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03-22-2009, 02:30 PM
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What music was popular the year you graduated high school?
There may be better sites than this one to find the data for your year. There may even be some that would have the month's top x-number.
If you can actually remember any unassisted, more's the better. Anyway, what are your favorites from that point in time? Mine would have to include: 1. Mack The Knife - Bobby Darin 3. Venus - Frankie Avalon 4. Come Softly To Me - The Fleetwoods 9. El Paso - Marty Robbins 10. Sleep Walk - Santo & Johnny 17. What I'd Say - Ray Charles 20. The Happy Organ - Dave "Baby" Cortez 21. Dream Lover - Bobby Darin 23. Misty - Johnny Mathis 
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03-22-2009, 02:45 PM
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I graduated in 1992 and I remember...
Nirvana Pearl Jam Red Hot Chili Peppers REM Guns N' Roses Metallica U2 It's not just me, right? Objectively speaking, music was much better back then than it is now, wasn't it?
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03-22-2009, 02:51 PM
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Dancing Queen - ABBA
Blinded By the Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band (the lyrics are so deliciously bizaare) Hotel California - Eagles (not as popular at the time as it is now) If You Leave Me Now - Chicago Tonight's the Night - Rod Stewart Evergreen - Babs Blue Bayou - Linda Ronstadt (there was a Time magazine cover about this song, hailing her as a new torch singer) Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Crystal Gayle (what can I say, I'm a sucker for long hair and a pretty face!) Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon (see above comment, plus she can actually sing) Fleetwood Mac had one of their best albums ever come out that year (Rumors), but I didn't really start listening to them until that fall when I got to college and my roommate had all their stuff. So I associate them with college, not high school. Oh, the year: 1977 Last edited by DSYoungEsq; 03-22-2009 at 02:52 PM.
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03-22-2009, 04:38 PM
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I couldn't navigate that site well enough to find my year (1975), but according to Billboard, these are the top ten of my graduation year:
1. Love Will Keep Us Together--The Captain & Tenille (Yes, I recall this being on the radio every 5 minutes or so) 2. Rhinestone Cowboy--Glenn Campbell (I like it more now than I did then) 3. Philadelphia Freedom--Elton John (Loved this one; crank the volume in the car and roll the windows down!) 4. Before the Next Teardrop Falls--Freddie Fender (Are you shitting me? Not even on my radar) 5. My Eyes Adored You--Frankie Valli (Bleah. I love some Four Seasons and all, but this is a pile of soppy crap.) 6. Shining Star--Earth, Wind & Fire (Loved it then, love it now. I had the album.) 7. Fame--David Bowie (What's your name? What's your name? What's your name?) 8. Laughter in the Rain--Neil Sedaka (I actually like his weird girly voice.) 9. One of These Nights--The Eagles (Along with Elton John, the Eagles were the undisputed kings of radio during my HS years.) 10. Thank God I'm a Country Boy--John Denver (Not my favorite John Denver song, but OK.) Pretty bland with a couple of hot exceptions like Bowie and EWF. I recall listening to a lot of Loggins & Messina, Elton John, Van Morrison -- I was also in Ramsey Lewis phase and played that Sun Goddess album constantly.
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03-22-2009, 04:47 PM
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Maybe your Billboard link will be a better source for most others, if you don't mind posting it.
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03-22-2009, 04:49 PM
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Music I remember from the year I graduated... P!nk - "Don't Let Me Get Me," "Like a Pill," and "Get the Party Started" Avril Lavigne - "Complicated" Jack Johnson - "Flake" Dave Matthews Band - "Where are you Going" No Doubt - "Hey Baby" Shakira - "Wherever, Whenever" Fat Joe - "What's Love?" Nickelback - "How You Remind Me" Jimmy Eat World - "The Middle" Eminem - "Without Me" The Strokes - "Last Night" Nelly - "Hot in Here" That was 2002.
