Christmas Tree

I think thats a tad physco bollox tbf. The eighties was a very tuneful and lyrical period, very much more rhyming lyrics. It was also very uncomplicated and simple. I think songs were off a similar ilk in the 50's however the 90's onwards moved much more towards music rather than songs, as such. What clinches it for me is that you go to any family disco / wedding and it is littered with eighties songs than everyone, no matter what age, knows the words too. Just look at these beauties..... The 1000 Number One Singles Of The Official UK Charts 1980 449 Pretenders Brass In Pocket 450 The Special AKA The Specials Live EP (main track: Too Much Too Young) 451 Kenny Rogers Coward Of The County 452 Blondie Atomic 453 Fern Kinney Together We Are Beautiful 454 Jam Going Underground / Dreams Of Children 455 Detroit Spinners Working My Way Back To You - Forgive Me Girl 456 Blondie Call Me 457 Dexy's Midnight Runners Geno 458 Johnny Logan What's Another Year 459 Mash Suicide Is Painless (Theme from M*A*S*H) 460 Don McLean Crying 461 Olivia Newton John & Electric Light Orchestra Xanadu 462 Odyssey Use It Up And Wear It Out 463 Abba The Winner Takes It All 464 David Bowie Ashes To Ashes 465 Jam Start 466 Kelly Marie Feels Like I'm In Love 467 Police Don't Stand So Close To Me 468 Barbra Streisand Woman In Love 469 Blondie The Tide Is High 470 Abba Super Trouper 471 John Lennon (Just Like) Starting Over 472 St Winifred's School Choir There's No One Quite Like Grandma 1981 473 John Lennon Imagine 474 John Lennon Woman 475 Joe Dolce Music Theatre Shaddap You Face 476 Roxy Music Jealous Guy 477 Shakin' Stevens This Ole House 478 Bucks Fizz Making Your Mind Up 479 Adam & The Ants Stand And Deliver 480 Smokey Robinson Being With You 481 Michael Jackson One Day In Your Life 482 Specials Ghost Town 483 Shakin' Stevens Green Door 484 Aneka Japanese Boy 485 Soft Cell Tainted Love 486 Adam & The Ants Prince Charming 487 Dave Stewart with Barbara Gaskin It's My Party 488 Police Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic 489 Queen & David Bowie Under Pressure 490 Julio Iglesias Begin The Beguine (Volver A Empezar) 491 Human League Don't You Want Me 1982 492 Bucks Fizz Land Of Make Believe 493 Shakin' Stevens Oh Julie 494 Kraftwerk The Model / Computer Love 495 Jam A Town Called Malice / Precious 496 Tight Fit The Lion Sleeps Tonight 497 Goombay Dance Band Seven Tears 498 Bucks Fizz My Camera Never Lies 499 Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder Ebony And Ivory 500 Nicole A Little Peace 501 Madness House Of Fun 502 Adam Ant Goody Two Shoes 503 Charlene I've Never Been To Me 504 Captain Sensible Happy Talk 505 Irene Cara Fame 506 Dexy's Midnight Runners & The Emerald Express Come On Eileen 507 Survivor Eye Of The Tiger 508 Musical Youth Pass The Dutchie 509 Culture Club Do You Really Want To Hurt Me 510 Eddy Grant I Don't Wanna Dance 511 Jam Beat Surrender 512 Renee & Renato Save Your Love 1983 513 Phil Collins You Can't Hurry Love 514 Men At Work Down Under 515 Kajagoogoo Too Shy 516 Michael Jackson Billie Jean 517 Bonnie Tyler Total Eclipse Of The Heart 518 Duran Duran Is There Something I Should Know 519 David Bowie Let's Dance 520 Spandau Ballet True. 521 New Edition Candy Girl 522 Police Every Breath You Take 523 Rod Stewart Baby Jane 524 Paul Young Wherever I Lay My Hat 525 K C & The Sunshine Band Give It Up 526 UB 40 Red Red Wine 527 Culture Club Karma Chameleon 528 Billy Joel Uptown Girl 529 Flying Pickets Only You 1984 530 Paul McCartney Pipes Of Peace 531 Frankie Goes To Hollywood Relax 532 Nena 99 Red Balloons 533 Lionel Richie Hello 534 Duran Duran The Reflex 535 Wham! Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go 536 Frankie Goes To Hollywood Two Tribes 537 George Michael Careless Whisper 538 Stevie Wonder I Just Called To Say I Love You 539 Wham! Freedom 540 Chaka Khan I Feel For You 541 Jim Diamond I Should Have Known Better 542 Frankie Goes To Hollywood The Power Of Love 543 Band Aid Do They Know It's Christmas 1985 544 Foreigner I Want To Know What Love Is 545 Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson I Know Him So Well 546 Dead Or Alive You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) 547 Philip Bailey & Phil Collins Easy Lover 548 USA For Africa We Are The World 549 Phillis Nelson Move Closer 550 Paul Hardcastle 19 551 Crowd You'll Never Walk Alone 552 Sister Sledge Frankie 553 Eurythmics There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart) 554 Madonna Into The Groove 555 UB 40 & Chrissie Hynde I Got You Babe 556 David Bowie & Mick Jagger Dancing in the Streets 557 Midge Ure If I Was 558 Jennifer Rush The Power Of Love 559 Feargal Sharkey A Good Heart 560 Wham! I'm Your Man 561 Whitney Houston Saving All My Love For You 562 Shakin' Stevens Merry Christmas Everyone 1986 563 Pet Shop Boys West End Girls 564 A-ha The Sun Always Shines On TV 565 Billy Ocean "When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going" 566 Diana Ross Chain Reaction 567 Cliff Richard & The Young Ones Living Doll 568 George Michael A Different Corner 569 Falco Rock Me Amadeus 570 Spitting Image The Chicken Song 571 Doctor & The Medics Spirit In The Sky 572 Wham! The Edge Of Heaven 573 Madonna Papa Don't Preach 574 Chris de Burgh The Lady In Red 575 Boris Gardiner I Want To Wake Up With You 576 Communards Don't Leave Me This Way 577 Madonna True Blue 578 Nick Berry Every Loser Wins 579 Berlin Take My Breath Away 580 Europe The Final Countdown 581 Housemartins Caravan Of Love 582 Jackie Wilson Reet Petite 1987 583 Steve 'Silk' Hurley Jack Your Body 584 George Michael & Aretha Franklin I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) 585 Ben E King Stand By Me 586 Boy George Everything I Own 587 Mel & Kim Respectable 588 Ferry Aid Let It Be 589 Madonna La Isla Bonita 590 Starship Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now 591 Whitney Houston I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) 592 The Firm Star Trekkin' 593 Pet Shop Boys It's A Sin 594 Madonna Who's That Girl 595 Los Lobos La Bamba 596 Michael Jackson I Just Can't Stop Loving You 597 Rick Astley Never Gonna Give You Up 598 M/A/R/R/S Pump Up The Volume / Anitina (The First Time I See She Dance) 599 Bee Gees You Win Again 600 T'Pau China In Your Hand 601 Pet Shop Boys Always On My Mind 1988 602 Belinda Carlisle Heaven Is A Place On Earth 603 Tiffany I Think We're Alone Now 604 Kylie Minogue I Should Be So Lucky 605 Aswad Don't Turn Around 606 Pet Shop Boys Heart 607 S'Express Theme from S'Express 608 Fairground Attraction Perfect 609 Wet Wet Wet / Billy Bragg With A Little Help From My Friends / She's Leaving Home 610 Timelords Doctorin' The Tardis 611 Bros I Owe You Nothing 612 Glenn Medeiros Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You 613 Yazz & The Plastic Population The Only Way Is Up 614 Phil Collins A Groovy Kind Of Love 615 Hollies He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother 616 U2 Desire 617 Whitney Houston One Moment In Time 618 Enya Orinoco Flow (Sail Away) 619 Robin Beck The First Time 620 Cliff Richard Mistletoe & Wine 1989 621 Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan Especially For You 622 Marc Almond with Gene Pitney Somethings Gotten Hold Of My Heart 623 Simple Minds Belfast Child 624 Jason Donovan Too Many Broken Hearts 625 Madonna Like A Prayer 626 Bangles Eternal Flame 627 Kylie Minogue Hand On Your Heart 628 "Gerry Marsden, Paul McCartney, Holly Johnson & Christians" Ferry 'Cross The Mersey 629 Jason Donovan Sealed With A Kiss 630 Soul II Soul featuring Caron Wheeler Back To Life 631 Sonia You'll Never Stop Me Loving You 632 Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers Swing The Mood 633 Black Box Ride On Time 634 Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers That's What I Like 635 Lisa Stansfield All Around The World 636 New Kids On The Block You Got It (The Right Stuff) 637 Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers Let's Party 638 Band Aid II Do They Know It's Christmas

