Pulse Rankdown: 1987 Year-End Mainst. Rock Chart (complete)

[singingrulebritannia]

1) PM me (singingrulebritannia ) your rankings of the top 100 Mainstream Rock songs of 1987. Rank the songs by your preference from #1 (best) down to #100 (worst).
2) An inverse point system will be used to determine the point total for each song. Song #1 gets 100 points, #2 gets 99 points... all the way down to #100 which gets 1 point.
3) The due date for submission is Tuesday, July 21 at 11:59PM CT.
4) ALL songs must be ranked.
5) To avoid sending me a list with extra lines, please click BBCode below the text box before you paste your list.
6) The rankings of each participant will be posted when a song is revealed during this Rankdown.
7) You can make changes to your list but try not to do so excessively. Edits will not be accepted after reveals start.
8) For reference, here are the top 100 Mainstream Rock songs of 1987. The top 25 are from Billboard while the remaining 75 were calculated by peacebone (I Can't Believe It's Not Daryl!)

1. Lou Gramm - Midnight Blue
2. Steve Miller Band - I Want to Make the World Turn Around
3. U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
4. U2 - With or Without You
5. Pretenders - My Baby
6. Grateful Dead - Touch of Grey
7. The Georgia Satellites - Keep Your Hands to Yourself
8. Heart - Who Will You Run To
9. Robert Cray Band - Smoking Gun
10. John Mellencamp - Paper in Fire
11. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Jammin' Me
12. Eric Clapton - It's in the Way That You Use It
13. The Gregg Allman Band - I'm No Angel
14. Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly
15. Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer
16. Richard Marx - Don't Mean Nothing
17. Sammy Hagar - Give to Live
18. Fleetwood Mac - Seven Wonders
19. Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
20. R.E.M. - The One I Love
21. Bob Seger - Shakedown
22. Bryan Adams - Heat of the Night
23. Peter Wolf - Come as You Are
24. Boston - We're Ready
25. Boston - Cool the Engines
26. World Party - Ship of Fools
27. U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name
28. Frozen Ghost - Should I See
29. Peter Gabriel - Big Time
30. Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died in Your Arms
31. Def Leppard - Animal
32. Grateful Dead - Hell in a Bucket
33. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Runaway Trains
34. Lou Gramm - Ready or Not
35. Steve Winwood - The Finer Things
36. Eric Clapton - Tearing Us Apart
37. INXS with Jimmy Barnes - Good Times
38. Sammy Hagar - Winner Takes It All
39. Eddie Money - I Wanna Go Back
40. Pink Floyd - One Slip
41. Rush - Time Stand Still
42. Whitesnake - Is This Love
43. Billy Idol - Don't Need a Gun
44. The Alan Parsons Project - Standing on Higher Ground
45. Los Lobos - Shakin' Shakin' Shakes
46. Yes - Love Will Find a Way
47. David Bowie - Day-In Day-Out
48. Jon Butcher - Goodbye Saving Grace
49. Bryan Adams - Into the Fire
50. U2 - Bullet the Blue Sky
51. John Waite - These Times Are Hard for Lovers
52. Bryan Adams - Hearts on Fire
53. The Psychedelic Furs - Heartbreak Beat
54. Fleetwood Mac - Big Love
55. .38 Special - Back to Paradise
56. Bruce Hornsby and the Range - On the Western Skyline
57. Bruce Hornsby and the Range - Mandolin Rain
58. The Cars - Strap Me In
59. The Outfield - Since You've Been Gone
60. The Hooters - Johnny B.
61. REO Speedwagon - That Ain't Love
62. Great White - Rock Me
63. KBC Band - America
64. Cruzados - Bed of Lies
65. Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive
66. Aerosmith - Rag Doll
67. The Truth - Weapons of Love
68. Aerosmith - Dude (Looks Like a Lady)
69. Heart - Alone
70. John Mellencamp - Cherry Bomb
71. The Georgia Satellites - Battleship Chains
72. Patty Smyth - Never Enough
73. Crowded House - Something So Strong
74. Ann Wilson - The Best Man in the World
75. David Bowie - Time Will Crawl
76. Richard Marx - Should've Known Better
77. Mick Jagger - Throwaway
78. Bruce Springsteen - Brilliant Disguise
79. Fleetwood Mac - Isn't It Midnight
80. Whitesnake - Still of the Night
81. The Cars - You Are the Girl
82. Insiders - Ghost on the Beach
83. Little America - Walk on Fire
84. Eddie Money - Endless Nights
85. Rock & Hyde - Dirty Water
86. Icehouse - Crazy
87. Rush - Force Ten
88. Eric Clapton - Miss You
89. Don Henley - Who Owns This Place?
90. The Gregg Allman Band - Anything Goes
91. Benjamin Orr - Stay the Night
92. Boston - Can'tcha Say (You Still Believe Me)/Still in Love
93. Mason Ruffner - Gypsy Blood
94. Europe - The Final Countdown
95. Ric Ocasek - True to You
96. Night Ranger - The Secret of My Success
97. Starship - It's Not Over ('Til It's Over)
98. Roger Waters - Radio Waves
99. John Mellencamp - Hard Times for an Honest Man
100. Jon Astley - Jane's Getting Serious






