Ace - How Long HD andrew91118 2014-09-13 | "How Long" is a 1974 song by the British group Ace from their album Five-A-Side. It reached No. 3 in the US and Canadian charts, and No. 20 in the UK chart. Lead singer Paul Carrack composed the song upon discovering that bassist Terry Comer had been secretly working with other bands. Comer returned to Ace in time to play on the song.Wikipedia
Golden Earing - Twilight Zone andrew91118 2023-03-26 | "Twilight Zone" is a 1982 hit by Dutch band Golden Earring. It was written by the band's guitarist George Kooymans, who drew inspiration from the book The Bourne Identity. "Twilight Zone" appears on their 1982 album Cut and pays tribute to the 1960s television series The Twilight Zone. It spent more than half a year (27 weeks) on the U.S. Pop charts. It was the group's sole Top 10 Pop single on the US Billboard Hot 100 (the song reached #16 on the Cashbox chart) and hit No. 1 on the Billboard Top Album Tracks chart, the band's only No. 1 hit in America.Lead vocals are divided between Kooymans and Barry Hay. Each sings lead for one half of the first verse (first Kooymans, then Hay), and Hay sings lead for the second verse with backing by Kooymans and provides the spoken lines in the introduction and first verse. Kooymans sings lead on the choruses, backed by Hay.In the 1990s, the song was included on a volume of Rhino Records' New Wave Hits of the '80s series. The music video was featured on Volume One of the VHS companion compilation.
Blancmange - Living On The Ceiling (live) andrew91118 2023-03-26 | "Living on the Ceiling" is a song by English synth-pop band Blancmange. It was released as the band's third single in 1982, taken from their debut studio album Happy Families. It became the band's first (and biggest) UK Top 40 hit, peaking at No. 7 on the UK Singles Chart and being certified Silver by the BPI for sales in excess of 200,000 copies. The single also reached No. 5 on the Australian Singles Chart.Blancmange performed the song on Top of the Pops, but for broadcast on the show as well as on BBC Radio, the track was edited to replace the lyric "Up the bloody tree" with "Up the cuckoo tree". However, in a subsequent episode of Top of the Pops where the song was used as the 'play-out track' without the band in the studio, the original "bloody" lyric was left in and was clearly audible.
Curiosity Killed The Cat - Down To Earth andrew91118 2023-03-20 | "Down to Earth" is a song by English band Curiosity Killed the Cat, released in November 1986 by Mercury Records as the second single from their debut album Keep Your Distance. It was the band's biggest hit, peaking at number 3 on the UK Singles Chart.After the lack of success with "Misfit" when it was first released 4 months earlier, the record company wanted to release another single. However, the record company wanted to release it after the Christmas period as they believed the song wouldn't survive the Christmas rush. Curiosity insisted on releasing "Down to Earth" before and so it was released in November and it slowly moved up the charts until it spent three weeks at number 3 in February 1987.
Bread - Make It With You ( From The Midnight Special ) andrew91118 2023-03-15 | "Make It with You" is a song written by David Gates and originally recorded by American pop-rock group Bread, of which Gates was a member. Gates and drummer Mike Botts are the only members of the group to appear on the recording which was a No.1 hit.The song first appeared on Bread's 1970 album, On the Waters. Released as a single that June, it was the group's first top-ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and spent the week of August 22, 1970, at No.1, their only single to do so; it also reached No.5 on the UK Singles Chart. Billboard ranked "Make It with You" as the No. 13 song of 1970, and it was certified gold by the RIAA for sales of over one million copies.Wikipedia
Olivia Newton John & Cliff Richard - Suddenly andrew91118 2023-03-13 | "Suddenly" is a duet performed by Olivia Newton-John and Cliff Richard from the soundtrack Xanadu, and is the love theme from the 1980 film of the same name. It was written and produced by John Farrar."Suddenly" reached number 15 on the UK Singles Chart in October 1980 and number 20 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in January 1981.[3] It finished the year as number 91 on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 Singles of 1981. It was also a major Adult Contemporary hit, reaching number four.[4] The music video shows Newton-John and Richard in a penthouse singing the song to each other, taken from her ABC TV special "Hollywood Nights" that aired before the 52nd Academy Awards on April 14, 1980.The single's B-side, "You Made Me Love You" (Olivia solo), was also featured in the film Xanadu but does not appear on the soundtrack album.wikipedia.
Stan Ridgway - Camouflage andrew91118 2020-07-19 | Stanard "Stan" Ridgway (born April 5, 1954) is an American multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter and film and television composer known for his distinctive voice, dramatic lyrical narratives, and eclectic solo albums. He was the original lead singer and a founding member of the band Wall of Voodoo.Ridgway embarked on a solo career in 1983, he released his first proper solo album, The Big Heat (1986), which included the top 5 European (including UK) hit "Camouflage".Wikipedia
Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place.(Naive Melody) andrew91118 2020-07-19 | Talking Heads lead singer David Byrne has called this "a very personal love song," and has said it was written about a specific person, likely Adelle Lutz, a costume designer he had recently met. The couple married in 1987 and had a daughter named Malu before divorcing in 2004.David Byrne keeps his personal life closed off, which makes this song unusual in that he's clearly sorting through a genuine relationship, not delivering a work of fiction like he usually does. And true to form, his love song is far from direct, with none of the gooey textures we're used to hearing from smitten songwriters.In the song, he feels grounded, and he's not sure what to make of it. Being "home" feels comforting, but uncertain. This ambiguity stands out in lines like "I guess I must be having fun" and "If someone asks, this is where I'll be" - he knows this is supposed to be the place, so he'll go with it."Naive Melody" was what they called the song before adding the lyrics. For the Speaking In Tongues album, they recorded the basic tracks first and would give the songs working titles that they would then replace. They got attached to the title "Naive Melody," so they kept it as a subtitle even though it doesn't appear in the lyrics.
