MORE 1985: x 3

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Pick a 1985 hit single

Since Yesterday - Strawberry Switchblade
6
50%
Kiss Me - Tin Tin Duffy
4
33%
Over The Sea - Jesse Rae
2
17%
 
Total votes: 12

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MORE 1985: x 3

Postby Canis lupus » 27 Feb 2015, 23:16

Off ye go



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Re: MORE 1985: x 3

Postby naughty boy » 27 Feb 2015, 23:27

Strawberry Switchblade. Probably the first time I've listened to that one since it came out. Musically it's much more synthetic than I remember but there's something charming about it.

Of course we'll have the usual duffle-coat cunts along shortly, calling 'Tin Tin' 'perfect pop'....
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Re: MORE 1985: x 3

Postby the masked man » 27 Feb 2015, 23:43

Certainly Strawberry Switchblade get the vote, for an effervescent take on doleful synthpop. Perhaps a sell-out, but if great pop emerges, we all win...

Kiss Me isn't a good song, but Duffy had better songs in his arsenal, like Icing On The Cake, which still sounds good today.

Jesse Rae...I'd forgotten about him, but how fucking embarrassing is this now. Just dreadful crap. Get over yourself!

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Re: MORE 1985: x 3

Postby clive gash » 27 Feb 2015, 23:45

The Boys of Summer for me please.
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Re: MORE 1985: x 3

Postby Canis lupus » 28 Feb 2015, 00:26

the masked man wrote:
Jesse Rae...I'd forgotten about him, but how fucking embarrassing is this now. Just dreadful crap. Get over yourself!


You're not Scottish, then?
:D

...seriously, that promo was played on Max Headroom, the Tube and that 8 hour BBC History of the Rock Video (2 x Johns: Peel / Walters) doc. I've been to most of the places in the clip
(was it even a hit? I dunno.)

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Re: MORE 1985: x 3

Postby Rayge » 28 Feb 2015, 10:35

No redeeming features in any
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Re: MORE 1985: x 3

Postby The Modernist » 28 Feb 2015, 10:55

the masked man wrote:Certainly Strawberry Switchblade get the vote, for an effervescent take on doleful synthpop. Perhaps a sell-out, but if great pop emerges, we all win...

Kiss Me isn't a good song, but Duffy had better songs in his arsenal, like Icing On The Cake, which still sounds good today.

Jesse Rae...I'd forgotten about him, but how fucking embarrassing is this now. Just dreadful crap. Get over yourself!


More or less agree with this, although I'm less keen on Strawberry Switchblade which always sounded too soppy to me, although I can see it's well done.

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Re: MORE 1985: x 3

Postby Canis lupus » 17 Oct 2017, 14:21

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Re: MORE 1985: x 3

Postby Darkness_Fish » 17 Oct 2017, 16:11

I fucking love that Strawberry Switchblade song, I always did, even before I'd heard of Rose McDowall, Current 93, any of that connection which makes it hipper in my eyes. The combination of lightweight plasticity, with a kind of vaguely miserable thoughtful lyric and delivery kills me.
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Re: MORE 1985: x 3

Postby sloopjohnc » 17 Oct 2017, 16:50

I use to have the 12" of the Strawberry Switchblade one, but it's Tin Tin for me.

The 12" had a cover of Sunday Morning on the B side.
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Re: MORE 1985: x 3

Postby Deebank » 17 Oct 2017, 16:50

Jesus! I have always hated that fucking dreadful Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy effort.
Everything about it is shit, from the half-arsed lyrics to the limp-wristed tune.
What the fuck were they thinking?
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Re: MORE 1985: x 3

Postby Fonz » 17 Oct 2017, 16:59

All utter shit
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Re: MORE 1985: x 3

Postby Polishgirl » 17 Oct 2017, 19:28

Switchers.
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Re: MORE 1985: x 3

Postby Ranking Ted » 17 Oct 2017, 21:49

Dearie me, Wolfie - that's a pisspoor selection. Strawberries at a halfhearted 6/10 wins.


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