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May 25th Bank Holiday 79-81 special
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Message 1.Â
Posted by gidarmy (U7627527) on Tuesday, 5th May 2009
Hellpo,
Dang, there I go again. Never mind that, here's the plan for the Bank holiday on the 25th of May. The three hours will comprise:-
Hour 1 - records and sessions from 1979
Hour 2 - records, sessions and concerts from 1980
Hour 3 - records, sessions and concerts from 1981.
As yet there is no snappy name for this night of musical enjoyment. The Golden Hours is taken. Hopefully you get the idea though and would like to suggest bands, artistes and records to feature in each hour. Even if you were not born until some time in the 1990s I'd hope you have an opinion on this. And the same goes for those born in the 1920s. All opinions and suggestions welcome as ever. Starting... now. -
Message 2
Posted by Al McGregor (U2976807) on Tuesday, 5th May 2009
Here goes:
All Peel session tracks.
1979 - Changeling - Simple Minds (transmitted in 80 but recorded in 79!)
1980 - Change - Killing Joke
1981 - Afterwards - Artery
Great years for music IMHO
Cheers
Al -
Message 3
Posted by Kev Parkes (U2008669) on Tuesday, 5th May 2009
A selection from what my MP3-player tells me were released in each year:
1979:
AC/DC – Touch Too Much
Motörhead – Overkill
Stiff Little Fingers – Wasted Life
The Dickies – Fan Mail
Blackfoot – Train, Train
1980:
Dead Kennedys – Holiday in Cambodia
Iron Maiden – Running Free
B-52's – Give Me Back My Man
Blondie – Call Me
Motörhead – Stone Dead Forever (from the 'The Golden Years' live EP)
1981:
Art Objects – Showing Off to Impress the Girls
Aztec Camera – Just Like Gold
Fischer-Z – Marliese
TV21 – Something's Wrong / The Hidden Voice -
Message 4
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Tuesday, 5th May 2009
What a great idea. It's so strange to find that the most valued things in my compact disc collection are CDs from this time I never had on vinyl! and I could make suggestions to fill a week!
1979 and the world is going 2-Tone! as Poly Styrene didn't say.
So "Message to You Rudy" by the Specials, I think.
Also:
Magazine: Feed The Enemy
Fischer-Z: The Worker ("Bought a '69 Capri, failed its MoT, what a waste of time") (if only he'd heard of Ashes on Mars!)
The Roches - The Hammond Song (not cars either)
1980:
Doubtless the Minds'
New Gold Dream (81-82-83-EIGHTY FOUR!) is from 1980. I used to listen to the cassette in 1983 so how would I know? (never bought the compact disc) Talk about living the dream!
Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls: Dream Sequence 1
XTC: Towers of London
John Foxx: No-one Driving (album version)
OMD: Red Frame / White Light
1981:
Kraftwerk: Pocket Calculator
Depeche Mode: Just Can't Get Enough
Joy Division: Dead Souls -
Message 5
Posted by binky84c (U13898791) on Tuesday, 5th May 2009
79' ~ The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night
80' ~ The Fall - How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'
81' ~ Pigbag - Papa's Got A Brand-New Pigbag -
Message 6
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Tuesday, 5th May 2009
1981 - Soft Boys - Only the stones remain. (SP)
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Message 7
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Tuesday, 5th May 2009
The name for this evening is obvious.
New "Old" Dream! -
Message 8
Posted by the_roofdog (U9532299) on Tuesday, 5th May 2009
You could call part 1 'Armagideon Time'. A few random favourites that spring to mind:
79
The Teardrop Explodes - Bouncing Babies
The Crusaders - Street Life
80
David Bowtie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
Funkadelic - (Not Just) Knee Deep
81
Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood
The Freshies - I can't get 'Bouncing Babies' by the Teardrop Explodes
Symmetry. -
Message 9
Posted by Cyril Benson in Penrith (U2611279) on Wednesday, 6th May 2009
I feel the urge to quote from Steve Bell's "If" strip in Monday's Guardian, parodying Thatcher's acceptance speech:
"Where there is disco, may we bring New Romantic 5h1t..."
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Message 10
Posted by Bargeman (U1017072) on Wednesday, 6th May 2009
Hellpo,
Are we allowed artists to feature for every one of the years? I've no idea what fell into which year, but favourites of the time would be David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Joy Division / New Order and the Cure, so it would be great to hear something from each of them for each year - would that be weird? I wouldn't want it to be at the expense of other good stuff.