Rah Band - Clouds Across The Moon HD andrew91118 2016-01-12 | "Clouds Across the Moon" is a song written by Richard Anthony Hewson. It was released as a single in March 1985 on his studio group the RAH Band's album Mystery. The single reached the top 10 of the singles charts in the UK, The Netherlands and Sweden. The vocals were performed by Hewson's wife Liz.Wikipedia
Yazz and the Plastic Population - The Only Way Is Up HD andrew91118 2015-01-26 | "The Only Way Is Up" is a song written by George Jackson and Johnny Henderson and originally released in 1980 as a single by soul singer Otis Clay.[1] In 1988, it became a chart-topping single for Yazz and the Plastic Population. The song is the official theme tune for award-winning ITV2 series The Only Way Is Essex. The song was a favourite of M People's, who would frequently play it on their live tours. The band's lead singer, Heather Small, has described it as her favourite song, and once explained that, should she ever be anywhere, this is the song that she would sing.The Yazz version was produced by Jonathan More and Matt Black (better known as dance duo Coldcut, who had worked with Yazz on their hit single "Doctorin' the House"). Released as a single in July 1988, "The Only Way Is Up" became an instant smash, spending five weeks at #1 in the UK, and ultimately became the second biggest selling single of the year. In the United States, however, it fared less well, peaking at #96 on the Billboard Hot 100, though it did reach #2 on the Billboard dance chart.[2]The song's opening horn blast is a sample from Sharon Redd's 1982 dance classic "Beat the Street". The opening lyrics of the song tell of the degradation of being at the bottom of the social class ladder. They are soon followed by a reference to the threat of eviction. The song is in a major key and has quite an up-beat rhythm.[citation needed]A 2009 remix was released in the UK on 7 September 2009Wikipedia
Jim Diamond - I Should Have Known Better HD andrew91118 2015-01-26 | "I Should Have Known Better" was a UK number one single for one week in December 1984 for Jim Diamond. The song was displaced after one week by Frankie Goes to Hollywood's song "The Power of Love". Diamond publicly requested that people not buy his single, but instead buy "Do They Know It's Christmas?""I Should Have Known Better" was re-recorded for Diamond's 1993 solo album Jim Diamond. He recorded the song a third time for his 2005 single "Blue Shoes", which also featured a re-recording of "I Won't Let You Down" and covers of old soul songs such as "My Girl".The song was covered in French by Julie Pietri ("A force de toi"). It was also covered in Italian by Matteo Becucci ("Lo avrei dovuto sapere"), as part of a compilation that showcases the contestants of The X-Factor Italia's second season.Wikipedia
Stephanie Mills - Never Knew Love Like This Before HD andrew91118 2015-01-25 | "Never Knew Love Like This Before" is a song written and produced by songwriters James Mtume and Reggie Lucas for American R&B recording artist Stephanie Mills' second studio album Sweet Sensation (1980). The song became Mills' biggest hit on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart, where it peaked at No. 6, outperforming her previously highest charting single, "Whatcha Gonna Do with My Lovin'", which peaked at No. 22. The single was also successful on the R&B and Adult Contemporary charts, peaking at No. 12 and No. 5, respectively. On the UK Singles Chart, the track climbed to No. 4. It won Mills her first Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and Mtume and Lucas a Grammy Award for Best R&B Song.Cover versionsThe late R&B singer Gwen Guthrie recorded a ballad version of the song for her 1990 album Hot Times.In 1992, the song was covered by Sonia. In 1995, the song was covered by Thomas Anders (of Modern Talking fame) on his album Souled.Natalia recorded the song for her 2004 album This Time.Filipino singer Lani Misalucha covered the song for her 2008 album Reminisce and was the featured song in an episode of ABS-CBN's Your Song. South African Idol's Season 4 winner, Jodie Williams, recorded an uptempo remake of this song for her debut album, Just Gonna Be Me.In 2013, Jessie Ware covered the song for the soundtrack to the movie I Give It a Year.Wikipedia
Marvin Gaye - Lets Get It On Live HD andrew91118 2015-01-12 | Let's Get It On is the twelfth studio album by American recording artist Marvin Gaye, released August 28, 1973, on Tamla Records. Recording sessions for the album took place during June 1970 to July 1973 at Hitsville U.S.A. and Golden World Studio in Detroit, and at Hitsville West in Los Angeles. Serving as Gaye's first venture into the funk genre and romance-themed music, Let's Get It On incorporates smooth soul, doo-wop, and quiet storm. It has been noted by critics for its sexually suggestive lyrics, and was cited by one writer as "one of the most sexually charged albums ever recorded".Following the breakthrough success of his socially conscious album What's Going On (1971), Let's Get It On helped establish Gaye as a sex icon and furthered his mainstream appeal. It produced three singles—title track, "Come Get to This", and "You Sure Love to Ball"—that attained Billboard chart success. Let's Get It On became the most commercially successful album of Gaye's recording career, and it further expanded his creative control during his tenure with Motown. Its sexual balladry, multi-tracking of Gaye's vocals, and seductive, funk sound influenced later R&B artists and production.The album has been regarded by many music writers and critics as a landmark recording in soul music. It furthered funk music's popularity during the 1970s, and its smooth soul sound marked a change for his record label's previous success with the "Motown Sound" formula. Let's Get It On has been ranked on many critics and publications' lists of the best albums of all time. In 2001, it was reissued by Motown Records as a two-disc deluxe edition release.Wikipedia
