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Just to sit side by side with the top 5 albums thread - how about a top 10 tracks list which might include those bands whose albums might not have lived up to greatness but who have produced some good tunes nonetheless
Just off the pub to think about my list...
1.Police Don't Stand So Close To Me 2 Barbra Streisand Woman In Love 3 Kelly Marie Feels Like I'm In Love 4 Abba Super Trouper 5 Ottawan D.I.S.C.O. 6 Blondie The Tide is High 7 Dexy's Midnight Runners Geno 8 Kenny Rogers Coward Of The County 9 Fern Kinney Together We Are Beautiful 10 John Lennon (Just Like) Starting Over
Very hard to tell:
Simple Minds "Don't you forget about me" New Order "True Faith" Mike Oldfield "Shadow on the wall" FGTH "Rage Hard" Mental as Anything "Live it up" Dead or Alive "You spin me round" Flash And The Pan "Midnight Man" Bronski Beat "Smalltown Boy" Erasure "The Circus" Pet Shop Boys "It's a sin"
1] "The Perfect Kiss" - New Order 2] "Marcia Beila" - Les Rita Mitsouko 3] "Adorations" - Killing Joke 4] "Nummern/Computerwelt 2" - Kraftwerk 5] "Once in a Lifetime" - Talking Heads 6] "Every Day Is Halloween" - Ministry 7] "Pretty in Pink" - Psychedelic Furs 8] "Cities in Dust" - Siouxsie and the Banshees 9] "Desperate But Not Serious" - Adam Ant 10] "Love Plus One" - Haircut 100
Honorable Mention: "Don't Let's Start" - They Might Be Giants
Boing Boing Baggies Baggies wrote: 1.Police Don't Stand So Close To Me 2 Barbra Streisand Woman In Love 3 Kelly Marie Feels Like I'm In Love 4 Abba Super Trouper 5 Ottawan D.I.S.C.O. 6 Blondie The Tide is High 7 Dexy's Midnight Runners Geno 8 Kenny Rogers Coward Of The County 9 Fern Kinney Together We Are Beautiful 10 John Lennon (Just Like) Starting Over
Have you seen the Doctor recently?, if not, you should
When you say 'tracks', I assume you mean singles? Else I could just list half of Low-Life!
Off the top of my head, thinking (roughly) chronologically..
Geno - Dexy's MR Mirror in the Bathroom - The Beat Ghost Town - Specials Town Called Malice - Jam Tour de France - KW Planet Rock - Afrika Bambataa etc Blue Monday - dur 19 - Paul Hardcastle Strings of Life - Rhythim is Rhythim (sic) Theme From - S'express
Er, and loads of other stuff.
El Jarvo wrote: When you say 'tracks', I assume you mean singles? Else I could just list half of Low-Life!
Off the top of my head, thinking (roughly) chronologically..
Geno - Dexy's MR Mirror in the Bathroom - The Beat Ghost Town - Specials Town Called Malice - Jam Tour de France - KW Planet Rock - Afrika Bambataa etc Blue Monday - dur 19 - Paul Hardcastle Strings of Life - Rhythim is Rhythim (sic) Theme From - S'express
Er, and loads of other stuff.
cor blimey, yes. if i was less lazy i'd think of some myself.
um, buffalo stance.
I'm just going to be different and post ten songs, which are fucking ace, and people forget about.
Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance Furniture - Brilliant Mind Grandmaster Flash - White Lines Stakker Humanoid - Humanoid Prince - Sign o the Times FGTH - Two Tribes Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric Kraftwerk - Tour de France Visage - Fade to Grey
After some heated discussion in the pub and the only restriction I placed on myself was for 1 track per band
Sunrise There is a light The Fan and the Bellows- The Chameleons Uncertain Smile- The The I wanna be adored No Killing - The Violent Femmes Black and White- The Dbs Performance- Mondays Move Me- the woodentops Lost weekend- Lloyd Cole
But just outside- at least for tonight...
Sidewalking- JAMC Pacific State- 808 Know How- Young MC Rhythm is Rhythm- Strings of Life My Love is like a gift- Man from Delmote This must be the place- Talking Heads Brassneck - Wedding Present Greatness and Perfection- Teardrop Explodes Cruisers Creek - The Fall When it all comes down- Miaow Kick over the statues- The Redskins
Burt Reynolds wrote: I'm just going to be different and post ten songs, which are fucking ace, and people forget about.
Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance Furniture - Brilliant Mind Grandmaster Flash - White Lines Stakker Humanoid - Humanoid Prince - Sign o the Times FGTH - Two Tribes Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric Kraftwerk - Tour de France Visage - Fade to Grey
I absolutely fucking LOVE "Fade to Gray." 
