DL Status Updates: Statements, Obsevations & Verbal Tennis

[Bibliogryphon 8,605]

At St. Pancras waiting for the Eurostar to Brussels in what I hope is the last overseas trip of the year.

[YoungWillz 18,939]

On ‎25‎/‎07‎/‎2017 at 05:16, YoungWillz said:

I was still dwelling on whether as Switch says in the DDP team submitted that 1982 was indeed the best year for pop. I still say 1984. Anyway, in a totally unscientific manner and given I now have completed lists for top 30 hits in the UK charts for 1982, 1983 and 1984 (I still have my 1981 list too if you'd like that list too), I thought I'd have a go at completing a representative chart of the year.

 

Now this isn't by sales, that would be too easy. What I have done here is pick acts who have at least one living member today. Then I have chosen that act's highest charting position in that year. So if an act's best position was #30, it appears at #30 in the list and so on.

 

There obviously has been some competition and debate as to the higher positions where acts are more likely to be tied, so in that case, I've gone with my choice. If anything, it gives you a playlist of that year but it's a fair representative sample of each year which doesn't depend on sales only.

 

So they follow in the next post. Enjoy listening to anything you haven't heard before....

Remember this?

 

Yes, I gave three top 30 Charts for 1982, 1983 and 1984. I hope they are still on your playlists, ha!

 

Anyhow, as I've completed my researches for 1985 and 1986, I thought I'd give you those too. 1986 will follow shortly, but here's a top 30 for 1985 using the same conditions as above:

 

1985

#01 - I Want To Know What Love Is - Foreigner

#02 - Take On Me - A-ha

#03 - Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush

#04 - Dancing In The Dark - Bruce Springsteen

#05 - Since Yesterday - Strawberry Switchblade

#06 - Things Can Only Get Better - Howard Jones

#07 - One Vision - Queen

#08 - Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.

#09 - Wide Boy - Nik Kershaw

#10 - Slave To Love - Bryan Ferry

#11 - Run To You - Bryan Adams

#12 - Slave To The Rhythm - Grace Jones

#13 - Money's Too Tight To Mention - Simply Red

#14 - Black Man Ray - China Crisis

#15 - Life In A Northern Town - Dream Academy

#16 - Can't Fight This Feeling - REO Speedwagon

#17 - Love Is A Battlefield - Pat Benatar

#18 - Shake The Disease - Depeche Mode

#19 - Rage To Love - Kim Wilde

#20 - Round And Round - Spandau Ballet

#21 - This House (Is Where Your Love Stands) - Big Sound Authority

#22 - Now That We've Found Love - Third World

#23 - The Boy With The Thorn In His Side - The Smiths

#24 - This Is England - The Clash

#25 - When Love Breaks Down - Prefab Sprout

#26 - The Whole Of The Moon - The Waterboys

#27 - So In Love - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

#28 - No Rest - New Model Army

#29 - 20/20 - George Benson

#30 - You Are My World - The Communards

[Joey Russ 7,118]

12 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Remember this?

 

Yes, I gave three top 30 Charts for 1982, 1983 and 1984. I hope they are still on your playlists, ha!

 

Just had a check. Only one of them appears on my personal playlist despite liking multiple songs on there. Sorry. 

[YoungWillz 18,939]

22 minutes ago, Joey Russ said:

Just had a check. Only one of them appears on my personal playlist despite liking multiple songs on there. Sorry. 

Ah well.

 

Here's 1986, take your pick.

 

1986

#01 - Take My Breath Away - Berlin

#02 - Walk Of Life - Dire Straits

#03 - Lessons In Love - Level 42

#04 - I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight - Cutting Crew

#05 - Just Say No - Grange Hill Cast

#06 - Calling All The Heroes - It Bites

#07 - Look Away - Big Country

#08 - Is This Love - Alison Moyet

#09 - Power Of Love - Huey Lewis And The News

#10 - Don't Get Me Wrong - The Pretenders

#11 - Rise - Public Image Limited

#12 - Rock Lobster - B-52s

#13 - Higher Love - Steve Winwood

#14 - Have You Ever Had It Blue - Style Council

#15 - The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby And The Range

#16 - Life's What You Make It - Talk Talk

#17 - Imagination - Belouis Some

#18 - Pretty In Pink - Psychedelic Furs

#19 - World Shut Your Mouth - Julian Cope

#20 - Shot In The Dark - Ozzy Osbourne

#21 - Marlene On The Wall - Suzanne Vega

#22 - Boys Don't Cry - The Cure

#23 - Rough Boy - ZZ Top

#24 - Wonderland - Paul Young

#25 - This Is The World Calling - Bob Geldof

#26 - Stars - Hear 'N Aid

#27 - Call Of The Wild - Midge Ure

#28 - Calling America - Electric Light Orchestra

#29 - Heartland - the The

#30 - Always The Sun - The Stranglers

[Toast 14,793]

Contrary to my memory, there was some superb stuff in 1986.

