US #1s of 1988

Baby I Love Your Way/ Freebird Melody is a great record. Kind of a Miami synth light pop sound, male and female vocals. I went with TTD though.

It was hard to go against Guns, but I must have heard that song so many times, most recently during a football game last weekend.

going inxs on this

Surprised by the "Wishing Well" love, when clearly "Sign Your Name" is superior.

Every George Michael single here is GOLD, especially "Monkey" (in its Jam-Lewis remix version) and "One More Try." "Love Bites" is the best of the power ballads listed.

Went with "Michael."

*er, "Monkey."

"Sign Your Name" is a good point, I forgot about that one.

Also, god help me, but I like Cheap Trick's "The Flame" a little.

wowo way u make me feel v sweet child o mine

heavy

I like "Together Forever" better of the two Rick Astley tunes.

ditto

Wishing Well
just ahead of Father Figure and INXS

y'all know that it's really gonna be "sweet child 'o mine" that's gonna win this thing, right?!?

Cheap Trick can mostly go suck ass, but I have a good friend who adores them, so go figure.
I love the Dream Police but otherwise it is the SUXXORS.

Anyway what about Sade? What was she doing in 1988? Reverend? She could be the peacemaker here, right?

Sweet Child o' Mine can suck ONE GREAT BIG DICK in 1988. I will sic Mark E. Smith on your ass. Don't even go there.

John D.??? Talk some sense into these naive dudes. Please.

I like Sade's "Paradise," but it didn't even hit the Top Ten.

I know, dude, and to be honest, I feel like some unknown force wanted me to vote for UB40 "Red, Red Wine" but I just couldn't do it. I really felt some pressure in my mind to vote for that one. But the truth is I didn't enjoy UB40 last time I saw them live and I met a Rastafarian reggae dude recently who adores the Smiths and he was at least willing to sympathize as to my reasons why I didn't enjoy UB40 live.

Brian Eno sounds so nice in my ears right now, though. God he sounds so good in my ears.

I'd have gone with "Sign Your Name" had it hit #1.

But please tell me I won't be the only "Man in the Mirror" vote.

Bimble if you think you can get John D to join in your hatred of Cheap Trick you are sadly mistaken. Also your hatred of Cheap Trick is sadly mistaken. I'm being nice but I mean it.

I voted "Wishing Well" before reading anything else here. No other song was playing for me in my last semester of lol college.

This list explains why I feel absolutely no nostalgia for 1988, even though those were my salad days.

I'll take Will to Power, no contest.

I prefer Will To Power's 10cc cover, and their original material ("Fading Away," "Dreamin'"), all of which was played ad nauseum on Miami radio (weren't they from Miami? Don't know).

defend the indefensible: "kokomo" by the beach boys

Will to Power were Miamians. Vocals: Bob Rosenberg & Maria Mendez.

thinking about "wishing well" if only for the awesome video

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/2299/rickrollastleyux0.jpg

so many classic jams on this thing, though nostalgia (this was the year I first started paying concerted attention to pop) means I even love shit like "Kokomo" and "Look Away."

I WILL BE UR FATHER FIGURE PUT UR TINY HAND IN MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tempted to vote never gonna give u up but father figure is the jam of JAMS imo

that pie chart is inaccurate

cant embed so just copy pasta this

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im a true blue full blown balls to the wall devil may care metal head and yet i must state with great emphasis that is a great tune

I think I might vote INXS. Probly the best tune off easily their best rekkid.

"New Sensation" > "Never Tear Us Apart" > "Need You Tonight" > "Devil Inside" > "Mystify"

No.

http://content-resources.sympatico.ca/content/channels/speedzone/images/music/20070418/all/GeorgeMichael-FatherFigure.jpghttp://content-resources.sympatico.ca/content/channels/speedzone/images/music/20070418/all/GeorgeMichael-FatherFigure.jpghttp://content-resources.sympatico.ca/content/channels/speedzone/images/music/20070418/all/GeorgeMichael-FatherFigure.jpg

inxs then ub40

Anyway, this is so "Wishing Well" it ain't funny.

― ::cannon:: (The Reverend), Saturday, January 3, 2009 3:51 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

See, INXS had way better records than Kick in Listen Like Thieves and The Swing. New Sensation is not even their best song, Don't Change is.

Can anyone give me a you tube video of Cheap Trick with the white suits on in 1979 doing "Dream Police". I'm kindof traumatized trying to find this.

See someone repped for INXS, though! It's like DOOOOD "Need You Tonight" is not EVEN going to BEGIN to explain the wonderful INXS songs to be had. I'm serious. They had better records didn't they, redmond? Let's join the club, man. They had so much better fucking records.

i've been SBing everyone who indicates they will vote for anything besides Father Figure

No doubt, anyone bothering to investigate further will discover the wonderful joys of Shine Like It Does and the Nile Rodgers remix of The Original Sin.

