Mr. Wiggles wrote:

There's an Absolute Radio 00s!

https://absoluteradio.co.uk/00s/

Amy Winehouse, Coldplay, Robbie Williams, Badly Drawn Boy.... Passenger? Wasn't that like last year? Are we still in the 00s?

Badly Drawn Boy's first, and lets be honest, only album anyone knows, was 18 years ago

Gary Wilmot released a single in 1987!





https://www.discogs.com/Gary-Wilmot-Dont-Fight-Destiny/release/7338360

Colonel Abrams is the actual real name of Colonel Abrams.

There's a part of Tunisia called Tataouine. :starwars:

Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) was first on the Cher album, the Nancy Sinatra version was the cover!

I didn't know there was a Nancy Sinatra version.

cf.



She, can't.. sing...

testing… testing…




There's no way she's saying Let's get Hip, milord at 33:50...

Mr. Wiggles wrote:

cf.

The beginning of it always reminds me of Those Were The Days by Mary Hopkin.

Cher also re-recorded it for her 1987 "comeback" album, in a Bon Jovi-esque 80s rock style.





I actually knew this version first.

I just had to check, and funnily enough it was produced by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and Desmond Child.

Needs more Autotune.

She invented it.

There was a female member of the Lightning Seeds.

The strange keyboardy sounds at the beginning and end of Kim Wilde's Kids In America are supposed to be be replicating the sound of the New York traffic she then sings about.

I thought it was just random strange keyboardy sounds.

I think I can hear what are supposed to be synthesized car horns and such.

There's a bit that sounds like a car going by fast, yes.

The Lightning Seeds' Ian Broudie was in that same band, Big In Japan, as Holly Johnson in the late 70s!