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I dont know why I went on a Google search for Feargal Sharkey (maybe becuase I was listening to it on my MP3 player at the time) but I didnt realise who he was exactly.

Im amazed!

Only the front guy of The Unerdertones - im amazed at the guy producing one of the best rebellious teenager hits and then to go on and perform one of the most cheesy songs of the 80s with "A Good Heart'.

There I was thinking my music knowledge of the 80s was pretty amazing for a guy of my age, now it seems Im put to shame over it! LOL.

Are there any other artists that have done similar things?

Nick
 
Oh, Nick! Will you please *stop* bringing up these cheesy songs I have a penchant for! I’ve kept my musical tastes to myself for years, and you’re just making me reveal all! LOL

And a good heart these days is hard to find (a good heart)
True love, the lasting kind
A good heart these days is hard to find
So please be gentle with this heart of mine

etc. LOL

We should be discussing this on MSN, not here! I’m going to have Jon teasing me later, and nickuk probably won’t ever want to visit me! ;-)

LOL! :-)

Well, I know it’s not the same, but Shirley Bassey singing Pink’s Get the Party Started on those M&S adverts is a bit of a shock!

Madonna sampling an ABBA track is a bit ‘different’, too… ;-) Nick?! NO!!! *gun shot* ;-)
 
Carl you have mail anyway from earlier this morning....

Wonder if you know "The Rah Band"

Clouds Across the Moon, where the singing lady had a telephone convo with her husband who was in space.

Was a very sad song as she got cut off from her once a year phone call to him.

The Words LOL

Good evening, this is the intergalactic operator. Can I help you?
Yes I'm trying to reach Flight Commander, P.R. Johnson on Mars flight 2-4-7
Very well, hold on please. You're through
Thankyou operator

Hi darlin', how you doin'? Hey baby, where you sleepin'?
Oh I'm sorry, but I've been really missing you
Hi darlin', how's the weather? Say, baby, is that cold better now?
Oh I'm sorry, is there someone there with you?

Oh, since you went away, there's nothin' goin' right, I just can't sleep alone at night
I'm not ashamed to say, I badly need a friend, or it's the end
Now, when I look at the clouds across the moo-oon
Here in the night, I just hope and pray that soo-oon
Oh, baby, you'll hurry home to me-ee

Hurry darlin', the kids say they love you, Hey baby, is everythin' fine with you?
Please forgive me, but I'm tryin' not to cry
Oh, I've had a million different offers on the phone, But I just stay right here at home
I don't think that I can take it anymore, this crazy war
Now, when I look at the clouds across the moo-oon
Here in the night, I just hope and pray that soo-oon, Oh, darlin, you'll hurry home to me-ee

I'm sorry to interrupt your conversation, but we are experiencing violent storm conditons
in the asteroid belt at this time. We may lose this valuable deep space communication link.
Please be as brief as possible, thank you.

Oh since you went away, there's nothin' goin' right, I just can't sleep alone at night
I'm not ashamed to say I badly need a friend, or it's - it's

Hello, hello operator, yes, I seem to have lost the connection. Could you try again please
I'm sorry, but I'm afraid we have lost contact with Mars 2-4-7 at this time.

Now, when I look at the clouds across the moo-oon (OK, well thank you very much)
Here in the night, I just hope and pray that soo-oon (I'll, I'll try again next year)
Oh, baby, (Next year) you'll hurry home to me-ee (Next year)

Now, when I look at the clouds across the moo-oon
Here in the night, I just hope and pray that soo-oon
(This is the intergalactic operator, this is the intergalactic operator)
Oh darlin' you'll hurry home to me-ee (This is the intergerlactic operator)

Now, when I look at the clouds across the moo-oon
Here, in the night, I just hope and pray that soo-oon, Oh baby, you'll hurry home to me-ee

Now, when I look at the clouds across the moo-oon
Here, in the night, I just hope and pray that soo-oon
Oh baby, you'll hurry home to me-ee
Now, when I look at the clouds across the moo-oon
Here in the night I just hope and pray that soo-oon
Oh darlin', you'll hurry home to me
Now, when I look at the clouds across the moo-oon
Here in the night I just hope and pray that soo-oon (fade)

They performed the song on Top of the Pops and she was wrapped head to toe in BacoFoil.

Nick
 
Oh my goodness – I remember Clouds Across the Moon! :-)

That’s it Nick – I’ll not be getting any visits from anyone now! ;-) I am a laughing Stock (geddit?! ;-)).

Jon is going to laugh at me later or completely ignore me, Darren won’t talk to me and Nick (nickuk) will steer clear of me! ;-)

LOL
 
Teenage Kicks

You may not like Feargal Sharkey's "A Good Heart" but generally that first solo record is pretty good. It was produced by Dave Stewart and has some serious production value. The second solo record was a complete stinker, though. The rest of the Undertones went off to become That Petrol Emotion. They've got some kickin' records. My favorite is called Chemicrazy, but most of them are pretty good.
 
mixed messages

Sorry I love, "A good Heart' I was just shocked who it was that was all....

