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The Unknown Beauty Of the 80's

And I hereby present Volume 22 . 01. Bill Pritchard - Pas De Plaisanterie 02. Peter Godwin - The Art Of Love (UK remix) 03. The Angels - Fashion And Fame 04. Box Of Toys - Old Man Rome 05. This Island Earth - Fireflowers 06. Boys Don't Cry - I Wanna Be A Cowboy 07. Fashion - TRader 08. Eyeless In Gaza - What I Want To Know 09. The Big Dish - Reverend Killer 10. Dislocation Dance - Show Me 11. EBN-OZN - Big Lady (I wonder) 12. Blue Zoo - I'm Your Man 13. Dalek I Love You - Masks & Licenses 14. H2O - Hollywood Dream 15. China Crisis - Be Suspicious 16. Nick Heyward - Stolen Tears 17. Associates - Reach The Top 18. Leisure Process - Loce Cascade 19. The Mood - Paris Is One Day Away

The Unknown Beauty Of the 80's

This time it is volume 21 . 01. Endgames - Waiting For Another Chance 02. Wild Swans - No Bleeding 03. China Crisis - Watching Over Burning Fields 04. Thomas Leer - Chasing The Dragon 05. Sophie & Peter Johnson - Torn Open 06. Shack - High Rise Low Life 07. Peter Koppes - Take A Vow 08. H2O - Blue Diamond 09. Waterfront - Dancing With Strangers 10. Strawberry Switchblade - Let Her Go 11. The Dream Academy - Indian Summer 12. Nick Heyward - Strange Life 13. Kissing THe Pink - Certain Things Are Likely 14. Fra Lippo Lippi - The Distance Between Us 15. Picnic At The Whitehouse - We Need Protection 16. The Adventures - Your Greatest Shade Of Blue 17. Mobiles - Drowning In Berlin 18. Hurrah! - Velveteen 19. The Cars - Magic 20. Bette Bright - All Girls Lie

The Unknown Beauty Of the 80's

And that brings us to Volume 20 this week. 01. New Musik - Warp 02. Endgames - Love Cares 03. Thomas Leer - All About You 04. Kissing The Pink - The Last Film 05. China Crisis - Cucumber Garden 06. Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon 07. Orchids - Peaches 08. Stephen Duffy - I Love You 09. Thrashing Doves - Angel Visit 10. Respect ft. Philip Oakey - What Comes After Goodbye 11. Friends Again - Lullaby No 2 12. B-Movie - My Ship Of Dreams 13. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Everyday I Write The Book 14. The Blue Nile - The Second Act 15. Our Daughters Wedding - Always Be True 16. Vitamin Z - Circus Ring 17. Box Of Toys - It Goes Without Saying 18. It's Immaterial - Several Brothers 19. Throwing Muses - Dizzy

The Unknown Beauty Of the 80's (reposts)

Okay, like I wrote some weeks ago, people have been asking for older volumes, so today I repost Volume 11 to 14 again. Volume 11 tracklist Volume 12 tracklist Volume 13 tracklist Volume 14 tracklist For tracklist check out the older posts, or follow the tracklist links. Please feel free to send in your reactions.

The Unknown Beauty Of The 80's

This week brings us to Volume 19 . 01. Two People - People In Love 02. New Musik - Luxury 03. Paul Haig - Love And War 04. Fiat Lux - this Illness 05. H2O - Burn To Win 06. Flynn - The Nobody Inn 07. The Big Supreme - What Love Means 08. Cocteau Twins - Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops 09. Chris Duffy - All The Time In The World 10. Swing Out sister - Another Lost Weekend (long version) 11. Billy MacKenzie - Ice Cream Factory 12. Foreign Press - Love In A Strange Place 13. Hey Elastica - This Town 14. Mummy Calls - Let's Go 15. Gangway - Come Back As A Dog 16. Power - Soul In My Shoes 17. The Lover Speaks - Still Faking This Art Of Love 18. The Primitives - Crash 19. China Crisis - Orange Mutt Mutt Dance

The Trilogy Show

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Fischer-Z, live at the Mezz, Breda on 30 August 2010. I was in the second class of the Senior General Secondary Education, when Fischer-Z scoored a minor hit with Marliese, not shortly after I saw a performance of John Watts during the No-Nukes festival on the Dutch TV. A broadcast that still brings back warm memories, cos it also introduced me to the music of The Stranglers, The Sound and Ideal. Since then I have been following John Watts, unfortuantly never been able to see him live. I bought his solo records, the album of The Cry and the later albums of Fischer-Z re-incarnation. So I was kind of surprised learning that John Watts would play two concerts in the Netherlands, one as a support of Simple Minds. Since I've seen quite some concerts of the Simple Minds over the past few years, I decided to visit the Fischer-Z concert at the Mezz in Breda. It turned out to be a good decision, since John Watts] and co did a great concert, with a great setlist of songs from the first three...

Ending On A High Note - Farewell to Amsterdam

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A-Ha live at the HMH, Amsterdam on 10-10-2010. The support Jimmy Gnecco, and his band Ours which helped him to perform his first released solo-material, had just flown in the other day, maybe in the same plane as the one where Solomon Burke died in just before landing. They were given a change to start up the crowd with a performance of fourty minutes. As said they played material from Jimmy's first solo album The Heart, which sounded very promising for a first listen. At nine o'clock the lights went out and a classical intro was played, after that a keyboard tune followed with Morton singing short phrases over it as if he was practising his voice. Then the band came on and opened with The Sun Always Shines On T.V. It took them three songs, in which Morton wore his sunglasses, to get into the mood. With Scoundrel Days the voice was warm and the band relaxed as if to say the professional photographers are gone it is time to start the party. What followed was a show with a lot of...

The Unknown Beauty Of the 80's

Volume 18 01. McCluskey Brothers - Slip Away 02. The Indian Givers - Hatcheck Girl 03. Bonk - Cupid In Cars 04. Love & Money - Saint Henry 05. The Painted Word - I Found Love Today 06. Claudia Brücken - Whisper 07. Fiat Lux - Blue Emotion 08. Person To Person - High Time 09. Furniture - Brilliant Mind 10. Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC2 11. Fra Lippo Lippi - Naive 12. Strawberry Switchblade - Trees And Flowers 13. The Lotus Eaters - You Fill Me With Need 14. The Wild Swans - Whirlpool Heart 15. Pete Shelley - You Can't Take That Away From Me 16. Picnic At The Whitehouse - Success 17. John Foxx - Enter The Angel 18. Westworld - Sonic Boom Boy 19. Altered Images - I Could Be Happy I have been asked to re-post some old volumes. I will try to upload them later this week. Meanwhile enjoy this volume.