Bibliogryphon

35 Nena — 99 red balloons 26 Kraftwerk – The Model / Computer Love -2 25 Madonna – Into The Groove -1 22 Blondie – Atomic 20 Pet Shop Boys – It’s A Sin +4 19 George Michael - Careless Whisper -3 18 Soft Cell – Tainted Love 14 Men at Work – Down Under 12 David Bowie – Ashes To Ashes

1923 Vic Seixas/Barbara Wallace 1924 William Russell/Birtha Ekberg (Christoffersen) 1925 Pete Murray/Ysanne Churchman 1926 Timothy Dudley-Smith/Doreen Mantle 1927 Sandy Gall/Leontyne Price 1928 Tom Lehrer/Queen Ratna of Nepal 1929 John Woodvine/Lynne Reid Banks 1930 Douglas Hurd/Edna O'Brien  1931 Ken Bates/Leslie Caron 1932 Roy Hattersley/Prunella Scales Congrats @arghton

37 Nena – 99 Red Balloons 32 Kraftwerk – The Model / Computer Love -2 25 Men at Work – Down Under 24 Blondie – Atomic 24 Madonna – Into The Groove -2 22 Soft Cell – Tainted Love 21 David Bowie – Ashes To Ashes 18 The Specials – Ghost Town 17 Pet Shop Boys – It’s a Sin +4 17 George Michael – Careless Whisper -2 6 Madonna – Like a Prayer

Love the format. Happy with any but think we should finish with the No.1s first

One member blamed the floods a few years back on same sex marriage

I think we can all work out what that was meant to be before the attack of autocorrect on my phone

I think they exist more as a concept rather than an organisation like the raft of home grown far right extremists that encourage each other on line From a deadpooling perspective it is an avoid for me

If you go full UKIP and reject foreigners, blacks and guys all that you are left with is Madness (hope you are not a Catholic)

36 Nena – 99 Red Balloons 35 Kraftwerk – The Model / Computer Love -2 25 Blondie – Atomic 25 Soft Cell – Tainted Love 24 Men at Work – Down Under 23 Madonna – Into The Groove -2 21 David Bowie – Ashes To Ashes 21 Madness – House Of Fun 18 George Michael – Careless Whisper -2 16 Madonna – Like a Prayer 16 The Specials – Ghost Town 16 Pet Shop Boys – It’s a Sin +2 15 a-ha – The Sun Always Shines On TV +2

No you must listen to them on Spotify or YouTube and then your impartial insight into which tracks deserve to be there will be invaluable You will have no cultural baggage from nostalgicly swooning over the Westlife/Spice Girls posters on your bedroom wall as a teenager

I did also think we could do a game where each of the regular posters in this thread got to pick a song from a specific year (by invitation from Book) obviously avoiding No.1s but could be limited to Top 10 or 20 then that forms the list for the year but you are not allowed to up or downvote your own selection

Slim Borgudd is a hit for four players Slim Borgudd ro, af, gr, sc @RoverAndOut & @gcreptile get their second F1 hit @An Fear Beag gets a second hit in a second category @Spade_Cooley get a second F1 hit but total is now three (now in the lead with respect to number of hits but in this game that is not always a guarantee of anything)

Definitely I was just thinking that I would be approaching it in a very different way I hardly had to check any of the 80s songs as they played in my head from just the title. In 1992 I got married and my wife does not do Radio and Chris Evans took over from Simon Mayo on the Radio 1 breakfast show so my car radio went to Radio 4 (which doesn't play any music). So any songs in the later part of the decade will have needed to break out to serious cultural relevance for me to connect with them In the 2000s I will come back as my daughter started listening to Radio 1 or 2 in the car on the way to school

Obits will not be stringent but must be in English and from a News source (not social media). This could be interesting 

Just fast forwarded to the 1990s the decade starts of OK but by the end I am going to have to do a lot of listening research

35 a-ha – The Sun Always Shines On TV +2 31 Nena – 99 Red Balloons 30 Kraftwerk – The Model / Computer Love 25 Madness – House Of Fun 25 Blondie – Atomic 24 Soft Cell – Tainted Love 22 Men at Work – Down Under 22 David Bowie – Ashes To Ashes +1 21 Madonna – Into The Groove -4 19 The Communards & Sarah Jane Morris – Don’t Leave Me This Way 19 Pet Shop Boys — It’s a Sin +1 18 George Michael— Careless Whisper -2 15 Madonna — Like a Prayer 13 The Specials — Ghost Town  12 Bee Gees – You Win Again 06 The Human League – Don’t You Want Me

Well if you are willing to share I would not say no. (PM me) or you can post here if you don't mind everyone seeing I just need to be quicker off the mark as I have a number of names but there are more players than names

I have managed to find some unpicked names for 1924 but it is becoming much harder

35 Kraftwerk – The Model / Computer Love 30 Madonna – Into The Groove 27 Nena – 99 Red Balloons 26 Pet Shop Boys – It’s A Sin 24 Soft Cell – Tainted Love 23 Blondie – Atomic 21 Madness – House Of Fun 21 David Bowie – Ashes To Ashes 21 George Michael – Careless Whisper 21 a-Ha – The Sun Always Shines On TV 21 Communards & Sarah Jane Morris – Don’t Leave Me This Way 20 Men at Work – Down Under 19 Bee Gees – You Win Again 18 Eurythmics – There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart) +4 17 The Specials – Ghost Town 16 Madonna – Like A Prayer 15 Human League – Don´t You Want Me 08 Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Two Tribes -6

It may be doing me a big bamboozle from too many boops to my snoot but I am getting a sense of deja vu from this conversation

@Book now moves into a winning position The three ending names are Lesley Parrish Lee Montague Ingrid van Bergen Ms van Bergen is a fascinating character who has served prison time for murder and won the German version of I'm A Celebrity when she was 77

Better to be safe than sorry

If Take On Me was eligible would it be running away with it?

None of the four that have gone so far were in my bottom four Though The Jam were at 21

The current top 3 are the top three on my list albeit non are in the right place