Rock Evolution – The History of Rock & Roll - 1985 - (page 203)

Whatever people do or don't think of the 80s I think it's fair to say the chances of something like my next pick making it into the charts and being played live on whatever the equivalent is of TOTP today, are pretty neglible.

The entire EP that this comes from is a document to the times and much of it is still relevant today. I've gone with the 'evocative' (as the numpty Steve Wright introduced it on totp) title track.

Billy Bragg - Between The Wars
 
threespires said:
Whatever people do or don't think of the 80s I think it's fair to say the chances of something like my next pick making it into the charts and being played live on whatever the equivalent is of TOTP today, are pretty neglible.

The entire EP that this comes from is a document to the times and much of it is still relevant today. I've gone with the 'evocative' (as the numpty Steve Wright introduced it on totp) title track.

Billy Bragg - Between The Wars
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I thought you might post it but had it up my sleeve for later if you didn't. Great pick and an appropriate representation of the events this year that had greater impact on the UK than Live Aid.
 
Saddleworth2 said:
It was my eleventh pick. Ousted by Jagger/Bowie not for quality but just thought the former better represented 1985. Brilliant track by a musical genius.
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i don’t have a lot of Prince albums, should probably get a few more at some point but I do think he may have been the most talented rock/ pop / soul etc musician of them all. A singular talent. A clip of him sat in his studio playing bass randomly pooped up on my X feed a few days ago - Bernard Edward’s eat your heart out (they are probably jamming in heaven!).
 
OB1 said:
i don’t have a lot of Prince albums, should probably get a few more at some point but I do think he may have been the most talented rock/ pop / soul etc musician of them all. A singular talent. A clip of him sat in his studio playing bass randomly pooped up on my X feed a few days ago - Bernard Edward’s eat your heart out (they are probably jamming in heaven!).
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They'll be practicing for the day, hopefully no time soon, when Larry Graham joins them. One of the few musicians I think Prince was a bit in awe of himself.

As a multi-instrumentalist think you're right. The likes of Wonder, McCartney and Todd Rundgren could knock out a bloody good tune on a few instruments but Prince was probably in a category of his own.
 
John Cougar Mellencamp's socially conscious mojo was in full swing this year with an album that addressed the fate of the mid-west farmers.

INXS were honing their sound, getting ready for the big one. Most people hated this album on the review thread, but I think it's a classic.

Mr Mister came up with a haunting #1 - exhibit B for my love of synth - that simple, repeated six-note coda to play the song out. Just sublime.

"Scarecrow" - John Cougar Mellencamp
"Listen Like Thieves" - INXS
"Broken Wings" - Mr Mister
 
hallsteve62 said:
I regret not going to see Prince at the Hacienda : (
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That would have ebeen something to see. Saw a few gigs there incl. IIRC Hanoi Rocks but Prince would have topped the lot.

Only saw Prince once, in 1986 at Wembley Arena but after I had moved back to Macclesfield. My then new girlfriend (now my wife) and I drove down from Macc and then set off back after the gig; although, for reasons I cannot recall we decided to stop at get a room for the night at a hotel and finish the journey in the morning.

What I am certain of is that stood in the aisle behind our block of seats was Robert Plant with a couple of young ladies.
 
RobMCFC said:
John Cougar Mellencamp's socially conscious mojo was in full swing this year with an album that addressed the fate of the mid-west farmers.

INXS were honing their sound, getting ready for the big one. Most people hated this album on the review thread, but I think it's a classic.

Mr Mister came up with a haunting #1 - exhibit B for my love of synth - that simple, repeated six-note coda to play the song out. Just sublime.

"Scarecrow" - John Cougar Mellencamp
"Listen Like Thieves" - INXS
"Broken Wings" - Mr Mister
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Good man. I was hoping you'd save me a JCM pick; love that album. I also like both the other tracks.
 
Saddleworth2 said:
I thought you might post it but had it up my sleeve for later if you didn't. Great pick and an appropriate representation of the events this year that had greater impact on the UK than Live Aid.
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Yeah I thought you might based on last year but I've had a couple of years now where I've waited for other people to nominate stuff so thought I ought to pull my finger out.

With only one nomination left though I'll hold fire to see what else comes up. I'm probably going to have to forego something from the Half Man Half Biscuit classic Back In The DSSS
 
RobMCFC said:
"The Len Ganley Stance" has a lovely lilt to it.
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True and no 'language' in that one it don't think :-) If I had enough nominations I'd probably have gone with something like Architecture, Morality, Ted and Alice or maybe 1966 And All That. I'm ashamed to admit that one of our quiz teams of the time was called Me and My Girl Sealclubbing, weren't allowed to use that name at the student union though. The song on that album that makes me smile the most though is I Hate Nerys Hughes because of something that happened a while later. When I started work proper I briefly went out with a housemate who looked a bit like a young Nanette Newman and though she would roll her eyes I think she quite liked people pointing out the resemblance. She suffered really badly from PMT which caused quite a change in personality. We were out one night when some pissed up but harmless bloke decided to tell her that she looks like an actress but he can't think who, he continues to blather on and we were politely ignoring him until he goes 'I've got it - you're a dead ringer for Nerys Hughes' at which point there's a moment of silence like in a spaghetti western and then she completely loses her shit and attacks this bloke with a fury a skinny woman of about 5' 5" really shouldn't be able to summon. Two of us had to pull her off the bewildered bloke and we were lucky it didn't escalate; I would play with fire by occasionally singing I Hate Nerys Hughes within earshot but I knew full well there were times when to do so would have possibly (and literally) been taking my life into my own hands.

This year marks the one time I've tried dying my hair and it would be fair to say it wasn't that successful. I delegated it to one of my course mates purely on the logic of 'she's a girl and so she'll know what she's doing', ignoring the fact that she came from a farming background and quite possibly cut her own hair with pinking shears. I misinterpreted her attitude as confidence whereas in reality it was just excitement at someone being stupid enough to offer her their head for experimentation. It was supposed to result in a more cultured version of a Billy Idol look but had Ron Weasley been a thing at that point I could possibly have supplemented my grant with lookalike work. One of many reasons growing up a in a pre smartphone world seems like a win to me.
 
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