as we creep forewards lets see if 1973 can provoke some responses! the heart of glamrock, but can the decline in my list of favs be halted?.....

 

1. Todd Rundgren - I saw the light

2. Electric Light Orchestra - Showdown

3. Steeleye Span - Gaudette

4. Albert Hammond - It never rains in southern california

good

5. Wizzard - see my baby jive

6. Jackson 5 - Skywriter

7. Bobby Goldsborough - Summer the first time

8. Anne Marie David - Wonderful dream

9. Detroit Emeralds - Feel the need in me

10. Mungo Jerry - Alright alright alright

11. Kiki Dee - Amereuse

12. Slade - Cum on feel the noize

13. Roberta Flack - Killing me softly with his song

14. Roxy Music - Pyjamarama

15. Focus - Hocus pocus

16. Focus - Sylvia

17. Hot Chocolate - Brother louie

ok

18. Mud - Hypnosis

19. T Rex - Truck on (tyke)

20. Albert Hammond - Free electric band

21. David Cassidy - I am a clown

22. Wizzard - I wish it could be christmas everyday

23. Slade - Merry christmas everybody

24. Chairman of the Board - Im on my way to a better place

25. Faces - Cindy incidentally

26. T Rex - 20th Centuary boy

27. Mud - Crazy

28. Medicine Head - One and one is one

29. Clifford T Ward - Gaye

30. Hudson Ford - Pick up the pieces

31. Manfred Manns Earth Band - Joybringer

32. Nazereth - This flight tonight

33. Elton John - Step into christmas

34. Thin Lizzy - Whiskey in the jar

35. Alice Cooper - Hello hurray

36. Alice Cooper - No more mr nice guy

37. Suzi Quatro - Can the can

38. Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the middle with you

39. Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstien

40. Slade - Skweez me pleez me

41. Wizzard - Angel fingers

42. David Essex - Lamplight

43. Roxy Music - Street life

44. Roy Wood - Forever

45. Drupi - Vado via

46. Slade - My friend stan

47. Suzi quatro - 48 Crash

48. Carpenters - Yesterday once more

49. Detroit Spinners - Could it be im falling in love

50. Free - Wishing well

51. Sweet - Blockbuster

52. Eddie Kendricks - Keep on trucking

53. Mud - Dynamite

54. Stealers Wheel - Everything turns out right

55. Roy Wood - Dear elaine

56. Detroit Emeralds - I think of you

57. Junior Campbell - Sweet Illusion

58. Chicory Tip - Good greif christina

59. Stevie Wonder - Supersticion

60. Sweet - Ballroom blitz

61. David Bowie - The laughing gnome

62. Bobby 'Boris' Picket and the Crypt Kickers - Monster mash

63. Mott the Hoople - Honaloochie boogie

64. Gary Glitter - Hello hello im back again

65. Kenny - Heart of stone

66. Dandy Livingstone - Big city

 

 

hmmmmmmmmm well lets see!

 

1. Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown

2. Ronnie Lane and Slim Chance - The Poacher

3. Cockney Rebel - Mr soft

4. Prelude - After the goldrush

good

5. Leo sayer - The show must go on

6. Hot Chocolate - Emma

7. Cockney Rebel - Judy teen

8. Isley Brothers - Summer breeze

ok

9. Mouth and McNeal - I see a star

10. Sparkes - This town aint big enough for both of us

11. Abba - Waterloo

12. Slade - Everyday

13. Neil sedaka - Laughter in the rain

14. Maria Muldaur - midnight at the oasis

15. Mike Oldfield - Tubular bells theme

16. Sparkes - Amateur hour

17. Splinter - Costa finetown

18. Bachman Turner Overdrive - You aint seen nothing yet

19. Cozy Powel - Dance with the devil

20. Golden earring - Radar love

21. Mud - Tiger feet

22. Ronnie Lane and Slim Chance - How come

23. David Bowie - Rebel rebel

24. Mud - The cat crept in

25. R Dean Taylor - Theres a ghost in my house

26. Abba - Ring ring

27. Rubettes - juke box jive

28. Suzi Quatro - Devil gate drive

29. Genesis - I know what i like (in your wardrobe)

30. Queen - Seven seas of rye

31. Sylvia - Y viva espania

32. Queen - Killer queen

33. Bubblerock - Satisfaction

34. Brownsville Station - Kissing in the boysroom

 

a huge drop in 'likes' but still 4 all time favs in this year of very mixed music.

 

1. Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel - Make me smile (come up and see me)

good

2. Reperata - shoes

3. Maria Muldaur - Gringo en mexico

4. Procal Harum - Pandoras box

5. Average White Band - Pick up the pieces

6. Teach In - Ding a dong

ok

7. Gilbert Becaud - A little love and understanding

8. Olivia Newton John - Have you never been mellow

9. T Rex - New york city

10. Ray Stevens - Misty

11. John Lennon - Imagine

12. Hello - New york groove

13. Foxx - Imagine me imagine you

14. David Essex - Hold me close

15. Roxy Music - Love is the drug

16. Laurel and Hardy ft the Avalon boys wiith Chill Wills - On the trail of the lonesome pine

17. Foxx - Only you can

18. Helen Reddy - Angie baby

19. Labelle - Lady marmalade

20. 10cc - Life in a minestrone

21. Kraftwerk - Autobahn

22. Osmonds - The proud one

23. Nazereth - My white bicycle

24. Typically Tropical - Barbadoes

25. Abba - I do i do i do

26. Minnie Ripperton - Loving you

27. Disco Tex and the Sex o letts - I wanna dance wit choo

28. Judy Collins - Send in the clowns

29. 10cc - Im not in love

30. Mike Batt - Summertime city

31. Abba - Sos

32. Queen - Bohemian rhapsody

33. Steeleye Span - All around my hat

34. Mike Oldfield - In dulce jubilo

 

the poorest year to date with 1 clear winner, only 5 'good' tracks (and 2 of those were very minor hits) including yet another eurovision track from possibly the golden age of eurovision.

