MUSIC - What are ASF members listening to?

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[Smurf1976]

Always thought they were kitschy but not as much as these Bananarama wannabees

I've always thought music's a strange business really. It's one where reality is often the opposite of what's perceived and where even the general public tends to re-write history.

As just one of many possible examples, what do Madonna, Def Leppard, Taylor Swift, Backstreet Boys and Eminem all have in common?

They've each sold more albums than Queen in the US market. They've also each sold more albums than Bon Jovi. Ouch.... Hope I haven't upset anyone too badly there......

(Above based on figures from a Google search so assume it's right).

Probably just as well nobody can throw rocks at me via the internet but point is perception and reality tend to be quite some way apart when it comes to what the public actually likes at the time it's current versus what's remembered years later. Kylie Minogue's Locomotion left Bon Jovi's Livin' on a Prayer for dead back in 1987 as per the official charts at the time but we all know which song still gets played in pubs and on rock stations a third of a century later and which one doesn't.

Back to Bananarama, well my musical tastes were always at the other end of the spectrum but I respected them for a pretty simple reason. They were everything the critics, of which there were an abundance, and for that matter much of the public thought they weren't.

They did it themselves, stuck their finger up at just about everything, wrote quite a bit of their own music and made it to number 1 without either nudity or high fashion. Bonus points for their early efforts with home made clothes, recording their first song in a language none of them speak a word of, leaving bloopers in videos long before doing so was fashionable and not taking themselves too seriously.

Always thought this was one of their better songs. Luckily for them though they stuck a cover of Venus on the same album to sell it since this song barely made the charts as a single.

 

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[Smurf1976]

Kylie Minogue's Locomotion left Bon Jovi's Livin' on a Prayer for dead back in 1987 as per the official charts at the time

To clarify - referring to Australia only here.

 

[Smurf1976]

For something a bit newer.....

 

[PZ99]

To clarify - referring to Australia only here.

Only in Australia
My GF was happy to remind me that Locomotion was number one.
I was even happier to remind her it sounded more like a number two

Still, here's one nice attempt to rewrite history... can't get her out of my bed

 

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