What Happened To Music? This Week In 1988 Based On All-Time Performance

What Happened To Music? This Week In 1988 Based On All-Time Performance | Professor of Rock

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We count down the top 10 song from this week in 1988 based on all time performance since their peak including your memories and dedications with artist interview commentary from Huey Lewis, Kenny Loggins, Sammy Hagar and more. What is the new #1? Is it Guns N’ Roses, Rick Astley, Def Leppard or Van Halen? Find out next on our tribute to Casey Kasem’s American top 40.
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As a child of the 80s, born in the 70s, growing up in the 80s, Like many of you, I was raised on Casey Kasem’s American Top 40. I listened every week without fail, rooting for my favorite song to hit #1. A few month ago I started a new show called the Hit Song Redux where we travel back to a week in the golden era of rock and roll and recalibrate the top 10 songs of THAT SPECIFIC week based on their performance since THEIR PEAK POSITION ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100.
Well after some tweaking, I’m ready to make this a regular feature, including your stories, your dedications and the actual artists commenting on their own songs, All of these songs are in a playlist we’ve created below so you can listen after the video and relive the hits.
so here it is, we go back to this same week September 17th in the year 1988. Coming in at Number 10

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@ProfessorofRock 2 жыл бұрын

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@HAbEXMr 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for taking me back in time to my childhood time after time

@markadams7046 2 жыл бұрын

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@Geolaw1 2 жыл бұрын

You're MY Casey Casem Professor!

@poetsdreamsatc 2 жыл бұрын

Yes thanks Professor! Music has honestly carried me through really great times and really dark times in my life. I eagerly wait for your videos to see where my memories take me to that day. Thanks a million Adam. 😘

@ProfessorofRock 2 жыл бұрын

@@Geolaw1 Wow. Thank you!

@snowroaches 2 жыл бұрын

Kids today don't understand the pain of "6-8 weeks for delivery"

@kyliepollert8341 2 жыл бұрын

It's hard to believe "Love Bites" was Def Leppard's only #1 hit on the Hot 100.

@TheRetroManRandySavage 2 жыл бұрын

Outrageous really. Considering they was the only rock band of the 80s to have had two consecutive selling 10 million + albums that decade in America (from what I remember). All the 7 releases off Hysteria was worthy of being a no1 hit. Really surprised songs like photograph and rock of ages didn't get a no1 either.

@ProfessorofRock 2 жыл бұрын

I know right?

@kyliepollert8341 2 жыл бұрын

@@ProfessorofRock Yes.

@kyliepollert8341 2 жыл бұрын

@Anna Trail My favorite of theirs is "Bringin' on the Heartbreak".

@TheRetroManRandySavage 2 жыл бұрын

@Anna Trail hope they come back to the uk next year. Can't wait to see them again.

@DanieVargas 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Adam! Really like your new segment!! Yeah, you ARE the new Casey Kasem…

@ProfessorofRock 2 жыл бұрын

Wow... Thank you!

@xqqqme 2 жыл бұрын

@@ProfessorofRock You could do it, for sure....but you'd have to start saying, "Well, (viewer name), there's your answer. Now back to the Countdown."

@Aprilfool3333 2 жыл бұрын

MTV Classics should have Adam do a series of Top 10's exactly how he does it on his You tube channel. I would definetly watch!!

@spook75a28 2 жыл бұрын

When I hear Adam my minds eye goes back to my childhood in the early 80's, driving up to Northern WI from Milwaukee where we were on the road for four hours, and hearing Casey Kasem's smooth but passionate voice present to us the Top 40's.

@melissinha73 2 жыл бұрын

He certainly has a good voice and cadence. This will definitely increase the views, wise move.

@celestialscripture 2 жыл бұрын

The first concert I ever went to was Motley Crue and some band nobody had ever heard of called Guns N Roses in November of 1987. I was only 14, but scored seats right beside the stage because one of the chicks I went with had a mom that was a DJ at a local radio station. When those lights went out and Guns N Roses hit the stage, my life was changed forever, and that's not being hyperbolic. They were absolutely ecstatic, larger than life characters one and all, with a front man you couldn't take your eyes off. I never sat down the whole time, and it was funny because these 2 kids I went to school with were somehow a couple of rows in front of us, the "leader" sitting in his chair trying to act like he wasn't impressed. I just laughed at him. GNR blew the roof off the joint (and blew Motley Crue offstage), and damn near blew my ears off my head. When Motley Crue came on, I was so disappointed at the letdown that I sat down while everybody else stood up, and when I got home my little brother, who was wearing his Motley Crue shirt, ran up to me and asked "WELL HOW WAS IT?" I was like "DUDE! There's this band called Guns N Roses..." and went on a tirade while he looked at me, frozen, and completely confused. After that it I was all about all things Guns N Roses, and it was Slash and Izzy's timeless dynamic that pushed me beyond all inhibition and caused me to pick up a guitar and start to play. One of those life changing moments for sure.

