August 6, 2025 • 23 mins
In a special edition of Subculture Dave Griffiths and Harley Woods take a look at the best singles of the 1970s and 1980s.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
And welcome back to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We're going to continue our look now at the nineteen
seventies and the nineteen eighties music scene by having a
look at some of our favorite singles for that time period.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Harley, tell us a little bit about.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Some of your favorite singles from the nineteen seventies and
the nineteen eighties time period.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I mean, this is about five shows worth all in itself. Geez,
there is so much and I won't even have remembered
like a quarter of the things I love a singles
from this time period. But you know, Michael Jackson was
one of my biggest influences when I was little, so
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you want to bet that you know just about everything
he recorded and released as a single. Wanted to jump
on this list, but I'm going to narrow it down
to a couple of special ones. Smooth Criminal. That song
just always comes back to me as something really special
and human nature. That's that's my other of the sort
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of top two Michael Jackson singles. But I will also
mention Billy Jean Thriller and Off the Wall. Yeah, just
there's a reason this man was so successful and titled
the King of Pop. There's absolute magic. But if I
was going to really narrow it down. Smooth Criminal and
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Human Nature are the other top two there. She's eighties
as well. It was such a big period of like.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, and Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson's going to appear on
my best album's list too.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
So yeah, yeah, same, it's kind of he narrow this
stuff down. And you know he was with his brothers
in the Jacksons during the seventies as well, and so
I have to mention can you Feel It? Because that's
just a great song. They also had Heartbreak Hotel and
Show the Way to Go. I keep remembering those couple
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of songs, but can you Feel It, especially as the
one that kind of always comes up. Now if I
can move away from the Jacksons for two minutes, and
I just remembered I didn't mention any of Janet Jackson's
See this list could go on forever. Oh my god. Yeah.
(02:33):
I kind of remember discovering Janet Jackson a bit later
than I expected to, well not really later, but you know,
at the time I didn't really know about her first album.
But when I did learn about her first album, well
I say first album, the first of her ones that
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she counts these days. There were two albums she recorded
when her father was her manager, and she likes to
not count those as part of her repertoire. But there's
a great song on her first album called the Pleasure Principle,
so that that's a special one. And then in eighty
nine she released the Rhythm Nation album, which, like everything
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on that is magical as far as I'm concerned. So
a lot of great single that is a bad album. Yeah,
But yeah, as for a single, I mean, so much
of what was on that album came out as a
single and it was all great stuff. So I don't
know how to narrow that down. And you know, this
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is what I said was going to happen. It suddenly
makes me think of something else because she and the
Jackson's discovered Paula Abdul, and within a year Paula Abdul
released her album. I think that was about eighty nine
as well, So I could rattle off a few of those,
but I would have to check the year was correct
(03:59):
on that. But let's go to Prince, another big hitter
of the kind of seventies eighties era. I'm going to
go for singles. I'm gonna have to say stuff like
when Doves Cry. You know, when we get to albums,
I'll mention Purple Rain. But it's a great song in
(04:20):
its own right. But off that album Let's Go Crazy,
I love that song. So that's that's kind of like
one of my topics there. And we kind of briefly
spoke off air about you know, ah, where where did
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the Madonna songs we like fit into all this? I
really love her first album, So there's quite a few
off that I can mention, but there's one that sort
of falls in between albums because of this other thing
she did and a movie as well. So from there
in to the Groove, I want to mention that one
(05:02):
in particular. Yep, yeah, Jesus, list is going to go
on and on, you know. Okay, I finally got away
from you know, those big few Fleetwood Mac dreams, Go
Your Own Way and Rhianna and some of my favorites there.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
One of one of my best friends in high school
was actually named after the track Rhianna.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Let me guess what her name was. Her name was Steve.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I've got to I've got to share this as well.
