So, last post, my drive failed but i did some research and seems there's a trick to get a SSD drive (my hard drive, kinda) working again..
You turn your computer on and leave it sit in BIOS for 30mins then, shut down and repeat and ...It Works.. My SSD drive now shows up again... only slower than before but its better than nothing..
I now can back up all my work..
Still got to replace the drive but al least its something...
Yay...
To the people who donated towards this, through the "Shout me a Coffee Fund" a HUGE "Thank You".. It has helped heaps..
Hi, just a quick note to let you guys / gals know that Monday Night 80s is Live from Georgia, U.S at 7PM U.S time
Australians can tune in on Tuesday morning at 9am
If you ever get the chance to see Icehouse, Live in Concert, I would Highly Recommend it...
For those (Like Me), who cant make it to concerts anymore, Icehouse has made available in 1080p HD...
Celebrating 40 years in the music industry, this concert was filmed at the Roche Estate in 2017...
Sit Back, Turn the Video up to 1080p (if your internet allows) and put on your best headphones and 'Turn it Up'...
PURE MAGIC
#Icehouse
PLAY LIST
Icehouse
Mr Big
Hey Little Girl
Crazy
No Promises
Electric Blue
Touch The Fire
Fatman
Don't Believe Anymore
The Kingdom
Man Of Colours
Miss Divine
Great Southern Land
Get It On
We Can Get Together
Can't Help Myself
Nothing Too Serious
Street Cafe
Hello and Welcome Back... An excellent album given the Remastered Treatment "Exclusive to Electronic80s"
Originally released in 1988 by German singer 'Sandra'
Into a Secret Land released 4 singles including 'Secret Land'(#7 Gemany), 'We'll Be Together' (#9 Germany), 'Heaven can Wait' (#4 Austria) & 'Around my Heart' (#11 Germany)
This release by Nex-Gen Remasters has the original album and 6 bonus tracks added...
TRACK-LIST
01. Secret Land
02. We'll Be Together
03. Heaven Can Wait
04. Just Like Diamonds
05. Around My Heart
06. Crazy Juliet
07. La Vista De Luna
08. Celebrate Your Life
09. Children Of England
10. Secret Land (Reverse Mix) (Bonus Track)
11. Heaven Can Wait (U.S Remix) (Bonus Track)
12. Secret Land (12 Extended) (Bonus Track)
13. We'll Be Together (12 Extended) (Bonus Track)
14. Heaven Can Wait (12 Extended) (Bonus Track)
15. Around my Heart (12 Extended) (Bonus Track)
Hello and Welcome Back... Rock On Dude's & Dudette's
Released in 1990, 'HOT METAL' was a Various Artist , Australian
Compilation available on Vinyl Record, CD & Audio Tape thru CBS Records
This album was also given away with Hot Metal Magazine circ 1990
This version is CD Quality, nearly all songs are from various CDs, Remastered / Auto-leveled so it sounds 'Heavy Man'
The only difference will be some songs are 'Album' versions and not
'radio' versions.
Radio versions were shorter to make them fit on the
album.
Also Note, older albums sometimes have Vinyl
mastered singles to CD on rare occasions, It was how the record
company's brought out some CDs.
TRACK LIST
01 Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
02 Ozzy Osbourne - Miracle Man
03 Circus Of Power - Call Of The Wild
04 Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly
05 L.A. Guns - Sex Action
06 BB Steal - I Believe
07 Ratt - Way Cool Jr.
08 Mötley Crüe - Girls, Girls, Girls
09 Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine
10 Cinderella - Don't Know What You've Got Till It's Gone
11 House Of Lords - I Wanna Be Loved
12 Britny Fox - Girlschool
13 Mortal Sin - Mayhemic Destruction
14 Yngwie Malmsteen - Heaven Tonight
15 Aerosmith - Rag Doll
16 Poison - Fallen Angel
*** ENJOYING THE MUSIC ????? ***
My Soundcard (The thing that makes these albums possible) is on its Last Legs
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Hello and Welcome Back... Led Zeppelin meets Phil Collins, Toto & Barclay James Harvest
Released in 1985, 'Stairway to Heaven' by U.K band Far Corporation was a rework of the famous track by Led Zepplin but with a twist...
