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The Teardrop Explodes bit reminded me of this site.

Bowie would by mine, as always, although that would be his last really good single for a good while. Teardrop Explodes would come a close second.

These really bring back memories. I was into The Police at the time. (Or was that the following year?) And Ska/Two-tone. Our school ran a lunchtime school disco and the tiny little dance floor of this youth club was black and white chequered tiles! Remember vividly us trying to dance along to the numbers you mention. But the one that really got us all going was Baggy Trousers.

i think i'd go for The Who - difficult choice, though.

At the time: Intuition - Linx, narrowly beating Reward, Up The Hill Backwards, and, yes, Dreaming Of Me (loved it).

But how could you have forgotten the MIGHTY Attention To Me by The Nolans? (Or was that last month. No, I think not.)

"If I get on up and dance for you, scream and shout like a witch voodoo, would you give a little bit... I don't wanna be the star attraction, just need some action..."

(I also had a major "Guilty Pleasures" soft spot for I Missed Again - ooooh that Earth Wind & Fire horn section...)

Now: Reward still has it, just ahead of It's A Love Thing and Walking On Thin Ice.

I went to a gig a couple of years ago with a member of B-Movie (he's a friend of a friend), and confess to being quite star-struck. Remembrance Day! Nowhere Girl! Er, that's it!

A great month for music - and on a personal note, a great month for... no, perhaps this isn't the time or place.

bowie, teardrop and depeche for me. i bought rememberance day on 7" at the time. this was also the year of 'fast product' stuff out of edinburgh. that sampler album with the green edges (scars, human league, mekons) was my fave album of 1981. *ponders* maybe it was 1980 (I'm feeling googlazy today).

Perhaps more than any other year, 1981 is where I wish we had access to an archive of the Indie Charts. Very difficult to tie indie singles to months... but I do know that April 1981 was quite exceptional...

Wow. Memories.

I remember begging my mum to let me dye my hair (a la Toyah-style) and also dancing around my friend's bedroom to Kim Wilde.

It was the first - and last - time that my hair was bright orange. So glad that my mum let me make - and learn from - my own mistakes...

Agree, the best list ever.

I loved both Toyah, Kim Wilde and the Teardrop Explodes amongst others, at the time.

I believe Kim Wilde has a record deal with EMI Germany (of all places) so there may be some more material on its way.

Rather prefer "You Came" myself. And not just because you can snigger at it.

I wasn't even born until 1983, but I do love good old Depeche Mode. I revised for my A-levels to their singles 81>85... about nine or ten years too late.

"Capstick comes home" for me. My girlfriend and I (just a couple of months away from getting married) thought it was hilarious. Several years later we were in Shaftsbury in Dorset at the top of Gold Hill (where the Hovis advert was shot)and we collapsed with laughter as we recalled some of the words from the song/monologue (the bit about getting two pairs of stout boots, a night out on the town including a steak dinner a cab home and still having change from a farthing).
PS. We celebrate our silver wedding anniversary in June, and we still laugh at stupid things. Happy days!!!

I bought the Who single which was quite a rare occurence, and I liked Jealous Guy as I still hoped to grow into a suave Brian Ferry like adonis. The most evocative single of the time in that list for me would be Visage. Most nights of the week would see me transform from Assistant Accountant at a Birmingham Insurance company into a New Romantic gracing The Rum Runner. Hair like Phil Oakey, full make-up, wrap over shirt and pixie boots. Thank god there are no photos!

I have far too many of these records, but the Foxx-era Ultravox "Slow Motion" (actually a four track EP released by their former label to cash in on the success of Vienna) is a fantastic bit of music.

Fantastic.

And given some of Julian Cope's other lyrics ("People I see/ remind me of mooing like a cow in the grass/ but that's not to say/ that there's nothing wrong with being a cow anyway"..) he could, almost have sung that.

I don't know about you, but I reckon '81 was a classic year for pop music - - - but '82 was better still..... worth sticking around for...

I love Kids in America. There was a fantastic dance remix by DBop made about 2 years ago (using Kim's original vocal) which brought it bang up to date. I may be 40 but it drew me straight to the dancefloor. You got it DG?

All a bit of a blur for me this era... 2 months off taking my A levels, and any spare time I had was spent studying (when I wasn't in the SU Bar listening to Hendrix with the rest of the disenfranchised punks in High Wycombe, of course - not sure why we went punk to Hendrix, but we did).

Mr BW, on the other hand, would say Toyah. Undoubtedly. I think she's the only woman (other than me, of course!) he has ever had a thing about











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