One thing I've often found with 80s nights is that they sound great on paper, but then you turn up and are reminded there was no shortage of rubbish coming out back then and the good stuff isn't that good. This is what I've generally found with this batch of records.
The best it has to offer is "Golden Brown" by The Stranglers. A great record, but probably the only one of theirs you'd hear at an 80s night when they did better records that are largely forgotten.
The 2nd placed record fits the so bad it's good category. "Queen Of The Rapping Scene" was a minor hit for Modern Romance who were one of several non-rap acts in the early 80s incorporating rapping into their records.
In 3rd we have "Restless" by Gillan which was the final Top 40 hit for the band and it's high placing it livening things up what I played it.
Next up we have "Being Boiled" by The Human League, a 1978 record that found its way into the Top 40 off the back of them getting the 1981 Christmas number one with "Don't You Want Me". Similarly "European Son" by Japan was from 1979 but only just finding its way into the charts.
If we go down to the bottom we find "Go Wild In The Country" by Bow Wow Wow. They're a band I never got, there music isn't very musical and the non-singing is rather irritating. I do like The Specials or The Special AKA as they were known here, but "The Boiler"by Rhoda is rather boring.
At 3rd from bottom we have one of those 80s classics you'll no doubt hear at some 80s nights that's irritating. To be fair I think this is supposed to be bad.
Adrian Gurvitz was a member of a band called The Gun in the 60s who were pushing the hard rock sound back then. Now he was writing a classic in his attic, a tame ballad that couldn't be any more different.
One great illustration that not everything was great in the 80s is Shakin Stevens. He was one of the biggest acts of the decade but I'm struggling to think of a single decent record he's done. "Oh Julie" certainly wasn't one of them.
Around mid-table we have acts like OMD, ELO, Diana Ross and Stevie Wonders whose records are solid if unspectacular and all have done better.
When I did my best year search what I generally found with the 80s was that they were consistent. They seem to be again.
Score: 43
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