OK I think we’re homing in on 3 possibilities:

 

#3 sessions - we all know how that works! Bonuses could be #6-10 peakers for example.

 

Now! albums - if we did this I suggest we’d just do it for a year, covering roughly the pre 2000 years that mostly haven’t been done before. I wouldn’t want to spend more than a year only covering the 21st century and I’m sure I’m not the only one. Bonuses could be anything hit or not from the relevant period for example.

 

The wildcard idea suggested by Rollo is a Pick Of The Pops style format where we run down the Top 40 from that week in a particular year. If we set the coverage period to (for example) 1960-2019 it would take just over a year to do a cycle. We could go chronological or jump around like the radio show. Not sure about bonuses.

 

Any further thoughts on that shortlist of possibilities? :)

Maybe you could run a second poll with those three options as the top 40 countdown idea was not in the first poll and set it so you can only vote for one out of the three.

Last option is too random

I need something in chronological order and more systematic 😀

 

I've messaged Julian separately about this as I hadn't noticed this thread but Mixcloud has over 200 recordings of the BBC Radio 1 chart shows presented by Bruno Brookes, Mark Goodier and others from the 80s, 90s and some from the 2000s.

 

I'm in the process of gathering links (over 200 so far). They are by no means a comprehensive set so it wouldn't be a systematic endeavor like the listening sessions have been.

 

We could just get random.org to select maybe 5 and we vote on which one to listen to.

 

Edited October 14, 20231 yr by Colm