Posted October 22, 201014 yr UK Top 100 Singles - 27th October 1984 01. (1) Wham! - Freedom 02. (4) Paul McCartney - No More Lonely Nights (Ballad) 03. (5) Giorgio Moroder And Philip Oakey - Together In Electric Dreams 04. (2) Stevie Wonder - I Just Called To Say I Love You 05.(22) Chaka Khan - I Feel For You 06. (3) Culture Club - The War Song 07. (6) The Cars - Drive 08.(12) Alison Moyet - All Cried Out 09.(10) John Waite - Missing You 10. (7) The Style Council - Shout To The Top 11. (9) Paul Young - I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down 12.(30) Julian Lennon - Too Late For Goodbyes 13.(23) Ultravox - Love's Great Adventure 14. (8) Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusters 15.(25) Spandau Ballet - Highly Strung 16.(11) Bronski Beat - Why? 17.(26) Meat Loaf - Modern Girl 18.(15) The Stranglers - Skin Deep 19.(13) U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love) 20.(19) Sade - Smooth Operator 21.(14) Prince And The Revolution - Purple Rain 22.(36) Lionel Richie - Penny Lover 23.(NE) Status Quo - The Wanderer 24.(17) Sister Sledge - Lost In Music {1984 remix} 25.(43) Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen (No More Love On The Run) 26.(20) George Michael - Careless Whisper 27.(16) UB40 - If It Happens Again 28.(18) Freddie Mercury - Love Kills 29.(33) Kim Wilde - The Second Time 30.(40) Feargal Sharkey - Listen To Your Father 31.(24) Black Lace - Agadoo 32.(39) Eugene Wilde - Gotta Get You Home Tonight 33.(21) Adam Ant - Apollo 9 34.(41) ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin' {repromoted} 35.(29) Stephanie Mills - The Medicine Song 36.(32) Animal Nightlife - Mr Solitaire 37.(28) Shakin' Stevens - A Letter To You 38.(31) Alphaville - Big In Japan 39.(27) David Bowie - Blue Jean 40.(47) Limahl - Never Ending Story 41.(56) The Everly Brothers - On The Wings Of A Nightingale 42.(38) Bruce Springsteen - Cover Me 43.(35) Miami Sound Machine - Dr Beat 44.(NE) The Pointer Sisters - I'm So Excited 45.(49) The Sisters Of Mercy - Walk Away 46.(NE) Heaven 17 - This Is Mine 47.(NE) Siouxsie And The Banshees - The Thorn EP [Overground; Voices (On The Air); Placebo Effect; Red Over White] 48.(66) Daryl Hall And John Oates - Out Of Touch 49.(34) Big Country - East Of Eden 50.(60) Elton John - Who Wears These Shoes? 51.(51) The SOS Band - Weekend Girl 52.(58) Divine - I'm So Beautiful 53.(37) Queen - Hammer To Fall 54.(42) Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Tesla Girls 55.(52) Grandmaster Flash And Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) 56.(NE) Bucks Fizz - Golden Days 57.(53) Fonda Rae - Touch Me 58.(45) Level 42 - Hot Water 59.(34) Nik Kershaw - Human Racing 60.(NE) Chicago - Hard Habit To Break 61.(69) Jeffrey Osborne - Don't Stop 62.(84) Huey Lewis And The News - If This Is It 63.(NE) Tracey Ullman - Helpless 64.(48) Laura Branigan - Self Control 65.(63) Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes 66.(46) Malcolm McLaren - Madam Butterfly (Un Bel Di Vedremo) 67.(62) XTC - All You Pretty Girls 68.(81) Alvin Stardust - I Won't Run Away 69.(50) Depeche Mode - Master And Servant 70.(NE) Brass Construction - International 71.(NE) Jermaine Jackson And Pia Zadora - When The Rain Begins To Fall 72.(61) Mike Post - The 'A' Team 73.(57) Kraftwerk - Tour De France {1984 chart run} 74.(77) Orange Juice - Lean Period 75.(59) Howard Jones - Like To Get To Know You Well 76.(NE) Champaign - Off And On Love 77.(76) Judge Dread - Relax 78.(95) Eddy Grant - Boys In The Street 79.(NE) Farmers Boys - Phew Wow! 80.(83) The Staple Singers - Slippery People 81.(100)The Psychedelic Furs - Heartbeat 82.(80) David Essex - Welcome 83.(NE) Jim Diamond - I Should Have Known Better 84.(72) The Jets - Party Doll 85.(82) Chris Rea - Ace Of Hearts 86.(78) Jocelyn Brown - I Wish You Would 87.(NE) Gayle Adams - I'm Warning You 88.(85) Miquel Brown - Black Leather 89.(NE) Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday 90.(NE) Sylvester - Rock The Box 91.(89) Afrika Bambaataa - Frantic Situation 92.(NE) Girl Talk - Can The Rhythm 93.(NE) Talking Heads - Slippery People 94.(NE) Paris - I Choose You 95.(99) Ralph MacDonald - In The Name Of Love 96.(NE) Sheila E - The Glamorous Life 97.(94) SPK - Junk Funk 98.(NE) Bonnie Tyler - Here She Comes 99.(92) Kenny Rogers With Kim Carnes And James Ingram - What About Me 100.(86)Helen Terry - Stuttering
