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14th January 2020, 08:34 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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Fleetwood Mac back in the top 3, not that crazy about this one, would much prefer Taylor Dayne going to #1
lots of good climbers, good to see Sign your Name in the top 10. Terence Trent D'arby really did a "Duffy" after such a brilliant debut. |
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18th January 2020, 11:24 PM
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Shakin Stevens
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Love that Terrence song the only one I know as a classic before it's totp performance. Must check out Shame by the Eurythmics as it's not one I know and because it wasn't a single it didn't get played on totp.
Glad Fleetwood Mac have an upturn in fortunes after it looked like stalling at 9 over Xmas! |
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19th January 2020, 08:32 AM
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BuzzJack Legend
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^Shame was a single, a flop single, but still a single
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19th January 2020, 10:42 AM
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Shakin Stevens
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Oh right, strange they didn't show the video on totp or anything then they usually support them even if they didn't come on much by this stage.
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21st January 2020, 07:33 PM
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21st January 2020, 07:35 PM
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21st January 2020, 07:37 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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Fleetwood Mac back in the top 3, not that crazy about this one, would much prefer Taylor Dayne going to #1 lots of good climbers, good to see Sign your Name in the top 10. Terence Trent D'arby really did a "Duffy" after such a brilliant debut. Oops I misled you, I'd forgot about the return to the top this week by a fave oldie (for some reason, I dont recall why!), but one of them WILL top the chart... |
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21st January 2020, 07:38 PM
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Love that Terrence song the only one I know as a classic before it's totp performance. Must check out Shame by the Eurythmics as it's not one I know and because it wasn't a single it didn't get played on totp. Glad Fleetwood Mac have an upturn in fortunes after it looked like stalling at 9 over Xmas! Hope you like Shame, Steve! Glad you like the Family Man track too, it's very Lindsey Buckingham through and through which is always a good thing to my ears |
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21st January 2020, 07:55 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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24th Jan 1988
It's back on top for a 3rd week for The Beatles fab 1967 Hello Goodbye - I'm not sure why, maybe Magical Mystery Tour had a 20th anniversary showing on TV or summat - leaving The Mac stranded at 2 and Terence Trent D'Arby reaching a new peak of 3. Tiffany finally reaches the top 10 after 2 or 3 months of trying, at 6, and Climie Fisher make it 2 top 10's in a row as they rise to the occasion. New act Bros make a giant leap asking when will they be famous, up to 19, just ahead of a Presley oldie I'd never noticed much but out on reissue instead of hidden amongst a grouping of better singles. Jermaine Stewart gets another decent-sized chart hit, say it again? In at 26 2 years since he didn't take his clothes off. Debbie Gibson leaps into the 40, shaking my love, apparently, Eddy Grant gets his first top 40 in 4 or 5 years (with new stuff), and George Harrison follows-up his big ol' cover with a big