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03-22-2009, 04:59 PM
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03-22-2009, 05:09 PM
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Some songs that come to mind:
Beck - "Loser" Counting Crows - "Mr. Jones" Ace Of Base "The Sign" Smashing Pumpkins "Disarm" Nirvana - "All Apologies" Enigma - "Return To Innocence" James - "Laid" Warren G - "Regulate" Green Day - "Basket Case" Offspring - "Self Esteem" Lisa Loeb - "Stay" Soundgarden - "Black Hole Sun" Tori Amos - "God" Crash Test Dummies - "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" The year was 1994, of course. As much as I loved a lot of the music from that era, I'd have to say that most of my favorite songs of all time have been released in just the last few years.
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03-22-2009, 05:30 PM
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If anything, music now is much better simply because of the internet. Very few of my favorite (non-local) musicians get any significant radio play, and some get none at all. Were it not for the internet, I'd've never heard of them. As to what was popular when I graduated: "Smooth" - Santana "What a Girl Wants" - Christina Aguilera "Thank God I Found You" - Mariah Carey "I Knew I Loved You" - Savage Garden "Amazed" - Lonestar "Say My Name" - Destiny's Child "Try Again" - Aaliyah "Be with You" - Enrique Iglesias "Everything You Want" - Vertical Horizon "Bent" - Matchbox Twenty "It's Gonna Be Me" - 'N Sync "Incomplete" - Sisqo "Doesn't Really Matter" - Janet "Music" - Madonna "With Arms Wide Open" - Creed "Independent Women Part I" - Destiny's Child This was 2000.
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03-22-2009, 05:41 PM
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Alessan was just doing what a lot of people do, which is only remembering the "good" music from when (s)he was young and ignoring the bad. Sure, Nirvana and REM are great. But take a look at the top ten songs of 1992 - 1. End Of The Road, Boyz II Men 2. Baby Got Back, Sir Mix A-lot 3. Jump, Kris Kross 4. Save The Best For Last, Vanessa Williams 5. Baby-Baby-Baby, TLC 6. Tears In Heaven, Eric Clapton 7. My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It), En Vogue 8. Under The Bridge, Red Hot Chili Peppers 9. All 4 Love, Color Me Badd 10. Just Another Day, Jon Secada
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03-22-2009, 06:20 PM
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I mean, should I care how many bad restaurants there are in my town if I only eat at the good ones? If 95% of all movies are bad, but I see only one film out of 20, then waht differnce does it make? The ability to filter out the crap is something to be honed, not ignored.
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03-22-2009, 06:37 PM
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Here are selections from my MP3 collection:
Everclear "Santa Monica" Lisa Loeb "Do You Sleep?" Sponge "Plowed" Smashing Pumpkins "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" Garbage "Only Happy When It Rains" Folk Implosion "Natural One" U2 "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" Seal "Kiss From A Rose" Bush "Everything Zen" Sheryl Crow "Strong Enough" Tom Petty "You Don't Know How It Feels" Better Than Ezra "Good" Soul Asylum "Misery" 1995, of course.
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03-22-2009, 06:40 PM
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I'm just pointing out that when people say, "Is it just me, or did pop music reach its zenith when I was seventeen years old?", there's a lot of selective memory and rose-tinting involved, and so the answer is invariably "No."
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03-22-2009, 07:30 PM
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1963:
The Beach Boys: Surfin' U.S.A. Bobby Vinton: Blue Velvet The Chiffons: He's So Fine The Angels: My Boyfriend's Back Jan & Dean: Surf City Leslie Gore: It's My Party The Beach Boys: Surfer Girl The Ronettes: Be My Baby The Crystals: Da Doo Ron Ron Ricky Nelson: Fools Rush In Elvis Presley: Devil in Disguise The Drifters: Up on the Roof Leslie Gore: Judy's Turn to Cry Elvis Presley: Bossa Nova Baby The Chiffons: One Fine Day And, of course: Peter, Paul & Mary: Puff the Magic Dragon Wow, I wish I had the playlist from our senior prom (now that we really are seniors).
