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I enjoy listening to Steve Wright on Radio 2 and particularly his golden oldie 1/2 hour, when listeners send him their favourite singles from before the 90's and he plays them back-to-back. If you had the chance, which songs would you pick? Here's some of mine, for starters....


1. Echo Beach - Martha and the Muffins

2. Will You - Hazel O'Connor

3. Night Boat To Cairo - Madness

4. Walk On By - The Stranglers

5. Head Over Heels - Tears For Fears

6. Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles

7. Mr Blue Sky - ELO

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A random selection of this weeks Golden Oldies for me - numvers do not imply ranking:


1. Billericay Dickie - Ian Drury


2. Albatross - Fleetwood Mac


3. BUrlesque - Family


4. The GReat Gig inthe Sky - Pink Floyd


5. Sunny Aftgernoon - The KInks


6. Knockin' on Heaven's Door - Eric Clapton


7. Cocaine - Eric Clapton


8. Money for Nothing - Dire Straits


9. The Partisan - Leonard Cohen


10. Matty Groves - Fairport Convention


It will be a different list next week / next day / next month

1/ Theme From A Summer Place 1960--Evokes memories of endlessly warm Summer days walking thru' the orchards and building tree-houses and receiving toffee apples from the Ladt on the caravan site who spent all day, every day making them.

Childhood bliss for 8/9 weeks every Summer escaping from Inner London's concrete jungle.


2/ Albatross- Fleetwood Mac--MUST be played in darkness and in solitude, in complete silence.


3/ More Than I Can Say - Bobby Vee, one of the 1st records that I bought in 1960 again.


4/ See Emily Play- Epitomises The 1960's.


5/ Those Good Old Dreams- The Carpenters if you are in a happy mood.


6/ The Winner Takes It All- Abba. Clasic Song from a Classic Group


7/ Make It With You - Bread- 1972 and all that meant to me.


8/ My Cherie Amour- 1968- Red Post Hill and playing Tennis and not believing that my opponents Family Detached House in Herne Hill Road cost 15 THOUSAND POUNDS !! NO house could cost THAT much I thought...


9/ Lay Lady Lay- Bob Dylan- Beautiful Song.


10/ Follow You, Follow Me- Genesis...lovely song.


Probably hundreds of others but I LOVE "Golden Oldies" being Pre-1990'S...LOL

Tony.London Suburbs Wrote:

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> Probably hundreds of others but I LOVE "Golden

> Oldies" being Pre-1990'S...LOL


Yes, because that opens the door for the musical wonders of the 1980s:


1) Everything She Wants - Wham!


2) Souvenir - OMD


3) A Little Respect - Erasure


4) All Of My Heart - ABC


5) Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order


6) Through The Barricades - Spandau Ballet ("OH, TURN AROUND AND I'LL BE THERE!!!")


And with a nod to my dad's influence:


7) Baby I'm A Want You - Bread


8) Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd


9) Say You Love Me - Fleetwood Mac


10) Take It Easy - Eagles

Here's a "croud pleaser" selection...


The Same Old Song - Four Tops

Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day - Stevie Wonder

I Chase The Devil - Max Romeo

Mirror In The Bathroom - The Beat

Complete Control - The Clash

Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones

Can't Explain - The Who

Town Called Malice - The Jam

The Reflex - Duran Duran

It's A Sin - Pet Shop Boys

Off the top of my head and I could do a different list every five minutes for the next millenia and still come up with loads of goodies. I'm going with some old reggae tunes first.


1 Wet Dream - Max Romeo

2 Longshot Kick The Bucket - The Pioneers

3 Barbwire - Nora Dean

4 Wreck A Buddy - The Soul Sisters

5 Fatty Fatty - Clancy Eccles

6 Liquidator - Harry J & The All Stars

7 Double Barrell - Dave & Ansell Collins

8 People Funny Boy - Lee "Scratch" Perry

9 Dollar In Teeth - The Upsetters

10 Birth Control - Lloydie & The Lowbites

>1/ Theme From A Summer Place 1960--Evokes memories of endlessly warm Summer days walking thru' the orchards and building >tree-houses and receiving toffee apples from the Ladt on the caravan site who spent all day, every day making them.

>Childhood bliss for 8/9 weeks every Summer escaping from Inner London's concrete jungle.


Percy Faith & his Orchestra IIRC. Noone remembers the film though, much as noone remembers "Unchained" - only its melody!


>3/ More Than I Can Say - Bobby Vee, one of the 1st records that I bought in 1960 again<


The Beatles used to play this in Hamburg - incredibly!

Thanks guys all for your contributions so far - some great classics amongst them (Bread, Eagles, The Jam, New Order to name but a few!) and there's some songs listed here I don't recognise (Burlesque/Family?) so I may venture onto Youtube to find them.... There's only one song that I didn't like - The Reflex/Duran Duran (sorry Jeremy) but horses-for-courses as they say.


