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I can do any of them, but prefer 70's 80's as I wont need to actually play any of them I know them so well, but it would need to be after March as I'm off touring new Zealand for a month in February and will be pretty busy before and after I expect. So maybe slot me in for any leftovers after other volunteers? 👍

Ghosts is far and away Japan's best track under that name, though Sylvian-Sakamoto came close 9/10 and haunting, so to speak. Is It A Dream is a goodie, and their best track too, 8/10. Sal Solo had a bigger hit, though, with San Damiano as he moved more into Christian-based music. Oddly, Damned Don't Cry never gets played. never! It's a Visage goodie, 8/10. Dollar still getting the Horn magic touch, 8/10 even on a ballad. Your Honour is fun, and more re-listenable than his big 70's reggae hit Dat. 7/10. Ain't No Pleasing You is one of the few Chas & Dave tracks I actively enjoy listening to, a lush proper ballad, 8/10. My Camera never Lies is pop perfection, a justifiable chart-topper and 10/10, the song construction is not so typical for an ABBA-styled group and take over the mantle from the Masters from this point on, bar The Day Before You Came. A New fashion is OK, Bill worth a 6/10, and I agree about Elaine Page's better version of Memory, though Babs can be great when she moves out of her comfort zone. This one is firmly comfortable 6/10. Layla was the chart-topping (for me) 10/10 this time round, and the other side was pretty ropey, a song I'd never rated in the original version 3/10. Have You Ever Been In Love a bit dull, I;m afraid 4/10, Leo will be back with a fab ballad before too long. Dear John should in theory get my approval, but Quo by the numbers was becoming more and more the norm of late 6/10. Ditto Kool & The Gang, not unpleasant but nothing new 6/10. The Nolans, I enjoyed Don't Love Me Too Hard 7/10, but that was about that for them I think. Foster & Allen championed by Terry Wogan, all very pleasant Celtic folky but they never meant a lot to me, 3/10.

Highly unlikely, but I was watching a TV show yesterday called House Of Games, and this very song came up as a question!! They had to mime the British title of the book that Cindy & Bert had a German version of Paranoid hit with! So obviously I got the answer before the celebrities did 😄Spooky!

25th November 1980 It's a 3rd week on top for ABBA in a static top 5, with Kool & The Gang getting a first-ever top 10, and The Police making it a 7th in a row. Rod Stewart also manages to sneak Passion in at 10 to notch up his 12th, the record having largely been forgotten in his back catalogue these days, but it's not bad, it's just not that memorable. Eddy Grant gets the highest new entry at 15, with Do You Feel My Love, set up to be his biggest track since Viva Bobby Joe in 1969 in his Equals days. Throbbing reggae on this one. Back at 31, Supertramp re-chart Dreamer, their debut number 2 hit from 1975, and country singer Don Williams gets I Believe In You new at 39, 4 years on from I Recall A Gypsy Woman charting, and old fave Dave Edmunds goes all producer on the polished fabness of The Stray Cats' Runaway Boys - Americans getting a leg-up from the still-rock'n'roll-appreciating rockabilly scene in the UK. In at 45, while at 49, Bruce Springsteen finally gets that elusive 2nd chart entry following on from Born To Run going top 20 for me in 1975 (but not in the UK) - Hungry Heart also has Phil Spector vibes about it, and also didnt go top 40 in the UK. The Nick Straker Band follow-up their hit with a flop, but Leaving On A Midnight Train sneaks in here at 55, ahead of Iron Maiden's Women In Uniform debuting at 63. Carly Simon gets a US hit with Jesse, but she's not due for her 5-yearly UK chart excursion until 1982, so not a hit here sadly. That's 64, with 67 new in for Siouxsie & The Banshees, and a dark Christmas song Israel that got little airplay at the time or since. High Society I need to google right now, in at 68 with I Never Go Out In The Rain, a very 1930's-sounding track, down to the singing style, but it was all-new as far as my recollection goes - I thought it was quite clever and catchy. At 69, Gary Glitter returns with What Your Mama Don't See, turned out to be a bit of red flag that one, so let's briskly move on, to the great Looking For