UK TOP 40 POLL: 25/04/1987

Weird chat. U2's best single. Duran Duran's worst. Mel N Kim and Madonna both pretty towering near the top. "Big Love" is amazing. TOO HARD FOR NOW.

probably mel and kim

Fine Young Cannibals - Ever Fallen In Love

buzzcocks cover i presume, i'm not sure if i remember it or if i'm just imagining how it obviously would have sounded.

wedding staple irish rover

Kim Wilde And Junior - Another Step (Closer To You)

holy shit this is the most 80s song ever

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NT3e7l6Latc

buzzcocks cover i presume, i'm not sure if i remember it or if i'm just imagining how it obviously would have sounded

much slower, much less noisy, not a v good vocal performance from Mr Gift.

I went for Duran Duran. I like this song and don't understand the hataz. There are quite a few DD songs I prefer it to inc Skin Trade, Ordinary World and Come Undone.

what is horse? I assume it's a drug from the context but why would anyone call a drug after a horse?

the big H

rainmakers = lost classic, or so i thought until i listened to it again.

Torres finish
1, 5, 27, 33, 34

Benayoun assist
6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 21, 26, 29, 36, 39, 40

Mascherano dissent
3, 8, 11, 14, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 30, 31, 35, 37, 38

Hyyppia OG
4, 12, 15, 16, 17, 20, 32

a few in the the third tier i don't know tho admittedly

Man, people need to stop hating on Starship.

We Built This City >>>>>>>>> Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

She was really a reincarnated Egyptian princess! I think, I haven't seen the movie for 15 years.

I saw it very recently, thanks to my wife who thinks the film and the soundtrack song are wonderful things. God, what a dreadful film.

My vote went to "Big love". A special record with special memories of generating code for A levels in computer labs stucked with BBC micros with Meg and Anji and Mamod, god bless the lot of 'em. Mamod saying "Well, it's about a man with a big love, you know what I mean - BIG love, wink wink?" You had to be there, obviously, but I always liked the song even though the album it came from would become one of my most hated items of the late 80s, alongside "Hearsay" by Alexander O'Neal. But that's another story.

ILX's oversized Spurs (lol typed 'sours' there) fanbase could swing this one?

Mel & Kim >>> Daylight

And I thought I'd never type that.

DUNCAN NORVELLE:
1, 3, 12, 31

KEN "SETTLE DOWN" GOODWIN:
2, 9

JIM DAVIDSON:
4

ERIC MORECAMBE:
5, 13, 27

WAYNE DOBSON:
6, 8, 14

BEN ELTON:
7, 18

AL MURRAY AS THE PUB LANDLORD:
10, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30, 32, 35, 36, 38, 40

ROB NEWMAN:
11, 21

SID FIELD:
24, 25

ROY CASTLE:
26

TOMMY COOPER:
33, 34

NORMAN WISDOM:
37, 39

^ incomprehensible

No, it makes sense.

La Isla Bonita is the only one I have on iTunes.

NIGEL "OUR NIGE" MANSELL:
4, 10, 11, 27, 31, 35, 37, 40

ALAIN PROST:
1, 9, 13, 21, 30, 34

NELSON PIQUET:
3, 7, 15, 16, 22, 28

AYRTON SENNA:
5, 34

GERHARD BERGER:
2, 8, 22, 32

"DOCTOR" JONATHON PALMER:
37

RENE ARNOUX:
38

THIERRY BOUTSEN:
6, 29

MARTIN BRUNDLE:
39

I can do this shit better if I get a better chart.

Should have rated them in terms of capes.

SUPERMAN
4, 10, 11, 27, 31, 35, 37, 40

SCARLET PIMPERNEL
1, 9, 13, 21, 30, 34

ARCHBISHOPS:
3, 7, 15, 16, 22, 28

BATMAN:
5, 34

OF GOOD HOPE:
2, 8, 22, 32

"DOCTOR" JONATHON PALMER:
37

GEOFF: 38

FRENCH POLICEMAN:
6, 29

CAPERS, THE PIZZA TOPPING
39

-- King Boy Pato, Friday, 25 April 2008 13:02 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Fixed.

no Cod Kwassa Kwassa, no cred

Look, I've even been to a Formula Palmer Audi race and I never saw him wear a fucking cape.

