Author Topic: 28 Oct 2016: another listener-curated Friday: 1984  (Read 3250 times)

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28 Oct 2016: another listener-curated Friday: 1984
« on: October 28, 2016, 09:53:38 AM »
Looks like a nice mix of old standbys and some excellent rarities/bustouts. Will listen later.
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Re: 28 Oct 2016: another listener-curated Friday: 1984
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2016, 11:43:44 AM »
Looks like a nice mix of old standbys and some excellent rarities/bustouts. Will listen later.
I'm starting now (11:40). I don't recognize the first one, group or song.
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Re: 28 Oct 2016: another listener-curated Friday: 1984
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2016, 11:51:02 AM »
Nice to hear long version of Talk Talk's "It's My Life". I don't imagine I've heard the long version before.

ETA: come to think of it, that version didn't add anything to the original apart from length. Tight editing is a virtue sometimes.

BOS for Style Council, though I know this is the song we always hear. (Ever Changing Moods)
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Re: 28 Oct 2016: another listener-curated Friday: 1984
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2016, 12:16:50 PM »
Is that Kirstie McColl (sp?)? Nice song. Thought it was Tracey Ullman at first.
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Re: 28 Oct 2016: another listener-curated Friday: 1984
« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2016, 02:54:57 PM »
Listening now. King's "Love & Pride" was a big alt-radio hit in NY and a longtime 1984 wish-list song for me. A bustout, methinks.  A UK #1 that did little here, chartwise.
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Re: 28 Oct 2016: another listener-curated Friday: 1984
« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2016, 02:57:49 PM »
Dear Alphaville: most white people are big in Japan. Comparatively.
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Re: 28 Oct 2016: another listener-curated Friday: 1984
« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2016, 03:15:41 PM »
BOS1 KIng; BOS2 Kirsty covering Billy Bragg (who wrote an extra verse for her so she could have a hit single).

and kudos on a Nik Kershaw song that isn't "Wouldn't it be Good?"
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Re: 28 Oct 2016: another listener-curated Friday: 1984
« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2016, 06:49:43 PM »
 1. King, Love and Pride
 2. Alphaville, Big in Japan – Forever Young
 3. Talk Talk, It’s My Life – It’s My Life
 4. The Style Council, My Ever Changing Moods
 5. Psychedelic Furs, The Ghost In You
 6. U2, The Unforgettable Fire –
 7. Kirsty MacColl, A New England
 8. Nik Kershaw, I Won’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me
 9. Alison Moyet, Love Resurrection
10. Thompson Twins, If You Were Here
BONUS: Duran Duran, The Wild Boys
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