Hot Chocolate - It Started With A Kiss HD andrew91118 2015-01-12 | Hot Chocolate are a British funk band popular during the 1970s and 1980s, formed by Errol Brown. The act had at least one hit every year between 1970 and 1984 inclusive, and their song "You Sexy Thing" made the Top 10 in three decades.The band continued well into the 1980s, and clocked up another big hit record: "It Started With a Kiss", in 1982, which reached Number 5 in the UK. In all, the group charted 25 UK Top 40 hit singles.Wikipedia
Cars - Just What I Needed From The Midnight Special HD andrew91118 2015-01-07 | "Just What I Needed" is a song by American rock band The Cars, released as their debut single from their self-titled debut album, released in 1978 on Elektra Records. After achieving exposure as a demo, the song became a successful single for The Cars, hitting the top 30 in America.[1] Appearing on numerous compilation albums, it has become one of the band's most popular songs.Wikipedia
Matt Bianco - More Than I Can Bear HD andrew91118 2015-01-05 | Matt Bianco is a UK band that was formed in 1983. They are mainly known for their success in the mid-1980s and their jazz, Latin-flavoured music.Popular during the mid-1980s in continental Europe, Matt Bianco was part of the new jazz pop genre, that they shared with acts such as Working Week, Sade, Everything but the Girl, and The Style Council. The name suggests that Matt Bianco is a person, often assumed to be an alias for the main constant member and frontman, Mark Reilly, but Matt is in fact "a made up spy, a secret agent; we loved spy TV themes and film scores".WikipediaI find it hard to sleep at nightthis jealousy is burning bright.Visions of somebody else torments me to destruction.I think of him makingmaking love to youit's more than I can -It's more than I can bearmore than I can bear.When I saw you - it's more than I can bear -Walking down the road with someone new -it's more than I can bear -I couldn't believe that it's true -It's more than I can bear - that it's true.When I saw you - it's more than I can bear -Walking down the road with someone new -it's more than I can bear -I closed my eyesI laiow I'm over you -It's more than I can bear - over you.When I saw you walking down the road with someone newI closed my eyesI know I'm over youover you.I still love youbabyit's more than I can bear.I still love youbabyit's more than I can bear.I still love youbabyit's more than I can bear.When I saw youit's more than I can bearIt's more than Iit's more than I can bear.It's more than I can bearit's more than IRead more: Matt Bianco - More Than I Can Bear Lyrics | MetroLyrics
Howard Jones - Things Can Only Get Better HD andrew91118 2015-01-04 | "Things Can Only Get Better" was released as the first single from Howard Jones' 1985 album Dream Into Action, reaching #6 in the UK Singles Chart and #5 in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Curiously, the song also crossed over to the R&B charts in America, peaking at #54 (a rarity for a white artist at the time).[1]A typically upbeat Jones composition, it was one of two songs from the album to feature all-female singing group Afrodiziak on backing vocals. John Leland from Spin magazine wrote that "It mines the best of the Anglo soul movement: a clean slap-bass line, precise horns and synths, and some well-paced and inviting singing".[2]The main B side was another album track from the UK version of the album, "Why Look For The Key", although with a slightly longer fade that made it about twenty seconds longer than the version on the UK version of Dream Into Action. "You Jazzy Nork!" is a reworked instrumental version of "Why Look For The Key" performed by the Alphonse Conway Orchestra.The cover of the 12" single featured a photograph of Jones, in profile, sitting in a high bar stool. This image was used in silhouette for the 7" artwork, the single being issued in several alternative sleeves with different colour backgrounds.The song was also featured in The Sims 2: Open for Business expansion pack, and an episode of Everybody Hates Chris.Wikipedia
Ministry - Revenge HD andrew91118 2014-12-08 | With Sympathy is the debut album by Ministry. The album was released in 1983 through Arista Records, with Ministry's members at the time being Alain Jourgensen and Stephen George. Singer Jourgensen was supposedly pressured into making the album in the "synthpop" style by Arista management, which is in contrast to the harder sound he developed as his career continued. However, there are several reports of Jourgensen saying in the eighties how he discovered "hardcore", which changed his musical direction, and became ashamed of putting out a "synthpop" album.[4] Jourgensen assumes a false English accent for all of the songs. This album was also released as Work for Love under BMG in Europe (with the same cover). There is a video available for "Revenge", which was one of three singles pulled from the album, the others being "Work for Love" and "I Wanted to Tell Her".With Sympathy was Ministry's only album for Arista.The album has been reissued on Eastworld records with three bonus tracksWikipedia
