This list is seriously missing some:
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Posted on 07/30/2022 9:07:08 AM PDT by grundle
These are Billboard’s top 5 songs from July 31, 1982. This is my favorite top 5 from any week.
https://top40weekly.com/1982-all-charts/
1 Survivor – Eye of the Tiger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btPJPFnesV4
2 Toto – Rosanna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmOLtTGvsbM
3 John Cougar – Hurts So Good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dOsbsuhYGQ
4 Fleetwood Mac – Hold Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0sha1XfHxw
5 The Steve Miller Band – Abracadabra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY8B0uQpwZs
By the 80s, music was already getting segmented, most teenagers and college students were more into alternative and not bothering with the Top 40 stuff.
This list is seriously missing some:
Great in the 70s, not so much in the 80s.
All great except the last one.
“White Sister” rocks!
Saw Kansas last night at the State Fair. Still two founding members touring with the. Very tight and still play as good as ever. They didn’t play “Song for America” though and that’s my favorite Kansas song. That left a bad taste in my mouth.
Great... I was in Biloxi Mississippi on that date...
I can’t think of many ‘80s songs I like, although I do like Michael Jackson’s stuff from them.
The ‘70s — that’s my fave decade for music. It used to be fun to dance to back then. Then it was good background for house cleaning. Now ... chair exercise. 🙄
We wore that vinyl album out! Also, ‘Blue Oyster Cult,’ ‘Yellow Brick Road,’ Harry Chapin, The Who, and ‘Frampton Comes Alive!’
It was a good time to be a teen. :)
When one of us broke up with this boyfriend or that and we needed a good cry, we’d put on Carole King or Janis Ian or Carly Simon.
I was in high school in 82 and this is about the time we started accusing rockers of going disco by adding horns and synthesizers.
Last hurrah oh the 70’s.
So I have started a project where I am making playlists for the decades in my life. I am using the billboard top 100 songs for the year as a starter and, when I have gone through all of the years, I will go back and find songs I liked at that time that didn’t make the top 100.
I go through the top 100 using an online list and I have iTunes open to create the playlists. Sometimes I have to listen to a song to remember it. It has been a fun way to pass the time.
The playlists are named The First 10, The Second Ten, etc. The first ten is 1962 to 1971, the second ten is 1972 to 1981.
I only add songs that I like or that bring back strong memories.
The First 10 has 485 songs in it.
The Second 10 has 624 songs in it.
The Third 10 has 552 songs in it.
The Fourth 10 has 227 songs in it.
The Fifth 10 has 62 songs in it, but I am only halfway through.
Haven’t started the Sixth 10 yet.
“Eye of the Tiger”
Obviously, Rocky III made that a huge hit. What some people don’t know is that it replaced another song, “You’re the Best” by Bill Conti and performed by Joe Esposito... which became a hit a couple years later when it was recycled for The Karate Kid.
The dawn of the MTV music video era.
I’ll take April 4, 1964.
1 Can’t Buy Me Love
2 Twist and Shout
3 She Loves You
4 I Want to Hold Your Hand
5 Please Please Me
One Bad Apple by the Osmonds beats all the above over a decade earlier.
What about Crazy Horses?
Funny thing: the ONLY song on that list I don’t mind is Fleetwood Mac. The rest I am...shall we say...not overly enthused about.
Interesting comments by everyone.
Is there anything more subjective than music?
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