1982 Top 40 23rd May # 31 Candy Staton

 

This is such a well know classic. Such a classic conundrum. A classic tune. A classic lyric. A classic situation. Here is the lovely Candy Staton with her take on this problematic issue. Get on the dancefloor why don't you.

Best Ever Albums - 2,000 - 1,001 - 1,418 Florence + The Machine - How Big How Blue How Beautiful

 

                              Florence + The Machine throw big Pop shapes that leave me completely cold.

Song(s) of the Day # 4,354 Momoko Gill

 

Momoko Gill's debut album Momoko is clearly Jazz inflected but se herself is resistant to labels and it's an album that flirts with plenty of pigeon holes and genres. It's feather lite and cool and that will more than do for me.

500 Greatest Albums of the 2000's # 210 Kanye West - College Dropout

 

There are things that I have missed. Lady Gaga is one such thing . Kanye West another. What to do? I could listen to them and adopt another ir I could jus say I'm not an authority, In this respect I am not an authority.

April

 

Siouxsie

 

1982 Top 40 23rd May # 32 Echo & The Bunnymen

 

I was intrigued by Echo & The Bunnymen. Everything about them. Their hair, their names, the way they looked and carried themselves. They seemed to offer a path to adulthood and I was damned if I wasn't going to follow it.