FishFright
More wheels than sense
O Superman got me into Laurie Anderson , a very deep dive into performance art.
Your best pop song ever, and why.
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O Superman got me into Laurie Anderson , a very deep dive into performance art.
Drago
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@Drago
No! Just no. I know musical taste is a personal thing, but on this one you are objectively, factually and absolutely wrong.
I may be biased as its a bass driven song and good fun to play.
winjim
Smash the cistern
Cletus Van Damme
Previously known as Cheesney Hawks
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Cletus Van Damme
Previously known as Cheesney Hawks
- Location
- Out in the sticks...
Probably be this for me. Just a great track and a good video, considering Billy and his girfriend (the bride, hot gossip dancer) were well into heroin at the time and could hardly manage to do anything. Read his autobiography, not that I'm a massive fan, just like reading about interesting people. Just a mixture of rock n roll and pop music, sounds really upbeat, even though the lyrics are a bit grim. Making the most of the dawn of MTV to become really big in the mid 80's.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I have to admit that I had to look them up. I know the songs (All that She Wants and I saw the Sign) because they got lodged in my head but I couldn't pin down the name of the artist.
Another one from that kind of bucket is "Spaceman" which, Wiki informs me, is from 1995 and is by Babylon Zoo who are a band from Wolverhampton. I was expecting some obscure synth outfit from Ghent. (Edit: or maybe Klagenfurt in Austria - twinned with Wolverhampton)
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OP
OP
All uphill
Still rolling along
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- Somerset
I grew up in deepest East Anglia listening to the Dutch pirate radio stations and this song has stayed with me.
Storm and Thunder by Earth and Fire.
Storm and Thunder by Earth and Fire.
Jenkins
Legendary Member
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- Felixstowe
It's like that (occasionally)
But if you walk this way, I'll show you two ways of turning hip hop into perfect pop songs
iandg
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Toss up between these two. Don't really listen to "pop" music but these are songs from my first favourite bands from when I sat at home while my sisters watched TOTP.
View: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=rDEVVSzGZdE&si=YTCb_WpWwyuOIK_T
View: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=mBqiC5ox8Bw&si=mkvcM9o7C3Hrj6CK
View: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=rDEVVSzGZdE&si=YTCb_WpWwyuOIK_T
View: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=mBqiC5ox8Bw&si=mkvcM9o7C3Hrj6CK
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swee'pea99
Legendary Member
Black Betty, Ram Jam - there's another one 👍
matticus
Guru
I love stuff like that e.g. Slash is from Stoke-on-Trent.
And Laurie Anderson went to secondary school in Swindon.
GuyBoden
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- Warrington
https://www.goldradiouk.com/news/music/first-uk-singles-chart-songs-date/
"The UK was a little set in its ways, with printed sheet music charts still being how we judged things going into the 1950s.
That all changed on November 14, 1952 when the New Musical Express (later the NME, and now just NME.com) printed the first ever UK singles chart."
"Have you ever wondered what songs were in the first ever UK singles charts. And more importantly, what was the first ever UK number one single?
Well, wonder no more... but first, some quick trivia:
"The UK was a little set in its ways, with printed sheet music charts still being how we judged things going into the 1950s.
That all changed on November 14, 1952 when the New Musical Express (later the NME, and now just NME.com) printed the first ever UK singles chart."
"Have you ever wondered what songs were in the first ever UK singles charts. And more importantly, what was the first ever UK number one single?
Well, wonder no more... but first, some quick trivia:
- Vera Lynn was on the first UK singles chart THREE times
- Frankie Laine popped up twice - once as a solo star, and once as a duet with Doris Day.
- Forget The British Invasion... of the 13 different artists in the first UK chart, a whopping TEN are from the US, with just Vera Lynn, Ray Martin and Max Bygraves repping for the Brits"
steveindenmark
Legendary Member
Probably anything by ABBA. They knew the secret of how to put a song and tune together. Next year is 50 years since they won Eurovision with Waterloo. They are still making good songs individually.
