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28 Aug 2017

27 August 2017

Playlists

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Inside Out – The Mighty Lemon Drops. 1988 single for this British band.

Do you feel like I feel by Belinda Carlisle. Request.

God Save the Queen by Sex Pistols. Request

I Still Believe (Great Design) – The Call. Santa Cruz, CA based band. From Reconciled, 1986.

Peek-a-Boo by Devo. Request.

The Things that Dreams are Made of by Human League. From 1981’s Dare!, their third album. Request.

True by Concrete Blonde. Request.

Letitgo by Prince. Request.

Talk to Ya Later – The Tubes. 1981, The Completion Backward Principle, the sixth studio album.

+Finest Worksong – R.E.M. From Document, their 5th album, released in 1987.

Aussies from 1981

*New King Jack by Sekret Sekret. from Sydney, 1979 – 1984. Led by the Irish born David Virgin, the band we’re hugely influencial in the Sydney underground music scene and achieved 5 Number 1hits in the Australian Independent Music Charts, including this one from 1981.

*Orbit Zero by Little River Band. From Time Exposure, their sixth studio album. It was recorded with producer George Martin at Associated Independent Recording (AIR) in Montserrat and released in August 1981.

*Red Bikini Runaway by XL Capris. Formed in Sydney in 1978 by Julie Anderson, Tim Gooding, Johanna Pigott and Kimble Rendall. This is from their 1981 debut, Where is Hank.

*Ain’t No UFO gonna Catch my Diesel by Joe Dolce. (sweet in Italian) From his 1981 album, Shaddup You Face, the title track of which is of course his only known hit…if you can call it that.

*If I were a Carpenter by John Swan or Swanee. 1981 single release that sounds a bit like his brother, Barnesy… It was also on his 1982 album, This time it’s different.

*Summer of ’81 by Mondo Rock. From their second studio album, Chemistry, put out, of course, in 1981. Mondo Rock was a Melbourne band put together by Ross Wilson, who previously had been with Daddy Cool…and dined with Oprah at the swank family taco night when she was here in 2010.

Dead Souls by Nine Inch Nails. Request.

This Time I know it’s for Real by Donna Summer. Request.

+Never too Much by Luther Vandross. Request.

+Rough Boys by Pete Townshend. From his 1980 solo album, Empty Glass. In 1989 he gave an interview saying the song was his ‘coming out’ effort, saying he ‘understood what gay sex was all about.’ He later denied it was his own coming out, saying it was about friends. But in his 2012 memoir, he did say he was ‘probably bisexual’ and was attracted to Mick Jagger…so I’m counting him.

+Gloomy Sunday by Sinead O’Connor. From her third album, Am I Not Your Girl, released in 1992. The track was written by a couple of Hungarians, which I why I chose it. Javor Laszlo wrote the poem and Seress Rezso wrote the tune, back in the 1950s. Billie Holiday recorded the original English language version.

+Fleur Dolls by Deux Filles. Featuring lesbian musician Annie Hogan. From the 1982 album, Silence and Wisdom.

Red Skies at Night by The Fixx. From Shuttered Room, their 1982 debut.