38 -The Man with the Child in His Eyes – Kate Bush – 1978
42 -Something About You – Level 42 – 1985
63 – Down Under – Men at Work – 1981
66 – Major Tom(Coming Home) – Peter Schilling – 1983
67 – Elstree – The Buggles – 1980
74 – Mexican Radio – Wall of Voodoo – 1983
116 – Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime – The Korgis – 1980
124 – The Getaway – Chris DeBurgh – 1982
126 – Wouldn’t it Be Good
- Nik Kershaw – 1984
I’m gonna
group these 9 songs together because the only reason I have them on the Zune is
because I saw a video on MTV back in the day when they actually played videos,
and bought the album.
The Man
with the Child in His Eyes-Kate Bush- She wrote this song at 13, recorded it at
16 as a single. The video version comes from her first album released several
years later. I always found her eyes arresting. The video was mesmerizing as
well.
Something
About You-Level 42- Reportedly their name comes from the Answer to the Ultimate
Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to
the Galaxy. I don’t know what Level has to do with it, since the answer is just
42. The song is cool, though.
Down
Under-Men at Work- Sprightly video, wacky characters, eminently sing-alongable
song. Only use of projectile vomiting in a pop song (“..where the beer does
flow and men chunder”), that I’m aware of. Also led to a spike in sales of
Vegemite for a week or two.
Major
Tom(Coming Home)-Peter Schilling- A sequel to David Bowie’s “Space Oddity”,
sung phonetically by the German Schilling. I seem to recall his visit o Dick
Clark’s American Bandstand where he had some trouble answering Dick’s questions
because he spoke little English.
Elstree-
The Buggles-Another song from the “Age of Plastic”, one of two Buggles albums
that were released. I found the second album, “Adventures in Modern Recording”,
at a record store in a mall at Rand and Palatine roads whose name escapes me.
It was on the way to EJ Korvette’s, another long gone store that had an album department
with a pretty decent Imports section. I bought the 3-sided “Monty Python’s
Matching Tie and Handkerchief” album there (I’ll explain in a future post).
Mexican
Radio – Wall of Voodoo – Another great sing-alongable song. “We’re on a
Mexican..whoa-oh..radio”
Everybody’s
Got to Learn Sometime – The Korgis – A band named after Queen Elizabeth’s lap
dog. Very pretty song, though. Almost a “Wall of Sound” production, starts slow
and simple and builds in instrumentation and volume as the song progresses.
The Getaway
– Chris DeBurgh- The title track from the album that contained “Don’t Pay the
Ferryman”, the video/song that got me to buy the album. I found a couple of his
albums at EJ Korvette’s and one at the Randhurst shopping center. I then
ordered his whole back catalog from Apple Tree Records in Elgin. It took about
3-4 weeks to get them, in those pre-Amazon days. Today, you can download it as
soon as you see it online.
I went to
see Chris DeBurgh in 1983 with my friend Jim D (of the quad stereo,
#10-Brandenburg Concerto) at Poplar Creek when he (Chris DeBurgh, not Jimmy)opened
for Asia. A pretty good concert at both ends as I recall.
Wouldn’t It
Be Good- Nik Kershaw – A nice little
song, I always thought it had parts that sounded like Eric Clapton’s “It’s in
the Way that you Use it”. Or perhaps it’s Clapton that sounds like this, since
Clapton’s song came out in 1986
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