Posted: 22 April 2005 at 9:57am | IP Logged

My all time top ten is as follows;

1. Starflight/Take Me Higher (from Live set)

2. Timestar

3. Joy

4. Check It Out

5. Pilgrim

6. Laser Love

7. Life In The City

8. Can You Face It

9. Nobody Else But You

10. 1980F

Posted: 22 April 2005 at 10:44am | IP Logged

From an even sadder bloke.  Not all are released but you will either have heard them (or will if you are at Stafford).  Would be unfair to add the recently recorded tracks.

1. Billy Billy (live) (best ever was at Dominion)
2. Darkside (1982 Demos)
3. Laser Love
4. Stuck in Paris
5. Dancing in the Shadows (UK version)
6. Why Can't We Be Friends?
7. Suspended Animation
8. Sometimes
9. Step by Step (1982 Demos)
10. Starflight (live - best with confetti bombs)

I never really liked Der Kommissar until the new line-up started playing it.  Would be very high in my ATF live tracks.

Posted: 22 April 2005 at 11:28am | IP Logged

1. Take Me Higher (especially live)
2. Dancing in the Shadows
3. Billy, Billy (especially live)
4. Who's gonna love you
5. Carry me home
6. Life in the City
7. Laser love
8. Nobody else but you
9. One rule for you
10. Time Star

Now I reckon that should be used as the basis for a playlist at Stafford adding on the new stuff plus Der Kommissar and Gina (2004)

Posted: 22 April 2005 at 7:07pm | IP Logged

Any playlist without Joy would be just heatbreaking...

Answering the top ten question from my memory as a mere youth I would get :

Listen to me

Joy

Suspended Animation

Take me Higher

Sometimes

Bright Lights

Check it Out

Who's gonna

Billy Billy

1980F

Can you face it

Nothing pre Laser Love, and not too much from Batteries or later would have made my top 10...

I still think Listen to me should have been the A side of the single !!!

However, an older version of me with advice from kids would have a different view !

Der Kommissar

Starflight

1980F

Billy Billy

Joy

Love will always

I dont understand

High Fashion

Who's Gonna

Life in the City

Take me Higher

I dont understand your Love

the kids really like the chop chop song... but despite it being on Friends three time in three weeks they now place it below the reworked version of starflight

I don't find too much life in the SoC and previous timescales - I know this will be heresey to many, but...

Posted: 25 April 2005 at 11:14pm | IP Logged

Interesting choices...not sure I could do a definitive list, as my top 10 has changed over the years and continues to do so as often as my moods.  The live Take Me Higher would be in there and the 12" versions of Life In The City and Der Kommissar.  I suppose my current top 10 would, in no particular order, include the above plus:

* side 1 of Signs (I often listen to and treat that as one extended piece, in three parts)

*Carry Me Home

* Another World

* Operator

* Short Change

* Sailing Ship

* and a newer track beginning with "W"!

Oh Belgium, I've missed out 1980-f, Bright Lights, Love Will Always Make You Cry, It's High Fashion, the reworked Starflight and about 20 other tracks...told you I couldn't do it!