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We all like to talk about prog, jazz, blues, classical etc but pop music has produced some gems.

Here are my top twenty pop 'guilty secrets' in no particular order:

I Don't Want Our Loving to Die - The Herd

I Can Help - Billy Swan

Baggy Trousers - Madness

Chicken Payback - The Bees

Every Morning - Sugar Ray

Ha Ha Said The Clown - Manfred Mann

The Day Before You Came - ABBA

Breakout - Swing Out Sister

Gettin' Away With It - Electronic

Peter Gunn - Duane Eddy

Got to Get You Into my Life - Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers

Pop Muzik - M

The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore - The Walker Brothers

Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying - Gerry & The Pacemakers

Ant Music - Adam & The Ants

From Here to Eternity - Georgio Moroder

We're Gonna Change The World - Matt Monro

Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

Mr Blue Sky - ELO

Rock With You - Michael Jackson


Anyone else got any pop gems to add to my collection?
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Happy together - the turtles
Electric dreams - human league
Park life - blur
Tesla girls - omd
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How many Beatles ones do you want ? :D
Let's just put 'Please Please Me' down there...
Oh and '(Listen) Do you want to know a Secret' .
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'Watching the Detectives' by Elvis Costello.
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Billy Jean - Michael Jackson
Blue Monday - New Order
Scary Monsters Super Creeps - Bowie
Lively Up Yourself - Bob Marley
Babylon's Burning - The Ruts
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Video killed the radio star - buggles
Love that song :D
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Into the Valley - Skids
Toxic - Britney Spears
Overload - Sugarbabes
Silver Machine - Hawkwind
Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols
Overkill - Men at Work
Different for Girls - Joe Jackson
Firestarter - The Prodigy
Lucky Number - Lene Lovic
Rappers Delight - Sugarhill Gang
Can't get you out of my head - Kylie Meenoogeeknee
Grandmaster Flash - The Message
Groove is in the Heart - Dee Lite
Blue Monday - New Order
The Crown - Gary Byrd
Walking on Sunshine - Rocker Revenge
Le Freak - Chic
Hot Love - T'rex
I want you to want me - Cheap Trick
Is Vic there? - Department S
Hit me with your rhythm stick - Ian Dury and the Blockheads
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Going to have to think about this one for a while...
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The La’s- There She Goes.
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Dave the bass wrote: Sat Dec 22, 2018 8:58 pm Into the Valley - Skids...
Walking on Sunshine - Rockers Revenge....
Is Vic there? - Department S
Heh heh!
Forgot about The Skids
Had their album "Scared to Dance" until I sold it on a long time ago. Many a drunken session down the pub, singing along to the live B side of Into the Valley, "TV Stars", which is basically Jobson shouting out a list of Coronation Street and Crossroads stars, to a grungy back beat and a rowdy audience.

".....David HOONTER! bam bam bam bam Sandy RICHARDSON! bam bam bam bam ALBERT TATLOCK!, bam bam bam bam ALBERT TATLOCK! bam bam bam bam ALBERT TATLOOOOOOOOK!"
They don't write 'em like that anymore :mrgreen:

Rockers revenge was high in the charts when me and my then new missus stayed at my late, great uncle Harry's 'Lena' guest house on Station Road in Eastbourne 1982. Peter and Brian, who I believe were associated with Jeffries Hi Fi, ran a weekly "Hi-Fi Show" disco on Eastbourne Pier. They used to delight in shaking the building, with footage of the space shuttle lifting off, as their intro sequence.
Rockers revenge was one record I remember from their hi-fi show, along with David Christian's "Saddle Up" and "Give it up" by KC and the Sunshine Band"

And my mate at BT, Vic Gilbert got fed up of workmates ringing his office asking for him for no reason other than to shout "Is Vic There?" down the phone :roll: :lol:


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Oo interesting...

