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Oh my I remember 24k Magic kind of ripping off Shakedown - At Night with the synth riff! Still like it though!

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'Club Country' such a unique indie disco song and my favourite of the lot. 'Mama Used To Say' is snappy cool post-disco. 'The Look Of Love' unusual as it uses those retro strings but the bassline and vocal is very up to date for the time.

I thought garage was more 1999-2002 but do as you will!

A quite depressing song with the lyrical themes, certainly compared to The Police's other hits. It is iconic though.

The Tobiahs song had an emotiveness not in many dance hits these days. With the synths it reminded me of a house version of 4 Strings - Take Me Away.

You are like me putting a naff Eurodance song at 30 points!

Men at Work and Men Without Hats it could only be '83!

Disco House/French House defintely at its peak at this point but Cassius 1999 isn't one of its best offerings for me (I know it has a lot of fans in dance music though). The Offspring song was everywhere at the time and I liked it, good very catchy upbeat punk, the bit about Ricki Lake was the most memorable line for me!

I might still put Sienna above Skye for the chart career longevity, even though Skye won the BBC Sound of 2026.

Especially when Let You Go ft. Kareen Lomax was easily the better single from his album, I am still sad that wasn't the hit.

Yep it's very good, atmospheric, reminds me of the best atmospheric 80s ballads The Cars - Drive or Mr Mister - Broken Wings when the synths come in. Very good vocal as you say. The use of bass guitar player Pino Palladino seems to be influenced by Gary Numan's use of him the year before. Billie Jean is catchy and Phil Collins does a good cover of You Can't Hurry Love.

I considerably prefer Bardo One Step Further to Bucks Fizz Making Your Mind Up. Promised You A Miracle is one of Simple Minds best and indeed it is built around a bouncy riff. Private Eyes another creepy lyrics song like the Police's Every Breath You Take but its not as depressing musically or overplayed on radio as much as the Police song.

Thats a very good song very well produced and sung! @fans for hilson !

Quite a good #1. Bass guitar was used a lot in the early 80s songs, but specifically I think the first verse is very much influenced by the band Imagination. It's quite slow and I prefer the faster bass and synth songs of the early 80s. The chorus is memorable though and has become iconic!

Voted for Sound Of You, Dont Wake Me Up and Stay Gold

I preferred Madonna - Give It 2 Me!

Quite a sad song about depending on alcohol to get through hard times. I still prefer 'One In Ten' though from them.

Yep 'Castles in the Sky' and 'Infinity 2008' are the best so far. 'Break Your Heart' is good electropop; listening to it now its quite a bit better than his other massive hit 'Dynamite'. At the time, I wanted Kylie's 'Red Blooded Woman' to be #1 instead of 'Toxic'.

James Marriott Hotel California Rain is good anyway reminds me of Don Broco, don't know why its not doing much on streaming though!

Not really a fan of 'Uptown Girl', overplay on radio/music channels of both the original and Westlife versions, and Billy Joel has better songs especially 'We Didn't Start The Fire'. Its also very 60's revivalist which I am not really a fan of in the 80's charts, I prefer up to date production from the era. Having said that it didn't keep anything that great off #1 for its five weeks, 'Say Say Say' by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson wasn't great apart from the bit that was sampled by Hi-Tack in 2006. 'All Night Long' by Lionel Ritchie is a bit better, and I do prefer it to 'Uptown Girl'.

Should be just top 40 exclusion and even that's harsh compared to BJSC.

I'm surprised its been reset, its not on the Spotify top 200.

Forgot about Ian van Dahl - Reason as its not on spotify :(