Clues, Robert Palmer debuting his new sound for the 80's, all synthed-up and far from his rock-US-hit Bad Case Of Loving You, or Ballad soul-rock of Every Kinda People. In at 71, Linx drop their follow-up to You're Lyin', Rise & Shine, which sadly didn't, at 72, and nor did Barclay James Harvest as they moved away from folk/Prog into more AOR pop territory and get rewarded with a belated chart debut, Life Is For Living. At 74, Bauhaus tackle Telegram Sam, but the original T.Rex Glam goodie will top my chart in 2 years time as I get full-on 70's nostalgic. Finally, Queen sneak in with an oddity: taken from the Soundtrack to Flash Gordon, cheesy tongue-in-cheek sci-fi, complete with sounbite snips, Flash was a bit of fun, and promoted the film nicely. 1 ( 1 ) SUPER TROUPER ABBA 2 ( 2 ) THE TIDE IS HIGH Blondie 3 ( 3 ) (JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER John Lennon 4 ( 4 ) FASHION David Bowie 5 ( 5 ) SAME OLD SCENE Roxy Music 6 ( 7 ) THE EARTH DIES SCREAMING UB40 7 ( 6 ) ENOLA GAY Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 8 ( 17 ) CELEBRATION Kool & The Gang 9 ( 14 ) DE DO DO DO DE DA DA DA The Police 10 ( 12 ) PASSION Rod Stewart 11 ( 8 ) DOG EAT DOG Adam & The Ants 12 ( 9 ) WOMAN IN LOVE Barbra Streisand 13 ( 39 ) BANANA REPUBLIC The Boomtown Rats 14 ( 13 ) SPECIAL BREW Bad Manners 15 ( NEW ) DO YOU FEEL MY LOVE Eddy Grant 16 ( 15 ) BAGGY TROUSERS Madness 17 ( 33 ) EMBARRASSMENT Madness 18 ( 10 ) ALL OUT OF LOVE Air Supply 19 ( 50 ) TO CUT A LONG STORY SHORT Spandau Ballet 20 ( 16 ) SUDDENLY Cliff Richard & Olivia Newton-John 21 ( 38 ) I LIKE (WHAT YOU’RE DOING TO ME) Young & Co 22 ( 18 ) SHARING THE NIGHT TOGETHER Dr. Hook 23 ( 20 ) ACE OF SPADES Motorhead 24 ( 37 ) INHERIT THE WIND Wilton Felder 25 ( 19 ) DON’T STAND SO CLOSE TO ME The Police 26 ( 28 ) I’M COMING OUT Diana Ross 27 ( 11 ) ONE MAN WOMAN Sheena Easton 28 ( 40 ) FALCON The Rah Band 29 ( 68 ) LADY Kenny Rogers 30 ( 23 ) WHAT YOU’RE PROPOSING Status Quo 31 ( NEW ) DREAMER Supertramp 32 ( 46 ) NOBODY TAKES ME SERIOUSLY ANYMORE Split-Enz 33 ( 30 ) ASHES TO ASHES David Bowie 34 ( 43 ) DON’T WALK AWAY E.L.O. 35 ( 35 ) BOURGIE BOURGIE Gladys Knight & The Pips 36 ( 48 ) WHIP IT Devo 37 ( 25 ) YOU’RE LYING Linx 38 ( 24 ) ARMY DREAMERS Kate Bush 39 ( NEW ) I BELIEVE IN YOU Don Williams 40 ( 22 ) I NEED YOUR LOVING Teena Marie 41 ( 32 ) STEREOTYPES The Specials 42 ( 31 ) ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST Queen 43 ( 27 ) ELSTREE (REMEMBER ME) Buggles 44 ( 36 ) MASTERBLASTER (JAMMIN’) Stevie Wonder 45 ( NEW ) RUNAWAY BOYS The Stray Cats 46 ( 21 ) LOVELY ONE The Jacksons 47 ( 47 ) ROCK CITY The Helicopters 48 ( 44 ) THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL Abba 49 ( NEW ) HUNGRY HEART Bruce Springsteen 50 ( 34 ) WHEN YOU ASK ABOUT LOVE Matchbox 51 ( 29 ) THEME FROM “MIDNIGHT COWBOY” John Barry (Original Soundtrack) 52 ( 26 ) LOVING JUST FOR FUN Kelly Marie 53 ( 41 ) KILLER ON THE LOOSE Thin Lizzy 54 ( 42 ) D.I.S.C.O. Ottawan 55 ( NEW ) LEAVING ON A MIDNIGHT TRAIN Nick Straker Band 56 ( 51 ) I GOT YOU Split-Enz 57 ( 54 ) TOUCH AND GO The Cars 58 ( 58 ) MONKEES EP (LAST TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE/ I’M A BELIEVER/ A LITTLE BIT ME A LITTLE BIT YOU/ DAYDREAM BELIEVER) The Monkees 59 ( 52 ) OUT HERE ON MY OWN Irene Cara 60 ( 73 ) SLADE ALIVE AT READING EP - WHEN I’M DANCING I AIN’T FIGHTING Slade 61 ( 49 ) THE NIGHT, THE WINE & THE ROSES Liquid Gold 62 ( 55 ) NEVER KNEW LOVE LIK THIS BEFORE Stephanie Mills 63 ( NEW ) WOMEN IN UNIFORM Iron Maiden 64 ( NEW ) JESSE Carly Simon 65 ( 64 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 66 ( 65 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 67 ( NEW ) ISRAEL Siouxsie & The Banshees 68 ( NEW ) I NEVER GO OUT IN THE RAIN High Society 69 ( NEW ) WHAT YOUR MAMA DON’T SEE Gary Glitter 70 ( 71 ) OFFICIAL SECRETS M 71 ( NEW ) LOOKING FOR CLUES Robert Palmer 72 ( NEW ) RISE AND SHINE Linx 73 ( NEW ) LIFE IS FOR LIVING Barclay James Harvest 74 ( NEW ) TELEGRAM SAM Bauhaus 75 ( NEW ) FLASH Queen TV 22nd Nov-28th Nov 1 Star Trek: Requiem For Methusalah 2 film: Love And Death 3 Soap 4 M*A*S*H 5 Top Of The Pops 6 The Outer Limits 7 Mork And Mindy 8 TISWAS 9 film: What’s New Pussycat? 10 Benson 11 The Goodies 12 Film ’80 13 Steptoe And Son 14 Dallas 15 Not The 9 O’Clock News

