Poll: What are your top 3 albums and singles of 1986?
@NoCanDu2 жыл бұрын
ALBUMS So - Peter Gabriel Invisible Touch - Genesis Back in the High Life - Steve Winwood
@ebbhead202 жыл бұрын
In 1986 there was only Black Celebration and some Dead or Alive that didn't suck. After Purple Rain it was all over with America. NIN saved the US a bit.. But apart from Reznor it's all shite.
@BillGraper2 жыл бұрын
Time to copy/paste from my all-time favorite songs list. Here are the songs that made my 'elite' list from 1986, as posted on billgraper . com: "You Give Love A Bad Name"- Bon Jovi "Amanda"- Boston "Holding Back The Years"- Simply Red "Kiss"- Prince & The Revolution "The Next Time I Fall"- Peter Cetera & Amy Grant "True Colors"- Cyndi Lauper "If You Leave"- Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark "This Could Be The Night"- Loverboy "Walk Like An Egyptian"- The Bangles "A Different Corner"- Wham! "Take My Breath Away"- Berlin "At This Moment"- Billy Vera & The Beaters "All I Need Is A Miracle"- Mike + The Mechanics "That's What Friends Are For"- Dionne & Friends "Greatest Love Of All"- Whitney Houston "Tender Love"- Force M.D.'s "All Cried Out"- Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force "Sara"- Starship "When I Think Of You"- Janet Jackson "Love Walks In"- Van Halen "Take Me Home Tonight"- Eddie Money "Take Me Home"- Phil Collins "Addicted To Love"- Robert Palmer "Why Can't This Be Love"- Van Halen "Conga"- Miami Sound Machine "Something About You"- Level 42
@surlechapeau2 жыл бұрын
Songs- Robert Palmer- Addicted To Love; Steve Winwood- Higher Love; Peter Gabriel- In Your Eyes. Album- Steve Winwood- Back In The High Life; Springsteen- Live 1975-1985; Peter Gabriel- So.
@killrmillr2 жыл бұрын
Albums: Rush - Power Windows Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time Big Country - The Seer (Still waiting for Adam to do a video on Big Country)
@astrosci88642 жыл бұрын
Bruce Hornsby's "The Way It Is" was incredibly different at the time among synth and pop songs. He had a sound that was so unique. I loved it so much.
@newetman43822 жыл бұрын
2pac (deceased rapper) used this song for his rap "Changes". I feel both versions.
@ZappaSheik2 жыл бұрын
And it's timeless. Still today it hits you right in the heart, cause nothing has changed and That's just the way it is.
@Alfredo786662 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it sounds like an elevator song. No matter what the lyrics says, is the more insipid, jingle like, sterile pieces, fragments of music. Is not even a song, it like an excercise, a warm up, the thing students play without any sentiment in music instutes in the background, without anyone's interest.
@astrosci88642 жыл бұрын
@@Alfredo78666 So, you prefer "Old Valley Road" then?
@debbie45032 жыл бұрын
@Astro Sigh That's Just The Way It Is. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THAT SONG!
@kevinpollard90102 жыл бұрын
One thing The Bangles don’t get enough credit for is how talented they were with their instruments, they could really play!
@ontheroadwithyode3902 жыл бұрын
This episode should be mandatory in every middle school so kids can learn that musicians once wrote, arranged and performed their own music on actual instruments.
@PeteRoyJackson2 жыл бұрын
It's too late. In 10 years AI will be on the top 40. We need a DeLorean to get out of here.
@999Patriots2 жыл бұрын
A good friend of mine works for Capitol Records. He calls today's top 40 music "cute tits, an ass and autotune." Regurgitated pablum.
@Britcarjunkie2 жыл бұрын
Now it's all corporate song writers telling us what we want to hear - even if we don't want to hear it.
@timothyosborn1697 Жыл бұрын
If you want an artist that was prolific at writing, arranging and performing then look no further than Neil Diamond. He got his start on Tin Pan Ally, in NYC. His story would be a very interesting one, too. Many songs made famous by others were written by Neil.
@matthewadam7615 Жыл бұрын
@@Britcarjunkie That's why our music, from the sixties to the eighties, is so popular
@Fuphyter2 жыл бұрын
I love the Bangles cover of "Hazy Shade Of Winter". It was a brilliant idea to change the tempo and make it their own. I am a fan of Bonnie Raitt and saw her live with Jackson Browne, Bruce Hornsby and Shaun Colvin. Great concert!! My first son was born in 1985.
@vaderladyl2 жыл бұрын
Yes me too. My favorite from them.
@Boblib19702 жыл бұрын
Great song!
@gregorykiernan78492 жыл бұрын
I saw that concert..my friend got free tickets for that show. It was an awesome concert...all their various hit songs...everybody just jamming along....good time. ✌
@norwegianblue20172 жыл бұрын
The movie 'Less than Zero' used that song to great effect in the opening scene.
@StrangeDevice2 жыл бұрын
Love the Bangles! I covered Hazy Shade on guitar on my channel. They took S&G’s masterpiece and made it even better IMO
@Begining20132 жыл бұрын
Damn, you've got one of the best music channels on KZfaq. Brilliant content and delivery. I love that you quote your viewers comments to illustrate the era of the song. You need your own show on MTV (you know, back when MTV was actually about music??).
@SuperMarioBrosIII2 жыл бұрын
@Natasha I miss my MTV too when it was about the music and video's! Internet Killed MTV not to mention endless streaming services and Iphones and other digital media LOL! Do people even still watch tv?😇❤🙏👍
@coyote42372 жыл бұрын
Nice to see Cinderella on the list. Seems like they're overlooked a lot. Totally underrated.
@billkeithchannel2 жыл бұрын
I was so hooked on the _Somebody Save Me_ video. Quintessential metal. Night Songs is a fantastic album. I only liked about 1/3 of the songs on Long Cold Winter but the hits were really special.
@tbury25162 жыл бұрын
@@billkeithchannel I agree, my favorite Cinderella song. RIP Jeff LaBar.