I have both the original and the 12" mixes!
LWTUA- JD Blue Monday- NO Holiday in Cambodia- Dead Kennedys Second Skin- Chameleons I Wanna Be Adored- Stone Roses Winning- The Sound Sanity- Killing Joke Cold- The Cure I Ran (So Far Away)- Flock of Seagulls Never Let Me Down Again- Depeche Mode
ha! i was just about to say white lines.
love is a wonderful colour - icicle works wishful thinking - china crisis everyday i write the book - elvis costello birthday - sugarcubes rip it up - orange juice senses working overtime - xtc blister in the sun - violent femmes hounds of love - kate bush since yesterday - strawberry switchblade together in electric dreams - moroder/oakey
oh come on. i'm a girl.
1/ Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumours 2/ REM - Orange Crush 3/ Psychedelic Furs - Heaven 4/ Paul Hardcastle - 19 5/ Madness - Shut Up 6/ The Smiths - Still ill 7/ OMD - Souvenir 8/ Stranglers - Golden Brown 9/ Ultravox - Vienna 10/ Talking Heads - Once In a Lifetime
These are the first few that came to mind, I have probably missed loads of better songs out.
One of my favourite songs of the 80's is a song called The Power by Win. Has anyone else ever heard it?
This thread is impossible.Stupid.
Choose 10 out of hundreds? Ain't appenin mate.Ain't appenin'
Prefab Sprout - When Love Breaks Down
Bunnymen - Bring On The Dancing Horses
Soft Cell- Say Hello Wave Goodbye
Cock Robyn - The Promise You Made
Cocteau Twins- Aikea Guinea
Frankie - Two Tribes
Paul Haig - The Only Truth
aye i rmemember all them you mention, Burt.Blancmange did some ace songs.Great video to Living On The Ceiling.Cairo- great city.I wanna go back there now after watching that vid.Great cover thewy did of that Abba tune Day Before You Shot Yer Load.
johnny wrote: This thread is impossible.Stupid.
Choose 10 out of hundreds? Ain't appenin mate.Ain't appenin'
Thats why i picked a random ten. Gimme a year and I'd mebbe have the proper countdown.
heres another:
JAMC - April Skies
Great memories associated with this tune from 1987
johnny wrote:
Soft Cell- Say Hello Wave Goodbye
ohhhhh. the clarinet version on the b-side is beautiful.
Right, i'm determined to nail this before i hit the hay
1.That one about I'm in love with a filmstar song, who's it by?
2.Associates- Party Fears Two
3.Human League- Sound Of The Crowd
4.any of those long forgotten but ace Blancmange singles
5.Frankie - Relax or Two Tribes.But definitely NOT Rage Hard (what were you thinking, Bere? 
)
6.Robert Plant - Big Log ( don't knock it- great tune to a chilled out summer of 83)
8.Dream Academy- Life In A Northern Town
10.erm, i give up
johnny wrote:
1.That one about I'm in love with a filmstar song, who's it by?
i'm in love with a german film star - the passions
(i'm just listening to white lines now. it doesn't half fucking go on. toss.)
bloodynora wrote:
johnny wrote:
Soft Cell- Say Hello Wave Goodbye
ohhhhh. the clarinet version on the b-side is beautiful.
i'm sure i've heard that version somewhere but the original single mix is a classic.
ermmm posting this 90's reworking, mainly cos I love the 2000's film. Any excuse. Song was originally eighties though.
Burt Reynolds wrote: ermmm posting this 90's reworking, mainly cos I love the 2000's film. Any excuse. Song was originally eighties though.
no it wasn't. did you miss jen getting her wrists slapped t'other day for the same error? foolish burt.
bloodynora wrote:
Burt Reynolds wrote: ermmm posting this 90's reworking, mainly cos I love the 2000's film. Any excuse. Song was originally eighties though.
no it wasn't. did you miss jen getting her wrists slapped t'other day for the same error? foolish burt.
lol.. ok.. just checked. It was Feb 5, 1990. Do I get detention, teach?
Burt Reynolds wrote:
johnny wrote: This thread is impossible.Stupid.
Choose 10 out of hundreds? Ain't appenin mate.Ain't appenin'
Thats why i picked a random ten. Gimme a year and I'd mebbe have the proper countdown.
heres another:
keep em coming bert!!!
bloodynora wrote: yes. bring pop and crisps and a pack of cards - i'll show you how to play 'spit'.
yeah, yeah, yeah and the rest. I'm sure there would be a lot of book and desk abuse, ma'am.
