June 8, 20187 yr Author 4th June 1986 It's 2 weeks on top for Pet Shop Boys as Jaki Graham reaches a career peak of 2 with Set Me Free, and Tears For Fears Sports Relief-boosted re-record/re-mix pushes Rule The World into my top 10 for the 3rd time in a year. Pete Wylie gets a 3rd top 10, and Grace Jones goes top 10 again 6 years on, just ahead of eyt another classic soul/disco remix entering at 11 - this time Candi Staton's brilliant 1976 top 3 anthem Young Hearts Run Free. Fellow 1976 remix Can't Get By Without You also gives The Real Thing a second top 20 of the year. Falco has Vienna Calling for a 2nd top 20, Nu Shooz shoot into the 30, and Janet Jackson turns Nasty and rockets into the 30 for a second hit. Prince enters at 36 with Mountains, a fab under-rated track in his Paisley period style, as Mantronix debut at 49 - only another 15 years or so to wait for a chart-topper for Kurtis Mantronik though. Freddie Mercury's Dave Clark musical title track enters just ahead of his own band's Movie song, at 64, presiding over an influx at the lower end: The Moody Blues are back again for a sweet 16 years of chart entries; Living For The City, probably Stevie Wonder's greatest record, is covered by DaBooks (formerly Cook Da Books); Freda Payne gets the Bonnie Tyler treatment; The Communards keep the singles coming; a bit of soul dance from Cashflow, a bit of Heavy Rock from AC/DC 8 years into a chart run; and BAD get a second chart entry. 1 ( 1 ) OPPORTUNITIES (LET’S MAKE LOTS OF MONEY) Pet Shop Boys 2 ( 4 ) SET ME FREE Jaki Graham 3 ( 2 ) SLEDGEHAMMER Peter Gabriel 4 ( 5 ) SPIRIT IN THE SKY Doctor & The Medics 5 ( 3 ) (I’LL NEVER BE) MARIA MAGDALENA Sandra 6 ( 12 ) EVERYBODY WANTS TO RUN/RULE THE WORLD Tears For Fears 7 ( 7 ) ARE YOU READY TO BE HEARTBROKEN Sandie Shaw 8 ( 11 ) SINFUL Pete Wylie 9 ( 10 ) LESSONS IN LOVE Level 42 10 ( 15 ) PRIVATE LIFE Grace Jones 11 ( NEW ) YOUNG HEARTS RUN FREE (REMIX) Candi Staton 12 ( 18 ) LET’S GO ALL THE WAY Sly Fox 13 ( 6 ) ROCK LOBSTER The B52’s 14 ( 9 ) A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael 15 ( 25 ) VIENNA CALLING Falco 16 ( 8 ) ON MY OWN Patti Labelle & Michael MacDonald 17 ( 13 ) I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE Marvin Gaye 18 ( 31 ) CAN’T GET BY WITHOUT YOU (REMIX) The Real Thing 19 ( 20 ) BAD BOYS Miami Sound Machine 20 ( 17 ) WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY Janet Jackson 21 ( 16 ) ROUGH BOY ZZ Top 22 ( 14 ) BOYS DON’T CRY The Cure 23 ( 46 ) I CAN’T WAIT Nu Shooz 24 ( 21 ) I ENGINEER Icehouse 25 ( 34 ) GOD BLESS YOU WOMAN Culture Club 26 ( 37 ) RING A DING DING Perils Of Plastic 27 ( 19 ) R.O.C.K. IN THE USA John Cougar Mellencamp 28 ( 75 ) NASTY Janet Jackson 29 ( 27 ) ROCK ME AMADEUS Falco 30 ( 24 ) E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite 31 ( 23 ) YOU KEEP ME HANGIN’ ON Diana Ross & The Supremes 32 ( 26 ) IF YOU LEAVE OMD 33 ( 38 ) OVER THE WEEKEND Nick Heyward 34 ( 22 ) XX SEX/ RULES AND REGULATIONS We’ve Got A Fuzzbox & We’re Gonna Use It 35 ( 42 ) MY FAVOURITE WASTE OF TIME Owen Paul 36 ( 51 ) ADDICTED TO LOVE Robert Palmer 37 ( NEW ) MOUNTAINS Prince 38 ( 40 ) ROLLIN’ HOME Status Quo 39 ( 30 ) THE BIG SKY Kate Bush 40 ( 43 ) LOVE TOUCH Rod Stewart 41 ( 29 ) FREEWAY OF LOVE Aretha Franklin 42 ( 59 ) INVISIBLE TOUCH Genesis 43 ( 28 ) LIVE TO TELL Madonna 44 ( 49 ) VENUS Bananarama 45 ( 33 ) TENDER LOVE Force MD’s 46 ( 39 ) CAN’T WAIT ANOTHER MINUTE Five Star 47 ( 36 ) ASK THE LORD Hipsway 48 ( 35 ) KIND WORDS (AND A REAL GOOD HEART) Joan Armatrading 49 ( NEW ) BASSLINE Mantronix 50 ( 58 ) GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY Black Uhuru 51 ( 67 ) NEW BEGINNING (MAMBA SEYRA) Bucks Fizz 52 ( 32 ) SO SERIOUS Electric Light Orchestra 53 ( 44 ) ALL THE THE THINGS SHE SAID Simple Minds 54 ( 63 ) THE PROMISE YOU MADE Cock