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  • 1001 Songs Challenge,  1990s,  Music

    1001 Songs Challenge #733: Little Fluffy Clouds (1990)

    February 12, 2021 / No Comments

    Little Fluffy Clouds from The Orb is a mixture of samples and electronic beats.

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    1001 Songs Challenge #732: Bonita Applebum (1990)

    February 11, 2021 / No Comments

    Bonita Applebum refers to a young lady that the narrator is very much into. The name “applebum” is in reference to her impressive posterior.

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    1001 Songs Challenge #731: Energy Flash (1990)

    February 10, 2021 / No Comments

    Joey Beltram's techno piece Energy Flash is all about the sound with a handful of singing in there though the words are not easy to decipher.

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    1001 Songs Challenge #730: Birdhouse in Your Soul (1990)

    February 9, 2021 / No Comments

    Birdhouse in Your Soul is written from the perspective of a nightlight and what it observes and does for those around it.

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    1001 Songs Challenge #729: Iceblink Luck (1990)

    February 8, 2021 / No Comments

    Iceblink Luck is a hard track to unravel and indeed The Cocteau Twins are notorious for songs such as this one.

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    1001 Songs Challenge #728: Loaded (1990)

    February 7, 2021 / No Comments

    Primal Scream's Loaded is actually a remix of an earlier track by the group entitled - I’m Losing More Than I’ll Ever Have.

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  • 1001 Songs Challenge,  1980s,  Music

    1001 Songs Challenge #727: Painkiller (1990)

    February 6, 2021 / No Comments

    Judas Priest's Painkiller opens with a frenetic piece of drumming before heavy guitars and high-pitched vocals take charge.

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  • 1001 Songs Challenge,  1980s,  Music

    1001 Songs Challenge #726: Rhythm Nation (1989)

    February 5, 2021 / No Comments

    In Rhythm Nation, Jackson juxtaposed beats and rhythms to be found on music channels with unpleasant current affairs headlines.

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    1001 Songs Challenge #725: Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns (1989)

    February 4, 2021 / No Comments

    Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns is said to be about Andrew Wood’s relationship with his then girlfriend, Xana La Fuente.

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  • 1001 Songs Challenge,  1980s,  Music

    1001 Songs Challenge #724: Headlights on the Parade (1989)

    February 3, 2021 / No Comments

    The Blue Nile's Headlights on the Parade is heavily driven by a piano/keyboard that opens proceedings and continues for much of the track.

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    1001 Songs Challenge #723: Nothing Has Been Proved (1989)

    February 2, 2021 / No Comments

    Nothing Has Been Proved recreates aspects of the Profumo scandal with each verse describing a particular eyebrow raising moment.

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    1001 Songs Challenge #722: Back to Life (However Do You Want Me) (1989)

    February 1, 2021 / No Comments

    Back to Life… opens with the express wish to leave behind a fantasy realm two lovers inhabit and to return to the reality that is life.

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    1001 Songs Challenge #721: The Humpty Dance (1989)

    January 31, 2021 / No Comments

    The Humpty Dance is a silly but fun bit of hip hop, detracting from social commentary in favour of a humorous tale of a so-called ugly man’s sexual antics.

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    1001 Songs Challenge #720: Nothing Compares 2 U (1989)

    January 30, 2021 / No Comments

    Nothing Compares 2 U conveys the painful end of a relationship and how one of the people in this union is struggling to pick up the pieces.

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  • 1001 Songs Challenge,  1980s,  Music

    1001 Songs Challenge #719: Free Fallin’ (1989)

    January 29, 2021 / No Comments

    In Free Fallin’ Tom Petty teamed up with Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) to write a track that was a homage to San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles.lin by Tom Petty

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    1001 Songs Challenge #718: Lullaby (1989)

    January 28, 2021 / No Comments

    One popular interpretation of Lullaby is that it refers to bedtime stories Smith heard as a child of a spiderman that eats children alive.

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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,  1980s,  Music

    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,  1980s,  Music

    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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