KROQ top 50 1982

balls put it better than i did, cosign.

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ha is any song cooler or more badass than never say never? i didn't vote for it though.

isn't it nice
luring disco dollies to a life of vice

really not a lot of "stand and deliver" love it seems. don't have any feeling for whether Adam Ant was as celebrated a figure elsewhere in the US as he was in SoCal/at my high school for about two years - MTV hadn't come to southern California - the networks successfully blocked cable for a long time iirc so everybody in the country had MTV and we had daily shows on local TV like MV3, and even that came pretty late, but it was a daily thing at one point and everybody I knew watched: Adam videos were your reward for sitting through the JoBoxers. Adam was huge with the theater crew, Prince Charming was considered the end of something by most people I know, it just didn't seem as good, title track aside - but anyhow during that two-year?? period from Dirk and "Car Trouble" through the S&D 12" & video, Adam was a major player among the people I hung out with, his records were scrutinized and quoted and talked-over, and "Stand and Deliver" was the final salvo from that era

Voted for Roxy, because not only is the song gorgeous, but Avalon is clearly an influence on so much of my subsequent musical history. But "Promised You A. Miracle" was a close second - I still attest it's the most unlikely Simple Minds single, and their best by furlongs.

Well I've narrowed this down to 16 choices...

1. the clash - rock the casbah
2. a flock of seagulls - i ran (so far away)
5. the human league - don't you want me
8. the go-go's - vacation
15. toni basil - mickey
17. adam & the ants - stand and deliver
23. xtc - senses working overtime
27. duran duran - hungry like the wolf
31. the clash - should i stay or should i go?
33. a flock of seagulls - space age love song
34. duran duran - girls on film
37. thomas dolby - europa and the pirate twins
38. soft cell - tainted love
40. missing persons - destination unknown
41. the cure - primary
43. the pretenders - back on the chain gang

This year was probably the height of my radio-listening and chart-obsessing and staying up late because NYC stations came in clearer at night, and these songs are so deep in the psyche of 11 year old me I can't even begin to choose. If it were Planet Earth instead of Girls On Film or One Of Our Submarines instead of Europa (though I love Europa so much I'm tempted to vote for it on principle, because no one else will) it'd be slightly easier, but... argh. Daddy or chips.

I voted for "Primary" because I think it's underrated

eh i already voted for europa on principle, so you're free there. i was thinking of hungry like the wolf is probly the song that had the biggest overall impact at the time given its mtv presence.

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KROQ top 50 1983

In the end, I didn't vote, but it's not like one solitary vote for Girls On Film or Hungry Like The Wolf would have made a difference. :-/