Today's AT40
Mar. 25th, 2007 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearMarch 1983!
Last week's #1: Michael Jackson's biggest hit, Billy Jean. Will it hold on? I really couldn't care less, then (7th grade) or now, but I'm pretty sure it does.
Rock bands were starting to get harder again, as seen by #40: Night Ranger's Don't Tell Me.
More as we go. Right now, throwing away papers in a grand effort to actually be able to move furniture in the computer room.
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"Lies Lies Lies YEAH!" - Early Thompson Twins.
continuing more of the British New Wave invasion - ABC's Poison Arrow. Aside from a couple of rock things, this was really the type of music I was most into, following from my very first 45 the year before, Human League's Don't You Want Me.
and yet more - Adam Ant's Goody Two Shoes. Not as big a fan of this as others were, but it's good party music, I suppose.
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faireraven hadn't heard the original Jeopardy before; only the Wierd Al parody. go fig.
oh, now THERE's some serious memory fodder: the light-prog sound of late-era SAGA with "On The Loose". I remember the keyboard riff sounding cool, but was too young to connect it to the same late-prog (of the time) canadian sounds of then Rush and Triumph. The last stand before Yes's 90125 would change prog's direction for half a decade. Some *serious* speed in there.
After The Fire's Der Kommissar. The rendition isn't quite as good as Falco's original, but the video kicked Falco's ass. He wouldn't really have a good one 'til Rock Me Amadeus (a song for which the American disco mix SUCKED compared to the melodic and lyrical original).
oh there's a bit of history - Sammy Hagar's first hit, "Your Love is Driving me Crazy". Little would we know 1) Van Halen was about to top the world, and 2) Hagar would be leading them while they are "standing" there. (sorry for the pun...)
It is a total violation of reality, just as much as whenever Tony Snow speaks, for anyone to claim that "Pass the Duchy on the Left Hand Side" is NOT about dope.
country-pop's last stand (the first time 'round) - Eddie Rabbit's Just You and I (with Crystal Gale). It'll be a while before country would get that big in the pop scene, given the British New Wave, More soul acts following Michael Jackson's success, the return of rock, and finally the revived dance scene surrounding Madonna.
Eric Clapton towards the end of his hick phase, "I've got a rock n roll heart". He got better again...
now THERE's the 1983 I loved - Dexy's Midnite Runner's Come On Eileen! I hadn't yet made the "celtic" connection with them and Big Country at the time - I just knew I loved it.
gee, continuing to expand the stat: for a while, Air Supply was the most requested band for Long Distance Dedications, and here's another for their major (well, minor-key) ballad, Sweet Dreams.
to quote Gallagher: "Does Joe Jackson HAVE to star in his own videos?"
Another song of greatness, Men At Work's Down Under. This was a song (and group) that, like Flock of Seagulls, got there mostly because of MTV. Their videos were in heavy rotation months before they would actually make it to the top 40 as hits when radio finally caught up. I was watching this one back in August of '82, 7 months before this countdown puts it in the top 20.
One of those inescapable songs, Golden Earing's Twilight Zone. This one remained in extremely heavy rotation well into the late 80s and early 90s on DC101 and even today is far too often played on XM's 46, 49, and 8, for its relative popularity at the time (it only reached #3, guys...)
the beginning of the end for Styx: Mr. Roboto. I loved the song, and still like it today, though I can now objectively hear how it, and the whole concept album, needed just a little bit more than the rest of the band were willing to give DeYoung. This was my "all time fav album" at the time and through to the early summer of '83.
oh, what we know now. if you're going to do a video, DON'T "AIR GUITAR". No, not the career-ending video of Billy Squire, but the first from Frontiers, Journey's Separate Ways, in the top 10. Odd how early this was released ahead of the Frontiers album. VH would be the same - Jump was released well in advance of 1984.
"You are the sun, you are the rain, i've lost my mind and gone insane..." - parody lyric by an old friend of mine at the time. Yes, Lionel Richie's here today.
"Back on the Chain Gang" - I wish I knew what it was, but I simply NEVER really liked the Pretenders. "Brass in Pocket" in particular is a song that I just loathe.
Hungry Like The Wolf, D2 finally make it in America after years of being popular in Britain. Again a case of a video that was on MTV rotation months before the record hit the shelves. Stray Cat Strut is #3, another song that was heavy on MTV before the single caught on.
Bob Segar's depressingly slow Blame it on Midnight comes in at #2, keeping Michael Jackson at #1 (also on the album, dance, and soul charts). Go fig.
and that's it for me, it's lunch time.