Great idea for the show anyway, speaking as someone who was a teenager during those years -
Message 11
Posted by tangerio (U9641980) on Wednesday, 6th May 2009
Sounds like a perfect opportunty to play
The Bureau - Let Him Have It (1981)
The Quads - ther Must Be Thousands (1979)
Don't let it pass you by.... -
Message 12
Posted by Lee1975 (U4412355) on Thursday, 7th May 2009
Apologies to those who may have already suggested some of the following, but how about...
Transmission - Joy Division (1979)
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson (1979)
Electricity - OMD (1979)
Is it Love You're After - Rose Royce (1979)
Highway to Hell - AC/DC (1979)
This Must be Hell - Horace Andy and Hedley Bennett (1979)
9 to 5 - Dolly Parton (1980)
Mirror in the Bathroom - the Beat (1980)
I'm Coming Out - Diana Ross (1980)
Phantom of the Opera - Iron Maiden (1980)
Can You Feel It - the Jacksons (1980)
Love on the Rocks - Neil Diamond (1980)
The Breaks - Kurtis Blow (1980)
Stop the Cavalry - Jona Lewie (1980) (bit of a long shot I'll grant you but thought it might spark some debate in the studio at least)
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye - Soft Cell (1981)
Open Your Heart - the Human League (1981)
Computer Love - Kraftwerk (1981)
Ceremony - New Order (1981)
Any Second Now (Voices) - Depeche Mode (1981)
Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie and the Banshees (1981)
Telephone and Rubber Band - the Penguin Cafe Orchestra (1981)
Labelled with Love - Squeeze (1981)
Pull Up to the Bumper - Grace Jones (1981)
Some serious, some not so serious but mostly quality tunes I reckon. -
Message 13
Posted by CardiffGentleman (U13471703) on Thursday, 7th May 2009
What can I say - age 14 -16 during these years and the world seemed endlessly simple and scary in equal measure.
This could easily overlap with the Rough Trade night for me.
Started 79 as a kiddy punk ( home made bondage trousers ) so I'd go for the UK Subs,Damned,Ruts,Siouxsie
Got into Joy Division,The Fall,Echo and the Bunnymen ( long coats on a 15 year old
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and finished as a proto positive punk into darker side of stuff Gun Club,Theatre of Hate,and ahem Bauhaus.
Happy days!!! -
Message 14
Posted by Al McGregor (U2976807) on Thursday, 7th May 2009
Sorry to quibble over your fine choices Lee, but Hong Kong Garden, 1981, wasn't it 1978?
Al -
Message 15
Posted by CardiffGentleman (U13471703) on Thursday, 7th May 2009
Yeah, go for Icon.
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Message 16
Posted by Lee1975 (U4412355) on Thursday, 7th May 2009
Hmmmm... Al, you seem to be right. Damn my iTunes Library and it's utterly false dating mechanism.
If that's the case, can I have "Spellbound" instead? I think that was '81, unless I've got that one wrong as well, (entirely possible).
Harumph. -
Message 17
Posted by CardiffGentleman (U13471703) on Friday, 8th May 2009
Can I have another go?
I forgot
Misty in Roots - Live at the Counter Eurovision (1979)
Gang of Four - Entertainment (1979)
and the Daddy of all single just sneaking in in 1981 Release the Bats by the Birthday Party -
Message 18
Posted by Ade Brown (U9691169) on Saturday, 9th May 2009
In those three years I was 16-18 years old.
Something tells me I was listening to a lot of Two Tone, UB40, Squeeze, Dexy's Midnight Runners, The Police and probably my friends' New Romantics or Heavy Metals.
I played the part of Jan Leeming in the end of school review that we loosely based on Not The Nine O'Clock News. So more accurately I played Pamela Stephenson's impersonation of Jan Leeming (it was a Boys' school by the way).
I'm not helping am I?
I also played the part of "Mr Chester fighting his way out of a paper bag" (he was in the audience though) and got my only ever cheers on stage when I burst the bag to put my hand through the hole. Talking of school, on the sad occasion of John Lennon's death, I heard "working class hero" for the first time in the 6th form common room, and at the end of the week, a school disco witnessed the dance floor emptied of moping boys at the sound of "Imagine", so the DJ entreated us with "come on, John Lennon would want you to enjoy yourselves".
It was OMD and Soft Cell for 1980.
That's quite a turning point for me, even though was not to meet my musical mentor until 1982 (and immediately was introduced to lots of excellent stuff from the preceding decade).
Oh and I would have seen Bucks Fizz and Kim Wilde - NOT ON THE SAME BILL ! - at the New Street Odeon. -
Message 19
Posted by Ade Brown (U9691169) on Saturday, 9th May 2009
Oooh, Nods to whoever said Fischer Z !
