Evening Standard's 80's compilation CD: C/D?

Shalamar was an interesting choice, but Kajagoogoo is a lame one that blights every 80s comp I've ever seen.
Also...As a greedy American I demand more tracks. 10 Just isn't enough. Supasize that muthafucka!

Custos, it was free with a newspaper that costs 35pence.

I am waiting for Marcello, singles review of these tracks.

Well, slap on some more tracks, and I'll happily pay ☼1.35 for it.

Um...that was supposed to be a L pound sign.

Of all Talking Heads songs to have chosen, why "Road to Nowhere"?

Was Disky involved with this?

Good value freebie, loads better than the 'exclusive Bjork/Badly Drawn Boy/Beck/whoever' CDs you get with the Guardian on Saturdays sometimes which are 2 songs (1 of them live or a remix) plus DVD nonsense and a screensaver. But the Evening Standard is a vile paper so dud.

the Shalamar track is fucking rocking. dont know thje oehjrest

alex-its by far their best known song isn't it?

"Road to Nowhere" the best known song by Talking Heads???? P-shaw!!!

More likely candidates for that title: "Burnin' Down the House," "Once in a Lifetime", surely.

dunno,i just remember when i was about ten or so my dad getting into talking heads,so i knew most of the songs,and being really surprised when i heard road to nowhere on the radio,and since then i have associated it with being their one popular song...

Talking Heads remind me of that dreadful Sly Stallone arm-wrestling film Over The Top, where his estranged military school-going son insisted on listening to, uh, the one with the monkey on the cover.

That soundtrack was the first tape I ever bought, FACT! (no TH on it tho...Kenny Loggins & Sly's brother Frank, as I recall)

heheh DJ Martian - Kids In America I've already done on CoM, ditto Night To Remember on my 1982 thread. But doing the above would necessitate doing threads on 1983 and 1985 aargh I would need considerable financial incentive to do those awful top 40 years!

"But the Evening Standard is a vile paper so dud"

for the most part this is true, and also a lot truer than when i worked on their 'going out' page (every few weeks, 2000 - 2002). i did manage to write a few features for the paper, tho, which subverted the racist overtones of the paper's news section - a piece attacking the decision to outlaw live music at 2001's carnival, a roots manuva feature which suggested the music of london west-indians was a truer representation of modern 'british' culture than britpop and, most recently, a piece on musicians-in-the-community which suggested black artists aren't all carjacking, gurlie-raping nogoodniks.

the subversion of placing these articles in such an otherwise-blinkered and bigoted newspaper was sweet, as were my thirty pieces of silver. most of the people i worked with there were good people, and it was certainly a more ethnically/culturally mixed office than NME or Melody Maker, although many of my ex-colleagues left when the new editor took over.

sxxx