October 22, 201014 yr Author UK Top 75 Albums - 27th October 1984 01 (NE) Big Country - Steeltown 02 (1) U2 - The Unforgettable Fire 03 (2) Sade - Diamond Life 04 (4) Bronski Beat - The Age Of Consent 05 (3) UB40 - Geffery Morgan 06 (6) Various Artists - Hits, Hits, Hits 07 (10) Various Artists - All By Myself 08 (8) Various Artists - Now Series - Now That's What I Call Music 3 09 (9) ZZ Top - Eliminator 10 (7) Stevie Wonder And Dionne Warwick - Woman In Red - Original Soundtrack 11 (5) David Bowie - Tonight 12 (14) Lionel Richie - Can't Slow Down 13 (47) The Carpenters - Yesterday Once More 14 (18) Randy Crawford - Miss Randy Crawford - The Greatest Hits 15 (NE) Barbra Streisand - Emotion 16 (13) Lloyd Cole And The Commotions - Rattlesnakes 17 (22) Spandau Ballet - Parade 18 (12) Sister Sledge - We Are Family 19 (17) Queen - The Works 20 (11) Prince And The Revolution - Purple Rain 21 (15) Tina Turner - Private Dancer 22 (16) Billy Bragg - Brewing Up With Billy Bragg 23 (21) Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend 24 (41) Chaka Khan - I Feel For You 25 (23) Michael Jackson - Thriller 26 (19) Level 42 - True Colours 27 (29) The Cars - Heartbeat City 28 (NE) Daryl Hall And John Oates - Big Bam Boom 29 (20) Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward 30 (98) Elaine Paige - Cinema 31 (31) Heaven 17 - How Men Are 32 (43) Des O'Connor - Des O'Connor Now 33 (22) Elton John - Breaking Hearts 34 (26) U2 - Under A Blood Red Sky 35 (32) Queen - Greatest Hits 36 (37) Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell 37 (27) Nik Kershaw - Human Racing 38 (NE) XTC - The Big Express 39 (45) The Pointer Sisters - Breakout 40 (NE) Andy Williams - Greatest Love Classics 41 (35) Howard Jones - Human's Lib 42 (30) Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA 43 (46) UB40 - Labour Of Love 44 (64) Shirley Bassey - I Am What I Am 45 (59) Grandmaster Flash And Melle Mel - Work Party 46 (51) Original Soundtrack - Electric Dreams 47 (40) Billy Joel - An Innocent Man 48 (33) Laura Branigan - Self Control 49 (25) Various Artists - Night Moves 50 (50) Phil Coulter - Sea Of Tranquility 51 (39) Aztec Camera - Knife 52 (73) The Style Council - Cafe Bleu 53 (NE) Frank Zappa - Them And Us 54 (38) This Mortal Coil - It'll End In Tears 55 (75) Vangelis - Soil Festivities 56 (44) Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Junk Culture 57 (NE) Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense 58 (34) Various Artists - Street Sounds Electro 5 59 (53) Dire Straits - Alchemy 60 (36) Julio Iglesias - 1100 Bel Air Place 61 (66) Wham! - Fantastic 62 (42) Iron Maiden - Powerslave 63 (63) Paul Young - No Parlez 64 (69) Various Artists - Gustav Holst: Beyond The Planets 65 (48) Gary Moore - We Want Moore 66 (57) Rickie Lee Jones - The Magazine 67 (58) Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual 68 (55) Original Soundtrack - Ghostbusters 69 (28) Hanoi Rocks - Two Steps From The Move 70 (85) Roger Hodgson - In The Eye Of The Storm 71 (54) Various Artists - Now Series - Now That's What I Call Music 2 72 (65) Mark Knopfler - Cal - Original Soundtrack 73 (52) Big Country - The Crossing 74 (61) U2 - War 75 (87) Dire Straits - Love Over Gold 76 (78) The Thompson Twins - Into The Gap 77 (80) Phil Collins - Face Value 78 (RE) Roberta Flack - Greatest Hits 79 (86) The SOS Band - Just The Way You Like It 80 (77) Various Artists - Now Series - Now That's What I Call Music 81 (90) Elton John - Too Low For Zero 82 (70) Jeffrey