Friday's Playlist #26

An ongoing series:

(59) Soft Cell, 'What?' (Non-stop Ecstatic Dancing)

(34) Duran Duran, 'Save A Prayer' (Rio)

(22) Depeche Mode, 'Leave In Silence' (A Broken Frame)

(21) Ultravox, 'Reap The Wild Wind' (Quartet)

(17) ABC, 'All Of My Heart' (Lexicon Of Love)

(16) Simple Minds, 'Glittering Prize' (New Gold Dream, 81,82,83,84)

(13) Carly Simon, 'Why'

(8) Mari Wilson, 'Just What I Always Wanted' (Show People)

(7) Evelyn Champagne King, ''Love Come Down' (Get Loose)

(6) Shalamar, 'There It Is' (Friends)

I wasn't going to do a playlist this week. Too much listening to Fad Gadget, Diesel Park West and Billy Childish adds up to a limited choice for a playlist, but what with Steve Coleman's 10/10/82 talk falling into my lap late last night, I thought I would conjure up a playlist from the charts from that particular week.

I can't say with any authority that SPGB members back in '82 were listening to the songs selected, but I know that I was.

If you fiddle about with the boombox at the top of the post, you can listen to them today. Cheers.

Spotify Playlist Link.

Sweaty Palms

Best Top 5 ever? # 10 & 11 aren't bad either.

Sod all this Galloway/SWP bollocks. Some things are just much more important.

Friday's Playlist #11

For that cheeky bastard, Reidski. A resumption of an ongoing series:

The Jam, 'Absolute Beginners' (Snap)

Human League, 'Seconds' (Dare)

Billy Idol, 'Dancing With Myself'

The Pretenders, 'Message of Love' (Pretenders II)

The Associates, 'Message Oblique Speech' (Fourth Drawer Down)

The Passions, '(I'm in love with a) German Film Star'

Dexys Midnight Runners, 'Plan B' (Too-Rye-Ay)

Siouxsie and the Banshees, 'Love in a Void' (Once Upon A Time)

Japan, 'Visions of China' (Tin Drum)

Soft Cell, 'Entertain Me' (Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret)

Why 1981? Why not.

Update 11/11/ 22

I wish I'd picked a better Associates song. And what's the deal with picking that song by Billy Idol? Did I lose a bet?

Spotify Playlist Link.