...who YOU tellin!? ...I just gave the 1983 Top Ten to Taco's "Puttin' On The Ritz" YT last night, and Taco HIMSELF, 'hearted' me comment! ...I feel like a STAH! ...ha-HAA!
@@vinezero I'm also a 1983 High School graduate and agree with everything you said. The 70's and 80's were awesome years for music. Unfortunately, the Grunge apocalypse (along with rap going mainstream) of the early 90's came and music started to die. It never recovered.
I like music from about 1992 all the way back to the Big Band days like The Glen Miller band. Todays music all seems to have a weird choppy beat. It reminds me of the old King Kong movie I saw in the 70's when they were trying to call King Kong to them so they could trap him. This modern music makes me want to walk around dragging my knuckles on the ground and act like an ape.
It's not like they all used lutes and harpsichords. I remember when my grandpa complained about electric guitars because they didn't require any talent.
My dad laughed until he was crying on that. I bought the DVDs of the first season just so I can rewatch it every year. The true irony is that wild turkeys can fly.
If I can stay the age I am, with all the knowledge I have now...I will go back to the 80s with no problems. Now asking me to go back and relive my childhood... it's NEVER HAPPENING! I've finally got through the trauma of it and I'm 54. So, I don't want to have to do it again but just to go back to a time when the music was great and people were really much less stressed out on a regular basis would be nice. There's some movies and bands that I would love to see that I didn't get a chance before. I wonder where the best place to do that would be? What does everyone think? Would it be the East Coast or the West Coast or maybe a big city in the Midwest? Let me know what you think would be the best way to see the most musical acts (bands, individual artists and even touring Broadway shows if it's not New York)? I'm curious what everyone thinks is the best place and remember this was in the 80s but if you want to give thoughts for today, I'll take those too. Thanks for your participation in this thought exercise. Take care all, k
Amazing idea Professor! This will be memory lane for me..I remember always listening to the show and having my cassette ready to tape the songs! Great tribute to Casey Kasem.
1982 may be the best year of pop music ever. It's easy to forget how wide open the charts were. You had Juice Newton and Flock of Seagulls, Little River Band and Laura Branigan, Dan Folgerberg and Soft Cell. If you're doing a Kasey Kasem-style countdown, I'm in.
Frankly, I don't even listen to new music. I'd rather listen to the music from the 70's and 80's. I'm a huge fan of Stevie Nicks, Jimmy Buffet, Aerosmith and Ozzy Osbourne. These decades truly had music for every mood. 😘
There are smaller known acts that could compete. Beth Hart is one example of that as she has worked with some of the top artists from the '60s. '70s and '80s while she got her career started in the 1990s. Her last album hit #1 on the UK rock chart and was Grammy nominated for a blues album. Starcrawler is another act that could have gone places in the 1980s along with Melody Gardot, ZZ Ward, Joe Bonamassa and Samantha Fish.
@@orlock20 Another good example is my band, The Gringos. We have been trying to get back together for years and finally managed to accomplish that. We are close to finishing our third studio album and just released another single from that body of work. We stopped performing together in early 1980. We figured that music today was nothing special so why not give it another go, even at our age.
Wow 1982 I was 17 that year hanging out in arcades listening to all of these great songs...what a great time to be that age. There is no comparison to the music of then and now...the quality and the diversity of the music at the time is something we just *don't* get anymore...along with those great arcades. Cheers from Ottawa, Canada 🍁
Toronto Born and the music in the 80's was among the worlds best! I did have lots and lots of Great times in the Shaw!! Many great bands played at the Jube and clubs!
I try to account for my age while opening my mind to new music, I’m sorry the old songs were just so much better. Everything is autotune nowadays,it’s just a music machine.
There was so much good music in the 80s. I used to listen to Casey Kasem every week. It was a tradition with us kids. He was our source for music information. So the sitcoms you mention are also watched weekly. Who shot JR was a popular t-shirt. Thanks, professor.
Oh yeah Dallas was big and though I rarely watched it that phrase "who shot J.R." was so everywhere that what had to happen eventually happened: Bumper stickers reading, I Shot J.R.
@@scotabot7826 ..did you ever see the bumper stickers? I must have laughed for 15 minutes when I first saw the bumper sticker reading I shot JR... Yeah those were the days...
