please empty your brain below

a dr writes:
ahem, I think it may be Dr Martin Luther King.


This was the best year of pop in my opinion. The goldenest year. Every one of the songs you mention bring back the best.

Ghost Town, of course, became even more memorable for its appearance on Father Ted.

New Life by Depeche Mode? I was on holiday in N.I. at this time, and bought it along with the Spandau Ballet and *cough* Wunderbar by Tenpole Tudor. Sorry.

dg writes: I gushed about New Life last month...

Ghost Town wins by a mile.

I have vague memories of Buster Bloodvessel of Bad Manners in a yellow frock doing the can-can on TOTP.

Ghost Town yes... but also Kirsty MacColl and the Tom Tom Club. Excellent week.

God, what a month. So many to choose from.

Favourite at the time: Chant No.1 by Spandau Ballet, just ahead of the Tom Tom Club (but "Genius Of Love" was even better!), the 12" of Starsound (I'm not ashamed!), Abba, Quincy Jones, Kirsty, Linx, Kid Creole, Evelyn King and Kraftwerk. There were also a couple of others which I bought early, but I know you'll be getting to them next month...

And thanks for the plug - much appreciated. The more the merrier!

Hi Handsome,
Where is Ian Dury?

Why did I click on the kitten link, why?

How could they be so blind

arf!

I heard 'Ghost Town' the other day, and thought: 'they don't write em like that any more'.

Not as in 'I prefer songs like that', but in the fact that nobody in the charts does political stuff like they used to.

A few years back I met Jerry Dammers and inadvertantly made a complete twat of myself in front of him in a mortifying fashion. I still go hot and cold etc.

Great song.

Never mind the Royal Philharmonic! It was the single that it 'inspired' which sits (ashamed) amongst my 1981 7" singles; Classical Muddly by the Portsmouth Sinfonia. Does anyone remember it? (It made no. 38 in September 1981.) It's funny once, but that's about it.

Chig - I shall be returning to the Classical Muddly in September. I may even extract the 7 inch from my spare room and stroke it.

Where does Musical Youth coming in??

dg, will there be a picture of that?

Ghost Town is seminal, epoch-making and stupendously great music.

Hooked on classics - I'm not too proud to admit that as this was the introduction to certain tunes when I hear them now in proper context I still think back to Hooked on Classics!

Other ones I remember fondly - Can Can, Body Talk, Memory, Chant no 1, There's A Guy...Each and everyone stands as examples of good pop music; Ghost Town and Kirst MacColl are all time specials.

Ooh, I feel all hot and clammy just remembering that hot summer..

Oh, wait on!

And what Jag said!

I'll never forget Ghost Town. As soon as this hit number one The Specials split. Then Fun Boy Three popped-up and The Special AKA went to the studio.

Side two had two tracks, each had stomping good lyrics. From Why: With A Nazi Salute/And A steel-cap boot and from Friday Night Saturday Night: At The Locarno/No.

Sheer class. Now there's talk of a reunion. Who knows?











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