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1981 RETRO RECORDS OF THE YEAR

 

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YES THE RETRO RECORD OF THE YEARS (UP UNTIL 1997) GAME HERE!!!

 

Vote for your favourite Top20 (or minimum Top10) from the list of 50 Records from 1981.

 

Your First choice (Favourite) song will score 20 pts, 2nd = 19 Pts....down to 20th = 1 point. Please state in your list if you are scoring by position or Points.

 

I am playing this game across both BuzzJack & UKMix. Therefore if you vote please can you only vote in one of the sites threads especially if you have a different name on each site (like me).

 

For each year 1964 to 1997 inclusive & games (*) for the years 1960-1; 1962-3 & two alphabetically track name split lists for the 1950s. There are 50 tracks that I feel best represent the year* in popular music. This certainly does not always mean the biggest hits of the year, but tracks (including album tracks) that over time have come to best represent the year.

 

Please note songs will only feature once for the most well-known or definitive version of a song (example “Without You” will only appear in 1972 for Nilsson, but will be absent in 1994 for Mariah Carey).

 

Also please don’t mention that I have put the song in the wrong year as the year the track was recorded, released (on an album), a hit (peaked) in the UK, a hit (peaked) in the USA can result in three of four different answers, and there will be literally hundreds of songs that fall into that category.

 

For each game you will have four weeks to get your votes in (two weeks for the vote from the shortlist of 50 songs, then two weeks to vote from the "Missing" songs that you have nominated). I will be posting two of these Games a Week at the weekend.

 

(VOTING RULES FOR SPECIFIC GAME 1950s: Top25 make the Record of The Decade Final; 1960s & 1990s: Top 4 From Each Game make the Final, 5th to 10th make the Play-offs; 1970s & 1980s: Top 3 each year make the Final, 4th to 8th make the Play-Offs. PLUS: Your choices of missing songs being included in the relevant Play-offs)

 

Phase 2: The Record Of The Decades Finals will result in the following numbers making the Final 200 (1950s: Top20; 1960s: Top50, 1970s Top45; 1980s Top45; 1990s Top40), where they will be split into 4 Quarter Finals, leading to the Final 50 Songs of the Retro Record Game

 

 

A: Vote for your favourite 20 (minimum 10 out of the following:)

 

Abba - One Of Us

ABC - Tears Are Not Enough

Adam & The Ants - Antmusic

Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming

Adam & The Ants - Stand And Deliver

Air Supply - All Out Of Love

Altered Images - Happy Birthday

Blondie - Rapture

Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough

Diana Ross & Lionel Richie - Endless Love

Dire Straits - Romeo And Juliet

Dolly Parton - 9 To 5

Duran Duran - Girls On Film

Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You

Godley And Creme - Under Your Thumb

Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed

Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That

Hazel O'Connor - Will You?

Human League - Love Action (I Believe In Love)

Human League - Don't You Want Me

Imagination - Body Talk

Jacksons - Can You Feel It

Jam - That's Entertainment

John Lennon - Woman

Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes

Kim Wilde - Kids In America

Laurie Anderson - O Superman

Madness - It Must Be Love

Olivia Newton-John - Physical

OMD - Souvenir

Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight

Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure

Rainbow - I Surrender

REO Speedwagon - Keep On Loving You

Rolling Stones - Start Me Up

Roxy Music - Jealous Guy

Smokey Robinson - Being With You

Soft Cell - Bedsitter

Soft Cell - Tainted Love

Spandau Ballet - Chant No1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)

Specials - Ghost Town

Squeeze - Tempted

Stevie Wonder - Lately

Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime

Teardrop Explodes - Reward

Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood

UB40 - One In Ten

Ultravox - Vienna

Visage - Fade To Grey

 

 

B: Nominate Two songs from 1981 MISSING from this 50 track shortlist.

 

The Top 3 Songs from each year (1980 -1989) will go through to the Record Of The Decade Final. The songs finishing 4th - 8th position will go into a Play-off, where the Top20 Songs will join the other 30 in the Final.