The number of Spotify inaccessible songs ballooned to 8, so instead of embedding them individually, here's your YouTube-only playlist for this year

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Lou Gramm - Midnight Blue
Steve Miller Band - I Want to Make the World Turn Around
U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
U2 - With or Without You
Pretenders - My Baby
Grateful Dead - Touch of Grey
The Georgia Satellites - Keep Your Hands to Yourself
Heart - Who Will You Run To
Robert Cray Band - Smoking Gun
John Mellencamp - Paper in Fire
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Jammin' Me
Eric Clapton - It's in the Way That You Use It
The Gregg Allman Band - I'm No Angel
Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly
Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer
Richard Marx - Don't Mean Nothing
Sammy Hagar - Give to Live
Fleetwood Mac - Seven Wonders
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
R.E.M. - The One I Love
Bob Seger - Shakedown
Bryan Adams - Heat of the Night
Peter Wolf - Come as You Are
Boston - We're Ready
Boston - Cool the Engines
World Party - Ship of Fools
U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name
Frozen Ghost - Should I See
Peter Gabriel - Big Time
Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died in Your Arms
Def Leppard - Animal
Grateful Dead - Hell in a Bucket
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Runaway Trains
Lou Gramm - Ready or Not
Steve Winwood - The Finer Things
Eric Clapton - Tearing Us Apart
INXS with Jimmy Barnes - Good Times
Sammy Hagar - Winner Takes It All
Eddie Money - I Wanna Go Back
Pink Floyd - One Slip
Rush - Time Stand Still
Whitesnake - Is This Love
Billy Idol - Don't Need a Gun
The Alan Parsons Project - Standing on Higher Ground
Los Lobos - Shakin' Shakin' Shakes
Yes - Love Will Find a Way
David Bowie - Day-In Day-Out
Jon Butcher - Goodbye Saving Grace
Bryan Adams - Into the Fire
U2 - Bullet the Blue Sky
John Waite - These Times Are Hard for Lovers
Bryan Adams - Hearts on Fire
The Psychedelic Furs - Heartbreak Beat
Fleetwood Mac - Big Love
.38 Special - Back to Paradise
Bruce Hornsby and the Range - On the Western Skyline
Bruce Hornsby and the Range - Mandolin Rain
The Cars - Strap Me In
The Outfield - Since You've Been Gone
The Hooters - Johnny B.
REO Speedwagon - That Ain't Love
Great White - Rock Me
KBC Band - America
Cruzados - Bed of Lies
Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive
Aerosmith - Rag Doll
The Truth - Weapons of Love
Aerosmith - Dude (Looks Like a Lady)
Heart - Alone
John Mellencamp - Cherry Bomb
The Georgia Satellites - Battleship Chains
Patty Smyth - Never Enough
Crowded House - Something So Strong
Ann Wilson - The Best Man in the World
David Bowie - Time Will Crawl
Richard Marx - Should've Known Better
Mick Jagger - Throwaway
Bruce Springsteen - Brilliant Disguise
Fleetwood Mac - Isn't It Midnight
Whitesnake - Still of the Night
The Cars - You Are the Girl
Insiders - Ghost on the Beach
Little America - Walk on Fire
Eddie Money - Endless Nights
Rock & Hyde - Dirty Water
Icehouse - Crazy
Rush - Force Ten
Eric Clapton - Miss You
Don Henley - Who Owns This Place?
The Gregg Allman Band - Anything Goes
Benjamin Orr - Stay the Night
Boston - Can'tcha Say (You Still Believe Me)/Still in Love
Mason Ruffner - Gypsy Blood
Europe - The Final Countdown
Ric Ocasek - True to You
Night Ranger - The Secret of My Success
Starship - It's Not Over ('Til It's Over)
Roger Waters - Radio Waves
John Mellencamp - Hard Times for an Honest Man
Jon Astley - Jane's Getting Serious

