The decade when you were thrown out of a band for actually riffing on a guitar, rather than posing with it. And if you weren’t dressed in a plastic boiler suit, you would be laughed out of town.
How to make three minutes thirty nine seconds sound like three hours.
ABC - "The Look Of Love" Bananarama - "Venus" Culture Club - "Karma Chamaeleon" Duran Duran - "The Reflex" Eurythmics - "Sweet Dreams" Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" Human League - "Don't You Want Me" Imagination - "Just An Illusion" Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean" Kylie Minogue - "I Should Be So Lucky" Level 42 - "Lessons In Love" Madonna - "Into The Groove" New Order - "Blue Monday" Billy Ocean - "When The Going Gets Tough" Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls" Queen - "Radio Gaga" Rick Astley - "Never Gonna Give You Up" Spandau Ballet - "Gold" Tears for Fears - "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" UB40 - "Red Red Wine" Visage - "Fade To Grey" Wham! - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" XTC - "Senses Working Overtime" Yazz - "Don't Go" ZZ Top - "Gimme All Your Lovin'"
Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately?
Surely Joy Division - Love Will Tear us Apart?
Genuinely surprised that wasn't released in 1979.
Likewise. I had to google it to check. June 1980 though - so almost 70s.
And first recorded in Jan 1980, so maybe only days from being 70s!!
The decade when you were thrown out of a band for actually riffing on a guitar, rather than posing with it. And if you weren’t dressed in a plastic boiler suit, you would be laughed out of town.
How to make three minutes thirty nine seconds sound like three hours.
ABC - "The Look Of Love" Bananarama - "Venus" Culture Club - "Karma Chamaeleon" Duran Duran - "The Reflex" Eurythmics - "Sweet Dreams" Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" Human League - "Don't You Want Me" Imagination - "Just An Illusion" Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean" Kylie Minogue - "I Should Be So Lucky" Level 42 - "Lessons In Love" Madonna - "Into The Groove" New Order - "Blue Monday" Billy Ocean - "When The Going Gets Tough" Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls" Queen - "Radio Gaga" Rick Astley - "Never Gonna Give You Up" Spandau Ballet - "Gold" Tears for Fears - "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" UB40 - "Red Red Wine" Visage - "Fade To Grey" Wham! - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" XTC - "Senses Working Overtime" Yazz - "Don't Go" ZZ Top - "Gimme All Your Lovin'"
Some excellent choices there. Early/mid 80s music is the best imo, especially anything produced by Trevor Horn, which includes ABC.
The decade when you were thrown out of a band for actually riffing on a guitar, rather than posing with it. And if you weren’t dressed in a plastic boiler suit, you would be laughed out of town.
How to make three minutes thirty nine seconds sound like three hours.
ABC - "The Look Of Love" Bananarama - "Venus" Culture Club - "Karma Chamaeleon" Duran Duran - "The Reflex" Eurythmics - "Sweet Dreams" Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" Human League - "Don't You Want Me" Imagination - "Just An Illusion" Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean" Kylie Minogue - "I Should Be So Lucky" Level 42 - "Lessons In Love" Madonna - "Into The Groove" New Order - "Blue Monday" Billy Ocean - "When The Going Gets Tough" Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls" Queen - "Radio Gaga" Rick Astley - "Never Gonna Give You Up" Spandau Ballet - "Gold" Tears for Fears - "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" UB40 - "Red Red Wine" Visage - "Fade To Grey" Wham! - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" XTC - "Senses Working Overtime" Yazoo - "Don't Go" ZZ Top - "Gimme All Your Lovin'"
Some excellent choices there. Early/mid 80s music is the best imo, especially anything produced by Trevor Horn, which includes ABC.
Nothing from Soft Cell on the list?
Sorry, got Spandau Ballet representing the letter "S".
The atmosphere is being very naughty right now - blacking out much of Spain, Portugal and France, and subjecting the east coast of the Isle of Lewis to an awful 50 Hz hum.
The decade when you were thrown out of a band for actually riffing on a guitar, rather than posing with it. And if you weren’t dressed in a plastic boiler suit, you would be laughed out of town.
How to make three minutes thirty nine seconds sound like three hours.
ABC - "The Look Of Love" Bananarama - "Venus" Culture Club - "Karma Chamaeleon" Duran Duran - "The Reflex" Eurythmics - "Sweet Dreams" Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" Human League - "Don't You Want Me" Imagination - "Just An Illusion" Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean" Kylie Minogue - "I Should Be So Lucky" Level 42 - "Lessons In Love" Madonna - "Into The Groove" New Order - "Blue Monday" Billy Ocean - "When The Going Gets Tough" Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls" Queen - "Radio Gaga" Rick Astley - "Never Gonna Give You Up" Spandau Ballet - "Gold" Tears for Fears - "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" UB40 - "Red Red Wine" Visage - "Fade To Grey" Wham! - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" XTC - "Senses Working Overtime" Yazz - "Don't Go" ZZ Top - "Gimme All Your Lovin'"
Yazoo not Yazz for Don't Go. Yazz was the only way is up.
Good choices though.
I’ll concede 2 are okay - Billy Jean and Gimme all your loving. Of the rest, that I have heard, not okay. “everything” released in the 60’s is better than Kylies I should be so lucky.
Another thing I spot that is very wrong, weren’t U2 and the Pogues big in the eighties? Why are they not on the list?
Shocking omission of Depeche Mode too...
I know, they're my favourite band, so the horns of a proper dilemma, but Duran Duran were bigger in the 1980s, so they get to represent the letter "D".
The decade when you were thrown out of a band for actually riffing on a guitar, rather than posing with it. And if you weren’t dressed in a plastic boiler suit, you would be laughed out of town.
How to make three minutes thirty nine seconds sound like three hours.
