Popchartfreak

Hi SSP! Supernova still exploding, Damiano up, big climb for Blessid Union, must be 30 years since they last were in my charts! Gaga, Gwen, Messy up and Katy Perry in, Franz Ferdinand up, and Shaboozey new in. great chart! B-)

Hi SSP! :) Thanks for the picks! B-)

not much I recognise here, but the number one is nice and good to see a former chart-topper for me (Paula Seling) still active! :cheer:

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Hi AH! :) Hope all is ticking over well! Loving the Marianne Faithful invasion, some of them I dont know and others I know a bit, her 60's hits were never huge on radio and TV in the same way Dusty, Cilla, Petula, Sandie's were so I dont know them as well. Fab chart as always and some more tips for me to buy :lol: cheers! B-)

Hi AH! :) Hope work is mellow! Productive week ta, scanning old slide photos B-) People Watching is pretty exciting, but is a slow burner, needs a lot of plays to click! Snap at PSB's peaking at 3 then :D That was also a slow grower for me, it's quite low key and subtle. APT I overdosed on playing the video a lot, I have a low tolerance for hearing records a lot! :lol: My brother is happy to play the same faves over and over but I reach a saturation point eventually with most. All of the regular oldies in the UK charts I'm done with, I wish theyd go away and some other oldies would get a break! Oops! It's always the new fresh stuff I prefer to hear. Jazzy's hits I didn't really notice much, but this track has got some great afrobeat dance vibes and a catchy tune. Meghan can get samey at times, but she's usually fun, a rarity in these introverted, self-obsessive morose chart hit days, so I usually give her the benefit of the doubt when I play a new record once. Talking of which, Messy is a good track, I just wish APT had beat her to the top spot and while it's on the up for me at the mo, I can see it might start to grate down the line, from over-exposure. Follow Me has BJSC written all over it...no pressure though :lol: thanks as always for the in depth picks and comments B-)

Hey Sven! :) 3 weeks for APT (I think I overplayed it a bit so only 2 weeks for me :lol: ) but Messy poised to take over. Dirty csh holding, Indigo climbing sounds nice from what Ive caught, Euphoria up, Deacon Blue top 40 :cheer: Bubbling under Jazzy/Kilimanjaro, Teddy swims and Jade are top tunes, and in the oldies Dutch chart Rihanna/Calvin, Gotye, Lana Del Ray, Guetta/ Nicki, Guetta/Sia and Train were all huge tracks for me, fab charts! B-)

Hey Sven! :) Thanks for the picks and comments, and yes I was surprised myself about Armin and APT dropping, sometimes the mood I'm in or feeling changes by the day :lol: Cheers! B-)

Hi Sergej! :) Hope all is well! Teddy Swims top 5 in both our charts but with different songs! My climbing highlights include Kygo/ Onerepublic in the top 10 new - snap! Sam Fender, Alex Warren, Bug, Shaboozey, Luther... Great chart! B-)

Hi Sergej! Hope all is good! :) Thanks for the comment and picks! B-)

Round 1: 36 ) Round 2: 36 ( ) 3 in 10: 3 (I could rattle most of them off no worries, first album I had bought for me on request!)

