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UK songs wanted from 1972 to 1990
Dear Massive
I have been issued a challenge. This afternoon I was sitting at my desk here in Melbourne and a disc I had made of 70's music was on the office cd player. As it played one of my colleagues, an ex-pat Englishman, was rattling off who the artists were, as though it were a trivia quiz and finally a song came on he said he hadn't heard.
It was Go All The Way by The Raspberries. I explained who it was and that they were Americans and he said "Oh I knew they weren't British, you'd never be able to stump me with a British act." I of course said I could and a challenge was issued and rules were set. The songs have to be from 1972 or thereabouts, and prior to 1990 when he came to Australia.
The only restriction I have is I need to have the songs already in my itunes. Unfortunately I don't have the 30,000+ songs divided by nationality so it's not as easy as I thought it would be.
Big acts like Bowie, Queen, Sex Pistols, The Clash etc are obviously useless for this so they need to be on the obscure side but I figure if they are successful enough to have penetrated my collection here in Australia then they should be amply famous in the UK.
The sort of songs I am looking for and have already selected...
Just One More Night -Yellow Dog
The Way That You Do It-Pussyfoot
Underpass-John Foxx
Hit the Ground-The Darling Buds
Ever So Lonely-Monsoon
There is nothing riding on this except if I fail to stump him I may receive a fearful scoffing.
Any suggestions at all will be used (I can make as many discs as I want) as long as I know it and can pounce instantly with an "Aha! It's #####!"
I've already ben through the recent songs from the last 20 years blog and got a couple of songs from there.
Thank you
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Here's some...
I had all these as singles. No idea of chart placing.
New Muzik - Straight Lines
Flash & The Pan - Waiting For A Train
Icehouse - Icehouse
Steve Hackett - A Doll That's Made in Japan
Patrick D. Martin - I Like 'Lectric Motors
B-Movie - Nowhere Girl
M - Moonlight and Muzak
Spizzenergi - Where's Captain Kirk?
The Lone Ranger - Quantum Jump
XTC - Statues of Liberty
The Lone Ranger would be perfect except I don't have it
Icehouse and Flash and the Pan are both Aussies
Lone Ranger
Might be out there somewhere on the internet? So to speak.
unless
Someone could email an mp3 to you perhaps?? I wonder who?
I "found" it thanks
It's already in the playlist.
It really is perfect because I can also ask, "Can you name the singer?" It's exactly the sort of thing I am looking for.
Hope this helps
How about some or all of the following
Climax Blues Band - Couldnt get it right
Belouis Some - Imagnation
B Movie - Remembrance Day
Passions - I'm in love with a german film star
After all - the frank and walters
wide open space - Mansun
A couple of suggestions
again, not sure where they charted (if this matters):
Prefab Sprout - Don't Sing
Cardiacs - Is This The Life
Both of those should be on itunes. Good luck!
Some early 80s, Sir?
Norman Bates - Landscape
Guilty - Classix Nouveau(x)
Night Train - Visage
Cry Boy Cry - Blue Zoo
You've Got the Power - Win
70s
Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band
Moonlight Feels Right - Starbuck
Rock Me Gently - Andy Kim
Jeans On - David Dundas
Undercover Angel - Alan O'Day
Beach Baby - First Class
Standing in the Road -
Mouth & MacNeal - How Do You Do
Hurricane Smith - Oh, Babe, What Would You Say?
Daniel Boone Beautiful Sunday
Blackfoot Sue did Standing In The Road
Starland, Starbuck, Alan O'Day and Daniel Boone are all American aren't they? And Andy Kim is Canadian I'm sure.
As for Mouth & McNeal, they're Dutch.
From the Marmalade thread
Blue - Capture Your Heart
Marmalade - Radancer
and some random curve balls
Leo Sayer - Long Tall Glasses
Tonight - The Drummer Man
Hollies
From the Hollies thread. 'The Baby'
This is the one that didn't have Alan Clark on vocals. If your man gets this one then we know what level we are playing.
I Will Survive/Arrival
though I don't think it's on itunes sadly.
Once Dance Won't Do/Audrey Hall
Imagination/Belouis Some
Southern Freeez/Freeez
Radio Africa/Latin Quarter
Jimmie Jones/Vapors
The Resurrection Shuffle/Ashton Gardner & Dyke
Jig-a-Jig/East Of Eden
Hope they don't need to be Chart hits
Here's a Factory single that should have been bigger: "Time Goes By So Slow" by the Distractions.
Staying in the North West, How about "Suffice To Say" by Yachts. In fact, that's on one of the Stiff singles compilations and there's a whole lot on there by people like Billy Bremner, Larry Wallis, Wreckless Eric & Micky Jupp.