 

 

all time favs = 0

 

good

1. Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the uk

2. Status Quo - Mystery song

3. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak

4. Jethro Tull - Ring out solstice bells

5. Walker Brothers - No regets

ok

6. Wurzels - Combine harvester

7. Kiki Dee - Loving and free

8. Joan Armatrading - Love and affection

9. Kursaal Flyers - Little does she know

10. Be Bop Delux - Ships in the night

11. Sailor - Glass of champagne

12. Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon delight

13. Rolling Stones - Fool to cry

14. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Boston tea party

15. Randy Edelman - Uptown uptempo woman

16. Galagher and Lyle - Heart on my sleave

17. England Dan and John Ford Coley - Id really like to see you tonight

18. Climax Blues Band - Couldnt get it right

19. Slik - Forever and ever

20. Candi Staton - Young hearts run free

21. Cliff Richard - Miss you nights

22. Twiggy - Here i go again

23. Manfred Manns Earth Band - Blinded by the light

24. Smokie - Ill meet you at midnight

25. Electric Light Orchestra - Living thing

26. Electric Light Orchestra - Evil woman

27. Staus Quo - Rain

28. 10cc - Im mandy fly me

29. Silver Convention - Get up and boogie

30. Rod Stewart - The killing of georgie

31. Abba - Money money money

32. Andrea True Connection - More more more

33. Foxx - S s s single bed

34. James and Bobby Purify - Im your puppet

35. Barbara Dickson - Answer me

36. Abba - Mama mia

37. Liverpool Express - You are my love

38. Pussycat - Mississippi

39. Thin Lizzy - the boys are back in town

 

1. Jam - All around the world

2. Gordon Lightfoot - The wreck of the edmund fitzgerald

good

3. Thin Lizzy - Dont believe a word

4. Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant

5. Abba - The name of the game

6. Space - Magic fly

7. Banned - Little girl

8. Steve Gibbons Band - Tulane

9. Jonnathon Richman and the Modern Lovers - Roadrunner

ok

10. Adverts - Gary gilmores eyes

11. Jonnathon Richman and the Modern Lovers - Egyptian reggae

12. Jam - In the city

13. Sex Pistols - God save the queen

14. Abba - Knowing me knowing you

15. Vibrators - London girls

16. David Soul - Silver lady

17. Boomtown Rats - Looking after number 1

18. Jam - Modern World

19. Clash - White riot

20. Stranglers - Peaches

21. Bob Marley - Exodus

22. The Rods - Do anything you wanna do

23. Ram Jam - Black Betty

24. Boomtown Rats - Mary of the 4th form

25. Chic - Dance dance dance

26. Fleetwood Mac - Dont stop

27. David Bowie - Heroes

28. Commodores - Easy

29. Smokie - Its your life

30. Sex Pistols - Holidays in the sun

31. Donna Summer - Loves unkind

32. Billy Ocean - Red light spells danger

33. Deep Purple - Smoke on the water

34. Joy Sarney - Naughty naughty naughty (that aint the way to do it)

35. Barbara Streisand - Evergreen

36. Carole Bayer Sager - Your moving out today

37. Emerson Lake and Palmer - Fanfare for the common man

38. Donna Summer - I feel love

39. Fleetwood Mac - Go our own way

 

well thank f for punk/new wave, without that influence this chart would be very sparse.

 

 

 

1. Public Image ltd – Public image

2. Kate Bush – Wuthering heights

3. Squeeze – Take me im yours

good

4. Althia and Donna – Uptown topranking

5. Ian Dury and the Blockheads – Hit me with your rhythm stick

6. Blondie – (im always touched by your) Presence dear

7. Blue Oyster Cult – (don’t fear) The reaper

8. Blondie – Picture this

9. Siouxsie and the Banshees – Hong kong garden

10.Buzzcocks – Ever fallen in love (with someone you shouldn’t have)

11.Blondie – Hanging on the telephone

12. Sweet – Love is like oxygen

13. X Ray Spex – The day the world turned dayglow

14. Buzzcocks – Promises

15. Yellow Dog – One more night

16. Buzzcocks – What do I get

17. Kate Bush – The man with the child in his eyes

18. Darts – Boy from new york city

19. Scott Fitzgerald/Yvonne Keely – If I had words

ok

20. Blondie – Denis (denee)

21. Ian Dury and the Blockheads – What a waste

22. X Ray Spex – Identity

23. Rezillos – Top of the pops

24. Abba – Summer night city

25. X Ray Spex – Germ free adolescence

26. Brecker Brothers – East river

27. Undertones – Teenage kicks

28. Jam – Down in the tubestation at midnight

29. Sham 69 – If the kids are united

30. Renaisance – Northern lights

31. Gordon Gilstrap – Heartsong

32. Electric Light Orchestra – Mr blue sky

33. Jam – News of the world

34. Patti Smith Group – Because the night

35. Sham 69 – Angels with dirty faces

36. The Rolling Stones – Miss you

37. Plastic Bertrand – Ca plan pour moi

38. Tonight – Drummer man

39. The Only Ones – Another girl, another planet

40. Maggie Bell – Hazel

41. Suzi Quatro – If you cant give me love

42. Jilted John – Jilted john

43. Sylvester – (you make me feel) Mighty real

44. Sham 69 – Hurry up harry

45. Bill Withers – Lovely day

46. Abba – Take a chance on me

47. Stranglers – 5 minutes

48. Chic – Everybody dance

49. Boomtown Rats – She so modern

50. Yvonne Elliman – If I cant have you

51. Thin Lizzie – Rosalie

52. Motors – Airport

53. Boomtown Rats – Like clockwork

54. Taste of Honey – Boogie oogie oogie

55. City Boy – 5 7 0 5

56. 10cc – Dreadlock holiday

57. John Travolta Olivia Newton John – Summer nights

58. Electric Light Orchestra – sweet talking woman

59. Boomtown Rats – Rat trap

60. John Ottway Wild Willy Barrat – Really free

61. Eruption – I cant stand the rain

62. Nick Lowe – I love the sound of breaking glass

 

well theres a turn up for the books.... for 30 years ive thought of as 'wuthering heights' as being my fav track from 78, but after careful consideration i had to go for pil... this should prove the best year since 1970 if not earlier... a great mix of great music

 

the year of variety, ska, rock, punk, new wave, pop, disco and crap!

