|
Post by kchkwong on Sept 21, 2014 23:05:46 GMT -5
Predictions for the optional extras:
Walk Like An Egyptian - Bangles The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby & The Range (Forever) Live And Die - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Amanda - Boston
|
|
|
Post by briguy52748 on Sept 22, 2014 8:33:48 GMT -5
Extra predictions for Sept. 27, 1986:
• "25 or 6 to 4" – Chicago. Yes, this early Chicago hit, from 1970, was back on the Hot 100 for a second run apparently, and this time peaked at No. 48 (where it was this particular week). Anybody know why it was back on the Hot 100 and had newfound popularity? Speaking of which … • "The Next Time I Fall" – Amy Grant and Peter Cetera. I'll make it two in a row from the ex-Chicago frontman. • "I Am By Your Side" – Corey Hart. Should put to rest any notion he was a two-hit wonder; this song was in its second week on the Hot 100 and was on its way to No. 18. • "Jumpin' Jack Flash" – Aretha Franklin. The Queen of Soul covers the Bad Boys of Rock and Roll, gets up to No. 21.
Brian
P.S.: And yes, I still am thinking of "You're Still New to Me" by Marie Osmond and Paul Davis.
|
|
|
Post by pb on Sept 22, 2014 8:51:30 GMT -5
Chicago did a new version of "25 or 6 to 4" for the first post-Cetera album Chicago 18.
|
|
|
Post by 80sat40fan on Sept 22, 2014 9:18:02 GMT -5
Chicago did a new version of "25 or 6 to 4" for the first post-Cetera album Chicago 18. As a huge fan of Chicago, I was very much looking forward to their first post-Peter Cetera release. I was so disappointed in this song! It has nowhere near the same feel as the original song. I was also upset that a group like Chicago thought they could only get a hit by re-recording a classic. But... Right after Chicago came out with their new version of "25 or 6 to 4", the Police released a new version of "Don't Stand So Close To Me" from their greatest hits album - Every Breath You Take - The Singles. DSSCTM '86 was almost as bad as Chicago's new 25 of 6 to 4 song. The Police peaked at #46 so neither new version experienced airtime on AT40.
|
|
|
Post by matt on Sept 22, 2014 10:24:36 GMT -5
Chicago did a new version of "25 or 6 to 4" for the first post-Cetera album Chicago 18. As a huge fan of Chicago, I was very much looking forward to their first post-Peter Cetera release. I was so disappointed in this song! It has nowhere near the same feel as the original song. I was also upset that a group like Chicago thought they could only get a hit by re-recording a classic. But... Right after Chicago came out with their new version of "25 or 6 to 4", the Police released a new version of "Don't Stand So Close To Me" from their greatest hits album - Every Breath You Take - The Singles. DSSCTM '86 was almost as bad as Chicago's new 25 of 6 to 4 song. The Police peaked at #46 so neither new version experienced airtime on AT40. I thought that Police's remake of "Don't Stand" was at least interesting since it was more of a ballad style version that song, and it came from the band with it's original line up in tact. Chicago should have hung it up when Cetera left (or what they really should have done was allow Peter to do solo work and still remain in the band as he had requested). They became flat out unlistenable without him, and his solo stuff paled in comparison to the majority of Chicago's hits with him. The remake of "25 or 6 to 4" seems like a desperate attempt the remaining members of Chicago made to try to maintain a connection with their fan base in the wake of Cetera's departure.
|
|
|
Post by Dale Latimer on Sept 22, 2014 10:49:37 GMT -5
^I'm ambivalent on the "Don't Stand" remake. The video, which is on the 'toob, has a lit-tle too much movement for my needs (true, it's not Wang Chung, but... it is Godley/Creme); and Stewart trading in the traditional drums for the synth'ed kind (the quibble over Sting's suggestion of a different machine vs Copeland's original one led to their breakup) makes the song not too much different from Sting's solo material, but not uninteresting IMO.
