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Here we go. This is it. This is top like tune machine. I am Andy Dawson, pow pow pow.

I'm seven if you delay the pop pickers. Oh, there it is. Yeah, with tune machine and the

earlier in the week, we received a communication from the random pop blob who spews out a random

chart for us to look at in these episodes. And it's time for us to say random blob use your

glob. Tell us how to do our job. That's it. And it says 28th of June 1984.

Whoa. And our eyebrows flew off our faces when we were given that because it's a time in pop

music that you know, both of us love daily. And it was randomly chosen. We didn't pick this

deliberately for our own needs. But I immediately knew what was going to be in this chart as soon as

I was given that date, but then I looked at the whole top 40 and out of the 40 songs in it, I like

properly like 31 of them. I haven't counted it all out. But when I saw that it was 1984,

I have always said consistently for many years that 1984 was the greatest every year for pop music.

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