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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 7, 2023 21:42:21 GMT 1
Will Styx appear in the 1981 rundown with "Paradise Theatre" as that's one of my favourite albums of all time. There isn't a single bad track on it.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 7, 2023 15:31:07 GMT 1
Yeh I don’t know if I can listen to that…oh wait is that the album with ‘Woman In Love’ that’s a tune! Ahh just looked at the track list the whole thing is basically a Bee Gees collab , maybe next time I’ll give it a go. If 1987 wasn’t so stacked might have seen some Bee Gees there but I doubt it will make the cut. Yeah, it's all written by the Bee Gees. It's very easy listening, but great. I think only Barry Gibb is actually involved but he wrote many of the more popular Bee Gees songs. It was the start of the period when the Bee Gees flopped with everything they released but wrote many huge hits for others. I was very much singles based until around 1994. I bought more albums in the years 1994 to 1998 than any other period. 1994 was also the year I moved to my own flat and got my own CD player. May have something to do with it? As well as where I was working.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 7, 2023 12:47:07 GMT 1
Man City charged with 101 breaches of PL rules for their financial doping, with no limits to the potential punishments - they could get transfer bans, points deducted, titles stripped or even relegated. Stripping them of all their league titles suits me. That makes Charlton Athletic the new League Champions of 1936-37.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 7, 2023 10:25:20 GMT 1
frag were you secretly hoping Spurs would win on Sunday? (or maybe publicly hoping they would given it was helping your own team)
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 7, 2023 10:22:51 GMT 1
About time there was a whole shake-up all around football. Fed up of teams buying success.
I really hope Arsenal win the league this year.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 6, 2023 23:57:37 GMT 1
97 Paul McCartney - McCartney II - In truth as a Beatles fan this is a patchy album. But a very bold album. "One Of These Days" is the best of the non singles. 2.5/5 Still it is better than his former bandmate's Double Fantasy album which was very bland despite having three great songs on it (the singles). those 3 (especially Watching The Wheels) plus Beautiful Boy.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 6, 2023 23:56:18 GMT 1
I listen to a handful of albums between years of my singles chart. When I reached the end of 1980 I therefore listened to a number of albums from that year.
One of them was Double Fantasy of course, which I don't see on your list, and is rather ruined by Yoko Ono's singing some of the songs on it. John Lennon's own songs are really good though. Maybe that's why it didn't make the list, but Paul McCartney only just scraped in so maybe you just are not into ex-Beatles members around this time.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 6, 2023 22:07:33 GMT 1
Up to the last Haven Factor all my acts had a UK top 10 hit in 1980 except Bon Jovi.
Of the current list, Squeeze had a #17 single and a #32 album, Billy Ocean a #42 single and no hit albums and Dire Straits no hit singles and a #11 album that climbed later to #4 in 1981.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 5, 2023 19:19:23 GMT 1
26 June 1982
1 ( 1 ) Torch - Soft Cell < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 7 ) Now Those Days Are Gone - Bucks Fizz 3 ( 3 ) Do I Do - Stevie Wonder 4 ( 10 ) Avalon - Roxy Music 5 ( 5 ) A Night To Remember - Shalamar 6 ( 2 ) House Of Fun - Madness (#1[1]) 7 ( 13 ) Abracadabra - Steve Miller Band 8 ( -- ) Happy Talk - Captain Sensible 9 ( 9 ) Space Age Love Song - A Flock Of Seagulls 10 ( 4 ) The Look Of Love - ABC (#2[2])
