please empty your brain below
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I’m being thick this morning and I don’t really follow how you made the list. But if it was a list of the most mediocre records of the 80s I would have been surprised. The 80s may have been one of the greatest musical decades of all time (not just from my memory but also according to all my kids). Some bangers in this list, but some true clunkers. Tpau? Jive Bunny? Mari Wilson? Mostly left forgotten IMHO.
Adam D | 12.06.21 - 8:09 a.m. | #
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16 July 1989 was a grim day.
scrumpy | 12.06.21 - 8:12 a.m. | #
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+1 to Adam D's comment. I am finding the explanation/methodology of this list a bit inscrutable.
I acknowledge the research, and I'm sure I will find the output interesting once I understand it!
MilesT | 12.06.21 - 8:19 a.m. | #
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If you did the opposite and picked records that appeared least in the charts - I wonder how many it would take to cover the decade. The maximum would be about 521 if every consecutive week the top 40 had a single that appeared only once but I imagine that is highly unlikley.
smetana | 12.06.21 - 9:16 a.m. | #
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The second half of the 80s was mediocre to rubbish.
Chris | 12.06.21 - 9:23 a.m. | #
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Oh dear, now I know why I gave up on mainstream pop in my 20s in the 70s. Also why I hated sitting next to anyone with earphones on the Tube when I worked in Holborn from 1981 to 1985. In this list of the few I vaguely have heard of only Diana Ross and Jackie Wilson would I want to hear again. I'm with Chris at 09.23.
J. | 12.06.21 - 9:38 a.m. | #
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I found most of those sprang to mind as soon as I read the title.
To me that was a time of music in the charts that was sometimes great and mostly tolerable.
Compare nowadays when on the odd occasion I try radio 1 it's just garbage.
Thank goodness for Radio 6.
Joho | Homepage | 12.06.21 - 9:56 a.m. | #
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I suspect that the comments truly reflect the age at which we first heard these records. As the same age as DG, most mean something to me, reflecting different stages of education and first jobs. And I will happily watch Carol Dekker and her big hair as she belts out China in your Hand, plus many others on this list, that take me back to particular times and places.
Shieldsman | 12.06.21 - 10:33 a.m. | #
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I remember most of these songs, not because I particularly liked them but I had two teenager daughters living in the house, both with sound systems.
Michael | 12.06.21 - 10:54 a.m. | #
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Sorry to be picky but wasn't 'Moonlight Shadow' (83) Sally Oldfield rather than Mike?
dg writes : no
Milo Bell | 12.06.21 - 11:17 a.m. | #
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I was 19 in January 1980, mainly interested in The Clash and The Jam, and much of 80s chart music just passed me by. In retrospect, it was like all other decades in popular music: plenty of disposable dross but also many very fine songs. The growth of hip hop was a major step forward, the growth of the electronic manipulation of music much less so.
Arlu | 12.06.21 - 11:35 a.m. | #
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When the Nolans made "dancing" rhyme with "romancing", the Americanisation of British music was signed, sealed and delivered.
cau1khead | 12.06.21 - 1:10 p.m. | #
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The Nolans rhyme works in most of the north of England too.
mark addy | 12.06.21 - 10:43 p.m. | #
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"The growth of hip hop was a major step forward". Said no-one ever.
mvcvz | 13.06.21 - 8:41 a.m. | #
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.. except everyone under 40. Literally. But far be it from me to suggest that DG's readers are grumpy old white men who were once fans of, oh, probably Genesis.
Arlu | 13.06.21 - 5:33 p.m. | #
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Lay off the sweeping generalisations, folks.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 13.06.21 - 5:49 p.m. | #
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I have created a Spotify list of these for those who wish to listen: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6NW.....
I couldn't find a suitable track for "Dave Stewart with Barbara Gaskin - It's My Party" as the only versions on Spotify seem to be karaoke versions. Got all the rest though.
ST | Homepage | 13.06.21 - 7:38 p.m. | #
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PS I moved "Never Gonna Give You Up" to the end of the playlist. You know why.
ST | 13.06.21 - 8:20 p.m. | #
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I arrived in London early 1981, got a job pulling pints at New Golden Lion, in Fulham. Ant music blared from jukebox and radio. I was a Dexys man though!
By 1989 I'm living in Sydney, married with a wee son....and The Beautiful South signs me out of that interesting list...
John Dickson | 15.06.21 - 2:01 a.m. | #
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