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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 12, 2024 18:44:14 GMT -5
Debuting on the June 14, 1986 Album Rock Tracks chart at #43, "Red Rain" by Peter Gabriel joined his "Sledgehammer" (dropping from #1 to #2 that week) on the chart, and itself eventually peaked at #3.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 16, 2024 12:18:39 GMT -5
From the film Pet Sematary comes the title song by the Ramones; on the June 17, 1989 Modern Rock Tracks chart, it was holding at its peak of #4.
Runners-up: Edelweiss - "Bring Me Edelweiss" Bob Mould - "See a Little Light" Pixies - "Monkey Gone to Heaven"
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Post by dth1971 on Jun 17, 2024 6:27:23 GMT -5
For the recent death of R&B singer Angela Bofill, here's her 1988 cover of Gino Vanelli's 1978 song "I Just Wanna Stop" - a lost 1980's classic by Angela: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-t4Nn4teeo
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Post by dth1971 on Jun 17, 2024 6:29:17 GMT -5
From the film Pet Sematary comes the title song by the Ramones; on the June 17, 1989 Modern Rock Tracks chart, it was holding at its peak of #4. Runners-up: Edelweiss - "Bring Me Edelweiss" Bob Mould - "See a Little Light" Pixies - "Monkey Gone to Heaven" "Pet Semetary" by the Ramones should have made Billboard's Hot 100, although it sometimes gets played on some rock radio stations around the Halloween season,and even is played in rotation on iHeart's Halloween Radio channel.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 19, 2024 17:56:28 GMT -5
From Mötley Crüe's Shout at the Devil album, "Too Young to Fall in Love" spent only two weeks on the Hot 100 (June 16 and 23, 1984), both at #90.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jun 22, 2024 9:40:57 GMT -5
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 22, 2024 10:07:17 GMT -5
Coincidentally, I saw this album (also titled Headed for the Future) at a thrift store on Wednesday (along with Kim Carnes' Mistaken Identity and Amy Grant's Unguarded).
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Post by dth1971 on Jun 22, 2024 14:48:17 GMT -5
Coincidentally, I saw this album (also titled Headed for the Future) at a thrift store on Wednesday (along with Kim Carnes' Mistaken Identity and Amy Grant's Unguarded). The not reaching the AT40 reaches song by Neil Diamond called "Headed to the Future" could be a sequel to Neil's 1981 song "America".
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 23, 2024 17:28:28 GMT -5
Back-to-back on the Hot Black Singles chart for June 27, 1987 are two hip-hop songs:
First, at its peak of #65 was "A Touch of Jazz", an instrumental track from DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince's first album Rock the House.
Then at #66 was "I Know You Got Soul" by Eric B. and Rakim, which would climb two more notches to peak at #64. The first thirty seconds of the song contain lyrics later sampled in Top 40 hits by Aaliyah and M/A/R/R/S.
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Post by dth1971 on Jun 23, 2024 17:51:01 GMT -5
Here's 2 lost 1980's classics in honor of Garfield, a comic strip cat, who turned 36 years old on June 19, 2024 and has a recent 2024 animated movie. Both are by Lou Rawls and come from the "Here Comes Garfield" TV special soundtrack album from 1982: "Here Comes Garfield": www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVPES7kXqD0"Long About Midnight": www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UP3oAU61p0
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 26, 2024 18:26:31 GMT -5
It climbed from #79 to #78 on the Hot 100 for June 25, 1983, but "Drop the Pilot" dropped the ball and didn't fly higher than that position, becoming the only Hot 100 hit for British singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 30, 2024 16:47:16 GMT -5
In its third week on the Album Rock Tracks chart this week in 1986, Big Country climbed from #21 to #12 with their track "Look Away", which eventually peaked at #5.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jul 3, 2024 18:09:39 GMT -5
In June I posted "One Step Beyond" by Madness, and today I'm posting the similarly titled "One Step Ahead" by Crowded House precursor Split Enz; the song was at its peak of #104 on the July 4, 1981 Bubbling Under chart.
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Post by LC on Jul 3, 2024 20:33:50 GMT -5
In its third week on the Album Rock Tracks chart this week in 1986, Big Country climbed from #21 to #12 with their track "Look Away", which eventually peaked at #5. My favorite band of the 80s. Much bigger in the UK--15 top 40 hits and five top 10 albums. Interestingly, Look Away charted on Cashbox 100, peaking at #82.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jul 7, 2024 9:49:18 GMT -5
Three years before they hit the Top 10 with "Two Occasions", and before members L.A. Reid and Babyface became successful in their own right, The Deele "bubbled under" with "Material Thangz". On the chart from July 6, 1985, their song was at #104, having peaked at #101 three weeks earlier.
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