two 80s electro-pop acts......

[The Last Word]

Erasure? Who? Can barely recall anything they did.

Pet Shop Boys had their moments but have aged badly and were always far too smug to do anything really cutting. Electronic were okay as an experiment but never bettered Getting Away With It and that itself was a rip-off (Love My Way - Psychedelic Furs).

The Human League inspired them all, and Dare is still a genuinely fantastic album. And that's not thanks to the sound, but Oakey's songwriting, which he would later have trouble matching. Always loved Human though. A great song from Jam & Lewis and their production is off the scale.

[Deuce Bigolo]

Catchy single but wears a bit thin after replaying over & over
which is perfect for dance clubs

Another one was safety dance from men without hats

same quirky formula

If I still had my virgin yearbooks from 1982/83 i bet i could sprout another 20 or so similar offerings

[steve56]

Soft Cell;Human League.

[ATS]

Human League certainly had their moments - open your heart was
a fantastic pop song

Surprised nobody mentioned kraftwerk or ultravox in this posting

[steve56]

Jean Michelle Jarre was Maurices son who composed a lot of film soundtracks he was also living with Charlotte Rampling .

[Pervert]

Squeeze were excellent. Up The Junction, Cool For Cats, Slap And Tickle, Labelled With Love . . . . Difford and Tilbrook were from a long UK tradition of excellent songwriters able to inject humour into their songs (see also The Kinks, The Who, 10cc, Madness).

[ATS]

Caractacus wrote:

> Squeeze were excellent. Up The Junction, Cool For Cats, Slap
> And Tickle, Labelled With Love . . . . Difford and Tilbrook
> were from a long UK tradition of excellent songwriters able to
> inject humour into their songs (see also The Kinks, The Who,
> 10cc, Madness).

Squeeze's lyrics were superb - tunes not bad either

[Pervert]

Listening to my Launchcast radio station while doing other things, and have had Talk Talk, Aztec Camera and Human League in the last half hour, as well as something from Annie Lennox's new album and the superb Love (no real 1980s connection there, sorry).


Good thing about it, it remembers your faves and recommends other stuff based on that. Course, sometimes it just throws up some stuff you'd never listen to, but for the most part it's a useful tool.