I have my school book from January 1965, so here's what I was doing: Jan 12th "On Christmas bday I had a Tiddley winks set and a watch and a projeckor and a games and a pair of slippers" I still have the projector filmstrips (of Hi and Lois, and Prince Valiant). Flashy Flicker it was called, it was projected onto the wall, a plastic gun-shape with a bulb. They were for Xmas and birthday. We didn't have tons of toys in those days.... January 18th "On Saturday I had a mouse and we called her Katei. We spent all of my money" I did love my pets. Poor Katy went the way of the poor rabbit and the sticklebacks I used to fish out of the river across the road and kept in a bucket. I loved them all to death, and learned of heartbreak when the bast*rds kept dying no matter how much bread I gave them. Happily the river still has a population of sticklebacks (I checked last year) so I didnt decimate the natural environment. January 22nd "Yesterday I maid a snowman and I kept knocking the snowmans Hed of and I maid a grate big snowball and when i maid the snow balls I could see the grass" So it was snowing heavily in Chesham on the 21st January. January 29th "To-night I am going to play with Mark and Heather and I will ask if I and Mark and Heather can come in the House with me and I will ask if we can play with our toys and if we can play with them we will play with the toys the tiddley winks" Crikey the excitement of kids in 1965! Doctor Who on telly and Tiddley Winks with friends! "You were lucky, we made friends with the rats and played wi' gravel in 't' road" Monday Feb 1st "On saturday I made" (learnt to spell it right already) "some paper flowers all by my self and after that I tidied up and and I brought down my comic and raed it and after that I watched the TV" We couldn't afford real flowers :lol: I always did like arts & crafts... So the music, then? The Rocking Berries I know I liked at the time, and this one is very Beach Boys. I don't remember ever hearing it before in my life but I did buy their Dec 1971 single, The King (an Elvis/Saville/Rolf Harris piss-take) which is un-broad-cast-able these days. The Hollies is an OK early track, they hadnt really got to the great stuff yet. Dave Clark 5 were faves but it's the 1967 song I loved to bits, this one was no Glad All Over or Bits & Pieces, which were faves! The Cheetahs are a new one on me and the crappy fake American accent at the start immediately annoys me. If there's one thing that used to piss me off growing up it was Brits doing terrible American accents and Americans doing terrible British, Scottish and Irish accents. We knew what they should sound like!! They were on telly all the time! We could tell the difference!! I'll stick with The Shirelles... Come See About Me is the jewel in this week's crown, and it didn't get any airplay that I was aware of at the time, bizarrely. It's more subtle than the first two big hits, but I really grew to love in the 80's, having got to hear it on their Hits album in 1970 and then having Shakin' Stevens do a surprisingly decent cover in the 80's. I love it more than Baby Love and Where Did Our Love Go these days, and I love them too.

Kim Wilde was on the Live Lounge Radio 2 yesterday following her acclaimed live performance at the Radio 2 concert the other week. I always go to see Kim on tour, with brother/musical mastermind Ricky and Kim's niece Scarlett. The band is amazing, the new stuff is great and Close was a return to form for Kim in 1988 after her Motown cover smashed but the follow-ups didnt click. You Came she did a ballad version yesterday and it's still a great song however it's presented, Kim hits those notes. Never Trust A Stranger is as good as anything she has done (and she's done a lot of great stuff). She's touring, go and see her, she always commits and clearly loves what she's doing. New album Closer has 3 great tracks on it, at least, based on a quick runthrough I had yesterday. I was there for Kim at her Wembley support for Michael jackson. When I say I was there, I was there outside the building listening as I couldnt get tickets. Paul Young walked right by me with his model girlfriend in tow fashionably late. I went with friends to London for shopping record stores and we parked at Wembley on the offchance there might be tickets floating about. The Only Way Is Up is a classic dancepop track with House production, and Yazz was clearly onto something special. S'Express was also a great dance track, this one a sort of 70's vibe to it, but still sounding very cool 1988 dance. So a hat-trick of goodies to me.

thanks jade, you and Rollo a gnats whisker each from the 39 too! :yahoo: round 1: 39 round 2: 33 (one year out, title) 3 in 10: 2 ( and he beat me to the others)

I liked Transvision Vamp, a sort of throwback to singalong pop-punk, and this single was a step-up for them, Sadly not played that much these days which is shame, bet it'd sound fab loud in a karaoke bar on a bacardi n coke. Dirty Diana is great, I loved that album - on course to overtake Thriller as the best-selling album of all-time in the UK. But can it do it?! Are there any more singles that could come off it?! In my charts Bad, The Way You Make Me Feel and Man In The Mirror were a hat-trick of chart-toppers. I thought Debbie Gibson showed more promise than the other teeny-bop stars, and this was her most accomplished single, and very obviously patterned on the Careless Whisper template. Using George as inspiration had already worked for David Cassidy (actual George on The Last Kiss) and Donny Osmond (Soldier Of Love) getting career revivals so surely it must pay dividends for Debbie...?

round 1: 39 round 2: 36 ( ) 3 in 10: 3 ( )

They were on TOTP in 1984, unless I'm misremembering and it was The Tube. There was no MTV then in the UK that I had access to but I knew what they looked like so it might even have been both shows and a Saturday morning spot too on video. It was the summer of laid-back jazzy vibes in the charts :)

