Well a massive thanks once again to you all for taking some time out to share and post the music you/we love. I often get asked when talking about music and websites and or phone apps related to music, why don't I get Spotify and apps like that. Well they never understand when I tell them "Sod that, I have got the QPR Forum music thread"...lol! It's true for me anyway, this thread ticks all the boxes for me and it's thanks again to all you regular posters. Why does it work so well? It's because whatever gets posted nobody slags it off also no annoying adds. Thanks once again, it's you guys that have made this the successful/chilled out and very enjoyable place to hang out! I am going to post info about the songs I choose to post to make this thread even more enjoyable. Right, I will shut the f*ck up now and let the music do all the talking! Keep posting everyone, I am being educated with the fine music your all bringing to the table. Enjoy the rest of your weekend! Peace
"Mississippi Queen" is a song by the American rock band Mountain. Considered a rock classic,[5] it was their most successful single, reaching number 21 in the Billboard Hot 100 record chart in 1970.[6] The song is included on the group's debut album and several live recordings have been issued.[5] "Mississippi Queen" has been recorded by several artists, including Ozzy Osbourne, who had a hit with the song in 2005. Read on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Queen
Just a Shadow is a song by Scottish rock band Big Country on their 1984 album Steeltown.[1] It was released as single on 19 January 1985 and peaked at #26 on the UK singles charts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_a_Shadow
"Ashes to Ashes" is a song written and recorded by David Bowie. It was the lead single from the 1980 album Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) and became Bowie's second UK No. 1 single. It is also known for its innovative video, directed by Bowie and David Mallet, which at the time was the most expensive music video ever made. The lyrics revisit Bowie's Major Tom character from 1969's "Space Oddity" in a darker theme, which he referenced once again in 1995 with "Hallo Spaceboy." The song's original title was "People Are Turning to Gold."[3] Interviewed in 1980, Bowie described the song as "very much a 1980s nursery rhyme. I think 1980s nursery rhymes will have a lot to do with the 1880s/1890s nursery rhymes which are all rather horrid and had little boys with their ears being cut off and stuff like that."[4] Years later, Bowie said that with "Ashes to Ashes" he was "wrapping up the seventies really" for himself, which "seemed a good enough epitaph for it."[5] AllMusic critic Dave Thompson described the track and its accompanying music video as "a very deliberate acknowledgement of the then-burgeoning new romantic scene." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashes_to_Ashes_(David_Bowie_song)
Welcome to the Pleasuredome is the debut studio album by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, first released by ZTT and Island Records on 29 October 1984.[8] Originally issued as a vinyl double album, it was assured of a UK chart entry at number one due to reported advance sales of over one million.[8] The album was also a top ten seller internationally in countries such as Switzerland, Sweden, and New Zealand. While commercially successful, the album also drew criticism for containing new versions of all of the songs from the group's (already much-remixed) hit singles from the same year ("Relax" and "Two Tribes", plus B-side "War"), as well as a surfeit of cover versions in lieu of much new original material. It was later revealed that Trevor Horn's production dominated the record so thoroughly that the band's own instrumental performances were often replaced by session musicians or Horn himself. Frankie's second album, Liverpool, actively featured the full band. However, the album's evergreen ballad "The Power of Love" subsequently provided the group with their third consecutive UK number one single. To celebrate the album's 30th anniversary, in October 2014, ZTT through Union Square Music released a limited edition (2000 copies only) boxset entitled "Inside the Pleasuredome," available exclusively from the website pledgemusic.com. Mopping up rarities on 10" vinyl, as well as a book, a DVD, a cassette (featuring 13 mixes of Relax and its b-side "One September Monday") as well as a new 2014 remastered version of the album on 180g vinyl, the boxset cost £85 to buy. Read more ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_the_Pleasuredome
"The Power of Love" is a song originally recorded and released by English band Frankie Goes to Hollywood. It was written by Holly Johnson, Peter Gill, Mark O'Toole and Brian Nash, four of five members of the band. It was released by the group as their third single. Initially issued as a single in November 1984, and taken from the album Welcome to the Pleasuredome, "The Power of Love" followed its two predecessors, "Relax" and "Two Tribes", to the top of the UK singles chart. It scored the band an early December number-one. "The Power of Love" was also a top 10 hit in several European countries, in New Zealand, and in Canada. The Power Of Love is often regarded as a Christmas song, despite being released in November 1984, and having no reference to Christmas within the song lyrics. However, the accompanying video features the Nativity, and the single cove was The Assumptions of the Virgin. The song spent just one week at Number One in the UK. The song which outsold it was the charity song Do They Know It's Christmas by Band Aid, which until 1997 was the best selling single ever in the UK. Since then, reissues and/or remixes of the Frankie Goes to Hollywood recording of this song have been top 10 UK hits on two other occasions, hitting #10 in 1993 and #6 in 2000. "The Power of Love" has also charted in the UK in a version by Holly Johnson (a solo recording from 1999), and a 2012 version by Gabrielle Aplin. Aplin's recording of the song also went to #1 in the UK, exactly 28 years after the original Frankie Goes To Hollywood single topped the charts. Aplin's version also enjoyed a resurgence in 2014 thanks to it being the soundtrack to the advert/trailer for TV series "Resurrection". Holly Johnson, who co-wrote the song, later reminisced: "I always felt like The Power Of Love was the record that would save me in this life. There is a biblical aspect to its spirituality and passion; the fact that love is the only thing that matters in the end." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Love_(Frankie_Goes_to_Hollywood_song)
"The Motown Song" is a song performed by Rod Stewart and featuring The Temptations. The song is from Stewart's 1991 album Vagabond Heart. The song peaked at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on September 21, 1991. It also peaked at #3 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. It was written by Larry John McNally and was originally recorded by McNally for the soundtrack to the film Quicksilver in 1986. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Motown_Song
Synchronicity is the fifth and final studio album by English rock band The Police, released in the United Kingdom on 17 June 1983.[2] The band's most successful release, the album includes the hit singles "Every Breath You Take", "King of Pain", "Wrapped Around Your Finger", and "Synchronicity II". Much of the album's material was inspired by Arthur Koestler's The Roots of Coincidence, which inspired the title and concept of the album. At the 1984 Grammy Awards the album was nominated for a total of five awards including Album of the Year and won three. At the time of its release and following its tour The Police were hailed as the "Biggest Band in the World".[3][4] The album was number one on both the UK Albums Chart and the U.S. Billboard 200, and sold over 8 million copies in the U.S. Synchronicity was widely acclaimed by critics. Praise centred on its cohesive merging of disparate genres and sonic experimentation. Rolling Stone described "each cut on Synchronicity [as] not simply a song but a miniature, discrete soundtrack."[5] It has since been included on their lists of the "100 Best Albums of the Eighties"[6] and the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".[7] In 2009, Synchronicity was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In the 1983 Rolling Stone readers poll, Synchronicity was voted "Album of the Year". In the U.S., the chart-topping hit "Every Breath You Take" was thebest-selling single of 1983 and fourth best-selling single of the decade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity_(The_Police_album)
