DRC Madness #31 - I Can't Believe It Wasn't A Top 40
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Tough, tough, tough, tough, tough……
Cars "Good Times Roll"
Rush "Tom Sawyer"
Impossible based on how much of a surprise it is that they aren’t a top 40, how good the songs are, or how much I love them. So I went with which one I would listen to if I saw they were both playing at the same time on different channels.
Romantics "What I Like About You"
Peter Gabriel "Solsbury Hill"
Soldbury is a better song, but What got and gets a LOT more airplay.
Beatles "All My Loving"
Police "Message In A Bottle"
Beatlemania should have put All in the top 40.
Cranberries "Dreams"
Rolling Stones "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
Rush "Tom Sawyer"
Impossible based on how much of a surprise it is that they aren’t a top 40, how good the songs are, or how much I love them. So I went with which one I would listen to if I saw they were both playing at the same time on different channels.
Romantics "What I Like About You"
Soldbury is a better song, but What got and gets a LOT more airplay.
Beatles "All My Loving"
Beatlemania should have put All in the top 40.
Cranberries "Dreams"
ROUND 7 - WHICH SONGS MOVE FOUR-WARD?
TOM says ROLL with what you LIKE and are LOVING, send the MESSAGE of what not-top-40s you WANT to hear in your DREAMS and should be top of the HILL!
Cars "Good Times Roll"
Peter Gabriel "Solsbury Hill"
Beatles "All My Loving"
Rolling Stones "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
TOM says ROLL with what you LIKE and are LOVING, send the MESSAGE of what not-top-40s you WANT to hear in your DREAMS and should be top of the HILL!
Cars "Good Times Roll"
Peter Gabriel "Solsbury Hill"
Beatles "All My Loving"
Rolling Stones "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
I thought i use to hear You Can't Always Get What You Want with my Panasonic Panapet on the Top 40 radio but now that I think about it, it
was Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Heartbreaker instead
was Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Heartbreaker instead
ROUND 8 - TIME TWO DECIDE ON THE BIG 2
We started with a whopping 277 songs that charted on the Hot 100 but never made the top 40.
We've whittled it down to the four we are the most shocked didn't get there.
Beatles "All My Loving"
Cars "Good Times Roll"
Romantics "What I Like About You"
Cranberries "Dreams"
We started with a whopping 277 songs that charted on the Hot 100 but never made the top 40.
We've whittled it down to the four we are the most shocked didn't get there.
Beatles "All My Loving"
Cars "Good Times Roll"
Romantics "What I Like About You"
Cranberries "Dreams"
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbet is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
Cars "Good Times Roll"
Romantics "What I Like About You"
You can title the following "why 'All My Loving' shouldn't even be in this madness".
"All My Loving" is a song from their second UK album With the Beatles (1963). Though not officially released as a single in the United Kingdom or the United States, the song drew considerable radio airplay, prompting EMI to issue it as the title track of an EP. The song was released as a single in Canada, where it became a number one hit. The Canadian single was imported into the US in enough quantities to peak at number 45 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in April 1964.
Here are other songs by the Beatles that went top 40 just in 1964!
Can't Buy Me Love: #1
A Hard Day's Night: #1
I Feel Fine: #1
Do You Want to Know a Secret: #2
Twist and Shout: #2
Please Please Me: #3
She's a Woman: #4
And I Love Her: #12
Matchbox: #17
Ain't She Sweet: #19
I'll Cry Instead: #25
Slow Down: #25
Thank You Girl: #35
Therefore, not only do I think it should be disqualified, but I see absolutely no injustice here.
Romantics "What I Like About You"
You can title the following "why 'All My Loving' shouldn't even be in this madness".
"All My Loving" is a song from their second UK album With the Beatles (1963). Though not officially released as a single in the United Kingdom or the United States, the song drew considerable radio airplay, prompting EMI to issue it as the title track of an EP. The song was released as a single in Canada, where it became a number one hit. The Canadian single was imported into the US in enough quantities to peak at number 45 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in April 1964.
Here are other songs by the Beatles that went top 40 just in 1964!
Can't Buy Me Love: #1
A Hard Day's Night: #1
I Feel Fine: #1
Do You Want to Know a Secret: #2
Twist and Shout: #2
Please Please Me: #3
She's a Woman: #4
And I Love Her: #12
Matchbox: #17
Ain't She Sweet: #19
I'll Cry Instead: #25
Slow Down: #25
Thank You Girl: #35
Therefore, not only do I think it should be disqualified, but I see absolutely no injustice here.
Second to last round, good timing 
That's a wild story actually.
The story behind "Torn" is another "technically no injustice". It didn't qualify. They didn't release it as a single on purpose (I believe to boost album sales, greedy bastards). It held #1 on the airplay chart for 11 weeks. The week it fell out of the top 40, they changed the rules and it suddenly qualified. No soup for you!
I guess for this madness it just has to be strictly by the chart, all "reasons why it didn't" be damned. Kinda like the controversy over at the "two hit wonder" madness.
That's a wild story actually.
The story behind "Torn" is another "technically no injustice". It didn't qualify. They didn't release it as a single on purpose (I believe to boost album sales, greedy bastards). It held #1 on the airplay chart for 11 weeks. The week it fell out of the top 40, they changed the rules and it suddenly qualified. No soup for you!
I guess for this madness it just has to be strictly by the chart, all "reasons why it didn't" be damned. Kinda like the controversy over at the "two hit wonder" madness.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbet is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.