Osborne - Don't Stop 83 (68) Culture Club - Colour By Numbers 84 (62) The Fall - Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall 85 (99) Barry Gibb - Now Voyager 86 (91) Chris De Burgh - Man On The Line 87 (60) Gary Numan and the Tubeway Army - The Plan 88 (NE) Twelfth Night - Art And Illusion 89 (97) Kid Creole And The Coconuts - Cre-ole (Best Of Kid Creole And The Coconuts) 90 (81) Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain 91 (RE) Various Artists - Reflections 92 (RE) Eurythmics - Touch 93 (74) The Sweet - Sweet 16 94 (56) Kiss - Animalize 95 (NE) Various Artists - Crew Cuts Lesson 2 96 (72) Diana Ross - Swept Away 97 (NE) Kenny Rogers - What About Me 98 (95) Daryl Hall And John Oates - Rock n' Soul Part One 99 (88) Phil Collins - Hello I Must Be Going 100(RE) Ultravox - Lament
October 24, 201014 yr I was 11 months old... :blink: UK Top 100 Singles - 27th October 1984 01. (1) Wham! - Freedom Nah! 02. (4) Paul McCartney - No More Lonely Nights (Ballad) Don't know, but VERY much doubt I will like it! 03. (5) Giorgio Moroder And Philip Oakey - Together In Electric Dreams Like Human League, not into this though... 04. (2) Stevie Wonder - I Just Called To Say I Love You Absolutely dire! 05.(22) Chaka Khan - I Feel For You Without doubt, best track of 1984!!! I LOVE this to pieces!!! 06. (3) Culture Club - The War Song Hmmmm... not fussed 07. (6) The Cars - Drive Nah! 08.(12) Alison Moyet - All Cried Out Not fussed 09.(10) John Waite - Missing You Don't know 10. (7) The Style Council - Shout To The Top Not into them Of the rest, I like - don't know most of these however 24.(17) Sister Sledge - Lost In Music {1984 remix} 43.(35) Miami Sound Machine - Dr Beat 44.(NE) The Pointer Sisters - I'm So Excited
October 24, 201014 yr 01. (1) Wham! - Freedom Never ever liked Wham! 02. (4) Paul McCartney - No More Lonely Nights (Ballad) His second worst track perhaps? 03. (5) Giorgio Moroder And Philip Oakey - Together In Electric Dreams I dunno I like this in a cheesey kind of way 04. (2) Stevie Wonder - I Just Called To Say I Love You $h!te of the first order 05.(22) Chaka Khan - I Feel For You Apparently this is a guilty pleasure according to the X-Factor - prats 06. (3) Culture Club - The War Song Never into Culture Club either 07. (6) The Cars - Drive Indelibly linked with Live Aid 08.(12) Alison Moyet - All Cried Out OK 09.(10) John Waite - Missing You Another true guilty pleasure 10. (7) The Style Council - Shout To The Top I like this a lot and actually own it on 12" Of the rest (so many good tracks): 11. (9) Paul Young - I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down I didn't mind this at all - guilty pleasure anyone 12.(30) Julian Lennon - Too Late For Goodbyes Ye Gods another guilty secret of mine - I've got the album this was taken from! 13.(23) Ultravox - Love's Great Adventure $h!t single from a really good band 18.(15) The Stranglers - Skin Deep Understated excellent single 19.(13) U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love) Great track 21.(14) Prince And The Revolution - Purple Rain Not my fav Prince track but it's still 80s Prince, when he was brilliant 24.(17) Sister Sledge - Lost In Music {1984 remix} Original version is from a brill album 27.(16) UB40 - If It Happens Again OK at this point in their career but later turned into Status Quo of reggae 28.(18) Freddie Mercury - Love Kills OK Hi-NRG romp 30.(40) Feargal Sharkey - Listen To Your Father I loved this at the time 33.(21) Adam Ant - Apollo 9 Greatest pop star of the 80s. Puts most pop stars around now to shame 34.(41) ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin' 38.(31) Alphaville - Big In Japan Some cracking tracks in this chart 39.(27) David Bowie - Blue Jean 45.(49) The Sisters Of Mercy - Walk Away Goth brilliance 46.(NE) Heaven 17 - This Is Mine 47.(NE) Siouxsie And The Banshees - The Thorn EP 48.(66) Daryl Hall And John Oates - Out Of Touch 49.(34) Big Country - East Of Eden 54.(42) Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Tesla Girls 55.(52) Grandmaster Flash And Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) Seminal hip hop track 65.(63) Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes 66.(46) Malcolm McLaren - Madam Butterfly (Un Bel Di Vedremo) 67.(62) XTC - All You Pretty Girls 69.(50) Depeche Mode - Master And Servant 73.(57) Kraftwerk - Tour De France {1984 chart run}
