Number One Album Rock Hits - 1985

Dunno what I'm voting for, but these are standouts in order of pref:

Little By Little
Somebody
Tonight She Comes
Fortress Around Your Heart
Lonely Ol' Night
Talk To Me

A horrid selection (the overall list).

god help me i'm voting for Mike & The Mechanics

Just the opposite for me. I love quite a few of these.

I'm leaning towards "I Want to Know What Love Is" because I'm nothing if not a big sappity sap, but it could be several others on different days.

fuckin Starship

I believe they headlined a gig at my hometown's county fair that year.

"Lonely Ol' Night" is my choice, good tough groove & though lyrically it's fair to say it's a Springsteen rip, the "custom-made" line has a nice ring for a Rust Belt artist.

Forgot "I Want to Know What Love Is."

Picked The Cars, just ahead of Mike + The Mechanics. Not among the best tracks on the otherwise great "Heartbeat City" album though.

That's b/c it's on Heartbeat City -- it's a new track on their Greatest Hits.

*NOT on HC

I like almost all of these songs except Mike + The Mechanics and Huey. Springsteen brought "Trapped" back into his sets a year or two ago.

Surprised there's no "One More Night" or "Obsession."

There could've an alternate poll for best video, since all of these had a big-production one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbSGMRZsN4Q

Surprised there's no "One More Night" or "Obsession."

"Obsession" was by no means considered rock in 1985. It was synthpop even though the album it was taken from may have been closer to rock.

And I guess ballads didn't quality either, thus no "One More Night"

Man, if this is about who rocks the most, I'll give it to Stevie Nicks.

I like "Talk To Me" in spite of how awful Nicks sounds; you can hear the coke rattling around her sinuses. I think she actually shouts IZN'T MY GAH WAAAAHL IZNT DAT EEEENUUUF

Jesus Christ I just voted for "sleeping bag" in a songs poll

Was going to say that nothing else here comes close to "I Want to Know What Love Is," though I like lots of the others (Plant, Adams, Cafferty, Dire Straits, Mellencamp, Cars, ZZ Top) okay. Then I noticed "Trapped" up there, and voted for it. (Assume that's the version from We Are The Word -- if another version exists, I've never heard it.)

Plant over the Firm.

Hell with it, I'm voting for the one I liked best in 1985 and that is "We Built this City." Still prefer it to all but four or five of these.

I mean, just on the syllable-by-syllable level, "knee-deep in the hoopla" is a beautiful line. Surely that can't be denied.

Euler mentions the Springsteen rip of Lonely Ol Night, but can I just
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83GhuwtScHc

http://ll-media.tmz.com/2010/10/11/1011-memba-launch-credit.jpg

by virtue of being forcibly tattooed into my brain for life, it has to be "i want to know what love is" vs. "don't you (forget about me)". i kind of hate the simple minds tune, and foreigner will always be fun to sing along with, so they take the crown.

thing is, there several songs here i'd rather hear than either of those two: "sleeping bag", "the old man down the road", "lonely ol' night", "you belong to the city". i can't say they're better than "i want to know what love is" (cuz they aren't), but at least they've got a bit of life left in them.

the "Just Another Night" video is hilarious.

Lonely Ol' Night by a considerable margin. Ever listen to the drums on that song? Holy mackerel!

God bless Kenny Aronoff.

Scarecrow boasts the best drumming on a Mellencamp record.

Don't You (Forget About Me)

Want to Know by a mile

1. money for nothing
2. dont you forget about me
3. i want to know wht love is

Haven't heard any of these songs in years, so I'll go with the one I loved the best back in '85 (Silent Running).

Everything on here is shit except Huey Lewis.

sleeping bag
don't you forget about me
silent running

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Silent Running man.

when I was a kid I always thought the lyrics were "Can you hear me, can you hear me Rudy" (as in Rudy Huxtable, cuz I loved the Cosby show).

I was disappointed to learn the error of my ways but it is still a catchy tune

Voted Fogerty. That was a pretty cool video and it may have been a gateway into my heavy CCR period.

now if we're talking a 'worst of' these songs poll, I think Don Henley would have this one wrapped up

fuckin Starship

― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Thursday, December 16, 2010 7:37 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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No one talked much about "Little By Little."