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[singingrulebritannia]

Howdy, peeps! In continuing the alternating hosting duties for "Active Rock" (I just went ahead and restored the name to Mainstream Rock, if you don't mind), 1987 lies at my feet, and I'm ready to pick it up and guide you all through the year 1 song at a time. This year brings a steady increase in the amount of crossover between Mainstream Rock and other formats, as to be expected when we're getting into the time when the "rock era" of popular music really did rock. 35 of the songs on this list appeared in either 1987 Hot 100, 1987 Alternative (a few in both), or 1988 Hot 100 rankdowns. An additional 6 appeared in Rowell's Lost Hits of the Late 1980s rankdown. Among these are big eras from familiar names like U2, Heart, John Mellencamp, Tom Petty, Boston, Pink Floyd, The Psychedelic Furs, Bon Jovi, Richard Marx, Fleetwood Mac, Bruce Hornsby, Whitesnake, Crowded House, Aerosmith, Bruce Springsteen, Peter Gabriel, R.E.M., and so on. We're also not hurting for debuts, as we're welcoming to rock chart rankdowns such cornerstone bands as Grateful Dead, The Alan Parsons Project, The Cars, The Hooters, Night Ranger, etc. And of course, some artists/bands remain big on this format whether or not they hit the top 10 on the pop charts, such as Eric Clapton, Starship, Don Henley, Rush, REO Speedwagon, Billy Idol, The Outfield, Yes, Steve Miller Band, and Pretenders. We're about to turn the corner into the years that defined the decade the most for this format, but I hope you're just as curious about this transition period and join me on the ride.

[lyhom]

I might make a list for this, partially because there's a song I really like that made this list and we haven't ranked it yet, and also because there does seem to be more recognizable stuff than the last few mainstream rock retro rankdowns I missed out on

[gonecountry]

So in on this one. Great year for active mainstream rock. Who the heck came up w/ this stupid Active Rock moniker?

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

Back then it was also known as Album Rock.

[singingrulebritannia]

It's time to unveil some of the songs that didn't make the cut for this rankdown. The Alt and Hot 100 rankdowns could've had even more crossover with Mainstream Rock if any of these 37 songs performed just a bit better on this format. Instead of listing them all in one post like I've done with the past couple Active RDs I hosted, I'll post them ~10 at a time. Perhaps this way, we can reach new pages faster, so the video loading strain is more spread out across the pages.

Two songs in this set ("Got My Mind Set On You" and "La Bamba") hit #1 on the Hot 100, three ("Don't Dream It's Over", "Luka", and "Tonight x3") hit the top 3, and "Valerie" made the top 10. I would've given DDIO, Luka, and Valerie very high marks in this RD. On the other hand, I'm kind of glad "Love Removal Machine" and GMMSOY missed out, as I bet they would've done well with the rest of you while being stuck in my bottom 20 most likely, lol

Oddly enough, this was the second chart run for Steve Winwood's song. It was originally recorded for his 1982 album Talking Back to the Night, but only peaked at #13 on Mainstream Rock and #70 on the Hot 100 in its initial single release. The song's 87-88 chart run was spurred on by a Tom Lord-Alge remix for the compilation Chronicles. Despite two chart runs, it did not do well enough either time to be ranked on this format. Luckily, it just barely snuck into the 1988 Hot 100 Year-End.

