UK TOP 40 POLL: 29/08/1987

Voted for Heart.

Picture at top was gonna be Bruce Willis in Moonlighting, but couldn't be bothered to find one.

Heart is a bit shrill IIRC.

I nearly voted for "Roadblock" or Whitney, but I voted for Bananarama in the end, even though it's not one of their best. It's not a great chart, is it.

Week Rick Astley went to number one though, good news for internet nerds.

ILX has never loved the power ballad, however.

Voted Wet Wet Wet with a clear conscience and my hand on my heart.

For my money, "Sweet Little Mystery" might be the best Smokey rip ever.

Top 5:

5. Smiths
4. Hue and Cry
3. Astley
2. Wetx3
1. Heart

lol pseudo echo lol

GOOD SINGLE THAT:
2, 7, 9, 12, 13, 18, 21, 22, 24, 25, 34, 37

GOOD DESPITE ITSELF:
28

...THIS IS THE SORT OF THING THEY LIKE:
1, 3, 5, 14, 15, 16, 20, 23, 26, 30, 33, 35

OPEN THE FRIDGE DOOR AND LIGHT THOSE CANDLES:
27, 38

NOTHING TO DO WITH ME GUV:
4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 36, 39

"A BOMB DELIVERED TO LONDON IN THE FORM OF A POP SONG":
17

"NOT SOME ACID SHIT 'BOUT COLUMN RUIN DO-MI-NO!":
19

"WHAT WAS ON THIS AGAIN?":
29

HOW DID THIS ONE GO AGAIN?:
32

WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO MY SONG MA?:
31 (it was a crap remix), 40 (it was nuclear holocaust in two seconds)

WINNER: PSBs and Dusty.

hah, "Sweet Little Mystery" quoted Van Morrison's "A Sense Of Wonder" "in tribute" and they were forced to give The Man a BIG share of the royalties!

"A BOMB DELIVERED TO LONDON IN THE FORM OF A POP SONG":

Oh how we laughed.

Admittedly it was marginally better than Pat Kane's other big hit of the period, "Radio Clyde 261."

Not the worst chart from a generally weak year for chartpop. Voted "Wonderful Life".

Bizarrely, i actually think the Metallica EP is my favourite from this chart!

PSBs, New Order, or Prince.

Prince, altho i always think 'U Got The Look' is from a few years earlier

The Temptations - Papa Was A Rolling Stone

Tell me they didn't 'remix' this!

The Man added a "big thumping beat" which totally destroyed the tension of the original.

oh, you just didn't. (xpost)

I have a vague recollection of it, thankfully.

I have, somewhere, a very silly tape of Wolfman Jack and friends 'taking' over the long intro, taped from AFR back in the day.

(taking, not talking)

like some people i compiled my own chart after listening to Bruno. i think it probably would've been something like this:

1. Wax (and I threw a real strop when the follow-up 'American English' failed to make the top 40 despite generous coverage on No Limits)
2. Def Leppard
3. PSBs
4. Psuedo Echo
5. Wet Wet Wet
6. Hue & Cry
7. SAW
8. Squeeze
9. Spagna
10. Fat Boys

yeesh

Purchased on 7": Astley, Los Lobos (my floor-filler of the night at a NALGO strike benefit, along with "Hot Hot Hot"), Hue & Cry, Madonna, Sherrick (must dig this one out again), Luther.

Purchased on 12": PSBs (it was all about the Shep Pettibone Disco Mix on the B-side), Sinitta (as thankfully undeployed emergency backup), New Order (+ the remix 12"), Smiths, Beach/Fat Boys, SAW (+ the remix 12"), Levert (cleared the floor, but at least I tried), Bananarama.

Had them on LP: Prince.

Favourite then: 1. New Order, 2. Prince, 3. PSBs
Favourite now: 1. PSBs, 2. New Order, 3. Prince

Some great songs here: my favorite Mary Chain and New Order singles, Levert's "Casanova," the Fat Boys...however, I picked my favorite Pet Shop Boys single.

Voted New Order, but felt strangely tempted by Spagna's "Cold meat. Cold, cold meat"

voted fat boys over prince and def lep. big ups to the heart and t'pau which won't get much love i'm guessing.

Hourglass

I am required by Metal Law to vote for Metallica if such an option is present.

Prince

Hmmmm. Bought at the time: Wax, Hue & Cry, and Squeeze. 'Labour of Love' is almost certainly the best of them, but I'll give Wax a charity vote because nobody else will.

1. psb
2. prince
3. new order
blueski otm re thinking 'u got the look' was earlier than this. still one of my favourites by him but dusty and psbs is peerless.

"True Faith" for me.

"U Got The Look"

Going for New Order too.

but I'll give Wax a charity vote because nobody else will.

I was very close to voting for it. Really loved "Bridge To Your Heart" at the time. It was cooled a bit now, but actually the entire "American English" album is not at all too bad.

Don't remember the Jacko number at all.

(I would youtube it but it's just crashed my browser twice.)

Drippy ballad, not great.

It had a marvellously eccentric intro, which has sadly been removed from all recent versions of the album even way before they remastered it.

'twas a talky thing, wasn't it?

I believe this track was issued with nothing more than a pic sleeve for promo (i.e. no video or anything else), wasn't the b-side an old track as well?

The performance I saw was decidedly odd: For the duet part, a girl singer came up (possibly Siedah Garrett), where they were 'all over' each other, danceywise. As soon as the chorus came around, MJacks went straight upstage without her (she went back to the band area) and carried on singing this passionate rendition as if she'd never been there.

And Anne Dudley still wants her "All Of My Heart" string arrangement back.

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lol @ sinitta

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