11 ( -- ) Even The Nights Are better - Air Supply 12 ( 20 ) Streetwalkin' - Shakatak 13 ( -- ) Rock The Casbah - Clash 14 ( 12 ) Inside Out - Odyssey 15 ( 6 ) Goody Two Shoes - Adam Ant (#4) 16 ( 22 ) Videotheque - Dollar 17 ( -- ) Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor 18 ( 8 ) The Back Of Love - Echo & The Bunnymen (#7) 19 ( 14 ) Las Palabras De Amor - Queen 20 ( 25 ) We Take Mystery (To Bed) - Gary Numan
21 ( 11 ) Murphy's Law - Cheri 22 ( -- ) Me And My Girl (Night-Clubbing) - David Essex 23 ( -- ) Night Train - Visage 24 ( -- ) Hard To Say I'm Sorry - Chicago 25 ( 30 ) You Little Fool - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 26 ( 18 ) Family Man - Mike Oldfield 27 ( 31 ) Keep The Fire Burnin' - REO Speedwagon 28 ( 34 ) Be Mine Tonight - Neil Diamond 29 ( -- ) Music And Lights - Imagination 30 ( 36 ) What Kind Of Fool Am I - Rick Springfield
31 ( 17 ) I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow (#14) 32 ( 24 ) No Regrets - Midge Ure 33 ( 38 ) Hold Me - Fleetwood Mac 34 ( 15 ) Temptation - New Order (#8) 35 ( -- ) Back To School Again - Four Tops 36 ( 39 ) Spirit - Bauhaus 37 ( 28 ) Hope You Love Me Like You Say You Do - Huey Lewis & The News 38 ( 41 ) No Getting Over You - Paris 39 ( 19 ) Because You're Young - Classix Nouveaux (#12) 40 ( 16 ) Rosanna - Toto (#1[3])
41 ( 44 ) This Man Is Mine - Heart 42 ( 35 ) I'm Your Man - Blue Zoo 43 ( 27 ) Shakti (The Meaning Of Within) - Monsoon (#24) 44 ( 46 ) Heart (Stop Beating In Time) - Leo Sayer 45 ( 21 ) Paperlate - Genesis (#9) 46 ( 26 ) Work That Body - Diana Ross (#18) 47 ( -- ) Angel In Blue - J Geils Band 48 ( 23 ) Hungry Like The Wolf - Duran Duran (#5) 49 ( 43 ) You Weren't In Love WIth Me - Billy Field 50 ( 29 ) Cantonese Boy - Japan (#12)
-- ( 32 ) Hurts So Good - John Cougar (#18) -- ( 33 ) Island Of Lost Souls - Blondie (#4) -- ( 37 ) Only The Lonely - Motels (#27) -- ( 40 ) Key Largo - Bertie Higgins (#35) -- ( 42 ) I'm A Wonderful Thing Baby - Kid Creole & The Coconuts (#11) -- ( 45 ) Since You're Gone - Cars (#37) -- ( 47 ) Break It Up - Foreigner (#39) -- ( 48 ) Rhythm Of The Jungle - Quick (#15) -- ( 49 ) After The Glitter Fades - Stevie Nicks -- ( 50 ) Iko Iko - Natasha (#40)
-- ( -- ) Dancing In The Street - Van Halen -- ( -- ) The Sound Of Your Cry - Elvis Presley
These next few weeks are "brutal" - a bunch of classic songs entering. Flying in at #8, one of the cover versions of the year. Captain Sensible is of course guitarist with the Damned and they also have a song on the playlist which he plays guitar on and co-wrote. For his solo material he's backed with Dolly Mixture, and apparently he was seriously dating one of them. The song entered in the UK at #33 and they performed it on Top of the Pops after which it leapt all the way up to #1. The song was written by Rodgers and Hammerstein for the musical "South Pacific" and is intended to be a positive vibe song by people in World War II. It was not the first Rodgers and Hammerstein composition to get to #1 in the UK chart as they also wrote "You'll Never Walk Alone" which topped the chart for Gerry & The Pacemakers in 1963 and also topped the NM chart.
Air Supply are back - this one also reached #44 in the UK chart, and was their 3rd consecutive US hit to peak at #5, their 4th in total. It isn't a cover but they also didn't write it. The song was written by Kenneth Ball, Terry Wallace and Jerry Lee Skinner, collectively known as Bama who also recorded under that name but never recorded this song.