Thanks for the fab hosting Kath and congrats Cody, a great winner there bubbling outside our charts as I type, and thank you for the mid-break use of Drugs, I mean TRUCKS! :lol: Condolences to Skall losing on a tiebreak, but at least Postiljonen was massive in Singerpurear charts, one of the biggest winners of all-time for us, and I say being remembered is the ultimate win. Talking of our chart-toppers, great to see Belinda Carlisle top 20 for Lookylion, class! :cheer:

Each And Every One should have been the big hit, that record was just gorgeous and peak of 2 in my 1984 charts. They'd been sporadically decent in between then and this cover, but I really didn't see the point following Rod Stewart's number one: it was the worst track of any of his number ones, plodding and dull, and even though they'd done a great job rehabilitating the song for me it was never a fave. As US dance music starts to sound stale in 1988, a lot of that is down to Babyface productions and copycats which have none of the pizzazz and class of Jam & Lewis or Quincy Jones. Serviceable not inspirational. I do hope the dance music scene gets an overhaul there like the UK has done (S Express, MARRS) to kick off the complacency.... :teresa:

tie-break needed! It's like voting for chopping off either your lefthand or righthand :o :o :o

I always thought Glenn's teen slush ballad was pretty rubbish till I reminded myself of the god-awful ballads of 90/91 just now to vote in the US number ones thread. This is genius in comparison. At least it has a half-decent tune and he was personable - I saw him on something not long ago, now working as a teacher in a school in Hawaii, so kudos for doing something useful with his life and not joining the nostalgia circuit to sing out his one big hit and that other one which was quite decent.

I wouldnt waste my time if I were you! Bros had a great debut, and I rather liked the last 2 or 3 minor hits after the fuss had died down, New Kids On The Block were generally dreadful bar a couple of tracks. The Bee Gees-ish Tonight and The Right Stuff is all anyone needs to hear....

best: George Michael - Praying For Time Janet Jackson - Love Will Never Do P.M. Dawn - Set Adrift On Memory Bliss Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You Roxette - Joyride this is the weakest batch so far. George Michael is light-years ahead of everything else as a quality record, but there's about 10 excellent tracks, 10 good ones and then after that there's a pile of very average bland US radio-dominated fodder. And then there's some really terrible records. It's hard to focus on any of them they are so forgettable. But these must be singled out for kudos in being chosen in such a strong field for rubbishness: worst: Mariah Carey - Love Takes Time (for crimes to warbling over a sickly plodding 80's-sounding production) Timmy T - One More Try (for simpering bland-synth self-pity cliched trite that any self-respecting woman would not take you back just for expecting this to win her back) Michael Bolton - When A Man Loves A Woman (for taking a stone-soul classic and barking it into the grave like a foghorn testosterone-fuelled seal. Michael Bolton played Upton Country park some years ago, a short 5 minute walk away, and I swear shipping vessels were floundering into sand-banks in the darkness confused by the lighthouse warning foghorn-sounds coming from slightly inland :teresa: ) and when pretty dreary tracks from Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston arent bad enough to make the final 3..........!

