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Howard Jones has the tunes, but he's quite the irritant.
Style Council were a fucking plague on mid 1980s pop.Something tells me Big Sound Authority were something to do with Paul Weller...certain sound like a knock-off Style Council.
Style Council were a fucking plague on mid 1980s pop.
I kinda loved it, for being quite different and a bit of an entry into the late 1980s.That Art Of Noise performance is heroically awkward.
I kinda loved it, for being quite different and a bit of an entry into the late 1980s.
The lead singer of The Killing Joke is TWENTY FOUR in this clip.
Bless Janice Long having a little moment announcing that one.Fuck yeah "How Soon Is Now?"
Yup, the copy is dreadful, possibly the worst that has been uploaded so far in all the years the TOTP repeats have been shown. The guy who uploaded it did say it was a copy of a copy of a copy...I'm watching, but what a horrible copy!
I especially enjoyed the KICK.Just how fucking iconic is that Dead or Alive perf?!
I've moved on to the latest BBC4 episode. I have decided the lead singer of Go West is a twat.
Literally AGOG at that Shakin Stevens performance!
The epileptic dancing!
The weird stiff jacket!
The legs akimbo shot!
He'd acquired a new producer by this point - Peter Collins who was a partner in a production company with Pete Waterman. Collins was Nik Kershaw's producer and had previously produced all of Musical Youth's singles as well as a whole host of other acts going back to the mid 70s. After working with Shaky, Collins changed direction, split the partnership with Waterman and moved into producing rock acts. He produced the next two Rush albums before moving on to acts such as Queensryche (he produced the excellent 'Silent Lucidity') and Bon Jovi ('Always' being one of the biggest selling singles he produced in the 1990s).It was truly bizarre. Shaky spreading his legs for the nation was something I never imagined seeing.
I wasn't aware there was such an attempt to give him a contemporary sound either.
I don't hate that Billy Bragg song. The diversity of music in the charts in 1985 is quite high, especially compared to now. Hair rock, protest songs, Hi-NRG, classical, RnB...