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Post by Smurfie on Jun 3, 2018 18:09:40 GMT 1
The number 4’s from 1989
Please rate the following out of 10. If you don't know a song, please look it up on Youtube before voting.
I'll tot the scores up at the end to see which is Havens favourite #4 of 1989. I'll probably leave it open for a few months, to make sure we get everyone's votes.
Just a trial whilst running along side the 3’s rate.
n.b. Where the single is listed as a double A side, I have gone for the "lead" of the two.
Roachford - Cuddly Toy Holly Johnson - Love Train Sam Brown - Stop Holly Johnson - Americanos London Boys - Requiem Sinitta - Right Back Where We Started From U2 - All I Want Is You Bobby Brown - On Our Own Big Fun - Blame It On The Boogie Erasure - Drama! Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On Kaoma - Lambada Kylie Minogue - Never Too Late Andy Stewart - Donald Where’s Your Troosers
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Post by Smurfie on Jun 3, 2018 18:10:17 GMT 1
Any errors or omissions - let me know.
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Post by Smurfie on Jun 3, 2018 18:13:57 GMT 1
05 Roachford - Cuddly Toy 10 Holly Johnson - Love Train 08 Sam Brown - Stop 08 Holly Johnson - Americanos 09 London Boys - Requiem 09 Sinitta - Right Back Where We Started From 06 U2 - All I Want Is You 05 Bobby Brown - On Our Own 07 Big Fun - Blame It On The Boogie 09 Erasure - Drama! 10 Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On 08 Kaoma - Lambada 10 Kylie Minogue - Never Too Late 04 Andy Stewart - Donald Where’s Your Troosers
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Post by Whitneyfan on Jun 3, 2018 18:17:03 GMT 1
08 Roachford - Cuddly Toy 08 Holly Johnson - Love Train 10 Sam Brown - Stop 07 Holly Johnson - Americanos 10 London Boys - Requiem 07 Sinitta - Right Back Where We Started From 09 U2 - All I Want Is You 09 Bobby Brown - On Our Own 04 Big Fun - Blame It On The Boogie 09 Erasure - Drama! 10 Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On 08 Kaoma - Lambada 07 Kylie Minogue - Never Too Late 06 Andy Williams - Donald Where’s Your Troosers
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Post by smokeyb on Jun 3, 2018 21:22:03 GMT 1
08 Roachford - Cuddly Toy
07 Holly Johnson - Love Train
08 Sam Brown - Stop
08 Holly Johnson - Americanos
07 London Boys - Requiem
06 Sinitta - Right Back Where We Started From
08 U2 - All I Want Is You
03 Bobby Brown - On Our Own
03 Big Fun - Blame It On The Boogie
07 Erasure - Drama!
09 Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On
06 Kaoma - Lambada
08 Kylie Minogue - Never Too Late
01 Andy Williams Stewart - Donald Where’s Your Troosers
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Post by smokeyb on Jun 3, 2018 21:22:45 GMT 1
Any errors or omissions - let me know. Should it not be Andy Stewart instead of Williams?
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Post by vya on Jun 3, 2018 21:43:12 GMT 1
08 Roachford - Cuddly Toy 08 Holly Johnson - Love Train 09 Sam Brown - Stop 07 Holly Johnson - Americanos 09 London Boys - Requiem 05 Sinitta - Right Back Where We Started From 10 U2 - All I Want Is You 07 Bobby Brown - On Our Own 04 Big Fun - Blame It On The Boogie 07 Erasure - Drama! 07 Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On 08 Kaoma - Lambada 08 Kylie Minogue - Never Too Late 05 Andy Stewart - Donald Where’s Your Troosers
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Post by Shireblogger on Jun 3, 2018 22:20:41 GMT 1
8 : Roachford - Cuddly Toy 7 : Holly Johnson - Love Train 4 : Sam Brown - Stop 7 : Holly Johnson - Americanos 6 : London Boys - Requiem 2 : Sinitta - Right Back Where We Started From 10 : U2 - All I Want Is You 0 : Bobby Brown - On Our Own 0 : Big Fun - Blame It On The Boogie 9 : Erasure - Drama! 5 : Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On 3 : Kaoma - Lambada 1 : Kylie Minogue - Never Too Late 0 : Andy Stewart - Donald Where’s Your Troosers
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 4, 2018 9:54:13 GMT 1
The general standard is going down, I'll have to refactor my ratings to account for this:
9 Roachford - Cuddly Toy 6 Holly Johnson - Love Train 9 Sam Brown - Stop 8 Holly Johnson - Americanos 7 London Boys - Requiem 5 Sinitta - Right Back Where We Started From 10 U2 - All I Want Is You 7 Bobby Brown - On Our Own 3 Big Fun - Blame It On The Boogie 7 Erasure - Drama! 10 Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On 6 Kaoma - Lambada 4 Kylie Minogue - Never Too Late 5 Andy Stewart - Donald Where’s Your Troosers
U2 and Belinda Carlisle are class and deserve a 10
Silly fun stuff like the London Boys, Kaoma, Andy Stewart: judged based on that. A Scottish Soldier is a far better track than Donald Where's Your Troosers, by the way. In this song he imitates Elvis (but doesn't imitate Andy Williams). Big Fun aren't fun though just a poor cover version. By the way the Jacksons version was also a cover, the Mick Jackson version was the original.
Roachford and Sam Brown were also brilliant songs, albeit the latter seems to borrow the string section of James Brown's "It's a Man's Man's Man's World".
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Post by rubcale on Jun 4, 2018 11:02:48 GMT 1
We're straying into unknown territory now - had to listen to several of these on YouTube to remember them.
