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I don't know about 'The Power Of Goodbye' being just a untouchable ballad it's my personal favorite Madonna track!
It didn't go top five did it did it? I always felt it should have been the third single from the album.
25. Heartbreaker by DIONNE WARWICK
Year 1982
UK peak #2, My mind #1
Sales 503,000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5xhQ...eature=related
At last, out first song to sell over half a million copies. It's a bit of a choon as well- written for Ms Warwick by none other than the Bee Gees- and they have two other writing credits in the top 20 too. Apparantly Dionne wasn't keen on this song but recorded it as she was assured it would be a hit. She was a smart cookie as it became her biggest solo hit in the UK.
Last edited by The Visitor; May 17, 2012 at 10:03.
Great song by a great singer!
Fantastic record by one of the best pop singers of all time but I'm 100% certain it never got to #1.
Check you lipstick before you come and talk to me.............. Let's go Zi Lin!!!
...and you would be correct! #2 was its peak.
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'I'll Never Love This Way Again' is my all time favorite Dionne Warwick track. Quite shocking it never even made the top 50 in the UK charts.......what's wrong with people!!!
I think that may have been a freudian slip. My browser shut down and I had to type it again (which is why I'm moving so slowly with this), and I typed it up again very quickly. Let's face it, it should have been a chart topper.
24. Upside Down by DIANA ROSS
Year 1980
UK peak #2
Sales 505,000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvR9rOCiMrE&feature=fvst
Another classic, this was the lead single from the Diana album, produced by Nile Rogers of Chic. That was Diana's final album with the Motown label which she was so associated with. Although it peaked at #2, Diana can console herself with the fact that it was kept at number 2 by one of the greatest songs of all time, The Winner Takes It All by ABBA.
I don't get this song - never have. It's just so... blah.
I'd have been devastated if it had knocked The Winner Takes it All off the top.
23. Kids In America by KIM WILDE
Year 1981
UK peak #2
Sales 515, 000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzdHxqwTO-4&ob=av2e
So Dame Kim's biggest hit is her very first, Kids In America. Upto this, Kim had been singing backing vocals on her brothers records but was discovered by a record producer and pushed forward as a star. This classic was kept off number 1 by This Ole House by Shakin' Stevens. Oh the ignominy........
Seems like there's only legendary songs left at this point! Exciting!!
Kids In America is my favourite song of all time. Kim Wilde is amazing!
I used to like Shaky (still do) but Kids In America was robbed!
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Heartbreaker is such an amazing song.
The Bee Gees are underrated I think in terms of their songwriting (particularly for other artists). There's something about their lyrics that really push buttons within. I've said it before but 'Why do you have to be a heartbreaker when I was being what you want me to be?' is one of the most crushing lyrics ever. Whenever I hear it it still gives me this weird tugging feeling in the back of my throat.
Chain Reaction, Grease, Woman in Love, Islands in the Stream, How Deep is Your Love, Night Fever, Stayin' Alive, More Than a Woman and Tragedy are all amazing songs written/performed by them.
22. True Blue by MADONNA
Year 1986
UK peak #1 for 1 week
Sales 522,000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb8akXtOCaI
The title track to her 3rd album, became her 3rd single from it, and duly topped the UK charts for 1 week before being knocked off by Nick Berry of all people. Sounding very much like a 1950s pistache, and I think Eastenders got their idea for Pat Butcher's look from the video.True Blue is allegedly about her then husband Sean Penn. No wonder she always leaves it off compilation albums.
Last edited by The Visitor; May 19, 2012 at 11:42.
It almost feels like a forgotten Madonna track. It so deserved to be included on Celebration and The Immaculate Collection!
Last edited by rashidhk81; May 19, 2012 at 14:16.
Christ, it sold THAT MANY copies and was still left off her greatest hits collections? Madness. I desperately want the single mix of this, damn you Sean Penn!
21. So Macho/Cruisin by SINITTA
Year 1986
UK peak #2
Sales 532,000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7DqwRKqyMk&ob=av2e
I'm tired of taking the lead, I want a man to dominate me. Preach girl.
Simon Cowell's girlfriend scored her first and biggest hit with this camp little ditty, but it did have to be released 3 times before it finally became a hit. Question is, is the biggest fag hag of all time actually homophobic? Remember the top of the pops performances where she did the limp wristed action to the boy who thinks he's a girl line?
