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 (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