Rudie Can't Fail
Just a little blue dot on the google map of life. Lover of all things 80’s. Refuge as the app formerly known as Twitter burns
- #OrchestralManoeuvres Least to most orchestral 24. Love to be Loved - Peter Gabriel Shocked to discover this was not a single www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJzf...
- #StandaloneSingles ranked 24. Tour de France - Kraftwerk When I first heard this on the radio I immediately went out and bought Computer World, thinking it was the hit single from the album. Tough lesson but no complaints with the result www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTe7...
- #TheTenX5 Ranked 50-1 46. Little Dark Age - MGMT (US 2017, Single, NK🚫, PC✅) MGMT return with a beat that wouldn't have been out of place on a mid-80's Depeche Mode album www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtL5...
- #OrchestralManoeuvres Least to most orchestral 25. Breakout - Swing Out Sister Corinne putting the pop in Sophisti-pop www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpv0...
- #StandaloneSingles ranked 25. Dreaming - OMD Closing tune on their chronologically-ordered best-of comp www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJUZ...
- #TheTenX5 Ranked 50-1 47. Loud Places - Jamie xx feat. Romy (UK 2015, Single, NK✅ I think?, PC✅) So good it’s like they were in a band together or something www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP9l...
- #OrchestralManoeuvres Least to most orchestral 26. Stars - Dubstar TOTP with accompanying string section www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwbh...
- #StandaloneSingles ranked 26. 11 O’Clock Tick Tock - U2 Well now I’m feeling old www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtrf...
- #TheTenX5 Ranked 50-1 48. Alive - Goldfrapp (UK2010, Single, NK✅, PC✅) The Italo-disco song Abba wished they sang www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F9x...
- #OrchestralManoeuvres Least to most orchestral 27. Hey Manhattan! - Prefab Sprout In spite of Pete Townshend’s presence, Paddy‘s composition leans much more Broadway www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDDJ...
- #StandaloneSingles ranked 27. Never Never - The Assembly Their only song together but you may hear undertones of other bands www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUJO...
- #TheTenX5 Ranked 50-1 49. Ran - Future Islands (US 2017, Single, NK🚫, PC✅) In which Samuel T. Herring…runs www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlQu...
- #OrchestralManoeuvres Least to most orchestral 28. Digging Your Scene - The Blow Monkeys Attempting to rank by the least to most orchestrally influenced; we'll see how it goes. Starting off with a band led by the man with (arguably) the best hair of the 80's www.youtube.com/watch?v=byxe...
- #StandaloneSingles ranked 28. Straight to the Morning - Hot Chip feat Jarvis Cocker Would've preferred this challenge in a 31 day month but here we are www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbb2...
- #TheTenX5 Ranked 50-1 50. Should Have Known Better - Sufjan Stevens (2015 US) Everybody's all into starting out with a banger, but how 'bout a good cry? www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5NA...
- #Top30FirstAlbumFirstTrack 1. Re-Make Re-Model - Roxy Music What a band intro! What other first track gives each member a solo opportunity? And when those members include Eno, Manzanera and Mackay it’s fuckin bliss www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XvV...
- #70sTop30 1. In Every Dream Home a Heartache - Roxy Music If there’s an opportunity for this to be my #1 pick, chances are it will be. Single greatest song of the 70’s? Possibly so www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSni...
- #Top30FirstAlbumFirstTrack 2. The Hurting - Tears for Fears Perennial top 3 TFF song for me, and constantly amazed it was not released as a single www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL-C...
- #70sTop30 2. (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais 🎵If Adolf Hitler flew in today They'd send a limousine anyway🎵 Almost like Strummer could see the future www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI4S...
- #Top30FirstAlbumFirstTrack 3. Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes One of the great debut albums of our time www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUoY...
- #70sTop30 3. Life in Tokyo - Japan Second in a row of Moroder productions www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsbr...
- #Top30FirstAlbumFirstTrack 4. Medicine Show - Big Audio Dynamite Mick Jones is joined by old bandmates Joe Strummer & Paul Simonon in the video www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD2k...
- #70sTop30 4. I Feel Love - Donna Summer Ahead of its time since 1977 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaD7...
- #Top30FirstAlbumFirstTrack 5. Who Needs Love Like That - Erasure Only the 3rd significant band Vince Clarke co-founded by the age of 25 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX0V...
- #70sTop30 5. Lido Shuffle - Boz Scaggs Fair to say there’s no one smoother than The Boz www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQZB...
- #Top30FirstAlbumFirstTrack 6. Visage - Visage Laying down Steve Strange's manifesto: 🎵Visuals Magazines Reflex styles Past, future, in extreme!🎵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc0N...
- #70sTop30 6. Peaches - The Stranglers Must be a blast for JJ Burnel to play this bassline www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-F8...
