Other Mixes By G-Sphere
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Blues - Classic Blues
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Blues - Classic Blues
Easy Skanking
| Artist | Song | |
| Roxy Music | Dance Away (Manifesto, 1979) | |
| Fleetwood Mac | Hold Me (Mirage, 1982) | |
| Jefferson Starship | Love Too Good (Earth, 1978) | |
| Steely Dan | Josie (Aja, 1977) | |
| David Bowie | Golden Years (Station To Station, 1976) | |
| The Rolling Stones | Miss You (Some Girls, 1978) | |
| Boz Scaggs | Lowdown (Silk Degrees, 1976) | |
| Hall & Oates | I Can't Go For That [No Can Do] (Private Eyes, 1981) | |
| Blondie | Heart Of Glass (Parallel Lines, 1978) | |
| Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark | Enola Gay (Organization, 1980) | |
| ABC | Poison Arrow (The Lexicon Of Love, 1982) | |
| Squeeze | Black Coffee In Bed (Sweets For A Stranger, 1982) | |
| Eurythmics | Here Comes The Rain Again (Touch, 1983) | |
| UB40 | Red Red Wine (Labour Of Love, 1983) | |
| Bob Marley & The Wailers | Easy Skanking (Kaya, 1978) | |
| Marvin Gaye | Sexual Healing (Midnight Love, 1982) | |
| Earth, Wind & Fire | Fantasy (All 'N All, 1977) | |
| Average White Band | Queen Of My Soul (Soul Searching, 1976) | |
| Bill Withers & Grover Washington, Jr. | Just The Two Of Us (Winelight, 1980) | |
Comment:
This is a snapshot of music played in the typical early 80s yuppie fern bar. Some of us might remember those places. Lots of brass and plants with DJs playing music that was trying to be post-disco, new wave cool but also not offending the yuppies. This mix is for a friend who haunted those places.
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Lots o' cool stuff here.
Boy howdy, does this bring back memories! What does this say about me?
Ok I haven't heard that Jefferson Starship track and I don't really like Eurythmics but the rest look really taste, a lot like my "white nigger mixes"
Excellent - I love 10 to 13 sequence particularly. And AWB follwing EW+F and ...in fact.. all of it!!
I've recently been lisening to a bit of Squeeze again Gifford and Tilbrook were (are?) excellent songwriters and pretty underated.
I've recently been lisening to a bit of Squeeze again Gifford and Tilbrook were (are?) excellent songwriters and pretty underated.
Lookin' sharp.
Great mix - Looking at these titles, remembering when they came out & doing the math is somewhat depressing - they're oldies now?
Dance Away is a great, great song.
Dance Away is a great, great song.
I love that you include the album and year.
Hah, I play Heart of Glass now. People still love it. (It sits nice against The Strokes' '12:51'.)
Some fun stuff - BUT I can't abide that Hall & Oates track. Still, quite the trek down amnesia lane.
Nice work. But, are you saying "Lowdown" is an oldie already? My how time flies.
Yikes! How I avoided those brass 'n' fern joints. Seeing this though makes me realize that the music wasn't half bad. I do recall those places would serve up a mighty helping of da Boss too.
Wow. I had a friend who waitressed at one of these joints. A bunch of us spent every weekend night there for a couple of months and this is pretty close to the set list as I remember it. The Marvin Gaye nails it. The waitress friend was a big Au Pairs fan too so it wasn't all gloss and slow dancing.
This is great! When I saw "Fantasy", I thought it might be the Aldo Nova tune.