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03-22-2009, 09:53 PM
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I find most of the music on the radio this decade has been boring. I love music from the '90s and feel radio back then was more eclectic as far as genres were concerned. That said, I agree with shy guy's point about looking at music in one's past objectively, not just omitting the music that wasn't so great in favor of finding comfort in nostalgia. There were plenty of bad songs in the '90s, and there has been some good music this decade. The difference seems to be that a lot of that good music is being found online, not on the radio.*
Anyway, 2001 seemed to be a turning point, as teen pop and nu!metal were on their way out.... Hanging by a Moment: Lifehouse Fallin': Alicia Keys All for You: Janet If You're Gone: Matchbox Twenty Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me): Train I'm Real: Jennifer Lopez/Ja Rule Let Me Blow Ya Mind: Gwen Stefani and Eve Thank You: Dido Hit 'Em Up Style: Blu Cantrell Independent Women Pt. 1: Destiny's Child *A fact which is unsettling to me, in a way, but I'll save that for another thread.
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03-22-2009, 09:57 PM
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1979--Disco's Last gasp:
1. My Sharona, The Knack 2. Bad Girls, Donna Summer 3. Le Freak, Chic 4. Da Ya Think I'm Sexy, Rod Stewart 5. Reunited, Peaches and Herb 6. I Will Survive, Gloria Gaynor 7. Hot Stuff, Donna Summer 8. Y.M.C.A., Village People 9. Ring My Bell, Anita Ward 10. Sad Eyes, Robert John
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03-22-2009, 10:00 PM
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Oddly enough, I can never off-handedly remember what year I graduated high school - I always have to look it up.
There: 1985. I know this because the song that was big at my graduation was Money for Nothing. Looking at that list, what I listened to was: Shout, Money for Nothing, Alive and Kicking, Boys of Summer, Miami Vice, One Night in Bangkok.
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03-22-2009, 10:02 PM
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I graduated in 87. A lot of U2. A goodly amount of Prince (aka Squiggly for when he did the symbol rather than name). Tons of synthpop. I remember when Billy Idol wasn't a batterer OR the inspiration for Spike--I remember when he was just cool. I'm off to google
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03-22-2009, 10:03 PM
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1971 greatest hits
1. You've Got A Friend - James Taylor 2. Joy To The World - Three Dog Night 3. Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones 4. Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin 5. Imagine - John Lennon 6. Behind Blue Eyes - the Who 7. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye 8. Proud Mary - Ike and Tina Turner 9. Friends - Elton John 10. Maggie May - Rod Stewart
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03-22-2009, 10:25 PM
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Yeah the music is always better when you were younger.
Some of my favorites from . . . . .Sept 1985- June 1986 Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears Money For Nothing - Dire Straits Into The Groove - Madonna Glory Days - Bruce Springsteen Let's Go Crazy - Prince Private Dance - Tina Turner (which I do a pretty good impression of) Some Like It Hot - Power Station Something About You - Level 42 West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys How Will I Know - Whitney Houston (dance with my gov't studies teacher at the Prom to this. She was kinda hot) Kyrie - Mister Mister Addicted To Love - Robert Palmer (video is still hot today) Conga - Miami Sound Machine Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung You Give Love A Bad Name - Bon Jovi What Have You Done For Me Lately - Janet Jackson Fall On Me - REM The Chair - George Strait
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03-22-2009, 10:27 PM
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1973, a sucky year, apparently.
1. Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Ole Oak Tree, Tony Orlando and Dawn 2. Bad Bad Leroy Brown, Jim Croce 3. Killing Me Softly With His Song, Roberta Flack 4. Let's Get It On, Marvin Gaye 5. My Love, Paul McCartney and Wings 6. Why Me, Kris Kristofferson 7. Crocodile Rock, Elton John 8. Will It Go Round In Circles, Billy Preston 9. You're So Vain, Carly Simon 10. Touch Me In The Morning, Diana Ross
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03-22-2009, 10:33 PM
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In 1972, there was:
Deep Purple, Machine Head Yes, Fragile Blue Oyster Cult, Blue Oyster Cult Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Pictures At An Exhibition Jethro Tull, Thick As A Brick Frank Zappa, Just Another Band From L.A Allman Brothers Band, Eat A Peach Eagles, Eagles Alice Cooper: School's Out David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust ZZ Top: Rio Grande Mud
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03-22-2009, 11:01 PM
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I nominated "The Letter that Johnny Walker Read" by Asleep at the Wheel, but my classmates went with "Year of the Cat" by Al Stewart.
