It was soooo much better growing up in the 80s & 90s than nowadays. Im from 69 so I was a teen in the 80s. All that great music in the charts. Even music from tv ads became no.1 hits. We had the REAL MTV and TOTP was still boss every Thursdaynight !!!
Haha, seems we're cut from the same cloth cuz I too was and still am to this day a moddish skinhead who loves ska/rocksteady/trojan reggae of the 60's and 2Tone of the 70/80s and remains an ever loyal Madness fan.
I've just remembered sooo much from my teenage years :) some good, some not so.... I could almost write a diary just by listening to this music. Thanks so much for sharing :)
Thank you for the effort you put into these 3 compilations. You took me from Sunday night bath times with the radio 1 charts to my first romance (via memories of a few embarrassing wedding discos, dodgy hairstyles and nerdy specs).
Great to listen to mine and others history. Remembered what I thought I'd forgot. Wonderful. The only thing that makes me sad is how the exciting diversity of the 70's trailed off into supermarket music for the masses. Hey I'm just a hippy at heart
overall, it is not bad, it is what it is. The British taste in music is much different than that in USA. i am more surprised at the dates of some US hits that years later hit #1 in UK. And yes, they like novelty songs or benefit songs, so what, we had novelty songs in the 50's through 70's, they are fun, you can't change the past, so enjoy the music
Thanks for the compilation. This is a reminder that for all the posts on YT slagging off modern day chart music, the end of the eighties was pretty poor-SAW ex soap stars, ancient sixties songs rehashed, charity records, & compliation records. The early nineties were a great improvement.
I agree, it was the sign of the times, they were changing, and not for the better. By the end of the 1980's the music had declined, what with rap, rave, in the 90's, that was the wave for that generation, the best was behind us, for me , the greatest music was from the 60's, 70,s and 80's, the story of my life. The 90's sucked.
@@Loverboy19691 nope, the 90s were great, huge rock tunes, massive club classics, cool pop tunes.. so diverse. The 80s was just the same 4 songs rearranged.
Absolutely fantastic effort on 60s 70s and 80s. Ive made the odd pedantic comment but put is not meant to be disparaging. Saved all of these to my favorites.
FANTASTICO! Just spent most of a cold Sunday afternoon going from 1960 to 1989 watching the whole lot. Romani, don´t take any notice of the complete w..kers who´ve been negative. It´s clearly taken a lot of time extracting the song clip, adding the pic, author, track and date a few hundred times so all credit to you. It´s not like you´re entering it for a competition, they don´t have to watch it, they´re getting it for free, if they don´t like it then they should try doing their own, or f... o.. I enjoyed it and it looks like loads of others did too. Cheers mate.
(PART 3) We are now in the final months of New Musical Express' and Melody Maker's own independently-compiled charts. The latter threw in the towel after the 4 June issue; the former - the last truly left standing - followed the next week. In each week after, both began publishing the "Network Top 50" from MRIB. So here we go: - "Beat Dis" by Bomb The Bass (NME, MM) - "Together Forever" by Rick Astley (NME, MM - the last "other" #1 to top these respective charts before being discontinued) The remaining "other" #1's in this period were MRIB only: - "The Twist (Yo, Twist)" by the Fat Boys With Chubby Checker - "We Call It Acieed" by D Mob Featuring Gary Haisman - "Leave Me Alone" by Michael Jackson - "If You Don't Know Me By Now" by Simply Red - "Eve Of The War" by Jeff Wayne - "Get A Life" by Soul II Soul In this stretch, those "official" #1's that did not top the other side were "(A) Groovy Kind Of Love" and "Let's Party."
Thanks for posting this. Having just watched your '70's set, it has reinforced my memory that the '70's was a much better decade musically. Good memories, though!
Watching now the re runs of Top Of The Pops, we are now on 1991. You can now see how much of the chart is dominated from bump bump bump dance music. Think from the late 90s and onwards it got rapidly shite. Now look what we have….
@@jane1975 The last one one spent just a week at #1 and dropped out of the charts after 10 weeks. Stars on 45 was better, that involved some singing - Joke Bunnystew involved mixing only.
