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Post by davewollenberg on Sept 13, 2013 20:23:39 GMT -5
Robbie Dupree comes to mind. He had 'Steal away', and 'Hot rod hearts'. Didn't hit the top 40 again, after those 2 songs.
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Post by jcs72 on Sept 14, 2013 13:11:38 GMT -5
Between 72-76 WAR would have 6 top tenners, but would only graze the bottom of the top 40 once more. Wayne Allyn Root?
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 26, 2014 16:21:05 GMT -5
Duran2 was as hot as just about anybody in the 80s. They were drivers in a new direction for American music after the void left by the sudden death of disco. But after the decade ended & one last brief moment in the spotlight in 1993, they became persona non grata on the charts.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2014 16:36:38 GMT -5
No, I never saw that movie but I heard it was a waste of time and film. Much like Xanadu. At least Xanadu soundtrack had a few decent song on it. Mainly from ELO. Xanadu a bad movie? Not in my book. I still to this day consider it one of my all time favorite movies. Same here, count me in as liking/enjoying Xanadu, the feature film along with its RIAA Multi-Platinum Motion Picture Soundtrack and that was around 1980, 6 years before I became a big Electric Light Orchestra fan circa 1986!
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Post by mga707 on Feb 28, 2014 16:10:28 GMT -5
The Boy George Club was as hot as anybody in 82-84, a period that included sizzling acts like MJ and Hall and Oates. But Waking Up With The House On Fire didn't set the charts on fire and after one more top 40 with Move Away, Culture Club would quickly go away. George's personal and addiction problems, which caused Culture Club to disband, certainly did not help matters.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Feb 28, 2014 21:04:30 GMT -5
Basically what I mean is after a big hit, all of a sudden you never heard them again on the radio with new material. Taylor Dayne after heart of stone, Billy ocean after get out of my dreams, those are 2 that come to mind for me. What about "The Colour Of Love"? That was the follow-up to "Get Out Of My Dreams, Get Into My Car". I assume it still gets some type of recurrent airplay somewhere, no? Actually, "License To Chill" was Billy Ocean's last song to enter the top 40. It charted late in 1989, and as we entered the 1990s, he was labeled M.I.A. after that. And I agree with the Men At Work comment. By the time 1984 rolled around, Men at Work were a no-show on AT40, forever.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Mar 7, 2014 14:35:33 GMT -5
It seemed like the rules changed with Madonna. One of the first artists to feel the quake was Dan Fogelberg. He was a steady hitmaker 78-84 but once Like A Virgin shifted the MTV Revolution into overdrive, it seemed there was suddenly no place on radio or TV for a mid 30s average looking soft rock singer/songwriter.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Mar 8, 2014 6:46:42 GMT -5
Alot of unattractive people got screwed over by MTV: Christopher Cross, Robbie Dupree, Paul Davis, Dan Fogelberg, Air Supply, Matthew Wilder, etc.
Heck, if they hadn't broken up, I'd imagine that Steely Dan would've qualified in this category. Amazing musicians but FRIGHTENING to look at!
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Post by jlthorpe on Mar 9, 2014 10:31:17 GMT -5
Alot of unattractive people got screwed over by MTV: Christopher Cross, Robbie Dupree, Paul Davis, Dan Fogelberg, Air Supply, Matthew Wilder, etc. Heck, if they hadn't broken up, I'd imagine that Steely Dan would've qualified in this category. Amazing musicians but FRIGHTENING to look at! That, and the fact that most of those acts were soft rock and/or singer-songwriters. That would also explain why an act like Neil Diamond, who'd had Top 40 hits for over fifteen years, never hit the Top 40 after 1983, whereas rock musicians who were unattractive (such as Mick Jagger and Keith Richards) continued having hits.
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Post by bobbo428 on May 10, 2014 14:30:04 GMT -5
It seemed like the rules changed with Madonna. One of the first artists to feel the quake was Dan Fogelberg. He was a steady hitmaker 78-84 but once Like A Virgin shifted the MTV Revolution into overdrive, it seemed there was suddenly no place on radio or TV for a mid 30s average looking soft rock singer/songwriter. Beginning in 1983-84, many acts were relegated to adult contemporary radio (or suddenly stopped releasing singles), such as Barry Manilow, Anne Murray (though her chart fortunes were in decline after early 1980), Carole King, Rita Coolidge, John Denver, and Dr. Hook, as well as acts mentioned earlier in this thread. If it weren't for MTV, they probably would have had hits until 1989-91. Barbra Streisand's last top-40 solo hit was in 1983. She did make the top 40 (in 1988 with the youthful Don Johnson) and in 1996 (with Bryan Adams, who was much more top-40 friendly that decade). for me , the line of demarcation was in early 1983, when Neil Diamond had his last hit and Duran Duran had their first. I was almost 22 at the time, and that was about when I began to feel that pop radio was leaning toward a demographic younger than I was at the time. Pop radio was aimed at Generation X from 1983 until about 1997-98, when it began to focus on the Millennials (Boy bands, Britney, et al).