Robin 55 ( 52 ) CALLING AMERICA Electric Light Orchestra 56 ( 65 ) TOO GOOD TO BE FORGOTTEN Amazulu 57 ( 54 ) STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT Frank Sinatra 58 ( 69 ) BIG MOUTH STRIKES AGAIN The Smiths 59 ( 47 ) RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES Wax 60 ( 71 ) HOLDING BACK THE YEARS Simply Red 61 ( 57 ) HOUNDS OF LOVE Kate Bush 62 ( 53 ) WHAT YOU NEED INXS 63 ( 70 ) ALL I NEED IS A MIRACLE Mike + The Mechanics 64 ( NEW ) TIME Freddie Mercury 65 ( 56 ) A KIND OF MAGIC Queen 66 ( 66 ) THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES ON TV A-ha 67 ( NEW ) YOUR WILDEST DREAMS The Moody Blues 68 ( 60 ) DRIVING AWAY FROM HOME It’s Immaterial 69 ( NEW ) LIVING FOR THE CITY DaBooks 70 ( NEW ) BAND OF GOLD Bonnie Tyler 71 ( NEW ) DISENCHANTED The Communards 72 ( 74 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 73 ( NEW ) MINE ALL MINE Cashflow 74 ( NEW ) WHO MADE WHO AC/DC 75 ( NEW ) MEDICINE SHOW Big Audio Dynamite PLAYIST OLDIES 1 JUDY TEEN Cockney Rebel 2 TOUCH TOO MUCH Arrows 3 RANDY Blue Mink
June 8, 20187 yr 'Disenchanted' is a great dance tune, very well produced! Pity it didn't do that well in the charts. 'Bassline' sounds good and a bit ahead of its time. It sounds more 1990 than 1986! 'Opportunites' is not one of my fave PSB songs, the lyrics kind of put me off it a bit, but the production is great. I don't know that Icehouse song but 'Hey Little Girl' from 1983 is a great dance track! Edited June 8, 20187 yr by Queef Of Peas
June 9, 20187 yr Author 'Disenchanted' is a great dance tune, very well produced! Pity it didn't do that well in the charts. 'Bassline' sounds good and a bit ahead of its time. It sounds more 1990 than 1986! 'Opportunites' is not one of my fave PSB songs, the lyrics kind of put me off it a bit, but the production is great. I don't know that Icehouse song but 'Hey Little Girl' from 1983 is a great dance track! Hi Queefy Disenchanted has been kinda forgotten by the monster that followed it, a shame. I need to revisit Bassline havent heard it since 1986! The lyrics to Opportunities arent what they seem to be on the surface - the boys are very socially aware and were strongly anti-Thatcher, it was a comment on the superficiality of Thatcherism, with an ironic twist on what they seemed to be doing themselves (but weren't - they are both accomplished musicians, and have never chased cash, they choose artistic integrity - not smiling in photos, going for singles the record company would prefer them not to - everytime. :) ) Icehouse 83 was fab!
June 14, 20187 yr Author 10th June 1986 It's 3 weeks on top for Pet Shop Boys as Bucks Fizz rocket up to 4, for 5 years worth of top 5 hits, with new member, local girl round these 'ere parts Shelley Preston replacing departing Jay Aston. Falco makes it 2 Austrian top 5 German-language hits, that's a first (and a last) for my charts. The Fab Nu Shooz track with that delicious instrumental track hits 9, just ahead of Sly Fox, still hoping to go all the way - get ready to be disappointed lads! Highest new entry is a-ha, 4 top 40's and just pipped on a top 20 at 21, a spacious and epic ballad this time showing they can do sweeping strings beautifully. Bananarama take Venus into the 30, Eurythmics enter at 26 When Tomorrow Comes, a bit flattering for a lesser single I think these days, and Haywoode is back at last with Roses getting the recognition it deserved first time round. In at 30, a beautifully amusing I Wanna Be A Cowboy, complete with the late Metal legend Lemmy in the video. At 32 it's the 3rd version (and not the last!) of The Locomotion to chart, as Dave Stewart (not Eurythmics Dave Stewart) and Barbara Gaskin fail to what they did 5 years earlier with It's My Party (top the UK charts). Little Eva was a reissued top 3 hit in 1972, Grand Funk made