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It's brilliant - but I have to say (sorry to sound like a total anorak
) that the definitive version for me is the US remix by New York DJ legend Larry Levan, which I think may be easier to find now than it was at the time (there are also some dreadful 90s remixes - avoid like the plague!).
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Thanks
Not credited on the BBC list as a presenter I have just started a new 1983 thread ready for January 6th !! http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2191824 Mods, please could you merge these threads? Thanks!
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Remixes of early/mid 80s dance/funk tracks are always worse than the originals. One of the iron rules of popular music.
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In the case of the Larry Levan remix, I'd disagree. It was done in 1983 - so very much of that era - and manages to create more drama out of the track without adding lots of extra instrumentation (a trend that I'd say is more 90s than 80s). By the worst offenders for me are those dreadful 'remixes' of Sister Sledge in the early 90s where all the (flawless) original instrumentation was stripped out and replaced with loads of horrible, tinny synths and drum machines. And, oddly, I have a strange feeling that the people responsible for that were also behind the 90s remix of 'You Can't Hide Your Love' …
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Well there's nowt on TV tonight so I thought I would start the ball rolling & decided it was about time to do my Top 5 favourite 1982 tracks. These are in descending order:-
1) The Associates - Party Fears Two ( of course!! ) 2) PhD - I Won't Let You Down 3) The Stranglers - Strange Little Girl 4) Duran Duran - Save a Prayer 5) Blue Zoo - Cry Boy Cry. And just bubbling under is Tears for Fears - Mad World & Japan - Ghosts!
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Well there's nowt on TV tonight so I thought I would start the ball rolling & decided it was about time to do my Top 5 favourite 1982 tracks. These are in descending order:-
1) The Associates - Party Fears Two ( of course!! ) 2) PhD - I Won't Let You Down 3) The Stranglers - Strange Little Girl 4) Duran Duran - Save a Prayer 5) Blue Zoo - Cry Boy Cry. And just bubbling under is Tears for Fears - Mad World & Japan - Ghosts! ![]() ![]() But even as few as seven tracks is nigh on impossible for me! 1982 is a vintage year with so much going for it (despite the likes of Rene & Renato and the Goombay Dance Band).
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I'm loving how you subtly expanded your Top 5 to a Top 7 …
![]() But even as few as seven tracks is nigh on impossible for me! 1982 is a vintage year with so much going for it (despite the likes of Rene & Renato and the Goombay Dance Band). ![]() - I was going to do a Top 7 - but then I thought I'd need another 3 tracks just to make it a nice round Top 10 - & that would take me longer to think of...
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Well there's nowt on TV tonight so I thought I would start the ball rolling & decided it was about time to do my Top 5 favourite 1982 tracks. These are in descending order:-
1) The Associates - Party Fears Two ( of course!! ) 2) PhD - I Won't Let You Down 3) The Stranglers - Strange Little Girl 4) Duran Duran - Save a Prayer 5) Blue Zoo - Cry Boy Cry. And just bubbling under is Tears for Fears - Mad World & Japan - Ghosts! ![]() ![]() In addition to those, I'd also have to choose from the following: ABC — The Look of Love Talk Talk — Today Dollar — Videotheque Evelyn King — Love Come Down Marvin Gaye — (Sexual) Healing Stranglers — Golden Brown Rockers Revenge — Walking on Sunshine Patrice Rushen — Forget Me Nots Carly Simon — Why Shalamar — There It Is Culture Club — Time (Clock of the Heart) Associates — Club Country Chicago — Hard To Say I'm Sorry I'd also include The Model by Kraftwerk if we're counting that as a 1982 rather than 1978 record. These are the top 100 best-sellers of 1982: http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1982.shtml |
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For those of you struggling with the Dropbox link for the 4th Nov 82 episode, select to copy it to your own Dropbox (takes 5 seconds) then download or watch from there. Works fine!
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Watching these it does make you remember just how much shit there was in the charts as well as good.
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I hate to dent your enthusiasm, but the TOTP forum legend that is Rich Tea has beat you to it …
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Well there's nowt on TV tonight so I thought I would start the ball rolling & decided it was about time to do my Top 5 favourite 1982 tracks. These are in descending order:-
1) The Associates - Party Fears Two ( of course!! ) 2) PhD - I Won't Let You Down 3) The Stranglers - Strange Little Girl 4) Duran Duran - Save a Prayer 5) Blue Zoo - Cry Boy Cry. And just bubbling under is Tears for Fears - Mad World & Japan - Ghosts! ![]() 1 Spandau Ballet Instinction 2 Simple Minds Promise you a Miracle 3 Haircut 100 Nobodys fool 4 Fun boy three Summertime 5 PhD I wont let you down Those were done as an 18 year old if I were to choose now 34 years on and slightly heavier I would now go with 1 Soft Cell Say Hello Wave Goodbye 2 Stranglers Strange Little Girl 3 Associates Party Fears two 4 Haircut 100 Nobodys fool 5 Japan Ghost just bubbling under Carly Simon Why Abba Under attack so we are broadly similar Ursula for the record the rest of the 80s I did at the time were 1980 Beat Mirror In The Bathroom 1981 Siouxsie and the Banshees Spellbound 1983 Fun Boy Three Our lips are sealed 1984 Echo and the Bunnymen Silver 1985 Propaganda Duel |
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Excellent choice(s) — as Peter Powell might have said.