I love this about Fleetwood Mac. Someone was saying recently
about how about how Taylor Swift writes the best revenge
songs and and payback songs, And somebody pointed out, hey, well,
hang on a minute, you can you can say that
that that she writes great revenge songs. But there's only
(06:04):
one artist in history, and that is Stevie Nicks, who
wrote revenge songs about her partner's infidelity while he was
in the band and made him stand beside her while
she was singing songs about what a prick he was.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah, there's a lot of stories about what was going
on in that band and all the inter relationships. It's like, geez,
it's amazing some of the stuff that comes up. We
could do some weird deep dives into all of this,
couldn't we?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Probably?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah. Stevie Nicks, on her own though, just released so
many good songs, you know, on Gypsy and all that.
So this could turn into the biggest rabbit hole. This
might have been a mistake, you know. I love the
Pointer sisters as well. They had so many good songs,
(06:59):
and they even actually one worth pointing out. I mean,
I loved Neutron Dance and Jump when I was a
little kid. Those two songs will forever live in my Heart.
I've got the greatest hits of theirs that still gets
played very frequently. But there's one I'm going to point out,
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which is kind of and the odd one. It was
kind of like they took up this challenge of like,
you know, people were saying black artists they don't know
how to do like a country music, so they took
up the challenge and did basically a country album. And
they're always remembered for the song fairy Tale, So yeah,
(07:40):
there is something about that song. I'm just like, I'm
not a big country person myself, but when that song
comes on, I just love it for some reason. Yeah,
So yeah, I'm going to point that one out. Aretha Franklin.
She's amazing, and so she spans from like the Sea
sixties onward, so there's a lot of stuff you can
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pull out. Geez, where to go from there. I think
the one I want to mention is an odd choice
because it's a cover of someone else's song, and that
is Jumping Jack Flash. I love the way she does
that song.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
And you know, Woopy Goldberg did the film Jumping Jack
Flash and this was a track from the soundtrack. So
I think that really deserves a mention Creden's clear Water Revival.
Just for a bit of a change, how about I
love the track? I heard it through the grapevine and
(08:45):
Who'll Stop the Rain. I had to make sure that
they fell in the right era as well, because they
released like seven albums in two years, and I'm like,
how does this work? And that was like sixty eight
and sixty nine, so I had to make sure it
was nineteen seventy. Any song I picked one that, you know,
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how about one of those one hit wonder songs. I
want to say Mickey by Tony Basil. Oh, yes, yeah,
it's one of those ones. It just it never kind
of dies. It's like it's been played to death over
the years. But you know what, you just join in
and get pumped whenever it's on, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Especially and bring it on.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yes exactly. Things like that, just like you know, there
are movies and things like that that come up and
just bring life back to old songs as well. There
was an anime I watched. It was kind of an
ongoing series a few years ago, and I think one
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of the one of the songs that either appeared in
or it may have been a theme tune or a
closing theme tune in at one stage, I think it was,
and it was a cover of a song from the eighties.
So that song had to make it onto this chart
because I love it and it's alone by heart ah yes, yeah, yeah.
(10:20):
And you know what problemed me to think of that
one as well was the fact that we've been talking about,
you know, the Runaways, So based on that, we have
to mention Cherrybomb by the Runaways because that song will
always just stand out for me as something special. I
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don't know if you know the Arthur movies. Yeah, so
I love those movies so much as a kid and
rediscovered them as an adult. And I know they tried
to do a remake with Russell Brand or whatever his
name is, which just a terrible idea. But from the
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first ever movie, Christopher Cross did the theme tune. It
was Arthur's theme or yeah, you know, you'll recognize it
if you hear it. Sometimes people don't recognize it by
the name Arthur's theme, but you know, if you get
caught between the Moon and New York City, you know
that it's a great sort of lyric and I love
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the way he sings as well, he did a lot
of great stuff. This here, I told you this list
is going to go on. A group called Fox did
a song called Sis a single Bed. Maybe we should
try and play that one at some point because it's
a funny little track. I don't know how many people
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remember it, and I didn't really know about it until
a friend I used to ride on the bus with
mention it to me one day when I was, you know,
trying to do singing and stuff myself, and she said, oh,
here's a couple of songs from like this even and
eighties you should try and do. And she mentioned these
couple of songs, and that one will for a stay
(12:05):
in my head. It's a funny song. So yeah, if
no one's heard it, look look for a Fox and
their song a single Bed. Oh yeah, what about Pink
Floyd another Brick in the Wall?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, well that's going to feature in my that that's
actually going to feature in my albums, because did you
realize that album was released on my on the day
I was born? Oh was it thirtieth or November nineteen
seventy nine, yep, on the day.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I was born. Wow, I had no concept. You've been
marked by the Wall, you are the brick. I was
gonna mention George Benson. He had tracks like Breezing, give
Me the Night and turn Your Love Around is Yeah,
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I love those tracks. He was brilliant. I know someone
I didn't add to my list but I meant to
was Stevie Wonder.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I mean I don't even know how I narrow down
what tracks to do for him. I mean, God, maybe
Master Blaster or ah. Yeah, that's an impossible task right there.
