might as well face it...
― hipity-hopity muzik ftw! (Ioannis), Friday, 3 December 2010 08:43 (thirteen years ago) link
You like to think that you're immune to the stuff, oh yeah. But closer to the truth....
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 3 December 2010 08:57 (thirteen years ago) link
love:
"addicted to love""missionary man"
used to love, but no longer care:
"sledgehammer""in your eyes"
secretly like, while also hating:
"kyrie""higher love""take me home tonight"
don't care:
"why can't this be love""invisible touch""like a rock""don't get me wrong"
fucking hate:
"hip to be square"
― phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Friday, 3 December 2010 09:05 (thirteen years ago) link
That Steve Miller Band song spent more time on top than any other... this is post-Abracadabra right? I can't recall it all. Fuck it, I'mma youtube it.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 3 December 2010 09:08 (thirteen years ago) link
ok, kinda remembered it... it's got that kinda that 80s "Big Log"/"Boys of Summer"/Pink Floyd ca. Momentary Lapse of Reason thing going on. Kinda a snoozer though, dude was massive.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 3 December 2010 09:15 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, there's a bunch on there i feel i should remember, but have no clue about. stages? all the king's horses? stick around?
― phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Friday, 3 December 2010 09:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I remember BBC Breakfast bloke had "Hip to be square" as an ongoing "record of the week" voted by listeners, for about three weeks straight. Never made it past 51 in the real chart, if I remember... Didn't stop him playing it todeath tho...
― Mark G, Friday, 3 December 2010 11:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Thought I'd check "everyhit" to make sure, amzed at how few hits Huey Lewis had.
― Mark G, Friday, 3 December 2010 11:02 (thirteen years ago) link
"Missionary Man" is the moment when Eurythmics started to stink like two-week-old halibut.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 December 2010 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Eddie Money, easy. Nothing else comes close. (Would vote Van Halen second. Horrible year.)
― xhuxk, Friday, 3 December 2010 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
this list is like the dawning of my consciousness of popular music, i was 4 in 1986 and most of these songs are tattooed on my brain. at the time my favorite would've been "Sledgehammer," mainly due to the video, but now it'd still be one of my favorite songs. i think i'm gonna vote for one of the ones i didn't hear til much later, though: "Don't Get Me Wrong."
― My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro) (some dude), Friday, 3 December 2010 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
that Miller song was huge in album rock radio –I heard it for years on recurrent play – yet it never crossed over.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 December 2010 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't get the "Missionary Man" hate. I loved it then and love it now. Is it because they stopped being synthpop? I guess that started with "Would I lie to you" though, so I don't know...
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 3 December 2010 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
it is terrifying how much pop/rock radio imprinted on me in 1986; I unironically love almost all of these songs
except for Julian Lennon
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Friday, 3 December 2010 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Robert Palmer - "Addicted to Love" - 2 weeksPeter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" - 2 weeksGenesis - "Invisible Touch" - 3 weeksSteve Winwood - "Higher Love" - 4 weeksEurythmics - "Missionary Man" - 1 weekGenesis - "Throwing It All Away" - 3 weeksPeter Gabriel - "In Your Eyes" - 1 weekEddie Money - "Take Me Home Tonight" - 2 weeksBoston - "Amanda" - 3 weeks
I will be voting for one of these, but I have no idea which one
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Friday, 3 December 2010 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
The chords are boring and the song too blustery. I do like it more than the rest of Revenge, the worst of their major phase albums.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 December 2010 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Was that the Police/Grace Jones song, or a different Missionary Man?
― Mark G, Friday, 3 December 2010 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
It's an original.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 December 2010 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't Get Me Wrong.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Friday, 3 December 2010 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
This is worse than I imagined. But: Jamie Gertz!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr7ea9Deu2s
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 December 2010 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Steve Miller's introspection.
― A Toast to the Horshacks/Dvořáks (Eazy), Friday, 3 December 2010 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
It's like Steve Miller's "I Want To Know What Love Is," except instead of wanting to know what love is, he wants to make the world turn around.
such a shame about that Julian Lennon song - have always thought that the "if you disappear, nothing will be clear" bit is a graceful little earworm, but the rest of the song betrays it with grating synth/guitar and ploddiness.
― Kim, Friday, 3 December 2010 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
higher love is a monster jam, but so is invisible touch
― call all destroyer, Friday, 3 December 2010 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
The Firms is the Paul Rodgers-Jimmy Page thing, isn't it?
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 December 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I voted Addicted to Love, obviously, but enough about my Palmer love. Everything on Riptide except for that dull Flesh Wound track.
I used to be quite the Genesis fan and have listened to nearly all of the Collins-era albums. Invisible Touch wore off on me after a while because it's one of those albums where nearly every song is a hit. Domino and Brazilian are brilliant but B-sideish.
Sledgehammer is friggin classic, I've never tired of it.
Higher Love I've come to associating with waiting rooms and Hot AC radio.
Hip To Be Square immediately brings American Psycho to mind these days.
― That's not a "laugh track", it's an audience and you're in it. (MintIce), Saturday, 4 December 2010 02:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I like to sing "Might as well admit it, you're in love with a dick."
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 4 December 2010 03:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 9 December 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Ric Ocasek video is so awful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVXy7AsjvL4
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 December 2010 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
how in the hell did that go to #1?
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 9 December 2010 00:29 (thirteen years ago) link
The Cars were still big. "You Are The Girl" hit #1 on the same chart a year later.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 December 2010 00:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Clearly, Eddie Money.
― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Thursday, 9 December 2010 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 10 December 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't expect this level of participation, nor the winner. Hell, "Missionary Man" got five votes!
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 December 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Also: waht
Ric Ocasek - "Emotion in Motion" - 1
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 December 2010 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
"Don't Get Me Wrong." Most of these I can't stand.
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― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 10 December 2010 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I would have probably voted for "Higher Love" but there are a bunch I don't know.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 10 December 2010 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I like the Eddie Money song too though.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 10 December 2010 01:01 (thirteen years ago) link
We didn't discuss it all but "Throwing It All Away" is a gorgeous ballad -- maybe my favorite Collins ballad after "Against All Odds."
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 December 2010 01:09 (thirteen years ago) link
voted 'higher love' - it's always sunny in philadelphia has severely raised my appreciation of 80s winwood. so many of these songs i hated at the time, only liked the two most new wave ones ('in yr eyes', 'don't get me wrong') plus the eddie money which is undeniable of course. forgot that julian lennon single was that big a hit.
― balls, Friday, 10 December 2010 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link
1986 was kinda shit, wannit?
except for the peter gabriel songs, the steve winwood song, and MAYBE the eurythmics song just about everything on this list is crap.
― deutsche Scheisse prawns (Eisbaer), Friday, 10 December 2010 11:09 (thirteen years ago) link
It's a poor year when the Eurythmics end up in the 'not crap' bucket.
― Mark G, Friday, 10 December 2010 11:14 (thirteen years ago) link