Post by popchartfreak on Mar 7, 2018 21:23:02 GMT 1
4th March 1986
It's a classic Hounds Of Love barking on top for Kate Bush, her 2nd chart-topper, and presiding over a frantic chart choc-a-bloc with goodies. Sigue Sigue Sputnik shoot it up to 2 from 26, all glammed up with synth riffs, and ELO call America at 4, 24 a 24-place climb for what is 14 years on from topping my chart with 10538 Overture, for around the 20th time making the top 5 - and the final time for 30 years, bar oldies. Billy Joel finally goes top 10 8 years late, Blow Monkeys climb to 13, and some great tracks are treading water due to the leapfrogging going on: Bangles, Mike + The Mechanics (it would top my chart in the 90's) and many more.
Highest new entry is Culture Club, at 18, with the pleasant Move Away. Looked like they were here for the long haul...errr sadly not, relationships are complex, and substance abuse worse. Pet Shop Boys get the highest climber 59 to 20, and have two tracks in the 40 for the first time. Not for the last time though. Pretty much a regular thing actually for the next 35 years, and then some. At least I banned album tracks, largely, in those days, or else the lads, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince and a few select others would dominate the charts Ed Sheeran style.
In at 24, the title song from the movie Absolute Beginners, David Bowie back on critical form, and the best thing about the movie. sadly Bowie also decided he'd had enough of being great, and it was at best just good until the mid-90's an the Pet Shop Boys helped make him sound great again for a bit (hit singles-wise) after the Tin Machine career-killer. Whistle kept on buggin' me - in at 39 with a very familiar riff, oh yes it's the theme tune to 60's surreal sitcom Green Acres. Not only one of the greatest TV themes of all time, but the greatest sitcom of the 60's. Ask Matt Groening...
Grace Jones covers Roxy Music, Bryan Adams keeps the hits swiftly coming, The Stones are back covering Bob & Earl (not very well), and Shaky sneaks in with a song I have utterly forgotten. No idea.
1 ( 6 ) HOUNDS OF LOVE Kate Bush
2 ( 26 ) LOVE MISSILE F1-11 Sigue Sigue Sputnik
3 ( 1 ) EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD Tears For Fears
4 ( 28 ) CALLING AMERICA Electric Light Orchestra
5 ( 5 ) HEAVEN MUST BE MISSING AN ANGEL Tavares
6 ( 9 ) VOICES Russ Ballard
7 ( 3 ) THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES ON TV A-ha
8 ( 8 ) SILENT RUNNING Mike + The Mechanics
9 ( 11 ) JUST THE WAY YOU ARE/ SHE’S ALWAYS A WOMAN Billy Joel
10 ( 2 ) ELOISE The Damned
11 ( 4 ) CHAIN REACTION Diana Ross
12 ( 12 ) MANIC MONDAY The Bangles
13 ( 23 ) DIGGING YOUR SCENE The Blow Monkeys
14 ( 7 ) SYSTEM ADDICT Five Star
15 ( 20 ) PAIN Betty Wright
16 ( 13 ) AND SHE WAS Talking Heads
17 ( 10 ) THE CAPTAIN OF HER HEART Double
18 ( NEW ) MOVE AWAY Culture Club
19 ( 19 ) POWER OF LOVE/ DO YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE Huey Lewis & The News
20 ( 59 ) LOVE COMES QUICKLY Pet Shop Boys
21 ( 14 ) WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH THE TOUGH GET GOING Billy Ocean
22 ( 15 ) RISE PIL
23 ( 16 ) SEX AS A WEAPON Pat Benatar
24 ( NEW ) ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS David Bowie
25 ( 30 ) DON’T WASTE MY TIME Paul Hardcastle
26 ( 62 ) ANOTHER NIGHT Aretha Franklin
27 ( 38 ) KYRIE Mr. Mister
28 ( 17 ) BORDERLINE Madonna
29 ( 35 ) ONE STEP Kissing The Pink
30 ( 36 ) HOW WILL I KNOW Whitney Houston
31 ( 53 ) ONE DANCE WON’T DO Audrey Hall
32 ( 22 ) BEHIND THE MASK Greg Philinganes
33 ( 33 ) HEARTACHE NUMBER 9 Hot Chocolate
34 ( 18 ) LIFE’S WHAT YOU MAKE IT Talk Talk
35 ( NEW ) IF YOU WERE HERE TONIGHT Alexander O’Neal
36 ( 24 ) THE SWEETEST GIRL Madness
37 ( 32 ) WEST END GIRLS Pet Shop Boys
38 ( 25 ) I CAN’T WAIT Stevie Nicks
39 ( NEW ) JUST BUGGIN’ Whistle
40 ( 27 ) IT’S ALRIGHT (BABY’S COMING BACK) Eurythmics
41 ( 21 ) RADIO AFRICA Latin Quarter
42 ( 29 ) BROKEN WINGS Mr. Mister
43 ( NEW ) LOVE IS THE DRUG Grace Jones
44 ( 57 ) I JUST CAN’T STAND IT Matt Bianco
45 ( 45 ) STRIPPED Depeche Mode
46 ( 51 ) THEME FROM NEW YORK NEW YORK Frank Sinatra
47 ( 43 ) WE CAN WORK IT OUT/ DAY TRIPPER The Beatles
48 ( 44 ) LONELY THIS CHRISTMAS Mud
49 ( 63 ) MOON OVER BOURBON STREET Sting
50 ( 66 ) CRY TO HEAVEN Elton John
51 ( 47 ) I’M YOUR MAN Wham!