I think everything he's done is being brilliant. I've got
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the Bengals, I mean Eternal Flame. I think was that
the one written by Prince I think it was. Yeah,
So which was.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Territory?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yes, my Tika geez, why did you mention that? I
had her in my head the other day too, and
it's like, oh my god, yeah, jeepus Creeper is this
I told you this list is going to go on
and on. Look sly and the family Stone want to
take you higher. That's a great one. I mentioned affair
(14:07):
that you know Shakespeare's sister. Well, we're talking about you know,
acts that have a weird little backstory and you know
things you may not know. But yeah, the first Shakespeare's
Sister album came out in eighty nine with the There
was a single on there called Your History, and that's
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what I know them. For them, we'll say them because
really it was just Chabone Fey, who came out of
Banana Rama, who started this act as Shakespeare's sister. But
then she would frequently have her friend Marcella Detroit in
the tracks, and then by the second album it was
(14:48):
the pair of them as a duo. So there's a
whole kind of rabbit hole in and of itself there.
But to fit within the eighties, Your History is pretty
much any one I can in there. I think our
grips like Die Straights and oh jeez, what about oh
(15:09):
Air Supply were they were formed in Melbourne? I think
weren't they?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah? They were? Ye?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah. So I'll say like all out of Love is
one I always go back to for them, and one
that's kind of like a rabben hole in and of
itself is to mention Cyndi Lauper. I love those early albums,
but I'm gonna say narrow it down, but I'm going
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to list a few tracks here. Change of Heart, she
bop her cover of I Drove All Night, the Royal
Aubison classic Hole in My Heart that goes all the
way to China time after time, and the Goonies are
good enough. Those are my favorite of the like the
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eighties tracks, I think, but I'm gonna shut up and
let you say something for once.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Yeah, mine's a bit the same like my musical tastes
in the eighties and.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Was all over the place.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Like basically my musical tastes early on started with what
my dad was listening to. And my dad was really
heavy into into rock music and hard rock music and
if you include Black Sabbath as metal and metal as well.
But I first thought there's two tracks that I fell
in love with when I was a kid where music
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stopped being just background noise for me and actually became
something that I was really passionate about. That first track
was def Leopard's Rocket. I remember my dad was watching
a I don't know whether it was Countdown or something
like that it was, I know it was a television
show and my dad was watching it and the video
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clip came on for yeah, that's right, kids, video clips
used to be on television. Rocket by Deaf Leopard came
on and it just hit me, like there was something
about that track that I just instantly fell in love with.
And yeah, like I was asking my dad, oh, if
you've got any Death Leopard on vinyl and I'm showing
(17:18):
my age here. Yeah, he had it on vinyl, and like,
so we pulled that out and listen to that. The
other one was and I still remember this.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Oh my god, he just mentioned vinyl and that just
triggered stuff in my head. I'm just like, you know what,
before you go on, I'm going to mention one more so,
the Bridge I loved as a child, and I have
looked up since it's from a Belgian artist named Plastic
Bertran and that's what.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah, all right, please go on.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
So the other track, the other track that really made
me sit up and take notice of music was Electric
Blue by ice House And I remember this still to
this day. I was homesick from school and ice House
on Ray Martin's Midday show and they play Electric Blue,
and as soon as I was better, I was off
down to the local music shop to buy ice Houses.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I think that would have been vinyl. It could have
been a cassette, but I think that was probably vinyl.
