Popchartfreak

Hi SSP! Zombie Lady getting closer to the top yay! Sombr, Awolnation and Manchild rocketing heading towards the top 10, Lover, Mystical Magical and There She Goes a bit lower down, with Brokenhearted, Taste and Sapphire nearer the bottom end ahead of a bunch of new entries. Of those I like Stayin' Alive, oops I mean Jonas brothers, Supermen Lovers remake, Empire Of The Sun, Bloodline, and Suzanne. I need to hear the new Gloria gaynor track! In 2007, Umbrella was topping my chart, and a couple others I liked too. great charts!😎

Hi SSP! thanks for the picks! cheers as always! 😎

Hey Sven! 🙂 I'm still running late on my charts, the next one will also be a roll-over unless i can get it another one done before saturday! So that means 2 weeks of comments to catch up on here! Azizam not going anywhere with it's 8 week run! I still enjoy hearing it too. Blessings I think I will buy next week, so a late charter from me! 🥺I like your entire top 9, but good to see big climbs for Sabrina and Ed's new Sapphire. Bloodline also nearly there and new entries for Suzanne, and a few other goodies dropping down the chart. Bubbling under it's nice to see a Maggie MacNeal reference, must try and catch that cover. I was sweet 14 when I first charted Mouth & MacNeal! Loaded Honey and Miley Cyrus ❤️Mutt, Hurts Remix and Robbie's Rocket are my other faves! Back in '85, N-N-19 was my top fave, but also Rah Band, Bruce, Duran, Cool Notes (who have been sadly totally forgotten these days) the fab Steve Arrington track, goodie Bowie revamp, and the perfect Everybody Wants To Rule The World make for a bunch of great oldies. Last week's 1984 had the fab Reflex on top, and equally brilliant Self Control and The Lebanon lower down, and even greater oldies than 1985 from Cyndi, Bob Marley, Queen, Pointer sisters, Deniece Williams, Alphaville, Galaxy, Womack & Womack, OMD, Rod, Bruce, FGTH and Rufus with Mike Oldfield getting some radio play! fab charts! 😎

Hey Sven! 🙂 Thanks for the picks and comments, glad you love God Only Knows, what a classic! ❤️Also happy you like Elliot James Reay I've only just discovered his brand of 60's/80's crooner, what a singer! 🥰 cheers! 😎

Hey james! 🙂 Jade doing well for you at the top end! 3 out of 4! Great to see PDM top 5, that's a fun pop track, very late 70's disco vibe to it. Sophie's Vertigo up, Blessings is good, I just havent heard it much, playing it now, I can see it growing on me. Freedom Of The Night & Taste keeping the other Sophie Ellis-Bextor tracks upwardly mobile, both of them good pop tunes. 2 gaga's down the lower end I like/love and 2 I dont know, with added bonus Alex Warren too. Top 31 is a unique chart number! Great chart! 😎

Hey James! 🙂 Yes, I'm sure Wouldn't It Be Nice is the one you're thinking of, it's used in adverts all the time, including one right now! I know what you mean about a new era for Sabrina, it really does sound like it belongs along Busy Woman as a bonus track, but both are great, melodic pop for the 2020's so I hope the new album is filled with goodies! Tom Grennan has his trademark style, and it's one I like most of the time, staying just on the right side of passion without dipping into shouty angst. Thanks for the comments and picks! 😎

Hi Sergej! 🙂 hope all is good with you! Your 4-week chart-topper still sounding jolly for the summer, and a Haim invasion here! I've gone for Loaded Honey as my mini-invasion, I do enjoy Jungle. Faves going up: Ella Langley, Suzanne and Sapphire in the top 10, Blessings Ive yet to chart, I think I need to hear it again! There's tons of other faves, but they are all dropping eek! Manchild, Zombie Lady and Bloodline to name but a few great records vacating the top 10 this week, with others sprinkled throughout the chart, which is actually a great chart even if there's only 3 going up/holding! cheers! 😎

Hi Sergej! 🙂 Thanks for the comments and picks and glad you like all the Beach Boys oldies, what a legend Brian Wilson was! 😎