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Post by mga707 on May 10, 2014 14:47:11 GMT -5
for me , the line of demarcation was in early 1983, when Neil Diamond had his last hit and Duran Duran had their first. I was almost 22 at the time, and that was about when I began to feel that pop radio was leaning toward a demographic younger than I was at the time. Pop radio was aimed at Generation X from 1983 until about 1997-98, when it began to focus on the Millennials (Boy bands, Britney, et al). Once again, I think you've nailed it. I'm also a 'late Boomer', although a couple of years older than you (born 1958), and I felt the same. Although I still enjoyed pop radio right up until the late-90s period you mention. In fact, a large percentage of my all-time favorite songs are from the '90s, mid-'90s especially. But after that, I lost interest in what was charting, for the most part.
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Post by woolebull on May 10, 2014 14:56:13 GMT -5
Just reading over this thread, one that came to my mind was Paul Young and another was Corey Hart, who are both on this weeks 9/13/85 AT40 Chart I see this was written in September, and I can't believe that I'm going to bat for him, but after September 1985 Corey Hart had 6 top 40 hits and even hit in the 90's. Somehow, Corey Hart had nine Top 40 hits total. And that's not slighting Corey Hart. I just believe anyone outside of Corey Hart would have a hard time naming 5 of the 9 hits. Most people or groups that had almost 10 hits reach the Top 10 more than twice, I would think. To be fair, unless you were an avid Corey Hart fan or just really were in tune with what was going on the charts, you wouldn't think of him being anything important from a pop culture perspective after 1985, since only one of the six songs hit the Top 20. Hart definitely belongs in the ,"Hold up, he had how many hits" category.
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Post by bobbo428 on May 14, 2014 22:53:37 GMT -5
I never hear any song on the radio by him except the annoying "Sunglasses at Night." I enjoyed the thoughtful "Never Surrender" much more, though I almost never hear it on the radio despite its having been a bigger hit than the dumb "Sunglasses." Most of his other hits were bland and nondescript (about 5 or 5.5 on a ten-point scale), though I did like the 1988 song I heard on an AT40 rebroadcast a year or two ago.
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Post by woolebull on May 15, 2014 15:17:37 GMT -5
I never hear any song on the radio by him except the annoying "Sunglasses at Night." I enjoyed the thoughtful "Never Surrender" much more, though I almost never hear it on the radio despite its having been a bigger hit than the dumb "Sunglasses." Most of his other hits were bland and nondescript (about 5 or 5.5 on a ten-point scale), though I did like the 1988 song I heard on an AT40 rebroadcast a year or two ago. I never make negative comments about artists I do not like . Just because I do not like them does not mean that they are not good or have any value. And since I prefaced this with "I never" you know I am about to do the exact thing I just told you I would never do. I have never liked Corey Hart. I never didn't like Corey Hart, either. He was, as you said, that 5 or 5.5 on a ten-point scale kind of artist to me. I think that's why I remember all of his songs: I was always wondering when he would go away. HOWEVER: His song, "Boy In The Box" is one of my favorite songs of all time, hands down. I think it just does an amazing job of defining the 80's from a pop music standpoint. As you said about, "Never Surrender", I think of "Boy In The Box" as thoughtful: An esoteric song that transcended time and still illuminates its words into my soul. Nah, just kidding. Still "Box" was a really, really good song
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Post by marathon69 on May 17, 2014 20:02:46 GMT -5
Cyndi Lauper charted 9 times from early 1984-early 1987, and then just once more in 1989.
Air Supply had 8 huge hits from 1980 to 1983, and then just one more minor hit in 1985.
Chicago spent the entire 1970s and 1980s charting multiple hits per album in the Top 20, but when the 80s segued into the 90s, they essentially (and rather promptly) vanished.
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