The Clash have done a lot of songs but only a few are classics, but one of those is "Rock The Casbah" which enters this week. Survivor's song from Rocky III which was #1 in the UK and USA enters now.
Chicago's return too, plus David Essex and Visage add up to a classic set of new entries.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 4, 2023 20:39:54 GMT 1
1 ( 2 ) Part Of The Union - Strawbs < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) You're So Vain - Carly Simon (#1[6]) 3 ( 3 ) Whiskey In The Jar - Thin Lizzy 4 ( 6 ) Love Train - O'Jays 5 ( 11 ) The Cover Of Rolling Stone - Dr Hook 6 ( 7 ) Daniel - Elton John 7 ( 4 ) Do It Again - Steely Dan (#2[2]) 8 ( 18 ) Killing Me Softly With His Song - Roberta Flack 9 ( 5 ) Dancing In The Moonlight - King Harvest (#3) 10 ( 9 ) Hocus Pocus - Focus (#9)
11 ( 13 ) Sylvia - Focus 12 ( -- ) Avenues And Alleyways - Tony Christie 13 ( 20 ) Dueling Banjos - Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell 14 ( 15 ) Roll Over Beethoven - Electric Light Orchestra 15 ( 8 ) Wishing Well - Free (#5) 16 ( 12 ) Could It Be I'm Falling In Love - Spinners (#12) 17 ( -- ) Feel The Need In Me - Detroit Emeralds 18 ( 14 ) Paper Plane - Status Quo (#14) 19 ( 10 ) Blockbuster - Sweet (#6) 20 ( 23 ) Take Me Girl I'm Ready - Junior Walker & The All Stars
21 ( 16 ) On A Saturday Night - Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs (#16) 22 ( 22 ) (There's Gonna Be A) Showdown - Archie Bell & The Drells 23 ( -- ) Hello Hooray - Alice Cooper 24 ( 32 ) Peaceful Easy Feeling - Eagles 25 ( 21 ) Dreidel - Don McLean (#21) 26 ( -- ) I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band) - Moody Blues 27 ( 17 ) Hi Hi Hi - Wings (#7) 28 ( 28 ) Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) - Gary Glitter 29 ( 39 ) I'm Never Gonna Be Alone Anymore - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose 30 ( 30 ) I'll Be Your Shelter (In Time Of Storm) - Luther Ingram
31 ( 19 ) Superstition - Stevie Wonder (#2[4]) 32 ( -- ) Big City Miss Ruth Ann - Gallery 33 ( 26 ) You Turn Me On I'm A Radio - Joni Mitchell (#16) 34 ( 25 ) Sing Don't Speak - Blackfoot Sue (#12) 35 ( 24 ) The Jean Genie - David Bowie (#3) 36 ( 31 ) Big City - Dandy Livingstone (#26) 37 ( 27 ) Why Can't We Live Together - Timmy Thomas (#6) 38 ( -- ) Danny's Song - Anne Murray 39 ( 29 ) C Moon - Wings (#5) 40 ( 37 ) Don't Expect Me To Be Your Friend - Lobo (#35)
-- ( 33 ) Rocky Mountain Hight - John Denver (#22) -- ( 34 ) Always On My Mind - Elvis Presley (#6) -- ( 35 ) Relay - Who (#30) -- ( 36 ) Angel - Rod Stewart (#8) -- ( 38 ) I'm On My Way To A Better Place - Chairmen Of The Board (#16) -- ( 40 ) The World Is A Ghetto - War (#21)
-- ( -- ) Living Together Growing Together - 5th Dimension
Carly Simon can't manage a 7th week on top, but it is the #1 single by a solo female at this point and remains in the top 8 even now. I don't have a specific order for the top 8 other than the #1 which isn't this one.