Love Ghost Town. Its one of those songs that really takes me back when it comes on the radio.

Oh dear, we all know you have no will power. In the last 30 days you had me on and off more times than LM mentions Shepherds. And just like all the other times you will be peeking now. Pathetic. (but funny).

I love the way when you seeth Ant, you bolster your argument by implying that the world on Toontastic agrees with you and everyone elses opinion is wrong. The bottom line is I think we'll do canny next season and you don't. There you go. As for the ignore, lol!

At Ant, Your outlook is all doom and gloom which is why you are grasping at anything to paint as true your gloomy predictions of the future. Doommongers like you were the ones forecasting doom and gloom in the championship and telling me my positive outlook was stupid. The same group of doom mongers who said we'd probably be straight back down and telling me my positive outlook was stupid. The only person who will go missing in September is you. But by then you'll have another excuse lined up and will be telling anyone who will listen how we'll be fucked at Christmas. Same old same old, everytime.

Andy Carroll was a young boy with 6 months in the prem to his name. £35 million was and still is, too good to refuse. Virtually everyone agrees. I would love to nip off and analyse Nolans goals and see how many came as a direct result of Carroll, but its Saturday night so thats a no. I'll write Nolan off as a one hit wonder when it occurs, not now.

Clubbing --- Roxannes Shields (twice i think) Pre 15 --- Heavy metal head banger. Long hair, hippy oil and frayed denim. Gigs Girschool city hall 15 -17 --- Quick daliance with punk however all that spiiting and dead fly dancing......shudders. 17-21 --- Any good tunes for cruising in my Ford Capri. Beach Boys etc. 21 Married with children --- Gigs whitney Houston, steps and similar child influenced tosh. One gig I wish Id been at, Queen - Newcastle.

1. Pointless argument. 2. My view is we'll start next season with better than Shola and Best, yours is we wont. Again pointless argument. 3. Sure we would be better with him, but its been done to death on here that good players will move on from time to time and you just have to get on with it. The point I made which remains correct, is that losing a left back is not as detrimental as losing your best forward, Goalie or creative midfielder. The Tiote point is rediculous, we have signed a scout who has a good reputation in the game so our chances of finding more Tiotes has improved. The top four cant buy everyone. There is still good players that we can have. Regardless of the players that come in in the summer, the same people will be positive and the same people will be moaning, just as they were pre championship and pre this year. Messi or Ronaldo? what have you been drinking? I said players like Tiote, IE It wont really matter if the 20 mill budget has gone, if GC finds another Tiote or similar Im sure Ashley wont hesitate in snapping them up and yes, part of that will be because there is a re-sale value .