October 25, 201014 yr 05.(22) Chaka Khan - I Feel For You Apparently this is a guilty pleasure according to the X-Factor - prats WTF??? A show like X Factor has the cheek to tag this seminal 80s track as a 'guilty pleasure', yet some Westlife-esq tosh would be deemed as perfectly acceptable?? Knob heads...
October 25, 201014 yr 05.(22) Chaka Khan - I Feel For You Apparently this is a guilty pleasure according to the X-Factor - prats WTF??? A show like X Factor has the cheek to tag this seminal 80s track as a 'guilty pleasure', yet some Westlife-esq tosh would be deemed as perfectly acceptable?? Knob heads... Dunno what I was thinking last night when I posted - it was Ain't Nobody that was selected as a guilty pleasure. Still shows up X-Factor as a bunch of gits
October 26, 201014 yr I actually own a recording of the Radio 1 Top 40 show at the time, presented by Richard Skinner on 28 October 1984. As somebody who was there at the time, '84 was a very good year for the chart, although it is all about opinions.....
October 26, 201014 yr Feargal Sharkey's "Listen to your Father" was the first single released on Madness's Zarjazz label, and the TOTP performance featured most of the Nutty Boys: 7-Hv8qE32Qc (Sorry, there was a version without Wrighty's inane ramblings on YouTube until recently but it seems to have been removed :angry:) A song that never features on any CD compilations either; our Feargal did other solo songs than "A Good Heart" you know.
October 27, 201014 yr OK, I was 7 and vaguely aware of these...mind you, years later I had a copy of Now 4 with a lot of these on it! I'd happily listen to the following right now... 03. (5) Giorgio Moroder And Philip Oakey - Together In Electric Dreams 06. (3) Culture Club - The War Song 10. (7) The Style Council - Shout To The Top 14. (8) Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusters 19.(13) U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love) 23.(NE) Status Quo - The Wanderer :blink: :naughty: :blink: 24.(17) Sister Sledge - Lost In Music {1984 remix} 27.(16) UB40 - If It Happens Again - the best song they ever did! 40.(47) Limahl - Never Ending Story 49.(34) Big Country - East Of Eden 52.(58) Divine - I'm So Beautiful :teresa: 54.(42) Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Tesla Girls 55.(52) Grandmaster Flash And Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) 66.(46) Malcolm McLaren - Madam Butterfly (Un Bel Di Vedremo) 69.(50) Depeche Mode - Master And Servant 73.(57) Kraftwerk - Tour De France {1984 chart run} 74.(77) Orange Juice - Lean Period 79.(NE) Farmers Boys - Phew Wow! 80.(83) The Staple Singers - Slippery People 83.(NE) Jim Diamond - I Should Have Known Better Ai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ai!!!!!!! 89.(NE) Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday - Great record 93.(NE) Talking Heads - Slippery People
October 27, 201014 yr Dunno what I was thinking last night when I posted - it was Ain't Nobody that was selected as a guilty pleasure. Still shows up X-Factor as a bunch of gits Even so, I was amazed by some of the songs they chose (I saw the brief clips on Sunday night before switching off in disgust). Who the hell thinks 'Whole Lotta Love' is a guilty pleasure? The only really off the wall one was the girl who did 'I Wanna Be Like You'. They should have all been forced to use their imagination...but that goes against the whole X-Factor ethos where exploitation and well-treaded ground is the order of the day.
