“Down Under” (also known as “Land Down Under”) is a Platinum-certified single recorded by Australian New Wave rock group Men at Work. It was initially released in October 1981 as the second single from their debut album Business as Usual (1981).
Category: 80’s
Dire Straits – Romeo and Juliet (live at Wembley with Eric Clapton)
“Romeo and Juliet” is a song by the British rock band Dire Straits, written by singer and lead guitarist Mark Knopfler. It first appeared on the 1980 album Making Movies and was released as a single in 1981. Reviewer Dan Bolles has called the song a “classic”. The song subsequently appeared on the Dire Straits live albums Alchemy and On the Night, and later on Knopfler’s live duet album with Emmylou Harris, Real Live Roadrunning (though Harris does not perform on the track). The track was also featured on the greatest hits albums Money for Nothing, Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits, and The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler: Private Investigations.
The Smiths – Nowhere Fast (Live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymh2jf_GYqA
Early in 1985 the band released their second album, Meat Is Murder. This album was more strident and political than its predecessor, including the pro-vegetarian title track (Morrissey forbade the rest of the group from being photographed eating meat), the light-hearted republicanism of “Nowhere Fast”, and the anti-corporal punishment “The Headmaster Ritual” and “Barbarism Begins at Home”. The band had also grown more diverse musically, with Marr adding rockabilly riffs to “Rusholme Ruffians” and Rourke playing a funk bass solo on “Barbarism Begins at Home”. The album was preceded by the re-release of the B-side “How Soon Is Now?” as a single, and although that song was not on the original LP, it has been added to subsequent releases. Meat Is Murder was the band’s only album (barring compilations) to reach number one in the UK charts.
Sandra – Maria Magdalena
Music track: Sandra – Maria Magdalena (Remastered 1992)
“(I’ll Never Be) Maria Magdalena”, often known simply by the title “Maria Magdalena”, is a Disco / Synthpop song by German singer Sandra. It was first released in March 1985 as the lead single from her debut album, The Long Play, and it was her first single to be released internationally. The song reached No. 1 on the official German Charts for four consecutive weeks between 13 September 1985 and 4 October 1985. A huge hit in Europe, it also peaked at No. 1 in the Netherlands, Israel, Sweden, Norway, and Switzerland; No. 3 in Italy; No. 5 in France; No. 2 in South Africa and No. 87 in the U.K. It was also a popular radio hit song in Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Greece, the Middle East, Northern Africa and Yugoslavia.
The song was re-released in 1993 in a remixed version, and re-released again only in France as another remix in 1999, as a promotional single. The song was later sampled in her song “Kings & Queens” from her 2012 album Stay in Touch.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(I%27ll_Never_Be)_Maria_Magdalena
AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long
“You Shook Me All Night Long” is one of AC/DC’s signature songs from their most successful album, Back in Black. The song also reappeared on their later album Who Made Who. It is one of the band’s top 40 singles in the United States of America, reaching number 35 on the USA’s Hot 100 pop singles chart in 1980. The single was re-released internationally in 1986 following the release of the album Who Made Who.