ol' Beatles-sounding Fabs-tribute, Jeff Lynne setting the stage for his work on the Beatles 1995 Anthology-inspired "new" tracks. When We Were Fab in at 38. T'Pau get a 3rd, Donna Summer extends to 12 years with a track I don't recall, and The Bangles cover Simon & Garfunkel 3 years after they started off with a cover of Katrina & The Waves Going Down To Liverpool. All About Eve also follow-up, Godley & Creme return with a hit extension as an act to 10 years give or take, or 16 years as 10C.C., or 18 years as Hotlegs. Take Your Pick. Jethro Tull also return, 19 years since I was big on Living In The Past, their finest moment by quite some distance. It's not even close. Said she was a dancer, presumably around a maypole with a minstrel fluting away. 1 ( 4 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles 2 ( 2 ) FAMILY MAN Fleetwood Mac 3 ( 7 ) SIGN YOUR NAME Terence Trent D'Arby 4 ( 1 ) SHAME Eurythmics 5 ( 5 ) TELL IT TO MY HEART Taylor Dayne 6 ( 13 ) I THINK WE’RE ALONE NOW Tiffany 7 ( 9 ) HEAVEN IS A PLACE ON EARTH Belinda Carlisle 8 ( 3 ) YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN' FEELIN' The Righteous Brothers 9 ( 16 ) RISE TO THE OCCASION Climie Fisher 10 ( 6 ) ALWAYS ON MY MIND Pet Shop Boys 11 ( 8 ) HOUSE ARREST Krush 12 ( 18 ) FATHER FIGURE George Michael 13 ( 19 ) I CAN’T HELP IT Bananarama 14 ( 15 ) HOT IN THE CITY Billy Idol 15 ( 10 ) I FOUND SOMEONE Cher 16 ( 22 ) O L’AMOUR Dollar 17 ( 12 ) THE WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL Michael Jackson 18 ( 11 ) JINGO Jellybean 19 ( 57 ) WHEN WILL I BE FAMOUS Bros 20 ( 44 ) STUCK ON YOU Elvis Presley 21 ( 14 ) IDEAL WORLD The Christians 22 ( 34 ) MANDINKA Sinead O'Connor 23 ( 32 ) COME INTO MY LIFE Joyce Sims 24 ( 24 ) ALL DAY AND ALL OF THE NIGHT The Stranglers 25 ( 28 ) JENNIFER SHE SAID Lloyd Cole & The Commotions 26 ( NEW ) SAY IT AGAIN Jermaine Stewart 27 ( 20 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU Dusty Springfield 28 ( 37 ) NEW SENSATION INXS 29 ( 49 ) ROK DA HOUSE Beatmasters/ Cookie Crew 30 ( 38 ) CANDLE IN THE WIND (LIVE) Elton John 31 ( 31 ) SUGAR SUGAR (CANDYFLOSS MIX)/(ORIGINAL VERSION) The Archies 32 ( 30 ) YOU WIN AGAIN The Bee Gees 33 ( 26 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac 34 ( 21 ) FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl 35 ( 23 ) LETTER FROM AMERICA The Proclaimers 36 ( 70 ) SHAKE YOUR LOVE Debbie Gibson 37 ( 46 ) GIMME HOPE JO'ANNA Eddy Grant 38 ( NEW ) WHEN WE WAS FAB George Harrison 39 ( 36 ) BAD Michael Jackson 40 ( 27 ) WHEN I FALL IN LOVE Nat ‘King’ Cole 41 ( 25 ) LOVE LETTERS Alison Moyet 42 ( 40 ) WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield 43 ( 75 ) TIRED OF GETTING PUSHED AROUND 2 Men, A Drum Machine & A Trumpet 44 ( 17 ) NEVER NEVER GONNA GIVE YA UP Barry White 45 ( 72 ) PARADISE Black 46 ( 35 ) THE WISHING WELL GOSH 47 ( 48 ) BEHIND THE WHEEL Depeche Mode 48 ( 41 ) ESP The Bee Gees 49 ( NEW ) VALENTINE T'Pau 50 ( 42 ) LET ME BE THE ONE/ (REMIX) Expose 51 ( 29 ) THERE’S THE GIRL Heart 52 ( 73 ) SIDESHOW Wendy & Lisa 53 ( 47 ) CRITICIZE Alexander O’Neal 54 ( 63 ) I WANNA BE A FLINTSTONE The Screaming Blue Messiahs 55 ( 54 ) FAMILY AFFAIR/RUNNIN’ AWAY Sly & The Family Stone 56 ( 53 ) RENT Pet Shop Boys 57 ( 65 ) LOVE OVERBOARD Gladys Knight & The Pips 58 ( 33 ) TURN BACK THE CLOCK Johnny Hates Jazz 59 ( 68 ) PROMISES Basia 60 ( NEW ) ALL SYSTEMS GO Donna Summer 61 ( 59 ) KID (REMIX) The Pretenders 62 ( 60 ) CARS (E REG MODEL)/ ARE ‘FRIENDS’ ELECTRIC Gary Numan & Tubeway Army 63 ( 62 ) ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE The Beatles 64 ( 39 ) IN GOD’S COUNTRY U2 65 ( 64 ) LOVE POWER Dionne Warwick & Jeffrey Osbourne 66 ( 66 ) YOU WILL KNOW Stevie Wonder 67 ( 55 ) WHO FOUND WHO Jellybean featuring Lisa Fiorillo 68 ( NEW ) HAZY SHADE OF WINTER The Bangles 69 ( 69 ) HUMAN Human League 70 ( 74 ) HERE I GO AGAIN Whitesnake 71 ( NEW ) WILD HEARTED WOMAN All About Eve 72 ( 67 ) MY BAG Lloyd Cole & The Commotions 73 ( 71 ) NEED YOU TONIGHT INXS 74 ( NEW ) A LITTLE PIECE OF HEAVEN Godley & Creme 75 ( NEW ) SAID SHE WAS A DANCER Jethro Tull 76 ( 76 ) EVERYWHERE Fleetwood Mac Playlist faves of that week 1 THE STRAIGHT LIFE Glen Campbell 2 EVERYWHERE Fleetwood Mac 3 LOVE IS HERE AND NOW YOU’RE GONE The Supremes |
