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Post by dth1971 on Feb 14, 2024 22:43:59 GMT -5
Today is both Valentine's Day and (for Catholics) Ash Wednesday, and I have two songs from the February 15, 1986 Billboard that are appropriate for those occasions. Before Celine Dion and Laura Branigan had Top 40 hits with "The Power of Love", the song's co-writer Jennifer Rush reached #57 on the Hot 100 with her version. This week in 1986, it climbed from #91 to #84 in its second week on the chart. And it's not religious ashes, but the volcanic ashes which buried Pompeii, that Siouxsie and the Banshees are singing about in "Cities in Dust"; on the Hot Dance/Disco Club Play chart, it was holding at its #17 peak. A year earlier in 1985, Air Supply did their own version of "The Power of Love" the same time Jennifer Rush recorded her own version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=me_BhryXKZ8
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Post by jlthorpe on Feb 18, 2024 12:01:17 GMT -5
There were quite a few runners-up in the punk and new wave genres on the Disco Top 100 chart for February 21, 1981, but today's choice comes from David Bowie. Listed on the chart at #96 were two songs of his from the album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) - "Fashion" (posted here in 2021) and "Ashes to Ashes" (the sequel to Bowie's hit "Space Oddity") - which reached a combined peak of #21. "Ashes to Ashes" also peaked at #101 on the Bubbling Under chart the previous October.
As a bonus, here's the title track from Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps):
Finally, the runners-up from the Disco Top 100 chart:
Adam and the Ants - "Antmusic" The Clash - "The Magnificent Seven" Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - "Enola Gay" Talking Heads - "Crosseyed and Painless"
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Post by dth1971 on Feb 18, 2024 13:50:57 GMT -5
There were quite a few runners-up in the punk and new wave genres on the Disco Top 100 chart for February 21, 1981, but today's choice comes from David Bowie. Listed on the chart at #96 were two songs of his from the album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) - "Fashion" (posted here in 2021) and "Ashes to Ashes" (the sequel to Bowie's hit "Space Oddity") - which reached a combined peak of #21. "Ashes to Ashes" also peaked at #101 on the Bubbling Under chart the previous October. As a bonus, here's the title track from Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps): Finally, the runners-up from the Disco Top 100 chart: Adam and the Ants - "Antmusic" The Clash - "The Magnificent Seven" Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - "Enola Gay" Talking Heads - "Crosseyed and Painless" 1 line in David Bowie's "Ashes to Ashes" song reminded me of a mid 1980's SPAM TV commercial with a line in it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPiMAEyY2hI
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Post by trekkielo on Feb 18, 2024 15:40:27 GMT -5
There were quite a few runners-up in the punk and new wave genres on the Disco Top 100 chart for February 21, 1981, but today's choice comes from David Bowie. Listed on the chart at #96 were two songs of his from the album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) - "Fashion" (posted here in 2021) and "Ashes to Ashes" (the sequel to Bowie's hit "Space Oddity") - which reached a combined peak of #21. "Ashes to Ashes" also peaked at #101 on the Bubbling Under chart the previous October. When David Bowie released his "Ashes to Ashes" music video it was considered as the most innovative to date at that time. But Electric Light Orchestra were largely regarded to have surpassed that with their music video for "Hold on Tight". At the time it was the most expensive ever made at around £40,000 - Source: UK Midlands Central TV News, August, 1981, thanks Ade!
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Post by jlthorpe on Feb 21, 2024 19:15:26 GMT -5
Down to #34 on the Hot Dance/Disco - Club Play chart from February 21, 1987, "Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland" by The B-52's was just at its peak of #10 two weeks before.
Runners-up today would have been tracks from the Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill, at #2 on the Top Pop Albums chart that same week.
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Post by jlthorpe on Feb 25, 2024 17:31:19 GMT -5
At #1 for the seventh week (of fifteen) on Billboard's Top LPs and Tape chart (A.K.A. The Billboard 200) for this week in 1980 was The Wall by Pink Floyd, and here are three (or four) famous tracks from that album: The medley of "Empty Spaces" and "Young Lust", "Hey You", and "Comfortably Numb".
Runners-up for today were album cuts from other acts in the Top 5 of the chart - Rush ("Freewill", from Permanent Waves) and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ("Even the Losers", from D a m n the Torpedoes).
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Post by lasvegaskid on Feb 25, 2024 21:06:42 GMT -5
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Post by dukelightning on Feb 25, 2024 21:27:00 GMT -5
Not a bad six pack but I prefer "Haven't You Heard" by Patrice Rushen by a lot. "What I Like About You" by the Romantics is another good one.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Feb 25, 2024 22:16:23 GMT -5
Not a bad six pack but I prefer "Haven't You Heard" by Patrice Rushen by a lot. "What I Like About You" by the Romantics is another good one. Patrice is nice.... wouldn't consider Romantics 'lost' as it is still way overplayed today.
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Post by jlthorpe on Feb 28, 2024 19:46:42 GMT -5
Two songs debuting on the March 5, 1983 Hot 100 came very close to hitting the Top 40. At #73 was the first pop hit for Psychedelic Furs; "Love My Way" eventually reached #44. Then at #75 was country musician John Anderson with "Swingin'", a #1 country hit which only got to #43 on the pop chart.
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Post by mga707 on Feb 28, 2024 20:32:42 GMT -5
Two songs debuting on the March 5, 1983 Hot 100 came very close to hitting the Top 40. At #73 was the first pop hit for Psychedelic Furs; "Love My Way" eventually reached #44. Then at #75 was country musician John Anderson with "Swingin'", a #1 country hit which only got to #43 on the pop chart. Two 'polar opposite' songs that I like.
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Post by jlthorpe on Mar 3, 2024 11:26:41 GMT -5
No less than five songs from Genesis' self-titled 1983 album were on the March 3, 1984 Top (Rock) Tracks chart. In addition to previously posted songs "Illegal Alien" at #30 and "Taking It All Too Hard" at #41, there was "Home by the Sea" at #35 (peaked at #24), "Just a Job to Do" at #39 (#10 peak), and "It's Gonna Get Better" at #45 (#16 peak). Also, the official video for "Home by the Sea" is a medley with the album's follow-up track "Second Home by the Sea".
Today's runner-up from the Top Tracks chart was "Balls to the Wall" by Accept.
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Post by dth1971 on Mar 3, 2024 20:40:46 GMT -5
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Post by jlthorpe on Mar 6, 2024 19:37:05 GMT -5
"This Is Radio Clash" by The Clash climbed up to its peak of #17 on the March 6, 1982 Disco Top 80 chart. Also on the chart was the immediate runner-up for today: Pete Shelley - "Homosapien".
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Post by jlthorpe on Mar 10, 2024 11:03:36 GMT -5
In its second week (of seven) at #1, on the March 14, 1987 Top Pop Albums chart, Licensed to Ill by Beastie Boys only produced two chart songs on the Hot 100 - "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)" (a Top 10 hit) and "Brass Monkey" (posted here in 2016). Here are three tracks from the album that did not hit the Hot 100 (or Billboard's rock, dance*, or R&B charts) - "No Sleep till Brooklyn", "Girls", and "She's Crafty".
* All tracks from the album were listed under the album title on the dance chart.
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