Hidden Gems Archives - FRIZZO'S ELECTRIC CAFÉ https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/category/hidden-gems/ All Things 80s! Fri, 20 May 2022 00:43:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/frizzoselectriccafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-Frizzos-Electric-Cafe-Logo-01-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Hidden Gems Archives - FRIZZO'S ELECTRIC CAFÉ https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/category/hidden-gems/ 32 32 205889949 Song of the Day (or So) #12 https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/2022/05/22/song-of-the-day-or-so-12/ https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/2022/05/22/song-of-the-day-or-so-12/#respond Sun, 22 May 2022 08:00:00 +0000 https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/?p=179 My mental jukebox has awakened me with another 80s tune for you (and me, naturally). Today, it’s “Lean on Me (Ah-Li-Ayo)” by Red Box. From their amazing debut album The Circle and the Square, this song is an instant sing along classic. From 1985, I discovered this song while on business in London, England, as […]

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]]> https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/2022/05/22/song-of-the-day-or-so-12/feed/ 0 179 Song of the Day (or So) #11 https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/2022/05/21/song-of-the-day-or-so-11/ https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/2022/05/21/song-of-the-day-or-so-11/#respond Sat, 21 May 2022 08:00:00 +0000 https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/?p=176 Today’s song of the day is “Love Like Blood” from Killing Joke’s Night Time album. I first heard this song when I was on business in London back in 1985. I was immediately taken by the Goth-like sound of the vocalist along with the pounding drums and driving bass of this track. This was immediately […]

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]]> https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/2022/05/21/song-of-the-day-or-so-11/feed/ 0 176 Five Guilty Pleasure Tracks #1 https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/2022/05/20/five-guilty-pleasure-tracks-1/ https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/2022/05/20/five-guilty-pleasure-tracks-1/#respond Fri, 20 May 2022 08:00:00 +0000 https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/?p=166 There are many, many songs that get produced in the span of a year. Many of them are forgettable junk, of course, then there are those that become our favorites. But there is also a third, strange category of guilty pleasure songs: songs that are not the best, but we love them anyway just because. […]

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]]> https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/2022/05/20/five-guilty-pleasure-tracks-1/feed/ 0 166 Song of the Day (or So) #2 https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/2022/05/04/song-of-the-day-or-so-2/ https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/2022/05/04/song-of-the-day-or-so-2/#respond Wed, 04 May 2022 08:00:00 +0000 https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/?p=115 So, this morning I woke up with this song in my head. It’s “Wishful Thinking” by China Crisis off their Working with Fire and Steel: Possible Pop Songs Volume 2 album (1983). Dreamy and melancholy, this song didn’t have much impact in the US, although I understand it was a good size hit in the […]

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]]> https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/2022/05/04/song-of-the-day-or-so-2/feed/ 0 115 Sounds of West Germany https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/2022/05/03/sounds-of-west-germany/ https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/2022/05/03/sounds-of-west-germany/#respond Tue, 03 May 2022 08:00:00 +0000 https://frizzoselectriccafe.com/?p=100 Five Essential Songs of the 80s For all the youth who read this, there was a time when Germany was divided in to two countries: East Germany, which was part of the Eastern Bloc and West Germany, which was part of NATO. Many of the iconic German bands of the 80s were from West Berlin […]

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