So we come to the end of another great year of music. Here is another fine Creation band, although this one was from their prior Cherry Red period....Jangletastic!..
The phrase "a chip off the old block" was invented for Julian Lennon, when I first heard it on the radio I thought that it must've been a posthumous release from his father...
This York band were known for their strong left wing views although they refused to join the Red Wedge campaign the following year....
Two songs here from the '84 Hardcore Punk (with radical elements of Jazz, instrumental breaks and Alternative Rock) album that is the subject of my avatar, Zen Arcade...
How could I not finish with this?, we have all seen the video a million times but the money that this and Live Aid has raised has saved just as many lives probably!...
Was busy yesterday so i'll post an extra song each day this week. 1985 saw me leave Dimplex and get back into woodworking by taking a 6 month Skill Centre course in woodmachining and afterward starting at Brazier and Sons in Millbrook as a Joinery shop Woodmachinist. In the news there was the first Live Aid concerts at Wembley Stadium and in Philadelphia, the Heysel Stadium disaster and the Bradford City fire. Saints qualified for Europe but were banned by UEFA along with other English clubs from the competition because of Heysel. Here is the music I was listening to and collecting... This is from the landmark debut album, Psychocandy from The Jesus and Mary Chain which combined guitar feedback with 60s Pop structures and melodies...
This is the brilliant single from The Waterboy's album, This is the Sea, great lyrics and music and production combined...
This is off of one of my favourite (not everbody's!) Prince albums , Around the World in a Day which was his delve into Psychedelic Pop...
And speaking of Psychedelia, here is a superb pastiche from those XTC boy's alter egos, The Dukes of Stratosphear's debut album, 25 O'Clock..