Here are a few more you could use:
Pinball - Brian Protheroe
What A Way to End It All - Deaf School
How bout
Poison Pen Mail by Sniff 'N' The Tears
Good Technology by Red Guitars
The Honeythief by Hipsway
Bring It Down by The Redskins
Saturday Night Beneath The Plastic Palm Trees by The Leyton Buzzards
Main Travelled Roads by Doll By Doll
Dancing In The City by Marshall Hain
OK by The Rock Follies
(all chart hits, I think)
a few more
Nervous Wreck - Radio Stars
Little Girl - The Banned
Puppet Life - Punishment of Luxury
#12 1977
Steve Gibbons......Tulane
Blackfoot Sue
Smethwick Boys and proud of it.
Sorry, did I miss something?
I presume it has to have been in the top 30 or something?
Otherwise there's no way anybody could know every British song released over an 18 year period. Some dodgy single from the Newtown Neurotics or an obscure house 12" from the late eighties....
Is there?
Nah, I'm not having it.....
He'll never get...
"Get Outta My House" by Hustler.
I'll get my
trenchcoat!
I'm starting to feel sorry for the other occupants of your office when you play this lot.
I thought these were well known, but
playing them to a house full at Christmas met with a lot of blank faces:
Nick Straker Band - Walk In The Park
Kursaal Flyers - Little Does She Know
The Adverts - Gary Gilmores Eyes
The Ruts - Staring At The Rude Boys
The Jags - Back Of My Hand
UK Subs - Stranglehold
The Firm - Arthur Daley ... 'E's Alright
(and a whole load of others from the same time period, but I can't remember them now)
#7......1980
This may stump him...or not..;-)
McCartney Minor
Decent effort. If your man gets this - he knows his stuff.
Anything by Mr Big
They sold shedloads of records at the end of the 80s. No one can remember what they were called or what they sounded like.
Thanks to all that responded
He's had his test
He scored 23 out of 64 giving him a mark of 35.38%
The wrong answers varied from, "Never heard this before in my life" (Jesus Jones) to "I forget and I'm glad I forget" (Voyager)
I was marking them off as we went and these were the ones he got correct...
All the Young Dudes-Mott the Hoople
Angel Face - The Glitter Band
Aphrodisiac - Bow Wow Wow
Appetite - Prefab Sprout
Boxer Beat Jo Boxers
Enola Gay - OMD
Ever fallen in Love - Buzzcocks
Geno-Dexy's Midnight Runners
Girls' Talk - Dave Edmunds
Happy Hour - Housemartins
I Could Be Happy-Altered Images
I Eat Cannibals - Toto Coelo
Living on the Ceiling - Blancmange
Make Me Smile- Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
Milk and Alcohol - Dr Feelgood
My Coo Ca Choo - Alvin Stardust
Only You- Yazzo
Perfect Fairground Attraction
Respectable - Mel and Kim
Rise- PIL
See My Baby Jive - Wizard
2-4-6-8 Motorway- Tom Robinson
When I Dream - Teardrop Explodes
These were the ones he got wrong, some I thought absolute gimmes...
Airport - The Motors
Another Girl Another Planet-Only Ones
Are You Ready Eddie?-Emerson Lake and Palmer
Big Decision - That Petrol Emotion
Birth School Work Death - Godfathers
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath
Call Me Up-Gang of Four
Can You Dig it? Pop Will Eat Itself
Champs - Wire
Crash The Primitives
Cruel to Be Kind-Nick Lowe
Crying Scene,The - Aztec Camera
Don't Let Me Down Gently - Wonder Stuff
Englishman in New York - Godley and Crème
Ever So Lonely - Monsoon
Halfway Hotel - Voyager
Hit the Ground Darling Buds
Homo Sapien - Pete Shelly
I Say Nothing - Voice of the Beehive
I Wanna Destroy You - Soft Boys
Just One More Night - Yellow Dog
Lay Your Love on Me -Racey
Lone Ranger,The -Quantam Leap
Love Like Blood - Killing Joke
Love Plus One - Haircut 100
Oh L'amour - Erasure
Real Real Real - Jesus Jones
Ship of Fools - World Party
Smash it Up - The Damned
So Long - Fischer-Z
Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kick in- Rezillos
S-S--S-Single Bed - Fox
Stutter Rap -Morris Minor and the Majors
Temptation - Heaven 17
This is Japan - Jack Green
Throw The R Away - The Proclaimers
Totally Wired - The Fall
Two Pints Of Lager and A Packet Of Crisps-Splodgenessabounds
Under the Radar - Underworld
Underpass-John Foxx
Way That You Do It- Pussyfoot
No offence
to your friend, but I think my granny could have done better, despite being dead. Another Girl, Another Planet? Black Sabbath? Cruel To Be Kind? Temptation??? All filed in the 'Classics' (rather than 'Obscurities') section.
I agree
I threw in a few I thought difficult like Birth School Work Death as I believe it wasn't a hit in the UK but some of the others like Another Girl, Another Planet were intended to be deliberately easy to keep him interested.
The most amusing "miss" was Cruel to be Kind
Him "It's Nick....Oh!"
Me "You almost said it!"
Him "What did I just say?"
Me "His name sounds just like Nick Oh"
He still didn't get it.
Temptation and SSS-Single Bed were the ones that were driving him mad in that in he felt he should have got them.