A copy of that because I absolutely loved it. But
there's some tracks as well.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Wasn't that the song that was on the soundtrack for
Short Circuit? I think, so yeah, yeah, yeah, that's all
how I remember it. I think, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Now these are these other ones are kind of tracks
that didn't fit into my best Album's list, because there's
a few tracks that I've left out of my that
of tracks I love. I've left them out of my
singles list because I wanted to talk about them on
my album's list later on. But so these are just
kind of tracks that I go back to time and
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time again to listen to. It's an almost fire Man
in Motion by John Parr. I don't remember that song.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I kind of like, I can't remember the track properly,
but I do remember knowing about it.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Yeah. Another one that it was a.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
It was a the video clip that kind of drew
me into it, and that's Sarah.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
You know, I'm sure you know the song.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Sarah, Yeah, yeah, absolutely so.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
That was another one of those ones where I was
watching television and the video clip came on and I
saw it was Starship, but it was so different to
what Starship had ever done previously. So yeah, definitely. Sarah
by Starship is another one.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
That because that popped into my head earlier as well,
and I'm like, who performed that? I'm glad you mentioned it.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah, so some other ones as well for me that
that really kind of stuck out for me was Down
on the Border by the Little River Band when John
Farnham was the lead singer, because yeah, so that's another
one that really stuck at Lamal Never Ending Story. I
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absolutely loved. Yeah, I absolutely loved that film when it
came out, and that one just really really stuck with me.
Two from One Band here. I was a really big
fan of Genesis when they first were around, so Invisible
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Touch and Land of Confusion were both tracks that I
really really adored that were around at that time. And
there was also some Phil Collins track in there as well,
because I can remember listening to my dad listening to
to Phil Collins in the car as well. But I
think that's probably There was one that I was trying
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to think of and I've been like, I've completely forgotten
the name of the track, but it was it was
like a jungle kind of track where I thought it
was called Tarzan and I was looking up I was
looking it up before, but all I could find was
actually it was actually like some of the pop songs
that were called Tarzan, but it was it kind of
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had that bit in the middle of the song where
it was like, oh, like that like.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
It's a jungle boy. I think it was called that's it.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yes, Yeah, that's another one that I really remember from
from the eighties as well.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
But even Abba Abba.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Was very I didn't even think of Abba geez. Yeah.
See this list can go on.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yeah, so like my my I think my parents thought,
but Fernando was my favorite song. But I really really
loved some of the tracks where the guys actually sang
as well, but bulle Vous and stuff like that, like
some of the some of the other singles. So yeah,
that's probably for me for something.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
You know what you just when you mentioned jungle Boy
made me think of Walk the Dinosaur. Do you remember
that one?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I love There was also some Belinda Carlo Carlile as well,
but I wasn't one hundred percent sure if that was.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
If that was nineties or not, but I know there
was a few.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Yeah, Heaven is a Place on Earth and summer Ring.
I think they may have just made it to eighty nine.
I'm not sure it's very close, but yeah, I loved
Belinda Carlile.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
And another one I probably should also mention as well
was because I was my dad was in the heart
big time.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I really remember. All I want to do is make
love to you.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
By heart of course. Yeah, so, which was another brilliant track.