@danjohnson4082 6 ай бұрын

Guns N Roses saved hard rock for the late 80's....

@barkeater9606 2 жыл бұрын

I remember all of these songs, I graduated high school in 1988. Great times!!!!!

@ProfessorofRock 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool.

@erichanhauser3190 2 жыл бұрын

Class of 89.

@Garry1996lt4 2 жыл бұрын

Class of 88

@Meditech509 2 жыл бұрын

The torture of waiting for Back to the Future 2 was absolutely brutal.

@ProfessorofRock 2 жыл бұрын

You know what I'm talking about!

@terrybeavan4264 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed! But heck what I remember oh so painfully well is finally seeing Back to the Future Part 2 when it finally came out, and seeing that frickin' ENDING which was nothing but a cliffhanger and a commercial for Back to the Future Part 3, including no less than ZZ Top with their spinning guitars! I'll never forget how collectively P***ED nearly the entire audience was while walking out of that theater on feeling we were ripped off by seeing what felt like in the end nothing but a two hour commercial for the next movie! :D I also wonder to this day if I'm the only person on that planet that was hurt a little bit on seeing that DeLorean being smashed to bits.... :)

@dreamweaver1603 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like the older generation x had an entirely different experience than you guys. I saw the first Back To The Future but I don’t recall seeing the sequel until I saw it at someone’s house a few years later on VHS. I didn’t even have a VCR until my 20s.

@Terk131 2 жыл бұрын

It was torture BUT we had great movies while waiting not to mention GREAT music. Kids today will never know or experience what we did or went through

@Chrisicola 2 жыл бұрын

About as brutal as waiting for them to come out with Start Wars on VCR tape (1982) back in the day. People were practically begging Lucas for it. I remember first seeing Star Wars on a friend's laser disc player (1977) way before the VCR release and I couldn't believe it. Guess I'm showing my age.

@billfryer5911 2 жыл бұрын

Robert Palmer was great! And his cover, as lead singer of Power Station, of "Get It On (Bang A Gong)" is, in my humble opinion, a rock classic.

@catherine6653 2 жыл бұрын

I also grew up listening to Casey Kasem's top 40 countdown. "Keep your feet on the ground and reach for the stars. I love the 80s. ❤ I look forward to more countdowns in future videos. I have to say I liked "Don't Worry Be Happy" back in the day. I even memorized the lyrics.

@ProfessorofRock 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool. Great last saying from Casey. Always loved that!

@cbl1984 2 жыл бұрын

@@ProfessorofRock Sadly by the week you are reviewing in 1988, Casey Kasem's classic AT40 era had come to an end in August '88 -- Roll with It by Steve Winwood was the last Number One song called out by Casey -- and the Shadoe Stevens era was in full swing by September 17th, 1988.

@athlonen 2 жыл бұрын

Here is the good news. a lot of radio stations (at least 3 that I know of; Omaha, Las Vegas, and Sacramento, and they are all online or have an app to listen with) have their hands on the original AT40 countdowns, and are airing them in their original formats, taking this particular week in a given year, and are airing them every Saturday or Sunday. So we can listen to them all again as if they were airing for the first time!

@ProfessorofRock 2 жыл бұрын

@@cbl1984 You're exactly right. I always hopped over to Casey's countdown...

@Heartwing37 2 жыл бұрын

We all grew up with Casey and Bandstand!

@haps4273 2 жыл бұрын

Best year of my life. Hysteria was so huge. Like you said, everyone had the album and everyone knew every song on it, not just the ones that were released for radio play. Appetite for Destruction was the same. There were so many great acts with albums out that year. Besides Def Leppard and GNR, there was Cheap Trick, Ratt, Aerosmith, White Lion, Bon Jovi, Poison, Europe, John Mellencamp, Rod Stewart, INXS, U2, George Michael, the Bangles, Belinda Carlisle and the list goes on.