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21st January 2020, 08:12 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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yes for All About Eve returning, Wild Hearted Woman is one of my fav songs of them and one of my fav songs from 1988
also great to see T'Pau returning with Valentine, it's no China in Your Hand but was great too also liked the Bangles cover, was always a big fan of the band the rest of newies, not really a fan nice to see Tiffany and Debbie Gibson moving up, I remember buying both albums but was definitely team Debbie Gibson!!!! She was so talented, crazy how she wrote all her songs solo and played piano, can't recall any other big pop star doing that since then. Lots of great songs on the way up (Sinead O'Connor, Bros, Terence, Belinda, George Michael, INXS, Climie Fisher) |
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21st January 2020, 11:32 PM
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Shakin Stevens
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22nd January 2020, 07:26 AM
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BuzzJack Legend
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the main problem with the 2nd terence Trent d'Arby album is that they picked the wrong lead single
the album has an amazing track called Billy Don't Fall, if chosen, I'm sure the album would have done better his album 3 was pretty good and the 4 singles were all great especially the 2 ballads, Delicate and Let her down easy |
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22nd January 2020, 05:46 PM
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Mansonette
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Agree with the comment that Delicate and (especially) Let Her Down Easy were great songs.
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22nd January 2020, 05:52 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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the main problem with the 2nd terence Trent d'Arby album is that they picked the wrong lead single the album has an amazing track called Billy Don't Fall, if chosen, I'm sure the album would have done better his album 3 was pretty good and the 4 singles were all great especially the 2 ballads, Delicate and Let her down easy I can't remember now whether it was his second or third album that was so badly criticised. I know one was, called terrible by a lot of reviewers and fans. |
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22nd January 2020, 05:58 PM
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Mansonette
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It was the second one that was absolutely panned.
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22nd January 2020, 06:20 PM
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23rd January 2020, 06:54 AM
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BuzzJack Legend
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but check this Billy Don't Fall track from album 2, I think the album's fortune would have changed if picked as lead single
