#Sophisti-Pop

[haveyouheardthisband]

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Y Tú Te Vas • Torero • Quisiera Ser • Salomé (Club Mix-Radio Edit) • Completamente Enamorados • Fiesta En América • Tu Pirata Soy Yo • Este Ritmo Se Baila Así (Sye Bwa) • Tiempo De Vals • Provócame • Dejaría Todo • Baila Baila (Memê's Boriqua Radio Edit) • Tal Vez Es Amor (Talvez Seja Amor) • Candela

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[reckonslepoisson]

Fushigi, Akina Nakamori (1986)

City pop, for me, is an era notable for its top-heaviness. So few eras of pop music – particularly from a single country – reap such rewards; city pop has its classics and its godawful duds, but it’s catalogue of ‘very decent but not quite top tier’ releases is formidable. Akina Nakamori’s Fushigi [Mysterious] fits in that vast, impressive tier, a loud and dramatic record with a good amount of warble that is, alas, not quite my city pop canon. 

Pick: ‘Back Door Night’

[august-sysex]

prefab sprout - wild horses (1989 demo version)

[80sheaven]

The Style Council, gracing the back cover of Smash Hits in July 1985

[guerrilla-operator]

PREFAB SPROUT

[aaron-long]

I keep cracking up at this Prefab Sprout live moment where guitarist Kevin Armstrong unexpectedly does a huge slide and it clearly throws Paddy off

[ubykh]

Prefab Sprout - Appetite (Acoustic)

If your eyes are wanting all you see Then I think I'll name you after me I think I'll call you appetite

[kellymagovern]

Fine Young Cannibals - "She Drives Me Crazy" [x]

[joanofarc]

happy to be sad, allen clapp (1992).

there's a voice inside my head and it sounds like you you're just in blue and i'm happy to be sad from you

[haveyouheardthisband]

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Never Gonna Give You Up • Whenever You Need Somebody • Together Forever • It Would Take A Strong Strong Man • The Love Has Gone • Don't Say Goodbye • Slipping Away • No More Looking For Love • You Move Me • When I Fall In Love

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[coloursteelsexappeal]

Spandau Ballet - I'll Fly for You (1984)

[nineteenfiftysix]

Spandau Ballet - True (True, 1983)

[reckonslepoisson]

Le Pollen, Pierre Barouh (1983)

It isn’t often that a credits list combines exactly in one’s ears as imagined from paper; read through the musicians on Le Pollen and one fantasises of blends of chanson and the electronic edges of city pop, a fusion of the pithy synthpop of Yukihiro Takahashi, mystically-tinged jazz pop of Yasuaki Shimizu, melodic new wave of early ‘80s Moonriders, calm atmospheres of Motohiko Hamase and arabesque piano lines of Ryuichi Sakamoto. That’s what is imagined, and that is exactly what one gets.

Pick: ‘Le Pollen’

[slowandsweet]

evrshde - Line of Fire (Lyric Video)