In 1986 there was only Black Celebration and some Dead or Alive that didn't suck. After Purple Rain it was all over with America. NIN saved the US a bit.. But apart from Reznor it's all shite.
Time to copy/paste from my all-time favorite songs list. Here are the songs that made my 'elite' list from 1986, as posted on billgraper . com: "You Give Love A Bad Name"- Bon Jovi "Amanda"- Boston "Holding Back The Years"- Simply Red "Kiss"- Prince & The Revolution "The Next Time I Fall"- Peter Cetera & Amy Grant "True Colors"- Cyndi Lauper "If You Leave"- Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark "This Could Be The Night"- Loverboy "Walk Like An Egyptian"- The Bangles "A Different Corner"- Wham! "Take My Breath Away"- Berlin "At This Moment"- Billy Vera & The Beaters "All I Need Is A Miracle"- Mike + The Mechanics "That's What Friends Are For"- Dionne & Friends "Greatest Love Of All"- Whitney Houston "Tender Love"- Force M.D.'s "All Cried Out"- Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force "Sara"- Starship "When I Think Of You"- Janet Jackson "Love Walks In"- Van Halen "Take Me Home Tonight"- Eddie Money "Take Me Home"- Phil Collins "Addicted To Love"- Robert Palmer "Why Can't This Be Love"- Van Halen "Conga"- Miami Sound Machine "Something About You"- Level 42
Songs- Robert Palmer- Addicted To Love; Steve Winwood- Higher Love; Peter Gabriel- In Your Eyes. Album- Steve Winwood- Back In The High Life; Springsteen- Live 1975-1985; Peter Gabriel- So.
I was so hooked on the _Somebody Save Me_ video. Quintessential metal. Night Songs is a fantastic album. I only liked about 1/3 of the songs on Long Cold Winter but the hits were really special.
My favourite Cinderella track is Bad Seamstress Blues (Fallin’ apart at the seams). I was right into glam metal as a tween, but i got into it right at the end of the era, and missed out on Cinderella who were just a much more low key act than Motley Crüe, Skid Row, or Guns N Roses. I knew a couple of their songs but never sprang for an album, and my friends weren’t really into that’s so there was nobody to trade a tape with. Years later I bought a best of Cinderella album on the iTunes Store and it blew me away,. Tom Keifer was an outstanding singer with a powerful and unique take on the glam metal vocal style.
This episode should be mandatory in every middle school so kids can learn that musicians once wrote, arranged and performed their own music on actual instruments.
If you want an artist that was prolific at writing, arranging and performing then look no further than Neil Diamond. He got his start on Tin Pan Ally, in NYC. His story would be a very interesting one, too. Many songs made famous by others were written by Neil.
I love the Bangles cover of "Hazy Shade Of Winter". It was a brilliant idea to change the tempo and make it their own. I am a fan of Bonnie Raitt and saw her live with Jackson Browne, Bruce Hornsby and Shaun Colvin. Great concert!! My first son was born in 1985.
I saw that concert..my friend got free tickets for that show. It was an awesome concert...all their various hit songs...everybody just jamming along....good time. ✌
Damn, you've got one of the best music channels on RU-vid. Brilliant content and delivery. I love that you quote your viewers comments to illustrate the era of the song. You need your own show on MTV (you know, back when MTV was actually about music??).
@Natasha I miss my MTV too when it was about the music and video's! Internet Killed MTV not to mention endless streaming services and Iphones and other digital media LOL! Do people even still watch tv?😇❤🙏👍
My fiancé left when I was 7 months pregnant in November of 1986. BonJovi’s “You Give Love a Bad Name” sadly fit at the time. Turned out that was the best thing that could’ve happened to me. My son is now 34 raised by my husband of 28 years. About Bruce Hornsby. I LOVE Bruce!! I remember nursing my son to Mandolin Rain at 3 a.m. the first night I became a mom. That was very special for me.
@@lauradecker4213 Thank you Laura! Those words mean a lot. It wasn’t cool back then to be pregnant and single like it is today. I always used to feel like an outcast.
