Dan Wingrove

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28. Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) - A Flock of Seagulls
29. Joan of Arc - OMD
30. Fisherman’s Blues – The Waterboys

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23. When Your Heart Runs Out of Time – Glenn Gregory & Claudia Brücken
24. Here Comes the Rain Again – Eurythmics
25. True Faith – New Order
26. Brand New Fried – Lloyd Cole & Commotions
27. The American – Simple Minds

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16. America for Beginners – Latin Quarter
17. What Have I Done to Deserve This? - Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield
18. Head Over Heels – Tears for Fears
19. This Corrosion – Sisters of Mercy
20. Time It’s Time – Talk Talk
21. Ocean Rain – Echo & the Bunnymen
22. Catch - The Cure

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I've struggled to keep up with this challenge, only posting 12 selections so far. As today is the last day, I'm going to post a few at a time. Hope that's ok @tansleyjames.bsky.social

13. Boys of Summer – Don Henley
14. Echo Beach – Martha & the Muffins
15. Atmosphere – Joy Division

Morning Rich, here‘s my selection for #5debutalbums8084 Cheers!

1. OMD - OMD (5 pts)
2. Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole & the Commotions
3. The Waterboys - The Waterboys
4. Murmur - REM
5. The Party’s Over - Talk Talk

Close: The The, Tears for Fears, Heaven 17, Madonna, A Flock of Seagulls

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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

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Day 11 (Unranked)

Hounds of Love - Kate Bush (1985)

YouTube video by BruceSpringsteenVEVO Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City

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Day 10 (Unranked)

Playing catch up again.

Atlantic City - Bruce Springsteen(1982)

🎵Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty and meet me tonight in Atlantic City🎵

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Happy Birthday Nathan!

Happy Birthday Shirley! 🎂🥂

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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😀

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Day 8 (Unranked) Playing catch-up

Borderline - Madonna (1983)

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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.

Reposting my selection from yesterday. Due to a lack of interaction I'm wondering whether it posted properly 😄

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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!! 😀

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Day 6 (Unranked)

Fall On Me - REM (1986)

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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...

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Day 4 (Unranked)

Bad - U2 (1984)

Love the guitar on the live version 🙂

Evening Rich, here are my selections for #5debutalbums0004:

1. Blue Horse - The Be Good Tanyas (5pts)
2. Funeral – Arcade Fire
3. The Coral
4. Lost Souls – Doves
5. Turn on the Bright Lights – Interpol

Close: Cerys Matthews, Delays, The Strokes, Ryan Adams

YouTube video by Chaka Khan Rufus and Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody [HD Remaster] (Official Video)

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Day 3 (Unranked)

Ain't Nobody - Rufus & Chaka Khan (1983)

A classic!

youtu.be/BNirQXe8HOA?...

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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.

Yep, and I know as I look through other people's posts there'll be others to add that I completely forgot about 😆

Just looked through my box of 7" singles and the list is going have to expand again. There are several that I forgot about 🫣

😂✂️✂️

That's the short list. Long list had some significant pruning 😅

Single cover of Duel by Propaganda

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Day 1 (Unranked)

Duel - Propaganda

So many great tracks to choose from and I'm starting with this classic.

Absolutely, impossible to rank! I can probably pick a Top 5 but will leave that till later in the month :-) I've still got about 40 tracks in my list so some will miss out.

Thanks for clarifying James. I've been really busy recently but it is time I took part in another music challenge. #80sTop30 is a possibility and I've been making a list - obviously I need to squeeze about 100 tracks into my 30 😀

Ah, just realised that it might not be an OMD challenge 🙂

James, is the OMD challenge a Top 30 (or maybe Top 28 as it's running in February 😀)?