Sardonicus reviews a bunch of old 45s
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Oh that is fuckawfulShe released a terrible new single in 2012 and I had tickets to an Australian tour around the same time that got cancelled
I didn’t realize she had something that recent.
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As discussed here, although I fear the fridge pic has become LOST MEDIA
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Kylie Minogue - Never Too Late b/w Kylie's Smiley Mix (1989)
UK chart peak - Number 4
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Exhibit 4 of the MOUNTING EVIDENCE that your son will be a FUTURE HOMO, MR & MRS S
Obviously Kylie's career & all her many reinventions & comebacks have been discussed to death. This one was never a TOP FAVE, but I asked for it for Christmas because I just loved Kylie so much.
It brought her run of top 2 singles to a halt & at the time I think was likely dismissed as JUST ANOTHER SAW single, but time has been kind to "Never Too Late", yes it's a generic SAW production but it's just a perfect little capsule of the time & what they were able to do so well. It's catchy & cheery with ever so slightly dark lyrics & it always PERKS ME UP NO END.
There was only one more single, "Tears On My Pillow" from this era before Kylie met Michael Hutchence & emerged with a much RAUNCHIER image in mid 1990, so it's also a little bit of a goodbye to the first incarnation of Kylie as a pop star. Quite right too, as another album of the same would have almost certainly seen rapidly DIMINISHING RETURNS.
It's a shame that Kylie became so uncool to like almost overnight sometime in 1991. I distinctly remember her going from being MUCH LOVED to PERSONA NON GRATA at junior school & I'm not sure why as she was clearly releasing career best material at the time. We all know that the 4 "Rhythm Of Love" singles should have been weeks long chart toppers & I can only assume this backlash is why they underperformed. Maybe the public were a little sickened with her & press attention had reached saturation point, I don't know.
"Kylie's Smiley Mix" chucks together "Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi", "Turn It Into Love", "I Should Be So Lucky" & "Got to Be Certain" in a rapid fire 3 & a bit minutes, mixed by Tony King who she later collaborated with on "Keep On Pumpin' It" - it's a genuine little curio as I doubt it's appeared anywhere else & I don't think SAW were known for being generous with the UNIQUE B sides. The abrupt ending on "Got To Be Certain" spoiled the actual song for years though as I always expected it to cut out after the first chorus like it does here
I like Never Too Late and I like it a lot more removed from 1989, but I always felt like it was something of a step back after Wouldn't Change A Thing, which felt like SAW were trying to embrace more current trends. Of course, Tears on my Pillow followed it, which was even more removed from the zeitgest, so maybe that was PART of the point, but I always felt Enjoy Yourself or I'm Over Dreaming (Over You) would have made better singles.
Don't get us started on the Rhythm of Love singles- we'll be here for days- but yes, you're right, it was absolutely backlash. But I do always remember Alan Jones in the chart column in Record Mirror discussing What Do I Have To Do? falling from its peak of #6 and basically saying the bubble had burst, which was a real shame considering he felt it was the best thing she'd done by a mile.
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I'm sure I've used that fridge pic from a stock image site.
Love Thy Will Be Done is incredible. That frenzied vocal build up on this bit is perfect:
Even when there's no peace outside my window
There's peace inside
And that's why I can not longer run
Love thy will be done
And then it drops right back to calm
It reminds me of that similar build up in Sheena Easton's 101.
On a different note, I stupidly somehow only realised that Cross My Heart is the same as the Eighth Wonder song after reading that post from @BoysForSeles !
Even when there's no peace outside my window
There's peace inside
And that's why I can not longer run
Love thy will be done
And then it drops right back to calm
It reminds me of that similar build up in Sheena Easton's 101.
On a different note, I stupidly somehow only realised that Cross My Heart is the same as the Eighth Wonder song after reading that post from @BoysForSeles !
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There’s also the Prince mix which is the absolute titsAlso OBVIOUSLY magnificent
See also their other collaboration, Don’t Say U Love Me. JUST as good.
Love…Thy Will Be Done is beautiful. Based on a poem she wrote that Prince set to music rather than his usual trick of handing his acts completed stuff. He does a good version of it too on the Originals album.
