KOOL AND THE GANG

FRESH
(ORIGINAL FRESH JUICE 12" DANCE MIX)
(ORIGINAL FRESH SQUEEZED 12" REMIX)

Fresh was the first single released from Kool & The Gang's hit 1984 album Emergency. The track reached #9 in the U.S. pop chart, #1 in the R&B and Dance chart and #11 in the U.K. singles chart. The album also brought a first for the band: three number one R&B singles from a single album. In addition to Fresh, the songs Misled (also a U.S. Pop #10) and Cherish (also a U.S. Pop #2) all hit the top spot in 1985. In addition, the album's title track, Emergency, was also released as a single, and reached the top twenty.

FRESH
(ORIGINAL FRESH JUICE 12" DANCE MIX)

FRESH
(ORIGINAL FRESH SQUEEZED 12" REMIX)

ZSHARE LINKS ARE DEAD!

I have had constant comments on some older posts in that the Zshare links are not working. This is some sort of server problem with Zshare or they have deleted them. I am letting you all know at this time that all the dead Zshare links will remain dead and I will not be re-upping any of them so don't bother asking. I have now started using Zippyshare for posts since Zshare seems to be having problems of this sort. So please, once again, do not ask to re-upload any dead Zshare links. Unless for some reason they come back on their own they will stay dead.

Many thanks,

Fexy

DEF LEPPARD

ANIMAL
(ORIGINAL EXTENDED 12" VERSION)

Animal was the first single from Def Leppard's 1987 album Hysteria and became the band's first Top 10 hit in their home of the United Kingdom.

The track is usually noted by the band as having been the most difficult to record for Hysteria. Although it was one of the first songs developed in early 1984, neither the band nor the producers who came and went (Jim Steinman, Nigel Green, & Mutt Lange) were able to produce the desired sound until two and a half painstaking years later.

However, the effort paid off when "Animal" was released as the lead single off the album in July 1987. In the UK, where the band was all but ignored during the Pyromania era, the song hit #6 on the singles chart and broke Def Leppard into the pop mainstream across Europe.

Over in America, the lead single "Women" performed poorly on the pop charts, which did give the band much momentum when "Animal" was released afterwards in October 1987. It did reach a respectable #19 though, starting their run of ten consecutive US Top 40 singles, and is still one of the more popular numbers at Def Leppard concerts today.

ANIMAL (ORIGINAL EXTENDED 12" VERSION)

TEARS FOR FEARS

MOTHERS TALK
(ORIGINAL EXTENDED 12" VERSION)

(BEAT OF THE DRUM MIX)

(U.S. REMIX)

"Mothers Talk", written by Roland Orzabal and Ian Stanley and sung by Orzabal, was Tears For Fears' seventh single release, the first taken from their 1985 LP Songs from the Big Chair and their fifth UK Top 40 chart hit. In the UK the song was released well in advance of the LP and showcased the band's edgier sound, as compared to their 1983 debut LP The Hurting.

"Mothers Talk" was one of the first Tears for Fears songs to demonstrate a creative use of sampling. The strings at the beginning of the song were culled from a Barry Manilow record, while the drum sample around which "Empire Building" is built was lifted from the Simple Minds song "Today I Died Again". This was the second Tears for Fears single for which Mercury Records would use the picture disc and coloured vinyl gimmicks as a promotional tool, as well as the first one to feature multiple 12" releases offering different remixes of the track.

While America saw "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" as the first single release from the Songs from the Big Chair LP, "Mothers Talk" was eventually released there as the fourth and final single from the album in April of 1986, peaking at #27 on the Billboard Hot 100. This version of the song was completely re-recorded by the band after their Big Chair tour wrapped up and was mixed by award-winning producer Bob Clearmountain. In addition to a different picture sleeve, the single featured a cover of Robert Wyatt's "Sea Song" as the B-side.

MOTHERS TALK (ORIGINAL EXTENDED 12" VERSION)

MOTHERS TALK (BEAT OF THE DRUM MIX)

MOTHERS TALK (U.S. REMIX)

GOLDEN EARRING

TWILIGHT ZONE
(ORIGINAL LONG 12" VERSION)

Twilight Zone is a 1982 hit song by the Dutch hard rock band Golden Earring and appears on their 1982 album Cut, which supposedly was to be their 'final cut', their last album before disbanding. The track was written by the band's guitarist George Kooymans, who got the inspiration and title for the song from the famous TV series The Twilight Zone. The synthesizer chords in the intro of the song are based upon the opening tune of the series and also in its texts , storyline and the videoclip the influence of the series is evident. The song was a success during live concerts and as a single had a good run on the charts in Europe as well as in the United States, where it was helped out in part by MTV. It reached #10 in the US Billboard Hot 100 and #1 in Billboard Rock Tracks, the band's only #1 hit in the country.

TWILIGHT ZONE (ORIGINAL LONG 12" VERSION)

STEVE MILLER BAND

ABRACADABRA

(ORIGINAL 12" MIX)

(ATOMIX EXTENDED CUT)

(JOESKI REMIX)

(WHITE LABEL MIX)

(7TH HEAVEN CLUB MIX)

(7TH HEAVEN DUB MIX)

Released as the main single from Steve Miller's twelfth studio album Abracadabra in June 1982, it became a #1 hit on the United States Billboard Hot 100 chart, and also hit #2 on the UK charts. It followed Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" (from Rocky III) on the Hot 100, and preceded Chicago's "Hard to Say I'm Sorry". After Chicago's ballad ended its two-week stay at number one, "Abracadabra" re-assumed the top spot on the U.S. charts for an additional week on September 25. John Cougar's "Jack and Diane" dislodged the Steve Miller Band's final number-one hit from the top on October 2.

This song holds the record for the biggest drop out of the Top 10/Top 40 on the Hot 100. In the fall of 1982, as the song was moving down the chart, "Abracadabra" fell 38 spots from #10 to #48 in one week.

The song is listed at #70 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of all time.

ABRACADABRA (ORIGINAL 12" MIX)

ABRACADABRA (ATOMIX EXTENDED CUT)

ABRACADABRA (JOESKI REMIX)

ABRACADABRA (WHITE LABEL MIX)

ABRACADABRA (7TH HEAVEN CLUB MIX)

ABRACADABRA (7TH HEAVEN DUB MIX)

DON HENLEY

DIRTY LAUNDRY

(MR UNCLEAN MIX)

Dirty Laundry is the second single released from Henley's 1982 solo debut album I Can't Stand Still, and his first hit, reaching #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song is about the callousness (and callowness) of TV news reporting as well as the tabloidization of all news. The song was actually inspired by the intrusive press coverage surrounding the deaths of John Belushi and Natalie Wood. This is a great remix by Billy The Kid!

DIRTY LAUNDRY (MR UNCLEAN MIX)