"young boy with eyes like potatoes" - surely that can't be what Madge is singing?

I don't remember how the Judy Boucher song went but I remember that the follow-up You Caught My Eye was an excellent song which managed to sound country and reggae at the same time.

Club Nouveau's interpretation of Lean on Me is my favourite. Almost went for that.

Ferry Aid: dreadful, dreadful and unnecessary. I'm all for charity records to help the starving in Africa but this was for what exactly? If families of the drownéd were to be compensated, surely it should've come from the coffers of Mr Townsend or his Nordic compatriot. This is by far the most mawkish Beatles song, incidentally.

Mel and Kim - Didn't Dingbod once say it was the most extreme song to get to No. 1? Certainly the best from this duo by a country mile, although its predecessor Showing Out wasn't bad either.

Living in a Box - the comments that have been made about Mr Astley recently should've been made about Mr Darbyshire. I was genuinely amazed to discover that he was white when I saw this lot on TOTP.

Terence Trent D'Arby - one of the most arrogant singers ever, in a crowded field. His vocal performance is marvellous on this song; he never came close to it afterwards. I would take issue w/ those ppl who described him as a Jackson clone...there were tons of ppl trying to copy MJ in the mid eighties and why not? It was a pretty sure-fire way to coin it. There were plenty on this side of the Atlantic too...I saw the vid to Could it Be I'm falling in Love on the telly last night and David Grant was cribbing all his moves (and his hairstyle) from Jacko.

Five Star - no memories of this at all. This band were ridiculously prolific tho....was there another mainstream pop act who put out as many singles as the Pearsons from Romford did in 1985-8?

Janet Jackson - bingo! a sexual abstinence song and white middle America clasps you to its heart. Cynical.

Fine Young Cannibals - see my post, above.

U2 - One of those bands whom I can't stand, yet can't really articulate why. This was probably their nadir. Actually I don't hate everything by them....Eleven O'Clock Tick Tock and the Zooropa album stand as book-ends to a library of dross.

Tom Jones - His best song from a musical. Notable for rhyming future and Andalucia which deserves props in itself.

The Smiths - uncharacteristically stompy for Morrissey & co. My 16 year old self was perplexed why my German teacher was championing a song which prmoted throwing one's homework into the fire.

Kim Wilde & Junior - if only this had been that year's Eurovision entry. It would've walked it.

Starship - Grace Slick was the oldest woman to get to number 1 when she took this to the top spot. The film it was from Mannequin, was panned at the time, if I recall correctly. As a slice of eighties sheen it scores highly, but nowhere near as high as We Built This City and, anyway We Built This City <<<<<<<< White Rabbit as an indication of the strnage trajectories musical careers can take.

Bon Jovi - "On a steel horse I ride" reminded me of "I ride the range on a Ford V-8". The closest Bing Crosby has come to Jon Bon Jovi, lyrically.

Glenn & Chris - It reminds me of what Armando Iannucci said about The Day Today, but I assume these rhyming-named footballer stars actually *meant it*. Did they?

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haha OMG my mate joe asked my music teacher today if he was ever in a band and he said yes he told us to go on google and type in marcus vere and it came up with loads of searches for this it turns out he was in this band LOLL he is my music teacher at school !!! if yuu dotn believe me try searchign marcus vere yourself haha !! Mr Vere in a band who knew !!

Labi Siffre - a song that doesn't really make sense without the video. He needed to be a bit more explicit, maybe. Was Siffre a chronic underachiever? was he content to eat at the Berni Inn on his Madness royalties?

Curiosity Killed The Cat - a band that seemed to trade on the singers funny X where X = remarks, dancing, name and prolly other stuff I've forgotten. Andy Warhol said they were the best band he'd seen since the Beatles, then he died.

Pogues / Dubliners - We all want to live in an Irish themed theme park and listen to this all day long.

The Cure - This was prolly their most shambolic song, as if the band had all got pished (on snakebite and black, presumably) prior to entering the studio. People who loved In Between Days had to hold out that little bit longer for Just Like Heaven.

Rainmakers - were they Christian or just pretending? My mum assumed the former, so liked it.