The Top 10 Redux is probably my favorite feature on this channel. What an awesome top 10 from 1982. I remember and love every song on this countdown. I was 17-years-old and a Junior in High School. I religiously followed the pop charts every week and looked forward to listening to Casey Kasem's American Top 40. The early 80's was such a great time to be a teenager. The music. movies, and television shows were great. It was a very special time-frame in my life that I will always cherish. That's why I love episodes like this so much. It brings back all the nostalgia and special memories. Today's music is completely inferior to the music of 1982. If today's music sounded anything like 1982, I'd still be following the pop charts. Sadly, that's not the case. Music started going downhill in the 90's and got worse in the 2000's and each passing decade. In my opinion, the 1950s, 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's are the golden decades of music and were the absolute best.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 I totally agree with you. The years of 1980 and 1981 had a lot of leftover sounds from the 1970's. It was 1982 where you started hearing less of the leftover sounds from 1970's and more of the sounds that would define the 1980's. So, I would call 1982 as a music transition year and 1983 as the first really definitive 1980's music year (Michael Jackson's Thriller album, The second British Invasion in full swing, etc.)
I was fortunate enough to work as a DJ at our college radio station at that time. The signal was only strong enough to cover the tiny campus. And our budget was so low, we relied on staff to bring in current albums. Still, it was a fun time with GREAT music!
CFNY The Edge? They hired media students from Humber College and told them to play what they like from local concerts at the time. Bands would drop into campuses and play on weekends. Bands like Rush, Saga, Triumph, Blue Peter. Local bands around Toronto.
Late last year, I was getting ready to fly to the Caribbean for an excursion like no other, and I ended up sitting next to this one guy who was falling asleep. All of a sudden, while he dozed off, his phone next to him set off a ringtone, none other than Open Arms by Journey. I could not help but sing along to every word at that point. My parents didn’t like it because they thought I wasn’t being respectful to the other people at the terminal, but I did not care one iota. When Steve Perry’s voice is as infectious as it is undeniable, this is what you get.
Music THEN!!!! Today's so called music is crap!! I was born in January 1971, I'm 52 and I wouldn't change places with these children of today for ANYTHING!!! These kids today missed out. I desperately miss the music of the 80s, 70s, 60s and back....
I saw Joan Jett at a fair, in Illinois, in the 2000s. I don't remember the year but I have a guitar pick of her's that she threw into the crowd at me. It was a great concert!
Jett was heavily inspired by Suzi Quatro, who had a lot more success in the U.K., even with her being American. Most Americans knew nothing of her until her recurring role on "Happy Days" & her hit duet with Chris Norman, "Stumblin' In", made her a star stateside. Her career goes back to the mid-'60s, when she formed a band that included her sisters, The Pleasure Seekers. Try listening to their song "What A Way To Die!". Yet, Joan's in the RRHOF (not even with her first band, The Runaways) & Suzi's not!
Who Can It Be Now? - Men at Work Shake It Up - The Cars Waiting for a Girl Like You - Foreigner I Can't Go for That (No Can Do) - Daryl Hall & John Oates Rosanna - Toto Tainted Love - Soft Cell Hard to Say I'm Sorry - Chicago Abracadabra - Steve Miller Band Don't You Want Me - The Human League Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder Eye of the Tiger - Survivor And no - I can't come up with 1 hit from this year. All oldies for me 🙂
Most of it is. There is still a little out there that has soul but it's usually not what you find on the radio. If I turn on the radio it's either to listen to an oldies station or NPR.
Here are some suggestions of new music as good as the old Hot 100 music: Drive by Joe Bonamasa Goodtime Girl by Starcrawler Spanish Lullabies by Beth Hart Bulletproof by Samantha Fish Sex and Stardust by ZZ Ward Hey You by Dope Lemon The River by Blues Saraceno Sing Along by Sturgill Simpson Keep On by Southern Avenue Preacherman by Melody Gardot
I kinda had the best of both worlds. I grew up in the late 70s and the 80s came in my early adult years. I'd call it the golden era but I'm biased of course.
I agree 💯 the alternative era from the 90s was pretty good too but I haven't really heard any new "music" in the last 15 years that I'd be willing to spend my money and time on.
just don't look at the pop charts. still some great new music out there, amyl & the sniffers, turnstile, drain, boy harsher, tr/st, and releases from older acts, tool, gojira, deftones, mastodon, lamb of god...
