Thursday 22 October 2009
Jealousy - Pet Shop Boys
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'Jealousy' was originally written by the Pet Shop Boys in 1982. It was finally recorded for their 1990 album 'Behaviour'. It...
Wednesday 21 October 2009
Dumb waiters - The Korgis
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The artwork department must have been happy when 'Dumb waiters' by the Korgis was released as a single. They didn't even bother ...
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Cold cold heart - Wet Wet Wet
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'Cold cold heart' was a new track recorded for Wet Wet Wet's first Greatest Hits album, 'End of part one' (1993). It was...
French word for love - Earth and Fire
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Jerney Kaagman, Bert Ruiter, Ton Scherpenzeel, Age Kat, Ab Tamboer and Jons Pistoor got together in 1989 and reunited as Earth & Fire. T...
Hello (Turn your radio on) - Shakespears sister
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'Hello (Turn your radio on)' was written by Marcella Detroit, Manu Guiot and Siobhan Fahey. The latter commented: 'Hello is the ...
Roots bloody roots - Sepultura
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Like most Sepultura songs, 'Roots bloody roots' is thought to be another protest song. The most common meaning that fans come up wit...
Vroeg of laat - Toontje Lager
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Here's another good Dutch song from the Eighties. Yes, the combination 'good' and 'Dutch' is a rare one in my book, but ...
Feel no pain - Sade
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A colleague of my sister went to London in December 1992. These were strange times: international mail order was still in its infancy, while...
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Circle in the sand - Belinda Carlisle
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'Circle in the sand' was written by Rick Nowels and Ellen Shipley, who wrote many of Belinda Carlisle's hit singles in the late ...
Hello again - The Cars
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'Hello again' was the fourth single taken from the Cars' 1984 album 'Heartbeat city'. The single was notable for its mus...
New York Minute - Don Henley
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Don Henley recorded 'New York minute' for his 1989 album 'The end of the innocence'. It was released as the album's seco...
Tuesday 20 October 2009
How does it feel - Time bandits
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Despite the somewhat dodgy lyrics, I always considered this single by the Dutch band Time bandits to be an epic piece of work. It's got ...
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Three babies - Sinéad O'Connor
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'Three babies' was the third single taken from Sinéad O'Connor's second album 'I do not want what I haven't got'...
Live-in world - The Anti-Heroin Project
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Fish, Nik Kershaw, Cliff Richard, Dave Stewart, Holly Johnson, Robin Gibb, Kim Wilde and many others contributed their voices and music to t...
Be my downfall - Del Amitri
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Dutch readers of this blog are not likely to miss the fact that the photo on this sleeve was made in Amsterdam, at the Kadijksplein to be ex...
Don't mess with doctor dream - Thompson Twins
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While working on the follow up to 'Into the gap', Thompson Twins band member Tom Bailey suffered a nervous breakdown. Nile Rodgers w...
Iron lion zion - Bob Marley
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Bob Marley wrote and recorded 'Iron lion zion' in April 1973 or 1974. It was released posthumously in May 1992 on the box set '...
Love will save the day - Whitney Houston
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I recently saw a video of Whitney Houston on the UK television programme 'X Factor'. Her new song was quite horrible, she almost los...
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More than I can bear - Matt Bianco
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Released in February 1985 as their fourth single, Matt Bianco's 'More than I can bear' was not their biggest hit but perhaps the...
The world is stone - Cyndi Lauper
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'The world is stone' was originally written in 1978 for the Starmania musical as 'Le monde est stone', a French song by Mich...
If I can't have you - Yvonne Elliman
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Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, a.k.a. the Bee Gees wrote 'If I can't have you' in 1976. They intended to record it as a track on...
Il veliero - The Chaplin Band
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Although they released several singles between 1976 and 1982, 'Il veliero' was only the second hit for the Chaplin band. Like their ...
Monday 19 October 2009
Goodnight song - Tears for fears
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Released in October 1993, 'Goodnight song' was the third single from Tears for fears' 1993 album 'Elemental'. Although t...
