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― ilxor, Saturday, 3 January 2009 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link
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."
― da croupier, Saturday, 3 January 2009 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Fursona (real life tauren ^_^) (cankles), Saturday, 3 January 2009 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link
that pie chart is inaccurate
― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Saturday, 3 January 2009 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
cant embed so just copy pasta this
youtube.com/watch?v=T0z2TWkwD6M&fmt=18
― Fursona (real life tauren ^_^) (cankles), Saturday, 3 January 2009 17:51 (fifteen years ago) link
zachchac (2 days ago) Show Hide0 Poor comment Good commentMarked as spamReply | Spamim 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
― Fursona (real life tauren ^_^) (cankles), Saturday, 3 January 2009 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I think I might vote INXS. Probly the best tune off easily their best rekkid.
― I Was a Teenage Armchair Hongro Fan (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 3 January 2009 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
"New Sensation" > "Never Tear Us Apart" > "Need You Tonight" > "Devil Inside" > "Mystify"
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 3 January 2009 17:57 (fifteen years ago) link
No.
― I Was a Teenage Armchair Hongro Fan (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 3 January 2009 17:58 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Fursona (real life tauren ^_^) (cankles), Saturday, 3 January 2009 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link
inxs then ub40
― Lingbert, Saturday, 3 January 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyway, this is so "Wishing Well" it ain't funny.
― ::cannon:: (The Reverend), Saturday, January 3, 2009 3:51 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark
― Crackhead #2 (PappaWheelie V), Saturday, 3 January 2009 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― redmond, Saturday, 3 January 2009 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― With Oatmeal Sauce (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, 3 January 2009 19:37 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― With Oatmeal Sauce (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, 3 January 2009 19:41 (fifteen years ago) link
i've been SBing everyone who indicates they will vote for anything besides Father Figure
― Fursona (real life tauren ^_^) (cankles), Saturday, 3 January 2009 19:41 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― redmond, Saturday, 3 January 2009 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
80's Babies, I love you but you have to hear this:
I'll look for the Nile Rodgers version, thanks redmond.
― With Oatmeal Sauce (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, 3 January 2009 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Crackhead #2 (PappaWheelie V), Saturday, 3 January 2009 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
There is no link, motherfucker.
― With Oatmeal Sauce (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, 3 January 2009 19:59 (fifteen years ago) link
That song and video seem totally contemporary in 2009.
― redmond, Saturday, 3 January 2009 20:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I am going to get really upset in a minute if someone doesn't help me.
― With Oatmeal Sauce (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, 3 January 2009 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Pappa I'm going to harass you.
― With Oatmeal Sauce (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, 3 January 2009 20:04 (fifteen years ago) link
"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"!!
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 3 January 2009 20:05 (fifteen years ago) link
i hate you
― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Saturday, 3 January 2009 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link
a common lament
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 3 January 2009 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― With Oatmeal Sauce (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, 3 January 2009 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
SONGS THAT ARE WORSE THAN "DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY":
Wishing WellFUCKING RED FUCXKING RED WINE FUCKING MOTHERFUCKERevery George Michael song on this listLove Bites (one of the forst songs I ever remember hating!)Kokomo
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 3 January 2009 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link
SONGS THAT ARE BETTER THAN MAYBE THE SECOND OR THIRD BEST SONG ON KICK:
Wild Wild WestGOMYDGIMCSweet Child O' MineGroovy Kind of Love
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 3 January 2009 20:18 (fifteen years ago) link
And "Seasons Change"
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 3 January 2009 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
AAAAAAGHplease not "Seasons Change" that song from my senior year of high schoolwhat lady group did that? Do I want to know? Please no no no don't remind me. Thanks.
― With Oatmeal Sauce (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, 3 January 2009 20:20 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Party Sausage, Saturday, 3 January 2009 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link
― With Oatmeal Sauce (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, 3 January 2009 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Alfred are you out there? Do you like this?
Wrong, wrong (well, actually I've haven't heard any others), and... uhhh... probably.
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 3 January 2009 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Pain don't hurt. (Pillbox), Saturday, 3 January 2009 20:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah 1988 destroys most of the previous US #1s threads.
― redmond, Saturday, 3 January 2009 21:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Voted "One More Try". "Red Red Wine" is also classic, but not at all from 1988.
― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 3 January 2009 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 3 January 2009 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
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"
― xhuxk, Saturday, 3 January 2009 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Don't know what surprises me more, that Wild Wild West hit #1 or that I'm voting for it.
― hugo, Sunday, 4 January 2009 01:43 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Sunday, 4 January 2009 01:48 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 4 January 2009 01:50 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 4 January 2009 01:53 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 4 January 2009 10:39 (fifteen years ago) link
it was on the cocktail soundtrack, yeah?
― extremely intoxicated & uncooperative outside a Hסּסּters in Winston-Salem (will), Sunday, 4 January 2009 11:31 (fifteen years ago) link
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!)
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 4 January 2009 12:25 (fifteen years ago) link
TTD or GNR.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Sunday, 4 January 2009 12:47 (fifteen years ago) link
According to the Billboard Book of Number One Hits, a programming director in Phoenix started replaying the song in the summer of 1988 when he and two of his staffers decided the song should've been a bigger hit. Other stations started doing the same, and it snowballed.
― Joseph McCombs, Sunday, 4 January 2009 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link
(that was re "Red Red Wine," sorry)
Weird results. I like "Seasons Change" a lot more than the INXS at the top, which sounded corny & forced even in '88.
― Josefa, Sunday, 11 January 2009 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― energy, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link
lol eleven years later I correct this chart.
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 March 2019 00:51 (five years ago) link
I cannot believe those two songs beat "Sweet Child o' Mine".
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Monday, 11 March 2019 02:11 (five years ago) link
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.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Monday, 11 March 2019 02:51 (five years ago) link
fyi, Keith Sweat’s “I Want Her” is Great to Awesome
― breastcrawl, Monday, 11 March 2019 08:58 (five years ago) link
Rick Astley would win this poll in a landslide with younger generations.
― Siegbran, Monday, 11 March 2019 13:08 (five years ago) link
― dorsalstop, Monday, 11 March 2019 16:26 (five years ago) link
Wonderful wonderful year for balladry (as encapsulated in my prior poll: Greatest Billboard Top 40(-ish) Ballad (1988 edition)).
― Goody Rickels on the Dime (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 13:07 (five years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 13:21 (five years ago) link
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
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 14:37 (five years ago) link
Ah, right.
― dorsalstop, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link
My god, what a terrible collection of songs that is for the most part.
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 15:22 (five years ago) link