80s0n8 Big 40 Countdown Schedule

[HecticArt]

No One was the surprise to me.
That song was huge!

 

[sadchild]

EARLIER
Dionne "That's What Friends"
Whitney "How Will I Know"
Mr Mister "Kyrie"
Starship "Sara"
Falco "Rock Me Amadeus"
Prince "Kiss"
Pet Shop Boys "West End Girls"

Spoiler: CANDIDATES

Robert Palmer "Addicted To Love"
Peter Gabriel "Sledgehammer"
Whitney Houston "Greatest Love Of All"
Genesis "Invisible Touch"

LATER
Steve Winwood "Higher Love"
Madonna "Papa Don't Preach"
Bananrama "Venus"
Berlin "Take My Breath Away"
Bon Jovi "You Give Love A Bad Name"
Human League "Human"
Bruce Hornsby "The Way It Is"
Bangles "Walk Like An Egyptian"

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

You've got the basic order right. You are missing a whole bunch including this week's #1. To be fair, I don't remember this song at all either.

 

[HecticArt]

Option 2.

 

[hwkn]

27 for 86.

 

[sadchild]

1986

40: LOVE TOUCH - ROD STEWART
39: DIGGING YOUR SCENE - BLOW MONKEYS
38: OUT OF MIND, OUT OF SIGHT - THE MODELS
37: IF SHE KNEW WHAT SHE WANTS - THE BANGLES
36: THE LOVE PARADE - DREAM ACADEMY
35: DREAMS - VAN HALEN
34: ONE HIT (TO THE BODY) - ROLLING STONES
33: MOUNTAINS - PRINCE
32: BAD BOY - MIAMI SOUND MACHINE
31: WEST END GIRLS - PET SHOP BOYS
30: WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY - JANET JACKSON
29: WHEN THE HEART RULES THE MIND - GTR
28: DANGER ZONE - KENNY LOGGINS
27: INVISIBLE TOUCH - GENESIS
26: LIKE NO OTHER NIGHT - .38 SPECIAL
25: YOUR WILDEST DREAMS - MOODY BLUES
24: NASTY - JANET JACKSON
23: LIKE A ROCK - BOB SEGER AND THE SILVER BULLET BAND
22: SLEDGEHAMMER - PETER GABRIEL
21: RAIN ON THE SCARECROW - JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP
20: TUFF ENUFF - FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS
19: VIENNA CALLING - FALCO
18: MOVE AWAY - CULTURE CLUB
17: BE GOOD TO YOURSELF - JOURNEY
16: IS IT LOVE - MR. MISTER
15: I WANNA BE A COWBOY - BOYS DON'T CRY
14: WHO'S JOHNNY - EL DEBARGE
13: IF YOU LEAVE - ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK
12: NOTHIN' AT ALL - HEART
11: HOLDING BACK THE YEARS - SIMPLY RED
10: SOMETHING ABOUT YOU - LEVEL 42
9: ALL I NEED IS A MIRACLE - MIKE & THE MECHANICS
8: NO ONE IS TO BLAME - HOWARD JONES
7: A DIFFERENT CORNER - GEORGE MICHAEL
6: GREATEST LOVE OF ALL - WHITNEY HOUSTON
5: CRUSH ON YOU - THE JETS
4: THERE'LL BE SAD SONGS (TO MAKE YOU CRY) - BILLY OCEAN
3: I CAN'T WAIT - NU SHOOZ
2: LIVE TO TELL -MADONNA
1: ON MY OWN - PATTI LaBELLE & MICHAEL McDONALD

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Surprisingly 16 good. A couple channel changers and a shoot the radio song from Whiney (I Will Always Love Hugh).

 

[Aaron]

28

 

[sadchild]

You've got the basic order right. You are missing a whole bunch including this week's #1.

Yep, exactly.

