SuggestiON-AIR - The best 80's release!
For this week's SuggestiON-AIR we're focusing on music from the 1980's - the rise of electronic instruments, hair metal and boys with eyeliner...it was a changing time in music.Ìý
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So what band or release epitomises the 1980's for you? Whether you were there to live it or looking back on this ancient time with young eyes. / or you can text 81771 after 8pm tonight. Here's team ATL's picks from the yearÌý1986...
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The Smiths – The Queen is Dead
Phily Taggart - ATL Presenter
Released six days after I was born The Smiths ‘The Queen is Dead’ is one of the most seminal indie albums in history. Track for track it is the strongest Smiths record and widely revered in many of the top albums ever lists. Johnny Marr’s dexterous guitar playing and Morrissey’s bombastically ostentatious lyrics set to the rock hard rhythm section of Joyce and O’Rourke simply formulates my favourite indie band ever.
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Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Amy McGarrigle - ATL ProducerÌý
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In the absence of ATL's usual producer, Paul McClean (Depeche Mode devotee), I thought I'd take up the mantel while he's gone and pick their 1986 album, 'Black Celebration'. An album I only listened to in full for the first time a few months ago,Ìýbut really does define the 1980's in the best possible way. I spent year's denying the whole decade any musical significance, blindly ignoring the genius pioneering musical releases on offer in favour of 90's grunge. Finally it all began to make sense, with The Cure being the entry point to my 80's love affair. Depeche Mode's 'Black Celebration' has since been dubbed one of the most influential albums of the 1980's, with its dark foreboding electronica.
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The Wedding Present -You Should Always Keep in Touch with Your Friends Ìý
This song was an anthem in my early teens and should be everybody’s introduction to The Wedding Present. It was released as a double A-side single along with 'This Boy Can Wait' in 1986. A bit of trivia for you.. some of the seven inches were originally mis-pressed and 'You Should Always Keep in Touch with Your Friends' appeared on both sides. I think there were around six hundred, one ended up in my record collection, one in John Peels, but most were dumped in a bin. I know John Peel had a copy, because he played it by mistake during 1986’s Festive Fifty instead of the flip side.. and didn’t even realise.
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