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Post by TheThorne on May 6, 2018 18:43:11 GMT 1
22 Mandolin Rain - Bruce Hornsby, The Range
Bruce Hornsby enjoying a lovely Wendy & Lisa sandwich here. Anyway back on with the No Limits powerplays and this gorgeous 2nd single from 'The Way It Is'. This followup single was huge in US reaching #4 but only got to #70 here.
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Post by TheThorne on May 6, 2018 18:47:05 GMT 1
21 Crazy - Icehouse
One of my favourite singles of the 80s was 'Hey Little Girl' and was very happy when they returned with this brilliant single in 1987, They just made such atmospheric AOR pop and this time they are back with very impressive mullets. This song got to #14 in the US but just scraped the top 40 here at #38. But I feel if they had got a TOTP appearance it would have shot up the chart.
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Post by TheThorne on May 6, 2018 18:51:07 GMT 1
20 True Faith - New Order
Into the top 20. Its not going to be all AOR and rock, still room for some indie but just two more after this song. New Order in 1987 finally release a song to match 'Blue Monday' for me and it even has one of the videos of the year as well. In fact I think it must be the video of the year surely. This song got to #4 in the UK and even got to #32 in the US.
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Post by TheThorne on May 6, 2018 18:55:05 GMT 1
19 Satellite – The Hooters
Hooters are back in the year end top 20 and this time they even have success in the UK. This is the song that almost everybody knows by The Hooters. It really was funny how this broke in the UK and all their previous songs flopped. It snot like TV evangelists were a thing here. Guess it just was very catchy and another No Limits powerplay. It got to #22 here bigger than the US where it only got to #61.
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Post by TheThorne on May 6, 2018 19:00:00 GMT 1
18 Only In My Dreams – Debbie Gibson
Fresh from me using this in Pop Idol. Anyway Debbie Gibson was just perfectly timed for me. I was just at the age where I was looking for pin ups and really she was perfect, she was only a year older than me. Also I preferred her brand of pop music to they SAW pop in the UK. Anyway Debbie was the kind of girl you dreamed you could have as a girlfriend one day unlike stars like Madonna or Belinda Carlisle who were really too womanly. It did not chart on first issue in UK but it will eventually get to #11 here, it peaked at #4 in the US in 1987.
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Post by TheThorne on May 6, 2018 19:02:46 GMT 1
17 Here I Go Again 87 - Whitesnake
Whitesnake return with a song that had been a hit before but this new version for the trend of pretty rock stars with big hair, was even better. Just a classic rock song and like most of the best Whitesnake stays fresh even now. It was a US number one and peaked at #9 here.
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Post by TheThorne on May 6, 2018 19:06:39 GMT 1
16 With Or Without You – U2
Now for a song that might top other peoples lists but doesn't quite make the top 10 for me. Although i do remember where I heard it first. I was actually on a golf course in Skye. Yes I know random. I basically had to ignore my family and stop everything as it was getting its first play!! Yes they thought I was mad having my radio on a golf course but I had to hear this! It spend 3 weeks at number one in the Us and shockingly it wasn't a number one in the UK, what is wrong with us? In fact it only got to #4 here!! Maybe they shouldn't have come back with a ballad and maybe this should have been 2nd single.
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Post by TheThorne on May 6, 2018 19:10:50 GMT 1
15 You're the Voice – John Farnham
Another song that took months to make the top 40 in the UK. I think it was one of those songs that when people heard it they loved it but it took ages for it to get to the peoples conscience. Also a power ballad from a singer that was barely known in the UK featuring bagpipes was a hard sell in 1987. But the nation got there as it finally reached #6 in the UK, more modest success in the US only getting to #62 in 1990.
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Post by TheThorne on May 6, 2018 19:14:04 GMT 1
14 Is This Love – Whitesnake
From one power ballad to arguably one of the greatest power ballads ever. i feel really bad that this isn't the top 10, I just couldn't squeeze it in. But really it is a masterclass in how to make a credible and amazing power ballad and I am sure it still gets loads of streams in 2018. This single got to #2 in the US and reached #9 in the UK.
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Post by TheThorne on May 6, 2018 19:17:47 GMT 1
13 Someday - Glass Tiger
How can this song be above so many classics?!! You have to appreciate how much I loved Glass Tiger at the time and still do. I even remember the critical mauling this got on Mike Reads Roundtable. 'Boring', 'Wet', 'inspid' etc etc I actually think John Lydon was on which didn't help lol And yes it probably is a bit sappy but i love it. It would be their 2nd top 10 hit in the US reaching #7 but only got to #66 here.
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Post by TheThorne on May 6, 2018 19:21:30 GMT 1
Ok to avoid backlash two very cool songs now
12 The One I Love – R.E.M.
I didn't really follow much indie or alternative music in 1987 but I heard this I think on Richard Skinner's afternoon show on Radio 1 and was blown away. I thought it was incredible. They of course will match this song many times but this was near perfection for me in 1987. It was their first top 10 hit in the US reaching #9 and will eventually get to #16 here on re-issue.
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Post by TheThorne on May 6, 2018 19:25:45 GMT 1
11 Birthday – The Sugarcubes
1987 was also the year I started watching The Chart Show and the weird and wonderful sounds I heard on the Indie Top 10. But they were nothing until I heard this. It was an incredible wtf moment. I had never heard anything like this in my life ok it was maybe like a very warped version of The Cocteau Twins I guess. Many of these songs are of their time but this song has no time, it exists in its own dimension. An alternative classic that will never be matched. And yes its not even in my top 10!! I guess because it doesn't give me chills or have that emotional link that many of the top 10 have for me. But no shame in this position. It only got to #65 here but it was around for years I think , a massive Indie chart topper.
