Your Top 10 of... 1989

[Alias #23]

1989 really was spectacularly good. Black Box ALONE!

 

[Sheena]

Requiem would trouble any all time list for me too.

 

[Alias #23]

Was Manchild 1989?

 

[Sheena]

I have a soft spot for this old TOOT as well

 

[GinAg (39)]

Huge soft spot for...

 

[Sheena]

 

[GinAg (39)]

And...

 

[GinAg (39)]

 

[Sheena]

Seriously, so many of my all time list…I’d never thought just how ridiculous it is until now!

 

[Sheena]

 

[Sheena]

 

[Alla]

Oh I loved Erasure's Drama, didn't play it in ages.

 

[Alla]

Every single one posted by Sheena still on heavy rotation on Alla's ipod.

 

[Sheena]

Every single one posted by Sheena still on heavy rotation on Alla's ipod.

MUSIC TWINS

 

[Alla]

Also from 1989 some US-only hits that I still play

 

[GinAg (39)]

Also from 1989 some only-US hits that I still play

Hooked on You

 

[Saltwater]

This brings back the memory of waiting for MTV to play my favourite ones so that I can record them on VHS for my cousins who lived in the countryside and couldn't get coverage.
And making notes on which ones were still missing, the timings of each on tape, the stress to recognize them from the first frame so that I don't miss the start.

 

[Alla]

This brings back the memory of waiting for MTV to play my favourite ones so that I can record them on VHS

Oh I did this a couple of years later, checking the teletext where they often listed some of the videos playing

 

[Alla]

And of course my very first 12". Still great.

 

[Saltwater]

1. Madonna - Like a prayer
2. Bangles - Eternal flame
3. Sam Brown - Stop
4. Chaka Khan - Ain't nobody
5. Madonna - Express yourself
6. Paula Abdul - Straight up
7. Belinda Carlisle - Leave a light on
8. Bananarama - Help!
9. Roy Orbison - You got it
10. Kaoma - Lambada