Nick

p.s. "Cheesey" applies to something retro/nostalgic that is essentially naff but you like. in case you were wondering what cheesey means.....

Dont mean to sound patronizing just unsure about the translation.

N
 
Cheesy means mostly the same thing here

We have a term here called "Guilty Pleasure" which would sum up your definition pretty well.

Yeah on the Dave Stewart thing. And somehow this all ties back to Bananarama.
 
Bananarama?

Well as for that popstrel trio im Guilty, Guilty of love in the first degree for them.LOL

Well hows your year been Versatronic? I hope you didnt have too Cruel a Summer over the pond........

oh dear.....

N
 
Groooooooaaaaaan.

OK, but Venus is a good cover song? It sounds like the original collided with "You Spin Me 'Round Like A Record". Bananarama is to Shocking Blue what Feargal Sharkey is to the Undertones.
 
Degrees of seperation

I think Dave Stewart had a girlfriend in Bananarama, but then moved on to one of Sheakspere's Sisters or something. It's hard to keep up with that Gigilo.
 
Genius-to-cheese move: I considered Paddy McAloon from Prefab Sprout to be one of the great songwriters of his generation. I'd put songs like 'Faron Young', 'Appetite' and 'When Love Breaks Down' up against any you'd care to mention---the text is brilliant, the structure interesting, the melodies ingenious.

A few years later, I heard 'Cowboy Dreams' from Prefab's 'Gunmen And Other Stories' album and I was literally embarrassed for him. Talk about a stunning lapse of songwriting prowess.

And I really started to believe Paul was dead when I played The Beatles' 'Helter Skelter' and Wings' 'Let "em In' back-to-back.

Honorable mention: The mighty Slade stooping to a cover of 'Okey Cokey'. Shudder!

I love Aztec Camera, by the way...
 
Hey, didn't Feargal Sharkey do a single with....oh what's his name.....he left Depeche Mode after their 1st album and started Yazoo, then went on to Erasure. Anyway, didn't they do a single or an album together right after Sharkey left The Undertones?

Speaking of whom, if you haven't seen the Undertones's documentary, you really should. It's great. So are they. I still listen to them regularly.
 
I think `A good heart' is a cracking record too - and you're right, Versatronic, `You Little Thief' was a shocking follow up.

Don't, anyone, worry about liking the kind of music you love. I have never changed music taste since I was born - literally - as a toddler my Dad would bounce me around to Supertramp and Kate Bush, and I have never changed. I've been ridiculed, called `middle aged' and I really never cared. I have been Radio Two's biggest fan since the age of 14, in the days of Gloria Hunniford and Derek Jameson - long before it became trendy! Tend to listen to local radio when Radio Two goes too granny for me - ie parts of the weekend and weekday evenings.

so, examples of other eighties cheesy tracks which I love..

Climie Fisher - Love Changes Everything
Human League - Human
Fern Kinney - Together We Are Beautiful
Charlene - I've never been to me
Randy Crawford - Secret Combination
Billy Ocean - There'll be sad songs (to make you cry)
ABC - Look of Love
Julia Fordham - Love Moves in Mysterious Ways (LOVE this)
Elkie Brooks - We don't cry out loud
ANYTHING by Barbara Streisand, especially `Run Wild' from the Guitly album
Lionel Richie - Stuck on You / Penny Lover
Scritti Politti - Oh Patti (Don't feel sorry for loverboy)
ANYTHING by Dionne Warwick, especially `I'll never love this way again', `Heartbreaker',
Johnny Hates Jazz - Turn Back the Clock
Christopher Cross - all his power ballads, faves are `Every Turn of the World', Arthur's Theme and Never Be the Same
Carly Simon - most
Tracy Chapman - Baby, Can I Hold You
Heart - These Dreams / Alone
Fleetwood Mac - all
Mike and Mechanics - Miracle / Living Years /
Movie songs - Dirty Dancing / Pretty Woman / Top Gun / About Last Night etc
Madonna - Crazy For You
Neneh Cherry - Manchild
Natalie Cole - Miss You Like Crazy
T'Pau - Whenever you need me / all `Bridge of Spies' album
Tifanny - `Feelings of Forever'
Wilson Philips - Hold On / Release Me

My first fave group were Bucks Fizz, not the cheesy Eurovision stuff, but the albums were cracking and power ballady..... liked them from six years old and playing it now takes me right back to my first Garrard automatic record player and amp, with those `peak level meter' things as needles bobbing from left to right - before the flashy green and red lights were thought of! Don't forget to press Dolby !!

