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  • 1001 Songs Challenge,  1980s,  Music

    1001 Songs Challenge #717: Can’t Be Sure (1989)

    January 27, 2021 / No Comments

    The Sundays' Can't Be Sure generalises the concept of desire and the narrator describes it as being a “terrible thing.”

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    1001 Songs Challenge #716: Monkey Gone to Heaven (1989)

    January 26, 2021 / No Comments

    Pixies' Monkey Gone to Heaven deals with environmental issues and is a testament to the damage mankind has done to the planet.

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    1001 Songs Challenge #715: Getting Away With It (1989)

    January 25, 2021 / No Comments

    I did read that Getting Away With It is partly a parody of Morrissey from his days in The Smiths and the image he projected to his audience.

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    1001 Songs Challenge #714: W.F.L. (Think about the Future) (1989)

    January 24, 2021 / No Comments

    W.F.L. is not the most straightforward song to unravel but it does seem to concern a relationship that has changed or broken down.

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    1001 Songs Challenge #713: Like a Prayer (1989)

    January 23, 2021 / No Comments

    Like a Prayer harks back to Madonna’s own upbringing. She has stated in interviews that being raised as a Catholic led to a lifelong impact.

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    1001 Songs Challenge #712: Epic (1989)

    January 22, 2021 / No Comments

    Faith No More's Epic describes a narrator who is in the midst of an experience, one that is leaving them feeling very good indeed.

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    1001 Songs Challenge #711: Me Myself and I (1989)

    January 21, 2021 / No Comments

    In Me Myself & I each of the members of De La Soul take it in turns to express their frustration at being labelled by their contemporaries as hippies.

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    1001 Songs Challenge #710: I Am the Resurrection (1989)

    January 20, 2021 / No Comments

    I Am the Resurrection seems concerned not with a love of religion but with a breaking of the bond between mankind and faith.

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    1001 Songs Challenge #709: Soy gitano (1989)

    January 19, 2021 / No Comments

    In the chorus of Soy gitano we hear that he is gatecrashing a wedding and is going to make a spectacle of himself and declare his feelings.

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    1001 Songs Challenge #708: Personal Jesus (1989)

    January 18, 2021 / No Comments

    Songwriter Martin Gore took inspiration and indeed the song title from Priscilla Presley who once referred to her husband, Elvis Presley, as her own “personal Jesus”.

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    1001 Songs Challenge #707: Wicked Game (1989)

    January 17, 2021 / No Comments

    Chris Isaak himself said Wicked Game was inspired by a late night call from a girl who wanted to come over and “talk” with him.

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    1001 Songs Challenge #706: A Little Respect (1988)

    January 16, 2021 / No Comments

    A Little Respect is another of Erasure’s gems and in this period they were regularly flirting with the UK Top 10.

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    1001 Songs Challenge #705: Love Shack (1988)

    January 15, 2021 / No Comments

    Love Shack referred to a real place in Athens, Georgia and was a cabin where singer, Kate Pierson, once lived and apparently it burned down in 2004.

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    1001 Songs Challenge #704: Ale Brider (1988)

    January 14, 2021 / No Comments

    Ale Brider has an upbeat and passionate feel to it throughout, a sense of warmth and comfort that you only get in a friendly community. 

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    1001 Songs Challenge #703: Ederlezi (1988)

    January 13, 2021 / No Comments

    Ederlezi is made up of what sounds like a child singing the main verses with an additional choir coming in to support on the choruses.

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    1001 Songs Challenge #702: The Mercy Seat (1988)

    January 12, 2021 / No Comments

    The Mercy Seat has a dual meaning in the song, being on one hand the gold lid from the Ark of the Covenant but also an electric chair.

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    1001 Songs Challenge #701: One (1988)

    January 11, 2021 / No Comments

    Metallica's One took its inspiration from the novel, Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo, 1939), adapted into an anti-war movie in 1971.

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    1001 Songs Challenge #700: Orinoco Flow (1988)

    January 10, 2021 / No Comments

    Orinoco Flow is an enchanting piece with Enya singing of sailing away and describing a series of shores and locations around the globe.

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  • 1001 Songs Challenge,  1980s,  Music

    1001 Songs Challenge #699: Everyday Is Like Sunday (1988)

    January 9, 2021 / No Comments

    Everyday Is Like Sunday sees Morrissey singing about being in a gloomy coastal town and it really has him down.

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  • 1001 Songs Challenge,  1980s,  Music

    1001 Songs Challenge #698: Opel (1988)

    January 8, 2021 / No Comments

    Opel is a long track driven heavily by guitar and Syd Barrett’s often distant voice. It feels like there are instruments absent here.

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