80s0n8 Big 40 Countdown Schedule

[scotchandcigar]

Clearly, the problem isn't the year, it's the way the Top 40 started tilting. Here are some "real" songs that are also from 1988.

U2 - Desire
U2 - In God's Country
INXS - Need You Tonight/Mediate
INXS - New Sensation
MIDNIGHT OIL - Beds Are Burning
SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - Peek-A-Boo
R.E.M. - Stand
R.E.M. - It's The End of the World (As We Know It)
R.E.M. - Orange Crush
THE CHURCH - Under The Milkyway
TRACY CHAPMAN - Fast Car
ESCAPE CLUB - Wild Wild West
JANE'S ADDICTION - Jane Says
JANE'S ADDICTION - Mountain Song
MORRISSEY - Suedehead
LIVING COLOUR - Glamour Boys
ZIGGY MARLEY & THE MELODY MAKERS - Tomorrow People
BUSTER POINDEXTER - Hot Hot Hot
SINEAD O'CONNOR - I Want Your Hands (On Me)
THE CURE - Just Like Heaven
EURYTHMICS - I Need a Man
TALKING HEADS - (Nothing But) Flowers
SMITHEREENS - Only a Memory
SUGAR CUBES - Motorcrash
SISTERS OF MERCY - This Corrosion
BANGLES - In Your Room
BRYAN FERRY - Kiss and Tell
ROBYN HITCHCOCK - Balloon Man
JERRY HARRISON - Rev It Up
STEVE WINWOOD - Roll With It
DEF LEPPARD - Hysteria
POISON - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
ROBERT PALMER - Simply Irresistible
DAVID LEE ROTH - Just Like Paradise
TRAVELLING WILBURYS - Handle With Care
ROBERT PLANT - Tall Cool One
VAN HALEN - When It's Love
YES - Rhythm of Love
CHURCH - Under The Milkyway
JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP - Check It Out
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Tunnel of Love

 

[HecticArt]

33. ALPHABET ST. - PRINCE

My son started mimicking Prince (AH! UGH!) and then said 'This was a top 40?!' This song is from one of four consecutive Price albums that I thought were terrible.

Glad I'm not the only one.

#64 David Lee Roth "Stand Up"

Surprised it made it that far up the list.

#71 New Order "Blue Monday 1988"

Surprised it wasn't higher.

#73 Depeche Mode "Route 66/Behind The Wheel"

Seems about right.

#93 John Mellencamp "Rooty Toot Toot"

Shocked it broke 200.

 

[HecticArt]

Clearly, the problem isn't the year, it's the way the Top 40 started tilting. Here are some "real" songs that are also from 1988.

U2 - Desire
U2 - In God's Country
INXS - Need You Tonight/Mediate
INXS - New Sensation
MIDNIGHT OIL - Beds Are Burning
SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - Peek-A-Boo
R.E.M. - Stand
R.E.M. - It's The End of the World (As We Know It)
R.E.M. - Orange Crush
THE CHURCH - Under The Milkyway
TRACY CHAPMAN - Fast Car
ESCAPE CLUB - Wild Wild West
JANE'S ADDICTION - Jane Says
JANE'S ADDICTION - Mountain Song
MORRISSEY - Suedehead
LIVING COLOUR - Glamour Boys
ZIGGY MARLEY & THE MELODY MAKERS - Tomorrow People
BUSTER POINDEXTER - Hot Hot Hot
SINEAD O'CONNOR - I Want Your Hands (On Me)
THE CURE - Just Like Heaven
EURYTHMICS - I Need a Man
TALKING HEADS - (Nothing But) Flowers
SMITHEREENS - Only a Memory
SUGAR CUBES - Motorcrash
SISTERS OF MERCY - This Corrosion
BANGLES - In Your Room
BRYAN FERRY - Kiss and Tell
ROBYN HITCHCOCK - Balloon Man
JERRY HARRISON - Rev It Up
STEVE WINWOOD - Roll With It
DEF LEPPARD - Hysteria
POISON - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
ROBERT PALMER - Simply Irresistible
DAVID LEE ROTH - Just Like Paradise
TRAVELLING WILBURYS - Handle With Care
ROBERT PLANT - Tall Cool One
VAN HALEN - When It's Love
YES - Rhythm of Love
CHURCH - Under The Milkyway
JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP - Check It Out
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Tunnel of Love

I'd rather listen to most of this list instead.

