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I'd pick Change. Vocals by Luther Vandross, you know.
Also, I must beg to take issue with you on the Stevie Wonder issue; his golden age was in the mid 1970s, with Innervisions, Talking Book, Music Of My Mind and Fulfillingness' First Finale. Songs In The Key Of Life, while massively successful, also showed the first faint signs of his artistic decline. There's certainly some good stuff on Hotter Than July, but in the general scheme of things it doesn't hold a candle to his mid 1970s work.
mike | Homepage | 10.09.05 - 1:51 p.m. | #
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mike | Homepage | 10.09.05 - 1:52 p.m. | #
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Tell you what mike, I'll edit your spelling mistake if I can add the word 'commercial' to my Stevie Wonder review.
And, ssssh, nobody need ever know...
diamond geezer | Homepage | 10.09.05 - 6:38 p.m. | #
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Bloody hell, what a terrific week for music back in 1980. I hate to say it, but kids today don't know they're born. Music were better back in our day. Grumble whinge, etc. Right, I'm off to the pub for a pint of Strangely Peculiar and a game of dominoes. Anyone joining me?
Vaughan | Homepage | 10.09.05 - 6:55 p.m. | #
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i'd pick ac/dc! no, seriously, i kinda really like them. And Judas Priest! ROCK ON!
kateyay | Homepage | 11.09.05 - 2:16 a.m. | #
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Who could forget Hazel O'Connor?
These are decadent days
These are decadent days
These are decadent days
These are d-d-d-d-d-d-decadent days
Max | Homepage | 11.09.05 - 10:35 a.m. | #
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God - I can't believe those songs are from 25 years ago - it feels like only yesterday. Must be getting old.
I think you've picked the best ones DG - but I light George Benson's Give Me The Night (it's played on smoothfm all the time so you would almost think it was current)
And of course The Beat's Stand Down Margaret about Maggie Thatcher - that was a classic.
Annie Mole | Homepage | 11.09.05 - 7:32 p.m. | #
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Bassline rather than guitar riff shurely?
dg apologises: erm, yes, ok, sorry...
Aside from the fact that at least we can remember these toons I'd say actually they were a pretty lame lot (the tracks rather than the artists) with the possible exception of XTC's.
PS: I have a very dear friend from Swindon but him aside you're right... the finest thing to come from Swindon by a mile..... though Diana Dors had her moments 
NiC | Homepage | 11.09.05 - 8:15 p.m. | #
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"The best thing ever to have come ou of Swindon".
Apart from, naturally, the north face of Billie Piper.
Scaryduck | Homepage | 12.09.05 - 10:28 a.m. | #
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I'm going to have to take issue as well, regarding the great god Bowie. Ashes to Ashes did not in any way "reignite Bowie's flagging career". Although slightly better than it's predecessor Lodger, Scary Monsters would not rank among any Bowie fan's highpoints and the three albums that followed it were beyond doubt the least interesting of his career so far. Don't confuse "commercially successful" with good.
Alan | Homepage | 12.09.05 - 12:43 p.m. | #
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Ah, I was approaching 'flagging career reignition' from a commercial point of view, not a fan's viewpoint. Ashes to Ashes (and particularly its video) most definitely made the British public sit up and take notice of Mr Bowie in a way they hadn't done for many years - even if the ensuing album sort of blew it.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 12.09.05 - 6:50 p.m. | #
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Much as I too like XTC, they don't hold a candle to Julian Clary and Mark Lamarr as Swindon's finest. Some people might add Melinda Messenger to that list, but I won't bother.
And thank goodness we all have differing opinions, because Ashes To Ashes is my favourite Bowie track - played on Radio 2 today (for the cricket) by Stuart Maconie, followed by Start. I did wonder why he was having a 1980 moment, but he must have read this.
Chig | Homepage | 13.09.05 - 12:58 a.m. | #
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