Dundee Lad

October 19th, 1984

Jumping ahead a few months and another singles chart that would’ve done nothing for me at the time and only stirs some minor joy now. Fucking Agadoo by Black Lace at #10 pretty much says it all. The albums chart is quite a bit better with two Stevie Ray Vaughan albums and an Iron Maiden album in the top 25 for the state.
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February 3rd, 1984

So we’ve jumped ahead a couple of years, thanks to the water damage mentioned in the notes about the charts.

This would’ve been a real meh! chart for me back then. About the only two songs I would’ve liked were In A Big Country by Big Country—still one of my all time favourite bands, who’s albums I still play regularly—and This is Not a Love Song by P.I.L. (I still like this and a lot of their music, even though I stopped liking Lydon way back in the late 80s. Back then it was because he told Richard Wilkins that Nelson Mandela was “nothing but a terrorist” when asked about the Free Nelson Mandela movement but nowadays it’s because he’s nothing but a fat, whiny, right-wing cunt). Even the Siouxsie & the Banshees cover of a Beatles song leaves me a bit cold because back then it felt like a total sell-out by the band.
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April 16th, 1982

Well, this week is pretty good. The usual mix of risible crap and sparkling gems but with some real classics. Highlights being Depeche Mode’s debut single, plus classics from Kraftwerk, The Stranglers, The Jam, Vangelis, Godley & Creme, Jon & Vangelis, and Madness, amongst others. Lowlights being Bernie Higgins, Cliff Richard, and Shakin’ Stevens.
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January 29th, 1982

Christ this is a painful one. Sure, you have some absolute classics from the likes of Johnny Warman, Pete Shelley, The Police, The Cars, and Laurie Anderson but then you have Barry Manilow, and Bucks Fizz in the fucking top 10.

42 years ago to the day; it was certainly a very different time.
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October 23rd, 1981

Only a week after the previous chart, so not much has changed…except that fucking monstrosity has moved one place higher. Holy shitballs, Batman!
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