Cars - My Best Friends Girl HD andrew91118 2014-12-08 | "My Best Friend's Girl" is a song by American rock band The Cars from their 1978 self-titled debut album on Elektra Records, released on June 6 of that year. Written by Ric Ocasek and produced by Roy Thomas Baker, the song was released as the album's second single. It peaked at number 35 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, and reached number three in the UK. "My Best Friend's Girl" was included on the soundtrack to the 1979 film Over the Edge, and the song appears on numerous compilation albums, such as the band's 1985 Greatest Hits, 1995's Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology, and 2002's Complete Greatest Hits. A live version of the song by The New Cars appears on their 2006 debut album, It's Alive!. The song originates from late 1976-early 1977 as another successful demo, like "Just What I Needed", of the song was done."My Best Friend's Girl" begins with chords in the lower register of the guitar, a two-bar progression moving from I to IV to V in F. Hand claps enter in bar five, and after the eight-bar intro, the first verse begins featuring Ric Ocasek's vocals over a lead guitar lick in the key of F. An organ is introduced in the first chorus, followed by a rockabilly guitar lick which leads to the second verse. The song is composed in contrasting verse-chorus form. Interestingly, the song was originally written and recorded in E major, one semitone lower, then the entire master tape was sped up to place it in F major. Many live performances show the band performing the song in E. The lyrics depict a man's frustration with a woman who is dating his best friend after the man dated her. The narrator coolly notes, "She's my best friend's girl, but she used to be mine."Wikipedia
Marvin Gaye - Whats Going On HD andrew91118 2014-12-07 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Going_On_(Marvin_Gaye_album)
Ambrosia - How Much I Feel HD andrew91118 2014-11-17 | "How Much I Feel" is a 1978 song by American rock band Ambrosia. The song, written by David Pack, was released in the summer of 1978 as the lead single from their third album, Life Beyond L.A., peaking at position 3 on the Hot 100 chart.The single's B-side, "Ready for Camarillo", was written by Joe Puerta.Pack also penned the hit singles "Biggest Part of Me" and "You're the Only Woman (You & I)" for the band's 1980 follow-up album, One Eighty.Wikipedia
Glenn Medeiros - Watching Over You HD andrew91118 2014-11-16 | Glenn Alan Medeiros (born June 24, 1970) is an American singer and songwriter of Portuguese descent who achieved chart success in the late 1980s and early 1990s.After his musical career he taught and is now vice-principal at the Maryknoll School, a parochial school in his native Honolulu, Hawaii.His song Watching Over You is from the "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You" album.Wikipedia
Midge Ure - If I Was HD andrew91118 2014-11-16 | "If I Was" is a popular song written by Midge Ure and Danny Mitchell. It reached #1 on the UK singles chart for a single week in October 1985. This was Ure's third number one, coming after his success with Slik in 1976 ("Forever and Ever") and Band Aid in 1984 ("Do They Know It's Christmas?"). The song features Mark King of Level 42 on bass guitar.[citation needed]In the sleeve notes for the 2001 compilation If I Was: The Very Best of Midge Ure & Ultravox Ure wrote:"This song is pure Danny Mitchell. I found a demo of it on a cassette Danny had sent me for his band The Messengers. I grabbed it with both hands, messed around with it, sprinkled it with fairy dust and the rest is history."Wikipedia
Howard Jones - What Is Love HD andrew91118 2014-10-22 | "What Is Love?" was the second single by musician Howard Jones. Released in November 1983, from the album Human's Lib, it reached no. 2 in the UK Singles Chart, becoming the singer's highest chart placing to date. In the US, it peaked at no. 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the summer of 1984.The song was originally entitled "Love?" on the demo tape (listing below) which Howard Jones recorded in 1982, which itself was available at his gigs. Howard Jones also used the question mark motif around this time on posters advertising his gigs; posters which also hung behind him on stage at his early 1980s Marquee Club appearances and which read simply "Howard Jones?".In 2003 it was remade by Hakan Lidbo Featuring Emma Holmgren on vocals and featured on the CDs From Hackney to Caracas and Private Lounge 2. A second recording is also featured on the CD Musique Pour Le Bain Volume 2.Wikipedia
Red Box - Lean on Me (ah-li-ayo) HD andrew91118 2014-10-21 | Red Box are a British pop group first active from the early 1980s to the early 1990s, founded by Simon Toulson-Clarke and Julian Close. They scored two UK Top Ten hits with the singles "Lean on Me (ah-li-ayo)" in 1985 and "For America" in 1986, both of which were included on their debut album The Circle & the Square.Wikipedia
Shanice - Saving Forever For You HD andrew91118 2014-10-21 | "Saving Forever for You" is a song performed by Shanice and written by Diane Warren. It was one of the singles released from the Beverly Hills 90210 soundtrack. It became Shanice's second and final single to hit the top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #4. However, it does not appear on Ultimate Collection. A music video was filmed, and features Brian Austin Green from Beverly Hills, 90210.Wikipedia