ACTUAL ORDER:

Prince "Kiss" #61
Robert Palmer "Addicted To Love" #45
Pet Shop Boys "West End Girls" #31
Whitney Houston "Greatest Love Of All" #6
Madonna "Live To Tell" #2
Patti/James "On My Own" #1
Billy Ocean "There'll Be Sad Songs" #4
Simply Red "Holding Back" #11
Genesis "Invisible Touch" #27
Peter Gabriel "Sledgehammer" #22
Steve Winwood "Higher Love" #77
Peter Cetera "Glory Of Love" #49

white: listed as 'earlier' or 'later'
green: my candidates
brown: missing from my list

 

[sadchild]

Good 13
Okay 9
Bad 18

27: INVISIBLE TOUCH - GENESIS

...and "Take Me Home" is on its way down at #43. Collins was a hit-writing monster in the mid/late 80s, alternating between Genesis and solo.

23: LIKE A ROCK - BOB SEGER AND THE SILVER BULLET BAND

My son: "Did he just say what I think he did??"
Me: "Probably not. It's a pretty tame song. What did you hear?"
My son: "I was working for penis."
Me: "Peanuts. It's an expression meaning not getting paid much money."

22: SLEDGEHAMMER - PETER GABRIEL

My guess this week.

7: A DIFFERENT CORNER - GEORGE MICHAEL

1: ON MY OWN - PATTI LaBELLE & MICHAEL McDONALD

At least one of the others picked this. Probably both. If not, someone else also went with "Sledgehammer" (but I doubt it). Either way, alone or with somebody else, I lose.

#80 Wild Blue "Fire With Fire"

Title track for a 1986 American romantic drama film "about a young woman from a Catholic boarding school who runs away with an escapee from a nearby prison camp".

No Wiki page for the band. Got signed under the name Jinx but a cabaret performer owned the name, so they had to change it.

"The band has higher hopes for their new single, 'International Language of Dance'"

How'd that work out?

No results found for site:billboard.com "International Language of Dance".

But not to worry, they're "big in Japan"...

"And we just found out that the movie `Fire With Fire` recently opened in Japan, and we've got a really good vibe going with the song over there."

More here:

WILD BLUE DEBUT ALBUM LEAVES JINX BEHIND

To the casual record store browser who encounters Wild Blue`s debut album, ”No More Jinx,” the title probably doesn`t mean much–except, perhaps, that this rock band believes (or h…

www.chicagotribune.com

#87 Del Fuegos "I Still Want You"

Frontman Dan Zanes went on to record children's music and got pretty successful. Used to hear him on Kids Place Live when my son was under 12.

Will never breach the top 40
#47 SOS Band "The Finest"
#52 Giuffria "I Must Be Dreaming"
#54 INXS "Listen Like Thieves"
#56 Magazine 60 "Don Quichotte"
#58 Art Of Noise "Peter Gunn"
#60 Psychedelic Furs "Pretty In Pink"
#62 Neil Diamond "Headed For The Future"
#63 Trans-X "Living on Video"
#69 Patti Auston "The Heat Of Heat"
#70 Stevie Nicks "Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You"
#71 EG Daily "Say It, Say It"
#72 Atlantic Starr "If Your Heart Isn't In It"
#73 Mai Tai "Female Intuition"
#74 Krokus "School's Out"
#78 Diana Ross "Chain Reaction"
#79 Kim Carnes "Divided Hearts"
#80 Wild Blue "Fire With Fire"
#82 John Eddie "Jungle Boy"
#83 John Cafferty "Voice Of America's Sons"
#84 New Edition "With You All The Way"
#85 Jackson Browne "In the Shape of a Heart"
#86 TKA "One Way Love"
#87 Del Fuegos "I Still Want You"
#89 David Foster/Olivia Newton-John "The Best Of Me"
#90 Stevie Wonder "Land of La La"
#95 Sly Fox "Stay True"
#96 Midnight Star "Headlines"
#97 Bourgeois Tagg "Mutual Surrender (What A Wonderful World)"

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Will never breach the top 40
#54 INXS "Listen Like Thieves"
#60 Psychedelic Furs "Pretty In Pink"
#63 Trans-X "Living on Video"

This weeks surprises.
INXS: thought it would have grazed the 40.
PIP: thought this would have been top 20.
Trans-X: played a lot up here. But they are Canadian probably why it didn't do as well in the USA.