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I'm astonished to read that Martika was releasing albums in the 2010s - I thought we'd heard HIDE NOR HAIR from her since 1992
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Oh no, you missed when she changed her name to VIDA EDIT, whatever that means, or those HOT PICS.
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Chris Rea - The Road To Hell (Parts 1 & 2) b/w He Should Know Better (1989)
UK chart peak - Number 10
Clearly an attempt from my Dad to introduce a little MASCULINE ENERGY to this set of 1989 Christmas singles I was rather NONPLUSSED with this - Chris Rea's only top 10 single - at the time, but I've grown very fond of it INDEED over the years.
I'm sure I've read that he wrote this song after getting stuck in traffic for HOURS on the M25 but that could be a load of old horseshit. The lyrics suggest much WEIGHTIER CONCERNS than the odd TRAFFIC JAM though. He appears to be warning us all about the temptations & wrongs of RAMPANT CONSUMERISM, a HOT TOPIC in the Thatcher years that's still more than relevant in 2025.
I always used to think OH GET ON WITH IT during the spoken word bit in Part 1 but now I've lost both my parents, I think it adds a real HAUNTING POWER before the song proper kicks in. Maybe you have (unfortunately) to have experienced that sort of loss to really GET IT, but him describing being visited by the ghost of his mother hits me a lot differently these days.
The rest of "The Road To Hell" really is the ULTIMATE Chris Rea song. I suspect this sort of Dadrock drive time anthem isn't going to be hugely popular on Moopy but it does everything that genre offers perfectly IMO. I absolutely LOVE the guitar solo, I always wish I'd been able to play it.
The B side is a rather STAID bluesy rock number that's nothing more than PASSABLE. If you don't like Chris Rea it's not going to change your mind.
Chris Rea topped the charts with the album of the same name in 1989 & became a consistent album chart force for several years in the 90s on the back of it with the odd hit single here & there. He'd been a reasonable but not hugely successful act for many years prior to this - although he had scored a big US hit with "Fool If You Think It's Over" - but for a few years this launched him into genuine HUGE success in the UK & Europe. Yet now, he's probably only known for "Driving Home For Christmas" which has slowly become a Christmas playlist staple over the years, despite flopping on release in 1988, & not being very representative at all of his usual OUTPUT.
UK chart peak - Number 10
Clearly an attempt from my Dad to introduce a little MASCULINE ENERGY to this set of 1989 Christmas singles
I was rather NONPLUSSED with this - Chris Rea's only top 10 single - at the time, but I've grown very fond of it INDEED over the years.I'm sure I've read that he wrote this song after getting stuck in traffic for HOURS on the M25 but that could be a load of old horseshit. The lyrics suggest much WEIGHTIER CONCERNS than the odd TRAFFIC JAM though. He appears to be warning us all about the temptations & wrongs of RAMPANT CONSUMERISM, a HOT TOPIC in the Thatcher years that's still more than relevant in 2025.
I always used to think OH GET ON WITH IT during the spoken word bit in Part 1 but now I've lost both my parents, I think it adds a real HAUNTING POWER before the song proper kicks in. Maybe you have (unfortunately) to have experienced that sort of loss to really GET IT, but him describing being visited by the ghost of his mother hits me a lot differently these days.
The rest of "The Road To Hell" really is the ULTIMATE Chris Rea song. I suspect this sort of Dadrock drive time anthem isn't going to be hugely popular on Moopy but it does everything that genre offers perfectly IMO. I absolutely LOVE the guitar solo, I always wish I'd been able to play it.
The B side is a rather STAID bluesy rock number that's nothing more than PASSABLE. If you don't like Chris Rea it's not going to change your mind.
Chris Rea topped the charts with the album of the same name in 1989 & became a consistent album chart force for several years in the 90s on the back of it with the odd hit single here & there. He'd been a reasonable but not hugely successful act for many years prior to this - although he had scored a big US hit with "Fool If You Think It's Over" - but for a few years this launched him into genuine HUGE success in the UK & Europe. Yet now, he's probably only known for "Driving Home For Christmas" which has slowly become a Christmas playlist staple over the years, despite flopping on release in 1988, & not being very representative at all of his usual OUTPUT.
