Also really like ‘Smooth Criminal’ one of the best on Bad! ‘Nathan Jones’ is also one of Banaramas classics for me. Though think this is their final classic era - the 90s stuff kinda fades a bit!

Hi there!

Glad to see "Twist In My Sobriety" in the top 5, the debuts for "Smooth Criminal", "A Word In Spanish" and "Two Hearts" and the return for "Kissing A Fool"!

Great chart!

Also, I'm thinking after the end of my 1980 charts to ask everyone which chart year archive from the 80s I should post next, what do you think?

Edited November 15, 20204 yr by Sergej

Also really like ‘Smooth Criminal’ one of the best on Bad! ‘Nathan Jones’ is also one of Banaramas classics for me. Though think this is their final classic era - the 90s stuff kinda fades a bit!

 

 

Yes I started losing interest in the charts in the 90's. A music quiz with all post 90's would easily beat me.

Great to see ‘Real Gone Kid’ rising into the top 10!

 

Also sad that Enya doesn’t look like hitting the top spot but love the remix of Petula as well!

 

Sadly Enya peaks at 2, Orinoco Flo' never quite giving her a chart-topper, though more top 10's on the way :D

Orinoco Flow never did anything for me. One of those surprising No.1's

Hi there!

Glad to see "Twist In My Sobriety" in the top 5, the debuts for "Smooth Criminal", "A Word In Spanish" and "Two Hearts" and the return for "Kissing A Fool"!

Great chart!

Also, I'm thinking after the end of my 1980 charts to ask everyone which chart year archive from the 80s I should post next, what do you think?

 

Hi Sergej!

 

Thanks for the picks, and my pick would be 1981, cos I'm very anal retentive or a bit OCD I guess they call it (I like things in order) :lol: Plus I love 1981 and hope to crack on with my 1980 charts over Xmas so I can start 1981 in the new year (I will also be doing 1991 and 1971) but I'm a bit behind on 1980 right now so prob need a day to catch up :lol: Whichever you pick though I'll enjoy them, loved seeing the unusual tracks amongst the big hits :yahoo:

Yes I started losing interest in the charts in the 90's. A music quiz with all post 90's would easily beat me.

 

I didnt lose interest until streaming made a farce of the whole idea of "sales" and replaced it with "whatever young people listen to in the background for months on end" :lol: But my ability to recall names and songs gets worse with each successive decade, partly because brain cells expiring, partly because I haven't really reviewed years over and over the way I used to in the 60's through 80's, and partly these days because I dont listen to radio 1 anymore so unless I buy a track on one listen I never get to hear them again. I have literally never heard many big hits of the last few years more than once :o

20th November 1988

 

It's a 60's classic (more or less) on top some 24 years later than it 100% would have topped my chart when I was 6 years old, I loved Downtown, still do, I get powerful images of living in suburban/rural Chesham and going into London with my parents on the Tube when London was all Swinging 60's. Great record, and the remix didn't kill it. INXS finally get Need You Tonight top 3 and Bucks Fizz get their last top 5 (ahead of Cher's cover) with the fab Heart Of Stone. Of course, 2 of this line-up would be back in 30 years with another run of Fizz hits and a number one.

 

Pet Shop Boys have a big climb to 6 - but not yet top 5 :o Will Left To My Own Devices hit the top (hint, it's bloody brilliant)? George is Kissing A Fool with a 5th consecutive top 10 single from Faith, and 6th top 20, though Hand To Mouth (back at 76 as it's listed in my playlist at 2) would absolutely have been higher than Kissing A Fool, most-likely number one or two. Kim Wilde leaps into the 20 for a 4th Close track, and Blondie remix Denis, which topped my charts in 1978, back into entering at 23, just ahead of top new track - another US big hit from British band Escape Club and the gun-shooting Wild Wild West, great fun that one, should have been a UK hit.

 

Take cover! Mistletoe And Wine is in at 30. The great thing about personal charts is they show that a record you can't stand, and don't recall liking much, can actually have sounded fresh once upon a time. Here's the proof, I liked the Cliff Xmas perennial once upon a time! There's another Downtown in the chart, but it's not a cover, it's a new song that didn't catch on sadly - One 2 Many. Womack & Womack re-enter at a new Ball Game peak of 40, Two Hearts leaps up into the 40, The Pasadenas are back, Sigue Sigue Sputnik are surprisingly active 2 years on, as I don't recall anything beyond 1986, Success presumably not one.

