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Lex's 365 Forgotten Retro Songs for 2010

'K. :) Here's a weird one I happened to be listening to yesterday. It was the b-side of "Shock the Monkey".

Day 74 - "Soft Dog" - Peter Gabriel



Lex
 
I probably should've started with this one.

Day 75 - "99% of Gargoyles Look Like Bob Todd" - Half Man Half Biscuit



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One I always liked...and I'll make it a 'triple':

Ram Jam - Black Betty:


Mind you, when Kram & Spiderbait decided to do their take on it in 2004...
they made Ram Jam sound quite a bit dated. Kram rocks! (Good videoclip too :D):


If you want to hear it more like it would originally have sounded...
The magic of Leadbelly:
 
^ Weird. While out to dinner last night, we were interested in a few of the desserts. I asked the server (well, bartender, actually) what she thought of the brown betty, and she said "Ram a lam a lam." Seriously. :)

I picked up this LP yesterday, and enjoyed the entire thing today. :)

Day 78 - "Babe" - Jack Green



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Oops. Apologies on busting in on this again so quickly - but just tonight - something brought back memories and made me want to post it straightaway...

Yazoo (think they were known as Yazz in the US?).
Tho' this is 80's electro pop - Alison Moyet had one of the most sensational voices going.

Yazoo - Don't Go:


I'll double up on this one too - if only to mention that I saw her live, when she was at the height of her solo career, in the mid/late '80's. Given that she was a rather...errm...large lady - I thought she would just just 'sashay gently' around the stage. Not so. She absolutely rocked! Dancing all over the stage - lots of energy - one of the best concerts I saw. Strange in a way that the highlight for me was a very 'non rock' track I don't recall her ever having put out on an album. From recollection (it was a long time ago, so I could be wrong) she sang it totally a capella. This YouTube is of a live performance with low key accompaniment. Regardless - it was flawless - one of those magical performances that sent shivers down my spine.

Hope you enjoy...
Alison Moyet - Ne Me Quitte Pas
 
In the US, Yazoo was known as "Yaz". There was another band that was known as Yazz.

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Yaz(oo) was one of Vince Clarke's projects. First Depeche Mode, then Yaz, then the Assembly (for one whole single), and then Erasure. The man's a busy guy. :) He did have a talent for finding good singers, though. Alison Moyet and Andy Bell both have great pipes.

And since I've brought them up...

Day 79 - "Never Never" - The Assembly



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Day 81 - "Up the Down Escalator (There Must Be Something Wrong, Boys)" - Chameleons (UK)



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Day 82 - "No Guilt" - Waitresses

As performed by a woman and a puppet. Not sure why, but I thought it was cute.



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After spending more time than I care to admit chatting about this guy with a relative last night...what the hell.

Day 83 - "Alyson" - Rick Springfield



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Decided it is time for me to pitch in again - a real old one this time (Lex - tell me to 'butt out' if this is going too far back). I guess my idea of retro goes back a little further than Lex's, LOL.

Apologies if this was/still is well known in the USA - but where I grew up, it was a 'one off' - and pretty obtuse, at that...

'Woolly Bully" ;)

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHF558u6Q_8[/ame]
(shame that the person who posted this can't spell 'Pharaohs')...
 
>>>Apologies if this was/still is well known in the USA - but where I grew up, it was a 'one off' - and pretty obtuse, at that...

Billboard ranked it the #1 single of 1965 in America. You don't get much more non-obtuse than that. It's still played on oldies stations across the country (along with their only-slightly-less-popular follow-up hit "Little Red Riding Hood"), and at those lacrosse games I'm so fond of, they play it for the mascot to dance to. (Why? His name is Wooly.)

That's OK - still love you, Tribs. :)

But since I'm talking to an Australian about 60s music...here's the one thing that stunned me. The Supremes put out a plethora of fantastic music throughout the decade. They had ten number one singles, a ton of other hits, and several of their songs remain stone-cold classics to this day.

In Australia, they only had one song sneak past number 38. Which one? "The Happening", the pedestrian theme song to a forgotten movie, which peaked at number two.



What is WRONG with you people? :D

Day 85 - "Supremes Medley" - Stars on 45



Lex
 
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