Acclaimed Music Top 40 Songs from 1986 poll

hope everyone had a good New Year Eve, this is back for the stretch run of the last four.

14 year old me would have gone with Cameo and I can't argue with him all these years later.

41 Metallica - Battery, 42 Eric B. & Rakim - Eric B. Is President, 43 Hüsker Dü - Sorry Somehow, 44 Talk Talk - Life's What You Make It, 45 Run-D.M.C. - Peter Piper, 46 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - If You Leave, 47 Janet Jackson - When I Think of You, 48 Beastie Boys - It's the New Style, 49 Steve Winwood - Higher Love and 50 Madonna - Where's the Party.

fuuuck lotta great options

"Don't Dream It's Over" i guess

3 164 Prince and The Revolution - Kiss
5 523 New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
13 1056 Metallica - Master of Puppets
24 1595 Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia
27 1816 Big Black - Kerosene
28 1827 Slayer - Raining Blood
29 1829 Beastie Boys - No Sleep Till Brooklyn
30 1852 Boogie Down Productions - South Bronx
34 2212 Run-D.M.C. - It's Tricky

this is actual torture

would have definitely given some thought to "when i think of you" and "battery" if they'd been eligible too

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

"Levi Stubbs' Tears," followed by "E=MC²" and "Live to Tell." (Prefer "Open Your Heart" and "When I Think of You" to the Madonna/Janet singles there.)

"Livin' on a Prayer" obv.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd2KfkuIpYc

Holy shit, Gwen Guthrie

Haven't thought about that song in YEARS

I think the funniest thing I ever discovered about my record collection years after the fact, going back to the days when I just used to accumulate albums, was that I own four Gwen Guthrie LPs, and "Ain't Nothin' Goin' On but the Rent" isn't on any of them.

http://thewordguy.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/cameo-codpiece-larry-blackmon.jpg

Larry Blackmon likes his eggs over hard, yolks broken.

Jesus this is tough.

Prince and The Revolution - Kiss
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
The Smiths - Panic
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Some Candy Talking
Run-D.M.C. - It's Tricky
Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia
Janet Jackson - Nasty

And probably like 3 others I could have picked too. Man, I don't know!!

Larry Blackmon is a dude who understands the importance of go to party leather

I may actually vote for Guthrie.

DJP otm.

I totally missed "Panic" in there with the other two Smiths songs--that should have been my vote. I'm a non-fan who counts that as one of my favourite songs ever.

No love for this year, or at least this lineup. Marshall Jefferson over "Live to Tell."

Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer
Madonna - Papa Don't Preach
R.E.M. - Fall on Me
Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs' Tears
Big Black - Kerosene
Gwen Guthrie - Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But the Rent
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
The Human League - Human

voted Gwen

Voted You Can Call Me All. It's perhaps the first song I remember hearing (along with Homeless), from the year of my birth. What a great year, apart from Chernobyl, Challenger, Palme, etc.

Yeah, The Mission sucked.

I mean, I honestly, genuinely love all of these songs, how the hell can I choose:

1 94 Run-D.M.C. - Walk This Way
2 134 The Smiths - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
3 164 Prince and The Revolution - Kiss
4 291 Beastie Boys - (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)
5 523 New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
6 534 Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer
7 593 Cameo - Word Up!
8 649 Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
10 788 The Smiths - Panic
11 866 Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
13 1056 Metallica - Master of Puppets
14 1069 Madonna - Papa Don't Preach
15 1091 R.E.M. - Fall on Me
16 1190 Public Image Ltd. - Rise
18 1309 Beastie Boys - Paul Revere
19 1338 Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
20 1401 XTC - Dear God
21 1433 Janet Jackson - Nasty
23 1527 Slayer - Angel of Death
24 1595 Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia
25 1655 Marshall Jefferson - Move Your Body (House Music Anthem)
26 1775 The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again
27 1816 Big Black - Kerosene
29 1829 Beastie Boys - No Sleep Till Brooklyn
31 1942 Run-D.M.C. - My Adidas
32 1989 Bangles - Manic Monday
33 2074 Madonna - Live to Tell
34 2212 Run-D.M.C. - It's Tricky
35 2242 Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC2
36 2302 Gwen Guthrie - Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But the Rent
37 2333 Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
38 2411 The Real Roxanne - Bang Zoom (Let's Go Go)
39 2428 The Human League - Human

Almost went Bang Zoom, ended up going e=mc2

I can't vote in this, it's just impossible to decide.