 

Tiffany's stretching out her 5 minutes of fame to 12 months with a decent enough pop ditty, The Bangles add to their run ahead of a biggie, UB40 make it almost 9 years and are not even half-way through their chart run, Big Country sneak back in, towards the end of their 6-year run, Chris De Burgh charts another turgid ballad, even worse than Lady In Red, and Will To Power do a medley of Peter Frampton and Lynyrd Skynrd, homogenise both songs, and guarantee endless plays on Steve Wright for the next 32 years. I prefer the originals, thanks. That leaves the Nothing Less Than Brilliant Sandie Shaw returning with a very Morrissey-sounding song written by herself and her classic-60's songwriter Chris Andrews. Sandie would have had 3 chart-toppers in my hypothetical 60's kiddie charts. Finally, there's a track called There She Goes by The La's sneaking in. It'll be back again bigger in 1990. And 1998. Fab, fab, fab.

 

 

1 ( 2 ) DOWNTOWN '88 Petula Clark

2 ( 1 ) I WISH U HEAVEN Prince

3 ( 8 ) NEED YOU TONIGHT (MENDOHLSON MIX) INXS

4 ( 5 ) TWIST IN MY SOBRIETY Tanita Tikarim

5 ( 17 ) HEART OF STONE Bucks Fizz

6 ( 33 ) LEFT TO MY OWN DEVICES Pet Shop Boys

7 ( 3 ) ORINOCO FLOW Enya

8 ( 15 ) KISSING A FOOL George Michael

9 ( 6 ) LOVE IS ALL THAT MATTERS Human League

10 ( 19 ) PUT A LITTLE LOVE IN YOUR HEART Annie Lennox/ Al Green

 

11 ( 9 ) REAL GONE KID Deacon Blue

12 ( 4 ) WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND (PURE ENERGY) Information Society

13 ( 7 ) GIRL YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE Milli Vanilli

14 ( 18 ) SMOOTH CRIMINAL Michael Jackson

15 ( 10 ) LET'S STICK TOGETHER '88 Bryan Ferry

16 ( 20 ) BREATHE LIFE INTO ME Mica Paris

17 ( 22 ) HANDLE WITH CARE Traveling Wilbury's

18 ( 12 ) SHE MAKES MY DAY Robert Palmer

19 ( 11 ) JE NE SAIS PAS POURQUOI Kylie Minogue

20 ( 39 ) FOUR LETTER WORD Kim Wilde

 

21 ( 14 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles

22 ( 13 ) KOKOMO The Beach Boys

23 ( NEW ) DENIS (DENEE) '88 Blondie

24 ( NEW ) WILD WILD WEST The Escape Club

25 ( 38 ) SUNSHINE ON LEITH The Proclaimers

26 ( 21 ) NEVER TRUST A STRANGER Kim Wilde

27 ( 16 ) BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY The Four Seasons

28 ( 24 ) HE AIN'T HEAVY...HE'S MY BROTHER The Hollies

29 ( 23 ) DOMINO DANCING Pet Shop Boys

30 ( NEW ) MISTLETOE AND WINE Cliff Richard

 

31 ( 35 ) FIRST TIME Robin Beck

32 ( 28 ) “1-2-3” Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine

33 ( 25 ) ONE BAD APPLE The Osmonds

34 ( 29 ) LOVELY DAY (SUNSHINE MIX) Bill Withers

35 ( 55 ) WHAT KIND OF FOOL All About Eve

36 ( 27 ) DECEMBER '63 (OH WHAT A NIGHT) '88 The Four Seasons

37 ( NEW ) DOWNTOWN One 2 Many

38 ( 75 ) TWO HEARTS Phil Collins

39 ( 45 ) NATHAN JONES Bananarama

40 ( RE ) LIFE IS JUST A BALLGAME Womack & Womack

 

41 ( 26 ) CAN YOU PARTY Royal House

42 ( 42 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac

43 ( 41 ) SUGAR SUGAR (CANDYFLOSS MIX)/(ORIGINAL VERSION) The Archies

44 ( 43 ) YOU CAME Kim Wilde

45 ( 34 ) YOU'RE MY WORLD Nick Heyward

46 ( 31 ) TEARDROPS Womack & Womack

47 ( 52 ) STAND UP FOR YOUR LOVE RIGHTS Yazz & The Plastic Population

48 ( 37 ) DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY Bobby McFerrin

49 ( NEW ) ENCHANTED LADY The Pasadenas

50 ( 47 ) WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield

 

