80s0n8 Big 40 Countdown Schedule

December 6, 1986.
40: GOLDMINE - THE POINTER SISTERS
39: FOR TONIGHT - NANCY MARTINEZ
38: AT THIS MOMENT - BILLY VERA & THE BEATERS
37: COMING AROUND AGAIN - CARLY SIMON
36: I DIDN'T MEAN TO TURN YOU ON - ROBERT PALMER
35: YOU BE ILLIN' - RUN-D.M.C.
34: ALL I WANTED - KANSAS
33: FOOLISH PRIDE - DARYL HALL
32: FREEDOM OVERSPILL - STEVE WINWOOD
31: SOMEDAY - GLASS TIGER
30: THE FUTURE'S SO BRIGHT, I GOTTA WEAR SHADES - TIMBUK 3
29: THE RAIN - ORAN "JUICE" JONES
28: VICTORY - KOOL & THE GANG
27: LOVE IS FOREVER - BILLY OCEAN
26: LAND OF CONFUSION - GENESIS
25: WILD WILD LIFE - TALKING HEADS
24: I'LL BE OVER YOU - TOTO
23: IS THIS LOVE - SURVIVOR
22: YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU…DON'T YOU? - HOWARD JONES
21: CONTROL - JANET JACKSON
20: WAR - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
19: (FOREVER) LIVE AND DIE - ORCHESTRAL MANOEURVES IN THE DARK
18: TAKE ME HOME TONIGHT - EDDIE MONEY
17: C'EST LA VIE - ROBBIE NEVIL
16: DON'T GET ME WRONG - THE PRETENDERS
15: SHAKE YOU DOWN - GREGORY ABBOTT
14: AMANDA - BOSTON
13: STAND BY ME - BEN E. KING
12: TRUE BLUE - MADONNA
11: NOTORIOUS - DURAN DURAN
10: TO BE A LOVER - BILLY IDOL
9: LOVE WILL CONQUER ALL - LIONEL RICHIE
8: HUMAN - HUMAN LEAGUE
7: EVERYBODY HAVE FUN TONIGHT - WANG CHUNG
6: WORD UP - CAMEO
5: WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN - BANGLES
4: THE WAY IT IS - BRUCE HORNSBY & THE RANGE
3: HIP TO BE SQUARE - HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS
2: YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME - BON JOVI
1: THE NEXT TIME I FALL - PETER CETERA WITH AMY GRANT
 
sadchild said:
December 6, 1986.

This one's right after my time on our FM station ended ( like, literally a month after...I did work on the AM sister station for another 10-ish months afterward ). So this will be odd.

40: GOLDMINE - THE POINTER SISTERS
39: FOR TONIGHT - NANCY MARTINEZ
33: FOOLISH PRIDE - DARYL HALL
27: LOVE IS FOREVER - BILLY OCEAN
22: YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU…DON'T YOU? - HOWARD JONES
9: LOVE WILL CONQUER ALL - LIONEL RICHIE

Absolutely ZERO memory of any of these songs, which is weird because I'm sure we played some of them on our AM station. I must've really blocked this part of my life out of my brain more than I remember ( see below ).

35: YOU BE ILLIN' - RUN-D.M.C.

We didn't play this, but we HAD played "Walk This Way" previously. I can vividly remember some of the racist phone calls I got while on air about it. Thankfully one of the nice things about that job was the ability to tell "customers" like that to fuck off.

32: FREEDOM OVERSPILL - STEVE WINWOOD

I remember this title as one of the 156 tracks we played from this album, but damned if I can remember what it sounds like.

30: THE FUTURE'S SO BRIGHT, I GOTTA WEAR SHADES - TIMBUK 3

If I were to put together a "Bottom 10 Of The 80's" list, this one would be on there. Easily.

29: THE RAIN - ORAN "JUICE" JONES

Not what I would call a "good" song, but one I love just because it's so friggin' ridiculous. My wife had never heard it until a couple years back, & it came on XM radio while we were in the car. I remember sitting in our building's parking lot so she could hear the end of it, & how hard she was laughing. Now when it comes on in the car she gets all excited.

