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Post by Del Boy on Sept 5, 2017 23:21:42 GMT
I agree with you Sam on those two tracks. Get it right next time is an upbeat message from the ultra laid back Gerry Rafferty. It's a great sounding track. I'm not really a fan of ballards but Sad Café''s Everyday Hurts is a exception. Fantastic track produced by 10ccs Eric Stewart I believe.
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Post by Cartman on Sept 6, 2017 8:19:49 GMT
78/79 was the absolute peak period for great music. I need to get on Every Hit.com to get a list of all my favourites from those two years. Might take a while!
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Post by Bojan Scores on Sept 6, 2017 8:25:08 GMT
I'll take the London Calling album by The Clash as my favourite record of 1979. Their political stance is infused into the music, so it lessens it broader and commercial appeal. A great album none the less, and shows the sheer diversity of what they could do. Every album they did was different in some way, and they were certainly risk takers, which again may not have endeared them to the broader record buying public. I'd place them in the lineage of great British Rock n Roll bands, such as the Stones, Who, Ziggy era Bowie, Mott, and maybe they were the last great British rock band?
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Post by Cartman on Sept 6, 2017 15:48:58 GMT
London Calling was a great song. Talking about retro charts, if you go on a site called Every Hit.com, you have a section actually called "Retro Charts" and you can pick ant month and year and it will list the top 40. I am going to print some off for 78/79 and will do a run down of my favourites over the months, but bear with me!
Its a personal list, so apologies if I miss anyones favourite out, equally if I include some guilty pleasures which no one else likes!!
(definitely NO Lena Martell though, don't panic!)
On the subject of Lena Martell, that was a good illustration of another musical oddity. During particularly exciting and creative periods when there is a lot of great stuff about you do occasionally get the odd piece of total garbage in the midst of it which, inexplicably, is a big hit. Frank Ifield in the early 60s when the Beatles and the beat groups were becoming big, J J Barries excruciating "No Charge" amid some good stuff in the summer of 76, the worst record of all time - "Shaddap you face" in early 81, and amid Oasis and Britpop which had revitalised music after the rubbish of the late 80s/early 90s, we had.....Robson and bloody Jerome.......
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Post by Gene Hunt on Sept 6, 2017 16:34:52 GMT
Thanks for that Cartman. I had managed the impossible and forgot Joe Dolce until you brought him up again. Same for Robson & Jerome. In fact, I'm off over to the Room 101 thread to shove both of those in it and The (self)Righteous Brothers while I'm at it. I'm sick and poisoned of hearing The Unchained Melody on the radio recently.
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Post by Vienna on Sept 6, 2017 17:59:42 GMT
If you're into retro charts this is a good guide to flick through... And here's a chart from September 1979 You might need good eyesight to read it though Vi
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Post by Cartman on Sept 7, 2017 11:36:07 GMT
Cheers, Vienna. Last nights musical journey home was September 78! another absolute belter. I was singing along loudly to Jilted John!!
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Post by Cartman on Sept 7, 2017 14:29:19 GMT
As promised, heres a selection of sounds from the first of my two favourite chart years, we are starting in January 1978. The odd one which I don't remember I've missed off:
Wings - Mull of Kintyre. I'm afraid I cant stand this dirge, didn't like it at the time, and still don't Althia & donna - Uptown Top Ranking. One hit wonder Brighouse & Rastrick - Floral Dance - guilty pleasure!! Bonnie Tyler - Its a Heartache Crystal Gayle - Don't it make my brown eyes blue Chic - Dance dance dance Bee Gees - How Deep is your love Odyssey - Native New Yorker Brotherhood of Man - Figaro David Soul - Lets have a quiet night in Bob Marley - Jammin Scott Fitzgerald & Yvonne Keeley - If I had words - another guilty pleasure!! Darts - Daddy Cool Baccara - Sorry Im a Lady Boney M - Belfast Jonathon Richman - Egyptian Reggae The Dooleys - Love of my Life - another guilty pleasure (used to really fancy Kathy Dooley!!) Rose Royce - Wishing on a Star Quo - Rockin all over the world
A bit varied, but it gets better as the year goes on. February tomorrow!!
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Post by Steve Austin on Sept 7, 2017 14:48:09 GMT
As promised, heres a selection of sounds from the first of my two favourite chart years, we are starting in January 1978. The odd one which I don't remember I've missed off:
Wings - Mull of Kintyre. I'm afraid I cant stand this dirge, didn't like it at the time, and still don't Althia & donna - Uptown Top Ranking. One hit wonder Brighouse & Rastrick - Floral Dance - guilty pleasure!! Bonnie Tyler - Its a Heartache Crystal Gayle - Don't it make my brown eyes blue Chic - Dance dance dance Bee Gees - How Deep is your love Odyssey - Native New Yorker Brotherhood of Man - Figaro David Soul - Lets have a quiet night in Bob Marley - Jammin Scott Fitzgerald & Yvonne Keeley - If I had words - another guilty pleasure!! Darts - Daddy Cool Baccara - Sorry Im a Lady Boney M - Belfast Jonathon Richman - Egyptian Reggae The Dooleys - Love of my Life - another guilty pleasure (used to really fancy Kathy Dooley!!) Rose Royce - Wishing on a Star Quo - Rockin all over the world
A bit varied, but it gets better as the year goes on. February tomorrow!! This has the makings of a cracking thread Cartman Can't wait for next month and Yellow Dog's "One More Night", loved that tune. I've marked in bold the ones from January that I liked. Shame there isn't a "super bold" option for Mull Of Kintyre, I played that record to death, as well as the "B" side "Girls School". I agree with you, these two years are pretty diverse but then I think the 70s were in general. When you compare the homogenous that populates the charts currently, there really is no comparison.
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Post by Cartman on Sept 7, 2017 14:58:00 GMT
Yellow Dog's one hit was brilliant! mm, January 78, my 18th birthday, I was in the upper sixth at secondary school, my last few months before A levels and had not long passed my driving test.
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