There is no comparison between today's so-called "music" and the hits from the 70's & 80's. I try to keep an open mind about the new stuff, but in my day, we had real music. The kind we could sing to..and dance to. Thanks Adam for keeping the music alive!
I grew up in Southern California in the 1980’s when music and MTV were both at their peak. I love music from the 1970’s through the early 1990’s. I went to awesome concerts like Elton John, The Go Go’s, Metallica, and Guns and Roses. I am saddened that music today is so awful. WTF happened? I like that you featured women who rocked like Joan Jett, Go Go’s, and Stevie Nicks.
My wife and I got married, 1980 , always bought music, and now have over 100 albums from the 80s and still play them occasionally. I like watching reaction videos of people hearing the old 80s music and seeing their amazement of how good music was back then.
I’d LOVE to hear your countdown show! This channel is one of the best on YT. Although I like a lot of your interviews with music legends, I like your narration and storytelling more. Thanks for keeping the music alive, Professor! 💜
The 1980's as a whole literally rocked. 1982 was a monster year for rock. One of my favourite songs from 1982 was "Hurts so Good" by John Cougar. I also loved "Who can it be now?" by Men at Work. "Juke Box Hero" by Foreigner is still in my playlist as well. Those were the good times for music. Foreigner "4" is one of my favourite albums from 1982.
Yep. She's still a super cutie and I still think brunettes are a hot thing. It certainly beats the "Fifty Shades of Bozo the Clown" that seems to be the style nowadays.
I feel so bad for the kids discovering music now, 12, 13 , 14 , 15 year old brains suddenly develop heightened sonic awareness and all they hear is bloody crap. Just endless hours of computers playing template music. WTF ???
I used to hear it on AM twice on Manx Radio (Isle of Man) and then a couple of hours later on American Forces Radio whose signal came through in England after dark. 'Cat People' is the only film I've ever seen in a Hollywood cinema in April, 1982. At the end the small audience stood up and clapped which is something we don't do in the UK. My favourite 1982 single is 'Harden My Heart' by Quarterflash.
I think autotune has destroyed music. I listen to a large variety of music and I cannot stand much of the new music it sounds so fake. There are some artist I do not like their music but I respect they can still sing without autotune but so much just sounds weird because of autotune. Joan Jett rocks glad she kept number one spot, but also love Stevie Knicks. I would enjoy a long version of your program, it would make a long video but you can always stop and start a video later on. Charoites of Fire I admit I went to the movie with a girl friend, she said it was perfect I held her hand and her tight the entire movie and never once snorted or commented on the movie, she thought if I had stayed awake it would have been nice but she was happy I held her hand, snuggled her and never snorted at any lines. Hey two out of three ain't bad. Prof when your son makes his time machine can you swing by and take me with back to the concerts in the 1980s?
The professor will have to compete against classic American Top 40 countdowns available on radio stations and the iHeart app. But otherwise it's a good idea.
Being such an 80s guy, I can't believe you haven't heard about War On Drugs - a newer band, but very 80s - try "in chains" or "I don't live here anymore" to see what I mean
I'm a rare old fart that can appreciate music from before my time, during my time, and after my time. I think the biggest problem nowadays, is that a couple guys hired by record companies write everyone's songs for them. There has always been some of that, sure. But it's gotten to the point, "artist" don't write at all, or even sing live. They're Just actors, not musicians. And the result is music no one cares about including the artist, a year later. Kind of sad.
I saw Journey on the Escape tour in 1982. When the opening keyboards started the arena went wild. Saw again in 1983 on the Frontiers tour and Faithfully hit the same with the crowd. Heavy Metal was a great movie and soundtrack.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Journey with Jonathan Cain cranked out a lot of great songs. I go back a little bit earlier when Greg Rolle was still with them. Anyway You Want It, Wheel in the Sky, Feeling That Way/Anytime and Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' are all amazing songs that got massive radio play.
Personally 1982- was my biggest year for concerts. April-The Police, August-Crosby,Stills & Nash, November- George Thorogood. Great top 10's, great job as always Professor!!
surl.same here police george t. pretty molly.hatchet also got to watch a few songs of the soundcheck was pretty cool ps they blanking rocked ptetty sure that is
All these songs are near and dear to my heart. Puts me right back into my senior year of high school. Playing football, hanging out with friends (at the mall of course), getting around in the back of a pickup truck, dating my high school sweetheart (who would become my wife) and be young and naive thinking this is how things would always be for us. Started college in the fall of ‘82 not realizing I was about to start the whirlwind adventure of what would be my life. What a fun decade for me!