@trevormoffat40542 жыл бұрын
My favourite Cinderella track is Bad Seamstress Blues (Fallin’ apart at the seams). I was right into glam metal as a tween, but i got into it right at the end of the era, and missed out on Cinderella who were just a much more low key act than Motley Crüe, Skid Row, or Guns N Roses. I knew a couple of their songs but never sprang for an album, and my friends weren’t really into that’s so there was nobody to trade a tape with. Years later I bought a best of Cinderella album on the iTunes Store and it blew me away,. Tom Keifer was an outstanding singer with a powerful and unique take on the glam metal vocal style.
@marcelbr8152 жыл бұрын
The Bangles are one of the coolest things of the 80s. They were a powerpop group inspired by the sixties garage rock, (which became indie pop a decade later), but because of the big hair and the 80s production, not many people realized that. I strongly recommend Different Light and their first record, All Over The Place. Great songwriting and the beatle-esque vocal harmonies are flawless.
@V8AmericanMuscleCar2 жыл бұрын
I don't think today's children will remember music and television like we 80s kids did. Great times! ❤
@thepglenn10 ай бұрын
Isntitwhatweirrdalhasdoneforyears
@stevemcqueen77352 жыл бұрын
Hoffs and the those side eyes and big hair was so perfect. So many good songs and videos from the 80s
@southilgurl20032 жыл бұрын
I was so sick of hearing every one of these songs when I was 16, but 35 years later, I still remember all the lyrics and am actually enjoying hearing them.
@jonstreng78502 жыл бұрын
I agree southilgurl2003.. The reason you were sick of these songs.. They were so overplayed on just about every station. Now, thankfully, not so much.
@mylovesongs24292 жыл бұрын
@@jonstreng7850 yup. So we appreciate hearing them!
@janet44982 жыл бұрын
I was a huge Bangles fan when I was a kid. I drove my parents crazy singing along with that song each time it came on the radio. I loved The Bangles follow-up album Everything as well, which had the hits "In Your Room" and "Eternal Flame." I remember being in shock when the group broke up after that album.
@ProfessorofRock2 жыл бұрын
I was shocked as well. They were so great together.
@williamwilkinson87352 жыл бұрын
@Janet ...I ws lucky enough to get to see one of of the last concerts before the broke up in 89, it was in Dallas in July ..
@vaderladyl2 жыл бұрын
I love their song "Hazy Shade Of Winter".
@AABB-bm9kk2 жыл бұрын
Susanna Hoffs starred in a movie directed by her Mom. I’m going to say it’s called The Allnighter. I think she thought she had a good shot at being the Belinda Carlisle of the Bangles.
@Tr0nzoid2 жыл бұрын
I really hate that I missed them at a small town music festival about 9 years ago. I can't remember if I found out about it after or before it.
@mariflame18212 жыл бұрын
Wow, I cant believe Notorious didnt make it higher at the end. I was a huge Duran Duran fan then and still love their music. Their new album 'Future Past' is really good.
@Fiona22542 жыл бұрын
I agree.
@charleyanne2 жыл бұрын
Agree & am still a huge fan! They're playing stronger than ever.
@eightiesmusic19842 жыл бұрын
Serious is far and away one of their best songs. Amazing.
@godetonter47642 жыл бұрын
Yes I think Lizzy Borden was underrated. Notorious was the best song of 1986 other than Fates Warning - Prelude to Ruin , Possessed - Phantasm, Kreator - Pestilence, Hallows Eve - Lethal Tendencies, Slayer - Post Mortem , Sodom - Deathlike Silence ( which arguably was solely responsible for the entire Norwegian Black Metal movement) , Bathory - Enter the Eternal Fire, Juggernaut - Purgatory's Child, King Diamond - the Jonah , Dark Angel - Death is Certain Life is Not, Metallica - The Thing That Should Not Be, Touched - Night of the Hallowe'en , Stormwitch - Ravenlord , and Bladerunner - Eye of the Beholder. So many great hits from 1986 can't possibly name them all , but those aforementioned songs could be heard blasting from homes in every neighborhood in my 50 mile vicinity, as well as disturbing the peace roaring from 1000 car stereos . If your neighbors didn't like any of these hit classics just buy them their own copies. On whether absolutely everyone appreciated these masterpieces of music or not everyone did their best to expose people to the best music of the year. So if you were alive way back then and you don't remember these fantastic songs you can't complain that everyone didn't do their best to give you an opportunity to hear them
@shills4372 жыл бұрын
They are great in concert. Saw them about 5 years ago. Would love to see them again. They have such great energy! 🥂loved them then and now 💥
@FUY7352 жыл бұрын
Every single song from the 80's triggers memories in me that i haven't thought about in over 30 years. Sadly our kids will never experience that
@YogaconCris2 жыл бұрын
This was a true jump back in time. I recorded this week’s American Top 40 from the radio in my cassette player. Of course not all the songs, but the ones I liked and I remember this line up of the top 10. I also had a notebook full with the lists I diligently wrote. That was my weekly ritual when I was 14!
@davidgeisler98852 жыл бұрын
I used to record the US top 10 on paper through 84 and 85 here in Australia also at age 14. Then the local station that aired it decided to stop! I was devastated and even wrote a letter to the station but they didn’t budge and that was the end of that.
@rhondawilkins_2 жыл бұрын
I 🎓 graduated hs in 1984! So thankful I'm a GEN X'ER and was alive to see and hear the great Freddie Mercury, Steve Perry and Lou Gramm in their PRIME! Thankfully Steve & Lou are still with us at the making of this video December 15,2021. 1990 and the Grunge movement killed music....Steve Jobs and his new Apple 🍎 iPhone killed the music industry ~ musicians get NOTHING for downloads of their music.Computer tech and auto tune ruined writers and singers.I don't like my bands like KISS using backing tracks in live concert venues.Saying " see you later" to Freddie Mercury, Michael Jackson and Eddie Van Halen was tough.
@ProfessorofRock2 жыл бұрын
Agree with your assessment Rhonda. Thanks for your thoughtful examination.
@stephenhanft12262 жыл бұрын
Excellent analysis to the downfall of the music industry. I especially agree with your statement that 1990 and the grunge movement killed music. I would also add rap/hip hop as another genre which was responsible for hurting the music industry.
@michaelcrawford50832 жыл бұрын
Perfect statement, Grunge ruined good music alongside with Hip Hop and Teen pop
@stephenhanft12262 жыл бұрын
@@michaelcrawford5083 I agree. You had the awful grunge movement to start off the 90s. Then, you had the manufactured, untalented teen-pop of the mid-to-late 90s. Finally, you had the awful rap/hip hop throughout the 90s.
