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Give a little love, where music is leading
On Fridays this year, we ask...
What's in the Box?
The Box in question is the glovebox of my car, home to my extremely motley tape collection. By the time I owned a car with a tape player tapes were on the way out and most of my music was in CD format. However, charity shops were practically giving tapes away, which meant that I bought rapaciously and eclectically. A half-remembered 80s band who once released a single I'd liked a little ? A band I'd vaguely heard of ? An unknown group with good cover art ? Bring them on.
Of course, the net result is that I've ended up with a tape collection which any music-lover would be slightly ashamed of. There was a relatively narrow window (late 70s to later 80s) when tapes were big news, and my horde represents that. However, in amongst the terrible pop I've found some gems and I reckon its time to come clean about my guilty musical secrets.
Today in The Box, we have:
London Boys - Twelve Commandments of Dance
Right, let's get the embarassing confession over with: this was the first 'pop' album I ever bought. On tape of course, and you could see the rest of my folk, classical and G&S tapes wincing as they tried to inch away along the shelf.
I remember hearing the single Requiem on the radio and being amazed by it. I have to say that these days is sounds rather more like fairly standard Europop with a bit of Gregorian chant tacked on the front. But at the time, it and London Nights bowled me over and led to this dramatic move into purchasing of popular music[*].
They went on to release practically every track on the album as a single[**], culminating in the lyrically-suspect My Love. ("I'm gonna give my love to you, no matter what you say or do"... because, like, that's romantic.)
According to Wikipedia, the group split up, but then reformed in 1995 and "made a crossover album called Hallelujah Hits which incorporated Eurodance arrangements into traditional religious compositions". Very shortly afterwards both members were killed in an Alpine car accident. I leave it to you to decide whether that was coincidence or Divine retribution.
This album was recently retrieved from my parents house, after languishing there for the best part of a decade. I remember driving home from work, and laughing out loud at it while queueing through Sonning. It's not epic, it's not a very credible thing to have to cite as a first album, but it's a good laugh and it's been allowed to stay in the car.
London Boys - Chinese Radio [link expired]
[Poll #1196262]
[*] Which means the London Boys are also directly responsible for my current CD storage issues.
[**] According to Wikipedia, that isn't even slightly true, but it felt like that at the time.
What's in the Box?
The Box in question is the glovebox of my car, home to my extremely motley tape collection. By the time I owned a car with a tape player tapes were on the way out and most of my music was in CD format. However, charity shops were practically giving tapes away, which meant that I bought rapaciously and eclectically. A half-remembered 80s band who once released a single I'd liked a little ? A band I'd vaguely heard of ? An unknown group with good cover art ? Bring them on.
Of course, the net result is that I've ended up with a tape collection which any music-lover would be slightly ashamed of. There was a relatively narrow window (late 70s to later 80s) when tapes were big news, and my horde represents that. However, in amongst the terrible pop I've found some gems and I reckon its time to come clean about my guilty musical secrets.
Today in The Box, we have:
London Boys - Twelve Commandments of Dance
Right, let's get the embarassing confession over with: this was the first 'pop' album I ever bought. On tape of course, and you could see the rest of my folk, classical and G&S tapes wincing as they tried to inch away along the shelf.
I remember hearing the single Requiem on the radio and being amazed by it. I have to say that these days is sounds rather more like fairly standard Europop with a bit of Gregorian chant tacked on the front. But at the time, it and London Nights bowled me over and led to this dramatic move into purchasing of popular music[*].
They went on to release practically every track on the album as a single[**], culminating in the lyrically-suspect My Love. ("I'm gonna give my love to you, no matter what you say or do"... because, like, that's romantic.)
According to Wikipedia, the group split up, but then reformed in 1995 and "made a crossover album called Hallelujah Hits which incorporated Eurodance arrangements into traditional religious compositions". Very shortly afterwards both members were killed in an Alpine car accident. I leave it to you to decide whether that was coincidence or Divine retribution.
This album was recently retrieved from my parents house, after languishing there for the best part of a decade. I remember driving home from work, and laughing out loud at it while queueing through Sonning. It's not epic, it's not a very credible thing to have to cite as a first album, but it's a good laugh and it's been allowed to stay in the car.
London Boys - Chinese Radio [link expired]
[Poll #1196262]
[*] Which means the London Boys are also directly responsible for my current CD storage issues.
[**] According to Wikipedia, that isn't even slightly true, but it felt like that at the time.
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(Reminded of this because they played Joyride in Quinn's last night.)
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Right, let's get the embarassing confession over with: this was the first 'pop' album I ever bought.
Let us be sisters henceforth!
(or: Me too!)
Unfortunately I can't really remember what any of it sounds like other than their hit "London Nights" ("Wanna party right, when the fever rides you / Lon-Don Nights!")