25th January 1975 It's the end of January 1975 and the music scene is picking up after the Christmas break, traditionally a quiet time for new music. The new number one in my retro revamp, though, is one I didn't know at the time. Future 1981 chart-topper One Day In Your Life gives Michael Jackson a third solo number one to add to his 4 with The Jackson 5. Slade grab only their third top 10 in the retro countdown, compared to 8 in my original charts - and How Does It Feel wasn't one of them! Jackie Blue gives Ozark Mountain Daredevils a first (and last) top 10. The highest new entry is the late Steve Harley's signature song, the wonderful Make Me Smile at 11, his biggest track since Sebastian dominated my 1973 Retro charts with a long run on top. As everyone started to party, disco and Northern Soul were doing the biz, this week Northern Soul especially as Gary Lewis & The Playboy's mid 60's obscure gem makes the UK charts and debuts at 16 with My Heart's Symphony. Essentially a US teenybop group with a string of big hits, they were mostly known for Gary being film star/comedian Jerry Lewis' son. I belatedly got into them in the 80's but loved the strings on this single. The B side also enters lower down. Another mid-60's minor gem debuts at 19 for Graham Bonney. There's a great youtube clip of him performing Supergirl, and it was a song I vaguely aware of in the 60's, but rediscovered it this week as Record Mirror had a big ad for it being out again to buy. Supergirl will be in vogue again soon with the new Superman movie setting up a long-awaited second Supergirl movie. Dean Parrish is also in with a banging Northern Soul tune, I'm On My Way at 25. Dolly Parton keeps the Country anthems dropping at a furious pace, this time the delightful Bargain Store at 42, it was quite well-known in the UK without ever being a hit - Dolly didnt chart in the UK until 1976, despite being on her third year of classic records, half a dozen of 'em charting so far Retro-wise. Ben E. King's big US comeback hit, Supernatural Thing, also flopped in the UK, but it's sounding good new at 71, The Philly Devotions is not a track I knew at the time, but thats good too, in at 75. We move into the reggae section, with charting Tito Simon getting zero airplay at the time, unlike Rupie Edwards' minor follow-up to Skanga, turns out I like the former having never heard it before, while the one I liked best also enters - a cover of The New Seekers' cover of the Delaney & Bonnie song Never Ending Song Of Love. No idea who Smoking 007 was, but I liked the song and I think Radio Luxembourg must have been playing it. The Drifters keep the 60's formula going with Love Games, Suzi Quatro has a very misjudged change of style - yes Glam was on it's last legs, but this wasn't the way things would go, and Claire Hamill drops in with one I liked (and bought out of a bargain bin) Geronimo's Cadillac. 1 ( 3 ) ONE DAY IN YOUR LIFE - Michael Jackson # 1 2 ( 1 ) JANUARY - Pilot # 1 3 ( 2 ) HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN MELLOW - Olivia Newton-John # 2 4 ( 13 ) JACKIE BLUE - The Ozark Mountain Daredevils # 4 5 ( 4 ) LOVIN' YOU - Minnie Ripperton # 1 6 ( 6 ) #9 DREAM - John Lennon # 1 7 ( 7 ) CAN’T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD - Electric Light Orchestra # 1 8 ( 8 ) THERE’S A WHOLE LOT OF LOVING - Guys & Dolls # 8 9 ( 9 ) GOODBYE MY LOVE - The Glitter Band # 9 10 ( 11 ) HOW DOES IT FEEL - Slade # 10 11 ( NEW ) MAKE ME SMILE (COME UP AND SEE ME) - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel # 11 12 ( 27 ) YOUR KISS IS SWEET - Syreeta # 12 13 ( 5 ) SO LONG - ABBA # 4 14 ( 10 ) CHILD OF LOVE - Caston & Majors # 1 15 ( 15 ) SINCE I FOUND MY BABY - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose # 15 16 ( NEW ) MY HEART’S SYMPHONY - Gary Lewis & The