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Post by Batflunkie on Nov 6, 2020 20:37:25 GMT -5
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Post by brianf on Nov 7, 2020 2:04:56 GMT -5
I'm working up my radio show tonight, and also listening to tracks from the soundtrack to the documentary BRAZEN HUSSIESIt's a compilation of Australian women's music from the 70s and 80s. It comprises songs from the new film about the Women's Liberation movement in Australia.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 7, 2020 12:38:11 GMT -5
This is on my list, right now...
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 7, 2020 13:51:08 GMT -5
Yeah, I don't know about the kissing part...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2020 1:18:41 GMT -5
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Post by Farrar on Nov 11, 2020 16:49:51 GMT -5
This is on my list, right now... Huh, I'd only ever heard this on the ol' transistor. Okay, a teensy bit of exaggeration...but I always thought the lead singer was a woman. You learn something new every day
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2020 19:29:53 GMT -5
Got a boxed set of Depeche Mode with, I think, 218 of their songs.
Been sitting on it for a bit but did put on Policy of Truth.
DM is one of those bands whose songs are remixed ad infinitum so there's always a new spin on an old classic...Enjoy the silence and Policy are a couple of my faves.
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Post by Batflunkie on Nov 13, 2020 19:41:28 GMT -5
Got a boxed set of Depeche Mode with, I think, 218 of their songs.
Been sitting on it for a bit but did put on Policy of Truth.
DM is one of those bands whose songs are remixed ad infinitum so there's always a new spin on an old classic...Enjoy the silence and Policy are a couple of my faves.
I have mixed feelings about Depeche Mode, their early stuff (minus "Nothing" and "Never Let Me Down Again") doesn't do much for me. But I have albums like Ultra and Playing The Angel burned into my brain because of how often my mom would play them on various car trips. I like to classify them as "sadsack industrial"
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Post by Confessor on Nov 14, 2020 13:50:02 GMT -5
Got a boxed set of Depeche Mode with, I think, 218 of their songs. Been sitting on it for a bit but did put on Policy of Truth. DM is one of those bands whose songs are remixed ad infinitum so there's always a new spin on an old classic...Enjoy the silence and Policy are a couple of my faves.
I'm a big Depeche Mode fan. I like the earliest couple of synth pop albums fine enough (there are some great singles from that period like "New Life", "Just Can't Get Enough" and "See You"), but for me, their purple patch is from 1983's Construction Time Again through to 1994's Songs of Faith and Devotion. That's the period when Martin Gore's songwriting got much pervier, much darker, and much better, while Dave Gahan really found his voice and the band pioneered industrial synth music -- and you cannot underestimate Alan Wilder's input in how good the band's music was during that era. I think the albums Black Celebration (1986) and Music for the Masses (1987) are probably my overall favourites from that period. Violator from 1990 is also very strong. Of the post- Songs of Faith and Devotion period, I like a fair few odd tracks ("Barrel of a Gun", "It's No Good", "Home", "Dream On", "Precious" etc), but the albums between 1997 and the present are all flawed to some degree for me. I saw a recent live concert by the band on TV a year or so ago and I thought they looked and sounded really boring, whereas back in the day they were quite an exciting live act (see the film 101 for evidence). I think Martin Gore is one of the most underrated British songwriters of the last 40 years.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2020 17:27:34 GMT -5
I'm a big Depeche Mode fan. I like the earliest couple of synth pop albums fine enough (there are some great singles from that period like "New Life", "Just Can't Get Enough" and "See You"), but for me, their purple patch is from 1983's Construction Time Again through to 1994's Songs of Faith and Devotion. That's the period when Martin Gore's songwriting got much pervier, much darker, and much better, while Dave Gahan really found his voice and the band pioneered industrial synth music -- and you cannot underestimate Alan Wilder's input in how good the band's music was during that era. I think the albums Black Celebration (1986) and Music for the Masses (1987) are probably my overall favourites from that period. Violator from 1990 is also very strong.
Violator was the first DM album I listened to on vinyl...mum got it the same day as Duran Duran's Liberty back in 1990. I always remember the DD album, we got it on tape as well and my double-cassette player decided to go wonky that day and pulled the tape out, ruining the cassette on the very first play.
And one of my favourite chart moments....Duran Duran's Ordinary World and DM's I Feel You were on the charts at the same time....I used to regularly follow the countdowns throughout the 90s....but can't stand most of the current Top 40 these days.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 15, 2020 18:51:02 GMT -5
I'm fine with Depeche Mode, but I preferred Vince Clarke's vision of things and stuck with him through Yazoo and Erasure. Too bad Yazoo didn't work out, as it was a hell of a collaboration between he and Alison Moyet.
I've been spending more time in the Glam Rock era, for the past few months, with Slade, Sweet, Mud, T-Rex, Roxy Music, Alvin Stardust, Shawaddywaddy and a few others (plus revisiting some Bowie), as well as Rockpile and Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds solo. You can kind of see how that mixes with the Punk attitude and leads into New Wave, which is my favorite era of music.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2020 20:17:00 GMT -5
My Sunday workout video included this mix of my 2nd favourite Foreigner song. The 80s is my favourite decade of music and these kind of reworks breathe new life into it.
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Post by Batflunkie on Nov 15, 2020 20:22:31 GMT -5
I'm fine with Depeche Mode, but I preferred Vince Clarke's vision of things and stuck with him through Yazoo and Erasure. Too bad Yazoo didn't work out, as it was a hell of a collaboration between he and Alison Moyet. I love Yazoo so much. My mom had a cassette bootleg that she made of "Upstairs At Eric's" for a fashion show at Parisians back in the day that I would listen to fairly often. Moyet has such a strikingly powerful voice that I just adore
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2020 1:51:28 GMT -5
Transparent vinyl record...this is a 2020 release of Duran Duran's The Chauffeur
As much as I like cds, I will always collect Duran Duran on vinyl.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 16, 2020 22:48:17 GMT -5
I'm fine with Depeche Mode, but I preferred Vince Clarke's vision of things and stuck with him through Yazoo and Erasure. Too bad Yazoo didn't work out, as it was a hell of a collaboration between he and Alison Moyet. I love Yazoo so much. My mom had a cassette bootleg that she made of "Upstairs At Eric's" for a fashion show at Parisians back in the day that I would listen to fairly often. Moyet has such a strikingly powerful voice that I just adore
I think the poster for that was on the wall of every music store. I still recall going to see Tango & Cash (It had Kurt Russell; so, I was willy to forget Stallone) and there is a scene, where Terry Hatcher comes out to do a dance number, to "Don't Go" I heard the music start and hadn't heard the song in quite a while and it took a few notes before I remembered the song title...
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