"Sunrise" should have got in. I think it's a much better song than BCV.

I agree

Good to see Pulp at least featuring in this list, but I'm not sure if that particular track would even feature in my own top 100. Great lyrics ('like an own brand box of cornflakes, he's gonna let you down my friend' - superb), but I could never stand the whiney tune - it's one of the very few Pulp tracks that I skip.

You're right. It seems to be something about cornflakes in particular that own brands don't quite get right. Most other own brand cereals are fine.

Apologies if this is going too far off-topic, however, is it my speciality.

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Bad Cover Version is great. Nice to see it in there.

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I was listening to We Love Life last night and it is a great song.  The funny thing about it is I always imagine the Band Aid version whilst listening to it, especially the McCartney,  MeatLoaf and Cher parts.  The Cher part possibly cos I was on a bad VOIP connection last night.     Thing is it makes me feel old.  I remember my young son (about 2) singing along with the video, and now we are looking for secondary schools for him....

I thought the last decade was quite a barren time for music until I realised that there were a number of good songs/acts in the last ten years.  I guess it lacked any focal point ala Britpop circa 1993-1996, but across the whole decade it has more merit than the 1980s.

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Bah! The 80's were a great decade for music.

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There were a few good moments at the start and at the end but the eighties in general was a pretty poor decade as far as the mainstream went.  I would guess that the major acts of the decade would have been U2, Spandau, Duran, Wham, Prince, Madonna & Michael Jackson, supplemented by a wide variety of other tossers.  I with Jarvis; I want a refund for being a teenager in the Eighties. It was truly shit.

http://www.acrylicafternoons.com/q110.html

"I resent the '80s, In all walks of life it was like, You've had your fun, let's get back to Victorian values. I'd been born in the '60s and you'd see stuff on telly about how great it was, and by the time it comes to your formative years where you're thinking, come on then, let's have a bit of that, it's all going in the opposite direction. That's why I've often said I want a refund on my adolescence."

 

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Fuss Free wrote:

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Bah! The 80's were a great decade for music.

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There were a few good moments at the start and at the end but the eighties in general was a pretty poor decade as far as the mainstream went.  I would guess that the major acts of the decade would have been U2, Spandau, Duran, Wham, Prince, Madonna & Michael Jackson, supplemented by a wide variety of other tossers.  I with Jarvis; I want a refund for being a teenager in the Eighties. It was truly shit.

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New Order? Blondie? Madchester? Hip Hop back when it was still fun? C86? 2 Tone? Electronic music? All those wonderful one-hits? Even the hair metal bands of the era had a certain undeniable charisma, silly though they might have been.

I would argue that every decent band of the 90's and 00's either started out in the 80s (Pulp) or were heavily inspired by the music of the 80s (erm... Pulp). I think, as decades go, the 80's are up there with the 60's for being quite revolutionary and innovative.

 

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bob_ferris wrote:

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dexys midnight runners and 80s bowie make the 80s great!

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I'll give you Dexys, but I never thought much of Bowie's 80's material... even though it was a the well-spring from which a thousand other 80's bands drank.

 

I also quite intentionally left off 'The Smiths' just to be controversial. And of course, there were all those John Hughes soundtracks, which were smashing.

Fuss Free wrote:

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ArrGee wrote:

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Fuss Free wrote:

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Bah! The 80's were a great decade for music.

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There were a few good moments at the start and at the end but the eighties in general was a pretty poor decade as far as the mainstream went.  I would guess that the major acts of the decade would have been U2, Spandau, Duran, Wham, Prince, Madonna & Michael Jackson, supplemented by a wide variety of other tossers.  I with Jarvis; I want a refund for being a teenager in the Eighties. It was truly shit.

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New Order? Blondie? Madchester? Hip Hop back when it was still fun? C86? 2 Tone? Electronic music? All those wonderful one-hits? Even the hair metal bands of the era had a certain undeniable charisma, silly though they might have been.

I would argue that every decent band of the 90's and 00's either started out in the 80s (Pulp) or were heavily inspired by the music of the 80s (erm... Pulp). I think, as decades go, the 80's are up there with the 60's for being quite revolutionary and innovative.

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Blondie - Did their best stuff in the 1970s and for me a 70s band.
Two Tone - So early in the eighties it was the seventies when it started (one of the good moments at the start along with Teardrop Explodes, who likewise sprouted in the seventies; To me, Julian Cope was the only truly great artist in the 1980s)
Madchester - So deep into the eighties it was the start of the nineties before it was acknowledged (one of the good moments at the end)
New Order - OK, you can have that one along with a few others.
Hip Hop - no
C86 - no
Electronic Music -no
The one hits - no

I would argue that Pulp are a band heavily influenced by the sixties and seventies.  The influences I hear (in my opinion) are Scott Walker, Leonard Cohen, Roxy Music, Barry White and Bowie.  I would even say that lyrically The Kinks and Elvis Costello would have had some influence on Pulp.  But I don't really see the influence of the 1980s.

 

SarahAWilson wrote:

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You forgot The Velvet Underground. Don't forget The Velvet Underground.

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Ah yes, I wonder if Gift records came from The Gift off White Light/White Heat.  Just a little more macabre than Inside Susan.  There are probably a multitude of other influences on Pulp.  I don't know if they ever discussed them, though given Nick Banks admiration of Queen and Jarvis' Brian May in Bad Cover Version I suppose they would be an influence as well (though damned If I can hear it anywhere).

 

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Ah yes, I wonder if Gift records came from The Gift off White Light/White Heat.  Just a little more macabre than Inside Susan.  There are probably a multitude of other influences on Pulp.  I don't know if they ever discussed them, though given Nick Banks admiration of Queen and Jarvis' Brian May in Bad Cover Version I suppose they would be an influence as well (though damned If I can hear it anywhere).

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"The Day After the Revolution" I've always thought was particularly Queen-ish, maybe Sylvia as well.