Now 2 (UK)

And my vote for "Hold Me Now", which remains an excellent single!

now this one really is difficult.

there are like 10, at least, amazingly good songs here and most of the rest are still pretty good.

there are only two that i can't recall at all.

I don't remember thesw six:

More, More, More|Carmel
Breakin' Down (Sugar Samba)|Julia & Company
I Gave You My Heart (Didn't I)|Hot Chocolate
Bird Of Paradise|Bird Of Paradise
The Politics Of Dancing|Reflex
Wishful Thinking|China Crisis

Tracey Ullman's My Guy is one of my favourite songs ever.

Wait, what am I thinking? Of course I know that Hot Chocolate song.

the politics of dancing.... the politics of moo-oo-oo-vin on.

the politics of dancing.... the politics of oooh, feeling good.
You mean.

Breakin' Down (Sugar Samba)|Julia & Company

Oh shit, I didn't see this before voting. This song is awesome!

Take one vote away from Matthew Wilder.

Bird of Paradise was by Snowy White. This is one excellent compilation. There's no way I could just choose one.

Get Out Of Your Lazy Bed|Matt Bianco
More, More, More|Carmel
Only You|The Flying Pickets

Seems that hipster jazz actually made it out of The Face and into the charts for a while in 1984. Didn't last...

DavidM, i just downloaded this and we're both right, in fact. my lines follows on from yours. it's really good!

The Flying Pickets were hipster jazz?

Well, they were coming from a jazz vocal tradition I guess. OK, maybe they weren't hipster jazz, or even jazz.

Relax! By miles and miles.

What a terrible selection, there were some fascinating, exciting things happening in 1984 but not much of it was making it onto Now compilations.

they had big difficulty getting American hits on them back then

Seems that hipster jazz actually made it out of The Face and into the charts for a while in 1984.

See also Everything But The Girl's excellent "Eden" album.

Flying Pickets' acapella carbon copy cover of a synthpop hit from 1982 had nothing to do with jazz though. (But fun it was - at least back then)

I was there then. It wasn't fun.

Surely you know "More More More" Alba? Erm...unless it's a different "More More More" to the one that everyone surely knows.

I think it is, Ronan.

yeah ronan, you're thinking of the andea true connection's "more more more". i can remember the carmel track prety well.

converseley, i have never heard the current number one. go figure.

contenders:

Wouldn't It Be Good|Nik Kershaw
Break My Stride|Matthew Wilder
Relax|Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Here Comes The Rain Again|Eurythmics
What Difference Does It Make|The Smiths
The Politics Of Dancing|Reflex

i voted for the eurythmics track. "what difference dooes it make" is a better song but we've had enough smiths polls.

actually i should have voted for "relax"

I voted for Relax, so it's taken care of.

'Michael Caine' for me, because 'What Difference Does It Make' gets a lot of other votes anyway. 'Relax' and '99 Luftballons' could have made it too.

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Obviously again a lot of great songs, but I don't understand what's supposed to be so great about "99 Red Ballons"

but you don't understand the appeal of dancing either

Excellent top 5. I bought those 7" singles as a kid.

And my vote for "Hold Me Now", which remains an excellent single!

Hold Me Now|The Thompson Twins 0

even Geir's own polls reject his opinions!

Hmm. My vote must not have registered for some reason :)

I had a couple of Thompson Twins singles too.