 

While your selection of missing songs will be put to a vote with the winning track (or tracks in event of a tie) joining the Record of The Decade Play-Off.

 

You have until Saturday 20th October to vote for your favourite Top 20 (minimum Top 10) songs of the Year.

 

I will then reveal the results of the vote along with your selections of the "missing songs" from the original list for you to vote for an extra song for a place in the Record of The Decade (1980s) play-offs :thumbup:

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1st Jam - That's Entertainment (20 Pts)

2nd Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming

3rd Specials - Ghost Town

4. Soft Cell - Bedsitter

5. Blondie - Rapture

6. Kim Wilde - Kids In America

7. Roxy Music - Jealous Guy

8. Soft Cell - Tainted Love

9. Ultravox - Vienna

10. Human League - Don't You Want Me

11. Visage - Fade To Grey

12. Hazel O'Connor - Will You?

13. Abba - One Of Us

14. Madness - It Must Be Love

15. Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime

16. Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed

17. Jacksons - Can You Feel It

18. Squeeze - Tempted

19. Teardrop Explodes - Reward

20. Olivia Newton-John - Physical

 

Missing Songs:

Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin - It's My Party

XTC - Sgt. Rock :lol:

aaarrgh.... 2 of my all time favs arnt there (sound of the crowd and kings of the wild fronteer... both missing out to INFERIOR tracks! )...lol.. ok i know i can nominate 2, but to be honest i could just as easily nominate 22 !!! 81 was a great year for singles, but the best ones didnt make the top ten...

 

ill vote later in the week :)

1. Adam & The Ants - Stand And Deliver (20 pts)

2. Specials - Ghost Town

3. Duran Duran - Girls On Film

4. Soft Cell - Bedsitter

5. Altered Images - Happy Birthday

6. Soft Cell - Tainted Love

7. Adam & The Ants - Antmusic

8. Teardrop Explodes - Reward

9. Kim Wilde - Kids In America

10. Human League - Don't You Want Me

11. Ultravox - Vienna

12. Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure

13. Visage - Fade To Grey

14. Blondie - Rapture

15. Jam - That's Entertainment

16. Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming

17. Rolling Stones - Start Me Up

18. Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough

19. Human League - Love Action (I Believe In Love)

20. UB40 - One In Ten

 

Nominations

 

The Passions - I'm in Love With a German Film Star

Madness - Grey Day (much better than It Must Be Love!)

1. Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure

2. Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight

3. Adam & The Ants - Antmusic

4. Jam - That's Entertainment

5. Roxy Music - Jealous Guy

6. Abba - One Of Us

7. Ultravox - Vienna

8. Visage - Fade To Grey

9. Specials - Ghost Town

10. Soft Cell - Tainted Love

11. Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough

12. Jacksons - Can You Feel It

13. Kim Wilde - Kids In America

14. Human League - Love Action (I Believe In Love)

15. Duran Duran - Girls On Film

16. Spandau Ballet - Chant No1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)

17. Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You

18. Human League - Don't You Want Me

19. UB40 - One In Ten

20. Rolling Stones - Start Me Up

 

Missing:

Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin - It's My Party

Vangelis - Chariots Of Fire

 

 

 

 

 

Human League - Love Action (I Believe In Love) 20pts

Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime

Visage - Fade To Grey

Specials - Ghost Town

Human League - Don't You Want Me

Duran Duran - Girls On Film

Rolling Stones - Start Me Up

Madness - It Must Be Love

Teardrop Explodes - Reward

Roxy Music - Jealous Guy

Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure

Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

Jam - That's Entertainment

Altered Images - Happy Birthday

Kim Wilde - Kids In America

Spandau Ballet - Chant No1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)

Soft Cell - Tainted Love

OMD - Souvenir

Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That

UB40 - One In Ten

 

Add the following 2 songs

 

Pretenders - I go to sleep

Human League - The sound of the crowd

 

