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The UK Top 40 singles of the 1980s: listening sessions + polls: next session 12 July

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Full list of hits covered today (w/e of Top 40 new entries in bold; * denotes if not on Spotify):

23/07/1983

The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger

Gary Byrd And The GB Experience - The Crown

Shakin' Stevens - It's Late

Clubhouse - Do It Again/Billie Jean (Medley)

KC And The Sunshine Band - Give It Up

George Benson - Feel Like Makin' Love

The Creatures - Right Now

Thompson Twins - Watching

Al Jarreau - Trouble In Paradise

Tracie - Give It Some Emotion

30/07/1983

Depeche Mode - Everything Counts

Wham! - Club Tropicana

Robert Plant - Big Log

Bruce Foxton - Freak

06/08/1983

Elton John - I'm Still Standing

Herbie Hancock - Rockit

Kim Wilde - Love Blonde

Galaxy Featuring Phil Fearon - Wait Until Tonight (My Love)

Level 42 - The Sun Goes Down (Living It Up)

David Grant - Watching You Watching Me

13/08/1983

The Style Council - Long Hot Summer / Paris Match

Spandau Ballet - Gold

Kraftwerk - Tour De France

Whitesnake - Guilty Of Love

Modern Romance - Walking In The Rain

20/08/1983

Madness - Wings Of A Dove

The Kinks - Come Dancing

Shalamar - Disappearing Act

Carmel - Bad Day

UB40 - Red, Red Wine

Asia - Don't Cry

27/08/1983

Rod Stewart - What Am I Gonna Do

The Moody Blues - Blue World

Peabo Bryson And Roberta Flack - Tonight, I Celebrate My Love

Stray Cats - (She's) Sexy + 17

H2O - Just Outside Of Heaven

03/09/1983

New Order - Confusion

Genesis - Mama

Big Country - Chance

Gary Numan - Warriors

Cliff Richard - Never Say Die (Give A Little Bit More)

JoBoxers - Johnny Friendly

Annabel Lamb - Riders On The Storm*

10/09/1983

Ryan Paris - Dolce Vita

Status Quo - Ol' Rag Blues

Paul Young - Come Back And Stay

Heaven 17 - Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry

Truth - A Step In The Right Direction


Votes welcome for up to five of your favourites, with the song with the most votes played at the start of the next session!


Week 25 Tiebreak

Irene Cara - Flashdance... What A Feeling

Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow

(my votes are on the previous page)

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    We had pencilled in this Sunday for the next session, however: It's a Bank Holiday weekend so people might have other plans The temperature will be 30C in London and other areas It's the final day o

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    We are back at 4pm tomorrow! Quite an accumulation of bonuses to get through in the first couple of sessions, but we'll still cover 7 weeks of 1983 in each.

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Depeche Mode - Everything Counts

Herbie Hancock - Rockit

Kraftwerk - Tour De France

Spandau Ballet - Gold

The Style Council - Long Hot Summer

tiebreak: Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow

Depeche Mode - Everything Counts

Herbie Hancock - Rockit

Spandau Ballet - Gold

Kraftwerk - Tour De France

Genesis - Mama

A lot of the classics today weren't big favourites of mine (I'm Still Standing aside which just missed out), Herbie Hancock and Genesis were really good discoveries though. Also enjoyed Asia, New Order, Style Council and Paul Young.

Tiebreak: Irene Cara

Depeche Mode - Everything Counts

Robert Plant - Big Log

New Order - Confusion

Genesis - Mama

Heaven 17 - Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry

Tie-break: Moonlight Shadow

Gary Byrd And The GB Experience - The Crown

KC And The Sunshine Band - Give It Up

Depeche Mode - Everything Counts

Elton John - I'm Still Standing

Herbie Hancock - Rockit

Tie-break - Moonlight Shadow

Wow, that was so tough to choose. A fantastic group of songs, with some really euphoric pop bangers there! I had to leave out so many that I love. You can certainly tell it was around summertime too.

And I still maintain that Club Tropicana is George’s absolute best song and I’m happy to die on that hill!

Wham! - Club Tropicana

KC And The Sunshine Band - Give It Up

The Style Council - Long Hot Summer

Madness - Wings Of A Dove

UB40 - Red, Red Wine

Tiebreak-

Irene Cara - Flashdance... What A Feeling

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tiebreak Moonlight Shadow

The Style Council - Long Hot Summer

Madness - Wings Of A Dove

Wham! - Club Tropicana

Elton John - I'm Still Standing

Genesis - Mama

Spandau Ballet - Gold

Asia - Don't Cry

Depeche Mode - Everything Counts

Genesis - Mama

Herbie Hancock - Rockit


Paul Young - Come Back And Stay

Wham! - Club Tropicana

KC And The Sunshine Band - Give It Up

Ryan Paris - Dolce Vita


'Gold' is a bit overplayed on radio but it builds well and is a great sophistipop/dancepop track with world music beat influence and a good vocal! Also the band Asia had a great vocalist too, discovered them on one of my dad's classic rock CD's but Asia were bigger in America than here, but 'Don't Cry' is a great rock track. 'Everything Counts' is a good dark synthpop/alt-dance track. 'Mama' by Genesis is very dark too. 'Rockit' is a good ahead of its time sample based dance record with a good video, Art of Noise would be influenced by it!

