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14 Mar 2016

13 March 2016

Show 276

Working on the Highway by Bruce Springsteen. From his 1984 classic, Born in the USA.

Love Song by Madonna and Prince. Request.

*Get your love right by Jon English. He died this past week, aged just 66.

Touch and Go by Emerson, Lake and Powell. Keith Emerson died this week from a self-inflicted gun shot to the head…suicide is suspected. He was 71.

*You Saved Me by Billy T. Ross Hannaford, who founded Daddy Cool as well as this later band, died this week of cancer.

+Song for a future Generation by the B52s. Love this track! From their 1979 self-titled debut. Almost all LG band..come on Cindy, come out!

Get Up, Stand Up by Bob Marley. Originally from 1973, this is a 1979 version. Request.

Mirror in the Bathroom by The English Beat. 1980 album I just can’t stop it. This song featured in the film Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) and the 2008 Guy Richie film, “RocknRolla”.

*All Together Now by Jon English. Tv theme song. Request.

+Damn, I wish I was your lover by Sophie B Hawkins. 1992, it is from her album Tongues and Tails. Finished 1992 at #18 in this country and charted all over the world. A bit controversial as a lesbian love song and MTV banned the first video created for it it due to ‘erotic content,’ forcing a new, more mainstream video to be made. … though when I watched it, it seemed fairly tame and hetero. Hawkins claims to be bisexual rather than lesbian and that comes thru loud and clear on the video.

Aussie letters

*Everywhere I go by QED. 1983 hit for the Jenny Morris-fronted band from Sydney.

*Money Talks by Ac/Dc. 1990 album, The Razor’s Edge.

*New Sensation by INXS: 3^rd single from 1987’s Kick.

*Metal Dance by SPK. A single from 1984 by this Aussie electronic band. Can’t find what the SPK stands for…

*Dream Baby by X. Formed in 1977 in Sydney around the late Ian Rilen. This is 1987 Roy Orbison cover that came out as a single and then was recut for their 1988 album, their 3rd and final one, And More.

*Other Places by MEO 245. Taken from their first album, 1981’s ‘Screen Memory’. They were from Melbourne. This is a brand new Aussie band…for me…so I’ve gone with the M theme. Their name comes from the German Import Beatles EP catalogue #.

Express Yourself by Madonna. Request.

To Hell with Poverty by Gang of Four. English post-punk group from Leeds, 1982 form Another Day, Another Dollar.

+ One Way or Another by Blondie. From Parallel Lines, their third studio album, released in 1978 by Chrysalis Records. It was their most popular and best-selling effort and the first Blondie album to be produced by Mike Chapman. She has said publicly that she has had intimate relationships with other women so I’m ticking the box.

A New England by Billy Bragg. In 1985, his song “A New England“, with an additional verse, became a Top 10 hit in the UK for Kirsty MacColl. After MacColl’s early death, Bragg always sang the extra verse in her honour.

24 Hour Party People by Happy Mondays. Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) was the first album by British band Happy Mondays. It was released in 1987 without 24 Hour Party People but the song “Desmond” was just a tad too much like Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da by the Beatles and Michael Jackson, who owned the Beatles’ backtrack, wouldn’t let it continue. So after a few hundred albums were sold, it was recalled and 24 Hr Party People replaced Desmond.

Vienna by Ultravox. Title track of the fourth studio LP by the synthpop band Ultravox, first released on 11 July 1980. This was their first album after the departure of John Foxx (aka Dennis Leigh) and his replacement by James “Midge” (Jim pronounced backwards) Ure as frontman.

Enola Gay by OMD. second album, Organisation,1980, though an early version with a slightly different arrangement appears on the group’s Peel Sessions 1979–1983 album. The song was released during a major controversy surrounding then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s decision to allow US nuclear missiles to be stationed in Britain.