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3. Where Do Broken Hearts Go
   
2. Devil Inside
   
1. Get Out of My Dreams, Get Into My Car (I still don't get it)
   

10. ...more crap: Taylor Dayne's Prove Your Love
    
9. Natalie Cole's cover of Pink Cadallac.  boy we're not doing very well this week.  6 artists I like, and only 1 song I *really* like (and it was a one-hit-wonder).
   
8. The real Gloria Estefan with Miami Sound Machine, not that you'd notice with the ballad Anything For You.  Actually, hearing it today I notice the band contributing in a very stylish, understated way, in the backing tracks, an aspect definitely missing in her early 90s "solo" hits.
   
7. Mall-goddess (at the time) Tiffany covers the Beatles with I Saw Him Standing There
   
6. Aerosmith's comeback continues with Angel
   
5. Pebbles's Girlfriend.  bleh.
   
4. Casey reads off a whole bunch of critics praising Terrence Trent D'arby and Wishing Well as "the future of pop music", while I laugh my ass off at how history turned him into a one-hit wonder REAL fast.
   
3. Billy Ocean's Car falls from #1.
   
2. INXS hold onto their #2 spot with Devil Inside, tragically meaning that
   
1. Whitney Houston is #1 with Where Do Broken Hearts Go.

3. The Best of Times from Styx
   
2. Woman from John Lennon
   
1. Rapture from Blondie (short version that really cuts the guitar solo to shreds...bleh)
   

10. The Police with the first version of Don't Stand So Close To Me, one that would stay very popular long after its AT40 time, thanks to the popularity of the video on MTV.
    
9. REO Speedwagon's even earlier top ballad (and former #1), Keep On Loving You
   
8. Steve Winwood's biggest hit before Higher Love, While You See A Chance
   
7. Don McLean's terribly boring cover of Roy Orbison's Crying.  bleh.
   
6. Sheena Easton's Morning Train, in her pop pre-Prince days.
   
5. Grover Washington Jr with Bill Withers on Just the Two of Us, recently sampled into a Will Smith rap.
   
4. John Lennon's Woman falls from #2, but remains a great song forever, I think.
   
3. Styx's Best of Times holds here.  I know I used to like this once, but today?  Not really sure.  Maybe heard it just too many times over the years, or just realizing that DeYoung never really quite achieved some of his more lofty goals over the years, and I think this song, good as it is, doesn't quite reach where he really aimed.
   
2. Rapture drops to #2.  Strange stuff.  I never quite ever really liked this, and I'm wondering if my general distaste for rap was pretty much always there from this song onward? (Weird Al's work being obvious exceptions, of course).
   
1. Hall & Oats start their run of the biggest duo of the 80s with Kiss on my List

• 3 Secret Lovers - Atlantic Starr (bleh)
  
• 2 Sara - Starship (I liked it then...I got over that), down from #1 the week before that
  
• 1 These Dreams - Heart (Still have a fondness)
  

• 10 Loverboy joins the ballad-band bandwagon with This Could Be The Night.
• 9 Sly Fox's Let's Go All The Way.  Really never did "get" this one.  Still don't.
  
• 8 Mickey Thomas's Starship's Sara starts its rapid descent, falling from #2.
  
  And just when you thought I could go a week without a mention of the "where's your fucking guitars, man", Foreigner's I Want to Know What Love Is ended up a long distance dedication.  *sigh*.  As inescapable as "I Will Survive"...
  
  ...ok, maybe not.
  
  
• 7 Elton John's song about a girl named Nikita (nevermind that, as anybody who watched pop-up video knows, that's a boy's name in Russia...was Elton hinting at something back then? ;) )
• 6 INXS smash their way to a renewed fame with What You Need
• 5 My absolute all time least fav Prince song ever.  And I do mean that.  Kiss.
• 4 John Cougar Mellencamp's ROCK in the USA.
  
  odd memory associated with this: at the time, the PE class was "conditioning", where we were alternating between weight-room and aerobics.  This song was one of the songs we did Aerobics to, so it sticks out with that.  Similarly, last week (and maybe this week's) #1, These Dreams, I first really got to hear playing over the radio in the weight room, so as soon as I hear it, I think of that room (and how embarrassingly skinny I was at the time).
  
