80s & 90s forgotten classics.

[TheDeeDon]

Pedantically, it doesn’t. Given that there was no year zero when the calendar flipped from BC to AD, the 1980s started on 1 January 1981, ending on 31 December 1990. Ace Of Spades release date was October 1980, ie the last year of the 1970s decade.

I laugh at the lazy journalistic categorisation by ‘decade’. The feckless ****s should just stop it.

Anyway, the acceptable face of Jutery…

Pure pop, if you want to tie yourselves in genre knots.

https://youtu.be/HJxIblwPKJE

Would you not say Average White Band were acceptable for Jutes?

Wasn't too long ago I realised they were white, they didn't sound like a white group and was blown away when I discovered they were from Dundee.
Danny Wilson though were decent. Had a bit of success in the late 80s with Mary's Prayer, but I thought Second Summer of Love was the better single.

[57vintage]

Ach just one more ,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdae...LZQfZ7yRRlzXWI

The Joker is a fantastic album. Your Cash Ain’t Nothin But Trash, Mary Lou, Something To Believe In, Sugar Babe…. We were watching something on the telly yesterday, and the date ‘September 1974’ was shown for some reason, which raised the question, “Fit were you listening to then?”

My response, “The Joker, It’s Only Rock N Roll with THAT Mick Taylor solo on Time Waits For No-one, Bridge of Sighs (Jimmy Dewar was Scotland’s best-ever soul singer - want a fecht aboot it?), a copy of the Derek and the Dominos (sic) Live that I’d won in a game of three card brag at my work in Inverness that summer, and a cheap Philly soul (as important to me as Stax ) compilation I’d found.

[57vintage]

Would you not say Average White Band were acceptable for Jutes?

Wasn't too long ago I realised they were white, they didn't sound like a white group and was blown away when I discovered they were from Dundee.
Danny Wilson though were decent. Had a bit of success in the late 80s with Mary's Prayer, but I thought Second Summer of Love was the better single.

Of course AWB are acceptable, a fabulous soul band, although a goodly proportion of them were from Perth. Their big break was as support to Eric Clapton’s post-smack addiction comeback at the Rainbow in 1973.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/eric...inbow-concert/

It was a right ****ing laugh up here in the NE when they had a huge hit with Atlantic Avenue though, as that was the street in Peterheid that all the ba’heids, criminals, huns, hoors, and general wrong ‘uns gave as their addresses when their court appearances were reported in the P&J.

[Bisconti's balls]

https://youtu.be/PJwt2dxx9yg

Steppppin ouuuttttt

[NaeMairNeeps]

Hard to define a 'classic' ... but mid 80s, I discovered a band who to my mind, produced many a 'classic' track, and who I continue to feed my ears with ....
The Men They Couldn't Hang ... Saw them several times live since 1986 ( when I joined them on stage on tin whistle ) ... and supported them 3 times with 2 different bands ... fantastic bunch o' guys and a wonderful band ... except, they were less than wonderful if they happened to 'party hard' the night before .... which, err .. well, it sometimes happened

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U2In-bJF94

[Bisconti's balls]

https://youtu.be/9OFpfTd0EIs

[Bisconti's balls]

https://youtu.be/LaZFLkR6fVU

Ennio Morricone marvelous.

[Bisconti's balls]

https://youtu.be/LaZFLkR6fVU

Ennio Morricone marvelous.

Longer version

https://youtu.be/Xtnf3FVwJsM

[Shetland Don]

Hard to define a 'classic' ... but mid 80s, I discovered a band who to my mind, produced many a 'classic' track, and who I continue to feed my ears with ....
The Men They Couldn't Hang ... Saw them several times live since 1986 ( when I joined them on stage on tin whistle ) ... and supported them 3 times with 2 different bands ... fantastic bunch o' guys and a wonderful band ... except, they were less than wonderful if they happened to 'party hard' the night before .... which, err .. well, it sometimes happened

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U2In-bJF94

Think they came to Shetland - Rock, folk type music?! I remember them.

[Shetland Don]

Think they came to Shetland - Rock, folk type music?! I remember them.

On 18 October, 2014 to be precise!