But yeah, I'll skip off the singles now. We'll play
some of the singles that we've talked about, and then
we'll come back and talk about albums, because there's a
lot of the singles that I love from the eighties
that really just come from the albums that I love
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during that period.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
So let's take a break and
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Listen to some of these singles, and then we'll be
back in a moment and we'll talk about some of
the albums that we fell in love with during that
period as well,
And welcome back to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We're going to continue our look now at the nineteen
seventies and the nineteen eighties music scene by having a
look at some of our favorite singles for that time period.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Harley, tell us a little bit about.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Some of your favorite singles from the nineteen seventies and
the nineteen eighties time period.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I mean, this is about five shows worth all in itself. Geez,
there is so much and I won't even have remembered
like a quarter of the things I love a singles
from this time period. But you know, Michael Jackson was
one of my biggest influences when I was little, so
(00:51):
you want to bet that you know just about everything
he recorded and released as a single. Wanted to jump
on this list, but I'm going to narrow it down
to a couple of special ones. Smooth Criminal. That song
just always comes back to me as something really special
and human nature. That's that's my other of the sort
(01:14):
of top two Michael Jackson singles. But I will also
mention Billy Jean Thriller and Off the Wall. Yeah, just
there's a reason this man was so successful and titled
the King of Pop. There's absolute magic. But if I
was going to really narrow it down. Smooth Criminal and
(01:35):
Human Nature are the other top two there. She's eighties
as well. It was such a big period of like.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, and Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson's going to appear on
my best album's list too.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
So yeah, yeah, same, it's kind of he narrow this
stuff down. And you know he was with his brothers
in the Jacksons during the seventies as well, and so
I have to mention can you Feel It? Because that's
just a great song. They also had Heartbreak Hotel and
Show the Way to Go. I keep remembering those couple
(02:11):
of songs, but can you Feel It, especially as the
one that kind of always comes up. Now if I
can move away from the Jacksons for two minutes, and
I just remembered I didn't mention any of Janet Jackson's
See this list could go on forever. Oh my god. Yeah.
(02:33):
I kind of remember discovering Janet Jackson a bit later
than I expected to, well not really later, but you know,
at the time I didn't really know about her first album.
But when I did learn about her first album, well
I say first album, the first of her ones that
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she counts these days. There were two albums she recorded
when her father was her manager, and she likes to
not count those as part of her repertoire. But there's
a great song on her first album called the Pleasure Principle,
so that that's a special one. And then in eighty
nine she released the Rhythm Nation album, which, like everything
(03:17):
on that is magical as far as I'm concerned. So
a lot of great single that is a bad album. Yeah,
But yeah, as for a single, I mean, so much
of what was on that album came out as a
single and it was all great stuff. So I don't
know how to narrow that down. And you know, this
(03:37):
is what I said was going to happen. It suddenly
makes me think of something else because she and the
Jackson's discovered Paula Abdul, and within a year Paula Abdul
released her album. I think that was about eighty nine
as well, So I could rattle off a few of those,
but I would have to check the year was correct
(03:59):
on that. But let's go to Prince, another big hitter
of the kind of seventies eighties era. I'm going to
go for singles. I'm gonna have to say stuff like
when Doves Cry. You know, when we get to albums,
I'll mention Purple Rain. But it's a great song in
(04:20):
its own right. But off that album Let's Go Crazy,
I love that song. So that's that's kind of like
one of my topics there. And we kind of briefly
spoke off air about you know, ah, where where did
(04:40):
the Madonna songs we like fit into all this? I
really love her first album, So there's quite a few
off that I can mention, but there's one that sort
of falls in between albums because of this other thing
she did and a movie as well. So from there
in to the Groove, I want to mention that one
(05:02):
in particular. Yep, yeah, Jesus, list is going to go
on and on, you know. Okay, I finally got away
from you know, those big few Fleetwood Mac dreams, Go
Your Own Way and Rhianna and some of my favorites there.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
One of one of my best friends in high school
was actually named after the track Rhianna.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Let me guess what her name was. Her name was Steve.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I've got to I've got to share this as well.
I love this about Fleetwood Mac. Someone was saying recently
about how about how Taylor Swift writes the best revenge
songs and and payback songs, And somebody pointed out, hey, well,
hang on a minute, you can you can say that
that that she writes great revenge songs. But there's only
(06:04):
one artist in history, and that is Stevie Nicks, who
wrote revenge songs about her partner's infidelity while he was
in the band and made him stand beside her while
she was singing songs about what a prick he was.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah, there's a lot of stories about what was going
on in that band and all the inter relationships. It's like, geez,
it's amazing some of the stuff that comes up. We
could do some weird deep dives into all of this,
couldn't we?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Probably?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah. Stevie Nicks, on her own though, just released so
many good songs, you know, on Gypsy and all that.
