Dijon
August 1, 2023, 4:01am
22
Great topic.
One of my favourite artists with many songs to choose from here.
https://youtu.be/xoGg-JPyiKg
Great (maybe underated) band.
This is in a ‘coming of age 80’s movie’ and also mixed to brilliant effect with the accoustic version of Small Town Boy in Matthew Burgess’s mix for Emotional Pop. Gets me every time, absolutely sublime mixing.
https://youtu.be/RR9NI778Iww
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Should have checked my years. Rethink…
https://youtu.be/fWRgHVamt7g
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Chris
August 1, 2023, 8:42am
27
There was this Emotional Pop mix as well
Niles & Baggy are two of the chaps behind Cosmic Disco. Entertaining music lovers with their hearts in the right places. In their own words, 'Niles and Baggy know emotion, they live emotion, they are emotion. They know pain and they know glory. It...
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Distinctly remember Jamie 326 playing this at a bar on Stoke Newington Church Street to the 4 of us in there. Blew my mind.
https://youtu.be/5-DEARoQeqY
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bal
August 1, 2023, 10:02am
31
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5JG_TLdPSY
I still remember how blown away I was when this came on my Walkman on Now 12 (with added Miles Davis)
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Left field pop, but I’m taking it.
https://youtu.be/1kKGlqPvnwU
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Obvious one. Big tune for me on the school trip aged 13.
https://youtu.be/AIBv2GEnXlc
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Taylor
August 1, 2023, 12:03pm
35
One of the first albums I bought. On cassette. From Boots.
https://youtu.be/VjEq-r2agqc
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Taylor
August 1, 2023, 12:09pm
36
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Taylor
August 1, 2023, 12:38pm
39
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Taylor
August 1, 2023, 12:40pm
40
Obviously watched too much MTV and John Hughes movies.
https://youtu.be/9OFpfTd0EIs
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You can’t really talk about melancholic 80s pop without mentioning Careless Whisper, Purple Rain and most of The Cure’s output.
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