nlgbbbblth CD 12.18: Don't Make It Work. Our Failed Pop 1980 - 1987 (1 Viewer)

[nlgbbbblth]

01 Garda Patrol - The Statistics Keep Growing
02 The Atrix - Treasure On The Wasteland
03 The Fountainhead - The Rhythm Method
04 TV Gaga - Interlude
05 Microdisney - Helicopter Of The Holy Ghost
06 Those Nervous Animals - The Business Enterprise
07 Disaffected Youth - Look At The Charts
08 Les Enfants - Slipaway
09 Minor Detail - Canvas Of Life
10 Josephine Maxi - Wagtails In O'Connell Street
11 Auto Da Fé - November November
12 In Tua Nua - Coming Thru'
13 Complete Spanner - Individual Sound
14 Blue In Heaven - Across My Heart
15 Tuesday Blue - Tunnel Vision
16 Liam Mackey vs Anonymous - Telephone Thing
17 Light A Big Fire - Mr Twilight
18 The Blades - Ghost Of A Chance
19 Nothing To It - Emigration Interrogation
20 Brush Shiels - Old Pal

Get it from here. Photo from Barefoot to Dublin blog.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

fuck's sake. Why did it come out like that and why can't I correct it?

 

[ann post]

its been doing that.

 

[CinnamonBoy]

Nice one, niggledy bits, really enjoying this (as usual). Only familiar with the Atrix, Microdisney and Blades tracks so the rest is all new to me. I really like that Those Nervous Animals track.

 

[jonah]

Wonderful, going to listen to this on the way to work tomorrow.

 

[CinnamonBoy]

Yeah, this is a cracker alright. The Brush Shiels track is probably my favourite(!)

 

[rettucs]

Yeah, this is a cracker alright. The Brush Shiels track is probably my favourite(!)

I wonder where he got that from!! nice one niggles. I was a big fan of the late 80s failed pop music scene. Cry Before Dawn and The Fountainhead would have been my favourite bands of that time (plus, (whisper it), 12 year old me was also a big fan of the first Aslan album). Question for you (a little on the obscure side I know) - in 1987 2fm ran a song contest. The winners would each win a support slot for Chris de Burgh gigs in the RDS. I won tickets for one on Barry Lang's Hotline so went. The support band that night were called Flex in/and the Fast Weather. They had 1 song that got some airplay at the time and I thought it pretty good. The only lyrics I recall from it are something like, 'stop, waiting in the rain, have you heard that, shes back again'. Anyhow, the question is - do you know it? Can you recall the name of the song or, god forbid, would you have a copy of it? I'll download this one later. You could actually do several volumes of these types of acts. Probably an entire volume comprised of bands that Kieran Kennedy was in!

 

[Jerry Twig]

I really like that Those Nervous Animals track.

I wonder what his friend John is up to these days.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Bit later buh:

http://www.euscreen.eu/play.html?id=EUS_0E1E1672FDF743B388D834713EA8B107

 

[Goodbye]

Bit later buh:

http://www.euscreen.eu/play.html?id=EUS_0E1E1672FDF743B388D834713EA8B107

NO SOCKS!!!! Thats like totally in my face, like totally contemp and edgy!

 

[europhile]

I wonder what his friend John is up to these days.

I believe he has a business enterprise.

 

[Jerry Twig]

Recession proof?

 

[rettucs]

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come on people. I fully believe niggly put loads of thought into that title. It needs appreciation

 

[rettucs]

oh go on then

 

[rettucs]

I still have that listing in my own handwriting, as copied from the Southside people in May 1986

 

[Jerry Twig]

15 minute sets?
No messin there

 

[rettucs]

15 minute sets?
No messin there

it was 14 minutes too long in most cases

 

[CinnamonBoy]

15 minute sets?
No messin there

That's insane. You get Van, Rory and Elvis (presumably) playing your show for nuttin and you give them the same set length as Chris de Burgh and Stockton's Wing...!

 

[rettucs]

the boomtown rats last ever gig too

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

come on people. I fully believe niggly put loads of thought into that title. It needs appreciation

Didn't Bono have a crack at InDublin magazine during Bad or whatever endless song they closed with?
They'd ran some story called "Let's Make It Worse" much to Herr Bono's annoyance.
Maybe it was during Maggie's Farm.

My abiding memory of the night is Bono sharing a flagon with a bunch of heads outside that couldn't get in, thereby copper-fastening his man-of-the-people street credentials forever.


Did Freddie White really get just 5 minutes?