my top 30 in 1974, and Kylie wasn't that far away. Lovebug Starski brings some 80's novelty horror rap into the charts, Wham! are back for the last official single at 39, The Edge Of Heaven EP, and Prince, Smiths and Big Audio Dynamite all make the 40. Sigue Sigue Sputnik refers to T.Rex, but essentially repeats the first hit to much-less success and credibility, in at 46, and at 56 Marc Almond is back with a Cher cover, all melodrama, as both do well. Midge Ure slips in The Call Of The Wild, Queen under-perform everywhere with Highlander track Friends Will Be Friends, which remains one of the more memorable ballads they did, Mr. Mister get a 3rd entry, somehow, Suzanne Vega has another goodie Left Of Centre, and finally The Housemartins follow like Sheep, bursting with future success cos it's Happy Hour! 1 ( 1 ) OPPORTUNITIES (LET’S MAKE LOTS OF MONEY) Pet Shop Boys 2 ( 2 ) SET ME FREE Jaki Graham 3 ( 4 ) SPIRIT IN THE SKY Doctor & The Medics 4 ( 51 ) NEW BEGINNING (MAMBA SEYRA) Bucks Fizz 5 ( 15 ) VIENNA CALLING Falco 6 ( 7 ) ARE YOU READY TO BE HEARTBROKEN Sandie Shaw 7 ( 3 ) SLEDGEHAMMER Peter Gabriel 8 ( 8 ) SINFUL Pete Wylie 9 ( 23 ) I CAN’T WAIT Nu Shooz 10 ( 12 ) LET’S GO ALL THE WAY Sly Fox 11 ( 11 ) YOUNG HEARTS RUN FREE (REMIX) Candi Staton 12 ( 5 ) (I’LL NEVER BE) MARIA MAGDALENA Sandra 13 ( 19 ) BAD BOYS Miami Sound Machine 14 ( 6 ) EVERYBODY WANTS TO RUN/RULE THE WORLD Tears For Fears 15 ( 9 ) LESSONS IN LOVE Level 42 16 ( 18 ) CAN’T GET BY WITHOUT YOU (REMIX) The Real Thing 17 ( 14 ) A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael 18 ( 25 ) GOD BLESS YOU WOMAN Culture Club 19 ( 28 ) NASTY Janet Jackson 20 ( 16 ) ON MY OWN Patti Labelle & Michael MacDonald 21 ( NEW ) HUNTING HIGH AND LOW a-ha 22 ( 35 ) MY FAVOURITE WASTE OF TIME Owen Paul 23 ( 13 ) ROCK LOBSTER The B52’s 24 ( 17 ) I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE Marvin Gaye 25 ( 44 ) VENUS Bananarama 26 ( NEW ) WHEN TOMORROW COMES Eurythmics 27 ( 37 ) MOUNTAINS Prince 28 ( 10 ) PRIVATE LIFE Grace Jones 29 ( NEW ) ROSES Haywoode 30 ( NEW ) I WANNA BE A COWBOY Boys Don’t Cry 31 ( 20 ) WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY Janet Jackson 32 ( NEW ) THE LOCOMOTION Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin 33 ( 26 ) RING A DING DING Perils Of Plastic 34 ( 58 ) BIG MOUTH STRIKES AGAIN The Smiths 35 ( 24 ) I ENGINEER Icehouse 36 ( NEW ) AMITYVILLE (HOUSE ON THE HILL) Lovebug Starski 37 ( 29 ) ROCK ME AMADEUS Falco 38 ( 56 ) TOO GOOD TO BE FORGOTTEN Amazulu 39 ( NEW ) THE EDGE OF HEAVEN Wham! 40 ( 75 ) MEDICINE SHOW Big Audio Dynamite 41 ( 30 ) E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite 42 ( 42 ) INVISIBLE TOUCH Genesis 43 ( 31 ) YOU KEEP ME HANGIN’ ON Diana Ross & The Supremes 44 ( 21 ) ROUGH BOY ZZ Top 45 ( 71 ) DISENCHANTED The Communards 46 ( NEW ) 21ST CENTURY BOY Sigue Sigue Sputnik 47 ( 32 ) IF YOU LEAVE OMD 48 ( 22 ) BOYS DON’T CRY The Cure 49 ( 54 ) THE PROMISE YOU MADE Cock Robin 50 ( 64 ) TIME Freddie Mercury 51 ( 39 ) THE BIG SKY Kate Bush 52 ( 60 ) HOLDING BACK THE YEARS Simply Red 53 ( 27 ) R.O.C.K. IN THE USA John Cougar Mellencamp 54 ( 36 ) ADDICTED TO LOVE Robert Palmer 55 ( 46 ) CAN’T WAIT ANOTHER MINUTE Five Star 56 ( NEW ) A WOMAN’S STORY Marc Almond 57 ( 40 ) LOVE TOUCH Rod Stewart 58 ( 34 ) XX SEX/ RULES AND REGULATIONS We’ve Got A Fuzzbox & We’re Gonna Use It 59 ( 53 ) ALL THE THE THINGS SHE SAID Simple Minds 60 ( 55 ) CALLING AMERICA Electric Light Orchestra 61 ( 49 ) BASSLINE Mantronix 62 ( 73 ) MINE ALL MINE Cashflow 63 ( 61 ) HOUNDS OF LOVE Kate Bush 64 ( 33 ) OVER THE WEEKEND Nick Heyward 65 ( NEW ) CALL OF THE WILD Midge Ure 66 ( NEW ) FRIENDS WILL BE FRIENDS Queen 67 ( 41 ) FREEWAY OF LOVE Aretha Franklin 68 ( 66 ) THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES ON TV A-ha 69 ( NEW ) IS IT LOVE Mr. Mister 70 ( 38 ) ROLLIN’ HOME Status Quo 71 ( 57 ) STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT Frank Sinatra 72 ( NEW ) HAPPY HOUR The Housemartins 73 ( 72 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 74 ( 48 ) KIND WORDS (AND A REAL GOOD HEART) Joan Armatrading 75 ( NEW ) LEFT OF CENTRE Suzanne Vega Playlist Oldies Of The Week 1 HE’S A REBEL The Crystals 2 LONELY MAN The Godfathers 3 BE MY BABY The Ronettes