I would LOVE it to be a full song redux! Every time I see a redux drop, everything else waits, I put in on and listen… it’s my favorite shows of your channel… thanks for a great show Professor!
Ease of purchase happened. Back in the day, you had to walk, bike or take your car to a record store to buy a record with your hard-earned money. You could feel the medium, read the liner notes and lyrics. Promotion was either on the radio, word of mouth, bootlegs, etc... Everything was commercial, but way less so than today. Now people watch everything for free on RU-vid, Spotify pays pennies to artists, the biggest names are the ones with the biggest Instagram following («15 million subscribers? he/she MUST be doing something good, right?»), so people go see the shows as a happening, not because they want to hear the music. And since everything is one click away these days, lazy ass kids don't want to spend hours on end discovering a whole record, what song comes next, how it ties into the whole concept, which part of an 8-minute song gives them goosebumps, etc... And you had to ge home to listen to it, unless you had a Walkman and then a Discman, and it had to be charged. And you could listen to one artist at a time. Now, they want to consume a formatted 3:30 song when and how they want, and move on to their Facebook feed. Fuck that shit, as far as I'm concerned. I still listen to physical CDs, but I've fallen victim to buying off the iTunes store as well. At least, I buy complete albums, and listen to them all. And VERY LITTLE of what I listen is on the radio (I guess, I don't listen to it EVER). But I doubt that Overkill, Lovebites, Maiden and super old Bob Seger and Fleetwod Mac and synthwave bands get much airplay.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Which are such misleading concepts. They don’t create much, and they influence even less. Or if they influence you, you’re an idiot.
And today's generation actually think that music not on a computer grid sounds weird due to human timing. They are so used to everything being created on a PC by someone just dragging and dropping pieces of files onto a time grid. All this crap is just stolen sound bites from actual recordings from decades ago when musicians played music on instruments. Today nobody except maybe a few producers actually have any clue how to play anything. It's mostly comprised of only a beat and that ain't music. Melody is a concept they are unaware of and when someone does happen upon a musical idea it is just looped over and over with no nuance of slight variance in verse whatsoever. Lyrics? Mostly it's just the N word the F word and the B word with a bit of the D and P mixed in. I refuse to state any of these here out of respect for all of you and Adam. Oh and of course when you can't find something to rhyme you just use "Uhh" or some other vocal noise that isn't a word. I don't know what ever happened to the FCC's rules on vulgarities on the radio. None of it would be playable on the radio in decades past by a long shot. Because it's not heard on the radio but on Spotify or whatnot today none of that matters anymore. Anything goes and all the kids will hear it all despite the best parent's efforts. It's all part of the moral decay of our society. I don't care how old this makes me sound either. Our earlier generations were right. It's just all so much more true now than back then. How innocent the `80s were by comparison. The biggest difference between past generations complaints and ours is that while they didn't appreciate our music at least it was music. Now, there is nothing worthy about almost all of it. The only genre that is somewhat music is country and even that is uninspired garbage produced the same way, copy and paste. Rip a file off of some `80s riff and drop it on a Pro Tools grid with a mouse over and over. Repeat some line they thought was clever over and over with no variance from bar to bar even. Yup even what is done by a human sounds as repetitious as a robot. Even country sounds like rap now. After all they grew up on that same trash. The only difference might be that they might have heard some classic rock around the house from their parents when they were kids,, if they were lucky. I think due to lack of radio influence younger generations are not getting exposed to any of this music deemed air-worthy and instead only hear what is popular via social media influencers or whatever is trending on Instagram or Spotify or worse yet TikTok. The only hope I can foresee is new ACTUAL MUSICIANS, if any exist, creating new ACTUAL MUSIC today and getting it shared around to reach the ears of the kids. Essentially similar music to what we did in the past but new so as to not be dismissed as "oldies" by those that won't appreciate anything older than this year. Maybe we should all pray for that. :)
@@WhoWouldWantThisName The irony is, musicians of the 70 and 80s were influenced by the level of talent existing back then. They then took it to some insane level, and the internet came along. In 1980, a 20 y.o. could try to emulate John Bonham. Today, any 12 y.o. can learn how to emulate Dave Lombardo or Mike Portnoy, yet the quality of the music itself has not benefitted from this, so the few actual musicians out there are crazy good, but who gets airplay and the $ that come with it? Bieber.
Today's music sucks my kids agree and they are late teens early twenties. YES...YES...YES, to you doing a weekly top music show in the veins of Casey Kasem!!!!!!
I remember 1982 being a very special year for me and music. I don't know if it's just because I was coming of age with my musical tastes at 11 years old or if it truly was a magical time. But for me the music was magic that year.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Interviewer: So how did you get your name? Max: I was riding down the street and someone said "Hey, there goes Max Headroom....and it stuck" I never heard that but a friend once told me that's what was said when "Max" was asked that question in a fictitious interview...the true story behind the concept is different but sort of similar.
foreigner 4 had singles that came out before jbh, urgent, and the supermassive hit waiting for a girl like you. I think people were foreigner'd out. plus many people bought the album by then, which also cut into single sales...
Fortunately it only seems to exist on streaming platforms with hard copy (Vinyl and CD) becoming more difficult to find. Love albums by female Country Pop/Rock singers Heather Morgan and Kalie Shorr but these are only available to stream whereas I'd really like to put a CD on when I'm in the mood to listen to these albums.
The 80s was a great decade for music. I was into Journey, Foreigner, and loved "The Edge Of Seventeen" the music today just doesn't come near to what the 60s , 70s, and 80s gave us. Maybe it's just me but those years will always have a special place that I will never forget
I'd listen intently for my favorite songs and then get mad when they weren't #1. I remember sometimes thinking "How did this crap even make it on the charts?" Now I listen to the entire weekly top forty of those days with fondness.
80’s music rocked! We had new wave, punk, rock, hair bands, R&B, rap and pop. Who wasn’t great in the 80’s? My iTunes is filled with 80’s music mostly new wave greats from the cure because they are the best band ever❤
I was 14 in 1982, and can safely say that today's music is a big pile of feed that's been processed through the bull. Not even a remotely close comparison. Where's a time machine when you need it??
The best hit single of 1982 was Take Off by Bob and Doug McKenzie with Geddy Lee. Still Geddy Lee's highest charting US single. Would love to see the professor do a video on this.
1982 had some good stuff. American Fool. However the get off my lawn thingy w the current stuff isn't you at your best. 80s also had tons of crap as did the 90s.
What I always like about Don't Talk to Strangers is Rick Springfield makes it a Sing a long in Concert and includes the kids and normally gets one of little kids to sing it with him, His concerts are so much fun.
I know what the hell happened to music. There is no more soul in the music. They are way more interested in image than talent. They real musicians and singers are working at UPS and Home Depot and
I still listen to Casey Kasem on Sirius XM every Saturday and Sunday on the 70's channel. Wish they would expand it to the 80's channel, but they have the VJ top 40 there.
Cool 80s history video. I graduated high school in 1982 and during my college years was a DJ at parties spinning "licorice pizzas" (vinyl records.) My genre of choice was alternative such as Depeche Mode, New Order, The Cure, etc. IMO here's 10 reasons much of the music was "magical" in the 80s: 1. Many bands were releasing songs that they themselves liked and were fun and/or evoked emotions that people (especially teenagers) could relate to. 2. Concerts were affordable and you could buy tickets without selling a vital body organ or having to press click as fast as possible on a computer or smart phone. Yeah back in the 80s you had to stand in long lines sometimes to get tickets but that was part of the fun hanging out with like minded people and you weren't competing for buying tickets against the whole world on the internet! 3. MTV was new and bands were clamoring to produce videos as fast as possible. Since there was no internet kids used to hang out all day together and watch MTV for hours just to watch the videos and see band members on TV. 4. Dance clubs were fun to go to with your friends and hear 12" dance records that you didn't hear on most radio stations. When's the last time you heard of people going to dance clubs now just to hear new songs they hadn't heard yet? 5. Going to a record store with your friends and buying records and tapes, then bringing them to your friends and playing then for them and listening to what they bought was fun and a shared experienced. 6. Today it's nice to have streaming music services and RU-vid videos but it's sometimes too much availability of music and people miss out listening together with friends or looking at the artistry of vinyl record album cover artwork. 7. Music in the 80s was edgy, pushing creativity without being too obnoxious. 8. Many Movies and music culture thematically melded into each other in the 80s which resonated with many people. 9. People were excited to hear a new song played on the radio for the first time and would ask their friends did you hear the new song yet? 10. Last but not least 80s music was a movement in a generation about bands and people being excited about discovering and celebrating music that they enjoyed together. Musical artist of today could capture that same 80s magical sound if they really wanted to but it takes risk, thought and creativity and many modern young artists are too busy on social media saying: "hey look at me!" And that's my 80 cents worth from an old DJ who used to get people dancing using the "wheels of steel" to spin those "licorice pizzas!" 😉 Cheers!
