US #1s of 1987

I think I can sing all of these songs. At least the hooks.

A lot of these songs are okay I guess, but I hate the whole list anyway because by 1987 I had swum out to the deep end of the avant-garde pool.

and now you've backed away from your youthful apostasy?

thank the music gods for college radio.

^^^Can't be stressed enough.

Looking at this list makes me think "wow, there was actually a time when Whitney Houston *didn't* send me running & screaming to get away from her". Not that I'd vote for her, mind.

God, that Gregory Abbott is so sappy.

There's plenty of crap in this list, but Living On A Prayer smells even worse than Cutting Crew, I'm sorry.

Actually, college radio wasn't so hot during this era either – at least not as hot as it became later in the decade, or hot it'd been two or three years earlier.

goddam 6th grade dance action up in here

lol bamba

every one of these songs makes me think of going to Sizzler at age 8 with my family.

and now you've backed away from your youthful apostasy?

Not at all! But the older I get the more I'm able to untie like and dislike from a more formal appreciation based on craft. If that makes any sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDcHzfhqlbI

if asked about this list at the time i would have said "Faith"

probably going to stick with that

?!xpost

The spotify playlist (minus seger):

http://open.spotify.com/user/stigoftdump/playlist/3t2ftyIumwhojGSBfZ4X5K
spotify:user:stigoftdump:playlist:3t2ftyIumwhojGSBfZ4X5K

A lot of good songs, but nothing jumped out at me at all. Especially weird given how many songs made it to #1, more than twice as many as 2008. Ended up going with "Still Haven't Found", though I thought about "I Wanna Dance", "Livin on a Prayer", "Open Your Heart", and "Always".

Bloody hell, listening to this playlist all the way through is serious next-level horrible. Kim Wilde gets points for not making me pull my fingernails out.

No, actually, Bad is alright too. A minor Michael Jackson is better than the rest of this shower.

Ok you ppl saying there's nothing good on here are crazy!!

Starship, "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"
Cutting Crew, "(I Just) Died in Your Arms"
U2, "With or Without You"
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, "Head to Toe"
Whitesnake, "Here I Go Again"
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, "Lost in Emotion"
Belinda Carlisle, "Heaven is a Place on Earth

Should probably go with my girl Belinda but Tiffany, "I Think We're Alone Now" was my jam when it came out. Hey, I was 10.

Starship, "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"
Cutting Crew, "(I Just) Died in Your Arms"

srsly, this is like making out with Perez Hilton.

this is impossible!

voted for "With Or Without You," with only "Faith" and "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" making me hesitate for a second

Listen Alfred - "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" is an extremely powerful song used to great effect in the movie Mannequin.
(I Just) Died in Your Arms is some powerfully poignant stuff.

Maybe you just can't handle the intensity. ;-)

Really they're just songs that I will sing on the top of my lungs ever single time I hear them because they're OTT and FUN.

Did we ever do a poll of the Starship singles?

If that hasn't happened then you need to make it happen RIGHT NOW.

You need to jump on a starship right now.

yeah because a love shack poll wasn't enough

although i guess nothin's gonna stop you now, huh?

we can build this poll together

cuz we're the poll of fools.

love shake you down

alone is really good too

Am seriously considering voting for Faith. I don't know how I feel about that.

Come on, you know it's 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody'. Just listen to it! It's amazing!

Was ready to vote Belinda but then, at the bottom, there was FAITH. Great song.

There were probably about 20 freestyle records that should have gone to #1 in this year instead of these "winners." Not to mention tons of hip hop. "Paid in Full," folks?

I agree Paid In Full should have had a high chart placing. Wiki says it was in 1988, though. *shrugs*

pre soundscan though

and there wasn't a hip hop format stations in a lot of big cities then either

^^Well, that was the problem. And there weren't a lot of freestyle or crossover dance stations either. And top 40 was mind-numbingly conservative, as the top list indicates. Hence the injustice.

I genuinely don't like a single song on here (I guess the Los Lobos cover is okay but its not very interesting)

reminds me of why I hated high school so much

The 86 and 88 lists were a lot better.

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ha -- i don't like any of these either! can't remember what the tiffany or carlisle tracks sound like, though.

Neither "With Or Without You" nor much of the Joshua Tree sounded nearly as good to me then as it does today.

"Open Your Heart" was a pretty uncommonly good single for Madonna, though, now that I'm forced to recall how it went.

Michael Jackson, "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" 0

:(

I thought I'd voted for that.

Huey Lewis and the News, "Jacob's Ladder"

wtf is this? the only thing on the list that i have zero memory of ever hearing

Written by Bruce Hornsby

Goes (as any song called "Jacob's Ladder" would) "Step by step - rung by rung."

Nothing to do with Tim Robbins, Vietnam, etc.

Bruce Hornsby wrote a song that Huey Lewis did?

*blood vessels in my brain explode*

Oh my god, that's so not right. Oh my god, that's...horrible.

yes! top 2!