Good 6
Okay 8
Bad 26
Exact same countdown last year. Old comments:
80s0n8 Big 40 Countdown Schedule
31. MISUNDERSTANDING - GENESIS
Like I've said previously, I've been on a big late 70s/early 80s Genesis kick. But this one, not so much.
"Follow You Follow Me", "Turn It On Again", "Abacab", "No Reply At All", "Man On The Corner", "Paperlate", "Mama", "That's All", "Home By The Sea", "Just A Job To Do" and "Illegal Alien" - I've been listening to those ones religiously for months.
23. TAKE YOUR TIME (DO IT RIGHT) - SOS BAND
Hook's okay. The rest sucks.
19. SHOULD'VE NEVER LET YOU GO - NEIL & DARA SEDAKA
13. SHE'S OUT OF MY LIFE - MICHAEL JACKSON
Tito pass me a tissue. Jermaine stop teasing. #eddiemurphy
4. IT'S STILL ROCK & ROLL TO ME - BILLY JOEL
Okay, this was my second week up against my friend's 17-year old son. He picked this as his guess for the number one song. I picked "Another One Bites The Dust", which wasn't even in the Hot 100 - it didn't hit #1 until October. It's pretty sad when a kid who didn't even live through the 80s has kicked my ass TWICE now....
3. THE ROSE - BETTE MIDLER
....I had narrowed down my choices to three options. "Another One Bites The Dust", "Never Be The Same" and "The Rose". If only I'd gone with that third choice!!
#83 Tony Joe White "I Get Off On It"
Disco and blues mashed together (which is weird enough) with some really out-there lyrics that I wouldn't have expected to hit any chart whatsoever back in 1980.
I met a pretty girl who really turned me on
But we didn't make it very far
It's hard to make love to a lady
When she's munching on a candy bar
There was a pretty thing in Los Angeles
But she was a man in women's clothes
I told him he was dressing kinda dangerous
'Cause how's a fool like me gonna know
There is a dude up in New York City
He wears nothing but a raincoat and he walks around
He comes up on to a lady looking pretty
And he gives her just glimpse from the waist down
There was a girl I had a lot of fun with
'Til she asked me to her house one night
And when she told me she was into bondage
Well don't you know it nearly blew my mind
Won't make the top 40
#42 Glen Campbell/Rita Coolidge "Somethin' 'Bout You Baby I Like"
#44 Cheap Trick "Everything Works If You Let It"
#45 Invisible Man's Band "All Night Thing"
#51 Player "It's For You"
#52 Stephanie Mills "Sweet Sensation"
#55 Gladys Knight & the Pips "Landlord"
#57 Queen "Play The Game"
#60 Average White Band "Let's Go Round Again"
#61 Kiss "Shandi"
#62 Russ Ballard "On The Rebound"
#63 Billy Preston/Syreeta Wright "One More Time for Love"
#65 Pretenders "Stop Your Sobbing"
#67 Herb Alpert "Beyond"
#71 Gary Burband with Band McNally "Who Shot JR?"
#75 Emmylou Harris/Roy Orbison "That Lovin' You Feeling Again"
#76 Grateful Deaed "Alabama Getaway"
#78 Firefall "Love That Got Away"
#79 Teri Desario & KC "Dancin' In The Streets"
#82 Dr Hook "Years from Now"
#83 Tony Joe White "I Get Off On It"
#84 Kingbees "My Mistake"
#85 David Hudson "Honey, Honey"
#86 REO Speedwagon "Time For Me To Fly"
#87 Crystal Gayle "The Blue Side"
#88 Roger Daltry "Free Me"
#90 Toby Beau "If I Were You"
#92 Van Halen "And The Cradle Will Rock"
#95 Roberta Flack/Donny Hathaway "Back Together Again"
#97 John Denver "Dancing With The Mountains"
#99 Joe Sun "Shotgun Rider"
#100 Temptations "Power"
