Dinner hour kicked off with The Cartoons, went through The New Rads, Dr. Who, a classic from TLC, Phats & Small, and the lovely Catatonia.
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"Baby of mine" - Alan Price
Trying to be the new "Hey Jude" with a bloke in big shades. Or a massive Valentines' smash.
Is it utterly rude to say he looks like Ant McPartlin cosplaying as Elton John? Apparently it is.
"Shake your groove thing" - Peaches & Herb
Sparkly jackets in the video. Unlike the last four songs, still hear this one out in the wild.
"Stop your sobbing" - The Pretenders
Hello, Chrissie Hynde And The Backing Band! Cor, forgot that The Pretenders were vital - or more than the one song.
A memory from last year: does she look like Katrina From The Waves?
Gotta love the Kinks-esque harmonies, and don't mind some obvious miming.
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"Stop your sobbing" - The Pretenders
Hello, Chrissie Hynde And The Backing Band! Cor, forgot that The Pretenders were vital - or more than the one song.
A memory from last year: does she look like Katrina From The Waves?
Gotta love the Kinks-esque harmonies, and don't mind some obvious miming.
"I will survive" - Gloria Gaynor
The roller disco video in a red-and-blue square. Still hear this one out in the wild, to the point where I'm somewhat immune to its charms.
But disco is so last year. Can someone hurry up and invent - pfft - vaudeville goth?
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"I will survive" - Gloria Gaynor
The roller disco video in a red-and-blue square. Still hear this one out in the wild, to the point where I'm somewhat immune to its charms.
But disco is so last year. Can someone hurry up and invent - pfft - vaudeville goth?
"Lucky number" - Lene Lovich
Lene knows where to find the camera angles, knows how to look like a pigtailed schoolgirl and a black widow at the same time, and (we assume) how to squeak in the studio.
Another new wave performance for the ages, and i don't think there's ever been anyone quite like this again.
Performance of the night.
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"Lucky number" - Lene Lovich
Lene knows where to find the camera angles, knows how to look like a pigtailed schoolgirl and a black widow at the same time, and (we assume) how to squeak in the studio.
Another new wave performance for the ages, and i don't think there's ever been anyone quite like this again.
Performance of the night.
"Woman in love" - The Three Degrees
You'll have stepped out the front door, then.
"Into the valley" - The Skids
[plays loud]
[bops about like the singer]
Don't know about you, but my ears are alight.
[keeps bopping]
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"Woman in love" - The Three Degrees
You'll have stepped out the front door, then.
"Into the valley" - The Skids
[plays loud]
[bops about like the singer]
Don't know about you, but my ears are alight.
[keeps bopping]
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"Heart of glass" - Blondie
From deepest Noo Yawk, it's Deborah Harry and her Sleeperblokes!
This really has been a show of two halves: so many New Wave classics, and a fair few forgettable songs like (um) (er) wotsisname at the piano.
Playout is "Cool meditation" - Third World.
Our first Mystery Year was 1979.
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"Heart of glass" - Blondie
From deepest Noo Yawk, it's Deborah Harry and her Sleeperblokes!
This really has been a show of two halves: so many New Wave classics, and a fair few forgettable songs like (um) (er) wotsisname at the piano.
Playout is "Cool meditation" - Third World.
Our first Mystery Year was 1979.
Our second Mystery Year comes from the week when "In at the Deep End" followed Paul Heiney's efforts to make a video for Bananarama's new single "Trick of the night".
It, er, wasn't very good. And neither was the video.
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Our second Mystery Year comes from the week when "In at the Deep End" followed Paul Heiney's efforts to make a video for Bananarama's new single "Trick of the night".
It, er, wasn't very good. And neither was the video.
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"Running in the family" - Level 42
Lots of hooks, and a really unsettling lyric.
Was this a song about how the father had also been a criminal? Was it about the abusive home Mark was fleeing?
Is this a song in the Parental Memory Zone (
Clarissa Darling), or something worse? -
"Stand by me" - Ben E. King
The video from the movie Stand By Me, so about 40 seconds of Ben singing in black-and-white, a montage of still pictures, and then an actor performs the rest of the song. He's eventually joined by the lads from the cast, and there are clips from the film.
