wow I like so many of these songs
fuck the Whitney songs and "Kokomo", tho
― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Monday, 5 January 2009 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Looking back at the list I realize that 1988 was the last year in which I listened to the radio.
― Ye Mad Puffin, Monday, 5 January 2009 18:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, this was when I transitioned from solely listening to top-40/whatever records my brother brought home to whatever albums were on the college and dance charts in the back of Rolling Stone and Spin.
― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Monday, 5 January 2009 18:07 (fifteen years ago) link
"Roll With It" is a fucking jam, and it was probably my favorite of these songs that I was actually aware of at the time. I was 6 years old in '88, and the songs I definitely heard back then were mainly Winwood, Billy Ocean, George Harrison, the Escape Club, and 2 of the Jacko songs.
― some dude, Monday, 5 January 2009 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
I have "Got My Mind Set On You" to thank for serving as my Beatles gateway drug.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 5 January 2009 18:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Whitney's "So Emotional" is the least emotional song of all time.
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z128/ericzieg/rickslash.jpg?t=1225478145
I was an artist-in-residence at a state university this past fall, and two of the freshmen (likely born in '90) dressed for Halloween as Slash and Rick.
'88 TOP 40 LIVES ON.
― Eazy, Monday, 5 January 2009 18:15 (fifteen years ago) link
i was so hopin that was a scan from a actuall '88 picture
― extremely intoxicated & uncooperative outside a Hסּסּters in Winston-Salem (will), Monday, 5 January 2009 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 01:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
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― Sundar, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 00:09 (fifteen years ago) link
fuckin' ILM and its goddamn rickrolling obsession.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 00:09 (fifteen years ago) link
who was the bright boy who gave "Where Do Broken Hearts Go?" one vote.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 00:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Hah, I am also curious about the "Kokomo" fan.
ARUBA JAMAICA OOOOH I WANNA TAKE YA
― Ye Mad Puffin, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 00:29 (fifteen years ago) link
J0hn D., amirite?
― permanent o_Ovolution (The Reverend), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 00:32 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Matos W.K., Wednesday, 7 January 2009 01:14 (fifteen years ago) link
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..
― Pain don't hurt. (Pillbox), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 01:22 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― permanent o_Ovolution (The Reverend), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 01:28 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― disco is the reason (daria-g), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 01:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Aside from the rickroll, I agree with the top 3, in order, an ILXPoll first for me.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 02:22 (fifteen years ago) link
But see, the Rick Astley song is genuinely better than most of these tracks.
― ilxor, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 05:06 (fifteen years ago) link
missed this poll, but 88 was a great year innit
― Lemonade In Hammocks (electricsound), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 05:13 (fifteen years ago) link
(would have voted for inxs)
poison (but I've never heard the will to power)
― a mountain climber who plays an electric guitar (gabbneb), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 05:24 (fifteen years ago) link
bump
― Et tu, Crut? (The Reverend), Sunday, 11 January 2009 08:09 (fifteen years ago) link
no, mine was "Man in the Mirror"
― J0hn D., Sunday, 11 January 2009 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I stand corrected.
― Et tu, Crut? (The Reverend), Sunday, 11 January 2009 11:59 (fifteen years ago) link
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