I’m starting to think that maybe 1986 is my favorite year, of all time!’ – Jorma Taccone
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)
- Run DMC – Walk This Way
- Communards – Don’t Leave Me This Way
- Madonna – Live to Tell
- Genesis – Land of Confusion
- Housemartins – Caravan of Love
- Chris DeBurgh – Lady in Red
- Europe – The Final Countdown
- Paul Simon – You Can Call Me Al
- The Bangles – Walk Like an Egyptian
- It Bites – Calling All The Heroes
- Janet Jackson – What Have You Done for Me Lately
- Robert Palmer – Addicted to Love
- Genesis – Invisible Touch
- Bruce Hornsby – The Way It Is
- Huey Lewis & the News – Stuck With You
- Queen – A Kind of Magic
- Mike & the Mechanics – All I Need is a Miracle
- The Bangles – Manic Monday
- Status Quo – In the Army Now
- Falco – Rock Me Amadeus
- Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer
- Bananarama – Venus
- Bon Jovi – Livin On a Prayer
- Jackie Wilson – Reet Petite
- Madonna – True Blue
- Spitting Image – The Chicken Song
- Genesis – In Too Deep
- Jermaine Stewart – We Don’t Have To Take Our Clothes Off
- Cutting Crew – Just Died In Your Arms
- Steve Winwood – Higher Love
- Level 42 – Lessons in Love
- Berlin – Take My Breath Away
- Stan Ridgway – Camouflage
- Cyndi Lauper – True Colours
- Lionel Richie – Dancing on the Ceiling
- Doctor and the Medics – Spirit in the Sky
- Madonna – Papa Don’t Preach
- Cameo – Word Up
- Steve Winwood – Back in the High Life Again
- John Farnham – You’re the Voice
- Crowded House – Don’t Dream it’s Over