@Anna Trail Anna you’re a riot girl! I just adore your attitude and outlook. Man I’m telling ya if we lived close we’d have a blast! Funny how you talked about your Bonstang had a lot of bondo. My mustang did too! I remember barely (and I mean barely) backing into a cement light post in a Walmart type store... got out to see the damage and all the bondo on my left back end laud on the pavement. I was horrified. And crushed. I cried all the way home with a paper bag holding pieces of my gold colored bondo. Haha Those mustangs went thru the mill right? Your car sounds so beautiful! I love the two tone blue and the roses!! Can’t wait to get a ride in Bonstang! I’ll bet you’re a gorgeous brunette and with the red highlights! Sounds very beautiful! I’m the only one if me and my sister that got the blond hair and green eyes. My sister and brother have dark brown hair and brown eyes. Got the green eyes from the grandmother who is part Scottish. I have SO many bloods that I always mark other on race. My youngest son (he’s 24) is the one who got hurt in the Army and just got home a few weeks ago. My oldest is 34 and my daughter is 26. My daughter is calling me so I’ll end here. But I’ll be back. 😘
I didn’t realize that Nobody’s Fool came out in ‘86. I didn’t discover them until my senior year of high school in ‘89 or ‘90. That song is one of my favorites to come out of the hair metal era.
Yeah, it sounds like an elevator song. No matter what the lyrics says, is the more insipid, jingle like, sterile pieces, fragments of music. Is not even a song, it like an excercise, a warm up, the thing students play without any sentiment in music instutes in the background, without anyone's interest.
This was a true jump back in time. I recorded this week’s American Top 40 from the radio in my cassette player. Of course not all the songs, but the ones I liked and I remember this line up of the top 10. I also had a notebook full with the lists I diligently wrote. That was my weekly ritual when I was 14!
I used to record the US top 10 on paper through 84 and 85 here in Australia also at age 14. Then the local station that aired it decided to stop! I was devastated and even wrote a letter to the station but they didn’t budge and that was the end of that.
Way underrated group -I loved them. First heard "Dance Hall Days" on the radio, like 1984, and they had a real different groove. So cool and innovative....
@@johnathandavis3693 Is it strange that Dance Hall Days sounds very eerily as a prototype to Men Without Hats The Safety Dance which is also a song that released in 1982? The same year Dance Hall Days came out?
A bit of trivia for 'Next Time I Fall': Amy Grant got the call to do the duet and said, "I thought a nuclear bomb had gone off and wiped out all the other women on Earth" but when she arrived at the studio, well, she had a bad head cold. Between takes, she was plied with lots of hot tea to keep her voice going. If you listen closely, Peter is carrying her (which is sweet on his part). Flash forward many months later and Amy, in passing, mentioned to her then-husband, "Whatever happened to that little song I recorded with Peter Cetera?" Gary gave her a crazy look and replied, "It went to number one." The song will always have a special place in my heart--right behind 'Glory of Love'.
I feel exactly the same. Love that song. I clearly remember the day (Saturday of course) i watched it enter the Top20, fell in love with it (and started a crush on Amy.... shocking...) immediately. That TV program was to me what the MTV was to Americans in the 80's, it was like my "church", never missed one program through the whole 80's.
The Bangles are one of the coolest things of the 80s. They were a powerpop group inspired by the sixties garage rock, (which became indie pop a decade later), but because of the big hair and the 80s production, not many people realized that. I strongly recommend Different Light and their first record, All Over The Place. Great songwriting and the beatle-esque vocal harmonies are flawless.
I graduated high school in the summer of '86. I was a freshman in college this week in '86. Such a great time. Bon Jovi had a concert at our university and some of the footage in the "Dead or Alive" video is of that concert.
I met my future husband in March of 86. Married two years later and we are still together. It was a great year in music and for us. Thanks for another great video Professor!
Bon Jovi and Duran Duran were both plastered all over my little sister’s room. At the time, I was just getting into Metallica and the only music we could both agree upon was the Slippery When Wet album.
Wow, I cant believe Notorious didnt make it higher at the end. I was a huge Duran Duran fan then and still love their music. Their new album 'Future Past' is really good.
