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 My 1987 Charts, Pet Shop Boys, Jacko, Madonna, Mac, U2 & more this year... |
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 26th November 2019, 11:40 PM
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 Shakin Stevens
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I agree 1985-88 was their imperial phase - no1 after no1 a lot of the time. Looking forward to seeing later totp appearances going forward on BBC 4.
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27th November 2019, 08:24 AM
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BuzzJack Legend
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Never had a personal chart but probably my fav song at that time in 87 was T'Pau -China in your hand
that and PSB-Always on y Mind Fairytale of New York was a slow burner for me, I remember I didn't like it in the beginning, was never a fan of the Pogues singer, took me a few years to warm up to it |
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27th November 2019, 06:20 PM
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QUOTE(Bjork @ Nov 27 2019, 08:24 AM)  Fairytale of New York was a slow burner for me, I remember I didn't like it in the beginning, was never a fan of the Pogues singer, took me a few years to warm up to it I hated it for years but it's recently grown on me and love it now. |
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27th November 2019, 07:35 PM
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I liked it at the time, mainly for Kirsty MacColl who was great, but within a few years it was obvious it had legs as a mega-Xmas classic. I can't actually recall how high it got in my charts in 1987 so that's going to be interesting for me. Top 10 I'm sure, though.
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28th November 2019, 12:11 AM
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Shakin Stevens
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Steve Wright and co on totp said it was a Xmas classic when introducing it that December.
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28th November 2019, 07:36 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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QUOTE(Steve201 @ Nov 28 2019, 12:11 AM) Steve Wright and co on totp said it was a Xmas classic when introducing it that December. Well they were right. |
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28th November 2019, 10:06 PM
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Shakin Stevens
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They were indeed!
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29th November 2019, 07:49 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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29th November 1987
It's Michael Jackson's 2nd topper from Bad, The Way You Make Me Feel is a great single, all rhythm and yelps, and his 7th solo number one, or his 10th including The Jackson 5/Jacksons, or his 11th if you also count his uncredited everything on Rockwell's Somebody's Watching You. Billy Idol meanwhile leaps back up to a new peak of 5 with Mony Mony due to my buying the Hung Like A Pony 12". So to speak. Pet Shop Boys get out-performed because it still wasn't available to buy, at 6 keeping their top 10 run intact at 100%, T'Pau get a 2nd top 10, and The Proclaimers a first. Macca joins ol mucker George in the 20, Alison Moyet takes some Love Letters by airmail to 27, close to catching a Satellite, and Cher gets her first top 40 action in 5 years - since her annoyingly uncredited duet with Meatloaf went top 10 in 1982. Highest new entry is another Tango In The Night track, Family Man entering at 37 as Little Lies drops from the top for the final time for Fleetwood Mac. Close behind are REM, The One I Love giving them an instant top 40, and Johnny hates jazz makes it 3 top 40 from 3. The Tams enter with an obscure 60's soul track, a hit mostly because it was banned by the BBC for mentioning the word "Shag" even though The Shag was a 60's dance, the record was innocent, and it's no different from saying "making love", albeit less romantic, even if it did mean having a shag. Which it didn't. The Tams had almost topped my charts in 1971 with the brilliant 60's oldie Hey Girl Don't Bother Me topping the UK charts as Northern Soul was big. They pretty much averaged one hit a decade to date. I bought this one because I used to get annoyed being told what was