« Updates | Main | A la Cart »
March 09, 2008
10 Excellent Songs from 1980-1984
(1) Squeeze, "Another Nail In My Heart":
(2) Translator, "Everywhere That I'm Not":
(3) Red Rockers, "China":
(4) The Chameleons, "Up the Down Escalator":
(5) Split Enz, "History Never Repeats":
(6) Let's Active, "Waters Part":
(7) The B-52's, "Give Me Back My Man":
(8) Comsat Angels, "Independence Day":
(9) The Church, "Constant In Opal":
(10) Sparks, "I Predict":
Posted by scottheim at March 9, 2008 04:33 PM
Comments
Excellent choice. It's a hungover Sunday morning, the heavens have opened outside and my kitchen has turned into a 1980s disco memory bank. Sparks ... words can't describe, etc. Time to go and find Blancmange, 'Waves' or 'Living on the Ceiling' will suffice. If only, if only, IF ONLY I had a copy of 'We Disappear' to peruse while remembering ...
Huge hugs coming your way, Scott x
Posted by: Melissa ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://heim.etherweave.com/weblog/nav-commenters.gif)
at May 4, 2008 03:02 AM
I totally forgot about Let's Active!
I just started "We Disappear". I love it's mood so far. I'll comment further once I have finished it. Thanks, Scott.
Posted by: sean.bookman at April 24, 2008 03:58 PM
Hey, Scott! I've been gone for a while but I just found your blog again. Just wanted to say that as usual, you have the best 80's videos around! I had totally forgotten about that Comsat Angels band/song. And the Church...always a favorite. I met them once in a parking lot in Atlanta, GA. Their tour bus was parked there and I stopped cause I saw them all out next to it, and it turned out they were lost trying to find the club they were playing at that night. I gave them directions. They were very nice. And the Translator song! I used to have that album...I'd forgotten all about them. And Split Enz! There's really nothing more to say!
Thanks!
Posted by: Julie at March 19, 2008 05:34 PM
I used to have a mad crush on Sparks. (they're still kind of cute, too).
Remember their song with Jane Wiedlin?
Congrats on the book, i'm so excited to read it-- and glad to have you back in the blogosphere.
Posted by: Robert Williams at March 18, 2008 12:26 PM
The Chams, the Church, and the Comsat Angels. Perfect. (Though how you narrowed it down to those three songs... I don't envy you that task.)
Posted by: favorite at March 10, 2008 06:23 PM
constant in opal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople
Posted by: vjesci at March 10, 2008 05:49 PM
mmm, good stuff. my fave let's active is every word means no..you know, the video with the puppies?
if you have time, click on my link to read my recap of my dolls trip. tons of pics too!
Posted by: michael_karo at March 10, 2008 03:51 AM
Post a comment
Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)
(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)