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.

 

 

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!

^Shame was a single, a flop single, but still a single

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.

Always On My Mind is falling away quicker than I expected it to! :o

 

yes, I never really loved it as much as their own songs, it was a bit of hooky fun but didn't move me emotionally like most of their stuff does. ooops! :D

His follow-up Neither Fish Nor Flesh was awful as was his third album. Pity as his first is a classic.

 

Agree with Fishy Flesh comments! I quite liked the lovely Delicate off his 3rd album though, that was way better than album 2!

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... :lol:

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! :wub:

 

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 :)

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

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)

Hope you like Shame, Steve! :wub:

 

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 :)

 

Indeed I do, fantastic track!

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

Agree with the comment that Delicate and (especially) Let Her Down Easy were great songs.

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.

It was the second one that was absolutely panned.

It was the second one that was absolutely panned.

 

 

Oh right. Neither Fish Nor Flesh. Didn't buy it as I did his first but have heard it.

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

 

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... :)

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)

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 :D