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Post by davey on Apr 19, 2023 13:55:02 GMT
1983 That Summer Feeling - Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers Doubling back one more time… I had assumed that SOMEONE would pick this one for 1983. But since nobody did, I feel the need to be “responsible” and swap my vote out… White Lines (Don’t Do It) - Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Apr 19, 2023 14:15:25 GMT
1983 That Summer Feeling - Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers Doubling back one more time… I had assumed that SOMEONE would pick this one for 1983. But since nobody did, I feel the need to be “responsible” and swap my vote out… White Lines (Don’t Do It) - Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel I'm a little surprised it's your thing Todd, but I'm delighted to see it here. I'd intended to pick it myself, but we're still at that stage when great records will get left by the wayside. Probably the most unconvincing anti-drug song ever (just listen to the glee with which they sing 'Get Higher Baby'!), but a terrific record (one of the best of the 80s): as seamlessly put together as the parts of a Swiss watch and with one of the greatest synth basslines ever. p.s. Maybe Ray will help you out with the Richmond!
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Post by davey on Apr 19, 2023 14:17:24 GMT
Someone else can use their pick on you-know-which-song/album. Personally I think Chrissie Hynde owned 1984.
1984
Show Me - The Pretenders
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Post by fearlessfreap on Apr 19, 2023 14:20:39 GMT
1984 is when it started to go tits up for me -- mullets, pastel colors, jackets with the sleeves rolled up - I am going to have to use my pick on a non mainstream song. There's no way I'm picking something from Born In the USA and Purple Rain was a step down from what Prince had done previously.
Strafe - Set It Off
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Post by davey on Apr 19, 2023 14:23:52 GMT
Doubling back one more time… I had assumed that SOMEONE would pick this one for 1983. But since nobody did, I feel the need to be “responsible” and swap my vote out… White Lines (Don’t Do It) - Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel I'm a little surprised it's your thing Todd, but I'm delighted to see it here. I'd intended to pick it myself, but we're still at that stage when great records will get left by the wayside. Probably the most unconvincing anti-drug song ever (just listen to the glee with which they sing 'Get Higher Baby'!), but a terrific record (one of the best of the 80s): as seamlessly put together as the parts of a Swiss watch and with one of the greatest synth basslines ever. p.s. Maybe Ray will help you out with the Richmond! Well it really Isn’t MY thing…which is why I didn’t vote for it initially. But I was there in 1983. I remember how unavoidable and powerful this record was. In my mind, it’s THE most visceral hip-hop record ever (with apologies to The Message).
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Post by tory on Apr 19, 2023 14:43:48 GMT
1984 is when it started to go tits up for me -- mullets, pastel colors, jackets with the sleeves rolled up - I am going to have to use my pick on a non mainstream song. There's no way I'm picking something from Born In the USA and Purple Rain was a step down from what Prince had done previously. Strafe - Set It Off MASSIVE RECORD ALERT
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Post by osgood on Apr 19, 2023 17:47:40 GMT
Someone else can use their pick on you-know-which-song/album. You mean this? 1984Prince - Purple Rain
(well, somebody had to...)
Edit: Oops, had not read fearlessfreap post above. Anyway, it stays.
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Post by loveless on Apr 19, 2023 18:27:42 GMT
Virtually any track from Purple Rain would get my vote (WDC, TMWU, The Beautiful Ones, etc.), but...title track is massive. The solo, and...that insane heartbreaking string coda (rumored to be the work of Lisa Coleman)...I'll pick something, but it won't be anywhere near as epic.
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Post by toomanyhatz on Apr 19, 2023 19:28:28 GMT
So which of Dave's 80s saviors to pick? A dilemma to be sure. Both had great albums that year. I guess it'll be the one that wasn't my pick for '83 (only because they didn't have anything out yet).
1984:
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Post by oh oooh on Apr 19, 2023 20:16:03 GMT
1983
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Post by oh oooh on Apr 19, 2023 20:17:11 GMT
1984
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Post by loveless on Apr 20, 2023 13:58:00 GMT
1984
Jesus. What do you even say about a year like this?
My first trip to the UK.
I have loads to say, but...so much of it will have to wait until the votes have all come in and we've flipped the canon calendar yet again.