Extract from my latest compilation (what was on the radio recently)

Cha Cha Slide - Mr. C the Slide Man
Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.
Speed of Sound - Coldplay
Roll With It - Oasis
Give Me Back My Heart - Dollar
Sleeping Satellite - Tasmin Archer
True Faith - New Order
I Put a Spell On You - Honeysweet
1 Thing - Amerie
Through the Barricades - Spandau Ballet
Mirror Man - The Human League
Hurt so Good - Susan Cadogan
Phoenix City - Roland Alphonso & The Soul Brothers
Don't Walk Away - Jade
Right Here - SWV
Nights Over Egypt - The Jones Girls
I Will Be There - Katie Melua
Gypsy Woman - Crystal Waters
Love and Understanding - Cher
When I Kissed the Teacher - ABBA (never heard this before!)
Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime - The Korgis
Stay With Me 'Till Dawn - Judie Tzuke
What's the Frequency, Kenneth? - R.E.M.
Champagne Supernova - Oasis
Praying for Time - George Michael
Brooklyn Roads - Neil Diamond
Once Upon a Long Ago - Paul McCartney
Lola's Theme - The Shapeshifters

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Twenty singles that made me sit up and listen at various times in my sixty odd years...

She Loves You – The Beatles
Bits and Pieces – The Dave Clark Five
You Were Made for Me – Freddy and the Dreamers
Down Town – Petula Clark
Son of a Preacher Man – Dusty Springfield
Layla – Derek and the Dominoes
Ride a White Swan – T Rex
Blockbuster – The Sweet
Jean Genie – David Bowie
Virginia Plain – Roxy Music
Judy Teen – Cockney Rebel
Bohemian Rhapsody –Queen
Owner of a Lonely Heart – Yes
Billy Jean – Michael Jackson
In the Air Tonight – Phil Collins
Vogue – Madonna
Fast Car – Tracy Chapman
Lifted – Lighthouse Family
Can’t Get You Out of My Head – Kylie Minogue
Christine and the Queens - Tilted
Sorry, I couldn't resist!
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Here's mine
Waterloo Sunset-Kinks
Itchycoo Park- Small Faces
Time is Tight- Booker T
Kites- Simon Dupree and the Big Sound
Substitute- The Who
Soul Man- Sam and Dave
See Emily Play- Pink Floyd
Shakin All Over- Johnny Kidd and the Pirates
Pretty Woman- Roy Orbison
Excerpt From a Teenage Opera- Keith West
Over Under Sideways Down- Yardbirds
Virginia Plain- Roxy Music
Perfect Day - Lou Reed
5-4-3-2-1 Manfred Mann
Fire- Arthur Brown
Peaches-Stranglers
On the Road Again- Canned Heat
Living in the Past- Jethro Tull
A Whiter Shade of Pale- Procol Harum
I Can Hear the Grass Grow- The Move
Sloop John B- The Beach Boys
Let's Go to San Francisco- The Flower Pot Mem
Tobacco Road- Tge Nashville Teens
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Free - All Right Now
Fleetwood Mac - Albatross
Ike & Tina Turner - Nutbush city limits
Fat Larry’s Band - Zoom
ABBA - Fernando
ABBA - I have a dream
The Carpenters - Goodbye to Love
The Beatles - All you need is love
Cyndi Lauper - Time after time
Paul Young - Wherever I lay my hat
The Shadows - Foot tapper
Cliff Richard - Living doll
Coldplay- Fix You
Cosmo Jarvis - Gay pirates
Lonnie Donegan - Rock Island Line
Elvia Presley - Jailhouse Rock
Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer
Bangles - Eternal Flame
Righteous Brothers - You’ve Lost That Loving feeling
Walker Brothers - No regrets
Beach Boys - Good vibrations
Beach Boys - Sloop John B
Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush - Don’t give up
George Micheal - Different Corner
Michael Jackson - Billy Jean
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Sme fab stuff there chaps, and from looking at those lists, I have to make another one of my fave 60s pop tracks, as though I was just a kid back then, it is my absolute favourite decade for music.

So:
Things - Bobby Darin
Catch Us If You Can - Dave Clark Five
Suki Yaki - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen
She'd Rather Be With Me - The Turtles
You're The Devil in Disguise - Elvis Presley
In The Country - Cliff Richard
Am I The Same Girl? - Dusty Springfield
I Can't Get No Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
Happy Jack - The Who
Don't Stop The Carnival - The Alan Price Set
I Got Rhythm - The Happenings
The Tra-La-La Song - Banana Splits
Everlasting Love - Love Affair
Penny Lane - The Beatles
It's getting Better - Mama Cass Elliott
98.6 Keith
Willow Tree - The Ivy League
She's Not There - The Zombies
Concrete and Clay - Unit 4 Plus 2
Lovin' Things - Marmalade
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