Number Two Hits, 1980-1983

On first glance, a pretty horrible list. My first instinct is "Hurts So Good"

Pretty great list!

Going with "Being With You," probably my favorite song here.

And is it just me, or has "Woman" not aged particularly well?

I should caveat that I don't know several of these.

Many stinkers here. I chose "Being With You".

Going with Eddy Grant. But thinking this list is too heavy with Adult Contemporary tracks for most people.

Electric Avenue and/or Time (Clock of the Heart)

I knew it! This reads like a list of songs that were on the radio while I drove around with my mom. We used to sing "Electric Avenue", but "Queen of Hearts" was my first favorite song from the radio. Total sound of my childhood being driven from here to there. Impossible to choose.

"Say It Isn't So," one of the great comp-only hits and one of H&O's very best. Second place: "Slow Hand." Third: "Time (Clock of the Heart)."

"Hurt So Good". Runners up: "Start Me Up", "Electric Avenue" and "Making Love Out of Nothing At All". Good list!

I didn't even realize Jeopardy was in there. That song made me go totally bananas, it's one of the first songs where I remember distinctly liking the beat. These songs are like my childhood friends :-/

I remember a couple of DJs getting into an hours-long discussion about whether or not "fishes in the ocean" (from "Longer") was grammatically correct, seeing as how the plural of fish is fish.

Jesus Christ. Middle school. I can't. This is just "all the stuff they played on the radio when you first moved to the US and how awful it was compared to what was going on back home."

I'm going to be perverse and vote Juice Newton because I heard it recently and still liked it as much as I did when I was 10. Probably because it made me feel about 10.

These songs are like my childhood friends

lol otm

i always thought he was saying "the fish is in the ocean" but i was 5-7 during this period
being in the car with me must have been hellish

Gotta be Smokey. A criminally underrated song from my all-time favorite Motown guy.

The production lets the song down imo (and he didn't produce it)

Go-Go's. That song is untarnishable.

"Start Me Up" vs. "We Got The Beat"

culture club vs. culture club.

ummmm i am going to vote "rosanna" actually b/c i have bad taste

also like "start me up" "being with you" "do you really want to hurt me"

this is a great list

will always stan for crowell's original shame on the moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDcVay5edTk

culture club vs. culture club.

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I didn't know "Time" went all the way to #2. "Do You Really..." seems like a much bigger hit and better remembered. Love both, but "Time" was always my favorite.

for those first couple albums, culture club had nothing but big hits. their first six singles all went top 10 in the u.s.

the rock and roll hall of fame, for whatever smidgen that's worth, has officially gone on the record in favor of "time," too.

'Time' coulda been so much more though.

Eddy
Fucking
Grant
Obv

I have always had this weird fascination with "Gloria" - its so unusual hearing a second person, all-female narrative in a pop hit. Especially since there isn't any moral judgement involved. It's like she's commenting on something she saw on "General Hospital" or whatever. Also this was probably the first song in which I consciously concentrated on the bass line with awareness of the sound of the instrument.

Nevertheless, nothing else up there kicks like "Electric Ave". Althought the Gogos come close.

Pretty great list!

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yeah. almost impossible to decide. easier to remove a few hack-y songs from consideration than pick a favorite, (believe it or not).

We Got the Beat. (Don't like most of this list very much.)

Not seeing love for "Slow Hand"!

seeing just the two of us and ride like the wind take me back to being a kid again.

I missed Just the Two of Us! That might have defeated the Go-Go's (for me).

omg i didn't see "slow hand"... would have been my runner up

30% of us are unable to read a list, apparently.

it's tough

"slow hand" is prolly my favourite of those pre-electro 80s Pointers hits, yeah

juice newton over laura branigan, h&o, go-gos

if i were in the majors "slow hand" would be my walk-up song

A good reminder that my "golden age" of top 40 listening had loads of crap.

Voted Go-Go's.

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"Don't Talk to Strangers" is pretty damn solid: the midtempo version of "Jessie's Girl," complete with hard strums and the lyric "Did you fall at first sight or did you need a shove?"

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hey Being With You by Smokey fans check this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAHl8Yxkm2k

Think I would've voted for the Go-Go's too. Glad to see that Spinners jam get three votes, though.

I really thought Electric Avenue was gonna win this. Really close one!

"We Got The Beat" 45 is amazing at 33.3 rpm.

I kinda dig that Foreigner song. I wish I'd have voted