Robbie Nevil - C'est La Vie.

This is a very late 1980s song.

He looks very in love with himself.

Paul Simon - The Boy in the Bubble.

I've got a copy of this, somewhere.

Epic greenscreen overdose.

Top Ten.

Jackie Wilson is still at Number One.

Fast forward to find out what the playout song is.

Playing out with Genesis and Land of Confusion, which means Spitting Image have two videos on the chart this week.

It seems to be going on forever.

That was a terrible episode which was saved only by the presence of the Pretenders and Paul Simon.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everyone else made of it.

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Swing Out Sister - Surrender

It's not a patch on Break Out though.

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The Pretenders - Hymn to Her

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Iggy Pop - Real Wild Child

Tommy Vance on my tape wrote:

Iggy Pop is in the Top 10 in the United Kingdom! Who would've believed it?!

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Paul Simon - The Boy in the Bubble

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Genesis and Land of Confusion

This is a great time for my Top 40 recordings - the era of Tape 5

389 The Boy In The Bubble
390 Dreamin'
391 So Cold The Night
392 Caravan Of Love
393 Over The Hills And Far Away
394 No More The Fool
395 Is This Love?
396 Trampoline
397 Something In My House
398 Real Wild Child (Wild One)
399 Hymn To Her
400 Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades
401 Magic Smile
402 Rat In Mi Kitchen
403 Shoplifters Of The World Unite
404 Surrender

Times are changing though. I completed this tape on Feb 8 1987. Two weeks previously I had bought a punk compilation LP

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

Gary Moore - Over the Hills and Far Away.

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

I thought he'd only ever had one hit.

I remember him having a hit in the late 80s, when I was first properly listening to the charts.

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

Spitting Image - Santa Claus is on the Dole.

Isn't that just the worst song ever? It also lacks any typical Spitting Image humour so fails on all accounts.

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

Playing out with Madonna and Open Your Heart.

Hasn't this already been Number One?

No, it never reached number one.

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

How come it's getting played on the playout if it's going down the charts?

Because it's post-Christmas with no new songs being released so they're having to fill up the show with "old" songs.

Fangirl Three wrote:

See, to me that just illustrates my point, that rubber puppetry seems ludicrously out of date in the 90s. It's like Doctor Who in the Colin Baker era.

That's the start of my era of Doctor Who.

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

It has now ended and Lionel Richie has come on with something called Ballerina Girl.

It's a lovely song, if rather forgotten, and not included on his Best Of album.

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

It makes it look like he's singing a love song to an eight year old.

It's about his daughter Nicole Richie - you know, the one who went on to hang out with Paris Hilton and did a reality show together.

Whatever happened to them?