1989 UK Official Charts Number One Hits SURVIVOR (Quarter-Final - Vote to EVICT)

Vote for your choice to EVICT

  • Madonna - Like a Prayer (25th March)

    Votes: 2 6.5%

  • The Bangles - Eternal Flame (15th April)

    Votes: 13 41.9%

  • Soul II Soul - Back to Life (However Do You Want Me) (24th June)

    Votes: 14 45.2%

  • Black Box - Ride on Time (9th September)

    Votes: 2 6.5%
  • Total voters
    31
  • Poll closed .
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It is not the end of the world but it is the end of the game for Kylie Minogue and Lisa Stansfield, as they leave the competition in a shared 5th.

Results:
05. Kylie Minogue - Hand on Your Heart (13th May) - Round 4 (28.1% to save)
05. Lisa Stansfield - All Around the World (11th November) - Round 4 (28.1% to save)
07. Sonia - You'll Never Stop Me Loving You (22nd July) - Round 3 (51.5% to evict)
08. Jason Donavan - Too Many Broken Hearts (11th March) - Round 3 (75.8% to evict)
09. Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan - Especially for You (7th January) - Round 2 (25.0% to save)
10. Marc Almond feat. Gene Pitney - Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart (28th January) - Round 2 (17.9% to save)
11. New Kids on the Block - You Got It (The Right Stuff) (25th November) - Round 2 (7.1% to save)
12. Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers - Swing the Mood (5th August) - Round 2 (0.0% to save)
13. Simple Minds - Belfast Child (25th February) - Round 1 (62.1% to evict)
13. Band Aid II - Do They Know It's Christmas (23rd December) - Round 1 (62.1% to evict)
15. Jason Donavan - Sealed with a Kiss (10th June) - Round 1 (75.9% to evict)
16. Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers - That's What I Like (21st October) - Round 1 (82.8% to evict)
17. The Christians, Johnson, McCartney, Marsden & Stock Aitken Waterman - Ferry 'Cross the Mersey (20th May) - Round 1 (86.2% to evict)
17. Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers - Let's Party (16th December) - Round 1 (86.2% to evict)

Four songs remain in the game with just 3 rounds left for the acts to try ascend to victory!

In this quarter-final, you are voting to EVICT your LEAST FAVOURITE SONG of the few acts here. Having made it this far, whose game is this to lose?
 
Once again there is a clear OUTLIER

Now I do love that Bangles schmaltz-fest, and it's leagues better than most of what is already gone. But the other three songs are... well...
 
One of my reasons for voting Eternal Flame is that all the others felt like MOMENTS when something shifted, for various reasons.

Eternal Flame is 'just' a great song.
 
lolly said:
One of my reasons for voting Eternal Flame is that all the others felt like MOMENTS when something shifted, for various reasons.

Eternal Flame is 'just' a great song.
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I have a recollection that it took ages to get to the top too.
 
lolly said:
One of my reasons for voting Eternal Flame is that all the others felt like MOMENTS when something shifted, for various reasons.

Eternal Flame is 'just' a great song.
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That’s pretty much it yeah.

Back To Life was monumental. I always look back on that and Ride On Time as the moments that the 80s left us. They opened the doors for the sounds of the 90s. Black Box combining euro house sounds with American diva vocals was something I had never really heard and it didn’t just go mainstream, it changed dance music for the next half decade. Everyone was adding disco and soul samples to their mixes and it created such an uplifting, exciting time, and it married the American and European house sounds for the first time.

Without Soul II Soul I’m not sure what 90s R&B would look like. They were the first act, save for possibly Jam & Lewis, to use Hip-Hop as the groundwork for their R&B sound, rather than influences from soul, disco, funk or Motown like everyone before them. Hearing those sparse funk loops with strings on an R&B record in an era when people were still embracing synths and drum machines was head turning.

Without them there would be no UK soul, no acid jazz, no 90s groove, they shifted everything with that one song - in America and Europe.

I didn’t know the importance of them then, but I knew I was listening to something special and exciting with both songs.
 
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