June 16, 20187 yr 'Twenty First Century Boy' is very good but maybe not quite as good as Love Missile. At least it was another electronic dance tune in the charts back then. 43 ( 31 ) YOU KEEP ME HANGIN’ ON Diana Ross & The Supremes Funny this charting on your personal chart when there will be another version of this song later on in the year! :o Haven't heard it much before 'Vienna Calling' sounds great. Listening to it, I can't help thinking that perhaps it was a bit of an inspiration for 90s eurodance acts like The Real McCoy with the rapped part in the verses followed by the big chorus! Edited June 16, 20187 yr by The Snake
June 16, 20187 yr Pet Shop Boys is a fairly fitting no1 for the stage of the 80s Thatcherite counter revolution we were at!
June 22, 20187 yr Author 'Twenty First Century Boy' is very good but maybe not quite as good as Love Missile. At least it was another electronic dance tune in the charts back then. Funny this charting on your personal chart when there will be another version of this song later on in the year! :o Haven't heard it much before 'Vienna Calling' sounds great. Listening to it, I can't help thinking that perhaps it was a bit of an inspiration for 90s eurodance acts like The Real McCoy with the rapped part in the verses followed by the big chorus! Hi Snakey B-) 21st centruy boy wasnt as genre-defying as Love Missile, but fun enough :) Yes that Supremes reissue must have been either an inspiration for Kim's version, or else Motown knew it was on the way and got it out early - they were always hot on marketing their back catalogue in the UK! Vienna calling was fab and one I dont think I ever managed to find in the bargain bins! Never pops up on compilations either, which is annoying!
June 22, 20187 yr Author Aul Jay Aston is just :wub: even now at 57! She just still looks fab doesn't she though! I can't believe she was on Buzzcocks mystery popstar panel some years back and the panel was struggling to guess which one was in Bucks Fizz. I mean I was literally shouting at the TV, "it's her because it's Jay Aston and she's been on Top Of The Pops a hundred times!" Talking of Bucks Fizz.....
June 22, 20187 yr Author 18th June 1986 It's a first week on top for Bucks Fizz Mark 2, giving them a 5th and final chart-topper, as Wham! are shooting up into the 20 for the final time (with a new single), while highest new entry is 1985's back-again Bangles track, the fab Katrina & The waves cover Going Down To Liverpool - which I did several times a year in those days to pick up my grandma or visit. Bowie's back with another movie song - though not exactly in the same musical league as Absolute Beginners, the film is very much better remembered than Ab Beginners - Labyrinth. The Housemartins get a first top 40, and booze it up, while Genesis scrape another 40, and Marc Almond adds to his list too. Madonna also returns with her best record to date, a creative step up, the fab Papa Don't Preach. Matt Bianco havent covered Martha Reeves it's a new jolly tune, 80's dance chart-topper Dhar Braxton enters, Art Of Noise drag Max Headroom in and the result isn't quite the same standard as Duane Eddy, but fellow 50's rocker Little Richard also pops in with a very 50's-sounding revisit of his old sound. That leaves INXS with a second fab funkrock entry, Listen Like Thieves. 