@troublemagnet1 2 жыл бұрын

You forgot Metallica, Slayer , Megadeth, Nuclear Assault, and Death Angel

@haps4273 2 жыл бұрын

@@troublemagnet1 I didn't forget. That's why I put and the list goes on. Just writing about some of my memories of that year as a 13 year old.

@DRourk 2 жыл бұрын

I'm about the same age. I never realized how lucky we were back then. Each year things were getting better.

@monica93304 2 жыл бұрын

I'll be 51 towards the end of this month, and I remember ALL of these songs. That VH song was awesome. I didn't know Robert Palmer has passed(did a wiki check and he died on my birthday in 2003. Such an underrated voice. Peter Gabriel and Steve Windwood come to mind as well. Adam the blue Zenni's look very cool.

@eightiesmusic1984 2 жыл бұрын

It was a shock when Robert Palmer died. He did a local television interview in Yorkshire just before he died and did not look well in retrospect. I recommend 'Know By Now' and 'You Blew Me Away' from his album 'Honey Lingers', both excellent tracks which showcase the power of his voice.

@EvaFull 2 жыл бұрын

Definitely a recurring segment that I would love to do for other weeks/years. So many years I can’t wait to rediscover through these videos.

@ProfessorofRock 2 жыл бұрын

Will do. Please share it so we can make a regular feature!

@EvaFull 2 жыл бұрын

@@ProfessorofRock Your content is ALWAYS an instant share on my social media.

@laartwork 2 жыл бұрын

Yes it proves music in the top of the charts could suck back then just like they can now. One good song out of 10. That's about the sand as this week.

@libena1973 2 жыл бұрын

Yesss!

@billcook4768 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve always felt the Professor has a little Casey Kasem in him. But now he’s flat out channeling him. Well done.

@Kittyfly223 2 жыл бұрын

From what I'm reading below. Robert Palmer is still under appreciated.

@kenperk9854 2 жыл бұрын

Robert was a 70s star.

@kenlieck7756 2 жыл бұрын

@@kenperk9854 He was cutting edge -- he was covering/collaborating with Gary Numan as far back as '79 (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pMVii5ZisJyVh58.html) and his follow-up to "Addicted..." was a DEVO cover(kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qdWJlqihvMy3on0.html)

@starshake8998 2 жыл бұрын

Not by me! 😄

@starshake8998 2 жыл бұрын

@KenPark -- I mean, if you don't count his extremely popular solo hits in the 80's AND his turn with Power Station. 🤷

@islanddolphin6878 2 жыл бұрын

His hits in the 80s were fun, powerful and danceable joys! They really capture the innocence and hope for a happy future that we had back then.

@dpjacobs28 2 жыл бұрын

This “show” should be a mainstay on national TV somehow. I think it would be a huge success. Quality content and I always feel better, happier after watching each one. They go by so fast….and always want more, get a better metric of good content.

@justchris7667 2 жыл бұрын

Taylor Dane is still looking good after all these years.

@jamesjeffrey525 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed, honestly better now than then.

@jackie_jrml 2 жыл бұрын

She was a powerhouse!!! What a voice and beauty!! 😍

@kimberlyridenour8003 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, this is a must be a reoccurring feature. This countdown time traveled me back to summer just ending and me starting my junior year of high school. Basketball season just started and this was the first year my dad became my coach. Ahhh such great memories! Thanks for this great video!

@DanielGonzalez-cs8pr 2 жыл бұрын

If you need a criminal to confess, just play "Don't Worry--be Happy", over and over again until he breaks!

@randysheetz690 2 жыл бұрын

Either that or Tom's Diner.

@DC05570 2 жыл бұрын

Macarena works every time… trust me😱😭😨

@markkavanagh7377 2 жыл бұрын

Rick Astley would do it for me-just need to play it once tbh.

@victorcarrillo1570 2 жыл бұрын

Or...any Celine Dion song. That Titanic song is soporific.

@Aprilfool3333 2 жыл бұрын

I would never confess. I would start acting like Robin Williams and Bill Irwin!! LMAO

@oldirtydawson 2 жыл бұрын

"Strangelove" by Depeche Mode was only #81 that week. More streams on Spotify and KZfaq than "Simply Irresistible", "If It Isn't Love", and "Love Bites". Depeche Mode were ahead of their time.