great rundown, incorporating why records mean so much you in your life is always enchanting and interesting, I find, and helps look at songs from a different point of view. Your top 2 are tracks I quite liked at the time, but suffered from overplay and repetition too much for me to rate them as top faves for 1999. Forgive the indulgence, but as I've already posted my top 100 of 1999 online, here's it is again with number ones highlighted! Despite my previous comments, Britney comes out on top for me! This chart is based on replaying all tracks from 1999 a decade later, with original year-end chart positions in brackets. So Armand came out top originally, but Britney sounded better years later. 1 4 YOU GET WHAT YOU GIVE New Radicals 2 3 SUMMER SON Texas 3 7 LARGER THAN LIFE Backstreet Boys 4 18 TELL ME THE ANSWER Texas 5 157 NOT OVER YET ’99 Planet Perfecto/ Grace 6 11 WHEN WE ARE TOGETHER Texas 7 12 I DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU WANT BUT I CAN’T GIVE IT ANYMORE Pet Shop Boys 8 21 SUN IS SHINING Bob Marley vs Funkstar De Luxe 9 6 THAT DON’T IMPRESS ME MUCH Shania Twain 10 14 UNPRETTY TLC 11 NEW FOOTSTEPS Pet Shop Boys 12 19 ..BABY ONE MORE TIME Britney Spears 13 27 BEAUTIFUL STRANGER Madonna 14 24 SHE’S IN FASHION Suede 15 70 YOUR LIES Shelby Lynne 16 59 I WANT YOU BACK N’Sync 17 39 TEQUILA Terrorvision 18 13 YOU DON’T KNOW ME Armand Van Helden/ Duane Arden 19 35 PRETTY FLY (FOR A WHITE GUY) The Offspring 20 33 LIFE’S TOO SHORT The Lightning Seeds 21 9 IN A LIFETIME Texas 22 127 SHORLEY WALL Ooberman 23 34 STEAL MY SUNSHINE Len 24 15 GIVE IT TO YOU Jordan Knight 25 23 I WANT IT THAT WAY Backstreet Boys 26 37 ERASE/REWIND The Cardigans 27 38 GOIN’ DOWN Melanie C 28 25 RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW Fatboy Slim 29 58 KEEP ON MOVIN’ Five 30 20 DRINKING IN L.A. Bran Van 3000 31 80 S CLUB PARTY S Club 7 32 56 BAILAMOS Enrique Iglesias 33 31 I KNOW WHAT I’M HERE FOR James 34 91 BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE Tom Jones/ The Cardigans 35 123 DRIFTWOOD Travis 36 NEW IN DENIAL Pet Shop Boys/ Kylie Minogue 37 121 THE MASTERPLAN Oasis 38 40 PRAISE YOU Fatboy Slim 39 45 LIVING LA VIDA LOCA Ricky Martin 40 61 SHE Elvis Costello 41 22 STRONG Robbie Williams 42 99 LOVESTRUCK Madness 43 127 SING IT BACK Moloko 44 50 THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH Garbage 45 62 NEW YORK CITY BOY Pet Shop Boys 46 71 GODDESS ON A HIWAY Mercury Rev 47 65 EVERY MORNING Sugar Ray 48 66 AT THE RIVER Groove Armada 49 36 KISS ME Sixpence None The Richer 50 75 YOUR KISSES ARE CHARITY Culture Club 51 48 PERFECT MOMENT Martine McCutcheon 52 NEW CLOSER TO HEAVEN Pet Shop Boys 53 197 GIVEN UP Mirrorball 54 54 IT’S NOT RIGHT BUT IT’S OK Whitney Houston 55 81 MARIA Blondie 56 93 BEST OF ME Bryan Adams 57 86 EVERYTHING MY HEART DESIRES Adam Ricketts 58 63 FLY AWAY Lenny Kravitz 59 165 SHE’S SO HIGH Tal Bachman 60 28 IF I COULD TURN BACK THE HANDS OF TIME R Kelly 61 88 COLD SHOULDER Culture Club 62 NEW DREAMSOME Shelby Lynne 63 30 MY LOVE IS YOUR LOVE Whitney Houston 64 68 GENIE IN A BOTTLE Christina Aguilera 65 46 CANNED HEAT Jamiroquai 66 98 IT’S ONLY US Robbie Williams 67 78 SUNSHINE Gabrielle 68 49 TONITE Supercar 69 74 WHAT IT’S LIKE Everlast 70 357 CANTO DELLA TERRA Andrea Bocelli 71 128 WALK LIKE A PANTHER All Seeing I/ Tony Christie 72 88 STARMAN Culture Club 73 238 LEARN TO FLY Foo Fighters 74 116 SECRET SMILE Semisonic 75 NEW ZERO ZERO Texas 76 122 BRAND NEW DAY Sting 77 141 MOVIN’ Supergrass 78 47 DEAD FROM THE WAIST DOWN Catatonia 79 87 AS George Michael/ Mary J Blige 80 107 DISCO DOWN Shed 7 81 119 CRAZY Lucid 82 73 WHY DON’T YOU GET A JOB The Offspring 83 44 LULLABY Shawn Mullins 84 129 ALLSTAR Smashmouth 85 110 WHAT I AM Tin Tin Out/ Emma Bunton 86 41 HUMAN The Pretenders 87 NEW LOOKIN’ UP Shelby Lynne 88 85 NATIONAL EXPRESS The Divine Comedy 89 136 MADE IT BACK ’99 Beverley Knight 90 95 THERE’S YOUR TROUBLE Dixie Chicks 91 57 EVERYBODY’S FREE (TO WEAR SUNSCREEN) Baz Luhrmann 92 163 YOU SHOULD BE DANCIN’ Blockster 93 328 WHY Glamma Kid 94 64 I TRY Macy Gray 95 77 YOU DRIVE ME CRAZY Britney Spears 96 90 THERE SHE GOES Sixpence None The Richer 97 111 WHY DOES IT ALWAYS RAIN ON ME Travis 98 300 I’VE GOT YOU Martine McCutcheon 99 214 MY BEAUTIFUL FRIEND The Charlatans 100 127 HERE COMES MY BABY The Mavericks I make 13 number ones that I rate top 100 of 1999.

