80s0n8 Big 40 Countdown Schedule

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scotchandcigar said:
Her rendition of "I Will Always Love You" is like an air-raid siren. Dolly Parton wrote it as a sweet little lullaby, and Whitney totally "American Idols" it. Actually, I think Whitney invented that style.
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If you want to go after Whitney for the way she sang, you might as well go after Clive Davis. He's the one who signed her. He probably hired the producers that gave her the material and had her sing the way she did.

Aaron said:
Must be a taste/preference thing.
She's generally regarded as having had one of the better voices in pop.

I'm okay with most of her 80's songs. Not really a fan of the 90's songs.
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IRBS has shown he has a lack of taste.

I don't know which is worse. His weekly ratings of 80s countdowns, or Jon's bitching of the NFL.
 
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semipenguin said:
If you want to go after Whitney for the way she sang, you might as well go after Clive Davis. He's the one who signed her. He probably hired the producers that gave her the material and had her sing the way she did.

IRBS has shown he has a lack of taste.

I don't know which is worse. His weekly ratings of 80s countdowns, or Jon's bitching of the NFL.
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semipenguin said:
If you want to go after Whitney for the way she sang, you might as well go after Clive Davis. He's the one who signed her. He probably hired the producers that gave her the material and had her sing the way she did.



IRBS has shown he has a lack of taste.

I don't know which is worse. His weekly ratings of 80s countdowns, or Jon's bitching of the NFL.
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Touche

You don't have to read.
 
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33. CANNONBALL - SUPERTRAMP
19. JUST AS I AM - AIR SUPPLY

Shocked to hear these guys in the top 40 this late in the decade

32. WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER HERO (THUNDERDOME)- TINA TURNER

One of her biggest songs, but it's been long forgotten (with the exception of 80s on 8).

31. FIND A WAY - AMY GRANT

Didn't know she had a mainstream hit before "Next Time I Fall".

28. SUMMER OF '69 - BRYAN ADAMS

Every time I hear someone on the radio talk about "why did he choose the year 1969?" I laugh. It's not a year. Right at the end of the song, he plainly sings, "Me and my baby in a 69". I think anything else he's said about the song in interviews is just misdirection.

27. ROCK ME TONIGHT (FOR OLD TIMES SAKE) - FREDDIE JACKSON

Thought this song would never end. Radio edit please? Or better yet, never play it again!

18. PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE - DEPECHE MODE

They only had 2 songs hit the top 40 in 80s, so it's not often a VJ would be able to talk about Depeche - yet they never do. However, for artists that had a zillion hits in the 80s and are heard on every other countdown, we get their life history every time.

8. GLORY DAYS - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

STOP SHOUTING! YOU'RE SINGING IN ALL CAPS, BOSS!

4. YOU GIVE GOOD LOVE - WHITNEY HOUSTON

I still say if it weren't for Clive Davis, Whitney would still be alive today. Here's something I wrote back in 2009, before she died.

In 2006, Whitney Houston decided she was done. Done with being smacked around by an unfaithful husband. Done with having the details of her lesbian experiences and photos of drug paraphernalia in her bathroom made public. Done with being an entertainer. Done with everything except raising her daughter far out of the public eye.

“I had other plans about three years ago,” Houston confided. “To live on an island, and open a fruit stand, and do my own little quiet thing… Just raise my daughter and call it a day.”

Then she got a phone call from Clive Davis, the man who originally signed her to Arista Records in 1983.

“Well, no. That’s not what you’re going to do,” Davis reportedly told her.

Houston canceled her plans.

411MANIA | Under the Scalpel 09.11.09: Whitney Houston, New Boyz, Pitbull, Shakira, The Guild, Tim McGraw

3. EVERY TIME YOU GO AWAY - PAUL YOUNG

Always makes me think of Planes Trains & Automobiles, one of my fav movies of all time. It's starts playing as the movie is ending.

2. RASPBERRY BERET - PRINCE & THE REVOLUTION

I tweeted this back in 2011 when Prince was getting sued for $700K.

It's about time somebody punished him for following up Purple Rain with "Raspberry Beret"

1. A VIEW TO A KILL - DURAN DURAN

Cool story Alan told about how a member of DD told someone in the Bond franchise "So when are you gonna have someone do a good Bond song?" I lol'd.

