Human so close to leaving 😮

 

Not as close as you might think :) N'other 5 weeks yet 'fore it's history :lol:

great to see Mandinka top 10

also nice to see Doctorin'the House debut so high already, loved it back then

 

Joe le Taxi was such a guilty pleasure song, what's bizarre is that I still remember all the lyrics!! in French!!!! :)

 

I have to admit I hadn't realised just how much I was into House tracks at the time - but the proof is there :D

 

Joe Le Taxi is a brilliant track, but I did feel a bit odd getting excited by a record sung by a kiddie in inappropriate clothes, as it turned out when she did TOTP. Wish I could have sung it in french. I can manage Frere Jacques, Je T'Aime..Moi Non Plus and the refrain from lady marmalade :lol:

28th February 1988

 

It's a brand new entry on top - sort of - as the Top 10 has one of the biggest turn-outs of the 80's, with new entries climbers and big droppers, as Climie Fisher return with the 1987 top 10 track Love Changes (Everything) finally getting to be a UK hit second-time around. They hold off Coldcut & Yazz who climb to 2 with Doctorin' The House, and Fleetwood Mac who finally get a single release and can stop pottering around the 76 and 77 spots as a playlist fave and enter at 3, the chart position it would have been hovering around for a couple of months had I allowed album tracks.

 

Berlin's 1986 chart-topper is back in the top 5, and Roger's 1987 top 20 hits a new peak of 4 as last week's entire top 5 drops out of this week's top 5. Bomb The Bass Beat Dis to 8, Belinda Carlisle rockets from 73 to 17 for her second solo top 20, as she gets a bit weak, and Johnny Hates Jazz get an instant top 20 with Heart Of Gold at 18. 50's rocker Eddie Cochran gets a posthumous top 20 just ahead of newly-solo'd Smiths singer Morrissey, who debuts at 20 with Suedehead. The song that is, not with the Buzzjacker guesting on the track.

 

Mel & Kim return with their final single before Mel's untimely death, the good That's The Way It Is at 25, The Sisters Of Mercy are grabbing another hit with Dominion at 27, The Primitives crash in at 29, and Taja Seville's sultry and wonderful Love Is Contagious is close behind at 30. Boy George is back at 45 living his life, and the unlikely collab between Afrika bambaata and UB40 results in a reckless new entry at 48. Eighth Wonder do the gifted Pet Shop Boys song (and soon to be album track) I'm Not Scared, bringing Patsy Kensit to fame and a cracking pop single to boot, in at 58, Prefab Sprout return with one of their best singles, the lovely Cars And Girls at 69, Erasure's Ship Of Fools enters at 60, Rick Astley is back again with Together Forever at 68, and John Cougar and Echo & The Bunnymen extend their run of entries too. Heart's 1986 top 40 track These Dreams returns just ahead of it's reissue as a double A side with Never, in at 76 by way of featuring in my Playlist that week.

 

1 ( NEW ) LOVE CHANGES (EVERYTHING) Climie Fisher

2 ( 6 ) DOCTORIN' THE HOUSE Coldcut/ Yazz & The Plastic Population

3 ( RE ) EVERYWHERE Fleetwood Mac

4 ( 18 ) I WANT TO BE YOUR MAN Roger

5 ( 15 ) TAKE MY BREATH AWAY Berlin

6 ( 4 ) CRAZY Icehouse

7 ( 5 ) SAY IT AGAIN Jermaine Stewart

8 ( 13 ) BEAT DIS Bomb The Bass

9 ( 2 ) TELL IT TO MY HEART Taylor Dayne

10 ( 1 ) MAN IN THE MIRROR MIchael Jackson

 

11 ( 3 ) SPY IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE Was (Not Was)

12 ( 16 ) WHEN WE WAS FAB George Harrison

13 ( 22 ) JOE LE TAXI Vanessa Paradis

14 ( 7 ) WHEN WILL I BE FAMOUS Bros

15 ( 17 ) MY GENERATION The Who

16 ( 11 ) GIMME HOPE JO'ANNA Eddy Grant

17 ( 73 ) I GET WEAK Belinda Carlisle

18 ( NEW ) HEART OF GOLD Johnny Hates Jazz

19 ( 24 ) C'MON EVERYBODY Eddie Cochran

20 ( NEW ) SUEDEHEAD Morrissey

 

