TripleX

29 Aug 2016

28 August 2016

Show 297

Mountains by Prince. Request.

Tonight is What it Means to be Young by Fire Inc. From the 1984 film starring Diane Lane & Willem Dafoe. Music composed largely by Jim Steinman, the brains behind Meatloaf. The album’s big hit was Dan Hartman’s I can Dream About You.

The Love has Gone by Rick Astley. From his 1987 album, Whenever you Need Somebody, his first and best selling.

+Opportunities by The Pet Shop Boys. From Please in 1986, their first album.

A Love Bizarre by Sheila E. Request.

Reality by Electronic. Request.

+Miss Me Blind by Culture Club. From Colour By Numbers in 1983…the tour I saw.

Sixpack of Australian final singles…

*I’ll be There by Chantoozies. 1991 cover of the 1970 Jackson 5 hit, with a writing credit given to B West… that’s me! Oh, no, it’s Bob West. And, of course, they did release another track in the past couple years…but this is the last from my era.

*Old Habits by Ted Mulry Gang. Their final single, 1990.

*Tonight will Last Forever by Sherbet. 1984 non-album single was their last one. It charted at 69 here in Oz but nowhere else.

*Happy Hippy Hut by Skyhooks. 1994 was their final single. It came from an EP they did with Daddy Cool, 2 songs each.

*This One by QED. Their final single, released in 1984.

*My Man by Cheetah. Their final single, released in 1982.

Can’t Shake the Feeling by Big Fun. From their only studio album, 1990’s A Pocketful of Dreams. They were a British boy band produced by Stock Aitken Watermen, the trio that worked with Kylie, Dead or Alive and many others.

Jerusalem by Alphaville. 1986 single from Afternoons in Utopia, their second album.

Macarena by Los Del Rio. Request.

Shake it Up by The Cars. The title track from their 1981 album.

Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen. Request.

*Physical by Olivia Newton-John. Request.

Shattered Dreams by Johnny Hates Jazz. From Turn Back the Clock in 1988. It was their first hit…and they’re British.

Wild Wild West by The Escape Club. This is the title track to their 1988 album, also their best known track…are they a 1-hit wonder?

Are we Ourselves by The Fixx. From their third album, Phantoms, released in 1984.