So this could turn into the biggest rabbit hole. This
might have been a mistake, you know. I love the
Pointer sisters as well. They had so many good songs,
(06:59):
and they even actually one worth pointing out. I mean,
I loved Neutron Dance and Jump when I was a
little kid. Those two songs will forever live in my Heart.
I've got the greatest hits of theirs that still gets
played very frequently. But there's one I'm going to point out,
(07:19):
which is kind of and the odd one. It was
kind of like they took up this challenge of like,
you know, people were saying black artists they don't know
how to do like a country music, so they took
up the challenge and did basically a country album. And
they're always remembered for the song fairy Tale, So yeah,
(07:40):
there is something about that song. I'm just like, I'm
not a big country person myself, but when that song
comes on, I just love it for some reason. Yeah,
So yeah, I'm going to point that one out. Aretha Franklin.
She's amazing, and so she spans from like the Sea
sixties onward, so there's a lot of stuff you can
(08:03):
pull out. Geez, where to go from there. I think
the one I want to mention is an odd choice
because it's a cover of someone else's song, and that
is Jumping Jack Flash. I love the way she does
that song.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
And you know, Woopy Goldberg did the film Jumping Jack
Flash and this was a track from the soundtrack. So
I think that really deserves a mention Creden's clear Water Revival.
Just for a bit of a change, how about I
love the track? I heard it through the grapevine and
(08:45):
Who'll Stop the Rain. I had to make sure that
they fell in the right era as well, because they
released like seven albums in two years, and I'm like,
how does this work? And that was like sixty eight
and sixty nine, so I had to make sure it
was nineteen seventy. Any song I picked one that, you know,
(09:07):
how about one of those one hit wonder songs. I
want to say Mickey by Tony Basil. Oh, yes, yeah,
it's one of those ones. It just it never kind
of dies. It's like it's been played to death over
the years. But you know what, you just join in
and get pumped whenever it's on, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Especially and bring it on.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yes exactly. Things like that, just like you know, there
are movies and things like that that come up and
just bring life back to old songs as well. There
was an anime I watched. It was kind of an
ongoing series a few years ago, and I think one
(09:56):
of the one of the songs that either appeared in
or it may have been a theme tune or a
closing theme tune in at one stage, I think it was,
and it was a cover of a song from the eighties.
So that song had to make it onto this chart
because I love it and it's alone by heart ah yes, yeah, yeah.
(10:20):
And you know what problemed me to think of that
one as well was the fact that we've been talking about,
you know, the Runaways, So based on that, we have
to mention Cherrybomb by the Runaways because that song will
always just stand out for me as something special. I
(10:40):
don't know if you know the Arthur movies. Yeah, so
I love those movies so much as a kid and
rediscovered them as an adult. And I know they tried
to do a remake with Russell Brand or whatever his
name is, which just a terrible idea. But from the
(11:02):
first ever movie, Christopher Cross did the theme tune. It
was Arthur's theme or yeah, you know, you'll recognize it
if you hear it. Sometimes people don't recognize it by
the name Arthur's theme, but you know, if you get
caught between the Moon and New York City, you know
that it's a great sort of lyric and I love
(11:23):
the way he sings as well, he did a lot
of great stuff. This here, I told you this list
is going to go on. A group called Fox did
a song called Sis a single Bed. Maybe we should
try and play that one at some point because it's
a funny little track. I don't know how many people
(11:45):
remember it, and I didn't really know about it until
a friend I used to ride on the bus with
mention it to me one day when I was, you know,
trying to do singing and stuff myself, and she said, oh,
here's a couple of songs from like this even and
eighties you should try and do. And she mentioned these
couple of songs, and that one will for a stay
(12:05):
in my head. It's a funny song. So yeah, if
no one's heard it, look look for a Fox and
their song a single Bed. Oh yeah, what about Pink
Floyd another Brick in the Wall?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, well that's going to feature in my that that's
actually going to feature in my albums, because did you
realize that album was released on my on the day
I was born? Oh was it thirtieth or November nineteen
seventy nine, yep, on the day.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I was born. Wow, I had no concept. You've been
marked by the Wall, you are the brick. I was
gonna mention George Benson. He had tracks like Breezing, give
Me the Night and turn Your Love Around is Yeah,
(13:00):
I love those tracks. He was brilliant. I know someone
I didn't add to my list but I meant to
was Stevie Wonder.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I mean I don't even know how I narrow down
what tracks to do for him. I mean, God, maybe
Master Blaster or ah. Yeah, that's an impossible task right there.
