Greatest Number One Singles

[farmerinthecity]

I think Don’t You Want Me Baby is an utter classic.

[Cheasty]

@farmerinthecity

I think Don’t You Want Me Baby is an utter classic.

It sounds like a five year old banging a Casio keyboard.

There are so many better examples of synth pop from 1981 alone.

Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes being top of the list. It unmistakably defined a year and a time yet to this day still sounds cutting edge. But it only reached number 10.

Don’t You Want Me Baby unmistakably defined a time and a place but has dated terribly, because it was never great in the first place.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Yeah. It’s a classic.

[farmerinthecity]

@Cheasty

It sounds like a five year old banging a Casio keyboard.

I’d love to see you trying to copy that riff.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@farmerinthecity

I think Don’t You Want Me Baby is an utter classic.

I prefer Love Action by the Human League.

[artfoley]

@Cheasty

Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes being top of the list. It unmistakably defined a year and a time yet to this day still sounds cutting edge. But it only reached number 10.

they year it was first written and performed: 1975?

[balbec]

It’s all a matter of taste. I think Betty Davis Eyes is an awful dirge but each to their own.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@balbec

It’s all a matter of taste. I think Betty Davis Eyes is an awful dirge but each to their own.

I prefer Dickie Davies Eyes by Half Man Half Biscuit.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Cheasty

@farmerinthecity

I think Don’t You Want Me Baby is an utter classic.

It sounds like a five year old banging a Casio keyboard.

There are so many better examples of synth pop from 1981 alone.

Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes being top of the list. It unmistakably defined a year and a time yet to this day still sounds cutting edge. But it only reached number 10.

Don’t You Want Me Baby unmistakably defined a time and a place but has dated terribly, because it was never great in the first place.

To close a circle here. Jackie de Shannon who wrote Bette Davis Eyes dated Love guitarist Bryan McLean referenced in farmers post below.

Greatest Number One Singles

Maria’s half brother Bryan McLean is responsible for writing one of the greatest songs of all time - Love’s Alone Again Or.

[Cheasty]

@artfoley

they year it was first written and performed: 1975?

Yes and the original version is almost unrecognisable from the Kim Carnes version.

Two of the definitive songs of 1990 are Nothing Comes 2 U by Sinead O’Connor and Step On by The Happy Mondays. They were originally released by Prince’s band The Family in 1985 and John Kongos in 1971 respectively.

Kim Carnes’ version of Bette Davis Eyes was released in March 1981.

[flattythehurdler]

I want that man blondie, penned by the Thompson twins is a banger.
Surprised Another Brick in the wall hasn’t been mentioned. Seminal video.

[Cheasty]

@balbec

It’s all a matter of taste. I think Betty Davis Eyes is an awful dirge but each to their own.

I’d consider it one of the key cornerstones on which 1980s electro pop was built, rarely if ever bettered. A pure blues voice mixed with groundbreaking synth sound and drum beats. It’s definitely a key signpost on the road between Kraftwerk-New Order-Madonna-Jam and Lewis-Janet Jackson-Chicago House-Detroit Techno.

Also it’s a fucking belter of a song which is the only thing that matters.

[Cheasty]

@flattythehurdler

I want that man blondie, penned by the Thompson twins is a banger.
Surprised Another Brick in the wall hasn’t been mentioned. Seminal video.

Another Brick In The Wall is a seminal* song.

But I wouldn’t want to listen to it ten times in a row. That’s the acid test of whether a song is genuinely great or not - if you listen to a song once and then half an hour or forty minutes later you mentally wake up and realise you’ve just listened to it ten times in a row.

*Seminal is a word that is only used in wanky music discussion, like revellers is only used about pubgoers pre-Christmas.

[flattythehurdler]

This is a wanky music discussion

[Cheasty]

@flattythehurdler

This is a wanky music discussion

Self consciously and unapologetically so.

[balbec]

Tubeway Army 'Are Friends Electric' TOTP (1979)

[StoneCold]

@Cheasty

Another Brick In The Wall is a seminal* song.

Pity about the wanker that wrote it

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Cheasty

@farmerinthecity

I think Don’t You Want Me Baby is an utter classic.

It sounds like a five year old banging a Casio keyboard.

There are so many better examples of synth pop from 1981 alone.

Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes being top of the list. It unmistakably defined a year and a time yet to this day still sounds cutting edge. But it only reached number 10.

Don’t You Want Me Baby unmistakably defined a time and a place but has dated terribly, because it was never great in the first place.

In a coffee shop here in Blackrock SoCoDu here and the staff are discussing this song which is playing in the background and they have come to the conclusion that it has aged very badly.

[StoneCold]

@Fagan_ODowd

In a coffee shop here in Blackrock SoCoDu

Any GAA Celeb spots to report?

[farmerinthecity]

It’s well for you to be out supping coffee of a Wednesday morning.