...and the list goes on...

Aretha Franklin/George Michael -I Knew You Were Waiting For Me
Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right (To Party)
Mel & Kim -Respectable
Terence Trent D'Arby -If You Let Me Stay
Club Nouveau -Lean On Me
U2 -With Or Without You
Madonna -La Isla Bonita
Starship -Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
Whitney Houston -I Wanna Dance With Somebody
Crowded House -Don't Dream It's Over
Firm -Star Trekkin'
Heart -Alone
Hue & Cry -Labour Of Love
Pet Shop Boys -It's A Sin
Bananarama -Love in the First Degree
Madonna -Who's That Girl
New Order -True Faith
Rick Astley -Never Gonna Give You Up
T'Pau -Heart & Soul
Black -Wonderful Life
Whitney Houston -Didn't We Almost Have It All
MARRS -Pump Up The Volume
Bee Gees You Win Again
Fleetwood Mac -Little Lies
Michael Jackson -Bad
Billy Idol -Mony Mony
George Michael -Faith
T'Pau -China In Your Hand
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - The Time Of My Life
Michael Jackson -The Way You Make Me Feel
Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl -Fairytale Of New York
Belinda Carlisle -Heaven Is A Place On Earth
Pet Shop Boys -Always On My Mind

Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right (To Party) 4
Club Nouveau -Lean On Me 0.  What a terrible, terrible song.  There are so many bad things I could say about this song, but I don't feel like writing a novel right now!
U2 -With Or Without You 3.5
Madonna -La Isla Bonita 3.5
Starship -Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now Awful. 1.5
Whitney Houston -I Wanna Dance With Somebody 2.5
Crowded House -Don't Dream It's Over 4
Heart -Alone I know how this goes, trust me, just gotta think...
T'Pau -Heart & Soul It's
Whitney Houston -Didn't We Almost Have It All No. 2
Fleetwood Mac -Little Lies Nowhere near their best... 2.5
Michael Jackson -Bad Nice job decribing the song title. 2
Billy Idol -Mony Mony Original was better.  This is long, overrated, long, annoying, and long. 1
George Michael -Faith 3.5
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - The Time Of My Life This used to be my favorite song awhile ago.  I was in love with it!  Now I give it a 3.5... still a good song.
Michael Jackson -The Way You Make Me Feel 3
Belinda Carlisle -Heaven Is A Place On Earth 3.5

Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right (To Party) 4
Club Nouveau -Lean On Me 1 it's so annoying
U2 -With Or Without You 4
Madonna -La Isla Bonita  0
Starship -Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now  3.5
Whitney Houston -I Wanna Dance With Somebody 3
Firm -Star Trekkin'  4
Heart -Alone  3.5
Bananarama -Love in the First Degree 4
Madonna -Who's That Girl  0
Rick Astley -Never Gonna Give You Up 3.5
T'Pau -Heart & Soul   3.7
Whitney Houston -Didn't We Almost Have It All 2
Fleetwood Mac -Little Lies 3.5
Michael Jackson -Bad  3.5
Billy Idol -Mony Mony  4
George Michael -Faith  3.5
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - The Time Of My Life 4
Michael Jackson -The Way You Make Me Feel  4.5
Belinda Carlisle -Heaven Is A Place On Earth  4
Pet Shop Boys -Always On My Mind  4

