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[Ride the Lion to Zion]

The one thing listening to The Sound Of The Crowd while driving today was how much electronica feeling was in the song as i had not heard it for ages.

And yet eminently danceable. Big floor-filler in 81.

Kraftwerk set the template of electronica morphing into synth-pop with tracks like Showroom Dummies.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Human League were under mounting pressure to follow up Dare. Music press were distinctly underwhelmed when Hysteria was eventually released. Few humdrum moments, the Lyn Collins cover is not a patch on the original. Overall though, it was an album I grew to appreciate. Guitars were suddenly back in fashion on The Lebanon and Louise is one of their best songs. Still got the cassette. Unfortunately, no cassette player.

Remember reading a Melody Maker interview in 84 where Joanne was trying to persuade the journo that she had recently thrown a TV set out of a hotel room window. Possibly the least plausible tale of Rock n Roll excess in history.

 

[Vladonald Trumputin]

Human League's best songs were The Crow And The Baby, Black Hit Of Space, Empire State Human and Only After Dark (a Mick Ronson cover off the Slaughter On 10th Avenue album).

Reproduction, Travelogue and Dare were shit hot albums, as was Penthouse and Pavement by Heaven 17.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Human League's best songs were The Crow And The Baby, Black Hit Of Space, Empire State Human and Only After Dark (a Mick Ronson cover off the Slaughter On 10th Avenue album).

Reproduction, Travelogue and Dare were shit hot albums, as was Penthouse and Pavement by Heaven 17.

I preferred Travelogue over Reproduction. Crow and a Baby is the track by the old line-up that most foreshadowed the material on Dare.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Frida's stunning solo single which hit the charts at no 5 when ABBA's star was waning in 1982, Phil Collin's drumming in it is superb.

Last time this vid was posted, I mentioned the Carlton vests in Abba The Movie.

On a loosely-related topic, first time I ever saw a South Sydney jersey it was adorning a Japanese tourist walking through Sydney CBD on a mid-80s BBC TV travel show feature. Didn't know who the team was but recognised the NSWRL badge. Could be the earliest recorded case of "Random Souths Guy".

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

While all the The titles were playing in the car today, this song by ABBA came up also, The Visitors, ABBA by this time in 1982 were completing waning everywhere but this song was way ahead of its time. The album of the same name did hit no 1 in the UK but this song as a single was never released, There is no official film clip to the song but to me this was a masterpiece and should have opened up a whole new audience to ABBA.

Along with elements of characteristic Abba, I reckon this has a mood of early-80s Ultravox. And Frida's vocal reminds me a little of Elizabeth Fraser from the Cocteau Twins.

Re previously-discussed Blancmange cover of The Day Before You Came -

Specifically, the snippets of flippancy. Replacing Marilyn French with Barbara Cartland is unmistakable but would an Australian pick up on the snatch of Coronation Street theme after the line about Dallas?

 

[Vladonald Trumputin]

Along with elements of characteristic Abba, I reckon this has a mood of early-80s Ultravox. And Frida's vocal reminds me a little of Elizabeth Fraser from the Cocteau Twins.

Re previously-discussed Blancmange cover of The Day Before You Came -

Specifically, the snippets of flippancy. Replacing Marilyn French with Barbara Cartland is unmistakable but would an Australian pick up on the snatch of Coronation Street theme after the line about Dallas?

Just a word on Ultravox.

The first three albums were brilliant. John Foxx departed and took any artistic and innovative skills with him. Midge Ure destroyed the band, commercialising Ultravox and leaving behind a shadow of a great band, devoid of any uniqueness.

Foxx later made two good albums, Metamatic (with the excellent Underpass) and The Garden.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Just a word on Ultravox.

The first three albums were brilliant.

Plus the classic single - Young Savage

 

[horrie hastings]

 

[Vladonald Trumputin]

Plus the classic single - Young Savage

That wasn't on any of the first four albums but I heard it years ago. Was it released as a single?

EDIT: You already said that. DERRR!

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Pretty good edition, apart from the karaoke at the beginning.

 

[horrie hastings]

Pretty good edition, apart from the karaoke at the beginning.

Was good seeing the Nolans, did have a bit of a laugh watching the dancers to ELO's Hold On Tight.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Was good seeing the Nolans, did have a bit of a laugh watching the dancers to ELO's Hold On Tight.

Legs & Co could often move in mysterious ways.

Check out their interpretation of Don't Bring Me Down. Rendered from what looks to be either scaffolding or a climbing frame.

 

[horrie hastings]

Legs & Co could often move in mysterious ways.

Check out their interpretation of Don't Bring Me Down. Rendered from what looks to be either scaffolding or a climbing frame.

Lol just googled it and found it, i hope the girls had safety harness's on, no OHS back then.

 

[horrie hastings]

Legs & Co could often move in mysterious ways.

Check out their interpretation of Don't Bring Me Down. Rendered from what looks to be either scaffolding or a climbing frame.

Just found the clip to Turn To Stone with the girls dancing between stalagmites and stalactites

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Just found the clip to Turn To Stone with the girls dancing between stalagmites and stalactites

The stalagmites are somewhat risqué.

Faux Stonehenge would have been more upstanding. Literally and metaphorically.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

They also had a crack at All Over The World. Routine features a bevy of national stereotypes. Including, for some reason, a half-naked Scotswoman.

 

[horrie hastings]

They also had a crack at All Over The World. Routine features a bevy of national stereotypes. Including, for some reason, a half-naked Scotswoman.

Well what can i say

 

[Generalzod]

The greatest scene in movie history…

 

[Vic Mackey]

Love this, its awesome to see how represented women are in metal atm