Top Flight Tune Machine - 27/5/1984 Part 2
Top Flight Time Machine
Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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The early Now compilations and their pig, Midge Ure’s world-ending conduct, and caveman acapella. (Rec: 14/8/22)
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| 0:35.3 | This is top like John Machine, I am Andy Hopper Body Dawson. Ba, ba, ba, ba. I'm Sir |
| 0:40.8 | Nitty Delaney Soap. Well, I'm along to the second part of this chart that we're doing, 27th of |
| 0:49.2 | 1984. Very, very evocative time for me, the cusp of that summer, which the summer when I turned 12, |
| 0:58.6 | everything seemed possible. I was on the cusp of manhood leaving behind childhood and the pop |
| 1:05.2 | music was just sublime as this chart proves. There was loads in this and when we started briefly |
| 1:14.6 | on it last time, but my favourite madness songs in here, in at number 31, Betta Deer, |
| 1:22.2 | as described on the chart rundown last time, no longer than nutty boys because this is a song about |
| 1:30.1 | tramps, which of course it's about a homeless shallower, and they're wearing madness, |
| 1:39.0 | it's the hang out, gorgeous song, gorgeous song, it's very, it's not like sort of really, |
| 1:47.3 | it's kind of not like a madness song, really, but they started doing more sort of soulful |
| 1:52.8 | kind of stuff at this stage in their career. There was always a dark undercurrent to lots of |
| 1:58.8 | this stuff, I mean you go back to embarrassment, to the fourth single or something. Yeah, dark lyrics, |
| 2:03.3 | but the sound of this one is so different to like early madness, isn't it? Yeah, she would, hadn't |
| 2:08.1 | it? So there you go, if everyone wants to know what my favourite madness song is, it's that. Now they |
| 2:14.1 | fucking know. This song, this chart, we've done an 84 chart before and actually overlaps slightly |
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