51 ( 32 ) KISS Tom Jones & The Art Of Noise

52 ( 53 ) A WORD IN SPANISH Elton John

53 ( 50 ) MONKEY (REMIX) George Michael

54 ( 30 ) WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE Guns 'N' Roses

55 ( 66 ) LOUIE LOUIE The Fat Boys

56 ( 54 ) HEART Pet Shop Boys

57 ( NEW ) RADIO ROMANCE Tiffany

58 ( 56 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles

59 ( NEW ) BABY I LOVE YOUR WAY/ FREEBIRD Will To Power

60 ( 58 ) YOU WIN AGAIN The Bee Gees

 

61 ( 64 ) HE AIN'T NO COMPETITION Brother Beyond

62 ( NEW ) SUCCESS Sigue Sigue Sputnik

63 ( 61 ) MAN IN THE MIRROR MIchael Jackson

64 ( 36 ) HARVEST FOR THE WORLD The Christians

65 ( NEW ) IN YOUR ROOM The Bangles

66 ( 73 ) TWIST AND SHOUT Salt 'n' Pepa

67 ( 44 ) DESIRE U2

68 ( NEW ) COME OUT TO PLAY UB40

69 ( 57 ) YE KE YE KE Mory Kante

70 ( NEW ) BROKEN HEART (THIRTEEN VALLEYS) Big Country

 

71 ( 67 ) I WANT YOU BACK/ I WANT YOU BACK ('88 remix) The Jackson 5

72 ( 60 ) ONE MORE TRY George Michael

73 ( NEW ) THERE SHE GOES The La's

74 ( NEW ) MISSING YOU Chris De Burgh

75 ( NEW ) NOTHING LESS THAN BRILLIANT Sandie Shaw

76 ( RE ) HAND TO MOUTH George Michael

 

 

Playlist oldies of the week

1 A MAN WITHOUT LOVE Engelbert Humperdinck

2 HAND TO MOUTH George Michael

3 GOTTA SEE JANE R.Dean Taylor

Lots of newies, the Bangles song was probably my favourite, was kinda obsessed with the Bangles back then, In Your Room was great

think it was quite big in there US but only a small hit in the UK... similar to Wild Wild West, I was following the US charts at the time and that reached #1 in the US

while doing absolutely nothing in the UK...

Also liked the LA's song, the Will to Power song I also liked... and the Tiffany return was not half bad but was the start of her descent from fame :o

I also liked C>his de Burgh's Missing You although I remember it was very uncool to like him and be a fan :)

Bloody love that 'Misletoe and Wine' charted in 1988 for you Pop, great Christmas classic imo. And it entered radio rotation early then!!

 

Why did The Las not do well in 1988? Was it not given airplay beyond John Peel and is that where you heard it so that it charted for you?

Hi there!

Great to see "Need You Tonight" in the top 3! I also like seeing "Kissing A Fool" in the top 10!

The huge gains for "Two Hearts" and the debuts for "Radio Romance", "Missing You", "Wild, Wild West" and "Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird" (the latter two being former #1 hits in the US)

Great chart!

but weren't the 2 versions (1988 vs 1990) of There she goes different? I mean wasn't the 90 version a remix or a re-recording or something?

Edited November 21, 20204 yr by Bjork

Lots of newies, the Bangles song was probably my favourite, was kinda obsessed with the Bangles back then, In Your Room was great

think it was quite big in there US but only a small hit in the UK... similar to Wild Wild West, I was following the US charts at the time and that reached #1 in the US

while doing absolutely nothing in the UK...

Also liked the LA's song, the Will to Power song I also liked... and the Tiffany return was not half bad but was the start of her descent from fame :o

I also liked C>his de Burgh's Missing You although I remember it was very uncool to like him and be a fan :)

 

I liked early Chris De Burgh stuff like Don't Pay The Ferryman, but went off him in 1988, oops! :D

 

Re your question and Steve's comment on The La's - yes the 1990 version was a remix, the 1988 version flopped twice (1989 they tries again), and it didn't get any airplay to speak of first-time round, second-time round - it would have been a big hit for me had I got to hear it more, it's so damn catchy, but it just sneaked in and out so I almost certainly only heard it once and that was that, no idea where though probably an early evening Radio 1 show.

Hi there!

