Posted January 5, 200817 yr 1988 RETRO RECORDS OF THE YEAR :cheer: :yahoo: :w00t: :dance: Vote for your favourite Top20 (or minimum Top10) from the list of 50 Records from 1988. 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:) Aztec Camera - Somewhere In My Heart Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy Bomb The Bass - Beat Dis Bros - I Owe You Nothing Climie Fisher - Love Changes (Everything) Danny Wilson - Mary's Prayer Deacon Blue - Dignity Debbie Gibson - Only In My Dreams Def Leppard - Love Bites Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me Enya - Orinoco Flow Erasure - A Little Respect Fairground Attraction - Perfect Gloria Estefan - Anything For You Guns 'N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine Guns 'N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle Inner City - Good Life INXS - Need You Tonight INXS - Never Tear Us Apart Iron Maiden - Can I Play With Madness Jane Wiedlin - Rush Hour Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan - Especially For You Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel Morrissey - Suedehead Ofra Haza - Im Nin' Alu Pet Shop Boys - Heart Pet Shop Boys - Left To My Own Devices Pixies - Gigantic Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn Prefab Sprout - The King Of Rock 'N' Roll Primitives - Crash Prince - Alphabet Street Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) Salt 'N' Pepa - Push It S-Express - Theme From S-Express Sinead O'Connor - Mandinka Taylor Dayne - Tell It To My Heart Terence Trent D'arby - Sign Your Name Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now Timelords (aka KLF) - Doctorin' The Tardis Tracy Chapman - Fast Car U2 - Desire Wet Wet Wet - Angel Eyes Whitney Houston - One Moment In Time Whitney Houston - So Emotional Womack And Womack - Teardrops Yazz & Plastic Population - The Only Way Is Up B: Nominate Two songs from 1988 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 19th January 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
January 5, 200817 yr Author 1st Pet Shop Boys - Left To My Own Devices 20 Pts 2nd Deacon Blue - Dignity 3rd Prince - Alphabet Street 4. Aztec Camera - Somewhere In My Heart 5. Morrissey - Suedehead 6. Debbie Gibson - Only In My Dreams 7. Timelords (aka KLF) - Doctorin' The Tardis 8. Erasure - A Little Respect 9. INXS - Never Tear Us Apart 10. Iron Maiden - Can I Play With Madness 11. Prefab Sprout - The King Of Rock 'N' Roll 12. Pixies - Gigantic 13. Fairground Attraction - Perfect 14. Guns 'N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine 15. Bomb The Bass - Beat Dis 16. Climie Fisher - Love Changes (Everything) 17. Pet Shop Boys - Heart 18. Sinead O'Connor - Mandinka 19. INXS - Need You Tonight 20. Ofra Haza - Im Nin' Alu Missing Songs: Scritti Politti - Oh Patti U2 - Angel Of Harlem
January 5, 200817 yr 1st Inner City - Good Life 2 INXS - Never Tear Us Apart 3 Morrissey - Suedehead 4 Prince - Alphabet Street 5 S-Express - Theme from S-Express 6 Sinead O'Connor - Mandinka 7 Pet Shop Boys - Left to my own devices 8 Terence Trent D'Arby - Sign your name 9 Womack and Womack - Teardrops 10 Pixies - Gigantic 11 Pet Shop Boys - Heart 12 Bomb the Bass - Beat Dis 13 Fairground Attraction - Perfect 14 INXS - Need You Tonight 15 Aztec Camera - Somewhere in my heart 16 Primitives - Crash 17 Tracy Chapman - Fast Car 18 Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal 19 Danny Wilson - Mary's Prayer 20 Enya - Orinoco Flow missing 2... Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry (how could this have been missed off the list?) Everyday is Like Sunday - Morrissey
