Ep 33 Dec 81 Bucks Fizz, Status Quo, Duran Duran, Sheena Easton, Dramatis, Madness, Human League
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This episode will transport you back to the land of make believe (or the 80s, same difference) as we hit December 1981. In playlist 33 we get a Christmas Number one which the band didnt even want to release but which becomes one of the legendary songs of the decade. Duran Duran fill time between their debut album and Rio with a disco throwback, Status Quo get all misty eyed about rock and roll and Madness write cover a love song which by 1994 has me crooning outside a balcony at 3am. Yes folks, playlist 33 is a monster, give it a listen now! Links to playlist 33: Spotify Apple Music In case the playlist hyperlinks don't work on your podcast platform of choice, the songs are: 1. Bucks Fizz - Land of Make Believe 2. Status Quo - Rock n Roll 3. Duran Duran - My Own Way 4. Sheena Easton - You Could Have Been With Me 5. Dramatis & Gary Numan - Love Needs No Disguise 6. Madness - It Must Be Love 7. The Human League - Don't You Want Me
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Welcome to 1983 and year 4 of our quest! Playlist 53 starts with Wham! celebrating unemployment, we travel the high and low roads with Runrig and meet Billy Griffin. Joe Jackson takes us for a night on the town before the Stranglers get all Parisian. Men at Work have an iconic 80s moment and we pop and lock our way to the end of the show courtesy of Grandmaster Flash.
Merrrrry retro Christmas and a Happy 1983! And we have some gifts as we finish playlist 52 with some magic tricks and a blue story! Then we're into the celebrations proper as we reflect back on the year that was 1982, hand out some awards and then look forward to all the treats 1983 has in store! Please help fund the show and get roasted on the next episode: https://buymeacoffee.com/80smixtaper Check out the new Youtube Channel where we review music videos covered in the pod: https://www.youtube.com/@The80sMixtaper Get in contact with the show: [email protected] Links to Playlist 52: Spotify Apple Music
It's the last playlist of 1982 and (almost) the last episode of that year as we jump onto playlist 52. The Maisonettes take us down Heartache Avenue, we get two Christmas singles, Fleetwood Mac make their welcome return after 3 years, Dionne Warwick signs off, Laura Branigan signs the Stanley Cup and John Williams shows us how movie music should be done - Elllliiiottt! Please help fund the show and get roasted on the next episode: https://buymeacoffee.com/80smixtaper Check out the new Youtube Channel where we review music videos covered in the pod: https://www.youtube.com/@The80sMixtaper Get in contact with the show: [email protected] Links to Playlist 52: Spotify Apple Music
We start with The Beat and end with a Beat Surrender this week as we roll into December 1982 and the end of The Jam. Cliff Richard also limbers up for a run of Christmas Hits, we learn why we all briefly got fascinated by the pan pipes, Phil Collins goes Motown and goes massive and Malcolm McLaren goes from agent provocateur to artiste provocateur!
It's almost December 1982 and as we open our advent calendar who do we find behind the cardboard doors? (it's the 80s, so no milk chocolate) Bing Crosby and David Bowie! We also introduce the Pale Fountains for one brief dalliance and bathe in the creative majesty of The The. Bucks Fizz get hot and bothered in the kitchen, Culture Club can't stop dropping hits, Madness win an Ivor Novello and Ultravox enter a Faustian pact! It's quite the episode. Please help fund the show and get roasted on the next episode: https://buymeacoffee.com/80smixtaper Check out the new Youtube Channel where we review music videos covered in the pod: https://www.youtube.com/@The80sMixtaper Get in contact with the show: [email protected] Links to Playlist 51: Spotify Apple Music