Songs you haven't heard in years (Part 2)

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Peak Donna Summer live, may need a cigarette after watching this clip.

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Glad they rolled out this acoustic version, a little better than the original which was a cracker.

I remember when Lies first dropped, love it.

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Turn these lights off Josh! :winking_face_with_tongue:

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That’s my favourite song of theirs. I liked it as a kid, completely forgot about it for a couple of decades, then heard it again somewhere and was like β€œohhhh that song!” and raced out to find a copy. The broccoli hair rising in slow motion at the start of the clip is hilarious.

And if you imagine the singer is actually Chris Lilley dressed up it’s even funnier.

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We’re all subject to middle-age spread in our advancing years, but the singer dude these days looks like he’s eaten Chris Lilley…

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Thank you very little for putting that ridiculous song in my head.

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I’m sure it’s not the first time I’ve posted this. Feels cheesy, but I still really like it.
Pretty good songwriters, those Brothers Gibb.

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The avalanches sample of this song in subways is a trip.

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Welcome!
It’s not a bad tune from a pretty grim era for mainstream music. Probably better off listened to without the video (which is quite preposterous with its big hair).
I like the jangly guitars, and the bass sound (which apparently was achieved by doubling bass guitar with a bass synth). I suspect this sound was used as a template by Thomas Dolby in his production of The King Of Rock 'N Roll (which has a similar β€œsquelchy” sounding bassline) for Prefab Sprout a few years later.

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Oh, you’ve touched on two faves.
And I was thinking that you just don’t hear guitar like that anymore…

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Sadly, the Romantic’s version is not the definitive one.

This is:

This group had interesting people… one got into the Guinness Book of Records for the longest on-screen kiss, another stood as a UK-Brexit candidate (but got only 350 votes), one divorced his wife but kept a relationship going and fathered a child with his ex while getting married to someone else and the fourth makes his living in pantomimes.

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Had legitimately never heard that before.
Was not even aware of its existence.

Look… it wasn’t terrible. Mainly, it was just… umm… pointless. They really didn’t do much with it at all… There’s all sorts of things that they could’ve done… a cheesy Europop version, a big ballad, a boy-girl duet… In the end, it’s just a fairly safe, stiff xerox of the original.

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This was big in its day

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Mmm… Kate Garner…
She became a very well-known photographer. Her shots of bands/artists were routinely used in album art through the 90’s.

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