Twenty 4 seven - I Cant Stand It HD andrew91118 2014-09-29 | I Can't Stand It! is the song recorded by the Dutch dance artist Twenty 4 Seven. It was released in September 1990, as the first single for the debut studio album Street Moves. The single featured Dutch vocalist Nancy Coolen and rappers Captain Hollywood, MC Fixxit, and Hanks & Janks. The single reached number 7 in the UK Charts. It was released all over European countries, particularly the Netherlands where it reached 17 in the Dutch Charts. Twenty 4th Street is the name used in North America for Twenty 4 Seven, apparently for legal reasons.Wikipedia
Color Me Badd - All 4 Love HD andrew91118 2014-09-23 | "All 4 Love" (also known as "All for Love") is a number-one single by the music group Color Me Badd released in 1991 as the third single from their debut album C.M.B. As a number-one single, it replaced Michael Jackson's "Black or White" and was then replaced by Elton John and George Michael's "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" in early 1992. It was the band's second number-one single in the US, and also their last one. The recording contains elements and/or samples of the 1966 minor R&B hit "Patch My Heart" by The Mad Lads. In 2002, Stevie Brock covered it as his first single.Wikipedia
CeCe Peniston - We Got A Love Thang HD andrew91118 2014-09-22 | "We Got a Love Thang" is a 1992 song by American musician CeCe Peniston, originally released on her debut album, Finally.The song was co-written by Chantay Savage, and became the second number one hit for the artist, remaining on the top of the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart two weeks. In the United Kingdom the title scored number six, while on the Hot 100 it reached number twenty.Wikipedia
Robert John - Sad Eyes HD andrew91118 2014-09-22 | "Sad Eyes" is a song written and recorded by Robert John, and released in April 1979. It debuted May 19 on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching the top of the chart on October 6."Sad Eyes" is one of 1979's few non-disco, or disco-influenced songs to top the pop charts, along with Peaches & Herb's "Reunited".Wikipedia
Steely Dan - Do It Again Live At The Midnight Special HD andrew91118 2014-09-21 | "Do It Again" is a tune composed by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, performed by American jazz-rock group Steely Dan, which was released as a single from their 1972 debut album Can't Buy a Thrill. The single version differed from the album version, shortening the intro and outro and omitting the organ solo.Released in 1972, the song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 18, 1972, and reached number 6 on the US charts in 1973, making it Steely Dan's second highest charting single.[3]On the 1972 release, the song was credited as "Trad" (for traditional), although it was actually written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen.It was also included in the 2008 video game Guitar Hero World Tour.Wikipedia
Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi HD andrew91118 2014-09-13 | "Ça plane pour moi" (French pronunciation: [sa plan puʁ mwa]) is a 1977 song by the Belgian singer Plastic Bertrand. Despite being credited to him, the vocals were actually performed by the record's producer, Lou Deprijck. The song was composed by Yvan Lacomblez. "Jet Boy, Jet Girl", an adaptation recorded in November 1977 by Elton Motello, has the same backing track. The song was covered by many artists, though Plastic Bertrand's original recording was the most successful, reaching no. 8 on the UK charts in the summer of 1978. While mainly regarded as a punk song,"Ça plane pour moi" has also been described as parody punk and as new wave."Ça plane pour moi" is a French idiomatic expression which is best translated as "everything's going well for me" (literally: "it is gliding for me")Wikipedia
Owen Paul - My Favourite Waste Of Time HD andrew91118 2014-09-12 | "My Favourite Waste of Time" (also known as "You're My Favourite Waste of Time") is a song written and first released by American singer/songwriter Marshall Crenshaw. His 1979 home demo of the song was released as the B-side of his 1982 hit "Someday Someway".The song is best known in the UK as a single recorded by Scottish singer Owen Paul and released in 1986. It remains his biggest hit single, reaching number 3 on the UK chart in July 1986. Paul is usually considered as a "one-hit wonder" because of the song's popularity and the fact that it was his only UK chart single.This recording features future Thunder member Mark Luckhurst on bass. It was famously aborted on the television programme Pebble Mill at One when the band members just stood still instead of miming as they were unable to hear the backing trackWikipedia
Joe King Carrasco - Party Weekend HD andrew91118 2014-09-05 | Joe King Carrasco, who is known as the king of Tex-Mex Rock n Roll,[citation needed] mixes Nuevo Wavo rock and Latin rhythms. In the 7th grade he started playing in garage bands in the west Texas town of Dumas, Texas. He was often found on the beaches of Mexico, falling in love with the Mexican music. Back in Texas he formed the band Joe King Carrasco and El Molino, which included many of the future members of the Texas Tornados. He released “Tex-Mex Rock & Roll”, his first LP in 1979.Carrasco was interviewed in Rolling Stone Magazine and appeared on Saturday Night Live. His song Party Weekend was re-recorded by MTV as Party Christmas, and that video is still a popular "share" every Christmas among Facebook fans.Wikipedia
Freur - Doot Doot andrew91118 2014-09-01 | Doot-Doot is the debut studio album by Freur and was released in 1983. The cassette version of the album included four extra tracks. The lead single, Doot-Doot, charted at 59 on the UK Singles Chart.
