ABC – The Lexicon of Love Live review

Martin Fry admits ABC knew exactly what they were doing when recording the Lexicon of Love in 1982. Speaking to … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #1 The Blue Nile – Tinseltown In The Rain

Released : 1984 It was never anything as obvious as an outright battle for Britain’s soul as a nation, but … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #2 The The – Uncertain Smile

Released : 1983 As a teenager, there weren’t many places where you felt you could escape in the early part … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #3 Prefab Sprout – Bonny

Released : 1985 To say the 1980’s was the decade of unconventional pop stars is the grossest of understatements. From … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #4 The Smiths – There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

Released : 1986 When The Smiths decamped to Jacobs Studio at Ridgeway House in Farnham, Surrey to complete The Queen … More

100 Greatest Songs Of The 80’s #5 The Stone Roses – I Am The Resurrection

Released : 1989 There are exceptions to every rule: Rather than buy into something they couldn’t own, The Stone Roses … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #7 Public Enemy – Fight The Power

Released : 1989 Four years after Fight The Power was released along with the package that was Spike Lee’s Do … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #8 Aztec Camera – Oblivious

Released : 1983 Was Roddy Frame, as the strapline of Glasgow’s Postcard label so often trumpeted, the sound of young … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #9 The Cure – A Forest

Released : 1980 Sometimes artists build a complex mythology around themselves – witness the vast hauntology universe assembled around Boards … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #10 Talking Heads – The Great Curve

Released : 1980 Time: an elusive, conceptual measure of existence, or resistance to, reality. To say Remain In Light, the … More