52 ( 34 ) LIVING IN AMERICA James Brown
53 ( 40 ) IF YOU’RE READY (COME GO WITH ME) Ruby Turner
54 ( 39 ) BURNING HEART Survivor
55 ( 55 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy
56 ( 37 ) IMAGINATION Belouis Some
57 ( 73 ) ROCK ME TONIGHT Freddie Jackson
58 ( 50 ) YOU’VE GOT THE POWER Win
59 ( 42 ) SOMETHING TO FALL BACK ON Todd Rundgren
60 ( NEW ) THIS TIME Bryan Adams
61 ( 75 ) MY CLEOPATRA The Flaming Mussolinis
62 ( 31 ) SANCTIFY YOURSELF Simple Minds
63 ( 68 ) HERE COMES THE MAN Boom Boom Room
64 ( NEW ) HARLEM SHUFFLE The Rolling Stones
65 ( 65 ) THE HONEY THIEF Hipsway
66 ( 58 ) DON’T LOOK DOWN (THE SEQUEL) Go West
67 ( 60 ) MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY Slade
68 ( 70 ) STARTING TOGETHER Su Pollard
69 ( 46 ) FEMALE INTUITION Mai Tai
70 ( NEW ) I’M NOT GOING TO LET YOU Colonel Abrams
71 ( 48 ) LA VIE EN ROSE/ PULL UP TO THE BUMPER Grace Jones
72 ( RE ) DON’T YOU (FORGET ABOUT ME) Simple Minds
73 ( 41 ) SHOULDN’T HAVE TO BE LIKE THAT Fra Lippo Lippi
74 ( 71 ) DRIVE The Cars
75 ( NEW ) TURNING AWAY Shakin’ Stevens
4TH MARCH PLAYLIST OLDIES
1 SUNSHINE The Archies
2 (I’LL NEVER BE) MARIA MAGDALENA Sandra
3 SOS Abba
It's a classic Hounds Of Love barking on top for Kate Bush, her 2nd chart-topper, and presiding over a frantic chart choc-a-bloc with goodies. Sigue Sigue Sputnik shoot it up to 2 from 26, all glammed up with synth riffs, and ELO call America at 4, 24 a 24-place climb for what is 14 years on from topping my chart with 10538 Overture, for around the 20th time making the top 5 - and the final time for 30 years, bar oldies. Billy Joel finally goes top 10 8 years late, Blow Monkeys climb to 13, and some great tracks are treading water due to the leapfrogging going on: Bangles, Mike + The Mechanics (it would top my chart in the 90's) and many more.
Highest new entry is Culture Club, at 18, with the pleasant Move Away. Looked like they were here for the long haul...errr sadly not, relationships are complex, and substance abuse worse. Pet Shop Boys get the highest climber 59 to 20, and have two tracks in the 40 for the first time. Not for the last time though. Pretty much a regular thing actually for the next 35 years, and then some. At least I banned album tracks, largely, in those days, or else the lads, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince and a few select others would dominate the charts Ed Sheeran style.
In at 24, the title song from the movie Absolute Beginners, David Bowie back on critical form, and the best thing about the movie. sadly Bowie also decided he'd had enough of being great, and it was at best just good until the mid-90's an the Pet Shop Boys helped make him sound great again for a bit (hit singles-wise) after the Tin Machine career-killer. Whistle kept on buggin' me - in at 39 with a very familiar riff, oh yes it's the theme tune to 60's surreal sitcom Green Acres. Not only one of the greatest TV themes of all time, but the greatest sitcom of the 60's. Ask Matt Groening...
Grace Jones covers Roxy Music, Bryan Adams keeps the hits swiftly coming, The Stones are back covering Bob & Earl (not very well), and Shaky sneaks in with a song I have utterly forgotten. No idea.
