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You might think, from that playlist, that early eighties pop radio was heavily influenced by reggae. It was.
Let's do this again. Number One, The Police, a banal song about a stalker, no reggae, a pop ballad...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs
Black violinists fake-fiddling. Cringey.
Number Two, Michael Jackson. In this song, he's a man accused of fathering an illegitimate child. Should have been Number One, this audio production is amazing. Disco...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_XLOBDo_Y
Number Three, Irena Cara. She's... a glorified stripper? Synth-pop...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILWSp0m9G2U
Number Four, Men At Work. Reggae...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfR9iY5y94s
Number Five, Michael Jackson. Rock Anthem...
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To further prove my point, five more songs from the top of Billboard in 1983. Hmm, The Police, Michael Jackson. Eurythmics is at number ten. Let's start with number 11, brining gender bending way past David Bowie and into the mainstream, Culture Club...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nXGPZaTKik
And at number eighteen, David Bowie (with Stevie Ray Vaughn)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbD_kBJc_gI
At 22, Eddie Grant. Apparently this song is about a street riot?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuwxZSIS__4
Thomas Dolby, Prince, Toto, The Pretenders, Marvin Gaye. Number 30, After the Fire (Falco did it first, I'm cheating here. Gotta get my Falco love on)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-bgiiTxhzM
Number five goes to number 76, a deep cut, even though they score higher on the chart with another song. Men At Work...
Great time for pop, even though I'm biased - I was in my mid teens so there is the nostalgia factor. But it was the early days of MTV so cutting edge of music videos. You had New Wave and post-punk. Metal was in a glam phase but pretty fun. Hiphop just about to ramp up. Bands like The Clash, U2, Killing Joke, etc. Joy Division/New Order. The Smiths. Pet Shop Boys.
I like that early 80s Bowie too - not his best period but resonated with me.
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1963, Joni Mitchell recorded a few songs at the radio station CFQC in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Her earliest recording. Here's her take on House of the Rising Sun. She makes it her own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wWR3ZkyyGY
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^Very nice!
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Something a bit different: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000mk3v
"A 'dizzying, dazzling' satirical river of sound"
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^Brilliant!
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Something a bit different: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000mk3v
"A 'dizzying, dazzling' satirical river of sound"
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Dire Straits - Communique (full album);
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The new Deftones, good. So good.
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Definitely Adult Contemporary. Tina Turner - Let's Stay Together. 1984...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rFB4nj_GRc
Her 'Beyond Thunderdome' hairstyle is truly epic.
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Dub U Crazy, Episode 12 with your host, Kat Skinner.
Fear is the mind killer.
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Maybe the greatest lounge recording of all time, Bola Sete with Vince Guaraldi Trio - Live 1963.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtUcoNRtsMI
-edit- Vince Guaraldi Trio - Fly Me To The Moon (1964)
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My favourite live version of Talking Heads Once in a Lifetime in glorious black and white videotape
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Frank Zappa - The Dangerous Kitchen (released in '83, written earlier)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lpj2uMFi-c
Jazz Discharge Party Hats (from the same album, The Man from Utopia)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgWbbegTQtw
The Radio is Broken...
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Watching a bunch of Zappa interviews, and he always answers the question of 'What do you like that's being released right now?' ('80s, early '90s) with 'Alan Holdsworth'...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmYGWQ6ghO4
I can't think of another guitarist who shreds the instrument so effortlessly.
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Zappa, still my favourite guitarist. His willingness to improvise and his flow made every solo different. They never played the same song the same way twice.
Probably my favourite line up from A Token of His Extreme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa1JR-TgPfU
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I'm listening to Olé Coltrane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ol%C3%A9_Coltrane
Beautiful album. My copy is from the 1989 reissue and includes the bonus track, "To Her Ladyship". McCoy Tyner played on this album, and I think just about anything he touched is a treasure.
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Dub U Crazy, Episode 12 with your host, Kat Skinner.
https://soundcloud.com/hhh-orb/kat-skin … ucrazyep12
Loved the final section starting with Black Uhuru.
(Hope your throat gets better soon.)
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hhh wrote:Dub U Crazy, Episode 12 with your host, Kat Skinner.
https://soundcloud.com/hhh-orb/kat-skin … ucrazyep12Loved the final section starting with Black Uhuru.
(Hope your throat gets better soon.)
I think it's a short in the mic cord, but I haven't messed with it yet. I discovered some online synthesizers and then espeak because of it, kind of cool...
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Right, your Top 5 current favorite live recordings.
#1 is easy for me. Zero 7 and Sia from when you can see her face, with Sophie Barker...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxx_MwcfbEs
#2, and already it's hard to pick one. Sabotage, Beastie Boys, on David Letterman...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ5yKJlhbiA
Yeah, that's it. I got two. There's nothing that I can play that beats Sabotage from '94 in the year 2020.
Maybe Shirley Bassey with Goldfinger, so 3...
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Limping in with the last 2. Lady Gaga -If I Ever Lose My Faith (Sting)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEedn0GXp30
Gregg Allman - Come and Go Blues...
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