Seems to be a divergence of opinion here - overall a pretty good selection imo.
08 Roachford - Cuddly Toy 09 Holly Johnson - Love Train 06 Sam Brown - Stop 07 Holly Johnson - Americanos 10 London Boys - Requiem 08 Sinitta - Right Back Where We Started From 02 U2 - All I Want Is You 04 Bobby Brown - On Our Own 06 Big Fun - Blame It On The Boogie 08 Erasure - Drama! 10 Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On 06 Kaoma - Lambada 04 Kylie Minogue - Never Too Late 03 Andy Williams (Stewart) - Donald Where’s Your Troosers
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Post by o on Jun 4, 2018 11:59:28 GMT 1
Belinda Carlisle to win?
9 Roachford - Cuddly Toy 6 Holly Johnson - Love Train 9 Sam Brown - Stop 7 Holly Johnson - Americanos 5 London Boys - Requiem 1 Sinitta - Right Back Where We Started From 10 U2 - All I Want Is You 2 Bobby Brown - On Our Own 3 Big Fun - Blame It On The Boogie 4 Erasure - Drama! 5 Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On 7 Kaoma - Lambada 5 Kylie Minogue - Never Too Late 6 Andy Williams - Donald Where’s Your Troosers
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Post by Smurfie on Jun 4, 2018 13:23:48 GMT 1
Any errors or omissions - let me know. Should it not be Andy Stewart instead of Williams? Indeed - thank you. Have updated.
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Post by raliverpool on Jun 4, 2018 18:00:54 GMT 1
07 Roachford - Cuddly Toy 06 Holly Johnson - Love Train 09 Sam Brown - Stop 04 Holly Johnson - Americanos 02 London Boys - Requiem 03 Sinitta - Right Back Where We Started From 10 U2 - All I Want Is You 06 Bobby Brown - On Our Own 01 Big Fun - Blame It On The Boogie 07 Erasure - Drama! 08 Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On 00 Kaoma - Lambada 07 Kylie Minogue - Never Too Late 00 Andy Stewart - Donald Where’s Your Troosers
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Post by rubcale on Jun 5, 2018 17:45:03 GMT 1
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Post by TheThorne on Jun 5, 2018 18:01:49 GMT 1
08 Roachford - Cuddly Toy 07 Holly Johnson - Love Train 07 Sam Brown - Stop 06 Holly Johnson - Americanos 09 London Boys - Requiem 02 Sinitta - Right Back Where We Started From 08 U2 - All I Want Is You 06 Bobby Brown - On Our Own 01 Big Fun - Blame It On The Boogie 07 Erasure - Drama! 09 Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On 04 Kaoma - Lambada 04 Kylie Minogue - Never Too Late 06 Andy Stewart - Donald Where’s Your Troosers
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Post by Smurfie on Jun 5, 2018 19:53:06 GMT 1
Blame It On The Boogie was not a great moment (though I do like it ashamedly) but Martika beat them to it with I Feel The Earth Move. I’m sure SAW would have road showed them to death by the release, but first heard it as an advert for a forthcoming Birds Of A Feather series advert waaay in advance of the single release. And thank you for your votes
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Post by Vetroplach on Jun 8, 2018 11:01:58 GMT 1
06 Roachford - Cuddly Toy 07 Holly Johnson - Love Train 06 Sam Brown - Stop 10 Holly Johnson - Americanos 08 London Boys - Requiem 04 Sinitta - Right Back Where We Started From 10 U2 - All I Want Is You 04 Bobby Brown - On Our Own 03 Big Fun - Blame It On The Boogie 07 Erasure - Drama! 09 Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On 10 Kaoma - Lambada 05 Kylie Minogue - Never Too Late 08 Andy Stewart - Donald Where’s Your Troosers
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Post by darkstar79 on Jun 14, 2018 19:07:59 GMT 1
02 Roachford - Cuddly Toy 05 Holly Johnson - Love Train 04 Sam Brown - Stop 06 Holly Johnson - Americanos 09 London Boys - Requiem 08 Sinitta - Right Back Where We Started From 01 U2 - All I Want Is You 09 Bobby Brown - On Our Own 01 Big Fun - Blame It On The Boogie 04 Erasure - Drama! 03 Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On 03 Kaoma - Lambada 05 Kylie Minogue - Never Too Late 07 Andy Stewart - Donald Where’s Your Troosers
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Post by Kingpin on Jun 14, 2018 19:55:12 GMT 1
08 Roachford - Cuddly Toy 09 Holly Johnson - Love Train 08 Sam Brown - Stop 08 Holly Johnson - Americanos 10 London Boys - Requiem 08 Sinitta - Right Back Where We Started From 03 U2 - All I Want Is You 06 Bobby Brown - On Our Own 07 Big Fun - Blame It On The Boogie 06 Erasure - Drama! 10 Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On 08 Kaoma - Lambada 08 Kylie Minogue - Never Too Late 00 Andy Stewart - Donald Where’s Your Troosers
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Jun 17, 2018 18:41:50 GMT 1
07 Roachford - Cuddly Toy 06 Holly Johnson - Love Train 05 Sam Brown - Stop 05 Holly Johnson - Americanos 07 London Boys - Requiem 06 Sinitta - Right Back Where We Started From 08 U2 - All I Want Is You 02 Bobby Brown - On Our Own 04 Big Fun - Blame It On The Boogie 06 Erasure - Drama! 08 Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On 08 Kaoma - Lambada 06 Kylie Minogue - Never Too Late 02 Andy Stewart - Donald Where’s Your Troosers
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