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The Human League - Seconds
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The Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town
80s Cup R5M9 - Polishgirl 13-11 DD
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80s Cup R5M9 - Polishgirl 13-11 DD
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fange wrote:One of the things i really dislike in this life is people raising their voices in German.
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Re: 80s Cup Round 5 Match 9
Wow, wow, wow!
Dare is one of the greatest albums ever made (prog at its best) and this track is a highlight
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Dare is one of the greatest albums ever made (prog at its best) and this track is a highlight
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Re: 80s Cup Round 5 Match 9
Human League will always do just fine without my help.
I would have thought B would've been overplayed enough by now for me to be sick of it, but much to my surprise it was refreshing then and it's refreshing now.
I would have thought B would've been overplayed enough by now for me to be sick of it, but much to my surprise it was refreshing then and it's refreshing now.
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Re: 80s Cup Round 5 Match 9
I haven't heard Life In a Northern Town in years and I was - I'm deeply ashamed to say - really moved. I feel used!
I think Seconds was the song that got me in to Dare, but today I'm going for
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I think Seconds was the song that got me in to Dare, but today I'm going for
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I've been talking about writing a book - 25 years of TEFL - for a few years now. I've got it in me.
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Re: 80s Cup Round 5 Match 9
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Nonsense to the aggressiveness, I've seen more aggression on the my little pony message board......I mean I was told.
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Re: 80s Cup Round 5 Match 9
And then you get two songs like this up against eachother? Jeez.
I love "Seconds". I love that album. It's more than worthy of my vote.
The Dream Academy is a marvelous tune. A real breath-of-fresh-air in this stinking round.
In the end - the Human League just runs out of ideas whereas "Life In A Northern Town" sustains it til the end. B
I love "Seconds". I love that album. It's more than worthy of my vote.
The Dream Academy is a marvelous tune. A real breath-of-fresh-air in this stinking round.
In the end - the Human League just runs out of ideas whereas "Life In A Northern Town" sustains it til the end. B
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Re: 80s Cup Round 5 Match 9
'Seconds' was one of the "could've been a single" tracks from Dare. I have to say it's not as good as I remembered, Oakey's vocals ( a singer I generally have a lot of time for) sound quite flat and uninvolving on this. However Rushent gives enough swathes of synth catchiness in the arrangement to make it good League.
Never been a fan of B. I know a lot of people like it, but I always found it wet, simpering and sentimental in all the wrong ways.
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Never been a fan of B. I know a lot of people like it, but I always found it wet, simpering and sentimental in all the wrong ways.
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Re: 80s Cup Round 5 Match 9
I also fail to understand the love for B - it's so insipid and superficial in its clichés and delivery. Were they even Northerners? 
It's an enduring yukfest.
A is everything.
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It's an enduring yukfest. A is everything.
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Re: 80s Cup Round 5 Match 9
Who did that ravey thing that sampled Life In A Northern Town?
I've been talking about writing a book - 25 years of TEFL - for a few years now. I've got it in me.
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Re: 80s Cup Round 5 Match 9
Polishgirl wrote:Were they even Northerners?
The singer presented The Tube for a short while. He was a bit of a posho with a double-barrelled name and definitely not northern!
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Re: 80s Cup Round 5 Match 9
The Modernist wrote:Polishgirl wrote:Were they even Northerners?
The singer presented The Tube for a short while. He was a bit of a posho with a double-barrelled name and definitely not northern!
Nick Laird-Clowes?
Something like that.
I've been talking about writing a book - 25 years of TEFL - for a few years now. I've got it in me.
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Re: 80s Cup Round 5 Match 9
I thought it was Alec Douglas-Home. 
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Re: 80s Cup Round 5 Match 9
Boutros Boutros-Ghali wasn't it?
fange wrote:One of the things i really dislike in this life is people raising their voices in German.
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Re: 80s Cup Round 5 Match 9
The Modernist wrote:Polishgirl wrote:Were they even Northerners?
The singer presented The Tube for a short while. He was a bit of a posho with a double-barrelled name and definitely not northern!
The bloody nerve of it!!
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Re: 80s Cup Round 5 Match 9
Deebank wrote:Who did that ravey thing that sampled Life In A Northern Town?
Dario G! Named after the Crewe Alexandra manager not some trendy Balearic DJ.
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Re: 80s Cup Round 5 Match 9
A is a real highlight of the era. The funereal motorik of the beat and the stark synth work so well together and the odd near-monotone in which Oakey delivers the vocal is actually a perfect fit.
I don't get the love for B some are showing. It's blowy nonsense. And the "hey a mama" bit sounds oddly close to 'In the Jungle'.
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I don't get the love for B some are showing. It's blowy nonsense. And the "hey a mama" bit sounds oddly close to 'In the Jungle'.
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fange wrote:One of the things i really dislike in this life is people raising their voices in German.
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Re: 80s Cup Round 5 Match 9
Hmm, the high-end synth is a bit over-powering, but I do like the cascading beat thing. Seems very much to be wanting to be their answer to Joy Division's Atmosphere, although closer to its early demo form. Without the echoing beat, I think it would be a bit piss, to be honest, but the vocal just about drags it over the line, saving it from the shrill synth.
Talking of piss, this thing is a big wet paper bag full of micturation. The "hey a mama" is actually a stroke of genius, because it gives a hook and some body to a song that really doesn't have any. It sounds like a particularly abject bunch of young conservatives have tried to capture the northern vote by singing about what life really is like past Watford. Which is apparently raining and banging on about JFK and The Beatles. Bunch of lettuce-voiced twats.
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Talking of piss, this thing is a big wet paper bag full of micturation. The "hey a mama" is actually a stroke of genius, because it gives a hook and some body to a song that really doesn't have any. It sounds like a particularly abject bunch of young conservatives have tried to capture the northern vote by singing about what life really is like past Watford. Which is apparently raining and banging on about JFK and The Beatles. Bunch of lettuce-voiced twats.
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Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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Re: 80s Cup Round 5 Match 9
May I just say that “lettuce voiced twats” is today’s finest insult. I’ve also never really dug B, it’s too twee in the twee bits and the big ‘euphoric’ part is ultimately annoying, I don’t hate it but it’s never getting near that spooky highlight from an album absolutely stuffed full of highlights. All hail the League.
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