Got to give it up for Talk Talk, one of the best bands of the eighties. Sadly enough singer Mark Hollis completely quit the music business after he released one solo album, following the demise of Talk Talk.

Studio version with sleeve.
Live in 1986.

Living Colour’s timeless song Love Rears It's Ugly Head that didn’t lose any of its power. As in most Living Colour songs, I don’t care much about the soloing. At home we refer to that kind of guitar use as ‘vriepselen’ (phonetically pronounced like vreep-suh-luhn).

Original clip.

Paranoimia has to be one of the whackiest songs that became a hit… I remember watching this with open mouth thinking WTF?
Art Of Noise was one of the projects of the multi-talented Trevor Horn, of The Buggles and Yes fame.

Original clip featuring Max Headroom.
Original clip NOT featuring Max Headroom.
Art Of Noise live, met een citaat uit Monopoly…

Talk Talk to me was the best band in the otherwise musically very sad 1980s. It’s time to do them more justice on the 10k songs. It's My Life is one of the first songs I can remember being played on CD on a special radio show in the Netherlands called The CD Show.

Clip with nature shots and non-lipsyncing Mark Hollis.
Extended version with lipsyncing band.

Yesterday Malcolm McLaren. producer of e.g. Sex Pistols, Bow Wow Wow and Adam Ant, passed away.
Apart from producing he had a few hits himself. 3 years before Paul Simon released his South African fueled ablum Graceland, Malcolm recorded this song with Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens (which he didn’t give credit).

If you omit the babbling, this is a very nice song!

Original clip.

The previous post made me think of this Talking Heads song which was a big hit in Holland. Strangely enough I couldn’t find much info about it on the internet.
It’s been ages since I heard it on the radio, or since I saw the clip.

Original Talking Heads clip.

Song two in my German 80s pop music series.
Peter Schilling was a one hit wonder as far as I am concerned, scoring a big hit in the 1980s with Major Tom, but judging the wikipedia page on his person he’s done a lot more.

Live on some TV show.

I was on holiday, we went to Berlin for a few days. So let’s post some Neue Deutsche Welle hits, like this song by Düsseldorf band Rheingold.

Official clip.

You’d hardly believe it in hindsight, but even the eighties rocked, with The Cult as one of the epitomes of Rock. Love Removal Machine was linked to the Stones’ Start Me Up; personally I don’t hear that much of a resemblance. I think it sounds more like AC/DC than any other band (which in my book is a good thing).

Official and cheesy clip. The actual song only starts after 1 minute.
Live in 1987 at The Old Grey Whistle Test (now who came up with that name?)

Somehow this song popped up in my head today, including the trivia that XTC’s leadsinger Andy Partridge suffered from extreme stage fright; so much that the band ceased to exist because of it.
Don’t know if it’s true, I just remembered it that way. ANd even though I don’t have that song anywhere I know it by heart, and it played continuously in heavy rotation on Radio InsideMyBrain this day.

Contemporary clip can be savoured here.