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    #62
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 14,544 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    And rightly so, fúcking yeti:mad:

    OK SpongeBob, we know you have GMDD, but there's no need for that.


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    #63
    Lucy8080
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    The Phoenix park race-course had a concert in august that year. £10.50 for a ticket.

    This was the line-up- U.2. - Simple Minds- Eurythmics-Big Country-Steel Pulse-Perfect Crime. Great value for money as gigs go.


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    #64
    SharpshooterTom
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    Conall Cernach wrote: »
    The early 80s was pretty good for pop music though there were many exceptions. An episode of Top of the Pops from 1983 would usually have at least one or two really good songs on it. Pop music really fell off a cliff towards the end of the decade though. If you watch the old Top of the Pops on BBC 4 over the weekends the early 80s ones were decent but the ones they are showing now, from 1987 I think, are diabolical. Everything sounds the same with the same over produced sound and drum samples.

    Would people in Ireland have access to BBC4?

    I live in the north so just curious.


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    #65
    odyssey06
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    ThomasFlynn wrote: »
    Would people in Ireland have access to BBC4?

    I live in the north so just curious.

    Not on Saorview aerial. Yes if you have Sky or Virgin Media package or satellite dish.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #66
    Sardonicat
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    ThomasFlynn wrote: »
    Would people in Ireland have access to BBC4?

    I live in the north so just curious.

    Not on Saorview aerial. Yes if you have Sky or Virgin Media package or satellite dish.
    Eir TV also


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    #67
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    ThomasFlynn wrote: »
    Would people in Ireland have access to BBC4?

    I live in the north so just curious.

    Yes; Add FreeSat & Free to Air to the providers already mentioned that beam all of the BBCs (including BBC4) across Britain & Ireland (in 2019) courtesy of the Astra satellite.....


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    odyssey06
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    ThomasFlynn wrote: »
    Would people in Ireland have access to BBC4?

    I live in the north so just curious.

    On second thoughts I am ruling this question out of order as in 1983 BBC4 is a radio station!

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #69
    Andrewf20
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    The now! Music compilations started in 1983 also. My brother has has all the early ones.

    Best year in the 80s for music? 1984, then 1985.


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    Hamsterchops
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    BBC radio 4 was available all over Ireland back in 1983 (on Long Wave), although if you had a proper roof aerial you could pick up the FM signal from either up North or from Wales, depending in where you lived. Nowadays it's easy to pick up anywhere thanks to the internet.


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    #71
    sbsquarepants
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    Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »
    OK SpongeBob, we know you have GMDD, but there's no need for that.

    What's GMDD? :confused:


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    #72
    vriesmays
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    Lucy8080 wrote: »
    The Phoenix park race-course had a concert in august that year. £10.50 for a ticket.

    This was the line-up- U.2. - Simple Minds- Eurythmics-Big Country-Steel Pulse-Perfect Crime. Great value for money as gigs go.
    Heard of Perfect Crime, what happened to the rest.


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    #73
    NewbridgeIR
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    gammygils wrote: »
    The song was a hit in June 1980. But was re-released in 83 possibly a 12" version


    Reached #13 in 1980, #19 in 1983
    7" and 12" formats both times.


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    NewbridgeIR
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    Andrewf20 wrote: »
    The now! Music compilations started in 1983 also. My brother has has all the early ones.

    Best year in the 80s for music? 1984, then 1985.


    I have a complete run Now 1-102 plus all the spin-offs, Now dance etc.

    1983 and 1984 are my favourite years for pop.

    Now really got going with the second volume. I actually prefer some other late 1983 compilations like Chart Hits '83 or Chart Trek to the first Now.


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    #75
    Poor Uncle Tom
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    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    What's GMDD? :confused:

    Good Music Deficit Disorder


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    bigar
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    vriesmays wrote: »
    Biggest rap hit from 1983.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bglEOTeBtqM

    I don't think so



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    bodhrandude
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    the last single to feature a Roger Waters and David Gilmour vocal in Pink Floyd, before Live 8 anyway.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    NewbridgeIR
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    bigar wrote: »
    I don't think so



    Released November 1983 but took ages to go up the chart - didn't reach top 40 until June 1984 and peaked at #7 in July 1984.


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    #79
    Atoms for Peace
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    The whole eighties thing really seems to be back in the zeitgeist.


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    LordBasil
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    Atoms for Peace wrote: »
    The whole eighties thing really seems to be back in the zeitgeist.

    I actually think nowadays feels more like the 90s;

    A womanizer is US President
    The Spice Girls, Take That and Westlife are having sell out tours
    Aladdin, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and Toy Story are in cinemas
    Mick McCarthy is Republic of Ireland manager.

    Regarding 1983, musically the 80s hit peak in late 82 with so many memorable hits like Fame, Eye of the Tiger, Come on Eileen and Michael Jackson released his Thriller album and this exceptional period continued throughout 83, 84 and culminated in Live Aid in 85.


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    Jim 77
    Registered Users Posts: 96 ✭✭Jim 77


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    Yeah, I was the same. I was 10 at the time but couldn't recall his name at all.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTsSk0r_Tq8


    I was just watching a German TV chart show and they were talking about F.R. David. He's French and was in the US but couldn't speak English very well and said to himself "words don't come easy to me" which became the basis of his '83 hit "Words".
    He actually did a live performance of the song and it sounded as good as the original, and he certainly didn't look 36 years older


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    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    bigar wrote: »
    I was 16 then so it falls in my formative years for music, as they say.

    Some more songs from that year, that most will know:

    Young Guns - Wham
    Our House - Madness
    1999 - Prince
    Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue
    Fame - Irene Cara
    Is There Something I should Know - Duran Duran
    Blue Monday - New Order
    I'm Stil Standing - Elton John
    Tell Her About It - Billy Joel
    The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
    Burning Down The House - Talking Heads
    Cruel Summer - Bananarama
    Nobody's Diary - Yazoo
    New Year's Day - U2

    I love The Safety Dance so much.

    And Down Under.

    By different bands who I thought were the same band for a long time.

    And, OMG, Cruel Summer. <3


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