@slydale2 жыл бұрын
I agree with your statement, except grunge. Grunge started to take us in a better place. .only at first. I found grunge, as silly as it may seem, more honest than alot of what the hard rock and metal scene was becoming. Sad, within 10 years time from 91-92, teen pop, hip hop, and even pop-country played their parts as well. And even if grunge in all its honesty, per my assessment, left a big void that's more cliche than good. All other stuff you added is dead on accurate. THANK YOU Professor of Rock for what you're doing! Such a great job, don't stop man!
@poetsdreamsatc2 жыл бұрын
My fiancé left when I was 7 months pregnant in November of 1986. BonJovi’s “You Give Love a Bad Name” sadly fit at the time. Turned out that was the best thing that could’ve happened to me. My son is now 34 raised by my husband of 28 years. About Bruce Hornsby. I LOVE Bruce!! I remember nursing my son to Mandolin Rain at 3 a.m. the first night I became a mom. That was very special for me.
@lauradecker42132 жыл бұрын
So happy everything worked out! U r a survivor! You r strong! You r WOMAN!
@poetsdreamsatc2 жыл бұрын
@@lauradecker4213 Thank you Laura! Those words mean a lot. It wasn’t cool back then to be pregnant and single like it is today. I always used to feel like an outcast.
@BillGraper2 жыл бұрын
Things do have a way of working out, and you realize it was meant to be. Someone or something better always comes along.
@poetsdreamsatc2 жыл бұрын
@@BillGraper You’re so right Bill! The trick is to just hang on long enough but it will happen! Thank you sir for your kind comment.
@poetsdreamsatc2 жыл бұрын
@Anna Trail Anna you’re a riot girl! I just adore your attitude and outlook. Man I’m telling ya if we lived close we’d have a blast! Funny how you talked about your Bonstang had a lot of bondo. My mustang did too! I remember barely (and I mean barely) backing into a cement light post in a Walmart type store... got out to see the damage and all the bondo on my left back end laud on the pavement. I was horrified. And crushed. I cried all the way home with a paper bag holding pieces of my gold colored bondo. Haha Those mustangs went thru the mill right? Your car sounds so beautiful! I love the two tone blue and the roses!! Can’t wait to get a ride in Bonstang! I’ll bet you’re a gorgeous brunette and with the red highlights! Sounds very beautiful! I’m the only one if me and my sister that got the blond hair and green eyes. My sister and brother have dark brown hair and brown eyes. Got the green eyes from the grandmother who is part Scottish. I have SO many bloods that I always mark other on race. My youngest son (he’s 24) is the one who got hurt in the Army and just got home a few weeks ago. My oldest is 34 and my daughter is 26. My daughter is calling me so I’ll end here. But I’ll be back. 😘
@wingman59852 жыл бұрын
I can't think of a lot of bad music from this era. What a great time to hear the radio!
@TheWorldTeacher2 жыл бұрын
Good and bad are RELATIVE. ;)
@wingman59852 жыл бұрын
@@TheWorldTeacher So true. I guess I'm thinking of only my opinion. I quit listening to music on the radio decades ago. In my shop I control the music and its' whatever era I want it to be. 1986, what a great time to be a teenager with few worries.
@TheWorldTeacher2 жыл бұрын
@@wingman5985, in the relative, material sphere in which we exist, beauty is not merely in the eye of the beholder, but that there is a scale of extreme ugliness on one end and perfect beauty on the other end of the scale. Similarly, no two works of art, music, dance or theatre are equal in quality. At the risk of starting a war of words, to illustrate the point with examples, the finest compositions by Arvo Pärt, Johann Sebastian Bach, Hector Berlioz, and Ludwig van Beethoven (especially his Piano Sonata nicknamed "Appassionata", the Missa Solemnis and final symphony), are at the top-end of the scale, while the utter garbage one often hears on the radio and liked by prepubescent girls and boys lies at the bottom-end of the same scale.
@ProfessorofRock2 жыл бұрын
It was quite a time. Love your screename!
@ProfessorofRock2 жыл бұрын
very true.
@iancrowley48332 жыл бұрын
I had the honor of seeing Wang Chung on the lost 80s tour 2 years ago. They had great energy when they played!
@ProfessorofRock2 жыл бұрын
Good guys. Truly. Thanks Ian.
@johnathandavis36932 жыл бұрын
Way underrated group -I loved them. First heard "Dance Hall Days" on the radio, like 1984, and they had a real different groove. So cool and innovative....
@iancrowley48332 жыл бұрын
@@johnathandavis3693 I agree!
@coolcat63032 жыл бұрын
I’m jealous. Their 1986 album “Mosaic” was one of the first albums I ever bought and I still listen to it regularly to this very day.
@Thomasmemoryscentral2 жыл бұрын
@@johnathandavis3693 Is it strange that Dance Hall Days sounds very eerily as a prototype to Men Without Hats The Safety Dance which is also a song that released in 1982? The same year Dance Hall Days came out?
@VideoSaySo2 жыл бұрын
Yes, I watched Pee Wee's Playhouse on Saturday mornings when I was an older teenager. My grandmother watched it with me sometimes too! She was a pretty hip ol' gal...she loved music videos a lot! Her favorite was Wild Wild West by Escape Club!
@triphophoney29812 жыл бұрын
Aww! Such a sweet memory to share. My abuela liked "Rock The Dinosaur" by Was (Not Was) and then a few years later she liked "The Humpty Dance"...she had no idea what the song was about, she just loved the beat. Lol 😆
@VideoSaySo2 жыл бұрын
@@triphophoney2981 We LOVED Rock the Dinosaur too! And if yours was like mine...that little grandma dance! One that you know got her some attention around the USO back in the day when she could really cut a rug! Lol!
@geno91122 жыл бұрын
Escape Club's "I'll be There" is a great song
@SuperMarioBrosIII2 жыл бұрын
@@VideoSaySo And remember when Pee Wee lost his Play House in 1991 after appearing at a movie house in his birthday suit LOL which sent him to the jailhouse! It wouldn't be until 2016 before we'd finally see Pee Wee Herman return in Pee Wee's Big Holiday!🤔
@VideoSaySo2 жыл бұрын
@@SuperMarioBrosIII I think that was the same year that the TV show Murphy Brown got slammed and pretty much cancelled because the main character had a baby out of wedlock. My oh my how things have changed!