ABC - "The Look Of Love" Bananarama - "Venus" Culture Club - "Karma Chamaeleon" Duran Duran - "The Reflex" Eurythmics - "Sweet Dreams" Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" Human League - "Don't You Want Me" Imagination - "Just An Illusion" Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean" Kylie Minogue - "I Should Be So Lucky" Level 42 - "Lessons In Love" Madonna - "Into The Groove" New Order - "Blue Monday" Billy Ocean - "When The Going Gets Tough" Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls" Queen - "Radio Gaga" Rick Astley - "Never Gonna Give You Up" Spandau Ballet - "Gold" Tears for Fears - "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" UB40 - "Red Red Wine" Visage - "Fade To Grey" Wham! - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" XTC - "Senses Working Overtime" Yazz - "Don't Go" ZZ Top - "Gimme All Your Lovin'"
The decade when you were thrown out of a band for actually riffing on a guitar, rather than posing with it. And if you weren’t dressed in a plastic boiler suit, you would be laughed out of town.
How to make three minutes thirty nine seconds sound like three hours.
ABC - "The Look Of Love" Bananarama - "Venus" Culture Club - "Karma Chamaeleon" Duran Duran - "The Reflex" Eurythmics - "Sweet Dreams" Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" Human League - "Don't You Want Me" Imagination - "Just An Illusion" Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean" Kylie Minogue - "I Should Be So Lucky" Level 42 - "Lessons In Love" Madonna - "Into The Groove" New Order - "Blue Monday" Billy Ocean - "When The Going Gets Tough" Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls" Queen - "Radio Gaga" Rick Astley - "Never Gonna Give You Up" Spandau Ballet - "Gold" Tears for Fears - "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" UB40 - "Red Red Wine" Visage - "Fade To Grey" Wham! - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" XTC - "Senses Working Overtime" Yazz - "Don't Go" ZZ Top - "Gimme All Your Lovin'"
Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately?
MIchael Jackson was way way bigger in the 1980s than his sister, so he gets to represent the latter "J".
The decade when you were thrown out of a band for actually riffing on a guitar, rather than posing with it. And if you weren’t dressed in a plastic boiler suit, you would be laughed out of town.
How to make three minutes thirty nine seconds sound like three hours.
ABC - "The Look Of Love" Bananarama - "Venus" Culture Club - "Karma Chamaeleon" Duran Duran - "The Reflex" Eurythmics - "Sweet Dreams" Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" Human League - "Don't You Want Me" Imagination - "Just An Illusion" Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean" Kylie Minogue - "I Should Be So Lucky" Level 42 - "Lessons In Love" Madonna - "Into The Groove" New Order - "Blue Monday" Billy Ocean - "When The Going Gets Tough" Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls" Queen - "Radio Gaga" Rick Astley - "Never Gonna Give You Up" Spandau Ballet - "Gold" Tears for Fears - "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" UB40 - "Red Red Wine" Visage - "Fade To Grey" Wham! - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" XTC - "Senses Working Overtime" Yazz - "Don't Go" ZZ Top - "Gimme All Your Lovin'"
Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately?
MIchael Jackson was way way bigger in the 1980s than his sister, so he gets to represent the latter "J".
The decade when you were thrown out of a band for actually riffing on a guitar, rather than posing with it. And if you weren’t dressed in a plastic boiler suit, you would be laughed out of town.
How to make three minutes thirty nine seconds sound like three hours.
ABC - "The Look Of Love" Bananarama - "Venus" Culture Club - "Karma Chamaeleon" Duran Duran - "The Reflex" Eurythmics - "Sweet Dreams" Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" Human League - "Don't You Want Me" Imagination - "Just An Illusion" Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean" Kylie Minogue - "I Should Be So Lucky" Level 42 - "Lessons In Love" Madonna - "Into The Groove" New Order - "Blue Monday" Billy Ocean - "When The Going Gets Tough" Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls" Queen - "Radio Gaga" Rick Astley - "Never Gonna Give You Up" Spandau Ballet - "Gold" Tears for Fears - "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" UB40 - "Red Red Wine" Visage - "Fade To Grey" Wham! - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" XTC - "Senses Working Overtime" Yazz - "Don't Go" ZZ Top - "Gimme All Your Lovin'"
The decade when you were thrown out of a band for actually riffing on a guitar, rather than posing with it. And if you weren’t dressed in a plastic boiler suit, you would be laughed out of town.
How to make three minutes thirty nine seconds sound like three hours.
ABC - "The Look Of Love" Bananarama - "Venus" Culture Club - "Karma Chamaeleon" Duran Duran - "The Reflex" Eurythmics - "Sweet Dreams" Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" Human League - "Don't You Want Me" Imagination - "Just An Illusion" Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean" Kylie Minogue - "I Should Be So Lucky" Level 42 - "Lessons In Love" Madonna - "Into The Groove" New Order - "Blue Monday" Billy Ocean - "When The Going Gets Tough" Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls" Queen - "Radio Gaga" Rick Astley - "Never Gonna Give You Up" Spandau Ballet - "Gold" Tears for Fears - "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" UB40 - "Red Red Wine" Visage - "Fade To Grey" Wham! - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" XTC - "Senses Working Overtime" Yazz - "Don't Go" ZZ Top - "Gimme All Your Lovin'"
Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately?
Surely Joy Division - Love Will Tear us Apart?
Genuinely surprised that wasn't released in 1979.
Likewise. I had to google it to check. June 1980 though - so almost 70s.
And first recorded in Jan 1980, so maybe only days from being 70s!!
The decade when you were thrown out of a band for actually riffing on a guitar, rather than posing with it. And if you weren’t dressed in a plastic boiler suit, you would be laughed out of town.
How to make three minutes thirty nine seconds sound like three hours.