 

1. Skids – Into the valley

2. Angelic Upstarts - Im an upstart

3. Squeeze – Slap n tickle

good

4. Madness – One step beyond

5. Lene Lovich – Bird song

6. Damned – Smash it up

7. Tubes – Prime time

8. Tubeway army – Are friends electric

9. Pretenders – Stop your sobbing

10. Buzzcocks – Harmony in my head

11. Planets – Lines

12. Special AKA – Gangsters

13. Ruts – Babylons burning

14. XTC – Making plans for nigel

15.Kate Bush – Them heavy people

16.Madness – The prince

17. Damned – Love song

ok

18. Selecta – On my radio

19. Charlie Daniels band – The devil went down to Georgia

20. Members – The sounds of the suburbs

21. Knack – My sharona

22. Jags – Back of my hand

23. Cars – Just what I needed

24. Doll – Desire me

25. Lene Lovich – Lucky number

26. Buzzcocks – Everybodys happy nowdays

27. Squeeze – Up the junction

28. Judy Tzuke – Stay with me till dawn

29. Ian Dury and the Blockheads – Reasons to be cheerful

30. Bill Lovelady – Reggae for it now

31. Gary Numan – Cars

32. Commodores – Sail on

33. Secret Affair – Time for action

34. Gene Chandler – Get down

35. Toto – Hold the line

36. Dire Straights – Sultans of swing

37. Squeeze – Cool for cats

38. Eruption – One way ticket

39. Lene Lovich – Say when

40. Rachel Sweet – Baby

41. Uk Subs – Stranglehold

42. Police – Cant stand losing you

43. Frantique – Strut your funky stuff

44. Police – Message in a bottle

45. Paul McCartney – Wonderful Christmas time

46. Buggles – Video killed the radio star

47. Rainbow – Since you’ve been gone

48. Joe Jackson – Is she really going out with him

49. Sham 69 – Hersham boys

50. Earth Wind and Fire with the Emontions – Boogie wonderland

51. Abba – Does your mother know?

52. M – Pop music

53. Members – Offshore banking business

54. Violinski – Clog dance

55. Doobie Brothers – What a fool believes

56. Queen – Don’t stop me now

57. Elvis Costello and the Attractions – Olivers army

58. Shalamar – Take that to the bank

59. Kate Bush – Wow

60. Dave Edmunds – Girls talk

61. Angelic Upstarts – Teenage warning

62. Crusaders – Street life

63. Stranglers – Duchess

64. Nick Lowe – Cruel to be kind

65. Abba – Gimmie gimmie gimmie

66. Tourists – Lonliest man in the world

67. Roxy Music – dance away

68. McFadden and Whitehead – Aint no stopping us now

69. Quantum Jump – Lone ranger

70. Chas n Dave – Gertchya

71. Flying Lizards – Money

72. Specials – A message to you rudy

73. Jam – Eton rifles

74. Abba – Voulez vous

75. Blondie – Heart of glass

76. DR Feelgood – Milk and alcohol

77. Sham 69 – Questions and answers

78. Siouxsie and the Banshees – Staircase

79. Undertones – Jimmy jimmy

80. Blondie – Sunday girl

81. Skids – Masquerade

82. Anita Ward – Ring my bell

83. Janet Kay – Silly games

84. Abba – Voulez vous

85. Jam – Strange town

86. Skids – Working for the yankee dollar

 

the start of a new decade...

 

 

