SMASH HITS Singles - September 26 1984

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1qSIn2jCzjFES7REPDL2i3

missing tracks are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8TjJmUZouc
David Lasley - Where Does That Boy Hang Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uPaaMcBAvg
Swans Way - When the Wild Calls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05yKqrWWkKg
David Austin - This Boy Loves the Sun

Tot Taylor's "Poptown" is nowhere to be heard on my end. Can anyone provide?

For those who'd like to read Dave Rimmer's reviews without squinting (plus you get to check out the full page Freddie Mercury ad facing them):

https://archive.org/details/smash-hits-13-26-september-1984/page/n23/mode/2up

"Cath" is a gem.

Dull week, but the reviews are amusing this time, and generally on point.

Voted U2. I know...

Tina!

voted for lost in music without reading the fine print - still feel pretty comfortable doing so regardless (even though it probably is really U2)

Wham, baby

was going to vote "lost in music" until i realized it was a reissue of a new remix i probably haven't heard. so i'm voting tina

WHAM! all the way

doo doo DOOOOOOOOOOOO

Yeah I'll go with Wham also

Strictly speaking, we should be looking at the 1984 remix of "Lost In Music", as this was very much the version that got played at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxRzE3qy2KM

General Public "Tenderness" is greyed out on the playlist for UK Spotifiers, so here's the YT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XegL32Btzs

I was having a bit of a musical lull in the autumn of 1984, and the personal charts were on a break. From this week's crop, I bought Bronski Beat, the Sister Sledge remix and Bambaataa/Brown on 12-inch, and the David Lasley on bargain bin 7-inch (to see what all the fuss was about, but it didn't much grab me). UB40, David Bowie and Wham! were tape-them-off-the-radio jobs, "Pride (In The Name Of Love)" didn't shift my usual antipathy to U2, and I don't think I ever heard the rest. "Lost In Music" did much better in the UK in its remixed version than the 1979 original, and I danced to it many, many times - as I also did to "Why?", which at the time I even preferred to "Smalltown Boy". Rimmer nails it with "Blue Jean" - the video premiere was momentarily a big event, but dull's the word.

George Michael sang on two of the best songs regarding 'freedom' ever

was going to vote "lost in music" until i realized it was a reissue of a new remix i probably haven't heard. so i'm voting tina

This is the fantastic 1984 remix and probably my favourite version of the song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oVGIsn_6JU

yeah I can’t hang with that one at all, the og is perfect

https://i.imgur.com/Du4V2By.png

that Shakin' Stevens song has a rather odd video in which his sweetheart is being held against her will in a locked room at a stately home, so Shaky gets in a light aircraft and skywrites 'ALWAYS YOURS' outside her window

I have a good one lined up to go next. Actually, I have at least four good ones.

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Would have gone with "Blue Jean" for years, but now it's lapped by Bronski Beat.

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