The Gold Rush

Record Buying Public be damned! #GRMWR

Knew you'd approve of the Genesis, not a bad song at all. #GRWMWR

Lovely stuff, and of course the tag is borked again.. #GRMWR

Live/NP posts return properly to the show probably come April's shows, life being busy as per! #GRMWR

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A friendly welcome awaits from 5pm as Sam counts down from this week's UK Singles Chart in 1998 on this afternoon's Gold Rush, only on @madwaspradiomwr.bsky.social. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio

Gentleman and a scholar, 1998 this coming Sunday for those interested. #GRMWR

Now ex-listeners to the show have a real choice of listening on Sunday evenings, whether it's @ssuburbs.bsky.social for the 70s, and before that my own @goldrushmwr.bsky.social alternate Sundays, which does cover an 80s chart every 4th show.

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That's yer lot! I'm back on Sunday 8th March with a look at the UK Singles Chart from 1998. @ssuburbs.bsky.social is next on @madwaspradiomwr.bsky.social, sithee next time! #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio

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Ultravox are suck at #2 for a 3rd week of 4 with Vienna. Stuck behind both Woman from John Lennon and *that* Joe Dolce track, it received honorary #1 status in 2012 after topping a Radio 2 poll of #2 singles. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio

I Surrender YouTube video by Praying Mantis - Topic

Incidentally, Praying Mantis released a version on their 2024 album Defiance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P-i...

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Rainbow are up a place and peaking at #3 with I Surrender. Praying Mantis began to record the song until the record label told them that Rainbow got the nod as the bigger band instead.

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Headgirl are up 10 places to #5 with their St Valentine's Day Massacre EP. The combined efforts of Motorhead and Girlschool, it'd spend 2 weeks at that position, and you're hearing Emergency from it. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio

Roxy Music are up 15 places to #6 with their cover of Jealous Guy. Continuing the success of John Lennon-penned songs, it would become their only #1 in a few weeks' time. And by heck is it a brilliant cover! #GRMWR

Madness are non-movers for a second week at #7 with The Return of the Los Palmas Seven. Stiff wanted another instrumental after the success of One Step Beyond, and the band obliged. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio

Top 10 time! Freeez are up 14 places to #9 with Southern Freeez, peaking at #8 for 2 weeks. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio

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#SpinninginAmerica takes us to #22 on this week's Billboard Hot 100, where The Alan Parsons Project are up 2 with Games People Play.

Taken from the sublime album The Turn of a Friendly Card, it got to #16 while doing naff all in the UK. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio

The pilot of Miami Vice where In the Air Tonight is used before the climax, genius. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio

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Phil Collins is down 7 to #12 with In the Air Tonight, which might have been a #1 had it not been for the murder of John Lennon. It got to #14 in 2007 thanks to the drumming gorilla in the Cadbury's ads.

It's the original single version, hence more drums. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio

Slade are down 3 places to #13, their comeback single We'll Bring the House Down having reached #10, their first Top 40 since 1976.

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Adam and the Ants are in this week in 1981's Top 75 FIVE times in part thanks to re-issues, including Kings of the Wild Frontier, up 22 to #17. It'll get to #2 for a week, having stalled at #48 the previous year.

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The Jam are up 5 to a peak of #21 with That's Entertainment. Said position was achieved through imports, as it wasn't released as a single in the UK. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio

Welcome! Some tough decisions in what I played, I can tell you. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio

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Talking Heads are up 11 to #24 with Once in a Lifetime, heading to #14 for a fortnight.

Video choreographed by Toni Basil of Mickey fame, it bubbled under the US Hot 100 at #103.

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The show was recorded on Thursday evening when it was still on the cold/wet/miserable side weatherwise and I still had the very end of a cold, hence the cameo by the kettle! #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio

Into the 2nd hour and indeed the Top 25.

The Passions are up 3 to a peak of #25 with I'm In Love With a German Film Star. One-hit wonders, the song also got to #30 in Ireland.

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The Four from Toyah EP was the breakthrough for the group, up 16 to #26 and heading to a peak of #4, 3 weeks atop the Indie Chart too.

War Boys is what Toyah wanted as the lead song, It's a Mystery was that instead. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio

Mic key didn't work for a moment during the recording, I wasn't dumbstruck! #GRMWR

The Teardrop Explodes are up 12 places to #29 with Reward. One of 3 Top 40s for Julian Cope et. al, it would reach the heights of #6. #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio

Kelly Marie is @snathe.bsky.social's Selection at #31, up 7 places with Hot Love. It would peak at #22, the last of 3 Top 40s including the chart-topping re-release of Feels Like I'm In Love. And hey, disco bagpipes! #GRMWR #MadWaspRadio

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