Showing posts with label UK #1 '80s Hits That Weren't Even Minor US Hits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UK #1 '80s Hits That Weren't Even Minor US Hits. Show all posts
Sunday, September 22, 2013

Captain Sensible's "Happy Talk": Punk Goes Rodgers & Hammerstein?

›
Well, if you thought the Jam's journey from "Down In The Tube Station At Midnight" to "Beat Surrender" was strange...
2 comments:
Monday, September 9, 2013

Mods And Ends: The Jam And Their Four UK #1 Hits

›
Raise your hand if you know what a "mod" is. Put your hand down Jimmy, you're just trying to pull my leg. Right, that's...
1 comment:
Wednesday, September 4, 2013

The Goombay Dance Band and Nicole: Germany Invades Britain ... With Cloying Folk Music!

›
Where Hitler failed, German '80s musicians succeeded. While Kraftwerk may have brought the more modern side of German music to the B...
2 comments:
Thursday, August 29, 2013

M*A*S*H, Michael Jackson, and Kraftwerk (??) AKA Songs From The '70s That Became UK #1 Hits In The '80s

›
The United Kingdom, as I mentioned earlier, is much smaller than the United States, at least in terms of geographical size - if not in sp...
Monday, August 19, 2013

Bucks Fizz: If Only ABBA Had Been British, And Only From The '80s

›
You know, the original ABBA were great and everything, but there was just something ... missing. For years, I couldn't quite put my fi...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Shakin' Stevens: If Only Elvis Had Been British, And From The '80s

›
Americans may have invented '50s rock 'n' roll, but we seem to have gotten over it. For some reason, Great Britain has romanti...
Friday, August 9, 2013

"Shaddap You Face" and "Japanese Boy" AKA I Guess It Was OK To Stereotype Italians and The Japanese Back Then

›
Mexicans? Nope. Jews? Probably not. Blacks? I wouldn't suggest it. But apparently, as Joe Dolce and Aneka demonstrated, it was perfect...
2 comments:
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

"There's No One Quite Like Grandma": Britain's Shameless Retreat From The John Lennon Assassination

›
It's December 1980. John Lennon has just been murdered. A generation's hopes and dreams have been obliterated for all eternity. Wh...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

Fern Kinney, Odyssey, and Kelly Marie: The British Liked Disco? Follow-up Question: The British Liked Our Disco Leftovers?

›
If there's one thing I don't associate with disco, it's England. Big Ben. Tower Bridge. Buckingham Palace. Disco! Nope, don...
2 comments:
Saturday, July 20, 2013

UK #1 '80s Hits That Weren't Even Minor US Hits

›
I like to think of myself as someone who possesses a comprehensive knowledge of popular music. It irks me when I read about a song or a ba...