Peter & Gordon losing the subtlety of the original lovely track a bit, but they were on their way to back-stage employment so it's all fine. Tossing & Turning I have as a double-A-side yellow vinyl late 70's reissue, and I'm rather fond of the track. Funny How Love Can Be is Ivy League's best track though. Even better was to come from John Carter and Ken Lewis though, in 1967 and 1974 under new names The Flowerpot Men and The First Class along with singer Tony Burrows. Woolly Bully is great fun and ahead of it's time, and Jackie Trent is better as co-songwriter to her hubbie Tony Hatch by and large, total classy hit machines in the 60's. Dusty was alternating classy ballads with r'n'b in her heyday, and In The Middle Of Nowhere is brassy funk-gospel fabness and is my track of the week - Madeline Bell was among a handful US future hitsters backing Dusty in those days, and I'm pretty sure that's her on the record, she did a tribute live version on youtube to her late old friend Dusty in 2011 and was talking about the pre-Blue Mink days to Paul Gambaccini when I saw her in concert last year. Still as great a singer as ever and Dusty is timeless.

I LOVE reggae and I love UB40 - but not so much the monster hit covers. Food For Thought, One In Ten, If It Happens Again, Earth Dies Screaming from the actual UB40-dole form period when it was a political statement (and I was one of the 3 million for 2 years and lived the lifestyle they were talking about). Ali is a great vocalist and the band shared a mutual love of growing up (like me) loving obscure and hit reggae tracks of the 60's and into the 70's and helped struggling reggae songwriters get an actual income. I still like stuff UB40 parts 1 and 2 do post-split apart, but their greatest records are easily Kingston Town and Don't Break My Heart though they'd always chuck a good oddity in the mix like Rat In Mi Kitchen. Seen them a couple of times, and they arent what you call an exciting live act, but the rhythms and tempo were never going to let that happen, it's more of a laid-back vibe, and a pleasant one. That's why they lasted so long.

Thanks both and sadly yesterdays hasnt popped up on the website so well done Jade on the 39 Monday! 🤩and 36 Rollo great too, ah that explains why no Ken yesterday, ironically I was also faffing around with trains - taking a mate to the station, then picking up my brother later on. Apparently hot weather = trains melt and cant meet timetables. They need to adopt the spanish system. They dont melt, are way cheaper, have two-storeys, no H&S on tracks, are super-fast and super-slow, timetables are more of an aspiration than a promise, and you sweat buckets at the station waiting so good opportunities for chilled refreshment kiosks/vending machines for additional income. round 1: 39 round 2: 39 3 in 10: Sorry Suzanne, Carrie Ann, Bus Stop I watched Ken's Popmaster on TV yesterday, a young Portuguese chap who obv spent time in America and is fluent in English, knew almost everything about most things asked, his breadth of knowledge was amazing and he beat me in the Classic Popmaster finale to boot. Put me in my place!

Atomic was my 4th Blondie chart-topper, after buying Denis, Heart Of Glass and Sunday Girl, and it's the best Blondie of all, a monster exciting track in the single edit. The album version has a self-indulgent diversion into an un-needed instrumental break. The edit is 10/10 for certain and the video is fabulous. Debbie Harry turned 80 yesterday 😮She was already in her 50's when I caught Blondie for the first time in concert, still fab. Turning Japanese is still great fun, and it may or may not be politically incorrect these days, based on what you believe is behind the lyrics vs what was believed at the time, but either way it's a 9/10 for me. Unhinged is a good description for Alabama Song. I bought that single and then hardly ever played it, it was just a bit too jarring after a few plays. 4/10. So Lonely is very early Police re-issued, or "Sue Lawley" as we sang at the time, a TV presenter. 8/10 still, though. Never liked Stiff Little Fingers much, 3/10. Cuba was a slight revamp of an earlier flop, and quite probably the Gibson Brothers finest single in a good string of hits, 9/10. Better Do It Salsa didnt get any airplay but I expect it's a 7/10. On The Radio was a big US hit but it seemed fairly bland compared to her recent amazingly prolific and varied run of hits, more MacArthur Park part 2 without the disco and classy song. 6/10. Fern Kinney is still a sweet track, I like her unusual vocals and it's better than the original version of the song, which is pretty and melodic as a song. 8/10. Hands Off She's Mine is one of the more forgettable Beat tracks, but it's OK, a decent 7/10. Hot Dog wasn't a fave of mine from the Elvis musical star, the song just isnt very good 3/10. Better was to come from Shaky. Take That Look Off Your Face is a Lloyd-Webber gem, it builds and weaves and does what you need in a big musical number telling a story - belts out a hook at the right moment. I'm a fan, 9/10. Iron Maiden starting off as they mean to carry on - a formula to never-ever deviate from. Noisy, riffs, not much melody, more chanting and lots of background art graphics of horror images. 3/10. Sammy Hagar was more to my rock-based taste - a song for a start, a hook, and you still get to chant if you want to 6/10. Captain and Tennille had some great big US hit singles in the 70's, not one of them a big UK hit despite fab songs from Neil Sedaka - see Love Will Keep us Together, Lonely Nights - so it was sort of compensation that they finally grabbed one, even if it was low-key Radio 2 fodder. Quite pleasant, but I dont like it as much as I did at the time, now a mere 7/10.