offensive by the BBC (when it wasn't). Belinda Carlisle is back, 5 years on from her Gogo's days, with her breakthrough smash Heaven Is A Place On Earth, giving her a great solo career for the next 5 years or so, and Shaky covers an obvious early 60's cover, so obvious it was hard to believe he had left it 6 years before getting round to it. The Christians have an Ideal World for Christmas enter while their fingers were still pointing down from above, Madonna drops her Look Of Love single that I always forget about when chucking off lists of her songs, Wet Wet Wet go all ballady on the reasonably nice Angel Eyes, a harbinger of horrors to come. And though still at 2, The Bee Gees sneak in with the latest album title track at 75. 1 ( 3 ) THE WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL Michael Jackson 2 ( 2 ) YOU WIN AGAIN The Bee Gees 3 ( 1 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac 4 ( 5 ) CRITICIZE Alexander O’Neal 5 ( 49 ) MONY MONY (US SINGLE VERSION/LIVE VERSION/HUNG LIKE A PONY REMIX) Billy Idol 6 ( 24 ) ALWAYS ON MY MIND Pet Shop Boys 7 ( 9 ) KID The Pretenders 8 ( 4 ) BAD Michael Jackson 9 ( 12 ) CHINA IN YOUR HAND T’Pau 10 ( 18 ) LETTER FROM AMERICA The Proclaimers 11 ( 8 ) PAID IN FULL Eric B & Rakim 12 ( 15 ) WHO FOUND WHO Jellybean featuring Lisa Fiorillo 13 ( 11 ) NOTHING’S GONNA CHANGE Labi Siffre 14 ( 10 ) (I’VE HAD THE) TIME OF MY LIFE Jennifer Warnes & Bill Medley 15 ( 6 ) DINNER WITH GERSHWIN Donna Summer 16 ( 16 ) I’VE BEEN IN LOVE BEFORE Cutting Crew 17 ( 7 ) GOT MY MIND SET ON YOU George Harrison 18 ( 20 ) SHO YOU RIGHT Barry White 19 ( 27 ) KING WITHOUT A CROWN ABC 20 ( 33 ) ONCE UPON A LONG AGO Paul McCartney 21 ( 13 ) HERE I GO AGAIN Whitesnake 22 ( 19 ) WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield 23 ( 14 ) RENT Pet Shop Boys 24 ( 43 ) I COULD NEVER TAKE THE PLACE OF YOUR MAN Prince 25 ( 25 ) SUGAR SUGAR (CANDYFLOSS MIX)/(ORIGINAL VERSION) The Archies 26 ( 59 ) SATELLITE The Hooters 27 ( 65 ) LOVE LETTERS Alison Moyet 28 ( 57 ) I FOUND SOMEONE Cher 29 ( 29 ) GROOVE Donny Osmond 30 ( 39 ) I WANNA BE YOUR PROPERTY Blue Mercedes 31 ( 28 ) SOME GUYS HAVE ALL THE LUCK Maxi Priest 32 ( 34 ) I SAY NOTHING Voice Of The Beehive 33 ( 22 ) PUMP UP THE VOLUME M/A/R/R/S 34 ( 17 ) LOVE IN THE FIRST DEGREE Bananarama 35 ( 36 ) BUILD The Housemartins 36 ( 47 ) I WON’T CRY Glen Goldsmith 37 ( NEW ) FAMILY MAN Fleetwood Mac 38 ( NEW ) THE ONE I LOVE REM 39 ( 53 ) TURN BACK THE CLOCK Johnny Hates Jazz 40 ( 31 ) FAMILY AFFAIR/RUNNIN’ AWAY Sly & The Family Stone 41 ( 26 ) WHEN THE FINGERS POINT The Christians 42 ( 32 ) DEVIL’S BALL Double 43 ( 21 ) FAITH George Michael 44 ( 48 ) TO BE REBORN Boy George 45 ( 37 ) CARS (E REG MODEL)/ ARE ‘FRIENDS’ ELECTRIC Gary Numan & Tubeway Army 46 ( 23 ) I THINK WE’RE ALONE NOW Tiffany 47 ( 30 ) I STARTED SOMETHING I COULDN’T FINISH The Smiths 48 ( 54 ) CITY LIGHTS William Pitt 49 ( NEW ) THERE AIN’T NOTHIN’ LIKE SHAGGING The Tams 50 ( 40 ) HOLIDAY The Other Ones 51 ( 51 ) MY BAG Lloyd Cole & The Commotions 52 ( 52 ) ON FIRE Blue Zone 53 ( NEW ) HEAVEN IS A PLACE ON EARTH Belinda Carlisle 54 ( NEW ) WHAT DO YOU WANT TO MAKE THOSE EYES AT ME FOR? Shakin’ Stevens 55 ( 38 ) LET ME BE THE ONE Expose 56 ( 50 ) LOVE CHANGES EVERYTHING Climie Fisher 57 ( 35 ) JACK MIX IV Mirage 58 ( 62 ) LOVE POWER Dionne Warwick & Jeffrey Osbourne 59 ( 41 ) NEED YOU TONIGHT INXS 60 ( 70 ) SO EMOTIONAL Whitney Houston 61 ( 42 ) CROCKETT’S THEME Jan Hammer 62 ( 67 ) SO AMAZING Luther Vandross 63 ( 45 ) MY BABY JUST CARES FOR ME Nina Simone 64 ( 60 ) WHEN SMOKEY SINGS ABC 65 ( 63 ) I JUST CAN’T STOP LOVING YOU Michael Jackson featuring Siedah Garrett 66 ( 66 ) ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE The Beatles 67 ( NEW ) IDEAL WORLD The Christians 68 ( 68 ) HUMAN Human League 69 ( 64 ) I HEARD A RUMOUR Bananarama 70 ( 73 ) UNCHAIN MY HEART Joe Cocker 71 ( NEW ) THE LOOK OF LOVE Madonna 72 ( 56 ) COME SEE ABOUT ME Shakin’ Stevens 73 ( NEW ) ANGEL EYES Wet Wet Wet 74 ( 58 ) THE NIGHT YOU MURDERED LOVE ABC 75 ( NEW ) ESP The Bee Gees 76 ( RE ) ANOTHER PART OF ME Michael Jackson FAVE OLDIES OF THE WEEK 1 WHAT’S GOING ON Cyndi Lauper 2 ANOTHER PART OF ME Michael Jackson 3 I’LL BE THERE The Jackson 5 |
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30th November 2019, 12:54 AM
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Shakin Stevens
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Really glad early R.E.M. made your chart long before they graced the UK top 40 18 months later.
