...Ooh, it's the last yr of the 80s...

Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy
Marc Almond/Gene Pitney - Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart
Mike & Mechanics - The Living Years
Bangles - Eternal Flame
Michael Jackson - Leave Me Alone
Paula Abdul - Straight Up
Jason Donovan - Too Many Broken Hearts
Madonna - Like A Prayer
Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don't Care
Simply Red - If You Don't Know Me By Now
Cyndi Lauper - I Drove All Night
Neneh Cherry - Manchild
Beautiful South - Song For Whoever
Madonna - Express Yourself
Soul II Soul feat. Caron Wheeler - Back To Life
Sonia - You'll Never Stop Me From Loving You
Alice Cooper - Poison
Kylie Minogue - Wouldn't Change A Thing
Black Box - Ride On Time
Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time
Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting
Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire  
Milli Vanilli - Girl I'm Gonna Miss You
Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On
Kaoma - Lambada
Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise
Lisa Stansfield - All Around The World
New Kids On The Block - You Got It (The Right Stuff)
Linda Ronstadt feat. Aaron Neville - Don't Know Much
Stone Roses - Fool's Gold
De La Soul - (3 is)The Magic Number

Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy 2
Mike & Mechanics - The Living Years 4
Bangles - Eternal Flame 2
Paula Abdul - Straight Up I don't like Paula Abdul! 1.5
Madonna - Like A Prayer 3
Simply Red - If You Don't Know Me By Now 3
Cyndi Lauper - I Drove All Night Only know Celine's...
Madonna - Express Yourself 3.5
Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time 2
Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting 3
Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire Addicting.  4
Milli Vanilli - Girl I'm Gonna Miss You 2.5
Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise 4
New Kids On The Block - You Got It (The Right Stuff) 3
Linda Ronstadt feat. Aaron Neville - Don't Know Much 3

Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy  it was alright at first, but now is completely annoying...2.75
Marc Almond/Gene Pitney - Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart  woah, Gene Pitney had a hit in the 80s?   I don tknow this song at all!
Mike & Mechanics - The Living Years :???
Bangles - Eternal Flame 3.5  their best
Michael Jackson - Leave Me Alonejust plain out weird....and bad...2
Paula Abdul - Straight Up  2
Jason Donovan - Too Many Broken Hearts :???
Madonna - Like A Prayer  3.75 her best
Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don't Care:???
Simply Red - If You Don't Know Me By Now  3  I prefer the original
Cyndi Lauper - I Drove All Night  3
Neneh Cherry - Manchild :???
Beautiful South - Song For Whoever :???
Madonna - Express Yourself   2.5
Soul II Soul feat. Caron Wheeler - Back To Life :???
Sonia - You'll Never Stop Me From Loving You :???
Alice Cooper - Poison   I dont know...this song seems out of place...not at all like his better earlier stuff 3
Kylie Minogue - Wouldn't Change A Thing :???
Black Box - Ride On Time :???
Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time  2.75
Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting  3.75
Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire  3.75  a good history lesson
Milli Vanilli - Girl I'm Gonna Miss You 1
Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On :???
Kaoma - Lambada :???
Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise 3.75
Lisa Stansfield - All Around The World :???
New Kids On The Block - You Got It (The Right Stuff)  THis song real-ly sucks...baby.... 2
Linda Ronstadt feat. Aaron Neville - Don't Know Much shoot...I think I know it
Stone Roses - Fool's Gold unfortunatly, they were another band I never got into
De La Soul - (3 is)The Magic Number :???

Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy 3
Mike & Mechanics - The Living Years  2
Bangles - Eternal Flame  2
Paula Abdul - Straight Up 2
Madonna - Like A Prayer 1
Cyndi Lauper - I Drove All Night  2
Madonna - Express Yourself  0
Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time 4
Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting 4
Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire  4
Kaoma - Lambada 2.5
Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise  4
New Kids On The Block - You Got It (The Right Stuff) 2.5
Linda Ronstadt feat. Aaron Neville - Don't Know Much  3

Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy  3.5
Mike & Mechanics - The Living Years  5
Bangles - Eternal Flame  I got real tired of this one.  3
Paula Abdul - Straight Up  3.5
Madonna - Like A Prayer  3
Simply Red - If You Don't Know Me By Now  3
Madonna - Express Yourself  2.5
Alice Cooper - Poison  2.5
Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time  3.5
Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting  I prefer his other hits.  3
Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire  3  
Milli Vanilli - Girl I'm Gonna Miss You  3
Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise  4
Lisa Stansfield - All Around The World  3.5
New Kids On The Block - You Got It (The Right Stuff)  These guys were better than the boy bands of today.  3
Linda Ronstadt feat. Aaron Neville - Don't Know Much  3
 

Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy 2.5
Bangles - Eternal Flame  3.5 - Underneath your clothes, there's an inner story... ;)
Michael Jackson - Leave Me Alone 4
Paula Abdul - Straight Up 4.5 - I like it...
Madonna - Like A Prayer 2 - not one of my favorites...
Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time 4
Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire  5
New Kids On The Block - You Got It (The Right Stuff) 2

Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy Not exactly brilliant, although my fav of theirs 3.5
Marc Almond/Gene Pitney - Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart 2 never got into this
Mike & Mechanics - The Living Years 2.5 much prefer 'Over My Shoulder' from '96
Bangles - Eternal Flame An all-time favourite of mine however much it's been played, beautiful - 5
Michael Jackson - Leave Me Alone it's going downhill MJ 2
Paula Abdul - Straight Up 2
Jason Donovan - Too Many Broken Hearts hehe - awful song - although I loved him as a child! I gotta give it a 3 for the memories :]
Madonna - Like A Prayer Used to be my favourite of hers, but gets overplayed - 3.5
Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don't Care No we're talking - fantastic tune 5
Simply Red - If You Don't Know Me By Now Nver liked the song, never liked Simply Red 1
Cyndi Lauper - I Drove All Night The best version of this song - not her best though, still a 4
Neneh Cherry - Manchild Ok - 3
Beautiful South - Song For Whoever Their best - relaly showed their strange humour! 4
Madonna - Express Yourself Funky - 4
Soul II Soul feat. Caron Wheeler - Back To Life Used to adore this 4
Sonia - You'll Never Stop Me From Loving You Hehe - another good pop tune from SAW - 3
Alice Cooper - Poison Used to scare me when this song was out - i was only 5! 2
Kylie Minogue - Wouldn't Change A Thing Possibly my favourite SAW Kylie hit - was my idol back in the day :] 4
Black Box - Ride On Time Great party song 4
Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time Nver been a huge Cher fan 2
Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting Beautiful 4
Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire  3
Milli Vanilli - Girl I'm Gonna Miss You Hehe 1
Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On 2.5
Kaoma - Lambada I really like this 4
Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise I love the music to this 4
Lisa Stansfield - All Around The World 3
New Kids On The Block - You Got It (The Right Stuff) Gets old really fast! 2
Linda Ronstadt feat. Aaron Neville - Don't Know Much ok 3
Stone Roses - Fool's Gold Ok - everyone keeps telling me that I should be into them, but really can't! 2
De La Soul - (3 is)The Magic Number Like this 3.5

'89...almost there...!

Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy 3 - good song for its time, but hasn't aged that well...
Marc Almond & Gene Pitney - Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart 3 - typically melodramatic Almond performance with the unmistakable tones of Pitney thrown in...sadly, song's not that great...even Pitney's original (1967) wasn't...
Mike & The Mechanics - The Living Years 3 - rousing sentimentality all over it, if a bit sickly...co-written by long-forgotten past UK hitmaker, B A Robertson...
Bangles - Eternal Flame 3 - like FYC, good at the time, but a tad tiresome now...
Michael Jackson 2 - or, how to screw the public big time...this was only available on CD issues of 'Bad' which, after a lot of people had bought it for this track, was suddenly released as a single! Still mediocre...
Paula Abdul - Straight Up 2 - somewhat corny piece of dance-pop...
Jason Donovan - Too Many Broken Hearts 3 - Teen scream of 1989, and another Aussie soap star! More SAW disposable pop, enjoyable enough...
Madonna - Like A Prayer 4 - after some lacklustre releases, Madge got back on form for a while with this...good gospel-ish refrain near the end...
Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don't Care 4 - what on earth happened to this lot? An absolute racket, which somehow seems to work...!
Simply Red - If You Don't Know Me By Now 1 - on the evidence of this, Mr Hucknall, sometimes I wish I didn't...!
Cyndi Lauper - I Drove All Night 2 - not as enjoyable as some of her stuff...weak song...
Neneh Cherry - Manchild 3 - shuffling 'trip-hop' affair, which I normally wouldn't like, but has a fine melody attached...loses points for that unneccessary 'rap' near the end...
Beautiful South - Song For Whoever 3 - listenable, but tends to meander into nothingness...
Madonna - Express Yourself 2 - just as it was picking up, Madge lets her guard down again with this piece of forgettable dance pap...
Soul II Soul - Back To Life 2 - couldn't really see the attraction of this group...slow and lazy dance stuff...sloppy...
Sonia - You'll Never Stop Me Loving You 2 - yet another SAW poppet with a cutesy tune which, presumably, Kylie wouldn't touch with a bargepole...!
Alice Cooper - Poison 2 - back comes Vince with a rousing number which sadly doesn't really go anywhere...
Kylie Minogue - Wouldn't Change A Thing 3 - okay...but weren't they all starting to sound the same by now...?
Black Box - Ride On Time 2 - the first Italian act to top the British chart, this was the work of a couple of Italian DJ's, who sampled Loleatta Holloway's 'Love Reaction' to within an inch of its life...bit of a yawn though...
Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time 3 - several visits to the plastic surgeon later, Cher returned with this ho-hum affair...
Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting 4 - very pretty uncluttered ballad from the man more akin to power ballads and rockers...nice enough...
Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire 4 - the chorus refrain is one of his weakest, but there's no denying the man credit for an extremely clever piece of lyric work...
Milli Vanilli - Girl I'm Gonna Miss You 1 - I bet the Girl's heartbroken...! Pap!
Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On 3 - bearable rouser, can get a bit ho-hum here and there...
Kaoma - Lambada 4 - Ah! The dance craze of '89 where complete strangers would suddenly press themselves up against you seductively for no apparent reason...I did keep telling the gentlemen I wasn't interested, but...!
Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise 3 - typical Phil ballad with a thinly-disguised bit of social commentary thrown in...did grate after a few listens...
Lisa Stansfield - All Around The World 3 - a song that I would have liked more, but it just sounds too 'safe' for its own good...
New Kids On The Block - You Got It (The Right Stuff) 3 - yep! With a little bit of hype, we eventually got it all right...! Probably about the most bearable thing they came up with...
Linda & Aaron - Don't Know Much 3 - fine singers both, but this song doesn't do 'em credit...
Stone Roses - Fool's Gold 2 - the shape of things to come, when Indie music made its presence felt on the dancefloor...it was time for me to call it a day...!
De La Soul - The Magic Number 3 - odd rap trio with a flair for odd samples...don't hear this much now...