14: AMANDA - BOSTON

I remember the day we got the promo 45 for this into the station. No one had a clue they had something coming out, as it had been YEARS since there was a new Boston record. We were all like, "Wait...BOSTON Boston?". I also remember being bummed out that there was no more FM station that I could run into to get the song on the air ASAP. This was probably one of the first real "hey, that part of your life is over now" recognitions I had.
12: TRUE BLUE - MADONNA

One of the only Madonna songs from this era that I truly hate. Just annoyingly cutsie-pie.
8: HUMAN - HUMAN LEAGUE

Such an unexpected pairing ( them with Jam/Lewis ), but such a great song, & SUCH a great record. Top 100 all-time material.

4: THE WAY IT IS - BRUCE HORNSBY & THE RANGE

Several months earlier, they had released "Every Little Kiss" as the first single from the album. In addition to my on-air role, I was also Assistant Music Director at the station. Every couple weeks, my boss & I would sit down & listen to some new releases to determine if we wanted to add them to our rotation. One day "Every Little Kiss" came up.

I remember specifically pointing to the spinning single & saying "THAT'S a hit record. It's not my personal taste, really. But that's a hit. On our AM station, at a minimum. That will sound GREAT on the radio".

At the time, the song was receiving VERY little airplay. But there must've not been much else in the pile of interest that week, so my boss said "let's give it a shot". And it did pretty well, especially on the AM side. Of course, then the title track came out, & became a monster. On the juice of that, they re-released "Every Little Kiss" & it became a legit hit song.

What I'm saying here is that I'm .0000000000001% responsible for Bruce Hornsby's success. And I never even got like, one corner of a platinum record.
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I can vividly remember some of the racist phone calls I got while on air about it. Thankfully one of the nice things about that job was the ability to tell "customers" like that to fuck off.
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Assholes. Love how you handled it.

& how hard she was laughing
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Yeah that song is something else. "You without me's like Corn Flakes without the MILK!"
IdRatherBeSkiing said:
WTF are the Beatles doing on a 1986 countdown much less in a duet?
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Not sure which song you're referring to? Do you mean Beat L King? It's because the film Stand By Me was huge at the time and that song was in it/on the soundtrack.
 
Good 10
Okay 11
Bad 19

They played this countdown in 2018 and 2015.

My wife really liked this one, right up her alley (except for Run DMC where she made an audible groan).

38: AT THIS MOMENT - BILLY VERA & THE BEATERS

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26: LAND OF CONFUSION - GENESIS

I mentioned the video to my wife and she said she's never seen it. Gasp! I'll have to fix that today.

10: TO BE A LOVER - BILLY IDOL

In another thread, it was being discussed about my weirdness about music. Case in point: I loved the previous album Rebel Yell. I loved Sigue Sigue Sputnik (formed by Billy's ex-bandmate Tony James). Billy releases a song that sounds like Sputnik... and I hated it (and still do). Go fig!

4: THE WAY IT IS - BRUCE HORNSBY & THE RANGE

My guess at #1. I went with this one because I came up with something that made me lol. I texted my friend "My choice is Bruce 'Me So' Hornsby this week." *rimshot*

1: THE NEXT TIME I FALL - PETER CETERA WITH AMY GRANT

One or both of the other guys picked this one. Either way, I've got the big L on my forehead. But that's ok, I know that I know next week's #1. And #2. Easy-peasy.

#85 David Lee Roth "That's Life"

Still enjoy his version of this one.

Will never make the top 40
#43 Freddie Jackson "Tasty Love"
#53 Stacy Lattisaw "Nail It To The Wall"
#63 Jesse Johnson & Sly Stone "Crazay"
#64 Police "Don't Stand So Close To Me '86"
#65 Commodores "Goin' To The Bank"
#66 Don Johnson "Heartache Away"
#68 Eurythmics "Thorn In My Side"
#69 Paul Young "Some People"
#70 Bob Seger "Miami"
#72 Temptations "Lady Soul"
#73 Debbie Harry "French Kissin"
#75 Midnight Star "Midas Touch"
#80 Five Star "Can't Wait Another Minute"
#81 Paul McCartney "Stranglehold"
#83 Rod Stewart "Every Beat Of My Heart"
#85 David Lee Roth "That's Life"
#87 Ann Wilson "The Best Man In The World"
#88 Human League "I Need Your Loving"
#89 Grace Jones "I'm Not Perfect"
#91 KBC Band "It's Not You, It's Not Me"
#92 Paul Simon "Graceland"
#97 Pet Shop Boys "Suburbia"
#99 Elton John "Heartache All Over The World"
 
