80s0n8 Big 40 Countdown Schedule

Channel98 said:
The Blow Monkeys have released 36 singles and Digging Your Scene was their only US hit. It reached #14 on the Hot 100. A six-and-a-half-minute 12-inch remix peaked at #7 on the dance chart. The song was written by Blow Monkeys lead singer/guitarist/pianist Bruce Robert Howard, who calls himself Dr. Robert. He took the name from a track on the Beatles' 1966 Revolver album. (The song was omitted from the US release of the album. It appeared on the US album Yesterday & Today.) Howard told Melody Maker magazine, “It started off as a joke on the sleeve of our first single – but it stuck!” Here is a live performance of Digging Your Scene from 2017:


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The Blow Monkeys were one of my absolute favorites from the 80s. I may still have some of their cassettes in storage. They are still making music and touring today.
 
sadchild said:
Keith Emerson and Greg Lake had planned to re-form the original ELP in 1984, but drummer Carl Palmer was unavailable because of contractual obligations to Asia. After auditioning a series of drummers unwilling to commit to the band, they approached Cozy Powell, a longtime friend of Emerson's, to replace him. The band have always insisted that it was a coincidence that his surname also happened to start with a P, thus allowing the band to retain its original initials [ELP], although they also joked about looking for a "Gene Prupa" and having approached "Phil Pollins" and "Ringo Parr" before Powell agreed to join. Shortly into recording, Emerson's barn studio was destroyed by a runaway tractor, requiring some parts of the album to be rerecorded, leading him to joke, "Perhaps we should have called it 'Emerson, Lake & Plough!'"
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I never heard that story before. It's pretty good. Especially the Prupa, Pollins, Parr bit.

sadchild said:
#59 Art Of Noise "Peter Gunn"
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It actually did better than I thought it would have. I love it.
 
sadchild said:
Don't bother with their 2nd one. It's absolutely awful IMO. It is, in fact, truly SHT. But each of their following albums have at least one good single. The debut is excellent, but you knew that already.

I like some of the stuff on "Bangin'", but yeah - it's not nearly as good as "Play Deep". The album I'm talking about is waaaaaay later - called "Any Time Now".
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Kokomo was great the first couple of hundred times I heard it, but by week 2 it was getting a little tired. It was just overplayed waaaaayyyy too much.
 
IdRatherBeSkiing said:
I like it because it takes me mentally to the Caribbean. Their Surfer songs were before my time.
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HecticArt said:
Kokomo was great the first couple of hundred times I heard it, but by week 2 it was getting a little tired. It was just overplayed waaaaayyyy too much.
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I've mentioned this before, that our honeymoon in Aruba (in the 90's) featured a beach bar that opened at 10:30 AM. They played a 45-minute cassette tape on a loop: the tape started with Kokomo, then went to Hot! Hot! Hot!, which was repeated later in the tape.
 
IdRatherBeSkiing said:
Only Beach Boys song I have heard from the 80s/90s aside from the medley
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I'd recommend keeping that way. Aside from Kokomo and that medley, I find the rest to be awful. The chorus of "Getcha Back" is tolerable but the rest is SHT. If I remember right, "Hot Fun In The Summertime" - with its Baywatch-style video - is the worstest of the worst.
 
scotchandcigar said:
I've mentioned this before, that our honeymoon in Aruba (in the 90's) featured a beach bar that opened at 10:30 AM. They played a 45-minute cassette tape on a loop: the tape started with Kokomo, then went to Hot! Hot! Hot!, which was repeated later in the tape.
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About the same cycle that it showed up on pop FM radio back in the day.

At the peak of it's FM popularity it got to be like fingernails on a chalkboard. I couldn't listen to it for a while, but it doesn't bother me any more.
If I would have heard it once a day on a tropical beach vacation, I probably never would have gotten tired of it.
 
July 1983 should be easy peasy. Everyone has the same guess, so we're competing to see who can guess the #2 song.

I know my analysis of the year is missing a half dozen.

