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Post by Mike on Sept 13, 2021 0:27:50 GMT -5
I can think of one, and it's on target to be featured later this year if they stay on track. The song is Downtown Life by Hall & Oates. There may be others. Yes's "Rhythm of Love", from that February.
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Post by mjl677 on Sept 16, 2021 11:43:36 GMT -5
Also of note, the 90s countdown this week is from 1990, the first such in over three months. It was interesting to hear Kyper’s “Tic Tac Toe” in this show. That song was banned by some radio stations back in the day. They would actually skip over this song when they had the countdown on. For good reason. There’s very questionable lyrics and almost seems to promote sexual assault and rape. Like the lyric when he says “yeah Judy put up quite a fight…”. I guess people just didn’t care about the lyrics back then. They liked the song primarily for the uptempo beat and riff from Yes’s “Owner of a Lonely Heart” from 1984.
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Post by mkarns on Sept 17, 2021 22:55:16 GMT -5
Next week: September 24, 1983.
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Post by laura on Sept 17, 2021 23:00:29 GMT -5
Two airings of 9/24/1983, two weddings for me.
Also this week's 1980 chart marked one of the few times during the AT40 era at least where there was only one debut, Elton's "Sartorial Eloquence".
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Post by Mike on Sept 18, 2021 3:12:43 GMT -5
Depending on their prerogative, if they felt like bringing back either year early, we could get at least one of the other two such times (10/7/89, 10/19/85) next month. (Early means even one would be a surprise, both would be like stars aligning.)
Oddly enough, the only such time either of those have aired to date is in 2015 - and back to back at that.
Back in the present day, we should be primed to get 1987 to kick off October, and then 1981 can immediately follow.
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Post by jgve1952 on Sept 18, 2021 5:24:51 GMT -5
1983 will be the first year in 2021 played for a fifth time! 1981, 1984, and 1987 have only been played three times, while 1980, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1988 and 1989 have been played four times.
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Post by Mike on Sept 18, 2021 5:40:06 GMT -5
1987 and 1981 - in that order - would be due to come back for the first two weeks of October, but it'd be better if they swapped the order for 1984 and 1989 after those. Not just because that'd extend the new chart streak to 4 weeks straight, but because if 1984 followed 1981, that'd mean 10/13 yet again, which would put it alongside 2/20/88 as the only two weeks to have gone five times.
As it happens, this order would generate an unthinkable streak of 8, and 9 out of 10: 1987, 1981, 1989, 1984, 1982, 1985, 1988, 1986, 1980, 1983. Yes, that's the exact same rotation order starting at late July, just with 84 and 89 swapped. My point: It'd really, really not be that difficult to do. (1980 would be the only repeat, but nothing from late November has been done since 2014.)
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Post by jgve1952 on Sept 18, 2021 5:50:21 GMT -5
7 years without a repeat would be phenomenal. Mike, you really put some extraordinary thought into this--very impressive.
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Post by Michael1973 on Sept 18, 2021 21:28:15 GMT -5
For only the second time in ten years, we'll be making it through September without a 1987 show. Hopefully, Mike's suggestion above pans out. Nobody wants to hear 10/13/84 again.
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Post by jgve1952 on Sept 23, 2021 8:25:21 GMT -5
If this order prevails--1987, 1981 and 1984 (10-1, 10-8 and 10-15), all years would be played 4 times with the exception of 1983 which has 5 plays. That would leave 10 weeks in 2021:(10-22 thru 12-24): 89, 82, 85, 88, 86, 80, 83 (6th time), 87, 81, 84.
January is always tricky to do different years but not the same songs we heard in December.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Sept 24, 2021 22:59:35 GMT -5
Next week's not AT40...1987
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Post by laura on Sept 24, 2021 23:04:07 GMT -5
10/3/87 will of course be brand new and hopefully that means 1981 will be next.
Let's just hope they play the correct version of "Mony Mony". Though that more than likely won't happen.
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Post by jgve1952 on Sept 26, 2021 15:33:26 GMT -5
10/3/87 will of course be brand new and hopefully that means 1981 will be next. Let's just hope they play the correct version of "Mony Mony". Though that more than likely won't happen. If 1981 is on 10-8-21, 1984 may be on 10-15-21, and that would utilize the chart of 10-13-84, which was played last year on 10-9-20. It might be better if 1981 and 1984 were reversed, but we shall see.......
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Post by Mike on Sept 26, 2021 16:12:25 GMT -5
If 1981 is on 10-8-21, 1984 may be on 10-15-21, and that would utilize the chart of 10-13-84, which was played last year on 10-9-20. It might be better if 1981 and 1984 were reversed, but we shall see....... 1989 would be the better swap, as that would generate two new charts from 10/14/89 and 10/20/84. Conversely, 10/6/84 is not much better than getting 10/13 - those two charts have taken up each of the past four years between them, with two airings apiece. 10/17/81 is also a chart that's been done before.
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Post by jgve1952 on Sept 26, 2021 16:18:05 GMT -5
It is going to be more difficult to avoid repeat charts as next month the Big 40 Countdown will be 12 years old. Several of us give thought to this as to avoid repetition, but how do we communicate this to the honchos who decide what year is played?
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