EDIT: I decided to take out the videos that were already shown in either main Alt reveals, Alt extras, or the Lost Hits rankdown, in order to save load times for this page.

year-end position	Song	Artist	video	Peak	Weeks	chart points
102	Don't Dream It's Over	Crowded House	no	11	12	279
104	Luka	Suzanne Vega	no	15	11	278
105	Love Removal Machine	The Cult	no	15	11	278
109	Sentimental Hygiene	Warren Zevon	no	9	9	264
111	Got My Mind Set on You	George Harrison	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	4	11	261
118	Tonight, Tonight, Tonight	Genesis	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	9	14	246
121	Valerie	Steve Winwood	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	13	11	243
122	Only Love	Bodeans	no	16	11	239
129	La Bamba	Los Lobos	no	11	9	226
135	Spanish Eyes	U2	no	11	10	218

[singingrulebritannia]

This block of 11 leans more towards the Alt crossovers than the Hot 100 crossovers, but it still features one Hot 100 #1 ("Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now") a top 5 ("Little Lies"), and a Top 10 ("We'll Be Together"). As well, "Hourglass" was present in Rowell's Lost Hits of the Late 80s RD. Of these songs, I would have most enjoyed ranking Little Lies, Painted Moon, and World Shut Your Mouth again. On the other hand, Real Wild Child and Let's Work would just have been more bottom 20 fodder for me.

year-end position	Song	Artist	video	Peak	Weeks	chart points
136	Hourglass	Squeeze	no	22	11	218
138	Little Lies	Fleetwood Mac	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	14	11	214
140	Never Let Me Down	David Bowie	no	15	9	211
142	Real Wild Child (Wild One)	Iggy Pop	no	27	12	207
146	Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now	Starship	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	16	8	202
150	Darling It Hurts	Paul Kelly and the Messengers	no	19	8	192
155	Let's Work	Mick Jagger	no	7	6	184
159	Painted Moon	The Silencers	no	23	10	176
164	This Is the World Calling	Bob Geldof	no	23	10	167
165	World Shut Your Mouth	Julian Cope	no	22	8	163
153	We'll Be Together	Sting	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	20	8	188

[singingrulebritannia]

This block of 11 features a Hot 100 #1 ("Mony Mony"), a top 3 ("Carrie") and a top 10 ("I've Been In Love Before"). All 3 of these entries are curious, because each band has a song in the rankdown, but for Idol and Europe, they were not as big on the pop charts as these extras were. And for the Cutting Crew, the distance between IJDIYA and IBILB was far less on the pop chart than they were on the rock charts. Pseudo Echo also appeared on the Billboard Year-End, but with their "Funky Town" cover instead of this song. And while Pretenders had a good year on Alternative Rock radio this year, "My Baby", their song in the Mainstream Rock rankdown, was not involved there.

"Ages Of You" and "Solitude Standing" would've been great additions to this rankdown, IMO.

year-end position	Song	Artist	video	Peak	Weeks	chart points
167	Room Full of Mirrors	Pretenders	no	28	11	161
180	Mony Mony	Billy Idol	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	27	7	134
189	Dark Light	The Beat Farmers	no	27	7	116
201	Carrie	Europe	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	35	8	92
209	Where Has Everybody Gone?	Pretenders	no	26	4	77
215	Don't Be Scared	The Fixx	no	32	5	70
232	Ages of You	R.E.M.	no	39	5	41
234	True	Concrete Blonde	no	42	6	40
254	Living in a Dream	Pseudo Echo	no	44	2	14
259	Solitude Standing	Suzanne Vega	no	43	1	8
267	I've Been in Love Before	Cutting Crew	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	50	1	1

[Troy]

Jun 19, 2020 10:27:12 GMT -5 singingrulebritannia said:

... And while Pretenders had a good year on Alternative Rock radio this year, "My Baby", their song in the Mainstream Rock rankdown, was not involved there.