  
• 3 Atlantic Starr are still holding at #3 with Secret Lovers.  meh...
• 2 Nope, Heart drops to #2 with the Nancy Wilson led These Dreams

1. Falco's Rock Me Amadeus

• 10 Kool and the Gang are still going with Misled
• 9 Sheena Easton's first Prince-created single, Sugarwalls
• 8 Foreigner wants to know where their guitars went...and what love is, while they're at it.
• 7 Pointer Sisters with one of many Beverly Hills Cop songs, Neutron Dance
• 6 Julian Lennon's Much Too Late For Goodbyes.
• 5 Madonna's namesake, Material Girl, is the biggest jumper in the countdown today.  By this point, I think we were all pretty sure she wasn't going anywhere compared to most pop contemporaries...
• 4 David Lee Roth's "I still have a career, really!" cover of California Girls.
• 3 Glen Fry with the other huge Beverly Hills Cop song, The Heat Is On
• 2 Wham's Careless Whisper, one which, like all Wham songs, I never really heard until after it was already out of the main pop scene. Never did understand why.
  

1. that cliche-ridden powerballad, drilled back into our consciousness by Hallmark this past year, REO Speedwagon's Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore

• 10 Miami Sound Machine's Can't Stay Away, though technically, things were really being credited "Gloria Estefan and ..." by this time (and XM just credits it to her and not the band at all)
  
• 9 Paul Carrack's decent Don't Shed a Tear
  
• 8 Belinda Carlisle with I Get Weak.
  
  I note this week that it has *3* female singers who later would do photo spreads for Playboy.
  
  
• 7 Foreigner, Say You Will, Say You Won't (play a guitar tonite...).  No, I'll never stop picking on them.
  
• 6 Seasons Change also drops out of the top spot quite a bit.
  
• 5 Eric Carmen's Dirty Dancing hit, Hungry Eyes.
  
• 4 Rick Astley rick-rolls us with Never Gonna Give You Up.  Guess in '88, you gotta expect it.  In the UK it had been a hit for a year already.
  
• 3 Patrick Swayze also Dirty Dances with She's Like the Wind
  
• 2 What Have I Done To Deserve This stays at number 2 as others move around it.  The "Open Arms" and "Waiting for a Girl Like You" of the late 80s...I really didn't like this at the time, but 20 years later it's become one of my fav Pet Shop Boys songs.
  
  And the new #1...
  
  I HAVE NO IDEA 'CAUSE XM JUST CUT IT OFF EARLY AUGH!
  
  fortunately wikipedia usually has the number ones, so here it is:
  
  
• 1 Father Figure from George Michael

• 10: the covers continue with Phil Collins saying You Can't Hurry Love
• 9: The Stray Cats Strut.  oddly, the b-side for their other single of this time (Rock This Town) had You Can't Hurry Love as a b-side.  Another where the video was out months before it finally hit the top 40
• 8: The Clash Rock the Casbah, another video that never stops playing
• 7: Another Country Ballad, Eddie Rabbit with Crystal Gayle, Just You And I
• 6: Hall and Oats's other huge one from H2O, a former #1 still holding on at #6 for 3 weeks, Maneater
• 5: whoa, Toto's Africa drops out of the #1 spot.
• 4: Bob Seger's Shame on the Moon.  meh...
  
• 3: Marvin Gaye's Sexual Healing, a song I really remain tired of.
• 2:Patty Austin and James Ingraham duet with Baby Come to Me, another 70s cheesy ballad hangover
  
  but the new Number 1...

• 1: Men at Work, with Down Under
  
  yes: I own that 45, too!
  

3. Party all the Time
   
2. Say You Say Me
   
1. That's What Friends Are For (which will stay there forever, as it's still #1 according to a Feb '86 recap I just looked up).
   

