friends "far and away", another great song!

Far far and away the best days
Of our life we still recall
Nothing to say anyway
All we used to do was

Fall in the waterfall
Float away and never care at all

Time time and again we would end
This affair that we’d begun
Only intend to be friends
All we used to do was

Run where the rivers run
Hide on the mountainside
Burn in the summer sun
Ride on the ebbing tide all right

Say what I should be saying
Feel what I could be feeling
Stay where I should be staying
Here when I could be far away

Up up and away, never stay
In a life of childhood games
Never betray yesterday
In another world I’m

Saving myself for you
Though I see you everywhere
However old it’s always new
However long I’ll still be there oh yeah

Years after the years we were here
We return each summertime
Shedding our fears and our tears
Fall like cherry blossom

We’ve come far from where we started
Seems like only yesterday
Feels as though we’d never parted
Only waiting till you say okay

Say what I should be saying
Feel what I could be feeling
Stay where I should be staying
Here when I could be far away

Say what I should be saying
Feel what I could be feeling
Stay where I should be staying
Here when I could be far away and away and away and away …

friends "this town" a great song

Run, run away
And never turn to look round
Each passing day
It could be years till we’re found

I don’t know what to say
Can’t explain it
Nothing here anyway
Nothing changes here

Wait for the train
The days are getting colder
Sleep in the rain
The nights are getting longer

I feel nothing at all
Only sorrow
I’ll go nowhere at all
Till tomorrow

Hard as I try
I’ll never leave this town and
Much as I cry
It only lets me down but
I’ll never find
A perfect heaven here but
Every year is a year I’m wasting here

Up in the air
Round and round and
Fall to the ground
Down and down and
Head in the clouds
Every sound is
Lost in the crowd
Never found but

Every beat of my heart
Brings me nearer
Every day we’re apart
Makes it clearer

Turn, turn around
Go back on every word and
Face to the ground
Pretend I never heard you

I can’t say how I feel
Empty inside
I can’t tell what is real
Nothing outside

Hard as I try
I’ll never leave this town and
Much as I cry
It only lets me down but
I’ll never find
A perfect heaven here but
Every year is a year I’m wasting
Every year is a year I’m wasting
Every year is a year I’m wasting here

culture club "colour by numbers" 1983

This classic pop album from one of the most colourful bands of the 80s makes a welcome return in a "remastered" format. Five additional tracks join the original 10 songs which made this album a massive success when first released in 1983.

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billy bragg "life's a riot with spy vs spy" 1983

Of all the albums I had on repeat as a teenager, Billy Bragg's Life's a Riot With Spy Vs Spy was, undoubtedly, the one. It was the record that first demonstrated to me just how powerful music could be. It set me off on a journey of musical discovery

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perry blake "perry blake" 1998

Perry Blake (born May 10, 1970) is an Irish singer and songwriter from Sligo, known for the delicate, downtempo, melancholic style of his songs and his soft singing voice. His 1998 self-titled debut album was very successful in the United Kingdom and won critical praise.

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jay-jay johanson "whiskey" 1996

This first album by an unknown Swede got 200% deserved critical acclaim when it was released here (France) a couple years ago, but I passed it by at the time while making a mental note to see what it's like if I got the occasion. Now I feel like someone who would have been offered Nokia shares ten years ago and wd have turned the offer down: cheated, gutted, angry for having lived all along without Jay Jay's soothing voice. It's such a strange and warm and delicate sound that comes from Johanson's emaciated body, with a bit of Scott Walker in it and undeniably clever arrangements: strings and beats and godknowswhat, that locate this album in time (it couldn't possibly have been there before Portishead and the other Bristol sound pioneers) but just fail to make it sound "dated". Jog alskar dig Jay Jay!

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imagination "in the heat of the night" 1982

I first heard of Imagination when their single "Just An Illusion" was being played on the radio during my freshman year. Imagination's falsetto based sound reminds me of the work of earlier groups like Blue Magic & The Delphonics, but definitely with that post disco early 80's synthesized feel. "Just An Illusion" (my favorite cut, also featured in the movie "F/X") has a laid back finger snapping danceable groove.

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kid creole & the coconuts "tropical gangsters" 1982

If in your lifetime you only heard a song or two by Kid Creole and The Coconuts, it would be of off this album - "Tropical Gangsters" was the commercial pinnacle of their career and produced the number of their biggest singles - rightfully so, I may add. Although Kid & The Coconuts had better albums - check out "Fresh Fruits in Foreign Places" or "Doppelganger"- and ocassional great moments later in career - "Don't Take My Coconuts," "The Lifeboat Party," "Endicott," "(Dancing at the) Baines Douches" - none of the later song collections summarized better what the band was all about.