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Post by TheThorne on May 7, 2018 7:15:22 GMT 1
Ok Top 10 time, 8 of this top 10 are probably songs that peopel will expect to see and two will not be and you will probably not even know them unless you werea big US chart fan or watched No Limits. Every song in this top 10 was a No Limits powerplay. We will start with a song that was alraedy expected.
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Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
This was one of those songs I fell in love with instantly. I didn't know who they were at the time, I wouldn't really know Split Enz for another year thanks mostly to Neighbours lol. They were just a new band to me releasing an amazing debut single. This song just didn't sound like anyone else and I thought it should be a number one of course it was in my chart but it really struggled in the UK. Did they get on TOTP? well hopefully will see when the repeats catch up with 1987. It only got to #27 in the UK but it was a #2 in the US held off by George Michael/Arethra Franklin. Looking at Wikipedia it was huge everyone but the UK, I give up sometimes.
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Post by TheThorne on May 7, 2018 7:19:34 GMT 1
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Def Leppard - Animal
Actually all but one of these songs left was a huge hit in the US, possibly all of them top 20 hits. We will see. Def Leppard return , a band that I had heard of but had no idea what they sounded like, I thought they werer meant to be heavy metal. Then I heard this and again it was another Wow! Now I got it what a brilliant rock song, I must have played 'Hysteria' to death but this has remained my favourite song on the album. This reached #19 in the Us and gave them their biggest hit so far in the Uk getting to #6.
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Post by TheThorne on May 7, 2018 7:25:39 GMT 1
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T'Pau - Heart & Soul
Now a song that was championed by Gary Davies, he played this months before anyone else and was another one of those slow burners that took forever to make the top 40. In my original year end this was my number two of the year. Just a perfect pop song again, just loved the layers of it, I even thought they had two singers at first. It reached #4 in the UK and US.
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Post by TheThorne on May 7, 2018 7:36:23 GMT 1
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Lou Gramm - Midnight Blue
I own all these songs in the top 10, 8 as 7" singles and 2 on LPs. This was one i missed at the time, I had to buy it from ebay a few years ago as it was so wrong that I didn't own it. This solo single from Lou Gramm of Foreigner fame, it possibly the best thing he has ever done. It and the song after this were the two songs I looked forward to hearing the most on No Limits as I wasn't able to buy them and I didn't even manage to tape this one. This is an ultimate AOR rock song, the kind of song that you just want to play in your car at night at high volume and feel like you are in a movie. At the time I thought this video was so cool, I didn't remember there being so much of the actual band in it though. This single reached #5 in the US and just #82 here although it did hang around the rock chart for a long time.
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Post by TheThorne on May 7, 2018 7:47:21 GMT 1
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Eddie Money - I Wanna Go Back
Now something really special. This is my 2nd most played song ever according to Last FM. Eddie Money's tale about wanting to go back and relive his live and do things over , became the soundtrack of my life for about 3 years. Eddie's thoughts about the 60s kind of matched mine about the 80s but really I wanted to go back to Scotland so much and everytime I had that feeling I would play Eddie Money. It has 52 scrobbles and I have no idea how often I played the video in the last 5 years maybe 100!!
But why is this here. It was my favourite song on No Limits, it has amazing production and is just one of the catchiest rock songs ever. I love everything about it, the drums, sax,lyrics. its a 100% song for me. But really its that sax, synth intro kills me everytime. It is just spooky that a song that came out 30 years ago says so much about my life now as when I loved it then I hadn't started living my life and doing any of the things he sings about. It messes with my head. The song thought was actually a cover of a song by a band called Billy satellite, need to listen to that again but Eddie Money made it famous. This wasn't even his biggest hit in the US, it go to #14 he had 4 songs even bigger. What can possibly be in the top 5 and bigger than this?
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Post by TheThorne on May 7, 2018 7:54:06 GMT 1
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Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth
Another song I loved from the first second I heard it. I was at a mates house who had satellite TV and I saw it on MTV and I was like swoon, who is that girl? For a 15 year old boy in the 80s this video was just too much. I later found out she wasn't new and had been in a band called The Go Gos. But this was just a big song, so powerful just a brilliant pop/rock song. The world agreed and it topped the charts everywhere including the Us and UK.
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Post by TheThorne on May 7, 2018 7:59:43 GMT 1
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Suzanne Vega - Luka
I said it would take special songs to beat Eddie Money and you don't get much more special than this. How can a song be so gorgeous and so emotional at the same time. It really is the saddest song ever but that twinkling production just stops it from be depressing. It is a magical song. I thought Luka was a boy at the time which in someways makes it even worse I guess but obviously it is bad for anyone. But i am watching the video again and he is a boy, why did I start thinking it was a woman, so confused. Its just beautiful... It would finally give Suzanne Vega the success she deserved and would reach #3 in the US and #23 in the UK.
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Post by TheThorne on May 7, 2018 8:05:41 GMT 1
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Heart - Alone
Now we have one of the best power ballads ever, the song that will finally give Heart a hit in the UK. I think Heart had been collecting fans over the last few years with shows like No Limits and Americas Top 10 so when they returned in 1987 with this song, they had built a UK fanbase ready to lap it up. That's my opinion anyway as that's what happened with me. Although I love the song more than just about any other I don't actually agree with it being in Pop Idol, they a rock band and I didn't enter songs like this as it was a pop compeition but nevermind still gave it lots of points. It was a US number one and UK number three. I also saw Heart live that year my first live band,
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