Look for this one in '86 Alt (although I don't remember if it is being ranked or merely an extra)

[Troy]

lots of 1-word 'ERS bands back then


Heartbreakers (Tom Petty &)
Hooters
Insiders
Pretenders
Radiatoers (trying to put a strike through an E doesn't work so well on here)
Silencers
Stabilizers

[singingrulebritannia]

Oh, and since I forgot about it for this section last night, the last Alt/Hot 100 crossover (and certainly not the least) will get a post all to itself.

EXTRA

Dear God
XTC

Overall Year-End Position: #224
Chart Peak: #37
Chart Weeks: 6
Total Chart Points: 59

Feel free to share your thoughts on this song below!

[singingrulebritannia]

Actually, scratch that, I forgot 4 more songs that were also in the Alt rankdown I need to scan these lists a little closer.

year-end position	Song	Artist	Peak	Weeks	chart points
262	Always the Sun	The Stranglers	47	2	8
263	All in My Mind	Love and Rockets	49	4	8
182	Thank You Girl	John Hiatt	27	8	132
241	I Don't Wanna	The Call	38	3	30

[craziaskowboi]

Tag me as a reminder on July 7. I'm entering the gauntlet at work this weekend, and the one day I have off between now and then is reserved for three other rankdowns I have to finish.

[singingrulebritannia]

Alright...now that I'm not in the final stages of a personal rankdown, I can tend to this thread. Let's begin talking about more extras. These extras will all be from bands already present in the rankdown, and there are a total of 45 songs that can be strictly classified this way without including the overlap from the Alt/Hot 100 crossovers. "Never Say Goodbye" was a radio-only single, so it was not eligible for the Hot 100, but it did reach #28 on the overall Airplay chart. "Fire", "Because The Night", "War", and "Raise Your Hand" were live recordings from Springsteen's triple-disc Live/1975–85. The first two are songs he wrote and others made famous (The Pointer Sisters and Patti Smith, respectively) and the second two are covers of Edwin Starr and Eddie Floyd R&B hits. The two official singles were "War" and "Fire"; "Because The Night" and "Raise Your Hand" picked up organic radio traction as album cuts.

year-end position	Song	Artist	video	Peak	Weeks	chart points
179	Too Hot to Stop	Benjamin Orr	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	25	8	134
178	Sweet Sixteen	Billy Idol	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	26	8	138
265	Miami	Bob Seger	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	47	3	5
103	Never Say Goodbye	Bon Jovi	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	11	10	278
171	Because the Night	Bruce Springsteen	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	22	9	157
110	Fire	Bruce Springsteen	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	14	14	263
243	Raise Your Hand	Bruce Springsteen	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	44	6	30
176	Spare Parts	Bruce Springsteen	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	28	13	145
123	War	Bruce Springsteen	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	4	10	236
220	Another Day	Bryan Adams	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	33	4	62

[singingrulebritannia]

Knocking out 10 more. I don't have much to say about this set tbh. But I'm sure Doc, among others, will be perplexed to see another Def Leppard miss (especially since this one did peak in the top 10)

year-end position	Song	Artist	video	Peak	Weeks	chart points
115	Victim of Love	Bryan Adams	SPOILER: Click to show {spoiler}	10	9	257
257	World Where You Live	Crowded House	SPOILER: Click to show {spoiler}	45	3	10
245	Small Town Love	Cruzados	SPOILER: Click to show {spoiler}	39	3	25
202	One for the Mockingbird	Cutting Crew	SPOILER: Click to show {spoiler}	29	6	91
217	Bang Bang	David Bowie	SPOILER: Click to show {spoiler}	38	11	70
120	Women	Def Leppard	SPOILER: Click to show {spoiler}	7	7	243
151	Run	Eric Clapton	SPOILER: Click to show {spoiler}	21	8	189
162	Rock the Night	Europe	SPOILER: Click to show {spoiler}	22	8	172
183	Tango in the Night	Fleetwood Mac	SPOILER: Click to show {spoiler}	28	9	132
242	West LA Fadeaway	Grateful Dead	SPOILER: Click to show {spoiler}	40	4	30

[singingrulebritannia]

