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Sara Cox Sounds Of The 80s Radio 2 (Thread )
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alcockell
09-11-2013
Originally Posted by davestoke:
“That's what I thought. I'm guessing the other 2 tracks will be Radio Ga Ga & It's a Hard Life, which are presumably already there.”

Annoying. Both of which get overplayed on Heart. No Hammer To Fall, Friends will be friends, pain is so close to pleasure etc, Just one year of love...
Rich Tea.
09-11-2013
Good point about I Want To Break Free. That version most certainly is not the album cut from The Works which I bought on 7th April 1984 in WHSmith along with my first ever copy of the Guinness Book Of British Hit Singles.

I always felt a bit shortchanged by the album version of that song.
alcockell
09-11-2013
Did they reuse We Don't Talk ANy More for Ellen Warren's Shattered Glass? The verse sounds VERY close..
alcockell
09-11-2013
Radio sodding Gaga... Come on Sara! You can do better!
Rich Tea.
09-11-2013
Live...jolly good job! Shouldn't have to be asked.

Be nice to hear Machines Or Back To Humans from The Works. Seems like they play two singles from the album plus a unreleased track. They did so with Dare. A bit too predictable.
alcockell
09-11-2013
Lots of SAW on the playlist...
Or were 8th Wonder produced by the Pet Shop Boys?
Rich Tea.
09-11-2013
Originally Posted by alcockell:
“Did they reuse We Don't Talk ANy More for Ellen Warren's Shattered Glass? The verse sounds VERY close..”

Just replaying that on my iPod which can go back 15 minutes on live radio. This sounds like a plagiarism to me. It probably wasn't distributed because someone noticed the likeness to Cliff's hit maybe.

Eighth Wonder was Pet Shop Boys production I feel sure. Didn't know Taylor Dayne was a SAW record. I like that, so one of their best. Why does it not sound like them though, if it is?

Bros, the worst of the 80's apart from SAW. This is why I hate 1988! Matt Goss.....:sleep:
alcockell
09-11-2013
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“Just replaying that on my iPod which can go back 15 minutes on live radio. This sounds like a plagiarism to me. It probably wasn't distributed because someone noticed the likeness to Cliff's hit maybe.

Eighth Wonder was Pet Shop Boys production I feel sure. Didn't know Taylor Dayne was a SAW record. I like that, so one of their best. Why does it not sound like them though, if it is?”

Taylor was part of the first wave of SAW stuff, along with Hazell Dean. As they were fully-fledged musicians, they had more creative input than Rick Astley et al.
Rich Tea.
09-11-2013
Ghost Town, clear contender for the greatest No1 single of the 1980's?

(probably beaten by The Winner Takes It All though)
alcockell
09-11-2013
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“Just replaying that on my iPod which can go back 15 minutes on live radio. This sounds like a plagiarism to me. It probably wasn't distributed because someone noticed the likeness to Cliff's hit maybe.

Eighth Wonder was Pet Shop Boys production I feel sure. Didn't know Taylor Dayne was a SAW record. I like that, so one of their best. Why does it not sound like them though, if it is?

Bros, the worst of the 80's apart from SAW. This is why I hate 1988! Matt Goss.....:sleep:”

Duly sent in to thatsongsoundslike.com.

Text of my email

Have a look at these two - Shattered Glass sounds rather similar in places to We Don't Talk Anymore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUI7vhbAux8 - Ellie White, Shattered Glass, track released in 1980.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywjKp4dCq9g - Cliff Richard - We Don't Talk Anymore, released 1979.

Ellie sounds RATHER close...
alcockell
09-11-2013
Sara was reading my tweets....
Hammer rather than Who Wants To Live Forever..
Rich Tea.
09-11-2013
I'll take a look at that website later.

Hammer To Fall, so she's simply played 3 hit singles from 1984 taken from The Works. Does that not somewhat defeat the idea of playing an "album"?

Who Wants To Live Forever is not from The Works, it is from 1986's A Kind Of Magic, Al.
vauxhall1964
10-11-2013
Matt Goss was as insufferably up himself as he was in the 80s...heaven knows why...he's a nobody now but acts like he's rock royalty.
Paul_7
10-11-2013
Originally Posted by alcockell:
“Lots of SAW on the playlist...
Or were 8th Wonder produced by the Pet Shop Boys?”

I'm Not Scared was written by PSB and produced by them, along with Phil Harding.

I don't think any S/A/W was played on this weeks show.