Wow, 1988 89 are not good years, however, Belfast Child is awesome, and I like something's gotta hold of my heart, otherwise the other songs are bad, really bad, imo, no wonder singles sales dipped during this period. Having viewed previous sections, of the uploads overall, it is all very entertaining, thank-you.
You certainly had a lot of novelty songs over there. I feel they take airplay and sales from 'real' songs, and should only be played sporadically. Very interesting to see what UK number ones were never released or played here in the US.
@flitebuscuit: Yes interesting that the US didn't get the same as us here, only some UK bands were successful in the US. I guess different tastes and culture is down to that. Whilst the US experienced Grunge in the 1980's we didn't get that until the 1990's, along with satellite television which brought MTV to the UK amongst other channels.
I cannot thank you enough for lightening the intense tedium of a triple delayed train journey back to Hove. . Knew almost every one but had no recollection whatsoever of Jive Bunny? Did they really have all those hits. Who were they? And Ferry Aid? Where was I when all that happened? Watched all 3 parts and have to feel drawn to part one with groups like The Specials. Thank you very much.
Unfortunately, Jive Bunny did have all those hits! No idea who bought that rubbish but it wasn’t me! Ferry Aid came about after the car ferry, the Herald of Free Enterprise, capsized in the port of Zeebrugge, Belgium, in early 1987. The bow doors had been left open, amongst other critical errors.
They should have bought Move It or Devil Woman or countless others of his better ones,not the soppy saccharine ones. I could make a list of recommendations covering the late end of the 50s through to songs like Carrie at the start of the 80s.
I just can't believe Simple Minds - Don't you forget about me was never #1 !!!! What were you Brits thinking??? Greetings from South Africa - where it was #1 - LOL
+cafelanmobile It was certainly well in the top 4 or 5 around April/May 1985 amid some strong,on the whole,competition but you're right it could have been even bigger and wouldn't have looked out of place.
I was wondering exactly when it was that I failed to automatically know the #1 song as well as most of the top 20. It looks like it happened in early 88 which seems a good thing as A) Pop is for the young, not those approaching 30 as I was in 88 and B) There seemed to be an increasing amount of crap after then.
The biggest "disease" in the UK charts is the so called 'novelty song'. I despised them when I was young and I still despise listening to them today. Next in line is when tv soap stars were releasing records in droves - cringe worthy, most of them.
@Lucky Caledonian: Kylie was sweet though and is still doing it and was able to do it without S.A.W, and she is better than that awful actress in Neighbours currently. Cannot stick those duets of the 1980's like Renee and Renata, gross.
What a big difference between Part 1 and Part 3. SAW really ruled the charts then. What a strange combo of Marc Almond and Gene Pitney huh? I can see why I stopped listening to the top 40 and went country in the 90's.
I actually hated this youtube file... and to prove how much I hated it... i had to listen to it all the way through... so there... PS.. my wife also hated it... so we are now gonna find no.2... and we are gonna hate that one too... the only reason I hate this clip is 'cos I lived it... do not mind me... It was a hoot... bless you all
@Mike Jackson: I lived it also but I loved it, there are some good ones and there are some shite ones [ every decade has them- although imo there are more today than good].
Stuart Clegg, below, absolutely, after llistening to the 70's the 80's just don;t do it. As spursrule69 said, Stock Aitken and Dennis Waterman dumped all sorts of candyfloss crap into the charts of tthe time. YUK!
She had a few hits here but I think about number 4 was as high as she got,with Straight Up (her debut hit here in spring 1989) and Opposites Attract (spring 1990). As for Vibeology,it made the Top 20 of the UK singles chart in very early 1992.
Depeche Mode had two #1 albums in the UK charts, but both of them were in the 90's - Songs of Faith and Devotion released in the United Kingdom on 22 March 1993 where it debuted at #1 (lasted one week at #1) & Ultra released 14 April 1997 where it debuted at #1 (and lasted one week at #1 as well). The highest ranked Depeche Mode singles in the UK were "People are People" in 1984, "Barrel of a Gun" in 1997 and "Precious" in 2005 (all three reached #4). So, successful - Yes... But not quite a chart topping band as far as singles go.