The Alice Cooper song I have seen with different spellings but it's Hooray on the version on Spotify.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 3, 2023 11:58:09 GMT 1
Saturday 4th February Fixtures (1/4)
A9 Everton v Arsenal (12.30) A4 Norwich City v Burnley (12.30) D1 Aston Villa v Leicester City H5 Brentford v Southampton H6 Brighton & Hove Albion v AFC Bournemouth H10 Manchester United v Crystal Palace A8 Wolverhampton Wanderers v Liverpool H7 Newcastle United v West Ham United D2 Nottingham Forest v Leeds United (Sunday) A3 Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City (Sunday)
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 2, 2023 21:39:29 GMT 1
We'd have been in January 1984 7 years ago.
I noted in my last posted retro 1982 chart that it matched the first week of the retro chart.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 2, 2023 21:36:27 GMT 1
1 ( 1 ) Innuendo - Queen < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) The King Is Half Undressed - Jellyfish 3 ( 3 ) 3am Eternal - KLF 4 ( 4 ) All This Time - Sting (#2[2]) 5 ( 7 ) Bloodsport For All - Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine 6 ( 12 ) Show Me The Way - Styx 7 ( 15 ) I Believe - EMF 8 ( 9 ) The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) - Cher 9 ( 10 ) Cry For Help - Rick Astley 10 ( 18 ) What Do I Have To Do - Kylie Minogue
11 ( -- ) Beautiful Love - Julian Cope 12 ( 6 ) International Bright Young Thing - Jesus Jones (#6) 13 ( 5 ) Get Here - Oleta Adams (#4) 14 ( 20 ) Which Way Should I Jump - Milltown Brothers 15 ( 14 ) Coming Out Of The Dark - Gloria Estefan (#14) 16 ( 24 ) Love Rears Its Ugly Head - Living Colour 17 ( 13 ) Just Can't Say Goodbye - Associates (#13) 18 ( 19 ) Good Times - Jimmy Barnes & Inxs 19 ( 8 ) Crazy - Seal (#1[4]) 20 ( 11 ) X Y And Zee - Pop Will Eat Itself (#8)
21 ( 30 ) If This Is Love - JJ 22 ( 32 ) Only The Ones We Love - Tanita Tikaram 23 ( 33 ) Motown Junk - Manic Street Preachers 24 ( -- ) Open Up Your Mind (Let Me In) - Real People 25 ( -- ) Godlike - Dylans 26 ( 36 ) You Got The Love - Source ft Candi Staton 27 ( 27 ) Dedication - Thin Lizzy 28 ( 16 ) Where Does My Heart Beat Now - Céline Dion (#11) 29 ( 38 ) Sliver - Nirvana 30 ( 40 ) It's Too Late - Quartz ft Dina Carroll
31 ( 23 ) Freedom - London Boys (#22) 32 ( 17 ) Disappear - Inxs (#2[1]) 33 ( 43 ) Boneyard - Little Angels 34 ( 25 ) Breakaway - Donna Summer (#20) 35 ( 28 ) If You Lean On Me - Colin James (#26) 36 ( -- ) G.L.A.D - Kim Appleby 37 ( 22 ) Mercy Mercy Me I Want You - Robert Palmer (#9) 38 ( -- ) Tingle - That Petrol Emotion 39 ( 48 ) If You Need Somebody - Bad Company 40 ( 21 ) All The Man I Need - Whitney Houston (#3)
41 ( 26 ) All True Man - Alexander O'Neal (#17) 42 ( 42 ) Ride - Parchman 43 ( 50 ) Only You - Praise 44 ( 35 ) American Dream - Power Of Dreams (#32) 45 ( -- ) Rockin' Back Inside My Heart - Julee Cruise 46 ( -- ) Don't Try To Tell Me - Wendy & Lisa 47 ( 29 ) Sadeness Part 1 - Enigma (#4) 48 ( -- ) Waiting For Love - Alias 49 ( 39 ) A Lil' Ain't Enough - David Lee Roth (#31) 50 ( 37 ) Miss America - Big Dish (#27)
-- ( 31 ) Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter - Iron Maiden (#6) -- ( 34 ) Jordan - Prefab Sprout (#17) -- ( 41 ) Wicked Game - Chris Isaak (#1[1]) -- ( 44 ) Anything Is Possible - Debbie Gibson (#10) -- ( 45 ) Satan - Orbital (#39) -- ( 46 ) Can I Kick It - A Tribe Called Quest (#40) -- ( 47 ) Preacher Man - Bananarama (#21) -- ( 49 ) Well Did You Evah - Deborah Harry & Iggy Pop (#22)
-- ( -- ) Love And Pain - Carlton -- ( -- ) Counting Backwards - Throwing Muses -- ( -- ) It Never Rains In Southern California - Tony! Toni! Tone! -- ( -- ) Games - New Kids On The Block
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 2, 2023 12:21:39 GMT 1
It will be a rate where you vote for several songs in descending order with points, done in-topic.