I was not aware Taylor Dayne was a S/A/W artist/production, and the Wikipedia page for Tell It To My Heart lists the track producer as Ric Wake, nothing to do with S/A/W.
Rich Tea.
10-11-2013
Yes, Taylor Dayne and that hit song have nothing to do with SAW as I thought. It was also top ten in the States, and as far as I know SAW had no mainstream success over there did they?
alcockell
10-11-2013
OK - whoops - just that everything kinda segued into one whole...

Whoops - forgot that WWTLF etc was on A Kind of Magic..
FM Lover
10-11-2013
Originally Posted by davestoke:
“If the ALBUM of the week is The Works, why has she just played the single version of I want to break free?”

I guess that's the one in the play out system which it kind of would be.

Only heard the first hour last night before tiredness took hold and I went to bed.

A lot,of standard 80's fare in the first hour I thought, Wham, Queen, Cyndi Lauper, etc...... But nice, very nice to hear the interview with the guy from The Lotus Eaters and Elbow Bones track.

Thought we may get an extra hour next week but it seems that Liza show extended until 10pm.
FM Lover
10-11-2013
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“Ghost Town, clear contender for the greatest No1 single of the 1980's?

(probably beaten by The Winner Takes It All though)”

I can sense an ITV1 show coming based on this post. Make sure you get your commission
pedrok
10-11-2013
Always loved 'The First Picture of You'. Reminds me of listening to Tom Ferrie late at night on Radio Scotland, a record he seemed to play often that summer of '83.
ClareB
10-11-2013
[quote=FM Lover;69687195]IOnly heard the first hour last night before tiredness took hold and I went to bed.

Lol - like me. never make it much into the second hour before I nod off.

I've still got to catch up on the last hour, but for me this was the best show so far purely for the 1981 countdown. Two of my favourite ever songs of the 80s in the top 4 (Labelled With Love and It's My Party) and loved hearing again the clip of that Norweigian footie commentator "your boys took one hell of a beating!"

They should definitely only play 1 hit from the featured album. I'd loved to have heard Keep Passing The Open Windows from The Works.
vauxhall1964
10-11-2013
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“Yes, Taylor Dayne and that hit song have nothing to do with SAW as I thought. It was also top ten in the States, and as far as I know SAW had no mainstream success over there did they?”

Rick Astley had 2 US #1s, Bananarama had 2 SAW top 10 hits (one was a #1) and You Spin Me Round got to #11. Kylie's Locomotion went top 3. SAW gave Donna Summer a #7 hit. There may have been more hits by others.
Hayden
10-11-2013
Originally Posted by alcockell:
“Duly sent in to thatsongsoundslike.com.

Text of my email

Have a look at these two - Shattered Glass sounds rather similar in places to We Don't Talk Anymore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUI7vhbAux8 - Ellie White, Shattered Glass, track released in 1980.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywjKp4dCq9g - Cliff Richard - We Don't Talk Anymore, released 1979.

Ellie sounds RATHER close...”

Laura Brannigan did an excellent version of that in 1987 which although not a hit certainly got a lot of radio play.
Rich Tea.
10-11-2013
Originally Posted by vauxhall1964:
“Rick Astley had 2 US #1s, Bananarama had 2 SAW top 10 hits (one was a #1) and You Spin Me Round got to #11. Kylie's Locomotion went top 3. SAW gave Donna Summer a #7 hit. There may have been more hits by others.”

If I'd bothered to think for a few moments before I posted I would have answered my own question like you have. Venus was of course a US No1 back in 1986 for Bananarama, rather surprisingly I think. Rick Astley blazed a very brief trail too, with a couple of No1's in '88. But like most of these SAW acts over there, none really sustained very long.

Lotus Eaters, First Picture Of You just reminds me of the hot summer weather and 1983. I used to listen to the Radio 1 Roadshow every single day during that years summer holidays and it seemed like that single got played every single day without fail. Yet it made just a modest No15.
FM Lover
10-11-2013
Originally Posted by Hayden:
“Laura Brannigan did an excellent version of that in 1987 which although not a hit certainly got a lot of radio play.”

Which was coincidentally produced by Stock, Aitken & Waterman.
richie wild
10-11-2013
Originally Posted by pedrok:
“Always loved 'The First Picture of You'. Reminds me of listening to Tom Ferrie late at night on Radio Scotland, a record he seemed to play often that summer of '83.”

I used to listen to Tom, down here on The Wirral, back then too.
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