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Post by Hervard on Jun 14, 2005 18:53:15 GMT -5
This is yet another one of my guessing games. I was going to post this earlier this year, but I decided that y'all might be burned out on guessing games, due to all the ones that we had going in January, so I decided to wait a few months.
Anyway, this is the Top 100 songs of the 1980s, according to R&R. The listing is computed using an inverse point system for a Top 40 chart, even though for the first three and a half years of the 1980s, R&R's chart only went down to 30. I considered giving estimated points for songs that charted in the early 1980s in order to fairly compare them with songs that charted after the chart was extended to 40. But I realized that in the late 1980s, the chart moved noticeably faster than it did in the early part of the decade and, with songs having shorter chart runs, that meant a smaller point total. I decided that no extra points for songs from 1980 through 1983 were necessary, since there were few songs from the late 1980s as it was. By the way, this chart is the same one I posted on the old R&R boards, so for those of you who saved that, no fair peeking at it. Anyway, let's get the guessing game underway.
100) There were several songs that I was rather surprised that made the chart, but this surprised me the most. First of all, it only peaked at number three and second, no stations play it as a recurrent. The song is by a country singer who hit the Top Ten several times in the 1980s, but not after 1983.
99) This was one of two songs from a mid-80s movie that hit the chart. The other was an instrumental.
98) A song from another movie starring a man who has a very unique laugh.
97) A remake of this song, featuring a member of the group who sang the original, is getting radio airplay about now. The original spent a week at number one.
96) Speaking of remakes, this song was originally a big hit in the early 1970s. The cover version hit number one in the late 1980s.
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Post by mst3k on Jun 14, 2005 19:37:13 GMT -5
I never saved the listing you posted before, so these are all guesses off the top of my head (I'm even handicapping myself by not looking at the archive site):
100) Kenny Rogers, "I Don't Need You" 99) John Parr, "St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)" 98) Prince, "Batdance" 96) Michael Damian, "Rock On"
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2005 19:43:47 GMT -5
97) Mr Mister's "Broken Wings"
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Post by Hervard on Jun 14, 2005 20:05:29 GMT -5
Well, Orange Clouds hit the nail on the head with "Broken Wings". Aaron got songs 100 and 99 right, but not quite with 98 and 96 (BTW, I don't even think "Batdance" would have made the Top 200, since it had a very fast-rise, fast-fall. Only spent five or six weeks in the Top Ten and, as I recall, it kicked off the Top 40 Movie Songs of the 1980s, a Casey Kasem special that B96 ran the weekend of December 29, 1990, in place of the Top 100 of 1990. "The Rose" was at #39. It, too, missed the Top 100 of the 1980s. So did "Rock On" by Michael Damian. Well, I think I've given away enough secrets as to what songs made the countdown. Songs #98 and 96 have yet to be guessed correctly.
Here are a few easier clues:
98) The man who stars in the movie had no idea where a turtle's thingy was.
96) Aaron was on the right track with "Rock On". The original peaked in the top three while the cover version went all the way to number one.
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Post by friday on Jun 14, 2005 21:34:08 GMT -5
98) Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F
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Post by mst3k on Jun 14, 2005 22:08:16 GMT -5
96) Simply Red, "If You Don't Know Me By Now"
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Post by tico on Jun 15, 2005 0:17:41 GMT -5
96. "Groovy Kind Of Love", Phil Collins
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Post by Hervard on Jun 15, 2005 16:06:50 GMT -5
#96 is "If You Don't Know Me By Now" by Simply Red.
#98: Friday, you were on the right track with Axel F, but the song in question is from the sequel to the movie in which Axel F was from. That soundtrack had several big hits, but only one made the survey.
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Post by jimmy74747 on Jun 15, 2005 16:18:20 GMT -5
98. Bob Seger - "Shakedown"
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Post by Hervard on Jun 15, 2005 22:26:45 GMT -5
That's more like it. Onto the next set of songs:
95) This is the first of four movie songs in a row. This one is the love theme from a movie with a title that reminds me of a cloudy evening in northern Canada in the summer.
94) This is the first solo hit by a man who had been the front runner for a supergroup who were really big in the 1970s.
93) This song is one of many number one songs by the top female singer of the 1980s. This one is from 1986.
92) The movie in which this song comes from has a hilarious scene when a man tries to cover an insult he muttered under his breath by saying, "Nice hall!"
91) This song, from 1988, sounds like something from the 1960s, the decade in which he was the lead singer of a band who had several chart hits.
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Post by mst3k on Jun 15, 2005 23:09:02 GMT -5
94) Peter Cetera, "Glory Of Love" 93) Madonna, "Live To Tell" 92) Starship, "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"
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Post by Libra on Jun 16, 2005 5:44:40 GMT -5
91. Steve Winwood - Roll With It[/font]
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Post by Hervard on Jun 16, 2005 10:21:49 GMT -5
That's right.