1 ( 4 ) NEW BEGINNING (MAMBA SEYRA) Bucks Fizz 2 ( 1 ) OPPORTUNITIES (LET’S MAKE LOTS OF MONEY) Pet Shop Boys 3 ( 3 ) SPIRIT IN THE SKY Doctor & The Medics 4 ( 5 ) VIENNA CALLING Falco 5 ( 9 ) I CAN’T WAIT Nu Shooz 6 ( 2 ) SET ME FREE Jaki Graham 7 ( 6 ) ARE YOU READY TO BE HEARTBROKEN Sandie Shaw 8 ( 8 ) SINFUL Pete Wylie 9 ( 11 ) YOUNG HEARTS RUN FREE (REMIX) Candi Staton 10 ( 7 ) SLEDGEHAMMER Peter Gabriel 11 ( 10 ) LET’S GO ALL THE WAY Sly Fox 12 ( 13 ) BAD BOYS Miami Sound Machine 13 ( 16 ) CAN’T GET BY WITHOUT YOU (REMIX) The Real Thing 14 ( 30 ) I WANNA BE A COWBOY Boys Don’t Cry 15 ( 12 ) (I’LL NEVER BE) MARIA MAGDALENA Sandra 16 ( 21 ) HUNTING HIGH AND LOW a-ha 17 ( 39 ) THE EDGE OF HEAVEN Wham! 18 ( 26 ) WHEN TOMORROW COMES Eurythmics 19 ( 19 ) NASTY Janet Jackson 20 ( NEW ) GOING DOWN TO LIVERPOOL The Bangles 21 ( 25 ) VENUS Bananarama 22 ( 22 ) MY FAVOURITE WASTE OF TIME Owen Paul 23 ( 27 ) MOUNTAINS Prince 24 ( 17 ) A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael 25 ( 18 ) GOD THANK YOU WOMAN Culture Club 26 ( 14 ) EVERYBODY WANTS TO RUN/RULE THE WORLD Tears For Fears 27 ( 15 ) LESSONS IN LOVE Level 42 28 ( 20 ) ON MY OWN Patti Labelle & Michael MacDonald 29 ( 29 ) ROSES Haywoode 30 ( 34 ) BIG MOUTH STRIKES AGAIN The Smiths 31 ( 24 ) I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE Marvin Gaye 32 ( 32 ) THE LOCOMOTION Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin 33 ( 36 ) AMITYVILLE (HOUSE ON THE HILL) Lovebug Starski 34 ( 38 ) TOO GOOD TO BE FORGOTTEN Amazulu 35 ( NEW ) UNDERGROUND David Bowie 36 ( 40 ) THE MEDICINE SHOW Big Audio Dynamite 37 ( 72 ) HAPPY HOUR The Housemartins 38 ( 23 ) ROCK LOBSTER The B52’s 39 ( 42 ) INVISIBLE TOUCH Genesis 40 ( 56 ) A WOMAN’S STORY Marc Almond 41 ( 46 ) 21ST CENTURY BOY Sigue Sigue Sputnik 42 ( 66 ) FRIENDS WILL BE FRIENDS Queen 43 ( 31 ) WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY Janet Jackson 44 ( 41 ) E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite 45 ( 52 ) HOLDING BACK THE YEARS Simply Red 46 ( 37 ) ROCK ME AMADEUS Falco 47 ( 33 ) RING A DING DING Perils Of Plastic 48 ( 43 ) YOU KEEP ME HANGIN’ ON Diana Ross & The Supremes 49 ( 49 ) THE PROMISE YOU MADE Cock Robin 50 ( 65 ) CALL OF THE WILD Midge Ure 51 ( 28 ) PRIVATE LIFE Grace Jones 52 ( 45 ) DISENCHANTED The Communards 53 ( 35 ) I ENGINEER Icehouse 54 ( NEW ) PAPA DON’T PREACH Madonna 55 ( 55 ) CAN’T WAIT ANOTHER MINUTE Five Star 56 ( 54 ) ADDICTED TO LOVE Robert Palmer 57 ( 44 ) ROUGH BOY ZZ Top 58 ( 51 ) THE BIG SKY Kate Bush 59 ( 48 ) BOYS DON’T CRY The Cure 60 ( 62 ) MINE ALL MINE Cashflow 61 ( 47 ) IF YOU LEAVE OMD 62 ( 60 ) CALLING AMERICA Electric Light Orchestra 63 ( 53 ) R.O.C.K. IN THE USA John Cougar Mellencamp 64 ( 63 ) HOUNDS OF LOVE Kate Bush 65 ( NEW ) DANCING IN THE STREET Matt Bianco 66 ( 50 ) TIME Freddie Mercury 67 ( NEW ) JUMP BACK (SET ME FREE) Dhar Braxton 68 ( 68 ) THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES ON TV A-ha 69 ( 69 ) IS IT LOVE Mr. Mister 70 ( NEW ) PARANOIMIA Art Of Noise and Max Headroom 71 ( 73 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 72 ( 75 ) LEFT OF CENTRE Suzanne Vega 73 ( NEW ) GREAT GOSH A MIGHTY Little Richard 74 ( 59 ) ALL THE THE THINGS SHE SAID Simple Minds 75 ( NEW ) LISTEN LIKE THIEVES INXS 1 GOOD GRIEF CHRISTINA Chicory Tip 2 WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO Donnie Elbert 3 SAMSON AND DELILAH Middle Of The Road
June 22, 20187 yr Dhar Braxton's song might just be the first house hit to make the top 40. Not sure if it is quite house but certainly sounds very close to it. It is quite a tune, and she has a great jazzy voice!
June 22, 20187 yr New Beginning (Mamba Seyra) is probably my favourite Bucks Fizz song. I like the multiple drum sound on it. Jay Aston auditioned on The Voice in 2013 but none of the judges turned around so she didn't have a 'new beginning' that time.
