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I loved Party Fears Two, got the lp as well. A song you never hear on the radio these days. 'I'll have a shower and phone my brother up ...'
Sheila Chandra - when she was supposed to be on TOTP she had her appendix out and their spot was delayed.
oh and Tight Fit were way better than the other two stinkers. IMHO.
Debster | 29.03.07 - 9:01 a.m. | #
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Apart from Imagination - whose utter campness scared me witless even at the age of ten - that is a stunning line-up of hits. I feel quite overwhelmingly nostalgic.
An Unreliable Witness | Homepage | 29.03.07 - 9:36 a.m. | #
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I love the Divine Comedy's cover of Party Fears Two which is on their latest album, Victory For The Comic Music. Well worth a listen if you've yet to hear it.
Paul Holloway | 29.03.07 - 10:24 a.m. | #
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Your site came up on my google alerts....great little gizmo, and your blog is great too.
However, I have to admit I always liked Classic, I guess it was nostalgia for Race With The Devil!
Ricahrd | Homepage | 29.03.07 - 10:28 a.m. | #
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Brilliant 5 records - this was so my era!!
embo | 29.03.07 - 10:38 a.m. | #
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I think it says a lot about my age at the time (7) that I really liked the first two of your stinkers. So much so that I taped Seven Tears off the radio onto one of my sisters tapes, inadvertently wiping Carly Simon's 'Nobody Does it Better'. She was not happy. I didn't understand at the time, I do now!
Geoff | 29.03.07 - 10:56 a.m. | #
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I confess to owning far too many of these tracks. The 12" of Party Fears Two goes on forever, and is excelsior.
Poor, dead Billy.
Scaryduck | Homepage | 29.03.07 - 10:56 a.m. | #
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Ah, such bliss. Favourite has to be Poison Arrow ("I care enough to know I could never love you, KDMMH PMMH PMMH PMMPH GOD HITS WORLD, WORLD HITS BACK"), with Ghosts a close second (that SPARSENESS) and Just An Illusion in third (that BASSLINE). Which doesn't leave room for poor old Party Fears Two, but years of repetition on Week Ending rather took the gloss off it for me.
The current hit from Avril Lavigne (Girlfriend) owes a clear debt to Toni Basil's Mickey, methinks.
mike | Homepage | 29.03.07 - 11:40 a.m. | #
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Incidentally, Billy Mackenzie would have been 50 yesterday. Here's a report on last night's tribute concert.
mike | Homepage | 29.03.07 - 12:34 p.m. | #
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Shameful claim to fame: I shagged a guy at Leee John's house many years ago.
(Not Leee John, I should point out, given he's not so into women.... He did offer me a cup of tea though; nice chap.)
Shameful admittance of dreadful music taste: I bought that Tight Fit song. In fact, I still have the 7" in my cupboard. God it's bad. But then I was only 10 at the time, so I think I am excused for my poor taste in music back then. (And I was a fan of Toni Basil's 'Mickey' too. Ugh.)
The Girl | Homepage | 29.03.07 - 12:47 p.m. | #
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That was a golden era wasn't it? Shoot that poison arrow often pops into my head during a day and I never know why - great song.
Party Fears Two was also a masterful record and I believe I owned Imagination and Monsoon's single too.
ChicagoAddick | Homepage | 29.03.07 - 2:53 p.m. | #
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Some of these tracks have passed the 'test of time' i.e. if you heard it on late-night radio now, you would think 'Oh that's a good track, I must buy/download that. Then you realise it's an oldie, but it still sounds good, thats the test. Where is Goombay anyway?
Commuter Tina | 29.03.07 - 2:56 p.m. | #
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Martin Fry of ABC was in the year above me at university. I remember seeing ABC in Bar 2 of the Students' Union, the week after they appeared on the front cover of NME- they did four songs and the place was packed.
Fudgepacker | 29.03.07 - 3:45 p.m. | #
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And while I'm here, may I just out myself as a sad old New Rom and admit I've actually got a whole folder of Classix Nouveaux on my hard drive?
Oh, the shame.
Scaryduck | Homepage | 29.03.07 - 5:38 p.m. | #
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I've always loathed Mickey, and every cover ever done of it - even Run-DMC's 'It's Tricky' wasn't their best. But that Tight fit one - those women were well fit. Wonder whatever happened to them.
Matt | Homepage | 29.03.07 - 8:33 p.m. | #
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Wow, that Imagination video - you don't see quality mincing like that these days! 
Sheila Chandra has done some really good albums recently. She knows how to use the human voice to entrance...
And I also had a soft spot for Classic. The lyrics really were awful though, and now I've seen the video again, I must say it works better without pictures.
Wayne | Homepage | 30.03.07 - 10:41 a.m. | #
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Oh dear I actually like two of your stinkers.
gareth h | Homepage | 30.03.07 - 6:42 p.m. | #
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is it me ? ... a quick check shows the fun boy three, the stranglers, and robert palmer in the charts then
tristan | Homepage | 30.03.07 - 7:43 p.m. | #
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tristan - this is a monthly feature, and those three came up over the last couple of months.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 30.03.07 - 8:25 p.m. | #
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Surely the first Indian singer to appear on TOTP was the female singer from 'M' singing backup vocals on 'Pop Music', not sure of her name...
Charles Aptaker | 02.04.07 - 5:15 p.m. | #
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This may be a first. I own all eight of your featured singles on 7" vinyl. Tragically, I know the words to Seven Tears in German and can still sing it now. Steve Grant, to a secretly gay 15 year-old, was the epitome of hunkiness, headband or no headband, so I have to disagree with two of your three stinkers.
Chig | Homepage | 06.04.07 - 2:02 p.m. | #
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I won a 7" record in a competition in my local paper. The Lion Sleeps Tonight by Tight Fit was brilliant.......then.
A group of us in school would recreate the song with me doing the soprano OOOOOH! OOOOOOAAAAAAOOOOOOO WEEE YUM UM A WAY!
Now, I can't help saying to myself "What were we thinking?"
Pop was all we listened to and those "cool" records will be lost to me forever
Button Ginger | Homepage | 23.03.08 - 2:14 a.m. | #
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You might want to verify your Toni Basil link since it now goes to a porn site.
rowan | 25.01.10 - 6:07 p.m. | #
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Now sorted, and improved, thanks.
In the last three years, seems like Toni's got herself a proper website.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 25.01.10 - 7:15 p.m. | #
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