I liked early Duran in 1981, then during the Rio phase I got a bit fed up with them, bar Save A Prayer, and Simon seemed to have been part-ego, part-wailing-vocals, before they started to get way more interesting around Union Of The Snake era, and peaked with The Reflex and Wild Boys, 2 classic tracks. Simon was getting better as a vocalist (and has continued to improve over the decades), and anyone willing to let themselves get tied to a windmill and dunked (Wild Boys video) gets me on board. The Bond theme was good, and then the minor decade end tracks were interesting, prior to the 1993 re-invention that was peak Duran again. 21st century stuff has been, IMO, as good as anything they have done, loved the recent Halloween album and bonus tracks, and before that a fabulous track with Tove Lo and another with Janelle Monae amongst much more. I class myself as a non-Durannie who got converted by virtue of brilliant singles.

Goodbyee was everywhere at the time, one I could singalong to on the telly, but yes it was of its' time, silliness. Just A Little Bit Of Love is new to me, fun seeing Eric Stewart in the video, but they all did better stuff than this, split up and elsewhere. Lulu an easy win, morphing from soulful young gutsy screamer to lush ballad on her way to Mickie Most tuneful pop hits. Leave A Little Love is pretty good.

The Jam were pretty good, I even went to see them at a banging concert in Bingley Hall, Stafford, in 1981, standing on a coke can to be able to see. I do still get annnoyed by tall people shuffling and squeezing in front of you and making sure you cant see anything when you picked your spot early so you could see. That said, I've seen Weller twice since and he's self-indulgent and on the dull side, too much of an "artist" to want to do a Greatest Hits set. He's had his classics in all guises, but I prefer the Style Council era, so that makes one of me. Best Jam track: Going Underground. Culture Club were popular across the board (my mum was a fan), and their influence on popular culture shouldnt be ignored. Colour by Numbers is a great album and tracks like Miss Me Blind and Church Of The Poison Mind top notch pop. The Jam only topped my charts once, but CC did it 4 times - and then drugs came in and the pop fizziness was replaced by blandness and it was all over. Saw Culture Club in the 90's return when someone pissed George off throwing a coin, and a glitter ball fell on him. Oops. that was still better than his Jesus Loves You era gig, hippy trippy, terminally long jams that had people leaving to catch the last bus home. Great back catalogue, but not that exciting in a live setting. Adam & The Ants were huge in 1981, kiddies at the Youth Club I helped at were into Shaky, Bucks Fizz, Madness, Birdie Song, but Adam most of all. Tribal drums and costume changes what's not to like! Saw Adam maybe 20 years ago now, and I dont recall much about it, but it's fair to say Adam was past his best by 1984 and has just popped up infrequently since. My fave track is Antrap. Yes, someone has to be a fan of it, and it's me. Stand & Deliver is the one that topped my chart though. Macca is a living legend, and of course the 60's was the decade for The Beatles (who had re-issued and revamped hits in the 80's too) and the 70's for classic Wings, but the 80's had it's moments as Paul dabbled with synths pretty early on, Coming Up, Waterfalls are fab, Temporary Secretary mad, before he settled into collabs, MOR hits, frogs, classical, dance anything that took his fancy. I caught him in a fab concert at Wembley Arena in 1989. Hey Jude was such a moment a woman further down passed out and interrupted the otherworldly vibes. I took my mum to see him, not shamed at all. He might be here for the big ballad hits, but his best stuff is the lesser known: Tug Of War, Here Today, Take It Away, This One. And the Frog Chorus. That TV video cartoon is still heart-warming and life-affirmingly sweet. Paul had one chart-topper for me in the 80's: My Brave Face. Phil Collins is surprisingly low. Add albums and he'd be way up the top end. I saw Phil once - sat down the row from me at Elton John's Wembley Arena show in 1989-ish. Never saw in concert, I'd prob nod off with all the ballads. When he wanted to be he could brilliant (In The Air Tonight), fun (You Can't Hurry Love) or nostalgically touching (Groovy Kind Of Love) or soulful (Take Me Home) but most of the time it was ballad overdrive. Frankie were as expected higher than their back catalogue justified. 4 brilliant singles is not a substantial career, but what a great 1984 they had, like a mallet on the pop industry, a year of huge single sales. 3 eternal singles in Relax, Two Tribes and The Power Of Love, with Welcome To The Pleasuredome not far behind, and a good version of Born To Run to boot. Take away Trevor Horn, though, and there wasn't much left, sadly.