June 23, 20187 yr Yep that Bucks Fizz song sounds good, it does have rather epic production which is a bit reminscent of the Frankie Goes To Hollywood 'Relax' instrumental in parts. Edited June 23, 20187 yr by The Snake
June 25, 20187 yr Author Dhar Braxton's song might just be the first house hit to make the top 40. Not sure if it is quite house but certainly sounds very close to it. It is quite a tune, and she has a great jazzy voice! Hi Snakey, I have to admit I'd totally forgotten the Dhar Braxton track and I thought that would never happen with 80's stuff! :lol: Sounds very House to me and the Youtube comments on the 12inch seem to suggest it is and was big on Urban US stations. Quite bangin' actually. I recently got reminded of the first Rap track. Not what everyone might expect - it's a semi-novelty song based on a TV show catch-phrase: Here Comes The Judge by Pigmeat Markham which I was fond of back in 1968. Can I claim I was into rap before anyone on Buzzjack? :lol:
June 25, 20187 yr Author New Beginning (Mamba Seyra) is probably my favourite Bucks Fizz song. I like the multiple drum sound on it. Jay Aston auditioned on The Voice in 2013 but none of the judges turned around so she didn't have a 'new beginning' that time. Hi Rollo, yes I also love that drum beat!
June 25, 20187 yr Author Yep that Bucks Fizz song sounds good, it does have rather epic production which is a bit reminscent of the Frankie Goes To Hollywood 'Relax' instrumental in parts. I'm a sucker for Epic Productions so that prob explains why I adore both records :lol:
June 25, 20187 yr Author 24th June 1986 2 weeks on top for Bucks Fizz as Nu Shooz are kept off the top spot, Sandie Shaw gets her 3rd top 5, Eurythmics keep the top 10's coming - just two misses since Sweet Dreams - and The Bangles make it 2 Top 10's, and a-ha 4 in a row. Highest new entry at 16 is the 20th anniversary reissue of Paperback Writer, last charting in 1976 for The Beatles, while The Housemartins get a first top 20, and Prince adds to his already long list of top 20's dating back to 1999 in 1983 and 1985 and will chart again in 1999 and 2016. Confused? Madonna's up 30 with Papa Don't Preach, to 24, Queen are into the 40, and the fab unknown A View From A Hill single No Conversation is in at 34. El DEBarge goes solo and asks Who's Johnny? Ask The Teacher! Big Country are one place lower. Real Roxanne is also solo and Bang Zoom - but not To The Moon Alice, one for TV's Honeymooners fans there, assuming any are still alive. The Temps are in at 59 with future chart-topper My Girl in 1991, and also another 2000's run, having predated my charts on 60's runs, but keeping the Motown back catalogue alive. Stevie Winwood is back, with his greatest solo track Higher Love, Steve Harley is also back to give him 12 years of chart entries, and the late Marvin Gaye is X rated posthumously giving him 17 years of chart entries. 1 ( 1 ) NEW BEGINNING (MAMBA SEYRA) Bucks Fizz 2 ( 5 ) I CAN’T WAIT Nu Shooz 3 ( 2 ) OPPORTUNITIES (LET’S MAKE LOTS OF MONEY) Pet Shop Boys 4 ( 4 ) VIENNA CALLING Falco 5 ( 7 ) ARE YOU READY TO BE HEARTBROKEN Sandie Shaw 6 ( 18 ) WHEN TOMORROW COMES Eurythmics 7 ( 17 ) THE EDGE OF HEAVEN Wham! 8 ( 11 ) LET’S GO ALL THE WAY Sly Fox 9 ( 20 ) GOING DOWN TO LIVERPOOL The Bangles 10 ( 16 ) HUNTING HIGH AND LOW a-ha 11 ( 3 ) SPIRIT IN THE SKY Doctor & The Medics 12 ( 14 ) I WANNA BE A COWBOY Boys Don’t Cry 13 ( 21 ) VENUS Bananarama 14 ( 6 ) SET ME FREE Jaki Graham 15 ( 8 ) SINFUL Pete Wylie 16 ( NEW ) PAPERBACK WRITER The Beatles 17 ( 10 ) SLEDGEHAMMER Peter Gabriel 18 ( 37 ) HAPPY HOUR The Housemartins 19 ( 29 ) ROSES Haywoode 20 ( 23 ) MOUNTAINS Prince 21 ( 19 ) NASTY Janet Jackson 22 ( 22 ) MY FAVOURITE WASTE OF TIME Owen Paul 23 ( 15 ) (I’LL NEVER BE) MARIA MAGDALENA Sandra 24 ( 54 ) PAPA DON’T