ABC - "The Look Of Love" Bananarama - "Venus" Culture Club - "Karma Chamaeleon" Duran Duran - "The Reflex" Eurythmics - "Sweet Dreams" Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" Human League - "Don't You Want Me" Imagination - "Just An Illusion" Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean" Kylie Minogue - "I Should Be So Lucky" Level 42 - "Lessons In Love" Madonna - "Into The Groove" New Order - "Blue Monday" Billy Ocean - "When The Going Gets Tough" Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls" Queen - "Radio Gaga" Rick Astley - "Never Gonna Give You Up" Spandau Ballet - "Gold" Tears for Fears - "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" UB40 - "Red Red Wine" Visage - "Fade To Grey" Wham! - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" XTC - "Senses Working Overtime" Yazz - "Don't Go" ZZ Top - "Gimme All Your Lovin'"
Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately?
Surely Joy Division - Love Will Tear us Apart?
Genuinely surprised that wasn't released in 1979.
Likewise. I had to google it to check. June 1980 though - so almost 70s.
And first recorded in Jan 1980, so maybe only days from being 70s!!
I recently discovered that my 9th Great Grandfather was John Guy, one of the first governors of the Newfoundland colonies.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Guy_(colonial_administrator). I am ready to claim my inheritance and save them from Trump should the need arise...
The whole point of "Sunil's ABC of the 1980s" is that there's 26 letters of the alphabet (um, the whole "ABC" thing is, of course, in honour of the band ABC!), so you need 26 artists/bands, 26 songs. Solo singers can be sorted by either first name OR surname (if not mononymous).
I think this below from the BBC asking Canadians about their vote today will be why the NDP suffer big losses .
Ian Wells, a 23-year-old student who plans to go into teaching, decided against voting for the smaller left leaning New Democratic Party. He says his priority now is “how best to stave off the conservatives".
What’s happening in the US with the Department of Justice under President Donald Trump “horrifies him", he says, referring to the judge who was arrested, and the way the administration has handled deportations and revoked foreign students' visas.
He says he doesn’t want Canada going in that direction. “I don't necessarily know for sure if Pierre Poilievre is that here, but he's close enough to it that I don't want to risk anything like that,” he explains.
Interesting given they tried to make the mini-Trump stuff stick for years and it didn't seem to work, but with him back in power the question has gained a lot more relevance.
The whole point of "Sunil's ABC of the 1980s" is that there's 26 letters of the alphabet (um, the whole "ABC" thing is, of course, in honour of the band ABC!), so you need 26 artists/bands, 26 songs. Solo singers can be sorted by either first name OR surname (if not mononymous).
A-Z might have made that clearer, if also avoiding an ABC band reference.
I feel like I've wasted my evening now. Which is very unlike the mysterious late 80s -> mid 90s period of my life.
I recently discovered that my 9th Great Grandfather was John Guy, one of the first governors of the Newfoundland colonies.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Guy_(colonial_administrator). I am ready to claim my inheritance and save them from Trump should the need arise...
There isn't much connection between the Canadian Conservatives and Donald Trump. so not sure why people are voting against the former because of the latter.
For me, Canada is an interesting battle between the fundamentals and the zeitgeist.
The fundamentals are the Liberals have been in power for 9 years, were in power during COVID and have done some pretty unpopular stuff (hence the polling pre-Trump) The zeitgeist is that Canadians feel threatened by Trump.
The parallel for me is NZ 2020.
Jacinda's Labour got an unprecedented absolute majority (the first ever under MMP) due to COVID, but then it all came crashing down by 2023.
If the Canadian Libs win then I'd expect them to be unpopular again within a few years and Trump will be gone by the time Canada next votes in 2029, when you'd expect a big swing rightwards.
Yes, Carney might get a narrow Major 1992 come from behind victory and a 4th successive national election win for his party tonight despite a decade in power but we all know what happened to Major and his party five years later!
80's were dire in every way. I'm in that grumpy mood when I have to cheer on LPC. Keeping hold of nurse has proved almost as spectacularly successful as it has for the Tories here. One day the curtain will be drawn back. But that isn't for today...maybe Thursday?
The decade when you were thrown out of a band for actually riffing on a guitar, rather than posing with it. And if you weren’t dressed in a plastic boiler suit, you would be laughed out of town.
How to make three minutes thirty nine seconds sound like three hours.
ABC - "The Look Of Love" Bananarama - "Venus" Culture Club - "Karma Chamaeleon" Duran Duran - "The Reflex" Eurythmics - "Sweet Dreams" Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" Human League - "Don't You Want Me" Imagination - "Just An Illusion" Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean" Kylie Minogue - "I Should Be So Lucky" Level 42 - "Lessons In Love" Madonna - "Into The Groove" New Order - "Blue Monday" Billy Ocean - "When The Going Gets Tough" Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls" Queen - "Radio Gaga" Rick Astley - "Never Gonna Give You Up" Spandau Ballet - "Gold" Tears for Fears - "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" UB40 - "Red Red Wine" Visage - "Fade To Grey" Wham! - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" XTC - "Senses Working Overtime" Yazz - "Don't Go" ZZ Top - "Gimme All Your Lovin'"
Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately?
MIchael Jackson was way way bigger in the 1980s than his sister, so he gets to represent the latter "J".
Bowie was a lot bigger than Bananarama..
**Checks Guinness Book of British Hit Singles, 2000 edition**
David Bowie: 190 weeks in the UK Top 75 Singles 4 number ones (one with Queen, also 1 US number one = Let's Dance) 6 Top 10s
Bananarama: 176 weeks in the UK Top 75 Singles No number ones (but 1 US number one = Venus) 10 Top 10s
The decade when you were thrown out of a band for actually riffing on a guitar, rather than posing with it. And if you weren’t dressed in a plastic boiler suit, you would be laughed out of town.
How to make three minutes thirty nine seconds sound like three hours.
