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This Dave Stewart was a prog-rocker. He was in Gong, Hatfield & The North, and and a bunch of other prog bands - hence the very interesting/jazzy chord changes in the Stewart/Gaskin material. After...

Seventh Tree is a lot more electronic than you think. It's tied for my favorite Goldfrapp album along with Black Cherry.

Head First was a somewhat lackluster album with a few great songs. The...

You're right on both counts.

Here's a much better 80's pop take on The Locomotion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbnv8cHH9IM

(Although their version of "It's My Party" is even better than...

Don't feel bad, "Push It" is absolutely terrible and I have no idea why anyone liked it back then, and especially not now. There was so much better female-led US pop/rap around at the time (J.J. Fad,...

Hm. Never heard of this "Mandy Smith" character. You say she did a version of "Don't You Want Me"?

(jsd toddles off to iTunes... two minutes later)

OH GOD NO!!!!!!!! ...

It's very common. Enunciation is not the #1 quality you look for in a pop vocalist, and there's plenty of scope in English for ambiguity. There's a whole website devoted to it:...

I never got to do it in England, unfortunately, but we did have lots of outdoor parties here, and yes they were amazing.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUGIvcyVfCM

I was! I remember it clearly because we were actually on E and couldn't believe that the SONG WAS CALLED "Everything Starts With An E"! GET IT!? OH MY GOD so clever. It seemed absolutely awe...

There's that dry British wit we all know and love :)



I was on the front line of this stuff in America. I had a friend who hooked me up with a tape that had this, S'Express, MARRS and I forget...

I love this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOlM5CDSoi8

Well said.

20 minutes in to the iTunes stream and this 44 year old is bored to death. Can't believe there's another hour of this wank to sit through.

Have you ever heard of Italo Disco? It was a style of synth heavy dance music in the 80's. "Axis" sounds exactly like that.
eg:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPHbyvXPxZs



Yes, that is...

Trumpet, not sax.

Erasure have always been so hit and miss, but I do love this song pretty much unreservedly. Good start to their "imperial phase".

1986 was the year I started college so I...

For me, it doesn't come to close to the Colourbox version.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmoqqh0z7Bk

Your observations are fascinating... The song is garbage. (But that's pretty much what you said!) :)

Because she's not working with songwriters the caliber of Patrick Leonard any more.

Yeah back when business, you know, actually INVESTED in talent. Not like today where it's just "chuck it out and see it it works, if it doesn't there are 1000 other hopefuls in line behind who we...

Amen. And 20 of them are the albums "1999" and "Purple Rain".

I didn't much like it when it was initially released, and the heavy rotation on MTV and radio didn't help. I like it a lot these days though. A 30-year grower?