 

[HecticArt]

17. That's a pretty good countdown for me.

My son: "Did he just say what I think he did??"
Me: "Probably not. It's a pretty tame song. What did you hear?"
My son: "I was working for penis."
Me: "Peanuts. It's an expression meaning not getting paid much money."

I hope that you added a "NTTAWWT"

#54 INXS "Listen Like Thieves"

That's a shame. I thought it would have made it to the mid 30s.

#58 Art Of Noise "Peter Gunn"

I love those guys. It's great that it made it this far, but would have liked to see it chart higher.

#60 Psychedelic Furs "Pretty In Pink"

That's a big surprise.

#87 Del Fuegos "I Still Want You"

I had forgotten all about the Del Fuegos.

#97 Bourgeois Tagg "Mutual Surrender (What A Wonderful World)"

I forgot about these guys too. I guess that's why they were down at 97.
I used to like their tune I Don't Mind At All back in the late 80s.

 

[seasalt43]

@HecticArt - I grabbed the peaked for the songs below:

That's a shame. I thought it would have made it to the mid 30s.

INXS "Listen Like Thieves" - peaked at this position

I love those guys. It's great that it made it this far, but would have liked to see it chart higher.

Art Of Noise "Peter Gunn" - peaked at #50

That's a big surprise.

Psychedelic Furs "Pretty In Pink" - peaked at #41

I had forgotten all about the Del Fuegos.

Del Fuegos "I Still Want You" - peaked at this position

I forgot about these guys too. I guess that's why they were down at 97.
I used to like their tune I Don't Mind At All back in the late 80s.

Bourgeois Tagg "Mutual Surrender (What A Wonderful World)" - peaked at #62

 

[seasalt43]

Will never breach the top 40
#47 SOS Band "The Finest"
#52 Giuffria "I Must Be Dreaming"
#54 INXS "Listen Like Thieves"
#56 Magazine 60 "Don Quichotte"
#58 Art Of Noise "Peter Gunn"
#60 Psychedelic Furs "Pretty In Pink"
#62 Neil Diamond "Headed For The Future"
#63 Trans-X "Living on Video"
#69 Patti Auston "The Heat Of Heat"
#70 Stevie Nicks "Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You"
#71 EG Daily "Say It, Say It"
#72 Atlantic Starr "If Your Heart Isn't In It"
#73 Mai Tai "Female Intuition"
#74 Krokus "School's Out"
#78 Diana Ross "Chain Reaction"
#79 Kim Carnes "Divided Hearts"
#80 Wild Blue "Fire With Fire"
#82 John Eddie "Jungle Boy"
#83 John Cafferty "Voice Of America's Sons"
#84 New Edition "With You All The Way"
#85 Jackson Browne "In the Shape of a Heart"
#86 TKA "One Way Love"
#87 Del Fuegos "I Still Want You"
#89 David Foster/Olivia Newton-John "The Best Of Me"
#90 Stevie Wonder "Land of La La"
#95 Sly Fox "Stay True"
#96 Midnight Star "Headlines"
#97 Bourgeois Tagg "Mutual Surrender (What A Wonderful World)"

I think this one may have been missed:
#92 "Feel the Heat" Jean Beauvior

 

[sadchild]

Psychedelic Furs "Pretty In Pink" - peaked at #41

Yeah, one of those songs that almost made it and should have. From the "I Can't Believe It's Not A Top 40"

#41
Beatles "From Me To You"
Bob Seger "Rock And Roll Never Forgets"
Cars "Good Times Roll"
Cars "It's All I Can Do"
David Bowie "Changes"
Elton John "Tiny Dancer"
Huey Lewis & The News "Workin' For A Livin'"
Nine Inch Nails "Closer"
Psychedelic Furs "Pretty In Pink"
ZZ Top "La Grange"

I think this one may have been missed:

Yes. Darn. I added it to my "1986 Never Top 40" list file, but then forgot to put in my post.

