Hi Sean,
  
 **> Martin Ridgley was quoted as saying:
 MR> ...during the 80s.  I mostly listened to things that were a little
 MR> more pop-oriented such as Elvis Costello, Talk Talk, Joe Jackson,
 MR> China Crisis, XTC, Squeeze, Nik Kershaw, English Beat, Kate Bush,
 MR> Talking Heads, Alison Moyet, Naked Eyes... you get the general
 MR> idea...  Do you like any of those artists?
 **> Quoting Sean Dennis to Martin Ridgley:
 SD> Elvis Costello: still great.
   You'll get no argument from me.  I think he's one of the greatest pop
 song-writers of the last 30 years.
 SD> XTC: Oranges and Lemons (or vice versa?)
   Yes.  1989 was the year.  It's a very good album.  Unfortunately though
 they've had problems with their record label and haven't released any-
 thing new since 1992's _Nonsuch_ (another very good album).  I've got
 almost everything else they've done so needless to say, I'm eagerly
 looking for their next release.
 SD> Talk Talk: have a album of theirs somewhere...
   Probably _It's My Life_ (1984).  For a very brief period (two or three 
 albums), Talk Talk were a truly great band.
 SD> Squeeze: Tempted?
  One song is all you could remember from a 19-year, 14-album career?  ;-\
 SD> Kate Bush: I want her 7-CD collection!
   Yes!  (It's actually 8 CDs and it's brilliant!)  :-)
 SD> Talking Heads: still burning down the house
   I haven't heard much of the post-David Byrne material, but I loved them
 when he was with the band!
 SD> Alison Moyet: Yaz and released a CD of her own recently
   I probably haven't heard her latest one, but I've got two of her solo 
 CDs (she's got about 4 or 5 out now) plus a "Best of Alison Moyet" 
 compilation.  Love her voice!
 SD> Naked Eyes: Always something there to remind me
   I've always thought it a shame that they are best remembered for
 their cover version of a song that was written many years earlier by
 Burt Bacharach.  They wrote some great material of their own.  Do you
 remember "Promises, Promises"?  Definitely one of my favourite pop
 songs of the 80s!
 SD> Joe Jackson: Romancing the stone
   Was he involved in the music for that film, too?  (Believe it or not,
 I've never seen that film).  I know Joe Jackson has done a couple of
 film scores, but the only one I have on disc is _Mike's Murder_ (1983),
 which really didn't make much of an impact.  Nevertheless, much of the
 rest of the Joe Jackson catalogue is among my favourite pop music of
 the last twenty years.
 MR> ... YOU'RE the computer, dammit!  You tell ME where the file is!
 SD> Oh, I *LOVE* that tagline. ;)
   Yeah, me too!  Take it.  It's exactly what I've thought many, many
 times when the d*mn thing has told me something like: `File not found'!
      Cheers,
               Martin
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