1980 - Big Hits Top of the Pops

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And now, to get things under way

on this first edition of Top of the Pops for 1980 -

it's Madness and My Girl.

# My girl's mad at me

# I didn't want to see the film tonight

# I found it hard to say

# She thought I'd had enough of her

# Why can't she see

# She's lovely to me

# But I like to stay in

# And watch TV on my own

# Every now and then

# My girl's mad at me

# Been on the telephone for an hour

# We hardly said a word

# I tried and tried but I could not be heard

# Why can't I explain?

# Why do I feel this pain?

# Cos everything I say she doesn't understand

# She doesn't realise

# She takes it all the wrong way

# Piano

# My girl's mad at me

# We argued just the other night

# I thought we'd got it straight

# We talked and talked until it was light

# I thought we'd agreed

# I thought we'd talked it out

# Now when I try to speak she says that I don't care

# She says I'm unaware and now she says I'm weak. #

It's The Pretenders on Top Of The Pops and Brass In Pocket.

# Got brass in pocket

# Got bottle I'm going to use it

# Intention, I feel inventive

# Gonna make you, make you, make you notice

# Got motion Restrained emotion

# Been driving Detroit leaning

# No reason Just seems so pleasing

# Gonna make you, make you, make you notice

# Gonna use my arms

# Gonna use my legs

# Gonna use my style

# Gonna use my sidestep

# Gonna use my fingers

# Gonna use my, my, my, imagination

# Cos I'm going to make you see

# There's nobody else here No-one like me

-# I'm special

-Special

-# So special

-Special

# I've got to have some of your attention

# Give it to me

# I've got rhythm I can't miss a beat

# I've got a new skank So reet

# I've got something I'm winking at you

# Gonna make you, make you, make you notice

# Gonna use my arms

# Gonna use my legs

# Gonna use my style

# Gonna use my sidestep

# Gonna use my fingers

# Gonna use my, my, my, imagination

# Cos I'm going to make you see

# There's nobody else here No-one like me

-# I'm special

-Special

-# So special

-Special

# I've got to have some of your attention

# Give it to me

# Cos I'm going to make you see

# There's nobody else here No-one like me

-# I'm special

-Special

-# So special

-Special

# I've got to have some of your attention

# Give it to me

# Oh

# Ooh-oh. #

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# He walked into my life

# And now he's taking over

# And it's beautiful

# Yes, it's beautiful

# I've gone with better-looking guys

# He's gone with prettier-looking girls

# But now we're beautiful

# I think we're beautiful

# I don't need love affairs any more

# I don't need love affairs any more

# Can't you see? It's the chemistry

# You really must agree together we are beautiful

# We are so beautiful

# I am the rain He is the sun

# And now we've made a rainbow

# I think it's beautiful

# It's really beautiful

# I don't need love affairs anymore

# I don't need love affairs anymore

# Can't you see? It's the chemistry

# You must agree together we are beautiful

# We are beautiful

# And if the whole world fell in love

# Just like me and my man

# This would be beautiful

# This would be so beautiful

# I don't need love affairs any more

# No, no, no

# I don't need love affairs any more

# Can't you see?

# It's the chemistry

# You must agree that together we are beautiful

# Beautiful

# We are beautiful

# Can't you see?

# It's the chemistry

# You must agree together we are beautiful

# Beautiful. #

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# I've got your picture

# Of me and you

# You wrote, "I love you"

# I love you, too

# I sit there staring and there's nothing else to do

# Oh, it's in colour

# Your hair is brown

# Your eyes are hazel

# And soft as clouds

# I often kiss you when there's no-one else around

# I've got your picture, I've got your picture

# I'd like a million of you all round my cell

# I want the doctor to take your picture

# So I can look at you from inside as well

# You've got me turning up and turning down

# And turning in and turning round

# I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese

# I really think so

# Turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese

# I really think so

# I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese

# I really think so

# Turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese

# I really think so

# I've got your picture I've got your picture

# I'd like a million of them all round my cell

# I want a doctor to take your picture

# So I can look at you from inside as well

# You got me turning up and turning down

# I'm turning in, I'm turning round

# I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese

# I really think so

# Turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese

# I really think so

# Turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese

# I really think so

# Turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese

# I really think so

# No sex, no drugs, no wine, no women, no fun, no sin

# No you, no wonder it's dark

# Everyone around me is a total stranger

# Everyone avoids me like a cyclone ranger

# Everyone

# That's why I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese

# I really think so

# Turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese

# I really think so

# Turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese

# I really think so

# Turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese

# I really think so. #

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Right now, for the very first time on Top Of The Pops, it's Genesis!