Yes I think Lizzy Borden was underrated. Notorious was the best song of 1986 other than Fates Warning - Prelude to Ruin , Possessed - Phantasm, Kreator - Pestilence, Hallows Eve - Lethal Tendencies, Slayer - Post Mortem , Sodom - Deathlike Silence ( which arguably was solely responsible for the entire Norwegian Black Metal movement) , Bathory - Enter the Eternal Fire, Juggernaut - Purgatory's Child, King Diamond - the Jonah , Dark Angel - Death is Certain Life is Not, Metallica - The Thing That Should Not Be, Touched - Night of the Hallowe'en , Stormwitch - Ravenlord , and Bladerunner - Eye of the Beholder. So many great hits from 1986 can't possibly name them all , but those aforementioned songs could be heard blasting from homes in every neighborhood in my 50 mile vicinity, as well as disturbing the peace roaring from 1000 car stereos . If your neighbors didn't like any of these hit classics just buy them their own copies. On whether absolutely everyone appreciated these masterpieces of music or not everyone did their best to expose people to the best music of the year. So if you were alive way back then and you don't remember these fantastic songs you can't complain that everyone didn't do their best to give you an opportunity to hear them
Love these revisits of rock era years. 86 was a great year for music. I have to say Cinderella is the most underrated "hair band" era's group! Can't wait for next one professor to see how these songs stood the test of time.
@Anna Trail doing well, absolutely love stand by me soundtrack and the movie really hit home on growing up. Hope you have a great holiday, no snow here at the moment
Cinderella while a "Hair Band" had a great blues type or undertone. Long Cold Winter and Bad Seamstress Blues(Falling Apart at the Seams) are good examples. Great White as well.
I was a huge Bangles fan when I was a kid. I drove my parents crazy singing along with that song each time it came on the radio. I loved The Bangles follow-up album Everything as well, which had the hits "In Your Room" and "Eternal Flame." I remember being in shock when the group broke up after that album.
Susanna Hoffs starred in a movie directed by her Mom. I’m going to say it’s called The Allnighter. I think she thought she had a good shot at being the Belinda Carlisle of the Bangles.
There is a mashup of "Hip to Be Square" and "Enter Sandman" on RU-vid, worth checking out; the guy's name who posted it is Bill McClintock. Too bad Huey can't hear music these days; he'd think it's hilarious! I also agree that The Bangles are an underappreciated band; they have great harmonies. My favorite is "Eternal Flame"... Susanna's voice is so beautiful on that song.
I 🎓 graduated hs in 1984! So thankful I'm a GEN X'ER and was alive to see and hear the great Freddie Mercury, Steve Perry and Lou Gramm in their PRIME! Thankfully Steve & Lou are still with us at the making of this video December 15,2021. 1990 and the Grunge movement killed music....Steve Jobs and his new Apple 🍎 iPhone killed the music industry ~ musicians get NOTHING for downloads of their music.Computer tech and auto tune ruined writers and singers.I don't like my bands like KISS using backing tracks in live concert venues.Saying " see you later" to Freddie Mercury, Michael Jackson and Eddie Van Halen was tough.
Excellent analysis to the downfall of the music industry. I especially agree with your statement that 1990 and the grunge movement killed music. I would also add rap/hip hop as another genre which was responsible for hurting the music industry.
@@michaelcrawford5083 I agree. You had the awful grunge movement to start off the 90s. Then, you had the manufactured, untalented teen-pop of the mid-to-late 90s. Finally, you had the awful rap/hip hop throughout the 90s.
I agree with your statement, except grunge. Grunge started to take us in a better place. .only at first. I found grunge, as silly as it may seem, more honest than alot of what the hard rock and metal scene was becoming. Sad, within 10 years time from 91-92, teen pop, hip hop, and even pop-country played their parts as well. And even if grunge in all its honesty, per my assessment, left a big void that's more cliche than good. All other stuff you added is dead on accurate. THANK YOU Professor of Rock for what you're doing! Such a great job, don't stop man!
Wow! What a top 10. We was truly blessed in the 80s. Notorious is a personal favourite of mine. I love the bangles. Who didn't have a crush on miss hoffs back then.😍 Wang Chungs "everybody have fun tonight" is a banger. Wasn't the biggest fan of bon Jovi, but I like some of their songs. I was a much bigger fan of def leppard, motley crue, and whitesnake. Great movies from that year. I loved stand by me. American tail was good too. I remember my mum buying that for my sister when it released. And the three amigos. Man, super funny. Absolute classic. Great work professor. 🤟
*"American tail was good too."* Funny you should mention that.... While i liked the movie, it will always be the *song* that i'll love... 😍 *Somewhere Out There* by Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram (R.I.P.), will always be *THE best song ever created for an animation movie* . Loved the song since it entered the Top20, still have the 7" single
Yes, I watched Pee Wee's Playhouse on Saturday mornings when I was an older teenager. My grandmother watched it with me sometimes too! She was a pretty hip ol' gal...she loved music videos a lot! Her favorite was Wild Wild West by Escape Club!