Burt Reynolds wrote:
bloodynora wrote: yes. bring pop and crisps and a pack of cards - i'll show you how to play 'spit'.
yeah, yeah, yeah and the rest. I'm sure there would be a lot of book and desk abuse, ma'am.
i have no idea what that means. do you?
oblivious - aztec camera brass in pocket - the pretenders (released 79, charted 80, BEFORE YOU START)
johnny's right. this is impossible.
banshee wrote:
Burt Reynolds wrote:
johnny wrote: This thread is impossible.Stupid.
Choose 10 out of hundreds? Ain't appenin mate.Ain't appenin'
Thats why i picked a random ten. Gimme a year and I'd mebbe have the proper countdown.
heres another:
keep em coming bert!!!
johnny wrote:
bloodynora wrote:
johnny wrote:
Soft Cell- Say Hello Wave Goodbye
ohhhhh. the clarinet version on the b-side is beautiful.
i'm sure i've heard that version somewhere but the original single mix is a classic.
it's clumsily shoe-horned into the 12" too. really clunky edits.
Damnit, I can't really do just 10 now...
Again, this is absolutely hard for me to decide, but 10 songs from the 1980s that I love, plus additional tracks I love.
Other songs... Mr Disco/New Order Atmosphere/Joy Division Love comes quickly/Pet Shop Boys William, it was really nothing/The Smiths Lack of Love/Charles B and Adonis Key/Yellow Magic Orchestra Der Telefon-Anruf/Kraftwerk
etc etc etc...there's too many good songs.
Burt Reynolds wrote:
johnny wrote: This thread is impossible.Stupid.
Choose 10 out of hundreds? Ain't appenin mate.Ain't appenin'
Thats why i picked a random ten. Gimme a year and I'd mebbe have the proper countdown.
heres another:
If I exclude JD/NO then this is the result from the Solly jury:
Kitchen Person - The Associates The Sweetest Girl (Long Version) - Scritti Polliti The Drowning Man - The Cure Remembrance Day - B-Movie The Poison Door - The Sisters Of Mercy Spellbound - Siouxsie & The Banshees Its Obvious - Au Pairs Tower Of Strengh - The Mission The Missionary - Josef K Something Outside - The Wake
A top 100 would have been easier!
Bere wrote:
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- You're My Heart, You're My Soul - The Modern Talking
You knows you loves it ;)
bloodynora wrote:
Burt Reynolds wrote: ermmm posting this 90's reworking, mainly cos I love the 2000's film. Any excuse. Song was originally eighties though.
no it wasn't. did you miss jen getting her wrists slapped t'other day for the same error? foolish burt.
Got me thinking now.VIOLATOR came out in 90,but didn't ETS come out 89 about October-ish.
Hard to choose 10 tunes,even if I don't include New Order....unless I do multiple postings..
Anyway..
MONTY wrote:
bloodynora wrote:
Burt Reynolds wrote: ermmm posting this 90's reworking, mainly cos I love the 2000's film. Any excuse. Song was originally eighties though.
no it wasn't. did you miss jen getting her wrists slapped t'other day for the same error? foolish burt.
Got me thinking now.VIOLATOR came out in 90,but didn't ETS come out 89 about October-ish.
enough of this insolence! do you want a detention too?!
Burt Reynolds wrote: just checked. It was Feb 5, 1990.
Burt Reynolds wrote: I'm just going to be different and post ten songs, which are fucking ace, and people forget about.
Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance Furniture - Brilliant Mind Grandmaster Flash - White Lines Stakker Humanoid - Humanoid Prince - Sign o the Times FGTH - Two Tribes Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric Kraftwerk - Tour de France Visage - Fade to Grey
Eh? Who forgot any of them?
bloodynora wrote:
MONTY wrote:
bloodynora wrote:
Burt Reynolds wrote: ermmm posting this 90's reworking, mainly cos I love the 2000's film. Any excuse. Song was originally eighties though.
no it wasn't. did you miss jen getting her wrists slapped t'other day for the same error? foolish burt.
Got me thinking now.VIOLATOR came out in 90,but didn't ETS come out 89 about October-ish.
enough of this insolence! do you want a detention too?!
I'm probably thinking of PERSONAL JESUS,it came out ages before the album.