Aretha Franklin/George Michael -I Knew You Were Waiting For Me :???
Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right (To Party)  4
Mel & Kim -Respectable :???
Terence Trent D'Arby -If You Let Me Stay :???
Club Nouveau -Lean On Me 2...why did they mess with a great song from Bill WIthers?
U2 -With Or Without You 4.5
Madonna -La Isla Bonita  2.5
Starship -Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now 3
Whitney Houston -I Wanna Dance With Somebody 3
Crowded House -Don't Dream It's Over 4.5
Firm -Star Trekkin' shoot....I know I know it.....
Heart -Alone 4
Hue & Cry -Labour Of Love :???
Pet Shop Boys -It's A Sin :???
Bananarama -Love in the First Degree:???
Madonna -Who's That Girl :???
New Order -True Faith :???
Rick Astley -Never Gonna Give You Up  3.75    he is a great soul singer
T'Pau -Heart & Soul  2.5  cant stand this song
Black -Wonderful Life:???
Whitney Houston -Didn't We Almost Have It All :???
MARRS -Pump Up The Volume  2  why did I think this was later?
Bee Gees You Win Again :???
Fleetwood Mac -Little Lies 3.5
Michael Jackson -Bad 3
Billy Idol -Mony Mony 3.5  decent cover
George Michael -Faith  3.75
T'Pau -China In Your Hand :???  werent they one hit wonders?
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - The Time Of My Life 3.75
Michael Jackson -The Way You Make Me Feel  4
Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl -Fairytale Of New York:???  unfortunatly, I never got into the Pogues
Belinda Carlisle -Heaven Is A Place On Earth 1 utter crap
Pet Shop Boys -Always On My Mind 2  utter crap

Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right (To Party) 4.5
Club Nouveau -Lean On Me  1.5 - barf.
U2 -With Or Without You 3
Whitney Houston -I Wanna Dance With Somebody 4
Rick Astley -Never Gonna Give You Up 3.5 - strangely addicting
Michael Jackson -Bad 5
Billy Idol -Mony Mony 2 - I just don't like this song
George Michael -Faith  1.5
Michael Jackson -The Way You Make Me Feel 3.5
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - Time Of My Life 4

Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right (To Party) 4
U2 -With Or Without You 2 I dont like U2
Madonna -La Isla Bonita 4
Starship -Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now 5 LOVE THIS SONG
Whitney Houston -I Wanna Dance With Somebody 3
Madonna -Who's That Girl 5 great song and great movie
Rick Astley -Never Gonna Give You Up 3
Whitney Houston -Didn't We Almost Have It All 3
George Michael -Faith 2
T'Pau -China In Your Hand 4
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - The Time Of My Life 4+
Michael Jackson -The Way You Make Me Feel 3
Pet Shop Boys -Always On My Mind 3


I'm adding this one because I just downloaded it:

Fleetwood Mac -Little Lies 4

Aretha Franklin/George Michael -I Knew You Were Waiting  For Me  3
Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right (To Party)  3
Club Nouveau -Lean On Me  I like the beat in this one!  4
U2 -With Or Without You  I will always prefer early-80's U2, but this one was pretty good.  4
Madonna -La Isla Bonita  4
Starship -Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now  
Whitney Houston -I Wanna Dance With Somebody  0
Crowded House -Don't Dream It's Over  Good band.  5 :)
Heart -Alone  4
Pet Shop Boys -It's A Sin  3
Bananarama -Love in the First Degree  OMG, is this a remake of the classic Alabama song? :o
Madonna -Who's That Girl  3
New Order -True Faith  Great dance number!  5
Rick Astley -Never Gonna Give You Up  3.5
T'Pau -Heart & Soul  Love this one!  5 8)  
Whitney Houston -Didn't We Almost Have It All  1
MARRS -Pump Up The Volume  3.5
Fleetwood Mac -Little Lies  Not their best.  3
Michael Jackson -Bad  2
Billy Idol -Mony Mony  4
George Michael -Faith  3.5
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - The Time Of My Life  Loved the movie, love the song too!  5 8)
Michael Jackson -The Way You Make Me Feel  2.5
Belinda Carlisle -Heaven Is A Place On Earth  3
Pet Shop Boys -Always On My Mind  I don't like this song, no matter who sings it.  1

