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Conference marvin::uk_music

Title:The UK Music Conference
Notice:Welcome (back) to UK_MUSIC on node MARVIN.
Moderator:RDGENG::CROOK
Created:Mon Mar 28 1988
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1381
Total number of notes:39269

547.0. "Best Track/Song of the 80's" by BAHTAT::STURROCK (Dear Magda....?) Tue Nov 28 1989 15:26

The song which always makes you; laugh, cry or just dance your legs down to the 
knees.

Bruce
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547.1Must be loads more...WELMTS::GREENBIn love, in fear, in hate, in tearsWed Nov 29 1989 14:2811
    A few off the top off my head....
    
    It's the End of the World as we Know It - R.E.M.
    Sit Down - James
    Move - Inspiral Carpets
    Mayor of Simpleton - XTC
    My Love Explodes - Dukes of Stratosphear
    Bonzo Goes to Bitburg - Ramones
    McGoohan's Blues (live at the 100 club) - Roy Harper
    
    Bob
547.2A few of mine!GREBO::GURUNuclear War is a load of ballisticsWed Nov 29 1989 14:409

    Turn you inside out - REM
    Strictly Business - EPMD
    Considering a Move to Memphis - Colourblind James Experience
    Radio Ass Kiss - Wonderstuff
    No - Wedding Present
    Time to get UGLY - PWEI
    
547.3Loads more , but is everyone forgetting...LASHAM::MAILROOMSir Arthur Conan (Destroyer)DoyleWed Nov 29 1989 14:473
    Prime Mover - Zodiac Mindwarp & the Love Reaction
    
    PETE
547.4The lights are on, but nobody's homeTASTY::JEFFERYWant to see something really scarey?Wed Nov 29 1989 21:3115
    Well, being a strong Pink Floyd fan, I must have:
    
    1. Nobody Home          - Pink Floyd
    2. Stand                - REM
    3. The Colour Of Spring - Talk Talk
    4. Faron Young          - Prefab Sprout
    5. Gouge Away           - Pixies
    6. Smoking Gun          - Robert Cray
    7. Budapest by Blimp    - Thomas Dolby
    8. Pop Song '89         - REM
    
    Sure I can think of many more. (not tight fit, liquid gold or hayzee
    fantayzee)
    
    Mark.
547.5How does it feel to treat me like you do ?SHAPES::BROWNMThu Nov 30 1989 16:4136
    
    
    
    
    
    
    These songs mean so much to me, and when I'm famous they'll be in my
    all-time top ten on Radio 1.
    
    Your Silent Face	-	New Order (The perfect synth orchestra
    								track)
    
    My Heart So Blue	-	Erasure (So true when you've just been
    							given the elbow.)
    
    Burning Up (US 12")	-	Madonna (Great to dance to - before she
    				went all commercial.  A club classic.)
    
    Dear Jessie		-	Madonna	(So clever, so different, so
    								perfect)
    
    In The Night	-	PSB's (Classic Disco)
    
    Blue Monday		-	New Order (Ditto)
    
    One Tree Hill	-	U2 	(Makes you feel sorry for someone you
    					don't know, makes you widh they weren'
    					dead.  You can feel just how shook up
    					`the 2' were when they lost a close
    					friend.)
    
    From Under The Covers	-	Beautiful South (reminds me of my
    					best friend and my own past.)
    
    
    MattyB
547.6PEKING::AMANNPDon't ask me whyFri Dec 01 1989 15:155
    
    
    Brand New Day
    And Then The Rain Came Down
    The Miracle of Love			(All Eurythmics I'm afraid!!!)
547.7Last list - THE BEST.BAHTAT::STURROCKAn earwig crawled into my ear...Fri Dec 01 1989 17:0915
    I played these at 1.00 a.m. last night and went through a spectrum of
    emmotions....
    
    1. How Soon Is Now - The Smiths
    2. There is a Light - The Smiths (Greatest love song ever)
    3. The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
    4. I Know It's Over - The Smiths (Bleakest and most gut wrenching)
    5. Faith - The Cure (A glimmer of hope)
    6. Sit Down - James (Most uplifting track of the decade)
    7. Suffer Little Children (Paints a vulgar and chilling picture)
    8. The Kiss - The Cure (Extreamly intense)
    9. Summer Song - James (Second most uplifting track)
    10.A Thousand Hours - The Cure (Scream along)
    
    B.
547.8My top 10 (this week)CLADA::MEAGHERThese are the hands of a tired manWed Dec 06 1989 13:0047
   The hardest list yet.  I'll put some reasons why I like them so that I don't
get jumped up & down upon.  If you're not feeling tolerant do a next/unseen.

	1. Dignity	- Deacon Blue
	   An uplifting song.  Being a bit of a cynic I need songs like this.

	2. This is	- Aslan
	   Song has a lot of "This is <image>", and the images are very powerful
	   if bleak - teenage mother & broken lover searching for the smiles
	   they shared, etc.  Great rock too.

	3. Patience	- Lloyd Cole
	   Basically a "My baby done gone left me" song.  Lloyd's voice is
	   perfect for the song.  Whenever my baby leaves me I wouldn't sing
	   the blues - too much depression & not enough anger & angst (IMHO) -
	   I'd sing Patience.

	4. The Unforgettable fire	- U2
	   Spine-shivering!

	5. The Final Cut	- Pink Floyd
	   After listening to Pink Floyd for many years when growing up, feeling
	   sorry for myself 'cause my face was spotty, this song seemed to me to
	   be the point where I had to give up, get depressed & follow Waters,
	   or say f*** all that & get on with it.

	6. Complicated Girl	- The Bangles
	   Good happy simple rock song.  I need a lot of those after no. 5

	7. Out of the blue (into the fire)	- the The
	   Those of you who have heard this will know that the lyrics are great.
	   Heartland & lots of their other songs deal with political & world 
	   issues.  This is about one person, I like that in a song.

	8. The Whole of the Moon	- The Waterboys
	   This is where I dance my legs off.

	9. Birthday	- The Sugarcubes
	   You all know it.  Refreshing.  Interesting.

	10 Sunday bloody sunday	- U2
	   IMO, the best anti-war song about.  OK you all know it, but try to
	   see the Rattle & Hum version.  I have *never* heard a song sung with
	   more feeling.

-Brian.