1. Dexys Midnight Runners - Geno

2. Dexys Midnight Runners - Dance stance

3. Teardrop Explodes - When i dream

4. Kate Bush - Breathing

good

5. Dexys Midnight Runners - There there my dear

6. Undertones - Wednesday week

7. Spandau Ballet - Too cut a long story short

8. Adam and the Ants - Dog eat dog

9. Eurythmics - Never gonna cry again

10. Martha and the Muffins - Echo beach

11. Squeeze - Pulling mussels (from a shell)

12. Vapours - Turning japanese

13. Pretenders - Talk of the town

14. David Bowie - Ashes to ashes

15. Kate Bush - Army dreamers

16. Regents - 7 Teen

17. Cure - A forest

18. Beat - Mirror in the bathroom

19. Hollies - Soldiers song

20. Genesis - Duchess

21. Motorhead - Ace of spades

22. John Foxx - Underpass

23. UB40 - Food for thought

24. Madness - Night boat to cairo

25. Joy Division - Love will tear us apart

ok

26. Tom Browne - Funkin for jamaica

27. XTC - Generals and majors

28. Beat - Too nice to talk too

29. Kate Bush - December will be magic

30. UB40 - The earth dies screaming

31. Orchestral Manouvers in the Dark - Enola gay

32. Madness - Embarrassment

33. Matchbox - Buzz buzz a diddle dit

34. Tourists - So good to be back home again

35. Selecter - Missing words

36. Undertones - My perfect cousin

37. The Four Bucketteers - The bucket of water song

38. Stacey Lattisaw - Jump to the beat

39. George Benson - Give me the night

40. Hazel O'Connor - Eigth day

41. Jam - In the city

42. Whispers - And the beat goes on

43. Specials - Too much too young

44. Grace Jones - Private life

45. Pretenders - Brass in pocket

46. Joe Jackson - Its different for girls

47. Sad Cafe - Strange little girl

48. Peter Gabriel - Games without fronteers

49. Beat - Hands off shes mine

50. Secret Affair - My world

51. Ruts - Staring at the rude boys

52. Specials - Rat race

53. Peter Gabriel - No self control

54. Phil Lynot - kings call

55. Jam - Start

56. Skids - Circus games

57. Selecter - The whisper

58. Madness - Baggy trousers

59. Madness - My girl

60. New Musik - Living by numbers

61. Jam - Going underground

62. Squeeze - Another nail in my heart

63. Average White Band - Lets go round again

64. Kate Bush - Babooshka

65. Buggles - Living in the plastic age

66. Selecter - Three minute hero

67. B A Robinson - Kool in the kaftan

68. Blondie - Call me

69. Narada Michael Walden - I should have loved yer

70. New Musik - This world of water

71. Randy Crawford - One day ill fly away

72. Bad Manners - special brew

73. Kool and the Gang - Celebration

74. Boom Town Rats - Banana republic

75. Jona Lewie - Stop the cavalry

76. Adam and the Ants - Antmusic

77. Chas n Dave - Rabbit

78. Bad Manners - Lorraine

79. Police - Dont stand so close to me

80. Bee Gees - Spirits (having flowen)

81. Police - So lonely

82. Bad Manners - Ne ne na na nu nu

83. Lips Inc - Funky town

84. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Christine

85. Bad Manners - Lip up fatty

86. Siouxsie and the banshees - Happy house

87. Rodney Franklin - The groove

 

well, i liked dexys didnt i?....

my fav year of the 'punk era'?... lets see

 

1. The Human League – The sound of the crowd

2. Wah Heat – Better scream

3. Visage – Fade to grey

4. Adam and the Ants – Kings of the wild frontier

5. Teardrop Explodes – Reward

6. Public Image LTD – The flowers of romance

good

7. Tenpole Tudor – Swords of a thousand men

8. Landscape – Einstein a go – go

9. Department S – Is vic there?

10. Siouxsie and the Banshees – Spellbound

11. Jam – Funeral pyre

12. Kid Creole and the Coco nuts – Me no pop I

13. Adam and the Ants – Stand and deliver

14. Enio Morricone – Cha mai (the life and times of david Lloyd george)

15. Duran Duran – Planet earth

16. Ultravox – Vienna

17. Kate Bush – Sat in your lap

18. Siouxsie and the Banshees – Arabian nights

19. Creatures – Mad eyed screamer

20. Bad Manners – Walking in the sunshine

21. Depeche Mode – New life

22. Human League – Love action (I believe in love)

23. Teardrop Explodes – Treason

24. Freeez – southern freeez

25. The Passions – Im in love with a german film star

26. Spandau Ballet – The freeze

27. Susan Fassbender – Twilight Café

28. Coast to Coast – (do) The hucklebuck

29. Japan – Quiet life

30. Haircut 100 – Favourite shirts (boy meets girl)

31. A B C – Tears are not enough

32. Earth Wind and Fire – Lets groove

33. The Look – I am the beat

34. Yarborough and Peebles – Don’t stop the music

35. Talking Heads – Once in a lifetime

ok

36. Kim Wilde – Kids in America

37. Whispers – It’s a love thing

38. Bucks Fizz – Making your mind up

39. Spandau Ballet – Muscle bound

40. Duran Duran – Girls on film

41. Kim Wilde – Water on glass

42. U B 40 – One in ten

43. Duran Duran – Careless memories

44. Teardrop Explodes – Passionate friend

45. Human League – Open your heart

46. X T C – Sgt rock is going to help me

47. Phil Collins – I missed again

48. Linx – Intuition

49. Spandau Ballet – Chant number one

50. Dexys Midnight Runners – Show me

51. Blue Rondo a la Turk – Me and mr sanchez

52. The Joe Dolce Music Factory – Shaddap you face

53. Kiki Dee – Star

54. Hazel O’Connor – D – days

55. Graham Bonnet – Night games

56. Madness – Grey day

57. Kirsty McColl – Theres a guy works down the chipshop swears hes elvis

58. Bucks Fizz – Piece of the action

59. Tottenham Hotspur FC – Ossies dream

60. Bill Wyman – Si si je suis un rock star

61. Tenpole Tudor – Wunderbar

62. Jam – That’s entertainment

63. Soft Cell – Tainted love

64 .Duran Duran – My own way

65. Pretenders – I go to sleep

66. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Joan of arc

67. Squeeze – Labelled with love

68. Kim Wilde – Cambodia

69. Adam Ant – Young Parisians

70. Madness – The return of the los palmas seven

71. Rainbow – I surrender

72. Toyah – I wanna be free

73 .Paul Shane and the Yellowcoats – Holiday rock (hi de hi)

74 .Hazel O’Connor – Will you

75. Imagination – Body talk

76. Specials – Ghost town

77. Tom Tom Club – Wordy rappinghood

78. Depeche Mode – I just cant get enough

79. Altered Images – Happy birthday

80. Spandau Ballet – Paint me down

81. Human League – Don’t you want me

 

i really like this year, new sounds, new groups, looking down the chart sees

as we slip towards the heart of the 80's, will 82 continue the high standard set by post punk britain?