I make it that Modern Romance is the lowest peaking song on that list at #15, and that will probably be the threshold in case any more get added.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 2, 2023 11:24:55 GMT 1
24(--) Jim Croce – One Less Set Of Footsteps when you're doing retro charts and are near the start of a year and you know that a particular artist who enters the chart is going to die later that year... Sam Cooke in 1964, Otis Redding in 1967 and in the 1991 retro chart Freddie Mercury of Queen.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 2, 2023 10:47:51 GMT 1
At some point I'd like to do a poll (with full voting) on the best cover version of 1982, and I'd only consider the covers that were fairly big hits, and this is peaking at #15 or above in the UK singles chart.
- The Lion Sleeps Tonight - Tight Fit - Mickey - Toni Basil (cover of Racey) - T'Ain't What You Do It's The Way That You Do It - Fun Boy Three & Bananarama - Quierme Mucho (Yours) - Julio Iglesias - I Love Rock 'N' Roll - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Shirley - Shakin' Stevens - Really Saying Something - Bananarama & Fun Boy Three - Fantasy Island - Tight Fit (they also get 2) - I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow - Iko Iko - Natasha - No Regrets - Midge Ure - Happy Talk - Captain Sensible - I Second That Emotion - Japan - Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Boys Town Gang - What - Soft Cell - My Girl Lollipop - Bad Manners - Spread A Little Happiness - Sting - Walking On Sunshine - Rockers Revenge - Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White - Modern Romance - Pass The Dutchie - Musical Youth - I'll Be Satisfied - Shakin' Stevens - Jackie Wilson Said - Dexy's Midnight Runners - Ziggy Stardust - Bauhaus - The Clapping Song - Belle Stars - State Of Independence - Donna Summer - Blue Christmas - Shakin' Stevens (yes he gets 3) - You Can't Hurry Love - Phil Collins (it got to #1 in 1983 but entered the chart in 1982)
Ok, what have I missed? And yes there are a few on that list I think will do very badly. "Mickey" and "Pass The Dutchie" both had title changes and "Fantasy Island" was translated from Dutch to English with Quierme Mucho going for English to Spanish and he'd previously recorded a Spanish-only version but this version was hybrid. He also covered "Amour Amour" later in the year which I actually prefer but it wasn't as big a hit so I didn't put it on the list.
I'll do this poll a bit later, maybe when I finish 1982 by which time it's likely Haven Factor will also be over.
