{"id":9268,"date":"2012-10-29T11:03:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T11:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/?p=9268"},"modified":"2012-10-29T16:07:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T16:07:05","slug":"song-of-the-week-28-10-2012-thunder-in-the-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/song-of-the-week-28-10-2012-thunder-in-the-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Song Of The Week: 29.10.2012: Thunder In The Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Where the mountains meet the sea…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve always loved ‘Thunder In The Mountains’. It’s a great pop song; slightly over the top lyrics, excellently synth-driven, with a pulsating rhythm and memorable chorus\/hook, “Can you hear it breaking through…<\/em>“,\u00a0and a huge production by Nick Tauber. I’ve always said that if this was used in a big budget movie it would easily be as massive again as it was back in 1981. Music this well produced doesn’t date!<\/p>\n

Of course this was Toyah moving further away from their early ‘Sheep Farming in Barnet\/The Blue Meaning’ “coolness”, eras that are still popular 30-odd years later with fans,\u00a0but most bands and artists want to progress and reach bigger audiences.<\/p>\n

Toyah did this by\u00a0evolving and adopting\u00a0a more commercial sound and embracing mainstream\/kid’s television, but they still managed to retain a quirkiness that set them way apart from the run-of-the-mill popsters of the early 80s. ‘Thunder In The Mountains’ illustrates that perfectly. This was Toyah’s eighth UK single, written by Toyah, Adrian Lee and Nigel Glockler, with a spectacular promo video<\/a><\/strong> by Godley and Creme.<\/p>\n

Toyah’s visuals were a significant aspect of her, and the band’s, appeal. The imagery for TITM was possibly the most adventurous yet. Why Toyah isn’t lauded far more loudly in New Wave\/Romantic\/80s documentaries and articles really\u00a0is a mystery. Thankfully fans in their own way are ensuring the wonderful imagery isn’t being forgotten.<\/p>\n

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I’m hoping to add a new ‘Song Of The Week’ each Monday. If anyone would like their’s added here please get in touch<\/a><\/strong>. It doesn’t have to be a single.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where the mountains meet the sea… I’ve always loved ‘Thunder In The Mountains’. It’s a great pop song; slightly over the top lyrics, excellently synth-driven, with a pulsating rhythm and memorable chorus\/hook, “Can you hear it breaking through…“,\u00a0and a huge production by Nick Tauber. I’ve always said that if this was used in a big […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,430,88],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9268"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9333,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268\/revisions\/9333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}