Neil Young sat on his epic 1988 recording of Ordinary People for two decades before it finally came out on Chrome Dreams II in 2007.

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Frida – I See Red

11th January 2025 · 1980s, 1982, Music

Frida is the brunette from ABBA and I See Red is a song from her solo album back in 1982, produced by Phil Collins.

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The Clean were pioneers of New Zealand’s so-called Dunedin Sound, blending a punk influence with a bucolic brand of jangly psychedelia.

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Is this classic late-period disco? Or is it prototype ’80s dance-pop? Frankly, who cares when it sounds like this?!

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In their heyday in the early 1980s, it was impossible to ignore pop-soul trio Imagination with their infectious dance hits and flamboyant front man Leee John.

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The New Romantics didn’t do much for me but like everyone else, some of the songs did. Especially Culture Club’s first hit in 1982.

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There are a handful of musical moments in my life where I’ve heard a song for the first time and felt: This changes everything. Never Understand is one.

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ABC – Poison Arrow

22nd November 2024 · 1980s, 1982, Music

ABC fused the attitude of punk with the sophistication of disco – and great tunes – to create hits like Poison Arrow on The Lexicon Of Love.

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“You got to have a J-O-B if you wanna be with me… No romance without finance.” This is one of the finest funk and soul singles of all time – despite its far-from-feminist materialistic message; it was the ’80s after all. (more…)

Maria McKee wrote this song when she was a teenager and it became Feargal Sharkey’s only chart-topping single a few years later.

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