This list has 27 songs which is probably too many. Modern Romance and Bauhaus were both #15 peaks and Donna Summer #14 but I really wanted that one to be in it because it's possibly my favourite, but I could remove the two #15 hits to get the number down to 25.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 2, 2023 0:41:36 GMT 1
19 June 1982
1 ( 1 ) Torch - Soft Cell < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) House Of Fun - Madness (#1[1]) 3 ( 5 ) Do I Do - Stevie Wonder 4 ( 3 ) The Look Of Love - ABC (#2[2]) 5 ( 13 ) A Night To Remember - Shalamar 6 ( 4 ) Goody Two Shoes - Adam Ant (#4) 7 ( -- ) Now Those Days Are Gone - Bucks Fizz 8 ( 7 ) The Back Of Love - Echo & The Bunnymen (#7) 9 ( 17 ) Space Age Love Song - A Flock Of Seagulls 10 ( -- ) Avalon - Roxy Music
11 ( 11 ) Murphy's Law - Cheri 12 ( 19 ) Inside Out - Odyssey 13 ( -- ) Abracadabra - Steve Miller Band 14 ( 21 ) Las Palabras De Amor - Queen 15 ( 8 ) Temptation - New Order (#8) 16 ( 6 ) Rosanna - Toto (#1[3]) 17 ( 14 ) I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow (#14) 18 ( 22 ) Family Man - Mike Oldfield 19 ( 12 ) Because You're Young - Classix Nouveaux (#12) 20 ( -- ) Streetwalkin' - Shakatak
21 ( 10 ) Paperlate - Genesis (#9) 22 ( -- ) Videotheque - Dollar 23 ( 9 ) Hungry Like The Wolf - Duran Duran (#5) 24 ( 28 ) No Regrets - Midge Ure 25 ( -- ) We Take Mystery (To Bed) - Gary Numan 26 ( 18 ) Work That Body - Diana Ross (#18) 27 ( 24 ) Shakti (The Meaning Of Within) - Monsoon (#24) 28 ( 33 ) Hope You Love Me Like You Say You Do - Huey Lewis & The News 29 ( 16 ) Cantonese Boy - Japan (#12) 30 ( -- ) You Little Fool - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
31 ( -- ) Keep The Fire Burnin' - REO Speedwagon 32 ( 20 ) Hurts So Good - John Cougar (#18) 33 ( 15 ) Island Of Lost Souls - Blondie (#4) 34 ( -- ) Be Mine Tonight - Neil Diamond 35 ( 41 ) I'm Your Man - Blue Zoo 36 ( -- ) What Kind Of Fool Am I - Rick Springfield 37 ( 27 ) Only The Lonely - Motels (#27) 38 ( -- ) Hold Me - Fleetwood Mac 39 ( -- ) Spirit - Bauhaus 40 ( 35 ) Key Largo - Bertie Higgins (#35)
41 ( -- ) No Getting Over You - Paris 42 ( 23 ) I'm A Wonderful Thing Baby - Kid Creole & The Coconuts (#11) 43 ( 47 ) You Weren't In Love WIth Me - Billy Field 44 ( -- ) This Man Is Mine - Heart 45 ( 37 ) Since You're Gone - Cars (#37) 46 ( -- ) Heart (Stop Beating In Time) - Leo Sayer 47 ( 39 ) Break It Up - Foreigner (#39) 48 ( 26 ) Rhythm Of The Jungle - Quick (#15) 49 ( 50 ) After The Glitter Fades - Stevie Nicks 50 ( 40 ) Iko Iko - Natasha (#40)
-- ( 25 ) The Meaning Of Love - Depeche Mode (#5) -- ( 29 ) Love's Been A Little Bit Hard On Me - Juice Newton (#22) -- ( 30 ) The Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden (#17) -- ( 31 ) Fantasy Island - Tight Fit (#3) -- ( 32 ) Brave New World - Toyah (#25) -- ( 34 ) Paris Is One Day Away - Mood (#26) -- ( 36 ) Fireworks - Siouxsie & The Banshees (#33) -- ( 38 ) Pinky Blue - Altered Images (#30) -- ( 42 ) The Hop - Theatre Of Hate (#36) -- ( 43 ) One More Saturday Night - Matchbox (#37) -- ( 44 ) Play The Game Tonight - Kansas (#39) -- ( 45 ) Personally - Karla Bonoff -- ( 46 ) Love Is All Is All Right - UB40 (#22) -- ( 48 ) The Telephone Always Rings - Fun Boy Three (#8) -- ( 49 ) Sun Of Jamaica - Goombay Dance Band (#25)
-- ( -- ) Tiny Children - Teardrop Explodes
On this week in 2014 (i.e. around 19 June, not 1 February) we started the combi-chart going back 32 years thus 1982. based on the fact that the Top of the Pops replay episodes was also around that point. Those ended up accelerating so they're now in 1994 whilst the combi chart is in 1991.