Playboys # 16 17 ( 14 ) BE MY BABY - The Ronettes # 1 18 ( 39 ) ONLY YOU AND ROCK AND ROLL - Redbone # 18 19 ( NEW ) SUPERGIRL - Graham Bonney # 19 20 ( 26 ) DOWN DOWN - Status Quo # 5 21 ( 16 ) BAD BLOOD - Neil Sedaka featuring Elton John # 10 22 ( 18 ) FOOTSEE - Wigans Chosen Few # 18 23 ( 12 ) I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU - ABBA # 1 24 ( 22 ) WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO? - Diana Ross & The Supremes # 3 25 ( NEW ) I’M ON MY WAY - Dean Parrish # 25 26 ( 19 ) WALKING IN RHYTHM - The Blackbyrds # 4 27 ( 17 ) THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN - Lulu # 7 28 ( 28 ) PURELY BY COINCIDENCE - Sweet Sensation # 28 29 ( 34 ) ROLL ON DOWN THE HIGHWAY - Bachman-Turner Overdrive # 29 30 ( 21 ) THE ORINOCO KID - The Wombles # 15 31 ( 24 ) SHA LA LA (MAKE ME HAPPY) - Al Green # 4 32 ( 20 ) TOBY - The Chi-Lites # 19 33 ( 32 ) YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET - Bachman-Turner Overdrive # 1 34 ( 33 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - Gloria Gaynor # 1 35 ( 35 ) I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU - Gary Shearston # 1 36 ( 47 ) DISCO-TEKIN - Reunion # 36 37 ( 57 ) STREET CORNER MUSIC - Dave Jordan # 37 38 ( 52 ) L-O-V-E (LOVE) - Al Green # 38 39 ( 38 ) WE’RE ALMOST THERE - Michael Jackson # 38 40 ( 66 ) THEN I CHANGE HANDS - Mick Robertson # 40 41 ( 25 ) MS GRACE - The Tymes # 15 42 ( NEW ) THE BARGAIN STORE - Dolly Parton # 42 43 ( 31 ) YOU’RE THE FIRST THE LAST MY EVERYTHING - Barry White # 2 44 ( 44 ) I'M A WOMAN - Maria Muldaur # 44 45 ( 36 ) ALL I WANT IS YOU - Roxy Music # 1 46 ( 43 ) LADY MARMALADE - LaBelle # 8 47 ( 53 ) DRACULA’S DAUGHTER - Thunderthighs # 12 48 ( 61 ) MY ELUSIVE DREAMS - Charlie Rich # 48 49 ( 42 ) DREAMER - Supertramp # 15 50 ( 29 ) MY MAIN MAN - The Staple Singers # 29 51 ( 54 ) GONNA MAKE YOU A STAR - David Essex # 13 52 ( 41 ) IRE FEELINGS (SKANGA) - Rupie Edwards # 10 53 ( 49 ) PICK UP THE PIECES - Average White Band # 28 54 ( 56 ) HOW LONG - Ace featuring Paul Carrack # 1 55 ( 68 ) I’LL TAKE A MELODY - The Hues Corporation # 55 56 ( 55 ) BEACH BABY - The First Class # 1 57 ( 40 ) MAGIC - Pilot # 20 58 ( 51 ) I CAN HELP - Billy Swan # 9 59 ( 23 ) SHAME SHAME SHAME - Shirley & Company # 23 60 ( 50 ) DO IT, DO IT - The Peppers # 27 61 ( 30 ) CRYING OVER YOU - Ken Boothe # 29 62 ( 37 ) ANGIE BABY - Helen Reddy # 1 63 ( 46 ) LONELY THIS CHRISTMAS - Mud # 1 64 ( 60 ) NOW I’M HERE - Queen # 60 65 ( 65 ) FLY NOW - Brian Protheroe # 65 66 ( 67 ) WE LOVE EACH OTHER - Charlie Rich # 66 67 ( 58 ) THE LIFE OF THE PARTY - The Jackson 5 # 57 68 ( 45 ) GET DANCIN’ - Disco Tex & The Sex-o-lettes # 2 69 ( 71 ) I GET LIFTED - George McCrae # 71 70 ( 64 ) ONLY ONE WOMAN - Nigel Olsson # 64 71 ( NEW ) SUPERNATURAL THING - Ben E. King # 71 72 ( 70 ) ONCE YOU GET STARTED - Rufus featuring Chaka Khan # 70 73 ( 78 ) SATIN SOUL - The Love Unlimited Orchestra # 73 74 ( 48 ) YOU CAN MAKE ME DANCE, SING OR ANYTHING - The Faces featuring Rod Stewart # 15 75 ( NEW ) I JUST CAN’T SAY GOODBYE - The Philly Devotions # 75 76 ( 76 ) MY LAST NIGHT WITH YOU - Arrows # 76 77 ( 74 ) GOOD LOVE CAN NEVER DIE - Alvin Stardust # 74 78 ( 77 ) I WON’T DANCE - John Henry # 77 79 ( NEW ) THIS MONDAY MORNING FEELING - Tito Simon # 79 80 ( NEW ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE - Smoking 007 # 80 81 ( NEW ) I WON’T MAKE THAT MISTAKE AGAIN - Gary Lewis & The Playboys # 81 82 ( NEW ) LOVE GAMES - The Drifters # 82 83 ( NEW ) LEGO SKANGA - Rupie Edwards # 83 84 ( NEW ) YOUR MAMA WON’T LIKE ME - Suzi Quatro # 84 85 ( NEW ) GERONIMO’S CADILLAC - Claire Hamill # 85

Push It is still great fun, sounds exciting played loud. Fast car is classy, though I've never been as mad on it as most people seem to be or Tracey Chapman in general. Always good, though.