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Up the Junction wrote: Thu Feb 24, 2022 5:42 pm If by "raise" you mean take out a shovel and dig several metres down into the dark, murky Scandinavian soil, then you have a point.

I mean, you could've thrown up Hunting High Or Low or even something like I've been Losing You which would've been palatable, at least. But this is a dirge, Cockers, especially by Morten Torten Horten Harket's high standards.
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Sometimes there's a thin line between "glorious" and "questionable".

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From 1983, Underworld before they were Underworld. This reached number 59 in the UK chart, but with retrospect should have been a worldwide number one.

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This was released in 1984, and I remember taping it off Radio One onto a TDK C90. I assumed it got into the top 30 at least, so looked in my trusty Guinness Book of Hit Singles, but it isn't listed. Surely shome mishtake?

No, apparently it only reached number 87. Proof, if it's needed, that the world hasn't just gone mad since Trump got elected, it's always been mad.

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Please don't call me Reg, it's not my name:

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A more recent addition to the genre, an instant classic.

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southbrishammer wrote: Sat Mar 26, 2022 10:11 pm From 1983, Underworld before they were Underworld. This reached number 59 in the UK chart, but with retrospect should have been a worldwide number one.

Blimey, that’s a rave from the grave! Loved that song back in the day but have totally forgotten about it until now, so cheers for that. I could imagine a remix of that appearing on an Underworld album.

The other thing I seem to remember about them was that they used some weird symbol instead of the word Freur - which may well have predated Prince doing it.
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Ricky Gervais tried to be a pop star in 1983. He didn't succeed, but this wasn't a bad effort:

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southbrishammer wrote: Sat Mar 26, 2022 10:11 pm From 1983, Underworld before they were Underworld. This reached number 59 in the UK chart, but with retrospect should have been a worldwide number one.

Karl Hyde looks absolutely ridiculous
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Chicken Run Supreme wrote: Sun Mar 27, 2022 7:30 am A more recent addition to the genre, an instant classic.

This one as well...I pretty much learnt it on guitar in about 5 minutes as its just simple open chords. Great song.

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Rina Sawayama is, for my money, the best pop act out there right now;





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Before Crowded House there was Split Enz.

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Don't think I've ever heard it before, but this is basically a rip-off of Laura Branigan's Self Control, which came out in 1984.


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This tune features in the very first episode of Spongebob, which my son has been watching a lot recently, so it's got stuck in my head.

Warning: it may give you nightmares.

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Lots of PVC and a statuesque keyboard player:

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