Level 42 – Something About You (Shep Pettibone Remix)
Alison Moyet – All Cried Out (Extended Version)
12 Inches
Swing Out Sister – Twilight World (Superb Superb Mix)
Number 41 in an occasional series of reviews of my favourite 80s […]
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Soft Cell – Torch (Extended version)
#42 Denise Lasalle – My Toot Toot Number 42 in an occasional […]
Alphaville – Big In Japan (Extended Version)
Coming off the back of the emergent European electronic age, Germany’s Alphaville’s first single struck a chord with people around the world. Apparently influenced by Men Without Hats’ Safety Dance (you can certainly hear the influences)
Paul Hardcastle – 19 (Destruction Mix)
Let’s face it, if you’re here looking at this list with any passing interest this track needs no introducton really. Recorded by Paul Hardcastle having been influenced by watching a late night documentary about the Vietnam war, and what we know as “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder”. Ironically the “19” figure for the age of the soliders is now heavily disputed, but we won’t go there…
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Visage – Fade to Grey (Original 12″ Version)
1980 – The early days of the Blitz club, the birthplace of the New Romantics. Steve Strange’s seminal looks, totally out of kilter with the accepted look of the time, a direct reaction to the death of the punk movement.
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Yello – Lost Again (Extended Version)
Seen by some as the band’s breakthrough record, although chart success would be another couple of years away.
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