ABC - "The Look Of Love" Bananarama - "Venus" Culture Club - "Karma Chamaeleon" Duran Duran - "The Reflex" Eurythmics - "Sweet Dreams" Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" Human League - "Don't You Want Me" Imagination - "Just An Illusion" Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean" Kylie Minogue - "I Should Be So Lucky" Level 42 - "Lessons In Love" Madonna - "Into The Groove" New Order - "Blue Monday" Billy Ocean - "When The Going Gets Tough" Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls" Queen - "Radio Gaga" Rick Astley - "Never Gonna Give You Up" Spandau Ballet - "Gold" Tears for Fears - "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" UB40 - "Red Red Wine" Visage - "Fade To Grey" Wham! - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" XTC - "Senses Working Overtime" Yazz - "Don't Go" ZZ Top - "Gimme All Your Lovin'"
Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately?
Surely Joy Division - Love Will Tear us Apart?
Genuinely surprised that wasn't released in 1979.
Likewise. I had to google it to check. June 1980 though - so almost 70s.
And first recorded in Jan 1980, so maybe only days from being 70s!!
Foreign sex offenders will be banned from being given asylum. Of course this announcement by the Home Office has nothing to do with the local elections to be held in three days' time.
And of course, they could / should already be deported if served a year in jail and even then run up against legal challenges. So we are talking a crime that is bad enough to be put on the sex offenders register, but not a year in jail. Well they is going to claim they will be in danger if they go back to their home country and people found out.
We had the story today of the Iranian who claimed they couldn't go back because they sold sex toys. Then when that attempt failed they then tried the I went to a couple of protests, if they Iranian know I did, I will be in danger.
Those committed of a crime that will get you put on the sex offender register will definitely try the but but but I am in danger, because as a nonce, we are always targeted.
The decade when you were thrown out of a band for actually riffing on a guitar, rather than posing with it. And if you weren’t dressed in a plastic boiler suit, you would be laughed out of town.
How to make three minutes thirty nine seconds sound like three hours.
ABC - "The Look Of Love" Bananarama - "Venus" Culture Club - "Karma Chamaeleon" Duran Duran - "The Reflex" Eurythmics - "Sweet Dreams" Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" Human League - "Don't You Want Me" Imagination - "Just An Illusion" Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean" Kylie Minogue - "I Should Be So Lucky" Level 42 - "Lessons In Love" Madonna - "Into The Groove" New Order - "Blue Monday" Billy Ocean - "When The Going Gets Tough" Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls" Queen - "Radio Gaga" Rick Astley - "Never Gonna Give You Up" Spandau Ballet - "Gold" Tears for Fears - "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" UB40 - "Red Red Wine" Visage - "Fade To Grey" Wham! - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" XTC - "Senses Working Overtime" Yazz - "Don't Go" ZZ Top - "Gimme All Your Lovin'"
Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately?
MIchael Jackson was way way bigger in the 1980s than his sister, so he gets to represent the latter "J".
Bowie was a lot bigger than Bananarama..
**Checks Guinness Book of British Hit Singles, 2000 edition**
David Bowie: 190 weeks in the UK Top 75 Singles 4 number ones (one with Queen, also 1 US number one = Let's Dance) 6 Top 10s
Bananarama: 176 weeks in the UK Top 75 Singles No number ones (but 1 US number one = Venus) 10 Top 10s
Foreign sex offenders will be banned from being given asylum. Of course this announcement by the Home Office has nothing to do with the local elections to be held in three days' time.
The problem with statements like this is it makes you think: "So foreign murderers won't be banned?" Bad politics to put it mildly.
80's were dire in every way. I'm in that grumpy mood when I have to cheer on LPC. Keeping hold of nurse has proved almost as spectacularly successful as it has for the Tories here. One day the curtain will be drawn back. But that isn't for today...maybe Thursday?
No question that it depended on where you were.
The Boys from the Blackstuff and Letter to Brezhnev both show that side.
There isn't much connection between the Canadian Conservatives and Donald Trump. so not sure why people are voting against the former because of the latter.
Because he uses the language of Trump, attacks the values of Canada and his candidates wear MAGA hats? Other than that they aren't similar at all.
The decade when you were thrown out of a band for actually riffing on a guitar, rather than posing with it. And if you weren’t dressed in a plastic boiler suit, you would be laughed out of town.
How to make three minutes thirty nine seconds sound like three hours.
ABC - "The Look Of Love" Bananarama - "Venus" Culture Club - "Karma Chamaeleon" Duran Duran - "The Reflex" Eurythmics - "Sweet Dreams" Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" Human League - "Don't You Want Me" Imagination - "Just An Illusion" Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean" Kylie Minogue - "I Should Be So Lucky" Level 42 - "Lessons In Love" Madonna - "Into The Groove" New Order - "Blue Monday" Billy Ocean - "When The Going Gets Tough" Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls" Queen - "Radio Gaga" Rick Astley - "Never Gonna Give You Up" Spandau Ballet - "Gold" Tears for Fears - "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" UB40 - "Red Red Wine" Visage - "Fade To Grey" Wham! - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" XTC - "Senses Working Overtime" Yazz - "Don't Go" ZZ Top - "Gimme All Your Lovin'"
Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately?
Surely Joy Division - Love Will Tear us Apart?
Genuinely surprised that wasn't released in 1979.
Likewise. I had to google it to check. June 1980 though - so almost 70s.
And first recorded in Jan 1980, so maybe only days from being 70s!!
I could have sworn until I checked that I heard it on The Old Grey Whistle Test in the late 70s.
I Hate to be rude. But is that music?
I listened to all of it, waiting for it to start.
Sweet child, bless you.
I just loved O Superman - Laurie Anderson, 1981.
I think that was one of the first tracks I heard John Peel play. Though... it's a little hazy these days.
His much earlier - and annoyingly named - much earlier radio programme 'Top Gear' (yes) is scattered on the internet. Well worth tracking down. I loved him reading out a new record :
"And the next track is by... a band called... give me a second ... :: fumbles around :: .. The Lead ... Zeppelin?"
The decade when you were thrown out of a band for actually riffing on a guitar, rather than posing with it. And if you weren’t dressed in a plastic boiler suit, you would be laughed out of town.