21 ( 14 ) THE JACK THAT HOUSE BUILT Jack 'n' Chill

22 ( 9 ) I DON'T MIND AT ALL Bourgeois Tag

23 ( 8 ) I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY Kylie Minogue

24 ( 12 ) ROK DA HOUSE Beatmasters/ Cookie Crew

25 ( NEW ) THAT'S THE WAY IT IS Mel & Kim

26 ( 29 ) NEVER KNEW LOVE LIKE THIS Cherrelle/ Alexander O'Neal

27 ( NEW ) DOMINION Sisters Of Mercy

28 ( 10 ) MANDINKA Sinead O'Connor

29 ( NEW ) CRASH The Primitives

30 ( NEW ) LOVE IS CONTAGIOUS Taja Seville

 

31 ( 19 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles

32 ( 39 ) HAZY SHADE OF WINTER The Bangles

33 ( 43 ) TOWER OF STRENGTH The Mission

34 ( 30 ) ALWAYS ON MY MIND Pet Shop Boys

35 ( 34 ) WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield

36 ( 36 ) SUGAR SUGAR (CANDYFLOSS MIX)/(ORIGINAL VERSION) The Archies

37 ( 48 ) CRAZY FOR YOUR LOVE The Bee Gees

38 ( 45 ) TWO HEARTS Cliff Richard

39 ( 26 ) SHAME Eurythmics

40 ( 52 ) HOW MEN ARE Aztec Camera

 

41 ( 37 ) THE WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL Michael Jackson

42 ( 41 ) YOU WIN AGAIN The Bee Gees

43 ( 42 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac

44 ( 27 ) HOUSE ARREST Krush

45 ( NEW ) LIVE MY LIFE Boy George

46 ( 23 ) SIGN YOUR NAME Terence Trent D'Arby

47 ( 21 ) HOT IN THE CITY Billy Idol

48 ( NEW ) RECKLESS Afrika Bambaata/ UB40

49 ( 44 ) FATHER FIGURE George Michael

50 ( 55 ) YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN' FEELIN' The Righteous Brothers

 

51 ( 56 ) DIGNITY Deacon Blue

52 ( 71 ) AN ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK Sting

53 ( 46 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU Dusty Springfield

54 ( 20 ) THE LAST TIME Agnetha Faltskog

55 ( 57 ) NEVER Heart

56 ( 53 ) BAD Michael Jackson

57 ( 28 ) GET OUTTA MY DREAMS GET INTO MY CAR Billy Ocean

58 ( NEW ) I'M NOT SCARED Eighth Wonder

59 ( 38 ) WE CARE A LOT Faith No More

60 ( NEW ) SHIP OF FOOLS Erasure

 

61 ( NEW ) GOODGROOVE Derek B

62 ( 59 ) FAMILY AFFAIR/RUNNIN’ AWAY Sly & The Family Stone

63 ( 66 ) HOT HOT HOT The Cure

64 ( 44 ) FAMILY MAN Fleetwood Mac

65 ( 67 ) KISS AND TELL Bryan Ferry

66 ( 31 ) TIRED OF GETTING PUSHED AROUND 2 Men, A Drum Machine & A Trumpet

67 ( 62 ) RENT Pet Shop Boys

68 ( NEW ) TOGETHER FOREVER Rick Astley

69 ( NEW ) CARS AND GIRLS Prefab Sprout

70 ( 32 ) HEAVEN KNOWS Robert Plant

 

71 ( 68 ) ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE The Beatles

72 ( 50 ) I FOUND SOMEONE Cher

73 ( 74 ) HUMAN Human League

74 ( NEW ) CHECK IT OUT John Cougar Mellencamp

75 ( NEW ) PEOPLE ARE STRANGE Echo & The Bunnymen

76 ( NEW ) THESE DREAMS Heart

 

 

Playlist faves of that week

1 TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS The Beatles

2 SOLID GOLD EASY ACTION T.Rex

3 BE MY BABY The Ronettes

so many great newies, so many classics

my fav has to be Crash by Primitives, love that track

can't believe how many amazing girl-fronted bands we had in the late 80s (Primitives, Transvision Vamp, T'Pau, Swing Out Sister, Sade, Voice of the Beehive, Everything but the Girl, All About Eve, Eurythmics,...) why we don't have any now?

