Not sure how much I’ll make today!

We are back at 4pm today, with 52 new songs to play from another 8 weeks of 1980!

https://sync-tube.de/room/2gHBerpI

Best of Week 5 poll results

8 David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes

6 Ultravox - Sleepwalk

4 Abba - The Winner Takes It All

3 Diana Ross - Upside Down

3 Hazel O'Connor - Eighth Day

3 Peter Gabriel - Biko

3 Split Enz - I Got You

2 Electric Light Orchestra - All Over The World

2 John Foxx - Burning Car

2 The Clash - Bankrobber

1 Bow Wow Wow - C30, C60, C90, Go

1 Gary Numan - I Die, You Die

1 George Benson - Give Me The Night

1 George Duke - Brazilian Love Affair

1 Grace Jones - Private Life

1 Olivia Newton-John - Magic

1 Piranhas - Tom Hark

1 Roxy Music - Oh Yeah (On The Radio)

1 Shakin' Stevens - Marie Marie

1 Shalamar - I Owe You One

1 Skids - Circus Games

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

1 The Jam - Start!

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

Full list of hits covered today, all are on Spotify (w/e of Top 40 new entries in bold):

13/09/1980

Queen - Another One Bites The Dust

Stevie Wonder - Master Blaster (Jammin')

Gladys Knight And The Pips - Taste Of Bitter Love

Madness - Baggy Trousers

Change - Searching

XTC - Generals And Majors/Don't Lose Your Temper

Splodgenessabounds - Two Little Boys/Horse

20/09/1980

Ottawan - D.I.S.C.O.

Odyssey - If You're Lookin' For A Way Out

Bob Marley And The Wailers - Three Little Birds

Diana Ross - My Old Piano

AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long

27/09/1980

The Police - Don't Stand So Close To Me

The Specials - Stereotype/International Jet Set

Black Slate - Amigo

Thin Lizzy - Killer On The Loose

The Nolans - Gotta Pull Myself Together

04/10/1980

Gillan - Trouble

Linx - You're Lying

Coffee - Casanova

Matchbox - When You Ask About Love

Gilbert O'Sullivan - What's In A Kiss

11/10/1980

The Sweet People - Et Les Oiseaux Chantaient (And The Birds Were Singing)

Barbra Streisand - Woman In Love

George Benson - Love X Love

Status Quo - What You're Proposing

Air Supply - All Out Of Love

Kate Bush - Army Dreamers

The Gap Band - Party Lights

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola Gay

Bad Manners - Special Brew

18/10/1980

The Rolling Stones - She's So Cold

Teena Marie - I Need Your Lovin'

Earth, Wind And Fire - Let Me Talk

Showaddywaddy - Why Do Lovers (Break Each Other's Heart?)

Adam And The Ants - Dog Eat Dog

25/10/1980

XTC - Towers Of London

Stephanie Mills - Never Knew Love Like This Before

Kelly Marie - Loving Just For Fun

Sheena Easton - One Man Woman

The Tourists - Don't Say I Told You So

01/11/1980

David Bowie - Fashion

Olivia Newton-John And Cliff Richard - Suddenly

The Jacksons - Lovely One

Dennis Waterman - I Could Be So Good For You

UB40 - The Earth Dies Screaming/Dream A Lie

UK Subs - Party In Paris

Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

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 ('Ace Of Spades' and 'Stereotype' would be next in line):

Stevie Wonder - Master Blaster (Jammin')

Madness - Baggy Trousers

AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola Gay

David Bowie - Fashion

Queen - Another One Bites The Dust

Air Supply - All Out Of Love

The Sweet People - Et Les Oiseaux Chantaient (And The Birds Were Singing)

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola Gay

Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

Heavy on the classics this week, no room sadly for Madness, Bob Marley, David Bowie, Stevie Wonder, Kate Bush & AC/DC (and a good double a-side discovery from the Specials), I can't not vote for The Sweet People as I am blessed to have another birdsong-heavy song in my life x

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola Gay

Kate Bush - Army Dreamers

Stevie Wonder - Master Blaster (Jammin')

David Bowie - Fashion

Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

My top 5 favourites today:

Adam And The Ants - Dog Eat Dog

David Bowie - Fashion

Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola Gay

The Specials - Stereotype/International Jet Set

The first four are long term big favourites but those Specials songs were really good discoveries. As was The Sweet People, which just missed out...

Queen - Another One Bites The Dust

Madness - Baggy Trousers

Air Supply - All Out Of Love

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola Gay

David Bowie - Fashion

My Top 5:

Black Slate - Amigo

Linx - You're Lying

Coffee - Casanova

The Sweet People - Et Les Oiseaux Chantaient (And The Birds Were Singing)

Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

Worst:

The Nolans - Gotta Pull Myself Together

Best

Enola Gay

Army Dreamers

Fashion

Three Little Birds

Dog Eat Dog

Worst

My Old Piano

Loving Just For Fun

Love X Love

Just had a belated listen

My favs

You’re lying, Bob Marley and OMD

Gonna miss it again this week

But good excuse

Off to see Oasis 🥳

Just remembered I'd not done this yet!