So long ago.
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03-22-2009, 11:53 PM
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In December of my senior year, John Lennon was killed. His music dominated for the rest of high school.
Billboard Top 5 for 1981: 1. Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes 2. Endless Love - Diana Ross and Lionel Richie 3. Lady - Kenny Rogers 4. (Just Like) Starting Over - John Lennon 5. Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield I really didn't listen much to pop radio in those days, vastly preferring the album rock stations, country (I performed in this genre), folk, big band and oldies. Pop got much better for a few years, but now I'm back to the hard rock, country, folk, bluegrass, jazz and oldies stations again for the most part.
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03-22-2009, 11:53 PM
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It's not clear to me whether the OP is asking what was most popular, or what each of us liked the most. I'll go with the latter, since anyone can look up the biggest hits of 1975:
At Seventeen Black Water Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain I'm Easy I'm Not in Love Low Rider Over My Head Pick up the Pieces Shining Star Sister Golden Hair Why Can't We Be Friends? You Are So Beautiful
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03-23-2009, 07:22 AM
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I walk in certain shame that the year of my graduation, 1989, my young music-buying peers and I put not one but two songs by Paula Abdul in the top 10 for the year, which was pretty dismal:
1. Look Away - Chicago 2. My Prerogative - Bobby Brown 3. Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison 4. Straight Up - Paula Abdul 5. Miss You Much - Janet Jackson 6. Cold Hearted - Paula Abdul 7. Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler 8. Girl You Know Its True - Milli Vanilli 9. Baby, I Love Your Way-Freebird - Will To Power 10. Giving You The Best That I Got - Anita Baker There are only three songs in that top ten which have musical value today, and one of them was a medley cover of songs from the 70s. What were we thinking? For kicks, the rest of the top 20: 11. Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx 12. Waiting For A Star To Fall - Boy Meets Girl 13. Lost In Your Eyes - Debbie Gibson 14. Don't Wanna Lose You - Gloria Estefan 15. Heavan - Warrant 16. Girl I'm Gonna Miss You - Milli Vanilli 17. The Look - Roxette 18. She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals 19. On Our Own - Bobby Brown 20. Two Hearts - Phil Collins Only one of those acts is still making pop music, but it's not in English. Sad.
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03-23-2009, 08:13 AM
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For 1971, the Billboard Hot 100 lists the following top 25. As is the case with most years, it is a mixed list of great classics and cringe-worthy abominations.
1. Joy To The World, Three Dog Night (ah yes: "Jerimiah was a bull frog, doot doot dooo") 2. Maggie May/(Find A) Reason To Believe, Rod Stewart (not the best Rod Stewart, but not embarrassing either) 3. It's Too Late/I Feel The Earth Move, Carole King (off the spectacular Tapestry album) 4. One Bad Apple, Osmonds (the Jackson 5 with little Michael Jackson got nothin' on Donny) 5. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart, Bee Gees (pre-disco Bee Gees; sing it Robin!) 6. Indian Reservation, Raiders (I always thought this song was titled "Cherokee Nation". Paul Revere was still with the band, but they were trying to get away from their 1960's sound.) 7. Go Away Little Girl, Donny Osmond (ouch -- little Donny had a single?) 8. Take Me Home, Country Roads, John Denver (say what you like about John Denver, this was IMHO his best song.) 9. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) , Temptations (can't go wrong with the mighty Temptations) 10. Knock Three Times, Dawn (earworm! earworm!) 11. Me And Bobby Mcgee, Janis Joplin (from her posthumously released album Pearl) 12. Tired Of Being Alone, Al Green (I don't even remember this song.) 13. Want Ads, Honey Cone (a disco-type song without the disco beat) 14. Smiling Faces Sometimes, Undisputed Truth (a Tempations sound-alike; I should download this great song.) 15. Treat Her Like A Lady, Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose (two brothers and their sister singing funky soul) 16. You've Got A Friend, James Taylor (sigh -- made out with my girlfriend to this song, reassuring her I would not leave her as I went off to college.) 17. Mr. Big Stuff, Jean Knight (heh, heh) 18. Brown Sugar, Rolling Stones (one of my least favorite Stones tunes, but it sure was a big hit) 19. Do You Know What I Mean, Lee Michaels (another awful earworm!) 20. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Joan Baez (classic) 21. What's Going On, Marvin Gaye (now HERE was a good make-out song) 22. Uncle Albert-Admiral Halsey, Paul McCartney (great melodic fragments, nonsense lyrics) 23. Aint No Sunshine, Bill Withers (his first hit, with Stephen Stills on guitar) 24. Signs, Five Man Electrical Band (an anthem to my anti-establishment leanings, which of course led to me getting tear-gassed by the National Guard that fall) 25. She's A Lady, Tom Jones ("woah, woah, woah")
