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Post by caseyfan100 on Apr 7, 2012 10:35:33 GMT -5
Before My Heart Finds out runs about 2:35 total and is only two verses plus the chorus.
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Post by Hervard on Apr 7, 2012 10:48:47 GMT -5
Yeah, so the edited song probably ran for about a minute and 20 seconds. It just seemed less than a minute, since it's such a great song.
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Post by mrjukebox on Apr 7, 2012 14:17:29 GMT -5
Hi,Hervard,the two other Bob Welch songs that made the top 40 were "Hot Love,Cold World" (1978) & "Precious Love" (1979).
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 7, 2012 14:25:52 GMT -5
He'll get a chance to hear one of those songs in 3 weeks and also another song he does not apparently know..."Roller". (Said in last week's critique that he only knows that week's song by April Wine).
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Post by mkarns on Apr 7, 2012 14:57:28 GMT -5
He'll get a chance to hear one of those songs in 3 weeks and also another song he does not apparently know..."Roller". (Said in last week's critique that he only knows that week's song by April Wine). And if we get anything from April 29 to May 27, 1972, then there's April Wine's "You Could Have Been a Lady." (Interesting how all three of AW's top 40 hits were on the charts in April of their respective years.)
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Post by Hervard on Apr 7, 2012 21:17:52 GMT -5
American Top 40: The 80s - April 7, 2012
This week’s presentation: April 7, 1984
Hey, my prediction was correct! As well as the prediction I made about 1981 and 1984 being played back-to-back. Well, there was a pretty good-sized gap between 1984 shows, so songs heard on the last 1984 show will be few and far between. I still hope they get on a show from May, 1984, at which point we’ll have heard at least one show from each month during Casey Kasem’s AT40 run in the 1980s. I’m thinking that they might do that, and then back off of that year until August, since they’ve done almost every show during the June-July period (in fact, all possible July shows have been played within the past two years). August 18 or 25 are two shows that haven’t been done yet, but they could always go with a repeat. Well, we’ll have to see what happens. Meanwhile, here is my commentary for this week’s show, which was run by American Top 40 Flashback ten years ago this very weekend.
Droppers: NOBODY TOLD ME - JOHN LENNON (33) - Good song, but I preferred his Double Fantasy singles, two of which we heard on last week’s show. LET’S STAY TOGETHER - TINA TURNER (31) - Great song! I like this even better than the original by Al Green (if only because I’m not a huge Al Green fan). NEW SONG - HOWARD JONES (27) - Great song! One of his best. Shame that it fell off. NEW MOON ON MONDAY - DURAN DURAN (18) - Wow, shades of 1982 here. This was a great song, and such a shame that it fell off - and that we totally missed it this year.
LW#1: FOOTLOOSE – KENNY LOGGINS 40: THE LONGEST TIME – BILLY JOEL (debut) - Great song! One of my favorite songs from An Innocent Man. 39: NO MORE WORDS – BERLIN (debut) - Meh, not a big fan of this one. 38: SHOW ME – THE PRETENDERS (debut) - 37: ONE IN A MILLION – THE ROMANTICS (40) - Great song! The only of their singles that doesn’t still receive recurrent airplay (though I do hear it very occasionally on Backtrax USA). 36: BACK WHERE YOU BELONG - .38 SPECIAL (20) - Great song, though I preferred three of their songs over this. But this one would likely be a close fourth. 35: HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO – BONNIE TYLER (debut) - This was OK, but nothing special. Possibly my least favorite song from the Footloose soundtrack. 34: RED RED WINE – UB40 (34) - This song was pretty good, but it sure got overplayed when it was re-issued in the late summer of 1988. 33: THE KID’S AMERICAN – MATTHEW WILDER (37) - Good song, but I preferred “Break My Stride”. 32: A FINE FINE DAY – TONY CAREY (38) - Great song! One of my favorite songs from 1984! 31: TO ALL THE GIRLS I’VE LOVED BEFORE – JULIO IGLESIAS & WILLIE NELSON (40) - Great song! I guess you could call this one a guilty pleasure. OPTIONAL EXTRA: RELAX - FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD - No. Just no. 30: RUNNER – MANFRED MANN’S EARTH BAND (23) - Great song! I felt this song was totally underrated. 