[8:41] Second song of the night? Eddie Grant's " Electric Avenue ". Those of us on the bloggers' team were asked weeks ago for input on which songs the band should sing tonight. The Awesomes are a well-known 80's music cover band here in Portland. The song I submitted? The Thompson Twins' " Lies ". [8:15 pm] Room is filling up. The band's first song of the night: The Pointer Sister's...
Twenty four years on, I still love Arcadia's So Red The Rose . Only 8 vocal tracks, nearly flawless, and each simultaneously lush and angular. It was produced in 1985 by the late Alex Sadkin , who also produced Duran's Seven And The Ragged Tiger , and albums by Grace Jones and Thompson Twins. Rumor has it the album will be re-released in 2010. I hope it contains the extended versions, which are sublime....
CLEMSON, South Carolina, October 30. FRIDAY'S swimming and diving meet with archrival Clemson came down to the last two events, but South Carolina came up just a hair short in dropping a pair of hear...
When my sister and her husband got married, a couple of girls that we grew up with sang a song by the Judds. I can’t remember the name of the song, which means it was a song that meant something important to their romance, but had very little to do with my own experience. What songs are considered the most romantic? Who decides what is on the list? I was just looking at a list of Top Love Songs...
Sweet English new wave duos are made of this: spunky girls with great pipes and off-in-the-background boy producers/songwriters. Occasionally there's a twist - like...
I remember watching Tubeway Army on Top Of The Pops in 1979 and telling my friend that we were watching the future of music. He disagreed, being more in awe of Rush, Boston and Lynyrd Skynyrd, though quite how they related to growing up in Croydon I couldn't work out. Meanwhile, up in Sheffield, the Human League and to a lesser extent Cabaret Voltaire, were wondering who this upstart Gary Numan was...
Last week Climb magazine turned its attention to Grinshill and sent Mr Dave Simmonite out to get some shots. On hearing the news, the High Sports team offered up our services to give him the grand tour (and try to get our cheeky faces in the mag). Unfortunately his time was limited, so we opted to just hit [...]
Tons and tons of re-releases on the near-horizon to report. First up, Erasure. I snagged an Amazon.co.uk pre-order for Erasure's Phantom Bride EP this week. I'm looking forward to the re-release of my favorite Erasure album, The Innocents, which happens one day before my birthday this month. Snagged that one too . Happy B'day to me! Next, the Thompson Twins. Yep, Rhino Records re-released the band's...
It's the Gallup UK Top 40 Singles of the Year 1984 - and your chance to download a whopping 7.5% of it! Imagine that! Times must've been hard, pocket money-wise, in this year, as I only owned three of these on 7" (numbers 1, 15 & 37). I'd just discovered the delights of the compilation album in '84, mind, so subsequently own a lot of the songs here as part of various early Now double LPs (oh,...
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Abdelkbir Marchane & Ahmed Baqbou: "Sandiya" [mp3] from Ouled Bambara: Portraits of Gnawa (out October 20th) other Abdelkbir Marchane posts at Largehearted Boy Beat Radio: free and legal Safe Inside the Sound album [mp3]...
by Philip LaRose I said in my Thursday writeup that “there’s so much more going on” than just the showcases at Neumos and Sole Repair, but I ended up focusing on those two venues through the rest of the Festival. Indeed, even bouncing between them, there was still so much to hear that I can only [...]
It used to be there was a 1 in 300 chance of giving birth to twins. But according to a recent study by the National Center for Health Statistics, twins represent 32.21 of every 1,000 births.
Things rocking my world of late: 01. ‘Dexter’ is back! I’ve missed my weekly dose of serial killing. That, and of course, the delectable Michael C. Hall. “Living the Dream” was wry, creepy, witty and everything broadcast television will never be. 02. La Roux’s eponymous debut album is ear candy deluxe. [...]
The Skewed Worldview of Lubin Odana (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
Nobody human in the charts I enjoyed listening to chart music between 1988 and 1991. Before that it felt like another language, and I instead found solace in my mother's Abba, disco and Motown LPs (and she was still surprised when I came out to her - how charmingly naive!) I didn't get Culture Club, the Thompson Twins, Wham, Duran Duran or any of the other groups who were around then, with their Lady...
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