January 5, 200817 yr 1 Timelords (aka KLF) - Doctorin' The Tardis 2 Sinead O'Connor - Mandinka 3 Inner City - Good Life 4 INXS - Need You Tonight 5 Terence Trent D'arby - Sign Your Name 6 Guns 'N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine 7 Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan - Especially For You 8 Prefab Sprout - The King Of Rock 'N' Roll 9 Aztec Camera - Somewhere In My Heart 10 Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky 11 Primitives - Crash 12 Jane Wiedlin - Rush Hour 13 Yazz & Plastic Population - The Only Way Is Up 14 Tracy Chapman - Fast Car 15 Enya - Orinoco Flow 16 Taylor Dayne - Tell It To My Heart 17 Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now nominate adventures ... 'broken land' johnny hates jazz ... 'heart of gold'
January 5, 200817 yr 1. Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now 2. Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky 3. Pet Shop Boys - Heart 4. Taylor Dayne - Tell It To My Heart 5. Def Leppard - Love Bites 6. Timelords (aka KLF) - Doctorin' The Tardis 7. Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan - Especially For You 8. Ofra Haza - Im Nin' Alu 9. INXS - Never Tear Us Apart 10. Debbie Gibson - Only In My Dreams 11. S-Express - Theme From S-Express 12. Pet Shop Boys - Left To My Own Devices 13. Bomb The Bass - Beat Dis 14. Climie Fisher - Love Changes (Everything) 15. Tracy Chapman - Fast Car 16. Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal 17. Salt 'N' Pepa - Push It 18. Jane Wiedlin - Rush Hour 19. Erasure - A Little Respect 20. Enya - Orinoco Flow Nominate: Tiffany: Could've Been Expose: Seasons Change (alternate: Sabrina: Boys) TBH, I am kinda surprised with the list given, huge hits such as Glenn Medeiros' Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You (UK no 1), Robin Beck's The First Time (also UK no 1), Together Forever by Rick Astley, A Groovy Kind Of Love by Phil Collins (again, UK no 1) etc big hits missing and quite a few very random tracks included.
January 5, 200817 yr Pet Shop Boys - Heart...20 pts Climie Fisher - Love Changes (Everything) Prefab Sprout - The King Of Rock 'N' Roll Danny Wilson - Mary's Prayer Deacon Blue - Dignity U2 - Desire Pet Shop Boys - Left To My Own Devices INXS - Need You Tonight Erasure - A Little Respect Morrissey - Suedehead Timelords (aka KLF) - Doctorin' The Tardis Terence Trent D'arby - Sign Your Name Guns 'N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine Fairground Attraction - Perfect Aztec Camera - Somewhere In My Heart Tracy Chapman - Fast Car Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) Iron Maiden - Can I Play With Madness Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me nominate Deacon Blue - Real Gone Kid Juila Fordham - Happy ever after
January 5, 200817 yr 01 Inner City - Good Life (20points) 02 Taylor Dayne - Tell It To My Heart 03 Prince - Alphabet Street 04 S-Express - Theme From... 05 Terrance Trent D'erby - Sign Your Name 06 Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky 07 Yazz - The Only Way Is Up 08 Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel 09 Salt n Pepa - Push It 10 Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now 11 Bomb The Bass - Beat Dis 12 Gloria Estefan - Anything For You 13 Pet Shop Boys - Heart 14 Womack and Womack - Teardrops 15 Erasure - A Little Respect 16 Inxs - Never Tear us Apart 17 Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror Nominations Inner City - Big Fun Raze - Break 4 Love (Russ beat me to it with Neneh Cherry!)