 

[seasalt43]

Yeah, one of those songs that almost made it and should have. From the "I Can't Believe It's Not A Top 40"

#41
Beatles "From Me To You"
Bob Seger "Rock And Roll Never Forgets"
Cars "Good Times Roll"
Cars "It's All I Can Do"
David Bowie "Changes"
Elton John "Tiny Dancer"
Huey Lewis & The News "Workin' For A Livin'"
Nine Inch Nails "Closer"
Psychedelic Furs "Pretty In Pink"
ZZ Top "La Grange"

I completely agree!

Yes. Darn. I added it to my "1986 Never Top 40" list file, but then forgot to put in my post.

No worries. I stumbled across it staring at the 100 for the week.

 

[MonoStereo]

1986

aka getting close to the end of my DJ "career".

38: OUT OF MIND, OUT OF SIGHT - THE MODELS

I always thought this one should've gotten way higher on the charts than it did. I think I still have the promo vinyl around here somewhere.

37: IF SHE KNEW WHAT SHE WANTS - THE BANGLES

Oh, Susanna...

36: THE LOVE PARADE - DREAM ACADEMY

A friend of mine was listening to their catalog last week ( one of those "An Album A Day" deals, & this year he's going chronologically thru a band's output before moving on to the next band ). Anyway, these guys hung in there longer than I realized.

31: WEST END GIRLS - PET SHOP BOYS

One of the rare mid-80's tunes that I never tire of, for whatever reason.

29: WHEN THE HEART RULES THE MIND - GTR

The inspiration for one of my all-time favorite reviews. One word : "SHT".

20: TUFF ENUFF - FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS

I always enjoyed that they had an album called "Butt Rockin'".

18: MOVE AWAY - CULTURE CLUB

I heard this sitting in the bank drive-thru - forgot how much I like this song.

15: I WANNA BE A COWBOY - BOYS DON'T CRY

Hated it then, hate it now. Although they were responsible for my getting to interview Warner Hodges from Jason & The Scorchers - one of my all-time favorite bands. Somebody thought it was a good idea for the Scorchers to open for BDC ( it wasn't ), & since we presented the show I had my choice of who to interview. I picked Warner, & my boss was not happy. Which made sense...we never played the Scorchers. But I wasn't passing up the chance to talk to someone whose work I loved so much. I've seen Warner a few times since over the years, & we're friends on Facebook. The world is weird.

10: SOMETHING ABOUT YOU - LEVEL 42

This one falls into the same category as the Pet Shop Boys - a song I've heard a gazillions times but never tire of. This one in particular gives me a warm feeling all over that I've never been able to explain. Just a perfect mid-80's pop song.

6: GREATEST LOVE OF ALL - WHITNEY HOUSTON

( stomps feet ) "SEXUAL CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Psychedelic Furs "Pretty In Pink" - peaked at #41

 

[HecticArt]

29: WHEN THE HEART RULES THE MIND - GTR

The inspiration for one of my all-time favorite reviews. One word : "SHT".
And it's not even a whole word!!!!!!

20: TUFF ENUFF - FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS

I always enjoyed that they had an album called "Butt Rockin'".

Where's that Bevis and Butthead pic?

15: I WANNA BE A COWBOY - BOYS DON'T CRY

Hated it then, hate it now. Although they were responsible for my getting to interview Warner Hodges from Jason & The Scorchers - one of my all-time favorite bands. Somebody thought it was a good idea for the Scorchers to open for BDC ( it wasn't ), & since we presented the show I had my choice of who to interview. I picked Warner, & my boss was not happy. Which made sense...we never played the Scorchers. But I wasn't passing up the chance to talk to someone whose work I loved so much. I've seen Warner a few times since over the years, & we're friends on Facebook. The world is weird.

I didn't like it than, but have grown to like it. It's just a silly song with a good hook.

10: SOMETHING ABOUT YOU - LEVEL 42

This one falls into the same category as the Pet Shop Boys - a song I've heard a gazillions times but never tire of. This one in particular gives me a warm feeling all over that I've never been able to explain. Just a perfect mid-80's pop song.

Those guys were killer musicians. They used some crazy time signatures and jazzy chords.

 

[scotchandcigar]

14 for me. We're just past the Hectic/Scotch crossover point.