Everything off of Slippery When Wet received copious amounts of airplay, but this one still does. The yooge comeback for Johnny Bongiovi is complete with this song ruling the roost. A lot of HL&tN is pretty formulaic stuff designed to sell styrene – and this is no different – but for some reason I just liked this one.Īnd, thirty years ago, it’s another week at number one for: Guilty pleasure alert: I also loved this song, and I have no possible explanation as to why. #2 – “ Jacob’s Ladder” – Huey Lewis & the News. It could also be my dislike for country-music-that-isn’t, which is what this is. I think it was the faux-hillbilly-lousy-yodel of Dan Baird at the beginning. (Maybe that should become its own post.) This would be one of them. There are few songs that I admit an intense dislike for. #3 – “Keep Your Hands To Yourself” – Georgia Satellites. Late 80s-Chicago is not my favorite era of the band, largely due to the excessive airplay we gave them at WJTW in the latter part of the decade. This would have been an edgier prom theme, now that I think of it. Whatever happened to these kids, anyway? Oh – they grew up, and their management moved on to other projects. I fear this was the prom theme for thousands of teenagers later that spring. Sappy, but the cartoon drew a lot of people in. #6 – “Somewhere Out There” – Linda Ronstadt. Sometimes this is allowed to happen (See also Johnson, Don, “Heartbeat”). The Return of Bruno LP, driven by the popularity of Moonlighting, pushed this onto the charts. “I hope no bad people show up!” The “yeah!” from this record made its way onto a sound effects cart in college, and punctuated perhaps every radio show that I did. One of the few double-parenthetical titles in rock and roll. #8 – “ (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)“ – Beastie Boys. This is where Peter starts to make his move with interesting MTV programming, pinnacled of course by “Sledgehammer.” OK – let’s liven this place up, shall we? Back to the countdown: Throw Journey’s “I’ll Be Alright Without You” at #14 and Bruce Hornsby‘s wonderful “Mandolin Rain” at #12 in there, and this chart takes on a much more solidly adult contemporary feel. #13 – “Love You Down” – Ready For the World #15 – “Let’s Wait Awhile” – Janet Jackson But the rest of this section of the chart has these selections in it: Positions 10-19 are really mellow and R&B heavy, now that I look at them, with a few exceptions: Cinderella appear at #16 with “Nobody’s Fool,” a foreshadowing of the hair band explosion that will occur later that year. Just randomly belt out “I want sur pry zez” loudly. It’s also fun, and with the right number of drinks anyone can sing along. Guilty pleasure alert: I still like this song. #20 – “ Brand New Lover” – Dead Or Alive. It’s still moving up the charts this week, representing the worst of the corporatized former Jefferson Airplane. Propped up no doubt from its inclusion in one of the worst films I ever let a date select – Mannequin. #21 – “ Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” – Starship. I think that was a couple of years later, but I can no longer separate the song from the ad. #27 – “Tonight Tonight Tonight” – Genesis. This got a LOT of airplay on MTV, along with follow-up hit “Better Be Home Soon.” It got even more airplay when I got to New Zealand, their home. #34 – “ Don’t Dream It’s Over” – Crowded House. I think it might have had to do with not really yet finding my place in the world. For as much as 1980s Foreigner didn’t do a lot for me, this song just sort of resonated. This just cracks into the Top 40 this week. Highlights at the bottom of the Top 40, so to speak: This is still a fun song to play loudly on occasion. I already wrote about this one the night I went through the box of 45s from the 80s (in two parts here and here). (The video for “ Goodbye To You” hit when I was in high school, and I have never forgotten it.) This should have been a bigger hit, despite my best efforts to get it airplay the following fall in college. In much the same way I had a thing for Carol Decker of T’Pau, the same thing applies for the former lead singer of Scandal. I got to the party on these guys late, as I tended to do with all things popular culture in the 1980s. My younger brother had this tape, and played it enough for the both of us. Regan as chief of staff and replaces him with former Senator Howard Baker The treaty is later ratified, and we still get “The Final Countdown” (on the charts this week.)Īlso in the news, President Reagan removes Donald T. In the news, Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev proposed a treaty that would eliminate both Soviet and US nuclear weapons from Europe. More people were going to see Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon. New in theaters this week: a quirky film by two guys named the Coen Brothers called Raising Arizona.
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