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@fmf said
You're mistaken if you think I am interested in your shallow bonhomie. You strike me as a poster of adolescent fluff.
And here is your thread sinking into a bog of indifference.

Who knows how it may have flowered if you had responded more maturely on the Hall and Oates posts?

Ps Well done on your multitude 'you tube' links which, well, accrued zero interest

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Split Enz - True Colours



One of the first big gigs I went to. Not their best album. Preferred their art-rock of the mid-70s. But it was feelgood music.

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@FMF


Oh, God. I love Split Enz and, of course, Crowded House. I had 'Mental Notes' in my L.P collection from the mid 70s

Do whatever dismissive stuff you want with this post.

I love 1980 music, and am not asking you for a response!

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The Pretenders - Pretenders



I thought this came out in 1978 or 1979 but no.

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@divegeester

Ah, smashing

Maybe you can tell me (and everyone else) how your mate is equatting in any logical way these two albums and a Venn diagram

Thanks

(I have asked him already, but he has spat his dummy, and isn't talking to me)

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I have certainly come to appreciate it in later life now that music isn't tribal anymore like it was when I was a teenager. What appealed to that teenage me 40 years ago was the obliqueness and unconventionality of people like David Byrne and David Bowie rather than the paranoia and cynicism of Roger Waters.

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@divegeester

Ah. Thank the Lord for the gift of rapier wit

I see you (wisely) failed to engage with the 'Venn Diagram' thing from your chum

Good choice!

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@fmf said
The B-52's - Wild Planet

Their best album. Singing songs from this album to myself sustained me as I walked the Pennine Way in the Summer of 1980.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3bG0rxhdKc
Private Idaho

and

Quiche Lorraine

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Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

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@fmf said
Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv3iOVO0DWE
Yep

I have many happy memories of 'Geno''

No false bonhomie here, or any other sh I te

Just fond memories of the record

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Simple Minds - Empires and Dance



The single that I really liked, The American, was on Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call which cam out the following year.

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@FMF

Nope

Just hated them , Jim whatsit the singer, and all of their 'so U2' stuff

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U2 - Boy



The Jam - Sound Effects

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