18th November 1980 It's 2 weeks on top for Super Trouper as the challenges from Blondie at 2 and John Lennon at 3 look potnetially threatening, not to exclude Bowie & Roxy fro some Glam-era love to boot. The Tide Is High out-peaks Call Me, Starting Over is John's highest position with new material since Happy Xmas War Is Over 8 years previous, and his 8th top 10 outside The Beatles, and Roxy meanwhile grab a 9th top 10, 13th including solo Ferry stuff. UB40 get their second top 10 of 1980 and The Police new single replaces their shoulda-been single inside the top 20, the slightly annoying De Do Do Do. I mean, I take the point of the song, but it remains annoying anyway. New at 14. Madness drop single 2 off the new album, and it's an altogether more serious affair than they've shown so far, and a great tune on Embarrassment new in at 33. Wilton Felder at 37 is one I've not heard in decades, I obviously liked it and it fits into the jazz-funk grooves of 1980/81 pleasantly enough, but I still couldnt hum it even as I play it now. Young & Co debut as well, one place lower, and ditto comments, slightly more disco than jazzy. All very easy-listening, and let's go for a third to boot at 40 and The Rah Band - Falcon is their first chart track since The Crunch topped my chart in the summer of '77, Richard Hewson now getting some of that instrumental jazz-funk vibe too, which will pay off in the mid-80's with a proper hit again. The New Wave-ish Nobody Takes Me Seriously Anymore, follows-up Split-Enz' I Got You at 46 and quite good it is too, not heard it in a while. Tim Finn on songwriting duties, rather than his brother. Just below them, Roy Wood is back under an alias The Helicopters, Rock City didn't fly sadly, but Roy gets a chart span of 11 years with The Move, ELO, Wizzard and solo on his 5th nom-de-plume. It's very Roy, but doesnt quite sound 1980-ish enough. Liquid Gold stretch to a 3rd single, The Night, The Wine & The Roses, s'OK at 49, outdoing the New Romantic frippery debut of Spandau Ballet, on the synth-pulsing of To Cut A Long Story Short, as they become the first spearhead of the New Romantic movement to make it big. Kenny Rogers' drops his best single since the First Edition days, meanwhile, courtesy of a Lionel Richie donation, Lady. Lionel had already shown he could write country ballads on The Commodore's fab Sail On in 1979, so why not go the whole hog and leave the band entirely and write for whoever you want?! In at 68, and at 71, Robin Scott's M return with Official Secrets, but sadly diminshing returns since Pop Musik. That leaves Slade blowing the roof off the Reading Festival as they reminded everyone of their rocking back catalogue, and bunged out a live EP to get some chart action after a few fallow years. 9 years of charting since Coz I Luv You. 1 ( 1 ) SUPER TROUPER ABBA 2 ( 5 ) THE TIDE IS HIGH Blondie 3 ( 16 ) (JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER John Lennon 4 ( 8 ) FASHION David Bowie 5 ( 22 ) SAME OLD SCENE Roxy Music 6 ( 2 ) ENOLA GAY Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 7 ( 13 ) THE EARTH DIES SCREAMING UB40 8 ( 4 ) DOG EAT DOG Adam & The Ants 9 ( 7 ) WOMAN IN LOVE Barbra Streisand 10 ( 3 ) ALL OUT OF LOVE Air Supply 11 ( 6 ) ONE MAN WOMAN Sheena Easton 12 ( 15 ) PASSION Rod Stewart 13 ( 11 ) SPECIAL BREW Bad Manners 14 ( NEW ) DE DO DO DO DE DA DA DA The Police 15 ( 12 ) BAGGY TROUSERS Madness 16 ( 10 ) SUDDENLY Cliff Richard & Olivia Newton-John 17 ( 37 ) CELEBRATION Kool & The Gang 18 ( 18 ) SHARING THE NIGHT TOGETHER Dr. Hook 19 ( 14 ) DON’T STAND SO CLOSE TO ME The Police 20 ( 33 ) ACE OF SPADES Motorhead 21 ( 25 ) LOVELY ONE The Jacksons 22 ( 9 ) I NEED YOUR LOVING Teena Marie 23 ( 21 ) WHAT YOU’RE PROPOSING Status Quo 24 ( 17 ) ARMY DREAMERS Kate Bush 25 ( 19 ) YOU’RE LYING Linx 26 ( 29 ) LOVING JUST FOR FUN Kelly Marie 27 ( 34 ) ELSTREE (REMEMBER ME) Buggles 28 ( 41 ) I’M COMING OUT Diana Ross 29 ( 36 ) THEME FROM “MIDNIGHT COWBOY” John Barry (Original Soundtrack) 30 ( 27 ) ASHES TO ASHES David Bowie 31 ( 24 ) ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST Queen 32 ( 23 ) STEREOTYPES The Specials 33 ( NEW ) EMBARRASSMENT Madness 34 ( 30 ) WHEN YOU ASK ABOUT LOVE Matchbox 35 ( 68 ) BOURGIE BOURGIE Gladys Knight & The Pips 36 ( 28 ) MASTERBLASTER (JAMMIN’) Stevie Wonder 37 ( NEW ) INHERIT THE WIND Wilton Felder 38 ( NEW ) I LIKE (WHAT YOU’RE DOING TO ME) Young & Co 39 ( 50 ) BANANA REPUBLIC The Boomtown Rats 40 ( NEW ) FALCON The Rah Band 41 ( 26 ) KILLER ON THE LOOSE Thin Lizzy 42 ( 32 ) D.I.S.C.O. Ottawan 43 ( 73 ) DON’T WALK AWAY E.L.O. 44 ( 40 ) THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL Abba 45 ( 31 ) GOTTA PULL MYSELF TOGETHER The Nolans 46 ( NEW ) NOBODY TAKES ME SERIOUSLY Split-Enz 47 ( NEW ) ROCK CITY The Helicopters 48 ( 71 ) WHIP IT Devo 49 ( NEW ) THE NIGHT, THE WINE & THE ROSES Liquid Gold 50 ( NEW ) TO CUT A LONG STORY SHORT Spandau Ballet 51 ( 44 ) I GOT YOU Split-Enz 52 ( 35 ) OUT HERE ON MY OWN Irene Cara 53 ( 46 ) I COULD BE SO GOOD TO YOU Dennis Waterman 54 ( 45 ) TOUCH AND GO The Cars 55 ( 39 ) NEVER KNEW LOVE LIK THIS BEFORE Stephanie Mills 56 ( 56 ) TAKING A CHANCE ON YOU Dollar 57 ( 38 ) PARTY LIGHTS The Gap Band 58 ( 58 ) MONKEES EP (LAST TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE/ I’M A BELIEVER/ A LITTLE BIT ME A LITTLE BIT YOU/ DAYDREAM BELIEVER) The Monkees 59 ( 47 ) MY OLD PIANO Diana Ross 60 ( 48 ) IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR A WAY OUT Odyssey 61 ( 42 ) TOWERS OF LONDON XTC 62 ( 51 ) WHY DO LOVERS BREAK EACH OTHERS HEARTS Showaddywaddy 63 ( 54 ) HE’S SO SHY The Pointer Sisters 64 ( 62 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 65 ( 61 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 66 ( 74 ) PARTY IN PARIS UK Subs 67 ( 43 ) DON’T ASK ME WHY Billy Joel 68 ( NEW ) LADY Kenny Rogers 69 ( 64 ) PARANOID Black Sabbath 70 ( 49 ) AMIGO Black Slate 71 ( NEW ) OFFICIAL SECRETS M 72 ( 67 ) XANADU Olivia Newton-John & The Electric Light Orchestra 73 ( NEW ) SLADE ALIVE AT READING EP Slade 74 ( 59 ) SEARCHING Change featuring Luther Vandross 75 ( 66 ) IT’S ONLY LOVE Elvis Presley 76 ( 20 ) CANARY IN A COALMINE The Police TV 15th-21st Nov 1980 1 Star Trek: The Paradise Syndrome 2 Soap 3 The New Avengers 4 M*A*S*H 5 Tomorrow’s World 6 Top Of The Pops 7 Not The 9 O’Clock News 8 The Sky At Night 9 The Goodies 10 Doctor Who 11 Film ’80 12 Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World 13 Kelly Monteith 14 The South Bank Show 15 Dallas

Ha! No I ve never heard that before, and I rather enjoy it in a bizarre Metal-Schlager sort of way - it keeps what great about the original and makes it more poppy! Thanks for the tip, I was aware of Cindy & Bert back in the day but they never broke into the UK market.

many I love here of course - my top 100 wont be compiled till all peaking 2025 tracks have left my charts, but there will be at least 30 on this list in there, or in previous year top 100's, given I dont allow oldies, they get sent back to compete in year of release/hit originally. Singapore will be though, as not released before....

interesting top 10 albums choices, Ive liked tracks off a lot of em esp Damiano David. I dont tend to buy many albums, so mine would be Loaded Honey, with Saint Etienne and Sparks up there, but in terms of singles/grats taken off albums Damiano, Jade and a few others have been pretty consistent.

