kenneth in the (212) (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
While the rest of the nation was watching the someone who cannot sing (Taylor Swift) and yet another group I've never heard even once (Zac Brown Band') win Grammy awards, I was lost in the '80s (surprise), trying to decide if my friend Taffy was right that 1983 was the quintessential year of the New Wave. Although I certainly understand his reasoning, I've always thought 1982 was "the" year,...
bomarr blog (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
toto coelo - "i eat cannibals" (download) Some poppy, totally 80's British new wave music from Toto Coelo . Similar to Bananarama , Blondie , Missing Persons , etc. This song actually hit the top 10 on the UK charts when it was released in 1982. This is an incredibly catchy song. Be sure not to listen to it too seriously. I mean, look at these ladies. I love this stuff though. buy
SoundsXP (Free subscription) | 01/31/2010
Standard Fare - This is the sound of the slag-heaps? There were plenty of folk in the 80s who liked to write about “pure pop” - meaning not Bananarama but earnest boys and girls playing clever jangly guitar tunes. Standard Fare should induce a Proustian rush for any of them still paying attention. Despite their self-deprecating moniker, don’t write them off as nostalgia-piquing revivalists...
It's only rock n roll (Free subscription) | 01/30/2010
Back to 80's again today and to the most successful of the girl groups of that period - Bananarama. Track Listing 1. Venus 2. I Heard A Rumour 3. Love In The First Degree 4. I Can't Help It 5. I Want You Back 6. Love Truth And Honesty 7. Nathan Jones 8. Really Saying Something 9. Shy Boy 10. Robert De Niro's Waiting 11. Cruel Summer 12. It Ain't What You Do 13. Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye) 14....
Free Mobile Phone Content Blog (Free subscription) | 01/28/2010
From Downhereforfree Custom Ringtones for your IPhone - Hits 80 | 44 m4r | 128 Kbps | 20.3 MB 1. Gary Numan - Cars 2. David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes 3. Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger 4. Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart 5. Visage - Fade To Grey 6. Various Artists feat. Lou Reed - Perfect Day 7. Boys Town Gang - Can't Take My Eyes Off You part 1 8. Boys Town Gang - Can't Take My Eyes Off You part...
XO's Middle Eight (Free subscription) | 01/28/2010
I am a child of the 80s. It is the period when I came of musical age, so to speak. The pop albums of this era are - I am quite serious - a defining influence on my taste in almost everything. It so happens that my favorite album of the 1980s is also perhaps the most influential and loved British album of the post-Beatles era. Note that the titles in blue were made in the United Kingdom, so this could...
Dictionopolis in Digitopolis (Free subscription) | 01/27/2010
UK-Muscle Body Building Community (Free subscription) | 01/25/2010
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Skuds' Sister's Brother (Free subscription) | 01/21/2010
I may just have mentioned once or twice or even a hundred times that I am a bit of a fan of Spotify, but even I have to admit that it can be pretty bloody weird at times, and today was one of those times. Sometimes I will use the ‘artist radio’ function. That is where [...]
moving people - UK public transport design and... (Free subscription) | 01/14/2010
Just goes to prove it's not about the channels you advertise on, but more what you do with them. Or in the words of Bananarama "T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)"
M80s Soundtrack for an 80s Generation (Free subscription) | 01/11/2010
'I Can't Help It' is a song written and recorded by English girl group Bananarama. It is included on their fourth studio album Wow! and was released as its third single except in the U.S., where it was the album's second single (following 'I Heard a Rumour') and Australia, where it was the album's fourth single (after 'I Want You Back'). The track was co-written and produced by the Stock Aitken Waterman...
Kiss & Make Up (Free subscription) | 01/10/2010
Well, last Friday's sort of sci-fi themed Kiss & Make Up was a lot of fun. Yes. It was David Bowie's birthday too, although he didn't turn up in the end. Many thanks to special guest DJs Hayley Unlikely and Andy Lizard for their brilliant sets. Here's what we played... Hayley Unlikely We Are The People - Empire Of The Sun I’m Not Scared - Eighth Wonder New Song - Howard Jones Venus - Bananarama...
M80s Soundtrack for an 80s Generation (Free subscription) | 01/10/2010
'Do Not Disturb' is a song recorded by English girl group Bananarama. It was written and produced by the production duo of Steve Jolley and Tony Swain. Originally released as a stand-alone single in 1985, the track was later added to Bananarama's third album 'True Confessions' which was issued by London Records a year later. 'Do Not Disturb' was released in the UK, Australia, Germany and Japan but...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 01/07/2010
Every once in a while, there's a band's biography that reads too good to be true, pushing all the right personal buttons, like it was written especially for you by a vast, underground, symbiotic mainframe dedicated to hyper-individual demographics and pop-culture evolution. The one for new girl-group Dolly Rockers , for example. The best pop music happens during the worst of times. The upside to a...
Liberal England (Free subscription) | 01/03/2010
I have memories of hearing this on a pub jukebox on the way home from a county chess game, which probably places it somewhere in the late 1980s. This track is not on the Bananarama's greatest hits CD, so I suppose I can claim it as a rarity. The video is poor quality and the fashion irredeemably eighties, but I am intrigued by the echoes of The Sound of Music.
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