we all see it differently Donny but that's all good as its what makes the world go round.

Never got TD personally but then I'm a sad sack that first saw Paul Young in 83 at the city hall and went onto see him a further 23 times all over the country over next 9 yrs cos I had never heard anyone sing like him.


I never knew the song when I first heard it but his version of Love Will Tear Us Apart by joy division is right up there with the best covers ever surely - think it was only an album song but hey ho google it cos its an amazing song

i saw paul young when he was in the q tips, he was very good possibly 1980 ish

as you say its how you see it , but no harm in differing opinions in music


joy division were a band and a half mind !

q-tips' live at last' is a great album

i think q tips just missed mtv else they would probably have been huge

Haircut 100 weren't my sort of thing, but I found myself at one of their gigs in Hamburg in May 1982, and despite being 20 years old and possibly the oldest person there, I have to say, it wasn't a bad evening. The editor of German music mag Sounds offered his verdict on the event:






"Gut klingen, gut aussehen, gut unterhalten." ("Sound good, look good, good entertainment.") Can't argue with that.

Graduate - TFF?

I found UB40 just irritating, but I'm not going to defend them. If anyone should have been the mainstream face of reggae at that time, it was Sly and Robbie, with all the quality stuff they were doing for people like Grace Jones and Black Uhuru. But the public preferred UB40.

You can understand why acts were happy to mime on Top Of The Pops. New Order were, as far as I know, the only band to perform genuinely live on Top Of The Pops that decade, and after listening to the GBH they thereby inflicted on Blue Monday, who'd want to follow that example?

I couldn't be doing with UB40 personally, One In Ten was a good song but for me forget the rest.
I spent pretty much the entire 80's going to gigs and have pretty much seen everyone that I wanted to including a few that I went to not expecting a great night but ended up rocking myself silly, Bruce Springsteen for example. I had never bought any of his records and didn't know many of his songs but that man put on an unforgettable show. I never saw Tears For Fears though, I just didn't get around to it but I'm sure they would have been excellent, Woman In Chains is one of my favourite songs. I saw Big Country at Hockenheim when they supported The Rolling Stones and they were absolutely fantastic, The Stones weren't that bad either.

Love UB40 and also went to see them last month

It was there that Level 42 were the supporting act, great night

She did look stunning if I remember correctly - which is unlikely - but not sure thigh length leather boots and a skimpy see through top scream "serious musician"!



Talking of friendly ladies, a famous Newsnight presenter was knocking around Sheffield at this time and used to drink in a pub in a studenty part of town. She was also rather popular!

SADE


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Fxck off TheBetterBettor many a time I had my bum bouncing with a bit a Sade playing in the background

I hadn't finished with Kirsty Wark yet

Sorry screaming, did I catch you mid stroke

dont doubt whatsoever what you're saying, just picked on a decade and highlighted imo 2 worst bands. could easily be done for other decades too. trust me , and i've stipulated this there were a lot of great pop songs in the 80s- state of art - friends again  ,if there's a better pop tune than this i'm yet to hear it.
just highlighted 80s as probably ate 70s/early 80s my era. judging by response/comments lot of other peoples  too, except  donny osmond who is pretending it is, when he really was a 50s kid.

Another Talk Talk fan signing in, Such A Shame is another brilliant song by them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxwXNICZ5DI&list=RDKxwXNICZ5DI#t=3

Yep Slippy they made fantastic songs, just wish they had made a few more commercial albums before he retired before 40!

Incredible that along with It's My Life neither singles reached the UK top 40 when released in 1984, what happened back then, Radio 1 must have not played them at all that year!

"Such a Shame was released as the album's second single in 1984 (see 1984 in music) and became a big hit in continental Europe in 1984 and 1985, reaching the Top 10 in several countries, and becoming a number one in certain territories (their third number one single after the remixed version of their song "Talk Talk" which topped the South African charts in 1983 and the single "It's My Life" which was number one in the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play in 1984); but strangely this single was largely ignored in the UK. In the US, the song entered the Billboard Hot 100, and was a Top 20 hit in the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play."

I disagree. 'A tonic for the troops' is a very good album.

Of that era, I saw Earth, Wind and Fire at Wembley Arena and they were absolutely magnificent. There must have been about 70 people on stage grooving away, it was a fun night.