Theme of the Month - 1980's Music

Youthquake is the second album by British dance band Dead or Alive and was released in 1985. This album was their commercial breakthrough in Europe and the United States, due to the single "You Spin Me Round", which was a UK number-one hit and a top 20 hit in the United States. Additional single releases included "Lover Come Back To Me", "In Too Deep" and "My Heart Goes Bang". This was Dead or Alive's first collaboration with the Stock Aitken Waterman production team.

Track Listing:

1. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)

2. I Wanna Be A Toy

3. DJ Hit That Button

4. In Too Deep

5. Big Daddy Of The Rhythm

6. Cake And Eat It

7. Lover Come Back To Me

8. My Heart Goes Bang

9. It's Been A Long Time

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Theme of the Month - 1980's Music

Sonia Evans singing career was launched in 1989 by the songwriting and music producing trio Stock Aitken Waterman. she had several hits in the UK Singles Chart over the following years, including the UK number one single "You'll Never Stop Me Loving You" and a hit "You've Got a Friend".

Track Listing:

01. You'll Never Stop Me Loving You
02. Everybody Knows
03. Listen To Your Heart
04. Someone Like You
05. Counting Every Minute
06. Can't Forget You
07. Now I'm Without You
08. Can't Help The Way That I Feel
09. Climb To The Top Of A Mountain
10. End Of The World
11. You'll Never Stop Me Loving You (Kiss Mix)

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Bonus Tracks:

These bonus tracks are Remixes from the Sonia album Love Train - The Philly Album. (1998)

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Theme Of The Month - 1980's Music

Sinitta's second album "Wicked" was released in 1989. The writing and production team of Stock Aitken Waterman claimed Sinitta possessed the "sexiest voice we ever produced". The hit "Right Back Where We Started From" went to number 4 in the UK in June 1989, followed by "Love On A Mountain Top" #20 and "Hitchin' A Ride" #24.

Track Listing:

01. Right Back Where We Started From
02. I Don't Believe In Miracles
03. I Just Wanna Spend Some Time With You
04. Hitchin' A Ride
05. Lay Me Down Easy
06. You Keep Me Hanging On
07. Right Back Where We Started From - 12" Remix
08. Love On A Mountain Top
09. Love Love Love
10. Where Do Nice Girls Go
11. Body Shopping
12. Don't Tell Me Not To Cry
13. It Would Be So Easy
14. I Just Can't Help It
15. Love On A Mountain Top - 12" Remix

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Theme of the Month - 80's Music


Trained gospel singer LaDonna Gaines is known worldwide as Donna Summer, she rose to fame during the 70's disco era, and had many popular singles and albums. Donna's music was extremely popular in clubs, especially gay clubs, and she reached iconic status among gay audiences, her distinctive sound was the result of her collaboration with producer-songwriters Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte. Donna had been raised in a very devout christian household, in the early 1980's it was reported that she was a 'born again' christian, it's unclear if her faith had faultered before that, but 'born again' christianity was a popular lifestyle choice at this time. Around the same time of Donna's born again christianity, the first reports of HIV/AIDS were also hitting the news, Donna was reported to have commented in an interview that HIV/AIDS was 'divine intervention' for homosexuality, something Donna herself has always strongly denied saying, but her popularity crashed, her albums were sent back to the record companies, and sometimes even ceremoniously burned, in most cases her gay audience shunned her, and clubs refused to play her music. Since this time Donna has taken every opportunity to deny the allegation, sometimes breaking down in tears during interviews, she has taken part in charity concerts raising money for AIDS research, and also donated proceeds to HIV/AIDS causes, she finally took legal action against a newspaper which reprinted the rumors. In most cases now it's believed that the report was in fact a fabrication, and Donna has regained most, if not all of her popularity.
'Another Place And Time' released April 1989 was Donna's fifteenth album, it was produced by Stock, Aitken and Waterman and is seen by many as her 'comeback' album, the singles taken from it were 'This Time I Know It's For Real', 'I Don't Wanna Get Hurt', 'Love's About To Change My Heart', 'When Love Takes Over You' and 'Breakaway'.
Donna has a new album titled 'Crayons' due for release May 20th 2008, it will be her first new material for seventeen years.

Tracklist

1. I Don't Wanna Get Hurt
2. When Love Takes Over You
3. This Time I Know It's For Real
4. The Only One
5. In Another Place And Time
6. Sentimental
7. Whatever Your Heart Desires
8. Breakaway
9. If It Makes You Feel Good
10. Love's About To Change My Heart

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