@ciconneannamae95992 жыл бұрын
I graduated from senior high school after I sat for my GCE A-level examination in November 1986. I spent my weekend each week then, tuning in to Casey Kasem’s Top 40 countdown on a cable radio station. 1986 was a fantastic year for pop/rock radio music and movies. It’s a special year I still have fond memories of. All I did was listening to the radio a lot, and do my homework. It was such a carefree time, well almost (if you don’t count the inexorable problems that puberty brings).
@ProfessorofRock2 жыл бұрын
Carefree is correct. What a time indeed. Thanks for watching!
@sdecavit2 жыл бұрын
I didn’t realize that Nobody’s Fool came out in ‘86. I didn’t discover them until my senior year of high school in ‘89 or ‘90. That song is one of my favorites to come out of the hair metal era.
@jackiepaper64642 жыл бұрын
I am a true 80’s child born in 1969 so I was a pure teenager in the 80’s. My kids challenged me to a trivia of 80’s music because they grew up with it and thought they knew. It didn’t go well for them. I said you do know when I grew up and I play guitar so I tried to copy everything. They didn’t listen. It was quite sad. Now they know. LMAO!
@laurabailey10542 жыл бұрын
I played Trivia Pursuit with my ex’s family when we were dating. It was the 80’s edition and I kicked arse! I took was a teen in the 80’s
@polytheneprentiss15342 жыл бұрын
🤣 can’t believe they thought they could beat you! 🤣
@shannonblanchard81952 ай бұрын
Same 🤘
@kyliepollert83412 жыл бұрын
There is a mashup of "Hip to Be Square" and "Enter Sandman" on KZfaq, worth checking out; the guy's name who posted it is Bill McClintock. Too bad Huey can't hear music these days; he'd think it's hilarious! I also agree that The Bangles are an underappreciated band; they have great harmonies. My favorite is "Eternal Flame"... Susanna's voice is so beautiful on that song.
@girthyguitarist75862 жыл бұрын
The Stones ‘Gimme Shelter’ and Rick James ‘Give it to Me Baby’ mash up is great on that channel!
@kyliepollert83412 жыл бұрын
@@girthyguitarist7586 I'll have to check that out!
@Briansgate2 жыл бұрын
Bill McClintock nails everything he touches. I personally love his Round and Round the Grapevine. Seamless!
@_Only_Zuul2 жыл бұрын
lol 😆 that mash-up has me in stitches always! 🤣
@mylovesongs24292 жыл бұрын
I love mashups! I wanna make some!
@shanehebert3962 жыл бұрын
I graduated high school in the summer of '86. I was a freshman in college this week in '86. Such a great time. Bon Jovi had a concert at our university and some of the footage in the "Dead or Alive" video is of that concert.
@davidellis51412 жыл бұрын
Wang Chung did an excellent job scoring the brilliant film To Live & Die In LA . A must see movie & must hear soundtrack.
@ProfessorofRock2 жыл бұрын
I love that soundtrack!
@vaderladyl2 жыл бұрын
I love that song from them "To Live And Die In L.A."
@Britcarjunkie2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic film, and a fantastic soundtrack - and I have copies of both!
@MyName-pl7zn2 жыл бұрын
Love these revisits of rock era years. 86 was a great year for music. I have to say Cinderella is the most underrated "hair band" era's group! Can't wait for next one professor to see how these songs stood the test of time.
@ProfessorofRock2 жыл бұрын
Will do. Rock on! Love Cinderella.
@MyName-pl7zn2 жыл бұрын
@Anna Trail doing well, absolutely love stand by me soundtrack and the movie really hit home on growing up. Hope you have a great holiday, no snow here at the moment
@TheIroncitykid2 жыл бұрын
Cinderella while a "Hair Band" had a great blues type or undertone. Long Cold Winter and Bad Seamstress Blues(Falling Apart at the Seams) are good examples. Great White as well.
@MyName-pl7zn2 жыл бұрын
@@TheIroncitykid coming home and shelter me are my favs and great whites rock me are fantastic blues roots
@MyName-pl7zn2 жыл бұрын
@Tom Snoodle I don't know if they still tour but I would love to see them again. Rock and Roll hall of fame to me
@jeremypersaud7522 Жыл бұрын
Stand by me - what a great song and great memory. My dad had a vinyl collection, when I was about 6 or 7 I was obsessed with the Elvis records and the Drifters Saturday night at the Movies. I credit both with my musical education and my love of music. Ben E King's voice always reminds me of my dad's record collection, he passed away in 1998, so it's great to hear. Actually in tears as I write this. Thanks for the memory. It's why you do what do, I appreciate it.
@thomasmccown21212 жыл бұрын
Bon Jovi " was the Rock band for my Formative years!!!!! And I still go back in my mind every single time I hear these songs 🎵!!!!!!!" Thanks so much for the awesome videos!!!! God bless you all today 🙏 Shalom
@kimberlyridenour80032 жыл бұрын
I love these Redux episodes -- it is like a time capsule. When you say back in this week in 1986 - it would be my birthday week and just turned 15 and a sophomore in high school. It like you dropped me right in my small town in WV wearing my Guess jeans that I pegged and wearing my flats and teasing my hair. Thank you for the trip down memory lane.
@TheArchangel9112 жыл бұрын
Bon Jovi and Duran Duran were both plastered all over my little sister’s room. At the time, I was just getting into Metallica and the only music we could both agree upon was the Slippery When Wet album.
@ericansems2 жыл бұрын
You're such a great storyteller, thank you! Keep up the good work!
@Fiona22542 жыл бұрын
I met my future husband in March of 86. Married two years later and we are still together. It was a great year in music and for us. Thanks for another great video Professor!
@katemaloney42962 жыл бұрын
A bit of trivia for 'Next Time I Fall': Amy Grant got the call to do the duet and said, "I thought a nuclear bomb had gone off and wiped out all the other women on Earth" but when she arrived at the studio, well, she had a bad head cold. Between takes, she was plied with lots of hot tea to keep her voice going. If you listen closely, Peter is carrying her (which is sweet on his part). Flash forward many months later and Amy, in passing, mentioned to her then-husband, "Whatever happened to that little song I recorded with Peter Cetera?" Gary gave her a crazy look and replied, "It went to number one." The song will always have a special place in my heart--right behind 'Glory of Love'.
