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