• 10. Paul McCartney's Spies Like Us.  Cute song for a somewhat crappy movie.  The video pretty much showed every funny sequence in 1/30th the time.
• Eddie Murphy's only hit, Party All The Time drops big time to #9.  Eddie at the time says he wanted to be a variety artist, like old school Vaudeville acts that sang and did comedy sketches.  Raw, unfortunately for that dream, would paint him strictly as a raunchy (if brilliant) comic for years until he started doing the kids films.  Today, "Donkey" can sing, but "Eddie Murphy" is still just an actor.
• Klimaxx says "I Miss You" and acroyear70 says "I didn't miss this song...and still don't"
• Another overplayed video, Dire Straights doing the Walk of Life
• Bruce gets his 7th hit from Born in the USA, My Hometown, tying Michael Jackson's Thriller for most hits from single album.  I think the only other to get that to that bar was Def Leppard's Histeria, also with 7.
  
• 5, I'm Your Man from Wham.  A VERY different meaning, now that we know far more about George Michael than we did 23 years ago...
• Stevie Nicks says you can Talk To Me
• Survivor's Burning Heart, also from Rocky 4, is at #3.  As I wrote before, I had no idea this wasn't the same singer as Eye of the Tiger, who'd left due to voice problems (but rejoined years later).  The original singer does beer commercial jingles now.
  
• Say You Say Me from Lionel Richie holds at #2, leaving the #1 song intact...
• That's What Friends are For.

• Union of the Snake
• Say it isn't So
• Say Say Say (which as we know from last week it was the #1 song of the year, not saying much for the year to come)

40: Send me an Angel from Real Life

10: Richie continues (this one on its way up), Running with the Night
9: Culture Club's Karma Chameleon
8: Elton John guesses Why They Call It The Blues
7: Break My Stride, from Matthew Wilder.  faireraven loves this but I was 'meh then and 'meh now.
6: The Romantics hear you Talking In Your Sleep.  Liked it, but since I started my 80s revival, it's come up a little too much on XM Radio's playlists.
5: ONJ's Twist of Fate, which really grew on me recently in my fitness craze given the tempo.  Probably was a big aerobics song (after Physical, which started the craze).  Written by the same guy who wrote Physical and much of the non-ELO tracks from Xanadu.  This would be the last hit he'd write.
4: Duran Duran's Union of the Snake dropped out of the top 3.
3: Say It Isn't So helps Hall & Oats surpass The Everly Brothers as top duo of all time
2: Yes's Owner of a Lonely Heart from 90125 hits #2 (on its way to #1, Yes's biggest anything ever).  Most probably know this (not sure if Casey ever did), but Trevor Rabin had this sketched and demoed before he met Squire and White (nevermind Jon, who joined late in the process), and had gotten the idea for the original riff while sitting on the toilet.  Some classic Yes fans consider that prophetic of the Rabin years, but I didn't care.

Oddly, Michael Jackson's Thriller is still the #1 album, even though he's not in the countdown with anything from it, as his single is #1 without being actually from that album:

1: Say Say Say

10. Cyndi Lauper's All Through The Night.  I quite like this one, actually.
    
9. Pat Benatar's We Belong. Did any of us know she was actually 31 by then?  Of course, so was Cyndi Lauper, too.  Pat was older by only 6 months.
   
8. "Teen Idols" Wham (his words, not mine), with Wake Me Up Before You Go Go.  As I've written before, I tended to find out about Wham songs AFTER they peaked, and I've never been sure why.
   
7. New Edition, the boy band (average age at the time, 15 1/2) that would spin off Bell Biv DeVoe and platinum albums from the other members including Bobby  Brown, with Cool It Now.
   
6. Paul McCartney, with the help of David Gilmour, gives his regards to broad street with No More Lonely Nights
   
5. Robert Plant and his Honeydrippers on their retro hit Sea of Love.  Not a big fan of the song's style, then or now, so this has never gripped me at all.  I remain ungripped.
   
4. Chaka Kahn's I Feel For You.  Always a reason to switch channels *real fast*, then and now.  bleh.
   
3. Madonna's Like a Virgin.  I won't bother repeating Gallagher's comment at the time.
   
2. Duran Duran's Wild Boys, the obligatory studio track for their live album.  Not my fav, and I've never quite been sure what they were trying to achieve.  In hindsight, they probably weren't either, which is why they took time off to do Power Station and Arcadia for a couple of years.
   
   And the current number one...
   
   
1. Hall and Oats's Out of Touch, their 6th (and last) number one hit.