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It's a fine day. I remember the version by Opus III. I don't feel so old now 
Jon Combe | 11.05.08 - 10:49 a.m. | #
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Love Is A Stranger but only because I'm listening to Annie Lennox on Desert Island Discs.
ganching | Homepage | 11.05.08 - 12:54 p.m. | #
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EURYTHMICS! Although Blue Monday comes a very close second. I'm such an Annie Lennox fangirl, and love that video so much, especially when she's in the huge fur coat with her slicked back hair. *Sigh!* Annoyed to have missed her on DID, but maybe I can catch it on Friday.
Sajarina | Homepage | 11.05.08 - 2:18 p.m. | #
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Love loads of them, but I would pick The Thompson Twins.
embo | 11.05.08 - 5:56 p.m. | #
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New Order-Bob Marley-Human League.
Donato | 11.05.08 - 6:12 p.m. | #
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The three I bought at the time were "Temptation", "We Are Detective (12inch)" and "Our Lips Are Sealed".
The Fun Boy Three one remains a favourite but everything else is almost forgotten from this selection*. How strange.
*Except for "Seona Dancing" of course...well actually I'd forgotten this too despite being at college with them a year previously....really must have a look through my old b&w negatives.
NiC | Homepage | 11.05.08 - 6:55 p.m. | #
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1983? Bah, not as good (nowhere near as good, in fact) as 1982 for pop music.
"Breakaway" by Tracey Ullman - that's positively manic
Venichka | 11.05.08 - 8:09 p.m. | #
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At the time: Candy Girl and Blue Monday.
At the moment: Our Lips Are Sealed and Miss The Girl.
mike | Homepage | 12.05.08 - 1:08 a.m. | #
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That's a tricky one. From the list you've provided it would appear that 25 years ago was the height of my single buying period, as I have so many of them (even JoBoxers on 12").
I wonder how much the Human League video cost to make, given that, in those days, to get a big orange painted house in your video you probably had to go out and paint a house orange?
I think I'll have to vote for Heaven 17's Temptation, since it's such a strong song, and you can't beat Glenn Gregory looking like Max Headroom (and Martyn Ware is an electro-god!).
Kradlum | Homepage | 14.05.08 - 12:29 p.m. | #
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I found myself singing along to 95\\% of these.
However, in answer to your question, Blue Monday by New Order.
School disco, Avondale College, 1983...
Fiwi | 15.05.08 - 11:09 a.m. | #
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Ah yes, Temptation. Goodness me, Memory Lane, sharp intake of nostalgia. I played on that. The string and horn parts were recorded (on two separate days) at the old Air Studios at Oxford Circus - I think they were upstairs from a Top Shop or something. What fun. I still get royalties occasionally - they bought me a nice new exercise bike a couple of years back. Eeeee, them were t'days ...
Vogel von Neustadt | Homepage | 21.05.08 - 11:29 p.m. | #
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Last Film!!! Yes, that's a fantastic song. Incredible purity in the girl's voice when she takes a solo chorus later on. Lots of manic drumming. Wonderful stuff. I also rather loved "Drowning in Berlin" which I think was a similar date ... can't remember who by (webbity website). Charmingly sinister ... "Sind Sie allein in Berlin? Sind Sie ALLEIN, in BERLIN??" over a creepy fairground backing. Poptastic!!
Vogel von Neustadt | Homepage | 21.05.08 - 11:46 p.m. | #
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Ah yes, sorry, Drowning in Berlin was actually a year early for this, in 1982. It was the Mobiles - please see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q...h?
v=QBteQR0E8cA
Vogel von Neustadt | Homepage | 22.05.08 - 12:38 a.m. | #
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