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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 2, 2020 11:20:04 GMT 1
For me this was a time when SAW had thrown away any notion of quality for the sake of quantity, yet Smurfie obviously likes this anyway.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Oct 2, 2020 11:25:43 GMT 1
You say that, but many of their songs have stood the test of time. There was still some brilliant stuff released by them in 1989 and 1990 too!
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 2, 2020 11:57:49 GMT 1
You say that, but many of their songs have stood the test of time. There was still some brilliant stuff released by them in 1989 and 1990 too! Yes, a few have. They even had a song in my "best top 10 of all time". None on that list for me though.
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Post by Smurfie on Oct 2, 2020 13:58:28 GMT 1
For me this was a time when SAW had thrown away any notion of quality for the sake of quantity, yet Smurfie obviously likes this anyway. Yep, love them. My only regret is I that cannot make them all number one. '88 and '89 were the best SAW years for me.
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Post by popchartfreak on Oct 2, 2020 20:27:28 GMT 1
2nd October 1988
It's straight in at 1 for the 2-year-old Love Is All That Matters as it finally gets a belated single release from the Jam & Lewis dance album collaboration. The Human League's 8th number one was so bleedingly obvious a stand-out track it should have been the second single in 1986 and it would have been much bigger than it was in 1988, and I Need Your Loving was. One of the first CD singles I bought, too. In at 4, a fave Osmonds record from 1971 when they their own cartoon TV show and tried to sound like The Jackson 5, now out on 12-inch, One Bad Apple is just delicious and was a UK flop and US chart-topper, bizarrely.
Back at 11, Aztec Camera give Deep And Wide And Tall a second release and enter at 11, higher than first-time, while Erasure shoot up into the 20 with the thrice-hit-song A Little Respect (Bjorn Again after Erasure did Abbaesque, and Wheatus). Kim Wilde also gets a decent top 20 climb with Never Trust A stranger, U2 shoot up with Desire, and Duran Duran OTOH don;t want your love. The Christians cover The Isley Brothers 1976 top 3, Harvest For The World, and enter at 38, as Maxi Priest follows-up nicely at 49.
The Eagles' Glen Frey adds True Love to his solo hits, for 16 years of chart activity, and The Beatmasters hook up with 60's UK soul songstress the fab PP Arnold and introduce her to a new audience. Labi Siffre gets a third comeback entry, someone I currently follow on twitter, with his poetry and social commentary, having suffered some years of personal difficulties. Whitney sneaks in with her Olympic UK chart-topper, but fear not it'll drop out next week, being as it's overblown, while Black return with one I don't remember but it's probably very decent.
In my life I went to see Belinda Carlisle in concert this week, and was very surprised at how good she was (my mate was a fan, so I went along cos he wanted to see her), especially stuff from her current album that hadn't been a single (Cream's I Feel Free especially), and her cover of the Gogo's/Fun Boy Three co-write Our Lips Are Sealed. The singles were obviously all fab in a live setting and she had more than enough good material for a great night out.
