80s0n8 Big 40 Countdown Schedule

[Channel98]

Brenda K. Starr (real name: Brenda Joy Kaplan) learned Spanish in the mid-1990s and has been recording Spanish-language salsa/tropical music since 1997. She has had nine top-30 hits on Billboard's Tropical Songs chart and three top-20 tropical albums. In 2002, her album Temptation won a Billboard Latin Music Award for best salsa album. Her 2005 hit Tú Eres was nominated for a Latin Music Award for tropical airplay song of the year (female) but lost to Bandolero by Olga Tañón. Aquí está el canción:

 

[sadchild]

@semipenguin Agreed about DLR. Though I will say personally I think his last great song and video was 1991's "A Little Ain't Enough". Still love it. The rest of that album was quite awful.

And I do have own 1998 album DLR Band, and the whole thing is... pretty good. I listen to it once every few years. Standout tracks are "Wa Wa Zat!!", "Relentless" and "Weekend With the Babysitter" (all featuring John 5 on guitar and bass).

 

[semipenguin]

@semipenguin Agreed about DLR. Though I will say personally I think his last great song and video was 1991's "A Little Ain't Enough". Still love it. The rest of that album was quite awful.

And I do have own 1998 album DLR Band, and the whole thing is... pretty good. I listen to it once every few years. Standout tracks are "Wa Wa Zat!!", "Relentless" and "Weekend With the Babysitter" (all featuring John 5 on guitar and bass).

I'll have to check those out

 

[HecticArt]

John 5 is a monster. I saw him play with Rob Zombie a while ago. Wickedf.

DLR is supposed to have a full album of stuff w/ John that he hasn't released. John thought that it was good.

 

[sadchild]

If you haven't seen the videos of John 5 with Michael Anthony (VH), Corey Taylor (Slipknot) and Fred Coury (Cinderella) doing VH songs, I highly recommend them.

 

[semipenguin]

Ok. This song is on this week's countdown. I don't remember it, so this is the first time I've heard it.

Slade - Run Runaway



I'd like to see all the songs that failed to make the Top 40, because I bet there are quite a few that a far better than this song.

 

[Aaron]

I like that song!

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Ok. This song is on this week's countdown. I don't remember it, so this is the first time I've heard it.

Slade - Run Runaway



I'd like to see all the songs that failed to make the Top 40, because I bet there are quite a few that a far better than this song.

That’s one of my favorites back in the day. I used to listen to this song and the one after it on the cassette a lot. The band wrote lots of top 10 songs for other artists (others covered their songs) with some success ( come on feel the noise I think was theirs). This was one off their few hits that charted for them.


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[HecticArt]

Run Runaway was awesome! I loved that song. It's one I don't get to hear enough.

 

[Aaron]

May 19, 1984

40. ALMOST PARADISE - MIKE RENO AND ANN WILSON
39. EYES WITHOUT A FACE - BILLY IDOL
38. WHO'S THAT GIRL - EURYTHMICS
37. MODERN DAY DELILAH - VAN STEPHENSON
36. LOVE WILL SHOW US HOW - CHRISTINE MCVIE
35. STAY THE NIGHT - CHICAGO
34. MY EVER CHANGING MOODS - THE STYLE COUNCIL
33. A FINE FINE DAY - TONY CAREY
32. RUN, RUNAWAY - SLADE
31. IT'S MY LIFE - TALK TALK
30. IT'S A MIRACLE - CULTURE CLUB
29. YOU CAN'T GET WHAT YOU WANT - JOE JACKSON
28. JUMP (FOR MY LOVE) - POINTER SISTERS
27. ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE - SCORPIONS
26. WHITE HORSE - LAID BACK
25. MISS ME BLIND - CULTURE CLUB
24. SELF CONTROL - LAURA BRANIGAN
23. NO MORE WORDS - BERLIN
22. BORDERLINE - MADONNA
21. THE HEART OF ROCK 'N' ROLL - HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS
20. TONIGHT - KOOL & THE GANG
19. I'LL WAIT - VAN HALEN
18. DANCING IN THE SHEETS - SHALAMAR
17. THEY DON'T KNOW - TRACEY ULLMAN
16. SISTER CHRISTIAN - NIGHT RANGER
15. THE AUTHORITY SONG - JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP
14. THE LONGEST TIME - BILLY JOEL
13. BREAKDANCE - IRENE CARA
12. THE REFLEX - DURAN DURAN
11. HEAD OVER HEELS - THE GO-GO'S
10. FOOTLOOSE - KENNY LOGGINS
9. YOU MIGHT THINK - THE CARS
8. OH SHERRIE - STEVE PERRY
7. LOVE SOMEBODY - RICK SPRINGFIELD
6. TIME AFTER TIME - CYNDI LAUPER
5. TO ALL THE GIRLS I'VE LOVED BEFORE - JULIO IGLESIAS & WILLIE NELSON
4. HOLD ME NOW - THOMPSON TWINS
3. AGAINST ALL ODDS (TAKE A LOOK AT ME NOW) - PHIL COLLINS
2. LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE BOY - DENIECE WILLIAMS
1. HELLO - LIONEL RICHIE

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Alan, when talking about Footloose, said Kenny Logins had Caddyshack and Top Gun under his belt. Top Gun came out in 1986.


