Today's AT40...
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Yet another of those 10 weeks of the guitar-less Foreigner at #2 with Waiting for a Girl Like You. Physical was #1, and if my recaps of two shows from later in that year are to be believed, my guess is that ONJ has one more week up there before we finally started getting sick of the video...not that I had MTV at the time, of course.
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faireraven .
Not much to add for a while. More cheese 1-hit-wonder ballads, plus that Alabama "Love in the First Degree", but finally a song that achieved college-party immortality: Queen & Bowie's Under Pressure. There is some hope left... :)
Higher up, some songs I liked at the time but now am kinda blah about, like Paul Davis's Cool Night and late Fogleberg's Leader of the Band. Among the arena-rock stars, we've had Don't Stop Believing (on it's way out) and Open Arms (on it's way up to its long stay at #2) from Journey.
But otherwise, it's been ballad central and pretty ignorable...
Well, Casey is going to list all of the works/composers in the first "Hooked on Classics" medley (at #11), which aught to be interesting. Heh, it was the Royal Philharmonic. I got all but 2 (an excerpt from Marriage of Figaro - Mozart's Operas still aren't on my "drop the needle" level yet, and the Grieg Piano Concert I still need to get more memorized - i do have both of those works but haven't dug into them yet). not too shabby.
After (yet) another ballad (Juice Newton's Sweetest Thing) we have a lost but brilliant track from Lindsey Buckingham, Trouble. More of his very light-touch guitar work like he used on the Mirage album around the same time.
Into the top 4 and a few other super-hitmakers are there like the soon-to-be #1 I Can't Go For That from Hall & Oats. Followed by the song that would actually argue with it for the #1 spot for some time, J. Giels Band's Centerfold. Go fig.
And after that, the two record breakers stay there - #2's Foreigner stays at #2 about to break that duration record (9 out of its record 11), followed by ONJ's Physical, having just tied the record for most time at #1 (10 weeks, with You Light Up My Life and some early Elvis track).
And that's that, I'm outta here.
Yet another of those 10 weeks of the guitar-less Foreigner at #2 with Waiting for a Girl Like You. Physical was #1, and if my recaps of two shows from later in that year are to be believed, my guess is that ONJ has one more week up there before we finally started getting sick of the video...not that I had MTV at the time, of course.
- Abacab starts things off at #40, but it's the single edit that cuts out the keyboard solo, but that's followed up by...
the first of FAR too many ballads (so yeah, I'm not going to be commenting much), - Barry Manilow's Somewhere Down the Road.
Oh, and taking care of a sick
faireraven .Not much to add for a while. More cheese 1-hit-wonder ballads, plus that Alabama "Love in the First Degree", but finally a song that achieved college-party immortality: Queen & Bowie's Under Pressure. There is some hope left... :)
Higher up, some songs I liked at the time but now am kinda blah about, like Paul Davis's Cool Night and late Fogleberg's Leader of the Band. Among the arena-rock stars, we've had Don't Stop Believing (on it's way out) and Open Arms (on it's way up to its long stay at #2) from Journey.
But otherwise, it's been ballad central and pretty ignorable...
Well, Casey is going to list all of the works/composers in the first "Hooked on Classics" medley (at #11), which aught to be interesting. Heh, it was the Royal Philharmonic. I got all but 2 (an excerpt from Marriage of Figaro - Mozart's Operas still aren't on my "drop the needle" level yet, and the Grieg Piano Concert I still need to get more memorized - i do have both of those works but haven't dug into them yet). not too shabby.
After (yet) another ballad (Juice Newton's Sweetest Thing) we have a lost but brilliant track from Lindsey Buckingham, Trouble. More of his very light-touch guitar work like he used on the Mirage album around the same time.
Into the top 4 and a few other super-hitmakers are there like the soon-to-be #1 I Can't Go For That from Hall & Oats. Followed by the song that would actually argue with it for the #1 spot for some time, J. Giels Band's Centerfold. Go fig.
And after that, the two record breakers stay there - #2's Foreigner stays at #2 about to break that duration record (9 out of its record 11), followed by ONJ's Physical, having just tied the record for most time at #1 (10 weeks, with You Light Up My Life and some early Elvis track).
And that's that, I'm outta here.
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