29: THE AUTHORITY SONG – JOHN COUGAR MELLANCAMP (35) - Great song! Still, I prefer a few others by him. 28: LEAVE IT - YES (32) - I’m generally not a huge fan of them, but this one is actually a good one! 27: HEAD OVER HEELS – THE GO-GO’S (36) - Good song - much better than “We Got The Beat”, though not quite as good as “Our Lips Are Sealed”, as well as a few of Belinda Carlisle’s solo hits. 26: GIVE IT UP – KC (22) - Good song, even better than a lot of his songs with the Sunshine Band (especially his whinefest that is “Please Don’t Go”). 25: DON’T ANSWER ME – ALAN PARSONS PROJECT (29) - Pretty good song, but I prefer their earlier 80s hits, as well as their next release, “Prime Time” (which sounds much like “Eye In The Sky”). 24: TONIGHT – KOOL & THE GANG (30) - Good song, though I prefer many others by them. 23: THRILLER - MICHAEL JACKSON (15) - Great song! The album version is better than this one (with the eerie spoken word part by Vincent Price near the end). However, AT40 never played that version. 22: COME BACK AND STAY – PAUL YOUNG (24) - This was OK, but one of my least favorite songs by him. 21: THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE – DAN FOGELBERG (17) - Great song! Sort of a departure from his usual ballad style, as this one was somewhat upbeat. LDD: JUST THE WAY YOU ARE – BILLY JOEL - Wow, seems like I just heard this song a few hours ago. Oh, that’s right, I listened to AT40: The 70s earlier. Only this time, they played the album version of the song! Anyway, this is a great song, and quite a funny LDD - the woman loves him even though he embarrasses her in public. OPTIONAL EXTRA: BORDERLINE - MADONNA - Great song! Definitely one of her best! 20: LOVE SOMEBODY – RICK SPRINGFIELD (26) - Great song! The beginning of this song reminds me a little of Bob Seger’s “Rock And Roll Never Forgets” (from his 1976 Night Moves album). 19: YOU MIGHT THINK – THE CARS (28) - Good song, though I prefer several others by them (such as their next hit, “Magic”). 18: GOT A HOLD ON ME – CHRISTINE McVIE (16) - Great song! Sounded a lot like her songs with Fleetwood Mac on which she sang lead. 17: GIRLS – DWIGHT TWILLEY (21) - Great song! Interesting story about he and Phil Seymour being so poor that they lived in a house with no heat and had nothing but crackers and pop to eat. We heard a song from Dwight’s roomie on last week’s 1981 show. 16: RADIO GA-GA - QUEEN (19) - The title says it all. At least they faded it out a little early. 15: THEY DON’T KNOW – TRACEY ULLMAN (25) - Great song! Too bad it was her only hit. EXTRA: START ME UP – THE ROLLING STONES - This song was quite overplayed, so it’s far from being one of my favorites from them. But that was an interesting story about the telephone in the figure of their trademark logo. 14: 99 LUFTBALLOONS - NENA (11) - Great song! They played the full German version of the song this week (as they sort of alternately played this, the German/English hybrid version, and I think at least twice, they played the full English version, which is generally what I heard on radio stations as part of their regular programming. 13: EAT IT – WEIRD AL YANKOVIC (14) - Great song! Funny parody of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”. 12: I WANT A NEW DRUG – HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS - And here’s a song that “Weird Al” would go on to parody as “I Want A New Duck”. This song was OK, but I preferred many of his other Top 40 hits, including two of the three previous ones that Casey mentioned. 11: HOLD ME NOW – THOMPSON TWINS (12) - Great song! My favorite song from them! OPTIONAL EXTRA: OH SHERRIE - STEVE PERRY - Great song! I generally preferred him with Journey, but his solo hits were also pretty good. 10: HELLO – LIONEL RICHIE (13) - Great song! One of his all-time best - much better than his crapfest that spent a month at #1 the previous fall. (Disclaimer: Yes, I realize most of you like that song and really - more power to you. It just doesn’t tickle my fancy). 9: GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN – CYNDI LAUPER (5) - Great song! One of my favorite songs from her! 8: ADULT EDUCATION – DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES (9) - Good song. This one sure doesn’t get a lot of recurrent airplay. 