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30th November 2019, 07:17 AM
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yes for T'Pau making the top 10
think The Look of Love is a great Madonna track, very underrated, don't think it had a video maybe that's why people forget about it, but it's a great song |
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30th November 2019, 08:50 AM
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Nice to see you have Jacko at No.1. He had some huge singles from Bad didn't he? Still prefer Thriller and Off The Wall though.
For me one of his best Bad hits was Leave Me Alone which wasn't on the LP, just the cassette and CD. This post has been edited by common sense: 30th November 2019, 08:53 AM |
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30th November 2019, 08:55 AM
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QUOTE(Steve201 @ Nov 30 2019, 12:54 AM) Really glad early R.E.M. made your chart long before they graced the UK top 40 18 months later. Yeah I love the REM song here. |
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2nd December 2019, 08:08 AM
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BuzzJack Legend
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for me bad is Jacko's best by miles, nothing even comes close... almost every track is a 10/10, my fav is probably Dirty Diana or Another Part of Me or Liberian Girl
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2nd December 2019, 08:37 AM
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QUOTE(Steve201 @ Nov 30 2019, 12:54 AM) Really glad early R.E.M. made your chart long before they graced the UK top 40 18 months later. Thanks Steve, yes it was a goodie - the good thing about 1988/9 not being so hot outside dance was it gave loads of flops a 2nd chance in the UK charts 
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2nd December 2019, 08:40 AM
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QUOTE(Bjork @ Nov 30 2019, 07:17 AM) yes for T'Pau making the top 10 think The Look of Love is a great Madonna track, very underrated, don't think it had a video maybe that's why people forget about it, but it's a great song you're prob right about the video Bjork, it's been ages since I heard the track - I'm not sure it's ever featured on any hits compilations either. |
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2nd December 2019, 08:45 AM
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Shakin Stevens
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I really like that Madge song too, she had so many hits between 1984-87 it's not surprising some are forgotten.
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2nd December 2019, 08:45 AM
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QUOTE(common sense @ Nov 30 2019, 08:50 AM) Nice to see you have Jacko at No.1. He had some huge singles from Bad didn't he? Still prefer Thriller and Off The Wall though. For me one of his best Bad hits was Leave Me Alone which wasn't on the LP, just the cassette and CD. Record-breaking run of hits off an album for Bad - though I am still pissed off about Leave Me Alone - I bought the vinyl week of release and feel cheated that this extra track was bunged on later to force me to buy it as a single while lesser fans got it for nothing by essentially buying a Greatest Hits album on CD. So I've never bought it, and my motto since has been if I get stiffed as a fan by an artist adding extra tracks to albums then I don't buy the next album until it's on sale and it's obvious it's the final version of the album. That'll teach them! |
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2nd December 2019, 08:46 AM
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ETA until Human dies a chart death?
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2nd December 2019, 08:53 AM
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BuzzJack Legend
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I was also pissed at Leave me Alone, I also bought the vinyl on release week, don't think I owned a CD player til years later
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2nd December 2019, 09:40 AM
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QUOTE(dandy* @ Dec 2 2019, 08:46 AM) ETA until Human dies a chart death? I had to look it up and find the next notepad - the bad news is it's April Fool's Day (how appropriate!) The good news is it's April Fool's Day 1988. Some records stayed on my chart for 5 or 10 years and Human isn't even in the top three-quarters of my all-time top 100 chart performers, but I'll give you ample warning when I get to it in the countdown so you can prepare yourself emotionally 
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