Like the red button idea but would have prefered it live

The whole crossover was pretty disappointing, the song list was good but nothing really different... Like the RAH band, right now!

Yes, it was very MTV.

Nice publicity, but let's get back to the radio show

I agree. It screamed out recorded. You just cannot make recorded radio sound live, and when the two (recorded & live) are put together in the same show like this the difference shows a mile off.

Yes, the video choice was so predictable mostly. Sledgehammer, Bad & U2, all far too well known. We needed something a bit different to make it really worthwhile. These videos have been shown enough over time.

Nice to have that ABBA track though. These last two radio tracks wouldn't have made tv status, but great on the radio.

Sara redeeming herself with one of my favourite Madonna tracks, cheers dear!

Sara is annoying me when saying about the chart positions. She is saying the songs reached their peak number, but stating the date they entered the chart. Often the peak was a month or two later or more back in the 80's. Songs often peaked an average of 4 to 7 weeks after entering the charts if they made top twenty especially.

Looking at the interview online with Adam Ant the studio looks like an old one.

Very disappointed that it was recorded.

That said I really don't like all the recorded segments of the usual radio show (interviews, megamix etc) as they always stick out like a sore thumb as recorded

Having got esteemed 80's pop star people like Adam Ant into the studio like that, and the others that proceeded him in the past few weeks, would you not think that they would keep them as a guest for longer, maybe at least a half hour? If it were properly live they could then take call/text/email questions from listeners too, as this show tends to sell itself on being interactive with the listener at home.

Next week is Nick Heyward.

It seems Radio 2 are trying to do something like 80's In Demand with seperate recordings of 80's pop stars?

She might be getting her info from a book like the Guinness one, which gives the date the song entered the chart and then it's peak.

I know, I've got a couple of them, including the final published edition.

From memory, if she did The Power Of Love by Jennifer Rush, for example, she would state it made No1 in June 1985, when infact it had a very slow climb to the top finally making it in October. It's just misleading and takes little research to get correct.

If you are going to state facts and figures to this degree on a show, I don't think it is being pedantic or nerdy to bring up this issue.

Hi all - on air.

Abracadabra followed by SAW-era Donna Summer..

My memory of DA Da Da is hearing it start on Radio Nova as I cycled home, racing like mad, bursting through the door, running upstairs and managing to catch a minute of it on tape! I bought it from Dins Records in Heswall when I had enough paper round money.

Abracadabra was a massive song on Nova (pretty much the only station I listened to in 1982, bar Simon Tate on Radio City). Men At Work's Down Under I remember liking while listening to Casey Kasem, I can even picture my radio on the fireplace of my friends' playing it. Aah

Sara seems to be following the classic smooch-as-final-track trope.

Although Down Under brought Men At Work to prominence here in the UK in January 1983 when the song hit No1, it had infact been the Christmas No1 in 1981 in their home country, Australia, more than a year previously. Infact the week it hit UK No1 for 3 weeks in the UK in '83 was exactly the same week a year earlier in '82 that it had fallen from the top after 6 weeks in Oz.

Two consecutive No2 singles played on the programme tonight, from July 1982, with Abracadabra and Da Da Da.

So many good Donna Summer tracks to play, even from the 1980's, yet they played that abysmal hit factory fodder Love's About To Change My Heart which is almost like spitting on her legacy. Even Tony Blackburn derided the track when played on POTP last year. I know the show served up plenty of 1982 tonight but State Of Independence was well due an airing instead. Shocking choice.

I'm not aware that Shaky has a speech impediment and have never noticed one when he has spoken in interviews, but ever since it was a hit I've thought he sings You Drive Me Crazy with a blatant and clear "Cwazy" all these years. It drives me crazy! I hope they can fix him up as a guest, after all he is the most successful solo artist of the 1980's.

Again with the SAW bashing on this thread. Just because one person doesn't like something - someone else just might. That's surely the point of this programme. One person may think that State of Independence is the best song to play, others may disagree...Music is all about personal taste and for those of us that were growing up in the late 80s it's nice to sometimes hear songs that don't get played anywhere else - again, what the BBC should probably be doing, no?

I like the fact that when they do play Stock Aitken Waterman on the show, they don't play the obvious ones. With Donna Summer you'd be expecting to hear This Time I Know Its For Real from her time with them, but Love's About To Change My Heart is much better.

WHo's listening?

....to Sister Sledge giving it the full 12 inches on Thinking Of You.

Just caught up with last weeks Nick Heyward interview too. Sweet guy still.

Yup - you can't go wrong with a bit of Nile and 'Nard..

It's at times like this that I wish I had taken up bass...

Patti Austin - HAD to be Quincy...