Dire Straits - Romeo And Juliet 20 pts

Duran Duran - Girls On Film

Blondie - Rapture

Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You

Rainbow - I Surrender

Rolling Stones - Start Me Up

Ultravox - Vienna

Visage - Fade To Grey

Soft Cell - Tainted Love

Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

Laurie Anderson - O Superman

John Lennon - Woman

Jacksons - Can You Feel It

Roxy Music - Jealous Guy

Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight

Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime

REO Speedwagon - Keep On Loving You

Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes

Godley And Creme - Under Your Thumb

Abba - One Of Us

 

 

Edited by Naomi Watts

1st (20 points) Visage - Fade to Grey

2 Specials - Ghost town

3 Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime

4 Queen/Bowie - Under Pressure

5 Laurie Anderson - O Superman

6 Hazel O'Connor - Will You?

7 Blondie - Rapture

8 Human League - Don't You Want Me?

9 Adam and the Ants - Antmusic

10 Soft Cell - Bedsitter

11 Duran Duran - Girls on Film

12 ABC - Tears are not enough

13 The Jam - That's Entertainment

14 Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes

15 John Lennon - Woman

16 OMD - Souvenir

17 Adan and the Amts - Stand and Deliver

18 ABBA - One of us

19 Roxy Music - Jealous Guy

20 Teardrop Explodes - Reward

 

missing two:

Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice

Toyah - Thunder in the Mountains

 

Jam - That's Entertainment

Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure

Ultravox – Vienna

Soft Cell - Tainted Love

Roxy Music - Jealous Guy

John Lennon – Woman

Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That

Spandau Ballet - Chant No1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)

Duran Duran - Girls On Film

Human League - Don't You Want Me

Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

Madness - It Must Be Love

Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight

Jacksons - Can You Feel It

Abba - One Of Us

Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You

UB40 - One In Ten

REO Speedwagon - Keep On Loving You

Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough

Stevie Wonder - Lately

 

Visage - Fade To Grey..................... 20 POINTS

Ultravox - Vienna

Spandau Ballet - Chant No1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)

ABC - Tears Are Not Enough

Adam & The Ants - Stand And Deliver

Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed

Teardrop Explodes - Reward

UB40 - One In Ten

Human League - Love Action (I Believe In Love)

Duran Duran - Girls On Film

Jacksons - Can You Feel It

Kim Wilde - Kids In America

Adam & The Ants - Antmusic

Altered Images - Happy Birthday

Human League - Don't You Want Me

Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming

Hazel O'Connor - Will You?

Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes

Soft Cell - Tainted Love

Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood

 

nominate.. adam and the ants 'kings of the wild fronteer', (their best imho), landscape 'einstein a go-go

Abba - One Of Us

ABC - Tears Are Not Enough

Adam & The Ants - Antmusic

Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming

Adam & The Ants - Stand And Deliver

Air Supply - All Out Of Love

Altered Images - Happy Birthday

Blondie - Rapture

Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough

Diana Ross & Lionel Richie - Endless Love

Dire Straits - Romeo And Juliet

Dolly Parton - 9 To 5

Duran Duran - Girls On Film

Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You

Godley And Creme - Under Your Thumb

Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed 19 points

Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That 13 points

Hazel O'Connor - Will You?

Human League - Love Action (I Believe In Love) 15 points

Human League - Don't You Want Me

Imagination - Body Talk

Jacksons - Can You Feel It 17 points

Jam - That's Entertainment

John Lennon - Woman

Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes

Kim Wilde - Kids In America

Laurie Anderson - O Superman 16 points

Madness - It Must Be Love 4 points

Olivia Newton-John - Physical

OMD - Souvenir 1 point

Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight

Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure 10 points

Rainbow - I Surrender

REO Speedwagon - Keep On Loving You

Rolling Stones - Start Me Up

Roxy Music - Jealous Guy

Smokey Robinson - Being With You

Soft Cell - Bedsitter 9 points

Soft Cell - Tainted Love

Spandau Ballet - Chant No1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)

Specials - Ghost Town 20 points (coz of father ted :lol: )