But where are the Pet Shop Boys?

[YoungWillz 18,939]

4 minutes ago, Toast said:

Contrary to my memory, there was some superb stuff in 1986.

But where are the Pet Shop Boys?

I can only pick one #1 ha!

 

West End Girls, obvs #1, I chose different 'cos I'm waiting to complete 1987, I like their #1 from that year a touch better.

[Bibliogryphon 8,605]

1 hour ago, YoungWillz said:

Ah well.

 

Here's 1986, take your pick.

 

1986

#01 - Take My Breath Away - Berlin

#02 - Walk Of Life - Dire Straits

#03 - Lessons In Love - Level 42

#04 - I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight - Cutting Crew

#05 - Just Say No - Grange Hill Cast

#06 - Calling All The Heroes - It Bites

#07 - Look Away - Big Country

#08 - Is This Love - Alison Moyet

#09 - Power Of Love - Huey Lewis And The News

#10 - Don't Get Me Wrong - The Pretenders

#11 - Rise - Public Image Limited

#12 - Rock Lobster - B-52s

#13 - Higher Love - Steve Winwood

#14 - Have You Ever Had It Blue - Style Council

#15 - The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby And The Range

#16 - Life's What You Make It - Talk Talk

#17 - Imagination - Belouis Some

#18 - Pretty In Pink - Psychedelic Furs

#19 - World Shut Your Mouth - Julian Cope

#20 - Shot In The Dark - Ozzy Osbourne

#21 - Marlene On The Wall - Suzanne Vega

#22 - Boys Don't Cry - The Cure

#23 - Rough Boy - ZZ Top

#24 - Wonderland - Paul Young

#25 - This Is The World Calling - Bob Geldof

#26 - Stars - Hear 'N Aid

#27 - Call Of The Wild - Midge Ure

#28 - Calling America - Electric Light Orchestra

#29 - Heartland - the The

#30 - Always The Sun - The Stranglers

Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel would have to be my #2.

[YoungWillz 18,939]

5 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said:

Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel would have to be my #2.

Sledgehammer peaked at #4 for 4 weeks in May/June 1986.

 

So now you see my problem, I have loads to pick from at the top of the chart, so I button down on one. I actually bought Cutting Crew, and so....'twas picked.

[msc 17,710]

List has Big Country and Ozzy, so it's alright by me.

[Toast 14,793]

Sorry, I didn't actually read the conditions, I was immediately distracted by the list

[Bibliogryphon 8,605]

6 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Sledgehammer peaked at #4 for 4 weeks in May/June 1986.

 

So now you see my problem, I have loads to pick from at the top of the chart, so I button down on one. I actually bought Cutting Crew, and so....'twas picked.

No A-ha?

[YoungWillz 18,939]

1 hour ago, Bibliogryphon said:

No A-ha?

A-ha were on the 1985 list I did. Although the sun did shine on TV in 1986.

 

I can only pick one #1 - went for the seminal Berlin song as they won't appear on any other 80s list!

 

And before the Madonna fans come down on me...I don't like Madonna. My choice, my list. 

[Sir Creep 7,011]

10 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Ah well.

 

Here's 1986, take your pick.

 

1986

#12 - Rock Lobster - B-52s

Sometimes the UK charts amuse me.  This is one of those times.
Hey, maybe Private Idaho will hit your fahking charts now that it's 2018. 
Spoiler alert -- they make a pretty cool song called Mesopotamia in coming years.  And some karaoke favourite 'Love Shack'.  Oh just you wait!

