this was really close until i read the last option
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 16 July 2021 21:05 (two years ago) link
all other songs cower before the majesty of "love come down"
otm
― bart harley-jarvis cocker (voodoo chili), Friday, 16 July 2021 21:51 (two years ago) link
Equivalent UK chart for same week. Beatles I understand, 20th anniversary, but not sure why The Animals are back.
1 Culture Club Do You Really Want To Hurt Me2 Kid Creole & The Coconuts Annie I'm Not Your Daddy3 Kids From 'Fame' Starmaker4 Eddy Grant I Don't Wanna Dance5 Tears For Fears Mad World6 Beatles Love Me Do7 Spandau Ballet Lifeline8 Musical Youth Pass The Dutchie9 Barry Manilow I Wanna Do It With You10 Chicago Hard To Say I'm Sorry11 Dionne Warwick Heartbreaker12 Fat Larry's Band Zoom13 Kool & The Gang Ooh La La La (Let's Go Dancin')14 Shakin' Stevens I'll Be Satisfied15 Ultravox Reap The Wild Wind16 Bauhaus Ziggy Stardust17 Melba Moore Love's Comin' At Ya18 Animals House Of The Rising Sun19 Pinkees Danger Games20 Status Quo Caroline (Live At The NEC)21 Pretenders Back On The Chain Gang22 Kevin Rowland & Dexy's Midnight Runners Jackie Wilson Said
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 16 July 2021 22:11 (two years ago) link
the first two cassettes i ever bought are featured on this billboard list
― mookieproof, Friday, 16 July 2021 22:13 (two years ago) link
ALLTHE WAYDOWN
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 July 2021 22:38 (two years ago) link
The Kool & the Gang and Michael Martin Murphey are forgotten by time.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 July 2021 22:39 (two years ago) link
Throwing Abracadabra a vote because it's the most weirdly horny Steve Miller song
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 16 July 2021 22:46 (two years ago) link
I do like this Kool & the Gang second-gear tune.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Friday, 16 July 2021 22:47 (two years ago) link
Champagne all the way
― brimstead, Friday, 16 July 2021 23:35 (two years ago) link
yeah, kinda no point listing the top 21
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Friday, 16 July 2021 23:37 (two years ago) link
gypsy
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 17 July 2021 00:28 (two years ago) link
Didn't read past "Eye in the Sky"
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Saturday, 17 July 2021 00:37 (two years ago) link
Cool Evelyn Champagne King poll.
― peace, man, Saturday, 17 July 2021 00:39 (two years ago) link
weirdly, Evelyn’s “Love Come Down” didn’t chart in the Netherlands, but the song went top 5 the next year in a reggae version by Barry Biggs (whose splendid "Wide Awake in a Dream" I only discovered last week):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcc8utVwkfo
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Saturday, 17 July 2021 08:43 (two years ago) link
It was Laura Branigan until I saw Evelyn King.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 17 July 2021 08:47 (two years ago) link
also, there’s no “Love Come Down” without Kashif, who wrote it. please feast yourself to “I Just Gotta Have You (Lover Turn Me On)", his first hit as a solo artist, a year after LCD. best rewrite ever!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSOUNeiTkiE
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Saturday, 17 July 2021 08:48 (two years ago) link
weirdly, Evelyn’s “Love Come Down” didn’t chart in the Netherlands
It peaked at 44 in Canada, apparently. I don't think I know it.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Saturday, 17 July 2021 11:56 (two years ago) link
I discovered “I Just Gotta Have You (Lover Turn Me On)" when Kashif died. Wonderful.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 17 July 2021 13:13 (two years ago) link
I'm familiar with 16 of these; Fleetwood Mac is the only one I actually love. As requested:
TOP 5GypsyYou Can Do MagicHold On Eye in the SkyHeart Attack
BOTTOM 5Hard To Say I'm SorryUp Where We BelongThe One You LoveHeartlightEye of the Tiger
"Hold On" was a big hit in Canada due to being an Ian Thomas cover (thus eligible for Canadian content airplay). America's follow-up to "You Can Do Magic", "Right Before Your Eyes", was also an Ian Thomas cover.I think I prefer “I Just Gotta Have You" to this Evelyn King song.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 17 July 2021 13:23 (two years ago) link
my fav song from that kashif album is "help yourself to my love"
― dyl, Saturday, 17 July 2021 16:04 (two years ago) link
oooh that one is very good. 80s me would have died and gone to heaven had he heard it
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Saturday, 17 July 2021 16:25 (two years ago) link
i guess since we're talking about kashif here is my favorite non-"love come down" kashif jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSDHpYW_eFo
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Saturday, 17 July 2021 16:29 (two years ago) link
oh yes - that’s George Benson • Inside Love (So Personal)keep ‘em coming (down)!
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Saturday, 17 July 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
...or maybe here? Kashif tributesc+p’d the current convo there
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Saturday, 17 July 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link
How I ranked the #22 songs in this period.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 17 July 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
clear winner from that list: Stephanie Mills – What’cha Gonna Do with My Lovin’ - but that’s 1979
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Saturday, 17 July 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
Top Eight:Michael McDonald - I Keep Forgettin'Laura Branigan - GloriaEvelyn King - Love Come DownThe Steve Miller Band - AbracadabraFlock of Seagulls - I Ran So Far AwaySurvivor - Eye of the TigerKool & The Gang - Big FunJohn Cougar Mellencamp - Jack and DianeFleetwood Mac - Gypsy
Bottom Five:The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the SkyJoe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes - Up Where We BelongOlivia Newton-John - Heart AttackJuice Newton - Break It To Me GentlyNeil Diamond - Heartlight
First Time Listens:Santana - Hold OnMichael Martin Murphey - What's Forever ForGlen Frey - The One You Love
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 17 July 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
thread needs more I Keep Forgettin' love
agree
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Saturday, 17 July 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
Bottom Five:Olivia Newton-John - Heart Attack
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Saturday, 17 July 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
Sorry? not a fan.
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 17 July 2021 18:15 (two years ago) link
I'm with Sunder, I was obsessed with "Eye In The Sky" when it came out. Still dig it mightily.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 17 July 2021 20:44 (two years ago) link
I was thinking I might vote Eye in the Sky, I Keep Forgettin', or Love Come Down, but I thought about it some more, and this is definitely "I Ran"
― eisimpleir (crüt), Saturday, 17 July 2021 22:03 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 22 July 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
Was this purposely pushed to 22 because forks knew it would win?
― billstevejim, Saturday, 24 July 2021 23:07 (two years ago) link
22 is the new 77
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 25 July 2021 00:58 (two years ago) link