October 29, 201014 yr UK Top 100 Singles - 27th October 1984 03. (5) Giorgio Moroder And Philip Oakey - Together In Electric Dreams :heart: 04. (2) Stevie Wonder - I Just Called To Say I Love You :puke2: 05.(22) Chaka Khan - I Feel For You :heart: 08.(12) Alison Moyet - All Cried Out :heart: 10. (7) The Style Council - Shout To The Top 11. (9) Paul Young - I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down 13.(23) Ultravox - Love's Great Adventure 16.(11) Bronski Beat - Why? :heart: 18.(15) The Stranglers - Skin Deep 20.(19) Sade - Smooth Operator 21.(14) Prince And The Revolution - Purple Rain :heart: 24.(17) Sister Sledge - Lost In Music {1984 remix} 26.(20) George Michael - Careless Whisper 29.(33) Kim Wilde - The Second Time :heart: 33.(21) Adam Ant - Apollo 9 :heart: 36.(32) Animal Nightlife - Mr Solitaire 38.(31) Alphaville - Big In Japan :heart: :heart: 39.(27) David Bowie - Blue Jean 44.(NE) The Pointer Sisters - I'm So Excited 45.(49) The Sisters Of Mercy - Walk Away :heart: :heart: 46.(NE) Heaven 17 - This Is Mine 47.(NE) Siouxsie And The Banshees - The Thorn EP :heart: :heart: [Overground; Voices (On The Air); Placebo Effect; Red Over White] 52.(58) Divine - I'm So Beautiful :heart: :heart: 54.(42) Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Tesla Girls 55.(52) Grandmaster Flash And Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) :heart: :heart: 65.(63) Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes :heart: :heart: 66.(46) Malcolm McLaren - Madam Butterfly (Un Bel Di Vedremo) :heart: :heart: 67.(62) XTC - All You Pretty Girls 69.(50) Depeche Mode - Master And Servant :heart: :heart: 73.(57) Kraftwerk - Tour De France {1984 chart run} :heart: 81.(100)The Psychedelic Furs - Heartbeat 89.(NE) Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday :heart: :heart: 90.(NE) Sylvester - Rock The Box 91.(89) Afrika Bambaataa - Frantic Situation 93.(NE) Talking Heads - Slippery People :heart: 97.(94) SPK - Junk Funk 100.(86)Helen Terry - Stuttering some great songs in there, some pretty ok ones, too. Worth mentioning is Adam Ant's 'Apollo Nine - not for being a fabulous single, but for having one of the best outros ever. Favourite singles by Paul Young, a classic from Sisters of Mercy, the brilliant Strawberry Switchblade single (pure pop joy, that one), Depeche Mode bringing sado masochism to the charts, and some pop classics from Alison Moyet, Alphaville, Pointer Sisters and George Michael. All in all, bar the top 2, a very nice chart.
November 2, 201014 yr Even so, I was amazed by some of the songs they chose (I saw the brief clips on Sunday night before switching off in disgust). Who the hell thinks 'Whole Lotta Love' is a guilty pleasure? The only really off the wall one was the girl who did 'I Wanna Be Like You'. They should have all been forced to use their imagination...but that goes against the whole X-Factor ethos where exploitation and well-treaded ground is the order of the day. You mean, as in Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love"? As in "Whole Lotta Love" with the fukkin legendary, instantly recognisable Jimmy Page guitar riff that was the signature tune of Top of the Pops for fukkin' YEARS which defined an entire generation of music lovers..... That "Whole Lotta Love"..? X-Factor = Whole Lotta C'unts... But then, we already knew that....
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