Maximum 80s #121

Welcome to edition 121 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

China Crisis - Hanna Hanna (Extended Mix)
Wa Wa Nee - Stimulation (Extended Mix)
Robin S - Show Me Love (Original 12 Inch Version)
The Human League - Love Is All That Matters (Extended Version)
Musical Youth - Pass The Dutchie (Special 12 Inch Club Version)
Bananarama - Cruel Summer (12 Inch Version)
Visage - The Anvil (Dance Mix)
Tight Fit - Fantasy Island (Almighty Mix)
Johnny Hates Jazz - Shattered Dreams (12 Inch Extended Mix)
Joe Tex - Ain't Gonna Bump No More (Special Disco Version)
Stephanie Mills - Never Knew Love Like This Before (Extended Mix)
Donna Summer - Walk Away (12 Inch Version)

Put The Needle On The Record - Week #6

Weekly feature: Put The Needle On The Record Week #6 Thompson Twins - Quick Step And Side Kick

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 February 1983 and a brilliant album by The Thompson Twins, "Quick Step & Side Kick", I first heard this album on cassette at a friends house and recall there were extra mixes on it and thought it was fabulous, so much so I did a tape to tape recording of the cassette (remember those days folks, the first form of pirating music!!).

The album featured 4 singles "Lies" (which surprisingly only reached number 67 in the UK singles chart), "Love On Your Side" (reached number 9 in the UK singles chart) "We Are Detective", my favourite track on the album (Which reached number 7 in the UK singles chart) and "Watching" (which reached number 33 in the UK singles chart)

The album peaked at number 2 in the UK albums chart, a solid album from start to finish!

Track listing

Love On Your Side
Lies
If You Were Here
Judy Do
Tears
Watching
We Are Detective
Kamikaze
Love Lies Bleeding
All Fall Out

And for those that are nostalgic and had the cassette that was originally released, here is the track listing for the extra tracks in that format:

Love Lies Fierce (Dub remix of "Love Lies Bleeding")
Long Beach Culture (Extended version of "Beach Culture")
No Talkin' (Dub remix of "Lies")
Rap Boy Rap (Original 12 Inch of "Love On Your Side")
Frozen In Time (Dub remix of "Kamikazi")
Fallen Out (Dub remix of "All Fall Out")

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 #121 (July 1983)

Edition #121 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 July 1983.

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

David Sylvian & Riuichi Sakamoto - Forbidden Colours
Malcolm McLaren - Double Dutch
Marc And The Mambas - Black Heart
Eurythmics - Who's That Girl
The Cure - The Walk
Bananarama - Cruel Summer
Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)
The Thompson Twins - Watching
KC & The Sunshine Band - Give It Up
Shakin' Stevens - It's Late
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
Wham! - Club Tropicana
Elton John - I'm Still Standing
Kim Wilde - Love Blonde
Echo & The Bunnymen - Never Stop

Put The Needle On The Record - Week #5

Weekly feature: Put The Needle On The Record Week #5 ABC - How To Be A Zillionaire

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 1985 and one of the most underrated albums that was released in the 1980s, "How To Be A Zillionaire" by ABC, one of the best sounding albums I have in my collection, the production is amazing, the original CD that was released I still regard as the best sounding CD in my collection!.

The album featured 4 singles "How To Be A Millionaire" (which reached number 49 in the UK singles chart), "Be Near Me" (reached number 26 in the UK singles chart) "Vanity Kills" (Which reached number 70 in the UK singles chart) and "Ocean Blue" (which reached number 51 in the UK singles chart)

The album only peaked at number 28 in the UK albums chart, which is criminal! It is also long overdue a deluxe edition release!

For me this album is a masterpiece and the closing track "Between You And Me" is one of my all time favourite ABC tracks.

Track listing

Fear Of The World
Be Near Me
Vanity Kills
Ocean Blue
15 Storey Halo
A To Z
How To be A Millionaire
Tower Of London
So Hip It Hurts
Between You And 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!

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!