Posted February 16, 200817 yr 1980s Record of The Decade Final Vote for your Top20 (minimum Top10) out of the following finalists: Abba - The Winner Takes It All A-ha - Take On Me A-ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV Alice Cooper - Poison Bangles - Eternal Flame Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth Blondie - Call Me Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer Bon Jovi - You Give Love A Bad Name Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart Bryan Adams - Summer Of '69 Cars - Drive Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time Clash - Rock The Casbah Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus Duran Duran - Rio Duran Duran - Save A Prayer Europe - The Final Countdown Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) George Michael - Careless Whisper Guns 'N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine Human League - Don't You Want Me INXS - Never Tear Us Apart Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill Madonna - Like A Prayer Madonna - Into The Groove Madonna - Live To Tell Madonna - Papa Don't Preach Metallica - One Michael Jackson - Beat It Michael Jackson - Billie Jean New Order - Blue Monday Paula Abdul - Straight Up Pet Shop Boys - Heart Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb Police - Every Breath You Take Prince - When Doves Cry Queen - Radio Ga Ga Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure Soft Cell - Tainted Love Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love) U2 - With Or Without You Ultravox - Vienna You have until next Saturday 23rd February to get your votes in. The Top45 songs from this Decade will go through to the Top200 Playoffs (taking their Decade Final average score with them)
February 16, 200817 yr 1. Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart 2. Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth 3. Madonna - Papa Don't Preach 4. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) 5. Michael Jackson - Beat It 6. Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time 7. Madonna - Like A Prayer 8. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean 9. Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure 10. Madonna - Into The Groove 11. George Michael - Careless Whisper 12. Abba - The Winner Takes It All 13. Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time 14. Bangles - Eternal Flame 15. Queen - Radio Ga Ga 16. Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger 17. A-ha - Take On Me 18. Police - Every Breath You Take 19. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart 20. Soft Cell - Tainted Love
February 16, 200817 yr Author 1st Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill 20 Pts 2nd David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes 3rd Madonna - Like A Prayer 4. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart 5. Duran Duran - Rio 6. U2 - With Or Without You 7. Police - Every Breath You Take 8. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean 9. Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls 10. Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over 11. A-ha - Take On Me 12. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb 13. Bangles - Eternal Flame 14. George Michael - Careless Whisper 15. Duran Duran - Save A Prayer 16. Madonna - Live To Tell 17. Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time 18. INXS - Never Tear Us Apart 19. Prince - When Doves Cry 20. Human League - Don't You Want Me
February 16, 200817 yr 1. Madonna - Into The Groove 2. Paula Abdul - Straight Up 3. Madonna - Live To Tell 4. A-ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV 5. Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin 6. Abba - The Winner Takes It All 7. Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart 8. A-ha - Take On Me 9. Europe - The Final Countdown 10. Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls 11. Alice Cooper - Poison 12. Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer 13. Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time 13. Pet Shop Boys - Heart 14. Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth 15. Madonna - Papa Don't Preach 16. Madonna - Like A Prayer 17. Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time 18. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill 19. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) 20. U2 - With Or Without You
February 16, 200817 yr 1 Prince - When Doves Cry...20pts 2 Ultravox - Vienna 3 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill 4 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart 5 Madonna - Into The Groove 6 David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes 7 Duran Duran - Save A Prayer 8 George Michael - Careless Whisper 9 Madonna - Live To Tell 10 Soft Cell - Tainted Love 11 Alice Cooper - Poison 12 A-ha - Take On Me 13 Guns 'N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine 14 A-ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV 15 Duran Duran - Rio 16 Human League - Don't You Want Me
February 16, 200817 yr 1 David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes 2 Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls 3 Ultravox - Vienna 4 Blondie - Call Me 5 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill 6 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart 7 New Order - Blue Monday 8 Human League - Don't You Want Me 9 Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin 10 U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love) 11 Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure 12 Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) 13 Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over 14 Cars - Drive 15 Duran Duran - Rio 16 Queen - Radio Ga Ga 17 A-ha - Take On Me 18 Soft Cell - Tainted Love 19 Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth 20 Alice Cooper - Poison
February 17, 200817 yr 1st Kate Bush - Running up that hill (a deal with God) 2 Bowie - Ashes to Ashes 3 ABBA - Winner Takes it all 4 Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus 5 Eurythmics - Sweet dreams 6 New Order - Blue Monday 7 Blondie - Call me 8 Queen / Bowie - Under pressure 9 Human League - Don't you want me? 10 Joy Division - Love will tear us apart 11 Pet Shop Boys - It's a sin 12 Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb 13 Ultravox - Vienna 14 Duran Duran - Save a prayer 15 Police - Every breath you take 16 INXS - Never tear us apart 17 Clash - Rock the Casbah 18 Aha - Sun always shines on TV 19 Prince - When Doves Cry 20 Soft Cell - Tainted Love