Great to see "Need You Tonight" in the top 3! I also like seeing "Kissing A Fool" in the top 10!

The huge gains for "Two Hearts" and the debuts for "Radio Romance", "Missing You", "Wild, Wild West" and "Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird" (the latter two being former #1 hits in the US)

Great chart!

 

Thanks Sergej! :)

Bloody love that 'Misletoe and Wine' charted in 1988 for you Pop, great Christmas classic imo. And it entered radio rotation early then!!

 

Why did The Las not do well in 1988? Was it not given airplay beyond John Peel and is that where you heard it so that it charted for you?

 

Cliff: Hah! I've been caught :lol: I'm still a fan of Cliff up to 1988, though these days I much prefer Saviour's Day, more subtle tune and not annoying on endless repeat every year :D

27th November 1988

 

It's a 4th consecutive chart-topper for Pet Shop Boys as the sprawling epic dance Left To My Own Devices becomes their 9th number one. Bucks Fizz get one of their biggest hits with future Cher single Heart Of Stone up to 3, and George Michael makes it a 4th top 5 from Faith. Michael Jackson makes it a 5th Bad top 10, and Bomb The Bass return with Say A Little Prayer with Maureen on vocals, as they cover the brilliant Aretha Franklin version of the Dionne Warwick original version of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David song. Highest new entry at 12. Phil Collins shoots into the 20 with Two Hearts. Must be a Timelord.

 

Belinda Carlisle continues to mine her album, as ballad Love Never Dies enters at 35, Hithouse do a bit of Jacking (Note To Self, be careful not add an extra S to start of group name) at 39, and Dear God, it's Midge Ure at 48 with a great record that flopped as the fickle music scene had shifted away from early 80's synth. U2 have an Angel Of Harlem, rattling and humming, in at 69, Fleetwood Mac have a single out to promote the first Greatest Hits of the famous incarnation of the band, As Long As You Follow one of Christine McVie's most tuneful - and it flopped! Go figure.

 

Mory Kante grabs another early Afrobeats hit, Tamar, and Slade had one more final hit than I remembered as they bring the 3-year-old Let's Dance cover (the Chris Montez 1962 hit which hit my top 3 in 1972) back in a 1988 remix. Hard to tell the difference actually.

 

 

1 ( 6 ) LEFT TO MY OWN DEVICES Pet Shop Boys

2 ( 2 ) I WISH U HEAVEN Prince

3 ( 5 ) HEART OF STONE Bucks Fizz

4 ( 8 ) KISSING A FOOL George Michael

5 ( 1 ) DOWNTOWN '88 Petula Clark

6 ( 14 ) SMOOTH CRIMINAL Michael Jackson

7 ( 7 ) ORINOCO FLOW Enya

8 ( 4 ) TWIST IN MY SOBRIETY Tanita Tikarim

9 ( 9 ) LOVE IS ALL THAT MATTERS Human League

10 ( 3 ) NEED YOU TONIGHT (MENDOHLSON MIX) INXS

 

11 ( 16 ) BREATHE LIFE INTO ME Mica Paris

12 ( NEW ) SAY A LITTLE PRAYER Bomb The Bass featuring Maureen

13 ( 11 ) REAL GONE KID Deacon Blue

14 ( 23 ) DENIS (DENEE) '88 Blondie

15 ( 24 ) WILD WILD WEST The Escape Club

16 ( 25 ) SUNSHINE ON LEITH The Proclaimers

17 ( 38 ) TWO HEARTS Phil Collins

18 ( 10 ) PUT A LITTLE LOVE IN YOUR HEART Annie Lennox/ Al Green

19 ( 19 ) JE NE SAIS PAS POURQUOI Kylie Minogue

20 ( 20 ) FOUR LETTER WORD Kim Wilde

 

21 ( 12 ) WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND (PURE ENERGY) Information Society

22 ( 21 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles

23 ( 15 ) LET'S STICK TOGETHER '88 Bryan Ferry

24 ( 13 ) GIRL YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE Milli Vanilli

25 ( 17 ) HANDLE WITH CARE Traveling Wilbury's

26 ( 18 ) SHE MAKES MY DAY Robert Palmer

27 ( 59 ) BABY I LOVE YOUR WAY/ FREEBIRD Will To Power

28 ( 28 ) HE AIN'T HEAVY...HE'S MY BROTHER The Hollies

29 ( 29 ) DOMINO DANCING Pet Shop Boys

30 ( 30 ) MISTLETOE AND WINE Cliff Richard

 

