Posted on 01/25/2015 7:37:02 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel
OK, FREEPERS, LET'S START THIS CONTEST FOR THE GREATEST SONG OF THE '80S.
The baseline for the contest is the top 7 hits of each year of the '80s, as compiled by BILLBOARD. This is not based on personal preferences, biases, prejudices, or counter-culture reactivity.
The rules in general will be to vote for everything shown. No equivocating, ties, or omissions. Votes will only be counted if the "ballot" is complete.
ROUND 1
We begin by using the #7 songs of each year and paring them from 10 songs to 4 (to set up brackets for the rest of the contest).
1980 "Coming Up" Paul McCartney
1981 "Kiss on My List" Hall & Oates
1982 "Jack & Diane" John Cougar
1983 "Maneater" Daryl Hall & John Oates
1984 "Hello" Lionel Richie
1985 "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" Tears for Fears
1986 "Party All the Time" Eddie Murphy
1987 "Here I Go Again" Whitesnake
1988 "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" Belinda Carlisle
1989 "Wind Beneath My Wings" Bette Midler
Place all 10 songs in order of your preference. No ties. No omissions ("I hate it so much I refuse to list it"). Such "ballots" will not be counted. All 10 songs must be listed.
Songs will be awarded points from 9 points for the #1 song on your list, to 0 for the last.
Each song will have a point total and be prioritized by that - greatest # points is #1, etc. Ties will have a run-off.
I will give 2 weeks for this round before we go to brackets, to garner more interest and votes, and test how much time may usually be needed.
(NoTE: one does not have to play every single round to participate, although that would be preferred!)
DUE DATE: Sunday Feb 7 @6:00
Hello all who dared reply on my query thread!
Please consider tuning into the Tournament of Chart-Toppers for the 1980s and casting your votes!
Yikes. What a first group. LOL
And that ain’t a good thing. But a great idea! I see you’ve got a ping list, I’d appreciate being added.
1981 “Kiss on My List” Hall & Oates
1983 “Maneater” Daryl Hall & John Oates
1987 “Here I Go Again” Whitesnake
1985 “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” Tears for Fears
1984 “Hello” Lionel Richie
1980 “Coming Up” Paul McCartney
1989 “Wind Beneath My Wings” Bette Midler
1988 “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” Belinda Carlisle
1986 “Party All the Time” Eddie Murphy
1982 “Jack & Diane” John Cougar
Belinda Carlisle was always the least talented GoGo. Her song belongs on the bottom.
Thanks Colonel! Gladly. I bet if you don’t like much what is here, you won’t like much later! LOL
Anyway, glad to have you, and shocked to have a reply so soon. (Hoping a week will be enough time for all rounds!)
1987 “Here I Go Again” Whitesnake
1984 “Hello” Lionel Richie
1982 “Jack & Diane” John Cougar
1988 “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” Belinda Carlisle
1980 “Coming Up” Paul McCartney
1985 “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” Tears for Fears
1983 “Maneater” Daryl Hall & John Oates
1981 “Kiss on My List” Hall & Oates
1986 “Party All the Time” Eddie Murphy
1989 “Wind Beneath My Wings” Bette Midler
Put the rest of them above her and you’ll be counted. ;-)
(I agree, she was weak without the Go-Gos. Although in this stack I decided it was better than 1 other.)
There isn’t a song on that list that doesn’t suck chose. All of them should be banned from ever being played again, and the “artists” put in front of a firing squad.
This is like being asked “What’s your favorite: pus, phlegm, feces, drool, sewage, snot, or pond scum?”. Come to think of it, that sounds like a DC law firm.
LOL. Gonna be a pretty short list. LOL.
Maybe. But she was the hottest.
Also, the Go-Go's never achieved the same level of success without her, though she equaled the success of the Go-Go's without them. Something none of them can claim.
1987 “Here I Go Again” Whitesnake
1982 “Jack & Diane” John Cougar
1985 “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” Tears for Fears
1986 “Party All the Time” Eddie Murphy
1984 “Hello” Lionel Richie
1983 “Maneater” Daryl Hall & John Oates
1980 “Coming Up” Paul McCartney
1981 “Kiss on My List” Hall & Oates
1988 “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” Belinda Carlisle
1989 “Wind Beneath My Wings” Bette Midler
Wow there are a lot of crappy songs here.
Yet you voted. ;-) Hoping for better things?
BTW, everyone, voting properly gets you on the ping list automatically. ;-D
You forgot vomit.
Can’t be anything worse than that, though!
She achieved success, but not quite the level of GGs, I think. GGs are an icon, Carlisle just remembered by those at the time.
... suck chode ...
I hate spell check.
I know nothing about these bracket things. But I do know 80s music (to my shame, looking at some of the stuff on this list).
1985 “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” Tears for Fears
1987 “Here I Go Again” Whitesnake
1981 “Kiss on My List” Hall & Oates
1983 “Maneater” Daryl Hall & John Oates
1984 “Hello” Lionel Richie
1988 “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” Belinda Carlisle
1982 “Jack & Diane” John Cougar
1989 “Wind Beneath My Wings” Bette Midler
1980 “Coming Up” Paul McCartney
1986 “Party All the Time” Eddie Murphy
I don’t think I’ve ever heard “Coming Up”, but it can’t be worse than Eddie Murphy as a pop singer. I remember being embarrassed for him when that came out, so I put I song I’ve never heard ahead of it!
1987 “Here I Go Again” Whitesnake
1982 “Jack & Diane” John Cougar
1985 “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” Tears for Fears
1984 “Hello” Lionel Richie
1980 “Coming Up” Paul McCartney
1983 “Maneater” Daryl Hall & John Oates
1981 “Kiss on My List” Hall & Oates
1988 “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” Belinda Carlisle
1986 “Party All the Time” Eddie Murphy
1989 “Wind Beneath My Wings” Bette Midler
I suspect that whatever 4 make the cut are first round casualties... not a strong list of songs at all.
I bet you have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieEvOvdr2Fg
I was confused by the title, too. I know the tune well, but could not understand the words (thought at best it was “coming on”) and would not be able to ID the singer as McCartney.
I have never heard four of the songs on the list that I am am aware of, Whitesnake, Paul McCartney, Eddie Murphy and Lionerl Richie.
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