Today's AT40...

...probably won't be heavily covered, as I have to do a lot of cleaning and no in the room that has the computer.  Maybe I'll get lucky and it's one I've already done, or less lucky as it'll be one that sucks...

and it is...March 20, 1982, in my 6th grade year and first year really caring about it.  Last Week...

• #3 I Love Rock n Roll
• #2 Open Arms
• #1 Centerfold

And I believe this will be the week where #3 and #1 swap around Journey's only #2 that stays there, I week I definitely remember, 27 years ago...Anyways, I've covered this part of 1982 several times before, and it is often ballad-heavy (a Feb 1982 had 11 ballads in a row)and full of crossover-country (ah, the days of Alabama and Eddie Rabbit), as MTV hadn't quite brought the New Wave into the mainstream, so you'll get random bullet-thoughts rather than song-by-song lists this time 'round. (ok, up to 30 and i'm still tagging each one...guess I lied...)

( so here we go... )

and into the top ten we go...

• 10 Something I never really had 'til the (terrible in hindsight) Atari version, Pac Man Fever
• 9 The Cars Shake It Up, one which I really liked and liked even more when I finally got to see the video that would still be in modest rotation on MTV during the summer @ my cousin's.
• 8 Diana Ross's Mirror Mirror, owing a lot more to the disco 70s we just left, much like Kool and the Gang's output at the time.
• 7 ONJ's Make a Move On Me, her followup to one of the tops of the decade, Physical.  This didn't do nearly as well, as we now know.
  
• 6 The GoGos have still Got The Beat (with the #1 album).  Strange to see this video, where while singing a straight-out pop-rock song with some early 60s retro to it, they act like they're still the punk band of 3 years earlier that had no idea how to even play their instruments.
• 5 the 4th group to have their first 6 hit songs chart into the top 5.  Joining the Jacksons, Elvis, and the Monkees (not the Beatles, impressively enough), Air Supply with Sweet Dreams. I was a HUGE fan of this at the time...I got better.
  
• 4 Stevie Wonder's sound hasn't really changed much from his start to this hit, That Girl.
  
  now we'll see if I was right...BINGO!
  
  
• 3 Centerfold
• 2 Open Arms
• 1 I Love Rock and Roll!

Now to continue cleaning...