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Youthquake by Dead or Alive
Youthquake is an album by Dead or Alive, released in 1985. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 43 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)”, on 36 lists with a best position of #6.
Youthquake, Dead or Alive's second album, came out on Epic in 1985, and it's the moment Pete Burns and company shoved their way from the Liverpool fringe onto dance floors across Europe and America. It was the band's first go with the Stock Aitken Waterman production team, and the sessions were tense, with band and producers clashing hard.
You'd never know it from the grooves. This is Hi-NRG at full throttle: pounding beats, stabbing synths and Burns's booming vocals commanding the floor, with Steve Coy on drums, Tim Lever on keyboards and Mike Percy on bass. "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" is the knockout, a relentless, whirling single that went to number one in Britain, and "Lover Come Back to Me", "In Too Deep" and "My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor)" kept the pressure on. The album went gold in the UK and US and platinum in Canada, and Mario Testino shot the cover.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Youthquake on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) | 36 | #6 | – | 1985–2025 | |
| 2 | Lover Come Back to Me | 5 | #59 | – | 1985–1998 | |
| 3 | My Heart Goes Bang | 1 | #43 | – | 1985 | |
| 4 | In Too Deep | 1 | #90 | – | 1985 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.