 

Also loved Ship of Fools, possibly my #1 Erasure song ever... also love that Love is Contagious song, pity it was her only hit

Suedehead was also a great debut solo single from Morrissey. Also loved Cars and Girls, great band

 

and Heart of Gold, Love Changes, That's the Way It Is, Together Forever and I'm not Scared are all great songs too, so lots of amazing tracks this week...

 

and great climbed for I Get Weak, I think I even prefer it to Heaven is a Place...

 

Not as close as you might think :) N'other 5 weeks yet 'fore it's history :lol:

 

I will be quite sad when it leaves - started in a different chart era lol.

 

Hopefully their new material which didn't chart will enter soon.

Yazz started off with 'pure' house with Doctorin the House before a sort of house/Communards style Hi NRG hybrid with The Only Way is Up. Doctorin the House I actually prefer of the two. Beat Dis is also a good house track, the first 'acid' house hit in the UK with the distinctive synths of that subgenre. Love Changes Everything is one of the two good classic middle of the road pop tunes of 1988 (the other being Somewhere In My Heart).

 

Both of the Sisters of Mercy singles from this era are very good. The Eighth Wonder song is great and stands out as sounding much less cheesy than most of the pop around at this time, the Pet Shop Boys producing it being the main reason for this of course.

 

 

 

so many great newies, so many classics

my fav has to be Crash by Primitives, love that track

can't believe how many amazing girl-fronted bands we had in the late 80s (Primitives, Transvision Vamp, T'Pau, Swing Out Sister, Sade, Voice of the Beehive, Everything but the Girl, All About Eve, Eurythmics,...) why we don't have any now?

 

Also loved Ship of Fools, possibly my #1 Erasure song ever... also love that Love is Contagious song, pity it was her only hit

Suedehead was also a great debut solo single from Morrissey. Also loved Cars and Girls, great band

 

and Heart of Gold, Love Changes, That's the Way It Is, Together Forever and I'm not Scared are all great songs too, so lots of amazing tracks this week...

 

and great climbed for I Get Weak, I think I even prefer it to Heaven is a Place...

 

Crash still sounds very fresh, really could have been released anytime in the last 40 years, and yes girl-fronted bands all the rage thanks to Suzi Quatro (she had a band with her), Blondie, Siouxsie, X-Ray Spex paving the way. Bands of any genre struggle these days in the era of the pop solo female singer and male solo singer/DJ/producer, by band I mean those actually play their instruments as opposed to multiple vocalists - a shame!

 

It was certainly a big week for great new pop records! The following week was much less overwhelming for new entries, but still volatile... :D

I will be quite sad when it leaves - started in a different chart era lol.

 

Hopefully their new material which didn't chart will enter soon.

 

Won't be long till Love Is All That Matters :cheer:

Yazz started off with 'pure' house with Doctorin the House before a sort of house/Communards style Hi NRG hybrid with The Only Way is Up. Doctorin the House I actually prefer of the two. Beat Dis is also a good house track, the first 'acid' house hit in the UK with the distinctive synths of that subgenre. Love Changes Everything is one of the two good classic middle of the road pop tunes of 1988 (the other being Somewhere In My Heart).

 

Both of the Sisters of Mercy singles from this era are very good. The Eighth Wonder song is great and stands out as sounding much less cheesy than most of the pop around at this time, the Pet Shop Boys producing it being the main reason for this of course.

 

Yes I also prefer Doctorin' The House to any other Yazz track, though Only Way Is Up is fab too, and How Long is sweet. Beat Dis still sounds great, it's a shame it's never played on radio (that I ever hear at any rate), and I agree about Climie Fisher/Aztec camera both gems of singles.

