June 2, 20223 yr I'm pleased to see Howard Jones as high as 55th place. Human's Lib was a very good debut album.
June 3, 20223 yr Surprised love changes everything is so high in the list, it is typical late 80s MOR and I am not a big fan of love songs but its good for what it is and the chorus is very memorable so would have given it points had I voted! Yes, British MOR is almost always better than American MOR *cough Richard cough Marx* :teresa:
June 3, 20223 yr Climie Fisher were just pop, not sure why anyone would put them in the same category as Richard Marx it's also not a competition, both songs were great sad to see Right Here Waiting go, great single from Richard Marx
June 3, 20223 yr Richard Marx, much prefer Hazard, now thats a classic, but its pleasant enough, Climie Fisher is still fab, great tune. Ghostbusters is another "Oh no not again" every year, but its great fun anyway. Howard Jones is a goodie, though I loved the forgotten follow-up Hide And Seek even more. Not one of my fave Erasure records, I'm afraid, but it's OK. Sometimes is much better.
June 3, 20223 yr Author NO 53- 64 POINTS Say Say Say Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson (Voter: Fiesta- 4 pts, Mack- 20 pts, Leonardo- 16 pts, …Ready for it- 24 pts) (#2 for 2 weeks in November 1983 by "Uptown Girl" by Billy Joel) This is our preferred 80s No 2 for both of these acts whose unusual chart trajectory was all to do with the availability of the promo. 5phi0ApnqII
June 3, 20223 yr Author NO 52- 65 POINTS Heartbreaker Dionne Warwick (Voter: JulianT- 6 pts, Gezza- 28 pts, AH Gold- 7 pts, Daan- 24 pts) (#2 for 2 weeks in November 1982 behind “I Don’t Wanna Dance” by Eddy Grant) Bee Gees to the rescue and give Warwick her biggest UK hit along with providing the backing vocals. RfKalk4FUqo
June 3, 20223 yr Author NO 51- 65 POINTS Everything She Wants Wham! (Voter: Popchartfreak- 6 pts, Jason- 20 pts, Gezza- 29 pts, Daan- 10 pts) (#2 for 5 weeks in December/ January 1984/85 behind “Do They Know It’s Christmas” by Band Aid) So I lose two of my top 3! We like this more than “Bad Boys” though and it was a US No 1. nPM7ySR26lA
June 3, 20223 yr Author Recap 51-100 51 Everything She Wants Wham!- 65pts 52 Heartbreaker Dionne Warwick- 65 pts 53 Say Say Say Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson- 64pts 54 Right Here Waiting Richard Marx- 63 pts 55 What Is Love? Howard Jones- 63pts 56 Ghostbusters Ray Parker Jnr- 62 pts 58 Love Changes (Everything) Climie Fisher- 61pts 57 Stop Erasure- 61 pts 59 Got To Be Certain Kylie Minogue- 60 pts 60 All Night Long (All Night) Lionel Richie- 59pts 61 Abracadabra Steve Miller Band- 57pts 62 Antmusic Adam & The Ants- 57pts 63 China Girl David Bowie- 56 pts 64 Modern Love David Bowie- 56pts 65 Together Forever Rick Astley- 54pts 66 Masterblaster Stevie Wonder- 53 pts 67 It's Raining Men Weather Girls- 52 pts 68 Happy Birthday Altered Images- 51 pts 69 I Can't Wait Nu Shooz- 50 pts 70 Ain't No Pleasing You Chas N Dave- 50 pts 71 Crazy For You Madonna- 46 pts 72 My Oh My Slade- 46 pts 73 You Take Me Up Thompson Twins- 45 pts 74 (Keep Feeling) Fascination Human League- 44pts 75 French kiss Lil Louis- 42 pts 76 A Winter's Tale David Essex- 42 pts 77 Mirror Man Human League- 41 pts 78 So Macho Sinitta- 41 pts 79 Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me) Phil Collins- 40pts 80 Sign Your Name Terence Trent D'Arby- 39pts 81 Wouldn't Change A Thing Kylie Minogue 37pts 82 When Will I Be Famous Bros- 37pts 83 Invisible Sun The Police- 37 pts 84 Leave Me Alone Michael Jackson- 36pts 85 Absolute Beginners David Bowie- 36 pts 86 Love & Pride King- 35pts 87 A View To A Kill Duran Duran- 33pts 88 When A Man Loves A Woman Percy Sledge- 32pts 89 Wild Boys Duran Duran- 31 pts 90 The Loco-Motion Kylie Minogue- 30 pts 91 Kings Of The Wild Frontier Adam & The Ants- 30pts 92 Da Da Da Trio- 29 pts 93 Coming Up Paul McCartney- 29 pts 94 Church Of The Poison Mind Culture Club- 28 pts 95 Happy Birthday Stevie Wonder 28pts 96 One Step Further Bardo- 28 pts 97 London Nights London Boys- 28 pts 98 Private Investigations Dire Straits- 27 pts 99 No Doubt About It Hot Chocolate- 26pts 100 Torch Soft Cell- 25pts
June 3, 20223 yr Author Year by year breakdown 1980- 3 1981- 4 1982- 3 1983- 7 1984- 3 1985- 7 1986- 8 1987- 6 1988- 4 1989- 5 Acts with multiple entries left Madonna 3 Phil Collins 2 Prince 2 Kim Wilde 2
June 3, 20223 yr Author And Finally.... Voters by points left in the rate... *Dandy 422pts Jimwatts 419pts Daan 412pts Chez Wombat 404pts Leonardo 403pts Colm 396pts Torple 393pts JulianT 378pts Jade 365 pts AaronTM 363pts Bjork 355pts Jester 350pts West 342pts Mack 336pts AH Gold 334pts Gooddelta 329pts JackJones 328pts Chartjack2 323pts …Ready For it 322pts Gezza 315pts King Rollo 306pts Popchartfreak 305pts Jason 290pts Fiesta 265pts Congrats to everyone for getting their 30 pointers into the top 50. I'm away now until Sunday when the top 50 kicks off!
June 3, 20223 yr ah that’s a shame for heartbreaker to miss out top fifty perhaps it would be more remembered if bee gees sang it themselves but dionne has a great voice for it
June 3, 20223 yr Oh Say Say Say :wub:, such a fantastic hook from MJ. Although you might want to edit the entry as I don’t think it kept itself of the top spot. :D GREAT Top 50 there, except one song which I hate for personal reasons but I can see why others like it.
June 3, 20223 yr 3 good songs out today and a heartbreaker of a final reveal for Gezza. Strong Top 50 though. Pleased that my Top 10 is intact and 22 of my picks have made it this far, including some that I didn’t expect to still be standing!
June 3, 20223 yr Author 3 good songs out today and a heartbreaker of a final reveal for Gezza. I see what you did there....
June 3, 20223 yr Shame the brilliant Everything She Wants just missing out on top 50. :( I really can't understand why Gold, Crockett's Time, Golden Brown and They Don't Know are top 50. :nono: Bottom 2 in the points left. What a surpriseeeeeeeeeeeee! Edited June 3, 20223 yr by Jason
June 3, 20223 yr I really can't understand why Gold, Crockett's Time, Golden Brown and They Don't Know are top 50. :nono: ! Maybe other people have different music taste to you. *gasp*
June 3, 20223 yr Say Say Say I know more from the Hi-Tack song which sampled it but yes it has a good chorus. Heartbreaker is a very nice song indeed. Edited June 3, 20223 yr by The Sake
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