EARLIER
Men At Work "Down Under"
Toto "Africa"
Michael Jackson "Billie Jean"
Dexy's Midnight Runners "Come On Eileen"
Michael Jackson "Beat It"
Irene Cara "Flashdance"

#1 Every Breath You Take
#2 Electric Avenue

LATER
Michael Sambello "Maniac"
Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams"
Billy Joel "Tell Her About It"
Bonnie Tyler "Total Eclipse"
Kenny/Dolly "Islands In The Stream"
Lionel Richie "All Night Long"
 
Would you all like to know what I remember most about Michael Sembello's Maniac? No? Okay, in the first episode of Punky Brewster, September 16, 1984, Henry Warnimont discovers Punky and her dog Brandon living in a vacant apartment. She had been abandoned by her mother. Punky is listening to the radio and dancing and singing along while Maniac plays. Henry becomes her foster father and eventually adopts her. She sang the song in several other episodes.

A revival of the Punky Brewster series debuted February 25, 2021 on Peacock. On the first episode, "Making Room For Izzy," Punky is listening to her car radio – and Maniac is playing.

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1983/07/16

40. LAWYERS IN LOVE – JACKSON BROWNE
39. THE SALT IN MY TEARS – MARTIN BRILEY
38. THE BORDER - AMERICA
37. ALWAYS SOMETHING THERE TO REMIND ME – NAKED EYES
36. ROLL ME AWAY – BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND
35. I’LL TUMBLE 4 YA – CULTURE CLUB
34. AFFAIR OF THE HEART – RICK SPRINGFIELD
33. BEAT IT – MICHAEL JACKSON
32. STOP IN THE NAME OF LOVE – THE HOLLIES
31. CHINA GIRL – DAVID BOWIE
30. ROCK ‘N’ ROLL IS KING - ELO
29. ROCK OF AGES – DEF LEPPARD
28. SAVED BY ZERO – THE FIXX
27. TAKE ME TO HEART - QUARTERFLASH
26. WISHING (IF I HAD A PHOTOGRAPH OF YOU) – A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS
25. IT’S A MISTAKE – MEN AT WORK
24. (KEEP FEELING) FASCINATION – THE HUMAN LEAGUE
23. SHE’S A BEAUTY – THE TUBES
22. FAMILY MAN – DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES
21. HOT GIRLS IN LOVE - LOVERBOY
20. CUTS LIKE A KNIFE – BRYAN ADAMS
19. MANIAC – MICHAEL SEMBELLO
18. DON’T LET IT END - STYX
17. ALL THIS LOVE - DEBARGE
16. BABY JANE – ROD STEWART
15. SWEET DREAMS - EURYTHMICS
14. SHE WORKS HARD FOR THE MONEY – DONNA SUMMER
13. 1999 - PRINCE
12. I’M STILL STANDING – ELTON JOHN
11. STAND BACK – STEVIE NICKS
10. TIME (CLOCK OF THE HEART) – CULTURE CLUB
9. IS THERE SOMETHING I SHOULD KNOW – DURAN DURAN
8. OUR HOUSE - MADNESS
7. TOO SHY - KAJAGOOGOO
6. COME DANCING – THE KINKS
5. WANNA BE STARTIN’ SOMETHIN' – MICHAEL JACKSON
4. NEVER GONNA LET YOU GO – SERGIO MENDES
3. FLASHDANCE….WHAT A FEELING – IRENE CARA
2. ELECTRIC AVENUE – EDDY GRANT
1. EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE – THE POLICE
 
Between 1981 and 1984, Martin Briley released six singles in the United States. The Salt In My Tears was the only one that charted. It peaked at #36 in July 1983. Oddly, it was his only single to be released in his native England – and not until September 1983. Before launching a solo career, Briley had been a member of British progressive-rock band Greenslade and for three years toured and recorded with Ian Hunter. He also worked as a session musician (guitar, keyboards) in New York City. Here is Briley's final single, It Shouldn't Have To Hurt That Much – and I think it shouldn't have failed to make the Hot 100.


 
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