Games Without Frontiers is Peter Gabriel's first classic single, ever relevant, and a 9/10. Underpass I bought the EP, gatefold sleeve and all, and John Foxx was a bit of a pioneer in the footsteps of Kraftwerk, but TBH I preferred the Midge Ure Ultravox. I affectionally sang along to this track as "UNDERPANTS!" 7/10. Michael Jackson as the Quincy Jones icon arrived with the Off The Wall album, and Heatwave's UK Rod Temperton gifted Rock With You to MJ after Karen Carpenter allegedly turned it down. The album is great the singles are great, 9/10. The Tourists single wasnt as good as their previous 2, but it was OK. 6/10. The Chords didnt make much of an impression at the time, so 3/10 sounds about right, and All Night Long really wasnt as good as Since You've Been Gone, which had the advantage of being a fab Russ Ballard song whereas this one is basically a Deep Purple song, but it still had the heavy bonus of Graham Bonnet (ex-Marbles lead singer) and Cozy Powell (glam-era hit drummer) in the band. They left shortly after this song and Rainbow were never this good again. 8/10. Carrie is one of Cliff's great singles, still haunting, 9/10. Riders In The Sky is a great oldie, knew it as a kiddie, and was happy to see The Shads charting it, but it's not the best version ever, 8/10. Dance Stance is fab, loved it sounding like nothing else, played loud it's exciting and I used to annoy my friend Bev in Uni digs upstairs playing stuff like this loudly. 9/10. Captain beaky annoyed me at the time, as do most novelty songs when you hear them too much, but these days in small doses it's quite sweet. 6/10. Keith Michell's 1971 hit I'll Give You The Earth was preferable to me at the time. Or his Morecambe & Wise appearances. Elvis' cover, I also found it less essential than his previous New Wave hits, though it was OK if over-rated chart-wise: 6/10. Brass Construction is also OK, 5/10, but AC/DC's Touch Too Much was a New Wave Of Metal track that made me like the band 8/10. Then they reissued their best track coming soon and Bon Scott died and it was all over for me, not even with recruiting the Geordie singer enticed me back beyond 1980 singles by and large. Singing The Blues was a decent cover from Dave Edmunds, I remain predisposed to like Dave, but the song was never much cop in the first place, so 5/10 is about right.

