please empty your brain below
I never comment on other people's music tastes. And hope that they won't comment on mine...

flashgordonnz | 24.02.07 - 12:43 a.m. | #

Oh DG that's an absolutely splendid list, it never lets up from fantasticness.

I can assure you that you are not the only person to remember "Love Cascade" by Leisure Process (although, admittedly, the memory of it had laid latent in my mind for a long time until I read this - I had an extended 12" mix of it that came with a greatest hits album that also had a superb extended mix of "You're the One for Me" by D-Train - truly a grand classic that one).

I still rate 1982 as the best year for popular music overall...

Venichka | 24.02.07 - 2:02 a.m. | #

I've got the 12" of Love Cascade - great single, from arguably the best 6 month period in all of pop.

mike | Homepage | 24.02.07 - 2:17 a.m. | #

I would go for In The Jungle, because I like the funky beat. I'm fascinated by the animal kingdom since I was a child. I've just done a large watercolour of a lion - my version of Aslan, the hero of the Narnia stories.

A Wildlife Gardener | Homepage | 24.02.07 - 8:45 a.m. | #

Wow, indeed what an excellent week!

"Senses Working Overtime", "Say, hello", "A Town Called Malice" and "It Aint What you do" my favourites from a chart that seems to sum up my final few months at Uni.

Excellent, thanks.

NiC | 24.02.07 - 9:53 a.m. | #

Ah the '80s - the decade I slept through! I ca n't remember any of these from that era although obviously I've heard most of the since! I got married in 1980, worked nights, had two children and when I blinked it was the '90s! Bizarre!
Oh, Elkie Brooks would be my choice.

boo | 24.02.07 - 11:22 a.m. | #

I'd completely forgotten the grunty beginning of the Blue Rondo track ... great!

Debster | 24.02.07 - 11:40 a.m. | #

Yay. I was playing most of these on my college radio show in Ohio in Feb 82.

I didn't realize XTC didn't hit the charts here. One of my favorite bands.

bob | Homepage | 24.02.07 - 11:57 a.m. | #

My faves:
1. Say Hello Wave Goodbye.
2. I Can't Go For That (No Can Do).
3. A Town Called Malice.
4. In The Name Of Love.
5. Go Wild In The Country.
6. It Ain't What You Do.
7. Senses Working Overtime.
8. Klactoveesedstein.
9. Love Cascade.
10. Queen Of The Rapping Scene (sorry).

mike | Homepage | 24.02.07 - 1:04 p.m. | #

D-Train's "You're the one for me" wins my vote hands down -- an 80s soul pre-house classic

El Cid | 24.02.07 - 3:59 p.m. | #

Oh yes. I love this.
I'm six months or so early, but Phil Fearon and Galaxy had their first hits around this time, as did Kid Creole and the Coconuts.

Matt | Homepage | 24.02.07 - 8:05 p.m. | #

I was in early high school and didn't "discover" The Jam until I was 16, in 1986. I blame my parents: in spite of assuring me that they were ravers and were always at dances, until I bought my first stereo at 18, there were no sounds in the house. Except for the tranny tuned to The National Programme (think half radio 5, half radio 4). Deprived? Absolutely. Geekboy? Indubitably.

flashgordonnz | 24.02.07 - 9:06 p.m. | #

And it's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5!!

It's good to see that not ALL 80s music was utterly utterly shite new romantic dross.

My faith in "my" era has been.. well not restored but certainly improved.

Bonus points for the 90s track which sampled the Hall and Oates track?

Gordon McLean | Homepage | 24.02.07 - 10:52 p.m. | #

“Say Hello, Wave Goodbye”? Story of my (romantic life). Came out just after I married my first wife, who was an Australian artist wannabe that made a living stripping. She was certainly used to wearing less and her life was -- and continued to be -- a mess. I did the “you in a cocktail skirt and me in a suit” thing and it didn’t work a damned bit. Eventually she buggered off to India where she fell in love with a Kashmiri heroin addict and told me the marriage was over. When she came back to London, I was still crazy about her so, to stop turning into a creepy stalker, I put as much distance between her and me as possible and went to the Far East, where I still am. And in the end I did marry “a nice little housewife / who’ll give me a steady life / and won’t keep going off the rails” and settled down into boring middle age. At this distance the only downer about the situation is that it tore me away from my beloved London and I have been unable to come home, except for very short visits, for 21 years. I feel like blooming Ulysses! This May, however, I’ll be back.

Laurence | 26.02.07 - 7:12 a.m. | #

I Remember seeing Anabella Lwin on a saturday morning show, she was so punk! I wonder she is doing now?

Klactveesedstein Fantastic!
everybody mm mm ah, mm mm mm mm mm ah

Mick | Homepage | 26.02.07 - 8:20 a.m. | #

This was a great month, I would struggle to pick a favourite - at the time possibly Madness. Latterly, possibly OMD. Too many to choose from.

Essexgirl | 26.02.07 - 10:45 a.m. | #

Softcell. Brings it all flooding back. If only we knew then what we know now eh?

jack | 28.02.07 - 1:39 p.m. | #

What a great month.

XTC - the best thing to come out of Swindon.

mrsdanvers | 02.03.07 - 6:54 p.m. | #

Video for Love Cascade that I've upgraded recently. A Way You'll Never Be is also on my channel.

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