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Tek Towers Best Song of The 80's Cup -Round 1/Game 15
4 numbers fae 1 tae 8 please.
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2 4 6 7
Yeah yeah Industrial Estate
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Many thanks SIR.
The 14th game of Round 1 (bloody hell) witnessed a close fought match won by "Fools Gold" by THE STONE ROSES.It will now progress through to the 2nd Round as a seeded entry,and joining it in the 2nd Round (albeit unseeded) will be "How Soon Is Now?" by THE SMITHS.Eliminated at the first hurdle are "Promised You A Miracle" by Glasgow's Simple Minds and "It's Going To Happen" by Northern Ireland's The Undertones.
Round 1/Game 15 -
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Released - 9th April 1984
Written By - Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe
Chart Position - 1 (UK) + 1 (US)
V's
Ultravox - Vienna
Released - 15th January 1981
Written by - Midge Ure, Billy Currie, Chris Cross, Warren Cann
Chart Position - 2 (UK)
V's
The Smiths - This Charming Man
Released - 31st October 1983
Written By - Johnny Marr and Morrissey
Chart Position - 25 (UK)
V's
The Stranglers - Strange Little Girl
Released - 24th July 1982
Written by - Hugh Cornwall, Jean Jacques Burnel, Dave Greenfield, Jet Black, Hans Warmling
Chart Position - 7 (UK)
VOTING CLOSES TOMORROW (Thursday 5th March) AT 8PM
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Songs Eliminated in Round 1 -
1.Van Halen - Jump
2.KC+The Sunshine Band - Give It Up
3.The Associates - Party Fears Two
4.Echo+The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
5.Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
6.My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise
7.The Wedding Present - Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft
8.Billy Bragg - Waiting For The Great Leap Forward
9.Simple Minds - Glittering Prize
10.Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
11.The Cure - A Forest
12.The Clash - Rock The Casbah
13.Pixies - Debaser
14.Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
15.Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
16.Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power of Love
17.The Sound - Winning
18.Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
19.AC/DC - Back In Black
20.OMD - Enola Gay
21.Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday
22.The Clash - Straight To Hell
23.Visage - Fade To Grey
24.Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin
25.Yazoo - Only You
26.Heaven 17 - Temptation
27.Simple Minds - Promised You A Miracle
28.The Undertones - It's Going To Happen
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Songs Through Round 1 -
1.Soft Cell - Tainted Love (S)
2.NWA - Straight Outta Compton
3.Madness - Embarrassment (S)
4.David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes
5.The Jam - Going Underground (S)
6.Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf
7.The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon (S)
8.New Order - Temptation
9.Dexy's Midnight Runners - Geno (S)
10.Soft Cell - Say Hello,Wave Goodbye
11.New Order - Blue Monday (S)
12.The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make?
13.The Jesus+Mary Chain - April Skies (S)
14.Public Enemy - Don't Believe The Hype
15.Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (S)
16.The Sound - I Can't Escape Myself
17.The Human League - Don't You Want Me? (S)
18.Kraftwerk - Computer Love
19.Joy Division - Atmosphere (S)
20.The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
21.Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World (S)
22.Blondie - Atomic
23.Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime (S)
24.Orange Juice - Rip It Up
25.808 State - Pacific State (S)
26.The Specials - Ghost Town
27.The Stone Roses - Fools Gold (S)
28.The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
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This Charming Man
Only got to number 25 tae
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Yeah yeah Industrial Estate
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west end girls
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The Stranglers - Strange Little Girl
They have better, but got a feeling this may be their only entry.
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Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
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oooof great match up...big stranglers fan but this not in their top 5 imho....favourite smiths track but not to go through...superb,iconic Ultravox tune but an older mate of mines fae stobie constantly reminds me how midge ure ruined them after john foxx left with pop pish...so west end girls for me, a brilliant track fae a brilliant album, which was about the only terrace album that the subculture of the time listened to, the only subculture not musically driven ever...the only other album possibly being London 0 Hull 4...which leads me to Tek..nae housemartins?...mon to fuck man!!!
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This Charming Man.
No way Paul Heaton can be ignored in this comp. 
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nae RUN DMC...nae beastie boys..nothing fae the house sounds of chicago...NAE MARSHALL JEFFERSON!! 
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West End Girls
Oh, what came of the things we once believed?
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Like all these apart from ultravox, never been bothered with it.
West End Girls is a fantastic song, video is also superb. Big Stranglers fan but as Stobie says, this is not in their top 5. Hopefully another Stranglers song will make it it.
Pet Shop Boys edges it for me.
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As I said from the outset.
This is best 80's song Cup ONE... numero uno...the first.
There will be others.
No way am I making the first round more than 64 songs. Learnt to my cost on Mad it just goes on forever and people lose interest.
Takes me a good while to write each contest up also. After Round 1 I can cut n paste. Another reason I like a short n sharp tourney.
But there will be others. If youse play nice 
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BTW Marshall Jefferson lol.
I'm not John Peel.
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West End Girls
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TEK wrote:
BTW Marshall Jefferson lol.
I'm not John peel lol.
lol your doing fine mate just pulling your plonker..the house sounds of chicago volume one though is one of the most important albums of the last 30 years though...absolute classic
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Torn between West End Girls and This Charming Man. Gonna vote tactically and go for The Smiths to hopefully ensure they go through as well.
Too much commotion
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BTW Marshall Jefferson lol.
I'm not John peel lol.lol your doing fine mate just pulling your plonker..the house sounds of chicago volume one though is one of the most important albums of the last 30 years though...absolute classic
Might have him in the Tekel Towers Ultimate House Cup then
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Score Update -
West End Girls - 6
This Charming Man - 3
Strange Little Girl - 1
Vienna - 0
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Midge
Hear their shout, hear their roar
They've probably had a barrel of ale and much, much more
Hooray, hooray, hooray, yeah
Over the hill went the swords of a thousand men
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Full Time -
West End Girls - 6
This Charming Man - 3
Strange Little Girl - 1
Vienna - 1
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