This weeks top 20 pop hits chart—40 years ago.

Unknown ^ | 6/15/2025 | Unknown

[Phoenix8]

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: hits; music

[ifinnegan]

Jimmy Wilsey. RIP.

[mairdie]

I’ve done 1, count them, music video to any of those pieces. Many I don’t even know. 1986. I was just starting my video magazine at work and was working insane hours. Don’t remember much of any music from that period. Life outside of work just sort of stopped dead.

Congratulations, late, on your marriage. Exciting times for you and yours.

[rwfok]

Because Chris Isaak is good music and that whole album is an excellent example?

[bigbob]

I wasn’t a big fan of the music of that time, but in retrospect, it was great.

[1FreeAmerican]

Tears for Fears @ #1.
Still a mainstay of my music listening - so many good songs...

The above named - “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”
“Woman in Chains” with the great Oleta Adams
“The Working Hour”
“Bad Mam’s Song”
“I Believe”

I need to go back and listen to them all.

[1FreeAmerican]

“Bad Mam’s Song” = Bad MAN’S Song...

Note to self - don’t post after a long day and three shots of tequila.

[Salvavida]

Wow. Music really sucked that summer.

[Phoenix8]

Yes I very much liked these Brit songs. Did you notice # 18?

Another of my favorites.

[Dr. Sivana]

It was this kind of music that put disco back where it belonged.

I was a teenager at the time, and mostly got on the anti-disco bandwagon.

Looking back, and listening to someof it again, I wpuld maintain that it was much more like real music , with melody and harmony than much of the popular material today.

No, the studio production is spent on special effects like auto-tune, getting a "sound" but not making MUSIC.

But look at some of the lush arrangements, like Barry White's "Love Unlimited Orchestra" ("My First, My Last, My Everything") and some of the singers who could really belt it out like Laura Brannigan ("Gloria").

I think the real problem was that musical tastes were segmenting, and Disco got too popular, too fast. If it had stayed at the same level of popularity as the Soul Music and Funk that were its progenitors, it would have stayed unhampered in its niche, as country-western/bluegrass were.

But the teenage hard rock/heavy metal types decided that their music had to define the era. Interestingly, some of the electronica, and avant garde (Robert Fripp with his Discotronics) incorporated the electronic repetition found in Disco of the era. Frank Zappa mocked everything, so of course he mocked Disco ("Dancing Fool"). Some talented performers either struggled with it (Elton John touched upon it with his worst album ["Victim of Love" . . . mailed in], plus two singles "Bite Your Lip" and "Mama Can't Buy You Love".) or just avoided it because they were largely album acts. (e.g. David Bowie)

It is not all BeeGees and Donna Summer, check each song on its merits.

[shelterguy]

I don’t doubt that many of the singers in the disco era were very talented. But look at what we were forced to wear??? Nightmares for life and serious questions about our sexuality all because of Saturday Night Fever.

[Pocketdoor]

I always thought he said Ces-Cecelia! LOL! What the hell is Sussudio mean?

[Libloather]

Country and western.

[doorgunner69]

“You guys never heard of country?”

AKA Suicide music?

[Kazan]

That's a great set of songs.

[crusty old prospector]

As Maurice Chevalier sang, “Ah, yes. I remember it well.”

[CrimsonTidegirl]

When music was music. I was fourteen and we jammed to many of those songs..

These days, if one wants good music, one must look to Europe. Florence and The Machine, Rammstein and Nightwish are good examples of good modern music.

Brittany Howard and the Alabama Shakes are an exception. Howard is a powerhouse vocalist who has won multiple Awards.

[Dr. Sivana]

But look at what we were forced to wear???

I didn't wear that stuff. Heck, I still wear the same clothes today (different size) as I did then.

And if you think the Disco guys were bad, what about the Glam Rock (Elton John, David Bowie, Queen), the Punks (Dead Kennedys, Iggy Popp), the big hair heavy metal guys (Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith)? You can go Country/Western, or wait a few years for New Wave. But it wasn't just Disco.

By the way, some of the girls dressed just fine (Jaclyn Smith, Lynda Carter, Cheryl Tiegs)

[shelterguy]

Anything called “music” after 1978 doesn’t exist in my mind.

[Alas Babylon!]

I was 27. I knew them all, and can remember most of the lyrics to each.

[1FreeAmerican]

Simple Minds songs on my plate -

The listed song “Don’t You Forget About Me”
“She’s a River”
“Alive and Kicking”

Rocking music for skiing, pedaling, and working out.

Cheers!