"Marliese" would be my first choice, but I recall the saucy "Room Service" for my interpretation of "There's nowhere to put down your tray without moving my clothes".
And definite support for Jona Lewie although I lean towards "Shaggy Raggied" off the b-side of "Shaggy Raggy" or "Rearranging The Deckchairs on The Titanic" for reasons of over-familiarity with the Party Kitchen. And wilful obscurity. -
Message 20
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Monday, 11th May 2009
I reckon "Red Skies Over Paradise" was perhaps the best Fischer-Z.
You don't have to have camped on Greenham Common to enjoy the lines:
"They think the ultimate solution
To all the problems that we face
Is pointing rockets at the Russians
And hope they don't end up in Greece!"
Reminds you how real the Cold War was then.
That was "Cruise Missiles", though IIRC before Desert Storm some fool had designed Scud-busting Patriots with a clock that worked on tenths of a second - unlike twelfths of a second, not clearly definable in binary. So Patriots had regularly to be recalibrated!
As for "Marliese", I agree that's how Fischer-Z spelt it. Should have been "Marlies". (two syllables). I always presumed the old Nazi actress in the film "Fatherland" must have been called Marlies...
And "Red Skies Over Paradise" was 1981... -
Message 21
Posted by blind-opera-singer (U8925741) on Thursday, 14th May 2009
1979
Joy Division 'Disorder'
Buzzcocks 'Hollow Inside' (Peel session)
PiL 'Poptones'
1980
Young Marble Giants 'Final Day'
Magazine 'Twenty Years Ago'
Echo & The Bunnymen 'Going Up'
1981
New Order 'Dreams Never End'
Josef K 'It's Kinda Funny'
Heaven 17 '(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang' -
Message 22
Posted by purrmeister (U11445326) on Friday, 15th May 2009
1979 -
Japan - Life in Tokyo
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Patti Smith - Dancing Barefoot
Will have to trawl through said record collection for the rest (says whilst sneezing due to being in attic.......) -
Message 23
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Friday, 15th May 2009
Will have to trawl through said record collection for the rest (says whilst sneezing due to being in attic.......)Â watch out for Peppa Pig! *snort*
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Message 24
Posted by thelonious9 (U13973472) on Monday, 18th May 2009
Here are a few suggestions from the other side of the pond:
1979 - It's Money That I Love by Randy Newman
1980 - Too Many Creeps by The Bush Tetras
1981 - Help Me Somebody by Byrne/Eno -
Message 25
Posted by standupandspit (U10636421) on Monday, 18th May 2009
Went to see the Members on Saturday night 16-05-09 @ Sheffield Boardwalk … they were FANTASTIC…… so my shout for 79-81 is Solitary Confinement, ok was written in 78, but reworked and put out as the b side to Off Shore Banking Business … and was a track on 79's At The Chelsea Night Club LP
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Message 26
Posted by gingerste (U13973526) on Monday, 18th May 2009
1979: surely Pop Musik by M was from 1979, I remember it being played by Peter Powell after I got home from school (first year at Grammar)
1980: It has to be Flight by A Certain Ratio; or maybe the flipside And then again; or perhaps Messages by OMD, World of Water by New Music, one of the two hits by The Korgis, Underpass by John Foxx or Mr Clarinet by The Birthday Party or Gathering Dust by Modern English.
1981: Everything’s Gone Green (7" GN:HARD) by New Order or maybe You’re No Good by ESG, Nightshift by The Names or even Never Known by The Durutti Column or Kids in America by Kim Wilde!
See a pattern emerging? The psychiatrist says my obsession will pass!
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Message 27
Posted by LeSlacker (U12290953) on Tuesday, 19th May 2009
In 1981 I spent my weekends travelling the country to watch Channon and Keegan play for Southampton. My mate Pete was the only one with a car. He also had a tape of the 1980 Festive fifty which got played every week.
Everyone liked the Clash, Damned, Jam and Pistols tracks, controversially Pete hadn't recorded the Joy Division song's as he found them too depressing, but the one that sorted out the Indie boys from the rockers was 'How I Wrote Elastic Man' by The Fall. This would often lead to unrest from some of the passengers.
Can it please be included on the bank holiday show?
A lot has changed in the last 30 years.
Saints may now be in Administration but Mark E Smith keeps rolling on! -
Message 28
Posted by gilbo79 (U13975607) on Wednesday, 20th May 2009
Music for The Modern World.