 

1. Kraftwerk - The model

2. Human League - Being boiled

3. Talk Talk - Talk talk

4. ABC - All of my heart

5. Kid Creole and the Coco nuts - Stoolpigeon

6. Haysi Fantayzee - john wayne is big leggy

good

7. Talk Talk - Today

8. Haircutt 100 - Nobodies fool

9. Incantation - Cacharpaya (andese pumpsa deasi)

10. Maisonettes - Heartache avenue

11. A Flock of Seagulls - Wishing (if i had a photograph of you)

12. Blue Zoo - Cry boy cry

13. Captain Sensible - Wot?

14. Associates - Club country

15. Classix Nuveaux - Is it a dream

16. Mobiles - Drowning in berlin

17. Monsoon - Ever so lonely

18. Japan - Ghosts

19. ABC - Poison arrow

20. Bow Wow Wow - Go wild in the country

21. Captain Sensible - Happy talk

22. Donna Summer - State of independance

ok

23. Associates - Party fears two

24. Tears for Fears - Mad world

25. Duran Duran - Save a prayer

26. Bananarama - Shy boy

27. Kid Creole and the Coco nuts - Im a wonderful thing

28. Madness - Our house

29. Duran Duran - Rio

30. Kid Creole and the Coco nuts - Annie im not your daddy

31. Simple Minds - Promised you a miracle

32. A Flock of Seagulls - I ran

33. Abba - Head over heels

34. XTC - Senses working overtime

35. Shakatak - Easier said then done

36. Bananarama with the Fun Boy Three - Really saying something

37. Madness - House of fun

38. Wham! - Young guns (go for it)

39. Blancmange - Living on the ceiling

40. Simple Minds - Glittering prize

41. Ultravox - Reap the wild wind

42. Pinkees - Danger games

43. Shalamar - Friends

44. Malcome McClaren - Buffalow girls

45. Carly Simon - Why

46. Shalamar - There it is

47. Toto Coelo - I eat canibals

48. Madness - Driving in my car

49. Bucks Fizz - Now those days are gone

50. Spandau Ballet - Instinction

51. Bardot - One step further

52. Shalamar - I can make you feel good

53. Bucks Fizz - Land of make believe

54. Jam - A town called malice

55. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - I love rock n roll

56. ABC - The look of love

57. Visage - Night train

58. Yazoo - Only you

59. Ultravox - Hymn

60. Culture Club - Time (clock of the heart)

61. Rockers Revenge - Walking on sunshine

62. Dexys Midnight Runners with the Emerald Express - Come on eileen

63. Shalamar - A night to remember

64. Duran Duran - Hungry like the wolf

65. Bucks Fizz - My camera never lies

66. Iron Maiden - Run to the hills

67. Haircut 100 - Love plus one

68. Soft Cell - Say hello wave goodbye

69. Toni Basil - Mickey

70. Nicole - A little peace

71. Adam Ant - Goody two shoes

72. Yazoo - Dont go

73. The Brat - Chalkdust (the umpire strikes back)

74. Culture Club - Do you really want to hurt me?

75. Kevin Rowland and Dexys Midnight Runners - Jackie wilson says

76. Pirhanas - Zambezi

 

another very good year with lots of top rate tracks.

 

oddly short of 'all time greats' dispite some top choons

 

1. Haysee Fantayzee - Shiny shiny

2. Tracey Ullman - They dont know

good

3. Public Image LTD - This is not a love song

4. Jimmy the Hoover - Tantalise (oh oh we yeah yeah)

5. Wham - Club tropicana

6. Yazoo - Nobodies diary

7. Jo Boxers - Just got lucky

8. Fun Boy Three - Our lips are sealed

9. Altered Images - Dont talk to me about love

10. Orange Juice - Rip it up

11. U 2 - New years day

12. Aztec Camera - Oblivi o u s

13. Yes - Owner of a lonely heart

14. The Lotus Eaters - The first picture of you

15. Freeez - i o u

16. Icehouse - Hey little girl

17. Belle Stars - Sign of the times

18. Tracey Ulman - Move over darling

19. Tracey Ulman - Breakaway

20. Kissing the Pink - Last film i ever saw

21. Flash and the Pan - Waiting for a train

22. Malcome McClaren - Double dutch

23. Robert Plant - Big log

ok

24. Carmel - Bad day

25. Paul McCartney Michael Jackson - say say say

26. Rolling Stones - Undercover of the night

27. Men at Work - Down under

28. Toto - Africa

29. David Bowie - Lets dance

30. Level 42 - The sun goes down (living it up)

31. Kajagoogoo - Big apple

32. Echo and the Bunnymen - The cutter

33. Culture Club - Church of the poison mind

34. David Bowie - China girl

35. Men Without Hats - Safety dance

36. Chill Fac-tor - Twist (round and round)

37. Duran Duran - Is there something i should know

38. Level 42 - The chinese way

39. Joe Jackson - Stepping out

40. Shakatak - Dark is the night

41. Bucks Fizz - When we were young

42. Roman Holiday - Dont try to stop it

43. David Bowie - Modern love

44. UB40 - Please dont make me cry

45. Culture Club - Victims

46. Tears for Fears - Change

47. Spandau Ballet - Communication

48. Rod Stewart - Baby jane

49. Rocksteady Crew - (Hey you) The rock steady crew

50. Prince - 1999

51. Joan Armatrading - Drop the pilot

52. Jo Boxers - Boxerbeat

53. In Deep - Last night a dj saved my life

54. Wham! - Wham rap

55. Mezzforte - Garden party

56. Human League - (Keep feeling) Fascination

57. Nick Heyward - Take that situation

58. Paul Young - wherever i lay my hat, thats my home

59. Bananarama - Cruel summer

60. Depeche Mode - Everything counts

61. Creatures - right now

62. Madness - The wings of a dove

63. Culture Club - Kara Chameleon

64. Duran Duran - The union of the snake

65. Marilyn - calling your name

66. Laura Brannigan - Gloria

67. Ultravox - Visions in blue

68. Nick Heyward - Whistle down the wind

69. Spandau Ballet - True

70. Big Country - In a big country

71. Spandau Ballet - Gold

 

into the heart of the 80's .....

