Simple Minds - Promised you a miracle 5pts

Ultravox - Reap the wild wind

Madness - Driving In My Car

A Flock of Seagulls - Wishing

Mobiles - Drowning In Berlin

 

missing recxord vote

 

1st Associates – Gloomy Sunday

2nd associates 'club country'

3rd The Cure - Let's go to bed

1 A Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran

2 Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen

3 Dire Straits ~ Private Investigations

4 Peter Gabriel - Shock the monkey

5 Abba - The Day Before You Came

1982 Missing Songs Vote: Results

 

Thanks to the 25 of you who voted on the missing Songs from 1982:

 

Position / Artist - Song Title / Points Scored

 

32nd ABC – Valentine’s Day 0

31st Dazz Band - Let It Whip 3

29th Charlene - I've Never Been To Me 4

29th Japan - Life In Tokyo 4

26th Adrian Gurvitz - Classic 5

26th Associates – Gloomy Sunday 5

26th Ultravox - Reap the wild wind 5

21st ABC - Poison Arrow 6

21st Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance 6

21st Mobiles - Drowning In Berlin 6

21st OMD - Maid of Orleans 6

21st Siouxsie and the Banshees - Melt! 6

19th Accept - Princess Of The Dawn 7

19th Peter Gabriel - Shock the monkey 7

17th ABC - All of my Heart 8

17th Go-Go's - Vacation 8

14th A Flock of Seagulls - Wishing 9

14th Aldo Nova - Fantasy 9

14th Madness - Driving In My Car 9

12th Cure - Let's Go To Bed 10

12th Dire Straits ~ Private Investigations 10

 

10th Iron Maiden - Hallowed be Thy Name 11

10th Simple Minds - Promised you a miracle 11

8th Associates - Club Country 12

8th Scorpions - No One Like You 12

7th Fleetwood Mac - Gypsy 15

6th A Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran 20

5th Frida - I know there's something going on 21

4th Chicago - Hard To Say I'm Sorry 24

3rd Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen 25

2nd Laura Branigan - Gloria 31

 

So going through to the 1980s Record of The Decade Play-offs is:

 

1st Abba - The Day Before You Came 40

 

 

My all-time favourite Abba song, incredibly only made UK#32, 25 years ago. A song far ahead of it's time IMHO.

This is miles and away my favourite ABBA moment, too, an astonishingly great song, criminally overlooked and yes, way ahead of its time, too. It's just..... gorgeous, I think.

 

The most deserving winner of these play offs so far for me, but it's still very worrying to see the Americans have blitzed us with Chicago, Scorpions and Stevie Nicks again, bludgeoning classics like The Associates, The Cure and Madness out of their rightful positions.... apart from ABBA and Frida, that's a pretty hideous top 10.

Edited November 17, 200717 yr by russt68