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Post by TheThorne on Jul 15, 2018 9:16:27 GMT 1
32 Better Days – Gun
Talking of special meanings I saw these guys play twice, the first time was in a tiny village hall in Skye, it was a great night but unfortunately I got too drunk and had a very strange end to the night. Back to the song and band, they really were and still are great. This debut single gave them their first hit unusual at the time and reached #34, thanks to some very big support slots
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 15, 2018 9:19:49 GMT 1
31 Second Chance – 38 Special
We haven't had any AOR for awhile and this is a song that I barely remember from the time, although I think 252 did play it and I think it was on Casey Kasem as well. I rediscovered it a few years ago while ploughing through US charts and it came back to me. It really is a forgotten gem of the genre. I just love songs like this, it was also their biggest hit in the US reaching #6.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 15, 2018 9:24:22 GMT 1
30 Jocelyn Square – Love & Money
Anyone who is also following Gezza's top 10 list will already know my love for this band and this album especially. Love & Money deserved to be one of the biggest bands in the UK but it just didn't quite happen for them, real nearly men of the 80s. Where they just a little bit too sophisticated I don't know, it didn't stop Hue & Cry or Danny Wilson. This was their 2nd biggest song it reached #51.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 15, 2018 9:27:39 GMT 1
29 Like A Prayer – Madonna
Another song that would be in many others top 10 for this year. I think for be it was a bit too much everywhere, yes I loved it but it was hard to cope with just loving a song with so much hype and controversy around it. We can look back on it now and appreciate it as possibly her best single but we just couldn't help being a little jaded then. It was of course a worldwide chart topper.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 15, 2018 9:30:58 GMT 1
28 Info Freako – Jesus Jones
Every once and a while a song comes a long that is like nothing else, yes I was already aware of the grebo scene but this song took it even further making a song that could only ever have happened in 1989, a brilliant mix of hardcore and acid house, it just shook up everything around it. It was so nearly a top 40 hit as well, reaching #42.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 15, 2018 9:33:46 GMT 1
27 The Second Summer of Love – Danny Wilson
And another song that could only have been released in 1989. A band that couldn't be further away from the music that was being played in The Balearics and the rave clubs but some how they still capture the mood of the time. Just a brilliant quirky song, that they needed to do more of, its almost They Might be Giants in style. It gave them their 2nd top 40 reaching #23.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 15, 2018 9:37:56 GMT 1
26 Right Here Waiting – Richard Marx
We now have the another appearance of the man who is now the biggest star in AOR and finally the UK join the party. It took this ballad for him to not only break the top 40 in the UK but smash the top 10. Later this year i would see him live at The Usher Hall , a brilliant gig. I must admit it wasn't my favourite song on the album I do prefer him when he rocks a little. But he has now written a song that will keep him in royalties forever so well done RM. It was a Us number one and reached a staggering #2 in the UK. As a long time fan I was absolutely amazed.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 15, 2018 9:41:07 GMT 1
25 I Won't Back Down – Tom Petty
And now another rock radio classic, even more so since the sad recent death of the man himself. Almost an extension to his work in Travellin Wilburys as most of that band feature on this song, possibly the best supergroup ever. I somehow missed 'Handle With Care' from my top 100 in 1988....This reached #12 in the US and #28 in the UK.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 15, 2018 9:44:38 GMT 1
24 Strange Kind Of Love – Love & Money
More Love & Money and not much more to add to what I said below, this was their biggest 'hit' in the Uk peaking at #45.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 15, 2018 9:50:17 GMT 1
24 Lovesong - The Cure
Yes its higher than 'Lullaby'. 'Disintegration' was just a brilliant album. I never released how much I loved The Cure over the years and how so many of their songs where around in important moments of my life. I think my top 10 favourite Cure songs has about 20 songs in it, including this. This was a massive hit in the US reaching #2, their biggest hit by far, and reached #18 here.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 21, 2018 10:57:23 GMT 1
22 Personal Jesus – Depeche Mode
I stopped at this song because I feel I have talked about it a lot over the last 2 years, the song that took Depeche Mode into the stadiums and made them worldwide stars and no longer a cultish English synth band. It reached #13 in the UK and #28 in the US, could they get bigger we will see in 1990.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 21, 2018 11:01:05 GMT 1
21 The End Of The Innocence – Don Henley
Don Henley returns in 1989 with probably his 2nd best solo single, recapturing some of the magic of 'Boys Of Summer' but this time with a lot of help from Bruce Hornsby, its almost like two of my favourite songs of all time on one record. It gave him another top 10 hit in the US reaching #8 but stalled at #48 here although the album did much better.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 21, 2018 11:05:35 GMT 1
20 The Promise – When In Rome
Into the top 20 and synth pop is still showing no drop in interest in the US. This UK dance act failed to get a hit in the UK though even though it was never off Atlantic 252, it was maybe just a bit too 80s, when dance music in the UK was moving forward at great pace. Looking back now it really is a hidden gem of the genre and I have never tired of it, love it as much now as when I bought in 1989. It reached #11 in the US and #58 in the UK.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 21, 2018 11:10:53 GMT 1
19 I Don't Want A Lover – Texas
Now I new band who I saw live just a few weeks before this was released as they played our end of year/school party, I guess it was the closest we had to a prom we had Texas, Gun and a rather fine band called Slide all playing the same night and we had a disco after. Not bad eh? Little did we know that Texas were going to be massive so soon. This song reached #8 in the UK and even charted in the US reaching #77.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 21, 2018 11:14:50 GMT 1
18 Pure – The Lightning Seeds
Now some perfect pop, it was another of those songs that seemed to take an age to be a hit. I even remember music mags saying that he was maybe to ugly for this song to be a hit, can you believe that stuff, it was a different time. The song was so infectious and everyone talked about that 'Pure and simple' song and I think I pushed everyone I know to buy it as many didn't even know who did it!! Well my promotion worked and after his TOTp performance it went huge reaching #16, it even gave them their only hit in the Us reaching #31. Some of these US hits are surprising me.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 21, 2018 11:17:49 GMT 1
17 Sit Down – James
I thought I maybe shouldn't include this and wait for 1991 but its still too good to ignore, yes the 1991 version is more epic but the indie version has a charm of its own and is probably closer to how the band perform it now. This version peaked at #77, I will include this song again if I ever managed to finish the 90s.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Jul 21, 2018 11:22:37 GMT 1
late 80s had some great indie breaking through that paved the way for britpop
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 21, 2018 11:22:50 GMT 1
16 Goodwill City – Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie
First of two songs in the top 20 for the most exciting live band in Scotland. Speaking of which I found this, I actually was at this gig I will use for a clip. All about Edinburgh and the Aids crisis,, it was maybe too political for the top 40 but did really well to reach #49. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsXX3FMuzLE
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 21, 2018 11:26:31 GMT 1
15 Satisfied – Richard Marx
First single taken from his 2nd album 'Repeat Offender' it was a synth rock monster. Richard Marx never gets enough credit for being a rocker as he can really do it. I thought this brilliant single was surely the one to break him in the UK but so close but not quiet. It gave him a US number one and peaked at #52 here.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 21, 2018 11:30:29 GMT 1
14 Paradise City – Guns N' Roses
Sorry Richard Marx isn't proper rock... ok how about this then. It was always one of the album highlights and now quite rightly a single and a massive worldwide hit, unlike 'Sweet Child O'Mine' I have always liked this song and never went off it. Now probably the biggest rock band on the planet this song reached #6 in the UK and #5 in the US.
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