One, two, three...

# All I need is a TV show

# That and the radio

# Down on my luck again, down on my luck again

# I can show you, I can show you

# Some of the people in my life

# I can show you, I can show you

# Some of the people in my life

# It's driving me mad

# Just another way of passing the day

# I, I get so lonely

# When she's not there

# I, I, I

# You're just another face

# That I know from the TV show

# I have known you for so very long

# I feel you like a friend

# Can't you do anything for me?

# Can I touch you for a while?

# Can I meet you on another day?

# And we can fly away

# I can show you, I can show you

# Some of the people in my life

# I can show you, I can show you

# Some of the people in my life

# It's driving me mad

# It's just another way of passing the day

# I, I get so lonely

# When she's not there

# I, I, I. #

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# I was sitting all alone

# Watching people getting off with each other

# They were dancing across the floor

# Turning, moving back and forth

# They were lovers

# One more lonely night for me

# I looked up, what did I see?

# Sexy eyes

# Moving across the floor

# Couldn't want for more

# Sexy eyes

# Sexy eyes

# Getting down with you

# I wanna move with you

# Sexy eyes

# I got up and took your hand

# And we both began to dance to the music

# Oh, your magic cast a spell

# It didn't take long till we fell and we knew it

# No more lonely nights for me

# This is how it's gonna be

# Sexy eyes

# Moving across the floor

# Couldn't want for more

# Sexy eyes

# Sexy eyes

# Sexy eyes

# Getting down with you, I wanna move with you

# Sexy eyes

# No more lonely nights for me

# This is how it's gonna be

# Sexy eyes

# Moving across the floor, couldn't want for more

# Sexy eyes

# Sexy eyes

# Getting down with you, I wanna move with you

# Sexy eyes

# Oooh, sexy eyes. #

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One of the hardest working acts around at the moment

is definitely Dexys Midnight Runners.

Here they are with their tribute to Geno Washington,

their current single - Geno.

# Geno! Geno! Geno! Geno! Geno! Geno! Geno! Geno! Geno! Geno!

# Back in '68 in a sweaty club

# Oh, Geno

# Before Jimmy's machine and the rocksteady rub

# Oh-oh-oh Geno

# On a night when flowers didn't suit my shoes

# After a week of flunking and bunking school

# The lowest head in the crowd that night

# Just practising steps and keeping out of the fights

# Academic inspiration, you gave me none

# But you were Michael the lover

# The fighter that won

# But now just look at me as I'm looking down at you

# No, I'm not being flash

# It's what I'm built to do

# That man took the stage, his towel was swinging high

# Oh, Geno

# This man was my bombers, my dexies, my high

# Oh-oh-oh, Geno

# The crowd they all hailed you and chanted your name

# But they never knew like we knew

# Me and you were the same

# And now you're all over, your song is so tame

# Brrrrr

# You fed me, you bred me, I'll remember your name

# Academic inspiration, you gave me none

# You were Michael the lover

# The fighter that won

# But now, just look at me as I'm looking down at you

# No, I'm not being flash

# It's what I'm built to do. #

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And here are somebody who always do it well, Hot Chocolate.

# If someone tells you there's no other form of life

# And you believe in them, too

# I'm gonna tell you about the other night

# I swear that it's true

# A cloud of white and green and flying ships I've never seen

# Came into my view

# Was I frightened?

# Was I scared?

# Was I thrown into confusion

# As they glided down so silently?

# It wasn't an illusion, no, no, no

# No doubt about it

# Oh, no

# No doubt about it

# What kind of magnetism kept me in this place?

# Was it out of my control? What was the ship from outer space?

# What was this creature that appeared before my eyes?

# Was it good? Was it evil?

# On the ship from other skies

# I was frightened

# I was scared

# I was thrown into confusion

# As they stood right there in front of me

# It wasn't an illusion, no, no

# No doubt about it

# Oh, no

# No doubt about it. #

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# Mirror in the bathroom, please talk free

