You must be out of your brilliant mind

[susie_flo]

Hoo har!  This weekend I have decided to have a mini love affair with Spotify.  It's bloody brilliant.... a bottomless mine of poptastic bollocks that I don't have CDs for but want to listen to nonetheless.  It's like Last FM except you can queue up great big playlists full of badness without having to keep clicking. 
 
Despite G's attempts to commandeer it for his boy-style muso tunes, I am managing to squeeze in all manner of shameful one-hit-wonder horrors.  

So far we have rediscovered...

• Alphaville - Big in Japan
• Sugarhill Gang - Rappers Delight
• Cutting Crew - Died in Your Arms
• Belouis Some - Imagination
• Baltimora - Tarzan Boy
• Fiction Factory - Feels like Heaven
• Steve Harley - Come Up and See Me
• Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink
• Furniture - (the title of this post)
   

So what else shall I play?  Have I forgotten any classics?  Do tell...

Comments

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Not only do I have all of these, but 6 of them are on my iPod...

You need to listen to:
The Politics of Dancing, Re-Flex
Spirit in the Sky, Dr and the Medics
Since Yesterday, Strawberry Switchblade
Searchin', Hazel Dean
High Energy, Evelyn Thomas
Einstein a go go, Landscape
Da Da Da, Trio

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Hee hee! Thanks for the suggestions... (I might get lynched if I try Hazel Dean though. G is already very very unhappy about Baltimora)

80s cheese: c'est moi

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

My other half makes me skip to the next track if Hazel Dean comes on. She also makes me do that for any Kim Wilde that isn't Kids in America, and refuses to let me listen to Samantha Fox singing "Touch me, I want your body" or "Do ya do ya wanna please me". Actually, preventing those last two is probably for the best.

How about some Five Star? That'll be nostalgic AND make G foam at the mouth.

Re: 80s cheese: c'est moi

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

"like a tramp in the night I was begging for you..." ah, classy number.

Kids in America! Going on the list.

Five Star for comedy value... (system addict ought to do the trick)

Re: 80s cheese: c'est moi

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Well if you're going for Kim WIlde then you need I want to be free by Toyah as well. And while you're at it:

Lucky Number: Lene Lovich
Money: The FLying Lizards
My favourite waste of time: Owen Paul

Re: 80s cheese: c'est moi

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, now we're rolling!

Toyah... can't I have Itth a Mythtery instead?

(G just came good with XTC, Senses Working Overtime)

Re: 80s cheese: c'est moi

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Careful - XTC is heading into credible music territory. So instead:

Words, FR David
Break My Stride, Matthew Wilder
I Think We're Alone Now, Tiffany
Only In My Dreams, Debbie Gibson

Re: 80s cheese: c'est moi

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

FR David!!! Good god, man, you are beinning to test my limits.

But then again, Tiffany...

Re: 80s cheese: c'est moi

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Kim Wilde's Cambodia is bontempi-tastic!

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Just remembered Kayleigh... "dancing in stilettos in the snow"

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

We notice that Fish didn't specify whether he was referring to Kayleigh or himself.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

...I just tried to picture Fish as a trannie and it made my eyes water

[gylfinir.livejournal.com]

You need some Dollar... 'Mirror Mirror', I think ;)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Dollar! I'd forgotten about them. Oh L'Amour might just be coming up.... (which brings me neatly onto Erasure!)

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

BUCK'S FIZZ!

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Ooo...errrrr...
Could I?
Could I really?
*looks around doubtfully*

[gylfinir.livejournal.com]

Dollar were fab! The first 2 singles that I bought were Dollar's 'Mirror Mirror' and Kim Wilde's 'Cambodia' - 49p each from WHSmith...

[gylfinir.livejournal.com]

And some Kajagoogoo!

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Nick Kershaw!!

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Howard Jones! Thomas Dolby!

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

What is Love, coming right up...

Oh, and what's that one called with the line "throw off your mental chains, ooh ooh hoooh!

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

"New Song".

"Things can only get better" was a better song. And "Humans Lib" was a nice bit of electronica in an Ultravox stylee (and has Howard singing about wanting to go to bed with a hundred women or men. Naughty!).

[gylfinir.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I was never a big fan of Nick Kershaw...

How about some Thompson Twins?

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Ah, Vince Clark, I think I love you.... you synthy bad boy, you!

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

I think I hate you :-P

How about...

Rock me Amadeus
Nineteen
Final countdown
Anything by Pat Benatar
Mel and Kim, Get fresh at the weekend
Centrefold
Tony Basil, Mickey
I want to know what love is
Kylie doing the Locomotion
Rick Astley?
Safety Dance, Men without hats
Walk this way - Aerosmith. And there must be a few Def Leppard ones in there too.

Too many 80s nights at Laughton's!

I saw Erasure a couple of years ago - they're still great.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

The Mel & Kim title is "Showing Out". I always preferred "Respectable", myself. Falco! Yes!

Some brilliant ones:
Just What I Always Wanted, Mari Wilson
Heartache Avenue, The Maisonettes
It's My Party, Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin
Kitchen at Parties, Jona Lewie
To be or not to be, B A Robertson (I preferred Bang Bang but it was an acquired taste)

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

I quite liked BA Robertson.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

"Rock me Amadeus, Toni Basil, Centrefold, Safety Dance"
Oh yes indeedy! :-D

"Final countdown"
I want to... but it would be wrong... wouldn't it?

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

A lot less wrong than some of the other stuff that's been posted!

How about

Funkytown (I suspect you know and love this one already)
Pop Music - M
Eye of the tiger
Footloose
You give love a bad name - Bon Jovi
oh god - Simply irresistable by Robert Palmer!

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

"A lot less wrong than some of the other stuff that's been posted! "
That's good enough for me... it's going on the list!

"You give love a bad name - Bon Jovi"
Already done... (by G of all people!!)

I am loving these suggestions ;-)

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

I'm listening to Funkytown on Youtube. Always had a little soft spot for 70s disco.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

You and me both :-)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

The Re fle fle fle fle fle flex!

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

I don't think that's cheesy but if that counts then how about Simple Minds, Don't you forget about me?

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Had it first up! (I punched the air and everything.)

I suddenly remembered The Bangles. Egyptians coming up....

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

Look! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlM3On5M2oc&feature=related

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

Actually, Belfast Child is cheesier.

Celtic tunes and synth violins :-)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Dohhhh! Bad girl, bad!
(...theme from Thorn Birds)

I love some of those

[tvted.livejournal.com]

I loved Alphaville, AND loved the 'Furs so much I named one of my cats after them. Cutting Crew - they were so adorable.

What perpetually gets stuck in my mine is Gold by Spandeau Ballet. That and the theme tune from the Lion Man (simply sad I know)

All the best music came from the 80s...now we are stuck with Lilly Allen and Britney

Re: I love some of those

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

The Lion Man theme tune actually does sound like an 80s soft rock track... it could be by Toto - "he's a lion man, and he likes to chase the rains down in Aaaafricaaaaa"

I hope I NEVER hear Gold again before I die!