PREACH Madonna 25 ( 9 ) YOUNG HEARTS RUN FREE (REMIX) Candi Staton 26 ( 35 ) UNDERGROUND David Bowie 27 ( 34 ) TOO GOOD TO BE FORGOTTEN Amazulu 28 ( 33 ) AMITYVILLE (HOUSE ON THE HILL) Lovebug Starski 29 ( 13 ) CAN’T GET BY WITHOUT YOU (REMIX) The Real Thing 30 ( 12 ) BAD BOYS Miami Sound Machine 31 ( 24 ) A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael 32 ( 36 ) THE MEDICINE SHOW Big Audio Dynamite 33 ( 42 ) FRIENDS WILL BE FRIENDS Queen 34 ( NEW ) NO CONVERSATION A View From The Hill 35 ( 49 ) THE PROMISE YOU MADE Cock Robin 36 ( 28 ) ON MY OWN Patti Labelle & Michael MacDonald 37 ( 39 ) INVISIBLE TOUCH Genesis 38 ( 27 ) LESSONS IN LOVE Level 42 39 ( 50 ) CALL OF THE WILD Midge Ure 40 ( 31 ) I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE Marvin Gaye 41 ( 25 ) GOD THANK YOU WOMAN Culture Club 42 ( NEW ) WHO’S JOHNNY El DeBarge 43 ( NEW ) THE TEACHER Big Country 44 ( 30 ) BIG MOUTH STRIKES AGAIN The Smiths 45 ( 32 ) THE LOCOMOTION Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin 46 ( NEW ) (BANG ZOOM) LET’S GO GO Real Roxanne 47 ( 38 ) ROCK LOBSTER The B52’s 48 ( 44 ) E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite 49 ( 43 ) WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY Janet Jackson 50 ( 72 ) LEFT OF CENTRE Suzanne Vega 51 ( 26 ) EVERYBODY WANTS TO RUN/RULE THE WORLD Tears For Fears 52 ( 41 ) 21ST CENTURY BOY Sigue Sigue Sputnik 53 ( 48 ) YOU KEEP ME HANGIN’ ON Diana Ross & The Supremes 54 ( RE ) BAND OF GOLD Bonnie Tyler 55 ( 46 ) ROCK ME AMADEUS Falco 56 ( 65 ) DANCING IN THE STREET Matt Bianco 57 ( 40 ) A WOMAN’S STORY Marc Almond 58 ( 45 ) HOLDING BACK THE YEARS Simply Red 59 ( NEW ) MY GIRL The Temptations 60 ( 67 ) JUMP BACK (SET ME FREE) Dhar Braxton 61 ( 55 ) CAN’T WAIT ANOTHER MINUTE Five Star 62 ( 47 ) RING A DING DING Perils Of Plastic 63 ( NEW ) HIGHER LOVE Stevie Winwood 64 ( 62 ) CALLING AMERICA Electric Light Orchestra 65 ( 64 ) HOUNDS OF LOVE Kate Bush 66 ( 75 ) LISTEN LIKE THIEVES INXS 67 ( NEW ) IRRESISTIBLE Steve Harley 68 ( 57 ) ROUGH BOY ZZ Top 69 ( 73 ) GREAT GOSH A MIGHTY Little Richard 70 ( 68 ) THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES ON TV A-ha 71 ( 58 ) THE BIG SKY Kate Bush 72 ( NEW ) BRILLIANT MIND Furniture 73 ( NEW ) MATCHSTICK FLOTILLA Thrashing Doves 74 ( NEW ) THE WORLD IS RATED X Marvin Gaye 75 ( 71 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy Playlist Oldies 1 BANG A BOOMERANG Abba 2 DON’T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME Elton John 3 SUNSHINE The Archies
June 30, 20187 yr 'Higher Love' is a good dance-pop tune with tropical instrumentation, it kind of sounds like the 80s equivalent of Jonas Blue now.
July 1, 20187 yr Author 'Higher Love' is a good dance-pop tune with tropical instrumentation, it kind of sounds like the 80s equivalent of Jonas Blue now. Hi snakey, yes now you mention it theres a tropical sound to it. Someone should do a list of 20th century tropical sounding oldies, might be interesting....!
July 6, 20187 yr Author 1st July 1986 It's 3 weeks on top for Bucks Fizz, their longest runner, as they hold off Wham! at 2, and Boys Don't Cry going top 5 with non-hit I Wanna Be A Cowboy. Bananarama grab a 5th or so top 10, Madonna strides into the 20, and A View From The Hill are talking about a big climb into the 20. Highest new entry at 18 is 1979 top 5 Boogie Wonderland, back again for Earth Wind & Fire & The Emotions. Steve Winwood has a large leap into the 30 with his Higher Love, and Stan Ridgway is in Camouflage with his goose-bump-inducing story of a ghostly heroic marine in Viet-Nam new at 28 for the former Wall Of Voodoo man, and his joining Stewart Copeland on Don't Box Me In. Michael McDonald is back, I keep forgettin' how many tracks he's charted, but at least dating back to 1979 with The Doobie Brothers