Anyhow, despite some major action in my own pantheon (the people who released their best album and four of their very best singles, others - some of them chancers - who hit certain undeniable peaks), I've gone for an almost inarticulate and existential howl of angst and malaise that mostly towers over most of what THESE chancers (and their lead chancer) did before and after. A peak.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Apr 20, 2023 17:16:24 GMT
1984
I was going to pick something off Purple Rain but I don’t want to pick Prince twice for the same year even though I think he deserves it in 1984 (one of his peaks). Then I remembered this came out in 1984 and I didn’t hesitate.
I’ve listened to the Blue Nile a lot in the last 18 months. Not that surprising perhaps given that few bands capture the ecstasy and heartbreak of romance and breakups so maturely and beautifully. Tinseltown in the Rain is their tribute to their hometown of Glasgow but of course it could be any number of other cities around the world although few will share its rainfall lol. Tinseltown is not just a city, it’s a dream, a vision, a metaphor for love and romance, for innocence and experience. It's the hopeful soundtrack to a new romance, a chance meeting of eyes across a bar, a drunken conversation at a taxi rank where numbers are exchanged. But it's also the soundtrack to a large whisky in the wee small hours hunched over a creased photograph or a fading love letter because it understands of course that love also ends, and such moments can be beautiful yet fleeting. In this way the song possesses a distinctly adult perspective where hope and excitement are naturally tempered by real world experience. Summed up perfectly here where youthful hope and expectation (will we always be happy go lucky?) turns to adult resignation, cynicism and loss:
Do I love you? Yes, I love you Will we always be happy go lucky? Do I love you? Yes, I love you But it's easy come, and it's easy go All this talking is only bravado
This is the songs happy/sad trick. The seam of Scottish melancholy supplied by Buchanan’s lyrics and achingly gorgeous melody set against the heightened, romantic backdrop of bass, strings and piano that, like a city at night, cast their romantic spell so hypnotically. Tinseltown is therefore simultaneously a celebration and an elegy. Not just for love mind but for youth as well. The dream we all have to wake up from.
It's a great, great song.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Apr 20, 2023 17:33:31 GMT
From Adam: by 1984 i had fully embraced the garage punk revival, particularly the bands coming out of the US.
this is an old bcb cup chestnut, but by christ it still thrills. the 'on fyre' opening salvo of 'don't give it up now' and this was exhilarating.
Help You Anne - The Lyres
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Post by rayge on Apr 20, 2023 18:18:28 GMT
I was going to pick something off Purple Rain but I don’t want to pick Prince twice for the same year even though I think he deserves it in 1984 (one of his peaks). Then I remembered this came out in 1984 and I didn’t hesitate. I’ve listened to the Blue Nile a lot in the last 18 months. Not that surprising perhaps given that few bands capture the ecstasy and heartbreak of romance and breakups so maturely and beautifully. Tinseltown in the Rain is their tribute to their hometown of Glasgow but of course it could be any number of other cities around the world although few will share its rainfall lol. Tinseltown is not just a city, it’s a dream, a vision, a metaphor for love and romance, for innocence and experience. It's the hopeful soundtrack to a new romance, a chance meeting of eyes across a bar, a drunken conversation at a taxi rank where numbers are exchanged. But it's also the soundtrack to a large whisky in the wee small hours hunched over a creased photograph or a fading love letter because it understands of course that love also ends, and such moments can be beautiful yet fleeting. In this way the song possesses a distinctly adult perspective where hope and excitement are naturally tempered by real world experience. Summed up perfectly here where youthful hope and expectation (will we always be happy go lucky?) turns to adult resignation, cynicism and loss: Do I love you? Yes, I love you Will we always be happy go lucky? Do I love you? Yes, I love you But it's easy come, and it's easy go All this talking is only bravado This is the songs happy/sad trick. The seam of Scottish melancholy supplied by Buchanan’s lyrics and achingly gorgeous melody set against the heightened, romantic backdrop of bass, strings and piano that, like a city at night, cast their romantic spell so hypnotically. Tinseltown is therefore simultaneously a celebration and an elegy. Not just for love mind but for youth as well. The dream we all have to wake up from. It's a great, great song. Agree totally. The sound quality on the Walk Across the Rooftops album and the 12" single release of TitR on Linn were just amazing - never heard better. An extraordinarily visual record. Although they don't actually sound alike, I tend to think of it as kindred to New York Tendaberry.
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