Nazareth - Hot Tracks EP

And now a blast from one of the best of the Seventies bands.
This 1977 release showcased four of the best Nazareth tracks on one single.
Star billing for me is their version of Joni Mitchell's "This flight tonight" which still rates in my top 100 of all time.

01 Love Hurts
02 This Flight Tonight
03 Broken Down Angel
04 Hair Of The Dog

Smart E's - Sesame's Treet

One of those rave type versions of famous tunes that were popular in the early nineties, this one with a take on the Sesame street theme, which I think is one of the best.
The B side Magnificent reveals talent that was probably unfulfilled due to being lumbered with the novelty record tag.

01 Sesame's Treet
02 Magnificent

This Island Earth - Take Me To The Fire

Another of those bargain bin purchases from the eighties, for an outlay of only ten pence it was nearly always worth taking a chance on records you'd never actually heard of in the hope it was something good :) as this one is still in my collection I must have liked it.
Don't know much about the band and only recently came across anything else by them, but it's a good slice of mid eighties pop music and worth a listen.

01 Take Me To The Fire
02 Pearl Of Love

UB40 - Don't Slow Down

Yet another UB40 single, this one is from 1981 which I think is their best period and I like it so that's good enough for me :)
This is listed as a double A side, so you've probably heard both of them at some point in the past.

01 Don't Slow Down
02 Don't Let It Pass You By

Elvis Costello And The Attractions - I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down

One of my favourite EC tracks, at just over 2 minutes it's short and sweet.
The B Side is Elvis's version of his own song which was a hit for Dave Edmunds the year before.

01 I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down
02 Girl's Talk

B52's - Love Shack

This one hit number 2 in 1990 making it the B-52's biggest hit, much as I like this it's nowhere near as good as all the tracks on the debut album over 10 years before, two of those are included on the B side, both recorded at Cleveland Music Hall, Cleveland, Ohio on 2nd December 1989.

Another of those discs that has the wrong speed printed on the label, it says play both sides at 33 rpm but the A side is 45 rpm.

01 Love Shack
02 Planet Claire (Live)
03 Rock Lobster (Live)

Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap

The Rats first number one from 1978.
Used to have the picture sleeve of this but it's gone with the others, this is the wife's non pic sleeve version.

This one is topical for me as the company I work for has a rat problem and the traps go off quite a lot, if it helps anyone with a rat infestation Tomatoes seem to be the rats favourite!! they're not keen on Cheese or processed meats from Somerfields :)

01 Rat Trap
02 So Strange

Comsat Angels - You Move Me

Another slice of jangly guitars from the eighties, the Comsat Angels came from Sheffield and like a lot of good bands from that era failed to achieve any chart success despite being as good if not better than most of the household names around at the time.
The B Side Land is a good moody instrumental.

01 You Move Me (One Good Reason)
02 Land

Bananarama And Fun Boy Three - Really Saying Something

The second Fun Boy Three / Bananarama joint effort from 1982, this one had the Banana's listed first which is fair as they do most of the singing.
The B Side instrumental starts off a bit crackly but gets better.

01 Really Saying Something
02 Give Us Back Our Cheap Fares

Screaming Blue Messiahs - I Wanna Be A Flintstone

Only hit record for the Screaming Blue Messiahs from the late 80's.
Personal feeling is that this track is not one of their best and I even prefer the B side on this record, but as it's been proved many times before it's a matter of personal taste :)

01 I Wanna Be A Flintstone
02 Jerry's Electric Church

808 State - Pacific

Loved this tune at the time and still love it, to me it was like the soundtrack to the whole Madchester rave scene of the early nineties, a short period of some of the most inventive tracks of the last 20 years.

01 Pacific 707
02 Pacific B