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Post by rayge on Mar 14, 2023 12:44:30 GMT
Well, posts have dried up and it seems we're down to a hard core of a dozen or so posters, so I'm going to open up for 1979 with a selection from adam
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loveless
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Bringing ballet to the masses. Sticking to the funk.
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Post by loveless on Mar 14, 2023 13:24:55 GMT
1979
As promised.
A stunning album track is turned into a stunning single by producer Mike Thorne. So unlikely all around, but...so special and absolutely one for the ages.
darknessfish remarks that it was basically "Sugar Sugar" by art geeks, and...he's not wrong. It pushes so many buttons, and satisfies like few other things - it's the sort of thing that a fan will absolutely vividly remember hearing for the first time.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Mar 14, 2023 13:43:05 GMT
Well, posts have dried up and it seems we're down to a hard core of a dozen or so posters I never understand why people drop out in this way. I'd encourage anyone who contributed to the early years to keep going. Otherwise it's like buggering off and leaving a building half finished.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Mar 14, 2023 13:57:14 GMT
So pleased to see The Jam acknowledged and that song in particular, which is the best song about young working class male friendship ever written ( admittedly there probably hasn't been a lot of them, but so much of the lyric rings true).
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Post by fearlessfreap on Mar 14, 2023 15:50:49 GMT
The most problematic artist of the past several decades, even if he didn’t have sex with children, he was at the very least, a deeply disturbed man-child. From the plastic surgery to the Elephant Man skeleton, to Bubbles, to the oxygen tent, to Elizabeth Taylor, to hanging a baby out a window, to having McCauley Culkin and Emmanuel Lewis as pets, to Neverland Ranch, he was obviously mentally ill, and it’s criminal that his family and so called friends didn’t try and get him help. Money talks. Separate the art from the artist, people say, and I am not a big enough person to do this usually, but I’ve loved this song and Rock With You for 44 years, so I’m able to do it in this case. My picks have been pretty commercial and haven’t been the most popular so far, and this one will make some of you puke, so enjoy
Michael Jackson - Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Mar 14, 2023 16:46:13 GMT
I don't know if this is Chic's (or Chic associated) best track, that might be 'Lost in Music', but it's the one that feels most Chic, that best embodies their trademark graceful hedonism and joy. Everything is on point: Alfa Anderson's confident vocals, one of the greatest bass lines of all time, and an arrangement which is both urbane and urgent.
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Post by DarknessFish on Mar 14, 2023 17:28:46 GMT
1979
Well I've been fairly mainstream up to now, but I can't ignore the industrialists anymore. I remember when BCB did the loud cup, this didn't win its round, which is like having a 'former bassists of The Beatles cup' and not voting for Macca. We'd had punk for a couple of years, we'd had noise experiments like Metal Machine Music, but no-one had managed to create such a focused, structured aural assault before. Absolute mechanised violence, destroys everything in its path.
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toomanyhatz
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Post by toomanyhatz on Mar 14, 2023 17:33:35 GMT
There are two albums from 1979 - both in the 2nd half of the year - that I really want to see represented.
For one, it's hard to pick a particular track, for one ridiculously easy.
I'm going to wait it out a bit, because one of the two is almost certain to find representation elsewhere.
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Post by DayoRemix on Mar 14, 2023 19:12:29 GMT
1979
"Disorder" Joy Division
Going with an obvious choice..My Painful Omissions go a bit deeper, in case anybody actually looks at them when I post..
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Post by osgood on Mar 14, 2023 20:04:49 GMT
1979
Neil Young - Pocahontas
I had long decided to pick something from Rust Never Sleeps for 1979. We've had two samples of Neil going electric, so I've gone for one on the acoustic side. It could have been the emblematic My My Hey hey, or the personal fave Thrasher, but after a quick reminding scan I've fallen for the undeniable beauty of this little piece that shows his gift for delivering poignant melodies. Extra points for Nicolette Larson's lovely harmonies.
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Post by riggers on Mar 15, 2023 20:25:30 GMT
1979
The Pop Group -"She Is Beyond Good And Evil"
Scratchy post punk somehow incorporates, funk, jazz and dub without sounding ridiculous. An extraordinary record. I didn't hear this till the early 90's and was blown away then. I can't imagine how it must have sounded in 1979.
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Post by DayoRemix on Mar 15, 2023 21:05:05 GMT
Glad someone else put Pop Group..Was in my top 3..
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Post by oh oooh on Mar 15, 2023 21:40:39 GMT
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Post by tory on Mar 15, 2023 21:55:15 GMT
1979 : Tantra - Hills of Katmandu (Patrick Cowley remix)
Dance music properly BEGINS here. Yes, Moroder's I feel Love is the sensual, hypnotic groover of '77; "Hills of Katmandu" is the roaring, bacchanalian Disco version of Bachmann Turner Overdrive that you listen to in an ornate Rimini nightclub whilst women who look like Sophia Loren dance in front of you. It's the last gasp of the exotic. Decorating the original Celso Valli masterpiece is that sinewy little wunderkind Patrick Cowley, whose own influence on Disco, and thus most of house music, should not be underestimated.
This is the record you drop at 7am when the party is about to actually begin.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Mar 15, 2023 22:55:18 GMT
Glad someone else put Pop Group..Was in my top 3.. For me they miss more than they hit, but 'She Is Beyond Good and Evil was extraordinary. It feels like they were channelling something extra-dimensional or something!
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