Squeeze - Tempted

Stevie Wonder - Lately

Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime 18 points

Teardrop Explodes - Reward

Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood

UB40 - One In Ten

Ultravox - Vienna

Visage - Fade To Grey

 

that must be 10

 

Abba - One Of Us

ABC - Tears Are Not Enough

Adam & The Ants - Antmusic

Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming

Adam & The Ants - Stand And Deliver

Air Supply - All Out Of Love

Altered Images - Happy Birthday

Blondie - Rapture

Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough

Diana Ross & Lionel Richie - Endless Love

Dire Straits - Romeo And Juliet

Dolly Parton - 9 To 5

Duran Duran - Girls On Film

Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You

Godley And Creme - Under Your Thumb

Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed 19 points

Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That 13 points

Hazel O'Connor - Will You?

Human League - Love Action (I Believe In Love) 15 points

Human League - Don't You Want Me

Imagination - Body Talk

Jacksons - Can You Feel It 17 points

Jam - That's Entertainment

John Lennon - Woman

Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes

Kim Wilde - Kids In America

Laurie Anderson - O Superman 16 points

Madness - It Must Be Love 4 points

Olivia Newton-John - Physical

OMD - Souvenir 1 point

Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight

Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure 10 points

Rainbow - I Surrender

REO Speedwagon - Keep On Loving You

Rolling Stones - Start Me Up

Roxy Music - Jealous Guy

Smokey Robinson - Being With You

Soft Cell - Bedsitter 9 points

Soft Cell - Tainted Love

Spandau Ballet - Chant No1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)

Specials - Ghost Town 20 points (coz of father ted :lol: )

Squeeze - Tempted

Stevie Wonder - Lately

Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime 18 points

Teardrop Explodes - Reward

Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood

UB40 - One In Ten

Ultravox - Vienna

Visage - Fade To Grey

 

that must be 10

 

this is pop has got enough work to do sorting out these votes, if you cant be arsed to sort them out in order...dont bother voting.

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this is pop has got enough work to do sorting out these votes, if you cant be arsed to sort them out in order...dont bother voting.

 

Apart from the fact it looks a bit ugly reproducing the list of 50 songs, it is not too bad as I have the tracks in an excel spreadsheet in alphabetical artist order, so I've literally got to scan down the sheet to enter the points in the relevant cells.

 

So I have no problems, although next time if you (tigerboy) could delete the songs that you don't give points to, then that would be good. :thumbup:

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Many Thanks to the 25 of you who voted :thumbup:

 

The 1981 Record Of The Year Results are:

 

Position / Artist - Song Title / Points

 

50th Godley And Creme - Under Your Thumb 3

49th Imagination - Body Talk 4

48th OMD - Souvenir 8

47th Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood 10

46th UB40 - One In Ten 23

45th Squeeze - Tempted 26

43rd ABC - Tears Are Not Enough 33

43rd Altered Images - Happy Birthday 33

42nd Stevie Wonder - Lately 43

40th Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming 48

 

40th Smokey Robinson - Being With You 48

39th Adam & The Ants - Antmusic 53

38th Soft Cell - Bedsitter 54

37th Diana Ross & Lionel Richie - Endless Love 56

36th Hazel O'Connor - Will You? 57

35th Spandau Ballet - Chant No1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On) 57

32nd Air Supply - All Out Of Love 63

32nd Dolly Parton - 9 To 5 63

32nd Rainbow - I Surrender 63

31st Adam & The Ants - Stand And Deliver 64

 

30th Madness - It Must Be Love 66

29th Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That 67

28th Teardrop Explodes - Reward 71

27th Human League - Love Action (I Believe In Love) 72

26th Dire Straits - Romeo And Juliet 90

25th Olivia Newton-John - Physical 96

24th Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed 98

23rd Laurie Anderson - O Superman 99

22nd John Lennon - Woman 110

21st Roxy Music - Jealous Guy 114

 

