Singles Released This Week Years Ago

 

Another eclectic journey through decades of chart hits and long time not played songs for your pleasure.

1976: Stevie Wonder

1965: Crispian St. Peters

1976: Flamin Groovies

1982: The Kinks

1984: Tears For Fears

1964: The Righteous Brothers

1966: The Monkees

1975: Bob Dylan

1975: Blues Brothers

1980: The Clash

1978: The Records

Singles Released This Week Years Ago

 

Another week with charted singles, pop and rock songs from various decades for your pleasure

1983: Rolling Stones

1973: Billy Joel

1955: The Platters

1972: Thin Lizzy

1983: Simple Minds

1965: Fontella Bass

1970: Led Zeppelin

1971: T. Rex

1971: Cilla Black

1964: Them

1989: Tears For Fears and Oleta Adams

1989: Finbe Young Cannibals

1968: Dusty Springfield

1972: Carly Simon

1972: Lou Reed

Singles Released This Week Years Ago

 

This week's compilation consists mainly of releases from 1982. I can't say why, but perhaps it's simply because only good songs were released that week.

1967: Kaleidoscope

1987: Pink Floyd

1971: Chicago

1979: Sugerhill Gang

1982: George Thorogood 

1982: The Clash

1982: The Pretenders

1982: John Cougar 

1967: Bee Gees

1980: The Police

1963: Marvin Gaye

1982: Tears For Fears

1979: Chic

Singles Released This Week Years Ago

 

Another Wednesday and another journey through music history with songs that were famous at the time or that were simply part of my musical development.

1974: Golden Earring

1977: Boz Scaggs

1971: Carole King

1982: Africa Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force

1983: Tears For Fears

1965: Otis Redding

1969: Creedence Clearwater Revival - I prefer the version by The Blue Aeroplanes from 1995

1966: The Troggs

1967: Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

1970: Neil Young & Crazy Horse

1962: Dick Dale and the Deltones

Singles Released This Week Years Ago

 

Without further ado, here are some of the songs released this week.

1967: Jimi Hendrix

1967: Nancy & Frank Sinatra

1967: The Who

1977: The Clash

1985: Tears For Fears

1971: Richie Havens

1973: Jim Croce

1969: Simon and Garfunkel

1970: Guess Who

1977: Peter Gabriel

The Killing Moon

Echo and the Bunnymen released a new album a few days ago. IanMcCulloch transformed Bunnymen classics and new songs with strings and more piano. He said about this I'm not doing this for anyone else. I'm doing it as it's important to me to make the songs better. I have to do it.' So far so good. If anyone doesn't know the originals and listen to this songs for the first time he might say wow. But I always have a problem listening to my favourite songs in different version. The new arrangement works well on The Cutter and other songs. But the greatest surprise was the new arrangement of The Killing Moon. McCulloch transformed it into a piano ballad attached with reluctant strings. His voice is not as fresh as in former times but fits to this version very well. Listening to this song another version of a great song creeps in my brain: Garry Jules covering Tears For Fears Mad World. We might find this version (that grows the more I listen to it) probably on a soundtrack for an arty movie.
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