WTF?!
It's a gloomy Sunday, all dense cloud and chilly dankness. I only got out of bed around 3 o'clock, there being no light to awaken me.
Time for a selection of "newer" (and not-so new) choons that have caught my ear of late to brighten the horizon, methinks...
Let's open proceedings with our ever-reliable "house band", with their take on one of my all-time favourite songs, ever:
Speaking of "80s vibes" - there appears to be a wholesale revival of such sounds around at the moment. Not least with this one, which, if it were not for the demi-drag makeup and feathered hat, might well have been a Tears for Fears album track:
Taking us more down the path well-trodden by the likes of Bauhaus and their 80s Goth compatriots, this:
Next, a lady who has obviously listened to Depeche Mode's Violator album on repeat:
The wonderful Miss Kim Wilde [coincidentally just featured in Ms Scarlet's 2025 comeback] has delved back into the decade where she started, too! If Gary Numan wasn't involved here, someone's nicked his synthesisers...
[see also: Ms Scarlet's Wonky Words. Spooky coincidence.]And, finally, a song that is actually from the 1980s [and one that was played on Gary Davies' Sounds of the 80s show on BBC Radio 2 just this week] that - much like my little "mixtape" I put together towards the end of last year - is one I have never previously played here, despite it being a favourite of mine for 37 years!
As ever, dear reader, I welcome your thoughts!