Here's something to tide the Poppers over until Friday: an interview with Gary Davies from the Radio Times.
#TOTP #80sMusic
(No alt text, sorry, it's 100s of words in a magazine article)
#80smusic
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Hugh Masekela – Don’t Go Lose It Baby
https://amf.didiermary.fr/hugh-masekela-dont-go-lose-it-baby-hot-african-mix-1984/
The original version of “Don’t Go Lose It Baby”, here in a remixed version, comes from Masekela’s Techno-Bush album in 1984.
Hugh Masekala and the Medu Art Ensemble offer via their album Techno-Bush an Afro-futurist vision of South Africa. Protesting through sound and dance, after returning [...]
#80smusic #FullAlbum #Mbaqanga #Remixed #SouthAfrica #Electro
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola Gay (Official Music Video)
A glorious rabbit hole to fall down
SFX the music magazine that came on cassette tape
#retromedia #80smusic #totp
Working for the Weekend Warriors: Loverboy
Formed in Calgary in 1979, Loverboy defined early 80s Canadian rock with their high-energy sound, tight red leather pants, and signature headbands. With massive hits like 'Turn Me Loose' and the anthem 'Working for the Weekend,' they dominated Canadian radio and won six Juno Awards in 1982 alone—a record that stood for over 30 years. #Canada #Loverboy #80sMusic #ClassicRock 🇨🇦
Coming up next on the breakfast show here on Radio 1, it's The Cure and Love Cats.
#CatsOfMastodon #80sMusic #TOTP
Distinctive Blue - Original 80s Synth-Pop Instrumental
https://www.matrixsynth.com/2026/07/distinctive-blue-original-80s-synth-pop.html
#SynthPop #Music #80sMusic
Bhundu Boys – Jit Jive
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bhundu-boys-jit-jive/
The Bhundu Boys were a Zimbabwean band, founded in April 1980 by Rise Kagona et Biggie Tembo, that played a mixture of chimurenga music with American rock and roll, disco, country, and pop influences. Their style became known as jit (also known as jiti, jit-jive and the Harare beat).
The Zimbabwean group first flew into […]
#80smusic #Mixtape #Zimbabwe #OldAfricanMusic
🇧🇪 Front 242 "Rewind" – 1985
The EP captures the band's trademark balance of discipline and aggression, where minimalist arrangements generate maximum tension and momentum...
#front242 #ebm #industrial #electronicmusic #newbeat #techno #80smusic #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
Alpha Blondy – Brigadier Sabari
https://amf.didiermary.fr/alpha-blondy-brigadier-sabari/
2 classic Reggae tracks from Côte d’Ivoire… by Seydou Koné, better known by his stage name Alpha Blondy. Many of his songs are politically and socially motivated.
His first success was “Brigadier Sabari” from album Jah Glory! (1982) with The Natty Rebels, known for its satirical lyrics about police brutality. […]
#80smusic #CôteDIvoire #OldAfricanMusic
Found a page all about the history of the hexagonal-shaped electronic drum kits that were everywhere in the 1980s, and which I was musing about during #TOTP last night.
https://reverb.com/news/simmons-hexagonal-kit-and-the-dawn-of-e-drums
#80sMusic #drums #Simmons
#WhenTheSunComesUp
it's like a new commotion
and you say
nobody told you it would feel like this
#HashTagGames #Eurythmics #80smusic
Eurythmics - No fear, no hate, no pain ( no broken hearts )
Released today 39 years ago:
🇬🇧 Cabaret Voltaire "Don't Argue" – 1987
A sleek and uncompromising blend of electronic body music, industrial funk, and machine-driven dance grooves. The track replaces the band's early experimental noise with a sharper, club-oriented sound, without losing its sense of tension and unease...
#cabaretvoltaire #ebm #industrial #electronicmusic #synthpop #experimentalmusic #80smusic #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
40 years ago today, Run DMC, in collaboration with Aerosmith, released “Walk This Way” (1986). This song will be featured in an upcoming episode of our podcast. #80s #80smusic #RunDMC #Aerosmith #hiphop #oldschoolhiphop #hardrock
Lagos All Routes
https://amf.didiermary.fr/lagos-all-routes/
Lagos All Routes (Juju, Highlife, Apala and Fuji) is a compilation of Nigerian music from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s, often considered the ‘golden age’ of African popular music. In Nigerian pidgin English, ‘chop-up’ makes figurative reference to a bountiful feast.
‘Lagos All Routes’ refers to the fact that while the [...]
#60smusic #70smusic #80smusic #Fuji #Highlife #JùjúMusic #Nigeria #Remixed #OldAfricanMusic
True Blue turns 40 this year and it still holds up like nothing else.
From the raw emotion of Live to Tell to the fearless boldness of Papa Don't Preach, Madonna gave us an album that was ahead of its time and still sounds like a pop masterpiece today.
Our full 40th anniversary episode drops tomorrow on It's The Groove Podcast. Follow so you don't miss it. https://lnk.bio/itsthegroovepodcast
What's your favorite track from True Blue?
#Madonna #music #MusicPodcast #80sMusic #ItsTheGroovePodcast
Zig Zag Band, Chigiyo
https://amf.didiermary.fr/zig-zag-band-chigiyo/
Zig Zag Band, a band from Kwekwe in Zimbabwe, fused traditional Zimbabwean rhythms with reggae to produce a hybrid genre they called “Chigiyo,” based on a traditional dance from Chimanimani, in East Zimbabwe. This was one of their biggest hits: “Makatukura” is a protest track against the rich and their corrupt accumulation of wealth. […]
#80smusic #Zimbabwe #Reggae
40 years ago today, Madonna released her third studio album, True Blue (1986). #80s #80smusic #Madonna #ladiesofthe80s
Well here's a little music fact I only just learned. In 1989, the kids' "must watch" Saturday morning BBC TV programme Multi Coloured Swap Shop banned Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark's song Enola Gay because they thought that "gay" in the title was a reference to homosexuality.
#OMD #TOTP #80sMusic
Of all the Duran Duran stuff that's been posted and linked over the years, I don't think anything hits me harder than The Chauffeur. It hits me harder than anything else they did. And it's such a perfect endpoint to the album it's on.
#duranduran #80smusic #newwave