@austintrousdale2397 2 жыл бұрын

Hysteria and Violator remain two of my all-time favorite LPs.

@oldirtydawson 2 жыл бұрын

@@austintrousdale2397 Same :)

@sandysmith9869 2 жыл бұрын

Class of '85. Best music, and the best movies. I'm glad I got to experience the 80s! The best!

@erictroxell715 2 жыл бұрын

Sir, I met Kasey in person at a restaurant i worked at in 1990. I was a cook n heard that iconic voice, looked up, saw him, and just STOPPED. He saw me and nodded. Later I went out and when he was done I got an autograph of our menu. He was so freaking nice!!!

@chadlong9614 2 жыл бұрын

Professor, we would have been best friends if we had met in the 80s

@chadlong9614 2 жыл бұрын

I think we are really close in age I was born in 1978

@MrDeengels 2 жыл бұрын

I was born in 76, I always thought Hysteria and Slippery When wet were monster albums of my childhood. Those two albums made a huge impact on me .

@dalesamuels8667 2 жыл бұрын

I turned 18 in '88. great memories! i remember buying the Appetite album on cassette and excitedly poppin' it in to my tape deck in my '75 Plymouth Fury

@davidcole2337 2 жыл бұрын

That was a great Year. I graduated from High School that Year.. My Primary music then was Hair Bands (Bon Jovi, Quite Riot, GNR, Motley Crue) and other Hard Rock Bands..

@TimothyDearhamer 2 жыл бұрын

Robert Palmer is under appreciated. A Brit with a range of musical exploration. Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley with Little Feat - American music by the awesome Brit.

@coloaten6682 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Robert Palmer was an amazing musician/vocalist. Gone way too early. Still playing his hits today :)

@GFHanks 2 жыл бұрын

One of the top 5 greatest voices in rock history, if not the greatest. RP could sing a phone book and make it sound great.

@helder6175 2 жыл бұрын

1987 - 88 was a great time to be alive and entering the teen years with the music, TV shows, and movies out at the time. The '90s didn't do it as much for me as the '80s. I remember a major shift taking place, and it just wasn't the same.

@MrDeengels 2 жыл бұрын

The 90’s just weren’t as fun, the happy go lucky feeling of the 80’s were swept away by political correctness.

@camariva61 Жыл бұрын

It was the time for the Grunge that displaced the Glam/Heavy Metal and the era of the Boys Bands. Nothing like the 70s and 80s =(

@jamaalmoses8821 2 жыл бұрын

The New Edition biopic gave their catalog a great boost!

@YukonDemon 2 жыл бұрын

A buddy of mine growing up. Was a crazy fan of Guns N Roses. Everyone was at the time but he was a super-fan. And everyone knew Sweet Child o Mine was his favorite song of all time. He passed away at 16 years old from leukemia and the song was played at his service. Not a single person in that hall had a dry eye. I still think about him every time I hear that song. RIP, G.C.R.

@swn69 2 жыл бұрын

1988 was a great year in music... I was 18 years old, I met my wife 4 months after my 18th birthday, and I was in the Navy living in the Philippines and traveling the world.

@packermaster521 2 жыл бұрын

Oh..1988 - back then it was a "perfect world" for great music.🔥💯🎶

@kaylajackson9745 2 жыл бұрын

In Waco, our oldies station actually plays the countdown from the 80s on Sunday morning. It's one of the best things about the station.

@tse90723 2 жыл бұрын

The 80's generation has two faces. It started out with crazy fashions like parachute pants and leg warmers, outrageous hairdoos like mohawks and the infamous "Flock of Seagulls" hairdoo, and a tidal wave of very artsy, very visual, very synthesized music from Europe, before morphing into loud, leather wrapped, spandex and make-up wearing, rebellious, in your face, party til you puke and then party some more, big hair metal. I lived the entire birth and evolution of 80's rock. It was a phenomenal time for music. The rock concerts I went to sold out arenas and stadiums. Musically, a great time to be alive.

@edryba4867 2 жыл бұрын

“Sweet Child Of Mine” is one of those songs that, later in your life, evokes a little smile that your present wife just doesn’t understand! And “Simply Irresistible” with Robert Palmer and his small army of lookalike models, is a tune that has a way of tattooing itself on your frontal lobes!