@conan58852 жыл бұрын
I feel exactly the same. Love that song. I clearly remember the day (Saturday of course) i watched it enter the Top20, fell in love with it (and started a crush on Amy.... shocking...) immediately. That TV program was to me what the MTV was to Americans in the 80's, it was like my "church", never missed one program through the whole 80's.
@FatherAndTeacherTV2 жыл бұрын
Ben E. King had some classics, didn't he?! Professor of Rock, thank you for going back and getting that history behind the stories. And some of these songs I had forgotten, like that Greg Abbott one. I continue to love the content on this channel.
@ProfessorofRock2 жыл бұрын
You bet! Hope you are well my friend. Have a happy holiday. You're one of my favorite people I've met this year.
@johngarcia13402 жыл бұрын
So happy to see Toto's song up there! I swear I'll be over you is just an incredible love song and Steve Lukather on Vocals is so awesome just like when he was on Rosanna! Crazy how time changes things up!
@TheRetroManRandySavage2 жыл бұрын
Wow! What a top 10. We was truly blessed in the 80s. Notorious is a personal favourite of mine. I love the bangles. Who didn't have a crush on miss hoffs back then.😍 Wang Chungs "everybody have fun tonight" is a banger. Wasn't the biggest fan of bon Jovi, but I like some of their songs. I was a much bigger fan of def leppard, motley crue, and whitesnake. Great movies from that year. I loved stand by me. American tail was good too. I remember my mum buying that for my sister when it released. And the three amigos. Man, super funny. Absolute classic. Great work professor. 🤟
@ProfessorofRock2 жыл бұрын
Thanks my friend!
@conan58852 жыл бұрын
*"American tail was good too."* Funny you should mention that.... While i liked the movie, it will always be the *song* that i'll love... 😍 *Somewhere Out There* by Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram (R.I.P.), will always be *THE best song ever created for an animation movie* . Loved the song since it entered the Top20, still have the 7" single
@TheRetroManRandySavage2 жыл бұрын
@@conan5885 yeah, I still remember that song well. Haven't heard it in many years though. Next time American tail is on television I'll watch it.
@billlambert38322 жыл бұрын
Professor this Was very enjoyable episode. I definitely agree with you about Susan Hoffman and her eyes in that video I think we and a lot of other people have the same feeling lol. Cinderella is definitely a Underrated band in it’s time and I was very pleased to see them make the top 10 in the updated version.. I hope you do more videos like this one Professor 🎩👓🤘
@GromMolotok2 жыл бұрын
Feel free to correct me, but ISTR that she was on Pop-Up Video and said that this moment came from when she made eye contact with three people in the audience while filming. That's why she looks back and forth the way she does. Definitely an iconic moment regardless.
@Fiona22542 жыл бұрын
Meh I never liked Cinderella because of his voice, they weren't bad I just didn't enjoy listening to their stuff.
@joen85292 жыл бұрын
Same with me as a kid on that Susanna Hoffs moment… never realized that was so universal! Hahahahah
@WhoWouldWantThisName Жыл бұрын
OMG those eyes. I think that is an instant-crush moment.
@RFXLR2 жыл бұрын
The first time I heard The Bangles was the song Going Down to Liverpool with Leonard Nimoy in the video. They were cool, a little folksy and beautiful! We would cover I’ll Be Alright Without You in the local bars with three-part harmony. The vocals will either make or break that song. I’m glad 80s metal is starting to make a resurgence!
@williamwilkinson87352 жыл бұрын
@R you don't know.......The were in the Cyndi Lauper Video for Goonies R Good Enough and they also Had a Song on the Goonies soundtrack ...
@michaelrockow54612 жыл бұрын
Hoffs is also in Austin Powers. She plays Susie Shaggable, if I remember correctly.
@TheBigDumbWhiteGuy Жыл бұрын
Bruce Hornsby was writing for Huey Lewis before he did his own stuff. I remember seeing Bruce early 1986 before this album released doing a free live show on a side street/ alleyway in Grand Rapids during our annual festival of the arts. He hit it huge not long thereafter. Fun to have seen him with maybe 100 people watching standing in the closed public street...
@haweater15552 жыл бұрын
22:00. "The Way It Is" has such a powerful melody that I didn't hear and understand the lyrics for 30 years.
@laurabailey10542 жыл бұрын
I fell in love with Bon Jovi’s music when I heard their song Runaway on a video show out of Detroit called The Beat with Doug Podel as the host. I got to see Bon Jovi live in 89 in Detroit and their open ring act was Skid Row. The Wang Chung song I grew to hate because it got too much air play on Detroit radio which was the closest stations we could get on fm.
@jonsimon57792 жыл бұрын
40 years ago music was about evoking an emotion or feel. Today it's about evoking an attitude.
@amberheardsbumpyknuckles93362 жыл бұрын
Honestly, these year-in-music episodes would make great college courses... Hell I took a philosophy class on The Sopranos and morality. Incredible work Professor 🙌
@lesleycasey474811 ай бұрын
Wow this episode really spoke to me. Eternal Flame (and Whiter Shade of Pale) were such awesome Bangle songs but when you flashed up Suzanna Hoffs solo album it hurt my heart. LOVED that whole album but it was the time of New Kids on the Block and my friends thought me a dork for still listening to Hoffs music. But what REALLY got to me was Carly Simon's coming around again. My parents divorced at 2 and in 1986 I was in the 5th grade and rented Heartburn with my Mom. That movie that song somehow opened my heart to why people divorce and that what happened wasn't my fault. The final scene of Meryl singing Itsy Bitsy Spider which fades into Coming Around Again was like a catharsis for me. I've never watched the movie again even though for nearly a decade I told people it was my favorite movie because the memory of sadness but forgiveness I felt that day watching it I don't want to ruin with my own failed relationship history. Of course at the time I didn't understand why I was so in love with that song and that movie but I understand now. The rare times I hear the song it crumbles my walls and makes me cry. Thank you for including it as a near miss.
