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Dan Wingrove
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Husband & Father. Music lover, fan of Norwich City Football Club (NCFC) and Parkrunner 🏃🏻‍♂️
#1985AlbumsTop20

15. Flaunt the Imperfection - China Crisis

Track pick: Wall of God
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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16. Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout

Track pick: When Love Breaks Down, such a beautiful song
November 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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17. Fine Young Cannibals

Track pick: Blue
November 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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18. Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits

Track pick: So Far Away
November 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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19. Listen Like Thieves - INXS

Track pick: Listen Like Thieves
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Probably my favourite year of music, so many great albums to choose from 😀

20. What Does Anything Mean? Basically - The Chameleons

I completely missed The Chameleons at the time and have only been listening to them for 2 or 3 years. Great live set at Forever Now in MK in June.
November 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Day 12 (Unranked)

Summertime in England - Van Morrison (1980)

Take a walk with me
Down by Avalon
And I will show you
It ain't why, why, why
It just is
October 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Day 11 (Unranked)

Hounds of Love - Kate Bush (1985)
October 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Day 9 (Unranked)

Atomic - Blondie (1980)

I don't think my last couple of selections in this challenge have posted properly, so🤞that this one will be seen and get some likes😀
October 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Day 8 (Unranked) Playing catch-up

Borderline - Madonna (1983)

youtu.be/rSaC-YbSDpo?...
October 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Definitely, I have couple of boxes of tickets from gigs that I’ve been to over many years. Maybe sometime I’ll create a collage and get it framed. I did get this in the post a few weeks ago. Completely forgot that I’d added it to the order when I bought the ticket.
October 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Day 7 (Unranked)

Waves - Blancmange (1983)

I've been debating which track from my list to post today and whilst I was preparing dinner this evening, Jo Whiley played this on her radio show. It was a sign!! 😀

youtu.be/Cvb8m8Trh8c?...
October 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Day 6 (Unranked)

Fall On Me - REM (1986)

youtu.be/lf6vCjtaV1k?...
October 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Day 5 (Unranked)

Ship of Fools - World Party (1987)

🎵 We're setting sail to the place on the map from which no-one has ever returned🎵

Lyrics just as relevant now as they were then, unfortunately...
October 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Day 4 (Unranked)

Bad - U2 (1984)

Love the guitar on the live version 🙂
October 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Day 2 (Unranked)

Temptation - Heaven 17 (1983)

I'm can't remember what the first single I bought was (or maybe I just don't want to admit what it was 😀), but I do know that this was the first 12" single that I bought.
October 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Day 1 (Unranked)

Duel - Propaganda

So many great tracks to choose from and I'm starting with this classic.
October 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
An afternoon in the sun at Hyde Park to see Van Morrison and Cat Stevens as warm up for Neil Young. Great line-up! Van on soon😎
July 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
My first time seeing The Bathers and it was pretty special.
June 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
A short set but great the see The Psychedelic Furs for the first time. At Forever Now festival MK Bowl
June 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
A day of music at the Forever Now festival at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes. Really looking forward to seeing Kraftwerk, The The and The Psychedelic Furs for the first time. First up Theatre of Hate
June 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Couple of photos from the wonderful China Crisis gig at The Stables in MK yesterday evening. Great to see the band again - last time was in Norwich in 1987, 38 years ago🙂
May 2, 2025 at 9:50 AM
#NewOrderTop30 (Ranked Top 10)

I was a student in Manchester in the late 1980s and whenever I hear this it brings back a lot of good memories of that time. Long been my favourite NO track.

Thanks for hosting @tansleyjames.bsky.social Another wonderful music challenge!

Day 30 (#1): True Faith
April 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Realised that I'm a day behind so posting twice today

Day 29 (#2): Temptation
April 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Day 28 (#3): Touched by the Hand of God
April 29, 2025 at 8:08 AM