1 ( NEW ) LOVE IS ALL THAT MATTERS Human League 2 ( 2 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles 3 ( 1 ) DOMINO DANCING Pet Shop Boys 4 ( NEW ) ONE BAD APPLE The Osmonds 5 ( 3 ) LOVELY DAY (SUNSHINE MIX) Bill Withers 6 ( 6 ) DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY Bobby McFerrin 7 ( 8 ) YOU'RE MY WORLD Nick Heyward 8 ( 4 ) HE AIN'T HEAVY...HE'S MY BROTHER The Hollies 9 ( 9 ) ANCHORAGE Michelle-Shocked 10 ( 5 ) TEARDROPS Womack & Womack
11 ( NEW ) DEEP AND WIDE AND TALL Aztec Camera 12 ( 7 ) WORLD WITHOUT YOU Belinda Carlisle 13 ( 11 ) ANYTHING FOR YOU Gloria Estefan 14 ( 37 ) A LITTLE RESPECT Erasure 15 ( 18 ) FAKE ('88 REMIX) Alexander O' Neal 16 ( 34 ) NEVER TRUST A STRANGER Kim Wilde 17 ( 10 ) ANOTHER PART OF ME Michael Jackson 18 ( 15 ) YE KE YE KE Mory Kante 19 ( 25 ) RIDING ON A TRAIN The Pasadenas 20 ( 14 ) GROOVY KIND OF LOVE Phil Collins
21 ( 13 ) THE HARDER I TRY Brother Beyond 22 ( 54 ) DESIRE U2 23 ( 30 ) FIRST BOY IN THIS TOWN (LOVESICK) Scritti Politti 24 ( 19 ) BIG FUN Inner City/ Kevin Saunderson 25 ( 16 ) TEARS RUN RINGS Marc Almond 26 ( 21 ) YOU CAME Kim Wilde 27 ( 12 ) SWEET CHILD O' MINE Guns 'n' Roses 28 ( 22 ) SOMEWHERE DOWN THE CRAZY RIVER Robbie Robertson 29 ( 29 ) PLEASE HELP THE CAUSE AGAINST LONELINESS Sandie Shaw 30 ( 33 ) THE RUMOUR Olivia Newton-John
31 ( 28 ) ANOTHER LOVER Giant Steps 32 ( 17 ) STOP THIS CRAZY THING Coldcut/ Junior Reid 33 ( 20 ) INDESTRUCTIBLE The Four Tops/ Smokey Robinson 34 ( 23 ) SKIN DEEP Cher 35 ( 39 ) MAYA Errol Brown 36 ( 36 ) SPARE PARTS Bruce Springsteen 37 ( 26 ) RUSH HOUR Jane Wiedlin 38 ( NEW ) HARVEST FOR THE WORLD The Christians 39 ( 65 ) I DON'T WANT YOUR LOVE Duran Duran 40 ( 38 ) SUGAR SUGAR (CANDYFLOSS MIX)/(ORIGINAL VERSION) The Archies
41 ( 32 ) HAPPY EVER AFTER Julia Fordham 42 ( 35 ) MONKEY (REMIX) George Michael 43 ( 24 ) WHERE DID I GO WRONG UB40 44 ( 56 ) LOVE TRUTH AND HONESTY Bananarama 45 ( 40 ) DIRTY DIANA Michael Jackson 46 ( 27 ) THE ONLY WAY IS UP Yazz & The Plastic Population 47 ( 45 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac 48 ( 46 ) WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield 49 ( NEW ) GOODBYE TO LOVE AGAIN Maxi Priest 50 ( 31 ) LEAD ME ON Amy Grant
51 ( 60 ) I'M GONNA BE (500 MILES) The Proclaimers 52 ( 50 ) HEART Pet Shop Boys 53 ( NEW ) TRUE LOVE Glen Frey 54 ( 42 ) HANDS TO HEAVEN Breathe 55 ( 44 ) SOLDIER OF LOVE Donny Osmond 56 ( 53 ) ONE MORE TRY George Michael 57 ( 70 ) TURN IT INTO LOVE Hazell Dean 58 ( 58 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles 59 ( 47 ) FIND MY LOVE Fairground Attraction 60 ( 59 ) YOU WIN AGAIN The Bee Gees
61 ( 43 ) DON'T MAKE ME WAIT Bomb The Bass 62 ( 48 ) GOOD TRADITION Tanita Tikarim 63 ( 62 ) MAN IN THE MIRROR MIchael Jackson 64 ( 41 ) TOWN OF PLENTY Elton John 65 ( 55 ) EASY The Commodores 66 ( 66 ) NOTHING CAN DIVIDE US Jason Donovan 67 ( 73 ) BAD MEDICINE Bon Jovi 68 ( NEW ) BURN IT UP Beastmasters/ P.P. Arnold 69 ( 72 ) I WANT YOU BACK/ I WANT YOU BACK ('88 remix) The Jackson 5 70 ( NEW ) LISTEN TO THE VOICES Labi Siffre
71 ( NEW ) ONE MOMENT IN TIME Whitney Houston 72 ( NEW ) HALLELUJAH MAN Love And Money 73 ( NEW ) THE BIG ONE Black 74 ( 71 ) JUMP START Natalie Cole 75 ( 75 ) BAD Michael Jackson
PLAYIST OLDIES Belinda Carlisle Live at Bournemouth International Centre 1 I FEEL FREE 2 SHOULD I LET YOU IN? 3 OUR LIPS ARE SEALED
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