This grouping features another song from the owner of the Year-End #1, and a band promoting two different albums in the same year (Los Lobos, for the La Bamba soundtrack and their own By the Light of the Moon).

year-end position	Song	Artist	video	Peak	Weeks	chart points
255	When Push Comes to Shove	Grateful Dead	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	45	5	14
264	Lady Red Light	Great White	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	47	2	7
199	Holy War	Jon Butcher	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	25	5	94
244	Wishes	Jon Butcher	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	42	5	27
200	Come On, Let's Go	Los Lobos	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	33	7	93
166	Set Me Free (Rosa Lee)	Los Lobos	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	21	8	162
261	Heartache	Lou Gramm	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	47	2	8
249	Dancin' on Top of the World	Mason Ruffner	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	42	3	19
238	Downtown Train	Patty Smyth	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	40	4	33
196	Isn't It Enough	Patty Smyth	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	26	6	97

[singingrulebritannia]

"Back In The High Life Again" finished #26/100 in the Lost Hits of the Late 80s rankdown. Frankly, I've heard this song way more often in recurrency than "The Finer Things" (it's also much better imo).

year-end position	Song	Artist	video	Peak	Weeks	chart points
127	Can't Get Started	Peter Wolf	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	16	9	229
193	Variety Tonight	REO Speedwagon	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	28	8	109
208	I Guess I Showed Her	Robert Cray	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	28	6	78
198	Right Next Door (Because of Me)	Robert Cray	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	27	6	95
168	Boys' Night Out	Sammy Hagar	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	15	7	159
169	Eagles Fly	Sammy Hagar	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	22	8	159
184	Returning Home	Sammy Hagar	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	20	7	131
101	Nobody but You Baby	Steve Miller Band	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	9	12	280
144	Back in the High Life Again	Steve Winwood	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	19	10	204
225	Railroad Steel	The Georgia Satellites	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	34	4	56

[singingrulebritannia]

And here are the final 5 from this category.

year-end position	Song	Artist	video	Peak	Weeks	chart points
177	Can't Keep Running	The Gregg Allman Band	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	25	8	139
106	Satellite	The Hooters	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	13	11	270
240	Bangin' on My Heart	The Outfield	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	40	3	31
173	All Mixed Up	Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	19	6	152
210	Think About Me	Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	36	9	75

[singingrulebritannia]

Now that I have your front page attention, time for our first reminder tag. Submissions are due in 3 weeks!

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[Doc Indie Party Rock]

damn where all those extras come from. I haven't even started previewing songs on the actual RD.

[singingrulebritannia]

I'm going to be tagging more frequently for this rankdown, to see if it makes a difference in how fast lists come in. 2 weeks and 4 days left to submit! So far, it's just Tom and I.

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[Troy]

for those of you who weren’t around back then, you couldn’t escape Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen or John Mellencamp back then...I swear EVERY song on all of their albums got airplay

[singingrulebritannia]

2 weeks left to submit! Still only two lists. I'll put up more pre-reveal extras soon.

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[House Lannister]

Jun 26, 2020 14:37:22 GMT -5 singingrulebritannia said:

"Back In The High Life Again" finished #26/100 in the Lost Hits of the Late 80s rankdown. Frankly, I've heard this song way more often in recurrency than "The Finer Things" (it's also much better imo).

I consider the two Winwood songs to be fairly even myself.

Shocked Mony Mony didn't make the list.

Not shocked by Dear God not making it, though. It just feels more alternative than anything.

Whew at dodging a bullet with Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now. Would be bottom 5 for me, no question.

Don't Dream It's Over and Luka would have done well for me. Valerie probably would scrape the top half.

