Chart music - The wilderness years (1984-94)

[Cartman]

As I have mentioned more than once, I have always regarded the above 10 years as a low point musically, with very little decent stuff and a year or two back when I was doing some mix CDs I got the whole period on just two discs.

This list is the playlist from these two CDs and they are not in any order, they represent the only stuff from the charts I liked from that 10 years.

Scorpions Wind of Change
Travelling Wilburys Handle with care
U2 Angel of Harlem
Hall and Oates Out of Touch
Nik Kershaw The Riddle and Wide Boy
Kirsty McColl New England
Heart Alone and These Dreams
T Pau China in your Hands and Heart and Soul
Jane Weidlin Rush Hour
Mental as anything Live it up
Bangles Manic Monday and Eternal Flame
Billy Bragg Between the wars
Beautiful South A little time
Madonna Dear Jessie and Cherish
Poison Every rose has its thorn
Kim Wilde Four letter word
Divinyls I touch myself 
Springsteen Born to run
Mark Cohn Walking in Memphis
Richard Marx Hazard
Fleetwood Mac Little Lies
Vanessa Paradis Joe le taxi
Bruce Hornsby and the range The way it is
Don Henley Boys of summer
Swing Out sister Breakout
Eric Carmen Hungry Eyes
Four tops Loco in Acapulco 
Happy Monday’s Step on
Tasmin Archer Sleeping satellites 
Dream academy Life in a northern town
Quo In the army now
Limahl Never ending story
Belinda Carlisle Heaven is s place on earth
Tiffany think we’re alone now
Take That relight my fire and everything changes

And there we have it! Anyone like these or suggest any others?

I haven’t put them in order because I can’t remember when most of them were hits, as my interest had dwindled away at this time