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01 The Blue Nile - The Downtown Lights (6:31)
02 Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere (3:47)
03 Machine - There But for the Grace of God Go I (5:19)
04 Van Halen - Panama (3:32)
05 Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (5:23)
06 Evelyn 'Champagne' King - Love Come Down (6:15)
07 The Jets - Crush on You (6:20)
08 Patrice Rushen - Haven't You Heard (6:45)
09 Mariah Carey - Always Be My Baby (4:20)
10 Saint Etienne - He's on the Phone (4:08)
11 John Martyn - Small Hours (8:45)
12 Womack & Womack - Teardrops (5:04)
13 Luomo - Tessio (12:07)
14 Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World (4:11)
15 Sade - By Your Side (4:34)
16 Underworld - Jumbo (6:57)
17 ABBA - Knowing Me, Knowing You (4:02)
18 Prefab Sprout - The Sound of Crying (4:43)
19 Boz Scaggs - Lowdown (5:17)
20 Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time (4:03)
21 Steely Dan - Sign in Stranger (4:23)
22 Cameo - Candy (5:39)
23 Scritti Politti - Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry for Loverboy) (4:23)
24 Amy Grant - Every Heartbeat (3:33)
25 Janet Jackson - Escapade (4:43)
26 Taylor Swift - Treacherous (4:00)
27 Kylie Minogue - Get Outta My Way (3:38)
28 Prince - Mountains (3:57)
29 Anita Baker - Sweet Love (4:26)
30 Moloko - Forever More (7:22)
31 George Michael - One More Try (5:50)
32 Fall Out Boy - Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes (4:17)
33 Maze - Back in Stride (7:06)
34 Maxwell - Pretty Wings (5:10)
35 Rickie Lee Jones - We Belong Together (5:03)
36 Luther Vandross - Never Too Much (3:49)
37 Little Big Town - Lost in California (4:47)
38 Van Morrison - Summertime in England (15:37)
39 Michelle Branch - Breathe (3:31)
40 Orbital - Halcyon + On + On (9:27)
41 Mama - Unmask Me (Ashley Beedle Vocal Mix) (9:17)
42 Sarah McLachlan - Sweet Surrender (4:00)
43 Jennifer Paige - Crush (3:20)
44 Force MD's - Tender Love (3:55)
45 Aerosmith - Combination (3:39)
46 Genesis - Keep It Dark (4:35)
47 Madonna - Take a Bow (5:21)
48 DeBarge - I Like It (4:39)
49 Annie Lennox - Why (4:54)
50 Tori Amos - Raspberry Swirl (3:58)

I'm rarely interested in ilm lists but I am def checking this one out

ooh yes

rickie lee jones was my top discovery

I love that Brad shares my love for "Panama"

Taht debarge track is a nice one

i was like "what a weird list how did i assemble that" and remembered at least part of it was made by searching for old ilx posts where i called a song "the best song ever"

also thanks y'all <3

23 Scritti Politti - Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry for Loverboy) (4:23)
24 Amy Grant - Every Heartbeat (3:33)
25 Janet Jackson - Escapade (4:43)
26 Taylor Swift - Treacherous (4:00)
27 Kylie Minogue - Get Outta My Way (3:38)
28 Prince - Mountains (3:57)

^^^ helluva sequence

there are ppl who don't love Panama?

Disgusting savages imo

There's people who've never heard it.

They were never that popular over here.

hmmm interesting. England's relationship to pop metal is sort of interesting to me, because it's completely absent from any narrative I've seen about the 80s music scene there, yet I presume there were arenas full of people that were going to see Def Leppard and Bon Jovi

Pop metal has generally done OK in the UK, I think? Bon Jovi were massive and Def Leppard are British, but, when I think about it, American hard rock bands have never done particularly well in the UK. I'm not sure American rock in general was ever been that popular.

was ever that popular ffs. Cue tons of examples proving otherwise.

KISS did quite well in the eighties

whenever i've noted that lep and lange's pyromania fits right alongside ztt's frankie i've had pushback from uk pop and nu-pop gatekeepers but i'm not going to stop saying it

(KISS weren't especially big in the UK i wouldn't say)

kind of interesting
so mid 80s, Crue is playing arenas ontge Theater of Pain tour here, two nights at Hammersmith assuming sold out, so I guess maybe 10K total for 2 dates....GnR seemed to be playing similar sized places

still 2 nights at Hammersmith for Crue in 85/86....could the Smiths have done more?

looks like by the end of the era it's caught up with the world, Crue and GnR in their imperial periods (Feelgood/UYI) both headline Wembley, which means for whatever the British press says there was a pretty large overlooked audience

Even Def Leppard's UK sales certifications were nowhere near what they were in the US and Canada, e.g. Hysteria was 2x platinum in the UK and 12x platinum in the US.

https://www.bpi.co.uk/brit-certified/
https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&se=def+leppard#search_section

xps

fair but the uk is actually a bit smaller

source?

Jordan Peterson was talking about that on Rogan

for UK population stats?

Award thresholds are proportional to population. It went diamond in Canada by 1988.
https://musiccanada.com/gold-platinum/?_gp_search=def%20leppard
3xp

why does British people never want to rock?

Selling out massive venues in London has never been an indication of popularity in the UK as a whole tbh and still isn't.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/44/90/4d/44904d250e58549330527181505f1a38.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/44/90/4d/44904d250e58549330527181505f1a38.jpg

British rock and metal bands have done pretty in the UK over the years.

doubling back to say i'm stoked for brad's list, i generally think of them as an excellent poster with whom i have some taste alignment, and the songs i know from that list i definitely like! including "panama" for sure, tho it's never sounded quite as good as this one summer day in 2001 that my friend and i heard it blasting out of a convertible in downtown athens GA.

Whitesnake, Alice Cooper, ZZ Top and Aerosmith all had a bunch of uk hits in the 80s. Meat Loaf was probably way more popular here too if he counts.

dow is a quality poster

Big second to that

indeed

Karl Malone makes me smile every time he posts when I don't wanna wring his neck.

*blush* I praised him already upthread. Oh well. Still applies!

KM is a quality human and like yourself, a pillar of the ILX collective soul

https://www.ctvnews.ca/polopoly_fs/1.4485710.1561669429!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_960/image.jpg

KM roolz

And you are two, my fellow Florida project!

Back atcha homie

love that skinny motherfucker karl

DTSMFWTHVA was before dan savage learned to be catchy

don't know what DTSMFWTHVA is

dump that skinny motherfucker with the high voice already

I like dan savage

xp lol

Dump's That Skinny Motherfucker with the High Voice album

I like dan savage