 

1. Prince - When doves cry

2. Carmel - More more more

3. Wham! - Everything she wants

good

4. Bronski Beat - Smalltown boy

5. SOS Band - Just be good to me

6. Wang Chung - Dance hall days

7. China Crisis - Wishfull thinking

8. Madonna - Holiday

9. Echo and the Bunnymen - Killing moon

10. Special Aka - Nelson mandela

11. Alphaville - Big in japan

12. Stranglers - Skin deep

13. Laura Brannigan - Self controle

14. Re-Flex - The politics of dancing

15. Fiction Factory - (Feels like) Heaven

16. Icicle Works - Love is a wonderful colour

17. Sandie Shaw - Hand in glove

18. Madonna - Lucky star

19. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax

20. Phil Collins - Against all odds

21. Blancmange - Dont tell me

22. Billy Idol - Eyes without a face

ok

23. Sade - Smooth operator

24. Julian Lennon - Too late for goodbyes

25. Chaka Kahn - I feel for you

26. Alvin Stardust - I wont runnaway

27. Band Aid - Do they know its christmas?

28. The Smiths - What difference does it make

29. Madness - Michael caine

30. Evlyn King - High energy

31. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two tribes

32. George Michael - Careless whisper

33. Cars - Drive

34. Georgio Moroder Phil Oakey - Together in electric dreams

35. Wham! - Freedom

36. Matt Bianco - Get out your lazy bed

37. Tracey Ullman - My guy

38. Sade - Your love is king

39. Captain Sensible - Glad its all over

40. The Smiths - Heaven knows im miserable now

41. Spandau Ballet - Only when you leave

42. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Perfect skin

43. Cyndi Lauper - Time after time

44. Alison Moyet - All cried out

45. Spandau Ballet - Highly strung

46. Madonna - Like a virgin

47. Murray Head - One night in bangkok

48. Tears for Fears - Shout

49. Matthew Wilder - Break my stride

50. Shannon - Let the music play

51. Wham! - Wake me up before you go-go

52. Art Company - Suzzanah

53. Scritti Politti - Absolute

54. Bluebells - Young at heart

55. Bucks Fizz - Talking in your sleep

56. Limahl - Never ending story

57. Alexi Sayle - Ullo john got a new motor?

58. Belle and the Devotions - Love games

59. Howard Jones - Pear in the shell

60. Alison Moyet - Love ressurection

61. Tracey Ullman - Sunglasses

62. Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive

63. Nena - 99 Red baloons

64. Lionel Richie - Hello

65. Culture Club - Its a miracle

66. Ultravox - Loves great adventure

67. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Power of love

68. Ray Parker Junior - Ghostbusters

 

well... black artists did poorly with groups continuing to do well. madonna starting to impact with several hits but there will be much bigger contribution from her soon!

 

... posting 2 today 'cos im off to france tomoz and wont get time.

 

here we go

 

1. Talking Heads - Road to nowhere

2. Animotion - Obsession

good

3. Princess - Say im your number one

4. Strawberry Switchblade - Since yesterday

5. Phil Collins - Sussudio

6. Wham! - Im your man

7. China Crisis - King in a catholic style (wake up wake up)

8. Mai Tai - History

9. Kim Wilde - Rage to love

10. Madonna - Gambler

11. Foreigner - I want to know what love is

12. Bryan Adams - Run to you

13. Princess - After the love has gone

14. Pat Benatar - Love is a battlefield

15. Arcadia - Election day

16. Billy Idol - Rebel yell

17. Madonna - Into the groove

18. Fine Young Canibals - Johnny come home

ok

19. Don Henley - Boys of summer

20. Tears for Fears - Head over heels

21. Cult - She sells sanctuary

22. Propoganda - Duel

23. Marillion - Kayliegh

24. King - Love and pride

25. Phil Collins Philip Bailey - Easy lover

26. Kate Bush - Running up that hill

27. Red Box - Lean on me (ah li ayo)

28. A Ha - Take on me

29. The Smiths - how soon is now

30. The Waterboys - The whole of the moon

31. Katrina and the Waves - Walking on sunshine

32. Sheila E - The belle of st mark

33. Madonna - Dress you up

34. Kate Bush - Cloudbusting

35. Opus - Life is live

36. Sade - The sweetest taboo

37. King - The taste of your tears

38. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Lost weekend

39. James Ingram Malcome McDonald - Ya mo be there

40. Dead or Alive - You spin me round (like a record)

41. ZZ Top - Legs

42. Frankie Goes to hollywood - Welcome to the pleasuredome

43. Damned - Grimly fiendish

44. Dream Acadamy - Life in a northern town

45. Simple Minds - (Dont you) Forget about me

46. Pet Shop Boys - west end girls

47. Dee C Lee - See the day

48. Madonna - Angel

49. Madonna - Material girl

50. Kirsty MacColl - New england

51. Marillion - Lavender

52. Duran Duran - A view to a kill

53. Paul Hardcastle - Nineteen

54. De Barge - Rhythm of the night

55. Ashford and Simpson - Solid

56. Colonel Abrahams - Trapped

57. Stevie Wonder - Part time lover

58. Billy Idol - White wedding

59. Powerstation - Some like it hot

60. Go west - We close our eyes

61. Baltimora - Tarzan boy

62. Tears for Fears - Everybody wants to rule the world

 

a gradual decline in standards, but next year might buck the trend!

 

 

will the gradual decline continue?

