Day 2 of the Eighties 12" Weekender with a new selection, based on an old idea.
Digging out archive Dubhed selections to include with yesterday's post, I'd planned to include Muzik For Hairspray, a mixtape I'd compiled circa 2000 and posted here in May 2021.
I was barely six months into the blog, Muzik For Hairspray was my 29th post and I had no expectation at the time that five years and over 1,500 posts later, I may want to re-post the selection...so I deleted it.
In recreating the original mixtape (again), I was inspired to create a companion set, inspiringly titled Muzik For Hair Gel.
The idea was simple enough: use exactly the same artists and sequence of the Muzik For Hairspray mixtape*, just different songs, and ideally ones that I hadn't used on a previous 12"/80s compilation. And it was that last bit that took the most time!
That said, I'm pretty happy with the end result. After the controversy of 1979's Pop Musik on the previous comp, today's song by M (aka Robin Scott) was genuinely released in the 1980s...just.
Official Secrets was only released on 7" in the UK and many other countries, though the Spanish put the full length album version on theirs, and Mexico went one step further by putting it on a promo 12". Tick!
I've used the dub remix of Love Calling by Sir William of Idol in a previous Best of Billy selection, so I stuck with the album version. As with Mexico, it was Australia to the rescue this time, releasing this version on a promo 12" single. Double tick!
This is the fourth appearance on this blog of Boom! There She Was (Sonic Property Mix) by Scritti Politti. However, whilst the previous three selections all featured an edit included on the UK 12", this time it's the unexpurgated 9-minute version direct from the U.S.A.
Divine makes a welcome reappearance, again teaming up with Bobby Orlando for Love Reaction. But what 1983 12" single could possibly have inspired their own dancefloor smash?
* With one exception.
Having recorded this selection first, I then revisited Muzik For Hairspray, only to discover too late that I've accidentally missed off the last song on Side 1 when I originally posted the tracklist. So, apologies to Belouis Some for missing out on Muzik For Hair Gel. Them's the showbiz breaks, I guess!
This weekend's selections are dedicated to Mike, his mates and anyone else making their way to the Milton Keynes Bowl for today's Forever Now festival, featuring several of today's artists and some unbelievably great headliners to boot. Have a fab day!
And a very happy birthday to Green Gartside, who is 70 today!
Side One
1) Official Secrets (Album Version By Robin Scott): M ft. Brigit Vinchon (1980)
2) Love Calling (Album Version By Keith Forsey): Billy Idol (1982)
3) Cccan't You See... (8:15 To Nowhere Mix By Tony Mansfield): Vicious Pink (1984)
4) Love Reaction (12" Version By Bobby Orlando): Divine (1983)
5) Junk (Remixed By Harvey Goldberg): Bronski Beat (1984)
6) Dissidents (The Search For Truth Part II) (Remix By François Kevorkian & Dominick Maita): Thomas Dolby (1984)
7) Where The Heart Is (12" Version By Mike Thorne & Harvey Goldberg): Soft Cell (1982)
Side Two
1) Boom! There She Was (Sonic Property Mix By Steve Thompson & Michael Barbiero) (Full Length): Scritti Politti ft. Roger Troutman (1988)
2) Channel Z (Rock Mix By Don Was & Michael Hutchinson): The B-52's (1989)
3) On Your Own (New York Mix By Steve Thompson & Michael Barbiero): Pete Shelley (1986)
4) Let's All Make A Bomb (New Version By B.E.F. & Greg Walsh): Heaven 17 (1983)
5) Shock (The Shep Pettibone Mix): The Psychedelic Furs (1987)
6) It's Called A Heart (Extended) (Remix By Depeche Mode & Daniel Miller): Depeche Mode (1985)
7) Without You (12" Mix By Tim Friese-Greene): Talk Talk (1984)
You can find Muzik For Hairspray here
And, for your further 12/80s listening pleasure:
I'm seeing two of these acts later today... well I might avoid one of them as there are two stages.. ;)
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