Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: geoff on 09 September, 2008, 09:29:54 pm
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I'm racking my brain here...I'm a child of the 60s and 70s and apart from Joy Division came late to realising that there were great bands in the eighties as well. I don't mean the late eighties shoe-gazy stuff but the earlier mostly Manchester (?) bands (The Smiths, The Fall etc) Now there was a great track which I think Mark Radcliffe played on his/Maconie's show a few weeks ago. I don't think it was New Order but that kind of portentous synthy sound. But what/who was it? It's slipped just below my memory so there's not a shred of tune or lyric left...just a feeling a vibe. And no it wasn't Soft Cell either. Human League perhaps?
Help me out here people by listing some faves from the 80s
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That's a bit broad.
Early Ultravox (John Foxx era)? Human League (Sheffield, not Manchester), and the other remnant of the BEF, Heaven 17? Gary Numan? Was it Funky? - Shriekback? was it OMD? Does the show have an online playlist?
Give us a clue...
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Lotus Eaters
The Psychedelic Furs
Furniture
The Icicle Works
Dream Academy
Prefab Sprout
The Passions
The Blow Monkeys
Bauhaus
Big Audio Dynamite
The Primitives
The Fall
Tubeway Army
The Cult
Echo & The Bunnymen
The Cure
The Associates
Spear Of Destiny
The Teardrop Explodes
Fiction Factory
Cocteau Twins
The The
Blancmange
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
Depeche Mode
Sisters Of Mercy
The Mission
The Jesus & Mary Chain
Killing Joke
Fields Of The Nephilim
New Model Army
Pixies
Wedding Present
House of Love
All About Eve
Talking Heads
Talk Talk
Wonderstuff
House of Love
Visage
Landscape
Japan
XTC
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If it involved the aforementioned dream team wobbling on saying that the song was about taking heroin then I believe it was "True Faith" by Manc Monsters of Mung, New Order.
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Kirst that looks like the playlist I had to delete from one of our work servers! Turned out we'd hired a new goth nurse on the night-shift...
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Are we talking stuff with credibility, or anything?
Duran Duran (they started with credibility)
Frankie Goes To Hollywood (believe me, they had credibility)
Furniture
Happy Mondays
Joy Division
New Order
Stone Roses
etc etc
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Kirst that looks like the playlist I had to delete from one of our work servers! Turned out we'd hired a new goth nurse on the night-shift...
So? Did you? :D
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Kirst that looks like the playlist I had to delete from one of our work servers!
Why did you delete it? :D
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I needed those umpty-gig of storage for, y'know, medical stuff. And I am, alas, the Fun Police - there's all sorts of dull copyright reasons why we can't allow it.
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yeah...
That's a bit broad.
Early Ultravox (John Foxx era)? Human League (Sheffield, not Manchester), and the other remnant of the BEF, Heaven 17? Gary Numan? Was it Funky? - Shriekback? was it OMD? Does the show have an online playlist?
Give us a clue...
Not Ultravox I just don't have the Midge Ure gene somehow (I sometimes admire but can't like his stuff)
and RZ has his finger on it credibility - yes! But it wasn't Duran Duran or FGTH and it was early/mid 80s so pre-Madchester.
Kirst - what a list! but it's definitely UK and almost certainly from the North. With that synth thing so maybe Depeche Mode, The Teardrop Explodes or HL.
I think I'm going to have to comb the catalogues/youtube etc
Thanks for pointers.
And the lads don't appear to keep their playlists for more than a week. Oh where's John Peel when you need him? Grumble Grumble
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The Blue Nile?
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Kirst that looks like the playlist I had to delete from one of our work servers!
Why did you delete it? :D
...So there I am in the Tech Maintenance workshop, chatting with the engineers over some broken bit of kit, when one of them takes a phone call from one of the editors working in Post Production. His Final Cut Pro system has stopped functioning correctly. Now, this kind of software setup can be delicate - if you don't have exactly the right versions of QuickTime / codecs / Avid Transfer Manager, or whatever, things can go horribly horrible. Supporting that kind of stuff can be a nightmare. Doubly so if people put random bits of software on the system which interfere.
So, I'm looking at the guy, while he's taking the notes, and suddenly, he looks me in the eye with 'that look'* and I hear him ask "...So, just tell me again, why you put i-Tunes on it?" ::-)
* "This user is a tit"
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If it involved the aforementioned dream team wobbling on saying that the song was about taking heroin then I believe it was "True Faith" by Manc Monsters of Mung, New Order.
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Oh and I looked at that - it had the feeling almost but it's not the one. Cut from the same cloth pretty well though. Any other offers?
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what a shame the listing (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/radcliffemaconie/playlist_mon.shtml) doesn't go back that far
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Talk Talk
Kirst you're a genius - the tune is..."It's my Life" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvAVJTQeFiQ)
OK they're from London, I know, still: they could be honorary Northerners....
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Yay for people with too many 80s compilations! ;D