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26 Mar 2018

Triple X Show 367 – 25/3/18 – Culture Club/Dead or Alive/The Pet Shop Boys/ Pat Benatar/ Aussies and More

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Show 367

Girl on the Run by Honey Bane. English singer and actor…real name Donna Tracy Howse. This is from 1979 and You Can Be You. Not sure if it’s her first or second album.

+White Boy by Culture Club. Their debut single from 1982. Like their second single, I’m afraid of Me, this one bombed. And yet they kept trying and hit it huge with no. 3, Do you really want to hurt me, which went to #1 in 10 countries plus all of Europe and #2 in 5 more.

+I’m Falling by Dead or Alive. Their debut single from 1980. Like Culture Club, they had no audience at first. It took them 5 single releases before anything charted at all, and that just at 100 in the UK.

+West End Girls (1984 original) by The Pet Shop Boys. Their 1984 debut single, which bombed…though not as badly as their follow up, One More Chance, which charted nowhere. This one at least hit 121 in the UK and 81 in Canada. They reworked it significantly and re-released in 1985…when it was a huge hit around the world.

Punk Police by Fancy Rosy. 1977 single…with a disco track on the other side. I believe she was German and this was her only release from what I can tell.

I don’t Wanna Be Too Cool by Kate Fagan. Before she was opening shows for The Clash and The English Beat as the founder/ frontwoman of long-running Chicago ska trailblazers Heavy Manners, in 1980 Kate Fagan released the cult new wave single I Don’t Wanna Be Too Cool on the tiny local imprint Disturbing Records.

Party Fears Two by Associates. a Scottish post-punk and New Wave band of the early 1980s. They were known for the operatic voice and theatrical antics of singer Billy Mackenzie, who committed suicide in 1997. This is a 1982 single from their third album, Sulk.

Two and Two by Jesus Jones. From Doubt, their second album, which they released in 1991.

Promises in the Dark by Pat Benatar. From Precious Time, her third album, released in 1981.

Until by Cassandra. Request. 1995

Never by Heart. 1988 single from Heart, their 8^th studio album…but 9^th overall since there was a live greatest hits album in there, released in 1980. Odd to wait 8 albums to release a self-titled album…but there you go.

Aussies from 1979

*Wedding Ring by The Sports. From ‘Ok, UK,’ a 1979 EP the band recorded in the UK.

*Computer Games by Mi-Sex. 1979 single from Graffiti Crimes, NZ band’s first album. The years some favourite computer games were introduced: Atari’s Asteroids 1979, Space Invaders 1978, Pacman 1980, Mario Brothers 1983)

*The Nips are Getting Bigger by Mental as Anything. All of the early members are visual artists and have had combined studio displays, some have had solo studio displays with Mombassa’s artwork also used as designs by the Mambo clothing company. This is from their debut EP Mental As Anything Plays at Your Party, as well as their first album, 1979’s Get Wet.

*Breakfast at Sweethearts by Cold Chisel. Title track from their second studio album, released in February 1979. It spent 32 weeks in the national charts, reaching a peak of number 4. “Sweethearts” was a legendary Cafè in Kings Cross, Sydney, Australia in the 1970s and 1980s, but has since been demolished. It was located where the present-day McDonald’s is now, in the middle of Kings Cross.

*Girls Got Rhythm by AC/Dc. From their 1979 album Highway to Hell. The song was released as a single the same year. It appears live on several AC/DC compilations and on the soundtrack to the 2006 martial arts film DOA: Dead or Alive.

*Tragedy by the Bee Gees. This one is from their 1979 album Spirits Having Flown. The single reached number one in the UK in February 1979 and repeated the feat the following month on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Though not originally in Saturday Night Fever, it has subsequently been added to the musical score of the West End version of the movie-musical.

Safety Dance by Men without Hats. It was initially released in the band’s home country of Canada in January 1983 as the second single from the band’s first full-length album, Rhythm of Youth. It was a bigger hit in the US, Australia, NZ, Sweden, Norway and Switzerland later that year.

This is for the Lover in You by Shalamar. Request.

You Bring Me Joy by Anita Baker. Request.

Two To Make It Right by Seduction. Seduction was April Harris, Michelle Visage, and Idalis DeLeon. This is their biggest hit and is from the group’s debut album from 1989 Nothing Matters Without Love. It was released at the end of the year and charted in Feb 1990.

I’m Considering a Move to Memphis by Colorblind James Experience. An alternative roots/pop/rock band founded in 1980 in San Francisco, California. Bandleader and singer/songwriter/guitarist “Colorblind” James Charles Cuminale was originally from Rochester, New York…where I did my postgrad studies. From their self-titled debut album released in 1987.