How to make three minutes thirty nine seconds sound like three hours.
ABC - "The Look Of Love" Bananarama - "Venus" Culture Club - "Karma Chamaeleon" Duran Duran - "The Reflex" Eurythmics - "Sweet Dreams" Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" Human League - "Don't You Want Me" Imagination - "Just An Illusion" Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean" Kylie Minogue - "I Should Be So Lucky" Level 42 - "Lessons In Love" Madonna - "Into The Groove" New Order - "Blue Monday" Billy Ocean - "When The Going Gets Tough" Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls" Queen - "Radio Gaga" Rick Astley - "Never Gonna Give You Up" Spandau Ballet - "Gold" Tears for Fears - "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" UB40 - "Red Red Wine" Visage - "Fade To Grey" Wham! - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" XTC - "Senses Working Overtime" Yazz - "Don't Go" ZZ Top - "Gimme All Your Lovin'"
Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately?
MIchael Jackson was way way bigger in the 1980s than his sister, so he gets to represent the latter "J".
Bowie was a lot bigger than Bananarama..
**Checks Guinness Book of British Hit Singles, 2000 edition**
David Bowie: 190 weeks in the UK Top 75 Singles 4 number ones (one with Queen, also 1 US number one = Let's Dance) 6 Top 10s
Bananarama: 176 weeks in the UK Top 75 Singles No number ones (but 1 US number one = Venus) 10 Top 10s
Bowie only had six top ten hits????
Plus the 4 number 1s!
Forgot to add: This is between Jan 1980 and Dec 1989!
The decade when you were thrown out of a band for actually riffing on a guitar, rather than posing with it. And if you weren’t dressed in a plastic boiler suit, you would be laughed out of town.
How to make three minutes thirty nine seconds sound like three hours.
ABC - "The Look Of Love" Bananarama - "Venus" Culture Club - "Karma Chamaeleon" Duran Duran - "The Reflex" Eurythmics - "Sweet Dreams" Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" Human League - "Don't You Want Me" Imagination - "Just An Illusion" Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean" Kylie Minogue - "I Should Be So Lucky" Level 42 - "Lessons In Love" Madonna - "Into The Groove" New Order - "Blue Monday" Billy Ocean - "When The Going Gets Tough" Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls" Queen - "Radio Gaga" Rick Astley - "Never Gonna Give You Up" Spandau Ballet - "Gold" Tears for Fears - "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" UB40 - "Red Red Wine" Visage - "Fade To Grey" Wham! - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" XTC - "Senses Working Overtime" Yazz - "Don't Go" ZZ Top - "Gimme All Your Lovin'"
Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately?
MIchael Jackson was way way bigger in the 1980s than his sister, so he gets to represent the latter "J".
Bowie was a lot bigger than Bananarama..
**Checks Guinness Book of British Hit Singles, 2000 edition**
David Bowie: 190 weeks in the UK Top 75 Singles 4 number ones (one with Queen, also 1 US number one = Let's Dance) 6 Top 10s
Bananarama: 176 weeks in the UK Top 75 Singles No number ones (but 1 US number one = Venus) 10 Top 10s
Bowie only had six top ten hits????
In the Eighties, he had a fair number in the Seventies too.
80's were dire in every way. I'm in that grumpy mood when I have to cheer on LPC. Keeping hold of nurse has proved almost as spectacularly successful as it has for the Tories here. One day the curtain will be drawn back. But that isn't for today...maybe Thursday?
I really, **really** dislike the current trend of nostalgia-TV set in the 80s.
But I think there was a very strong counter/alternative/interesting culture going on at the time.
For a modern-ish TV show that somewhat captures it 'Deutschland 83' was close.
80's were dire in every way. I'm in that grumpy mood when I have to cheer on LPC. Keeping hold of nurse has proved almost as spectacularly successful as it has for the Tories here. One day the curtain will be drawn back. But that isn't for today...maybe Thursday?
The only thing I was paying attention to in the 80s was the pop music, and I loved it, still do.
The decade when you were thrown out of a band for actually riffing on a guitar, rather than posing with it. And if you weren’t dressed in a plastic boiler suit, you would be laughed out of town.
How to make three minutes thirty nine seconds sound like three hours.
ABC - "The Look Of Love" Bananarama - "Venus" Culture Club - "Karma Chamaeleon" Duran Duran - "The Reflex" Eurythmics - "Sweet Dreams" Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" Human League - "Don't You Want Me" Imagination - "Just An Illusion" Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean" Kylie Minogue - "I Should Be So Lucky" Level 42 - "Lessons In Love" Madonna - "Into The Groove" New Order - "Blue Monday" Billy Ocean - "When The Going Gets Tough" Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls" Queen - "Radio Gaga" Rick Astley - "Never Gonna Give You Up" Spandau Ballet - "Gold" Tears for Fears - "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" UB40 - "Red Red Wine" Visage - "Fade To Grey" Wham! - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" XTC - "Senses Working Overtime" Yazz - "Don't Go" ZZ Top - "Gimme All Your Lovin'"
Yazoo not Yazz for Don't Go. Yazz was the only way is up.
Good choices though.
I’ll concede 2 are okay - Billy Jean and Gimme all your loving. Of the rest, that I have heard, not okay. “everything” released in the 60’s is better than Kylies I should be so lucky.
Another thing I spot that is very wrong, weren’t U2 and the Pogues big in the eighties? Why are they not on the list?
Shocking omission of Depeche Mode too...
I know, they're my favourite band, so the horns of a proper dilemma, but Duran Duran were bigger in the 1980s, so they get to represent the letter "D".
So it’s a list solely based on inside leg measurements?
80's were dire in every way. I'm in that grumpy mood when I have to cheer on LPC. Keeping hold of nurse has proved almost as spectacularly successful as it has for the Tories here. One day the curtain will be drawn back. But that isn't for today...maybe Thursday?
