Quote: A Horseradish @ 30th January 2015, 6:56 PM GMTNo 58 in 1983.
I remember it being played a lot but wouldn't have been able to name the artists.
I've seen them live - at one of Rob da Bank's festivals.
I think it all dates back to when my Stepfather appeared on the scene with his selection of 'trendy' records dating back to 1983/1984. I fear that's why I still adore Nik Kershaw/Culture Club/VIP etc.
Quote: TheBlueNun @ 30th January 2015, 6:58 PM GMTI think it all dates back to when my Stepfather appeared on the scene with his selection of 'trendy' records dating back to 1983/1984. I fear that's why I still adore Nik Kershaw/Culture Club/VIP etc.
Just to be deliberately controversial - it will wind up many - I'm going to suggest that this is a very strong - and even a great - pure pop record before very quickly adding that I couldn't stand anything else he did:
Nik Kershaw - Wouldn't It Be Good
Quote: A Horseradish @ 30th January 2015, 7:04 PM GMT
Just to be deliberately controversial - it will wind up many - I'm going to suggest that this is a very strong - and even a great - pure pop record before very quickly adding that I couldn't stand anything else he did:
Nik Kershaw - Wouldn't It Be Good
It is a bloody fantastic piece of pop. I like the fact that he wrote the Chesney Hawkes number one smash 'The One and Only'.
Quote: TheBlueNun @ 30th January 2015, 7:07 PM GMTIt is a bloody fantastic piece of pop. I like the fact that he wrote the Chesney Hawkes number one smash 'The One and Only'.
Yes indeed - although this was the best thing he didn't write but could have written:
New Radicals - You Get What You Give
Quote: A Horseradish @ 30th January 2015, 7:12 PM GMTYes indeed - although this was the best thing he didn't write but could have written:
New Radicals - You Get What You Give
Now, that really is a great song - really anarchic. I like the video too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khj9jyNvhpQ
Just brilliant.
Quote: TheBlueNun @ 30th January 2015, 7:14 PM GMTNow, that really is a great song - really anarchic. I like the video too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khj9jyNvhpQ
Just brilliant.
I'm getting a 1983 vibe from you.
That's not a problem.
It was one of my more atmospheric years too.
(First time around)
Quote: A Horseradish @ 30th January 2015, 7:18 PM GMTI'm getting a 1983 vibe from you.
That's not a problem.
It was one of my more atmospheric years too.
(First time around)
I am really retro, although I was only eight/nine then. The first record I recall ever hearing was 'Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick' by Ian Dury and The Blockheads which must have been very late 70s?
Quote: A Horseradish @ 30th January 2015, 7:04 PM GMT
Just to be deliberately controversial - it will wind up many - I'm going to suggest that this is a very strong - and even a great - pure pop record before very quickly adding that I couldn't stand anything else he did:
Nik Kershaw - Wouldn't It Be Good
I think that's a fantastic record too but I did also like the Riddle.
Paul Weller - 5th Season (Live at Wolverhampton Civic Hall OR, March 1994)
Quote: George Kaplan @ 31st January 2015, 9:14 PM GMTPaul Weller - 5th Season (Live at Wolverhampton Civic Hall OR, March 1994)
Rocker not a Mod.
Quote: TheBlueNun @ 30th January 2015, 7:42 PM GMTI am really retro, although I was only eight/nine then. The first record I recall ever hearing was 'Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick' by Ian Dury and The Blockheads which must have been very late 70s?
Yes - the end of 1978 going into 1979.
I think my first hearings were in 1967, aged 4 - the Alan Price version of Randy Newman's "Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear", Cilla Black's "I Can Sing a Rainbow" and Keith West's "Excerpt From a Teenage Opera (Grocer Jack)". It wasn't until 1970 that I wrote down the chart every week and made predictions.
There is a thing about "Love Letters" by Ketty Lester and the "Theme From Z Cars" by John Keating, both of which were hits in 1962. We allegedly moved house in the summer of 1964 because the continual playing of those records by next door neighbours was keeping me awake. But seeing that I hadn't been born when they were at their most popular, the likelihood is it was my father's issues with noisy neighbours, not mine.
Quote: George Kaplan @ 31st January 2015, 9:14 PM GMTPaul Weller - 5th Season (Live at Wolverhampton Civic Hall OR, March 1994)
Like. I have all of the Jam albums, most of the Style Council ones and probably at least half a dozen of PW's solo ones. That's from "Wild Wood" which is my favourite of the latter and quite a lot better in my view than successor "Stanley Road" which probably sold more. "Wild Wood" aside, my pick of the bunch is "Country":-
Bob Dylan - Stay With Me