Aww! Such a sweet memory to share. My abuela liked "Rock The Dinosaur" by Was (Not Was) and then a few years later she liked "The Humpty Dance"...she had no idea what the song was about, she just loved the beat. Lol 😆
@@triphophoney2981 We LOVED Rock the Dinosaur too! And if yours was like mine...that little grandma dance! One that you know got her some attention around the USO back in the day when she could really cut a rug! Lol!
@@VideoSaySo And remember when Pee Wee lost his Play House in 1991 after appearing at a movie house in his birthday suit LOL which sent him to the jailhouse! It wouldn't be until 2016 before we'd finally see Pee Wee Herman return in Pee Wee's Big Holiday!🤔
@@SuperMarioBrosIII I think that was the same year that the TV show Murphy Brown got slammed and pretty much cancelled because the main character had a baby out of wedlock. My oh my how things have changed!
My favorite comment was when you said 'That's when I became a man"! I was newly married that year but when Suzanna Hoffs did that eye roll I felt like I had become a man again! She was the reason I loved the Bangles so much. Man...the 80s...sure do miss those glory days!
Love your work, but I have one nit to pick. "Stand by Me" really should get an asterisk because it was a re-release. I imagine "Bohemian Rhapsody", by this logic, is probably the #1 song for some week in 1991.
@@TheWorldTeacher So true. I guess I'm thinking of only my opinion. I quit listening to music on the radio decades ago. In my shop I control the music and its' whatever era I want it to be. 1986, what a great time to be a teenager with few worries.
@@wingman5985, in the relative, material sphere in which we exist, beauty is not merely in the eye of the beholder, but that there is a scale of extreme ugliness on one end and perfect beauty on the other end of the scale. Similarly, no two works of art, music, dance or theatre are equal in quality. At the risk of starting a war of words, to illustrate the point with examples, the finest compositions by Arvo Pärt, Johann Sebastian Bach, Hector Berlioz, and Ludwig van Beethoven (especially his Piano Sonata nicknamed "Appassionata", the Missa Solemnis and final symphony), are at the top-end of the scale, while the utter garbage one often hears on the radio and liked by prepubescent girls and boys lies at the bottom-end of the same scale.
I heard "You Give Love a Bad Name" on the radio in late summer of '86 and as school started I told my friends that Bon Jovi was going to be huge. I was familiar with a few earlier Bon Jovi songs and liked their work, but I thought they knocked it out of the park with this one. I was saddened that the single didn't really take off of the radio. It was too good to be ignored, but it only got average to low air play. Then, "Livin' on a Prayer" was released and it exploded. That seemed to pave the way for "You Give Love a Bad Name" which finally started to get the air play that it deserved and it became a big hit.
I second what you just wrote. I remember it that way as well. I bought "Slippery when wet" the week it came out only because I liked the pun on the album cover and wanted to expand my cassette collection. I loved it right away and just knew it would be huge. Surprisingly it took a while. And by the time everyone else caught up to it, I think I had lost a little interest...lol.
Big duran duran fan, and when Andy Taylor left I was bummed, but his great American Anthem song take it easy reminds me of a duran duran song!!! I toi fell n love with susanna hoffs... think most boys did lol.....keep up great work Adam
I was so sick of hearing every one of these songs when I was 16, but 35 years later, I still remember all the lyrics and am actually enjoying hearing them.
even as a teen in the 80s, I loved the awesome music! I never got tired of hearing any sonf from the 80s! I'm 51 now and I still love listening to the most awesome music ever! I will never tire of the 80s! it's so much better than the crap that's on the radio nowadays!
@19:19, used to love dancing this ballad as the last song played partying on weekends in Acuña, Mexico while stationed at Laughlin, AFB, near Del Rio, TX in the late 80s 🙂
You get serious props for pointing out one of the sexiest moments in music video history with Susanna 's 3 look moment. The " moment " you became a MAN. LOL🤣👏Thanks for sharing this awesome time in music. Wang Chung. Bon Jovi. Bangles. All had iconic hits! We will never forget. WOW!!!!!!
I am a true 80’s child born in 1969 so I was a pure teenager in the 80’s. My kids challenged me to a trivia of 80’s music because they grew up with it and thought they knew. It didn’t go well for them. I said you do know when I grew up and I play guitar so I tried to copy everything. They didn’t listen. It was quite sad. Now they know. LMAO!