7: MISS ME BLIND – CULTURE CLUB (10) - Great song! Casey mentioned that the Culture Club had hit the Top Ten with all six of their releases. However, this song would, in fact, be their last Top Ten hit. 6: AUTOMATIC – THE POINTER SISTERS (8) - This song was OK, but I generally didn’t like their post-1982 singles. LDD: FAME – IRENE CARA - Good song, but far from being her best. I preferred her other big movie hit. 5: JUMP – VAN HALEN (3) - Meh, this was OK, but sounded more like a sporting event intro than a song. Definitely one of the most overrated songs of the 1980s. 4: HERE COMES THE RAIN AGAIN - EURYTHMICS (4) - Good song, though I preferred other songs by them, my favorite being, of course, “There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart). 3: AGAINST ALL ODDS (TAKE A LOOK AT ME NOW) – PHIL COLLINS (7) - Great song! One of his best. The aforementioned Van Halen song just barely beat this one out for the top song of 1984, according to R&R. 2: SOMEBODY’S WATCHING ME - ROCKWELL (2) - Good song. I have a feeling that the fact that Michael Jackson sang backup on this one was largely instrumental in how well this song did. 1: FOOTLOOSE – KENNY LOGGINS (1) - Good song, but I preferred his other Footloose single. Hopefully, we’ll hear that one sometime this summer (although that might be a longshot, especially if my predictions about summer, 1984 shows I made earlier holds true).
Predictions for next week: It’s been awhile since we’ve heard a show from 1982, so I’ll make April 17, 1982 my prediction for next week. My back-up prediction is April 11, 1987, although I hope we hear the April 18 show either next week or the week after, since I missed a great deal of that one in its original run.
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Post by dukelightning on Apr 7, 2012 21:32:24 GMT -5
Hervard....Let's Stay Together was done originally by Al Green and even though I go the other way than you normally and prefer the original versions of songs because I am more familiar with said songs, I also prefer this version although by a slim margin.
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Post by mrjukebox on Apr 7, 2012 22:48:46 GMT -5
Weird Al Yankovic's parody of "I Want A New Drug" was called "I Want A New Duck"-It appeared on his 1985 album "Dare To Be Stupid".
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Post by doomsdaymachine on Apr 7, 2012 23:43:52 GMT -5
Weird Al Yankovic's parody of "I Want A New Drug" was called "I Want A New Duck"-It appeared on his 1985 album "Dare To Be Stupid". And it's hilarious!
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Apr 8, 2012 6:33:04 GMT -5
23: THRILLER - MICHAEL JACKSON (15) - Great song! The album version is better than this one (with the eerie spoken word part by Vincent Price near the end). However, AT40 never played that version. I'm sure AT40 played the Vincent Price version once.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Apr 8, 2012 11:29:12 GMT -5
As someone mentioned in another thread, Charlie Van Dyke played the album version of Thriller on 3-10-84.
I enjoy all of Al's parodies, thats why I did that Weird Al countdown last year, That one made it! (Of course it would, the chart was calculated on the original songs performances!
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Apr 8, 2012 11:30:39 GMT -5
Anything Tina does is tainted for me. Ike made her and she was quite the pregnant dog about him, even when he died. I look at both sides and think her movie and book were amped up to make him look like more of a jerkoff. Withou him, Rock N roll would be different since it was HIS 45 that was the first rock record!
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Post by doomsdaymachine on Apr 9, 2012 1:24:53 GMT -5
Anything Tina does is tainted for me. Ike made her and she was quite the pregnant dog about him, even when he died. I look at both sides and think her movie and book were amped up to make him look like more of a jerkoff. Withou him, Rock N roll would be different since it was HIS 45 that was the first rock record! Veteran rock journalist Dave Marsh had this to say regarding Tina's claims about Ike: "Anybody who's looked into his eyes knows that it's mostly true." I paraphrased, but that was the gist of Marsh's comment.
