‘Luther, you’re too comfortable sitting on that stool singing “ooh and aaah.”‘ Roberta was single-handedly responsible for me starting my own career.” What pushed her was hearing the demo of “Never Too Much” — one of the most buoyant love songs of the Eighties, with Vandross’...
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61 daft punk made the leap from the house and techno scene into fully realized pop music on this elastic disco epiphany, one of the decade’s most surprisingly influential songs. the french duo sprayed eighties metal-guitar cheese all over the galaxy on “one more time,” perfectly in step...
It came out at the brink of the eighties to give Toto a leg up to "A" list status. The long version from the original album is the only one to listen to, as the subtle nuances that made this song so great are all there. This is top 10. No idea why "I Will Remember" didn't...
the UK's Official Singles Chart with Now And Then, setting a new record for the longest time span between an artist's first and last Number 1. Now And Then reached the top of the Official Chart 60 years and 6 months after The Beatles' First Number 1 - From Me To You in May 1963...
During the eighties, various issues forced Sayer to step back from the spotlight but he continued to write songs for the likes of Cliff Richard. Leo Sayer had a career resurgence in 2006 when his song Thunder In My Heart became his second Number 1, due to being remixed by DJ Meck. In...
Eighties synthpop can seem kitsch today because it was so aggressively determined to sound like the future back then. Why is ‘Blue Monday’ different? Why does it still feel like the future? From that utterly distinctive bass drum intro to Bernard Sumner’s eerie, oblique ‘how does it fee...
3. The Smiths, “How Soon Is Now” 4. Talk Talk, “It’s My Life” 5. The Psychedelic Furs, “The Ghost in You” 6. New Order, “Thieves Like Us” 7. Killing Joke, “Eighties” 8. Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Dazzle”
Well, there is one limit. To prevent one-note fans from, say, simply listing every track offThe Head on the Door, you may only vote for amaximum of two songs by the same artistwhen filling out your Top 25. Any ballots submitted with more than two songs by the same artist will be ...
a couple of keyboards and a bunch of backing tapes, and that’ll be it. Over the years, we’ve vastly improved since our heyday back in the Eighties.”Roland Orzabal adds,“We’ve never released an official live album, so you could say this is an album forty ye...