(btw, while this was going on, we reduced a room half overflowing with paper to 2 boxes, one stack of magazines, and so far 4 bags of trash and shreadies out the door. and we're still going...
Last week's #1: Michael Jackson's biggest hit, Billy Jean. Will it hold on? I really couldn't care less, then (7th grade) or now, but I'm pretty sure it does.
Rock bands were starting to get harder again, as seen by #40: Night Ranger's Don't Tell Me.
More as we go. Right now, throwing away papers in a grand effort to actually be able to move furniture in the computer room.
...
"Lies Lies Lies YEAH!" - Early Thompson Twins.
continuing more of the British New Wave invasion - ABC's Poison Arrow. Aside from a couple of rock things, this was really the type of music I was most into, following from my very first 45 the year before, Human League's Don't You Want Me.
and yet more - Adam Ant's Goody Two Shoes. Not as big a fan of this as others were, but it's good party music, I suppose.
heh -
faireraven hadn't heard the original Jeopardy before; only the Wierd Al parody. go fig.oh, now THERE's some serious memory fodder: the light-prog sound of late-era SAGA with "On The Loose". I remember the keyboard riff sounding cool, but was too young to connect it to the same late-prog (of the time) canadian sounds of then Rush and Triumph. The last stand before Yes's 90125 would change prog's direction for half a decade. Some *serious* speed in there.
After The Fire's Der Kommissar. The rendition isn't quite as good as Falco's original, but the video kicked Falco's ass. He wouldn't really have a good one 'til Rock Me Amadeus (a song for which the American disco mix SUCKED compared to the melodic and lyrical original).
oh there's a bit of history - Sammy Hagar's first hit, "Your Love is Driving me Crazy". Little would we know 1) Van Halen was about to top the world, and 2) Hagar would be leading them while they are "standing" there. (sorry for the pun...)
It is a total violation of reality, just as much as whenever Tony Snow speaks, for anyone to claim that "Pass the Duchy on the Left Hand Side" is NOT about dope.
country-pop's last stand (the first time 'round) - Eddie Rabbit's Just You and I (with Crystal Gale). It'll be a while before country would get that big in the pop scene, given the British New Wave, More soul acts following Michael Jackson's success, the return of rock, and finally the revived dance scene surrounding Madonna.
Eric Clapton towards the end of his hick phase, "I've got a rock n roll heart". He got better again...
now THERE's the 1983 I loved - Dexy's Midnite Runner's Come On Eileen! I hadn't yet made the "celtic" connection with them and Big Country at the time - I just knew I loved it.
gee, continuing to expand the stat: for a while, Air Supply was the most requested band for Long Distance Dedications, and here's another for their major (well, minor-key) ballad, Sweet Dreams.
to quote Gallagher: "Does Joe Jackson HAVE to star in his own videos?"
Another song of greatness, Men At Work's Down Under. This was a song (and group) that, like Flock of Seagulls, got there mostly because of MTV. Their videos were in heavy rotation months before they would actually make it to the top 40 as hits when radio finally caught up. I was watching this one back in August of '82, 7 months before this countdown puts it in the top 20.
One of those inescapable songs, Golden Earing's Twilight Zone. This one remained in extremely heavy rotation well into the late 80s and early 90s on DC101 and even today is far too often played on XM's 46, 49, and 8, for its relative popularity at the time (it only reached #3, guys...)
the beginning of the end for Styx: Mr. Roboto. I loved the song, and still like it today, though I can now objectively hear how it, and the whole concept album, needed just a little bit more than the rest of the band were willing to give DeYoung. This was my "all time fav album" at the time and through to the early summer of '83.
oh, what we know now. if you're going to do a video, DON'T "AIR GUITAR". No, not the career-ending video of Billy Squire, but the first from Frontiers, Journey's Separate Ways, in the top 10. Odd how early this was released ahead of the Frontiers album. VH would be the same - Jump was released well in advance of 1984.
"You are the sun, you are the rain, i've lost my mind and gone insane..." - parody lyric by an old friend of mine at the time. Yes, Lionel Richie's here today.
"Back on the Chain Gang" - I wish I knew what it was, but I simply NEVER really liked the Pretenders. "Brass in Pocket" in particular is a song that I just loathe.
Hungry Like The Wolf, D
Bob Segar's depressingly slow Blame it on Midnight comes in at #2, keeping Michael Jackson at #1 (also on the album, dance, and soul charts). Go fig.
and that's it for me, it's lunch time.
(btw, while this was going on, we reduced a room half overflowing with paper to 2 boxes, one stack of magazines, and so far 4 bags of trash and shreadies out the door. and we're still going...