"Hungry Like The Wolf" was the combi-chart number one. The problem of starting a retro chart is that you have no history, so whilst "Hungry Like The Wolf" was a decent sized hit on this chart reaching the top 5, it has peaked and is on its way down and nowhere near that position now. I do recall "Avalon" replaced it on top and both psychedelic style and the later smooth sound of Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry are very popular (albeit he flopped in Haven Factor, or was just badly managed, even worse than me who had Madness that round and they of course are #2 in this chart).
Also badly managed in a recent Haven Factor, Bucks Fizz get the surprising highest new entry. A slow song with Mike Nolan doing some solo vocals and others done by the group together, starting acapella and gradually adding more instrumentation. In any case it's one of the most surprising big NM hits, and they arrive on the chart the same week as Dollar's "Videotheque" which enters at a decent position of #22.
Among the other entries, a big UK hit for Steve Miller Band, one of the acts who returned to the UK top 20 this year for the first time since 1976 and there were no fewer than 5 such acts. (One of which was the Beatles who had some top 20 hits in 1976 then returned with their Movie Medley and the re-issue of Love Me Do. Others were Pluto Shervington returning with Your Honour, Chicago with Hard To Say I'm Sorry which is on my next playlist and Melba Moore later in the year with Love's Comin' At Ya).
Also entering this week, the last UK top 10 hit for Gary Numan, which I remember more for entering at #9 then falling the next week than the song itself. He was once in Haven Factor and crashed out in the first round. He didn't crash his plane though. Nor his cars..
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 31, 2023 13:07:01 GMT 1
On Audacity you can speed up music without also changing its pitch. When I made my "mock" Top of the Pops episodes for the summer of 1980 (which I did in the summer of 2015), I sped up a few songs by 10% to get the whole show to fit into the appropriate time. www.dropbox.com/s/ddojr24p34obkj4/TOTP_1980_07_10.mp4?dl=0check out when "Cupid" is on as an example.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 31, 2023 10:22:13 GMT 1
The beginning of "Spaceman" by Babylon Zoo has it sped up, and I think that little clip was in a commercial and some people bought it based on that and then were disappointed when it slowed down to be an indie rock anthem.
