Post of 80s' effect never ends on this blog. Spandau Ballet, Soft Cell, Modern English can be remarkable names having similarity with Stephen Duffy. Especially original synth pop sound, stupid, saucy lyrics like "Kiss me with your mouth.", touchy male voice are all up in the song Kiss Me. One of Stephen Duffy's the most colourful tracks, works to settle down to your memory. More you listen Kiss ME, more you'll love exploring his music.

Stephen Duffy - Kiss Me

Labels: 80s

The spiky synth pop of Spandau Ballet's first single, "To Cut a Long Story Short," owes more to the seemingly uncommercial likes of early Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark than to the smooth, soulful pop hits that turned the bandmembers into megastars within the year. Built on not much more than a dirty, overdriven synth sound and a stomping Gary Glitter-like backbeat under Tony Hadley's herky-jerky vocal tics, "To Cut a Long Story Short" is almost minimalist, but it has an infectious, bubblegummy quality that links it to the kind of gloriously dumb glam rock one-hit wonders that undoubtedly helped inspire the future Spandaus at an impressionable age. If the group had never gone on to much, this would likely be considered a minor lost classic of the early-'80s U.K. synth pop scene; as it stands, it's so unlike Spandau Ballet's later, bigger hits that it's largely forgotten.

Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short

Labels: 80s

My taste's a | little strange | I've been told | You're the kind of person | I want to hold | You'll never be a picture | I don't care | I've been looking | out for you | Everywhere | Be my lover now | Be my lover now | You make me feel so hot | I want you so | Will I always love you? | I don't know | There may be no tomorrow | Anyway | Let's forget the future | And live today | Be my lover now | Be my lover now | I'm tried of trying | Tired of lying | Letting pride | get in my way | I'm going to speak true | I really want you | I've got nothing | else to say | Be my lover now | Be my lover now | Be my lover now | Be my lover now | I'm tried of trying | Tired of lying | Letting pride | get in my way | I'm going to speak true | I really want you | I've got nothing |
else to say | Be my lover now | Be my lover now | Be my lover now | Be my lover now | So if you need somebody | Just let it flow | I'm waiting for | your answer | Let me know | I want to be your lover | Right away | If you want me, baby | You've got to say | Be my lover now | Be my lover now | Be my lover now | Be my lover now | Be my lover now | Be my lover now |

Philip Oakey - Be My Lower Now

From archives:
The Human League - Dare!

Labels: 80s

I can copy-paste another Amg Song Review, shouldn't i? Because this song cheers me up. Brilliant, shining, perfect with what it has got. Review says most of all, and i can only ad some mp3 and video in plus. Enjoy with best music on The MM blog.

One of the most brilliant synth-dance singles of all time, "Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)" is a pinnacle of the form. The arrangement, by singer/songwriter Green Gartside and his co-conspirators David Gamson and Fred Maher, combines with Arif Mardin's seamless production into a textbook example of how to make a dance track that's so kinetic that it's impossible not to move to, but so clever and rich-sounding that it's equally fun to listen to alone on headphones with the lights off. Gartside's lyrics are among his most allusive and playful, mixing soul homage and his usual hyperactive wordplay, and his helium-pitched vocal style (imagine Boy George channeling the prepubescent Michael Jackson) is one of the most bizarre and wonderful musical personas of its era. Not a US chart hit, but a dancefloor classic, "Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)" is a frothy, almost silly masterpiece.

Scritti Politti - Wood Beez

Labels: 80s

This video used to make me smile so much and I'm happy posting it. Blancmange is one of the most underrated bands in the pop history. This video was briefly featured in the movie "Flight of the Navigator", in the scene when David is at NASA, in a secured room. Sarah Jessica Parker's character told David, what have you never seen a music video before?

Blancmange - Love Your Love

Labels: 80s

"Enola Gay" is a song by British synthpop band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. It was written by frontman Andy McCluskey, and appears on the band's second album, Organisation (DinDisc/Virgin, 1980). It was released as a 7" single on 26 September 1980, and reached number 8 in the UK chart, also topping the charts in several European countries.

The song has been covered several times in 2007. Swedish artist Sommarkillen made a cover of the song called Sommartjej with new Swedish lyrics; the Danish electro-pop trio, Oliver North Boy Choir (formerly called Pierre)also recorded it. This track was posted on many MP3 blogs. In June 2007, José Galisteo released his cover of it on his debut album, Remember.

The song is named for the USAAF B-29 Superfortress which dropped the "Little Boy" atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, ostensibly to bring an end to the Second World War.

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola gay

Labels: 80s

I love 80s section in this blog, hope you like too. I thought that it was better copy and paste the great amg song review about this nice song. Ok you'll like the tune, actually i've a lot of good songs to post on this blog, you know i love sharing, but every little post takes time. So keep reading!

