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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Love so many from the 80's, but one tune we brought out of semi-retirement at a wedding a few weeks ago (me and my mate DJing) was tge Communards Don't leave me this way and we were saying just how good a tune it still is, especially compared to much of todays music. It just has a great arrangement and a great mix and just works |
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By *andS66Couple
over a year ago
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"Party fears two. The associates "
Look up You Tube.... Glenn Gregory of Heaven 17 singing Party Fears Two.
We saw him live doing it as a tribute to Billy MacKenzie. It brought the whole crowd to silence.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Fade to Grey...Visage
Story of the blues ....Wah
Shout to the top...Style Council
Chance...Big Country
The bitterest pill...The Jam
She sells sanctuary... The Cult
Everything counts.....Depeche Mode
Fishermans Blues.. The Waterboys
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Even though I wasn't born in the 80s I do love a lot of 80s music and 60s/70s some of my favs 80s music are
Danny Wilson - Mary's prayer
Billy Ocean - red light spell danger
House martins - happy hour
Madness
Wham
I could go on and on
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Gangster by the specials
Planet rock, afrika Bambaataa and the soul sonic force.
Wyldestyle, time zone.
Christmas in holis, run DMC
Kraftwerk, tour de France
Girls ain't nothing but trouble
Jazzy Jeff and the fresh prince.
Too much too young
The specials
And.....
John part, St elmos fire  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Ghost town - The Specials
Arguably one of the best pop songs of all time.
Love song - public image
Mirror in the bathroom - the Beat"
Ghost town was one of my favourites when I was little x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Gangster by the specials
Planet rock, afrika Bambaataa and the soul sonic force.
Wyldestyle, time zone.
Christmas in holis, run DMC
Kraftwerk, tour de France
Girls ain't nothing but trouble
Jazzy Jeff and the fresh prince.
Too much too young
The specials
And.....
John part, St elmos fire "
Agreed about planet rock |
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"Tears for fears - shout
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Everbody Wants to Rule the World. That's was my 80's club anthem, it always played as soon as I walked in a club, and when I revisited my 80's winebar haunt over Easter, blow me down it came on again!!
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Pulling mussels from a shell- squeeze
Going underground -jam
Toto- africa
Big area, incommunicado (cant remember who did them
Something inside so strong labi sifri (think thats his name)
...and anything by joan armitrading.
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Two Tribes, Frankie.
Fade to Grey, Visage.
Blue Monday, New Order.
Underpass, John Foxx.
Open your heart, The League.
Don't you want me, The League.
Enola Gay. OMD
Messages, OMD,
Joan of Arc, OMD
Look of love ABC
Big in Japan, Alphaville,
Words, FR David.
And lots more. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Rakim - Paid In Full
Used to have that on vynl..... 
What other ones you got"
Nothing on vynl any more.....I picked that up in a bargain bin before I had any real appreciation for good tunes  wish I kept it.....can't remember what happened to it....swapped no doubt... |
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"Pulling mussels from a shell- squeeze
Going underground -jam
Toto- africa
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Ooh love Toto, I think of them as more late 70's with Hold The Line, and the wonderfully funky Gorgy Porgy!! Ah those were the days... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Love so many from the 80's, but one tune we brought out of semi-retirement at a wedding a few weeks ago (me and my mate DJing) was tge Communards Don't leave me this way and we were saying just how good a tune it still is, especially compared to much of todays music. It just has a great arrangement and a great mix and just works"
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By *ost SockMan
over a year ago
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"Up The Junction - Squeeze.
Sheer poetry. They dont write songs like that anymore. The youth of today.... blah, blah."
The didn't write songs like that in the 80s either....it was released in 1979.
I know, I'm being pedantic - it's a great song.
I'm not a huge 80s fan, but love:
The Kane Gang - Closest Thing to Heaven
The Lotus Eaters - First Picture of You
Orange Juice - Rip It Up
New Order - True Faith
the Stone Roses - Made of Stone/Fools Gold |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Up The Junction - Squeeze.
Sheer poetry. They dont write songs like that anymore. The youth of today.... blah, blah.
The didn't write songs like that in the 80s either....it was released in 1979.
I know, I'm being pedantic - it's a great song.
I'm not a huge 80s fan, but love:
The Kane Gang - Closest Thing to Heaven
The Lotus Eaters - First Picture of You
Orange Juice - Rip It Up
New Order - True Faith
the Stone Roses - Made of Stone/Fools Gold"
The lotus eaters?
Never heard of them but Robert e Howard regularly refered to 'lotus eaters' in his Conan stories...they're painted as drug users...
Even in the film Conan the barbarian (the first one, not the Jason mamoa crap) Conan and suboti buy some off the market seller that advised them on the towers of set....suboti even advises Conan 'chew slowly....it's good stuff'
Wonder if the band name a reference to Robert e Howard's writings?
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