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Sara Cox Sounds Of The 80s Radio 2 (Thread )
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Originally Posted by Anthony_Ryan:
“The music on Sounds of the 80's is mostly good, however Sara Cox is the wrong choice of dj, hopefully she will be replaced by Annie Nightingale who unlike Sara Cox does have experience of being on the radio in the 1980's”
“The music on Sounds of the 80's is mostly good, however Sara Cox is the wrong choice of dj, hopefully she will be replaced by Annie Nightingale who unlike Sara Cox does have experience of being on the radio in the 1980's”
Good choice.. IIRC Annie also presented OGWT in the early 80s..
The album track choices of Wet Wet Wet were all a bit predictable, just picking the 3 singles lifted off it during 1987.
Did not like the atrocious top five from this week in 1989 they decided to play this week. Plus it was incorrect by a week. Jive Bunny was No1 this date in 1989 (w/e 21st Oct but made top on Sunday 15th chart show), risen from that No4 position. Best forgotten I tend to agree with what Sara said under her breath.
Did not like the atrocious top five from this week in 1989 they decided to play this week. Plus it was incorrect by a week. Jive Bunny was No1 this date in 1989 (w/e 21st Oct but made top on Sunday 15th chart show), risen from that No4 position. Best forgotten I tend to agree with what Sara said under her breath.
Junior - classif floorfiller just after the Erection Section, before - BOOF! - the main lights come on and it's chucking out time.
Time to get a pizza/KFC/kebab and watch the affray kick off before joining the taxi rank.
Wasn't that our 80s Saturday nights? Or some of the time?
Time to get a pizza/KFC/kebab and watch the affray kick off before joining the taxi rank.
Wasn't that our 80s Saturday nights? Or some of the time?
Originally Posted by alcockell:
“Junior - classif floorfiller just after the Erection Section, before - BOOF! - the main lights come on and it's chucking out time.
Time to get a pizza/KFC/kebab and watch the affray kick off before joining the taxi rank.
Wasn't that our 80s Saturday nights? Or some of the time?”
“Junior - classif floorfiller just after the Erection Section, before - BOOF! - the main lights come on and it's chucking out time.
Time to get a pizza/KFC/kebab and watch the affray kick off before joining the taxi rank.
Wasn't that our 80s Saturday nights? Or some of the time?”
What, when you were about 13 years old like me, at the time Mama Used To Say was a hit record!
What do you think of the show so far, 3 weeks into it and 6 hours downtime?
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“What, when you were about 13 years old like me, at the time Mama Used To Say was a hit record!
What do you think of the show so far, 3 weeks into it and 6 hours downtime?”
“What, when you were about 13 years old like me, at the time Mama Used To Say was a hit record!
What do you think of the show so far, 3 weeks into it and 6 hours downtime?”
Sams (the local disco in Exmouth) had an under-18s night on the Fridays.
It's all right.. but Sara isn't as good at involving the audience via monitoring Twitter in the same way. You can also tell that her knowledge was secondhand.
Originally Posted by alcockell:
“Sams (the local disco in Exmouth) had an under-18s night on the Fridays.
It's all right.. but Sara isn't as good at involving the audience via monitoring Twitter in the same way. You can also tell that her knowledge was secondhand.”
“Sams (the local disco in Exmouth) had an under-18s night on the Fridays.
It's all right.. but Sara isn't as good at involving the audience via monitoring Twitter in the same way. You can also tell that her knowledge was secondhand.”
Tend to agree somewhat with your last point. I'd say she is probably at least a crucial 5 years too young, which short as it sounds does make a big difference if you were born in say 1969/70 or 1975/76 as to how you recall the 1980's. With a show like this, focussing on very recent times it does help to know first hand. Only the very late 80's will be in her case, even though she did mention her memory of Mickey back in 1982 I suppose, when, as she admitted to Toni Basil, she was very young.
