Popchartfreak

Hi SSP!🙂 Thanks for the picks of climbers and newies!! 😎

Hi AH! 🙂 Hope all is not Gold on Work FM! 😎I notice the Eurovision songs still remaining strong! I did enjoy them but this year had no room for most of them. Not without expanding to 100, like you have! As I play all my charts in order to slot them in position it takes me too long beyond 75! Fab chart! Hopefully Radio 2 will push some of your top faves into my charts 🙂 Fab chart!😎

Hi AH! 🙂 Well done on taking over the stereo at work, how can anyone not love saint etienne! I just bunged it on a CD of current stuff I love for one of my similar vintage friends who will prob enjoy most of it (like Loaded Honey) - I can usually guess what people will enjoy based on previous, and if they don't then they jolly well need to listen to it until they do!! 😄That's my motto, so boo on your workmates wanting the familiar but that's a common problem with ageing 😇 Talking of Loaded Honey, yes they are very like Avalanches, esp in the swirling strings/chords, and others of that era I also love. Sort of a cross between Jungle and Avalanches, with roots in 60's music thrown in to boot. Love 'em! Also fab you like Elliot, a friend put me on to him the other week, and I was very impressed, totally Chris Isaak. Roy Orbison. Yes, all very summer-sounding! Thanks as ever for the very long list of likes and comments! ❤️😎

Hi Seltin! Benson Boone unstoppable here! Thats a great top 5 though! Blessings nearly top 10 and great newies from Agnes❤️ and Ed Sheeran, great chart!

Hey Seltin! Thanks for the picks, and I just cant get enough of that very naughty Selena Gomez track, I guess radio will never be able to play it 😮😄 cheers!

Hello Jordan! 😎 Good chart as always, there's a few country tracks down the bottom end I havent heard yet, but lots to love. The US charts seems to be split four-ways these days: Pop hits especially those that never go away at the top end, rap, country and latin tracks, with a sprinkling here and there of Indie and dance. I'm guessing that's down to niche radio as much as streaming! Fab chart!😎

Hello Jordan! I certainly cant quibble with Good Vibrations as your Beach Boys fave - I was sweet 18 years old when that was a UK hit again and it topped my charts (and it's been back since) 😎Mystical Magical is Benson's best pop song I think, just joyous! Black-Eyed Peas I'm very happy that's back, it's my fave track by them and topped my charts - I even bought the album - and thought the video was stunning, shuffling along to it in Mykonos a video bar/club in Gran Canaria at the time with a beer in each hand (2 for 1 before 1am) 😄Mykonos is still there 15 years later, and the staff, but the videopicks not quite so great these days for me. Blessings is a dancefloor track, I dont really know Clementine that well but she is a good singer 👍 thanks for the picks and comments! 😎

Hey Sven! 🙂 Hope you have a fab holiday and see you charting in August! Great top 10, I like them all, Benson Boone, Morgan Wallen, Mark Ronson all doing well top 20, and in the Breakers my faves are the fab Loaded Honey, Miley, Mutt, Hurts, and back in 1987 it was all about Diamonds, Heart, ABC, Crowded House, Pet Shop Boys, Johnny hates Jazz, Prince, Janet, Madonna and Bananarama and a-ha as my faves ❤️ fab charts! 😎

Hey Sven! 🙂 Yay glad you like Loaded Honey, so fabulous! Thanks for the picks, a lot of hot new tracks for me in your bunch 👍 Cheers as always! 😎

Hi Sergej! 🙂 Hope all is good with you! Nice to see Ella on top, it's very pleasant and doing well in the Hot 100 countdowns I watch on Youtube. Sapphire top 10, Manchild top 20 and Squabble Up up too. Blessings, Easy Lover and On My Mind top 40, Jonas Brothers new in with a Bee Gees re-write, Sombr back in higher and BossHoss climbing nicely too. Fab chart! 😎

Hi Sergej! 🙂 Hope all is good! Thanks for all the picks, oldies and newies both and wishes 😎 cheers!