Angel of Death

Much to my surprise, their 1986 moment just didn't last.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y9k-8vdKlL4/UBMiJH5UU7I/AAAAAAAAAwY/l4roLXsqeXo/s1600/sss2.jpg

Master! Master!

Sigue Sigue Sputnik: they made Kiss look like The Osmonds.

Oh crap, I didn't notice Slayer on there.

"Fall On Me" by a nose from "Live To Tell" (Madge's best ever song imo).

Kiss vs Dont Dream Its Over vs Live to Tell (vs Kerosene vs There is a Light etc)

One of these: "Word Up", "Graceland", or "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out".

1986 me would pick XTC, but 2013 me feels PiL is the one song that still resonates and kicks all sorts of ass. Anger is an energy!!

I went for Levi Stubb's Tears, lyrically that song just can't be beaten. New Order and XTC would be very close behind. Word up by Cameo is up there too, if it had been Candy I would have gone for that.

also voted "Levi Stubb's Tears". I've been on a youtube Billy Bragg search since. I just heard a really nice Kirsty MacColl and Billy Bragg duet (BBC?) version of "New England"

Cameo, REM, PiL, Prince, and Crowded House were my other possibilities. In these polls, I always vote based upon how they felt to me at the time (did I buy the album or single), combined with immediate "yep" reaction.

3 164 Prince and The Revolution - Kiss
7 593 Cameo - Word Up!
21 1433 Janet Jackson - Nasty
31 1942 Run-D.M.C. - My Adidas
18 1309 Beastie Boys - Paul Revere
30 1852 Boogie Down Productions - South Bronx
37 2333 Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
32 1989 Bangles - Manic Monday
34 2212 Run-D.M.C. - It's Tricky
39 2428 The Human League - Human

"When I Think of You" would have gotten my vote, "Peter Piper" and "Eric B. Is President" would have made my list

basically kiss vs don't dream it's over vs you can call me al, and i'm stuck

Hearing "Don't Dream It's Over" on the drive home tonight shattered me like the first time I heard it at 18, so I may eventually vote for it.

lots o tracks loved here but an easy vote for me, had to go for bizarre love triangle

Hate seeing fucking New Order doing well in these polls.

but voted Bizarre Love Triangle anyway

i was going on here to listen to the Spotify playlist and there isn't one :-(

Went with 'Suburbia', but could have easily been 'Fall On Me' or 'Bizarre Love Triangle'. 'Dear God' is known as the big XTC track in America (kinda like how 'Senses Working Overtime' or 'Making Plans For Nigel' are the big XTC songs here in the UK), and while I'm glad the song exists and it's a notable moment in XTC's career, it's never been one of my absolute favourites of theirs.

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I was 10 and had my first radio/tape-recorder so love this period. It was probably a couple of years before I discovered house, but these days it has to be Marshall Jefferson for me.

damn. can't decide! prince, slayer, beasties, paul simon, peter gabriel, big black, the smiths. all great records! between raining blood & kiss I think

went for "Bizarre Love Triangle" though i really wanted to vote XTC but isn't better.

1986 me would pick XTC, but 2013 me feels PiL is the one song that still resonates and kicks all sorts of ass. Anger is an energy!!

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, January 3, 2013 7:26 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ditto. Also, "Rise" was, unbeknownst to me at the time, my first exposure to Tony Williams.

But not voting for "Kiss" in a poll with "Kiss" feels wrong, so "Kiss."

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