Duran Duran - Save A Prayer

Dire Straits - Private Investigations

ABC - All Of My Heart

Thomas Dolby - Windpower

Depeche Mode - Leave In Silence

Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger

Sylvian Sakamoto - Bamboo Houses / Bamboo Music (Favourite discovery made here, always love more Sakamoto)

Pink Floyd - When The Tigers Broke Free

Duran Duran - Save A Prayer

Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - The Message

The Cure, Talk Talk and Carly Simon just missing out

Best

Sylvian Sakamoto - Bamboo Houses

Blondie - War Child

Pink Floyd - When The Tigers Broke Free

Dire Straits - Private Investigations

Depeche Mode - Leave In Silence

Worst

Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - The Message

The Kids From 'Fame' Featuring Valerie Landsberg - Hi Fidelity

Kool And The Gang - Big Fun

Haysi Fantayzee - John Wayne Is Big Leggy

Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - The Message

Rockers Revenge Featuring Donnie Calvin - Walking On Sunshine

Carly Simon - Why

ABC - All Of My Heart

The Firm always got on my nerves, so I dont expect I've warmed to it of late....

Elkie Brooks - Nights In White Satin

It is really hard to pick just 5 out of it:

The Stranglers - Strange Little Girl

The Cure - The Hanging Garden

Toto Coelo - I Eat Cannibals

Depeche Mode - Leave In Silence

Carly Simon - Why

Madness beaten by an inch.

Top 5:

Associates - 18 Carat Love Affair/Long Hangover

Talk Talk - Today

Depeche Mode - Leave In Silence

Sylvian Sakamoto - Bamboo Houses / Bamboo Music

Carly Simon - Why

Just outside:

ABC - All Of My Heart

The Cure - The Hanging Garden

Haysi Fantayzee - John Wayne Is Big Leggy

Toto Coelo - I Eat Cannibals

Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - The Message

Carly Simon - Why is ahead of its time - sounds 90s with the piano and Ace of Base style reggae-pop beat! Talk Talk - Today also sounds very good, Talk Talk were one of the best bands of 1982 with their fast synthpop. Associates and Talk Talk had great much missed frontmen :(

Also just outisde the top 5 are ABC, The Cure and Grandmaster Flash and Two fun and good quality novelty tracks!

Edited January 20Jan 20 by TheSnake

Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger

Duran Duran - Save A Prayer

Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - The Message

Dire Straits - Private Investigations

Carly Simon - Why

We have just under 24 hours to split a four-way tie in this week's vote.

Tomorrow's session will feature a song which has been in the Top 40 this month!

Oop forgot to do this in a timely manner again, let's see if this helps break the tie x

The Cure - The Hanging Garden

David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto - Bamboo Houses

Duran Duran - Save A Prayer

Gary Numan - White Boys And Heroes

Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger

3 discoveries making my votes this week - instant fave from The Cure and one of the most interesting discoveries to date from Sylvian/Sakamoto, plus Gary Numan returning to my votes after his last few songs were a little less essential.

Next faves I already knew would be Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five and Queen, next best discoveries were Depeche Mode, Talk Talk and Blondie.

Save a Prayer

Private Investigstions

The Message

Why

Strange Little Girl

The Cure, David Sylvian and Talk Talk all close

I am going to a (classical) concert arranged by a friend in the Royal Festival Hall starting at 3pm, so guess I’ll miss quite a lot of today’s session unfortunately.

The 5 best:

Madness - Driving In My Car

Wavelength - Hurry Home

Sting - Spread A Little Happiness

Captain Sensible - Wot

Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - The Message

The worst:

The Belle Stars - The Clapping Song

We continue at 4pm with another 47 songs from the next 8 weeks of 1982!

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Best of Week 19 poll results

