Wow what a great year for top 40. I had a dubbed cassette with "License to Ill" on one side and "Invisible Touch" on the other, that's what kind of year 1987 was.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 10 March 2019 03:10 (five years ago) link
can we discuss "Don't Disturb This Groove" forever
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 March 2019 03:12 (five years ago) link
and the weirdness of my home girl Gloria Estefan's "Rhythm is Gonna Get You" isn't discussed enough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZkjeJKBI0M
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 March 2019 03:13 (five years ago) link
of course this is the year i was born
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 10 March 2019 07:15 (five years ago) link
^ me too, but i'm not really feeling these songs so much. there are some good ones there, but the only really great one to me is "Fight For Your Right." I like "Valerie" as well but not the 1987 remix.
― ⅋ (crüt), Sunday, 10 March 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
P much love all but the Bon Jovi
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 10 March 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link
xpost The Hague for 87 is a particularly dire list of tunes. Seems worse - quantity and lack of quality - than previous years.
― that's not my post, Sunday, 10 March 2019 15:35 (five years ago) link
Very few issues with Alfred's ranking as opposed to the '86 one - Bon Jovi undervalued again, and I'd put "Right on Track" and "Sign o' the Times" in the highest category. What really jumps out to me is how many I don't know - esp those in the 'meh' category. I was 15 and a 24/7 radio listener at the time, so it must be a US-Europe thing.
― dorsalstop, Sunday, 10 March 2019 17:19 (five years ago) link
"Right On Track" would be in good to great today.
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 March 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
Hurrah!
Just had a look at the Dutch top 10s, and yes, it was a very different year here. Mel & Kim, "Pump up the Volume", Sabrina's "Boys", the original Rickroll, LL's "I Need Love", and a handful of Terence Trent D'Arby singles. Oh, and "Crockett's Theme" by Jan Hammer...
― dorsalstop, Sunday, 10 March 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
Just the #1s, see.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 April 2021 02:34 (three years ago) link
I'm surprised to realize how few of these outside of your 'good to great' I have much time for. I guess we still have a little way to go until we witness the crystalline perfection achieved by the pop music of the PB Interzone.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Monday, 12 April 2021 03:36 (three years ago) link
Can’t believe “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” is from ’87(!) Belinda was my first big “celebrity crush,” and I thought I was younger at the time... :/
― Yawnsomely Literal Cover Band (morrisp), Monday, 12 April 2021 05:02 (three years ago) link
Head To Toe is not and never has been meh, you monster
― Dana Jel Pey (DJP), Monday, 12 April 2021 14:14 (three years ago) link
que sera que sera!
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 April 2021 14:30 (three years ago) link
The best song won this poll. And also the worst song won this poll.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Monday, 12 April 2021 14:44 (three years ago) link