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03-23-2009, 09:28 AM
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I graduated from high school in 1969. Going from memory, I remember these songs being huge as we approached graduation:
Get Back Beatles Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In - the 5th Dimension Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - Crosby, Stills and Nash Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield Everybody's Talkin' - Nilsson I'll have a look at a Billboard list and see where they rank, although I'd be stunned if they weren't all in the top 100.
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03-23-2009, 10:26 AM
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It turns out "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" wasn't in the top 100. At least, according to this site. I'm very surprised.
Can't believe I forgot "Atlantis" by Donovan. That was a smash hit for sure. Lots of dreck in the list as well. I was never a big fan of the David Clayton Thomas version of Blood Sweat and tears, but they sure had the hits in 1969. I'm happy to see local boy Joe South on the list with "Games People Play." It was a huge hit in Atlanta, of course, but I didn't realize it went so high in the national charts.
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03-23-2009, 10:58 AM
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Mexicali Rose was pretty big, as was It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo. Who's Sorry Now? was heard from time to time, for those as got around some, but I was awful partial to Yes! We Have No Bananas, and Somebody Stole my Gal. Also heard quite often were Carolina in the Morning and Chicago, That Toddlin' Town. By that time, of course, Ain't We Got Fun was being sung by everybody, sometimes right out in the street! Men with their hats off, right out in the street breaking into song! Can you imagine? I also liked I'm Just Wild About Harry.
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03-23-2009, 11:01 AM
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03-23-2009, 11:48 AM
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According to Billboard, in 1987 it was:
1. Faith - George Michael 2. Alone - Heart 3. I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Whitney Houston 4. C'est La Vie - Robbie Nevil 5. Shake You Down - Gregory Abbott 6. La Bamba - Los Lobos 7. Livin' On A Prayer - Bon Jovi 8. Here I Go Again - Whitesnake 9. Heaven Is A Place On Earth - Belinda Carlisle 10. (I've Had) The Time Of My Life - Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes My friends and I were listening to: The Cure The Smiths Depeche Mode Echo & the Bunnymen XTC New Order R.E.M. Love and Rockets Gene Love Jezebel Siouxsie and the Banshees The Cult The Psychedelic Furs World Party Flesh for Lulu OMD Sisters of Mercy Good heavens, I think we were emo...
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03-23-2009, 12:03 PM
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I graduated high school in 1987. I have no idea what was the bestselling records of the year were, nor did I care. In fact, whenever I see one of these VH1 specials about the 80s, I am always amazed at how many 'huge hits' I do not remember ever hearing. But anyway, I do remember that I owned all of the following Lps:
the Joshua Tree - U2 Orange - REM Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd In My Tribe - 10,000 Maniacs Pleased to Meet Me - the Replacements Live Alive - Stevie Ray Vaughn Hair metal acts like Whitesnake and Poison were big - apparently, even though every one I knew sneered at them. A couple of girls would admit to liking Bon Jovi, but no guy would. What would become known as 'alternative' music was just surfacing. I remember seeing the Red Hot Chili Peppers at a free concert the summer of my senior year, just before they exploded, and I think Jane's Addiction started up around that time. I also remember the first classic rock stations. Although they're typically derided nowadays, i do remember that they seemed like something new & novel to us kids who'd never heard any of that music before.