The Plastic Age is a goodie, as is the sweet Paradise Bird, I'd go along with 8/10 for both of those. The Letter not as good as the original, more of a 6/10. Someone's Looking At You sounded better at the time when it was a firm 9/10 for me, but again prob more of an 8/10 now. Strange Little Girl Ive not heard in decades, that was a 7/10 last time I heard it. I never knew Save Me was about Freddie but I found it a bit plodding for Queen, a generous 7/10 but I suspect I'd knock it down to 6/10 if I listened to it again. And The Beat Goes On still sounds good, so much so that it was sampled for the recent Celine Dion hit remix of I'm Alive, the riff edges it into a 9/10. Mama's Boy another I've not heard in aeons, but it's Suzi so that's a 7/10 from me, and again her recent Cyril revamp of Stumblin' In almost became a hit. Her cover of Goldfrapp's Strict Machine is better than Mama's Boy though. Buzz Buzz A Diddle It is great fun, I never knew Freddy Cannon did it first! It was a romp at the time and I'm still fond of the rockabilly vibe, so 9/10. three Minute Hero isnt as good as the two Selecter singles on either side of it, but it's worth a 6/10. Pauline is still doing good stuff and touring. Jefferson Airplane never made it in the UK, it took a morph into histrionic rock to get them airplay on radio 1, and Jane fit quite well into the Rainbow/Toto/Lizzy rock vibes of the time. Still my fave Starship track, better than the hideous overblown nonsense of the mid-80's. 8/10. Grace, though, will drop an anthem in a few months in Dreams, utterly brilliant 10/10 but didnt make the top 40. (see my my BJSC DNQ entries). Too Hot I agree is quite pleasant, and I find it less annoying than Ladies Night, the irony is their huge early 70's funk tracks never hit in the UK, they had to do bland disco to get the hits. 6/10. The buzz around Baby I Love You was getting legendary Phil Spector to produce it - he had done the original classic Wall-of-sound Ronettes version, and then Dave Edmunds did an even bigger wall-of-sound self-produced version in 1973. this sounded very limp in comparison and is nowhere near as good as their 2-minute punk romps, nor as good as their later 80's retro catchy songs and covers. 5/10. Got To Love Somebody I rediscovered about 5 years ago, it's not up there with their monster multiple-hit classics, but it's pretty decent, maybe a 7/10. Coward Of The County I never liked, as a passive sort of bloke I took offense at the notion that you had to get violent to prove yourself to be a man. Those sort of stereotypes should be dead and buried. The realistic sequel where the "hero" goes to jail for GBH and leaves his tormented abused girl to cope on her own is waiting to be written. 3/10. Wonderland I don't recall much, so let's say 4/10 for being The Commodores.

No shifting Bette davis Eyes yet! Will Michael's oldie get on top from 4? Still love it. Interesting to see a fair sprinkling of country tracks in the chart, the UK seemed a bit more resistant in 1981, though rockabilly was big. Kim & Adam making nice strides 🥰Slow Hand a nice high entry, I alwasy liked that, I'd been aware of the Pointer Sisters for almost a decade, so it was nice to see them getting more consistent breakthroughs in Europe. The Commodores I also charted but the Roseanne Cash and Jim Photoglo singles are unknown to me! When I get round to reviewing the 80's I will be using your chart to revamp my charts to include stuff I dont know so thanks in advance 😄

aww poor Solid Gold Easy Action, the forgotten one in a run of classic glam singles from T.Rex. 36's again!! So close both but plus side so regular of late. round 1: 39 round 2: 36 (less and less!! How could I say more and more!)😮 3 in 10: 2: Wild World, Close To You...then I struggled when I shouldnt have...

streaming obviously dominated by the Americas in these figures. I expect UK only would be vastly different, Robbie & Atomic Kitten for example much higher. The Westlife song is there prob due to popularity in the Far East, it's a karaoke classic there.

still high scoring going on, I reckon potential winners all round on most days of the week on popmaster - if it wasn't for minds going blank under pressure in my case😄, and like the first contestant - I feel for him, know what it's like when sheer panic takes over and listening skills vanish! round 1: 39 round 2: 33 (wet wet wet - forgot the song, like most people I'm guessing!) 3 in 10: I Should Be So Lucky, Step Back In Time, Can't Get You Out Of My Head etc!

I was watching a Youtube thingy on Graham Gouldman songs he wrote for others only this afternoon, so many great songs before he even hit 21. Heart Full Of Soul is great, but the jangly Byrds classic is even greater, what a classic. Mr Tambourine Man sounding fabulous in a way Dylan's own Maggie's Farm doesn't. Never liked it, ever. She's About A Mover is good fun, always worth catching it if it ever crops up briefly somewhere, which is getting rarer and rarer these days. The Byrds' is the only song I actually knew at the time, but I would have been likely to like Kenny Lynch's too. If it had been memorable. Ah well, never mind.

