Author Topic: Great 80's tunes (Read 15163 times)

Disc: 1
1. Rock The Casbah - The Clash
2. The First Picture Of You - Lotus Eaters
3. Pretty In Pink - The Psychedelic Furs
4. Brilliant Mind - Furniture
5. Love Is A Wonderful Colour - The Icicle Works
6. Life In A Northern Town - Dream Academy
7. Blue Monday - New Order
8. The King Of Rock'N'Roll - Prefab Sprout
9. I'm In Love With A German Film Star - The Passions
10. Digging Your Scene - The Blow Monkeys
11. Ziggy Stardust - Bauhaus
12. Birthday - The Sugarcubes
13. Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones
14. E=MC² - Big Audio Dynamite
15. Never Never - The Assembly
16. Crash - The Primitives
17. World Shut Your Mouth - Julian Cope
18. There's A Ghost In My House - The Fall
19. Are Friends Electric? - Tubeway Army
Disc: 2
1. She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
2. The Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunnymen
3. Boys Don't Cry - The Cure
4. Party Fears Two - The Associates
5. Liberator - Spear Of Destiny
6. Reward - The Teardrop Explodes
7. (Feels Like) Heaven - Fiction Factory
8. Young At Heart - The Bluebells
9. Could Be Happy - Altered Images
10. Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops - Cocteau Twins
11. Sometimes - Erasure
12. This Is The Day - The The
13. Sonic Boom Boy - Westworld
14. Living On The Ceiling - Blancmanche
15. Lost Weekend - Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
16. Everyday I Write The Book - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
17. Shout To The Top - The Style Council
18. Always The Sun - The Stranglers
19. Dirty Old Town - The Pogues
20. A New England - Kirty MacColl

Forbsie · « **Reply #87 on:** April 5, 2008, 05:42:18 pm »

Quote from: Sarge on April 5, 2008, 05:41:40 pm

Disc: 1
1. Rock The Casbah - The Clash
2. The First Picture Of You - Lotus Eaters
3. Pretty In Pink - The Psychedelic Furs
4. Brilliant Mind - Furniture
5. Love Is A Wonderful Colour - The Icicle Works
6. Life In A Northern Town - Dream Academy
7. Blue Monday - New Order
8. The King Of Rock'N'Roll - Prefab Sprout
9. I'm In Love With A German Film Star - The Passions
10. Digging Your Scene - The Blow Monkeys
11. Ziggy Stardust - Bauhaus
12. Birthday - The Sugarcubes
13. Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones
14. E=MC² - Big Audio Dynamite
15. Never Never - The Assembly
16. Crash - The Primitives
17. World Shut Your Mouth - Julian Cope
18. There's A Ghost In My House - The Fall
19. Are Friends Electric? - Tubeway Army
Disc: 2
1. She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
2. The Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunnymen
3. Boys Don't Cry - The Cure
4. Party Fears Two - The Associates
5. Liberator - Spear Of Destiny
6. Reward - The Teardrop Explodes
7. (Feels Like) Heaven - Fiction Factory
8. Young At Heart - The Bluebells
9. Could Be Happy - Altered Images
10. Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops - Cocteau Twins
11. Sometimes - Erasure
12. This Is The Day - The The
13. Sonic Boom Boy - Westworld
14. Living On The Ceiling - Blancmanche
15. Lost Weekend - Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
16. Everyday I Write The Book - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
17. Shout To The Top - The Style Council
18. Always The Sun - The Stranglers
19. Dirty Old Town - The Pogues
20. A New England - Kirty MacColl

Want a copy...

Sarge · « **Reply #88 on:** April 5, 2008, 05:42:24 pm »

Quote from: Forbsie on April 5, 2008, 05:40:50 pm

Forgot that I have that on my MP3 player

Aurl fart.

Sarge · « **Reply #89 on:** April 5, 2008, 05:42:49 pm »

Quote from: Forbsie on April 5, 2008, 05:42:18 pm

Want a copy...

Yes.

Forbsie · « **Reply #90 on:** April 5, 2008, 05:42:59 pm »

Quote from: Sarge on April 5, 2008, 05:42:24 pm

Aurl fart.

Very true Robbie.

Sarge · « **Reply #91 on:** April 5, 2008, 05:43:47 pm »

More stuff away from any of the Stock, Aiken & Waterman drivel is good.

Forbsie · « **Reply #92 on:** April 5, 2008, 05:46:13 pm »

Big Country did some decent tunes in the 80's as well.

