they dont even have to be classic as such...just a little different/quirky/possessing something that means they shouldnt just not be mentioned/heard ever again...they must be quintessentially poppy tho
some nominations
Wax 'Bridge To Your Heart' (as mentioned on recent thread)
Marc Almond 'Jacky' and 'The Days Of Pearly Spencer' (grossly OTT and somewhat trite yet strangely glorious...possibly!)
Peter Gabriel 'Steam' (less memorable hit by hugely successful artists may not be as worthwhile in this list, but i cant help liking this meself)
Diana King 'Shy Guy' (ummm, i dunno...)
? 'The Bell(e) Of St Mark' (cant remember who did this? was it a big hit even?)
these off the top of my head like...more 80s stuff needed e.g. Scarlet Fantastic or something - stuff you remember but no-one else seems to even tho it was a big hit
i dunno if i REALLY like these tracks much...but there's something about them - they all seem out of place in today's pop market (except maybe 'Shy Guy') but they're all very polished well done pop songs i'm inclined to believe
― blueski, Friday, 27 September 2002 16:14 (twenty-three years ago)
― blueski, Friday, 27 September 2002 16:20 (twenty-three years ago)
― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 27 September 2002 16:45 (twenty-three years ago)
― andy, Friday, 27 September 2002 20:19 (twenty-three years ago)
Night to Remember - Shalimar
― Saskia, Friday, 27 September 2002 20:44 (twenty-three years ago)
"Guilty" - Classix Noveaux
"Real Enough" - Doug and the Slugs
"She Sheila" - The Producers
"Jimmy Jones" - The Vapors
"My Girl (Gone Gone Gone)" - Chiliwack
"Midnight Confessions" - Karla DeVito
― Joe (Joe), Friday, 27 September 2002 21:09 (twenty-three years ago)
― Joe (Joe), Friday, 27 September 2002 21:10 (twenty-three years ago)
― Nate Patrin, Friday, 27 September 2002 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)
― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 27 September 2002 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)
― brg30 (brg30), Friday, 27 September 2002 21:32 (twenty-three years ago)
― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 28 September 2002 01:35 (twenty-three years ago)
― simon 803 (simon 803), Saturday, 28 September 2002 01:59 (twenty-three years ago)
― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 28 September 2002 02:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― keith (keithmcl), Saturday, 28 September 2002 02:18 (twenty-three years ago)
'Peace of Mind' was fairly up there as well though.
― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 28 September 2002 02:43 (twenty-three years ago)
― mike (ro)bott, Saturday, 28 September 2002 02:52 (twenty-three years ago)
― dave q, Saturday, 28 September 2002 08:52 (twenty-three years ago)
― doomi, Saturday, 28 September 2002 09:46 (twenty-three years ago)
― blueski, Saturday, 28 September 2002 10:21 (twenty-three years ago)
how about:
Modern Talking 'Brother Louie'Desireless 'Voyage Voyage'Fuzzbox 'Pink Sunshine'Karel Fialka 'Hey Matthew'Neneh Cherry 'Manchild' (doesnt seem well remembered, but it was so unlike anything else at the time)Soho 'Hippy Chick' (famously sampling 'How Soon Is Now')Dimples D 'Sucker DJ'Jesus Loves You 'Generations of love'Oui 3 'Break From The Old Routine'Addis Black Widow 'Innocent' (not bad apart from the terrible female rap)Stakka Bo 'Here We Go' (Sweden's own Vanilla Ice never sounded so good)MN8 'I've Gotta Little Something For Ya'
sure these are all probably naff as well but strangely loveable...i sure hope no-one adds Whigfield to this thread tho
― blueski, Saturday, 28 September 2002 10:43 (twenty-three years ago)
― Underclocked, Saturday, 28 September 2002 12:27 (twenty-three years ago)
...also, nowhere near enough people talk about Stay by Shakespears Sister anymore.
― alexfack, Saturday, 28 September 2002 13:17 (twenty-three years ago)
as for Donna Summer, what about 'Dinner With Gershwin' - its so ridiculously 1986...not keen on any of her later SAW produced stuff AT ALL myself
Shakespeare Sister - hated 'Stay' - loved 'Your History' and 'Run Silent' and even 'I Dont Care' at the time
― blueski, Saturday, 28 September 2002 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)
― alexfack, Saturday, 28 September 2002 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)
― Arthur (Arthur), Sunday, 29 September 2002 14:05 (twenty-three years ago)
― minna (minna), Sunday, 29 September 2002 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)
*the clouds - anthem (this was on the same 100% hits album as "i think i love you")
some guy sang "you're making me dizzy, my head is spinning... like a whirlpool, it never ends... and it's you girl, making it spin..."
i have a vague feeling that was a cover though.
oh, and one more:fairground attraction - it's got to be perfect
― minna (minna), Sunday, 29 September 2002 14:24 (twenty-three years ago)
"What's good for the goose...is good for the GANDER!"
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 29 September 2002 16:14 (twenty-three years ago)
should be mentioned in the same breath as god but aren't.
― angelo (angelo), Sunday, 29 September 2002 22:37 (twenty-three years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 29 September 2002 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)
― Saskia, Sunday, 29 September 2002 22:44 (twenty-three years ago)
and a million more.
some guy sang "you're making me dizzy, my head is spinning... like a whirlpool, it never ends... and it's you girl, making it spin..." - yes, that was UK comedian Vic Reeves with The Wonder Stuff, covering Tommy Roe's 60s choon.