Hey Jude - The Beatles
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'Hey Jude' was originally written by Paul McCartney as 'Hey Jules' as a song for Julian Lennon, after the divorce of his par...
Love changes (everything) - Climie Fisher
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My copy of 'Love changes (everything)' features a free poster. This is also the reason why I bought it, as part of a batch of the fo...
Shine silently - Nils Lofgren
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Nils Lofgren was born on June 21, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois (USA). He joined Neil Young's band, following this up with a brief stint wit...
Stop loving you - Toto
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'Stop loving you' was the first single taken from Toto's 1988 album 'The seventh one'. The song was written by David Pai...
Call me - Go west
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Go west released 'Call me' as their second single. It was taken from their self-titled debut album, released in 1985. Although the s...
Why can't it wait 'til morning - Phil Collins
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'Why can't it wait 'til morning' was the fifth single taken from Phil Collins' second solo album 'Hello, I must be g...
Sexy MF - Prince
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There were some problems when Prince delivered his song 'Sexy motherfucker' in 1992. Puritan people were very distraught by this exp...
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Kissing gate - Sam Brown
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Sam Brown's second album 'April moon' spawned five singles, of which 'Kissing gate' was the second. It was the biggest h...
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Don't cry - Seal
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I've been buying some Nineties singles recently, and it's interesting how the 7" format continued in America as it was slowly a...
Hallo spaceboy - David Bowie
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'Hallo spaceboy' was a track on David Bowie's 1995 album '1. Outside', a loud rock track that would surprise a lot of li...
Sunday 18 October 2009
Robin (the hooded man) - Clannad
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I bought the Clannad compilation album 'Pastpresent' somewhere around 1990 and it was through that cd that I discovered the interest...
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What do I have to do - Kylie Minogue
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Kylie Minogue was changing her image from 'girl next door' to 'sex siren', and the music video for 'What do I have to do...
Hide and seek - Howard Jones
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'Hide and seek' was the third single from Howard Jones' debut album 'Human's lib'. The ballad had an almost biblical...
Circle of one - Oleta Adams
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'Circle of one' was the second single released by Oleta Adams, taken from her debut album of the same name. Capitalizing on the succ...
With or without you - U2
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'With or without you' is the song that took U2 to superstardom for good. They scored their first American number 1 hit, launching th...
Heal the pain - George Michael
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'Heal the pain' was the fourth single taken from George Michael's 1991 album 'Listen without prejudice vol. 1'. The guit...
Move right out - Rick Astley
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As Rick Astley left Stock, Aitken & Waterman behind, his singles became better artistically and less appreciated commercially. 'Move...
Why can't I have you - The Cars
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I don't remember how I got to hear 'Why can't I have you' by the Cars. As it didn't reach the charts in the Netherlands ...
No ordinary love - Sade
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'No ordinary love' was released as the first single from Sade's fourth studio album 'Love deluxe'. The band had been awa...
Im nin' alu - Ofra Haza
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Ofra Haza scored her biggest international hit in 1988 with 'Im nin' alu'. A sample of the track, which was originally recorded ...
You're the one - Julian Lennon
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This is one of those rare occasions where I bought a 7" single because of the B-side. Puck played me 'Sunday morning' back in 1...
World at war - Dr. Pop
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The Dutch band Dr. Pop is formed in Velp in 1978 by Ans Dijkstra, Bert Meijer, Chris Meurs, Jan de Wit and Ton van Tent. Their self-titled d...
Suffer the children - Tears for fears
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According to Tears for fears' Curt Smith: ''Suffer the children' was the first song we did together when we left The Graduat...
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My girl - The Temptations
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Back in the Eighties, commercials with old Motown hits were all the rage. Everybody remembers Nick Kamen stripping off in the launderette to...
Being boring - Pet Shop Boys
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'Being boring' was the second single taken from the Pet Shop Boys' 1990 album 'Behaviour'. The song is concerned with th...
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