April 27, 20223 yr Author What about... Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen? (a total room 101 song if ever I knew one) Wet Wet Wet - With a Little Help From My Friends? Come On Eileen has some big fans (I’m not one of them) but I think the consensus is that it’s a classic. With a Little Help From My Friends could be a shout, though we wouldn’t want the same song to appear twice and I think Sam and Mark’s is even worse. Do you think the Wets one is worse?
April 27, 20223 yr What about Doctor in the Tardis by Timelords ? I know this is early KLF but it does include the use of a Gary Glitter song.
April 27, 20223 yr I certainly wouldn't have included The Lady in Red, I did rank it inside my top 30 no 1 hits of the 80s. I think it gets ranked in these lists because it is a song general public still recognize while most of the no 1s were forgotten by the general public by the time 90s arrived, especially the terrible ones. I also had Star Trekkin scoring a few points so I do think it is a fun song but at least I can see why that is listed here. The others that are nowhere near the worst of the decade are the Glenn Medeiros and Phil Collins songs, both decent enough songs.
April 27, 20223 yr For me: St Winifred's School Choir- There's No One Quite Like Grandma Joe Dulce Music Theatre- Shaddap You Face Tight Fit- The Lion Sleeps Tonight Renaee and Renato- Save Your Love Paul McCartney- Pipes of Peace UB40 & Chrissie Hynde- I Got You Babe Cliff Richard & The Young Ones- Living Doll The Firm- Star Trekkin' Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers- Swing The Mood
April 27, 20223 yr I think the list is mainly fair, the worst I can say of most of them is that they are very bland, although Band Aid II is genuinely a complete mess and quite unpleasant in places (as well as the parts of Let's Party that aren't sampled). Star Trekkin' and The Chicken Song are iconic, but I won't protest their appearance x The only one I'd disagree with is Phil Collins, it's not his best but it's a nice ballad, maybe cos I have memories studying the Walkers Crisps advert that it featured in for A Level Media :kink: The Sonia song was very bland and Sealed With a Kiss was a very poor cover, I wouldn't oppose either of those. Boris Gardiner as well? Everything about that was so lazy. Why are the Flying Pickets not in this list? I've never got the hate for this (and I'm pleased I wasn't alone at the session), it's a really good cover that adds a new spin to an already good song, plus I'm always here for A capella x
April 27, 20223 yr I agree Sealed With A Kiss and Sonia's YNSMFLY could be added - prime examples of S/A/W running their formula into the ground while they could still make money from it.
April 27, 20223 yr Yeah the Flying Pickets is lovely. As I said in the session, their only crime was denying Slade a final #1 haha
April 27, 20223 yr Of the ones chosen... The awful St Winifred’s School Choir - There’s no one Quite Like Gramdma (1980) Joe Dolce Music Theatre - Shaddup You Face (1981) Renée and Renato - Save your love (1982) Spitting Image - The Chicken Song (1986) The Firm - Star Trekkin’ (1987) Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers - Let’s Party (1989) The not so bad Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder - Ebony and Ivory (1982) Chris de Burgh - The Lady in Red (1986) Glenn Medeiros - Nothing’s Gonna Change my Love for You (1988) The quite good actually UB40 featuring Chrissie Hynde - I Got You Babe (1985) Nick Berry - Every Loser Wins (1986) Phil Collins - A Groovy Kind of Love (1988) Band Aid II - Do they Know it’s Christmas? (1989)
April 27, 20223 yr The Flying Pickets version of 'Only You' is class. The original is iconic too. A very creative acapella rendition as Chez said.
April 27, 20223 yr Author Thanks for the comments. 2 additions and 2 removals have been made in the OP as a result! How do people about “Oh Julie” by Shaky (if that is indeed considered his worst - not sure)?
April 29, 20223 yr USA for Africa - We Are The World is really awful. Cheesy as hell. I agree, one of the worst number 1s ever.
May 6, 20223 yr Author OK we don’t want to have too many charity records on there even though most of them are pretty bad, but we’ve added USA for Africa. :)
August 25, 20222 yr Phil Collins is a fab record and anything with Chrissie Hynde is class, no exceptions. My grandma loved Rene and Renata so that's good enough reason for me to want it off the list. I personally dont mind Shaddap Ya face as long as I dont have to listen to it more than once in a blue moon. Sealed With a Kiss isnt bad, Jason Donovan's other solo number ones were worse, though granted it's not in the same class as the original Brian Hyland. Sonia's not THAT bad. It's OK. Shakin Stevens Oh Julie is piss poor. Charlene's Ive Never Been To Me is hilarious. Unintentionally. So is Lionel Richie's Hello. Jack Your Body is bloody annoyingly repetitive, House fans feel free to call it influential (in the same way as Covid is influential :teresa: :D ). Wet Wet Wet's destruction of The Beatles is made worse by Billy Bragg's destruction of the drop-dead gorgeous She's Leavin Home as a double A. Twice the misery. Whitney's One Moment In Time is overinflated bombastic OTT self-indulgence. Robin Beck's First Time is an advertising jingle. That's just a fact. Jive Bunny That's What I Like for being one number one too many times for a novelty act, and not doing the decent thing and being a one-hit wonder. I'm old, I'm supposed to have a glowing soft-focus love of all thing 80's :lol:
August 25, 20222 yr Author Yes maybe we should replace a couple of the ones that are just terribly dull like Jason and Sonia with a couple that are uniquely bad like Goombay and Lionel :thinking:
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