Your Top 10 of... 1985

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So me and Mr Ag have recently been killing time doing this. Using the Spotify This is... INSERT YEAR playlists we've been creating our top 10s as a fun and slightly geeky way to compare our pop tastes and chat shit about music. So I thought it might easily work on Moopy...

So what's your top 10 of 1985 (warning sometimes the songs aren't quite in the right year but they normally fit well)



Mine:

  1. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
  2. Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round
  3. a-ha - Take on Me
  4. Jennifer Rush - Power of Love
  5. Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
  6. Bruce Springsteen - I'm On Fire
  7. Madonna - Into the Groove
  8. Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson - I Know Him So Well
  9. Whitney Houston - How Will I Know
  10. Eurythmics - There Must Be An Angel
 
Bryan Ferry, Wham!, Howard Jones, Sister Sledge and Stephen Duffy ALL VERY CLOSE.


It's a VERY STRONG YEAR.
 
We've currently covered 1983 to 2004.

The worst year by some distance was 1992.
 
1. The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon
2. Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
3. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
4. Tears for Fears - Shout
5. The Power Station - Get It On (Bang a Gong)
6. Duran Duran - The Wild Boys
7. Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson - I Know Him So Well
8. The Dream Academy - Life In a Northern Town
9. Don Henley - The Boys of Summer
10. Madonna - Crazy For You
 
I'll do a whole list in a little but

1. Wham! - Everything She Wants

The most BITTER song
 
Madonna - Into the Groove
Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Don Henley - The Boys of Summer
Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
Prince - Pop Life
Animotion - Obsession
Til Tuesday- Voices Carry
Queen - Who Wants to Live Forever
Cyndi Lauper - The Goonies 'R' Good Enough
Whitney Houston - Saving All My Love for You
 
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One per artist

1. Wham! - Everything She Wants
2. Madonna - Into The Groove
3. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
4. Kim Carnes - Crazy In The Night
5. Bryan Ferry - Slave To Love
6. Tears for Fears - Head Over Heels
7. Cars - Tonight She Comes
8. Chicago - You're The Inspiration :(
9. Pointer Sisters - Dare Me
10. Sheena Easton - Sugar Walls :disco: or Bruce Springsteen - I'm On Fire
 
I've just done a 1992 one, and you're right; the pickings are fairly slim. Still managed to find a solid top ten, mind.

1. Shakespears Sister - Stay
2. The Cure - Friday I'm In Love
3. Opus III - It's a Fine Day
4. Wet Wet Wet - Goodnight Girl
5. Annie Lennox - Why
6. Utah Saints - Something Good
7. Wendy Moten - Come In Out of the Rain
8. Boyz II Men - End of the Road
9. U2 - One
10. Bon Jovi - Keep the Faith
 
ButterTart said:
I've just done a 1992 one, and you're right; the pickings are fairly slim. Still managed to find a solid top ten, mind.

1. Shakespears Sister - Stay
2. The Cure - Friday I'm In Love
3. Opus III - It's a Fine Day
4. Wet Wet Wet - Goodnight Girl
5. Annie Lennox - Why
6. Utah Saints - Something Good
7. Wendy Moten - Come In Out of the Rain
8. Boyz II Men - End of the Road
9. U2 - One
10. Bon Jovi - Keep the Faith
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Oh I plan to go through the years. We'll get to that shit show at some point.
 
RJN said:
I'll do a whole list in a little but

1. Wham! - Everything She Wants

The most BITTER song
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I’ve been playing The Final this afternoon and how I love Everything She Wants for just this reason. I also love that it’s darker than most of the other stuff from Make it Big and that it’s almost entirely forgotten as the “b side” of a behemoth double a- side in this country.
 
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Is the idea to pick your top ten of that playlist or just freestyle?
 
Sheena said:
I’ve been playing The Final this afternoon and how I love Everything She Wants for just this reason. I also love that it’s darker than most of the other stuff from Make it Big and that it’s almost entirely forgotten as the “b side” of a behemoth double a- side in this country.
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And now you tell me that you're having my baby
I'll tell you that I'm happy if you want me to
But one step further and my back will break
If my best isn't good enough, then how can it be good enough for two?

These lyrics are just chilling (and yes dark)
 
Oh me and my cousin did EXACTLY this during lockdown :D I think I’ve deleted them now but could make new ones.

I remember learning that the hardest to /pick only ten for, therefore the best years for music, were

1984
1991
1995
2001
2012

And that totally stuck with me. Best years for music ever.
 
funky said:
Oh me and my cousin did EXACTLY this during lockdown :D I think I’ve deleted them now but could make new ones.

I remember learning that the hardest to /pick only ten for, therefore the best years for music, were

1984
1991
1995
2001
2012

And that totally stuck with me. Best years for music ever.
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Nearly all of 80s and mid late 90 were torture. I ended up editing down from about 20 and still leaving a dozen off.

We haven't started the late 00s yet, which was FUCKING POP GOLD.
 