# The door is locked, just you and me

# Can I take you to a restaurant that's got glass tables?

# You can watch yourself while you are eating

# Mirror in the bathroom, I just can't stop it

# Every Saturday you see me window shopping

# I find no interest in the racks and shelves

# Just 10,000 reflections

# Of my own sweet self, self, self, self, self

# Mirror in the bathroom

# You're my mirror in the bathroom

# You're my mirror in the bathroom

# You're my mirror in the bathroom

# Mirror in the bathroom recompense

# For all my crimes of self-defence

# Cures you whisper make no sense

# Drift gently into mental illness

# Mirror in the bathroom, please talk free

# The door is locked, just you and me

# Can I take you to a restaurant that's got glass tables?

# You can watch yourself while you are eating

# Mirror in the bathroom

# Mirror in the bathroom

# Mirror in the bathroom. #

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# This is the song we lovers of water sing

# We can't go wrong, we're happy as a king

# We beat the drum as we march along

# We clash the symbol and bang the gong

# We sing out strong The Bucket Of Water Song

# Stand on one leg and point it at the sun

# Grab hold of your nose, we're sure it must be fun

# But no matter who or what you are

# We know something you'll enjoy by far

# To sing out the song, The Bucket Of Water Song

# This is the song we lovers of water sing

# We can't go wrong, we're happy as a king

# We beat the drum as we march along

# We clash the symbol and bang the gong

# We sing out strong The Bucket Of Water Song

# Though life is hard we do the best we can

# Against evil we guard to help our fellow men

# We put the baddies in their place

# We fight the foes of the human race

# But whatever the case

# We take it in the face

# Bucket

# Bucket, bucket

# This is the song we lovers of water sing

# We can't go wrong, we're happy as a king

# We beat the drum as we march along

# We clash the symbol and bang the gong

# We sing out strong The Bucket Of Water Song

# This is the song we lovers of water sing

# We can't go wrong, we're happy as a king

# We beat the drum as we march along

# We clash the symbol and bang the gong

# We sing out strong The Bucket Of Water Song. #

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# I'm no good at chatting up and I always get rebuffed

# Enough to drive a man to drink

# I don't do no washing up

# I always leave the stuff piled up, piled up in the sink

# But you will always find him in the kitchen at parties

# Me and my girlfriend we argued

# And she ran away from home

# She must have found somebody new

# And now I'm all alone

# Living on my own

# What am I supposed to do?

# That's why you'll always find him in the kitchen at parties

# You will always find him in the kitchen at parties

# You will always find him in the kitchen at parties

# Then I met this debutante

# I said that I like new-wave rock

# She was into French cuisine but I ain't no Cordon Bleu

# This was at some do in Palmers Green

# I had no luck with her

# You will still find him in the kitchen at parties

# You will still find him in the kitchen at parties

# At last I met a pretty girl

# She laughed and talked with me

# We both walked out of the kitchen

# And danced in a new way

# And now I've done my time in the kitchen at parties

# I've done my time in the kitchen at parties

# He's done his time in the kitchen at parties. #

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# Does anybody know how long to World War Three?

# I wanna know, I've gotta book me holidee

# They want me in the army, but I just can't go

# I'm far too busy listening to the radio

# The whole thing's daft, I don't know why

# You have to laugh or else you cry

# You have to live or else you die

# You have to laugh or else you cry

# My friends say that we're heading for a grotty time

# It's just a load of slapstick in a pantomime

# We're heading for disaster, but I just don't care

# Shut your eyes and count to ten, you won't be there

# The whole thing's daft, I don't know why

# You have to laugh or else you cry

# You have to live or else you die

# You have to laugh or else you cry. #

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# I wake up every morning

# I stumble out of bed

# Stretching and a-yawning

# Another day ahead

# It seems to last forever

# And time goes slowly by

# Until babe and me's together

# Then it starts to fly

# Cos the moment that he's with me

# Time can take a flight

# The moment that he's with me

# Everything's all right

# Night time is the right time

# We make love

# Then it's his and my time

# We take off

# My baby takes the morning train

# He works from nine till five and then

# He takes another home again

# To find me waiting for him

# My baby takes the morning train

# He works from nine till five and then

# He takes another home again

# To find me waiting for him

# He takes me to a movie

# Or to a restaurant, to go

# Slow dancing

# Anything I want

# Only when he's with me

# I catch alight

# Only what he gives me

# Makes me feel all right

# My baby takes the morning train

# He works from nine till five and then

# He takes another home again

# To find me waiting for him

# All day I think of him

# Dreaming of him constantly

# I'm crazy-mad for him

# And he's crazy-mad for me

# When he steps off that train

# I'm making a fool, a fight

# Work all day to earn his pay

# So we can play all night

# My baby takes the morning train

# He works from nine till five and then

# He takes another home again

# To find me waiting for him

# He's always on that morning train

# He works from nine till five and then... #

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Well done, Sheena. Excellent.

