1979 and all that ........
Been thinking about my earliest record purchases and whether that has had a direct influence on my later buying. Looking through my earliest singles in my record collection i see 2 singles i recieved for my 8th birthday (March 1979), Elvis Costello - Oliver's Army and Blondie - Heart Of Glass - at the time these were no1 and no2 in the charts - (bloody good week, thank God!).
So I Looked back at the No.1's from 1979 - what a superb year!!!!
18 songs made the top spot that year they were:-
Y.M.C.A. - The Village People
Hit Me With Your Rythym Stick - Ian Dury And The Blockheads
Heart Of Glass - Blondie
Tragedy - Bee Gees
I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel
Sunday Girl - Blondie
Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
Are "Friends" Electric - Tubeway Army
I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
We Don't Talk Anymore - Cliff Richard
Cars - Gary Numan
Message In A Bottle - Police
Video Killed The Radio Star - Buggles
One Day At A Time - Lena Martell
When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman - Dr. Hook
Walking On The Moon - Police
Another Brick In The Wall (Part II) - Pink Floyd
So in my humble opinion the whole new-wave (hate that description) , post-punk time to be growing up was a fantastic one. Even now 27 years later (surely, surely not....) - a great amount of the music that was created in this period (1977-1981) is still my favourite stuff ever. Squeeze, Elvis Costello, Blondie, Ian Dury, The Jam,
The Clash etc etc .
Where as if you grew up in 1988 you had Belinda Carlise, Tiffany, Kylie Minogue, Aswad, Pet Shop Boys (okay, they're fine), S Express, Fairground Attraction, Wet Wet Wet, Timelords, Bros, Glenn Medeiros, Yazz and the Plastic Population, Phil Collins, Hollies, U2 (Desire - good song), Whitney Houston, Enya, Robin Beck and Cliff Richard (again.... bloody contantly consistently annoying!).
Not Quite the same for quality in my humble opinion.
Another recommended blog http://iguessimfloating.blogspot.com - Absolute quality.
Superb amount of downloadable tracks - highly recommended.
Anybody out there who wants me to review ANYTHING, please get in touch - whether it's your music tracks, novel, fanzine.... anything - please get in touch... leave a comment and i'll get back to you and post a review.
That's All Folks.
So I Looked back at the No.1's from 1979 - what a superb year!!!!
18 songs made the top spot that year they were:-
Y.M.C.A. - The Village People
Hit Me With Your Rythym Stick - Ian Dury And The Blockheads
Heart Of Glass - Blondie
Tragedy - Bee Gees
I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel
Sunday Girl - Blondie
Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
Are "Friends" Electric - Tubeway Army
I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
We Don't Talk Anymore - Cliff Richard
Cars - Gary Numan
Message In A Bottle - Police
Video Killed The Radio Star - Buggles
One Day At A Time - Lena Martell
When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman - Dr. Hook
Walking On The Moon - Police
Another Brick In The Wall (Part II) - Pink Floyd
So in my humble opinion the whole new-wave (hate that description) , post-punk time to be growing up was a fantastic one. Even now 27 years later (surely, surely not....) - a great amount of the music that was created in this period (1977-1981) is still my favourite stuff ever. Squeeze, Elvis Costello, Blondie, Ian Dury, The Jam,
The Clash etc etc .
Where as if you grew up in 1988 you had Belinda Carlise, Tiffany, Kylie Minogue, Aswad, Pet Shop Boys (okay, they're fine), S Express, Fairground Attraction, Wet Wet Wet, Timelords, Bros, Glenn Medeiros, Yazz and the Plastic Population, Phil Collins, Hollies, U2 (Desire - good song), Whitney Houston, Enya, Robin Beck and Cliff Richard (again.... bloody contantly consistently annoying!).
Not Quite the same for quality in my humble opinion.
Another recommended blog http://iguessimfloating.blogspot.com - Absolute quality.
Superb amount of downloadable tracks - highly recommended.
Anybody out there who wants me to review ANYTHING, please get in touch - whether it's your music tracks, novel, fanzine.... anything - please get in touch... leave a comment and i'll get back to you and post a review.
That's All Folks.
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