Will never make the top 40
#48 Jeff Beck "People Get Ready"
#52 Weird Al "Like A Surgeon"
#63 George Thorogood "Willie"
#64 Gino Vannelli "Black Cars"
#66 John Fogerty "Centerfield"
#69 Tom Petty "Make It Better"
#70 Carly Simon "Tired Of Being Blonde"
#80 Hooters "All You Zombies"
#83 Y & T "Summertime Girls"
#85 Foreigner "Reaction To Action"
#93 Men At Work "Everything I Need"
 
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sadchild said:
27. ROCK ME TONIGHT (FOR OLD TIMES SAKE) - FREDDIE JACKSON

Thought this song would never end. Radio edit please? Or better yet, never play it again!
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The channel plays radio edits of almost all their songs Not sure why not this one.

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Will never make the top 40
#52 Weird Al "Like A Surgeon"
#64 Gino Vannelli "Black Cars"
#66 John Fogerty "Centerfield"
#80 Hooters "All You Zombies"
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Weird Al doesn't surprise me although I thought it may have cracked the top 40. The rest do although I suspect with Gino & Hooters, it may have been a Canadian thing with more airplay up here.
 
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40. DRIVIN' MY LIFE AWAY - EDDIE RABBITT
39. FUNKYTOWN - LIPPS, INC.
38. TULSA TIME - ERIC CLAPTON
37. ALL OUT OF LOVE - AIR SUPPLY
36. KING OF THE HILL - RICK PINETTE & OAK
35. WHY NOT ME - FRED KNOBLOCK
34. I CAN'T LET GO - LINDA RONSTADT
33. BOULEVARD - JACKSON BROWNE
32. WALKS LIKE A LADY - JOURNEY
31. FAME - IRENE CARA
30. MAKE A LITTLE MAGIC - THE DIRT BAND
29. I'M ALIVE - ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA
28. INTO THE NIGHT - BENNY MARDONES
27. OLD FASHION LOVE - COMMODORES
26. JOJO - BOZ SCAGGS
25. TAKE A LITTLE RHYTHM - ALI THOMSON
24. STAND BY ME - MICKEY GILLEY
23. LET MY LOVE OPEN THE DOOR - PETE TOWNSHEND
22. MISUNDERSTANDING - GENESIS
21. LET'S GET SERIOUS - JERMAINE JACKSON
20. EMPIRE STRIKES BACK MEDLEY - MECO
19. ALL NIGHT LONG - JOE WALSH
18. GIMME SOME LOVIN' - THE BLUES BROTHERS
17. SAILING - CHRISTOPHER CROSS
16. LOVE THE WORLD AWAY - KENNY ROGERS
15. LET ME LOVE YOU TONIGHT - PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE
14. MORE LOVE - KIM CARNES
13. IN AMERICA - CHARLIE DANIELS BAND
12. ONE FINE DAY - CAROLE KING
11. EMOTIONAL RESCUE - ROLLING STONES
10. THE ROSE - BETTE MIDLER
9. TAKE YOUR TIME - S.O.S. BAND
8. TIRED OF TOEIN' THE LINE - ROCKY BURNETTE
7. STEAL AWAY - ROBBIE DUPREE
6. COMING UP - PAUL MCCARTNEY & WINGS
5. SHINING STAR - MANHATTANS
4. CUPID/I'VE LOVED YOU FOR A LONG TIME - SPINNERS
3. LITTLE JEANNIE - ELTON JOHN
2. MAGIC - OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN
1. IT'S STILL ROCK AND ROLL TO ME - BILLY JOEL
 
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Rough countdown this week. I don't do well with country crossover and yacht rock.

40. DRIVIN' MY LIFE AWAY - EDDIE RABBITT

I always change the words to "Ooo I'm wastin' my life away, listening to country..."

30. MAKE A LITTLE MAGIC - THE DIRT BAND

I disagree with Alan. I've never heard "nitty gritty" used a term for gettin' it on. Nitty gritty means the real details or actions - the meat of the task at hand. Like, "ok we've covered the superficial crap about the incident, now let's get down to the nitty gritty details of what really happened." Or "we said we were gonna bleach each other's assholes, so enough preparing - let's get down the nitty gritty of this task."

20. EMPIRE STRIKES BACK MEDLEY - MECO

Just goes to show that Star Wars was so popular that you could probably have taken bags of actual shit, thrown a Star Wars sticker on them and sell a million.