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I really love Driving Home For Christmas, it makes me feel sad and happy at the same time
The SONYA ALDÉN version of course
Saint Etienne, ACTUALLY.
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I quite like Fool If You Think It's Over, but given my natural preference for female vocals, I tend to go for the Elkie Brooks version
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Milli Vanilli - Girl I'm Gonna Miss You b/w Can't You Feel My Love (1989)
UK chart peak - Number 2
OK, obviously we all know that these 2 have become a BYWORD & a CAUTIONARY TALE due to the whole miming scandal. It's probably secured them more pop IMMORTALITY than their music ever would, as this pile of OLD TOOT proves.
Did anyone ever take this seriously or were they seen as a bit of a musical joke even before Mimegate? I struggled to keep a straight face during this. So RIDICULOUSLY po-faced & MAUDLIN. It's like a parody of crappy 80s love songs. I can only imagine the video features numerous LONGING GLANCES into the distance & such. Even nostalgia can't save this one, it's IRREDEEMABLE shite. That this song reached number 2 in a year of wall to wall pop goodness such as 1989 is SACRILEGE.
It's also PERPLEXING to me how big they were in America - this was one of several chart toppers - @Joseph any ideas? They don't seem like the sort of act America would take to AT ALL & it's not as though the music was UNDENIABLE.
The B side though is actually a veryuptempo number which breaks down into all sorts of synthy madness & at one point sounds like a Black & Decker DRILL MILES better than "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" although I'm probably the only person this DECADE to voluntarily listen to a Milli Vanilli B side
Of course it all went tits up shortly afterwards, one of them died in 1998 (suicide/drugs? - I cant remember) & goodness knows what the other one is doing now, bit sad seeing how they are chewed up & spat out by the industry as scapegoats for the whole thing when the likes of Black Box were equally CULPABLE.
UK chart peak - Number 2
OK, obviously we all know that these 2 have become a BYWORD & a CAUTIONARY TALE due to the whole miming scandal. It's probably secured them more pop IMMORTALITY than their music ever would, as this pile of OLD TOOT proves.
Did anyone ever take this seriously or were they seen as a bit of a musical joke even before Mimegate? I struggled to keep a straight face during this. So RIDICULOUSLY po-faced & MAUDLIN. It's like a parody of crappy 80s love songs. I can only imagine the video features numerous LONGING GLANCES into the distance & such. Even nostalgia can't save this one, it's IRREDEEMABLE shite. That this song reached number 2 in a year of wall to wall pop goodness such as 1989 is SACRILEGE.
It's also PERPLEXING to me how big they were in America - this was one of several chart toppers - @Joseph any ideas? They don't seem like the sort of act America would take to AT ALL & it's not as though the music was UNDENIABLE.
The B side though is actually a very
uptempo number which breaks down into all sorts of synthy madness & at one point sounds like a Black & Decker DRILL MILES better than "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" although I'm probably the only person this DECADE to voluntarily listen to a Milli Vanilli B side Of course it all went tits up shortly afterwards, one of them died in 1998 (suicide/drugs? - I cant remember) & goodness knows what the other one is doing now, bit sad seeing how they are chewed up & spat out by the industry as scapegoats for the whole thing when the likes of Black Box were equally CULPABLE.
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I watched a quite good documentary on Milli Vanilli on Amazon Prime last year.
As usual, the real villain was the manager.
As usual, the real villain was the manager.
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Oh don't get me wrong, they were utterly dreadful
You'd think the (evil) genius behind Boney M could have injected a little more into proceedings, though I guess that wasn't really the style at the time.
You'd think the (evil) genius behind Boney M could have injected a little more
into proceedings, though I guess that wasn't really the style at the time.I’ve never heard of this one but I played it and it’s not for meChris Rea - The Road To Hell (Parts 1 & 2) b/w He Should Know Better (1989)
UK chart peak - Number 10
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Clearly an attempt from my Dad to introduce a little MASCULINE ENERGY to this set of 1989 Christmas singles
Same for me. The singles were all bops regardless of who was singing
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That's why they're bops, it was someone else singing. They were too busy sexually harrasing Cathy Dennis and other girls.