The current Number One single in New Zealand is...

The only solution is BAN YOUTUBE or at least hang all advertisers from streetlamps.

Katy Perry is much much worse, through, so at least it's not all bad.

3 3 14 Always On My Mind
Tiki Taane DirtyDub/Rhythm/DRMNZ
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4 4 7 Nesian 101
Nesian Mystik Bounce/Universal

Is this encrypted code for the imminent end of the world?

any specific reason for this?

i mean Risky Business was 1984 or something, right..

Peter Jeffries' fault

xpost - It's the Cadbury's ad! The one with the Gorilla! And the drums! Tho blaming Peter Jeffries seems like a good idea...

^^ NUMBER ONE YOUTUBE HIT OF ALL TIME

yeah but 'totally wired' was number one in nz too. also, 'doot'!

bygone era i guess tho' (turn yr back for 8 years etc.)

'poi e' as well!

I had a serious discussion about Phil Collins/Peter Gabriel tonight.

Again, BAN YOUTUBE

Interesting fact about that ad is that Fallon (the ad company) had written it and had been trying to sell it to anyone for years. It wasn't, like, specific or anything.

Was "Totally Wired" really a #1 single in NZ? That's so cool if true!

I don't think Totally Wired was #1 in NZ but it got high up there and Marc Reily ended up on the front cover of a major Auckland newspaper.

Joy Division, of course, had TWO #1 singles in NZ.

I looked it up on Wikipedia and I couldn't see "Totally Wired" in the 1980 list of NZ number ones but, yes, two JD number ones - "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and "Atmosphere," both in '81!

I have never heard of the following NZ eighties number ones and presume they're all homegrown acts:
Jon Stevens - Montego Bay (cover, presumably)
Ritz - Locomotion (ditto)
Dean Warentini - Bridge
Swingers - Counting The Beat
Renee Geyer - Say I Love You
Howard Morrison - How Great Thou Art
Prince Tui Teka - E Ipo
Dave & the Dynamos - Life Begins At Forty
Real Life - Send Me An Angel
Patea Maori Club - Poi E
Time Bandits - I Am Only Shooting Love (????!!!!????)
Peking Man - Room That Echoes
All Of Us - Sailing Away
Dave Dobbyn ft Herbs - Slice Of Heaven
Tex Pistol (!) - Game Of Love
Big Pig - Breakaway
Holidaymakers - Sweet Lovers
Times Two - Cecilia
Tex Pistol ft Rikki Morris - Nobody Else
When The Cat's Away - Melting Pot
Margaret Ulrich - Escaping

Swingers - Counting The Beat

That was your Phil Judd after he left Split Enz and a couple of other lads.

Big Pig - Breakaway

That was Australians dressed up as blacksmiths. Yes.

Dave Dobbyn ft Herbs - Slice Of Heaven

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I'm all about how "Atmosphere" got replaced at #1 by Kool and The Gang.

Apparently Margaret Ulrich was in both Peking Man and When The Cat's Away so that narrows the field down a bit.

Oh yeah, I missed one out - who hell The Screaming Meemees?

yeah, all local, except: big pig (aussie, as mentioned above, tho' maybe an ex-pat connection? not sure), real life (aussie, i think. also, great song!), time bandits (dutch (?!)) times two (dunno, but pretty sure not local) and ritz (no idea).

the good songs are: "counting the beat" (went to no.1 in australia too, i think; the swingers were pretty great generally), "send me an angel" and "poi e" (maori chanting and choral singing plus clunky electro! video featured breakdancing on a marae!)

which screaming meemees' song? if "sunday boys", that is a pretty good one. actually, i liked the peking man song at the time (me = 11 or 12 or something) too and probably would now, but have not heard it for 20-odd years.

It was "See Me Go."

that one's ok. "sunday boys" is better. i don't know any of their other stuff.

"Interesting fact about that ad is that Fallon (the ad company) had written it and had been trying to sell it to anyone for years. It wasn't, like, specific or anything.

-- I know, right?, Friday, 1 August 2008 10:08 (2 hours ago) Link"

This is not true.
Juan Cabral (the guy who came up with the concept) had something similar in his portfolio a while back and redid it for Cadburys.
"Had been trying to sell it to anyone for years" is a pretty big stretch.