[English Bob]

Johnny 1985 won last weeks game, so he chose this week's year. This week it's 1985!

As per usual, pick a song you like from the chosen year...post a youtube video of it if possible. All the nominations get put into a poll on Wednesday, and we vote for the favourite.

Get nominating!

[MK Chris]

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

[Johnny 1989]

I seem to have changed my name to Johnny 1985 according to English Bob, oh well closer to my real year I suppose

My choice for 1985, a tough year with many, many excellent tracks, however I have gone for an all time classic:



Enjoy

EDIT: You may want to turn it down a tad, the person who uploaded the video uploaded it a tad too loud

[English Bob]

Haha sorry Johnny! Oh well, in honour of your choice of Golden Hour, you can be Johnny 1985 for this week.

[Johnny 1989]

Haha sorry Johnny! Oh well, in honour of your choice of Golden Hour, you can be Johnny 1985 for this week.

Fine by me

[SCornelius7mufc]

Easy choice this one, love the song, love the video



Take on Me, A-Ha.

[Zoot]

Easy one for me this round -

Power of love - Huey Lewis and the News

[Yudster]

This was a good year. Very difficult choice indeed. I think, in order demonstrate to those who have only heard the awful DJ Sammy version that this is a good song, I choose Don Henley's Boys of Summer (and yes, I know the video clip says 1984 but it was a hit in the UK in '85. Got to no. 12 I believe).

[MK Chris]

What are the rules regarding the years, actually? Does it have to been the year of release, or does it just have to have been in the charts in the year in question?

[Yudster]

I have always taken it to mean a song which was in the UK top 40 in that year. Release dates are sometimes a bit foggy and its not always easy to find an accurate one. Surely we are talking about records in the chart of the year?

[Latina]

As 'Don't You Forget About Me' was already taken, I'm going for this:



There Must Be An Angel, Eurythmics

I have no idea if the video's any good, but I love the song, and especially the Stevie Wonder bit at the end.

[jocky85]

Thanks for choosing my year Johnny! Zoot's pinched mine so I;'ve gone with

Stevie Wonder - Part Time Lover

[catherine]

The Pogues - Dirty Old Town. I'm loving the teeth.

[Johnny 1989]

Anyone having trouble finding hits visit:

www.everyhit.com

Very useful, however it won't find anything that charted lower than 40.

[MK Chris]

I've been using Wikipedia - article name is [year]_in_music.

[pjordan2000]

UB40 - I Got You Babe (featuring Chrissie Hynde I believe). Can't post YouTube link as it's blocked at work, but I am sure that the majority of people know that song

[Johnny 1989]

I've been using Wikipedia - article name is [year]_in_music.

Wikipedia is probably better actually as they're more than likely to have "hits" that missed the top 40.

Bloody hell this is a tough year isn't it, so much good music & oddly enough considering I was only 2 in 1985 I can remember a lot of these tunes being played quite regularly. Then again we did have Capital Radio on in the house quite a lot back then, so that would explain why

[pjordan2000]

And was also the year of Live Aid. 13th July 1985 to be exact. Useless information - day I was born!

[Johnny 1989]

And was also the year of Live Aid. 13th July 1985 to be exact. Useless information - day I was born!

Ah, that's quite a memorable day, probably the reason why there was so many great hits as well for this year seeing as several groups probably saw the event as an opportunity to showcase some new material.

There was a website somewhere, where you can find out what was the number 1 track when you where born. I think mine was Paul Young's "Wherever I lay my hat, that's my home", what a lovely track

[pjordan2000]

Yeah I can imagine it was a very memorable day. Mum wasn't too pleased as she missed it on the TV because of moi. Believe Ultravox were the artist performing at the exact time.

Yeah mine was Sister Sledge's Frankie.

[Johnny 1989]

Yeah I can imagine it was a very memorable day. Mum wasn't too pleased as she missed it on the TV because of moi. Believe Ultravox were the artist performing at the exact time.

Yeah mine was Sister Sledge's Frankie.

"Frankie" is definately better that "Wherever I lay my hat..." in my opinion

[Latina]

There was a website somewhere, where you can find out what was the number 1 track when you where born. I think mine was Paul Young's "Wherever I lay my hat, that's my home", what a lovely track

One week we should have a poll where everyone names their birthday number one and we all vote for the best.

Although anyone born before before the UK singles chart began (1947 according to everyhit.com, although I'm sure I've read elsewhere it was 1952) may feel a bit left out.

By the way, where does your username come from if you were 2 in 1985?

[Jill]

My choice is... Tears For Fears - Shout

[Bonanzoid]

Starship - We Built This City

[SAV1OUR]

*vomits*