The local DJ I listen to in the morning while I'm getting ready for work was talking about Hornsby the other day. He said that back in the day when Hornsby was just starting to get big, their station hosted a free concert with Hornsby as the headliner. Everything went well. The next day when he went in to work, his station manager said that he was driving home through downtown Toledo after the show at about 1:30 AM and saw Hornsby walking down the street, visibly drunk, no shoes on, and trying to find a bar that he could grab a few more drink at. It sounded like he got him safely back to his hotel.
sadchild said:
Assholes. Love how you handled it.
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sadchild said:
10: TO BE A LOVER - BILLY IDOL
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I still like it.
sadchild said:
#92 Paul Simon "Graceland"
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Shocking!!!!
sadchild said:
#97 Pet Shop Boys "Suburbia"
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Surprising!
IdRatherBeSkiing said:
It was my daily dyslexic moment.

38: AT THIS MOMENT - BILLY VERA & THE BEATERS
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I thought you were making a joke.
 
1981/12/12

40: CASTLES IN THE AIR – DON McLEAN
39: TRYIN’ TO LIVE MY LIFE WITHOUT YOU – BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND
38: WRACK MY BRAIN – RINGO STARR
37: SHE’S GOT A WAY – BILLY JOEL
36: WAITING ON A FRIEND – THE ROLLING STONES
35: UNDER PRESSURE – QUEEN & DAVID BOWIE
34: NO REPLY AT ALL- GENESIS
33: POOR MAN’S SON - SURVIVOR
32: SHAKE IT UP – THE CARS
31: ARTHUR’S THEME (BEST THAT YOU CAN DO) – CHRISTOPHER CROSS
30: I WOULDN’T HAVE MISSED IT FOR THE WORLD – RONNIE MILSAP
29: THE OLD SONGS – BARRY MANILOW
28: START ME UP – THE ROLLING STONES
27: SOMEONE COULD LOSE A HEART TONIGHT – EDDIE RABBITT
26: STEAL THE NIGHT – STEVIE WOODS
25: CENTERFOLD – THE J. GEILS BAND
24: HEART LIKE A WHEEL- THE STEVE MILLER BAND
23: HOOKED ON CLASSICS – THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
22: MY GIRL (GONE, GONE, GONE) - CHILLIWACK
21: COOL NIGHT – PAUL DAVIS
20: OUR LIPS ARE SEALED – THE GO-GO’S
19: TAKE MY HEART – KOOL & THE GANG
18: PRIVATE EYES – DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES
17: THE SWEETEST THING (I'VE EVER KNOWN) – JUICE NEWTON
16: TURN YOUR LOVE AROUND – GEORGE BENSON
15: COMIN’ IN AND OUT OF YOUR LIFE – BARBRA STREISAND
14: YESTERDAY’S SONGS – NEIL DIAMOND
13: I CAN’T GO FOR THAT – DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES
12: TROUBLE – LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM
11: LEATHER AND LACE – STEVIE NICKS WITH DON HENLEY
10: DON’T STOP BELIEVIN’ - JOURNEY
9: HARDEN MY HEART - QUARTERFLASH
8: WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE – DIANA ROSS
7: HERE I AM – AIR SUPPLY
6: YOUNG TURKS – ROD STEWART
5: LET’S GROOVE – EARTH, WIND, & FIRE
4: OH NO – THE COMMODORES
3: EVERY LITTLE THING SHE DOES IS MAGIC – THE POLICE
2: WAITING FOR A GIRL LIKE YOU - FOREIGNER
1: PHYSICAL – OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN
 
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