I did listen to the songs I missed from the session later in the evening and it ended up bumping my number of playlisted songs for the week to a new record of 24 - added Queen/Madness as I already knew I would, Stevie Wonder which I did know and is another great classic but just didn't recall it straight away from the title, and 3 more discoveries, enjoyed both of the other XTC songs quite a bit and I will happily take the Splodgenessabounds version of 'Two Little Boys' and forget Rolf Harris had anything to do with it (not that it was his song in the first place anyway).

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Three Little Birds

Madness - Baggy Trousers

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola Gay

Queen - Another One Bites The Dust

XTC - Generals And Majors

...so that's 3 of my 5 votes for the week being songs I missed on SyncTube oops! XTC the only one I didn't already know well ofc. Just missing out from songs I already knew are Stevie Wonder, Motörhead and Adam And The Ants and next best discoveries of the week were Kate Bush, The Specials' 'Stereotype', XTC's 'Towers Of London' and Sweet People.

(is it just me that didn't particularly like 'Fashion' then oops)

Streisand

Olivia and Cliff

A couple of RIP requests:

Radar Love by Golden Earring for their guitarist George Kooymans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRlSHG5hRY4

The Lady Who Said She Could Fly by The Idle Race for their bass player Greg Masters (my favourite song by them)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXiwNDjHjp4

Thanks

I won’t get round to posting my last group in time but I actually think none would make my 5 anyway!

1 OMD - Enola Gay (9)

2 Queen - Another One Bites The Dust (9)

3 Kate Bush - Army Dreamers (9)

4 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Three Little Birds (9)

5 The Sweet People - Et Les Oiseaux Chantaient (8)

Commiserations with 8 so far:

You Shook Me All Night Long

Master Blaster

Baggy Trousers

Stereotype / International Jet Set

All Out Of Love

Woman In Love

And probably:

Ace Of Spades

Fashion

Dog Eat Dog

Wrapping up 1980 from 4pm today, with 48 new songs from the last 8 weeks of the year!

https://sync-tube.de/room/2gHBerpI

Best of Week 6 poll results

9 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola Gay

5 David Bowie - Fashion

4 Bob Marley And The Wailers - Three Little Birds

4 Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

4 Queen - Another One Bites The Dust

3 Kate Bush - Army Dreamers

3 Madness - Baggy Trousers

3 The Sweet People - Et Les Oiseaux Chantaient (And The Birds Were Singing)

2 Adam And The Ants - Dog Eat Dog

2 Air Supply - All Out Of Love

2 Linx - You're Lying

2 Stevie Wonder - Master Blaster (Jammin')

1 AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long

1 Barbra Streisand - Woman In Love

1 Black Slate - Amigo

1 Coffee - Casanova

1 Olivia Newton-John And Cliff Richard - Suddenly

1 The Specials - Stereotype/International Jet Set

1 XTC - Generals And Majors

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

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

08/11/1980

Blondie - The Tide Is High

Roxy Music - The Same Old Scene

John Lennon - (Just Like) Starting Over

Kool And The Gang - Celebration

Rod Stewart - Passion

Liquid Gold - The Night, The Wine And The Roses

Young And Co - I Like (What You're Doing To Me)

15/11/1980

Abba - Super Trouper

Gladys Knight And The Pips - Bourgie, Bourgie

Diana Ross - I'm Coming Out

Iron Maiden - Women In Uniform*

The Rah Band - Falcon

Wilton Felder - Inherit The Wind

Barry Manilow - Lonely Together

22/11/1980

Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short

The Boomtown Rats - Banana Republic

Eddy Grant - Do You Feel My Love*

Madness - Embarrassment

Kenny Rogers - Lady

Electric Light Orchestra - Don't Walk Away

29/11/1980

AC/DC - Rock 'N' Roll Ain't Noise Pollution

Neil Diamond - Love On The Rocks

Daryl Hall And John Oates - Kiss On My List

St Winifred's School Choir - There's No-One Quite Like Grandma

Dr Hook - Girls Can Get It

06/12/1980

Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry

Stray Cats - Runaway Boys

Queen - Flash

Adam And The Ants - Antmusic

Robert Palmer - Looking For Clues

Status Quo - Lies/Don't Drive My Car

Showaddywaddy - Blue Moon

Matchbox - Over The Rainbow/You Belong To Me

Kate Bush - December Will Be Magic Again*

The Clash - The Call Up

13/12/1980

The Police - De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da

Chas And Dave - Rabbit

The Barron Knights - Never Mind The Presents

Bad Manners - Lorraine

The Nolans - Who's Gonna Rock You

20/12/1980

The Beat - Too Nice To Talk To

The Specials Featuring Rico With The Ice Rink String Sounds - Do Nothing/Maggie's Farm

Gary Numan - This Wreckage

Mac Davis - It's Hard To Be Humble

Mike Berry - If I Could Only Make You Care*

27/12/1980

Racey - Runaround Sue

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

Which will be the first session for 1981, but I'm having a few weeks' break first, so this will be on Sunday 21 September at 16:00 - look forward to continuing the series then!

My votes:

Blondie - The Tide Is High

Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short

Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry

The Clash - The Call Up

The Specials - Do Nothing

Sorry I missed today’s session. I didn’t get to my hotel in Calais until 17:15 UK time, and went out to eat within the hour. Back in the UK for next week’s session.

My five favourite songs this week:

Adam And The Ants - Antmusic

Blondie - The Tide Is High

Gary Numan - This Wreckage

Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry

Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short