Halfway into the 9min song, Drums suddenly become very 'Phil Collins' sounding, 'Big' is probably the word i would use, meanwhile members of Toto & Barclay Jame Harvest fill the rest with various Guitars, Synths, Angelic Voices and Vocals that sound Realllly Goood...
The man behind the sound is Frank Farian (Boney M, Milli Vanilli)
This track has a real huge stadium sound and sounds amazing on a good set of headphones
Stairway to Heaven was track one on the album 'Division One'
Far Corporation was a shorten version of 'Frank Farian Corporation'
Just wanted to wish listeners / readers of this awesome site a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year..
Hope you enjoyed the music.
I Also want to specially thank everyone who has donated to this site using the "Shout me a Coffee" button on this page, without you guys, i wouldn't be a able to buy the storage space needed to run this site....
so a huge...
On a Personal note..We are still surrounded by fire. Its calmed down at the moment.
The Northerly winds that were predicted, that i wrote about on the last post came late, so just as it was taking hold, the southerly kicked in...Sadly that fire has consumed the towns of Bilpin (about 1hour north of me) and Lithgow (about 2 hours west of me)... Each day, i check on the map and each day it edges closer..
Fingers crossed it rains and the firies can get a hold of it...
Hello and Welcome Back... A Lost Tape has been revived.
A few posts back, I was writing about some Tapes and Discs i had found while looking for a album Cover... This is one of the Tapes
I made this Mixtape in the early 90s.
For me, the early 90s was a difficult / fun / scary / sad time.
My Grandfather had a series of heart attacks.
I left home for the first time and moved in with my then girlfriend.
Her name was Jodie Horne. She was a fun, exciting, gorgeous girl and i often asked myself "whats she doing with a guy like me"?..
It was around this time Roxette released their album 'Joyride' and for me, life was a joyride for a while.
Sadly it ended with said girlfriend, a mix of self doubt & trust issues. We were together for nearly 1.5 years?
After splitting with said girlfriend, i was living in my car for a while and moved once again, closer to where i was working at the time.
Found a awesome granny flat to live in..
Grandfather passed away..
As i sat in my car one afternoon, listening to this tape, tears streaming down my face, thinking how I lost my girlfriend, my Grandfather & my Family (they didn't want to talk to me at the time), I wondered what was to become of my life...
I then asked a friend to move into said granny-flat. She was to become my future wife.
Things Will Never Be The Same....
Remastering this album was difficult to say the least, not only the memories of that period in time but the recent passing of lead singer "Marie Fredriksson"..
There were a few tears shed..
Moving on....
TRACK-LIST
01. Things Will Never Be The Same (From the album 'Joyride')
02. I Could Never Give You Up (From the album 'Look Sharp')
03. Goodbye To You (From the album 'Pearls of Passion')
04. Chances (From the album 'Look Sharp')
05. The Look (From the album 'Look Sharp')
06. Dressed For Success (From the album 'Look Sharp')
07. Do You Get Excited (From the album 'Joyride')
08. Sleeping Single (From the album 'Look Sharp')
09. Dance Away (From the album 'Look Sharp')
10. The Big L (From the album 'Joyride')
11. Paint (From the album 'Look Sharp')
12. Fading like a Flower (From the album 'Joyride')
13. Soul Deep (From the album 'Pearls of Passion')
14. Listen To Your Heart (From the album 'Joyride')
15. Spending My Time (From the album 'Joyride')
Sadly the song 'It Must of been Love' was not added due to time constraints of the tape and i was sick of hearing this song on radio all the time, stunning track but it was flogged so much.
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Released in 1985, 'Welcome to the Real World' was the second album set free from U.S band "Mr Mister"
It hit the #1 spot soon after (U.S Billboard Charts). #6 U.K & #19 Australia
The album contains 2 massive hits, those being 'Broken Wings' & 'Kyrie' which also kissed the #1 spot on the U.S singles charts. The other single, 'Is It Love' made it to #8 in the U.S
The album on offer is the 2015 Collectors Edition / Remaster from Rock Candy Records and has 6 Bonus Tracks added.