 

I always liked Sisters Of Mercy singles - not that they varied terribly much from each other, but the goth rock was a massive sound. Anything Pet Shop Boys is good enough for me - By 1988 they were my top contemporary act - and have just stayed there really despite other acts rising and falling in my affections like KLF, Robbie, Texas, madonna, Jacko and many more. :)

6th March 1988

 

It's 2 weeks on top for Climie Fisher, presiding over a still-volatile chart as Heart's double-A oldie rises 53 places to give them a second number 2 in 6 months, with Joe Le taxi going top 10 for Vanessa Paradis' debut, and Belinda Carlisle makes it 2 in a row with I get Weak, and Taja Seville shoots up 20 to 10 for her only big record, the fab Love Is Contagious.

 

Mel & Kim and Sisters Of Mercy add to their top 20 tally, Eighth Wonder takes Pet Shop Boys to 21 (more or less, bar Patsy Kensit's vocals), with the generously-donated I'm Not Scared, Afrika Bambaata is back in the 40 after a bit of a gap, and UB40 just keep on a-coming, 8 years of non-stop singles success. Voice Of The Beehive return with an instant top 40 walking the earth at 38, while Aswad's cover of Don't Turn Around gives them a long-overdue big smash and a run of success, in at 51. The song is an Albert Hammond and Diane Warren song, originally recorded by Tina Turner a couple of years earlier - Albert has hits spanning the 60's to 80's Diane the 80's to the 10's.

 

David Lee Roth keeps his ex-Van Halen career ticking over a while, The Proclaimers fly in just below, Saxon ride like the wind where Christopher Cross first blew top 20 in 1980, and extend their career longer than Christopher Cross managed, to 8 years, and finally INXS sneak in with another Kick track, Devil Inside.

 

 

1 ( 1 ) LOVE CHANGES (EVERYTHING) Climie Fisher

2 ( 55 ) NEVER/ THESE DREAMS Heart

3 ( 4 ) I WANT TO BE YOUR MAN Roger

4 ( 2 ) DOCTORIN' THE HOUSE Coldcut/ Yazz & The Plastic Population

5 ( 3 ) EVERYWHERE Fleetwood Mac

6 ( 13 ) JOE LE TAXI Vanessa Paradis

7 ( 8 ) BEAT DIS Bomb The Bass

8 ( 17 ) I GET WEAK Belinda Carlisle

9 ( 9 ) TELL IT TO MY HEART Taylor Dayne

10 ( 30 ) LOVE IS CONTAGIOUS Taja Seville

 

11 ( 7 ) SAY IT AGAIN Jermaine Stewart

12 ( 18 ) HEART OF GOLD Johnny Hates Jazz

13 ( 6 ) CRAZY Icehouse

14 ( 15 ) MY GENERATION The Who

15 ( 20 ) SUEDEHEAD Morrissey

16 ( 25 ) THAT'S THE WAY IT IS Mel & Kim

17 ( 27 ) DOMINION Sisters Of Mercy

18 ( 5 ) TAKE MY BREATH AWAY Berlin

19 ( 10 ) MAN IN THE MIRROR Michael Jackson

20 ( 11 ) SPY IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE Was (Not Was)

 

21 ( 58 ) I'M NOT SCARED Eighth Wonder

22 ( 29 ) CRASH The Primitives

23 ( 23 ) I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY Kylie Minogue

24 ( 40 ) HOW MEN ARE Aztec Camera

25 ( 37 ) CRAZY FOR YOUR LOVE The Bee Gees

26 ( 14 ) WHEN WILL I BE FAMOUS Bros

27 ( 12 ) WHEN WE WAS FAB George Harrison

28 ( 19 ) C'MON EVERYBODY Eddie Cochran

29 ( 16 ) GIMME HOPE JO'ANNA Eddy Grant

30 ( 32 ) HAZY SHADE OF WINTER The Bangles

 

