Meme Alert!!!!!!! I interrupt my hectic blogging schedule to bring you my Top Ten favourite albums. EVER.
I’ve done this list from memory and they are the albums I remember playing until other people complained about the repetition and started shouting at me to: PLEASE CHANGE THE **$$$***£$$* RECORD!
1. Tears for Fears – Songs from the Big Chair [1985] Vinyl [given to me by my first proper boyfriend] – my favourite track: Head Over Heels
2. Oasis – (What’s the Story?) Morning Glory [1995] CD, fav track: Wonderwall
3. Tears for Fears – The Hurting [1983] Vinyl, fav track: Watch Me Bleed
4. OMD – Architecture and Morality [1981] Vinyl, fav track: Souvenir
5. Amy Winehouse – Back to Black [2006] CD
6. David Bowie – Hunky Dory [1971] Vinyl [Actually belonged to my sister], fav track: Life On Mars
7. INXS – Kick [1987] Cassette [stolen along with the car], fav track: Never Tear Us Apart
8. The Psychedelic Furs – Midnight to Midnight [1987] Vinyl, fav track: All of the Law
9. The Psychedelic Furs – Forever Now [1982] Vinyl, fav track: Love My Way
10. New Order – Substance 1987 [1987] Vinyl, fav track: True Faith
Thank you Jon, Mr Devine, and Savvy for the meme. I’m now going to wallow in nostalgia and pontificate as to why streaming is just not the same as buying a bit of vinyl…
Amy Winehouse!! What a voice, right? Thanks to the advent of MTV a lot of your choices were on tv at our house during that time. xoxo
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Savvy – I often think about Amy and wish things had turned out differently for her. She was genius. I love her voice.
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I prefer Frank. It has more bite to it. I think she had gone off a bit by Back to Black.
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Nick – Please join in with the meme and post your Top Ten!
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Gosh, that’s a meme I’d like to get my teeth into, but a crossword blog probably isn’t the place. An interesting selection Miss Scarlet, and I certainly agree with you on one thing: slapping a twelve incher on the old Victrola beats Spotty Fly hands down. Or whatever it’s called.
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Mr Batarde – I didn’t realise how stuck in the eighties I was until I thought about this list. I just don’t buy albums anymore. I download a track I like and that’s that. I am appalled at my lack of curiosity! Vinyl albums were special.
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I have been pondering this exercise, and it would be sight easier were it my top ten albums from the eighties. As it is there’s Billie Holiday, the Velvet Underground and Big Youth who couldn’t possibly be excluded before we get there. I’ll happily forgo Pink Floyd, though.
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Awesome picks! Love New Order! And OMD, David Bowie, and Tears for Fears are fantastic. I also like INXS, Amy Winehouse, and the rest. The Psychedelic Furs is one for me to explore.
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Thank you, Mr Swings!! The Furs are probably an acquired taste! I’m not sure why, or how, they worked their way into my top ten…. I just used to play these albums a lot, and now they’re like an aural comfort blanket.
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Yes, I have heared from Mr Bowie, and Ms WInehouse too.
I feel old now.
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Mr Mags – you’re only as old as the music you listen to….. NO, this can’t be right…
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Oh, Michael Hutchence and That Hair! I had a small secret crush on him back then – secret because I wasn’t cool enough (not cool at all, in fact) to like INXS. And also because at that age I hadn’t realised I was just a big poofter!
I quite liked Tears for Fears then, too. I am pleased to note that the video of your favourite track from Songs from the Big CHAIR is set in a library full of BOOKS…
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You see, Mr Devine, I have a long and favourable association with chairs…. big and small.
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Oh, yes! Tears for Fears’ and OMD’s albums were on regular rotation on my Radiogram (as were those of Blancmange, Depeche Mode, Heaven 17, Human League, Eurythmics, Yazoo, Spandau Ballet and Dead or Alive – yes, I am a “child of the Eighties”!). I agree with Mr DeVice about Mr Hutchings, but, of your list, I also had rather a lusting for the archetypal “bit of rough” Liam Gallagher (at least I did when he was in his prime; not now). Just call me Lady Chatterley… Jx
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I of course meant “Hutchence”. Jx
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The eighties were the best, Jon!! I loved all the dressing up as well. Growing up in the eighties was a piece of theatre, I loved it. I used to drip with diamanté and wouldn’t go out without my black lace fingerless gloves – I thought this look would last forever. Sigh. Never mind.
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Me too, sweetie. Me, too. However I still like to go out in fingerless gloves, dripping with diamanté, at every opportunity I can!