I graduated H.S. in June, then started college in the autumn of '86 - a great era for music...both the preceding decades...the music of the period...and that which then followed.
@@ProfessorofRock - Stray Cats, Queen, Prince, Bowie, Huey, The Police, Bon Jovi, Bruce Hornsby, Springsteen, Mellencamp, Tracy Chapman, etc. Such a range of great pop music. And I still remember everyone loving "Stand By Me" and "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" Plus "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" and "Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay" we're still popular in the wake of "Top Gun".
Professor this Was very enjoyable episode. I definitely agree with you about Susan Hoffman and her eyes in that video I think we and a lot of other people have the same feeling lol. Cinderella is definitely a Underrated band in it’s time and I was very pleased to see them make the top 10 in the updated version.. I hope you do more videos like this one Professor 🎩👓🤘
Feel free to correct me, but ISTR that she was on Pop-Up Video and said that this moment came from when she made eye contact with three people in the audience while filming. That's why she looks back and forth the way she does. Definitely an iconic moment regardless.
Bon Jovi is like the old school version of Nickelback, lol. Everybody wants to hate on them, but they start singing along after a while. Peace and love y'all 🤟
I think the big difference is I don't get sick of Bon Jovi's songs. LOL! The only Nickelback song I can listen to over & over endlessly is "How You Remind Me." It's weird, because I never get sick of hearing songs. I don't know why it's different with them.
In high school, we all sang Wang Chung’s “Everybody Have Fun Tonight”, and when we got to the line “…everybody Wang Chung tonight”, we all stopped in an awkward silence, wondering what in the world that even meant??? Great times!
I knew it would be Bon Jovi, it was their summer, their year, every song was a banger and we crusised and rocked to it every weekend. My Dad built a house for a guy who worked at the radio station, he told him how much I loved Bon Jovi and I got free tickets to see them in DC. I didn't know a single person on that bus but still had the time of my life. It was my first real rock concert and man did they deliver. It's great to see Cinderella make the list, they were underrated, Nobody's Fool was one of my faves by them. Rock was taking over and I loved every minute.
I graduated from senior high school after I sat for my GCE A-level examination in November 1986. I spent my weekend each week then, tuning in to Casey Kasem’s Top 40 countdown on a cable radio station. 1986 was a fantastic year for pop/rock radio music and movies. It’s a special year I still have fond memories of. All I did was listening to the radio a lot, and do my homework. It was such a carefree time, well almost (if you don’t count the inexorable problems that puberty brings).
Ben E. King had some classics, didn't he?! Professor of Rock, thank you for going back and getting that history behind the stories. And some of these songs I had forgotten, like that Greg Abbott one. I continue to love the content on this channel.
As for duet I completely go the other Peter of 1986 ,As in Gabriel with Kate Bush “don’t give up “ I have all of Kate’s work and all of peters, combined they are irresistible .I was ground floor Kate Bush fan ,the power of the voices playing off each other lyrically ,for me just never ceases to move me .
So happy to see Toto's song up there! I swear I'll be over you is just an incredible love song and Steve Lukather on Vocals is so awesome just like when he was on Rosanna! Crazy how time changes things up!
Next Time I Fall was my favorite song at the time, I was a huge Peter Cetera fan already and that birthday an aunt of mine gave me the Amy Grant cassette, Straight Ahead, so I was already familiar with her voice. I loved the song then and I still love the song. My husband will play the song to get my attention once in a while and it always makes me smile (haha)! The harmonies are some of the most beautiful that came out of the 80s. Thank you for sharing this beautiful song.
I had the exact same experience during that moment seeing walk like an Egyptian for the first time. The only other ones that ever came close were the videos for Billy Idols Cradle of Love or Paula Abdul’s Cold Hearted Snake.
"What happened to music"? Talent no longer became a requirement, as the industry started producing it's own plastic versions. Music became more about the outside rather than the substance. And it shows by how many people ask this question. The frightening thing is why the quest is still being asked and you haven't figured it out for yourselves. It only shows.. the industry was right all along.
While you are correct, he (and others) have figured it out and he's not actually asking the question. It's more of a rhetorical question/statement being used as the title for this series. With the music in the video being used as examples of how good it was. :-)
Saw the bangles live!!! Back in the day! Awesome ! And when she moved her eyes, I realized that as a 16yr old girl with curly dark hair and brown eyes and only 5’, still, it made me feel like I’ll be fine!!!
