Billboard Top Ten Singles 10/31/1987

a great year for tommy james

"Bad" btw

holy hell, I love the shit out of some of these songs

I know Im not voting for "Bad" or Billy Idol. That's all I know.

5. Levert - Casanova
6. Fleetwood Mac - Lies
7. Expose - Let Me Be The One
8. Prince - U Got The Look
9. Swing Out Sister - Breakout

I mean COME ON

How come I remember this top 10 like it was yesterday, but I don't even remember what I was doing yesterday?

Was "Lies" really 1987? For some reason I had that as more "Hold Me" era...

I think "U Got the Look" was the first time I realized you could make a guitar sound any way you wanted.

I think that should be "Little Lies" xo

haha, xo

meant xp

Was "Lies" really 1987? For some reason I had that as more "Hold Me" era...

Really? The synth sound is the giveaway for me.

The synth sound is the giveaway for me.

Hmm, I can see that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5rbRg5Beb4

This top ten should come down to which song has the most indelible chorus.

For a second I'm all "INEDIBLE chorus?"

No, that would be "Mony Mony"'s.

fuck I love "Casanova" so much, voting for it over Prince & Bruce which ~blows my mind~ given my love for those songs too.

This is an unfuckwithable streak:

5. Levert - Casanova
6. Fleetwood Mac - Lies
7. Expose - Let Me Be The One
8. Prince - U Got The Look
9. Swing Out Sister - Breakout
10. Bruce Springsteen - Brilliant Disguise

Had to go with the last truly great Springsteen single off his last truly great album; at the time it definitely was Prince.

I'm fond of the Tiffany song too for leading to Weird Al's "I Think I'm A Clone Now".

Better than Idol's cover too.

EZ, I was about to go after you, but I sort of agree with the "last truly great album" caveat. Plenty of great singles since 1987, though.

yeah 5-10 is best of the decade of material and the top 4 is just lolz.

I think there have been good Springsteen songs since '87, but I haven't like the sound of anything since then if that makes sense. Still can write a tune, but I'd rather someone else perform them.

xpost to Fever

"Causing a Commotion" is distinctly second-tier Madonna that I love without reservation.

ghost of tom joad ain't bad xp

Wish you'd picked a week with "What Have I Done to Deserve This?"...Between Madonna, Fleetwood Mac, and Prince for me, but none are personal favorites, so I'd have to relisten. Prince had the best video, I'm pretty sure. Dreadful: "Bad" and "Mony Mony."

Wish you'd picked a week with "What Have I Done to Deserve This?"

"It's A Sin" hit the top ten in a couple of weeks.

sw00ds and I were both working in a downtown Toronto record store that summer...What's somewhat amazing (and gratifying) is that there's nothing from The Joshua Tree in the top 10. (For me, the drop-off from "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" to "It's a Sin" is huge.)

7 through 9 is almost impossible for me to pick from. Those three are, like, all-time taking a shower/washing the dishes/cooking food sing-a-long faves.

"ONLY YOU CAN MAKE ME FEEL THIS WAY-EE-EE-EE!!!"

"YOU GOT THE LOOK!!! (you got the look) YOU MUSTA TOOK (you musta took) A WHOLE HOUR JUST TO MAKE UP YOUR FACE, BAY-BAY!!!"

"LAY DOWN THE LAW SHOUT OUT FOR MORE BREAKOUT AND SHOUT DAY IN DAY OUT, BREAKOUT!!!"

There is no choice.

I was listening to the radio non-stop back in '87, but I can't for the life of me remember these songs, at least by name:

Madonna - Causing a Commotion
Levert - Casanova
Expose - Let Me Be The One
Swing Out Sister - Breakout

I would've thought songs from The Joshua Tree and Appetite For Destruction would've been on this list.

Ha Ha - xpost @ Clemenza

"Causing a Commotion"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hFvCldX9G4

"Casanova"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6sC0bIrwtc

"Let Me Be The One"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR4cR9CeLi0

"Breakout"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kF0P1VD82E

Deric otm.

i'm really feeling the tiffany song lately. idk if i can actually vote for it though

It's terrific -- its generic programming is part of its charm. She really does sound like a horny teenager.

I had no idea that Swing Out Sister song was a hit in America too.

I want to vote for "Casanova," because I love that song so much & love Levert too, but "U Got the Look" is one of my favorite Prince tunes & "Brilliant Disguise" is for me one of the best songs Springsteen ever wrote.

Every single from Tunnel of Love is gold.

went U Got the Look over Lies, but good tunes!

Am I alone in thinking that Fleetwood Mac were the only boomer band still making music the kids could like? I was in eighth grade when "Little Lies," "Big Love," and "Seven Wonders" were hits, but they were all loved and hummed.

Vote, damn you!

This was the first quarter of my freshman year at college . . . lol old ;_;

Anyway, Prince was and still is the top jam on this list.

Tiffany is always better in my head than it is in practice. Voted Mac because the chorus hooks are killer, even though I think Bruce had the better overall song.

Am I alone in thinking that Fleetwood Mac were the only boomer band still making music the kids could like? I was in eighth grade when "Little Lies," "Big Love," and "Seven Wonders" were hits, but they were all loved and hummed.

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when did George Harrison's "Got My Mind Set on You" get released? I remember singing that a lot at some unspecified point in th elementary-school era of my life....

It hit #1 in January '88.

hard to choose between the prince, FM and bruce songs but i went with bruce cos the lyrics give that edge. also agree with whoever said upthread that this was from the last truly great bruce LP.

No Exposé votes? That song is incredible.

I like "What You Don't Know" a little more...

Am I alone in thinking that Fleetwood Mac were the only boomer band still making music the kids could like?

Don Henley was still assaulting the charts well into 1990.

yeah but were the kids singing along to "The Last Worthless Evening"?

Prince vs. Madonna ... probably like most months in this time period

Going with "Breakout" for sheer nostalgia most likely.

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Swing Out Sister - "Breakout" C/D

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Expose - Let Me Be The One 0

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