 

[sadchild]

ROCK CHART 5/14/88

01 The Valley Road - Bruce Hornsby & The Range
02 Only A Memory - The Smithereens
03 The Flame - Cheap Trick
04 After Midnight - Eric Clapton
05 Under The Milky Way - The Church
06 Ten Men Workin' - Neil Young & The Bluenotes
07 Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
08 Black And Blue - Van Halen
09 Rhythm Of Love - Scorpions
10 Ship Of Fools - Robert Plant
11 New Sensation - INXS
12 Stand Up - David Lee Roth
13 Tall Cool One - Robert Plant
14 Love Changes Everything - Honeymoon Suite
15 I'm Still Searching - Glass Tiger
16 Lost In You - Rod Stewart
17 This Is Love - George Harrison
18 I Think She Likes Me - Treat Her Right
19 Serpentine - Kings Of The Sun
20 (Nothing But) Flowers - Talking Heads

Good songs in the Rock top 20 = 9
Good songs in the Pop top 40 = 5

 

[scotchandcigar]

ROCK CHART 5/14/88

01 The Valley Road - Bruce Hornsby & The Range
02 Only A Memory - The Smithereens
03 The Flame - Cheap Trick
04 After Midnight - Eric Clapton
05 Under The Milky Way - The Church
06 Ten Men Workin' - Neil Young & The Bluenotes
07 Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
08 Black And Blue - Van Halen
09 Rhythm Of Love - Scorpions
10 Ship Of Fools - Robert Plant
11 New Sensation - INXS
12 Stand Up - David Lee Roth
13 Tall Cool One - Robert Plant
14 Love Changes Everything - Honeymoon Suite
15 I'm Still Searching - Glass Tiger
16 Lost In You - Rod Stewart
17 This Is Love - George Harrison
18 I Think She Likes Me - Treat Her Right
19 Serpentine - Kings Of The Sun
20 (Nothing But) Flowers - Talking Heads

Good songs in the Rock top 20 = 9
Good songs in the Pop top 40 = 5

I get 11, if I count the remaster of After Midnight.

 

[Aaron]

I actually prefer Clapton's 1988 version of the song over the original.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Won't ever make the top 40

#93 John Mellencamp "Rooty Toot Toot"

Only surprise for me. The bubbling under sucked almost as much as the top 40.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I'd rather listen to most of this list instead.

Ditto.

 

[HecticArt]

18 I Think She Likes Me - Treat Her Right

Sandman, pre Morphine!
Good shiz.

 

[sadchild]

Only surprise for me. The bubbling under sucked almost as much as the top 40.

The only two 'never will make the top 40' songs I like are Depeche And Maniacs.... and I didn't know those songs in '88, I heard them a year or two later.

Sandman, pre Morphine!
Good shiz.

Listening for the first time now. I'm not a blues-rock fan at all, but this is good!

 

[HecticArt]

I love his stuff with Morphine.
He kicks the hell out of a 2 string bass. Slide too.

 

[scotchandcigar]

I love his stuff with Morphine.
He kicks the hell out of a 2 string bass. Slide too.

That, plus no guitar; replaced with bari sax. They call it "low rock".

 

[HecticArt]

I call it great stuff that must be played loud.
I saw them in Chicago back in the 90's.
About 6 months later I ran into them in the airport in Copenhagen Denmark.
We were in a line next to theirs. We decided to say hi, & let em know we had recently seen them stateside. They were a bit shocked that we recognized them. (In a good way, he said.) Usually after they were away from the concert venue, he said people never knew who they were. To be recognized in Denmark was pretty trippy for them. We chatted for a minute or so and got back in our line. They were on their way to Denmark's Roskilde Festival via Amsterdam. \m/,

 

[scotchandcigar]

I call it great stuff that must be played loud.
I saw them in Chicago back in the 90's.
About 6 months later I ran into them in the airport in Copenhagen Denmark.
We were in a line next to theirs. We decided to say hi, & let em know we had recently seen them stateside. They were a bit shocked that we recognized them. (In a good way, he said.) Usually after they were away from the concert venue, he said people never knew who they were. To be recognized in Denmark was pretty trippy for them. We chatted for a minute or so and got back in our line. They were on their way to Denmark's Roskilde Festival via Amsterdam. \m/,

Cool.