TRACK-LIST
01 Black/White
02 Uniform Of Youth
03 Don't Slow Down
04 Run To Her
05 Into My Own Hands
06 Is It Love
07 Kyrie
08 Broken Wings
09 Tangent Tears
10 Welcome To The Real World
BONUS TRACKS
11 Kyrie (Extended Version)
12 Broken Wings (Live)
13 Uniform Of Youth (Live)
14 Is It Love (Dance Mix)
15 Is It Love (Dub Mix)
16 Broken Wings (Extended Version)
Not very electronic but this track reminds me a little, of the band 'U.K Squeeze'... Very crafty lyrics that tell an actual story.
The Kinks (also a U.K Band) released this song back in 1982 and was from the 1983 album 'State of Confusion'
The song was inspired by memories of the singers older sister, Rene, who
died of a heart attack while dancing at a dance hall.
The lyrics, sung
from the perspective of an "East End barrow boy," are about the boy's sister going on dates at a local Palais dance hall.
Take a Listen
THE KINKS - COME DANCING (1982) (Original Video)
TOP OF THE POPS VERSION
LYRICS (Go on, sing along :))
They put a parking lot on a piece of land
When the supermarket used to stand
Before that they put up a bowling alley
On the site that used to be the local pally
That's where the big bands used to come and play
My sister went there on a Saturday
Come dancing
All her boyfriends used to come and call
Why not come dancing, it's only natural?
Another Saturday, another date
She would be ready but she's always make them wait
In the hallway, in anticipation
He didn't know the night would end up in frustration
He'd end up blowing all his wages for the week
All for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek
Come dancing
That's how they did it when I was just a kid
And when they said come dancing
My sister always did
My sister should have come in a midnight
And my mom would always sit up and wait
It always ended up in a big row
When my sister used to get home late
Out of my window I can see them in the moonlight
Two silhouettes saying goodnight by the garden gate
The day they knocked down the pally
My sister stood and cried
The day they knocked down the pally
Part of my childhood died, just died
Now I'm grown up and playing in a band
And there's a car park where the pally used to stand
My sister's married and she lives on an estate
Her daughters go out, now it's her turn to wait
She knows they get away with things she never could
But if I asked her I wonder if she would
Come dancing
Come on sister, have yourself a ball
Don't be afraid to come dancing
It's only natural
Come dancing
Just like the pally on a Saturday
And all her friends will come dancing
Where the big bands used to play
Lead singer of the 70s / 80s band 'The Cars' has died.
Ric Ocasek (Richard Theodore Otcasek) was the lead singer for most of the bands history which started around 1976 with Benjamin Orr (dec) swapping vocal duties
One of the Best 80s albums (in my opinion) was Rics 1986 solo album 'This Side of Paradise' which spawned the hit 'Emotion in Motion'.
The other excellent albums that are similar are 'The Cars - Heartbeat City'
& Benjamin Orr - The Lace
All are highly recommended albums...
Ric was an amazing singer/ music producer/ musician. He was only 75 years young.
A look at the Audio Cassette and the Compact Tape making a comeback....
Be quick, not sure how long the video will remain on Youtube..
CASSETTE - A DOCUMENTARY MIXTAPE
For me personally, i grew up with audio tapes.
Probably the best thing i can say about tapes (apart from sound) is depending what type of tape you used, depended on the type of sound you got or the amount of detail the tape reproduced.
The choice was staggering, you had TDK, BASF, Fuji, Sony, Maxell, AGFA, Memorex, Phillips, Technics, Scotch and Thats / Triad to name a few
My Favorites were 'Thats', Sony & TDK
Then you had a choice of Normal, Chrome and Metal, so again the sound changed from standard to very detailed depending on the type of tape you brought.
For me, my number one choice was 'Thats' Chrome Cassette's, seriously, the sound from these tapes were mind blowing, so good. (see below)
The only problem at the moment is the lack of Cassette Decks.
You can buy decks that are 20-40 years old, Made in Japan but parts failing (mostly rubber belts) or new decks made in China, no Chrome / Metal position selection and No Dolby... and bloody expensive for what they are...
Although, i still have a decent cassette collection, i will stick to my CD's, with less working parts and decent sound, i will wait for the day when the faithful Audio Tape makes a full comeback ...
