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Mittwoch, 19. Februar 2025

Singles Released This Week Years Ago

 


Another journey through releases of songs that made me fun listening again.

1970: Detroit rock and blues band Rare Earth released a cover version of Temptations hit Get Ready. Although the single is pretty good I prefer their long version.


1981: Vince Clarke prepared the sound of electronic pop music with Depeche Mode. I Just Can't Enough was the first of many upcoming melodic hymns.


1987: Prince released his best album for me with a statement of what was going on these days.


1991: REM release Losing My Religion, not their best song but the one that made them super stars.


1984: Bananarama was probably the first British girl band that brought us in the 80'sna lot of classic pop songs like this.


1980: Squeeze should be named if someone asks for a band formed in the post-punk days and later turned into pop-rock hymns.


1973: Bruce Springsteen released his debut and Blinded By The Light was one of his early highlights of the great storyteller.


1979: From the ashes of the latest pub-rock band The Motors Bram Tchaikovsky showed how great power-pop could be.


1979: It takes a lot of chutzpah to record cover versions of soul classics at a time when music was in upheaval. But the two comedians Aykroyd and Belushi did it very well.


1980: Atomic by Blondie is too good to remain unmentioned here.



Montag, 23. August 2021

Monday's Long Song

 


In the late 60's Detroit's Rare Earth were signed as one of the first white bands to Motown. They had a few chart positions during the 70's with a cover of The Temptations I Know I'm Losing You. But their legacy was their versions of Tobacco Road and Get Ready - probably one of the first real long songs in history and still a masterpiece in this genre

Rare Earth - Get Ready