I liked the personal touch from TLS - sets the scene nicely. My own selection comes mainly from my Navy days when I was into punk, new wave and new romantics - I so nearly put Ghosts by Japan in there, and The Jam's Tube Station at Midnight. I really enjoyed researching the songs on Youtube - brought it all back!

I?m very modern me, most of my albums are post 1990 but pre 2000 funnily enough. I do however like some songs from the olden days. The following make me look back longingly to the days when everything was in black and white, Britannia still ruled the waves, hobnails and tweed were an honest man?s working clobber and mullets featured heavily on something called ?Top of the Pops?


Minor Threat - Minor Threat

Sound System ? Operation Ivy

Bikeage ? Descendents

Burning Love - Elvis

Love Her Madly ? The Doors

Suspect Device ? Stiff Little Fingers

AC/DC ? Highway to Hell

Ramones ? The one with wanna or gonna in the title I think it mentions of Sheena, Judy, Jonnie and/or contains some hey-hos or a gabba gabba hey.

I'm in a really good mood now, a friend of mine in the US has just completed the vocal track to a classic deep purple track that I did the music for about 6 months ago. Dave has uploaded this for me and now I'm ready for a few beers, not the best production you ever heard but I like it, rock on peeps, I played all the instruments except for the drums we never actually met to work on this and it was done via a collaboration over the Internet hail to the modern age.


This is my golden oldie enjoy,


Mike.......


http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=112337

Punk Ten


1 I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones

2 Bodies - The Sex Pistols

3 Denis Denis - Blondie

4 What Do I Get - The Buzzcocks

5 Homicide - 999

6 Peaches - The Stranglers

7 Janie Jones - The Clash

8 Hong Kong Garden - Siouxie & The Banshees

9 Borstal Breakout - Sham 69

10 Oh Bondage Up Yours - X-Ray Spex

Pony Express was definitely the way to go before they invented the cylindrical record.


I agree with JL... apparently Chris Stein started off trying to emulate the New York Dolls, and they're often mentioned in the same breath as The Ramones. But the music speaks for itself - they did some great songs, but it's also the kind of thing my parents could (and probably have) played in the background while serving drinks and nibbles to the neighbours. On the other hand, I don't think they've ever served up pimms over a Black Flag record.

1. sweet home Alabama..... Lynard skynard

2. Ohio ..... C S N & Y

3. whats going on..... marvin gaye

3. Elvis is dead .... peter & the test tube babies

4. Holiday in cambodia ..... dead kennedys

5. track of my tears .... smoky robinson

6. paint it black ... stones

7. spanish bomb..... the clash

8. Teenage Kicks ..... undertones

9. Hold me ...... billy Fury

10. Proud mary ...... CCR


bit of a mix , but the 1st 10 of my classic's mix on my ipod

My punk/new wave top ten:


Into The Valley - The Skids

White Riot - The Clash

Ever Fallen in Love with Someone - The Buzzcocks

Perfect Cousin - The Undertones

Echo Beach - Martha and the Muffins

She's so Modern - Boomtown Rats

New Rose - The Damned

Message in a Bottle - The Police

Pump It Up - Elvis Costello

No More Heroes - The Stranglers

Alison - Elvis Costello

Bernadette - The Four Tops

Caroline - Status Quo

Deborah - Tyranossauras Rex

Elouise - Paul & Barry Ryan

Frankie - The Pointer Sisters

Gloria - Them

Honey - Bobby Goldsboro

Icarus - Kansas

Jessica - The Allman Brothers

Kath - The Bluebells

Luka - Suzanne Vega

Mona - The Beach Boys

Nadine - Chuck Berrry

Oliver - Harry Secombe

Polly - Nirvana

Quasimodo - Lifehouse

Rose - Mott The Hoople

Sara - Bob Dylan

Terry - Twinkle

Ulrich - The Sir Finks

Victoria - The Kinks

Wendy - The Beach Boys

Xavier - Brindle

Yvonne - The Saw Doctors

Zabadach - Dave Dee Dozey Beaky Mick & Titch


If anyone can help me out with a single word title that is a person's name for 'U' and 'X', I'd be enourmously grateful.

It's not my fault I spent too much time listening to Danny Baker this PM.


A big thank you to Jeremy for his help on this one. I owe you one.

What a very Smashy and Nicey thread you've started Brum.


And today's choice golden oldies for me are mostly poppy


Get it On - T-Rex

It's A Miracle/Miss Me Blind - Culture Club

Fast Love - George Michael (each to their own)

Broken Arrow - Robbie Robertson

Solitary Man - Neil Diamond

Let it Bleed - Stones

I Put A Spell on You - Roxy Music

Highway to Hell - AC-DC

Across 110th Street - Bobby Womack

She's Gone - Hall & Oates

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