1 ( 6 ) HOUNDS OF LOVE Kate Bush
2 ( 26 ) LOVE MISSILE F1-11 Sigue Sigue Sputnik
3 ( 1 ) EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD Tears For Fears
4 ( 28 ) CALLING AMERICA Electric Light Orchestra
5 ( 5 ) HEAVEN MUST BE MISSING AN ANGEL Tavares
6 ( 9 ) VOICES Russ Ballard
7 ( 3 ) THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES ON TV A-ha
8 ( 8 ) SILENT RUNNING Mike + The Mechanics
9 ( 11 ) JUST THE WAY YOU ARE/ SHE’S ALWAYS A WOMAN Billy Joel
10 ( 2 ) ELOISE The Damned
11 ( 4 ) CHAIN REACTION Diana Ross
12 ( 12 ) MANIC MONDAY The Bangles
13 ( 23 ) DIGGING YOUR SCENE The Blow Monkeys
14 ( 7 ) SYSTEM ADDICT Five Star
15 ( 20 ) PAIN Betty Wright
16 ( 13 ) AND SHE WAS Talking Heads
17 ( 10 ) THE CAPTAIN OF HER HEART Double
18 ( NEW ) MOVE AWAY Culture Club
19 ( 19 ) POWER OF LOVE/ DO YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE Huey Lewis & The News
20 ( 59 ) LOVE COMES QUICKLY Pet Shop Boys
21 ( 14 ) WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH THE TOUGH GET GOING Billy Ocean
22 ( 15 ) RISE PIL
23 ( 16 ) SEX AS A WEAPON Pat Benatar
24 ( NEW ) ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS David Bowie
25 ( 30 ) DON’T WASTE MY TIME Paul Hardcastle
26 ( 62 ) ANOTHER NIGHT Aretha Franklin
27 ( 38 ) KYRIE Mr. Mister
28 ( 17 ) BORDERLINE Madonna
29 ( 35 ) ONE STEP Kissing The Pink
30 ( 36 ) HOW WILL I KNOW Whitney Houston
31 ( 53 ) ONE DANCE WON’T DO Audrey Hall
32 ( 22 ) BEHIND THE MASK Greg Philinganes
33 ( 33 ) HEARTACHE NUMBER 9 Hot Chocolate
34 ( 18 ) LIFE’S WHAT YOU MAKE IT Talk Talk
35 ( NEW ) IF YOU WERE HERE TONIGHT Alexander O’Neal
36 ( 24 ) THE SWEETEST GIRL Madness
37 ( 32 ) WEST END GIRLS Pet Shop Boys
38 ( 25 ) I CAN’T WAIT Stevie Nicks
39 ( NEW ) JUST BUGGIN’ Whistle
40 ( 27 ) IT’S ALRIGHT (BABY’S COMING BACK) Eurythmics
41 ( 21 ) RADIO AFRICA Latin Quarter
42 ( 29 ) BROKEN WINGS Mr. Mister
43 ( NEW ) LOVE IS THE DRUG Grace Jones
44 ( 57 ) I JUST CAN’T STAND IT Matt Bianco
45 ( 45 ) STRIPPED Depeche Mode
46 ( 51 ) THEME FROM NEW YORK NEW YORK Frank Sinatra
47 ( 43 ) WE CAN WORK IT OUT/ DAY TRIPPER The Beatles
48 ( 44 ) LONELY THIS CHRISTMAS Mud
49 ( 63 ) MOON OVER BOURBON STREET Sting
50 ( 66 ) CRY TO HEAVEN Elton John
51 ( 47 ) I’M YOUR MAN Wham!
52 ( 34 ) LIVING IN AMERICA James Brown
53 ( 40 ) IF YOU’RE READY (COME GO WITH ME) Ruby Turner
54 ( 39 ) BURNING HEART Survivor
55 ( 55 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy
56 ( 37 ) IMAGINATION Belouis Some
57 ( 73 ) ROCK ME TONIGHT Freddie Jackson
58 ( 50 ) YOU’VE GOT THE POWER Win
59 ( 42 ) SOMETHING TO FALL BACK ON Todd Rundgren
60 ( NEW ) THIS TIME Bryan Adams
61 ( 75 ) MY CLEOPATRA The Flaming Mussolinis
62 ( 31 ) SANCTIFY YOURSELF Simple Minds
63 ( 68 ) HERE COMES THE MAN Boom Boom Room
64 ( NEW ) HARLEM SHUFFLE The Rolling Stones
65 ( 65 ) THE HONEY THIEF Hipsway
66 ( 58 ) DON’T LOOK DOWN (THE SEQUEL) Go West
67 ( 60 ) MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY Slade
68 ( 70 ) STARTING TOGETHER Su Pollard
69 ( 46 ) FEMALE INTUITION Mai Tai
70 ( NEW ) I’M NOT GOING TO LET YOU Colonel Abrams
71 ( 48 ) LA VIE EN ROSE/ PULL UP TO THE BUMPER Grace Jones
72 ( RE ) DON’T YOU (FORGET ABOUT ME) Simple Minds
73 ( 41 ) SHOULDN’T HAVE TO BE LIKE THAT Fra Lippo Lippi
74 ( 71 ) DRIVE The Cars
75 ( NEW ) TURNING AWAY Shakin’ Stevens
4TH MARCH PLAYLIST OLDIES
1 SUNSHINE The Archies
2 (I’LL NEVER BE) MARIA MAGDALENA Sandra
3 SOS Abba