Rev. Mayo is right: the song still sounds ace all these years later.
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"Stand by me" - Ben E. King
The video from the movie Stand By Me, so about 40 seconds of Ben singing in black-and-white, a montage of still pictures, and then an actor performs the rest of the song. He's eventually joined by the lads from the cast, and there are clips from the film.
Rev. Mayo is right: the song still sounds ace all these years later.
Wil Wheaton's blog post about the death of Rob Reiner was really heartfelt and moving.
this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.
"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important…
WIL WHEATON dot NET (wilwheaton.net)
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"Stand by me" - Ben E. King
The video from the movie Stand By Me, so about 40 seconds of Ben singing in black-and-white, a montage of still pictures, and then an actor performs the rest of the song. He's eventually joined by the lads from the cast, and there are clips from the film.
Rev. Mayo is right: the song still sounds ace all these years later.
"Heartache" - Pepsi & Shirlie
The outfits are *so* on point: accessible style tips for the teens.
One of them is in a black top, black skirt, white knee-length socks, white bow in her hair.
The other is in a fisherman's stripey black-and-white top, black skirt, black knee-length sock, black bow in her hair.
Song's pretty darned decent, too.
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"Heartache" - Pepsi & Shirlie
The outfits are *so* on point: accessible style tips for the teens.
One of them is in a black top, black skirt, white knee-length socks, white bow in her hair.
The other is in a fisherman's stripey black-and-white top, black skirt, black knee-length sock, black bow in her hair.
Song's pretty darned decent, too.
The BPI awards were handed out last monday.
Peter Gabriel won Best Bloke, Kate Bush the Best Lassie. The Bangles took International Group, and Eric Claptout the Isn't He Dead Yet? award.
Paul Simon the Int'l Solo, David A Stewart won Best Producer, and Top Gun took Soundtrack.
"West end girls" won Best Single, and "Brothers in Arms" Best Album.
#TOTP presenters picked "Sledgehammer" as best video, Radio 1 listeners said the best new act was The Housemartins.
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The BPI awards were handed out last monday.
Peter Gabriel won Best Bloke, Kate Bush the Best Lassie. The Bangles took International Group, and Eric Claptout the Isn't He Dead Yet? award.
Paul Simon the Int'l Solo, David A Stewart won Best Producer, and Top Gun took Soundtrack.
"West end girls" won Best Single, and "Brothers in Arms" Best Album.
#TOTP presenters picked "Sledgehammer" as best video, Radio 1 listeners said the best new act was The Housemartins.
And winners of Best British Group have a message for Peter Powell:
"Stay out of my life" - Five Star
More synchronised dancing: it's white leather-plastic suits, perhaps a bit too tight in the leg, with the band's trademark massive shoulder-wings.
The song is light and disposible, sold with all the band's abilities, and i still enjoy the key change of joy towards the end.
Remember them this way, it's all downhill from here.
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And winners of Best British Group have a message for Peter Powell:
"Stay out of my life" - Five Star
More synchronised dancing: it's white leather-plastic suits, perhaps a bit too tight in the leg, with the band's trademark massive shoulder-wings.
The song is light and disposible, sold with all the band's abilities, and i still enjoy the key change of joy towards the end.
Remember them this way, it's all downhill from here.
Breakers! "The future's so bright i gotta wear shades" - Timbuk 3, want to be the new Talking Heads and not getting there.
"Coming around again" - Carly Simon, a proper heartbreaker.
"Rock the night" - Europe foretell their future, reduced to playing in half-empty bars.
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Breakers! "The future's so bright i gotta wear shades" - Timbuk 3, want to be the new Talking Heads and not getting there.
"Coming around again" - Carly Simon, a proper heartbreaker.
"Rock the night" - Europe foretell their future, reduced to playing in half-empty bars.
"Once bitten twice shy" - Vesta Williams
Set in her luxury apartment in St. Retham, the pool maintenance guy is sure to get wet (and not in a good way), there's a Benny Hill-style chase. More Saturday Superstore than Eurocool.
