Results of Retro Soundclash #40

 

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart [ 13 ] [76.47%]

Iggy Pop - Lust for Life [ 4 ] [23.53%]

 

So Joy Division run out easy winners over Iggy. Next up is a reggae #1 and one hit wonder from 1978, Uptown Top Ranking. I still have this on a 7" - must have been one of the first singles I ever got. This was used by Abs as a basis for his Top 10 hit, What You Got in 2002.

 

You have until whenever I get round to announcing the results to vote!

 

Previous Wins

8 Wins

Take On Me (A-Ha)

 

5 wins

Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush)

Waterloo Sunset (The Kinks)

 

4 Wins

Enjoy The Silence (Depeche Mode)

Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division)

 

3 Wins

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (U2)

Paint It Black (The Rolling Stones)

I Feel Love (Donna Summer)

 

 

1 Win

With Or Without You (U2)

Living On A Prayer (Bon Jovi)

Like A Prayer (Madonna)

Paperback Writer (The Beatles)

Another Brick in the Wall (Pink Floyd)

Life on Mars? (David Bowie)

Edited October 21, 200717 yr by grebo69

The Champion - Joy Division

 

 

The Challenger - Althea and Donna

 

Edited October 21, 200717 yr by grebo69

Two fantastic songs, but Joy Division gets my vote.

Easy one this time, Joy Division.

Joy Division

Joy Division

Joy Division

althia and donna!!! lol the classic one hit wonder, wont overthrow jd but worthy of a sympathy vote :)

Yeah, shame all these worthy contenders weren't around when A-Ha were inexplicably putting together that 8 win run.

 

Joy Division.

Thankfully I wasn't in charge of that debacle. Only took the reins of the soundclash after that but for your perusal here is a list of the records that Take on Me beat:

 

#6 Living on a Prayer

#7 Gold

#8 Every Rose Has It's Thorn

#9 Eye of the Tiger

#10 The Final Countdown

#11 True

#12 Rio

#13 Killing Me Softly

#14 Finally lost to With or Without You

 

 

This is an easy one - Joy Division of course

Joy Division