33/39 snap! going on there 😎 well done Rollo, I follow Neil Sedaka on social media so I have an advantage there 😄Sadly his own versions of Amarillo, Solitaire and Love Will Keep Us Together were hits for other acts... round 1: 33 (beat me to Stereophonics, and Under YOUR Thumb, not MY!) round 2: 39 3 in 10: stop your sobbing, kid, brass in pocket

Hey James! 😎 I'm first here, that makes a nice change, hooray! 🙂Manchild and Blessings keep top 5 🥰Taste holding top 10 and a bunch of faves slipping down a bit amongst a Kesha invasion! Love the gaga foursome side by side! My top 3 will be doing that this week 😮😄 fab chart! 😎

Hey james! 😎 Yes a little nearer catching up - I'm rolling over this chart to catch up proper though, oops! Manchild and Blessings are both lower than they deserve, it's a very full chart! thanks for the picks! 😎

Don't know that Searchers track, nice to see them end their career at Glasto, going out on a high. It's pretty good, and yes very Brit-pop-ish. Tom on ballad mode, With These Hands is on my Hits CD but not one I've ever especially noticed. The Pretty Things also not one I know, it's OK. Spotty Muldoon was a schoolyard chance, so it might well have caused some anguish for older kids than me. For 7-year-olds it seemed mildly amusing, but its not Pete n Duds finest moment. Seek out the best of the comedy sketches instead, esp where Dud loses it and cant stop laughing. Catch Us If You Can was easily my fave track of this bunch at the time, Dave Clark 5 were big and this was a film song, is how I remember it. In retrospect though, The Four Tops is easily the classic single this week, and I managed the feat of missing it's chart career both in 1965 and 1970 (out the country) and first getting to know it via the Donnie Elbert hit cover, which I still prefer (but only just).

I bought Hangin' Tough in a bargain bin in 1988 or 1989, so plus side I got a new number one single for nothing. Downside I had already got bored with it, You Got It is a better record and Jason Donovan really was robbed. The three new entries are all fairly lucky about the low sales, Got To Get and Touch Me are good, and Sonia's OK, but none of them are especially faves looking back 35 years.

Not heard No Self Control in a looong time, my memory had it down as a 7/10, and it's one of those elusive tracks from 1980 I didnt manage to get a copy of until I got a hits compilation. It starts off well and then gets a bit disjointed for me. The Korgis track I love as much as I love If I Had You, they were always under-rated 10/10. Christine was Siouxsie's second top 10 from me, after Hong Kong Garden 9/10. Manhattan Transfer were always unpredictable, which I appreciated as much as the retro 40's revival stuff, stylish, and Twilight Zone was a homage to the 60's TV show theme - still a great show in glorious spooky black and white 8/10. Breaking The Law is Priest's least-annoying single, but that's still only worth 4/10 for me, Lizzy always worth a listen and Chinatown was fine, 7/10. I'm Alive was the first blip in the mighty ELO singles (and albums) juggernaut since 1974, it was a bit formulaic when compared to the stunning variety of 1979 singles peak-ELO - but still an 8/10 cos it's ELO. Probably had to be that way for the film. It's happened - I have no memory of The Scratch, not even sure if it got played on the radio! Pleasant jazz-funk, Shakatak without the lyrics. 6/10 sounds about right. Nobody's Heroes is the main side that got played, and that is a Stiff Little Fingers 3/10. The Lambrettas was fun enough 7/10. Body Language came and went fairly quickly 6/10, but Behind The Groove is a feisty pounding disco-funk track, needs to be played loud, 8/10. Substitute was an OK follow-up hit for Liquid Gold 7/10, Little Jeannie was as per usual for Elton in those days, bigger in the US than the UK - it had that classic US radio laid-back vibe but tended to get a bit lost in the more eclectic and fast-moving UK pop scene. Nice though. 7/10. I'm also going with the 2 and 1 rate for Iron maiden and Cockney Rejects....