 

1. Wham! - The edge of heaven

2. Talk Talk - Lifes what you make it

3. Belouis Some - Imagination

4. Its Immaterial - Driving away from home (jims tune)

5. George Michael - A different corner

6. Latin Quarter - Radio africa

7. Bucks Fizz - New begining (mamba seyra)

8. Genesis - Land of confusion

9. Madonna - Open your heart

10. Cameo - Word up

11. Five Star - Find the time

12. Madonna - Borderline

good

13. Fine Young Canibals - Suspicious minds

14. Mr Mister - Broken wings

15. Mel and Kim - Showing out (get fresh at the weekend)

16. Big Audio Dynamite - E=mc2

17. Sly Foxx - Lets go all the way

18. Stranglers - Always the sun

19. Erasure - Sometimes

20. Oran 'juice' Jones - The rain

21. A-Ha - The sun always shines on tv

22. Paul Hardcastle - Dont waste my time

23. SOS Band - The finest

24. Madonna - Live to tell

25. Furniture - Brilliant mind

26. Bruce Hornsby and the Range - The way it is

27. Madonna - Papa dont preach

28. Modern Talking - Brother louie

ok

29. Bangles - Walk like an egyptian

30. Red Box - For america

31. Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer

32. A-Ha - Cry wolf

33. Talking Heads - And she was

34. Grange Hill - Just say no

35. UB40 - Sing our own song

36. Cutting Crew - (i just) Died in you arms

37. Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in pink

38. Bon Jovi - Livin on a prayer

39. Fergal Sharkey - You little theif

40. Five Star - System adict

41. Blow Monkeys - Diggin your scene

42. A-Ha - Train of thought

43. Level 42 - Lessons in love

44. A-Ha - Hunting high and low

45. It Bites - Calling all the heroes

46. Human League - Human

47. Bon Jovi - You give love a bad name

48. Cyndi Lauper - True colours

49. Pretenders - Dont get me wrong

50. Billy Ocean - When the going gets tough (the tough gets going)

51. Bangles - Manic monday

52. Julian Cope - World shut your mouth

53. Alison Moyet - Is this love?

54. Duran Duran - Notorious

55. Double - Captain of your heart

56. Cliff Richard and the Young Ones - Living doll

57. Owen Paul - Favourite waste of time

58. Hollywood Beyond - Whats the colour of money

59. Katrina and the Waves - Sun street

60. Swing Out Sister - Breakout

61. Malcombe McDonald - Sweet freedom

62. Five Star - Rain or shine

63. Peter Gabriel Kate Bush - Dont give up

64. Communards - So cold the night

65. Europe - The final countdown

66. Smiths - Panic

67. Stan Ridgeway - Camoflage

68. Dr and the Medics - Spirit in the sky

69. Five Star - Cant wait another minute

70. Sam Fox - Touch me (i want to feel your body)

71. Damned - Eloise

 

 

1. The Pogues and the Dubliners - The irish rover

good

2. Billy Idol - Sweet 16

3. Robbie Neville - C'est la vie

4. Eric Clapton - Behind the mask

5. Bananarama - Trick of the night

6. Madonna - La isla bonita

7. Mental as Anything - Live it up

8. George Harrison - Got my mind set on you

ok

9. Black - Wonderful life

10. Squeeze - Hourglass

11. Vesta Williams - Once bitten, twice shy

12. Curiosity Killed the Cat - Down to earth

13. Pepsi and Shirley - Heartache

14. Blow Monkeys - It doesnt have to be this way

15. Mel and Kim - Respectable

16. John Farnham - Youre the voice

17. Mel Smith Kim Wilde - Rocking around the christmas tree

18. Barry White - Sho u right

19. Karel Fialka - Hey matthew

20. Damned - Alone again or

21. Labi Sifre - Somethin inside so strong

22. Taffy - I love my radio

23. Randy Crawford - Almaz

24. Terence Trent D'Arby - Wishing well

25. Madonna - Whos that girl

26. Johnny Hates Jazz - I dont want to be a hero

27. George Michael Aretha Franklin - Knew you were waiting

28. U B 40 - Rat in mi kitchen

29. U2 - Still havnt found what im looking for

30. Terence Trent D'Arby - Dance little sister

31. Johnny Hates Jazz - Turn back the clock

32. Alison Moyet - Weak in the presence of beauty

33. Terence Trent D'Arby - If you let me stay

34. Christians - Forgotten town

35. ABC - When smokey sings

36. Pet Shop Boys - Its a sin

37. A-Ha - The living daylights

38. Wax - Bridge to your heart

39. Krush - House arrest

40. Hooters - Satelite

41. Fine Young Canibals - Ever fallen in love

42. Johnny Hates Jazz - Shattered dreams

43. Christians - Hooverville (and they promised us the world)

44. Stevie Winwood - Vallerie

45. Was (Not Was) - Walk the dinosaur

46. Proclaimers - Letter from america

47. Belinda Carlisle - Heaven is a place on earth

48. T'Pau - China in your hands

49. Los Lobos - La bamba

50. Living in a Box - living in a box

 

well i found 50 tracks... lol, with a surprise #1 and no place for 'fairytale of new york' .... i cant now place it in any one year and tbh im fed up of it!

 

right..... this wont take long! but just wait until 1990...

 

1. The Adventures - Broken land

2. Timelords - Doctorin the tardis

good

3. Kim Wilde - Four letter word

4. Eighth Wonder - im not scared

5. Johnny Hates Jazz - Heart of gold

6. Vanessa Paradis - Joe le taxi

7. Echo and the Bunnymen - People are strange

8. Kim Wilde - Never trust a stranger

ok

9. Bangles - Hazy shade of winter

10. INXS - Need you tonight

11. Kylie and Jason - Especially for you

12. Inner City - Good life

13. George Michael - Father figure

14. Desireless - Voyage voyage

15. Voice of the Beehive - Dont call me baby

16. Fairground Attrection - Find my love

17. Guns n Roses - sweet child 'o mine

18. Freiheight - Keeping the dream alive

19. Terence Trent D'Arby - Sign your name

20. Prefab Sprout - The king of rock n roll

21. Jane Weidlin - Rush hour

22. Mice Paris - My one temptation

23. D Mob ft Gary Haisman - We call it acieed

24. Tanita Tikaram - Twist in my sobriety

25. INXS - New sensation

26. Sinead O'Connor - Mandinka

27. Primitives - Crash

28. Hothouse Flowers - Dont go

29. Kylie Minogue - I should be so lucky

30. Fairground Attraction - Perfect

31. S Express - Them from s express

32. Belinda Carlisle - Circle in the sand

33. Yazz and the Plastic Population - The only way is up

34. Phil Collins - In the air tonight

35. Harry Enfield - Loadsamoney (doin up the house)

36. Womak and Womak - Teardrops

37. Phil Collins - A groovy kinda love

38. Wee Papa Girl Rappers - We rule

39. Art of Noise ft Tom Jones - Kiss

40. Enya - Orinoco flow

 

well the rot really has set in, but how far will it sink?...