Red Rockers - China HD andrew91118 2014-08-31 | Red Rockers were a musical band from New Orleans, Louisiana, active from 1979 to 1985. They are best known for their 1983 hit single "China"China" was originally one of the ten songs on Red Rockers' second full-length album, Good as Gold. The single was released by the joint label Columbia/415.[1] In the wake of 415's deal with Columbia, "Voice of America" was relegated to the B-side of the single, and "China" became the breakout single for the band.[2] Although the song did not reach the Billboard Top Ten, it had an enduring lifespan. The song's popularity was enhanced by its colorful music video, which was a regular selection on MTV during its early years. The video was filmed in New Orleans, the band's hometown."China" was described by rock critic Ira Robbins as "a startlingly pretty pop song", and it represented a major change in the sound and style of Red Rockers: "Gone was the raging rhetoric, replaced by... articulate, ringing guitars and John Griffith's newly smoothed-up vocals."[4]"China" was included on Rhino Records' new wave compilation album series, Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the 80's. In 2000, John Thomas Griffith re-recorded the song with his band Cowboy Mouth for their studio album Easy.In spite of - or perhaps because of - its amorphous qualities, the song remains an accessible touchstone for American pop cultural references to China more than a quarter of a century after its release.Wikipedia
Cutting Crew - Ive Been In Love Before HD andrew91118 2014-08-26 | Cutting Crew are an English rock band formed in 1985. They are best remembered for their hit singles, "(I Just) Died in Your Arms" and "I've Been in Love Before."Their first album, Broadcast, was released on Virgin Records in 1986. Although Virgin Records was already a major label in the UK, their debut song, "(I Just) Died in Your Arms", provided the first US hit for Virgin as a full-fledged label. Virgin flew the band to New York City for initial recordings of the album, then to Australia to shoot music videos. The unknown band shot to No. 1 in the major US market, as well as smaller markets such as Canada and Norway, with their debut single. Their most popular single, it was a multiformat success in the US, where it also reached number four on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, No. 24 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart and —in an extended remix version— No. 37 on the Hot Dance/Club Play chart. The song peaked at No. 4 in another major market, the UK Singles Chart, as well as becoming a hit in the smaller Switzerland and South Africa markets. It went to No. 2 in Sweden and Ireland, and No. 9 in Austria.[1]The choice for follow-up single in the UK had been "I've Been In Love Before", but that song spent only three weeks in the UK Top 40, peaking at No. 31. Their choice for follow-up single in the US was their third UK release, "One for the Mockingbird", but the song was a relative commercial disappointment on both sides of the Atlantic, just cracking the Top 40 of the Hot 100 at No. 38 and hitting No. 29 on the Mainstream Rock chart in the US, No. 47 in Canada and No. 52 in the UK Singles Chart.The band took a chance on "I've Been in Love Before" again, this time with greater success. The song became Cutting Crew's second US Top 10 on the Hot 100, peaking at No. 9, and was their first major hit on the US Adult Contemporary chart, where it peaked at No. 4. This success prompted a UK re-release, and this time it spent five weeks in the UK Singles Chart Top 40, peaking at No. 24. The song failed to chart throughout most of Europe, but it peaked at No. 8 in Canada. Despite an unflattering review by Rolling Stone magazine, Cutting Crew received a Grammy nomination as the Best New Artist of 1987.Wikipedia
Latin Quarter - Radio Africa HD andrew91118 2014-08-26 | "Radio Africa" by a band called Latin Quarter. Sounding like a cross between UB40's "Food For Thought" and Billy Bragg's political tinged folk songs, "Radio Africa" lamented the social and economic impact of Western economic aid on the state of newly independent African countries who struggled with crushing debt payments, Dictators, civil war, famine and the horrors of apartheid. Radio Africa" (which was included on the band's excellent but overlooked album "Modern Times") quietly channeled the socially conscious rage of the The Clash, The Specials and The Selecter into an intelligent and thoughtful meditation on geopolitics. As it turned out, the band and "Radio Africa" made an impression on the British music buying public, reaching as high as #19 in the charts.http://marcoonthebass.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-story-behind-latin-quarters-1986.html
Black - Sweetest Smile HD andrew91118 2014-08-25 | "Sweetest Smile" is a song performed by Black, recorded on the album Wonderful Life in 1987. The song appeared in the Miami Vice episode "Blood And Roses".Wonderful Life was the debut album for Black. They had no singles chart in the US, but "Sweetest Smile" was a UK Top 10 single.Wiki
George Benson - Give Me The Night HD andrew91118 2014-08-25 | "Give Me the Night" is a song by American jazz musician George Benson, from his studio album of the same name (1980). It was written and composed by former Heatwave keyboard player Rod Temperton and produced by Quincy Jones. Patti Austin provides the backing and scat vocals that are heard throughout.[1] Lee Ritenour also appears on the track. The song was a commercial success, becoming Benson's first single to hit number one on the US Billboard Soul Singles chart. It also peaked at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it his most successful pop entry.[2] It also peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot Disco Singles chart[3] and at number seven in the UK Singles Chart[4] "Give Me the Night" was one of the last disco singles to become a major success with the steady decline of the genre in the early 1980s.Wikipedia
