As soon as this song comes on in the car, the volume goes straight up!
A small bit of personal trivia - Blue Monday was one of the very first songs I attempted to 'track' on my Commodore Amiga in the early 90s due to its simplistic bassline.
Enjoy
As soon as this song comes on in the car, the volume goes straight up!
A small bit of personal trivia - Blue Monday was one of the very first songs I attempted to 'track' on my Commodore Amiga in the early 90s due to its simplistic bassline.
Enjoy
I remember the song not being as widely available in the UK (I don't think it even charted here), and this was in a time before the internet, so opportunities to listen to it were rare. As I recall, the song only appeared a few times in the film (incomplete) - in a short scene when Stephanie Speck, played brilliantly by Ally Sheedy, is showing Johnny 5 around her home, and later when Johnny 5 has commandeered a Nova Robotics van.
A great tune, from a great movie.
A cover of Zambezi by Lou Busch and his Orchestra, this version was released back in 1982 by The Piranhas (and featuring Boring Bob Grover - The Man With The Golden Trumpet) where it entered into the UK Top 40 in September/October. I was but a 5 year old lad with obviously no decent taste in music.
"Well if my bank should phone, tell them I ain't at home,
Just say I packed my plastic bag and went away.
As for the landlord's rent, I spent it on a tent,
So if he's asking questions, you'll know what to say.
You don't get lyrics like that anymore.
As already mentioned, the song comes from his excellent No Jacket Required album, but wasn't actually released as a single in the UK. It did reach an impressive number 4 in the US, and ranked 64th in the US Top Pop Singles for 1985
Anyway, here's the music video. Stick with it... the song begins around the 1 minute and 30 seconds mark.
Whenever I listen to Dancing Girls, I have a vivid memory of helping my sister write a "Nik Kershaw" lyrics program on our Commodore Plus 4 computer in BASIC, a program I still have stored on one of hundreds of old cassettes to this day, named "Nik 16"
Released 38 years ago, on April 2nd 1984, Dancing Girls was a single from his excellent "Human Racing" album and peaked in the UK charts at No. 13 around the same time as classic favourites of mine such as Queen's "I Want To Break Free", Depeche Mode's "People are People" and Blancemange's "Don't Tell Me"
Enjoy!
Shattered Dreams by Johnny Hates Jazz is one of those songs that was played a lot in those pubs at the time. It was released in March 1987 and went straight to number 97 in the UK charts. Only through lots of airtime on the radio did it finally reach a deserving number 5 two months later.
An absolute stonker of an 80s track. Enjoy.
Crank up the volume and listen to that awesome orchestral sound. It definitely has a hint of ELO to it with some 80s Paul McCartney thrown in too!
Enjoy.
It will always remind me of family walks along the seafront at Southend. Many of the 'watering holes' where we would stop off between Leigh-on-Sea and Southend-on-Sea would play this on the jukebox whilst I drank my pint of orange squash and spent countless 10p's on the arcade machines. Happy days.
Released in 1982, it reached number 10 in the UK charts in August of that year.... I was only 5 years old at the time. Gosh, I feel old.
It was released in 1980 and reached number 8 in the UK Charts.
Such a great song, and great memories from a time long gone.
The song was released in November 1987 and spent an impressive 14 weeks in the UK singles charts. Even more impressive is that it reached number 1 and stayed there for 4 weeks, making it Christmas number one of that year, and beating Fairytale of New York by The Pogues.
Why can't modern groups produce belters like this anymore, instead of the usual Crap Factor wannabe turds?
Also, you've got to love the video, featuring clips from their rather bizarre movie "It Couldn't Happen Here", starring De Nomolos himself (from Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey) Joss Ackland, and even Biggles (Neil Dickson).
"Where are you going?"
"I'm going there.... But I like it here wherever it is".
Name a Genesis song from the mid-1980s and most people will probably say Invisible Touch or Land of Confusion, but ask them if they've heard of The Brazillian and they will just look at you with a confused look. Yes, Genesis also did some amazing experimental instrumental work too.
As great as their more familiar songs are, I've always had a soft spot for this track, but then I think it's because I've always preferred instrumentals to songs with vocals in. This is just great, especially Mike Rutherford's guitar finale. A perfect excuse to turn the volume up to maximum, and let those goosebumps appear.
The track was featured in an episode of Magnum, P.I, used extensively by the BBC during their TV coverage of the 1987 World Athletics Championships, and in 1987 it had a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, but lost out to Harold Faltermeyer and Steve Stevens with the "Top Gun" anthem. Sorry Top Gun fans, but I prefer this!
Big thanks to my sister Stephanie for introducing me to this song all those years ago. Enjoy.