Best UK Indie Chart number one single of 1981

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UK Indie chart number ones according to the OCC. Vote for your favourite record.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Ceremony - New Order	10
New Life - Depeche Mode	4
Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode	3
Too Drunk to Fuck - Dead Kennedys	2
Procession - New Order	2
Why - Discharge	2
One in Ten - UB40	1
Zerox - Adam and the Ants	1
Dreaming of Me - Depeche Mode	1
Nagasaki Nightmare - Crass	1
Don't Let It Pass You By / Don't Slow Down - UB40	0
I Want To Be Free - Toyah	0
Four from Toyah - Toyah	0
Thunder In The Mountains - Toyah	0
Six Guns - Anti-Pasti	0
Four More From Toyah - Toyah	0
Don't Let 'Em Grind You Down - The Exploited & Anti-Pasti	0

― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 08:08 (fourteen years ago)

Four from Toyah - Toyah

^ this is the one with 'It's A Mystery' on it btw. I never really 'got' Toyah.

― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 08:12 (fourteen years ago)

Slim pickings this time.

Actually, if you discount Toyah, not so bad.

My pick goes "ee ee o ee ee o ee ee "

― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 08:33 (fourteen years ago)

I went for Joy Division over UB40 in the 1980 poll so this time it's One in Ten over Ceremony.

― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 08:39 (fourteen years ago)

"New Life"

jeez, I've never even heard of Toyah before. are they worth checking out?

― Logg \ O / Logg (crüt), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 08:57 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.45cat.com/image/087/thumb/toyah-ieya-safari-2-t.jpg = Toyah

― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 09:00 (fourteen years ago)

"I want to be free" is about not wanting to go to Nursery, or something...

― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 09:01 (fourteen years ago)

Toyah was like a watered-down and famously lispy new wave version of Siouxsie Sioux.

― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 09:04 (fourteen years ago)

Future wife of Robert Fripp!

― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 09:04 (fourteen years ago)

And first voice on every Teletubbies episode.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 09:09 (fourteen years ago)

The other thing is she had this melodramatic but really weedy warrior-queen image thing going on.

― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 09:26 (fourteen years ago)

and a huge promotional push before "It's a Mystery" that kind-of didn't work at the time.

Oh, OK, an episode of "Shoestring", a 'nice' private-eye telly prog.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 09:36 (fourteen years ago)

Toyah was like a watered-down and famously lispy new wave version of Siouxsie Sioux.

I am intrigued, tbh.

― Logg \ O / Logg (crüt), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 09:54 (fourteen years ago)

Zerox mo-chine!

― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 09:58 (fourteen years ago)

I am intrigued, tbh.

Well her band were no Banshees, that's for sure. Think they were mostly session guys slumming it.

― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 10:10 (fourteen years ago)

Then Bobby Fripp came along and whisked her away from all that

― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 10:15 (fourteen years ago)

lol what a terrible list :(

'Ceremony' or Discharge I guess

― the green manalishi (with the big boobies) (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 10:41 (fourteen years ago)

interesting to see Toyah in the indie charts, though Ceremony clearly wins this.

― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 13:07 (fourteen years ago)

I saw Toyah walking around at an ATP once.

― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 13:07 (fourteen years ago)

Ceremony
Dreaming of Me
New Life
Too Drunk to Fuck

Voted Ceremony - it's prob my all time favorite song tbh

― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 13:19 (fourteen years ago)

Or at least in the top 5

― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 13:19 (fourteen years ago)

Might vote for 'Procession', always seems a bit underrated and forgotten about.

This was a hell of a year to be a crustie btw.

― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 13:43 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 9 October 2011 23:01 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 10 October 2011 23:01 (fourteen years ago)

Poor old Toyah!

― Mark G, Monday, 10 October 2011 23:23 (fourteen years ago)

YAY!

― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Monday, 10 October 2011 23:29 (fourteen years ago)

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