Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks 1987

The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby

1. "I Just Can't Stop Loving You"
2. "The Way It Is"
3. "In Too Deep"

The first one by a considerable distance btw

I Wanna Dance With Somebody, followed by The Way It Is and maybe, uh, In Too Deep?

I've never heard the Billy Ocean song.

I imagine I hated all these at the time, but I'd go "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" followed by "This is the Time."

"I Wanna Dance With Somebody" over "The Way It Is"

I imagine I hated all these at the time, but I'd go "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" followed by "This is the Time."

― Khalifa Hilter (_Rudipherous_), Thursday, April 14, 2011 8:59 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

wow weird, totally otm. ive been humming "this is the time" to myself this week for some weird reason.

Not too bad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otGJv1q5Rbo

"You Got It All", no contest. If only today's teen poppers could come up with anything half as pretty.

"I Wanna Dance With Somebody" over "The Way It Is"

― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Thursday, April 14, 2011 5:26 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

So no love for Songbird then?

i have a huge soft spot for "i just can't stop loving you" though there are still parts when i'm not sure who is singing

"You Got It All" is the only one of these that shows up in my head unbidden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe5rg05ZQNs

"How 'bout L7?"

I wonder if he wanted to hear "Pretend We're Dead" or that one bout the skinhead huffing paint in a garage.

Whitney's 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody' is the least snore inducing. Everything else recalls childhood trips to the doctor's office.

Back in the High Life is the only good thing Steve Winwood has done since, like, Mr. Fantasy (I might be wrong about this)

Followed closely by:
The Way It Is
Didn't We Almost Have It All
Will You Still Love Me?

1: "You Got It All," 2. "I Can't Stop Loving You," 3. "The Way It Is." There's a much better Smokey song on the same album called "Why Do Happy Memories Hurt So Bad?" Most of this list is dreadful. I heard "Back in the High Life" on the radio last week and thought, "Does it get any worse than this?"

Sorry, I just saw the previous post--my "Back in the High Life" comment was not directed at you.

Warren Zevon's version of "High Life" is gorgeous, however.

Stevie Winwood was great with Spencer Davis and Traffic--I even like some of the mid-70's Traffic stuff. I just couldn't understand what had happened to him by 1987.

I sometimes forget exactly how much I despised the glam metal revolution until I look back at years like thus and realize that most of the radio songs I remember fondly from these years were AC hits.

Voted The Jets, go MN!

xp Idk, I just went by 'best hook' I guess. I also thought Mandolin Rain was good, until djp shamed me into thinking otherwise. I cheerfully concede that I'm near-useless at judging adult contemporary even though I was highly saturated in this stuff as a small child (my mom only listened to the soft rock station, she would not let me watch MTV only VH1)

Don't listen to clemenza, "Back in the High Life" is great

Don't listen to clemenza

Seconded.

Nothing like a junior high slow dance to The Jets.

i think i like "Finer Things" more than all of that other S. Winwood late 80s stuff

wait, was "Valerie" late 80s?

Bruce Hornsby

wait, was "Valerie" late 80s?

His re-recording was.

"Higher Love" is his best imo, but I'm just throwing that out there since it doesn't pertain to this poll or the "Valerie" discussion.

i hated that micheloeb winwood at the time but have fondness for most of it now and outright love 'higher love, 'roll with it' and obv 'valerie'. voted j-e-t-s jets jets jets.

'can't we try' is like a christian rock version of lita/ozzy's 'close my eyes forever'.

dan hill looks like steve gutenberg and lionel richie's love child.

I think we may have located another generational fault line. When I talk about how much I love the early Carpenters singles with someone 10 years older than I am--I'm 49, meaning I was 10 or so when they were on the radio--they generally recoil. '80s Stevie Winwood (I mean "Steve") might be comparable, in the same way that '80s Rod Stewart is.

The great thing about 80's Winwood is that he isn't even singing in English.

I voted for "I Just Can't Stop Loving You"; on some other thread sometime we talked a bit about its wonderfully creepy intro, excised on later pressings of Bad. I didn't & still don't know anything about the duet partner, so it sounds like Michael is singing to himself, the greatest love of all. I'd vote Whitney second & then "One Heartbeat".

These are all grocery store staples still, a mark of some kind of quality, no?

i hated that micheloeb winwood at the time but have fondness for most of it now and outright love 'higher love, 'roll with it' and obv 'valerie'. voted j-e-t-s jets jets jets.

There's probably an entire generation who thinks Clapton's "After Midnight" is this slow, Mark Knopfleresque http://www.covercaratulas.com/seccion/logos/images/formatos/compact-disc-digital-audio--acontia.jpg bait.

I think we may have located another generational fault line.

I like Traffic and Spencer Davis Group too, but tbh I heard solo Stev(i)e first right around the time of the Back in the High Life album (and subsequently "Valerie" and "While You See a Chance").

You don't have to answer, Johnny, but how old? I don't see it working both ways. If you're in your 30s and remember the Winwood singles from when you were young, I can easily see you also liking Traffic and Spencer Davis; I think it's much less likely to be true the other way around.

Yeah, I was 12 when "Higher Love" was a single.

I've written this 10 million times; some people understand what I mean, many have disagreed with me. The music that makes an impression on you between the ages of 9-12 makes the deepest impression of all.

I think it's much less likely to be true the other way around.

I've already suffered this reality in a few instances.

Let me guess: you were appalled by what Cutting Crew were up to in the '00s.

And I always rep for that first Power Station album, clemenza.

i.e. I think American Idiot is the sound of a band out of ideas and phoning it in, but people 10 years younger than me (who are likely to appreciate old Green Day just as easily) think it's their highwater mark.

(That's just the first example I could think of...I don't really have an undying love of old Green Day or anything.)

I'm guessing you're close to my age, P.P. There are always exceptions, and I could probably think of a few instances where I'm a big fan of later work by someone I grew up listening to.

I was 12 in 1985. My nest of music love goes from 1983-1993 basically.

That's right around the same sweet spot I've got too (makes sense, as you're only a year older).

http://www.theonion.com/articles/90s-punk-decries-punks-of-today,1486/

Absolutely. I'm right on the line. Never got into Offspring, but I always stood by Green Day.

The Way It Is

Finally, someone else putting The Way It Is at #1

I've seen player pianos belt out a tune more soulful than Bruce Hornsby.

Just dregs up bad memories of him, Don Henley, Marc Cohen.... these five-minute piano ballads that farted up the Lite Rock FM station for about three years.

I still like Henley's "New York Minute," but I couldn't tell you why I like that and hate everything else on the album it's from.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

"The Way It Is" is the one song he did right, IMO

My only complaint about "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" is it fades out too soon on the climax.

my name is luka i live on the second floor don't ask me about forgiveness i was abused

you tricked me, I thought I could of voted Luka but accidentally missed it

I karaokeed Luka at a country bar once, during which a brawl broke out

lorax family reunion

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

whoa!

I wanna poll with somebody who loves whitney

That's weird! I like that song, though; would like to hear from those who voted---could be a lol vote but I'd have thought that'd be Kenny G in this poll, not a totally decent song like this one.

that is a respectable top 5

"Always" was robbed tho

Ranking those #1s.