[YoungWillz 18,939]

12 minutes ago, Sir Creep said:

Sometimes the UK charts amuse me.  This is one of those times.
Hey, maybe Private Idaho will hit your fahking charts now that it's 2018. 
Spoiler alert -- they make a pretty cool song called Mesopotamia in coming years.  And some karaoke favourite 'Love Shack'.  Oh just you wait!

Hmm.

 

Love Shack a 90s hit here.

 

You mention 2 other numbers which haven't hit the charts here, but don't mention Roam, or Good Stuff, which did.

[Clorox Bleachman 2,007]

Just come back after 3 hours of babysitting (chasing after) 12 unruly little nightmares, the largest of whom made it his goal to rugby-tackle me to the floor with every chance he got. I have decided to save the planet by never having children.

[Boudicca 702]

Charon and I now own an axe.

 

Absolutely nothing could go wrong 

 

 

[charon 4,938]

Next up , chainsaw 

[msc 17,710]

^ Dunno which of you to be more worried about in that scenario tbh.

[charon 4,938]

2 minutes ago, msc said:

^ Dunno which of you to be more worried about in that scenario tbh.

 

 

I'd be more worried if I was The McLeod or The Campbell

[Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,132]

I'm extremely grateful to the writers of the current series of Dr Who for making it such a valuable educational tool and foregoing all those plotlines involving monsters and stuff which, in 2018, is so outdated isn't it.

I am currently being educated about the evil British empire, I am learning loads!!

I just wish they would leave the aliens out, I mean, it's merely a sideline and it's getting in the way of the true message...……..

[msc 17,710]

^ Thought you thought the aliens and monsters were shite?

 

^ Poor Handrejka, yer bringing her bete noire TV show into more threads than any of the geeks here lately!

[Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,132]

3 minutes ago, msc said:

^ Thought you thought the aliens and monsters were shite?

 

^ Poor Handrejka, yer bringing her bete noire TV show into more threads than any of the geeks here lately!

They may well be shite but the show was about them.

Now it is about lecturing us. 

I can read a fucking book or watch a doco, I don't need some half arsed writer to come up with shite scripts to educated the masses with.

Actually, that cunt Chibnall needs to be in the snowflake thread.

[msc 17,710]

14 minutes ago, Lord Fellatio Nelson said:

They may well be shite but the show was about them.

Now it is about lecturing us. 

I can read a fucking book or watch a doco, I don't need some half arsed writer to come up with shite scripts to educated the masses with.

Actually, that cunt Chibnall needs to be in the snowflake thread.

 

Ah, see back in the 70s they did a "drugs are wrong" story, but between the crap SFX, crap monsters, crap acting, Tom Baker looking pissed out his tiny, and Lewis Fiander putting on a fake accent so weird it had to be a bet... no one but the Anorak Clad Wankers noticed.

 

Anyhow, speeding away from Who: Chibnall is a cunt, yes. Broadchurch? Law and Order? Torchwood? that Munich thing? The Great Train Robbery? All fucking shite. And people LOVE the fucker.

 

Killing Eve was fucking awesome though, it's getting a 2nd series next year. Enjoying Trust too, the Donald Sutherland Paul Getty kidnapping thing. Neither of which were written by Chris Chibnall, and it shows. I digress...

[Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,132]

12 minutes ago, msc said:

 

Ah, see back in the 70s they did a "drugs are wrong" story, but between the crap SFX, crap monsters, crap acting, Tom Baker looking pissed out his tiny, and Lewis Fiander putting on a fake accent so weird it had to be a bet... no one but the Anorak Clad Wankers noticed.

 

Anyhow, speeding away from Who: Chibnall is a cunt, yes. Broadchurch? Law and Order? Torchwood? that Munich thing? The Great Train Robbery? All fucking shite. And people LOVE the fucker.

 

Killing Eve was fucking awesome though, it's getting a 2nd series next year. Enjoying Trust too, the Donald Sutherland Paul Getty kidnapping thing. Neither of which were written by Chris Chibnall, and it shows. I digress...

I only watched the last series of Broadchurch and could not work out what the fuss was all about.

Killing Eve was fucking brilliant, I'm now watching Little drummer Girl which is warming up, I have faith in it.

[Cat O'Falk 3,287]

On 25/02/2018 at 20:11, YoungWillz said:

Leicester major incident ongoing...possible explosion.

 

Everything ok, Cat?

 

Trial has started; three defendants are each facing five counts of murder.

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/leicester-explosion-murder-trial-begins-2215551