I really, **really** dislike the current trend of nostalgia-TV set in the 80s.
But I think there was a very strong counter/alternative/interesting culture going on at the time.
For a modern-ish TV show that somewhat captures it 'Deutschland 83' was close.
80's were dire in every way. I'm in that grumpy mood when I have to cheer on LPC. Keeping hold of nurse has proved almost as spectacularly successful as it has for the Tories here. One day the curtain will be drawn back. But that isn't for today...maybe Thursday?
I really, **really** dislike the current trend of nostalgia-TV set in the 80s.
Then good news, we're moving into the realm of 90s nostalgia now.
80's were dire in every way. I'm in that grumpy mood when I have to cheer on LPC. Keeping hold of nurse has proved almost as spectacularly successful as it has for the Tories here. One day the curtain will be drawn back. But that isn't for today...maybe Thursday?
I really, **really** dislike the current trend of nostalgia-TV set in the 80s.
Then good news, we're moving into the realm of 90s nostalgia now.
I would actually welcome a drama about the halcyon days of the cone hotline.
They abolished the deposit in order to stand for election in Canada, which means — for example — that 91 candidates are standing in the Conservative leader's constituency, resulting in a ridiculously long ballot paper.
The decade when you were thrown out of a band for actually riffing on a guitar, rather than posing with it. And if you weren’t dressed in a plastic boiler suit, you would be laughed out of town.
How to make three minutes thirty nine seconds sound like three hours.
ABC - "The Look Of Love" Bananarama - "Venus" Culture Club - "Karma Chamaeleon" Duran Duran - "The Reflex" Eurythmics - "Sweet Dreams" Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" Human League - "Don't You Want Me" Imagination - "Just An Illusion" Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean" Kylie Minogue - "I Should Be So Lucky" Level 42 - "Lessons In Love" Madonna - "Into The Groove" New Order - "Blue Monday" Billy Ocean - "When The Going Gets Tough" Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls" Queen - "Radio Gaga" Rick Astley - "Never Gonna Give You Up" Spandau Ballet - "Gold" Tears for Fears - "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" UB40 - "Red Red Wine" Visage - "Fade To Grey" Wham! - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" XTC - "Senses Working Overtime" Yazz - "Don't Go" ZZ Top - "Gimme All Your Lovin'"
Yazoo not Yazz for Don't Go. Yazz was the only way is up.
Good choices though.
I’ll concede 2 are okay - Billy Jean and Gimme all your loving. Of the rest, that I have heard, not okay. “everything” released in the 60’s is better than Kylies I should be so lucky.
Another thing I spot that is very wrong, weren’t U2 and the Pogues big in the eighties? Why are they not on the list?
Shocking omission of Depeche Mode too...
I know, they're my favourite band, so the horns of a proper dilemma, but Duran Duran were bigger in the 1980s, so they get to represent the letter "D".
So it’s a list solely based on inside leg measurements?
80's were dire in every way. I'm in that grumpy mood when I have to cheer on LPC. Keeping hold of nurse has proved almost as spectacularly successful as it has for the Tories here. One day the curtain will be drawn back. But that isn't for today...maybe Thursday?
I really, **really** dislike the current trend of nostalgia-TV set in the 80s.
But I think there was a very strong counter/alternative/interesting culture going on at the time.
For a modern-ish TV show that somewhat captures it 'Deutschland 83' was close.
This is England? (Original).
'Modern-ish' as in the past 10 years or so. We'll be onto Survivors and 1990 at this rate ;-)
They abolished the deposit in order to stand for election in Canada, which means — for example — that 91 candidates are standing in the Conservative leader's constituency, resulting in a ridiculously long ballot paper.
That's absolutely hilarious (not for the poor count volunteers however).
The Longest Ballot Committee is a political movement in Canada, at one time affiliated with the Rhinoceros Party,[1] known for flooding ballots with a large number of independent candidates in protest of the first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting system and other electoral reform related issues
I see one of their earlier efforts also had 91 candidates, and all but two of them got at least 1 vote.
80's were dire in every way. I'm in that grumpy mood when I have to cheer on LPC. Keeping hold of nurse has proved almost as spectacularly successful as it has for the Tories here. One day the curtain will be drawn back. But that isn't for today...maybe Thursday?
I really, **really** dislike the current trend of nostalgia-TV set in the 80s.
But I think there was a very strong counter/alternative/interesting culture going on at the time.
For a modern-ish TV show that somewhat captures it 'Deutschland 83' was close.
The decade when you were thrown out of a band for actually riffing on a guitar, rather than posing with it. And if you weren’t dressed in a plastic boiler suit, you would be laughed out of town.
How to make three minutes thirty nine seconds sound like three hours.
ABC - "The Look Of Love" Bananarama - "Venus" Culture Club - "Karma Chamaeleon" Duran Duran - "The Reflex" Eurythmics - "Sweet Dreams" Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" Human League - "Don't You Want Me" Imagination - "Just An Illusion" Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean" Kylie Minogue - "I Should Be So Lucky" Level 42 - "Lessons In Love" Madonna - "Into The Groove" New Order - "Blue Monday" Billy Ocean - "When The Going Gets Tough" Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls" Queen - "Radio Gaga" Rick Astley - "Never Gonna Give You Up" Spandau Ballet - "Gold" Tears for Fears - "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" UB40 - "Red Red Wine" Visage - "Fade To Grey" Wham! - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" XTC - "Senses Working Overtime" Yazz - "Don't Go" ZZ Top - "Gimme All Your Lovin'"
Yazoo not Yazz for Don't Go. Yazz was the only way is up.
Good choices though.
I’ll concede 2 are okay - Billy Jean and Gimme all your loving. Of the rest, that I have heard, not okay. “everything” released in the 60’s is better than Kylies I should be so lucky.
Another thing I spot that is very wrong, weren’t U2 and the Pogues big in the eighties? Why are they not on the list?
Shocking omission of Depeche Mode too...
