Posted October 9, 200816 yr OK, thought I'd do one which celebrates the year I was born. It was a year the so called "new romantic" era was at its peak. Some great records this year - here are my favourites: 1. Teardrop Explodes - Reward Fantastic tune! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU3XjOwwfJE 2. Visage - Fade To Grey Still can't get enough of this 3. Spandau Ballet - Chant No.1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkcqw5YOXfc 4. Human League - Don't You Want Me One of the best pop records ever! 5. Kim Wilde - Cambodia Could have gone for Kids In America, but love this too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI2K8d-52rE 6. Blondie - Rapture The rap made no sense, but still, what a tune 7. Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J7X7s8S1ns 8. Soft Cell - Bedsitter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFaIhDLb_NE 9. Abba - One Of Us Still one of my favs from them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orO9E7fC0mo 10. Dollar - Hand Held In Black And White Great Trevor Horn production 11. Tenpole Tudor - Swords Of A Thousand Men 12. Madness - It Must Be Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnTmRKuMqqs And of course, the worst of the year...quite a close one! Joe Dolce was absolutely criminal, but this evil record just pipped him for the title of worst "song" of '81: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeswZaReE0I The Birdie Song :puke2:
October 9, 200816 yr OK, thought I'd do one which celebrates the year I was born. It was a year the so called "new romantic" era was at its peak. Some great records this year - here are my favourites: 1. Teardrop Explodes - Reward Fantastic tune! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU3XjOwwfJE 2. Visage - Fade To Grey Still can't get enough of this 3. Spandau Ballet - Chant No.1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkcqw5YOXfc 4. Human League - Don't You Want Me One of the best pop records ever! 5. Kim Wilde - Cambodia Could have gone for Kids In America, but love this too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI2K8d-52rE 6. Blondie - Rapture The rap made no sense, but still, what a tune 7. Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J7X7s8S1ns 8. Soft Cell - Bedsitter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFaIhDLb_NE 9. Abba - One Of Us Still one of my favs from them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orO9E7fC0mo 10. Dollar - Hand Held In Black And White Great Trevor Horn production 11. Tenpole Tudor - Swords Of A Thousand Men 12. Madness - It Must Be Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnTmRKuMqqs And of course, the worst of the year...quite a close one! Joe Dolce was absolutely criminal, but this evil record just pipped him for the title of worst "song" of '81: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeswZaReE0I The Birdie Song :puke2: we did a 'new romantics' album a while ago :) but never mind... my 81 album (to follow) would have many of your tracks on it.
October 9, 200816 yr I don't mind a bit of Human League, but am I on my own with thinking "Don't You Want Me' is one of their worse? The vocals on it are awful. "Sound Of The Crowd" is much better!
October 9, 200816 yr Author There's a major omission from my list. Adam And The Ants - Stand And Deliver One of my fav 80s tracks, can't believe I left it out :rolleyes:
October 9, 200816 yr 7. Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J7X7s8S1ns 8. Soft Cell - Bedsitter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFaIhDLb_NE 2 of the best singles from any year, I reckon... the Yoko Ono single is just incredible... one of my favourite ever singles. :wub: This was the track Lennon was working on on the night of his death - well, he'd have died happy with this one for sure. Awesome. Not heard this mix before, though?
October 9, 200816 yr Author 2 of the best singles from any year, I reckon... the Yoko Ono single is just incredible... one of my favourite ever singles. :wub: This was the track Lennon was working on on the night of his death - well, he'd have died happy with this one for sure. Awesome. Not heard this mix before, though? I agree. Walking On Thin Ice is superb. Deserved to do much better
October 10, 200816 yr I don't mind a bit of Human League, but am I on my own with thinking "Don't You Want Me' is one of their worse? The vocals on it are awful. "Sound Of The Crowd" is much better! :cheer: ... spot on... 'sound of the crowd' was my fav track of 81, 'dont you want me' was a cheap sell-out track for the masses to make them some money! i also rate highly 'empire state human' and 'being boiled'. it seemed that the human league (along with dexys midnight runners, ub40, spandau ballet, adam and the ants and others) best material was their early stuff, and as they became established their work got noticably poorer as they sold out to money.
October 10, 200816 yr whilst I, too, prefer Love Action and Sound of the Crowd, there's no denying that Don't You Want Me is a near-perfect pop record... lyrically brilliant and Moroder-esque.... it was a classic single and one that, if it hadn't been so popular and spent so long at number one, we'd hold in far higher regard, i think.
