Put The Needle On The Record - Week #4

Weekly feature: Put The Needle On The Record Week #4 The Human League - Dare

I think we all have albums we haven't played in years and this feature, hopefully, will encourage you to play the featured album we choose each week.

For this weeks feature we go back to October 1981 and one of THE greatest albums of the 80s, "Dare" by The Human League, the album catapulted The Human League to mega stardom, with superb production by Martin Rushnet.

I own 2 vinyl versions of this album, standard black vinyl and a picture disc.

The album featured 4 stunning singles "The Sound Of The Crowd" (which reached number 12 in the UK singles chart), "Love Action (I Believe In Love)" (reached number 3 in the UK singles chart) "Open Your Heart" (Which reached number 6 in the UK singles chart) and of course "Don't You Want Me" (which reached number 1 in the UK singles chart), all the singles embraced the 12 inch vinyl format. The album also hit the top of the UK albums chart and is one of those albums where virtually every track could have been a single, especially the tracks "Darkness" and "Do Or Die".

Track listing

The Things That Dreams Are Made Of
Open Your Heart
The Sound Of The Crowd
Darkness
Do Or Die
Get Carter
I Am The Law
Seconds
Love Action (I Believe In Love)
Don't You Want Me

So if you have the album in your collection and have n't played it in a while, dig it out and give it a spin!

i-Select #102

Edition #102 of i-Select has been released today on White Lion Radio

This is a series of shows dedicated to electronic/synthpop bands, that are unsigned, signed to a small independent label or self release their material.

Listen to the show on Mixcloud here

Playlist

Ivar Fritjof Hansen - Morning Is Rizing
Melo - Gone Forever
Maschine Brennt - The Man Machine
Neon Space Men - Sailing 7 Seas
Strange Tales - Golden Days
Autogramm - Born Losers
Montage Collective Ft Jigsaw Sequence & Pulse Lab - Battle Within
DJ Toren & Humachine - Experiment
O!Dorian - Limelight (Club Single Mix)
The Subtheory - Sophistry
Zero Corporation - London Rain (Upbeat In The Storm Mix)
BlakLight - Mercy Lies Poison Stain
Church Of Trees - Where Is Love (Rob Stuart Remix)
Melo - Don't Feel A Thing
Lucca Leeloo - Enter The Dream (Italoconnection Remix)
Eckotrigger - Impulse
Neon Space Men - Elita (Mondtraume Remix)
Noemi Aurora - Friday I'm In Love
Lunar Plexus - Rabbit Hole
Vague Notion - Cornered Animal
Conscience - A Look Inside (2023 Radio Edit)
Cathrine Fandén - Lazarus
Eternity Range - Nightingale
In Isolation Ft Matt Pop - A Certain Fractal Light (Matt Pop Club Mix)
Bromsen - Someone
Strange Tales - Love Me Again
Montage Collective Ft Pia Nesvara - Golden Fuse
Ironic Sweden - I Believe You (Train To Spain Remix)
This Silent Divide - Lucinda (isunray Remix Drive by Night Version)
Melo - Mysteria (Radio Edit)
Breathe Of My Leaves - Clarke & Bell (Matt Pop Club Mix)
Arvid Tuba - The Man Machine
Neon Space Men - Follow Me
O!Dorian - High On Love
Rogue FX & Sign Of Crows - In The Dead Of Night
Wainscott - I Miss The Feeling

Put The Needle On The Record - Week #3

Weekly feature: Put The Needle On The Record Week #3 (Erasure - The Circus)

I think we all have albums we haven't played in years and this feature, is a good idea, that hopefully, will encourage you to play the featured album we choose each week.

For this weeks feature we go back to March 1987 and Erasure's album "The Circus", this wasn't the first Erasure I bought, as I already had in my collection the album "Wonderland" (how that album wasn't massive I will never know). "The Circus" was their breakthrough album, reaching number 6 in the UK albums chart. The album featured 4 singles, the hugely successfull "Sometimes" (reached number 2 in the UK Singles chart), "It Doesn't Have To Be" (reached number 12 in the UK Singles chart), "Victim Of Love" (reached number 7 in the UK Singles chart and is one of my all time favourite Erasure tracks) and "The Circus" (reached number 6 in the UK singles chart, one of my least favourite Erasure singles, "Hideaway" should have been the 4th single).

The album came with a 4 track promo sampler 12 Inch vinyl record, which I still have, it featured the tracks "Don't Dance", "Hideaway", "If I Could" and "Victim Of Love".

