‘I had a similar year back in 1984 when I felt like I couldn’t lose’ – John McEnroe
Dad’s ‘Pick of the Year’ tapes were always a firm family favourite where he would make a compilation cassette of his favourite songs form that year. He stopped in 1992 however, when music got a bit too modern for him. It’s something over the years I’ve tried to carry on, and did for a while but, no one listens to CDs anymore and they don’t have the same impact as mp3 playlists. I’ve often thought about restarting it all from 1982 on my blog though just so I have somewhere to put them all for prosperity sake.
The first rule of POTY is DON’T TALK ABOUT PICK OF THE YEAR, sorry, that’s the illegal underground fight club i’m part of.
The first rule of POTY is that you can only pick songs that charted in the top 75 in the UK. The second rule of POTY is that you can only pick enough songs that would fit onto an old C120 cassette (between 30-40 tracks). The final rule, one which i’ve imposed myself, is that you must include that year’s Christmas number 1 (highlighted in green)
Tracks:
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Fiction Factory – Feels Like Heaven
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Talk Talk – It’s My Life
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Queen – I Want to Break Free
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Nik Kershaw – The Riddle
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Paul McCartney – We All Stand Together
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Prince – Purple Rain
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John Waite – Missing You
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Queen – Radio Ga Ga
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Madonna – Like A Virgin
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Tina Turner – What’s Love Got To Do With It
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Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas
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Wham – Last Christmas
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George Michael – Careless Whisper
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Cyndi Lauder – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
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Limahl – Never Ending Story
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Grandmaster Flash – White Lines
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Van Halen – Jump
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Nik Kershaw – Won’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me
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Rufus & Chaka Khan – Ain’t Nobody
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Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy
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Phil Collins – Against All Odds
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Cars – Drive
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Stevie Wonder – I Just Called To Say I Love You
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Lionel Richie – Hello
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Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time
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Ray Parker Jnr – Ghostbusters
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Gary Portnoy – Where Everybody Knows Your Name
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Tears for Fears – Shout
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Foreigner – I Want to Know What Love is
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Bananarama – Robert DeNiro’s Waiting
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Bob Marley – One Love