31 ( 22 ) KOKOMO The Beach Boys

32 ( 26 ) NEVER TRUST A STRANGER Kim Wilde

33 ( 39 ) NATHAN JONES Bananarama

34 ( 27 ) BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY The Four Seasons

35 ( NEW ) LOVE NEVER DIES Belinda Carlisle

36 ( 37 ) DOWNTOWN One 2 Many

37 ( 57 ) RADIO ROMANCE Tiffany

38 ( 34 ) LOVELY DAY (SUNSHINE MIX) Bill Withers

39 ( NEW ) JACK TO THE SOUND OF THE UNDERGROUND Hithouse

40 ( 33 ) ONE BAD APPLE The Osmonds

 

41 ( 32 ) “1-2-3” Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine

42 ( 75 ) NOTHING LESS THAN BRILLIANT Sandie Shaw

43 ( 42 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac

44 ( 43 ) SUGAR SUGAR (CANDYFLOSS MIX)/(ORIGINAL VERSION) The Archies

45 ( 44 ) YOU CAME Kim Wilde

46 ( 35 ) WHAT KIND OF FOOL All About Eve

47 ( 36 ) DECEMBER '63 (OH WHAT A NIGHT) '88 The Four Seasons

48 ( NEW ) DEAR GOD Midge Ure

49 ( 49 ) ENCHANTED LADY The Pasadenas

50 ( 40 ) LIFE IS JUST A BALLGAME Womack & Womack

 

51 ( 61 ) HE AIN'T NO COMPETITION Brother Beyond

52 ( 50 ) WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield

53 ( RE ) TILL I LOVED YOU Barbra Streisand & Don Johnson

54 ( 46 ) TEARDROPS Womack & Womack

55 ( 53 ) MONKEY (REMIX) George Michael

56 ( 62 ) SUCCESS Sigue Sigue Sputnik

57 ( 45 ) YOU'RE MY WORLD Nick Heyward

58 ( 58 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles

59 ( 56 ) HEART Pet Shop Boys

60 ( 60 ) YOU WIN AGAIN The Bee Gees

 

61 ( 48 ) DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY Bobby McFerrin

62 ( 52 ) A WORD IN SPANISH Elton John

63 ( 65 ) IN YOUR ROOM The Bangles

64 ( 47 ) STAND UP FOR YOUR LOVE RIGHTS Yazz & The Plastic Population

65 ( 63 ) MAN IN THE MIRROR MIchael Jackson

66 ( 66 ) TWIST AND SHOUT Salt 'n' Pepa

67 ( NEW ) LET THERE BE DRUMS Boss Beat

68 ( 68 ) COME OUT TO PLAY UB40

69 ( NEW ) ANGEL OF HARLEM U2

70 ( 31 ) FIRST TIME Robin Beck

 

71 ( NEW ) AS LONG AS YOU FOLLOW Fleetwood Mac

72 ( 71 ) I WANT YOU BACK/ I WANT YOU BACK ('88 remix) The Jackson 5

73 ( NEW ) YOU ARE THE ONE a-ha

74 ( NEW ) TAMAR Mory Kante

75 ( NEW ) LET'S DANCE (1988 Remix) Slade

 

Playlist faves of that week

1 STONEY END Laura Nyro

2 BABY JANE Rod Stewart

3 WHEN WE WERE YOUNG Bucks Fizz

I'm hoping that Left To My Own Devices stays on top for some time, it's definitely the PSBs at their best.

I'm hoping that Left To My Own Devices stays on top for some time, it's definitely the PSBs at their best.

 

I was hoping that too, and I agree it's PSB's at their best - but there's the onrushing Xmas period and I've always been unable to resist a classic oldie :lol: Including, ahem Left To My Own Devices, which grabbed another 3 weeks on top in 2018. It's been on top for a total of 4 weeks altogether, so...... oops!

there were not so many great songs around Xmas 88 compared to the previous year when we had Always on my Mind, China in your hand,

Fairytale f New York etc

I was hoping that too, and I agree it's PSB's at their best - but there's the onrushing Xmas period and I've always been unable to resist a classic oldie :lol: Including, ahem Left To My Own Devices, which grabbed another 3 weeks on top in 2018. It's been on top for a total of 4 weeks altogether, so...... oops!

Nooooooooooooooooooooo :cry: