My Random Music

Well Pete Waterman was the man who brought 2 Unlimited to the UK for a start. It's also quite normal to not like the modern equivalent of something you do like. Both served the same purpose, cheesy catchy music for the dancefloor but lacking any depth.

Not really a fan of Hi-NRG and I can't say I like Divine either, to me it's the 80s equivalent of 2 Unlimited.

Top 5 Phil Fearon And Galaxy - Everybody's Laughing Windjammer - Tossing And Turning Jeffrey Osborne - On The Wings Of Love Break Machine - Are You Ready Level 42 - Hot Water Worst Hazell Dean - Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go)

It's only really relevant to a niche audience of music nerds these days. Many of those who remember the good old days have reached the "modern music is rubbish" stage of their life whilst many youngsters don't even know there's such a thing as the charts. I've written a post about it myself: https://myrandommusicblog.blogspot.com/2026/07/18-week-number-1.html

5 best: Howard Jones - Pearl In The Shell Change - Change Of Heart Grandmaster And Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Do It) Ollie And Jerry - Breakin'... There's No Stopping Us The Bluebells - Young At Heart Worst: The Pointer Sisters - Jump (For My Love)

The best: Phil Collins - Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now) Cameo - She's Strange The Gap Band - Someday Billy Joel - The Longest Time Break Machine - Breakdance Party The worst: The Pointer Sisters - Automatic Tiebreak: Depeche Mode

"Tha Crossroads" by Bone Thugs N Harmony. I couldn't really take to the rap singing style at first but when it came on the music channels a few years later I started to love it and ended up buying some of their albums.

Your Top 2 are probably my numbers 3 and 4. Whilst on a par with each other the A-ha song only has "Take On Me" to rival as the best of their songs but wins because it's not as overplayed. "West End Girls" on the other hand is far from my favourite Pet Shop Boys song but that's due to the high standards they set with other songs.

"Chain Reaction" is the final one of those 5 I really don't like. Diana Ross is quite possibly the best female solo artist there's ever been. She had some great records in the 70s but "Chain Reaction" is so poor in comparison. Even when I used to hear a Diana Ross compilation as a kid with no knowledge of when the songs were from or have any background information on any of them "Chain Reaction" stood out as the weak link. To me it's her equivalent of "I Just Called To Say I Love You" by Stevie Wonder.

"Papa Don't Preach" is another of those records I can't stand so that just leaves one left. Like I previously said I only like a handful of Madonna songs and this is one of several of her hits which sounds painfully squeaky.

The 5 best: The Alarm - Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke Break Machine - Street Dance Nik Kershaw - Wouldn't It Be Good Whitesnake - Give Me More Time Joe Fagin - That's Livin' Alright (From 'Auf Wiedershen Pet') Worst: Madonna - Holiday

I like all of the songs since my last reply. "Reet Petite" is my other contender for my number one so we won't agree on the best one. Still some decent records to come though but also still 2 remaining of those ones I really don't like to come.

Nothing in the first year I remember the charts in 1987 stands out as being something I really despised at the time. Likewise nothing on Now 11 which was my first Now. At the start of 1988 though there's "I Think We're Alone Now" by Tiffany but I can't remember if I really despised it when it was at number 1 or from hearing it often on Now 12. The other songs on Now 12 I particularly hated were: Natalie Cole - Pink Cadillac Bananarama - I Want You Back Heart - These Dreams Hazell Dean - Who's Leaving Who It was the Hazell Dean song I hated the most but it makes me judder thinking back to listening to all of those songs.

That's the one I thought it would be and you sum it up the way I view it. In my early memories of music and the charts from 1987 onwards I remember there being 2 Chris's and the way I differentiated them was the naff one with the funny hair and the cool one with the guitar. I was too young to really know what a love song was let alone what the lyrics were about. Musically I found it both cheesy and boring at the same time. On a more positive note about De Burgh I do think he has a better Christmas song than the other Chris.

"True Blue" is also one of those five songs I speak of and concur there's only a handful of Madonna hits that are any good. I'm a fan of Motown but more often than not I get irritated by non-Motown songs from much later pretending to be Motown.