"I Melt With You" was never a Top Ten or even a Top 40 hit -- it peaked at number 76 in July 1990 -- but it's one of the most recognized songs of the new wave era. Originally released in the U.K. in 1982, the song was a minor hit in the U.S. in the spring and summer of 1983 -- thanks, in part, to being the love theme of the cult hit Valley Girl. (It was used in the mid-movie montage as well as over the end credits.) The song's strummy up-tempo beat, vocalist Robbie Grey's English drawl, and the ultimately positive, us-against-the world chorus made the tune a hit in dance clubs and on pop radio. In 1989, Modern English slightly revamped the song and re-released it, but it again failed to crack the Top 40. Several years later, the track was used in a Burger King TV ad in an attempt to attract the Gen-X market. Despite the fact that it never broke through to mainstream success, "I Melt With You" endures as a watermark for 1980s optimism and sentimentality, and as a classic pop song that never quite got the accolades it deserved. Review Source

Modern English - I Melt With You

Labels: 80s

For all intents and purposes, Frank Tovey was best known as the man behind Fad Gadget, one of the most significant cult acts of the post-punk boom. As Fad Gadget, Tovey on the perils of and his revolving door of conspirators released several singles and four full-length albums that stretched the boundaries of pop music during the late '70s and early '80s. "Ricky's Hand" is a song by Fad Gadget, released as a single in 1980. Lyrically the song was a sardonic cautionary taledrink driving: "From the pocket it pulled five pound / Ricky bought another round… Ricky contravened the highway code / The hand lies severed at the side of the road". The cover of the original vinyl single showed the hand in question being burnt by drops of beer in the fashion of a corrosive warning symbol.

Fad Gadget - Ricky's Hand

Ricky's Hand Video

Labels: 80s

Ultravox - Vienna

Vienna

We walked in the cold air -
Freezing breath on the window pain
Lying waiting

A man in the dark in the picture frame
So mystic and soulful.
A voice reaching out and a piercing cry

It stays with you until
The feeling is gone
only you and I
This means nothing to me

This means nothing to me

Oh Vienna -

The music is weaving -
Haunting notes pizzicato strings

The rhythm is calling
Alone in the night as the daylight brings a cold empty silence
The warmth of your hand and a cold grey sky

It fades to the distance.

The image is gone
only you and I
This means nothing to me
This means nothing to me

Oh Vienna -

This means nothing to me
This means nothing to me

Oh Vienna.
Vienna

Labels: 80s, MM classics

Do you ever dream that you are dancing like a professional dancer on a dance floor? Then, you'll fall in love with Soft Cell The Twelve Inch Singles. Oh! What a fun! I'd like to wear a mask that always looks eccentric. My favorite Soft Cell cut is So which is the closing track of Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret. I know i love this song at heart, because its harmony means a lot to me, it reminds to me the times that i've been so exciting. No doubt, the song is sexy, a little dirty, and so passionate. What's your favourite passionate disco song?

Soft Cell - So (Twelve Inch Version)
Read more about Soft Cell.

Labels: 80s

Named after Godard's 1959 science-fiction masterpiece and heavily influenced by '80s synth
bands like Depeche Mode, Alphaville was the Munich-based trio of Marian Gold, Bernhard Lloyd
and Frank Mertens. Following their all-keyboards approach longer after synth-pop was fashionable but unfortunately disbanding before artists such as Mouse On Mars made Germanic
synthesizer music hip again in the late '90s, Alphaville remained rather outside of musical trends during their mid-'80s lifespan. What i like most about 80s great synth-pop bands is you play them whenever you want!
Red Rose (Single Version '88)
Forever Young (Album Version)

For more in 80s section:
The Modern Music 80s

Labels: 80s

Propelled by the success of The Breakfast Club, the song became the band's only number-one U.S. hit (though, by all accounts, Simple Minds did not much care for it). And it still can be heard on music channels, radio stations. Don't You Forget About Me is not that kind of hit singles, it's not one of those. Its soft play, nice lyrics, beautiful sound are absolutely memorable!
Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me

Labels: 80s

"I want to see/My family/My wife and child/Waiting for me/I've got to go home/I've been so alone you see." After the suicide of their lead singer and songwriter, Ian Curtis , the remaining three musicians Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, and Morris knew that life would go on. So they decided to border new hooks and a new name to their music, it was New Order. And this was the song from Low-life (1985). Try to forgeting the dark and gloomy days of Joy Division, this song came as a miracle flower is on their rainless garden.
New Order - Love Vigilantes

Labels: 80s

After two strong recordings The Pleasure Principle and Tubeway Army, Telekon was Gary Numan's best to admire his interesting music career starting of the lately 70s. Synths are speaking at the start of it with two massive Numan song The "Aircrash Bureau", "This Wreckage". And also two popular hit "I Die: You Die" and "We Are Glass" from Telekon, these are all great gifts for someone who wants to discover forceful vision of New Wave era in the early 80s, a synth pop classic.
mp3: Gary Numan - We Are Glass

Labels: 80s

There's just something so cheerfully and pointedly simplistic about "Relax" that it's next to impossible not to love.