I know, they're my favourite band, so the horns of a proper dilemma, but Duran Duran were bigger in the 1980s, so they get to represent the letter "D".
So it’s a list solely based on inside leg measurements?
Sorry, I have no clue what you mean
I mean, what do you mean by big? What is it based on? Wall posters? Record sales? I think Michael Jackson would own the eighties on record sales?
Your own favourite music doesn’t make your list? I thought it was the “Now That’s What Sunil Calls 80’s Music” list. It might be worthwhile if it was a personal favourite play list?
We'll know the likely result in about seven minutes, I'd have thought.
Just logged in to Labrokes to have a look at the odds. 3/1 available on the conservatives. But a popup! They've chosen this moment to ask for me to resubmit my proof of identity.
While we're waiting, thoughts on Runcorn. I habe several family members in tge constituency. Some are making Reform-y noises. But the ones making Reform-y noises are the ones I think least likely to vote, while the ones making unreform-y noises are the most likely to. I still think Lab hold.
Bloc Quebcois currently on zero votes. If it stays at this level, they won't win a single seat.
(Yes, yes, I know.)
The key to being a successful pundit is to be utterly confident despite frequently, if not mostly, wrong, but in an entertaining way. So youre doing fine.
It's only psephologists and pollsters people get mad at for being wrong.
The decade when you were thrown out of a band for actually riffing on a guitar, rather than posing with it. And if you weren’t dressed in a plastic boiler suit, you would be laughed out of town.
How to make three minutes thirty nine seconds sound like three hours.
ABC - "The Look Of Love" Bananarama - "Venus" Culture Club - "Karma Chamaeleon" Duran Duran - "The Reflex" Eurythmics - "Sweet Dreams" Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" Human League - "Don't You Want Me" Imagination - "Just An Illusion" Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean" Kylie Minogue - "I Should Be So Lucky" Level 42 - "Lessons In Love" Madonna - "Into The Groove" New Order - "Blue Monday" Billy Ocean - "When The Going Gets Tough" Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls" Queen - "Radio Gaga" Rick Astley - "Never Gonna Give You Up" Spandau Ballet - "Gold" Tears for Fears - "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" UB40 - "Red Red Wine" Visage - "Fade To Grey" Wham! - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" XTC - "Senses Working Overtime" Yazz - "Don't Go" ZZ Top - "Gimme All Your Lovin'"
Yazoo not Yazz for Don't Go. Yazz was the only way is up.
Good choices though.
I’ll concede 2 are okay - Billy Jean and Gimme all your loving. Of the rest, that I have heard, not okay. “everything” released in the 60’s is better than Kylies I should be so lucky.
Another thing I spot that is very wrong, weren’t U2 and the Pogues big in the eighties? Why are they not on the list?
Shocking omission of Depeche Mode too...
I know, they're my favourite band, so the horns of a proper dilemma, but Duran Duran were bigger in the 1980s, so they get to represent the letter "D".
So it’s a list solely based on inside leg measurements?
Sorry, I have no clue what you mean
I mean, what do you mean by big? What is it based on? Wall posters? Record sales? I think Michael Jackson would own the eighties on record sales?
Your own favourite music doesn’t make your list? I thought it was the “Now That’s What Sunil Calls 80’s Music” list. It might be worthwhile if it was a personal favourite play list?
LOL. Never mind.
Depeche Mode in the 80s:
168 weeks in the UK Top 75 Singles No Number Ones 5 Top Tens
Duran Duran in the 80s:
178 weeks in the UK Top 75 Singles 2 Number Ones 10 Top Tens
It wouldn’t be Canada has voted in their very own Trump Style government, because the USA voters didn’t vote in this Trump 2.0 government. In both cases voters were focussed on voting out what had been in. It’s been a very tough first half decade for incumbent governments the world over. A “better not the devil you know” trend.
I need this hole in my pocket fixed, who’s offering me the quickest fix?
I'm no fan of Musk, and I cheer any signs of Tesla's demise. However, the woman in this clip used 'literally' to mean 'figuratively' within 30 seconds of the clip starting, and then went on to use the word 'gaslighting'. So it's very difficult to get on her side.
The decade when you were thrown out of a band for actually riffing on a guitar, rather than posing with it. And if you weren’t dressed in a plastic boiler suit, you would be laughed out of town.
How to make three minutes thirty nine seconds sound like three hours.
ABC - "The Look Of Love" Bananarama - "Venus" Culture Club - "Karma Chamaeleon" Duran Duran - "The Reflex" Eurythmics - "Sweet Dreams" Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" Human League - "Don't You Want Me" Imagination - "Just An Illusion" Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean" Kylie Minogue - "I Should Be So Lucky" Level 42 - "Lessons In Love" Madonna - "Into The Groove" New Order - "Blue Monday" Billy Ocean - "When The Going Gets Tough" Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls" Queen - "Radio Gaga" Rick Astley - "Never Gonna Give You Up" Spandau Ballet - "Gold" Tears for Fears - "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" UB40 - "Red Red Wine" Visage - "Fade To Grey" Wham! - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" XTC - "Senses Working Overtime" Yazz - "Don't Go" ZZ Top - "Gimme All Your Lovin'"
Yazoo not Yazz for Don't Go. Yazz was the only way is up.
Good choices though.
I’ll concede 2 are okay - Billy Jean and Gimme all your loving. Of the rest, that I have heard, not okay. “everything” released in the 60’s is better than Kylies I should be so lucky.
Another thing I spot that is very wrong, weren’t U2 and the Pogues big in the eighties? Why are they not on the list?
Shocking omission of Depeche Mode too...
I know, they're my favourite band, so the horns of a proper dilemma, but Duran Duran were bigger in the 1980s, so they get to represent the letter "D".
So it’s a list solely based on inside leg measurements?
Sorry, I have no clue what you mean
I mean, what do you mean by big? What is it based on? Wall posters? Record sales? I think Michael Jackson would own the eighties on record sales?