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[Channel98]

Dean Pitchford wrote the screenplay for Footloose and co-wrote the title song with Kenny Loggins, who began performing it in concert before the movie was released. Pitchford and Michael Gore had won an Academy Award in 1981 for best original song: Fame, the title song of a movie musical about students at the High School of Performing Arts in New York City. Pitchford wrote the lyrics and Gore composed the music. Irene Cara co-starred in the movie and sang the theme song. Fame reached #4 on the Hot 100 in September 1980. Footloose spent three weeks at number one in March-April 1984. For the 2011 remake of the Footloose movie, Blake Shelton sang the title song. Hurry and listen!

 

[sadchild]

Good 10
Okay 14
Bad 16

I've already commented on most of these here.

22. BORDERLINE - MADONNA

This song was YUGE back in '84. Never liked it, but at least it's more tolerable than most of her other 80s hits.

14. THE LONGEST TIME - BILLY JOEL

Never knew Billy sang every part on this, interesting VJ trivia bit there.

5. TO ALL THE GIRLS I'VE LOVED BEFORE - IGLESIAS/NELSON

#47 Queen "I Want to Break Free"

Queen, as you never wanted to see them.

#72 Dennis Edwards "Don't Look Any Further"

The video is bloody awful. For one, the dude's mouth never stops, like he's a cow chewing cud. But these two are so bad on screen together in so many ways I can't begin to explain it. Click for a good laugh

The song's main groove, however, was later used in Eric B & Rakim's "Paid In Full" (a classic) and Big Audio Dynamite's b-side "City Lights" (which is a great song). I never knew where these two tracks got that bass line from until today.

#77 Duke Jupiter "Little Lady"

The 38 ZZ Satelites? Goofy-ass cliche video with terrible horrible acting. Song is kinda tolerable I guess.

Won't make the top 40
#47 Queen "I Want to Break Free"
#48 Nik Kershaw "Wouldn't It Be Good"
#49 Dan Fogelberg "Believe in Me"
#54 Shannon "Give Me Tonight"
#55 Cameo "She's Strange"
#56 Yarbough & People "Don't Waste Your Time"
#60 INXS "Original Sin"
#62 Weird Al "King of Suede"
#67 Shakin' Stevens "I Cry Just A Little Bit"
#69 LaToya Jackson "Heart Don't Lie"
#71 James Ingram "There's No Easy Way"
#72 Dennis Edwards "Don't Look Any Further"
#74 Temptations "Sail Away"
#75 Debarge "Love Me In A Special Way"
#77 Duke Jupiter "Little Lady"
#78 Psychedelic Furs "The Ghost In You"
#79 Kenny Rogers "Eyes That See in the Dark"
#80 Poco "Days Gone By"
#81 Frank Stallone "Darlin'"
#82 Re-Flex "Hurt"
#84 Dwight Twilley "Little Bit Of Love"
#85 Kim Carnes "I Pretend"
#87 Paul Young "Love of the Common People"
#89 David Gilmour "Blue Light"
#90 Alabama "When We Make Love"
#91 Billy Rankin "Baby Come Back"
#95 Hagar, Schon, Aaronson, Shrieve "Whiter Shade Of Pale"
#96 Bananarama "Robert De Niro's Waiting"
#97 Luther Vandross "Superstar/Until You Come Back To Me"
#99 Michael Gore "Terms Of Endearment"
#100 Sergio Mendes "Olympia"

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I knew when I heard the Willy Nelson duo that you would give that your Bevis & buthead meme.


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[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Won't make the top 40
#47 Queen "I Want to Break Free"
#48 Nik Kershaw "Wouldn't It Be Good"

Only surprises this week. The Queen one is not really a surprise but has gotten more play this century than you would expect from a non-top 40 song.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Dean Pitchford wrote the screenplay for Footloose and co-wrote the title song with Kenny Loggins, who began performing it in concert before the movie was released. Pitchford and Michael Gore had won an Academy Award in 1981 for best original song: Fame, the title song of a movie musical about students at the High School of Performing Arts in New York City. Pitchford wrote the lyrics and Gore composed the music. Irene Cara co-starred in the movie and sang the theme song. Fame reached #4 on the Hot 100 in September 1980. Footloose spent three weeks at number one in March-April 1984. For the 2011 remake of the Footloose movie, Blake Shelton sang the title song. Hurry and listen!

I prefer to pretend the 2011 remake does not exist.

 

[sadchild]

#60 INXS "Original Sin"
#62 Weird Al "King of Suede"

I think these should've been top 40 (because they're good), but it's no surprise that they weren't.

 

[Aaron]

This week they're doing a top 40 of songs that hit #1 during the 1980's summer months.
I'll post a list if I come across one.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

This week they're doing a top 40 of songs that hit #1 during the 1980's summer months.
I'll post a list if I come across one.

I don't know how they ranked them. Betty Davis Eyes had more weeks @ #1 in the summer and was a bigger hit than Endless Love in 1981 yet they made Endless Love #1.

 

[semipenguin]

I've been listening to the top 1000 country hits of all time.

It ends on Friday.