― Charlie (Charlie), Sunday, 29 September 2002 23:03 (twenty-three years ago)
Lisa Stansfield - Time To Make You Mine/Change/All Woman (the singles from her second album 0WN3RZ ALL)Annie Lennox - Walking On Broken Glass (really really really REALLY great, had tremendous drunken luvvy-cunt video and everything)Belinda Carlisle - Big Scary AnimalMartika - More Than You KnowDannii Minogue - Get Into You (Dannii RAWKS OUT)Sophie B. Hawkins - Right Beside You Des'ree - Feel So HighTasmin Archer - In Your Care (she says "sonofabitch" in the chorus which is thrilling)Gabrielle - Because Of YouMono - Life In MonoThe Beautiful South - A Little Time
― alexfack, Sunday, 29 September 2002 23:27 (twenty-three years ago)
And Face To Face by Siouxsie and the Banshees. And Uptight and One Goodbye In Ten and Inside Out by Shara Nelson. Now I STOP (perhaps).
― alexfack, Sunday, 29 September 2002 23:45 (twenty-three years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 29 September 2002 23:50 (twenty-three years ago)
― Burr, Monday, 30 September 2002 03:20 (twenty-three years ago)
― michael wells (michael w.), Monday, 30 September 2002 07:26 (twenty-three years ago)
― Jeff W (Jeff W), Monday, 30 September 2002 08:31 (twenty-three years ago)
Oh yes, oh yes! others -"we don't have to take our clothes off" jermaine stewart"what's the colour of money" hollywood beyond"rise to the occasion" clime fisher"thorn in my side" eurythmics"true clours" cyndie lauper
― adam b (adam b), Monday, 30 September 2002 10:31 (twenty-three years ago)
― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 30 September 2002 11:26 (twenty-three years ago)
― blueski, Monday, 30 September 2002 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 30 September 2002 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)
― michael wells (michael w.), Monday, 30 September 2002 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)
not while Stan Ridgeway's 'Camoflauge' is still out there!
and anyway, i've just remembered 'love is contagious'...
― adam b (adam b), Monday, 30 September 2002 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)
― adam b (adam b), Monday, 30 September 2002 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)
if yr going to have "the jack that house built" jack & chill, then
The House that Jack Built - Tracie
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 30 September 2002 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)
― sundar subramanian, Monday, 30 September 2002 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)
"best of what i got" by Bad English! (theme song to 'TANGO & CASH'!! Teri Hatcher with 80s frizzy hair!!!)
― zebedee, Monday, 30 September 2002 14:57 (twenty-three years ago)
― sundar subramanian, Monday, 30 September 2002 16:56 (twenty-three years ago)
― Lindsey Price, Monday, 8 September 2003 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 8 September 2003 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― robin (robin), Monday, 8 September 2003 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)
maybe not pop enough but definately forgotten.
― jed (jed_e_3), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Gale, Tuesday, 9 September 2003 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― Joshua Houk (chascarrillo), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:27 (twenty-two years ago)
"One Night In Bangkok" by Murray Head, sooo gay and likeable... what a chorus "one night in bangkok makes a hard man humble" haha... I have never hear anythign else by this guy, where did he come from?
"Love is a Shield" by Camoflauge... I was surprised this song is a lot darker & better than anything else on that album. Then I found out it was written by this guy:
"Images of Heaven" by Peter Godwin, I got his "best of" he seems really obscure, it's really worth checking out, he worked with some really cool musicians, Bowie of course.
― sucka (sucka), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 05:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 06:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 06:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 06:43 (twenty-two years ago)
"WoodBeez" by Scritti Politti. Hell, any of their fine singles really. Sorely forgotten band, that. One of the few 80s albums I own on CD and still love very much.
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 06:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 07:17 (twenty-two years ago)
Baltimora "Tarzan Boy"
― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 07:19 (twenty-two years ago)
-- Gale (gale2g200...),
Hello Gale!
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 07:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)
One of the few UK No1's I can think of to have disappeared without trace alongside everything to do with it.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― colin mcelligatt, Tuesday, 9 September 2003 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― Brian Miller, Tuesday, 9 September 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)
(early 80s, not late)
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)
Basia, Prime Time TV. I thought she was going to have great success. Oh well, shows how much I know.It's Immaterial, Driving Away From HomeBougeois Tagg, I Don't Mind At AllBassheads, Is There Anybody Out There?Tania Braxton, Breathe Again
― David Merryweather (DavidM), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)
King - Love and PridePropaganda - DuelJona Lewie - Stop the CavalryAneka - Japanese BoyFischer-Z - So Long OMD - SouvenirDuran Duran - Careless MemoriesHuman League - The Things that Dreams are made ofSpandau Ballet - To cut a long story short
― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)
I spent a long drunken evening with a friend of mine once talking about this song when we were talking about songs we loved that no-one else knew. I'm so glad someone else remembers it too.
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― sucka (sucka), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― Gale, Wednesday, 10 September 2003 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)
Was Not Was "Shake Your Head"
― blue, Wednesday, 10 September 2003 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)
DIE! DIE! DIE!!!!!!
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)
http://muzyka.kulichki.net/modern_talking/modern_talking_band1.jpg
― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)