11th November 1980 It's an instant number one and new entry for ABBA s the title track of the forthcoming album, Super Trouper, hits the top spot for their second of the year and their 16th in total, and 15th in a row - both are records way, way ahead of any nearest rivals like ELO. The track is delightfully catchy but with a bit of sweet melancholy to it, lyrics about missing home while touring flagging up that they were already done with live concerts. Forever! Poor OMD miss out on the top spot as a result, with Adam & The Ants, Blondie's reggae cover of The Tide Is High becoming their 10th top 10, as Sheena gets her highest charting track to date at 6. Bowie leaps to 8 with Fashion making it his 3rd top 10 of the year and 8 years-worth of doing the same. Teena Marie gets a second top 10 and UB40 climb fast to 13. I get to hear what I believe is the next Police single - turns out it isnt the second single off Zenyatta Mondatta, after all, but in the meantime I chart it at new at 20 ahead of the disappointing actual next single. Canary was way better. Roxy Music drop their first exciting new single since the early Glam days in Same Old Scene, at 22 and the best Roxy or Ferry single since 1976. The disco party anthem that changes everything for Kool & The Gang as the hit machine gets into overdrive with much Celebration at 37, still one of their best tracks, and covered later on by Kylie. Diana Ross manages a 3rd Chic-tastic single, but I'm Coming Out just wasnt as good as the first two for me - though I'm Coming Out is an important track for Gay Rights and Feminism both. I just find it a bit annoying and always have, oops! New at 41. At 50, Geldof goes Reggae/New Wave with the political Banana Republic sounding a lot jollier than it is. It's also their last big hit, stunningly, as they seemed able to do no wrong at this stage. Gladys Knight & The Pips are back with Bourgie Bourgie, but were starting to sound like 70's icons as the 80's moved on, new at 68, Devo feeling part of the new US scene as Whip It gets noticed at 71- except in the UK, where we had much bigger and new New Wave ongoing. ELO get another Xanadu single, Don't Walk Away turning out to be their lowest-charting in 5 years, it just wasnt quite up to previous ballads they occasionally dropped, in at 73, but still better than UK Subs, who's Party In Paris debuts at 74, and not likely to go much higher based on my general view of the band. Sacre Bleu! 1 ( NEW ) SUPER TROUPER ABBA 2 ( 2 ) ENOLA GAY Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 3 ( 1 ) ALL OUT OF LOVE Air Supply 4 ( 9 ) DOG EAT DOG Adam & The Ants 5 ( 30 ) THE TIDE IS HIGH Blondie 6 ( 16 ) ONE MAN WOMAN Sheena Easton 7 ( 3 ) WOMAN IN LOVE Barbra Streisand 8 ( 31 ) FASHION David Bowie 9 ( 11 ) I NEED YOUR LOVING Teena Marie 10 ( 10 ) SUDDENLY Cliff Richard & Olivia Newton-John 11 ( 5 ) SPECIAL BREW Bad Manners 12 ( 6 ) BAGGY TROUSERS Madness 13 ( 36 ) THE EARTH DIES SCREAMING UB40 14 ( 8 ) DON’T STAND SO CLOSE TO ME The Police 15 ( 25 ) PASSION Rod Stewart 16 ( 23 ) (JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER John Lennon 17 ( 4 ) ARMY DREAMERS Kate Bush 18 ( 19 ) SHARING THE NIGHT TOGETHER Dr. Hook 19 ( 7 ) YOU’RE LYING Linx 20 ( NEW ) CANARY IN A COALMINE The Police 21 ( 15 ) WHAT YOU’RE PROPOSING Status Quo 22 ( NEW ) SAME OLD SCENE Roxy Music 23 ( 13 ) STEREOTYPES The Specials 24 ( 17 ) ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST Queen 25 ( 26 ) LOVELY ONE The Jacksons 26 ( 18 ) KILLER ON THE LOOSE Thin Lizzy 27 ( 22 ) ASHES TO ASHES David Bowie 28 ( 21 ) MASTERBLASTER (JAMMIN’) Stevie Wonder 29 ( 29 ) LOVING JUST FOR FUN Kelly Marie 30 ( 24 ) WHEN YOU ASK ABOUT LOVE Matchbox 31 ( 14 ) GOTTA PULL MYSELF TOGETHER The Nolans 32 ( 20 ) D.I.S.C.O. Ottawan 33 ( 71 ) ACE OF SPADES Motorhead 34 ( 40 ) ELSTREE (REMEMBER ME) Buggles 35 ( 12 ) OUT HERE ON MY OWN Irene Cara 36 ( 66 ) THEME FROM “MIDNIGHT COWBOY” John Barry (Original Soundtrack) 37 ( NEW ) CELEBRATION Kool & The Gang 38 ( 44 ) PARTY LIGHTS The Gap Band 39 ( 41 ) NEVER KNEW LOVE LIK THIS BEFORE Stephanie Mills 40 ( 35 ) THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL Abba 41 ( NEW ) I’M COMING OUT Diana Ross 42 ( 32 ) TOWERS OF LONDON XTC 43 ( 43 ) DON’T ASK ME WHY Billy Joel 44 ( 34 ) I GOT YOU Split-Enz 45 ( 73 ) TOUCH AND GO The Cars 46 ( 68 ) I COULD BE SO GOOD TO YOU Dennis Waterman 47 ( 28 ) MY OLD PIANO Diana Ross 48 ( 38 ) IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR A WAY OUT Odyssey 49 ( 37 ) AMIGO Black Slate 50 ( NEW ) BANANA REPUBLIC The Boomtown Rats 51 ( 42 ) WHY DO LOVERS BREAK EACH OTHERS HEARTS Showaddywaddy 52 ( 33 ) CASANOVA Coffee 53 ( 53 ) GIVE ME AN INCH Hazel O’Connor 54 ( 27 ) HE’S SO SHY The Pointer Sisters 55 ( 48 ) LET ME TALK Earth, Wind & Fire 56 ( 72 ) TAKING A CHANCE ON YOU Dollar 57 ( 39 ) SHE’S SO COLD The Rolling Stones 58 ( 58 ) MONKEES EP (LAST TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE/ I’M A BELIEVER/ A LITTLE BIT ME A LITTLE BIT YOU/ DAYDREAM BELIEVER) The Monkees 59 ( 45 ) SEARCHING Change featuring Luther Vandross 60 ( 46 ) LOVE X LOVE George Benson 61 ( 59 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 62 ( 60 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 63 ( 47 ) WHAT’S IN A KISS Gilbert O’Sullivan 64 ( 63 ) PARANOID Black Sabbath 65 ( 51 ) AM I NORMAL? Eye To Eye 66 ( 55 ) IT’S ONLY LOVE Elvis Presley 67 ( 62 ) XANADU Olivia Newton-John & The Electric Light Orchestra 68 ( NEW ) BOURGIE BOURGIE Gladys Knight & The Pips 69 ( 54 ) TROUBLE Gillan 70 ( 64 ) I DIE YOU DIE Gary Numan 71 ( NEW ) WHIP IT Devo 72 ( 50 ) AND THE BIRDS WERE SINGING (ET LES OISEAUX CHANTAINENT) Sweet People 73 ( NEW ) DON’T WALK AWAY E.L.O. 74 ( NEW ) PARTY IN PARIS UK Subs 75 ( 49 ) METROPOLIS The Motors My Tv viewing rating Nov 8th-14th 1 Star Trek: I, Mudd 2 Top Of The Pops 3 M*A*S*H 4 Parkinson (Sat) 5 Soap 6 TISWAS 7 Not The 9 O’Clock News 8 Stone 9 The Goodies 10 Hawaii 5-0 11 Doctor Who 12 Benson 13 Mork And Mindy 14 Newsnight (Wed) 15 Kelly Monteith

4th November 1980 It's 2 weeks at number one for Air Supply's big ballad, but OMD are nipping at their heels Enola Gay trying to go where Messages went - to number one - after Babs Streisand fails to go where Evergreen went: to number one! Kate Bush grabs a 5th top 5 with Army Dreamers, and Bad Manners reach a new chart peak of 5. Adam & The Ants get a first top 10 as Dog Eats Dog leapfrogs Cliff 'n' Livvie's lovely Suddenly at 10. Sheena Easton blasts into the 20 with One Man Woman, already outdoing 9 To 5, as 1978's Sharing The Night Together returns for Dr. Hook at 19, a lush melody on that one, and a new peak. New in at 23, it's been 5 years waiting, but John Lennon returns with new material, the retro-50's-rocker (Just Like) Starting Over, as John seems content with his life as House Husband and Father, and occasional pop star - giving him a slot at 23, and his first new song since #9 Dream in early 1975, possibly his greatest solo track. The new one is fun, though. Kelly Marie gets a second instant charter at 29, more of the same, more or less, and beats out Bowie's follow-up from Scary Monsters, Fashion new at 31, that pounds and throbs and goes right to the New Romantic club culture. At 36, UB40 have the best side of the new double A, the stark The Earth Dies Screaming and at this stage of their career no need to indulge their love of roots reggae songs, social commentary was more the thing. Trevor Horn & Geoff Downes, pre-Yes-revamped, manage a 4th Buggles entry with Elstree before they go off to bigger things, new at 40, which leaves the plodding singalong Minder TV theme at 68 - not a show I watched, as can be seen by my viewing list of the week. My long-term love of things Star Trek has been borne out with time, I think it's fair to say, and MASH is easily the best US (and UK) sitcom of the 70's. That leaves Motorhead trying to catch up with top 20 track Overkill, as Ace Of Spades debuts at a lowly 71, for now. Both singles are manic, exciting Metal. 1 ( 1 ) ALL OUT OF LOVE Air Supply 2 ( 3 ) ENOLA GAY Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 3 ( 2 ) WOMAN IN LOVE Barbra Streisand 4 ( 7 ) ARMY DREAMERS Kate Bush 5 ( 9 ) SPECIAL BREW Bad Manners 6 ( 5 ) BAGGY TROUSERS Madness 7 ( 10 ) YOU’RE LYING Linx 8 ( 4 ) DON’T STAND SO CLOSE TO ME The Police 9 ( 20 ) DOG EAT DOG Adam & The Ants 10 ( 15 ) SUDDENLY Cliff Richard & Olivia Newton-John 11 ( 21 ) I NEED YOUR LOVING Teena Marie 12 ( 18 ) OUT HERE ON MY OWN Irene Cara 13 ( 6 ) STEREOTYPES The Specials 14 ( 14 ) GOTTA PULL MYSELF TOGETHER The Nolans 15 ( 8 ) WHAT YOU’RE PROPOSING Status Quo 16 ( 56 ) ONE MAN WOMAN Sheena Easton 17 ( 12 ) ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST Queen 18 ( 11 ) KILLER ON THE LOOSE Thin Lizzy 19 ( NEW ) SHARING THE NIGHT TOGETHER Dr. Hook 20 ( 13 ) D.I.S.C.O. Ottawan 21 ( 16 ) MASTERBLASTER (JAMMIN’) Stevie Wonder 22 ( 19 ) ASHES TO ASHES David Bowie 23 ( NEW ) (JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER John Lennon 24 ( 25 ) WHEN YOU ASK ABOUT LOVE Matchbox 25 ( 33 ) PASSION Rod Stewart 26 ( 34 ) LOVELY ONE The Jacksons 27 ( 32 ) HE’S SO SHY The Pointer Sisters 28 ( 17 ) MY OLD PIANO Diana Ross 29 ( NEW ) LOVING JUST FOR FUN Kelly Marie 30 ( 30 ) THE TIDE IS HIGH Blondie 31 ( NEW ) FASHION David Bowie 32 ( 39 ) TOWERS OF LONDON XTC 33 ( 24 ) CASANOVA Coffee 34 ( 22 ) I GOT YOU Split-Enz 35 ( 31 ) THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL Abba 36 ( NEW ) THE EARTH DIES SCREAMING UB40 37 ( 28 ) AMIGO Black Slate 38 ( 23 ) IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR A WAY OUT Odyssey 39 ( 27 ) SHE’S SO COLD The Rolling Stones 40 ( NEW ) ELSTREE (REMEMBER ME) Buggles 41 ( 49 ) NEVER KNEW LOVE LIK THIS BEFORE Stephanie Mills 42 ( 41 ) WHY DO LOVERS BREAK EACH OTHERS HEARTS Showaddywaddy 43 ( 44 ) DON’T ASK ME WHY Billy Joel 44 ( 51 ) PARTY LIGHTS The Gap Band 45 ( 29 ) SEARCHING Change featuring Luther Vandross 46 ( 26 ) LOVE X LOVE George Benson 47 ( 35 ) WHAT’S IN A KISS Gilbert O’Sullivan 48 ( 48 ) LET ME TALK Earth, Wind & Fire 49 ( 40 ) METROPOLIS The Motors 50 ( 37 ) AND THE BIRDS WERE SINGING (ET LES OISEAUX CHANTAINENT) Sweet People 51 ( 38 ) AM I NORMAL? Eye To Eye 52 ( 36 ) DON’T LOOK DOWN The Planets 53 ( 63 ) GIVE ME AN INCH Hazel O’Connor 54 ( 43 ) TROUBLE Gillan 55 ( 42 ) IT’S ONLY LOVE Elvis Presley 56 ( 45 ) TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME Supertramp 57 ( 61 ) FIND YOURSELF ANOTHER FOOL The Blues Band 58 ( 57 ) MONKEES EP (LAST TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE/ I’M A BELIEVER/ A LITTLE BIT ME A LITTLE BIT YOU/ DAYDREAM BELIEVER) The Monkees 59 ( 58 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 60 ( 59 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 61 ( 62 ) LIES (THROUGH THE 80’S) Manfred Mann’s Earthband 62 ( 55 ) XANADU Olivia Newton-John & The Electric Light Orchestra 63 ( 52 ) PARANOID Black Sabbath 64 ( 50 ) I DIE YOU DIE Gary Numan 65 ( 54 ) GENERALS & MAJORS XTC 66 ( 47 ) THEME FROM “MIDNIGHT COWBOY” John Barry (Original Soundtrack) 67 ( 67 ) SAILING Christopher Cross 68 ( NEW ) I COULD BE SO GOOD TO YOU Dennis Waterman 69 ( 60 ) ONE DAY I’LL FLY AWAY Randy Crawford 70 ( 53 ) DON’T SAY I TOLD YOU SO The Tourists 71 ( NEW ) ACE OF SPADES Motorhead 72 ( 74 ) TAKING A CHANCE ON YOU Dollar 73 ( 46 ) TOUCH AND GO The Cars 74 ( 68 ) LONDON TOWN Light Of The World 75 ( 72 ) MESSAGES Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark My TV faves Nov 1st-7th 1 Star Trek: Amok Time 2 M*A*S*H 3 Soap (fri) 4 BBC Presidential Coverage 5 The New Avengers 6 TISWAS 7 Not The 9 O’Clock News 8 Soap (thurs) 9 Top Of The Pops 10 Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World 11 The World About Us 12 Parkinson (Wed) 13 Mork And Mindy 14 Film ’80 15 Great Railway Journeys Of The World 16 Doctor Who 17 Friday Night...Saturday Morning 18 Question Time 19 Tomorrow’s World 20 It Ain’t Half Hot Mum

Ooh thanks for commenting DaTilt, sorry I've not been dipping into 1980 comments due to holiday abroad and xmas preps! Ska was fab in 1980 and very pleased you rate You're Lying, I didnt know it had been sampled, but hooray for Hypnotist! Thanks for the comments and picks and more 1980...right now!

well I dont know Ms McSnatch (oops!) but the others I like, and rate Belinda and Saint Etienne highly!

Somethin' Stupid, See The day, Downtown are all nice enough covers of older faves, and H & Claire is not bad too. The others I dont realy know!

Not much to comment on so far, all a bit meh, Stronger is the best produced - but is it better than Daft Punk (no), does it add anything to the original (no) and is it interesting in some other way (no) so mostly in line with some of the other tracks it's nice to see songs get a number one that didn't in the original versions, and that's about it. West's is listenable though it's not on a par with Diamonds From Sierra Leone. What A Wonderful World is heartwarming for Eva Cassidy getting some posthumous success which was no doubt some compensation to her family and friends, and Katie Melua grabbing a top slot too, and Mike Batt another chart-topper as producer to add to his Bright Eyes (which he wrote), Wombles hits, and chart successes from Kursaal Flyers, David Essex, himself, Katie Melua, Steeleye Span and others.