Olivia Newton-John And Electric Light Orchestra - Xanadu

The Korgis - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime

Bob Marley And The Wailers - Could You Be Loved

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

Odyssey - Use It Up And Wear It Out

tHe Cure - A Forest

Peter Gabriel - No Self Control

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Christine

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Computer Game ('Theme From The Invaders')/Firecracker

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

Kate Bush - Babooshka

Worst

Teena Marie - Behind The Groove

The Detroit Spinners - Cupid/I've Loved You For A Long Time

The Detroit Spinners - Body Language

Tie-break - It's impossible to choose, so I will have to abstain.

Bit delayed with the last batch of commentaries but my picks are going to look like this:

1 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (10)

2 Bob Marley - Could You Be Loved (9)

3 Peter Gabriel - No Self Control (9)

4 Korgis - Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime (9)

5 Elvis Costello & The Attractions - New Amsterdam

Commiserations with 8:

Kate Bush - Babooshka

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Christine

Olivia Newton John & ELO - Xanadu

Stranglers - Who Wants The World

Manhattan Transfer - Twilight Zone

Continues at 4pm today, with 51 new songs to play from another 8 weeks of 1980!

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Best of Week 4 poll results

9 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

7 The Korgis - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime

5 Peter Gabriel - No Self Control

4 Bob Marley And The Wailers - Could You Be Loved

4 Siouxsie And The Banshees - Christine

3 Kate Bush - Babooshka

3 Olivia Newton-John And Electric Light Orchestra - Xanadu

3 Yellow Magic Orchestra - Computer Game ('Theme From The Invaders')/Firecracker

2 Electric Light Orchestra - I'm Alive

2 Elvis Costello & The Attractions - New Amsterdam

1 Change - A Lover's Holiday

1 Odyssey - Use It Up And Wear It Out

1 Queen - Play The Game

1 Splodgenessabounds - Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps Please

1 Stacy Lattisaw - Jump To The Beat

1 Surface Noise - The Scratch

Best of Week 3 tiebreak

6 The Cure - A Forest

2 Blondie - Call Me

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

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

19/07/1980

Dexy's Midnight Runners - There, There My Dear

Diana Ross - Upside Down

The Whispers - My Girl

The Gap Band - Oops Upside Your Head

Gene Chandler - Does She Have A Friend?

The Gibson Brothers - Mariana

26/07/1980

Hot Chocolate - Are You Getting Enough Of What Makes You Happy

Sheena Easton - 9 To 5

New Musik - Sanctuary

Tom Browne - Funkin' For Jamaica (NY)

George Duke - Brazilian Love Affair

John Foxx - Burning Car

Ultravox - Sleepwalk

02/08/1980

Abba - The Winner Takes It All

George Benson - Give Me The Night

Roxy Music - Oh Yeah (On The Radio)

Grace Jones - Private Life

Jermaine Jackson - Burnin' Hot

Amii Stewart And Johnny Bristol - My Guy/My Girl

09/08/1980

Electric Light Orchestra - All Over The World

The Piranhas - Tom Hark*

Kelly Marie - Feels Like I'm In Love

Mike Berry - The Sunshine Of Your Smile

Roger Daltrey - Free Me

Sue Wilkinson - You Gotta Be A Hustler If You Wanna Get On*

16/08/1980

David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes

Village People - Can't Stop The Music

The Clash - Bankrobber

Billy Joel - It's Still Rock And Roll To Me

Bow Wow Wow - C30, C60, C90, Go

Sheena Easton - Modern Girl

Nick Straker Band - A Walk In The Park

23/08/1980

The Jam - Start

Cliff Richard - Dreamin'

Hazel O'Connor - Eighth Day

Shakin' Stevens - Marie Marie

The Beat - Best Friend/Stand Down Margaret (Dub)

Peter Gabriel - Biko

Skids - Circus Games

The Barracudas - Summer Fun

30/08/1980

Gary Numan - I Die, You Die

Olivia Newton-John - Magic

Elvis Presley - It's Only Love/Beyond The Reef

Split Enz - I Got You

Ian Dury And The Blockheads - I Want To Be Straight

06/09/1980

Randy Crawford - One Day I'll Fly Away

Judas Priest - United

Shalamar - I Owe You One

The Selecter - The Whisper

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

My votes (sadly no room for Split Enz, they'd have made it in any other week so far!)

Diana Ross - Upside Down

Ultravox - Sleepwalk

Abba - The Winner Takes It All

David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes

The Clash - Bankrobber

5 favourites this week:

ABBA - The Winner Takes It All

David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes

Gary Numan - I Die, You Die

The Jam - Start!

Ultravox - Sleepwalk

Best :

Sue Wilkinson

ABBA

Olivia Newton John

Shakin Stevens

Bow Wow Wow - C·30 C·60 C·90 Go

David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes

John Foxx - Burning Car

Split Enz - I Got You

Ultravox - Sleepwalk

Bowie aside, mostly songs that are quite new to me getting my votes this week - John Foxx was definitely a first listen (3 for 3 on him getting nominations from me!) and I am not sure I've ever heard the Bow Wow Wow or Ultravox songs in full before either although they did both sound familiar. Split Enz was a recent discovery from BJSC.

Next best songs that I already knew well are George Benson and ABBA, and next best discoveries were Hazel O'Connor, Grace Jones and Peter Gabriel. I do have a feeling the Grace Jones one in particular could grow on me a lot more with more listens, very interesting song!

David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes

George Benson - Give Me The Night

Diana Ross - Upside Down

John Foxx - Burning Car

Grace Jones - Private Life

Ultravox - Sleepwalk

Electric Light Orchestra - All Over The World

David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes

Peter Gabriel - Biko

Hazel O'Connor - Eighth Day

No room for Split Enz, Piranhas or Bow Wow Wow

having trouble finding 5 I truly like...

1) Shalamar - I Owe you one

2) Biko

3) Split Enz - I Got You

4) David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes

5) Ultravox - Sleepwalk

Tough narrowing it down to 5 but here goes:

George Duke - Brazilian Love Affair

Roxy Music - Oh Yeah (On The Radio)

Electric Light Orchestra - All Over The World

Skids - Circus Games

Split Enz - I Got You

Worst:

Bow Wow Wow - C30, C60, C90, Go

Will the clash with the women's Euro finals be an issue this week? (I'm probably fine to multitask - of course we were about 2 minutes and one Michelle Agyemang away from me not caring at all about the final x)

Good shout and I'd been thinking to skip the following Sunday anyway, so let's have a mini-break over the next couple of weekends.

The next listening session will be on Sunday 10 August at 16:00.

Fair

(Ozzy Osbourne to be a big enough RIP to get multiple songs played when we come back? Could definitely at least have a solo song and a Sabbath song x)