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Post by doomsdaymachine on Jan 7, 2013 23:36:37 GMT -5
Prince's "U Got The Look" easily ranks as my favorite song of 1987!
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Post by matt on Jan 8, 2013 0:01:05 GMT -5
My #1 song of 1987 would have to be "Hot Hot Hot" by Buster Poindexter. But seriously...Prince had two killer cuts with "Sign O the Times" and "U Got the Look". Also love "I Just Died In Your Arms". Not a #1, but "Lessons In Love" was mentioned earlier...and I also love Bruce Hornsby's "Every Little Kiss". In addition to "C'est La Vie", I am a fan of Robbie Nevil's other two hits "Dominoes", and "Wot's It To Ya". A couple mentions of INXS--one of my favorites of theirs that didn't reach to top 40: "Good Times", a song they recorded with Jimmy Barnes on the soundtrack to The Lost Boys.
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Post by donwa001 on Jan 8, 2013 0:27:28 GMT -5
Narrowed it down to 2 songs:
"Somewhere Out There" - Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram (really enjoy playing this song on the piano)
"Right On Track" - Breakfast Club (after all these years, still not tired of playing this song on my stereo. I own the 12" single which gives me 7 extended versions of the song)
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Post by torcan on Jan 8, 2013 17:42:01 GMT -5
My favorites:
No. 1 - "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" (Starship) No. 2 - "Somewhere Out There" (Linda & James) No. 3 - "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" (Whitney Houston)
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Post by doomsdaymachine on Jan 8, 2013 19:00:45 GMT -5
A few years ago, I determined my 300 favorite songs of the '80s. These were the 1987 songs that made my list (ranked in order of preference):
30. U GOT THE LOOK, Prince with Sheena Easton 57. I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR, U2 78. BRAND NEW LOVER, Dead Or Alive 98. SHAKE YOU DOWN, Gregory Abbott 119. BRILLIANT DISGUISE, Bruce Springsteen 162. DON'T DISTURB THIS GROOVE, The System 196. LUKA, Suzanne Vega 218. SOMETHING SO STRONG, Crowded House 220. THOSE MEMORIES OF YOU, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris 227. CRITICIZE, Alexander O'Neal 253. SILENT MORNING, Noel 254. LA ISLA BONITA, Madonna 263. DON'T GIVE UP, Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush 274. DON'T DREAM IT'S OVER, Crowded House 275. PUMP UP THE VOLUME, M/A/R/R/S (Peaked in early '88) 296. BREAKOUT, Swing Out Sister
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Post by woolebull on Jan 8, 2013 19:35:41 GMT -5
A few years ago, I determined my 300 favorite songs of the '80s. These were the 1987 songs that made my list (ranked in order of preference): 30. U GOT THE LOOK, Prince with Sheena Easton 57. I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR, U2 78. BRAND NEW LOVER, Dead Or Alive 98. SHAKE YOU DOWN, Gregory Abbott 119. BRILLIANT DISGUISE, Bruce Springsteen 162. DON'T DISTURB THIS GROOVE, The System 196. LUKA, Suzanne Vega 218. SOMETHING SO STRONG, Crowded House 220. THOSE MEMORIES OF YOU, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris 227. CRITICIZE, Alexander O'Neal 253. SILENT MORNING, Noel 254. LA ISLA BONITA, Madonna 263. DON'T GIVE UP, Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush 274. DON'T DREAM IT'S OVER, Crowded House 275. PUMP UP THE VOLUME, M/A/R/R/S (Peaked in early '88) 296. BREAKOUT, Swing Out Sister I love this not just because you have SOS on it, you have Noel...people need to appreciate one of the forefathers of freestyle! (Before anyone asks...not rap).
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Post by woolebull on Jan 8, 2013 19:42:07 GMT -5
I'll take it another way, songs that now I think are great songs that I didn't appreciate as much as I should have 25 years ago:
Brand New Lover - Dead or Alive You Got It All - The Jets Stay The Night - Benjamin Orr Serious - Donna Allen I'd Still Say Yes - Klymaxx Happy - Surface Lost In Emotion - Lisa Lisa, Cult Jam Lies - Jonathan Butler Motortown - Kane Gang Honestly - Stryper I Don't Mind At All - Bourgeois Tagg
In the case of Kane Gange, Bourgeois Tagg, and Klymaxx, those are three songs that I really liked then that I truly love 25 years later.