Sarge · « **Reply #93 on:** April 5, 2008, 05:46:54 pm »

Quote from: Forbsie on April 5, 2008, 05:46:13 pm

Big Country did some decent tunes in the 80's as well.

I have 3 albums at home and their best of....

Very good.

Sarge · « **Reply #94 on:** April 5, 2008, 05:48:23 pm »

Also i recommend,

Best of The Cure.

About 21 tracks on it. Brilliant stuff.

grifter · « **Reply #95 on:** April 5, 2008, 06:11:49 pm »

I,m sueing the J Geils Band and holding them responsible for my addiction to wanking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx6t11D99tA

Harry_Wong · « **Reply #96 on:** April 5, 2008, 07:00:18 pm »

The Associates - Party Fears Two

Billy MacKenzie was reputedly the inspiration for 'William, It was Really Nothing' - The Smiths.

Used as incidental music on BBC's Sportsnight for years, the outro if I recall correctly. Put the 12' to 3min 20sec for waves of nostalgia for when Liverpool always scored the late winner.

One of the best piano riffs of the decade (played by Martha of Martha & the Muffins).

rednile · « **Reply #97 on:** April 5, 2008, 07:20:00 pm »

Quote from: Harry_Wong on April 5, 2008, 07:00:18 pm

The Associates - Party Fears Two

Forgot all about them , bought this on single .
Country Club
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I7jfZxITaU&NR=1

Harry_Wong · « **Reply #98 on:** April 5, 2008, 08:00:31 pm »

I'd love to know what Beavis & Butthead would have made of him.

A funny clip from The Tube, Lesley Ash interviews him, while MacKanzie strays towards dodgy business around Dundee docks.

Sarge · « **Reply #99 on:** April 5, 2008, 08:26:47 pm »

Well the young RAWKites do not remember tapes. Fast forwarding to a song and going by the start and having to rewind back or sitting their listening to the radio for your fav song and when it does come on the fucking DJ won't shut the fuck up talking over it.

Ahhh the memories.

Harry_Wong · « **Reply #100 on:** April 5, 2008, 08:45:24 pm »

Including trying to get the mashed up tape out of the cassette player, hopefully to wind it back in or having to use scissors and cellotape to cut out the ruined part and stick the remains together.

I still have a 45min Massive Attack hip-hop mix on tape, a Kiss FM new year's eve thing, a better version of their classic Essential Mix for the BBC. People went wild for that but, they've only heard a 'pop' version.

I just don't know how to transfer it to computer.

hooded claw · « **Reply #101 on:** April 5, 2008, 08:48:11 pm »

Quote from: Emo Phillips on April 4, 2008, 07:43:06 pm

Gotta put a shout out for Dire Strait's Romeo & Juliet - much maligned band, but that is a gem of a song, as the recent cover by The Killers attests to...

They'll have their day in the spotlight of critical approval before too long. Telegraph Road is IMMENSE.

Sarge · « **Reply #102 on:** April 5, 2008, 08:53:36 pm »

Quote from: Harry_Wong on April 5, 2008, 08:45:24 pm

Including trying to get the mashed up tape out of the cassette player, hopefully to wind it back in or having to use scissors and cellotape to cut out the ruined part and stick the remains together.

Indeed.

rednile · « **Reply #103 on:** April 5, 2008, 08:57:50 pm »

Quote from: Harry_Wong on April 5, 2008, 08:45:24 pm

Including trying to get the mashed up tape out of the cassette player, hopefully to wind it back in or having to use scissors and cellotape to cut out the ruined part and stick the remains together.

Hated that , winding it back in with a biro.

Sarge · « **Reply #104 on:** April 5, 2008, 09:08:50 pm »

Quote from: rednile on April 5, 2008, 08:57:50 pm

Hated that , winding it back in with a biro.

And then you get to the end and the tape is twisted to fuck.

Harry_Wong · « **Reply #105 on:** April 5, 2008, 09:52:03 pm »

Got to keep the heads clean, but what kid did that?

Tape has preserved a lot better than mini-disc, those things decay in a few years. Thank God by that time most stuff was recorded somewhere, by someone.

Sarge · « **Reply #106 on:** April 5, 2008, 09:55:44 pm »

But the thing was how did you keep the bloody heads clean?

Ken-Obi · « **Reply #107 on:** April 5, 2008, 09:59:42 pm »

Alcohol swabs would do the trick - back then we use cotton buds.

Oh, and don't forget to use the screwdriver to adjust the positioning of the head, making it sound crisper or higher in treble, depending on taste.

Harry_Wong · « **Reply #108 on:** April 5, 2008, 09:59:45 pm »

Find someone whose mum's a nurse and ask them for a few alcohol swabs!