January 6, 200817 yr 1 Pet Shop Boys - Heart (20pts) 2 Pet Shop Boys - Left To My Own Devices 3 Climie Fisher - Love Changes Everything 4 Danny Wilson - Mary's Prayer 5 Gloria Estefan - Anything For You 6 Debbie Gibson - Only In My Dreams 7 Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now 8 Deacon Blue - Dignity 9 Erasure - A Little Respect 10 Wet Wet Wet - Angel Eyes 11 INXS - Never Tear Us Apart 12 Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel 13 Aztec Camera - Somewhere In My Heart 14 Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror 15 Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky 16 Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn 17 Def Leppard - Love Bites 18 Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal 19 INXS - Need You Tonight 20 Terence Trent D'Arby - Sign Your Name Missing: Rick Astley - Together Forever Sinitta - Cross My Broken Heart
January 8, 200817 yr 1. 20 points Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy 2. Ofra Haza - Im Nin' Alu 3. Morrissey - Suedehead 4. Bomb The Bass - Beat Dis 5. Iron Maiden - Can I Play With Madness 6. Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky 7. Pet Shop Boys - Heart 8. U2 - Desire 9. Pet Shop Boys - Left To My Own Devices 10. Yazz & Plastic Population - The Only Way Is Up 11. Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan - Especially For You 12. Timelords (aka KLF) - Doctorin' The Tardis 13. Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me :lol: 14. Def Leppard - Love Bites (for comedy value as this list was probs the hardest/worst one!!!) Missing: Coldcut ft. Yazz & Plastic Population - Doctorin' the house Pet Shop Boys - So Sorry, I Said (Original of the Liza Minnelli song / from Introspective)
January 9, 200817 yr Tracy Chapman - Fast Car 10 only Guns 'N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine Guns 'N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Fee Taylor Dayne - Tell It To My Heart Terence Trent D'arby - Sign Your Name INXS - Need You Tonight INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
January 19, 200817 yr Author Many Thanks to the 29 of you who voted The 1988 Record Of The Year Results are: Position / Artist - Song Title / Points 50th Bros - I Owe You Nothing 10 49th Wet Wet Wet - Angel Eyes 19 48th Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy 38 47th Pixies - Gigantic 45 46th Womack And Womack - Teardrops 53 44th Bomb The Bass - Beat Dis 55 44th Danny Wilson - Mary's Prayer 55 43rd Gloria Estefan - Anything For You 64 42nd Ofra Haza - Im Nin' Alu 66 41st Sinead O'Connor - Mandinka 69 40th Timelords (aka KLF) - Doctorin' The Tardis 72 39th Fairground Attraction - Perfect 75 38th Prefab Sprout - The King Of Rock 'N' Roll 76 37th Jane Wiedlin - Rush Hour 77 33rd Yazz & Plastic Population - The Only Way Is Up 81 33rd Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) 81 33rd Deacon Blue - Dignity 81 33rd Inner City - Good Life 81 32nd S-Express - Theme From S-Express 85 31st Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn 87 29th Morrissey - Suedehead 88 29th Primitives - Crash 88 28th Debbie Gibson - Only In My Dreams 90 27th Prince - Alphabet Street 93 26th Climie Fisher - Love Changes (Everything) 100 25th Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan - Especially For You 109 24th Iron Maiden - Can I Play With Madness 116 23rd U2 - Desire 117 22nd Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now 121 21st Terence Trent D'arby - Sign Your Name 128 20th Aztec Camera - Somewhere In My Heart 129 19th Whitney Houston - So Emotional 133 18th Pet Shop Boys - Left To My Own Devices 134 17th Taylor Dayne - Tell It To My Heart 139 16th Whitney Houston - One Moment In Time 141 15th INXS - Need You Tonight 142 14th Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me 143 13th Salt 'N' Pepa - Push It 149 12th Guns 'N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle 160 11th Enya - Orinoco Flow 166 10th Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel 181 9th Def Leppard - Love Bites 182 The following songs qualify for the Record Of The Decade (1980s) play-offs 8th Erasure - A Little Respect 184 6th Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal 195 6th Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky 195 5th Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror 206 4th Tracy Chapman - Fast Car 207 While the Top 3 Songs of 1988 all qualify for Record Of The Decade (1980s) Final 3rd Pet Shop Boys - Heart 220 2nd INXS - Never Tear Us Apart 224 1st Guns 'N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine 315 oobDQ0vdm8M This Hard Rock classic just had to win.... I will reveal the Missing 1988 Nominations for you to vote on next.....
