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Eeee that were a good week, weren't it?

Adam, Tenpole and the Human League. Wow!

NiC | Homepage | 24.05.06 - 8:51 a.m. | #

hard one ... adam and the ants, human league ..... i couldn't stand (still can't) kim wilde or kim carnes. no idea why - wilde is too nasally and carnes was far OTT for my liking, i suppose.

zoe | Homepage | 24.05.06 - 9:21 a.m. | #

i sooooooooo didn't want the human league to go big. 'sound of the crowd' was astonishing and in the end i really couldn't deny the rest of our non NME reading country the joy of discovering them. i stopped dancing to 'empire state human' and 'only after dark' at the disco in protest.

dave | Homepage | 24.05.06 - 11:14 a.m. | #

I loved Adam & The Ants (as did all self-respecting 11 year olds), Tenpole Tudor and Toyah.

Essexgirl | 24.05.06 - 11:14 a.m. | #

i still love 'chi mai'.

dave | Homepage | 24.05.06 - 11:15 a.m. | #

Ah, Rockabilly Guy. Such was the miasma of musical hybridism in the early 80s that this got released with a dub mix by Dennis Bovell. Sounded surprisingly good; I wonder why rockabilly dub never really went anywhere as a subgenre?

Simon | Homepage | 24.05.06 - 11:29 a.m. | #

For years I could never work out just what it was that it took to "make a crow blush".......

Ham | Homepage | 24.05.06 - 11:58 a.m. | #

My God, of those six records, I've got five of them.

Scaryduck | Homepage | 24.05.06 - 12:03 p.m. | #

Kraftwerk can do no wrong (except when they allowed the Coldplay dullards to sample part of Computer love)

Michael | 24.05.06 - 1:01 p.m. | #

I must admit that when I first saw the Human League a couple (?) of years earlier (being heavily bottled sandwiched into a night of punk) I never thought they'd make it...and like dave I was a bit sorry when they did.

Empire State Human remains one of my favourites.

NiC | Homepage | 24.05.06 - 2:11 p.m. | #

I still love Adam Ant's "Prince Charming" to this day - well, the video really. totally inspired and I miss not being able to have VH1 Classic anymore to be able to see it now and again.

How does one search for these things on YouTube, oh DG?

geofftech | Homepage | 24.05.06 - 3:01 p.m. | #

Ok, I've just answered my own dumb question, it's here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9...h?
v=9nFXCwPlCg0

And it's awesome! I'm not having a Paul Goddard fest here at my screen, raising my arms in the air doing the actions to the video at the same time that they are. what a completely marvellous start to the day!!

geofftech | Homepage | 24.05.06 - 3:06 p.m. | #

Your blog has been sent to me by a very good friend of mine - her email just said 'excellent fun' and she was truely correct. You have an amazing ability to keep the site very interesting and particularly today as I live in High Wycombe and pass through West Wycombe every day going to work. I have only glanced over your front page but have every intention to look at everything.

Congrats on a worthwhile read.
Clare

Clare Morris | 24.05.06 - 3:11 p.m. | #

If you look carefully, today's post contains links to either the video or the live performance for five out of the six songs, via the wonderful YouTube.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 24.05.06 - 6:27 p.m. | #

How are YouTube getting round all the copyright issues though? I've seen loads of clips online where I'm thinking that there must be ownership issues with the content. Interesting...

geofftech | Homepage | 24.05.06 - 7:21 p.m. | #

Let's see.. the 60's was the Golden Age of Giants, followed by the vacuous 70's of reheated old musical ideas.

Then the last fresh idea in rock came along in the 80's... after the desert of Disco.

Now the planet suffers under the oppresion of Rapp and Hip Hop.

Where's Fats Waller when you need him?

John Nez | Homepage | 25.05.06 - 1:56 a.m. | #

Kraftwerk dated? good grief

andy | Homepage | 26.05.06 - 12:47 p.m. | #











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