1979
The Chords - Now It's Gone
The Purple Hearts - Millions Like Us
Leighton Buzzards - Saturday Night
The Members - Offshore Banking Business
The Teenbeats - Strength of The Nation
Secret Affair -Let Your Heart Dance
The Jam - Strange Town
1980
The Chords - British Way of Life
Long Tall Shorty - If I Was You
Small Hours - The Kid
Secret Affair - My World
The Moondogs - Who's Gonna Tell Mary
1981
Stiff Little Fingers - Just Fade Away
Dolly Mixture - Been Teen
The Heartbeats - Go!
The Jam - Funeral Pyre
Rudi - When I Was Dead
Gilbo -
Message 29
Posted by Nigel Smith (U4309572) on Wednesday, 20th May 2009
We've just published a post on the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Music blog that Gideon's written about Monday's show:
The photo on it is of a single called Bank Holiday Weekend by Seventeen that was released in 1979. I have no idea whether it's any good but Seventeen were the band that became The Alarm. -
Message 30
Posted by Bargeman (U1017072) on Thursday, 21st May 2009
I may be a little late now, but just come accross 'smash hits 1981' cd (£2.98 at a popular online store) and aside from Echo and the bunnymen, New Order and Dollar, the absolute top track, rarely heard, has to be O Superman by Laurie Anderson.
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Message 31
Posted by Lee1975 (U4412355) on Thursday, 21st May 2009
Bargeman - Can't believe I missed that one. Come on Gid, even you must be tempted to hear Dollar's "Mirror Mirror" again? There's some fine slap bass towards the middle too.
The video is everything you could possibly hope it to be.
See if you can decide which of the duo had used the most hairspray. I am guessing it was a "No naked flames on set" video shoot.
Must be worth a spin on Monday, surely? -
Message 32
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Monday, 25th May 2009
O Superman - ah ah ah ah!
Has to be listened to on a 1960s Roberts radio in a draughty stone student cell.
Am I the only one who imagines Alexei Sayle when hearing this?
*gets coat* -
Message 33
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Tuesday, 26th May 2009
Can I just say the show was marvellous last night.
Though I was unaware of the work of the Stranglers in their "stylophone" period (the £3.14 I had shelled out for "Black and White" marking their high point for me).
All that variety! It may exist today but only samey stuff seems to get played. In those days, if you didn't like a tune, a completely different one would be along in three minutes.
But is 1979 really THIRTY YEARS ago, as in two 15-year-olds? Gideon, you have made a happy man very old.
Of the three years, I liked 1979 particularly. Mind you, that was the year that was measured at the time, ticking away and finally running out with the cake decorating set offer of the Cure's "so what?" so that's no surprise really. So much to pack into just one year! It was measured and not found wanting.
The passionsession was a true hidden treasure of the kind you find under a bush in Bedfordshire.
And how much did Simple Minds rock? They made the Skids look like Altered Images at a tea party and the Associates' music sound like a Radio 4 theme tune. To tell the truth, they made the KLF look like a group which had money to burn.
Thanks again! -
Message 34
Posted by Al McGregor (U2976807) on Tuesday, 26th May 2009
Well said Tolhurst!
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Message 35
Posted by purrmeister (U11445326) on Tuesday, 26th May 2009
We've just published a post on the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Music blog that Gideon's written about Monday's show:
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Read it and very erudite - just like Gid. Personally I would rather he spend his time playing great music and chatting - regular blogs and all twitters can go somewhere else (sorry if that sounds rude, it's not meant to be).
Just settling down to catch up on the Bank Holiday Special - ahhh, the wonders of iPlayer (keeping fingers crossed it won't throw a wobbler).
A great start to the week
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Message 36
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Tuesday, 26th May 2009
Read it and very erudite - just like GidÂ
That's us all over, really - staring at the erudite boys... -
Message 37
Posted by purrmeister (U11445326) on Tuesday, 26th May 2009
That's us all over, really - staring at the erudite boys...Â
- there's not one for 'groaning' whilst rolling eyes heavenwards! -
Message 38
Posted by Cyril Benson in Penrith (U2611279) on Sunday, 31st May 2009
*listens again, as sands of time trickle*
ahhh - New Musik! Good to hear them on the radio! erm - laptop... -
Message 39
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Monday, 1st June 2009
Listen again! what with listening to Birdsong DAB fall off its perch, I'd forgotten to listen to this great show again!
Now I only have the afternoon left to do so... -
Message 40
Posted by Cyril Benson in Penrith (U2611279) on Monday, 1st June 2009
*looks smug* I'm into the 1981 segment with 6 hours to spare!
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Message 41
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Monday, 1st June 2009
well, I've just listened to 1979 again. Quick.
It's a real pyramid of chocolate-covered treats with which Gid was really spoiling us.
Is this the right time to ask why the opening words to Simple Minds' "Changeling" are "Underground, overground, wombling free"?
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