Today's AT40
Jul. 22nd, 2007 01:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearJuly, 1984.
We're painting (or failing to, as we keep having to spackle walls and that requires 24 hour drying time so we're at only 1 wall of 5 we can actually do today :( ) so I haven't commented much on this week of hits by Van Halen (Panama), Steve Perry (Oh Sherry playing now, the followup came on earlier), Ray Parker Jr (Ghostbusters), Chicago (Stay the Night), Night Ranger (Sister Christian - I still don't "get" what the hell he's trying to say in it), Lionel Ritchie (does it matter?), Elton John (Sad Songs) and many more. Yeah, it was very much a "guy" summer.
Ok, Madonna's first big hit, Borderline, just broke the trend, but only for a bit as Rod Stewart (Infatuation) and The Cars (Magic) make their marks in the top 15.
Movie of the summer hit parade was Footloose, which so far has had 3 songs in the top including Kenny Loggins's I'm Free and Let's Hear it for the Boy (another breaking the guy thing going on).
Now, ZZ Top's Legs, one where, according to the lyrics, they AREN'T swearing on air, but damned if it doesn't sound like it:
And later:
Was it just me?
Another footloose song (Almost Paradise) and now Cindy Lauper's Time After Time (as Lady Leo posted last week!) and Duran Duran's Reflex. Now Laura Brannigan's Self Control.
Bruce's Dancin' in the Dark comes in at #2, making a new #1: Prince's When Doves Cry, from Purple Rain.
Gotta admit, I kinda helped that: I bought the 45 for it back then and still have it now. :)
We're painting (or failing to, as we keep having to spackle walls and that requires 24 hour drying time so we're at only 1 wall of 5 we can actually do today :( ) so I haven't commented much on this week of hits by Van Halen (Panama), Steve Perry (Oh Sherry playing now, the followup came on earlier), Ray Parker Jr (Ghostbusters), Chicago (Stay the Night), Night Ranger (Sister Christian - I still don't "get" what the hell he's trying to say in it), Lionel Ritchie (does it matter?), Elton John (Sad Songs) and many more. Yeah, it was very much a "guy" summer.
Ok, Madonna's first big hit, Borderline, just broke the trend, but only for a bit as Rod Stewart (Infatuation) and The Cars (Magic) make their marks in the top 15.
Movie of the summer hit parade was Footloose, which so far has had 3 songs in the top including Kenny Loggins's I'm Free and Let's Hear it for the Boy (another breaking the guy thing going on).
Now, ZZ Top's Legs, one where, according to the lyrics, they AREN'T swearing on air, but damned if it doesn't sound like it:
Shes got hair down to her fanny.I kept hearing that second line as "She's got her tits set", as in, she's had either a job or a really good visit to Victoria's Secret.
Shes kinda jet set, try undo her panties
And later:
Oh, I want her, said, I got to have her,I kept hearing as "Oh, I want her. Shit, I got to have her"
The girl is alright, shes alright.
Was it just me?
Another footloose song (Almost Paradise) and now Cindy Lauper's Time After Time (as Lady Leo posted last week!) and Duran Duran's Reflex. Now Laura Brannigan's Self Control.
Bruce's Dancin' in the Dark comes in at #2, making a new #1: Prince's When Doves Cry, from Purple Rain.
Gotta admit, I kinda helped that: I bought the 45 for it back then and still have it now. :)