@Tr0nzoid2 жыл бұрын
"Coming Around Again" with "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" in Carly Simon's Martha's Vineyard concert is just excellent. This is one of my favorite memorable times. I hear Gregory Abbott's "Shake You Down" all the time because I play my customized 1986-1987 playlist. Meanwhile, I was also increasing my GI Joe and M.A.S.K. toys collecting, confused about the direction of Transformers, and looking forward to getting Lazer Tag for Christmas.
@big8dog8872 жыл бұрын
Love your work, but I have one nit to pick. "Stand by Me" really should get an asterisk because it was a re-release. I imagine "Bohemian Rhapsody", by this logic, is probably the #1 song for some week in 1991.
@IronSikh442 жыл бұрын
I almost choked on my coffee when you said that part about Susanna Hoffs. So true!! The shimmery bikinis in the video were another magical part for my brother and I back then. Susanna still looked amazing when she inducted the Zombies into the RRHOF. I love these trips down memory lane. Great stuff.
@truckshackley3732 жыл бұрын
Back then I was big into country music, but seeing how I not digging modern country, I'm going back and rediscovering and sometimes discovering for the first time these great rock songs. Thanks Prof. for pointing me in the right direction!
@tristanharris2052 жыл бұрын
The Bangles are under-rated.
@ProfessorofRock2 жыл бұрын
Agree!
@adolfsson27052 жыл бұрын
Right!! To me better than gogos more top singles.
@mournblade10662 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: The Bangles were one of the bands associated with the Paisley Underground in the early/mid 1980s. The band, Opal, was part of that movement, which morphed into Mazzy Star in the 1990s.
@davidellis51412 жыл бұрын
Original Opal vocalist Kendra Smith from The Dream Syndicate replaced by Hope Sandoval. Happy Nightmare Baby is a great album.
@marcelbr8152 жыл бұрын
I love their first ep, released by faulty records. Ladies and Gentlemen... The Bangles is pure sixties garage rock fun.
@dallisb10472 жыл бұрын
I believe Prince wrote Manic Monday
@ToddhaleyThe12 жыл бұрын
Prince helped them immensely! Manic Monday written by Prince
@marcelbr8152 жыл бұрын
@@dallisb1047 Yes, Prince and Cyndi Lauper loved their music, even before they were a major act. And he wrote Manic Monday just for them.
@DC4260Productions2 жыл бұрын
Walk Like an Egyptian is such a bizarre yet cool song. The other week I heard it being played in supermarket, of all places, and more recently I discovered an extended version of the song that's around 5 minutes and 51 seconds long. Thinking back to the music video, that one shot of Susanna Hoffs moving her eyes left and right is honestly haunting.
@michaelfrazia45692 жыл бұрын
watching these makes me feel fortunate for being a kid in the 80s...it was the perfect meeting point of the past and what was to come...what a decade it was
@frankc007092 жыл бұрын
I find it shocking that Notorious is not on the top 5. How did some of these other songs beat it in overall streams?
@duanevp2 жыл бұрын
I think Notorious was bigger on MTV than on the radio and MTV at the time still maybe had a bigger influence on people's perceptions.
@Kingfisher12152 жыл бұрын
The music industry has changed dramatically, mostly to increase profits but not to improve music.
@YAMISOOLD20092 жыл бұрын
I was a sophomore in college during this week in 1986. I remember that earlier in the fall one of my friends had bought the first CD player that I had ever heard. And one of the first CDs he bought was Bruce Hornsby and The Range. Suffice it to say that since he only had two CDs (the other one being Boston's 3rd Stage), I heard That's the way it is a LOT! But it has a timeless quality that makes me love it to this day! Thanks for bringing the memories back!
@addictedtoguitars49482 жыл бұрын
i started listening to the music on the radio in 1985, so many of these I remember. There were a few I didn't care for at the time, but all these years later I love them. You said at one point you missed that time, and I certainly do too. If I had a time machine...
@Thomasmemoryscentral2 жыл бұрын
Did you also happen to pick up an nes in 1985? Big year for a soon to be classic console!
@addictedtoguitars49482 жыл бұрын
@@Thomasmemoryscentral Never had one, was over consoles by then.
@stephenhanft12262 жыл бұрын
Excellent countdown. Towards the end of 1986 the pop charts were still going strong with great songs.
@TheWorldTeacher2 жыл бұрын
Boy, have things CHANGED since then. :(
@ProfessorofRock2 жыл бұрын
It was a great time to listen to the radio. Thanks Stephen!
@ProfessorofRock2 жыл бұрын
You can say that again!
@stephenhanft12262 жыл бұрын
@@TheWorldTeacher I think 1987 was the last truly great music year. While there was still good quality music in 1988 and 1989, those years weren't as strong. Then, came the 1990s and the quality of music and the music industry spiraled downward and never recovered.
@TheWorldTeacher2 жыл бұрын
@@stephenhanft1226, in the relative, material sphere in which we exist, beauty is not merely in the eye of the beholder, but that there is a scale of extreme ugliness on one end and perfect beauty on the other end of the scale. Similarly, no two works of art, music, dance or theatre are equal in quality. At the risk of starting a war of words, to illustrate the point with examples, the finest compositions by Arvo Pärt, Johann Sebastian Bach, Hector Berlioz, and Ludwig van Beethoven (especially his Piano Sonata nicknamed "Appassionata", the Missa Solemnis and final symphony), are at the top-end of the scale, while the utter garbage one often hears on the radio and liked by prepubescent girls and boys lies at the bottom-end of the same scale.
@girthyguitarist75862 жыл бұрын
I really miss being young with such great music, movies, cartoons, etc.. The music today is like a soundtrack to a bad movie. I love Billy Idol’s Whiplash Smile album! Very 80s with more of a synth sound.
@moviesnob19792 жыл бұрын
Hands down the BEST channel on KZfaq! I can’t get enough Professor of Rock!!!
@michaelrockow54612 жыл бұрын
Thanks for including the Bangles. I have been a fan for decades. They had a song back in 88 that helped me navigate out of a relationship that was going nowhere - but I was afraid to walk away from because it was safe. Complicated Girl helped me see that I needed to walk away and take my chances.