Whitesnake - a useful taster for the superior Here I Go Again later in the year, but not nearly as good. Did eighties rockers ask each other if they'd seen David Coverdale's White Snake?

Level 42 - Get unfairly maligned these days. I think that there's a grave injustice in the way eighties Genesis have been rehabilitated yet this lot are treated with scorn, esp as I have never found anyone (not a soul) who can truly articulate what they dislike about them.

Spear of Destiny - Cut from the same cloth as the Bon Jovi song both in terms of the song itself and the video. Kirk Brandon looked uncannily like how my father looked when he was in his early twenties. Do I look like Kirk Brandon? Spear of Destiny is a slightly better name than their previous attempt, Theatre of Hate, but not by much.

Janet was already clasped to white America's bosom. LWA was the fifth in a six-single run.

Rainmakers were a USA 'not left wing' band. One of their songs, "Governmant Cheese" was against assistance programs or something.

Give a man a free house and he'll bust out the windows
Put his family on food stamps, now he's a big spender
no food on the table and the bills ain't paid
'Cause he spent it on cigarettes and P.G.A.
They'll turn us all into beggars 'cause they're easier to please
They're feeding our people that Government Cheese

Give a man a free lunch and he'll figure out a way
To steal more than he can eat 'cause he doesn't have to pay
Give a woman free kids and you'll find them in the dirt
Learning how to carry on the family line of work
It's the man in the White House, the man under the steeple
Passing out drugs to the American people
I don't believe in anything, nothing is free
They're feeding our people the Government Cheese

Decline and fall, fall down baby
Decline and fall, said fall way down now
Decline and fall, fall down little mama
Decline and fall, decline and fall

Give a man a free ticket on a dead end ride
And he'll climb in the back even though nobody's driving
Too ******* lazy to crawl out of the wreck
And he'll rot there while he waits for the welfare check
Going to hell in a handbag, can't you see
I ain't gonna eat no Government Cheese

hilarious

I wonder how they've been able to make ends meet in the 21 years since their "hit."

and I thought I was exaggerating. Heck no.

xpost welfare assistance programmes.

According to Wiki, Rainmakers were big in Norway.

The latest controversy in the Caribbean, ladies and gentlemen, undoubtedly and indubitably spells Boops - B. Double-O. B. S.

I will always choose the Living in a Box option when it is presented. I love that crappy song

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Bloody yuppie triumphalism...

***** Madonna, Mel & Kim, The Smiths, Prince, Jackie Wilson, Beastie Boys

****1/2 Pogues/Dubliners, Sly & Robbie

**** Living In A Box, Terence Trent D'Arby, Herb Alpert, Boy George

***1/2 Club Nouveau, Janet Jackson, The Cure, Alison Moyet, Freddie Mercury

*** U2, The Damned

**1/2 Labi Siffre (NOOOOOBODY EXPECTS THE LONDON GAY MEN'S CHORUS!), Ruby Turner

** Five Star, Fine Young Cannibals, Tom Jones, Starship, Curiosity Killed The Cat, David Bowie

* Ferry Aid, Glenn and Chris, Bruce Willis

????? Judy Boucher, Kim Wilde & Junior, Bon Jovi, Rainmakers, Whitesnake, Level 42, Spear Of Destiny, Fleetwood Mac, Duran Duran, Europe

Was there ever a more yup-centric Top 40 than this one? I doubt it...

To paraphrase Tom Jones: "Not a man on UUUUUUUUUURTH" would deny that...

(also it should be remembered that "A Boy From Nowhere" has the best B-side title ever, viz. "I'll Dress You In Mourning, To Be A Matador, Dance With Death." Beat that The Last Shadow Puppets!!)

What's that, a medley of tunes?

Prince, over Sly and Robbie and Fleetwood Mac. Crap chart.

Unfortunately, yes (xp); I wish it HAD been one song but it is a medley of assumed highlights from the then-forthcoming musical Matador. Sample lyric: "To be a matador/You have to understand/A bull must fight to kill a man." Top that, those Vampire Weekend!

"look outside, the rain coats come we say oh oh wo"

voted for D'Arby, but I'd have voted for "Meet `El Presidente'" in its Latin Rascals remixed version.

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