Number One Album Rock Hits 1986

Oh man "Take Me Home Tonight"

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

I love to riff dirty lyrics to "Amanda":

I wanna take you down the stairs, and see your underwears, Amanda
I wanna take you to the station and engage in masturbation, Amanda

I can do this for hours (and do); you get the point.

don't get me wrong. but there are a couple others here i like with no irony whatsoever

Sledgehammer!

Leaning towards "Don't Get Me Wrong" too.

Runners up:

"Take Me Home Tonight"
"Throwing it All Away"
"Why Can't This Be Love"

and "Sledgehammer"

Two Genesis tracks and neither one is "Land of Confusion"? I'm going with "Sledgehammer".

"Why Can't This Be Love" is better now than it was in '86. Only Van Hagar I can stand these days.

Two Genesis tracks and neither one is "Land of Confusion"? I'm going with "Sledgehammer".

Next year.

The Great:
Peter Gabriel - "In Your Eyes" - 1 week

The Good:
Mr. Mister - "Kyrie" - 1 week
Van Halen - "Why Can't This Be Love" - 3 weeks
Eddie Money - "Take Me Home Tonight" - 2 weeks
Genesis - "Throwing It All Away" - 3 weeks
The Pretenders - "Don't Get Me Wrong" - 3 weeks
Boston - "Amanda" - 3 weeks

The Meh:
The Firm - "All The King's Horses" - 4 weeks
Robert Palmer - "Addicted to Love" - 2 weeks
Julian Lennon - "Stick Around" - 3 weeks
Bob Seger - "Like a Rock" - 2 weeks
Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" - 2 weeks
Genesis - "Invisible Touch" - 3 weeks
Steve Winwood - "Higher Love" - 4 weeks
Eurythmics - "Missionary Man" - 1 week
Huey Lewis and the News - "Hip to Be Square" - 1 week

The I can't remember!:
ZZ Top - "Stages" - 2 weeks
The Fixx - "Secret Separation" - 2 weeks
Ric Ocasek - "Emotion in Motion" - 1 week
Steve Miller Band - "I Want to Make the World Turn Around" - 6 weeks

The Good:
Mr. Mister - "Kyrie" - 1 week

waht

"Throwing It All Away", I think. "Why Can't This Be Love" is great too but won't vote Van Hagar ever.

I had that In Your Eyes cassingle, mustard yellow with b/w John Cusack in classic Say Anything pose, the b-side was a live? extended remix of In Your Eyes with more Y'ssou N'Dour (SP!) and then maybe "Biko" or something similar.

Kyrie has the modulation, the breakdown, it's catchy, I wouldn't be as quick to turn it off as most of these.

"Why Can't This Be Love"

followed by the pretenders, palmer

Kyrie is great, yeah.

Only Van Hagar I can stand these days.

I still think OU812 is the EVH's best showing ever as a guitarist. He's on fire (no pun intended) all over that album.

But the production sounds like ass and it has Hagar on it. If you want to isolate Eddie and send me his guitar tracks I'll give it another go.

http://version1.itsnicethat.com/images/608.jpg

Love Eddie's synth part too.

"Don't Get Me Wrong" stands out here in a huge way. The only thing that doesn't sound like what was then called "Corporate Rock." Wonder how it made this chart? Not saying it's obviously the best, but it does sound a lot different.

"Don't Get Me Wrong" for me too. Its bittersweet greatness really hit me anew a few years ago. Especially the "Once in a while..." middle eight section through to the ending.

might as well face it...

You like to think that you're immune to the stuff, oh yeah. But closer to the truth....

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"

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.

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.

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?

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...

Thought I'd check "everyhit" to make sure, amzed at how few hits Huey Lewis had.

"Missionary Man" is the moment when Eurythmics started to stink like two-week-old halibut.

Eddie Money, easy. Nothing else comes close. (Would vote Van Halen second. Horrible year.)

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."

that Miller song was huge in album rock radio –I heard it for years on recurrent play – yet it never crossed over.

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...

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."

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

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.