7 Duran Duran - Save A Prayer

7 Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - The Message

6 Carly Simon - Why

5 Depeche Mode - Leave In Silence

4 Dire Straits - Private Investigations

4 Sylvian Sakamoto - Bamboo Houses

3 Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger

3 The Cure - The Hanging Garden

2 ABC - All Of My Heart

2 Pink Floyd - When The Tigers Broke Free

2 Rockers Revenge Featuring Donnie Calvin - Walking On Sunshine

2 Talk Talk - Today

2 The Stranglers - Strange Little Girl

1 Associates - 18 Carat Love Affair / Love Hangover

1 Blondie - War Child

1 Captain Sensible - Wot

1 Elkie Brooks - Nights In White Satin

1 Gary Numan - White Boys And Heroes

1 Haysi Fantayzee - John Wayne Is Big Leggy

1 Madness - Driving In My Car

1 Shalamar - There It Is

1 Sting - Spread A Little Happiness

1 Thomas Dolby - Windpower

1 Toto Coelo - I Eat Cannibals

1 Wavelength - Hurry Home

Wall of fame

Week 1: John Foxx - Underpass

Week 2: Blondie - Atomic

Week 3: The Cure - A Forest

Week 4: Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

Week 5: David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes

Week 6: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola Gay

Week 7: Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry

Week 8: Visage - Fade To Grey

Week 9: The Teardrop Explodes - Reward

Week 10: Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes

Week 11: The Specials - Ghost Town

Week 12: Soft Cell - Tainted Love

Week 13: Laurie Anderson - O Superman

Week 14: Ultravox - The Voice

Week 15: The Stranglers - Golden Brown

Week 16: Associates - Party Fears Two

Week 17: Yazoo - Only You

Week 18: Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra

Week 19: tbc

Just a two-way tie in the end, to be settled with the next poll!

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

11/09/1982

Shakatak - Invitations

Showaddywaddy - Who Put The Bomp (In The Bompa-A-Bomp-A-Bomp)

Simple Minds - Glittering Prize

Wonder Dog - Ruff Mix*

18/09/1982

The Jam - The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow)

Adam Ant - Friend Or Foe

Chicago - Hard To Say I'm Sorry

Jennifer Holliday - And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going

Mari Wilson - Just What I Always Wanted

Fat Larry's Band - Zoom

25/09/1982

Musical Youth - Pass The Dutchie

Roxy Music - Take A Chance With Me

Sylvester With Patrick Cowley - Do Ya Wanna Funk

Dollar - Give Me Some Kinda Magic

Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?

02/10/1982

Dexys Midnight Runners - Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)

Ultravox - Reap The Wild Wind

The Pinkees - Danger Games

Imagination - In The Heat Of The Night

The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go/Straight To Hell

The Kids From 'Fame' - Starmaker

Hot Chocolate - Chances

09/10/1982

Spandau Ballet - Lifeline

The Pretenders - Back On The Chain Gang

Sharon Redd - Never Give You Up

Kid Creole And The Coconuts - Annie I'm Not Your Daddy

The Who - Athena

16/10/1982

Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust

Japan - Life In Tokyo

Barry Manilow - I Wanna Do It With You

Melba Moore - Love's Comin' At Ya

Tears For Fears - Mad World

Toyah - Be Proud Be Loud (Be Heard)

Julio Iglesias - Amor

23/10/1982

Shakin' Stevens - I'll Be Satisfied

Eddy Grant - I Don't Wanna Dance

Kool And The Gang - Let's Go Dancin' (Ooh La, La, La)

The Piranhas Featuring Boring Bob Grover - Zambezi*

Raw Silk - Do It To The Music

Blue Zoo - Cry Boy Cry

30/10/1982

Dionne Warwick - Heartbreaker

Abba - The Day Before You Came

Diana Ross - Muscles

Status Quo - Caroline (Live At The NEC)

John Cougar - Jack And Diane

Daryl Hall And John Oates - Maneater

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Week 19 Tiebreak

Duran Duran - Save A Prayer

Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - The Message

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My votes (Raw Silk and Hall & Oates just miss out for me):

Chicago - Hard To Say I'm Sorry

The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go

The Clash - Straight To Hell

Tears For Fears - Mad World

Abba - The Day Before You Came

Tiebreak:

Duran Duran - Save A Prayer

Dexys Midnight Runners - Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)

The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go/Straight To Hell

Tears For Fears - Mad World

Abba - The Day Before You Came

Daryl Hall And John Oates - Maneater

Tiebreak:

Duran Duran - Save a Prayer

ABBA - The Day Before You Came

The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go

The Jam - The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow)

Tears For Fears - Mad World

Ultravox - Reap The Wild Wind

Tiebreak: Duran Duran - Save A Prayer (love both of these dearly, though)

Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?

The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go

The Clash - Straight To Hell

Tears For Fears - Mad World

Abba - The Day Before You Came

Tiebreak: Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - The Message

Honourable mention to Wonder Dog, a masterpiece x

Tears For Fears - Mad World

Abba - The Day Before You Came

Ultravox - Reap The Wild Wind

Chicago - Hard To Say I'm Sorry

Mari Wilson - Just What I Always Wanted

Kid Creole just misses out

Tie-break: Save A Prayer

And here's Simon Cowell as Wonderdog being interviewed:

Tears For Fears - Mad World

Abba - The Day Before You Came

Daryl Hall And John Oates - Maneater

Jennifer Holliday - And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going

Ultravox - Reap The Wild Wind

quite a few goodies here so a lot miss out to allow the very very classic a spot. Shame about Ruff Mix and Zambezi not on spotify. I bought Ruff Mix, woof!

Tie break The Message.