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  • #31
    Re: 80's songs you never hear on the radio these days

    2 great songs from 1983
    Jump-Van Halen
    Big Log-Robert Plant

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    • #32
      Re: 80's songs you never hear on the radio these days

      i eat cannibals - toto coelo
      19 and wizard - paul hardcastle
      any of the songs by bad manners

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      • #33
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        I was watching TOTP from 1983 the other day, one song featured was one I remember hearing but couldn't out a name to.

        It was Dolce Vita by Ryan Paris, I had assumed for years it was by Howard Jones or one of the other "keyboard wizards" from the early - mid 1980s.

        It wasn't surprising to find Ryan Paris was a one hit wonder, but I was surprised to find he was Italian, especially as some of his singing was in a cockneyish accent.
        The Trickster On The Roof

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        • #34
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          life in one day - howard jones

          i want candy - bow wow wow

          love missile f1-11 - sigue sigue sputnik

          everybody have fun tonight - wang chung

          funky town - lipps inc

          mickey - toni basil

          futures so bright, i gotta wear shades - timbuck 3

          house nation - the house master boys

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          • #35
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            I would have said Stepping Out-Joe Jackson but lately have heard this song quite a few times,even heard it being played in Boots yesterday great song

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            • #36
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              Angel In The Centerfold - J Geils Band

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              • #37
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                Originally posted by EddyP View Post
                Centerfold - J Geils Band
                j geils passed away about two weeks back.

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                • #38
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                  Originally posted by big kid View Post
                  j geils passed away about two weeks back.
                  What?!?! I didn't see it reported anywhere...what a crying shame...

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                  • #39
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                    Haven't heard I Cant wait by Nu Shooz on the radio in ages

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                    • #40
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                      I was quite surprised to be woken up by Holly Johnson's Americanos on Radio 2 jusr before 7am.

                      My first thoughts were he had succumbed to something AIDS related, but there was no mention on the news that followed.

                      Chris Evans must have pulled some strings to get it played, I've not heard it on the radio since the Berlin Wall came down.
                      The Trickster On The Roof

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                      • #41
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                        Originally posted by Richard1978 View Post
                        I was quite surprised to be woken up by Holly Johnson's Americanos on Radio 2 jusr before 7am.
                        When I hear that song, I often think of 1989 and things such as Bermuda shorts, as I mentioned in my fashion thread.
                        I've everything I need to keep me satisfied
                        There's nothing you can do to make me change my mind
                        I'm having so much fun
                        My lucky number's one
                        Ah! Oh! Ah! Oh!

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                        • #42
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                          I am listening to BBC Radio Gloucestershire online, and they have played Brown Girl in the Ring by Boney M - the B-side to Rivers of Babylon - I can't remember the last time when any radio station played that.

                          The story goes that back in 1978 a DJ was supposed to play Rivers of Babylon, but had played the B side by mistake, and the listeners loved the song so much that it was lusted as a double A side and the song shot right back up the charts and remained there until the end of the year, a total of 40 weeks.

                          Yesterday, I was listening to another radio station online, and they had played this week's chart from 1980, including Embarrassment by Madness and Banana Republic by the Boomtown Rats.
                          I've everything I need to keep me satisfied
                          There's nothing you can do to make me change my mind
                          I'm having so much fun
                          My lucky number's one
                          Ah! Oh! Ah! Oh!

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                          • #43
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                            Originally posted by George 1978 View Post
                            When I hear that song, I often think of 1989 and things such as Bermuda shorts, as I mentioned in my fashion thread.
                            Yes same here, I remember it well because I was finishing at primary school.
                            The Trickster On The Roof

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                            • #44
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                              Just realised that it says 1980s songs - never mind.
                              I've everything I need to keep me satisfied
                              There's nothing you can do to make me change my mind
                              I'm having so much fun
                              My lucky number's one
                              Ah! Oh! Ah! Oh!

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                              • #45
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                                Doctor!, Doctor!, by The Thompson Twins is one I heard on Thursday and it bugged me for ages until establishing it was The Thompson Twins

                                Hearing this song really, really took me back a long, long time I freely admit to - no doubts!!

                                80sChav

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