1 Take On Me - a-ha
2 Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush
3 Chain Reaction - Diana Ross
4 Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears
5 You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Dead Or Alive
6 Into The Groove - Madonna
7 Kiss Me - Stephen Duffy
8 Say I'm Your No. 1 - Princess
9 Crazy For You - Madonna
10 Cloudbusting - Kate Bush
 
Of the playlist:

1. How Will I Know- Whitney Houston
2. Raspberry Beret- Prince
3. Into The Groove- Madonna
4. Hunting High And Low- A-Ha
5. Everything She Wants- Wham!
6. Neutron Dance- Pointer Sisters
7. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)- Dead or Alive
8. I'm Your Man- Wham!
9. Running Up That Hill- Kate Bush
10. Rhythm of the Night- Debarge


Outside the playlist, for your consideration, with numbers in brackets where I'd slot them in the list (but only if they were the only one. Overcomplicating this much? :D)

Dress You Up- Madonna (1)
Sugar Walls- Sheena Easton (2)
Angel- Madonna (7)
Dare Me- Pointer Sisters (10)
 
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Sheena said:
Of the playlist:

1. How Will I Know- Whitney Houston
2. Raspberry Beret- Prince
3. Into The Groove- Madonna
4. Hunting High And Low- A-Ha
5. Everything She Wants- Wham!
6. Neutron Dance- Pointer Sistes
7. I'm Your Man- Wham!
8. Running Up That Hill- Kate Bush
9. Rhythm of the Night- Debarge
10.The Power of Love- Huey Lewis and the News

Outside the playlist, for your consideration, with numbers in brackets where I'd slot them in the list (but only if they were the only one. Overcomplicating this much? :D)

Dress You Up- Madonna (1)
Sugar Walls- Sheena Easton (2)
You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)- Dead or Alive (7)
Angel- Madonna (7)
Dare Me- Pointer Sisters (10)
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Dead Or Alive were on there!
 
1. Simple Minds - Don't Forget About Me
2. Commodores - Nightshift
3. Eurythmics - There Must Be An Angel
4. Level 42 - Something About You
5. Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
6. Madonna - Into The Groove
7. Simple Minds - Alive & Kicking
8. Whitney Houston - How Will I Know
9. Prince - Raspberry Beret
10. Tina Turner - We Don't Need Another Hero

Not particularly a Dire Straits fan but that song is an all time fave. Alternatively, I bloody love Simple Minds and almost every one of their singles!

Amazing and quite odd that the Commodores refused to split and fade away after Lionel Richie left, and went on to have one of their biggest and best ever songs with Nightshift. Incredible tune. (Of course they soon after split and faded away)

edit: oh I didn't order mine. In order now.
 
Sidebar but I do still have my 1991 playlist. I think you have to like early dance music to REALLY understand what 1991 was about, but I do think it was the best year ever. Some great pop too.

 
What's your favourite year in music is another thread I feel like we probably should have had at some point.

(As a quick thumb in the air, it feels like 1984 for me, but had I been properly aware of disco rather than being 0-3 years old, I imagine this may have triumphed)
 
Ag said:
This is new to me. A bit of Googling and the mind boggles that one of Led Zeppelin felt the need to cover T-Rex.
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Led Zeppelin? The Power Station was half of Duran Duran, Robert Palmer and Chic's drummer. :confused:
 
Ag said:
We've currently covered 1983 to 2004.

The worst year by some distance was 1992.
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The tail end of 1992 was quite strong but BY GOD did it dip suddenly in the middle after the glory years of 1989-1991. So weird. And then it came back in 1993. Almost entirely dance music led IMO. The dance music of 92 was mostly rubbish and it was too early for Britpop, so all you had was power pop and soft rock left over from the 80s. Which I don't mind, but there was no VARIETY
 
Sheena said:
What's your favourite year in music is another thread I feel like we probably should have had at some point.

(As a quick thumb in the air, it feels like 1984 for me, but had I been properly aware of disco rather than being 0-3 years old, I imagine this may have triumphed)
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1984 is excellent.

I'll get round to all of them at some point.
 
1. Inbetween Days - The Cure
2. Cruiser's Creek - The Fall
3. Cloudbusting - Kate Bush
4. Running Up The Hill - Kate Bush
5. Close (To The Edit) - Art Of Noise (I think this is technically '84 but wasn't a hit until '85)
6. Shake The Disease - Depeche Mode
7. Crazy For You - Madonna
8. The Perfect Kiss - New Order
9. She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
10 . Just Like Honey - The Jesus And Mary Chain

Bubbling Under:
Couldn't Get Ahead - The Fall
Be Near Me - ABC
Shakespeare's Sister - The Smiths
Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits (loved it at the time, would be disingenuous to deny it)
Life In A Northern Town - The Dream Academy
Road To Nowhere - Talking Heads
 
It must be noted that Kiss Me by Stephen Duffy is a pop masterstroke and I'm frankly fuming it missed my list.



KISS ME WITH YOUR MOUTH
YOUR LOVE IS BETTER THAN WINE
BUT WINE IS ALL I HAVE
WILL YOUR LOVE EVER BE MINE?

Although I never remember which remix is the electro banger.
 
I tried to be true to what I was actually listening to but the years do blur together a little after a while. Also, I think I first heard 'Cruiser's Creek' on John Peel's Festive 50 and I definitely didn't have the actual record until much later so already my brain is being a mite revisionist.
 
Years are just a construct anyway.

I wasn't actively listening to music in 1985 because I was 5. But I knew Wham! and Bruce Springsteen songs at the time.

My music collection mostly consisted of Mr Men songs and the Postman Pat theme tune.

All bangers of course.
 
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