13. IN AMERICA - CHARLIE DANIELS BAND

Do all of their songs sound exactly like "Devil Went Down To Georgia"?

11. EMOTIONAL RESCUE - ROLLING STONES

I agree with Aaron. This song is garbage.

Songs that will never reach the top 40
#42 Queen "Play The Game"
#47 Kiss "Shandi"
#61 Roger Daltry "Free Me"
#66 Teri Desario & KC "Dancin' In The Streets"
#72 Pat Benatar "You'd Better Run"
#87 Ted Nugent "Wango Tango"
#88 J Geils Band "Just Can't Wait"
#94 Grateful Deaed "Alabama Getaway"
#95 Gary Burband with Band McNally "Who Shot JR?"
#98 Cheap Trick "Everything Works If You Let It"
 
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sadchild said:
Rough countdown this week. I don't do well with country crossover and yacht rock.
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That's the reason I like this countdown. I didn't hear all the countdown but I bet Alan Hunter lamented that this was because it was pre-MTV.

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Songs that will never reach the top 40
#42 Queen "Play The Game"
#66 Teri Desario & KC "Dancin' In The Streets"
#72 Pat Benatar "You'd Better Run"
#87 Ted Nugent "Wango Tango"
#88 J Geils Band "Just Can't Wait"
#98 Cheap Trick "Everything Works If You Let It"
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Surprised at all of these.

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#95 Gary Burband with Band McNally "Who Shot JR?"
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Not surprised somebody tried to capitalize on the Who Shot JR hoopla

Now my comments. If any penguins are passing by, now is the time to scroll to the end.

Like (bold in my library):
40. DRIVIN' MY LIFE AWAY - EDDIE RABBITT
39. FUNKYTOWN - LIPPS, INC.
37. ALL OUT OF LOVE - AIR SUPPLY
33. BOULEVARD - JACKSON BROWNE
31. FAME - IRENE CARA
30. MAKE A LITTLE MAGIC - THE DIRT BAND
(First time I heard this. Liked it. Agree with sadchild on the Nitty Gritty.)
29. I'M ALIVE - ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA
28. INTO THE NIGHT - BENNY MARDONES
26. JOJO - BOZ SCAGGS
25. TAKE A LITTLE RHYTHM - ALI THOMSON
23. LET MY LOVE OPEN THE DOOR - PETE TOWNSHEND
22. MISUNDERSTANDING - GENESIS
19. ALL NIGHT LONG - JOE WALSH
18. GIMME SOME LOVIN' - THE BLUES BROTHERS
17. SAILING - CHRISTOPHER CROSS
15. LET ME LOVE YOU TONIGHT - PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE
14. MORE LOVE - KIM CARNES
11. EMOTIONAL RESCUE - ROLLING STONES
(I appear to be in the minority on this one.)
10. THE ROSE - BETTE MIDLER
8. TIRED OF TOEIN' THE LINE - ROCKY BURNETTE
7. STEAL AWAY - ROBBIE DUPREE
6. COMING UP - PAUL MCCARTNEY & WINGS
4. CUPID/I'VE LOVED YOU FOR A LONG TIME - SPINNERS
3. LITTLE JEANNIE - ELTON JOHN
2. MAGIC - OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN
1. IT'S STILL ROCK AND ROLL TO ME - BILLY JOEL

Indifferent or never heard:
38. TULSA TIME - ERIC CLAPTON
36. KING OF THE HILL - RICK PINETTE & OAK
35. WHY NOT ME - FRED KNOBLOCK
34. I CAN'T LET GO - LINDA RONSTADT
32. WALKS LIKE A LADY - JOURNEY
27. OLD FASHION LOVE - COMMODORES
24. STAND BY ME - MICKEY GILLEY
20. EMPIRE STRIKES BACK MEDLEY - MECO
16. LOVE THE WORLD AWAY - KENNY ROGERS
13. IN AMERICA - CHARLIE DANIELS BAND
(he is on both countdowns this week)
12. ONE FINE DAY - CAROLE KING
5. SHINING STAR - MANHATTANS

Dislike:
21. LET'S GET SERIOUS - JERMAINE JACKSON
9. TAKE YOUR TIME - S.O.S. BAND
 
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