 

[HecticArt]

It tripped me the hell out.

 

[Aaron]

1986

40. WHO'S JOHNNY - EL DEBARGE
39. WHAT YOU NEED - INXS
38. VIENNA CALLING - FALCO
37. RAIN ON THE SCARECROW - JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP
36. ROCK ME AMADEUS - FALCO
35. LET'S GO ALL THE WAY - SLY FOX
34. STICK AROUND - JULIAN LENNON
33. I WANNA BE A COWBOY - BOYS DON'T CRY
32. HOLDING BACK THE YEARS - SIMPLY RED
31. ALL THE THINGS SHE SAID - SIMPLE MINDS
30. MOTHERS TALK - TEARS FOR FEARS
29. MANIC MONDAY - BANGLES
28. TOMORROW DOESN'T MATTER TONIGHT - STARSHIP
27. NO ONE IS TO BLAME - HOWARD JONES
26. A DIFFERENT CORNER - GEOTGE MICHAEL
25. NOTHIN' AT ALL - HEART
24. AMERICAN STORM - BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND
23. THERE'LL BE SAD SONGS (TO MAKE YOU CRY) - BILLY OCEAN
22. ROUGH BOY - ZZ TOP
21. CRUSH ON YOU - THE JETS
20. NEVER AS GOOD AS THE FIRST TIME - SADE
19. HARLEM SHUFFLE - THE ROLLING STONES
18. MOVE AWAY - CULTURE CLUB
17. KISS - PRINCE & THE REVOLUTION
16. BE GOOD TO YOURSELF - JOURNEY
15. IS IT LOVE - MR. MISTER
14. ALL I NEED IS A MIRACLE - MIKE & THE MECHANICS
13. SOMETHING ABOUT YOU - LEVEL 42
12. I CAN'T WAIT - NU SHOOZ
11. ON MY OWN - PATTI LABELLE & MICHAEL MCDONALD
10. ADDICTED TO LOVE - ROBERT PALMER
9. IF YOU LEAVE - ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK
8. BAD BOY - MIAMI SOUND MACHINE
7. TAKE ME HOME - PHIL COLLINS
6. YOUR LOVE - THE OUTFIELD
5. LIVE TO TELL - MADONNA
4. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY - JANET JACKSON
3. WHY CAN'T THIS BE LOVE - VAN HALEN
2. WEST END GIRLS - PET SHOP BOYS
1. GREATEST LOVE OF ALL - WHITNEY HOUSTON

 

[sadchild]

Good 14
Okay 11
Bad 15

34. STICK AROUND - JULIAN LENNON

Couldn't figure out who this was. My best guess (though I knew it was wrong) was Arcadia. Shocked to discover it was this guy.

7. TAKE ME HOME - PHIL COLLINS

Later sampled by Bone Thugs & Harmony. Phil with one of the rappers, presumably at 'tha crossroads' on the '1st of tha month'. *rimshot*

#65 Voices Of America "Hands Across America"

#97 Ozzy "Shot In The Dark"

This is what I was cranking up at the time

Won't ever reach the top 40
#43 Wax "Right Between The Eyes"
#45 Psychedelic Furs "Pretty In Pink" (#41 peak!)
#56 Vanity "Under The Influence"
#65 Voices Of America "Hands Across America"
#66 David Bowie "Absolute Beginners"
#68 Loverboy "Lead A Double Life"
#78 INXS "Listen Like Thieves"
#80 Stevie Nicks "Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You"
#81 Katrina & The Waves "Is That It?"
#92 ABC "Vanity Kills"
#95 Jimmy Harnen w/ Synch "Where Are You Now?" (later a top 10 in 1989)
#96 Bonnie Tyler "If You Were A Woman (And I Was A Man)"
#97 Ozzy "Shot In The Dark"

 

[HecticArt]

#45 Psychedelic Furs "Pretty In Pink" (#41 peak!)

So close!

I thought it would have just barely made it.

 

[scotchandcigar]

So close!

I thought it would have just barely made it.

It only went that high because of the movie.

 

[HecticArt]

The movie is why I thought it would break the top 40.