Number One Album Rock Hits 1986

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

Robert Palmer - "Addicted to Love" - 2 weeks
Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" - 2 weeks
Genesis - "Invisible Touch" - 3 weeks
Steve Winwood - "Higher Love" - 4 weeks
Eurythmics - "Missionary Man" - 1 week
Genesis - "Throwing It All Away" - 3 weeks
Peter Gabriel - "In Your Eyes" - 1 week
Eddie Money - "Take Me Home Tonight" - 2 weeks
Boston - "Amanda" - 3 weeks

I will be voting for one of these, but I have no idea which one

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...

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.

Was that the Police/Grace Jones song, or a different Missionary Man?

It's an original.

Don't Get Me Wrong.

This is worse than I imagined. But: Jamie Gertz!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr7ea9Deu2s

Steve Miller's introspection.

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.

higher love is a monster jam, but so is invisible touch

The Firms is the Paul Rodgers-Jimmy Page thing, isn't it?

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.

I like to sing "Might as well admit it, you're in love with a dick."

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Ric Ocasek video is so awful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVXy7AsjvL4

how in the hell did that go to #1?

The Cars were still big. "You Are The Girl" hit #1 on the same chart a year later.

Clearly, Eddie Money.

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I didn't expect this level of participation, nor the winner. Hell, "Missionary Man" got five votes!

Also: waht

Ric Ocasek - "Emotion in Motion" - 1

"Don't Get Me Wrong." Most of these I can't stand.

― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, December 2, 2010 9:06 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I would have probably voted for "Higher Love" but there are a bunch I don't know.

I like the Eddie Money song too though.

We didn't discuss it all but "Throwing It All Away" is a gorgeous ballad -- maybe my favorite Collins ballad after "Against All Odds."

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.

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.

It's a poor year when the Eurythmics end up in the 'not crap' bucket.