Saturday 17 October 2009
Suspended in gaffa - Kate Bush
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'Suspended in gaffa' was the third single release from Kate Bush's fourth studio album 'The dreaming', at least in Europ...
Somewhere in Europe - Liam Reilly
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Liam Reilly represented Ireland during the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest with 'Somewhere in Europe', a slightly contrived song in whi...
Down under - Men at work
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'Down under' was the song that launched the international career of the Australian band Men at work. The lyrics are about an Austral...
Talking loud and clear - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
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'Talking loud and clear' was released as the second single from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's 1984 album 'Junk culture...
Overkill - Men at work
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'Overkill' was released as a single from the 1983 Men at work album 'Cargo'. It was written by lead singer Colin Hay, reachi...
Living eyes - Bee Gees
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'Living eyes' is the second single taken from the 1981 Bee Gees album of the same name. They completely broke away from their disco ...
Red red wine - UB40
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'Red red wine' was originally written and recorded by Neil Diamond in 1968. Tony Tribe, a Jamaican singer, recorded a reggae version...
Help - Bananarama and Lananeeneenoonoo
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In 1989, Bananarama recorded an acceptable cover version of the Beatles' 1965 song 'Help'. In an effort to raise money for the C...
Look away - Big Country
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'Look away' was the first single from Big Country's third studio album 'The seer'. Released in April 1986, it was the fo...
This must be love - Lois Lane
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'This must be love' was released as the third single from Lois Lane's 1990 album 'Fortune Fairytales'. The single did no...
What I did for love - Three Degrees
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'What I did for love' was written by Edward Kleban and Marvin Hamlisch and originally appeared in the 1975 musical 'A chorus lin...
Dreamin' - Vanessa Williams
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With 'Dreamin'', Vanessa Williams delivers a perfect piece of Eighties elevator music. Amazingly, it became the biggest hit from...
Twenty four hours - Earth and Fire
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'Twenty four hours' was the last top 20 hit for Earth & Fire in the Netherlands. It was the first single taken from their 1982 a...
Forever autumn - Justin Hayward
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In 1989 the Jeff Wayne epic 'War of the worlds' was re-released, including for the first time on the cd format. To promote this, two...
Friday 16 October 2009
Sailing - Christopher Cross
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Christopher Cross released his debut album in 1980. 'Sailing' was released as the second single from that album, and was a great suc...
Too much love will kill you - Queen
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Brian May wrote 'Too much love will kill you' with Frank Musker and Elizabeth Lamers. The song was recorded in the Eighties and inte...
Do I have to say the words? - Bryan Adams
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In 1991, Bryan Adams released his seventh album 'Waking up the neighbours'. The album's best known track is of course '(Ever...
Where did I go wrong - UB40
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'Where did I go wrong' was another single by UB40 from their 1988 self-titled album. The track was written and produced by the band....
Notorious - Duran Duran
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After a break for a year during which one half of Duran Duran formed Arcadia and the other half formed the Power Station, the group came bac...
Life in technicolor II - Coldplay
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'Life in technicolor' appears as an instrumental track on Coldplay's album 'Viva la vida', but this vocal version was ac...
Ghosts - Japan
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'Ghosts' was a single taken from Japan's 1981 album 'Tin drum'. Bereft of drums, the minimalist track would not be descr...
King's call - Philip Lynott
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If you think 'King's call' sounds suspiciously like a Dire Straits track, you're not far off: one of the guest performers on...
Sunday girl - Erasure
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'Sunday girl' was released as the second single from Erasure's 13th studio album 'Light at the end of the world' in June...
The emperor's new clothes - Sinéad O'Connor
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'The emperor's new clothes' was the second single from Sinéad O'Connor's 1990 album 'I do not want what I haven'...
In your eyes - Niamh Kavanagh
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Niamh Kavanagh was born in 1968 in Dublin. Her first big break came when she performed as a lead and backing vocalist on the soundtrack of &...
Sideshow - Wendy and Lisa
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When Britney Spears managed to have a pretty successful comeback recently, it was suggested that this was partly because she used the 'c...
Rover's return - The Korgis
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I don't have an enormous amount of instrumental hit singles, and certainly the only instrumental song that became the signature track fo...
Him - Rupert Holmes
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Rupert Holmes fifth album 'Partners in crime' was released in 1979. It contained his biggest hit ' Escape ', but also 'H...
Kiss this thing goodbye - Del Amitri
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After the chart success of 'Nothing ever happens', Del Amitri's debut single 'Kiss this thing goodbye' was re-released i...
Thursday 15 October 2009
The ballad of Lucy Jordan - Marianne Faithfull
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'The ballad of Lucy Jordan' was originally written by American poet and songwriter Shel Silverstein and recorded by Dr. Hook. Faithf...
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So hard - Pet Shop Boys
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'So hard' was the first single taken from the Pet Shop Boys' 1990 album 'Behaviour'. According to Neil Tennant, the song...
Blood makes noise - Suzanne Vega
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'Blood makes noise' is the third single taken from Suzanne Vega's 1992 album '99.9 F°'. While it only reached number 60 ...
The end of the innocence - Don Henley
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As has become obvious to me, this blog is not only viewed by friendly people. Sometimes a prick comes along. The prick in question commented...
No doubt about it - Hot Chocolate
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'No doubt about it' was written by Mike Burns, Simon Glen and Donny Most. It is an unusual lyric, dealing with life from outer space...
Joan of Arc - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
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The second single from OMD's third album 'Architecture & Morality' was the beautiful 'Joan of Arc'. Not to be confus...
Let me be the one - Five Star
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'Let me be the one' was released in the summer of 1985 as the fourth single from the group's 'Luxury of life' album. Thi...
Johnny wanna live - Sandra
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'Johnny wanna live' originally appeared on Sandra's fourth album 'Paintings in yellow' (1990). When it was decided in th...
Big yellow taxi - Amy Grant
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Joni Mitchell originally wrote 'Big yellow taxi'. She commented about the song: 'I wrote 'Big yellow taxi' on my first t...
I can make you feel good - Shalamar
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'I can make you feel good' was the biggest hit for Shalamar in the Netherlands, where it reached number 8 in the Dutch Top 40. It al...
More than love - Wet Wet Wet
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'More than love' was the fourth single from Wet Wet Wet's fourth studio album, 'High on the happy side'. The single was ...
Take on me - A-ha
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Earlier today I read the news that A-ha is disbanding. It's a sad thing: for a quarter of a century they have made some of the most incr...
Where did our love go - The Supremes
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Holland–Dozier–Holland originally composed 'Where did our love go' and prepared the instrumental track for The Marvelettes to record...
Wonderful life - Black
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'Wonderful life' is the song they can play at my funeral. It's the perfect combination of beautiful music and a raher cynical ly...
Sweet and low - Deborah Harry
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'Sweet and low' was another single from Deborah Harry's 1989 album 'Def, dumb and blonde'. Originally produced by Chris ...
The swords of a thousan men - Tenpole Tudor
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Tenpole Tudor released their debut album 'Eddie, Old Bob, Dick and Gary' in 1981. The second single from the album, ' Wunderbar ...
Against all odds - Phil Collins
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Phil Collins wrote 'Against all odds' for the 1984 movie of the same name. It was originally titled 'How can you just sit there?...
I heard a rumour - Bananarama
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'I heard a rumour' was the first single from Bananarama's 1987 album 'Wow!', which was their second album to be produced...
Whoops now / What'll I do - Janet Jackson
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As far as I know, it doesn't happen that often that a 'hidden track' on a cd album is subsequently released as a single. But tha...
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