‘It wasn’t like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another form of expression’ – Nikki Sixx
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)
- Black Box – Ride on Time
- Gladys Knight – Licence to Kill
- Lightning Seeds – Pure
- Aerosmith – Love in an Elevator
- Roy Orbison – You Got It
- Bagles – Eternal Flame
- Guns N Roses – Sweet Chold O Mine
- Cher – If I Could Turn Back Time
- Don Henley – End of the Innocence
- Soul II Soul – Back to Life
- Tom Petty – I Won’t Back Down
- Billy Joel – We Didn’t Start the Fire
- Jive Bunny – Swing the Mood
- Richard Marx – Right Here Waiting
- Traveling Wilbury’s – End of the Line
- Tom Petty – Free Fallin’
- Bon Jovi – Lay Your Hands on Me
- New Kids on the Block – The Right Stuff
- Jason Donovan – Too Many Broken Hearts
- Michael Jackson – Leave Me Alone
- Bon Jovi – I’ll Be There for You
- Madonna – Express Yourself
- Fine Young Cannibals – Good Thing
- Tears for Fears – Sowing the Seeds of Love
- Del Amitri – Kiss This Thing Goodbye
- Phil Collins – Another Day in Paradise
- Neneh Cherry – Manchild
- Sydney Youngblood – If Only I Could
- Kylie Minogue – Hand on you Heart
- Madonna – Like a Prayer
- Fine Young Cannibals – She Drives Me Crazy
- Marc Almond & Gene Pitney – Something’s Gotten Hold of my Heart
- Morrissey – Last of the Fanous International Playboys
- Lisa Stansfield – All Around the World
- Sam Brown – Stop
- Karyn White – Superwoman
- Technotronic – Pump up the Jam
- Bananarama – Help
- Paula Abdul – Straight Up
- Transvision Vamp – Baby I Don’t Care
- Simple Minds – Belfast Child
- Holly Johnson – Americanos
- Band Aid II – Do They Know It’s Christmas
Oh I love this – my favourite from the list would have to be Kylie – hand on your heart. OMG I used to dance around my room with a hairbrush to that song. I adored it!