![]() In addition to those I'd also include The Model by Kraftwerk if we're counting that as a 1982 rather than 1978 record. These are the top 100 best-sellers of 1982: http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1982.shtml There's always one that slips your mind (or two if I include Talk Talk)!
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1. ABC - All Of My Heart
2. Soft Cell - Say Hello Wave Goodbye 3. Duran Duran - Rio 4. Chas n Dave - Ain't No Pleasing You 5. The Jam - Town Called Malice That's now. If you'd have asked me back in the day, then The Kids From Fame would have featured more. |
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I used to do a top 20 each year from the late 70s to the mid 80s and my 1982 selections were
2 Simple Minds Promise you a Miracle 3 Haircut 100 Nobodys fool so we are broadly similar Ursula |
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Well there's nowt on TV tonight
1) The Associates - Party Fears Two ( of course!! ) 2) PhD - I Won't Let You Down 3) The Stranglers - Strange Little Girl 4) Duran Duran - Save a Prayer 5) Blue Zoo - Cry Boy Cry 1) Say Hello Wave Goodbye 2) Promised You A Miracle 3) See You 4) Go Wild In The Country 5) Hungry Like The Wolf |
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Say Hello, Wave Goodbye - Soft Cell
Party Fears Two - The Associates Only You - Yazoo Forget Me Nots - Patrice Rushen Do You Really Want To Hurt Me - Culture Club Ghosts - Japan Time (Clock Of The Heart) - Culture Club Never Give You Up - Sharon Redd |
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You're right, I should have excluded remixes actually done during the same period.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfhpE0yvEGE It's on this compilation … https://www.amazon.co.uk/Journey-Int.../dp/B000CQJYZ4 … which I think is on iTunes. |
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Five? No. Seven. No. Ten. Also no.
Sorry - it's no less than 30 (in no particular order) … The Associates | Party Fears Two Japan | Ghosts Carly Simon | Why Rockers Revenge | Walking On Sunshine The Jam | A Town Called Malice The Peech Boys | Don’t Make Me Wait Yazoo | Situation Sharon Redd | Beat The Street/Never Give You Up Evelyn King | Love Come Down Imagination | Just An Illusion ABC | Poison Arrow The Clash | Rock The Casbah/Mustafa Dance Vicky D | This Beat Is Mine D Train | You’re The One For Me George Clinton | Loopzila Dollar | Videotheque Patrice Rushen | Forget Me Nots Odyssey | Inside Out Culture Club | Time (Clock Of The Heart) Sharon Brown | I Specialise In Love Shalamar | Friends LP Soft Cell | Torch/Insecure Me Abba | The Day Before You Came Simple Minds | Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five |The Message Whodini | Magic’s Wand War | You Got The Power Heaven 17 | Let Me Go Cheri | Murphy’s Law Planet Patrol | Play At Your Own Risk Jennifer Holliday | And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going |
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I'm loving how you subtly expanded your Top 5 to a Top 7 …
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Well there's nowt on TV tonight so I thought I would start the ball rolling & decided it was about time to do my Top 5 favourite 1982 tracks. These are in descending order:-
1) The Associates - Party Fears Two ( of course!! ) 2) PhD - I Won't Let You Down 3) The Stranglers - Strange Little Girl 4) Duran Duran - Save a Prayer 5) Blue Zoo - Cry Boy Cry. And just bubbling under is Tears for Fears - Mad World & Japan - Ghosts! ![]()
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I've mentioned in previous Top Of The Pops threads that from 1977 to about 1984 I used to compile a personal end of year top 40. I can't for the life of me remember what my number 1 was in 1982. Possibly (in fact most likely now I think of it) it was 'You're The One For Me' (Instrumental) by D Train. I do remember that up there in the top 10 were records such as 'A Night To Remember' by Shalamar, 'The Message' by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five', 'Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag' by Pigbag, 'Ghosts' by Japan and 'Mad World' by Tears For Fears.
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Incidentally we will soon be getting a new chart compiler for the weekly charts that are used by Top Of The Pops. On 27 December 1982 Gallup took over chart compilation duties from the British Market Research Bureau. The first chart to be compiled by Gallup was based on the sales week 27/12/82 to 01/01/83 and is the chart dated 8 January 1983. The last chart compiled by BMRB was dated 25/12/82 and is based on the sales week dated 13/12/82 to 18/12/82. As usual, no sales diaries were completed during Christmas week itself so sales from 20/12/82 to 25/12/82 are missed out completely.
