Wow! What a great year for music 1982 was. So many really, really, really good (and memorable) songs to choose from. Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger still stirs the soul (yeah, seriously, even with that classic ’80s video), while Our House by Madness is...
I could have gone with the safe option from 1981 (In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins) but then, when I thought about it, that would be against what I’m trying to achieve here. Looking back there was some decent music on the charts in ’81, so I guess that...
As we enter the 1980’s I promise I’ll introduce a few more songs you may not have heard of or, at least, might be a little more obscure than what I’ve chosen so far. The super groups are super groups because they’re, well, super, so they were...
I like Pink Floyd‘s music a whole lot. I came to them quite late, with the release of A Momentary Lapse of Reason, in particular the song Learning to Fly. That, to me, was a big, big song. If I only knew… Soon enough I discovered The Wall and all that...
Most people my age and younger will probably know Running on Empty from the movie, Forrest Gump. If I’m honest, that’s probably where I heard it first, too. No matter. To me this is not only a nice, uplifting tune, but it also makes me think about what...
Hotel California is one of the few songs from which I can still recite (I would never, never, ever, ever say sing) most, if not all, of the lyrics. That, in itself, is an achievement worthy of note so this song just has to be on my soundtrack. Putting that aside,...
Okay. Here’s the thing. For 1976 it was either this ELO classic or Dancing Queen (yes, ABBA). Now, as big as ABBA was, and as long as they’ve lasted, I couldn’t, in all good conscience, choose an ABBA song on my soundtrack. It’s just not...
I know, I know. This is a cliche. But hear me out. I came to know Queen properly about a decade after Bohemian Rhapsody was released. Maybe a bit more. They were, are, brilliant and ended up being one of a small pocket of groups I came close to obsessing about (in a...
In a year when four Wombles tunes made the UK top 100 we’re going for something a little different. Actually, a LOT different. Technically more of an album than a song and, my research tells me, released in 1973 rather than ’74, we’re still putting...
I could have gone for another Elton John song (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road) but that just doesn’t seem right. So we’ll go for this classic instead: Live & Let Die by McCartney’s Wings. If we’re honest, my first memory of this is from the...
