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I think that Acceptable in the 80s was the best single I have heard released this year!

Okay, Pussy it is. Miaow! Welcome to your new identity. It's still a great version of that song tho. X

What are your favourite love songs of the 70s? Here's a few: Let's stay together by Al Green What becomes of the brokenhearted by Jimmy Ruffin [rereleased in 74 in UK] Just my imagination [running away with me] by The Temptations The most beautiful girl by Charlie Rich Hangin' on by Al Green [from Al Green explores your mind album]. I would have done a more general question but I couldn't figure out where I would have to put it on the boards.

That's a fantastic version of that, Sarah. Wish I could sing like that, in the shower or anywhere else for that matter. X

Ah, you made it at last! Yes, that's plenty of las [la]. I'll say something more in a minute when I've shaken the sleep out of my head. Pussy Galore? I'm shocked! X

I listened to 30 second excerts on the Amazon website. A couple of the tracks have reappeared on later albums but that is made up for by extra tracks [dub cuts, alternative takes] so I'm looking forward to its arrival.

I'll ask her if she will accept an e-mail invitation: In the meantime for Sarah [n the likely event that she does join]: here's a few words for you... In lertters of gold On a snow-white kite I will write "I love you" and send it soaring high above you for all to read. lyrics from "Kites", original by Simon Dupree, covered by The Associates on this thread!

Ha ha ha. You funny bugger, Umma. I was thinking of trying to get her to join up. Maybe I should steer her clear of this site after posting that!! No, what the hell...it happens to us all! (Some more than others and I'm normally far "windier" than she is). The Associates other [brilliant] hit was called Club country. The fault is I can see no fault in you ...

The only song I know from The Association is "Windy" which I have on an absolutely magical 60s compilation called "The first summer of love". [A 60s compilation head and shoulders above any others I've seen, which also includes the original of "Kites", incidentally, and is well worth owning, so that means it's probably deleted :rolleyes: ] It goes "Everyone knows she's windy..." and I sing it to my girlfriend everytime she trumps, well, not everytime, obviously, coz that would get pretty annoying, but I can't find it on Youtube at the moment, although I know it has been featured in the past.

Mooted as an album that lived up to it's title and made "heavier" raggae acceptable to a receptive UK audience when it was released in 1978 this album has been cited as one of the more meaningful classics in the crossover that occured between the punk/raggae scene of the late 70s. I was looking to buy the album after reading much praise of it but the cheapest copy is £20 [for non UK residents, which I guess will be most of you, that's like double price over here] because it hasn't been rereleased on cd since 1995. My question is why hasn't it been rereleased? This music is important and should be celebrated. As soon as my copy arrives everybody who needs a copy of this can have one made by me for nothing!

The Clash [whose lyric is quoted above] asked Lee Perry to produce their 3rd single, so that the Scratchmaster has a permanent place in UK punk history, believe it or not.

Thanx for that one Umma, that was a new one for me. Below is probably the Associates best known hit from 82, recently covered by The Divine Comedy. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lTyb9Jl8y1k

That 17 minutes just about epitomises all the images that are conjoured into my mind when I hear the phrase "psychedelia".

I too think this was Jimi's seminal album and I particularly like the title track. I didn't hear this album until the 80s but I've listened to it many times since then.

Does anybody else appreciate Scottish 80s group The Associates? For me they released two singles in 82 from the Sulk album that vied for record of the year, for me, [and I don't think that was any mean feat]. Billy Mackensie's voice was amazing and his collaboration with Alan Rankine hit its heights that year before they went there separate ways.

It's midnight to six, man, for the first time from Jamaica. Dillinger and Leroy Smart, Delroy Wilson, your cool operater; Ken Boothe for UK pop raggae With backing band sound systems And if they've got anything to say There's many black ears here to listen. The Clash "White man [in Hammersmith Palias]. 1978.

Ah, I think I was still editing when you replied. That's typical. I always go on far too much. If you do know the answer to the strum/riff question I would be very interested to know the name of it. I mean what do they call it when they hit that raggae note? If nobody knows I'm just going to continue to call it strumming.

I posted a comment on the site. Thankyou for the hello on the 70s thread dude. By the time i "got the ears" for deeper raggae in 80 Trojan wasn't releasing much except retrospectives - yes, even then! - and the one Lee Perry album I bought was released on Clocktower records so I had no idea he had worked for Trojan. Likewise, the Maytals were recording for Island and I do not remember what label "The Israelites" was released on but I recall it was yellow so probably not Trojan. Infact the only record I've ever owned on Trojan was the 1974 no 1 single [uK] "Everything I own" by Ken Boothe [although that's still got to be one of the purest sounding raggae strums/riffs [what do they call it when they hit that note?] that I've heard. :D

It is strange sometimes how music tastes develop because I remember specifically loathing this record when it was a hit in the UK. I thought the lyrics were corny and trite and the sound I dismissed as "disco" [also anathema to me at the time]. I preferred his follow up "Communication breakdown" which was less blatantly aimed at the dancefloor but that one flopped as a single and I thought there was no justice in the world! Yet I heard "Mama..." again on the radio a few months back and it was a revelation with old prejudices pushed aside as I have learned to appreciate other forms of music when they are well performed. This track was well performed and even the lyrics make sense to me now so all's well that ends well. As I wrote in another post quality will out in the end [if it can hang around for long enough]. I wonder what I would think of "Communication breakdown" now?

Another song from the same album as this is one of my faves of all time, called The Right thing to do.

Kool and the Gang had hit after hit after hit when they finally did conquer the UK. They were in the chart every year from 79 thru to 86 or so, but I prefer the early 70s stuff that was only big in the US as in those pre-punk days the American charts were much better than ours [they had Earth, Wind and Fire whilst we had Gary Glitter!] I have a vinyl "Greatest Hits" album from 75 or so contains a fantastic track [if you like that jazz-funk era] called Let the music take your mind, but I've never heard it on the radio or anywhere else for that matter. But maybe that's just my bizarre taste in music.

In my opinion Queen's music has aged better than some of their more revered comtemporaries [Led Zeppelin, for example, some of their work sounds self-indulgent now, although I rated them more highly in the 70s] and they wrote greatly entertaining songs that can still make me smile when I listen to them [like White Queen and Brighton rock. I like them more now than I did in the 70s.

Great video, even if it is filmed like a bootleg, that must be Mr Don Boyce on vocals. I saw Kool and the Gang in 76 on their UK tour [which was before they actually broke in the UK] and they did this one even though it flopped as a single over here. Nowadays my kids know this track though because it's been used as the soundtrack for a long running advertising campaign and because it features in an American playstation game. Quality shines through over the mood of the moment...

I voted for Sheer heart attack just above A night at the opera, probably because it was the first Queen album I bought, although I see I'm the only one to have voted for it.