Thanks for sharing that and I agree with pretty much everything including your music taste and loving 12” mixes at dance clubs. I had no idea vinyl records were called licorice pizzas though and I was a music junkie with as much vinyl as being a teenager could buy me. Learning something new every day.
@Little Cat Feet yeah 80s were fun! I lived in San Diego during the 80s and we had a record store there called "licorice pizza" which was about as big as a "tower records" store but they didn't have as many stores.
Key Largo? Never heard that. But if it came on the radio at the time. I’m sure I immediately changed the channel. Joan Jett deserves #1 Jukebox Hero close 2nd. Stevie Nicks great song. Rarely does the best song get to #1. At anytime. Thanks ✌🏼🍀🤞🏼
one of my biggest regrets is not going to the 'sock hop' dances in middle school in the 80's. our family was very conservative and although my parents did not 'ban' me from going, i never learned how to dance and felt too embarrassed to go. what fun it would have been bopping to 80's music
Pop music is dead in 2023. You'd think the recording industry would realize that and stop putting out the utter crap they do today. We need a flippin' time machine to the 80's!
Bringing back all the memories while also giving a tribute to the styles of Casey Kasem, would be awesome! I know there will never be another Casey, but this is a way to bring back his memories. I'm all for it!
I’m so glad I taught myself all these great songs. Because the kids who pushed me, humiliated me, and shut me down in 6th grade were getting the wrong ideas from the “crap” we call modern music.
A very odd selection, if I'm honest. For starters, I've never heard of Bertie Higgins and I was surprised to find out that the 'Chariots of Fire' thing had a name (I've seen it in so many memes, it's not funny). But I don't understand how Joan Jett's song could've been a big hit. It's an unpopular opinion, but I don't care; "I Love Rock n' Roll" is more of an insult to rock n' roll because of how weak it sounds (drum line is sounds more like clapping that actual drums, there's too few lyrics and the guitar solo is way too short). If you want a really furious and grunty (or, as I would say, proper) rock song then try "I Hate Myself for Loving You" from Joan Jett, "Running With The Devil" from Van Halen, "Thunderstruck" from AC/DC or "Black Dog" from Led Zeppelin instead. As for the modern (immitation) music, it's so awful that it doesn't bare thinking about.
Music today absolutely sucks. I am convinced that music today is hijacked by corporations, so that those musicians will do their bidding once called upon. Back in the day musicians pushed back against main stream narratives
You couldn't be more correct, Roman. Corporations DID indeed hijack the music industry thanks solely to Bill Clinton signing the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which made it legal for just a few corporate entities to buy up all the radio stations (plus TV stations) and major record labels so they could control and dictate the formats and what they deemed "acceptable and promotable artists". It was all done deliberately to dumb down the culture to gradually achieve total corporate control. And just look at the state of the world, and culture, right now. Yikes!
April 5th 1982 I was a junior at Ingraham highschool in Seattle, Wa. Our top ten fav groups on tour on the radio at that time: 1. RUSH 2. AC⚡️DC 3. QUEEN 4. Journey 5. REO Speedwagon 6. Cheap Trick 7. Foreigner 8. Ozzy Osbourne 9. Loverboy 10. Black Sabbath w/DIO
Today's music is polished crap. And what's sad is that today's youth are diggin' on it, or these songs wouldn't be charting so high. The 80's were the best. Hands down.
My dad and I loved his soundtrack work for Cosmos. Bought the soundtrack and then the Heaven & Hell album from which it was drawn. An ex-boyfriend scratched it up for which I’ll never forgive him.
I was another 17-year-old in 1982. I'll admit, I had no appreciation of just how much high-quality music was coming out then. I sure do now! I just knew I loved it. I LOVE the idea of the Casey Kasem-style radio show and playing the songs in their full glory. What an innovative idea!