Although it stayed at #1 for 5 weeks and by the end of that I'm sure most of those who bought it knew exactly what it sounded like.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 30, 2023 16:44:16 GMT 1
12 June 1982
1 ( 2 ) Torch - Soft Cell < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) House Of Fun - Madness (#1[1]) 3 ( 3 ) The Look Of Love - ABC (#2[2]) 4 ( 5 ) Goody Two Shoes - Adam Ant 5 ( 11 ) Do I Do - Stevie Wonder 6 ( 4 ) Rosanna - Toto (#1[3]) 7 ( 10 ) The Back Of Love - Echo & The Bunnymen 8 ( 8 ) Temptation - New Order 9 ( 6 ) Hungry Like The Wolf - Duran Duran (#5) 10 ( 9 ) Paperlate - Genesis (#9)
11 ( 21 ) Murphy's Law - Cheri 12 ( 16 ) Because You're Young - Classix Nouveaux 13 ( -- ) A Night To Remember - Shalamar 14 ( 24 ) I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow 15 ( 7 ) Island Of Lost Souls - Blondie (#4) 16 ( 12 ) Cantonese Boy - Japan (#12) 17 ( -- ) Space Age Love Song - A Flock Of Seagulls 18 ( 20 ) Work That Body - Diana Ross 19 ( -- ) Inside Out - Odyssey 20 ( 18 ) Hurts So Good - John Cougar (#18)
21 ( -- ) Las Palabras De Amor - Queen 22 ( -- ) Family Man - Mike Oldfield 23 ( 15 ) I'm A Wonderful Thing Baby - Kid Creole & The Coconuts (#11) 24 ( 34 ) Shakti (The Meaning Of Within) - Monsoon 25 ( 13 ) The Meaning Of Love - Depeche Mode (#5) 26 ( 17 ) Rhythm Of The Jungle - Quick (#15) 27 ( 28 ) Only The Lonely - Motels 28 ( -- ) No Regrets - Midge Ure 29 ( 22 ) Love's Been A Little Bit Hard On Me - Juice Newton (#22) 30 ( 19 ) The Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden (#17)
31 ( 14 ) Fantasy Island - Tight Fit (#3) 32 ( 25 ) Brave New World - Toyah (#25) 33 ( -- ) Hope You Love Me Like You Say You Do - Huey Lewis & The News 34 ( 26 ) Paris Is One Day Away - Mood (#26) 35 ( 41 ) Key Largo - Bertie Higgins 36 ( 33 ) Fireworks - Siouxsie & The Banshees (#33) 37 ( 43 ) Since You're Gone - Cars 38 ( 30 ) Pinky Blue - Altered Images (#30) 39 ( 44 ) Break It Up - Foreigner 40 ( 45 ) Iko Iko - Natasha
41 ( -- ) I'm Your Man - Blue Zoo 42 ( 36 ) The Hop - Theatre Of Hate (#36) 43 ( 37 ) One More Saturday Night - Matchbox (#37) 44 ( 39 ) Play The Game Tonight - Kansas (#39) 45 ( 47 ) Personally - Karla Bonoff 46 ( 27 ) Love Is All Is All Right - UB40 (#22) 47 ( -- ) You Weren't In Love WIth Me - Billy Field 48 ( 23 ) The Telephone Always Rings - Fun Boy Three (#8) 49 ( 29 ) Sun Of Jamaica - Goombay Dance Band (#25) 50 ( -- ) After The Glitter Fades - Stevie Nicks
-- ( 31 ) Club Country - Associates (#14) -- ( 32 ) Only You - Yazoo (#1[2]) -- ( 35 ) Heat Of The Moment - Asia (#6) -- ( 38 ) Let It Whip - Dazz Band (#32) -- ( 40 ) A Little Peace - Nicole (#11) -- ( 42 ) Grace - Band AKA (#39) -- ( 46 ) Are You Hearing (What I Hear) - Level 42 (#33) -- ( 48 ) Fantastic Day - Haircut 100 (#4) -- ( 49 ) We Have A Dream - Scotland World Cup Squad (#19) -- ( 50 ) Night Birds - Shakatak (#1[3])
-- ( -- ) She Don't Fool Me - Status Quo -- ( -- ) Standing At The Top - Temptations ft Rick James -- ( -- ) Your Dream - Adrian Gurvitz -- ( -- ) Still They Ride - Journey -- ( -- ) Going To A Go Go - Rolling Stones
Soft Cell reach #1 with Torch, a song they wrote themselves. Marc Almond is the main lead vocalist but is joined at the end on vocals by Cindy Ecstacy. Dave Ball does the main instrumentation but is joined by John Gatchell with that trumpet instrumental. (Marc Almond sings "I hear the saxophone" but the instrument you hear on the song is a trumpet not a saxophone). The song was not featured on an album.
Shalamar's best known song - and their best song - was performed on Top of the Pops a couple of times but in a different way - Jeff Daniel alone came into the studio to do a "moon-walk" dance to it.
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