Hahaha! Your Susanna Hoffs recollection is so true, Professor, the Bangles certainly had me transfixed during their music videos. What a great band whose songs I listen to and enjoy often. Yet, I also recall another solid all female band’s hypnotic video, Bananarama’s 1986 Venus, that dropped my jaw and . . . well, really got me thinking about the birds and the bees.
The first time I heard The Bangles was the song Going Down to Liverpool with Leonard Nimoy in the video. They were cool, a little folksy and beautiful! We would cover I’ll Be Alright Without You in the local bars with three-part harmony. The vocals will either make or break that song. I’m glad 80s metal is starting to make a resurgence!
When you bring up Cinderella they are by far my favorite band it's just a shame that they didn't get more recognition musicians that they really were I've always thought if they had came along 10 or 15 years earlier they would be Legends right up there with the best I remember seeing them bon Jovi and poison in 88 and I had never heard of them and they completely stole the show
Bruce Hornsby's "The Way It Is" will always be number one to me! ❤ To be fair, I love nearly all these songs, and even the songs I don't love I can, at least, tolerate. 😉
I love these Redux episodes -- it is like a time capsule. When you say back in this week in 1986 - it would be my birthday week and just turned 15 and a sophomore in high school. It like you dropped me right in my small town in WV wearing my Guess jeans that I pegged and wearing my flats and teasing my hair. Thank you for the trip down memory lane.
We all fell for Susana Hoff's eyes man, but one moment I also love about that video is that part when you hear a conga and she does that pose with her arms up in the air, she's one of the sexiest women that's ever layed a feet in this planet. The updated top 10 was a no brainer, we all know how big Slippery When Wet was/is, but two billion streams is a huge number, and none of them are mine as I have multiple copies of SWW and don't need to look it up lol.
"Coming Around Again" with "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" in Carly Simon's Martha's Vineyard concert is just excellent. This is one of my favorite memorable times. I hear Gregory Abbott's "Shake You Down" all the time because I play my customized 1986-1987 playlist. Meanwhile, I was also increasing my GI Joe and M.A.S.K. toys collecting, confused about the direction of Transformers, and looking forward to getting Lazer Tag for Christmas.
I fell in love with Bon Jovi’s music when I heard their song Runaway on a video show out of Detroit called The Beat with Doug Podel as the host. I got to see Bon Jovi live in 89 in Detroit and their open ring act was Skid Row. The Wang Chung song I grew to hate because it got too much air play on Detroit radio which was the closest stations we could get on fm.
Just stumbled on this channel and absolutely loved this show. The walk through my childhood was amazing and it absolutely had the feel of Casey Kasem. Subscribed!!
Fun fact: The Bangles were one of the bands associated with the Paisley Underground in the early/mid 1980s. The band, Opal, was part of that movement, which morphed into Mazzy Star in the 1990s.
Bruce Hornsby was writing for Huey Lewis before he did his own stuff. I remember seeing Bruce early 1986 before this album released doing a free live show on a side street/ alleyway in Grand Rapids during our annual festival of the arts. He hit it huge not long thereafter. Fun to have seen him with maybe 100 people watching standing in the closed public street...
@Brainsgate how about 1982? The Fast Times At Rigemont High Soundtrack is chopfull of classics from The Go Go's, The Cars, Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, Sammy Hager, Timithy B Schmit, Don Henley and Jackson Brown to name a few! And that's only from 1982!😉
Something about the cover of that Toto album. To me it was like the Norman Rockwell of young compassionate true love. I acquired it on cassette from somebody who just didn't want it anymore. Least that's what I was told. I was a kid.
I really miss being young with such great music, movies, cartoons, etc.. The music today is like a soundtrack to a bad movie. I love Billy Idol’s Whiplash Smile album! Very 80s with more of a synth sound.
"Walk Like an Egyptian"--the song that was the beginning of the end for the Bangles. Debbi Peterson, their second lead singer and drummer, was not allowed to play the drums or sing a verse on it by the producers, being reduced to miming the whistle and playing a tambourine on the video while a drum machine did the drumming. She was reportedly deeply hurt by this as well as by the rest of the band not standing up for her.
I always loved listening to American Top 40 in December because Casey Kasem would do teasers about the upcoming top 100 songs of the year special edition of AT40. 1986 was another awesome '80s year!