@floydmills89632 жыл бұрын
Bon Jovi is like the old school version of Nickelback, lol. Everybody wants to hate on them, but they start singing along after a while. Peace and love y'all 🤟
@BillGraper2 жыл бұрын
I think the big difference is I don't get sick of Bon Jovi's songs. LOL! The only Nickelback song I can listen to over & over endlessly is "How You Remind Me." It's weird, because I never get sick of hearing songs. I don't know why it's different with them.
@fivestring65ify2 жыл бұрын
Nicklecrack isn't even in the same league as Bon Jovi. Not even close.
@floydmills89632 жыл бұрын
Sorry to spark an argument, just saying they at one time or another they we're both hated on. Peace and love y'all 🤟
@jeffball66562 жыл бұрын
NickelBLAND.
@metoo75572 жыл бұрын
"What happened to music"? Talent no longer became a requirement, as the industry started producing it's own plastic versions. Music became more about the outside rather than the substance. And it shows by how many people ask this question. The frightening thing is why the quest is still being asked and you haven't figured it out for yourselves. It only shows.. the industry was right all along.
@Elwaves29252 жыл бұрын
While you are correct, he (and others) have figured it out and he's not actually asking the question. It's more of a rhetorical question/statement being used as the title for this series. With the music in the video being used as examples of how good it was. :-)
@lynnrobertsentertainment17432 жыл бұрын
My favorite comment was when you said 'That's when I became a man"! I was newly married that year but when Suzanna Hoffs did that eye roll I felt like I had become a man again! She was the reason I loved the Bangles so much. Man...the 80s...sure do miss those glory days!
@ProfessorofRock2 жыл бұрын
It's sooo true. She's a very beautiful woman.
@manxuberglider82 жыл бұрын
I was 15 in ‘86. In some weird way, that year was a hugely impressionable one. Also, the Susanna Hoffs comment is right on.
@eleniprovia76672 жыл бұрын
Shake You Down, in my opinion, is one of the sexiest tunes ever. Great vocals, smooth soul... love it!
@timothyabraham38502 жыл бұрын
The year my wife was born. Great year.
@ProfessorofRock2 жыл бұрын
Very cool.
@UwatchME2 жыл бұрын
Coming Around Again, Emotion In Motion and I’ll Be Over You are so underrated. I never get tired listening to these.
@alberthempfling28862 жыл бұрын
Big duran duran fan, and when Andy Taylor left I was bummed, but his great American Anthem song take it easy reminds me of a duran duran song!!! I toi fell n love with susanna hoffs... think most boys did lol.....keep up great work Adam
@eauhomme2 жыл бұрын
"Walk Like an Egyptian"--the song that was the beginning of the end for the Bangles. Debbi Peterson, their second lead singer and drummer, was not allowed to play the drums or sing a verse on it by the producers, being reduced to miming the whistle and playing a tambourine on the video while a drum machine did the drumming. She was reportedly deeply hurt by this as well as by the rest of the band not standing up for her.
@hellobecky842 жыл бұрын
Didn't know this; that's awful. Have loved the Bangles since I was a kid and need to go back and read up on them.
@jaysonraphaelmurdock88122 жыл бұрын
Had a crush on all four especially guitarist Vicki Peterson.
@NAIVADA2 жыл бұрын
Most of these really takes me back as well. "The way it is" for sure, unforgettable stuff. In Europe we also had some excellent singles by the Stranglers, Genesis, The cure, Pet shop boys, etc. The radio was still on fire
@slydale2 жыл бұрын
I was happy to see Cinderella move that far up into the countdown. As I recall, wasn't their Long Cold Winter album recorded the same time and studios as Bon Jovi's New Jersey? Today I ride a motorcycle. Songs from both albums and others from all genres make up my playlist for long motocycle trips. Especially LCW. Also, in the Army, working at Abrams tank shop, LCW was blasted loud n proud. That was 2009/10. Thx Tom, and everyone else making THAT album.
@alliswede422 жыл бұрын
Even as a little girl, I always thought The Bangles were by far the best girl group from the 80s. Suzanna Hoffs's voice is superior. And we all were obsessed with the video 🤣 And I'll never be able to think of Bruce Hornsby's The Way It Is without thinking of my father. As a black man who grew up in during the Civil Rights Era, my dad really loved this song. The lyrics resonated with him very deeply, and of course since I was a piano student Bruce's playing was something he wanted in my ear as often as possible.
@ProfessorofRock2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing Allison. Love your comment.
@Krullmatic2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for all of this golden nostalgia Adam! It really takes me back.
@ProfessorofRock2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome my friend!
@kengoodman76372 жыл бұрын
Another great week, filled with great songs that brings back memories of high school.
@chrisdelahunty19832 жыл бұрын
Starting off with that badass introduction and right into my favorite movie and song at number 10 thanks professor, you made my day.
@devox32912 жыл бұрын
You get serious props for pointing out one of the sexiest moments in music video history with Susanna 's 3 look moment. The " moment " you became a MAN. LOL🤣👏Thanks for sharing this awesome time in music. Wang Chung. Bon Jovi. Bangles. All had iconic hits! We will never forget. WOW!!!!!!
@joen85292 жыл бұрын
Same with me as a kid on that Susanna Hoffs moment… never realized that was so universal! Hahahahah
@bobjose58552 жыл бұрын
I heard "You Give Love a Bad Name" on the radio in late summer of '86 and as school started I told my friends that Bon Jovi was going to be huge. I was familiar with a few earlier Bon Jovi songs and liked their work, but I thought they knocked it out of the park with this one. I was saddened that the single didn't really take off of the radio. It was too good to be ignored, but it only got average to low air play. Then, "Livin' on a Prayer" was released and it exploded. That seemed to pave the way for "You Give Love a Bad Name" which finally started to get the air play that it deserved and it became a big hit.
@YAMISOOLD20092 жыл бұрын
I second what you just wrote. I remember it that way as well. I bought "Slippery when wet" the week it came out only because I liked the pun on the album cover and wanted to expand my cassette collection. I loved it right away and just knew it would be huge. Surprisingly it took a while. And by the time everyone else caught up to it, I think I had lost a little interest...lol.