80's Babies, I love you but you have to hear this:

I'll look for the Nile Rodgers version, thanks redmond.

This is where I point out Will to Power is Miami DJ Bob Rosenberg, who did edits on the first 2 Live Crew album, and this 1985 gem:

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f185/PappaWheelie/R-362721-1196608845.jpg

There is no link, motherfucker.

That song and video seem totally contemporary in 2009.

I am going to get really upset in a minute if someone doesn't help me.

Pappa I'm going to harass you.

"Wishing Well" is such a terrible fucking overrated song. I'm voting for "Wild Wild West" because it's so bad it's good. "Gimme gimme wild west. Gimme gimme safe sex"!!

i hate you

a common lament

Pappa I gave you a phone call and you better answer, motherfucker. What the fuck is that record and why don't I have it? OH, I hate you.

SONGS THAT ARE WORSE THAN "DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY":

Wishing Well
FUCKING RED FUCXKING RED WINE FUCKING MOTHERFUCKER
every George Michael song on this list
Love Bites (one of the forst songs I ever remember hating!)
Kokomo

SONGS THAT ARE BETTER THAN MAYBE THE SECOND OR THIRD BEST SONG ON KICK:

Wild Wild West
GOMYDGIMC
Sweet Child O' Mine
Groovy Kind of Love

And "Seasons Change"

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Voted for "Need You Tonight" because a) to me it's the best of INXS -- the kind of easy-going menace presented here never surfaced in the more straightforward "New Sensation" or the oddly peppy given its title "Devil Inside" and b) I associated it with beginning to listen to good old WHFS 99.1 in Wash, DC and breaking out of the classic rock cocoon I'd lived in up to that point -- hearing it in my car and suddenly GETTING THE POINT that rock music could do something more than lie around being classic. Of course it then became a huge hit and was on the regular radio stations too, but I stuck with HFS.

Strongly considered "Wishing Well" and GnR here too. Can't hear the Billy Ocean as anything but a joke and considered voting for "Wild Wild West" before I realized I was thinking of "Don't Look Down" by Go West.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

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fuckin' ILM and its goddamn rickrolling obsession.

who was the bright boy who gave "Where Do Broken Hearts Go?" one vote.

Hah, I am also curious about the "Kokomo" fan.

ARUBA JAMAICA OOOOH I WANNA TAKE YA

J0hn D., amirite?

Haha I probably would've voted for "Never Gonna Give You Up" if I hadn't voted GNR. But what a not-very-good winner.

George Harrison, "Got My Mind Set on You" - 0 votes. This makes me sad. I feel like this was in a lot of peoples' top 5 choices, and yet..

Eh, "Need You Tonight" probably would be my #2 after TTD. It's kind of a boring, telling pick, but I have no problem with it.

for a minute I thought it was Kool Moe Dee "Wild Wild West" which was one of my fave songs at the time

Tiffany, "Could've Been"
Expose, "Seasons Change"
Debbie Gibson, "Foolish Beat"

^^^ LOL, middle school dance

Aside from the rickroll, I agree with the top 3, in order, an ILXPoll first for me.

But see, the Rick Astley song is genuinely better than most of these tracks.

missed this poll, but 88 was a great year innit

(would have voted for inxs)

poison (but I've never heard the will to power)

bump

J0hn D., amirite?

no, mine was "Man in the Mirror"

I stand corrected.

Weird results. I like "Seasons Change" a lot more than the INXS at the top, which sounded corny & forced even in '88.

Oh, I just missed this one. WOuld've voted for Terence Trent D'Arby who not only performed "Wishing Well" on SNL (2/13/88) but came back and did "Under My Thumb" as well!

http://image.listen.com/img/150x100/1/2/3/6/506321_150x100.jpg

lol eleven years later I correct this chart.

I cannot believe those two songs beat "Sweet Child o' Mine".

Apparently, it surprised me 10 years ago too.

I was thinking the other day that the "Sweet Child o' Mine" intro is a really good string-skipping exercise, then learned that Slash originally came up with it as a string-skipping exercise.

fyi, Keith Sweat’s “I Want Her” is Great to Awesome

Rick Astley would win this poll in a landslide with younger generations.

lol eleven years later I correct this chart.

Wonderful wonderful year for balladry (as encapsulated in my prior poll: Greatest Billboard Top 40(-ish) Ballad (1988 edition)).

Chicago's "Look Away" video might be peak half-assed-plot-and-scenes-from-a-movie-I-don't-recognize indulgence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uKLTtVqQpE

Also peak DX7 preset.

But where does "Need You Tonight" rank? ("So Emotional" is also missing, but I know where that one goes in your book.)
― dorsalstop, Monday, March 11, 2019

on the '87 list

Ah, right.

My god, what a terrible collection of songs that is for the most part.