February 18, 200817 yr 1 Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (20pts) 2 A-ha - Take On Me 3 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean 4 George Michael - Careless Whisper 5 U2 - With Or Without You 6 Duran Duran - Rio 7 Human League - Don't You Want Me 8 Ultravox - Vienna 9 Soft Cell - Tainted Love 10 Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time 11 Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth 12 A-ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV 13 Bryan Adams - Summer Of '69 14 Michael Jackson - Beat It 15 Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer 16 Madonna - Into The Groove 17 The Police - Every Breath You Take 18 New Order - Blue Monday 19 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill 20 Duran Duran - Save A Prayer
February 18, 200817 yr (01) Madonna - Into The Groove (02) Madonna - Like A Prayer (03) Madonna - Live To Tell (04) Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (05) Berlinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth (06) Madonna - Papa Don't Preach (07) Prince - When Doves Cry (08) Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin (09) Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (10) Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart (for sheer novelty factor!) (11) Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (12) Human League - Don't You Want Me (13) New Order - Blue Monday (14) Blondie - Call Me (15) Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
February 20, 200817 yr 1. Ultravox – Vienna 2. U2 - With Or Without You 3. Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over 4. Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure 5. Bangles - Eternal Flame 6. Cars – Drive 7. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) 8. Bryan Adams - Summer Of '69 9. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill 10. Duran Duran - Save A Prayer 11. Madonna - Like A Prayer 12. Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer 13. Queen - Radio Ga Ga 14. Soft Cell - Tainted Love 15. U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love) 16. George Michael - Careless Whisper 17. Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart 18. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart 19. Madonna - Into The Groove 20. Police - Every Breath You Take
February 21, 200817 yr 1. Guns N Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine 2. U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love) 3. Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus 4. Duran Duran - Save A Prayer 5. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean 6. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams 7. New Order - Blue Monday 8. Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer 9. Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over 10. Bangles - Eternal Flame 11. Police - Every Breath You Take 12. Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time 13. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart 14. Soft Cell - Tainted Love 15. Europe - The Final Countdown 16. Ultravox - Vienna 17. Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls 18. Human League - Don't You Want Me 19. Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time 20. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
February 23, 200817 yr Author 1980s Record Of The Decade Final : Results Thanks to the 40 of you who voted: Position / Artist - Song Title / Points Scored 50th Pet Shop Boys - Heart 41 49th Clash - Rock The Casbah 66 48th Duran Duran - Rio 88 47th Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger 94 46th Blondie - Call Me 100 The following 45 songs go through to the Top 200 Play-offs: (Which Play-off Semi-Final they go into / Position / Average / Artist - Song / Points) C 45th 2.550 Ultravox - Vienna 102 B 44th 2.600 Duran Duran - Save A Prayer 104 A 43rd 2.675 INXS - Never Tear Us Apart 107 D 42nd 2.725 U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love) 109 C 41st 2.750 Metallica - One 110 B 40th 2.900 Cars - Drive 116 A 39th 2.950 Alice Cooper - Poison 118 D 38th 3.150 Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin 126 C 37th 3.250 Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time 130 B 36th 3.300 Bon Jovi - You Give Love A Bad Name 132 A 35th 3.325 Paula Abdul - Straight Up 133 D 34th 3.400 Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus 136 C 33rd 3.450 Human League - Don't You Want Me 138 B 32nd 3.700 Bangles - Eternal Flame 148 A 31st 3.750 Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb 150 D 30th 3.800 Bryan Adams - Summer Of '69 152 C 29th 3.800 Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls 152 B 28th 3.825 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart 153 A 27th 3.850 Michael Jackson - Beat It 154 D 26th 4.000 A-ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV 160 C 25th 4.000 David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes 160 B 24th 4.050 Abba - The Winner Takes It All 162 A 23rd 4.100 New Order - Blue Monday 164 D 22nd 4.100 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill 164 C 21st 4.175 Queen - Radio Ga Ga 167 B 20th 4.200 Europe - The Final Countdown 168 A 19th 4.350 George Michael - Careless Whisper 174 D 18th 4.375 Prince - When Doves Cry 175 C 17th 4.400 Soft Cell - Tainted Love 176 B 16th 4.400 Madonna - Live To Tell 176 A 15th 4.625 Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure 185 D 14th 4.650 Madonna - Into The Groove 186 C 13th 4.675 Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over 187 B 12th 4.675 Madonna - Papa Don't Preach 187 A 11th 5.075 Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) 203 D 10th 5.125 A-ha - Take On Me 205 C 9th 5.150 Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart 206 B 8th 5.500 Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time 220 A 7th 6.050 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean 242 D 6th 6.075 Police - Every Breath You Take 243 C 5th 6.475 Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth 259 B 4th 6.550 Guns 'N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine 262 A 3rd 7.025 U2 - With Or Without You 281 D 2nd 7.800 Madonna - Like A Prayer 312 C 1st 8.075 Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer 323 nE11Zrrp24I The songs that qualify for the Top 200, take their average (Points scored divided by number of posters who played i.e 200 / 40 = 5.000) into their respective Semi Final. Each Semi Final consists of 50 songs mixed up from the various decades for you to vote on. Where in the 4 semi Finals their average Points score will be multiplied by two and added to the Decade Final scores; where the 50 Highest Scores will make the Final where the scores will be added to the average score in the Final multipled by 3. i.e: Decade Round (Average Score *1) + Semi Final (Average Score *2) + Final (Top 50 only) (Average Score *3) = Grand Total
February 23, 200817 yr oh please - I can only summise compiling this ridiculous list was as depressing for thisispop as reading it is - Kate Bush at 22? Ultravox at 45? :wacko: :wacko: :wacko: Do the grotty lot at the other site simply never listen to music from outisde middle America?
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