@tshouse27822 жыл бұрын
Cinderella was a phenomenal live band, saw them several times. Great classic rock sound
@marlohowell7081 Жыл бұрын
"Walk Like an Egyptian" memory: Two of my best friends from HS & I went to a studio near the mall where you could pick your song and record your own video - how fun is that? My mom still has that VHS tape of us somewhere...in our costumes made of bedsheets and "Egyptian" makeup!😆
@moranjackson76622 жыл бұрын
So many good songs... I still like to play Billy Idols Whiplash Smile (the To be a lover Album) and turn it up, it has such a good drive. Eccept for Peter Cetera, i know all of the songs, what a good time. Fell in love with the Banlges back then. And thanks for mentioning my memory!
@LewisShieldsUS2 жыл бұрын
Addicted To Love, Sledgehammer, What You Need, True Colors. 1986 was a big year for some tunes! I was Back In The High Life, 4th row, left of center for Steve Winwood and Bruce opened the show. We dressed to the 9's and sat in chairs. For a concert! It was a civilizing and elevating experience. Can't see enough of these shows, very appreciate your hard work bringing this stuff Prof, thanks.
@_Only_Zuul2 жыл бұрын
"coming around again" by carly simon was big part of my childhood.. my parents divorced at that time, i was about 6 years old and even as a child i knew what that song was about and identified and connect with it. it's daily listening for me, much love for that song and it's production too.❤❤❤
@deanrobert99532 жыл бұрын
Love the Redux POR! Fun to hear the old list, then the modern twister. Sure, 2 bazillion Bon Jovi fans got their way but how about Ben E. King... re-charting in the 80s and then coming up 2nd here in 2021.
@mbowsher762 жыл бұрын
Just stumbled on this channel and absolutely loved this show. The walk through my childhood was amazing and it absolutely had the feel of Casey Kasem. Subscribed!!
@ADPeguero Жыл бұрын
@19:19, used to love dancing this ballad as the last song played partying on weekends in Acuña, Mexico while stationed at Laughlin, AFB, near Del Rio, TX in the late 80s 🙂
@anthonyi85552 жыл бұрын
I couldn't agree more about Susanna Hoffs eye movement in the video. It did it for me also. To this day, I still think those suttle eye movements still do it for me. BTW thank you for this channel. Best of the internet! 100% Awesome!
@TheOzzMars2 жыл бұрын
"You either love it, or you're lying about it"... Brilliant, never heard that one before.
@ChicagoDB2 жыл бұрын
I graduated H.S. in June, then started college in the autumn of '86 - a great era for music...both the preceding decades...the music of the period...and that which then followed.
@ProfessorofRock2 жыл бұрын
What a great year to graduate Donn!
@ChicagoDB2 жыл бұрын
@@ProfessorofRock - Stray Cats, Queen, Prince, Bowie, Huey, The Police, Bon Jovi, Bruce Hornsby, Springsteen, Mellencamp, Tracy Chapman, etc. Such a range of great pop music. And I still remember everyone loving "Stand By Me" and "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" Plus "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" and "Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay" we're still popular in the wake of "Top Gun".
@AGrillo2 жыл бұрын
Dude an amazing show, so much knowledge you put into the production of the video
@aracellytirado35256 ай бұрын
Oh wow! I just remembered how much I used to love that Gregory abbot song. I have t heard it in forever. Thanks! Now I’m gonna play it. Yay!!
@charleyanne2 жыл бұрын
What a year that was, in life & music 🎵🎶
@stevegallo84832 жыл бұрын
It's too bad they don't make music like this anymore. 80s music was and still is the best. A lot of the problem is formulaic song writing and autotune making artists who aren't as talented sound so much better than they really are. I have to agree with you about Susanna Hoffs, she was gorgeous then and still is. The Bangles are underrated.
@tmwilson5242 жыл бұрын
Next Time I Fall was my favorite song at the time, I was a huge Peter Cetera fan already and that birthday an aunt of mine gave me the Amy Grant cassette, Straight Ahead, so I was already familiar with her voice. I loved the song then and I still love the song. My husband will play the song to get my attention once in a while and it always makes me smile (haha)! The harmonies are some of the most beautiful that came out of the 80s. Thank you for sharing this beautiful song.
@karaokekraziness3891 Жыл бұрын
It's interesting that you have Bon Jovi and Cinderella in the same countdown because I have a kind of funny story involving them. When Bon Jovi released 7800° Fahrenheit, I became a huge Bon Jovi fan and knew they were going to be big. Later on, Cinderella released Night Songs and I became a big Cinderella fan. When David Lee Roth went out on his Eat 'Em And Smile tour, he had Cinderella opening for him. At that time, they had only released Shake Me and most people weren't even paying attention to the fact that they were on stage. When David Lee Roth came on stage, the audience suddenly realized there was a concert going on and started getting into it. It ended up being a great show and I felt bad for Cinderella because people weren't really giving them any respect. Fast forward a couple of years and Bon Jovi was on their Slippery When Wet tour. They had Cinderella as the opening act and I was really excited because I was going to get to see both of them on the same night! The place was packed and Cinderella had gotten much more popular by then and everyone was glued to the stage while they played. After their set was over, half of the crowd left so it became obvious to me that the crowd was mostly there to see Cinderella, which I thought was an interesting switch from the first time I saw them!
@mylesschrag19242 жыл бұрын
Adam! I can relate to so many things you’ve said over the years, but never have I agreed with you more than when you reminded me about Susanna Hoffs’ eyes in the Egyptian video. My 17-year-old self and my current self are with you 100%. Thx for that memory.
@louiselanthier51352 жыл бұрын
I also roller skated to some of these songs. I used to love to spin and jump in the middle of the rink while the couples were slowly skating around (wishing I would not disturb anyone.)
@ProfessorofRock2 жыл бұрын
Ha ha. Love it.
@seanradford14132 жыл бұрын
Walk like an Egyptian was the 1st music video I ever saw. I was 6 years old and it blew my little mind. It was a Saturday morning. I remember my babysitter asking my sister and I if we were allowed to watch MTV. We didn't know what MTV was so we said yes. I asked my mom later that day and her response was. Why not it's just music. My life changed from that day on...
@siouxspurАй бұрын
We may differ on musical tastes---Peter Cetera, Toto, Carly Simon, Gregg Abbott----YUUCK!!! Bon Jovi, Duran Duran, Journey, The Bangles, Huey Lewis, Bruce Hornsby, Ben E. king---GREAT MUSIC!!!--This music still holds up today-I miss what music once was!