|
|
|
Post by cpokilroy on Sept 22, 2014 13:03:05 GMT -5
Predictions for optional extras:
"You Can Call Me Al" - Paul Simon "Word Up" - Cameo "Wild Wild Life" - Talking Heads "Walk Like An Egyptian" - Bangles
|
|
|
Post by brianmichaels on Sept 22, 2014 16:15:03 GMT -5
As a huge fan of Chicago, I was very much looking forward to their first post-Peter Cetera release. I was so disappointed in this song! It has nowhere near the same feel as the original song. I was also upset that a group like Chicago thought they could only get a hit by re-recording a classic. But... Right after Chicago came out with their new version of "25 or 6 to 4", the Police released a new version of "Don't Stand So Close To Me" from their greatest hits album - Every Breath You Take - The Singles. DSSCTM '86 was almost as bad as Chicago's new 25 of 6 to 4 song. The Police peaked at #46 so neither new version experienced airtime on AT40. I thought that Police's remake of "Don't Stand" was at least interesting since it was more of a ballad style version that song, and it came from the band with it's original line up in tact. Chicago should have hung it up when Cetera left (or what they really should have done was allow Peter to do solo work and still remain in the band as he had requested). They became flat out unlistenable without him, and his solo stuff paled in comparison to the majority of Chicago's hits with him. The remake of "25 or 6 to 4" seems like a desperate attempt the remaining members of Chicago made to try to maintain a connection with their fan base in the wake of Cetera's departure. Like the post Cetera line-up or not, didn't Chicago have it's most commercially successful single in 1989 with 'Look Away'? Not that commercial success has anything to do with critical success! I personally liked both incarnations, no matter to me.
|
|
|
Post by matt on Sept 22, 2014 16:47:00 GMT -5
Yeah I know--they did have a number of hit singles post-Cetera, and "Look Away" was the biggest. I personally just didn't care for the sound without his vocals. Their music seemed like such banal, uninteresting, formulaic AC music to me during that time. "Look Away" always seemed like one of the more head-scratching #1 songs of they year to me...
|
|
|
Post by mrjukebox on Sept 22, 2014 20:01:23 GMT -5
Optional Extra Predictions for 9/27/86: 1)."Walk Like An Egyptian"-The Bangles 2)."Word Up"-Cameo 3)."Jumping Jack Flash"-Aretha Franklin 4)."You Can Call Me Al"-Paul Simon
|
|
|
Post by mrjukebox on Sept 22, 2014 20:03:12 GMT -5
If "You Can Call Me Al" is played as an optional extra,Larry Morgan will probably state that the song missed the top forty the first time around.
|
|
|
Post by Dale Latimer on Sept 23, 2014 11:31:34 GMT -5
Is it just me, or did Premiere pull the same thing with the '84 show cue sheet they did before, i.e. misplace the Prince song in the second segment of the hour, when in fact it ended the first? dL
|
|
|
Post by matt on Sept 23, 2014 12:01:55 GMT -5
If "You Can Call Me Al" is played as an optional extra,Larry Morgan will probably state that the song missed the top forty the first time around. That would be a good intro to that song if they do play it. I wouldn't mind a quick tidbit from Larry as to why Paul Simon decided to re-release it six months or so later...
|
|
|
Post by Jessica on Sept 23, 2014 15:10:44 GMT -5
I thought that Police's remake of "Don't Stand" was at least interesting since it was more of a ballad style version that song, and it came from the band with it's original line up in tact. Chicago should have hung it up when Cetera left (or what they really should have done was allow Peter to do solo work and still remain in the band as he had requested). They became flat out unlistenable without him, and his solo stuff paled in comparison to the majority of Chicago's hits with him. The remake of "25 or 6 to 4" seems like a desperate attempt the remaining members of Chicago made to try to maintain a connection with their fan base in the wake of Cetera's departure. Like the post Cetera line-up or not, didn't Chicago have it's most commercially successful single in 1989 with 'Look Away'? Not that commercial success has anything to do with critical success! I personally liked both incarnations, no matter to me. Will You Still Love Me is a good song IMO. Chicago has been though more lead singers than Van Halen and like VH was better with David Lee Roth, Chicago was better with Cetera, but that's just my opinion. I can't wait until the 86 show, I love hearing songs I haven't heard in years. Two Of Hearts,Friends and Lovers,Press etc...
|
|
|
Post by mkarns on Sept 23, 2014 16:12:31 GMT -5
Like the post Cetera line-up or not, didn't Chicago have it's most commercially successful single in 1989 with 'Look Away'? Not that commercial success has anything to do with critical success! I personally liked both incarnations, no matter to me. Will You Still Love Me is a good song IMO. Chicago has been though more lead singers than Van Halen and like VH was better with David Lee Roth, Chicago was better with Cetera, but that's just my opinion. I can't wait until the 86 show, I love hearing songs I haven't heard in years. Two Of Hearts,Friends and Lovers,Press etc... If you check in to Rick Dees' site weekly then you can hear those and many other 1986 songs that you haven't heard in a long time, given how often he replays countdowns from that year (not this week, though.)
|
|