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What do you think of Ultravox's Danding with tears in my eyes? Although it should make me sad lyricwaise, I love the fast pace heave bass in it, plus good memories.
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Essie | Homepage | 23.02.06 - 7:36 a.m. | #

Excellent... a good week again. Must have been a heavy hit on the grant cheque that week!

Romeo & Juliet has always been my favourite Dire Straits tune (hmmm.. who'd a thunk I'd ever use that sentence!)

NiC | Homepage | 23.02.06 - 8:02 a.m. | #

Good month for music, lots of good stuff in there. The Jam has to be it for me, but with Talking Heads a close second.

Alan | Homepage | 23.02.06 - 8:14 a.m. | #

This reminds me of being on a school trip to a coal mine (wouldn't happen now of course) in the North of England. The coach was playing Radio 1 - and I have most vivid memories of the songs Vienna and "what's the matter you" song. It was when the latter was playing that the whole coach got singing. Mayhem.

Jag | Homepage | 23.02.06 - 8:35 a.m. | #

ONE single to represent the eighties?

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax", surely? Or DM's "Just can't get enough", or A-Ha's "Take on me". ooh, we could do this one all day...

Howard Jones - "New song" as well! the list is flippin' endless...

geofftech | Homepage | 23.02.06 - 8:40 a.m. | #

As a youngster ny favourite at the time was probably Do The Hucklebuck. Thankfully my musical tastes have improved since then and I am rather fond of The Jam. I know what you mean about Romeo & Juliet. One of the few Dire Straits tracks I can stomach.

Essexgirl | 23.02.06 - 9:43 a.m. | #

i thought i was the only one who remembered tony blackburn pronouncing 'duran duran' as 'durren durren' - i'm not insane afterall!

zed | Homepage | 23.02.06 - 10:17 a.m. | #

Jam and Ultravox equal firsts.

Blue Witch | Homepage | 23.02.06 - 10:56 a.m. | #

*cough* Sleepwalk was the first Midge-Vox single *cough*

Scaryduck | Homepage | 23.02.06 - 5:10 p.m. | #

Blimey - I thought *I* was the only person to remember Tony Blackburn saying Durren Durren! He actually apologised later in the show, pleading something about the "pressure of time" or some such nonsense.

Simon Le Bon had just given up his English & Drama course at Birmingham Uni to concentrate on the band. My cousin was also an English student at Birmingham, and so they moved in overlapping social circles. I still remember the sheer excitement of crashing on the SAME SOFA BED which SLB had crashed on two weeks earlier. Our dead skin cells must have been mingling, and everything!

My cousin actually moved into SLB's old bedroom, straight after he moved out to become a pop star. It's still her bedroom to this day.

Favourite at the time? I could have sworn that Feb 2001 was "Reward" by The Teardrop Explodes, but failing that... it would have been Somebody Help Me Out by Beggar & Co, or a a non-charter: We Don't Need This Fascist Groove Thing by Heaven 17.

Favourite now? That's Entertainment, which has worn surprisingly well.

mike | Homepage | 23.02.06 - 7:43 p.m. | #

"Reward" by The Teardrop Explodes (and A.N.Other record) would definitely have been in my favourite three records in February 1981... but I'm having to pretend they weren't so that I can write about them properly next month (or in April) when they hit the Top 10.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 23.02.06 - 8:27 p.m. | #

I'm a Queen fan myself. If I had to choose a one-hit wonder, I would pick Rupert Holme's Escape(the Pina Colada Song)

magnolia | 23.02.06 - 9:47 p.m. | #

When I was going through a "recording songs off the radio" phase, I taped the fateful T. Blackburn "Durren Durren" faux pas. I've still got it on cassette somewhere.

And neat editing on the Ultravox thing, DG. The word "big" makes all the difference.

Scaryduck | Homepage | 23.02.06 - 11:50 p.m. | #

I aim to please, Scary.

And my "recording songs off the radio" phase lasted 20 years (erm, allegedly...)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 24.02.06 - 12:24 a.m. | #


:) | 24.02.06 - 1:29 a.m. | #

Wow, DG, you really have triggered a flood of 80's memories. Great choices, but for me, 'I got you' by Split Enz captures the spirit of the decade.

Oh god, we had to put up with Joe Dolce for ages, because he's a Melbourne boy and before Kylie Minogue (the mot famous Melburnian who ever lived, apparently) we weren't used to such success!

Carolyn | 24.02.06 - 3:41 a.m. | #

Maybe you should listen to Communique and Dire Straits albums. They're beautiful.

AC | Homepage | 24.02.06 - 6:28 p.m. | #

I have the Passions album on vinyl. It's superb. Nice to see them get a mention

snowqueen | Homepage | 25.02.06 - 1:40 a.m. | #

Oh my goodness. I was listing to the London pirates at the time. Vienna was difinitely the winner - an absoute classic that was played to death by Thameside Radio.

martin | Homepage | 27.02.06 - 12:55 p.m. | #

my brother had the Gillan - he is a women now - I don't blame Ian Gillan though.

garax | 28.02.06 - 4:51 p.m. | #

I got Shaddap You Face and Hot Love, but I don't remember the Ants having Car Trouble - now that was a shock for somebody who used to go and buy those Antmusic no1 45s that year.

Oh, I can't shake that tune to The Oldest Swinger In Town out of my head now. Thanks, Deezer!

Max Cady | Homepage | 05.03.06 - 6:00 p.m. | #











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