31 ( 21 ) THE JACK THAT HOUSE BUILT Jack 'n' Chill

32 ( 22 ) I DON'T MIND AT ALL Bourgeois Tag

33 ( 48 ) RECKLESS Afrika Bambaata/ UB40

34 ( 31 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles

35 ( 24 ) ROCK DA HOUSE Beatmasters/ Cookie Crew

36 ( 36 ) SUGAR SUGAR The Archies

37 ( 35 ) WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) Pet Shop Boys/ Dusty Springfield

38 ( NEW ) I WALK THE EARTH Voice Of The Beehive

39 ( 34 ) ALWAYS ON MY MIND Pet Shop Boys

40 ( 45 ) LIVE MY LIFE Boy George

 

41 ( 26 ) NEVER KNEW LOVE LIKE THIS Cherrelle/ Alexander O'Neal

42 ( 42 ) YOU WIN AGAIN The Bee Gees

43 ( 51 ) DIGNITY Deacon Blue

44 ( 43 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac

45 ( 41 ) THE WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL MIchael Jackson

46 ( 61 ) GOODGROOVE Derek B

47 ( 52 ) AN ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK Sting

48 ( 39 ) SHAME Eurythmics

49 ( 49 ) FATHER FIGURE George Michael

50 ( 68 ) TOGETHER FOREVER Rick Astley

 

51 ( 60 ) SHIP OF FOOLS Erasure

52 ( 33 ) TOWER OF STRENGTH The Mission

53 ( 50 ) YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN' FEELIN' The Righteous Brothers

54 ( 28 ) MANDINKA Sinead O'Connor

55 ( 65 ) KISS AND TELL Bryan Ferry

56 ( 69 ) CARS AND GIRLS Prefab Sprout

57 ( 44 ) HOUSE ARREST Krush

58 ( 56 ) BAD Michael Jackson

59 ( 46 ) SIGN YOUR NAME Terence Trent D'Arby

60 ( 63 ) HOT HOT HOT The Cure

 

61 ( NEW ) DON’T TURN AROUND Aswad

62 ( 62 ) FAMILY AFFAIR/RUNNIN' AWAY Sly & The Family Stone

63 ( 38 ) TWO HEARTS Cliff Richard

64 ( 53 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU Dusty Springfield

65 ( NEW ) JUST LIKE PARADISE David Lee Roth

66 ( NEW ) MAKE MY HEART FLY The Proclaimers

67 ( 67 ) RENT Pet Shop Boys

68 ( NEW ) RIDE LIKE THE WIND Saxon

69 ( 74 ) CHECK IT OUT John Cougar Mellencamp

70 ( 75 ) PEOPLE ARE STRANGE Echo & The Bunnymen

 

71 ( 64 ) FAMILY MAN Fleetwood Mac

72 ( 72 ) I FOUND SOMEONE Cher

73 ( 73 ) HUMAN The Human League

74 ( NEW ) DEVIL INSIDE INXS

75 ( 71 ) ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE The Beatles

 

6th March

PLAYIST OLDIES

 

1 SO FAR AWAY Carole King

2 REMEMBER YOU’RE A WOMBLE The Wombles

3 WHITE ROSE OF ATHENS Nana Mouskouri

impressive climb for Heart, were one of my fave bands in that year, Alone being one of first records I ever bought as a a kid

both Never and These Dreams are great, think I might prefer the latter...

all the other climbers into the top 10 are great too

 

out of the newies I loved I walk the earth, think it was my favourite single from VOTB and should have been a bigger hit in the charts. Also loved Devil Inside

and the Aswad song was ok. The rest of newies I never heard...

Won't be long till Love Is All That Matters :cheer:

 

Looking forward to it, an era completely bypassed commercially for whatever reason!

Hope the Echo & the Bunnymen track climbs higher!

impressive climb for Heart, were one of my fave bands in that year, Alone being one of first records I ever bought as a a kid

both Never and These Dreams are great, think I might prefer the latter...

all the other climbers into the top 10 are great too

 

out of the newies I loved I walk the earth, think it was my favourite single from VOTB and should have been a bigger hit in the charts. Also loved Devil Inside

and the Aswad song was ok. The rest of newies I never heard...