Temptations - Papa Was A Rollin Stone HD andrew91118 2014-08-25 | "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" is a psychedelic soul song, written by Motown songwriters Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong as a single for Motown act The Undisputed Truth in 1971. This version of "Papa" was released as a single in early 1972, and peaked at number 63 on the pop charts and number 24 on the R&B charts.Later in 1972, Whitfield, who also produced the song, took "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" and remade it as a 12-minute record for The Temptations, which was a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and won three Grammy Awards in 1973. While the original Undisputed Truth version of the song has been largely forgotten, The Temptations' version of the song has been an enduring and influential soul classic. It was ranked #168 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, one of the group's three songs on the list. In retrospect, The Temptations' Otis Williams considers "Papa" to be the last real classic the group recorded.Wikipedia
Blancmange - Blind Vision HD andrew91118 2014-06-11 | Blancmange was formed in Harrow, Middlesex in 1979 by singer Neil Arthur (born 15 June 1958, Darwen, Lancashire) and instrumentalists Stephen Luscombe (born 29 October 1954, Hillingdon, Middlesex) and Laurence Stevens. Stevens left shortly after the band was formed, and Arthur and Luscombe continued as a duo. The duo released their first EP, Irene and Mavis, the following year, but their first real exposure came via a track on the seminal Some Bizzare Album, alongside fellow acts Soft Cell and Depeche Mode. This led to them signing a recording contract with London Records.The duo found minor success with their 1982 double A-sided single, "God's Kitchen"/"I've Seen the Word", which peaked at no. 65 in the UK. This was followed by "Feel Me", which peaked at no. 46. Later that year, they broke through with "Living on the Ceiling", which reached no. 7 in the UK Singles Chart. Their debut album, Happy Families (which featured a sleeve painting in the style of Louis Wain), also reached the top 30.Further hits followed with "Waves" (no. 19), "Blind Vision" (no. 10), "That's Love That It Is" (no. 33) and "Don't Tell Me" (no. 8), while their second album Mange Tout (1984) also reached no. 8 in the UK Albums Chart. The album featured a cover version of ABBA's "The Day Before You Came", which reached no. 22 in the UK (slightly higher than Abba's original less than two years earlier). However, after this, the band's fortunes declined. Their 1985 single "What's Your Problem" only reached no. 40, and the subsequent album Believe You Me spent only two weeks in the UK Albums Chart, peaking at no. 54.[1] Blancmange formally split up in 1987.Wikipedia
S Express - Theme From S Express HD andrew91118 2014-06-11 | "Theme from S-Express" is an acid house song by English dance music band S'Express from their album Original Soundtrack. It peaked at No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart in April 1988 for two weeks.One of the landmarks of early acid house and late 1980s sampling culture, the single became an instant hit upon its release in April 1988. Written and produced by Mark Moore and Pascal Gabriel the song samples liberally from many songs, including heavy sampling from Rose Royce's "Is It Love You're After" and TZ's "I Got the Hots for You". The hi-hat is sampled from an aerosol spray.The track's "S express" refrain makes reference to the 42nd Street Shuttle, or, as it is sometimes known, the "S Express", a well-known line on the New York City Subway.The song reached number one on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in April 1988.[1] It fared less well in the United States where it scraped into the Billboard Hot 100 at number 91, but it reached number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. It peaked at number 11 in Australia and number two in West Germany.The song was featured in the film Arthur and the Invisibles.The Norwegian Broadcasting Company used parts of the song for the intro music of their weekly sports programme.Wikipedia
The Other Ones - We Are What We Are HD andrew91118 2014-06-09 | The Other Ones was a band that consisted mainly of Australians, but was based in Berlin, Germany in the late 1980s. The band consisted of Alf Klimek (vocals), Jayney Klimek (vocals), Johnny Klimek (bass), Andreas Schwarz-Ruszczynski (guitars), Stephan Gottwald (keyboards) and Uwe Hoffmann (drums).Their first single "We Are What We Are" peaked at #53 on May 30, 1987 Wikipedia
Howard Jones - Like To Get To Know You Well London Version HD andrew91118 2014-06-09 | "Like to Get to Know You Well" is a single by musician Howard Jones released in the second half of 1984, which was subsequently included on his twelve inch remix album The 12" Album. The single climbed to number four on the UK Singles Chart and was featured on the soundtrack to the John Cusack movie "Better off Dead" as his character, "Lane Myers" and "Monique" (French foreign exchange student) work on Lane's 1967 Camaro towards the end of the movie.The sleeve carried the motto "Dedicated to the original spirit of the Olympic Games". The extended version, subtitled "International Remix", featured Jones singing in English, German and French.The song was included as a bonus track on the singer's second studio album, Dream Into Action.Wikipedia
Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love Live At Revolution Club 1968 HD andrew91118 2014-06-08 | "Sunshine of Your Love" is a 1967 song by the British rock band Cream, written by Jack Bruce, Pete Brown and Eric Clapton. It was originally released on the album Disraeli Gears in November 1967, and was later released as a single in January 1968. It is Cream's only gold-selling single in the United States. It features a distinctive electric/bass guitar riff and a guitar solo from Clapton.Development of the song began when Bruce and Clapton attended The Jimi Hendrix Experience show at the Saville Theatre in London. After the concert, Bruce returned home and wrote the riff that runs throughout the song. Most of the lyrics to "Sunshine of Your Love" were written during an all-night creative session between Bruce and Brown, a poet who worked with the band: "I picked up my double bass and played the riff. Pete looked out the window and the sun was coming