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Sting - If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free: If the Police had one more album in them, this would've been perfect. There's like two more singles from Sting's first solo LP that would have been good Police tracks - not a fan of the rest.
I didn't realize "Ways to Be Wicked" was a flop...#77? It feels too conservative to be representative of their talents, but it's highly enjoyable, meat-and-potatoes stuff. I would've thought top ten easy, but it was probably a really bad sign that it didn't even break into the top 40.
I love that Springsteen track - it seems amazing something that short and low-key can be a top ten hit, but then again he was "as big as Coca-Cola" by that point. (I remember reading that somewhere and it struck me as a perfect description of Bruce's gigantic, mainstream popularity in the mid-'80s.)
I didn't realize FYC was that "old." It makes sense given how old the (English) Beat were but "She Drives Me Crazy" seemed like another generation later.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:33 (two years ago) link
Smash Hits was excellent wasn't it? I know people say the 80s was the peak and reading this I'm inclined to believe so, but even the 90s version I grew up with was better than most other magazines I read at the time.
On Youtube there are a good few recordings of the Poll Winners Parties from late 80s/early 90s, they've cheered me up a lot during lockdown.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 09:03 (two years ago) link
Would be a fun thing to listen to every single that came out in 1985, week by week.
Pretty sure Marcello Carlin has done this and written about it, somewhere.
― mahb, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 09:18 (two years ago) link
I'm On Fire is an amazing song impeded by its production. A better version of it would be the best track here.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, June 5, 2021 8:12 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
yup, "I'm On Fire" in the style of "Nebraska" would rule.
FYC FTW.
― stirmonster, Saturday, June 5, 2021
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smash hits was absolutely my number one source of music news when i was in my early teens and going through a bit of a goth phase. used to cut out every picture of the cure, the cult and the banshees and stick them on my wall. getting this sticker was an absolute highpoint though:
https://i.ibb.co/yh2kX5K/Capture.jpg
― disraeli grinds my gears (NickB), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 10:16 (two years ago) link