If that hasn't happened then you need to make it happen RIGHT NOW.
― ☺☻☺☻come on ppl now smile on u brother☺☻☺☻ (ENBB), Monday, 22 June 2009 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
You need to jump on a starship right now.
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 June 2009 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah because a love shack poll wasn't enough
― Mr. Que, Monday, 22 June 2009 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
although i guess nothin's gonna stop you now, huh?
we can build this poll together
― tylerw, Monday, 22 June 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
cuz we're the poll of fools.
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 June 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
love shake you down
― attack! attack! "stick stickly" youtube video 2:48 nvr frgt (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 22 June 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
alone is really good too
― attack! attack! "stick stickly" youtube video 2:48 nvr frgt (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 22 June 2009 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Am seriously considering voting for Faith. I don't know how I feel about that.
― Popture, Monday, 22 June 2009 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Come on, you know it's 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody'. Just listen to it! It's amazing!
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 22 June 2009 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Was ready to vote Belinda but then, at the bottom, there was FAITH. Great song.
― kate78, Monday, 22 June 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― Josefa, Monday, 22 June 2009 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link
I agree Paid In Full should have had a high chart placing. Wiki says it was in 1988, though. *shrugs*
― A Breath of Fresh Culture (Bimble), Monday, 22 June 2009 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
pre soundscan though
― attack! attack! "stick stickly" youtube video 2:48 nvr frgt (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 22 June 2009 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
and there wasn't a hip hop format stations in a lot of big cities then either
― attack! attack! "stick stickly" youtube video 2:48 nvr frgt (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 22 June 2009 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
^^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.
― Josefa, Monday, 22 June 2009 22:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Suckanoosik Chamber of Commerce (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 June 2009 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
The 86 and 88 lists were a lot better.
― Arch Cancerped (The Reverend), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 00:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 25 June 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
ha -- i don't like any of these either! can't remember what the tiffany or carlisle tracks sound like, though.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 26 June 2009 04:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Neither "With Or Without You" nor much of the Joshua Tree sounded nearly as good to me then as it does today.
― Tantamount To Pressurized Milk (Bimble), Friday, 26 June 2009 04:54 (fourteen years ago) link
"Open Your Heart" was a pretty uncommonly good single for Madonna, though, now that I'm forced to recall how it went.
― Tantamount To Pressurized Milk (Bimble), Friday, 26 June 2009 04:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Michael Jackson, "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" 0
:(
I thought I'd voted for that.
― bad crack (Eric H.), Friday, 26 June 2009 05:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― meh (jjjusten), Friday, 26 June 2009 05:15 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Eazy, Friday, 26 June 2009 05:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Tantamount To Pressurized Milk (Bimble), Friday, 26 June 2009 05:30 (fourteen years ago) link
yes! top 2!
― winston, Friday, 26 June 2009 07:50 (fourteen years ago) link
leave bruce hornsby alone
actually bruce & huey they seem like 2 peas in a pod kinda
― winston, Friday, 26 June 2009 07:52 (fourteen years ago) link
The three people who voted for Cutting Crew will never meet me.
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 June 2009 11:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Let's go deeper!
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 March 2019 01:36 (five years ago) link
87 is a special year for me and I love almost all of these
― calstars, Sunday, 10 March 2019 01:50 (five years ago) link
This is one of the troubling years for me, because I felt like my aesthetic was being pulled in at least three directions at the time. Only later would I understand that they weren't in conflict, and that one could love different things for different reasons. Lots of these songs are awesome, and it's fascinating (to me anyway) how many different ways they find to be awesome.
80s music had lots of problems, but I do think there was a notable diversity of expression that allowed Lisa Lisa, Whitesnake, Whitney, and U2 to occupy the same cultural moment so thoroughly and so seamlessly (from the perspective of my teenage clock radio).
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 10 March 2019 02:08 (five years ago) link
that's why I don't know what "eighties music" means.
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 March 2019 02:22 (five years ago) link
I do think there was a notable diversity of expression that allowed Lisa Lisa, Whitesnake, Whitney, and U2 to occupy the same cultural moment so thoroughly and so seamlessly (from the perspective of my teenage clock radio).
― calstars, Sunday, 10 March 2019 02:25 (five years ago) link
so emotional?
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 March 2019 02:32 (five years ago) link
I dated this Latina at the time who was lost in emotion
― calstars, Sunday, 10 March 2019 03:03 (five years ago) link
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 (two 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 (two years ago) link