I'm not ranting about anything. Your use of the word "decent" subconciously betrays your lack of expectations and demands. What is "decent" ? The clubs aiming to win things and play at the top buy quality players, the also rans aim for "decent" and say things like "we will be fine". Not good enough. That is the whole point here No, thats your whole point, not mine. Im very aware of where we are and what we can / will realistically achieve this summer. You are banging your old drum about where we should be bla bla bla. We've heard it all before and personally its nice to discuss whats going on now without going down your road everytime.

I think you are simply painting a bleak picture to suit your viewpoint. For all the teams who "had a bad day" against us, there were equally shit teams who took points off us because we had a bad day. There's is no reason whatsoever than Nolan won't do equally as well next year and no reason to suggest that incomings won't be better than Shola or Best. The left back position is not the be all and end all. We will be starting next year with one of the strongest midfields we've had in years, probably a fairly decent defense and it seems apparent we are after pacy wingers. All we are really missing is some decent strikers. They don't have to be world beaters, just decent which will be a vast improvement on what we have. I don't think that is such a tall order. There are also lots of teams around us who are financially fucked so I expect other mid table teams to slip backwards. You are right about the potential of Gosling and Lua Lua. but they will be squad fillers anyway. With regard the 35 mill, it was expressed by Pardew months ago that the figure would be used for fees and wages. However with the club about to move into profit and sports direct doing well, Ashley may well start and loosen the purse strings if the right deals come along. By that I mean chucking money and decent deals like Tiote not mega millions on has Beens. It amazes me anyone looking at this situation without bias sees next season as less attractive than this.

Also worth adding that a lot of the time the celeb, will just throw you off to the agent / shark (try telling them you want a freebie shoot ) They might consider if theirs a coke deal at the end of it.

Really depends at the level your at, but even so it would be hard to get a "personality" to give up their time to turn up for a test shoot for free. Again depending on the size of what you are doing, the contract needs to be airtight or you can get ruined after the event. IE You say you want to run a press as with them in and then a few months down the line you stick the picture on a bill board or internet sight. They can then come back at you for all sorts of fees and as you have already used them, your bargaining power is null. Its hard without knowing details, but as an absolute if your still unsure, could you not get a body double and the photo shop on the "face". This is the sort of mock up an ad agency would do when trying to convince a client in a similar situation.

I honestly cant see how anyone thinks we could possible be a worse side next year than this. We will have a bigger squad, decent players like Ben Arfa, Gosling and Lua Lua back from injury. Which ever strikers we buy it is hard to imagine them being worse than Shola, Lovenkrands and Best. Im pretty confident a decent left back will be found. Not going to be challenging for the top four, bur its very hard to take seriously views that we will be worse off than this season, overall. And before you start your usual rant LM, thats not a pro ashley gloss, thats just being realistic as far as I can see.

With regard to wimoweh, it was the 80@s that made it Its like Ram Jams Black Betty, no one cares who had the original version, they only remember ram jams.

The best song of all time.

Heard a geezer on the radio today saying that when West Ham fucked up with Tevez, the Sheffield United manager at the time was shouting from the roof tops that West Ham should be docked points..... Any guesses who the Sheffield manager was at the time?

Details fist, details. Where did you go, what about lunch etc etc etc.

Newcastle finally accept basics are better than bluster http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/ap...ted-alan-pardew

While taxi'ing tonight I had Real radio on in the background and it must have been 80's night tonight. When you listen to those tunes and lyrics you realise that nothing since has come close. Such corkers as .... Wimoweh wimoweh wimoweh wimoweh in the jungle the mighty jungle the lion sleeps tonight. and Zoom, just one look and then my heart went boom Suddenly and we were on the moon Flying high on the neon sky, oh Fucking classics of our time that everyone knows word by word. I felt proud to have been part of it.

You don't half get carried away with yourself at times! I find all the banter very amusing AND still find sad the people moaning about how ridiculous it all is yet still remain glued to their TV's. Penis breath.