Worst Chart Evah?

Actually that was 1976.

Oh yeah. But then, I'm pretty sure this was the low point (In general even)

I think you were nearer the mark with October 2002.

Lock thread.

See that number one? That was that Trevor Horn on bass, that was!

MMMmmmm.

But a chart filled with half hearted cover versions, half arsed reissues, and Demis not being able to say how much he loves you. Hey, if you can't say, dont write a song. Being able to say is a prerequisite.

Wait there, this has Hank Mizzell and Pluto Shervington in it!

are you MAD? The O-JAYS? BARRY WHITE?? and that Billy Ocean song is CLASSIC

and if "It Should've Been Me" is the song I think it is - another classic.

No, there must be MUCH worse than this.

3-5 are great.

7 is crap but has a brilliant B-side ("Makes You Blind").

8 and 10-12 are all good.

15, 31 and 33 are masterpieces.

As for 22, 25, 27-29 and 34: I'd take them out for breakfast.

Oh no way!

Tina Charles is good. No.3 is the great Billy Ocean's BEST hit!

Marmalade in the top 10 (alright it's no 'I See The Rain', but..) The Status Quo is one of their last good singles (did it come before or after 'Mystery Song', it's on the same album?)

The Glitter Band's best hit is in there. Even the Cliff is one of his best (Don't Talk Anymore being *the* best)

Ships In The Night got the fantastic Bill Nelson onto TOTP.

Let's Call It Quits is underrated late Slade. I'm Mandy, Fly Me is good.

Pluto Shervington - "hold me belly while I pull me pipe"!!!!

Fatback song is funky and good. Randy Edelman is good. (Great name, I wish I was called 'Randy Edelman')

The only real turds are CW McColl, Eagles, Peters and Lee and despite it sounding like the Fall, 'Jungle Rock'.

"Mystery Song" was the follow-up.

33? You kidding?

Awww, Jungle Rock is great yer buggers!

Wait I didn't see David Essex - that's great too.

Emmylou doing "Here There And Everywhere" can make me cry. Seriously.

Actually, I made a mistake. I shold have posted the chart with Barry Biggs' "Life is a three ring cicus" on it.

"Circus" even.

any chart with "i'm mandy fly me" in it is OK by me.

(xpost) Except, that one has two sex pistols singles and Television. So I'm now OVER AND OUT!

I like 'Sideshow' better.

Obv you can post any chart of the 70's and I'll like 90% of the stuff in it. It's my time. There's no real critical faculties being applied and none wanted. It's what I grew up with is in my DNA.

"Hot Chocolate Don't Stop It Now"

Any chart that contains HC can not be totally bad.

I find it odd that wherever you go with these charts, Dollar always seem to turn up in one guise or another.

"O'Jays I Love Music "

Is this where we got our name from ?

With its memorable B-side: "Moderator Request Forum."

Mid December 1982

Top 40 Hits of Mid December 1982
1 Renee & Renato Save Your Love
2 Shakin' Stevens The Shakin' Stevens EP
3 Culture Club Time (Clock Of The Heart)
4 Jam Beat Surrender
5 Madness Our House
6 David Bowie & Bing Crosby Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy
7 Lionel Richie Truly
8 Modern Romance Best Years Of Our Lives
9 Human League Mirror Man
10 Phil Collins You Can't Hurry Love
11 Wham! Young Guns (Go For It)
12 David Essex A Winter's Tale
13 Shalamar Friends
14 Ultravox Hymn
15 Cliff Richard Little Town
16 Blancmange Living On The Ceiling
17 Duran Duran Rio
18 Dexy's Midnight Runners Let's Get This Straight (From The Start) / Old
19 Malcolm McLaren & The World's Famous Supreme Team Buffalo Gals
20 A Flock Of Seagulls Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
21 Dionne Warwick All The Love In The World
22 Bucks Fizz If You Can't Stand The Heat
23 Yazoo The Other Side Of Love
24 Donna Summer I Feel Love (Patrick Cowley Remix)
25 Santa Claus & The Christmas Trees Singalong-a-Santa
26 Soft Cell Where The Heart Is
27 Eddy Grant I Don't Wanna Dance
28 Musical Youth Youth of Today
29 Supertramp It's Raining Again
30 Abba Under Attack
31 Kool & The Gang Hi De Hi, Hi De Ho
32 Kid Creole & The Coconuts Dear Addy
33 Incantation Cacharpaya (Andes Pumpsa Desi)
34 Talk Talk Talk Talk
35 Marvin Gaye (Sexual) Healing
36 Japan Night Porter
37 Barry Manilow I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
38 Keith Harris & Orville Orville's Song
39 John Williams Theme From ET (The Extra Terrestrial)
40 Donna Summer State Of Independence

I think the post-New Pop rot had well and truly set in by that time.

40, 36, 35, 34, 30, 26, 23, 19, 18, 16, 9, 5, 4 are alright!

xpost on 1976: I remember an NME singles column from round about the same time headlined "Don't Look Now, But You're Living In A Golden Age", in which the reviewer delivered a eulogy to the state of the charts.

I love Pluto's "Dat". It's all about secretly buying forbidden meat at the butcher's ("sell I a pound of dat thing there"), but I forget which particular meat. "Convoy" was just as much fun to decode, and my first encounter with the word "reefer".

"Love Really Hurts Without You" was my first "oh God, how this articulates my pain" song: "Don't you know you're turning me on, I know that it's wrong, but I can't stop the pain inside me." Oh, the agonies of internalised homophobia.

Randy Edelman's "Concrete And Clay" became a complete obsession; I played it endlessly, along with "December 63" and "Squeeze Box". There was something exquisitely NORMAL about it, which produced this kind of deep (and unrequited) longing to belong.

Dom, you're nominating that for worst? there are at least 12 classic tracks on that chart.

The meat in question was pork.

Yes, these ones you highlighted were alright, but not a lot more than alright. I mean, if it were me, they would have to pay for their own one-day Travelcard.

In the 82 chart, I think 3 ,17 and 35 are classics, and 5, 19, 20 and 34 are fine. But I don't know a lot of the others.