Your own favourite music doesn’t make your list? I thought it was the “Now That’s What Sunil Calls 80’s Music” list. It might be worthwhile if it was a personal favourite play list?
LOL. Never mind.
Depeche Mode in the 80s:
168 weeks in the UK Top 75 Singles No Number Ones 5 Top Tens
Duran Duran in the 80s:
178 weeks in the UK Top 75 Singles 2 Number Ones 10 Top Tens
But my point is, wouldn’t a “Sunil’s personal best of the eighties” playlist actually be more valuable to us?
Lemmy, dying at the tail end of 2015, was the first of the barrage of celebrity deaths which happened fkr the next six months. I still wonder that David Bowie got so much more attention. I mean, I rate Bowie, but he was no Lemmy. Noone was.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL_F6oKsHiQ
I could have sworn until I checked that I heard it on The Old Grey Whistle Test in the late 70s.
UB40 - One in Ten : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL_F6oKsHiQ
The Specials - Ghost Town : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2oXzrnti4
Oh, and for a 100% not about heroin track :
The Stranglers - Golden Brown : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2oXzrnti4
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Spellbound - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W7COZEhmeA
The Smiths - Frankly Mr Shankly - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT1YxP8Wsow
Ok who's booked the morning off work and doing an all-nighter?
If not already posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SATBOqyYODU
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/federal-election/2025-results/
First polls close in Newfoundland & Labrador at midnight BST.
Will Casino Royale be PB's biggest winner on the election betting?
Busy week ahead - UK Thursday, Australia Saturday, Romania Sunday.
Hope everyone is keeping well.
Thanks,
DC
I listened to all of it, waiting for it to start.
Altered Images: I could be Happy
Sade: Smooth Operator
Hazel O'Connor: Will You?
Husker Du: Too Far Down
And the second best song about gambling:
Motorhead: Ace of Spades
(Kenny Rogers : The Gambler is obviously first).
I feel like I've wasted my evening now. Which is very unlike the mysterious late 80s -> mid 90s period of my life.
👀
I'm in that grumpy mood when I have to cheer on LPC.
Keeping hold of nurse has proved almost as spectacularly successful as it has for the Tories here.
One day the curtain will be drawn back.
But that isn't for today...maybe Thursday?
David Bowie:
190 weeks in the UK Top 75 Singles
4 number ones (one with Queen, also 1 US number one = Let's Dance)
6 Top 10s
Bananarama:
176 weeks in the UK Top 75 Singles
No number ones (but 1 US number one = Venus)
10 Top 10s
We had the story today of the Iranian who claimed they couldn't go back because they sold sex toys. Then when that attempt failed they then tried the I went to a couple of protests, if they Iranian know I did, I will be in danger.
Those committed of a crime that will get you put on the sex offender register will definitely try the but but but I am in danger, because as a nonce, we are always targeted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fQc57t7VSA
Possibly not their most famous track - but it reminded me of how influential and cross-cultural music has been down the years.
(Also "I could be Happy" is a great track. See also - currently relevant - "Making Plans for Nigel")
The Boys from the Blackstuff and Letter to Brezhnev both show that side.
Other than that they aren't similar at all.
His much earlier - and annoyingly named - much earlier radio programme 'Top Gear' (yes) is scattered on the internet. Well worth tracking down. I loved him reading out a new record :
"And the next track is by... a band called... give me a second ... :: fumbles around :: .. The Lead ... Zeppelin?"
Forgot to add: This is between Jan 1980 and Dec 1989!
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/federal/2025/results/#/
https://www.cbc.ca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJL-Kpt6lUw
Spookily accurate given his sudden conversion to working class values.
But I think there was a very strong counter/alternative/interesting culture going on at the time.
For a modern-ish TV show that somewhat captures it 'Deutschland 83' was close.
Note - do not do this.
Bit like Sunderland.
She was made in New Brunswick for this.
Check out those accents
'Silver Machine' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdTFeW8FCto
Which is 100% not a reference to a syringe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carleton_(Ontario_federal_electoral_district)#Carleton,_2015–present
The Longest Ballot Committee is a political movement in Canada, at one time affiliated with the Rhinoceros Party,[1] known for flooding ballots with a large number of independent candidates in protest of the first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting system and other electoral reform related issues
I see one of their earlier efforts also had 91 candidates, and all but two of them got at least 1 vote.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_LaSalle—Émard—Verdun_federal_by-election
Or Rita and Sue and Bob too.
There's a wealth of detail in that film.
Canada gives results by each polling station relaying the information to the centralised Riding.
How are we looking?
Liberal win? Or a polling disaster?
(Actually I've no idea, but I'm going to bed so want to claim credit for calling that outcome, just in case).
Your own favourite music doesn’t make your list? I thought it was the “Now That’s What Sunil Calls 80’s Music” list. It might be worthwhile if it was a personal favourite play list?
LOL. Never mind.
https://youtu.be/GxmqAkNQP8c?si=ZlbnXghRA2u_AHbE
Not many rockstars get to bow out so perfectly.
One can hope...
(Yes, yes, I know.)
“Is this really happening? Are they really going to do this? Is Canada going to elect in their own Trump Style Government!”
Globe and Mail has forecast a massive turnaround. Now Liberals 6, Conservatives stuck on 3.
It's only psephologists and pollsters people get mad at for being wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLsbxoRNh8M
168 weeks in the UK Top 75 Singles
No Number Ones
5 Top Tens
Duran Duran in the 80s:
178 weeks in the UK Top 75 Singles
2 Number Ones
10 Top Tens
I need this hole in my pocket fixed, who’s offering me the quickest fix?
With one polling district having reporting, it's 11 votes each for the Conservatives and the Liberals.
https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/politics/market/1.241109113
One fish, two fish, another fish, another fish...
Conservatives are being whipped there: they have just 4 votes. (10% of the total cast.)