The Tracks Quest –
Documenting the 80s Vinyl Hits From Swedish Radio Show Trackslistan

My journey with music began in 1984 with a cassette player and the radio show Tracks. This website is a personal reflection on that era — a project to collect and document all 540 Trackslistan vinyl singles from the show’s year-end charts.

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Handpicked Hits

1987

99. (1987) Wild Frontier – Gary Moore

In the mid-1980s, Gary Moore, a hard rock virtuoso, was at a crossroads. Just a year after the death of his close friend and Thin Lizzy bandmate Phil Lynott, Moore returned to his Irish roots for a deeply personal album: Wild Frontier. It was a…

1988

41. (1988) Miss My Love – Tommy Nilsson

Tommy Nilsson’s 1988 single “Miss My Love” is an exquisite slice of Swedish AOR that deserves to be pulled out of the crate and heard again. It’s a song that represents a dramatic turning point for the artist, a triumphant return to his home country…

1985

21. (1985) Summer Of '69 – Bryan Adams

The year is 1985. The air is thick with the scent of hairspray and new denim. On radios around the world, a new anthem is starting to climb the charts. It’s a song that sounds like a Friday night, a first kiss, and the last…