19th Jam - That's Entertainment 120

19th Specials - Ghost Town 120

18th Rolling Stones - Start Me Up 122

17th Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You 126

16th Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime 128

15th Blondie - Rapture 133

14th REO Speedwagon - Keep On Loving You 136

13th Jacksons - Can You Feel It 145

12th Visage - Fade To Grey 145

11th Duran Duran - Girls On Film 150

10th Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough 152

9th Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes 158

 

The following songs qualify for the Record Of The Decade (1980s) play-offs

 

8th Abba - One Of Us 166

7th Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic 173

6th Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight 175

5th Ultravox - Vienna 184

4th Kim Wilde - Kids In America 201

 

While the Top 3 Songs of 1981 all qualify for Record Of The Decade (1980s) Final

 

3rd Soft Cell - Tainted Love 261

2nd Human League - Don't You Want Me 262

1st Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure 267

 

 

I will reveal the Missing 1981 Nominations for you to vote on next.....

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1981 Missing Nominations are:

 

Abba - The Visitors

AC/DC - For Those About To Rock

Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier

Bruce Springsteen - The River

Cliff Richard - Wired For Sound

Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin - It's My Party

Dire Straits ~ Tunnel of Love

Duran Duran - Friends Of Mine

Duran Duran - Planet Earth

Earth, Wind & Fire - Let's Groove

Elaine Paige - Memory

Foreigner - Urgent

Human League - The sound of the crowd

Journey - Don't Stop Believin'

Junior - Mama Used To Say

Landscape - Einstein a Go-go

Madness - Grey Day

Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman

Ozzy Osbourne - Over the Mountain

Pretenders - I go to sleep

Rick Springfield - I've Done Everything For You

Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl

Rush ~ Red Barchetta

Saxon - Princess Of The Night

Sheena Easton - For Your Eyes Only

Stephanie Mills - Never knew love like this before

The Passions - I'm in Love With a German Film Star

Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love

Toyah - Thunder in the Mountains

Vangelis - Chariots Of Fire

XTC - Sgt. Rock

Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice

 

(Ineligible nominated songs: Kool & The Gang - Celebration was in the 1980 Game & Meat Loaf & Cher - Dead Ringer For Love is in the 1982 ROTY Game)

 

 

Please vote for your five favourites in order (1st, 2nd, etc) from that list of nominations within the next two weeks.

 

The winning song will qualify for the Plays offs of the Record Of Decade (1980s)

I'd vote for ABBA's brilliant The Visitors - but it was never a single, so can't realy be counted in this poll.... same with Duran's Friends of Mine.

 

And in the year-end charts - yikes- Visage were robbed. And Hazel O'Connor.

 

1st Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice

2 The Passions - I'm in love with a German film star

3 Duran Duran - Planet Earth

4 Toyah - Thunder in the mountains

5 Dave Stewart / Barbra Gaskin - It's My Party

1 Human League - Don't You Want Me

2 Kim Wilde - Kids In America

3 Ultravox - Vienna

4 Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight

5 Duran Duran - Girls On Film

6 ABBA - One Of Us

7 UB40 - One In Ten

8 Dire Straits - Romeo & Juliet

9 Hazel O'Connor - Will You

10 OMD - Souvenir

11 Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That

12 ABC - Tears Are Not Enough

12 Adam & The Ants - Antmusic

13 Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming

14 Adam & The Ants - Stand & Deliver

15 Soft Cell - Tainted Love

16 Soft Cell - Bedsitter

17 Visage - Fade To Grey

18 Roxy Music - Jealous Guy

19 Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough

20 Squeeze - Tempted

 

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1st Duran Duran - Planet Earth (5 Pts)

2nd Abba - The Visitors

3rd Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin - It's My Party

4th XTC - Sgt. Rock

5th The Passions - I'm in Love With a German Film Star

 

Human League - The sound of the crowd 5 pts

Pretenders - I go to sleep

Madness - Grey Day

Duran Duran - Planet Earth

The Passions - I'm in Love With a German Film Star

 

1. The Passions - I'm In Love With a German Film Star

2. Adam & the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier

3. Madness - Grey Day

4. The Pretenders - I Go to Sleep

5. XTC - Sgt Rock

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