 

I prefer These Dreams too, it was def the side I played as I already had the single from a previous release, but didn't have Never, and These Dreams was the heavier playlisted on radio. I Walk The Earth is doing quite well in a retro weekly 1988 chart amalgamation of personal charts on another forum (top 10) so it's still highly regarded I think :)

13th March 1988

 

It's French teen chanteuse Vanessa Paradis getting a cool Joe Le Taxi to the top slot this week - she's not the youngest act (at 15 years old) to top my chart - that honour goes to Michael Jackson, either 12 years old with the Jackson 5, or 14 years old solo - but she is still the youngest solo female to have done it. Johnny Hates Jazz get a second top 10 and Mel & Kim a 3rd.

 

A big climb for Aswad to 21 from 61, and INXS to 28 from 74, and the highest new entry is a second hit for Eric B & Rakim at 30. Madness return and extend their run to 9 years, at 38 with a "The" in front of the name (so wrong), and I Pronounce You may be their last top 40 for a decade. Fischer Z debut with The Perfect Day, Keith Sweat wants her, Brenda Russell plays piano in the dark (anti-social but a great record), The Clash oldie I Fought The Law returns 9 years on, a cover of the 60's garage-rock Bobby Fuller Four hit, and Richard Marx pops back in 3 weeks after sneaking in at 75 for a week. He'll be back with bigger tracks quite soon...

 

1 ( 6 ) JOE LE TAXI Vanessa Paradis

2 ( 7 ) BEAT DIS Bomb The Bass

3 ( 3 ) I WANT TO BE YOUR MAN Roger

4 ( 4 ) DOCTORIN' THE HOUSE Coldcut/ Yazz & The Plastic Population

5 ( 10 ) LOVE IS CONTAGIOUS Taja Seville

6 ( 2 ) THESE DREAMS/NEVER Heart

7 ( 1 ) LOVE CHANGES (EVERYTHING) Climie Fisher

8 ( 12 ) HEART OF GOLD Johnny Hates Jazz

9 ( 16 ) THAT'S THE WAY IT IS Mel & Kim

10 ( 8 ) I GET WEAK Belinda Carlisle

 

11 ( 21 ) I'M NOT SCARED Eighth Wonder

12 ( 5 ) EVERYWHERE Fleetwood Mac

13 ( 13 ) CRAZY Icehouse

14 ( 22 ) CRASH The Primitives

15 ( 9 ) TELL IT TO MY HEART Taylor Dayne

16 ( 17 ) DOMINION Sisters Of Mercy

17 ( 15 ) SUEDEHEAD Morrissey

18 ( 24 ) HOW MEN ARE Aztec Camera

19 ( 11 ) SAY IT AGAIN Jermaine Stewart

20 ( 19 ) MAN IN THE MIRROR MIchael Jackson

 

21 ( 61 ) DON’T TURN AROUND Aswad

22 ( 33 ) RECKLESS Afrika Bambaata/ UB40

23 ( 23 ) I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY Kylie Minogue

24 ( 14 ) MY GENERATION The Who

25 ( 20 ) SPY IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE Was (Not Was)

26 ( 38 ) I WALK THE EARTH Voice Of The Beehive

27 ( 18 ) TAKE MY BREATH AWAY Berlin

28 ( 74 ) DEVIL INSIDE INXS

29 ( 29 ) GIMME HOPE JO'ANNA Eddy Grant

30 ( NEW ) I KNOW YOU GOT SOUL Eric B & Rakim

 

31 ( 34 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles

32 ( 36 ) SUGAR SUGAR (CANDYFLOSS MIX)/(ORIGINAL VERSION) The Archies

33 ( 25 ) CRAZY FOR YOUR LOVE The Bee Gees

34 ( 51 ) SHIP OF FOOLS Erasure

35 ( 37 ) WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield

36 ( 42 ) YOU WIN AGAIN The Bee Gees

37 ( 26 ) WHEN WILL I BE FAMOUS Bros

38 ( NEW ) I PRONOUNCE YOU Madness

39 ( 27 ) WHEN WE WAS FAB George Harrison

40 ( 50 ) TOGETHER FOREVER Rick Astley

 