When I think of Lisa Stansfield I tend to think predominently 90's, and even Sara Cox & her guest gave a nod to the fact that her debut hit and No1 was from November 1989! Yes, technically it counts but I can't believe that from the riches of the 80's there are not so many potential and clearer 80's people to talk to, especially given that we are only on the 3rd show. Lisa Stansfield is great by the way, and was very interesting, but they had to pad her profile out a bit with the TV aspect in the 80's before her music and wider popularity didn't they.
What guests would people here like to see talking about the 80's? It would be nice to think Holly Johnson was coming up, or Adam Ant, Phil Oakey or Clare Grogan. I did like the particularly leftfield choice of Aneka in the first show 2 weeks ago. More like that would be of interest too. How about the people behind the song at No2 this week in 1981, The Tweets!
Re Toni Basil - I seem to recall that she did the rounds of stuff like Blue Peter, demonstrating body-popping etc,...
Around the time she released Mickey...
Around the time she released Mickey...
Originally Posted by alcockell:
“Re Toni Basil - I seem to recall that she did the rounds of stuff like Blue Peter, demonstrating body-popping etc,...
Around the time she released Mickey...”
“Re Toni Basil - I seem to recall that she did the rounds of stuff like Blue Peter, demonstrating body-popping etc,...
Around the time she released Mickey...”
Oddly enough there is another record from a few months later in 1982 that I distinctly recall being done on Blue Peter......Ever So Lonely by Monsoon. It was a reasonable sized hit at the time, but I'm willing to bet that nobody has much heard it since the 80's, if not 1982 itself.
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“When I think of Lisa Stansfield I tend to think predominently 90's, and even Sara Cox & her guest gave a nod to the fact that her debut hit and No1 was from November 1989!”
“When I think of Lisa Stansfield I tend to think predominently 90's, and even Sara Cox & her guest gave a nod to the fact that her debut hit and No1 was from November 1989!”
All Around The World wasn't Lisa's debut hit, that was This Is The Right Time a few months earlier, as well as featuring on People Hold On by Coldcut in early 89.
Originally Posted by JBO:
“All Around The World wasn't Lisa's debut hit, that was This Is The Right Time a few months earlier, as well as featuring on People Hold On by Coldcut in early 89.”
“All Around The World wasn't Lisa's debut hit, that was This Is The Right Time a few months earlier, as well as featuring on People Hold On by Coldcut in early 89.”
Thanks for correcting me on that. I'd forgotten the one before All Around The World, although I recalled the People Hold On track by Coldcut which she featured on in spring '89. All that said, her music career still only started with about 8 or 9 months of the 80's left, and is predominently 90's based. Perfectly valid to be on the 80's show of course, and very likeable and interesting. But I must say that if I had come to the show without knowing it's remit on the decade, and hearing Lisa talking to Sara Cox I would have immediately thought 1990's. It's a minor quibble however.
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“Thanks for correcting me on that. I'd forgotten the one before All Around The World, although I recalled the People Hold On track by Coldcut which she featured on in spring '89. All that said, her music career still only started with about 8 or 9 months of the 80's left, and is predominently 90's based. Perfectly valid to be on the 80's show of course, and very likeable and interesting. But I must say that if I had come to the show without knowing it's remit on the decade, and hearing Lisa talking to Sara Cox I would have immediately thought 1990's. It's a minor quibble however.”
“Thanks for correcting me on that. I'd forgotten the one before All Around The World, although I recalled the People Hold On track by Coldcut which she featured on in spring '89. All that said, her music career still only started with about 8 or 9 months of the 80's left, and is predominently 90's based. Perfectly valid to be on the 80's show of course, and very likeable and interesting. But I must say that if I had come to the show without knowing it's remit on the decade, and hearing Lisa talking to Sara Cox I would have immediately thought 1990's. It's a minor quibble however.”
Not forgetting she was part of the band Blue Zone since 1984 who released a few singles but never made the big time. When Lisa went solo she continued to work with her former band mates rather than dump them completely.
She was perfect for the show, yes most of her big hits came after 1989 but her background in the music business was very much in the 80's
Sara played a great song by Clarence Clemens last night. I'd forgotten about that one. Thank you Sara.