@kathleenking47 2 жыл бұрын

I know young guys, who rarely listen to modern songs. They are in their 20a and 30s and bought phonographs with bluetooth. Ive even noticed the change after 88

@Geolaw1 2 жыл бұрын

My greatest musical memory from 1988 was when my big brother bought me my very first cassette for Christmas, Rattle and Hum by U2. I was eleven years old. I listened to it religiously for days on end. I studied the liner notes for the lyrics and even guest artists like Bob Dylan and BB King. I fell in love with the band and they became my favourite for many years. They taught me to appreciate the art of music instead of just enjoying it in the background. While I am no longer a mega fan of theirs, I really do appreciate they're 80s and 90s stuff as it had such an impact on my musical journey through life. I wouldn't be such a music fan if it were not for U2.

@katebowen4084 2 жыл бұрын

As a teen in Western Australia, listening to Casey Kasem was a nightly ritual... finger hovered over the record button to record my favourite songs to make a mixed tape, hoping to get the whole song without Casey interrupting ... failing many times!!

@LuckyMoo2 2 ай бұрын

Same here in Victoria, Australia. And always hoping your cassette wouldn’t run out of recording time at the end mid fave song!

@lsweeten1971 2 жыл бұрын

Your voice. It's cadence, tone, and affectations remind me quite a bit of Casey Kasem. It is part of the reason this channel is so enjoyable.

@lawsoncoates8334 2 жыл бұрын

Love, love, love the fact that you’re making this a new segment Adam. I was 2 weeks into my freshman year of college and hearing these songs just transports me back to that time. Such wonderful memories. Seems like a much more innocent time, a simpler time. Thank you for the gift of time travel.

@javabeanz8549 2 жыл бұрын

"Don't Worry, Be Happy" still haunts me... I couldn't get away from it be changing stations!

@floatthecreek 2 жыл бұрын

I had the honor to see Sammy Hagar live when he was in Montrose. It was an outdoor concert in Birmingham, AL July 1974. The weather was hot and the music was hotter.

@ProfessorofRock 2 жыл бұрын

That would've been a very cool concert!

@ColtraneTaylor 2 жыл бұрын

@Anna Trail I got to see him once almost a decade ago. Great artist.

@ColtraneTaylor 2 жыл бұрын

@Anna Trail Nice.

@pondpro 2 жыл бұрын

This is the greatest music channel of all time. This idea is amazing!!!

@lfoster8 2 жыл бұрын

Love this new segment. The 80’s were the best. Thanks for keeping the music alive for all us music junkies!!

@covatembelmusic 2 жыл бұрын

Wow what a top 10!!! The 1980s was a real cool decade for music. Such variety and uniqueness. An awesome decade to grow up in.

@kenperk9854 2 жыл бұрын

Got a LONG way to go to catch the 70s or 60s! It ain't happening.

@Epupify 2 жыл бұрын

@@kenperk9854 Amen. The 80's had its moments but are at the same time way overrated, specially when considering how much of a peak in music the 60's were and that the 70's were mostly better too.

@deathtowrestling2518 2 жыл бұрын

@@kenperk9854 70s music is massively overrated. Only a handful of 70s bands are genuinely good.

@deathtowrestling2518 2 жыл бұрын

@@Epupify Yeah, nah. The 60s and 80s are on par with each other as equals and the 70s was the overrated one. Most shit back then was massively underproduced and mediocre, ESPECIALLY Bad Company.

@Epupify 2 жыл бұрын

@@deathtowrestling2518 I used to think the same about the 70's, but have found way more value in 70's music with time. Though you are somewhat right about lots of 70's artist and hits, that all makes up for at least a tie between the 80's and 70's. But no way the 80's are that much better. Second half was particulary bad. And Bad Company is pretty good though.

@davidmayorga6176 6 ай бұрын

My 11-year-old son also discovered Rick Ashley on a KZfaq meme and has since been one of his favorite artists. Timeless music always seems to keep alive through the generations.

@dioneberts1715 2 жыл бұрын

Hilarious when that MAD magazine popup came on the screen. And Alfred E. Was wearing the same hat and glasses as you. Brilliant!!!!

@hughmoore3251 2 жыл бұрын

👍For comparing Robert Palmer to James Bond... Well put, sir. Bryan Ferry - Also under-appreciated, and also super-smooth. (Thanks for featuring him recently.)