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03-23-2009, 12:35 PM
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1. (Everything I Do) I Do It For You, Bryan Adams 2. I Wanna Sex You Up, Color Me Badd 3. Gonna Make You Sweat, C+C Music Factory 4. Rush Rush, Paula Abdul 5. One More Try, Timmy T 6. Unbelievable, EMF 7. More Than Words, Extreme 8. I Like The Way (The Kissing Game), Hi-Five 9. The First Time, Surface 10. Baby, Baby, Amy Grant Three of those I had no idea who the hell they where and only remembered one when I listened to it. The next ten aren't so hot either.
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03-23-2009, 12:39 PM
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Here's another source for these things, somewhat better than my OP's source. Still with my graduation year in the link but many more years to search than before. All the way back from 2009 to:
1925 Hits 1924 Hits 1923 Hits 1922 Hits 1921 Hits 1920 Hits 1900-1919 Hits 1800s Hits http://www.popculturemadness.com/Mus...dern/1959.html
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03-23-2009, 01:12 PM
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03-23-2009, 01:17 PM
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03-23-2009, 01:29 PM
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The big songs my graduation year were "Civilization" and "Stone Cold Dead In The Market".
We were very PC back then.
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03-23-2009, 09:46 PM
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According to this site (which appears to take its data from Billboard), the top 10 songs of 1990 were:
1. Hold On, Wilson Phillips 2. It Must Have Been Love, Roxette 3. Nothing Compares 2 U, Sinead O'Connor 4. Poison, Bell Biv Devoe 5. Vogue, Madonna 6. Vision Of Love, Mariah Carey 7. Another Day In Paradise, Phil Collins 8. Hold On, En Vogue 9. Cradle Of Love, Billy Idol 10. Blaze Of Glory, Jon Bon Jovi Sinead and Billy Idol were OK, but nothing else from the top 10 is really representative of my taste. Of the entire top 100, these were the only songs that I remember with some degree of fondness: 67. Enjoy The Silence, Depeche Mode 75. Epic, Faith No More 78. Love Shack, B-52's And that's about it. I was listening to the same stuff that Dante and his friends were (please don't call it emo!!!), so hardly any of the songs I liked ever broke the Top 40 (or in this case, even the Top 100).
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03-23-2009, 10:05 PM
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The top 10 songs of 1988 were, apparently:
1. Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley (I'll be damned) 2. Look Away - Chicago 3. I Live For You - Natalie Cole 4. Man in the Mirror - Michael Jackson 5. Fast Car - Tracy Chapman 6. A Groovy Kind of Love - Phil Collins 7. Together Forver - Rick Astley (I'll be damned, again) 8. I'll Alway Love You - Taylor Dane 9. Hands to Heaven - Breathe 10. Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin Cite BTW, I distincly remember hearing "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades," by Timbuk 3, on the way home from school on my last day of high school. Kind of poetic, in a way, since I hated high school and was thrilled to not have to go there any more.
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03-24-2009, 09:50 AM
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1988
1. "Need You Tonight," INXS 2. "Look Away," Chicago 3. "Roll With It," Steve Winwood 4. "Every Rose Has Its Thorn," Poison 5. "Got My Mind Set On You," George Harrison 6. "So Emotional," Whitney Houston 7. "Seasons Change," Expose 8. "Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley," Will to Power 9. "Could've Been," Tiffany 10. "Never Gonna Give You Up," Rick Astley Damn! we got rick-rolled!