[Apologies to the NHS.]

Victor · « **Reply #109 on:** April 5, 2008, 10:39:57 pm »

Quote from: Harry_Wong on April 5, 2008, 07:00:18 pm

The Associates - Party Fears Two

Billy MacKenzie was reputedly the inspiration for 'William, It was Really Nothing' - The Smiths.

Is true indeed ... MacKenzie wrote back with the song "Stephen, You're Still Really Something"

iancr7 · « **Reply #110 on:** April 6, 2008, 03:00:13 am »

Quote from: Sarge on April 5, 2008, 08:26:47 pm

Well the young RAWKites do not remember tapes. Fast forwarding to a song and going by the start and having to rewind back or sitting their listening to the radio for your fav song and when it does come on the fucking DJ won't shut the fuck up talking over it.

Ahhh the memories.

Bruno Brookes was the worst for that

Sarge · « **Reply #111 on:** April 6, 2008, 12:58:50 pm »

Quote from: iancr7 on April 6, 2008, 03:00:13 am

Bruno Brookes was the worst for that

Q102 & SUNSHINE WHERE THE POPULAR STATIONS IN DUBLIN WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND THE DJ'S ALWAYS TALKED WAY TO MUCH.

DAM CAPSLOCK.

only6times · « **Reply #112 on:** April 6, 2008, 05:10:41 pm »

Quote from: John C on April 5, 2008, 01:33:59 am

Hue & Cry - Remote. Forget "labour of love", single from Seduced and Abandoned, that album and single didn't do justice to the fabulous duo. Get on this entire album !
Pat Kane's voice is superb.

Ordinary angel on that album=great track, also violently, 20 garston mudmen singing it on the way to wembley in a hired transit van(perfect pitch)

Shanklys Love Child · « **Reply #113 on:** April 8, 2008, 07:57:05 am »

Quote from: Shanklys Love Child on April 5, 2008, 07:57:55 am

Only discovered today that "William, It Was Really Nothing" was written for Billy McKenzie of the Associates. There's two great 80s bands for you.

Quote from: Harry_Wong on April 5, 2008, 07:00:18 pm

The Associates - Party Fears Two

Billy MacKenzie was reputedly the inspiration for 'William, It was Really Nothing' - The Smiths.

Used as incidental music on BBC's Sportsnight for years, the outro if I recall correctly. Put the 12' to 3min 20sec for waves of nostalgia for when Liverpool always scored the late winner.

One of the best piano riffs of the decade (played by Martha of Martha & the Muffins).

Great minds and all that

ashy9 · « **Reply #114 on:** April 8, 2008, 08:20:49 am »

Quote from: Sarge on April 5, 2008, 08:26:47 pm

Well the young RAWKites do not remember tapes. Fast forwarding to a song and going by the start and having to rewind back or sitting their listening to the radio for your fav song and when it does come on the fucking DJ won't shut the fuck up talking over it.

Ahhh the memories.

I remember sitting there and rushing to press STOP when the dj was talking rubbish then quick GO again its started!! Had whole top forties like that, most records missing the first bit of with bit of talking at the end! The Bruno Brookes years!

hooded claw · « **Reply #115 on:** April 9, 2008, 09:04:07 am »

Quote from: Okkervil on April 4, 2008, 05:24:13 pm

Brilliant Mind by Furniture is always one of my 80's faves.

That was class. Also loved It's Immaterial- Driving Away From Home.

Henry Chinaski · « **Reply #116 on:** April 9, 2008, 09:05:33 am »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adaYUM5wl7c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVaX7hPacIU

Ken-Obi · « **Reply #117 on:** April 9, 2008, 12:18:00 pm »

True Blue - Madonna

Buck Pete · « **Reply #118 on:** April 9, 2008, 01:47:13 pm »

Quote from: hooded claw on April 5, 2008, 08:48:11 pm

They'll have their day in the spotlight of critical approval before too long. Telegraph Road is IMMENSE.

Agree with you there.

I think Dire Straits are slightly unlucky in that people seem to associate them them with the 'Yuppies' of the 1980's. You know, 30 somethings Tarquin and Miranda in their London flat slipping on the Brothers in Arms CD after the Dinner party.

Don't suppose Mark Knopfler and the band are complaining too much after flogging 118 Million albums (cheers Wiki)

Sir Capon of Debaser · « **Reply #119 on:** April 9, 2008, 10:52:21 pm »

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lindsey buckingham - holiday road(vacation ost)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nLiQBV6A7c