My sisters & I would have our boom boxes on the kitchen table when the year-end countdowns were on, and each of us would have a tape in the cassette deck, ready to record whatever songs we chose. I did this on a daily basis, but my sisters would join me during those year end countdowns. Fun times for sure!!! 😎
@@TheWorldTeacher I think 1987 was the last truly great music year. While there was still good quality music in 1988 and 1989, those years weren't as strong. Then, came the 1990s and the quality of music and the music industry spiraled downward and never recovered.
@@stephenhanft1226, in the relative, material sphere in which we exist, beauty is not merely in the eye of the beholder, but that there is a scale of extreme ugliness on one end and perfect beauty on the other end of the scale. Similarly, no two works of art, music, dance or theatre are equal in quality. At the risk of starting a war of words, to illustrate the point with examples, the finest compositions by Arvo Pärt, Johann Sebastian Bach, Hector Berlioz, and Ludwig van Beethoven (especially his Piano Sonata nicknamed "Appassionata", the Missa Solemnis and final symphony), are at the top-end of the scale, while the utter garbage one often hears on the radio and liked by prepubescent girls and boys lies at the bottom-end of the same scale.
i started listening to the music on the radio in 1985, so many of these I remember. There were a few I didn't care for at the time, but all these years later I love them. You said at one point you missed that time, and I certainly do too. If I had a time machine...
Even as a little girl, I always thought The Bangles were by far the best girl group from the 80s. Suzanna Hoffs's voice is superior. And we all were obsessed with the video 🤣 And I'll never be able to think of Bruce Hornsby's The Way It Is without thinking of my father. As a black man who grew up in during the Civil Rights Era, my dad really loved this song. The lyrics resonated with him very deeply, and of course since I was a piano student Bruce's playing was something he wanted in my ear as often as possible.
What an awesome expanded Redux. I don't know if you had seen my suggestion comment on the last one but this is exactly what I was looking for. Looking forward to many more.
It's interesting that you have Bon Jovi and Cinderella in the same countdown because I have a kind of funny story involving them. When Bon Jovi released 7800° Fahrenheit, I became a huge Bon Jovi fan and knew they were going to be big. Later on, Cinderella released Night Songs and I became a big Cinderella fan. When David Lee Roth went out on his Eat 'Em And Smile tour, he had Cinderella opening for him. At that time, they had only released Shake Me and most people weren't even paying attention to the fact that they were on stage. When David Lee Roth came on stage, the audience suddenly realized there was a concert going on and started getting into it. It ended up being a great show and I felt bad for Cinderella because people weren't really giving them any respect. Fast forward a couple of years and Bon Jovi was on their Slippery When Wet tour. They had Cinderella as the opening act and I was really excited because I was going to get to see both of them on the same night! The place was packed and Cinderella had gotten much more popular by then and everyone was glued to the stage while they played. After their set was over, half of the crowd left so it became obvious to me that the crowd was mostly there to see Cinderella, which I thought was an interesting switch from the first time I saw them!
Love the Redux POR! Fun to hear the old list, then the modern twister. Sure, 2 bazillion Bon Jovi fans got their way but how about Ben E. King... re-charting in the 80s and then coming up 2nd here in 2021.
Bon Jovi " was the Rock band for my Formative years!!!!! And I still go back in my mind every single time I hear these songs 🎵!!!!!!!" Thanks so much for the awesome videos!!!! God bless you all today 🙏 Shalom
It's too bad they don't make music like this anymore. 80s music was and still is the best. A lot of the problem is formulaic song writing and autotune making artists who aren't as talented sound so much better than they really are. I have to agree with you about Susanna Hoffs, she was gorgeous then and still is. The Bangles are underrated.
Aside from the drum programing and synth bass here and there that makes the album production sound of it's time in those instances when they pop up, , musically and subject matter wise, Bruce Hornsby and the Range - The Way It Is, still stands up today, and is an all killer no filler mature pop album I still listen to today, for equal parts nostalgia and still current relevance.
Boy, this one week's chart gives me 2 memories of Beavis & Butthead. (regarding Bon Jovi) Beavis: Hey Butthead, remember when this band was cool? Butthead: Uhh, no. (regarding Wang Chung) Butthead: What's that guy doing in the back? Beavis: He's Wang Chunging.
damn, I felt the same about Susanna Hoffs back then, I was an FOH sound engineer at the time and my company was contracted for a tour, I was ready to go until another engineer with seniority took my place, damn...
