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Your Top 10 Songs from the 80's

March 1st 2010 04:26

Ok - so Top 10 lists are hardly new - but having sat through a series of nostalgia over the weekend including Pretty in Pink, the Breakfast Club, St Elmo's Fire and Footloose - it rekindled either a love or loathing of everything 80's.

It wasn't til I felt the need to revisit The Wedding Singer that I realised that in fact the eighties produced some great songs from cheesy romantic love songs to New Wave dance songs.

From Olivia Newton-John and Magic to Michael Jackson's Rock With You, Endless Love with Diana Ross and Lionel Richie to Maniac by Michael Sembello - its' either a gold mine littered with gems or a mine field - from which few escape.

So whether your a Devo fan or Culture Club fanatic - what rates and deserves to be relegated to the bargin bin.

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Can you answer these musical conumdrums?

February 22nd 2010 02:44

OK, so perhaps we don't all know the real answers surrounding Roswell, the Pyraminds or the Bermuda Triangle.

Perhaps crop circles really are a sign that we're not alone - and why do dogs sniff each other's butts?

Some things aren't meant to be answered - but the following five music conumdrums came up just the other day - and a few answers would be helpful.

1) What is the minimum number of musicians a band must have to be considered a "big band"?

2) What Beatles single lasted longest on the charts?

3) Which band has sold the most albums?

4) Who is the longest existing rock band in the world?

5) Has there ever been a hit song about a vegetable?

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The Beach Boys - Sydney Concert Review

February 4th 2010 23:31

They say you can buy a watch - but you can't buy time - but would someone tell that to Mike Love and Bruce Johnson of The Beach Boys - who surfed into Sydney last night for the first of their Opera House concerts with the Sydney Symphony

Featuring all their hits - the vocal harmonies are still there - albeit without the legendary Brian Wilson, his brother Carl or original BB - Al Jardine, the boys performed all their greatest hits including “Good Vibrations”, “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” and “Kokomo” with the full rich sound of the Symphony.

With a smattering of Hawaiian shirts and Seniors Discount cards infiltrating the iconic concert venue - it would be a harsh critic that would choose to have anything other than admiration for the two front men - who played a key role in helping earn the group the title "America's Band".

With thirty-six U.S. Top 40 hits (the most of any U.S. rock band) and fifty-six Hot 100 hits, including four number one singles - the The Beach Boys are still the No. 1-selling American band of all time.

And so it was.

A packed Sydney Opera House - with fans of all ages once again proving that feel good music (no matter which era) transends both social and cultural genres, dancing, singing and generally losing their inhabitions in the aisles as both Love and Johnson (along with their polished though much younger Beach Boys Band) turned back the clock for those who lived through the bands first coming and reignited the legend for those of us who feel an affinity with a simplier, harmonious time.

Bands will come and go - today's stars no doubt will be tomorrow's gossip sheet fodder - few if any will produce music and lyrics which in 40 years will still be remembered with reverance - even fewer will still pull a capacity crowd of all ages at venues around the world - and hold their own.

The Beach Boys, in Mike Love and Bruce Johnson are all that and more (in spite of their 69 years - yes that's right) and still crusin after all these years.

To get just a taste of what transpired at the Opera House last night - check out this clip from their concert last week in Melbourne.

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Best Tear Jerker Songs of All Time

January 22nd 2010 05:34

Sad Songs Say So Much

When all you need is somebody that knows what you're feeling, music comes in all shapes and sizes and tear jerkers are no excpetion.

There are some songs that touch the soul in an incredible way

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Spandau Ballet - Touring Downunder

January 20th 2010 06:09

The first time that most Londoners heard the words Spandau Ballet was on the London Weekend Television arts programme Twentieth Century Box, in May 1980.

Presented by Danny Baker, Twentieth Century Box was the place you went to for your youth culture fix

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The Best Rock Rumours of All Time

December 23rd 2009 01:45

The 'Rock Rumour Mill' (as we all know) is on constant high rotation 24/7 - so it was with a degree of mirth and a little curiousity that I stumbled on a list put out by Rolling Stone Magazine of the top 10 rock rumours of all time.

If the list below isn't enough to go on with - I would encourage you all to add your own - who knows - we could get one up for 2010

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The World's Worst Pop Songs

December 10th 2009 06:55

When the word 'classic' is bandied about in music circles - one generally conjures imagery associated with - well classics - music which transcends the ages, music which defies trends, defies the generation change - and for the sake of this post - defies logic.

Members of the jury - I present to you just a few of the worst pop songs ever allowed to enter our lives - according to moi

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