Yes, well done. It's nice to see someone succeed.

And, also, nice to see a record like this one in the charts

from a great London group.

This one's called Lip Up Fatty and it's from Bad Manners.

# Lip up, fatty, ah, lip up, fatty, for the reggae

# Lip up, fatty, ah, lip up, fatty, for the reggae

# Listen to the music, shuffle up your feet

# Listen to the music of the fatty beat

# Lip up, fatty, ah, lip up, fatty, for the reggae

# Lip up, fatty, ah, lip up, fatty, for the reggae

# Moving with the rhythm, sweating with the heat

# Moving with the rhythm of the fatty beat

# Lip up, fatty, ah, lip up, fatty, for the reggae... #

Trumpet!

# Lip up, fatty, ah, lip up, fatty, for the reggae

# Lip up, fatty, ah, lip up, fatty, for the reggae

# Listen to the music, shuffle up your feet

# Listen to the music of the fatty beat

# Lip up, fatty, ah, lip up, fatty, for the reggae... #

Trumpet!

# Lip up, fatty, ah, lip up, fatty, for the reggae

# The reggae, the reggae, reggae

# Lip up, fatty, ah, lip up, fatty, for the reggae

# The reggae, the reggae, reggae

# Lip up, fatty, ah, lip up, fatty, for the reggae

# Don't call me fat man

# Lip up, fatty, ah, lip up, fatty, for the reggae

# Fat man don't like you. #

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From the West Coast of the States, produced by Phil Spector,

a sound that's so big, it's going to go massive.

It's The Ramones and Baby, I Love You.

# Have I ever told you

# How good it feels to hold you?

# It isn't easy to explain

# And though I'm really trying

# I think I may start crying

# My heart can't wait another day

# When you kiss me

# I just gotta

# Kiss me

# I just gotta

# Kiss me I just gotta say

# Baby, I love you

# Come on, baby

# Baby, I love you

# Baby, I love

# I love only you

# I can't live without you

# I love everything about you

# I can't help it if I feel this way

# Oh, I'm so glad I found you

# I want my arms around you

# I love to hear you call my name

# Oh, tell me that you feel

# Tell me that you feel

# Tell me that you feel the same

# Baby, I love you

# Come on, baby

# Baby, I love you

# Baby, I love

# I love only you

# Oh, I'm so glad I found you

# I want my arms around you

# I love to hear you call my name. #

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# My head is in a spin

# My feet don't touch the ground

# Because you're near to me

# My head goes round and round

# My knees are shaking, baby

# My heart it beats like a drum

# It feels like

# It feels like I'm in love

# Ain't felt this way before

# But I know I'm turned on

# This time it's something, baby

# I can't turn off

# My knees are shaking, baby

# My heart beats like a drum

# It feels like

# It feels like I'm in love

# My knees shake

# My heart beats like a drum

# Whoa-oh-oh

# Whoa-oh

# It feels like

# It feels like I'm in love

# My knees shake

# My heart beats like a drum. #

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# Enola Gay, you should have stayed at home yesterday

# Ah-ha, words can't describe

# The feeling and the way you lied

# These games you play

# They're gonna end in more than tears some day

# Ah-ha, Enola Gay

# It shouldn't ever have to end this way

# It's 8.15 and that's the time that it's always been

# We got your message on the radio

# Conditions normal and you're coming home

# Enola Gay, is mother proud of little boy today?

# Ah-ha, this kiss you give

# It's never, ever gonna fade away

# Enola Gay, it shouldn't ever have to end this way

# Ah-ha, Enola Gay, it shouldn't fade in our dreams away

# It's 8.15 and that's the time that it's always been

# We got your message on the radio

# Conditions normal and you're coming home

# Enola Gay, is mother proud of little boy today?

# Ah-ha, this kiss you give, it's never ever gonna fade away. #

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# If you like to gamble, I tell you I'm your man