ah, 2 more to review - my long-time concert-going mate is a Spandau fan, so I've seen them several times, the last one on high on a mountain side known as the O2 in London, sat at the back, where I might as well have been in a different continent, frightened of moving and tumbling down hundreds of steep levels and Through The Barricades. To cut a long story short, the tiny figures in the far distance could have been anyone, and after they'd got together after acrimoniously splitting just after the heyday 80's before splitting acrimoniously again. TBH I always went cos my mate is a fan, and he went to stuff I was a fan of, like Pet Shop Boys, but time has not made Spandau any more endearing to me, quite the reveres as I'm sick to death of hearing Gold and True. Set Adrift On Memory Bliss any day! Best track? Chant No. 1, far and away the Spands at their jazz-funk coolest, in between New Romantic clothes-horses and besuited gloss-pop, and Tony's often-in-ya-face vocals weren't over-powering the groove. Queen one would expect to be right up the top end, though perhaps a little bit higher than this. Mad on 'em the gang the moment I saw them on Top Of The Pops doing Seven Seas Of Rhye, and 3 chart-toppers for me inside 18 months at the start off their career, less so into the 80's apart from Flash, Another One Bites The Dust and Under Pressure, at least until their Works comeback and the Live Aid gig. Radio Gaga is as good as anything they did, I Want To Break Free fabulous, and the addition of synths and other genres I felt rescued them a bit. Sadly, I never did get to see Queen in concert, though I tried for Live Aid tickets. I especially loved the way Queen have remained popular 35 years after they last existed properly, always fun to watch music critics eat their words.

The Police could do no wrong from 1979 to 1983 and then it imploded badly cos, let's be honest, Sting was the songwriter extraordinaire, and the pin-up, but he was never as good solo as when Andy & Stewart were giving the music some edge. Should be higher in the list were it not for losing out on big 1979 sales. Best track: Invisible Sun or Every Breath You Take, but they had 6 chart-toppers on my charts and I saw them in their prime in Leeds in 1983. I'm enjoying Sting's recent drift back to reggae with his Shaggy collaborations. Bucks Fizz totally justified being this high, they had a long string of classy pop to take over as ABBA vacated the throne, courtesy of ex King-Crimson chappie and the other one - Hill/Sinfield were a great writing/production team and moved on to Celine, Cher and others as the Fizz hits got smaller. Saw them 3 times in concert, topped my charts 5 times in the 80's and once last decade as The Fizz, still good (minus Bobby G). Someone should do a documentary or drama about their career, it has a bit of everything! Quo's longevity was amazing, they were there in the 60's when I was a kid, and they were still there in the 90's as I pushed 40. They had some great singles along the way, but from 1981 onwards they became more of a Quo tribute act, just with new songs/new old songs, bar the odd departure from the formula - most of all the fabulous In The Army Now. Not surprising they are so high, but a bit flattered to say the least. Great fun in concert though, and that I suspect is the reason for the longevity. Bananarama are another act I've seen 3 times, always put on a fabulous show, and they are have quite the ongoing back catalogue, though they never actually topped my charts in the 80's - but have done since then. Cruel Summer, Venus & I Heard A Rumour are my faves of the 80's and Soibhan's You're History was great too after she jumped ship mid-flow. Kylie's slot was always going to be top end, despite just 2 years of sales, so she should also be higher career-wise, though she didnt top my charts till the 90's when she matured, got smart, took musical risks, and became one of the most unexpected pop disco diva icons of the last 35 years. Nobody would have taken a bet she would have lasted and been top quality. Seen her many times, topped my charts regularly over the last 32 years, and as good now as she has ever been, one of my charts all-time greats as she never really takes much of break, a workaholic! Until Pet Shop Boys came along, Human League filled the gap in between ABBA fading away and Chris & neil stepping in as my fave pop band, one classic album (from start to finish) in Dare, and a string of fabulous singles from 1981 through to 1986 with the odd revival after that. Like Pet Shop Boys, they have become one of the great live draws of the last 35 years, having essentially being studio-based prior to that. Well worth catching a Christmas show, always jam-packed with hits and quality, Phil is a great frontman. Best track? Everything from Dare and singles through to Human, plus the Moroder collab hit for Phil. Diana Ross so high is a surprise, as I tend to focus on her great records of the 80's - Upside Down, Chain Reaction, My Old Piano, Missing You - and forget she chucked out loads of dross along the way. I turned from a huge, huge Supremes fan in the 60's and 70's, to a Diana solo fan up to 1973, worshipped Love Hangover in 1976, and then watched bemused as she took the move from Motown to mediocrity in 1981 until her recent joyful movie theme collab with Tame Impala, best thing she's done in 40 years. Koole & The Gang is a shocker. They were mostly just part of the furniture with production-line inoffensive disco-pop, after morphing from a major early 70's funk outfit, when they were cool, and the gang. I never hated them, but I never especially ever got excited by anything they did. Best track? Celebrate probably.

can't say as I do, sadly!