My Top 100 Favourite Music Videos: #79

#79: "Dancing in the Street" - David Bowie and Mick Jagger
Release Date: 1985
Director: David Mallet
Fun Fact: The video only took thirteen hours to film, and was filmed straight after a rushed recording in the studio! It was done for Live Aid!

Haha. This is one of those "so bad it's good" videos. At least for me, although some people find it too cringe worthy!

I just love the video. It's just awful but so entertainingly bad! Apparently watching this video on mute is pretty messed up. What on earth are they doing? What are they wearing? What are those dance moves? It's just hilarious and terrible, so much so I love it!

Here's the video for your enjoyment!

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Mixtape: Best of UK #1s 1982 - 2012

Yesterday I posted my favourite UK #1 hits between the years 1952 and 1981. Why? Because the UK #1 is now sixty years old. We've had sixty years of popular music, and the charting of the popularity of it. So I decided I wanted to celebrate the past sixty years of music by revealing my favourite #1 hits. Because sixty years is such a long time I've made two lists, and this is the second one.

This Mixtape celebrates my favourite #1 hits from 1982 to 2012. This list of songs isn't as good as the list I put up yesterday, in my opinion anyway, because my favourite songs from the past 30 years hardly chart, nevermind get to #1. But there are some great tracks here, I'm sure you'll appreciate.

Don't know much about Mixtapes? Here are the rules. 

A Mixtape is a playlist of a certain genre, band or era. The list is generally 80 minutes long, the same length of a blank CD, with further recommendations if some of the songs aren't to your taste. Remember kids, downloading is wrong! 

So here we go! Here's a list of my favourite #1 hits from 1982 to 2012, with the date it got to the #1 spot! Enjoy!

This Mixtape is now available to listen to fully on YouTube so subscribe to me if you want to listen to it properly. Enjoy!

1. Eye of the Tiger - Survivor (04/09/1982)
2. Let's Dance - David Bowie (09/04/1983)
3. Stand By Me - Ben E. King (21/02/1987)
4. Goody Two Shoes - Adam Ant (12/06/1982)
5. Should I Stay or Should I Go? - The Clash (03/03/1991)
6. House of Fun - Madness (29/05/1982)
7. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen (15/12/1991)
8. Dancing in the Street - Mick Jagger and David Bowie (07/09/1985)
9. Your Woman - White Town (19/01/1997)
10. Country House - Blur (20/08/1995)
11. Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Mix) - Cornershop (22/02/1998)
12. Don't Speak - No Doubt (16/02/1997)
13. The Importance of Being Idle - Oasis (28/08/2005)
14. When the Sun Goes Down - Arctic Monkeys (22/01/2006)
15. Paradise - Coldplay (01/01/2012)
16. Deeper Underground - Jamiroquai (19/07/1998)
17. Dare - Gorillaz (04/09/2005)
18. Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) - The Offspring (24/01/1999)
19. Rollin' - Limp Bizkit (21/01/2001)
20. Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine (20/12/2009)

Don't like some of these? Give these five a try...

1. The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve (07/09/1997)
2. Stay - Shakespears Sister (16/02/1992)
3. Bring Me to Life - Evanescence (08/06/2003)
4. Ruby - Kaiser Chiefs (25/02/2007)
5. Vertigo - U2 (14/11/2004)

So that's it! I hope you enjoyed both of these playlists, or Mixtapes as I call them. Sure, I complain about the lack of quality songs getting up the charts nowadays, but that's obviously my opinion, an unpopular one based on the fact that in the end, it's a popularity contest for musicians. But we have had some great songs get up to the top, and I used to really love listening to the chart show when I was younger, so this was a trip down memory lane in a certain way. I hope it was for you too.

This will be my last piece of work before Christmas. As you have probably noticed, I don't write much at the moment. I would like to see if I can address that properly in the New Year, but we'll see. Either way, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas if you celebrate it, and a Happy New Year. Take care!

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