41 ( 31 ) THE JACK THAT HOUSE BUILT Jack 'n' Chill

42 ( 39 ) ALWAYS ON MY MIND Pet Shop Boys

43 ( 32 ) I DON'T MIND AT ALL Bourgeois Tag

44 ( 35 ) ROK DA HOUSE Beatmasters/ Cookie Crew

45 ( 44 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac

46 ( 46 ) GOODGROOVE Derek B

47 ( 45 ) THE WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL Michael Jackson

48 ( 28 ) C'MON EVERYBODY Eddie Cochran

49 ( 30 ) HAZY SHADE OF WINTER The Bangles

50 ( 65 ) JUST LIKE PARADISE David Lee Roth

 

51 ( 43 ) DIGNITY Deacon Blue

52 ( 49 ) FATHER FIGURE George Michael

53 ( 56 ) CARS AND GIRLS Prefab Sprout

54 ( 40 ) LIVE MY LIFE Boy George

55 ( 48 ) SHAME Eurythmics

56 ( 53 ) YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN' FEELIN' The Righteous Brothers

57 ( 70 ) PEOPLE ARE STRANGE Echo & The Bunnymen

58 ( NEW ) THE PERFECT DAY Fischer Z

59 ( 58 ) BAD Michael Jackson

60 ( 59 ) SIGN YOUR NAME Terence Trent D'Arby

 

61 ( 68 ) RIDE LIKE THE WIND Saxon

62 ( 62 ) FAMILY AFFAIR/RUNNIN’ AWAY Sly & The Family Stone

63 ( 66 ) MAKE MY HEART FLY The Proclaimers

64 ( 71 ) FAMILY MAN Fleetwood Mac

65 ( 41 ) NEVER KNEW LOVE LIKE THIS Cherrelle/ Alexander O'Neal

66 ( NEW ) I WANT HER Keith Sweat

67 ( 67 ) RENT Pet Shop Boys

68 ( 57 ) HOUSE ARREST Krush

69 ( NEW ) PIANO IN THE DARK Brenda Russell

70 ( 73 ) HUMAN Human League

 

71 ( 64 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU Dusty Springfield

72 ( 72 ) I FOUND SOMEONE Cher

73 ( NEW ) I FOUGHT THE LAW The Clash

74 ( RE ) SHOULD'VE KNOWN BETTER Richard Marx

75 ( 75 ) ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE The Beatles

 

 

 

Playlist oldies and album tracks of that week

1 DEEP AND WIDE AND TALL Aztec Camera

2 BLUE Wham!

3 SHOULD I LAUGH OR CRY Abba

Hope the Echo & the Bunnymen track climbs higher!

 

Oops sorry! 70 is all it did in this run. The original is also decent though even The Doors never charted highly for me. It'll be back in 1991 though when I appreciated it a bit more...

wasn't expecting Joe le TAXI to climb to #1

I loved the song back in the day but not sure if it has aged that well

 

great climb for Love is Contagious too, I loved the song back then but don't think I've heard it much

hardly ever gets played or recognised as the little gem it was

Oops sorry! 70 is all it did in this run. The original is also decent though even The Doors never charted highly for me. It'll be back in 1991 though when I appreciated it a bit more...

 

Great wee track - their most famous legacy track?

 

Anyways great to hear Madness have a NE in 1988, I assume this didn't chart officially, always thought 1986 was the last of them!

I prefer These Dreams too, it was def the side I played as I already had the single from a previous release, but didn't have Never, and These Dreams was the heavier playlisted on radio. I Walk The Earth is doing quite well in a retro weekly 1988 chart amalgamation of personal charts on another forum (top 10) so it's still highly regarded I think :)

 

'These Dreams' is a beautiful song. I definitely prefer it to Alone but that one was still good.

pretty sure Madness continued having hits until much later, I remember a song called Lovestruck that peaked at #10 in the late 90s I think