HERE IT COMES AGAIN -- BLACK

THIS IS MY REPLY TO ACQUARELLO IN MY WORDPRESS' BLOG:
http://celinejulie.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/favorite-songs-from-1980s/

--I love Cocteau Twins very much. My favorite ones include

1.FROU-FROU FOXES IN MIDSUMMER FIRES, in the album HEAVEN OR LAS VEGAS (1990)

2.THEFT, AND WANDERING AROUND LOST, in the album FOUR-CALENDAR CAFE (1993)

3.THE THINNER THE AIR, in the album VICTORIALAND (1986) and also in the compilation album STARS AND TOPSOIL (2000)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx0vY7Xs5Qk

4.SERPENTSKIRT, in the album MILK AND KISSES (1996)

--I just found out that Youtube has a clip of THE ANGEL ON RUSKIN (1995) by THE BATHERS with Elizabeth Fraser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbPhJPY1iKc


--My favorite song of THE DREAM ACADEMY is WATERLOO, which is in the album A DIFFERENT KIND OF WEATHER (1990).


--THE BLUE NILE is very interesting. I first knew this band from the various-artist album THE TREE AND THE BIRD AND THE FISH AND THE BELL (1991), which includes REGRET by THE BLUE NILE. In this album, my favorite ones are "THE GLASGOW BARROWLANDS" by Eddi Reader and "JOCELYN SQUARE" by LOVE & MONEY.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tree-Bird-Fish-Bell/dp/B0000581S3/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1196405531&sr=1-1

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61T-DdNqU9L._SS500_.jpg


--I really love "BLACK". His songs--WONDERFUL LIFE and THE BIG ONE was very famous in Thailand in late 1980s. My favorites songs of BLACK include:

1.HERE IT COMES AGAIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeVJ2PAzUOA

2.FLY UP TO THE MOON (duet with SAM BROWN)
The music video of this song is great. It is a very lovely animation, but I can't find this music video in the internet.


--The music video of CABARET VOLTAIRE's I WANT YOU is very funny. I love it. I just knew from wikipedia that Richard H. Kirk from CABARET VOLTAIRE later joined with Richard Barratt to form SWEET EXORCIST, a dance project which released a single called TESTONE (1990).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOzWrJ6nPIo

--Talking about CABARET VOLTAIRE reminds me that I should spend some time listening to the songs of the "C81" group, to which CABARET VOLTAIRE belongs. I am not familiar with most of the bands in the C81 and the C86 groups, but I have heard that they are very interesting.

C81 group includes Scritti Politti, Pere Ubu, Orange Juice, The Specials, Buzzcocks, Josef K, The Raincoats, D.A.F. and Aztec Camera.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C81

C89 group includes Primal Scream, The Mighty Lemon Drops, The Soup Dragons, The Wedding Present, Fuzzbox, The Pastels, The Shop Assistants, Age of Chance, Stump, and Half Man Half Biscuit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C86_%28music%29

Here is the mv of "BUFFALO" (1986) by STUMP:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-PmQ3dFQvs

PAINTBALL'S COMING HOME (1997) by HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxR0JY-FMh8


--Another interesting band in the 1980s is THE ASSOCIATES (with the great voice of Billy Mackenzie). This is a clip of PARTY FEARS TWO (1982):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbPhJPY1iKc



--I have to confess that most of the songs here are not what I really listened to when I was in the 1980s. At that time I listened to those silly lovely songs produced by Stock/Aitken/Waterman. But in the 1990s I became addicted to the writing of Artit Promprasit, a music critic. He wrote about most of the songs in this post. But in the 1990s I still couldn't find the CDs of the songs he wrote about, or those CDs were imported and too expensive. I just had a chance to listen to the songs recommended by Artit because of Youtube, and I fell in love with them.

Other songs and albums recommended by Artit:

1.AIN'T THAT ALWAYS THE WAY (1985) by Paul Quinn, produced by Edwyn Collins+Paul Heard. This song is from the soundtrack of LETTER TO BREZHNEV.

You can listen to the song here:
http://hypem.com/track/366397


2.UP HOME! (EP) (1988) by A.R. KANE
http://www.myspace.com/arkane69


3.WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY (1985) by ANNE PIGALLE
http://www.myspace.com/annepigalle


4.BUOY (1986) – MICK KARN FEATURING DAVID SYLVIAN
http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Nothing-David-Sylvian/dp/B00004YMVC


5.THE EVENING VISITS...AND STAY FOR YEARS (1985, album) by THE APARTMENTS
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,241011,00.html


6.(I LOVE YOU) WHEN YOU SLEEP (1984) by TRACIE

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This is my comment in Girish's blog:
http://www.girishshambu.com/blog/2007/11/ill-be-seeing-you80s-pop.html

Thanks for the link, Girish.

I'm not sure about the exact title of the Booka Shade's song I mention. Sometimes it is mentioned as OH SUPAMAN.

I love New Order. But my most favorite song of them is 1963.