarcubes - Birthday I remember sitting in the bath listening to the chart show on the TV and this came on. Brilliance and just maybe still the best thing Bjork has ever done. This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren Beautiful Sundays - Can't Be Sure Another achingly fantastic song Passions - In Love With A German Film Star The fifth song in a row to be in my all-time favourites list Creatures - Right Now My absolute favourite Siouxsie moment. Went mad for this in 1982. Yet another of my all time favourites. Edie Brickell - What I Am Desecrated by one of the Spice Girls (Was it Bunton?) Great little folkie type song Primitives - Crash One half of a fabulous pair of singles that always go together in my mind Transvision Vamp - I Want Your Love Here's the other Blondie - Atomic And here's the inspiration Bangles - Eternal Flame Another great song butchered in the last ten years by talentless trollops Bananarama - Robert De Niro's Waiting - Fabulous pop song - no more no less Edited April 13, 200817 yr by grebo69
April 13, 200817 yr Right-o here goes! Eurythmics - AquaI adore this brooding track from Annie and Dave that is from the Touch album. Sugarcubes - Birthday I remember sitting in the bath listening to the chart show on the TV and this came on. Brilliance and just maybe still the best thing Bjork has ever done. This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren Beautiful Sundays - Can't Be Sure Another achingly fantastic song Passions - In Love With A German Film Star The fifth song in a row to be in my all-time favourites list Creatures - Right Now My absolute favourite Siouxsie moment. Went mad for this in 1982 Edie Brickell - What I Am Desecrated by one of the Spice Girls (Was it Bunton?) Great little folkie type song Primitives - Crash One half of a fabulous pair of singles that always go together in my mind Transvision Vamp - I Want Your Love Here's the other Blondie - Heart of Glass And here's the inspiration Bangles - Eternal Flame Another great song butchered in the last ten years by talentless trollops Bananarama - Robert De Niro's Waiting - Fabulous pop song - no more no less yep it was bunto and 'heart of glass' was '79, so doesnt qualify! :lol: a good selection though.... i too will be using the passions.
April 14, 200817 yr siouxsie and the banshees - spellbound still rate this as their best single. passions - im in love with a german film star great one hit wonder. mobiles - drowning in berlin creatures - mad eyed screamer altered images - dont talk to me about love clares best imho hayzee fantaysee - shiney shiney great outfit, this overlooked is a clasic imho. yazoo - nobodies diary not a fan but this was superb... joan jett and the blackhearts - i love rock n roll gloriously ott, a drunken anthem! lol eight wonder - im not scared great cover.
April 14, 200817 yr A tough one, but here goes.... 1. Yazoo - Winter Kills Returning next month for some very special concerts, this song was, IMO, Yazoo's defining moment, yet it was only a b-side - to their mega-hit 'Don't Go' - here's the divine Winer Kills, a live version, by Yazoo featuring Alison Moyet. Unbelievably awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu68p3QAyPA...feature=related 2. Blondie - Rapture So far ahead of their time it's scary - everyone knows this, so needs no introduction - the brilliant Blondie with Rapture... 3. Cocteau Twins - Bluebeard Their most commercial single - this was written about Elizabeth Fraser and Robin Guthrie's broken relationship, a relationship that would eventually break the band apart - Bluebeard. 4. ABBA - Summer Night City One of their smaller hits, but IMO one of their finest - Summer Night City 5. Altered Images - Bring Me Closer The time when Clare and the lads went all grown up on us, this was from their Bite album - fabulous single... 6. Bananarama - Love in the First Degree Campest TV performance ever - the wonderful Bananarama at the BPI Awards :P http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O26FBMLaPQ 7. Shakespears Sister - Dirty Mind And ex=Banana Siobhan shows she's not just a pretty face with Shakespears Sister - here's Dirty Mind. 8. The Creatures - Right Now What can you say about this single? It's perfect...... 9. Eurythmics - I Need a Man Annie at her sassiest - looking like Lily Savage on speed and sounding like she really fricking means it - here's I Need a Man. 10. Throwing Muses - Not too soon Primarily an 80s band, this was one of their final singles from the very early 90s - it's catchy as scabies but twice as pleasurable. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bxCokNyBv4 11. Darling Buds - It's all up to you Shame these never got the recognition they deserved -Newport's Darling Buds... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X17MHr5oFvI 12. Fuzzbox - Self This is when the girls went uber-glam and left behind their fun punk roots - this was a corking single, great video and deserved to be a bigger hit. Just beating the fab Rules and Regulations by them to a place here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b3aHuPE7fA
April 15, 200817 yr Fuzzbox and Darling Buds nearly made it in my list with Rules and Regulations and Hit the Ground respectively. You are so right about Right Now!
April 15, 200817 yr A lot of them have already been suggested, but I still like them I am not pinching them of you guys :lol: 1. Altered Images - Don't talk to me about love....sheer brilliance from little Clare 2. Blondie - Atomic....Their best track for me in the 80's, still sounds good today 3. Creatures - Right now.......Great track 4. Eighth Wonder - I'm not scared.....Guilty pleasure 5. Eurythmics - Love is a stranger....Annie at her best 6. Joan Jett - I love rock n roll....like this original version, not the poor warblings of a certain ms Spears 7. Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies.....Another guilty pleasure, my secret :rolleyes: 8. Pretenders - I go to sleep...Chrissie Hynde vocals at her best 9. Siouxsie & Banshees - Dear Prudence......I quite liked her version 10. Texas - I don't want to be a lover...Sharleen does it for me 11. T'Pau - China in your hand....Carole Decker, mmmn she was a bit ok 12. Yazoo - Nobody's Diary... Excellent song with great vocals by Alison 13. Passions - I'm in love with a German film star...superb song 14. Mobiles - Drowning in Berlin....another song about Germany :D love it
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