@eandatoo 2 жыл бұрын

1988 was "my year"! It was the first time I started living on my own. My roommate and I were proving to everyone (and ourselves) that we could survive on our own. We worked at the same pool company. We were totally into METAL! We watched Mtv constantly. I had my guitar. He had his bass. We were gonna start a band. We chased after the little rocker chicks. Yeah! 1988. It was definitely my year...

@ButtonPhonics 2 жыл бұрын

We had it so good in Australia...best of the US, British and British New Wave, and it was the golden era of Australian rock and pop music!

@Reprodestruxion 2 жыл бұрын

Plus an odd Kiwi hit here and there

@alphalifestyleacademy 2 жыл бұрын

Guns N Roses, Poison, Van Halen and Def Leppard were my jams back in 1988

@tjmctube 2 жыл бұрын

I was so lucky to see Robert Palmer live at First Avenue/7th Street Entry in Minneapolis. Gone way too soon. RIP.

@stephenshortt427 2 жыл бұрын

I almost forgot about Taylor Dane. She was a juggernaut for a few years back in the 80's. Very powerful vocally. Good to see her on it.

@xoxxobob61 2 жыл бұрын

I met her backstage at one of her Club performances during the 80's and she was a very sweet lady who took the time to talk to us about her music since we were also musicians. A Class Act.

@OnePassVideo 5 ай бұрын

This is the most under rated channel on KZfaq. And we don't have talent like G&R, VH and Robert Palmer, Kenny Loggins around any more.

@Naomi_Boyd 2 жыл бұрын

In 1986, a little known band got together. They never topped the charts, never became a household name. Most people can't even name a single song they recorded, but their influence on music was astounding and undeniable. To answer the question in the title of this video, The Pixies happened.

@gokhanersan8561 2 жыл бұрын

You are at 350K subs. Man, I am hoping, praying some big wigs discover you so you become nationwide. You deserve it, Adam.

@christopherallen9580 2 жыл бұрын

Bad and Nationwide!

@lisamorrison2149 2 жыл бұрын

2.56 billion people can't be wrong! I'll always love "Sweet Child Of Mine" and GnR. The whole Appetite For Destruction is a timeless classic. Thanks, great countdown, although I still don't care for "Don't Worry, Be Happy". But that's just me.🙃

@ProfessorofRock 2 жыл бұрын

Same! Thanks for watching Lisa!

@jacklarson6281 2 жыл бұрын

Power of Love is just simply a great song. Huey's album Sports just brought the house down. i can remember many a night putting that album on and singing Heart of Rock and Roll at the top of my lungs with my mother and sister.. we just loved that album

@webexpertcharlie 2 жыл бұрын

If I never hear that “Don’t Worry Be Happy” song again, it’ll be too soon.

@Rossturnerphoto 2 жыл бұрын

That's a great top 10. I love that most of the songs have remained part of Pop culture over the years. I love Taylor Dayne and was excited to hear her segment on the show. She's one of my favorite artists from the late '80s.

@jameswinter571 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Prof. LOVE THIS CONTENT. I am also a former devotee of America's Top 40. This format takes me home. Well done.

@mario10zeus 2 жыл бұрын

As a child of the 80s, we need more people to appreciate the old days, real music.

@vectors2final36 2 жыл бұрын

In 1988, I was attending the Infantry Officer Basic Course at Fort Benning Georgia. Driving from the bachelor officers quarters to the classroom, "don't worry be happy" was playing on the local pop station for the first time. It was such a weird, but catchy tune...unlike anything I'd heard before. All my classmates were whistling this tune as we gathered for morning formation. When I hear the song now, it brings me back to that moment. That was a really good year when; I finished college and became an Army officer. Good times!

@headofbaphomet 2 жыл бұрын

When I was 16 I spent the summer back in my home town in Poland and one of the cassettes I brought with me to listen to on my walkman was the just released Hysteria. My cousins and I must have listened to it at least half a dozen times together and I easily added another dozen on my walkman. What an amazing album.

@thryce3 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love this series. Please keep them coming

@danekappler2422 2 жыл бұрын

I landed a job as the graveyard shift of DJ at a local AC radio station in my hometown when I was in high school. I was still going to school during the day, so I was thrilled when Van Halen, Robert Palmer, Rick Astley came on to give me an uptempo jolt from my sleep-deprived nights. How did I ever manage to graduate high school without sleep?

@TheRoadDawg 2 жыл бұрын

I love how quote so many subscribers comments throughout your shows. It really shows the dedication you have for your channels and actually care about your iewers,

@burnout3722 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic idea! Love this!!! 💖 This needs to be a regular feature!