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Post by pointpark04 on Jan 8, 2013 20:26:46 GMT -5
Well, woolebull, if I had to pick songs that I liked then and thought were under-appreciated, I'd point to many of the ones on your list.
Brand New Lover, Stay the Night, I'd Still Say Yes, Motortown, Happy, Lies, I Don't Mind at All - those are all fantastic songs that just didn't break through as I thought they should have.
I'd snowball on top of them the following:
Living in a Box - Living in a Box Give to Live - Sammy Hagar Love Power - Dionne/Jeffrey I Wanna Go Back - Eddie Money Seven Wonders - Fleetwood Mac The Honeythief - Hipsway Ship of Fools - World Party Skin Trade - Duran Duran Don't Leave Me This Way - The Communards
Man, I could go on. I think 1987 is more memorable for the songs that DIDN'T make the Billboard Top 100 of the year than for the ones that did.
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Post by woolebull on Jan 8, 2013 20:31:06 GMT -5
Love Power, Box, and The Communards definitely up there now for me as well...I think you're right pointpark...lot of great songs that were at the bottom of the 40, or just missed it, from '87.
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Post by shadster on Jan 8, 2013 22:05:47 GMT -5
my year end chart of 87 can b found here: lionking.org/~shadow/arc/87.htmmy #1 was whitanake here i go again. with #2 being lean on me by club noveau. now whitsnake went on tobe my number one of the decade also. it spent 11 weeks at number one. amd it took 11 yrs for that record to b broken. 1998, iris by the goo goo dolls spent i think it was 23 weeks at number one. that record hasnt been broken an of coursd iris went on to be my number one of the 90s.
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Post by doomsdaymachine on Jan 8, 2013 22:31:38 GMT -5
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Post by doomsdaymachine on Jan 8, 2013 22:33:02 GMT -5
my year end chart of 87 can b found here: lionking.org/~shadow/arc/87.htmmy #1 was whitanake here i go again. with #2 being lean on me by club noveau. now whitsnake went on tobe my number one of the decade also. it spent 11 weeks at number one. amd it took 11 yrs for that record to b broken. 1998, iris by the goo goo dolls spent i think it was 23 weeks at number one. that record hasnt been broken an of coursd iris went on to be my number one of the 90s. 87. Billy Idol, "Money Money"It's "Mony Mony," without the E's.
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Post by woolebull on Jan 9, 2013 1:36:13 GMT -5
This is a true masterpiece...I absolutely love how eclectic your list is. When your top 30 of the decade includes Prince, Afrika Bambatta, Cyndi Lauper, Neneh Cherry, and Was (Not Was) you somehow have been able to define 80's music in a way that most people can't even begin to understand. I wasn't going to be surprised to see, "O Superman" by Laurie Anderson at like your number 42. My respect for an amazing list.
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Post by doomsdaymachine on Jan 9, 2013 6:56:58 GMT -5
This is a true masterpiece...I absolutely love how eclectic your list is. When your top 30 of the decade includes Prince, Afrika Bambatta, Cyndi Lauper, Neneh Cherry, and Was (Not Was) you somehow have been able to define 80's music in a way that most people can't even begin to understand. I wasn't going to be surprised to see, "O Superman" by Laurie Anderson at like your number 42. My respect for an amazing list. "O Superman" is great, but I've heard it too many times. I can attribute that to the many years I was involved with a college radio station! Anyway, thanks for your kind words about my '80s list. I had a lot fun putting it together - and I have even more fun listening to the iPod playlist that resulted from it!
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Jan 9, 2013 18:17:10 GMT -5
My picks for my top ten songs of 1987:
1. We Connect - Stacey Q 2. Skin Trade - Duran Duran 3. Fascinated - Company B 4. Pleasure Principle - Janet Jackson 5. Don't Look Down (The Sequel) - Go West 6. Cross My Broken Heart - The Jets 7. Living In A Box - Living In A Box 8. Talk To Me - Chico De Barge 9. Tonight Tonight Tonight - Genesis 10. Point of No Return - Expose
Honorable mention:
Let's Work - Mick Jagger Don't Need a Gun - Billy Idol Sweet Sixteen - Billy Idol Why You Treat Me So Bad - Club Nouveau
Yes, a lot of the songs on my top ten, especially #1, are forgotten tracks that are super rarely played nowadays. I don't know of any radio station that even played "We Connect" since it was on AT40. The video was awful, but the song is good otherwise.
EDIT: And now I am hearing "In Too Deep" by Genesis on Second Life right now as of this edit!
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