Stevie Wonder - Lately
Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star (they took the credit for your second sym-phon-iiiiee LOL)
John Waite - Missing You
Amii Stewart - Friends (CLASS)
REO Speedwagon - Here With Me / Can't Fight This Feeling
Imagination - Just an Illusion
Kids From Fame - Starmaker / Be my Music
New Order - Regret
Quincy Jones / James Ingram - Just Once
Bobby Caldwell - In the Name of Love
Richard Marx - One More Try / Endless Summer Nights
Michael Bolton - Steel Bars
China Crisis - Black Man Ray / Wishful Thinking
James Taylor - all
Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now
Level 42 - It's Over / Leaving Me Now
Olivia Newton John - Suddenly etc
DeBarge - Rhythm of The Night
Korgis - Everyone's gotta learn sometime
Paul Young - Come Back and Stay
Bee Gees - You Win Again
Hot Chocolate - No Doubt About It
Huey Lewis and the News - If this is it
Vangelis - I hear you now (hairs on the back of the neck)
....oh yes, YES - Hearts (Jon Anderson was the link there)
The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
Living in a Box - Room in Your Heart
Prefab Sprout - When Love Breaks Down
Nik Kershaw - Wide Boy
Desireless - Voyage Voyage LOL
Snowy White - Bird of Paradise
Alison Moyet - Invisible / All Cried Out
Cutting Crew - Just Died in your arms
Genesis - In Too Deep
Julio Iglesias + Dolly Parton - When You Tell Me That You Love me (hated the Diana Ross, love this one though!)
Barry Mannilow - most
Roxy Music ballads
Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
Johnny Logan - Hold Me Now
Springsteen - Thunder Road / Hungry Heart
Jackson - Billie Jean
Dollar - Who Were you with in the moonlight?
Pretenders - Hymn to Her
Deacon Blue - Dignity / Chocolate Girl
Def Leppard - Love and Affection
Cliff Richard - We don't Talk Anymore / Miss You Nights
Kate Bush - Babooshka
Exile - kiss you all over

You guys know / like any of these?

Nick
 
"I think Dave Stewart had a girlfriend in Bananarama, but then moved on to one of Sheakspere's Sisters or something. It's hard to keep up with that Gigilo."

Was that not Siobhan Fahey, who was in Bananarama but then left to form Shakespear's Sister with Marcella Detroit?

Nick, you've reminded me now, one of the first albums I bought on vinyl was Neneh Cherry's "Raw Like Sushi".
 
Nick you have just almost listed my CD collection there.
Scary how our tastes are almost the same yet there is 9 years between us...

Some stuff im not sure I know but all im going to say is this is in the Pc right now which is scary..... Some good old ELO.

Love em. Especially Sweet Talkin Woman which is my fave.
Of course Mr Blue Sky is my 2nd.

A pic of a small percentage of Cds I own and there are many other rare songs that I have somewhere at Mums in storage.

Nick
 
Thanks for the pic, ahh..some great CDs there, and I'm also an ELO fan. Luke loves Mr. Blue Sky too.

Love `Silent Sigh', from AAB OST.
Does that Pointer Sisters GtsHTs have `I Need You' on? Love that track.

Billy Joel - Oh, man. That guy's the business.

I think that when we all meet up we'll need to spin a few discs :-)
 
Pointer Sisters

It certainly does but I love Automatic too much to get past that track....

Maybe the title has something to do with it? LOL

Silent Sigh is defo the best song on the AAB cd.
One of my fave films too.
 
We really must sort a "meet" out.

There are so many members I would love to meet....

I must warn you I cant sing tho!

Changed Cd, now wailing to Ocean Colour Scene - The day we caught the train.

Class

Nick
 
You can all take over my house if you like!

I have all the latest equipment (Bosch/Miele in hi-fi terms), but I don’t get to listen to much music! :-)

Carl

*Steals Northern Nick’s Blur album and gives him another the same Phil Collins CD* ;-)
 
nickuk,

I like pretty much all of your music listed, too! :-)

Bucks Fizz - I was just old enough to remember them! :-)

Bee Gees’ You Win Again – I played that at a relative’s New Years’ Eve party at their home. I was the ‘DJ’, aged 9 (1987), who was the only one allowed to use the hi-fi. My cousin, a year or so older, was more ‘cool’ than me (LOL!), and she chose much of the songs. (I am mad about hi-fi and electronics in much the same way as washing machines!)

You lot have given me so much to think about! :-) We love music, but we really don’t listen to it often enough. Not boasting, but we have really nice equipment (roughly Bosch/Miele level in terms of quality) that only gets used for the computer, like when I’m chatting on MSN!!!!! What a waste!!! Criminal! That’s like using a Miele to simply wash dog towels only!

Crumbs… I am really going to have a think now. :-) I’ve never really revealed my wide musical tastes.
 
The Assembly

Mr. Frigilux, I dug out a 12" that I have (a vinyl record Toggle) of The Assembly. It has Vince Clarke on it and Feargal is the singer, so I think that's what you are referring to. Each side has a different song, but I don't think they ever actually put out a full length album. And I don't think the 12" was ever released in the States. Mine's an import.
 
Nick

Just to add to the "Good Choons" list I forgot a tune I remember so much from my childhood.

Completely forgot about this until I pulled a cd with it on out.

Wax
"Bridge to your Heart"

hmmmm Elkie Brooks, much prefer No more the fool... to pull on the emotion strings. LOL

Nick
 
ooohhhh can I add this too...

Bestest "in tune' singing required....

win or lose

sink or swim

one thing is certain, we'll never give in

side by side

hand in hand

we all stand together....!

LOl

Nick
 
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