95) Many people thought that the woman singing on this song was Crystal Gayle.
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Post by mst3k on Jun 16, 2005 12:21:58 GMT -5
95) Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin, "Separate Lives"
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Post by automyskin89 on Jun 16, 2005 12:51:32 GMT -5
I'm too young. I only lived in a bit of 1989.
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Post by Hervard on Jun 16, 2005 20:09:51 GMT -5
Yeah, I figured that not many of you would be able to play. Three years ago, I posted a similar guessing game of songs from the 1990s and almost everyone knew the songs, though a few of the early 1990s stumped a few people - for instance, I remember that The Max once told me that he had never heard "Romantic" by Karyn White until he heard it on Casey's Top 40 of the 1990s. That's because it was one of those songs that stations totally ignored soon after it fell off the chart. A few number one songs from the early 1990s were like that.
Anyway, "Separate Lives" was the answer I was looking for in song #95, so on we go:
90) This song, by an Englishman, was inspired by the lyrics of a George Harrison song from the 1970s.
89) Songs by this vocal group tended to zip up and down the CHR chart, but this one, their only #1 song (from the 80s, anyway), stuck around for fifteen weeks, which was great by late 80s standards. This song also did well on the AC chart, hitting the Top Five.
88) This was the second in a string of three number one songs by a late 80s newcomer who hasn't had a big chart hit since the mid-90s.
87) And this was the third.
86) This is another song that I was surprised that made the survey, though it was number one for two weeks in the early 1980s. The singer was bigger in the 1970s, though, especially with his sidekick.
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Post by friday on Jun 16, 2005 22:18:03 GMT -5
88) Paula Abdul - Forever Your Girl 87) Paula Abdul - Cold-Hearted 86) Paul Simon - Late in the Evening
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Post by 620 Soul Train on Jun 16, 2005 23:07:39 GMT -5
89) UB40 - Red Red Wine??
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Post by tico on Jun 17, 2005 0:00:47 GMT -5
90) Steve Winwood, "Higher Love" (?)
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Post by Hervard on Jun 17, 2005 10:19:35 GMT -5
Friday was correct with his guesses of songs 88 through 86. However, the remaining three guesses were wrong.
Easier clues:
90) The title of the song was inspired by a George Harrison song, but at the spoken part at the very beginning (which some radio stations cut out nowadays) sounds like "Get Off My Cloud" by the Rolling Stones.
89) The group who sang the song was a group that preteen girls were crazy about.
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Post by mst3k on Jun 17, 2005 10:21:25 GMT -5
90) Billy Ocean, "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car" ??? 89) New Kids On The Block, "I'll Be Loving You Forever"
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Post by Hervard on Jun 17, 2005 15:10:07 GMT -5
85) The first song by this group topped the Billboard chart, but not R&R. The second song got up to number one on both. The third single, which is the one in question, hit the top on R&R, but not Billboard.
84) This song would have been the number one song of 1988 had it been released a few months earlier.
83) Another song I was surprised to see on the survey. The title is a word in every magician's vocabulary.
82) This is the only song to make the survey that spend less than seven weeks in the Top Ten. However, it did hit number one for a pair of weeks and spent several weeks right outside the Top Ten. It's from the summer of 1980.
81) This is the only song by this Irish band to make the Top 100 of the 1980s survey.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2005 15:14:44 GMT -5
#83. "Abracadabra" Stevie Miller Band #82. "It's Still Rock & Roll To Me" Billy Joel
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Post by jimmy74747 on Jun 17, 2005 15:18:25 GMT -5
81. "With or Without You " - U2
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Post by jimmy74747 on Jun 17, 2005 15:26:14 GMT -5
85. "Everything She Wants" - Wham! (total shot in the dark guess there)
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Post by Hervard on Jun 17, 2005 15:59:25 GMT -5
85) No 83) Yes 82) No 81) Yes
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Post by mst3k on Jun 17, 2005 18:02:10 GMT -5
85) Men At Work, "Overkill" (I'm guessing, since I promised not to consult any charts for this quiz)
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Post by Libra on Jun 17, 2005 22:58:23 GMT -5
84. George Michael - One More Try ?[/font]
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Post by Hervard on Jun 18, 2005 17:05:25 GMT -5
Number 83 was indeed "Overkill". However, number 84 was not "One More Try". That song had plenty of time to gain enough points to be the number one song of 1988 and, had it not dropped like a rock, it probably would have won for the whole year.
No, the song in question was released in the late summer of 1988.
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Post by mst3k on Jun 18, 2005 18:36:18 GMT -5
Is #84 perhaps "Look Away" by Chicago? (I think it peaked in December, so it got pushed into the 1989 chart year...)
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