And that, folks, is that...!
I won't be going beyond '89, as the music of the '90's held little appeal for me...a bit out of my league, methinks...! But I'll keep having a gander at 'em from time to time...
It's been a real ball looking back over them last 11 years...hope some of my comments made some sense to you...! (Well, some of you, at least!)
Criz - thanks again...!

I loved the music of 1989 . . .

Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy
Roland Gift's voice almost made this song unbearable to listen to (like biting into an ice lolly and juddering). The chords couldn't make me hate it - 4
Marc Almond/Gene Pitney - Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart
Odd colloboration here but I think seemed to work well. The video was poor though (based in a fair) - 3
Mike & Mechanics - The Living Years
Too slushy and not risible, therefore don't like this song - 2
Bangles - Eternal Flame
Bangles did this song better than Atomic Kitten - 3
Michael Jackson - Leave Me Alone
Song was rubbish, video was great - 2
Paula Abdul - Straight Up
Strong electronic beat grabbed me - 3
Jason Donovan - Too Many Broken Hearts
Love this slice of S/A/W. In the video, Jason walks along a piece of landscape playing his electric guitar - with no amplifier in sight guffaw! 4
Madonna - Like A Prayer
Controversial video couldn't disguise this rousing track - 4
Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don't Care
Wendy James revving it up with a classic piece of rock - 4
Simply Red - If You Don't Know Me By Now
Harold Melvin and The Bluenote's version bored me to tears. There was no way this was going to fair better - 1
Cyndi Lauper - I Drove All Night
Was this Roy Orbison's song? A poor version - 2
Neneh Cherry - Manchild
Sophorific rubbish - 2
Beautiful South - Song For Whoever
Lovely song! Anybody know how the chorus goes? 4
Madonna - Express Yourself
Pop slop before my favourites 'Cherish' and 'Dear Jessie' - 2
Soul II Soul feat. Caron Wheeler - Back To Life
No 1 for quite a while. I never understood why - 1
Sonia - You'll Never Stop Me From Loving You
No 1 for quite a while. I never understood why - 2
Alice Cooper - Poison
Aw! This is great classic rock 'I feel you coming but it's needles and pins' - 4
Kylie Minogue - Wouldn't Change A Thing
Poor showing from the successful Australian - 1
Black Box - Ride On Time
I didn't know this was sampled? Well I'm surprised. Should have been a great dance classic but a big voice (too powerful for the stick insect on stage) and overplaying means it gets a 3
Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time
Nice song and Cher caresses cannons - 3
Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting
Nice song and Richard Marx caresses . . . Nothing I think - 4
Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire  
Keeping up with this song was tough. I know that it's worth it - 4
Milli Vanilli - Girl I'm Gonna Miss You
Ho ho! The kings of miming come up with another comedy classic - 2
Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On
Typical Belinda Carlisle - 3
Kaoma - Lambada
The fad that spawned an appalling film. Forgotten what it's called now. Risible that's why it gets a 3
Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise
I shouldn't like it as much as I do because it is so slow but it gets a 3
Lisa Stansfield - All Around The World
This is slow and awful so it gets a 1
New Kids On The Block - You Got It (The Right Stuff)
Oh oh o oh oh - Heh heh! 3
Linda Ronstadt feat. Aaron Neville - Don't Know Much
Nice chorus, the rest is a pile of pants - 3
Stone Roses - Fool's Gold
I never understood the interest in this - 1
De La Soul - (3 is)The Magic Number
Nah. Uninspiring - 1

Well Paul it's a shame your leaving it at 1989. I've learnt a lot from you.  :)