Aretha Franklin/George Michael -I Knew You Were Waiting For Me 3
Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right (To Party) 2.5 - done better
Mel & Kim -Respectable 3
Terence Trent D'Arby -If You Let Me Stay Good song 4
Club Nouveau -Lean On Me I like this cover- sorry :( 3.5
U2 -With Or Without You my fav of theirs, it all goes downhill from there 4
Madonna -La Isla Bonita Good song 4
Starship -Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now ahh the memories - 4
Whitney Houston -I Wanna Dance With Somebody ditto the above comment, with a funny story which involves my grandad mistaking Whitney for Michael Jackson?? ;D
Crowded House -Don't Dream It's Over How did this song not manage to break the top 20 first time round? Fantastic 4
Firm -Star Trekkin' 'It's life Jim, but not as we know it'' hehe 2
Heart -Alone 4
Hue & Cry -Labour Of Love 3
Pet Shop Boys -It's A Sin Probably my second favourite of theirs 4
Bananarama -Love in the First Degree 2
Madonna -Who's That Girl fantastic - one of me favs :) 4
New Order -True Faith ditto the above 4
Rick Astley -Never Gonna Give You Up his dancing makes me laugh - his voice doesn't match his appearance! 3
T'Pau -Heart & Soul 3
Black -Wonderful Life 3.5
Whitney Houston -Didn't We Almost Have It All 4
MARRS -Pump Up The Volume groundbreaking, 3
Bee Gees -You Win Again 3
Fleetwood Mac -Little Lies 2
Michael Jackson -Bad 2 chamooon!
Billy Idol -Mony Mony 3
George Michael -Faith 3
T'Pau -China In Your Hand 4
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - The Time Of My Life 4 - love the film too :)
Michael Jackson -The Way You Make Me Feel 4
Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl -Fairytale Of New York great Xmas song :]
Belinda Carlisle -Heaven Is A Place On Earth 4
Pet Shop Boys -Always On My Mind 3

And here we go again...

Aretha & George - I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) 2 - on paper it should've worked, but a weak song destroys it...
Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right 4 - fine slab of 'punk-rap'...
Mel & Kim - Respectable 1 - horrid, plastic piece of dance fluff...
Terence Trent D'Arby - If You Let Me Stay 4 - a very good pop-soul attempt, his pipes going ten to the dozen on it...
Club Nouveau - Lean On Me 1 - sucked all the life out of a great song...
U2 - With Or Without You 2 - typical U2 fare...all gee-tar and impassioned vocals...heard one, heard 'em all...
Madonna - La Isla Bonita 3 - a change of style with the flamenco-type guitar...doesn't mask the fact that it's a average song...
Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now 2 - big, overblown power-ballad affair...group had become something of a joke with this...
Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody 1 - ...and the bland played on...
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over 4 - fine song with McCartney-esque overtones...has become something of a modern-day 'standard'...
Firm - Star Trekkin' 1 - was funny for about 20 seconds...
Heart - Alone 4 - fine power-ballad...
Hue & Cry - Labour Of Love 4 - one you don't hear too much of these days...good, funky-ish tune which they couldn't quite follow-up...
Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin 3 - overblown and over-produced...attracted some controversy with its melody, which is almost the same as Cat Stevens' 'Wild World'...
Bananarama - Love In The First Degree 3 - fairly basic but catchy pop-dance fodder...heh! Relax CF! This isn't the Alabama song...
Madonna - Who's That Girl 2 - Madge in a bit of a rut...fairly ho-hum...
New Order - True Faith 2 - never really appealed...began to lose their edge a bit...
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up 4 - defining '80's song, which could've been worse but somehow wasn't...
T'Pau - Heart & Soul 2 - bit heavy-going and not very memorable...
Black - Wonderful Life 2 - a song that I've inadvertantly heard more times than I need to...sleep-inducing...
Whitney Houston - Didn't We Almost Have It All 1 - another piece of Whitney-by-numbers...
MARRS - Pump Up The Volume 3 - where sampling really came into its own...largely groundbreaking at the time, now it sounds truly dated...
Bee Gees - You Win Again 2 - would've been a fairly good song if not for the clumsy beat in it...
Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies 3 - sub-standard attempt from the Mac...have done infintely better...
Michael Jackson - Bad 2 - all sequencers, samples and yowling...he'd really began to sink from here...
Billy Idol - Mony Mony 3 - competent-enough cover, but adds nothing to TJ's original...
George Michael - Faith 3 - about the best thing he done solowise...
T'Pau - China In Your Hand 3 - slightly more bearable than the last, but slips into overblown mode alarmingly quickly...
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - Time Of My Life 4 - good performance from both, if a touch over-exposed...
Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel 2 - 'cutesy' song which had quite a few of us shaking our heads...
Pogues & Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York 5 - Shane's voice grates me almost every time, apart from this one song where it just seems to work...lyrics are sheer poetry...
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth 3 - fair effort, but she's done better...
Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind 2 - seemed like a good idea at the time, but is really nothing extraordinary...