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Post by Hervard on Apr 9, 2012 8:49:36 GMT -5
Weird Al Yankovic's parody of "I Want A New Drug" was called "I Want A New Duck"-It appeared on his 1985 album "Dare To Be Stupid". Wups. I posted this critique on several different message boards, forgetting to post it here before deleting it from my WordPerfect, so I copied and pasted it from one of the boards, which still changes the word "Dick" to thingy.
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Post by doomsdaymachine on Apr 10, 2012 1:46:46 GMT -5
I'm getting a jump on the weekend and offering my chart critique of the upcoming 4/10/71 countdown:
#40 – POWER TO THE PEOPLE, John Lennon. A great record that's even more anthemic than “Imagine” (as mighty as that one is).
#39 – CHICK-A-BOOM, Daddy Dewdrop. A dumb novelty record for which I profess my undying affection.
#38 – FRIENDS, Elton John. I have a love/hate relationship with Elton John in that I like a lot of his uptempo stuff but usually find his ballads dreary. This ballad is no exception.
#37 – FREE, Chicago. Not one of their more remembered hits, but I've always liked it.
EXTRA: MERCEDES BENZ, Janis Joplin. I consider Joplin the most overrated singer of my lifetime, but that's mainly because of her third-rate R&B covers. When she stuck to material like this, Joplin was actually pretty good!
#36 – AMOS MOSES, Jerry Reed. I've long had a soft spot for Jerry Reed's music and consider this one of his best-written songs.
#35 – BABY, LET ME KISS YOU, King Floyd. Or as I call it, “Groove Me – Part 2.” As shameless a sound-alike follow-up as I've ever heard.
#34 – ONE BAD APPLE, The Osmonds. I know I should hate this record, but I just can't bring myself to do so. Compared to the later solo stuff by Donny and Marie (not to mention their duets), “One Bad Apple” is actually pretty good!
#33 – WHERE DID THEY GO, LORD, Elvis Presley. A depressing reminder of how the King's drug addiction had affected his choice of material and his ability to sing it properly.
#32 – DREAM BABY (HOW LONG MUST I DREAM), Glen Campbell. Am I imagining things, or does he actually sing, “Dreams, baby?” Whatever the case, it's a definite step down from the Roy Oribson original.
#31 – CRIED LIKE A BABY, Bobby Sherman. No sooner did his TV series go off the air then his chart carer ended, too. If that's not proof of a loving God, I'd like to know what is.
#30 – I PLAY AND SING, Dawn (Tony Orlando). A forgotten hit, and deservedly so.
EXTRA: MY WAY, Frank Sinatra. I'm not a fan of Middle of the Road music, but I do like a fair amount of Sinatra's catalog. And this was among his best, IMHO.
#29 – SOUL POWER, James Brown. Now you're speaking my language! “Hit me!!!”
#28 – IF, Bread. “If a picture paints a thousand words, why can't I paint you?” Who the hell wrote this song, Goldfinger? In any case, it's a great cure for insomnia.
#27 – HEAVY MAKES YOU HAPPY, The Staple Singers. An awesome slab of Memphis soul, even if the lyrics make no bloody sense at all.
#26 – YOU'RE ALL I NEED TO GET BY, Aretha Franklin. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell's original is definitive, but leave it to the Queen of Soul to firmly stamp her imprint on this Motown chestnut. Nice job, Aretha!
#25 – STAY AWHILE, The Bells. OK, I'll admit it: I like this record.
#24 – WE CAN WORK IT OUT, Stevie Wonder. Paul McCartney once called this one of his favorite Beatle covers. And it's not hard to see why. Stevie made this already-classic number thoroughly his own!
#23 – BLUE MONEY, Van Morrison. Not one of his very best, but still darned good.
EXTRA: JUST A DREAM, Jimmy Clanton. Of all the '50s rock 'n' roll hits they could have played, why did they go with something this nasally and annoying? Even Clanton's own “Go Jimmy Go” was better than this f***ing thing!