[singingrulebritannia]

Artists who charted multiple times this year but were not able to push any songs into the year-end top 100 are the subject of this next set of extras. I'll be listing 29 here. We begin with selections from the albums The Bridge and КОНЦЕРТ (Billy Joel's tenth studio album, and his live album recorded in the Soviet Union, featuring a Beatles rendition), Cinderella's debut album Night Songs, Deep Purple's 12th album The House of Blue Light, Jethro Tull's 16th album Crest of a Knave (the album that infamously beat Metallica's ...And Justice For All for the first Metal Grammy), and the first solo album of Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor, Thunder.

year-end position	Song	Artist	video	Peak	Weeks	chart points
260	Back in the U.S.S.R	Billy Joel	SPOILER: Click to show {spoiler}	45	2	8
204	This Is the Time	Billy Joel	SPOILER: Click to show {spoiler}	32	7	88
170	Nobody's Fool	Cinderella	SPOILER: Click to show {spoiler}	25	10	159
229	Somebody Save Me	Cinderella	SPOILER: Click to show {spoiler}	37	5	44
157	Bad Attitude	Deep Purple	SPOILER: Click to show {spoiler}	14	8	180
107	Call of the Wild	Deep Purple	SPOILER: Click to show {spoiler}	14	10	267
119	Farm on the Freeway	Jethro Tull	SPOILER: Click to show {spoiler}	7	16	245
112	Steel Monkey	Jethro Tull	SPOILER: Click to show {spoiler}	10	8	261
236	Don't Let Me Die Young	Andy Taylor	SPOILER: Click to show {spoiler}	36	4	34
132	I Might Lie	Andy Taylor	SPOILER: Click to show {spoiler}	17	10	226

[singingrulebritannia]

Now, we turn to tracks from Joe Walsh's 8th studio album Got Any Gum?, Kansas' 10th studio album Power (they'll finally debut in 1983 with "Fight Fire With Fire"), SRV's first live album Live Alive, another song from Sting's 2nd solo album ...Nothing Like the Sun (coincidentally, a Hendrix song famously covered by SRV), Tesla's debut album Mechanical Resonance, and 2 more songs from The Cult's 3rd album Electric.

year-end position	Song	Artist	video	Peak	Weeks	chart points
161	In My Car	Joe Walsh	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	14	8	173
116	The Radio Song	Joe Walsh	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	8	8	249
134	All I Wanted	Kansas	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	10	12	219
218	Power	Kansas	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	38	7	68
128	Superstition	Stevie Ray Vaughan	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	11	10	228
152	Willie the Wimp	Stevie Ray Vaughan	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	19	8	188
156	Little Wing	Sting	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	11	13	180
154	Little Suzi	Tesla	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	22	9	185
207	Modern Day Cowboy	Tesla	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	35	7	79
226	Lil' Devil	The Cult	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	34	5	55
247	Wild Flower	The Cult	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	39	3	24

[singingrulebritannia]

Finally, the last 8 songs for today come from The Thunderbirds' 6th studio album Hot Number, The Kinks' 22nd album Think Visual, The Blackhearts' 5th album Good Music (the song is a The Modern Lovers cover) as well as under the name The Barbusters for the Light Of Day soundtrack, and another song from Warren Zevon's 6th album Sentimental Hygiene.

year-end position	Song	Artist	video	Peak	Weeks	chart points
172	How Do You Spell Love	The Fabulous Thunderbirds	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	22	8	154
108	Stand Back	The Fabulous Thunderbirds	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	8	8	266
231	Lost and Found	The Kinks	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	37	5	42
213	Rock 'N' Roll Cities	The Kinks	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	37	6	72
131	Working at the Factory	The Kinks	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	16	10	226
133	Light of Day	The Barbusters	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	13	8	221
253	Roadrunner	Joan Jett & the Blackhearts	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	46	4	16
252	Detox Mansion	Warren Zevon	SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler}	44	3	16

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

I really hate that Don Henley and some of Bryan Adams songs just don't appear on youtube. What is up their ass?

[gonecountry]

I can't believe how many of my go-to songs are from 1987. My top 20 are truly some of my favorites of the 80's.

[House Lannister]

Jul 3, 2020 23:39:23 GMT -5 Doc Indie Party Rock said:

I really hate that Don Henley and some of Bryan Adams songs just don't appear on youtube. What is up their ass?

IN Henley's case, this could be one of two things.  Either

A) It's fallout from the controversy surrounding Garden of Allah.

or B) It's a matter of YouTube not paying enough money to its artists.

Take your pick.