US #1s of 1988

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

youtube.com/watch?v=T0z2TWkwD6M&fmt=18

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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.

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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"

AAAAAAGH
please not "Seasons Change" that song from my senior year of high school
what lady group did that? Do I want to know? Please no no no don't remind me. Thanks.

Red Red Wine is a great song, UB40's version of it is easily the best, and I suspect this Mr Snrub character doesn't know very much about great music.

Alfred are you out there? Do you like this?

Red Red Wine is a great song, UB40's version of it is easily the best, and I suspect this Mr Snrub character doesn't know very much about great music.

Wrong, wrong (well, actually I've haven't heard any others), and... uhhh... probably.

I always figured that indie & rap owned 1988, but Christ if there weren't a slew of terrific pop singles that year. This is a very difficult choice.

Yeah 1988 destroys most of the previous US #1s threads.

Voted "One More Try". "Red Red Wine" is also classic, but not at all from 1988.

This is down to "Get Outta My Dreams" versus "Red Red Wine" for me. But I just looked it up and it turns out the "Red Red Wine" that was a hit in 1988 is the one with the godawful "red red wine make me feel so fine" part - whereas the plain old one I love came out in '83. So it goes to Billy Ocean.

voting Will To Power (though it's not their best single); these would also be in my top ten:

Tiffany, "Couldv'e Been"
Expose, "Seasons Change"
Michael Jackson, "Man In the Mirror"
Billy Ocean, "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car"
Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine, "Anything For You"
Debbie Gibson, "Foolish Beat"
Michael Jackson, "Dirty Diana"
Guns N' Roses, "Sweet Child o' Mine"
Poison, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn"

Don't know what surprises me more, that Wild Wild West hit #1 or that I'm voting for it.

i just realized that the reason Elvis Costello's "Pump It Up" sounded familiar the first time I ever heard it as a teenager was because the Escape Club totally bit that shit when I was a kid.

xp^lol this whole list is a lot of nostalgia ive never reminsced abt b4...i remember dubbing a lot of htese off the radio -- definitely wild, wild west and look away. i was 9

the Gloria Estefan ballad is by far the best: it's as straightforward as MOR gets. "Foolish Beat," though, would sound better if she sung it; she coulda handled that nice chord change in the middle of the chorus.

Can somebody remind me why "Red Red Wine" hit #1 five years after its initial release? I'm assuming it was included on a soundtrack?

"Need You Tonight" would have been my pick in 1988, but I'm sick of it these days. I'll probably pick "Love Bites", although I'm tempted to pick Billy Ocean because his 80's singles are madly underrated (it took me 20 years to realize how great they really were).

Odds of a random lurker rickrolling voter bloc = 2:1

it was on the cocktail soundtrack, yeah?

Nope ... it seems they re-recorded and re-released it in 1988 (I actually didn't know that these versions were recorded years apart). But re-recordings aren't uncommon -- I still don't understand how it ended up being a lot more popular the second time around.

(I don't even remember it hitting #1 that year ... this is a strange gap in my memory that I can't explain!)

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.