Saturday Night Tunage VII

Once more, my friends, once more... it is I, DJ Wonderduck, and once more it is time for Saturday Night Tunage!  Tonight, I'm just throwing stuff to the metaphorical wall.  Maybe you'll like it, maybe you won't.  Either way, hopefully you'll find it interesting.  Or not.  Up to you.  Onto the music...

Adele - Rolling In The Deep (Keljet Remix)
Now that Amy Winehouse has not so much shuffled off this mortal coil as lambada'd, it's possible that Adele is the reigning "British Voice."  Y'know what I mean: Alison Moyet was once the British Voice, and before her, Dusty Springfield.  There's always one... some female Brit with the pipes to impress anybody.  Maybe you call them something different, but to me, they're the British Voice.  This remix of Rolling In The Deep plays on one of the Duck U Bookstore's in-store play "stations," and while I prefer the original version, this always gets a wingtip tapping.

Yaz - Situation
...and speaking of Alison Moyet, here she is, singing my favorite track from Yaz's Upstairs At Eric's.  The more I think of it, which I'll admit isn't all that often, the more I come to the opinion that U.A.E's is probably the seminal 80's album.  I have a hard time thinking of a better one from the '80s... ABC's Lexicon of Love, maybe, but other than that?  And as much as I love ABC, there's no question that Yaz's music has held up better over time.

ABC - Poison Arrow
...and speaking of ABC, here's their second single off of Lexicon of Love, and their highest charting single ever.  Hard to believe that it and "Situation" were both released in 1982, they sound so different.  One was the birth of the Electronica movement, the other the quintessential tune of the New Wave Romantic style.  ABC is one of the few bands of whom I own every album released in the US.  In fact, I own two copies of Lexicon on CD... lord knows how that happened!  Anybody want my spare?

Gear Daddies - Color Of Her Eyes

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