Eighties’ best 100 redux: #83 [Tie] Yazoo “Only you” (1982) & The Flying Pickets “Only you” (1983) << #84    |    #82 >> The #83 position on this Eighties' best 100 (redo) list is occupied by two very different versions of the same song: Yazoo's original synth-heavy New Wave hit and The Flying Pickets' a capella cover of "Only you". Vince Clarke left Depeche Mode after the release of their debut album, "Speak & spell", in 1981 and formed Yazoo (known as Yaz in the U.S.) with vocalist Alison Moyet.

Eighties' best 100 redux: #83 [Tie] Yazoo "Only you" (1982) & The Flying Pickets "Only you" (1983)

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Eighties’ best 100 redux: #84 Peter Schilling “Major Tom (Coming home)” (1982, 1983) << #85    |    #83 >> At song #84, we have Peter Schilling's "Major Tom (Coming home)", the New German Wave re-telling of David Bowie's classic tune, "Space oddity". Of course, when listening to the song at the time, I was too young to have been at all familiar with "Space oddity" so I never could have made the connection between "Major Tom" and the 'weird' singer of "Blue Jean".

Eighties' best 100 redux: #84 Peter Schilling "Major Tom (Coming home)" (1982, 1983)

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Eighties’ best 100 redux: #85 Thompson Twins “Hold me now” (1983) << #86    |    #84 >> Check out that hair! Yeesh! Thompson Twins' "Hold me now", at song #85, is something of a guilty pleasure* of mine. When I was in grade five, I thought the band was the coolest thing ever and even today, I still know all the words to this song. I'm dedicating this one to Victoria, my lovely wife, for whom this song is also a pleasure, but maybe not so guilty.

Eighties' best 100 redux: #85 Thompson Twins "Hold me now" (1983)

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