Frankie seem to wallow and finally get swallowed up by their own silly schoolboy beliefs that innuendoes and words like “suck” and “come” are going to titillate what they see as our equally immature sense of good clean dirty fun. I suggest they look to either Ian Dury for honestly humorous vulgarity or Divine for no holds barred up front filth and stop sniggering like pimply adolescents who’ve just caught a glimpse of their neighbour’s knickers. written by Helen Fitzgerald
mp3: Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax

Labels: 80s

mp3: Sade - Smooth Operator

Labels: 80s

I'm a kind of person who can't hide his excitement and whenever i try to present an amazing stuff, i make many gramatical mistakes, out of topic sentences. I'm very excited because of this amazing, terrific at the same time ass kicking 80s stuff. This is 7" single collection that was released by Mute Records (UK) in Oct 1978. A long time ago, i discovered them when i was searching for a band that sounds as The Fall. Don't be fooled by the name, this isn't Normal! No Way!

All Music Review
The Normal's icy, monochromatic 1978 single "Warm Leatherette" was inspired by J.G. Ballard's controversial novel Crash, which presents a subculture that fetishizes car crashes in disturbing, erotic detail. Like the book, the song wraps its lurid, subversive sentiments in clinical, detached terms. A relentless drum machine and hissing synths accompany lyrics like, "A tear of petrol is in your eye/The hand brake penetrates your thigh/Quick, let's make love," which are made all the creepier by Daniel Miller's deadpan delivery. Miller, the Normal's sole member, also founded Mute Records; "Warm Leatherette" was the label's debut single and the Normal's first and only official release.

An adaptation of sorts itself, "Warm Leatherette" was covered by industrial artists such as Pankow and Sleep Chamber as well as by Grace Jones, who made it the title track of her 1980 album. But it's Miller's original, dispassionate study of twisted metal and passions that remains a classic and a milestone in the development of post-punk, new wave, and electronic music -- all of which his label championed in the '70s, '80s,'90s and beyond.

mp3: The Normal - Warm Leatherette (highly rec'd)
mp3: The Normal - TVOD

Labels: 80s

Quite possibly the Eurythmics’ finest moment to date. The pitting of crisp, icy strings against a steady rhythm pulse sets up a perfectly fraught emotional vacuum. Their prime trick is the matching of a show of strength against eggshell fragility, a pristine example of how to turn fearful vulnerability to your own advantage. Purchase or be damned.--Adam Sweeting
mp3: Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again

Labels: 80s

They say Visage is Pioneers of the New Romantic movement, and i don't like classify music but they're truly romantic in somehow. "Fade to Grey: The Singles Collection" was released in 1994, and a great example of Visage's the most successful pieces and romantic alive and kicking music. Don't let the romantic disco music make you grey! Specially, there is an emotional cover song of Zager & Evans' "In the Year 2525" and a GREAT horizontally moving of bass Guitars along with sax, YEAH it's "Tar". Notably, Visage is one of the great founds in 80S. Now, New Wave time!
mp3: Visage - In the Year 2525 (originally by Zager & Evans)
mp3: Visage - Tar

Labels: 80s, cover cover cover

Phil Oakey is a post-Iggy crooner of romantic agony who possesses a tough streak of intellectual scepticism. ‘Dare!’ is the second intoxicating intervention to be produced out of the great split, and already it’s the first Human League greatest hits collection. It is the first coherent projection of persecuted lover Oakey’s staggeringly twisted personality – I mean that in the queasiest possible way. The Human League, presumably because Phil Oakey and Bobby Last took charge of the proceedings, have begun to deal seriously with the themes and issues of popular fi ction, song, film and soap opera – love, an intensity of desire, an examination of comfort, beauty and jealousy. Fundamentally, there’s been an artful redefinition of the quite devious potentials of middle of the road music. As the League theory no doubt had it they are Abba locked into Ramones, Iggy, Can, Zappa, Kraftwerk. A confection energised by intimate refl ection. The use of electronics becomes all but irrelevant. The Human League just produce their music to interfere with the daily details of the ’80s family. The Human League signify that deliciously serious, sincerely disposable MOR music can possess style, quality and sophistication. I like the idea of the Human League selling hundreds of thousands of copies of their product. So does Bob Last. I like the idea of The Human League knocking Genesis off the Number One place in the LP charts. Why? Choice and change, lust and longing. The Human League could be the first pop group broken in by punk and who are in touch with the deeper elements of art rituals, pop skills, political illusion and love codes who have burst into the mainstream.Surprise! ‘Dare!’ is some kind of revenge, and in many ways it challenges the very conventions of pop music and the essence of innovation. What is it all for? I think that ‘Dare!’ is one of the great popular music LPs. It’s both ‘pleasant’ and it’s a ‘challenge’. I’ll keep it forever: truth and lie combined I’ll always hold dear.--Paul Morley
mp3: The Human League - Don't You Want Me
mp3: The Human League - The Sound of the Crowd

Labels: 80s