The song it self is as camp as tits, but below is a section Gezza76 wrote on it for Haven music forums:
Sometimes the story of a song is far more interesting than the song itself- "So Macho" is one of those songs. Of course Sinitta was at the time girlfriend of one Simon Cowell, and the hit was the first big hit for the Fanfare Label that gave Cowell his break in the music business. Sinitta meanwhile had been in Hot Gossip (the dancers on the Kenny Everatt Show), as well as an entrant in song for europe (though she failed to get to the Eurovision Song contest and had pretty much been a failed popstar since 1983 (as an aside she also appears in the video for Forrest's 1983 top 10 hit "Rock The Boat") so that's where we're at come 1986.
Now Cowell approached writer George Hargreaves to write a record for Sinitta and "So Macho" was the result. What is interesting in watching Sinitta perform this at TOTP is the about face that appears to have taken place in the UK between 1984 and 1986- this, I conjecture, is due to AIDS. Witness the line "Or a boy who thinks he's a girl" Sinitta does the famous "Limp Wristed" movement which, as we all know for our childhood days, is the universal sign for a gayer. From the gay friendly, and obviously gay anthems of 84 we seem now to have done a full 180 degree about face- now it is heterosexual sex which has reclaimed the centre place, promiscuity, straight culture (and whilst never exactly being out of fashion) is now re-asserting it's muscle on the pop landscape, it mocks the stars and the themes of only 24 months earlier. Hargreaves, the writer, is now a religious minister and political spokesman for the christian Party (UK) and has made rather outspoken negative remarks on the subject on hiomosexuality during the 00s.
"So Macho" is therefore a record of deep contradictions, it's HI-Energy (A medium associated with gay clubs), it clearly references the Village People's "Macho Man" from 1978, and considering Sinitta's future productions with S/A/W for the remainder of the 80s, it was from the gay market that she sustained much of her career, but in 1986 it was perfectly acceptable to mock homosexuality in a place like TOTP that only recently was a showcase for it's talent, and what allowed that was the emergence of AIDS, stright culture's ultimate revenge on gay culture (or at least that's how it was seen back in 1986)
For all those reasons "So Macho" is a much more interesting record than I ever deemed it to be, of course as a song it's a piece of camp fun, throwaway pop that is unashamed of what it is, and for that I can't fault it, but all is not what it appears!
In theme "So Macho" is not that distant from "It's Raining Men" for example, same theme (sexual avarice and promiscuity) same medium (Hi- Energy) and both sung by female acts, but don't you notice that deep difference down under the surface? In the year of Sam Fox's Chart emergance also, sexual promiscuity, provided it's straight, is the now back in the camp of the righteous....
So top 20 time- any of you want to make predictions as to the next song out?
Don't we still have quite a number of Madonna and Michael Jackson singles to go? I'm guessing it'll be one of those two. Maybe La Isla Bonita (or have we had that? I can't remember!!!)
So you like show tunes? That doesn't mean you're gay. It just means you're AWFUL!!!
Jennifer Rush's "Power of Love" must be number 1. I'm sure it was the highest selling female solo single for years. I thought "Ring of Ice" may have been on the lower reaches of this chart.
Madonna or Kylie to go next maybe? Or Tiffany's "I Think We're Alone Now".
Has Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" been on yet? I can't remember.
Last edited by rashidhk81; May 20, 2012 at 17:05.
I swear I read somewhere that So Macho sold around 900k by the third re-release?
But the lyrics of 'So macho' could quite easily be from the viewpoint of a gay man out on the pull for a big hairy macho bear. So he's off to XXL or Fire instead of the campers at GAY. In fact, that was pretty much taken as who the target audience was. The culture at the time thought it was OK to take the piss out of the effeminate (look at 'comedians' like Duncan Norvelle). I would be astounded if Sinitta, as the daughter of the singer who sang 'So many men, so little time' could be homophobic!
Haha I've just realised that it's unlikely Michael Jackson will be making an appearance in this chart. I think I may be getting confused with the Top 100 albums thread!Originally Posted by bichard
So you like show tunes? That doesn't mean you're gay. It just means you're AWFUL!!!
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