October 10, 200816 yr whilst I, too, prefer Love Action and Sound of the Crowd, there's no denying that Don't You Want Me is a near-perfect pop record... lyrically brilliant and Moroder-esque.... it was a classic single and one that, if it hadn't been so popular and spent so long at number one, we'd hold in far higher regard, i think.I agree. I love "Don't You Want Me". I was in the sixth form at the time and had a Christmas job working at HMV in Sunderland. Apart from the fact I love that song anyway, I just remember the amount of copies we shifted at the time - it was literally flying off the shelves. In the week running up to Christmas that year we had a delivery of the record - on both 7" and 12" - every day for that entire week and sold almost every copy we had each and every day...
October 10, 200816 yr i knew id done this list somewhere before,... last march! :lol: well mine aint much different from brians! :lol: human league - 'sound of the crowd' my fav on '81, my fav of the new romantic scene and my fav of the human league, to me this is the anthem of 'new romantics'. adam and the ants - 'kings of the wild fronteer' adam at his best imho, although stand and deliver was the perfect pop song, this track was my fav visage - 'fade to grey'... one of the best tracks ever from mr button mushroom ;) , russ will understand! lol, seminal video and another major new romantic anthem. love it ultravox - 'vienna'. ott, pretencious, dark, nonsensical, but so what!!! a classic! tenpole tudor - swords of a thousand men' great bit of 'fun' pop, landscape - 'einstein a go-go' a great one hit wonder (more or less). department s - 'is vic there' wouldnt sound out of place in todays indie scene, only this sound was original! great riff passions - 'im in love with a german film star' another dark oddity.. good stuff human league - 'being boiled' a second appearance from phil n co, and another excellant track spandau ballet - 'to cut a long story short' great first track when they were fresh, another great riff too.. teardrop explodes - 'when i dream' check this track out guys...its fantastic and better then 'reward'.. eurythmics - 'never gonna cry again' their first and be far their best, another one worth checking out..
October 10, 200816 yr 1. Robert Palmer - Johnny And Mary 2. Visage - Fade To Grey 3. Kim Wilde - Cambodia 4. Abba - One Of Us 5. Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight 6. Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes 7. Human League - Don't You Want Me 8. Olivia Newton-John - Physical 9. Ultravox - Vienna 10. Dolly Parton- 9 To 5 11. Soft Cell - Tainted Love 12. The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
October 11, 200816 yr 1. Robert Palmer - Johnny And Mary 2. Visage - Fade To Grey 3. Kim Wilde - Cambodia 4. Abba - One Of Us 5. Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight 6. Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes 7. Human League - Don't You Want Me 8. Olivia Newton-John - Physical 9. Ultravox - Vienna 10. Dolly Parton- 9 To 5 11. Soft Cell - Tainted Love 12. The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic johnny and mary was 1980 :)
October 11, 200816 yr I don't mind a bit of Human League, but am I on my own with thinking "Don't You Want Me' is one of their worse? nope - ive mentioned it loads of times before...and even tho i got dare the other week free with the papaer the rhino selection in the times was so much better will have to go behind that in terms of listening.... And of course, the worst of the year...quite a close one! Joe Dolce was absolutely criminal, but this evil record just pipped him for the title of worst "song" of '81: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeswZaReE0I The Birdie Song :puke2: The Birdy Song is not the worst song by any means...yeah its a daft polka and one that seems to be performed by blokes dressed as chickens..however was watching that Stiff at the bbc show from bbc four this morning and it featured an old totp countdown with the birdy song at two....and dave (egg) stewart and barbara (Spirogyra) gaskin's it my party was at number one..a record much worse than some novelty polka fluff...making the atmosphe even worse was the general awfulness of the whole perfomance with gaskin's bad teeth and general found living in a clothes for africa recycling bin - turn up in what you wore on the bus chic u_LnQxcGibM 50 cent - The Birdy Song vs In Da Club hRloF07ZKXY Eminem - real slim shady birdy song mix also had on alvin stardust pretend again - with was another awful stiff record.. however my fave record of today is this: KtDfqgFiaOU i have been singing Wunderbar Wunderbar Wunderbar over and over again as it is so good and has superceeded the new wild beasts record as the one you have to play again and again and might have to get the Stiff box this week...now i might try sing it in Laibach cover version stylee...tho it might just sound like below :lol: 9P7Zd-x2QXw :cheer: Ramstein - Amerika :cheer:
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