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shalamar "friends" 1982

"BEAUTIFUL music by beautiful people" was SOLAR's (Sound of Los Angeles Records) bold motto. And nowhere was this declaration better displayed than on Shalamar's 1982 album. It was an album that sent Howard Hewett, Jeffrey Daniels and the beautiful Jody Watley into the Megastar stratosphere, and it made a lasting impression in the pop/R&B consciousness.

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yazoo "upstairs at eric's" 1982

Yaz appeared on the "New Wave" scene in 1982 with the hits "Situation", "Don't Go" and "Only You". Fronted by Vince Clark (ex-Depeche Mode) on synthesizers and an unknown female vocalist named Allison Moyet, Yaz (originally Yazoo) created catchy electro/pop. Yaz's debut album "Upstairs At Eric's" produced several huge club hits with "Situation" (here in it's entire "Club Mix" version), "Don't Go" and the moderately successful "Only You".

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the clash "combat rock" 1982

On the surface of things, Combat Rock appears to be a retreat from the sprawling stylistic explorations of London Calling and Sandinista! The pounding arena rock of "Should I Stay or Should I Go" makes the Clash sound like an arena rock band, and much of the album boasts a muscular, heavy sound courtesy of producer Glyn Johns.

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gnac "biscuit barrel fashion" 2001

'Biscuit Barrel Fashion' is wholly instrumental so lovelorn Durutti Column type-ballads give way to bizarre, nostalgic trips into murder mystery-type incidental music.

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days

we have all the time in the world

the sorry shop vídeo

The Sorry Shop é um projeto de música alternativa, que teve início em julho de 2011, quando as primeiras faixas apareceram por aí. Oficialmente, em agosto de 2011 foi lançado o EP "Thank You Come Again", com 5 faixas e uma pequena, mas satisfatória, parcela de visibilidade mundial. Na bagagem de influências podemos destacar bandas como Built to Spill, Pavement, Silver Jews, The Jesus and Mary Chain e Yuck. O videoclipe foi feito para contemplar o primeiro single - "Sometimes I'm Down", do novo álbum (com lançamento previsto para este primeiro semestre de 2012) da The Sorry Shop. O vídeo foi dirigido e produzido por Thiago Piccoli, produtor independente de eventos na região sul do Brasil e produtor de bandas como Wannabe Jalva.

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quigley "1969 till god knows when" 1998

Roger Patrick Martin Quigley (born 17 March 1969, Manchester, England) is a singer/songwriter and one-half of the indie pop duo known as The Montgolfier Brothers. He has released multiple recordings, including two LPs — 1969 Until God Knows When, and Quigley's Point. The latter effort was recorded under the At Swim Two Birds moniker, a name was inspired by At Swim-Two-Birds, a classic tome by Irish novelist Flann O'Brien.

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smokey robinson "being with you" 1981

Being with You is a 1981 album by Smokey Robinson. It's one of the few Smokey Robinson solo albums that have been released in the CD format. It features the Billboard Top 10 title track "Being with You", which just missed the #1 Pop position, peaking at #2, making it Robinson's highest-charting solo hit after leaving The Miracles. His first wife, fellow Miracles member Claudette Robinson, contributed background vocals to this album. This album has been Certified Gold by the RIAA.

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marvin gaye "in our lifetime" 1981

 Marvin Gayes in our lifetime, is perhaps his most underrated masterpiece ever, the album combines all the personas of Marvin, the party jam funk of I Want You, the thought provoking lyrics of Whats Going On, a great concept album like Here My Dear, In Our Lifetime, digs deeper into Marvins' psyche as he questions and tackles one of his own personal issues, religion and spirituality.

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japan "tin drum" 1981

 Japan should have been massive - they had all the right ingredients but reached their peak just as Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet et al were hogging the limelight. Tin Drum was their magnum opus - a veritable cornucopia of hook-laden oriental electro-pop.

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please fall in love

The New Lines - Please Fall in Love from The New Lines on Vimeo.

kid creole & the coconuts "fresh fruit in foreign places" 1981

 This is still fun stuff. And though it doesn't contain as big a hit as "Endicott" or "My Male Curiosity", it's every bit as lovable, dancable, groovable, skankable. Key tracks include "In The Jungle", "Animal Crackers", "I Stand Accused" (a witty little throw-away that spoofs weepy seventies soul ballads a-la "Coldest Days Of My Life"), "Musica Americana" (with its infamous "latino si, yanqui no" chorus), "I Am", "With A Girl Like Mimi" and "Table Manners".

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