or do you really care .. or are you old enough to remember.
From the 80's
Grandmaster flash & the furious 5.
Buggles
The Bodysnatchers
Who sang the 'clapping song' ?? 7 girls i think.
David Christie - remember that terrible song 'Saddle Up'
Carol Decker
Howard Jones (i confess an album might be tucked away somewhere !)
Alannah someone..what band was she in (not Morissette)- was she with HJ.
Tears for Fears
Melle Mel - or am i back to Grandmaster flash)
Big Country
David Sylvian (who had hair like him ?) not me
Toni Basil - don't start singing it...
and the list could go on...
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The "drugs thing" was "White Lines (Don't Do It)". "And if you get addicted, it ain't nobody else's fault so DON'T DO IT!".
Alannah somebody - possibly Alannah Currie who was in The Thompson Twins: big blonde mohican? Ring any bells? "We Are Detective", "You Take Me Up", "Doctor Doctor", etc?
David Sylvian - Japan were a superb band, still listen to them occasionally.
mmmm.
PB - White Lines by Grandmaster flash
TSB - Yes New Song was one of his. By the way, i didn't know Stuart Adamson was dead. !
Howard Jones: "New Song", "What Is Love", "Like To Get To Know You Well", erm, that's all the ones I can remember.
Nik Kershaw, anyone?
Imagination - Belouis Some
System Addict - Five Star
Land of Make Believe - Bucks Fizz
Souvenier - OMD
I don't want to be a hero - Johny Hates Jazz
Wah - The Mighty Wah
Oh Micky - Toni Basil
Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode
See You - Depeche Mode
Video killed.... - Buggles
and some number from Human League which escapes me
.... and many, many more I can't remember. I didn't have the volume up too load on the train as I was embarassed
oh no, Caz has mentioned the Toni Basil song.
Wah, forgot about them.
The Mighty Wah! "Story of the Blues" is, quite simply, one of the best songs of all time!
"Imagination" had a very naughty video from what I remember, with one of the greatest opening lines ever - "She lit a cigarette, both hands behind her back".
"We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind, 'cos your friends don't dance, and if they don't dance, then they're no friends of mine. We can go where we want to, if we don't, nobody will. And you can act real cool, and totally removed, and I can act like an imbecile."
Reminiscing isn't what it used to be....
The Human League one wasn't Don't you want me, some later number, oh it's going to bug me now.
Actually how do you light a cigarette with both hands behind your back?? I might try that Friday.
as was
"Is Vic There" by Department S
also put me in mind of Waiting For a Train by Flash & The Pan
God I'm almost feeling nostalgic about that awful decade....
Human League: "Mirror Man", "Louise", "Love Action", "Human", "(Keep Feeling) Fascination", "Lebanon"???
Alanah currie was in Thompson Twins as was Tom Bailey and erm Joe Leeway. Thompson Twins was originally formed by Tom Bailey and Pete Dodd. They used to invite folk up onto the stage and give em percussion instruments to bang as they pleased in time to the music.
Stuart Adamson of Big Country died last year I think it was
Department S - Is vic there
Mike S - you win first prize!
"Last night I had the strangest dream, I sailed away to China, on a boat from Carolina..."
At least that's how I remember this particular song starting...another 80s one-hit wonder...
I saw NMA in 1988 on the "Sons and Daughters of Thunder and Consolation" tour. I always had a soft spot for them, though I was only really into the "Vengeance" and "Thunder and Consolation" (is that what it's called?) albums. They were superb live, and I always say that I'm going to see them each Xmas when they play in London. I never have as yet!