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31st January 2020, 01:02 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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yes for All About Eve returning, Wild Hearted Woman is one of my fav songs of them and one of my fav songs from 1988 also great to see T'Pau returning with Valentine, it's no China in Your Hand but was great too also liked the Bangles cover, was always a big fan of the band the rest of newies, not really a fan nice to see Tiffany and Debbie Gibson moving up, I remember buying both albums but was definitely team Debbie Gibson!!!! She was so talented, crazy how she wrote all her songs solo and played piano, can't recall any other big pop star doing that since then. Lots of great songs on the way up (Sinead O'Connor, Bros, Terence, Belinda, George Michael, INXS, Climie Fisher) Debbie was certainly precocious in years writing her own stuff, it's a shame she never developed into a professional songwriter in the same way as Cathy Dennis or Sia did. There were plenty of singer-songwriters like Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Joan Armatrading in the 60's and 70's but the 80's was less well-represented, Suzanne Vega & Tracy Chapman spring to mind, but in terms of successful pop acts, yeah not too many since writing stuff on their own since. There could be a thread in this... |
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31st January 2020, 02:09 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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31st January 1988
It's a first week on top for the fab Tell It To My Heart, Taylor Dayne on full-dance-diva mode, just holding off Michael Jackson's Man In The Mirror, written by Siedah Garrett and I'd always assumed she got to duet with him on t'other Bad ballad by virtue of gifting this one, which was huge in the USA but not the UK. Following his death, of course it was the big posthumous seller of all his back-catalogue, rightly so as one of the best tracks on the album. Beatmasters & The Cookie Crew bring some House into my top 5, and Bros bring some boyband pop into the top 10 - not their last top 10, but very much their best record. Billy Idol makes it a 7th top 10 or so with the belatedly big Hot In The City, and Dollar get their first top 10 since 1985, and their 8th, O L'Amour going where Erasure failed to go. Jermaine Stewart gets his 2nd top 20, and another House track enters at 14 for Jack'Chill, I must have felt like dancing this week! Bourgeois Tagg enter at 32 with the nice I Don't Mind At All, and oh hang on, future superstar alert as teenage Aussie soap star Kylie Minogue debuts at 45, and I think most of us wouldn't have predicted over 30 years of chart success - SHE should be so lucky, starting with this catchy but disposable bit of SAW pop fluff. Eric Carmen is back after quite a long gap, 11 years or so, and some 13 years since he took The Raspberries into my charts, and solo with All By Myself. It's due to Dirty Dancing of course, the movie not the hobby. Johnny Clegg is back again, 5 years on from Scatterlings Of Africa, Feargal Sharkey is still singing rather than A&R'ing as he makes it a decade of chart entries, Luther Vandross is also back with Give Me The Reason, Mental As Anything get a 3rd song into my list, and Sharpe & Numan keep the partnership going 3 years on from the fab debut hit Change Your Mind. Michael Jackson is also back again, like Man In The Mirror having charted in the lower reaches as an album playlist track in 1987 for a few weeks (I've retroactively added those in as chart bonafide tracks because I banned album tracks in those days when they would clearly have been at least at number 75 and most-likely way higher, for much longer, had I allowed them. 1 ( 5 ) TELL IT TO MY HEART Taylor Dayne 2 ( NEW ) MAN IN THE MIRROR Michael Jackson 3 ( 3 ) SIGN YOUR NAME Terence Trent D'Arby 4 ( 1 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles 5 ( 29 ) ROK DA HOUSE Beatmasters/ Cookie Crew 6 ( 19 ) WHEN WILL I BE FAMOUS Bros 7 ( 4 ) SHAME Eurythmics 8 ( 2 ) FAMILY MAN Fleetwood Mac 9 ( 14 ) HOT IN THE CITY Billy Idol 10 ( 16 ) O L’AMOUR Dollar 11 ( 6 ) I THINK WE’RE ALONE NOW Tiffany 12 ( 26 ) SAY IT AGAIN Jermaine Stewart 13 ( 11 ) HOUSE ARREST Krush 14 ( NEW ) THE JACK THAT HOUSE BUILT Jack 'n' Chill 15 ( 10 ) ALWAYS ON MY MIND Pet Shop Boys 16 ( 9 ) RISE TO THE OCCASION Climie Fisher 17 ( 7 ) HEAVEN IS A PLACE ON EARTH Belinda Carlisle 18 ( 15 ) I FOUND SOMEONE Cher 19 ( 22 ) MANDINKA Sinead O'Connor 