Big Decision - That Petrol Emotion This Charming Man - Smiths Love Like Blood - Killing Joke Love Is A Wonderful Colour - Icicle Works First Picture Of You - Lotus Eaters Chance - Big Country In Between Days - The Cure Party Fears Two - Associates Sense - Terry Hall Brighter - Railway Children
John Sludden wrote: Big Decision - That Petrol Emotion This Charming Man - Smiths Love Like Blood - Killing Joke Love Is A Wonderful Colour - Icicle Works First Picture Of You - Lotus Eaters Chance - Big Country In Between Days - The Cure Party Fears Two - Associates Sense - Terry Hall Brighter - Railway Children
Not a New Order fan then?
It was released RIGHT at the end of 1979 but one of the ultimate songs of the 80s for me is Brass in Pocket by the Pretenders and, you know, might have been written about me
'Cos I'm gonna make you see There's nobody else here No one like me I'm special Sooooo special I've gotta have some of your attention Give it to me!
In no particular order...
How Soon Is Now? - The Smiths Dr. Mabuse - Propaganda Once In a Lifetime - Talking Heads I'm In Love With a German Film Star - The Passions Uncertain Smile - The The Quiet Life - Japan Rescue - Echo & The Bunnymen Love Action - Human League Thieves Like Us - New Order Pink Orange Red - The Cocteau Twins
La Dolce Vita - Soraya Echo and the Bunnymen - Killing Moon Lotus Eaters - First picture of you Talk Talk - Talk Talk Yazoo - Don’t Go Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy A Flock of Seagulls - Wishing (If I had a photograph of you) Fiction Factory - Feels Like Heaven New Order - Ceremony Talking Heads - And She Was
No-one has mentioned the 1989 monster hit by Kon Kan called I Beg Your Pardon, which is a shame. You can listen to this montser at:
http://www.myspace.com/mcjerseygurl
Propaganda - Duel a-ha - I've Been Losing You Simple Minds - Ghostdancing a-ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV Billy Bragg - Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards Talk Talk - Today Ultravox - Hymn New Order - True Faith Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies Blancmange - Don't Tell Me
Enjoy!
Solitude wrote: If I exclude JD/NO then this is the result from the Solly jury:
Kitchen Person - The Associates The Sweetest Girl (Long Version) - Scritti Polliti The Drowning Man - The Cure Remembrance Day - B-Movie The Poison Door - The Sisters Of Mercy Spellbound - Siouxsie & The Banshees Its Obvious - Au Pairs Tower Of Strengh - The Mission The Missionary - Josef K Something Outside - The Wake
A top 100 would have been easier!
WOW.its obvious - au pairs !!!
i loved that track and 'diet' as well
and the first album.IT HAD A KIND OF 'GANG OF FOUR' SOUND
Metallica - Master of Puppets Metallica - Ride The Lightning Metallica - Creeping Death Metallica - Disposable Heroes Metallica - The Four Horsemen Metallica - ...And Justice For All Metallica - One Metallica - Seek & Destroy] Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls Metallica - Battery
banshee wrote:
Solitude wrote: If I exclude JD/NO then this is the result from the Solly jury:
Kitchen Person - The Associates The Sweetest Girl (Long Version) - Scritti Polliti The Drowning Man - The Cure Remembrance Day - B-Movie The Poison Door - The Sisters Of Mercy Spellbound - Siouxsie & The Banshees Its Obvious - Au Pairs Tower Of Strengh - The Mission The Missionary - Josef K Something Outside - The Wake
A top 100 would have been easier!
WOW.its obvious - au pairs !!! i loved that track and 'diet' as well and the first album.IT HAD A KIND OF 'GANG OF FOUR' SOUND
Diet, B-side of 'It's Obvious' right? Oh yeah, 'she doesn't have political views.........'
Burt Reynolds wrote: I'm just going to be different and post ten songs, which are fucking ace, and people forget about.
[orange]State of Love and Trust [/orange] wrote:
The Bee Gees - For Whom The Bell Tolls
Very surprising! I'd have had you down as more of a Metallica fan. :D
Joy Division/Atmosphere New Order/Blue Monday Depeche/Just cant get enough OMD/Souvenir PSB's/Kings Cross Giorgio Moroder & Phil Oakey/Electric Dreams Kraftwerk/Its more fun to Compute Erasure/Sometimes Donna Summer & Patrick Cowley/I feel Love
Shed have known better wrote:
This is the best not the worst poll, absolute dross
Well Said Mike! 
Uncle Liam wrote:
Shed have known better wrote:
This is the best not the worst poll, absolute dross
Well Said Mike!
Why not? Because they are not being sung on the terraces? Avant Garde brilliance.
Re: This Digi/Shed/whatever he's called this week character. Having observed his comments for some time it is fair to say that the bulk of what he says, regardless of context, resort to at best maybe three themes:
Great Stuff