Paul Young 'Come Back And Stay' good pop song and just missing out! Also an improvement in quality from Wham! - classic holiday tune. Give It Up is a bit dated and disco for 1983 but is still a good feelgood track. I like the Italo-disco genre but Dolce Vita isn't one of the best!

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We had pencilled in this Sunday for the next session, however:

  • It's a Bank Holiday weekend so people might have other plans

  • The temperature will be 30C in London and other areas

  • It's the final day of the Premier League season

  • We're running slightly behind with reviews

I'm happy to keep the session in as planned, but only if we have guaranteed sufficient numbers. Please respond:

❤️ if you can definitely attend this Sunday (24th)

🙏 if you'd rather we skip a week

If I get at least five ❤️ reactions by Friday I'll go ahead on Sunday as planned, otherwise I'll skip and resume next Sunday (31st).

Depeche Mode - Everything Counts

Elton John - I’m Still Standing

Herbie Hancock - Rockit

Kraftwerk - Tour De France

Genesis - Mama

Spandau Ballet, Moody Blues and Carmel just missing out

Tiebreak Flashdance

I’m actually away in Denmark for the long weekend though could possibly listen in.

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On 20/05/2026 at 21:43, jimwatts said:

We had pencilled in this Sunday for the next session, however:

  • It's a Bank Holiday weekend so people might have other plans

  • The temperature will be 30C in London and other areas

  • It's the final day of the Premier League season

  • We're running slightly behind with reviews

I'm happy to keep the session in as planned, but only if we have guaranteed sufficient numbers. Please respond:

❤️ if you can definitely attend this Sunday (24th)

🙏 if you'd rather we skip a week

If I get at least five ❤️ reactions by Friday I'll go ahead on Sunday as planned, otherwise I'll skip and resume next Sunday (31st).

@danG @Jade @King Rollo @Suedehead2 and anyone else, please confirm if you can attend on Sunday?

I've just booked a few days in Dieppe, so I'm happy to skip Sunday. I will definitely be keeping a close eye on the Premier League scores, so that's another reason to miss a week.

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Thanks all for responding - apologies Bré/Chez/Jade but the skips have it this time. We'll resume with the next session on Sunday 31 May at 16:00.

I'll keep the poll open until then - the tiebreak is currently tied!

21 hours ago, jimwatts said:

Thanks all for responding - apologies Bré/Chez/Jade but the skips have it this time. We'll resume with the next session on Sunday 31 May at 16:00.

I'll keep the poll open until then - the tiebreak is currently tied!

A penalty shoot-out awaits o

Saxophonist Dick Parry has died aged 83. I love a sax part, so we really should mark this in the RIP slot. He worked with Pink Floyd, including playing on Us And Them on Dark Side Of The Moon.

Best

Depeche Mode - Everything Counts

Kraftwerk - Tour De France

The Kinks - Come Dancing

Genesis - Mama

Heaven 17 - Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry

Worst

Peabo Bryson And Roberta Flack - Tonight, I Celebrate My Love

KC And The Sunshine Band - Give It Up

Status Quo - Ol' Rag Blues

Tie-break

Moonlight Shadow

34 minutes ago, Suedehead2 said:

Worst

KC And The Sunshine Band - Give It Up

Na-na, na-na, na-na, na-na-na-na no! nono

Almost forgot to vote in this again oops!

Depeche Mode - Everything Counts

Elton John - I'm Still Standing

Herbie Hancock - Rockit

Kraftwerk - Tour De France

Spandau Ballet - Gold

'Rockit' was a brilliant discovery, the rest I knew already although I think I'd only heard the Depeche Mode song once or twice before. A lot of the other songs I playlisted I already don't remember that well but iirc The Creatures and Gary Numan were the next best discoveries, while Madness, Wham! and KC & The Sunshine Band were other gooduns I knew already.

Mike Oldfield for the tiebreak easily.

The 5 best:

Depeche Mode - Everything Counts

Galaxy Featuring Phil Fearon - Wait Until Tonight (My Love)

Kraftwerk - Tour De France

New Order - Confusion

Ryan Paris - Dolce Vita

The worst:

Kim Wilde - Love Blonde

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