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Any Belinda Carlisle fans?

TheSlayer10TheSlayer10 Posts: 1,866
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I downloaded her greatest hits album and re discovered so many underrated pop classics such as

Heaven is a Place on Earth
Leave the Light On
Summer Rain
Circle in the Sand
My Little Black Book

My fave from her is "We want the same thing" though - just a great great pop song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGa0xPzKLMo

She has such a beautiful voice, I miss her

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    -Sid--Sid- Posts: 29,365
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    Yep, loved her unique, slightly husky sound.

    Circle in the Sand is probably my favourite track of hers.
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    Red+BloodedRed+Blooded Posts: 4,676
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    HeaVEN iS A Place On Earth is a classic, other than that i have heard nothing else from her.
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    marc822marc822 Posts: 3,118
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    In too deep was brilliant.
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    cloudycloudy Posts: 3,446
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    Heaven is a place on Earth was the first single i bought.

    My fav Belinda song is Summer Rain.

    It's about time she made a comeback just sing in English this time Belinda.
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    EtherealEthereal Posts: 36,118
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    Love her. So many classic songs. My favourites are Runaway Horses, Leave A Light On, I Get Weak and We Want The Same Thing. So many more though. :)
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,234
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    I wouldn't say Heaven is a Place on Earth was underated in anyway, it's a classic, still gets huge play in clubs. It's a favourite.

    I had radio on yesterday and they were reviewing charts from Oct 1993 and Big Scary Animal was one of the tracks played - love it - one of those songs with a real good beat and you can belt your heart out to it. Also agree with the poster above In Too Deep was brilliant as was Always Breaking My Heart and California.

    I lovvvve We Want the Same Thing, remember it was used in the 90s for a car advert.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 6,138
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    love California and In Too Deep but much prefer her Go Go's stuff, Beauty and The Beat, Talk Show and God Bless The Go Go's are great albums.
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    Gigi4Gigi4 Posts: 3,631
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    lil lexie wrote: »
    love California and In Too Deep but much prefer her Go Go's stuff, Beauty and The Beat, Talk Show and God Bless The Go Go's are great albums.

    Me, too. I loved the Go-gos but not into her solo music. It's too predictable, MOR and manufactured. She hasn't done much recently but play at endless 80's nostalgia tours just for the money which makes me lose respect for her.
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    RussellIanRussellIan Posts: 12,034
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    I love her earlier stuff. I like quite a few of the tracks on Belinda and Heaven On Earth, but she really comes into her own with Runaway Horses. That's one of my favourite albums of all time; although the songs are all of a particular 'type', it's a very good type and it's extremely consistent across the soundscape of this epic album. I can't listen to it 'in my ears' as it needs to be filling a big space.

    I think she got a tad boring after that, but the goodies did keep coming from album to album. My favourite post 1990 single is definitely 'Always Breaking My Heart', a stomper that unfortunately only momentarily recaptured her best sound, by then she'd slid towards a much more 'mellow' tendency which isn't really my thing.
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    NewWorldManNewWorldMan Posts: 4,908
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    Yes, I have a few of her albums and the greatest hits. Pleasant "pop rock."
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,234
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    Always Breaking My Heart - TUNE
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    darkjedimasterdarkjedimaster Posts: 18,621
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    What a cracking artist she is.

    Heaven is a place on earth
    Leave A Light On
    We want the same thing.

    And when she was in her younger days. I so would :D
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 2,728
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    Ethereal wrote: »
    Love her. So many classic songs. My favourites are Runaway Horses, Leave A Light On, I Get Weak and We Want The Same Thing. So many more though. :)

    Fantastic song.
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    Caramel CrunchCaramel Crunch Posts: 4,744
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    I have a Belinda CD in my car at the moment. I love it.

    Circle in the sand & we want the same thing are my favourites.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 6,138
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    Always Breaking My Heart - TUNE

    I'd completely forgotten about Always Breaking My Heart - it's a fantastic song. I also love the Club Mix of Live Your Life on her GH album.
    Gigi4 wrote: »
    Me, too. I loved the Go-gos but not into her solo music. It's too predictable, MOR and manufactured. She hasn't done much recently but play at endless 80's nostalgia tours just for the money which makes me lose respect for her.

    She did a French album a few years back, I've not heard it but apparently it's woeful according to some of the reviews I've read. The Go-Go's were great though, bubblegum punk with 80's pout attitude.
    One of my personal favs -

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RHTiXvELNg
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,234
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    Big Scary Animal - great song with a great beat
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 53,142
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    yay..i have this album,,great cheesy stuff lol
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    TheSlayer10TheSlayer10 Posts: 1,866
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    Orangemaid wrote: »
    yay..i have this album,,great cheesy stuff lol

    I love EVERYTHING about cheesy 80s pop:D
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 3,360
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    Love pretty much all of her singles though Heaven is a place is still rather over-played even now.

    A couple of her smaller hits that are worth checking out are Mad about you and A world without you.
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    WizardjWizardj Posts: 3,646
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    Heaven Is A Place On Earth is overplayed (and I find it a little boring now :o) but I still like more or less all of her other songs, especially Circle In The Sand, Big Scary Animal and Always Breaking My Heart
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    21stCenturyBoy21stCenturyBoy Posts: 44,506
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    Leave a Light On and I Get Weak are both amazing songs!
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 53
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    Love me some Belinda !!

    In Too Deep and I Get Weak were my faves, but Runaway Horses was a great album too.

    And sooo pretty in the lates 80's early 90's with a little help of course.

    And her son is a big gayer too !!!
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    cnbcwatchercnbcwatcher Posts: 56,681
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    I only know Heaven Is A Place on Earth but I like it and it's a classic song.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 2,139
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    Go-Go's all the way :)
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