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
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What guests would people here like to see talking about the 80's? It would be nice to think Holly Johnson was coming up, or Adam Ant, Phil Oakey or Clare Grogan. I did like the particularly leftfield choice of Aneka in the first show 2 weeks ago. More like that would be of interest too. How about the people behind the song at No2 this week in 1981, The Tweets!”
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What guests would people here like to see talking about the 80's? It would be nice to think Holly Johnson was coming up, or Adam Ant, Phil Oakey or Clare Grogan. I did like the particularly leftfield choice of Aneka in the first show 2 weeks ago. More like that would be of interest too. How about the people behind the song at No2 this week in 1981, The Tweets!”
As the show progresses I think it will attract the big 80's names.
Next week it's Howard Jones & Clare Grogan
Thanks Sara for sticking The Promise on. I was not a listener to English radio back then, but was surprised to hear you say it was a radio hit, as it made virtually no impact on the Top 100 here. I was listening almost exclusively to Sunshine 101 from Dublin back then, who followed the American charts as well as the British, and were all over it. I even have the mini CD single of it somewhere.
Originally Posted by Lazlo_St_Pierre:
“There's a feeling a bit like that with Matt Rudd's Forgotten 80s on Absolute 80s, when you see the Twitter comments the show generates. Same generation I guess.
Don't think youngsters today see the 'shared experience' thing as important though.”
“There's a feeling a bit like that with Matt Rudd's Forgotten 80s on Absolute 80s, when you see the Twitter comments the show generates. Same generation I guess.
Don't think youngsters today see the 'shared experience' thing as important though.”
Isn't that why people go to concerts though?
Originally Posted by ClareB:
“Snap!
I'm liking what's been metioned so far - a mini countdown plus a 12" mix, although it would be nice if there was more than one of these. Hopefully there'll be a guest ever week too. Although I love the popular 80s stuff, I hope we hear more obsucre stuff.”
“Snap!
I'm liking what's been metioned so far - a mini countdown plus a 12" mix, although it would be nice if there was more than one of these. Hopefully there'll be a guest ever week too. Although I love the popular 80s stuff, I hope we hear more obsucre stuff.”
almost snap
i was 8 in 1980 and can remember music from 2 years before that
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“Tend to agree somewhat with your last point. I'd say she is probably at least a crucial 5 years too young, which short as it sounds does make a big difference if you were born in say 1969/70 or 1975/76 as to how you recall the 1980's. With a show like this, focussing on very recent times it does help to know first hand. Only the very late 80's will be in her case, even though she did mention her memory of Mickey back in 1982 I suppose, when, as she admitted to Toni Basil, she was very young.
When I think of Lisa Stansfield I tend to think predominently 90's, and even Sara Cox & her guest gave a nod to the fact that her debut hit and No1 was from November 1989! Yes, technically it counts but I can't believe that from the riches of the 80's there are not so many potential and clearer 80's people to talk to, especially given that we are only on the 3rd show. Lisa Stansfield is great by the way, and was very interesting, but they had to pad her profile out a bit with the TV aspect in the 80's before her music and wider popularity didn't they.
What guests would people here like to see talking about the 80's? It would be nice to think Holly Johnson was coming up, or Adam Ant, Phil Oakey or Clare Grogan. I did like the particularly leftfield choice of Aneka in the first show 2 weeks ago. More like that would be of interest too. How about the people behind the song at No2 this week in 1981, The Tweets!”
“Tend to agree somewhat with your last point. I'd say she is probably at least a crucial 5 years too young, which short as it sounds does make a big difference if you were born in say 1969/70 or 1975/76 as to how you recall the 1980's. With a show like this, focussing on very recent times it does help to know first hand. Only the very late 80's will be in her case, even though she did mention her memory of Mickey back in 1982 I suppose, when, as she admitted to Toni Basil, she was very young.