It's 1987. It's . . . Another song rating session!  ;D

'I knew you were waiting' - Aretha Franklin/George Michael
I love this song. Strong and powerful - 4
'Fight for your right to party' - Beastie Boys
Nothing special . . . - 2
'Respectable' - Mel and Kim
This is plastic pop . . . but I love it - 4
'If you let me stay' - Terence Trent D'Arby
Great song by a bloke you rarely see these days - 4
'Lean on me' - Club Nouveau
I love the synthesizer to this song - 4
'With or without you - U2'
A bit of a bore really - 1
'La Isla Bonita' - Madonna
Allright - 3
'Nothing's gonna stop us now' - Starship
A wonderful power ballad that deserved better than being a soundtrack for the film 'Mannequin'
'I wanna dance with somebody' - Whitney Houston
This is great stuff. The blippy beat is great - 4
'Don't dream it's over' - Crowded House
O.K I don't have much of an opinion on it - 2
'Star Trekkin' - The Firm
Quite an oddity. The video was good. - 3
'Alone' - Heart
In the year of the power ballad, this song fits in well - 3
'Labour of love' - Hue and Cry
This was something different. Wonderful stuff from the Scottish lads - Looking for Linda was a great song as well - 5
'It's a sin' - Pet Shop Boys
It's allright. A little bit too 'oomphy' - 3
'Love in the first degree' - Bananarama
From S/A/Ws Hit Factory, for me this is the 'Ramas best song - 4
'Who's that girl?' - Madonna
I keep confusing this with Eurythmics song of the same title, therefore can't be that memorable - 2
'True Faith' - New Order
Nice if a little plodding - 3
'Never gonna give you up' - Rick Astley
I love this song! This is the best song of 1987. That man from Newton-Le-Willows knew how to sing a song - 5
'Heart and soul' - T'Pau
Not really bothered about it . . . 2
'Wonderful life' - Black
Touching song with a haunting melody. I think it was a chocolate advert at one point - 3
'Didn't we almost have it all' - Whitney Houston
BORING! - 1
'Pump up the volume' - M/A/R/R/S
A collection of DJs came together to score an original (for it's time) number one hit - 3
'You win again' - Bee Gees
One of their best. - 4
'Little Lies' - Fleetwood Mac
One of the first I heard of Fleetwood Macs. I think it scores a little more because Stevie Nicks is not singing it - 3
'Bad' - Michael Jackson
This started off the confusion of the English Language. Everybody said they were 'bad' when they meant 'good' - 2
'Mony Mony' - Billy Idol
It's a safe cover but I prefer Tommy James and The Shondells version - 3
'Faith' - George Michael
I used to hate this song. I can live with it now - 3
'China in your hand' - T'Pau
A power ballad that could have been excellent, I consider it good - 3
'I had the time of my life' - Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes
A cracking soundtrack to the 'Dirty Dancing' film - 4
'The way you made me feel' - Michael Jackson
I like this bouncy tune. Catchy - 3
'Fairytale of New York' - Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl
This is a great Christmas song by the bloke that sounds like Bob Geldoff - 4
'Heaven is a place on Earth' - Bellinda Carlisle
A powerful song by the wobbly voiced girl from The Go-Gos - 3
'Always on my mind' - Pet Shop Boys
Ah! This is a classic! This is the only version I will listen to and love. Dramatic production - 5

Could we rate 'La Bamba' by Los Lobos as well? I'll give that a 4.