The Edge of the Eighties

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pacharan replied

31 May 2011, 16:17
Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post

I'm being followed by a moonshadow

still stuck in the seventies me

Still like a lot of 70s prog.

Greenslade about the best of the bunch IMO.
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EternalOptimist replied

31 May 2011, 13:57
I'm being followed by a moonshadow

still stuck in the seventies me
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ChrisPackit replied

31 May 2011, 13:46
Originally posted by minestrone View Post

ABC's lexicon of love is beyond doubt the finest album to come from the 80s.

That's a bold statement to make.

It's certainly up there, but have you considered Joe Dolce's Shaddup yer Face and possibly Jive Bunny (The Best Of) ... ?
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minestrone replied

31 May 2011, 13:37
I have no shame in saying cluture club's in the church of the poisoned mind is a classic.

ABC's lexicon of love is beyond doubt the finest album to come from the 80s.
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pacharan replied

31 May 2011, 12:50
Oh, don't know where I got Nick Stroker from. He's on another album called Street Level, not this one.
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Dark Black replied

31 May 2011, 12:39
Looks like good stuff on there, like to have seen a bit more Goth though!
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gingerjedi replied

31 May 2011, 12:11
Good album but 53 'alternative' tracks and no Smiths?? Fail.
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ChrisPackit replied

31 May 2011, 11:58
That CD came out a couple of years ago, and I bought it. Yes it is fantastic and like you say, when most people think of 80's music it's always Karma Chameleon and cheese like that. There are some true forgotten classics on there...
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pacharan started a topic The Edge of the Eighties

31 May 2011, 10:44
The Edge of the Eighties

Bought a great CD at weekend called The Edge of The Eighties. Compilation of a lot of stuff that was mainly in the lower echelons of the charts back in the day though notwithstanding the fact that they were great songs.

Some of the gems contained therein include:

The Passions - I'm in Love with a German Film Star

Nick Stroker Band - A Walk in the Park

Twilight Cafe - Susan Fassbinder

Living on the Ceiling - Blancmange

Back in those days an audience could find its own way to its preferred music without being spoonfed by the mainstream media. That job was performed by Radio 1 and while Culture Club and Spandau Ballet formed the soundtrack to the lives of the masses, the rest of us could enjoy our alternative sounds safe in the knowledge that Kevin and Sharon wouldn't be having a bunk up to it in the back of their XR3 on the way back from Goldiggers on Saturday night.

Nowadays, everything is picked up by the mainstream media; one day they're playing the Blue Parrot, the next they're "rocking the Guardian studio" with that paper's columnists crowing like an embarrassing maiden aunt who still shops in Kensington Market when she should be wearing mohair twinsets bought from the Edinburgh Woollen Mill.

Sometimes, as the saying goes, less is more.
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