Why do you think “our gang” makes such a thing about creating a “theme” for Gay Pride every year? It’s the theatre, luvvie! The dressing-up! And next year, we plan to do “full Gothic”, so diamanté and jet, black feathers and frills will be on full display in the West End again. You should come and see us on the parade.. Jx
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Old lady tiptoes quietly away…
I wonder if I’m the only one who understands the meaning of “slapping a 12 incher on the Victrola”?
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Modern stuff. While wax cylinders …
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Wax cylinders? Well really!
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Is that an euphemism? I’m asking for “a friend.”
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The next thing will be hard plastic cylinders and this thread will descend into utter phonography.
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Dinah – I DuckDuckGoed [no longer Googling] “slapping a 12 incher on the Victrola” and had some interesting results. Probably not what you meant 🙂
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[You can also “startpage” something.]
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Maybe I should try it…later, when I’ve managed to clear the image of gooeyduck from my brain.Yes I do know what gooeyduck is In case others wonder… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoduck
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It’s been 22 years since I last lowered an arm on a big 12 incher.
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Mitzi – Don’t you start…
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Mitzi probably also understands the nuance of adding gentle weight to arm to prevent bouncing.Whereas very young people thought the bounce was fun.
I’ll leave now.
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I actually know of artists 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6! But do not have any of those albums. Sorry.
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At least you have heard of them, Mr Lax! I’m not sure if there are any wax cylinder versions available?
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It would not surprise me …
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Amy Winehouse. Beyond a genius in tone and attitude. I’m always interested in lists, especially if they are written by you but anything like this would, if I had written it, include Pink Floyd.
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Mr Ducks – Pink Floyd!!! They should have made my cut…. I spent many an hour listening to Wish You Were Here… yes, they were a feature of my formative years.
Amy… I wish she was still here.
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I have so many brilliant albums, it would be hard to whittle it down to a top ten. To name a few at random: Frank; Extraordinary Machine by Fiona Apple; Sometimes I Sit and Think by Courtney Barnett; The Dreaming Room by Laura Mvula; Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan; Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield; Burn the Black Suit by Juliet Turner; Eye to the Telescope by K T Tunstall; Black Cherry by Goldfrapp; Catching a Tiger by Lissie Maurus; Horses by Patti Smith. (I know, on the whole I prefer female singers to male)
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Nick – AAARRRGH!!!! Oh crikey… I totally forget about Horses by Patti Smith – I played that over and over as well!! Though Easter was my favourite. Mr Devine is a fan of Goldfrapp, so I will go and have a proper listen.
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I’m frequent user of youtube and the abundance of music clips is one reason. However, I dislike the lawyers and self-protecting copyright owners. Your INXS clip didn’t offer music, instead I got – “The uploader has not made this video available in your country.”
One of the problems with using youtube clips on blogs. I have so many past posting of clips that no longer work.
The “Head Over Heels” brings back memories of how research was done back in libraries before the internet. Oh, those sturdy card catalogues. I still remembering find my name in one of them decades ago.
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wow – brilliant trip down memory lane. Loved all those tracks. During that period I was also listening to a lot of The Cure, Supertramp, Police, Blondie and America
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This is a very good list. Have you raided my CD tower? Because I suspect you just copied what you saw in my living room. Do the work next time!
I have a present for you. This is Bowie’s ‘Starman.’ It’s the isolated vocal track. Have you heard it? Better sit down. Put on some headphones if you’ve got them.
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Crikey, the only one on your list that I know well enough to remember what it/he sounds like is David Bowie. In the 80s I mostly listened to Prince, The Police, U2, Dire Straights, The Stranglers, Pink Floyd, and a few others I can’t remember at this moment. I do remember liking INXS but can’t remember any of their songs. I was, of course, extremely distracted by becoming a mother in 1985.
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I’ve just listened to the INXS track, oh my goodness what joyful foray into my youth! How I could have forgotten it i don’t know…
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Congratulations, Scarlet!!!
Just came over from Rimpy’s and Alpo Jones after finding out that you won the FGES!!! It’s coming back to the UK!
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Really????!!! Good heavens!!! But there were comments there so much better than mine! This is crazy talk, but I am deeply honoured to get the shorts again. That genuinely has made my day!
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Congratulations MsScarlet !
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Oh, yes, congratulations!!!
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I just read this article titled “How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive”. Being a calligrapher I thought you would find it interesting.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-the-ballpoint-pen-killed-cursive-1025018394
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