NME Singles of the Year 1981 - Votage!

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Ghost Town - The Specials
26
28%
Adventures On The Wheel Of Steel - Grandmaster Flash
10
11%
Me No Pop I - Coati Mundi
2
2%
Fascist Groove Thang - Heaven 17
6
6%
Love Action - Human League
20
22%
Mama Used To Say - Junior Giscombe
5
5%
Tears Are Not Enough - Abc
2
2%
Pull Up To The Bumper - Grace Jones
11
12%
Superman - Laurie Anderson
6
6%
Walking On Thin Ice - Yoko Ono
5
5%
 
Total votes: 93
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Re: NME Singles of the Year 1981 - Votage!

Postby Bent Fabric » 02 Jun 2018, 21:10

Darkness_Fish wrote:


Poor ABC. Gold lame drizzled with tears.


The accent seemed superfluous.
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Re: NME Singles of the Year 1981 - Votage!

Postby Polishgirl » 02 Jun 2018, 23:16

One vote only for the marvellous Love Action
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Re: NME Singles of the Year 1981 - Votage!

Postby Fonz » 03 Jun 2018, 08:59

Andy Hernandez (Coati Mundi) was a low-level gangster on Miami Vice.
He gets my vote.
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Re: NME Singles of the Year 1981 - Votage!

Postby Deebank » 03 Jun 2018, 09:09

Fonz wrote:Andy Hernandez (Coati Mundi) was a low-level gangster on Miami Vice.
He gets my vote.


I always hear his name as spoken by Vic Reeves - was Mr Mundi a contestant on Shooting Stars at all?
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Re: NME Singles of the Year 1981 - Votage!

Postby Fonz » 03 Jun 2018, 11:16

Deebank wrote:
Fonz wrote:Andy Hernandez (Coati Mundi) was a low-level gangster on Miami Vice.
He gets my vote.


I always hear his name as spoken by Vic Reeves - was Mr Mundi a contestant on Shooting Stars at all?


I doubt it, but he was pals with Kid Creole.

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Re: NME Singles of the Year 1981 - Votage!

Postby trans-chigley express » 03 Jun 2018, 11:19

I went with Specials, Grace Jones and Yoko. Walking on thin ice is just about the best thing she ever did.

No In The Air Tonight? This was before Collins became very uncool so I thought it may make the list, but perhaps his Genesis association ruled him out of appearing on an NME list
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Re: NME Singles of the Year 1981 - Votage!

Postby fange » 04 Jun 2018, 01:37

Darkness_Fish wrote:Poor ABC. Gold lamé drizzled with tears.

I like 'Tears' a lot, but in the end 'Poison Arrow' and 'The Look of Love' were much stronger singles.



Should have been even huger...



I couldn't vote for just 3 so didn't - my 4 are 'Ghost', 'Adventures', 'Love Action' and 'Bumper'.
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