 

continued next week!

 

as the decade ends, my listing gets ever shorter...

 

all time favs = 0

 

good

1. Fine Young Canibals - She drives me crazy

2. Boy Meets Girl - Waiting for a star to fall

3. Kaoma - Lambada

4. Stevie Nicks - Rooms on fire

ok

5. Weve Got a Fuzzbox and Were Gonna Used it - Pink sunshine

6. 808 State - Pacific state

7. Alice Cooper - Poison

8. Fine Young Canibals - Good thing

9. Sam Browne - Stop

10. Yazz - Fine time

11. Simple Minds - Belfast child

12. Edie Brickel and the New Bohemians - What i am

13. Transvision Vamp - Baby i dont care

14. Alarm ft the Morrison Orpheus Male Voice Choir - New south wales

15. Electronic - Getting away with it

16. Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance

17. Midnight oil - Beds are burning

18. Texas - I dont want a lover

19. Holly Johnson - Love train

20. Fine Young Canibals - Im not the man i used to be

21. Dusty Springfield - In private

22. Depeche Mode - Personal jesus

23. Roxette - The look

24. Living in a Box - Blow the house down

25. Paula Abdul - Straight up

26. Weve Got a Fuzzbox and Were Gonna Use it - International rescue

27. Madonna - Like a prayer

28. The The - the beat(en) generation

29. Martika - Toy soldiers

30. Black Box - Ride on time

31. Richard Marx - Right here waiting for you

32. Beloved - the sun rising

33. Phil Collins - Another day in paradise

34. Danny Wilson - The second summer of love

35. Holly Johnson - Americanos

36. Bangles - Eternal flame

37. Reynolds Girls - Id rather jack .............

 

well what a p*** poor year, it cant get any worse can it?... well yes it can! see 1990 tomorrow!

 

well.... its looking like this year was my worst ever..

 

all time favs = 0

 

good

1. B52's - Roam

2. Mantronix ft Wonderess - Got to have your love

3. Beats International ft Lyndi Layton - Dub be good to me

4. Betty Boo - Where are you baby?

ok

5. Alanah Miles - Black Velvet

6. Stranglers - 96 Tears

7. Adamski - Killer

8. Betty Boo - Doin the do

9. Luciano Pavarotti - Nesun dorma

10. INXS - Suicide blonde

11. Kim Appleby - Dont worry

12. B52's - Love shack

13. Inspiral Carpets - This is how it feels

14. Adventures of Stevie V - Dirty cash

15. KLF ft The Children of the Revolution - What time is love?

16. Farm - Groovy train

17. Madonna - Justify my love

18. Jimmy Somerville - Too love somebody

19. La's - There she goes

20. Craig McClachlan and Check 1 2 - Mona

21. Jesus Jones - Real Real Real

22. Madonna - Vogue

23. Depeche Mode - Enjoy the silence

24. Sinead O'Connor - Nothing compares 2 u

 

 

1. Amina Alaoui - C'est le dernier qui a parle qui a raison

good

2. Zoe - Sunshine on a rainy day

3. Oceanic - Insanity

4. Massive - Unfinished sympathy

5. St Ettienne - Only love can break your heart

6. KLF - Last train to transcentral

7. Wonderstuff - Size of a cow

8. KLF - 3am eternal

9. Kym Simms - To blind to see

10. Queen - Show must go on

ok

11. Incognito ft Jocelyn Brown - Always there

12. Prodigy - Charly

13. Marc Almond - Jacky

14. REM - Losing my religion

15. Crystal Waters - Gypsy woman (la da de)

16. Utah Saints - What can you do for me

17. Vic Reeves and the Wonderstuff - Dizzy

18. Bros - Try

19. Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - Its grim up north

20. Scorpians - Wind of change

21. Julian Lennon - Saltwater

22. Blur - Theres no other way

23. Soho - Hippy chick

24. KLf ft Tammy Wynette - Justified and ancient

25. Rozalla - Everybodys free (to feel good)

26. Young Disciples - Apparently nothing

27. Lenny Kravitz - It aint over till its over

28. Kylie MInogue - Shocked

29. Kylie Minogue - What do i have to do

30. James - Sit down

31. Divinyls - I touch myself

32. Shamen - Move any mountain

33. Metallica - Enter sandman

34. Amy Grant - Baby baby

35. Martika - Love thy will be done

 

well a slight improvement thanks to the new sounds of the emerging dance scene.

 

1. Shamen - Boss drum

2. James - Born of frustration

good

3. Inspiral Carpets - Bitches brew

4. Felix - Dont you want me?

5. KLf - America what time is love?

6. Shakespears Sister - Goodbye cruel world

7. Roxette - Queen of rain

8. Craig McClachlan and Check 1 2 - One reason why

9. Shamen - Ebeneezer goode

10. SL2 - On a ragga tip

11. Stone Roses - Waterfall

12. Pearl Jam - Alive

ok

13. Shakespeares Sister - I dont care

14. Wonderstuff - Welcome to the cheap seats

15. Stereo MC's - Connected

16. Madonna - Deeper and deeper

17. Snap - Rhythm is a dancer

18. Shakespeares Sister - Stay

19. Shanice - I love your smile

20. Swing Out Sister - Am i the same girl

21. Richard Marx - Hazard

22. Right Said Fred - Deeply Dippy

23. Kris Kross - Jump