I think everything he's done is being brilliant. I've got
(13:32):
the Bengals, I mean Eternal Flame. I think was that
the one written by Prince I think it was. Yeah,
So which was.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Territory?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yes, my Tika geez, why did you mention that? I
had her in my head the other day too, and
it's like, oh my god, yeah, jeepus Creeper is this
I told you this list is going to go on
and on. Look sly and the family Stone want to
take you higher. That's a great one. I mentioned affair
(14:07):
that you know Shakespeare's sister. Well, we're talking about you know,
acts that have a weird little backstory and you know
things you may not know. But yeah, the first Shakespeare's
Sister album came out in eighty nine with the There
was a single on there called Your History, and that's
(14:28):
what I know them. For them, we'll say them because
really it was just Chabone Fey, who came out of
Banana Rama, who started this act as Shakespeare's sister. But
then she would frequently have her friend Marcella Detroit in
the tracks, and then by the second album it was
(14:48):
the pair of them as a duo. So there's a
whole kind of rabbit hole in and of itself there.
But to fit within the eighties, Your History is pretty
much any one I can in there. I think our
grips like Die Straights and oh jeez, what about oh
(15:09):
Air Supply were they were formed in Melbourne? I think
weren't they?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah? They were? Ye?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah. So I'll say like all out of Love is
one I always go back to for them, and one
that's kind of like a rabben hole in and of
itself is to mention Cyndi Lauper. I love those early albums,
but I'm gonna say narrow it down, but I'm going
(15:36):
to list a few tracks here. Change of Heart, she
bop her cover of I Drove All Night, the Royal
Aubison classic Hole in My Heart that goes all the
way to China time after time, and the Goonies are
good enough. Those are my favorite of the like the
(15:57):
eighties tracks, I think, but I'm gonna shut up and
let you say something for once.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Yeah, mine's a bit the same like my musical tastes
in the eighties and.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Was all over the place.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Like basically my musical tastes early on started with what
my dad was listening to. And my dad was really
heavy into into rock music and hard rock music and
if you include Black Sabbath as metal and metal as well.
But I first thought there's two tracks that I fell
in love with when I was a kid where music
(16:33):
stopped being just background noise for me and actually became
something that I was really passionate about. That first track
was def Leopard's Rocket. I remember my dad was watching
a I don't know whether it was Countdown or something
like that it was, I know it was a television
show and my dad was watching it and the video
(16:55):
clip came on for yeah, that's right, kids, video clips
used to be on television. Rocket by Deaf Leopard came
on and it just hit me, like there was something
about that track that I just instantly fell in love with.
And yeah, like I was asking my dad, oh, if
you've got any Death Leopard on vinyl and I'm showing
(17:18):
my age here. Yeah, he had it on vinyl, and like,
so we pulled that out and listen to that. The
other one was and I still remember this.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Oh my god, he just mentioned vinyl and that just
triggered stuff in my head. I'm just like, you know what,
before you go on, I'm going to mention one more so,
the Bridge I loved as a child, and I have
looked up since it's from a Belgian artist named Plastic
Bertran and that's what.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah, all right, please go on.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
So the other track, the other track that really made
me sit up and take notice of music was Electric
Blue by ice House And I remember this still to
this day. I was homesick from school and ice House
on Ray Martin's Midday show and they play Electric Blue,
and as soon as I was better, I was off
down to the local music shop to buy ice Houses.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I think that would have been vinyl. It could have
been a cassette, but I think that was probably vinyl.