January 19, 200817 yr Author 1988 Missing Nominations are: AC/DC - Heatseeker Adventures -Broken land A-ha - Stay On These Roads Beach Boys - Kokomo Blow Monkeys- This is your life Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine Cheap Trick - The Flame Cliff Richard - Mistletoe and Wine Coldcut ft. Yazz & Plastic Population - Doctorin' the house Crowded House - Better Be Home Soon Deacon Blue - Real Gone Kid Expose - Seasons Change Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere France Gall - Ella elle l'a George Michael - Father Figure George Michael - Monkey George Michael - One More Try Gloria Estefan - 1-2-3 Inner City - Big Fun Iron Maiden - Infinite Dreams Iron Maiden - The Clairvoyant Johnny hates jazz - Heart of gold Juila Fordham - Happy ever after Kim Wilde - You Came Kylie Minogue - Got To Be Certain Kylie Minogue - Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi Metallica - Dyers Eve Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana Morrissey - Everyday is Like Sunday Pet Shop Boys - So Sorry, I Said Phil Collins - Groovy Kind of Love Proclaimers - Sunshine On Leith R.E.M - Orange Crush Raze - Break 4 Love Richard Marx - Endless Summer Nights Rick Astley - Together Forever Robin Beck - The First Time Samantha Fox - Naughty Girls (Need Love Too) Scritti Politti - Oh Patti Sinitta - Cross My Broken Heart Steve Earle - Copperhead Road Tanita Tikaram - Twist in My Sobriety Taylor Dayne - Prove Your Love The Church - Under The Milky Way Tiffany - Could've Been U2 - Angel Of Harlem When In Rome - The Promise Whitney Houston - Where Do Broken Hearts Go (Ineligible nominations: Boy Meets Girl - Waiting For A Star To Fall, Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance & Metallica - One are in the 1989 ROTY Game. While Johnny Hates Jazz - Shattered Dreams was in the 1987 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)
January 19, 200817 yr 1st Julia Fordham - Happy Ever After 2 Inner City - Big Fun 3 A-ha - Stay on these roads 4 Morrissey - Every Day Is Like Sunday 5 George Michael - One More Try
January 19, 200817 yr Author 1st Crowded House - Better Be Home Soon 5 Pts 2nd Adventures - Broken land 3rd Scritti Politti - Oh Patti 4th U2 - Angel Of Harlem 5th A-ha - Stay On These Roads 1 Pt
January 19, 200817 yr 1 the church - under the milky way 2 crowded house - better be home soon 3 michael jackson - dirty diana 4 phil collins - groovy kind of love 5 fleetwood mac- everywhere Edited January 19, 200817 yr by Naomi Watts
January 19, 200817 yr 1. Pet Shop Boys - So Sorry, I Said 2. Coldcut ft. Yazz & Plastic Population - Doctorin' the house 3. When In Rome - The Promise (because im a Liger, bred for my skills in magic. dang!!! :lol: ) 4. Morrissey - Everyday is Like Sunday 5. Steve Earle - Copperhead Road (we won the quiz because of this one a few weeks ago)
January 19, 200817 yr 1st A-ha - Stay On These Roads 2nd George Michael - One More Try 3rd Tiffany - Could've Been 4th Rick Astley - Together Forever 5th Sinitta - Cross My Broken Heart
January 19, 200817 yr Adventures -Broken land.....................................5 pts Johnny hates jazz - Heart of gold George Michael - Father Figure Tanita Tikaram - Twist in My Sobriety only 4 worthy of a mushy vote!
January 19, 200817 yr 1 Scritti Politti - Oh Patti 2 Deacon Blue - Real Gone Kid 3 Adventures -Broken land 4 Juila Fordham - Happy ever after 5 Kim Wilde - You Came
January 19, 200817 yr 5 Kim Wilde - You Came pity this is not by the daughter of Vince Eager, Duffy Power, Dickie Pride or Johnny Gentle - would have made it much funnier - tho there so should have been an 1950s hearthrob called Roxy Dimestar (or Barrett Gardencentre :lol: :lol: ) Fbzy27KiBLQ
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