Tracks - page 50

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

It’s a pretty small jump from Crowded House to Joy Division. You just need to take a diversion via Paul Young, obviously. Not only did Young cover Don’t Dream It’s Over, his three times platinum...

Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over

Having hinted at it yesterday, I did think I’d hold out for longer before pulling this one out, but perhaps I can use it as the start of a series of tenuous or gratuitous links...

The Go-Betweens - Spring Rain

In a world that fully embraces Crowded House (who might just crop up later this month, you never know…), it’s mystifying that a band like the Go-Betweens should pass by almost unnoticed during a 12-year...

The Housemartins - Happy Hour

I've decided November is to be 80s month, and although I'm a day late with the first video, this gives me a chance to dedicate the first track to office drones everywhere.

November 2012: The 1980s, Part I

Ah, the 80s: that most magically neon of decades, that shiniest, glitteriest, poppiest of times. The decade in which, musically speaking at least, I was born, and found my ears, and found the dial, and...