What A Fool Believes. Katrina gets another sunny wave-y hit, I'd advise her to give Eurovision a try when the hits dry up, Gary Numan extends his chart run to 7 years, and Barry Grey enters 17 years belatedly with his theme to Joe 90, puppet-strings-music-maestro, and not for the last time with a Gerry Anderson theme tune. 1 ( 1 ) NEW BEGINNING (MAMBA SEYRA) Bucks Fizz 2 ( 7 ) THE EDGE OF HEAVEN Wham! 3 ( 2 ) I CAN’T WAIT Nu Shooz 4 ( 12 ) I WANNA BE A COWBOY Boys Don’t Cry 5 ( 8 ) LET’S GO ALL THE WAY Sly Fox 6 ( 6 ) WHEN TOMORROW COMES Eurythmics 7 ( 4 ) VIENNA CALLING Falco 8 ( 3 ) OPPORTUNITIES (LET’S MAKE LOTS OF MONEY) Pet Shop Boys 9 ( 9 ) GOING DOWN TO LIVERPOOL The Bangles 10 ( 13 ) VENUS Bananarama 11 ( 10 ) HUNTING HIGH AND LOW a-ha 12 ( 24 ) PAPA DON’T PREACH Madonna 13 ( 19 ) ROSES Haywoode 14 ( 16 ) PAPERBACK WRITER The Beatles 15 ( 18 ) HAPPY HOUR The Housemartins 16 ( 5 ) ARE YOU READY TO BE HEARTBROKEN Sandie Shaw 17 ( 34 ) NO CONVERSATION A View From The Hill 18 ( 11 ) SPIRIT IN THE SKY Doctor & The Medics 19 ( NEW ) BOOGIE WONDERLAND Earth, Wind & Fire with The Emotions 20 ( 28 ) AMITYVILLE (HOUSE ON THE HILL) Lovebug Starski 21 ( 14 ) SET ME FREE Jaki Graham 22 ( 35 ) THE PROMISE YOU MADE Cock Robin 23 ( 27 ) TOO GOOD TO BE FORGOTTEN Amazulu 24 ( 32 ) THE MEDICINE SHOW Big Audio Dynamite 25 ( 26 ) UNDERGROUND David Bowie 26 ( 63 ) HIGHER LOVE Stevie Winwood 27 ( 17 ) SLEDGEHAMMER Peter Gabriel 28 ( NEW ) CAMOUFLAGE Stan Ridgway 29 ( 15 ) SINFUL Pete Wylie 30 ( 33 ) FRIENDS WILL BE FRIENDS Queen 31 ( 20 ) MOUNTAINS Prince 32 ( 46 ) (BANG ZOOM) LET’S GO GO Real Roxanne 33 ( 21 ) NASTY Janet Jackson 34 ( 23 ) (I’LL NEVER BE) MARIA MAGDALENA Sandra 35 ( 39 ) CALL OF THE WILD Midge Ure 36 ( 31 ) A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael 37 ( 43 ) THE TEACHER Big Country 38 ( 25 ) YOUNG HEARTS RUN FREE (REMIX) Candi Staton 39 ( 29 ) CAN’T GET BY WITHOUT YOU (REMIX) The Real Thing 40 ( 42 ) WHO’S JOHNNY El DeBarge 41 ( 22 ) MY FAVOURITE WASTE OF TIME Owen Paul 42 ( 30 ) BAD BOYS Miami Sound Machine 43 ( 36 ) ON MY OWN Patti Labelle & Michael MacDonald 44 ( 50 ) LEFT OF CENTRE Suzanne Vega 45 ( 40 ) I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE Marvin Gaye 46 ( 38 ) LESSONS IN LOVE Level 42 47 ( 66 ) LISTEN LIKE THIEVES INXS 48 ( 37 ) INVISIBLE TOUCH Genesis 49 ( 54 ) BAND OF GOLD Bonnie Tyler 50 ( 59 ) MY GIRL The Temptations 51 ( 41 ) GOD THANK YOU WOMAN Culture Club 52 ( RE ) PARANOIMIA Art Of Noise and Max Headroom 53 ( 48 ) E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite 54 ( 49 ) WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY Janet Jackson 55 ( 47 ) ROCK LOBSTER The B52’s 56 ( NEW ) I KEEP FORGETTIN’ Michael McDonald 57 ( 72 ) BRILLIANT MIND Furniture 58 ( 60 ) JUMP BACK (SET ME FREE) Dhar Braxton 59 ( 53 ) YOU KEEP ME HANGIN’ ON Diana Ross & The Supremes 60 ( NEW ) OH SHEILA Ready For The World 61 ( 45 ) THE LOCOMOTION Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin 62 ( 61 ) CAN’T WAIT ANOTHER MINUTE Five Star 63 ( 44 ) BIG MOUTH STRIKES AGAIN The Smiths 64 ( 55 ) ROCK ME AMADEUS Falco 65 ( 65 ) HOUNDS OF LOVE Kate Bush 66 ( NEW ) HEADLINES Midnight Star 67 ( 67 ) IRRESISTIBLE Steve Harley 68 ( 64 ) CALLING AMERICA Electric Light Orchestra 69 ( NEW ) SMILE Audrey Hall 70 ( NEW ) SUN STREET Katrina & The Waves 71 ( 70 ) THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES ON TV A-ha 72 ( 56 ) DANCING IN THE STREET Matt Bianco 73 ( NEW ) I CAN’T STOP Gary Numan 74 ( NEW ) JOE 90 THEME (CLUB MIX) The Barry Grey Orchestra 75 ( 75 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy PLAYIST OLDIES 1 HOLD ME Fleetwood Mac 2 WISHING WELL (REMIX) Free 3 YOU DON’T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME Guys & Dolls
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