When I think of Lisa Stansfield I tend to think predominently 90's, and even Sara Cox & her guest gave a nod to the fact that her debut hit and No1 was from November 1989! Yes, technically it counts but I can't believe that from the riches of the 80's there are not so many potential and clearer 80's people to talk to, especially given that we are only on the 3rd show. Lisa Stansfield is great by the way, and was very interesting, but they had to pad her profile out a bit with the TV aspect in the 80's before her music and wider popularity didn't they.
What guests would people here like to see talking about the 80's? It would be nice to think Holly Johnson was coming up, or Adam Ant, Phil Oakey or Clare Grogan. I did like the particularly leftfield choice of Aneka in the first show 2 weeks ago. More like that would be of interest too. How about the people behind the song at No2 this week in 1981, The Tweets!”
I'm not sure her age is THAT much of a problem.
I know two people who are a couple of yrs younger than me, one knows nothing about the decades music, the other does.
If Sara was obsessed with music from an early age, then she'd be alright.
I'm not convinced she was though. She became a DJ for all the wrong reasons IMO. From nowhere to R1
I'm just slightly older than Sara - I went from 6 to 16 in the 80s, but I certainly know more about 80s music and rather be talking about and playing that than 90s music.
While I like the interviews from big name 80s stars, the one hit wonder ones she's done so far as my faves. If she conitnues with this, I'm hoping she might interview Renato from Rene and Renato.
Rich if, you're wanting info on the Tweets, and you haven't read Tom Bromley's one hit wonder book We Could've Been The Wombles, there's an interview in it with Adrian Bennett, keyboard playing Tweet.
While I like the interviews from big name 80s stars, the one hit wonder ones she's done so far as my faves. If she conitnues with this, I'm hoping she might interview Renato from Rene and Renato.
Rich if, you're wanting info on the Tweets, and you haven't read Tom Bromley's one hit wonder book We Could've Been The Wombles, there's an interview in it with Adrian Bennett, keyboard playing Tweet.
Originally Posted by FM Lover:
“As the show progresses I think it will attract the big 80's names.
Next week it's Howard Jones & Clare Grogan”
“As the show progresses I think it will attract the big 80's names.
Next week it's Howard Jones & Clare Grogan
”
What a treat that will be. I cannot wait. I always feel happy when I think and recall Clare Grogan, so I hope they play Altered Images Christmas 1981 hit I Could Be Happy which suited her perfectly in my opinion!
Thankyou Clare for your words about Tweets, a group years ahead of their time....kind of.
I agree that some of these 80's one hit wonder classics are well worth hearing from the people behind them. Aneka was an inspired choice on the first show.
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“Oddly enough there is another record from a few months later in 1982 that I distinctly recall being done on Blue Peter......Ever So Lonely by Monsoon. It was a reasonable sized hit at the time, but I'm willing to bet that nobody has much heard it since the 80's, if not 1982 itself.”
“Oddly enough there is another record from a few months later in 1982 that I distinctly recall being done on Blue Peter......Ever So Lonely by Monsoon. It was a reasonable sized hit at the time, but I'm willing to bet that nobody has much heard it since the 80's, if not 1982 itself.”
I have heard it numerous times in recent years and certainly Janice Long has played it a few times. The singer Shelia Chandra was involved in a Folk music project a few years ago called The Imagined Village which I saw live. It also featured people like Billy Bragg, Martin Carthy and Eliza Carthy.
I keep forgetting about this programme. Just listening now and I think the lovely Clare Grogan from Altered Images is talking. Yum, she's still gorgeous!
Originally Posted by Robbie01:
“I keep forgetting about this programme. Just listening now and I think the lovely Clare Grogan from Altered Images is talking. Yum, she's still gorgeous!”
“I keep forgetting about this programme. Just listening now and I think the lovely Clare Grogan from Altered Images is talking. Yum, she's still gorgeous!”
Wish I could have heard tonight's show live, especially with the delightful and lovely Clare Grogan on it. Still gorgeous as you say and a very "Un-Altered Image".
I had a date with another megastar who was big in the 80's (and still is).... Dame Edna Everage at MK Theatre tonight so will have to use the catch up player and comment later.
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