A copy of that because I absolutely loved it. But
there's some tracks as well.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Wasn't that the song that was on the soundtrack for
Short Circuit? I think, so yeah, yeah, yeah, that's all
how I remember it. I think, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Now these are these other ones are kind of tracks
that didn't fit into my best Album's list, because there's
a few tracks that I've left out of my that
of tracks I love. I've left them out of my
singles list because I wanted to talk about them on
my album's list later on. But so these are just
kind of tracks that I go back to time and
(18:58):
time again to listen to. It's an almost fire Man
in Motion by John Parr. I don't remember that song.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I kind of like, I can't remember the track properly,
but I do remember knowing about it.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Yeah. Another one that it was a.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
It was a the video clip that kind of drew
me into it, and that's Sarah.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
You know, I'm sure you know the song.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Sarah, Yeah, yeah, absolutely so.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
That was another one of those ones where I was
watching television and the video clip came on and I
saw it was Starship, but it was so different to
what Starship had ever done previously. So yeah, definitely. Sarah
by Starship is another one.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
That because that popped into my head earlier as well,
and I'm like, who performed that? I'm glad you mentioned it.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah, so some other ones as well for me that
that really kind of stuck out for me was Down
on the Border by the Little River Band when John
Farnham was the lead singer, because yeah, so that's another
one that really stuck at Lamal Never Ending Story. I
(20:29):
absolutely loved. Yeah, I absolutely loved that film when it
came out, and that one just really really stuck with me.
Two from One Band here. I was a really big
fan of Genesis when they first were around, so Invisible
(20:49):
Touch and Land of Confusion were both tracks that I
really really adored that were around at that time. And
there was also some Phil Collins track in there as well,
because I can remember listening to my dad listening to
to Phil Collins in the car as well. But I
think that's probably There was one that I was trying
(21:11):
to think of and I've been like, I've completely forgotten
the name of the track, but it was it was
like a jungle kind of track where I thought it
was called Tarzan and I was looking up I was
looking it up before, but all I could find was
actually it was actually like some of the pop songs
that were called Tarzan, but it was it kind of
(21:33):
had that bit in the middle of the song where
it was like, oh, like that like.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
It's a jungle boy. I think it was called that's it.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yes, Yeah, that's another one that I really remember from
from the eighties as well.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
But even Abba Abba.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Was very I didn't even think of Abba geez. Yeah.
See this list can go on.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yeah, so like my my I think my parents thought,
but Fernando was my favorite song. But I really really
loved some of the tracks where the guys actually sang
as well, but bulle Vous and stuff like that, like
some of the some of the other singles. So yeah,
that's probably for me for something.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
You know what you just when you mentioned jungle Boy
made me think of Walk the Dinosaur. Do you remember
that one?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I love There was also some Belinda Carlo Carlile as well,
but I wasn't one hundred percent sure if that was.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
If that was nineties or not, but I know there
was a few.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Yeah, Heaven is a Place on Earth and summer Ring.
I think they may have just made it to eighty nine.
I'm not sure it's very close, but yeah, I loved
Belinda Carlile.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
And another one I probably should also mention as well
was because I was my dad was in the heart
big time.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I really remember. All I want to do is make
love to you.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
By heart of course. Yeah, so, which was another brilliant track.
But yeah, I'll skip off the singles now. We'll play
some of the singles that we've talked about, and then
we'll come back and talk about albums, because there's a
lot of the singles that I love from the eighties
that really just come from the albums that I love
(23:21):
during that period.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
So let's take a break and
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Listen to some of these singles, and then we'll be
back in a moment and we'll talk about some of
the albums that we fell in love with during that
period as well,
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