#22 – EIGHTEEN, Alice Cooper. Played to death on Classic Rock radio, but I still enjoy hearing it once in a while.
#21 – LOVE'S LINES, ANGLES AND RHYMES, The 5th Dimension. Marilyn McCoo & Company acquitted themselves quite nicely on this long-fogotten hit. No idea why the writers chose a title so hard to pronounce, though.
#20 – TEMPTATION EYES, The Grass Roots. Nothing spectacular, but I like it pretty well.
#19 – I AM...I SAID, Neil Diamond. A great example of “soft rock” as oxymoron.
EXTRA: HONKY TONK, Bill Doggett. One of the best instrumentals ever recorded! Do yourself a favor and play both parts back to back.
#18 – OYE COMO VA, Santana. An awesome version of the Tito Puente chestnut (played to death on oldies radio though it is).
#17 – NO LOVE AT ALL, B.J. Thomas. I'm not a huge fan of Thomas, but this one ain't bad. (I won't tell you what I once thought the “B.J.” stood for.)
#16 – PUT YOUR HAND IN THE HAND, Ocean. I have soft spot for this one because my late mother loved it. Hearing it always brings back fond memories of the dear woman.
#15 – NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE, The Jackson Five. I'm not a huge fan of this song by the Jackson Five or Isaac Hayes, but I love Gloria Gaynor's disco remake. Incidentally, this was a Top 40 debut!
#14 – WHAT IS LIFE, George Harrison. A good rocker that I've always liked better than the overrated “My Sweet Lord.”
#13 – LOVE STORY (WHERE DO I BEGIN), Andy Williams. If this guy ever made a good record, I've yet to hear it. (“Can't Get Used To Losing You” was his best, but was still nothing to write home about.)
#12 – HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT, Sammi Smith. An erotic, steamy crossover from the country charts. But did it really deserve its #1 ranking in the book, Heartaches by the Number: Country Music's 500 Greatest Singles?
#11 – WILD WORLD, Cat Stevens. Another played-to-death oldie that I still find listenable from time to time.
#10 – ONE TOKE OVER THE LINE, Brewer & Shipley. What's not to like? (I'm thinking of making that my Chart Critiques catchphrase, a la Hervard's, “Great song!”)
#9 – PROUD MARY, Ike & Tina Turner. Tina, you truly outdid yourself! Tres magnifique.
#8 – ANOTHER DAY, Paul McCartney. I'll never understand how he went from being one-half of the greatest songwriting team in rock history to a purveyor of some of the most brain-dead crap I've ever heard. It's not hard to make the leap from “Another Day” to his all-time worst, “Ebony and Ivory.”
#7 – DOESN'T SOMEBODY WANT TO BE WANTED, The Partridge Family. Bleah!!!
#6 – ME AND BOBBY McGEE, Janis Joplin. At the risk of repeating myself: played to death, but I still like it.
#5 – FOR ALL WE KNOW, The Carpenters. If more soft rock were this good, I'd consider liking the genre. But that's nothing I'll need to worry about in the foreseeable future.
EXTRA: (YOU'RE MY) SOUL AND INSPIRATION, The Righteous Brothers. Their second #1 hit and the second-best record these blue-eyed soul brothers ever made. (“You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'” was clearly their crowning achievement.)
#4 – SHE'S A LADY, Tom Jones. Like all Tom Jones records, it's overwrought as hell. And that's just what I love about it!
#3 – JOY TO THE WORLD, Three Dog Night. A thoroughly enjoyable song that deserved to be their biggest hit. (It did, however, cause me a great deal of embarrassment during my kindergarten class' Christmas sing-along. But that's another story.)
#2 – WHAT'S GOING ON, Marvin Gaye. Not only the best song in this week's countdown, but my favorite record of the entire decade. '70s music just didn't get better than this!
#1 – JUST MY IMAGINATION, The Temptations. Dreamy, soulful as hell, and utterly sublime. Play this one after “I Can't Get Next To You” and “Ain't Too Proud To Beg,” and you'll have trouble believing they're all by the same group.
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