Yes, I was also impressed by the Now.. album commitment and in-depth knowledge. I had no idea some were expensive collectibles! round 1: 33 one year out, U2 Metal Guru and suddenly I'm 14 again recording it off the radio, excited. round 2: 39 I reckon Glen isnt going to be the only one with a 39-pointer this round! 3 in 10: Laughter In The Rain, Oh Carol, Thats When The Music Takes Me - I also said Stairway To Heaven but it ain;t Led Zep! 😄

Thanks both and well done on the 36's, it's as near as makes no difference still top level stuff 😎 Ah a Mansfield contestant, nice to hear the accent on the radio. Lost mine unless ah guh back Up North t' visit. Round 1: 39 Round 2: 33 (Stone Roses beat me to it and misheard Drowning title - the radio reception is 50% static round 'ere, excuses excuses...) 3 in 10: Pray, Sure, Back For Good

Funkytown is still a banger, my days at Uni were all drawing to a close with assignments and exams and exhibitions of work, so a lot going on, but these all take me back to happy times. Pseudo Echo did a decent cover, but Lipps Inc is still the best 9/10. Jona Lewie was an old fave in his earlier Terry Dactyl Seaside Shuffle retro vibe, but he was back full-on synth and modern with the fab Kitchen At Parties - the lyrics I totally related/still relate to. I still do all the cups of teas when my comic fanzine friends get together in London every 2 months 😄9/10. I bought the MASH theme at the time, though it peaked at 2 in my charts - mostly it was because of the TV series, still a massive classic serious sitcom, but the movie version had an old-fashioned Easy Listening dark charm to it. I don't like it so much these days as I now object to the lyrics - yes it was supposed to be about a scene from the movie, a dentist named Painless, but most aren't aware of that and suicide is anything but painless for those left behind 5/10. My top track of the time was Messages, OMD arrived sounding exciting and manic and the future, love it 10/10. Junior Murvin having some social comment is a great forgotten track, 9/10. Roxy at this stage straying too much into pleasant and undemanding for my tastes, early stuff is the dogs b*llocks, but they still had 2 great tracks still to come. 7/10. We Are Glass is still gazza on synthpop form before he went more experimental and industrial 9/10. Crown Heights is indeed a song of two parts, but that hook is euphoric, the whoops and the guitars make for mega-excitement. If ever a record needed sampling.... 9/10 Rat Race was decent, and socially relevant for all but the 3 million out of work, but I wouldnt call it a happy listen 7/10. The other side never got played. Midnite Dynamos is great fun, the sound of Rockabilly future for the early 80's 8/10. Mystic Merlin another fave of mine, I love how the hook is varied at times. 8/10. Jermaine Jackson's Stevie gift was pretty good, but Stevie wisely keeping the best tracks for his next album 8/10. Don McLean's version of Crying just builds beautifully and gives him a second belated chart-topper, I bought it, it topped my charts, and made Crying famous after not really being one of Orbison's go-to classics in the UK up to that point. 10/10. This was the version I first got to know and love. Back Together Again made more sense at the time fresh from the tragedy of Donny Hathaway and his ongoing mental health issues - Roberta had started her hit career with Donny on the gorgeous Where Is The Love, and that all lent this one pathos that might not be obvious 8/10. So it's a toss-up between UK Subs and Bucketeers for low-point, and I'm going for UK Subs 2/10, at least Bucket Of Water Song was mildy amusing once (and once only) after a showing on Tiswas, and Chris Tarrant was Saturday morning TV anarchy moving from a little-known regional obscurity in 1975 to those of us in the Midlands (I lived in Gloucester then) to national fame by 1980. Tarrant took the piss out of kids and guesting rock stars and was a huge breath of fresh air. The BBC cosy Swapshop rival was rubbish tame pap in comparison. Sort of like Blue Peter vs The Young Ones, soon to be a thing.... 2/10

61 12 19 I LIKE THE WAY YOU KISS ME - Artemas 321550

62 8 12 LONELINESS - Pet Shop Boys 319750

63 6 11 BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE (STAY HIGH) - The Black Keys 315650

64 10 13 TURN THE LIGHTS BACK ON - Billy Joel 315550

65 12 15 FIND A WAY - Vintage Culture 309700