up. He wrote 'It's getting near dawn and lights close their tired eyes...Clapton later wrote the song's bridge which also yielded the song's title.Clapton's guitar tone on the song is created using his 1964 Gibson SG guitar (the famous "Fool" guitar) through a wah-wah pedal and a Marshall amplifier. The song is renowned among guitarists as perhaps the best example of his legendary late-1960s "woman tone", a thick yet articulate sound that many have tried to emulate. For the solo, Clapton played the opening lines from the pop standard "Blue Moon", creating a contrast between the sun and the moon.Drummer Ginger Baker came up with the song's tempo, which was based on African drumming. Engineer Tom Dowd later claimed to have suggested the drum part, but Baker insists that he was indeed the one who came up with the drum pattern and didn't receive writing credit: "not even a thank you!"The drumming on the first two verses emphasises beats one and three, contrary to rock and roll standard practice, which emphasises beats two and four.Cream's American record label, Atlantic, did not like the song originally and was not going to release it, but changed their mind when Booker T. Jones (of Booker T. & the M.G.'s, whose Stax label was at the time distributed by Atlantic) said he liked the song. The 1970s disco and funk band Chic while also signed to Atlantic Records, during the birth of their classic hit single "Le Freak," were inspired by the song.Wikipedia
Stealers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You HD andrew91118 2014-06-07 | "Stuck in the Middle with You" (sometimes known as "Stuck in the Middle" is a song written by Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan and originally performed by their band Stealers Wheel. The song was inspired by a real occasion when the record company and producers were conducting business across Rafferty and Egan at a restaurant table."Stuck in the Middle" was released on Stealers Wheel's 1972 self-titled debut album. Gerry Rafferty provided the lead vocals, with Joe Egan singing harmony. The song was conceived initially by the band members as a parody of Bob Dylan's distinctive lyrical style and paranoia. The band was surprised by the single's chart success. The single sold over one million copies, eventually peaking in 1973 at #6 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and #8 in the UK Singles Chart. It was produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.The song was used in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 debut film Reservoir Dogs, during the scene in which Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen) taunts and tortures a bound police officer while singing and dancing to the song. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Tarantino recalled"That was one of those things where I thought [the song] would work really well, and [during] auditions, I told the actors that I wanted them to do the torture scene, and I'm gonna use 'Stuck in the Middle With You,' but they could pick anything they wanted, they didn't have to use that song. And a couple people picked another one, but almost everyone came in with 'Stuck in the Middle With You,' and they were saying that they tried to come up with something else, but that's the one. The first time somebody actually did the torture scene to that song, the guy didn't even have a great audition, but it was like watching the movie. I was thinking, 'Oh my God, this is gonna be awesome!' "Wikipedia
Greg Kihn Band - Jeopardy HD andrew91118 2014-06-07 | "Jeopardy" is a hit song released in 1983 by The Greg Kihn Band on their album Kihnspiracy. It is the band's first and only Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, reaching #2 in May 1983 (behind Michael Jackson's "Beat It") and also hitting #1 on the dance charts for two weeks a month earlier. The song is written in the key of D minor. The song switches to the relative F Major Key in the song's Pre-Chorus.Wiipedia
Band AID - Do They Know It´s Christmas HD andrew91118 2014-06-05 | "Do They Know It's Christmas?" is a song written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in 1984 to raise money for relief of the 1983--1985 famine in Ethiopia. The original version was produced by Midge Ure and released by Band Aid on 29 November 1984.[1]In October 1984, a BBC report by Michael Buerk was aired in the UK, which highlighted the famine that had hit the people of Ethiopia. Irish singer Bob Geldof saw the report and wanted to raise money.[2] He called Midge Ure from Ultravox and together they quickly co-wrote the song, "Do They Know It's Christmas?".[1]Geldof kept a November appointment with BBC Radio 1 DJ Richard Skinner to appear on his show, but instead of discussing his new album (the original reason for his booking), he used his airtime to publicise the idea for the charity single, so by the time the musicians were recruited there was intense media interest in the subject. Geldof put together a group called Band Aid, consisting of leading British and Irish musicians who were among the most popular of the era.[3][4] On 25 November 1984, the song was recorded at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London, and was released four days later.[3][5]The 1984 original became the biggest selling single in UK Singles Chart history, selling a million copies in the first week alone. It stayed at Number 1 for five weeks, becoming Christmas number one, and has sold 3.7 million copies domestically.[6] It remained the highest selling single in UK chart history until 1997, when Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" was released in tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales, which sold almost 5 million copies in Britain.[7] Worldwide, the single had sold 11.8 million copies by 1989.[8]Following the release of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in December 1984 and record sales in aid of famine relief, Geldof then set his sights on staging a huge concert, 1985's Live Aid, to raise further funds.[2]The song was re-recorded in 1989 by Band Aid II and in 2004 by Band Aid 20, again raising funds for famine relief. The 2004 version of the song sold 1.17 million copies.Wikipedia