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03-24-2009, 10:57 AM
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Top ten songs of my graduation year, 1980:
1. Call Me, Blondie 2. Another Brick In The Wall, Pink Floyd 3. Magic, Olivia Newton-John 4. Rock With You, Michael Jackson 5. Do That To Me One More Time, Captain and Tennille 6. Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Queen 7. Coming Up, Paul McCartney 8. Funkytown, Lipps, Inc. 9. It's Still Rock And Roll To Me, Billy Joel 10. The Rose, Bette Midler What a list! Ed
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03-24-2009, 11:21 AM
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From that same site that Götterfunken mentioned -
1. My Sharona, The Knack 2. Bad Girls, Donna Summer 3. Le Freak, Chic 4. Da Ya Think I'm Sexy, Rod Stewart 5. Reunited, Peaches and Herb 6. I Will Survive, Gloria Gaynor 7. Hot Stuff, Donna Summer 8. Y.M.C.A., Village People 9. Ring My Bell, Anita Ward 10. Sad Eyes, Robert John But here's the thing - that might have been on the radio, I don't know. Growing up in Brandon in the 1970s, we had two C+W stations, a local muzak FM station, a top 40 station from Winnipeg called CKY, and CBC AM. Harder to get were CBC FM and CITI FM from Winnipeg, which played AOR for a while before it turned into an all-ACDC station. (The FM reception from Winnipeg was intermittent.) If you weren't into any of those, and my friends and I weren't, you were left collecting albums. The local shops were pretty dismal (top 40 only; no, we won't order anything in.), and so most of our vinyl was bought in Winnipeg on occasional visits. What Music Was Popular when I Graduated High School is a totally weird, skewed list that was hugely dependent on what had passed our way at the time. Our most popular albums of 1979, garnered lovingly from my memory, were - King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (1969) Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus (1978) Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti (1979) Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975) FM - Black Noise (1977) Gentle Giant - Playing the Fool (1977) Weather Report - Mr. Gone (1978) Nash the Slash - Bedside Companion (1978) Stanley Clarke - School Days (1976) Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire (1973) The interesting thing (to me) is that even though these albums were not all released in 1979, they were all either the most recent albums we could find of bands we were already into, or brand new discoveries for us. I don't remember which of us first came up with the King Crimson album, but I do remember us all describing it as this obscure, one-off project from the band Greg Lake was in before ELP. Then we found out about all the other stuff that Fripp had done - we'd just been in this weird little geo-temporal bubble where this band had completely passed us by. It's fascinating to look back on that period now, when if I can name a band and an album, I can pretty much get it within 24 hours. In those days, I had to wait a couple of months until the next trip into the CITY (going from the farm into Brandon was going into town, but you could hear the block capitals when someone was going into Winnipeg) to scour the record shops to look for new or different recordings that might be interesting, (Hmm, Brand X - Morrocan Roll) or might be total crap (I wish I could remember the name of an album by somebody or other, Colin something, maybe; but he had talked all these fabulous progressive rockers into being on his album, but it was just dreck!) - you never knew until you got it home. It was truly a time when your musical tastes defined your personality and your circle of friends, because it all took so much effort to acquire.
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03-24-2009, 11:39 AM
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 Strangely, "Shades" placed at #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1986, but didn't makei t to the overall Top 100 for 1986. The official top 10 in 1986 was: 1. That's What Friends Are For, Dionne Warwick, Elton John, and Gladys Knight 2. Say You, Say Me, Lionel Richie 3. I Miss You, Klymaxx 4. On My Own , Patti Labelle and Michael McDonald 5. Broken Wings, Mr. Mister 6. How Will I Know, Whitney Houston 7. Party All The Time, Eddie Murphy 8. Burning Heart, Survivor 9. Kyrie, Mr. Mister 10. Addicted To Love, Robert Palmer Personally, I'd lop the first four right off, as well as about half of the others.
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03-24-2009, 12:10 PM
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June 7 1980:
1. Funky Town - Lipps Inc. 2. Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer - Kim Carnes and Kenny Rogers 3. Coming Up - Paul McCartney 4. Biggest Part of Me - Ambrosia 5. Call Me - Blondie 6. The Rose - Bette Middler 7. Cars - Gary Numan 8. Against the Wind - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band 9. Little Jeannie - Elton John 10. It's Still Rock & Roll to Me - Billy Joel I guess I like about half of what was popular at the time.
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