And now for something completely different...

 

 

 

Blasts from the pasts

 

 

 

 

https://youtu.be/oiapLNsB5fE

 

 

Best cover version ever!

 

 

 

 

https://youtu.be/BinwuzZVjnE

 

It's not an Indian summer but I remember listening to this in Bath UK in the late summer of 1974 with student friends. They rented one of the floors on one of the Georgian crescents, overseeing the city, for a very reasonable sum at the time..We were very lucky.

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Joy Division with their '79 non-album single B-side to Transmission, Novelty.

 

 

Joy Division with Day Of The Lords off of their '79 Unknown Pleasures LP.
 

 

New Order with their '81 non-album single Ceremony.
 

 

Another track that bounded back into my conciousness courtesy of Gary Davies' "Sounds of the Eighties".

 

 

The Alarm with The Stand, the title taken from Stephen King's book of same name, off of their '83 Declaration debut LP.
 

 

19 minutes ago, Crossy said:

Another track that bounded back into my conciousness courtesy of Gary Davies' "Sounds of the Eighties".

 

 

Thanks for reawakening some long forgotten memories, Crossy.  Hadn't had this band on my lips for decades.

China Crisis with Working With Fire And Steel off of their '83 Working with Fire and Steel – Possible Pop Songs Volume Two LP.
 

 

The Boomtown Rats with I Don't Like Mondays off of their '79 The Fine Art Of Surfacing LP.
 

 

5 minutes ago, Tippaporn said:

The Boomtown Rats with I Don't Like Mondays off of their '79 The Fine Art Of Surfacing LP.

 

First time I heard this we were driving up to Swan Hunter's in Newcastle to do some work on HMS Coventry (Type 42 destroyer) before the Argies put a number of bombs into her ???? 

 

 

Adam & The Ants with Dog Eat Dog off of their '80 Kings Of The Wild Frontier LP.

 

 

Just now, Crossy said:

 

First time I heard this we were driving up to Swan Hunter's in Newcastle to do some work on HMS Coventry (Type 42 destroyer) before the Argies put a number of bombs into her ???? 

 

Was it Monday?  

8 minutes ago, Tippaporn said:

Was it Monday?  

 

Yup. we had driven from Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness down to Pompey (Portsmouth) before being instructed to drive all the way back north to Newcastle upon Tyne ???? 

 

Even then communications was good enough that we could have been told where to go next by phone!! But security was everything!! Loose Lips Sink Ships!! 

 

A very long Monday!

 

 

You've sparked a trip down memory lane with that China Crisis number, Crossy.  Now I'm thinking of all those 80's bands that I've long forgotten.

After The Fire with the title track of their '82 Der Kommissar LP.
 

 

 The Beat with a fine cover of Smokey Robinson & the Miracles' Tears Of A Clown released as a non-album single in '79.

 

 

11 minutes ago, Tippaporn said:

You've sparked a trip down memory lane with that China Crisis number, Crossy.  Now I'm thinking of all those 80's bands that I've long forgotten.

 

Scary innit??

 

For more memory revival listen to BBC Radio 2 on the BBC Sounds App. 

 

Sounds of the Eighties with Gary Davies is on Friday night (I listen whilst shopping on Saturday).

 

The really sad ones listen to Sounds of the Sixties with Tony Blackburn who I first listened to when he was on Radio Caroline pirate radio, he must be at least 900 by now!

 

Check out Deacon Blue "Raintown" album, yes it really was 35 years ago!

 

 

B-Movie with Remembrance Day off of their '80 EP.
 

 

23 minutes ago, Crossy said:

36 minutes ago, Tippaporn said:

The Boomtown Rats with I Don't Like Mondays off of their '79 The Fine Art Of Surfacing LP.

 

First time I heard this we were driving up to Swan Hunter's in Newcastle to do some work on HMS Coventry (Type 42 destroyer) before the Argies put a number of bombs into her ???? 

 

That must have been a very "Stormy Monday"

19 minutes ago, Crossy said:

 

Scary innit??

 

For more memory revival listen to BBC Radio 2 on the BBC Sounds App. 

 

Sounds of the Eighties with Gary Davies is on Friday night (I listen whilst shopping on Saturday).

 

The really sad ones listen to Sounds of the Sixties with Tony Blackburn who I first listened to when he was on Radio Caroline pirate radio, he must be at least 900 by now!

 

Thanks for the suggestion.  I'll check Davies out.  Hey doesn't have a brother, Ray, does he?  

 

Blackburn from Radio Caroline is still on air?  Wow.  That's amazing.  Rock on, eh?  LOL

 

The Jam with Start off of their '80 Sound Affects LP.
 

 

Just now, Tippaporn said:

Thanks for the suggestion.  I'll check Davies out.  Hey doesn't have a brother, Ray, does he?  

 

Blackburn from Radio Caroline is still on air?  Wow.  That's amazing.  Rock on, eh?  LOL

 

The Jam with Start off of their '80 Sound Affects LP.
 

 

Great song. I think the Jam are really underrated.