At least when Gallup took over the old diary system came to an end and in its place were "dataports" in which the record shop assistant would type in the catalogue number of the single. The sales information was then submitted, initially once a week, later several times a week and then eventually every night, sent by modem down a telephone line to Gallup HQ. These dataports, which looked very clunky, were eventually replaced with a barcode reader, initially a method which involved the assistant swiping a barcode reader pen (or "wand") across the barcode. Eventually the barcode readers we are now more familiar with were introduced in the early to mid 1990s. Because there was no need to manually complete diaries Gallup were able to collect sales data 52 weeks of the year though at the end of 1983 a chart was compiled but never published and made public, the one that would have been dated 31/12/83 and based on sales from 19/12/83 to 24/12/83. The following year a new chart between the Christmas and New Year was compiled and published though Radio 1 never announced it as far as I am aware. but the chart, dated 29/12/84, was published in Record Mirror a week or two later. Little known is the fact that in May 1986 technological and computer system changes meant that Gallup started to compile the new chart on a Sunday but the chart was embargoed by Gallup until Tuesday 8am. Mike Smith, on the Breakfast Show on Radio 1, started to do a chart teaser feature on a Tuesday at 8am in that same month where he would play some new entries and drop hints about chart movement ahead of the new chart actually being revealed at lunchtime. Bizarrely the industry didn't want the chart day moving forward to the Sunday but rapidly falling listening figures on Radio 1's flagship chart show on a Sunday in 1986 and 1987 (in the face of competition from the Network Chart which was effectively a week ahead of Radio 1's Sunday chart recap) and pressure from Radio 1 itself saw the chart reveal day moved forward to a Sunday in October 1987. |
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I've mentioned in previous Top Of The Pops threads that from 1977 to about 1984 I used to compile a personal end of year top 40. I can't for the life of me remember what my number 1 was in 1982. Possibly (in fact most likely now I think of it) it was 'You're The One For Me' (Instrumental) by D Train. I do remember that up there in the top 10 were records such as 'A Night To Remember' by Shalamar, 'The Message' by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five', 'Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag' by Pigbag, 'Ghosts' by Japan and 'Mad World' by Tears For Fears.
Servalan has reminded me about Let Me Go by Heaven 17 which is one of the most underrated hits of the early 80s in my opinion. I don't know how it missed the top 40. Thankfully the public finally woke up to their potential with their next release Temptation in April 1983. There's an interesting video to go along with Let Me Go as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJrU9RIurFE |
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It's nice to know D Train's You're The One For Me was being appreciated at the time in 1982 despite not getting a play on Top of the Pops (which I think it should have done since it just got into the top 30).
Servalan has reminded me about Let Me Go by Heaven 17 which is one of the most underrated hits of the early 80s in my opinion. I don't know how it missed the top 40. Thankfully the public finally woke up to their potential with their next release Temptation in April 1983. There's an interesting video to go along with Let Me Go as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJrU9RIurFE I bought 4 of the first 5 singles that Heaven 17 released (all in 1981 and 1982), none of them made the top 40. The only one I didn't buy is the totally forgotten 'I'm Your Money'. I can't even remember that one. With 'Temptation' they seemed to decide to move in a more commercial direction, presumably to actually have a decent sized hit. I can remember an interview the band did with The Face magazine in 1981 or 1982 where they seemed to be very dismissive almost to the point of jealousy at the success their former bandmate was having with his version of The Human League. Indeed, they came over as sounding bitter that Virgin Records were pouring more money in to promoting the League ahead of themselves. Given that at least The Human League were having more success with a more commercial sound it's no surprise that Virgin were bankrolling them more. Heaven 17 were another act that I saw drinking in a pub when I was living in Notting Hill in 1987. They were often seen drinking in a pub called the Slug & Lettuce (a very 80s sounding name for a pub!) in Ladbroke Grove. As that pub was just around the corner from the Sarm West studios (owned by Trevor Horn and where Band Aid's single was recorded and filmed in 1984) and seeing as they released an album a few months later I assume they were busy recording that album at the time. By then their chart days seemed to be over, which remixes in the early 90s aside, it was. |
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) that the definitive version for me is the US remix by New York DJ legend Larry Levan, which I think may be easier to find now than it was at the time (there are also some dreadful 90s remixes - avoid like the plague!).

1982 is a vintage year with so much going for it (despite the likes of Rene & Renato and the Goombay Dance Band).
- I was going to do a Top 7 - but then I thought I'd need another 3 tracks just to make it a nice round Top 10 - & that would take me longer to think of...