# You win some, lose some

# It's all the same to me

# The pleasure is to play, makes no difference what you say

# I don't share your greed, the only card I need

# Is the ace of spades, the ace of spades

# Playing for the high one, dancing with the devil

# Going with the flow, it's all a game to me

# Seven or eleven, snake eyes watching you

# Double up or quit, double stake or split

# The ace of spades, the ace of spades

# You know I'm born to lose

# And gambling's for fools

# But that's the way I like it, baby

# I don't want to live for ever

# And don't forget the joker!

# Pushing up the ante, I know you wanna see me

# Read 'em and weep, the dead man's hand again

# I see it in your eyes, take one look and die

# The only thing you see, you know it's gonna be

# The ace of spades, the ace of spades. #

# If you want to I'll change your situation

# Right people, right time, just the wrong location

# I've got a good idea

# Just you keep me near

# I'll be so good for you

# I could be so good for you

# I'll be right by your side

# I'll do anything you want me to

# There ain't nothing you can have, not from me

# I'll be so good for you

# I could be so good for you

# I'm the one you really need

# Love me like you want me to

# I can even help you breathe, yes, it's true

# I'll be so good for you

# Sometimes, when you're feeling like a poor relation

# Call on me and I'll give you more than conversation, yeah

# Take 'em, shaking hands, a deal

# Move it, momma, I'll make you heal

# I'll be so good for you

# I could be so good for you

# I'll be right by your side

# Love you like you want me to

# There ain't nothing you can hide, hide from me

# I'll be so good for you

# I could be so good for you

# Yee-hoo, I'm your man

# Love you like you want me to

# There ain't nothing, nothing, nothing, I can not do

# I'll be so good for you

# Don't ask me no questions

# I'll tell you no lies

# Use my shoulder to rest on

# I will be right by your side

# I will be your ears and eyes

# I could be so good for you

# I'm the one you really need

# Love you like you want me to

# I can even help you breathe

# And that's true

# I'll be so good for you

# I could make the good times roll

# We're gonna rock, we're gonna roll

# Love you with my heart and soul

# I love you with my very soul

# And I do

# I'll be so good for you

# I could be so good for you

# I am by your side

# Love you like you want me to

# There ain't nothing you can have, not from me

# I'll be so good for you. #

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# A soldier is turning

# See him through white light

# Running from strangers

# See you in the valley

# War upon war

# Heat upon heat

# To cut a long story short

# I lost my mind

# Sitting on a park bench

# Years away from fighting

# Ah, to cut a long story short

# I lost my mind

# Standing in the dark

# Oh, I was waiting for the man to come

# I am beautiful and clean

# And so very, very young

# To be standing in the street

# To be taken by someone

# Standing in the dark

# Oh, I was waiting for the man to come

# I am beautiful and clean

# And so very, very young

# To be standing in the street

# To be taken by someone

# Questions, questions

# Give me no answers

# That's all they ever give me

# Questions, questions

# Oh, look at the strange boy

# He finds it hard existing

# Ah, to cut a long story short

# I lost my mind

# Oh, to cut a long story short

# I lost my

# Mind! #

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# Well, I'm standing here looking at you

# What do I see?

# I'm looking straight through

# It's so sad when you're young

# To be told you're having fun

# So unplug the jukebox and do us all a favour

# Well, that music's lost it's taste so try another flavour

# Antmusic

# Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

# Antmusic

# Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

# Antmusic

# Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

# Antmusic

# Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

# Well, I'm standing here

# What do I see?

# A big nothing threatening me

# It's so sad when you're young

# To be told you're having fun

# So unplug the jukebox and do us all a favour

# Well, that music's lost it's taste so try another flavour

# Antmusic

# Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

# Antmusic

# Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

# Antmusic

# Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

# Antmusic

# Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

# So unplug the jukebox and do us all a favour

# Well, that music's lost it's taste so try another flavour

# Antmusic

# Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

# Antmusic

# Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

# Antmusic

# Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

# Antmusic

# Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

# Don't tread on an ant, he's done nothing to you

# There might come a day when he's treading on you

# Don't tread on an ant, you'll end up black and blue

# You cut off his head, legs come looking for you

# So unplug the jukebox and do us all a favour

# Well, that music's lost it's taste so try another flavour

# Antmusic

# Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

# Antmusic

# Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

# Antmusic

# Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

# Antmusic

# Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

# So unplug the jukebox and do us all a favour

# Well, that music's lost it's taste so try another flavour

# Antmusic

# Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

# Antmusic

# Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! #

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