Tags
a-ha, Bruce Springsteen, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, HooDoo Gurus, Icehouse, James Brown, Kim Wilde, Martin Plaza, Mental as Anything, Midnight Oil, Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield, Pseudo Echo, Simple Minds, The Bangles, the Pointer Sisters, Wa Wa Nee
Playlist by Algernon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I83nc2IlSKg
Concrete and Clay – Martin Plaza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAHhjeXuiHk
Stimulation – Wa Wa Nee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3ir9HC9vYg
The sun always shines on TV – a-ha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrnvPCSP6Q8
Welcome to the Pleasuredome – Frankie goes to Hollywood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK_eQImKnPA
Live it up – Mental as Anything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TSDjivoy-0
Crazy – Icehouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnejLmQGYhg
Funkytown – Pseudo Echo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpkGvk1rQBI
Beds are Burning – Midnight Oil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugA5bLqivkY
What’s my Scene – Hoodoo Gurus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qRpIA3RKYc
Walk like an Egyptian – The Bangles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdqoNKCCt7A
Don’t you forget about me – Simple Minds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJZF-skCY-M
You keep me hanging on – Kim Wilde
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5BL4RNFr58
Living in America – James Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn9E5i7l-Eg
What have I done to deserve this – Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=129kuDCQtHs
Dancing in the dark – Bruce Springsteen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-jdhorGtQI
Neutron Dance – The Pointer Sisters
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Always liked Simple Minds and Funky Town was one of those songs that you just had to like. Cheers mate.
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Its a period of music that I look back fondly (for want of a better word). I’ve got many favourites here
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Nice one Algy.
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The Pointer Sisters just for you Vivienne
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Thanks again, for your fine efforts, Algy. And also for the playlist 🙂
Just kidding, but your choice of pictures so often transports me to very familiar historical territory. Because I am (as the Emmlets insist) a nerd, and have been implicated in scenes like the above, it takes a hard-hitting photograph to help me to realise the pain inflicted on hapless citizens in the name of “training”. Whips and chairs could hardly be more cruel. My sympathies especially to the guy up the back in the baseball cap….. bad day at Black Rock 🙂
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The Emmlets actually say that I was a proto-nerd- that is, I was a nerd well before the term itself had even been coined. Nice ….
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You almost had me thinking of last weeks picture with the ladies doing physical culture and wondering which one was you 🙂 . Junior was at a trivia night the other night a managed to win it, trivia is not his long suite by any stretch. But a large section was on computers, he was in his element. I like the tem proto. might even be appropriate musically.
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Thanks for the memories Algernon. About Pleasure Dome: They used to play this track a lot in the clubs and discos very loud. One ought to listen to this music played on a good sound system; not very loud but just enough to enjoy it. I’m sure being a former DJ in the past you’ve seen better systems. A friend had a quadrophonic sound system back in those days, put together from different parts. Some parts were from Japan and some were from Europe, USA. The speakers alone cost a small fortune. The sound was amazing. Of course I never heard The Dark Side of the Moon coming out of those speakers like that ever again.
Aaahhh the Gordon Gekko years and The Pleasure Dome (sorry I just couldn’t help it) 🙂
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More an enjoyer of music hph. Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Pleasuredome was the best of theirs I thought
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