Track listing

It Doesn't Have To Be
Hideaway
Don't Dance
If I Could
Sexuality
Victim Of Love
Leave Me To Bleed
Sometimes
The Circus
Spiralling

So if you have the album in your collection and have n't played it in a while, dig it out and give it a spin!

Maximum 80s #120

Welcome to edition 120 of Maximum 80s here on White Lion Radio, a show that celebrates the 1980s 12 Inch Single!

This a series of shows that features some of the finest 12 Inch Singles from the 80s all in one continuous mix.

The biggest hits in the 12 Inch format from the greatest decade in music history!

Listen to the show on Mixcloud here
 

Playlist

Desireless - Voyage Voyage (Britmix)
Gung-Ho - Play To Win (The Extended Version)
Alexander O'Neal & Cherelle - Never Knew Love Like This (Extended)
Inner Life - I Like It Like That (Shep Pettibone 12 Inch Version)
Pet Shop Boys - Left To My Own Devices (The Disco Mix)
Flash & The Pan - Waiting For A Train (Extended Version)
Alison Moyet - Is This Love (L.A. Mix)
S.O.S Band - Just Be Good To Me (12 Inch Version)
Mai Tai - History (Rutger Kroese 12 Inch Version)
Queen - A Kind Of Magic (Extended Version)
Madonna - Lucky Star (US Remix)
New Order - True Faith (Shep pettibone Remix)

Put The Needle On The Record - Week Number 2

Put The Needle On The Record Week #2 (Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle)

I think we all have albums we haven't played in years and this feature, is a good idea, that hopefully, will encourage you to play the featured album we choose each week.

For this weeks feature we go back to 1979 and Gary Numan's album "The Pleasure Principle", the first proper LP I bought. The album reached number 1 in the UK Albums chart 1979 and featured the singles "Cars", which was a number 1 hit in the UK's Singles chart and "Complex", a curious choice as a single, the tracks "Metal" and "Films" would have been a better choice, that said "Complex" did make number 6 in the UK's Singles chart.

Track listing

Airlane
Metal
Complex
Films
M.E.
Tracks
Observer
Conversation
Cars
Engineers

So if you have the album in your collection and have n't played it in a while, dig it out and give it a spin!

Rubik's 80s Mix #120 (January 1981)

Edition #120 of Rubik's 80s Mix is now out on White Lion Radio and as is a New Year we have introduced a new idea into the Rubik's 80s Mix shows, each month we are going to feature songs in the charts on a specific month from the 1980s, this month we feature songs that were in the charts in January 1981.

This a series of shows that includes the very best in 80s music all in one continuous mix.

The biggest hits from the greatest decade in music history!

A show guaranteed to bring back so many happy memories!

Listen to the show on Mixcloud here

Playlist

The Police - De Do Do Do De Da Da Da
John Lennon - Woman
Eddy Grant - Do You Feel My Love
Gary Numan - This Wreckage
The Look - I Am The Beat
Yarbrough & Peoples - Don't Stop The Music
Visage - Fade To Grey
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight
Dire Straits - Romeo & Juliet
Ultravox - Vienna
Blondie - Rapture
Spandau Ballet - The Freeze
Matchbox - Over the Rainbow
The Beat - Too Nice To Talk To

A New Blog Feature - Put The Needle On The Record

We have a new Weekly blog feature for you, in which we highlight a classic album in the White Lion Radio vault, the feature is called "Put The Needle On The Record Week".

Put The Needle On The Record - Week #1

I think we all have albums we have n't played in years and this feature, is a good idea, that hopefully, will encourage you to play the featured album we choose each week.

To start things off we have "The Man Machine" by Kraftwerk, the first Kraftwerk LP I bought, released in 1978 (I bought the album in 1979 after hearing "Neon Lights" played on BBC Radio 1), the album features 6 tracks, including the singles "The Robots" which failed to make the UK Singles chart, "Neon Lights", which peaked at number 53 in the UK charts and of course "The Model", which was a hit in 1981 after it appeared on the Kraftwerk single "Computer Love" as a B side, DJ's started playing "The Model" and as such it was released as a single in its own right and reached number 1 in the UK singles chart.

The album peaked at number 9 in the UK Album Charts in 1982, some 4 years after its initial release.

Track listing

The Robots
Spacelab
Metropolis
The Model
Neon Lights
The Man Machine

So if you have the album in your collection and have n't played it in a while, dig it out and give it a spin!