20 ( 23 ) COME INTO MY LIFE Joyce Sims 21 ( 17 ) THE WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL Michael Jackson 22 ( 43 ) TIRED OF GETTING PUSHED AROUND 2 Men, A Drum Machine & A Trumpet 23 ( 8 ) YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN' FEELIN' The Righteous Brothers 24 ( 13 ) I CAN’T HELP IT Bananarama 25 ( 36 ) SHAKE YOUR LOVE Debbie Gibson 26 ( 18 ) JINGO Jellybean 27 ( 30 ) CANDLE IN THE WIND (LIVE) Elton John 28 ( 37 ) GIMME HOPE JO'ANNA Eddy Grant 29 ( 38 ) WHEN WE WAS FAB George Harrison 30 ( 12 ) FATHER FIGURE George Michael 31 ( 21 ) IDEAL WORLD The Christians 32 ( NEW ) I DON'T MIND AT ALL Bourgeois Tag 33 ( 31 ) SUGAR SUGAR (CANDYFLOSS MIX)/(ORIGINAL VERSION) The Archies 34 ( 54 ) I WANNA BE A FLINTSTONE The Screaming Blue Messiahs 35 ( 32 ) YOU WIN AGAIN The Bee Gees 36 ( 27 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU Dusty Springfield 37 ( 49 ) VALENTINE T'Pau 38 ( 33 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac 39 ( 25 ) JENNIFER SHE SAID Lloyd Cole & The Commotions 40 ( 45 ) PARADISE Black 41 ( 39 ) BAD Michael Jackson 42 ( 42 ) WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield 43 ( 20 ) STUCK ON YOU Elvis Presley 44 ( 34 ) FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl 45 ( 52 ) SIDESHOW Wendy & Lisa 46 ( NEW ) I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY Kylie Minogue 47 ( 35 ) LETTER FROM AMERICA The Proclaimers 48 ( 71 ) WILD HEARTED WOMAN All About Eve 49 ( 40 ) WHEN I FALL IN LOVE Nat ‘King’ Cole 50 ( 60 ) ALL SYSTEMS GO Donna Summer 51 ( 41 ) LOVE LETTERS Alison Moyet 52 ( 59 ) PROMISES Basia 53 ( 24 ) ALL DAY AND ALL OF THE NIGHT The Stranglers 54 ( NEW ) HUNGRY EYES Eric Carmen 55 ( 55 ) FAMILY AFFAIR/RUNNIN’ AWAY Sly & The Family Stone 56 ( 50 ) LET ME BE THE ONE/ (REMIX) Expose 57 ( 68 ) HAZY SHADE OF WINTER The Bangles 58 ( 56 ) RENT Pet Shop Boys 59 ( 48 ) ESP The Bee Gees 60 ( NEW ) ASIMBONANGA Johnny Clegg & Savuka 61 ( 28 ) NEW SENSATION INXS 62 ( 53 ) CRITICIZE Alexander O’Neal 63 ( NEW ) ARE YOU SURE So 64 ( NEW ) MORE LOVE Feargal Sharkey 65 ( 63 ) ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE The Beatles 66 ( NEW ) GIVE ME THE REASON Luther Vandross 67 ( 65 ) LOVE POWER Dionne Warwick & Jeffrey Osbourne 68 ( 74 ) A LITTLE PIECE OF HEAVEN Godley & Creme 69 ( 62 ) CARS (E REG MODEL)/ ARE ‘FRIENDS’ ELECTRIC Gary Numan & Tubeway Army 70 ( NEW ) INSIDE OUT The Mighty Lemon Drops 71 ( 69 ) HUMAN Human League 72 ( NEW ) HE'S JUST NO GOOD FOR YOU Mental As Anything 73 ( 73 ) NEED YOU TONIGHT INXS 74 ( NEW ) NO MORE LIES Sharpe & Numan 75 ( 70 ) HERE I GO AGAIN Whitesnake 76 ( NEW ) ANOTHER PART OF ME Michael Jackson 77 ( 76 ) EVERYWHERE Fleetwood Mac FAVE OLDIES/ALBUM TRACKS OF THE WEEK 1 ANOTHER PART OF ME Michael Jackson 2 EVERYWHERE Fleetwood Mac 3 SPY IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE Was (Not Was) |
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1st February 2020, 07:11 AM
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BuzzJack Legend
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oh was expecting Sign Your Name to climb to the top but don't mind the Taylor song is a great one, loved it back then, pop perfection
Man in the Mirror is also great, always amazed at how it bombed in the UK not even going top 20, must have been the lack of video? Cannot recall any of the newies besides Kylie. I Should be so Lucky was a cute little song but a kinda disposable SAW track. I always thought they gave Kylie a bunch of lacklustre tracks, and think they write much better tracks for other artists. Good to see Mandinka slowly climbing into the top 20 and slow but nice climbs for T'Pau and All About Eve. and of course, Shake Your Love, hope it's a future #1. Thinking about it, it's true what you said that Debbie could have been another Sia. Not sure how prolific she was, but she could have given some songs to others... even Tiffany |
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