@ProfessorofRock 2 жыл бұрын

Please share it, so it can be!

@kiwimark3875 2 жыл бұрын

Great format Professor. Was always going to be GnR. From sitting in the back of the school bus listening to Outa Ta Get Me thinking we were bad a$$. Appetite had it all. And lucky to see GnR in 1988 and again in 1992. Simply the best. Special note to Robert Palmer who bought the style into 80's music. His work with Power Station deserves it's own segment.

@billywilson4908 2 жыл бұрын

Great feature! Please keep it going. 1988 was my senior year in high school and I remember leaving the school parking lot on the last day in my buddy’s truck blasting Sweet Child o Mine. One of my favorite guitar intros of all time. Thanks for all your work on these, man. Great music and memories to get us through some strange times.

@dranet47 2 жыл бұрын

My husband and I picked I'll Always Love You as our song. God I miss him so much.

@tonytheHAT 2 жыл бұрын

This was AMAZING 👏! I look forward to many MANY more of these Professor. I love how you keep your channel relevant and exciting with your fresh ideas💡

@ProfessorofRock 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Anthony!

@TheRetroManRandySavage 2 жыл бұрын

Love this kind of video, professor. This was a great idea.🤟

@alliswede42 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed! This is such a creative mix of his unparalleled interviews, viewer input, The Professor's thorough research and interpretation, and nostalgia. ❤️🙏

@TheRetroManRandySavage 2 жыл бұрын

@@alliswede42 totally. Love all his content. But doing a top ten from a certain week, month, or year is always extra hot sauce. And yeah, the nostalgia always hits hard when I click on a video of the professors. He's the master of hitting me right in the feels.😂🙏🏻❤

@ProfessorofRock 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Please share it, so we can make it a regular feature.

@ProfessorofRock 2 жыл бұрын

@@alliswede42 For sure! Love sharing your stories!

@TheRetroManRandySavage 2 жыл бұрын

@@ProfessorofRock I will shout it from the rooftops if I have too.😂👍

@SylvesterCarl 2 жыл бұрын

"She's so fine, there's no tell'n where the money went!" Right up in the top ten of best lyrics ever.

@thanksfernuthin 2 жыл бұрын

When "Welcome To The Jungle" was playing on MTV I was at the "roommate" stage of life. I was walking from my bedroom to the kitchen and my roommate was watching it in the living room. "Who's this?" I asked. "Don't know. First time I've seen this." We listened for a little bit and I said "These guys are gonna be HUGE." He agreed. That has never happened before or since. About 30 seconds of a video and it was obvious how good they were and they weren't one hit wonders. Pretty striking.

@ig8821 2 жыл бұрын

1988, what a year...not just in music but the memories left in Anniston, Al. Great year if not one of my best of the decade. INXS's New Sensation sounded a lot but it's not mentioned...

@scottitus4202 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love this feature Professor of Rock!

@ProfessorofRock 2 жыл бұрын

Great to hear. Please share it!

@scottitus4202 2 жыл бұрын

@@ProfessorofRock 1988 was one of my fave years of music. I loved the late 70s and early 90s Pre Grunge. I feel like it does not get its due. My fave years of music are from 1986-1991. I loved seeing GnR at the top spot. I am a huge 80’s rock/glam rock/hair band fan. This is also the year my wife was born 1988. Keep up the great work and btw, I just got 2 pairs of Zenni glasses and dropped your name. I could not be happier with them and will be getting more pairs of glasses and so will my wife.

@ProfessorofRock 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@mtngirlatheart 2 жыл бұрын

I am so glad you are making this a regular! I truly appreciate the playlist.

@AnomalyArcadie 2 жыл бұрын

Love Bites is the song that caused my husband to feel like he must've been having a mid life crisis when he married me lol. Originally it was his first broken heart song, constantly listening to it after being dumped by his 18 year old self's dream girl shortly after high school in '89. He was devastated the whole summer and fall, until meeting an aspiring model he dated for a couple of years until then meeting his future ex wife and mother of my brilliant step son. He had long moved on from the girl but those emotions were still imprinted into that song for him so those memories came back whenever he heard it. Fast forward many years to when he and I were engaged. It came on near us for the first time at a bar so he recounted that period of his life to me. Afterwards he stopped talking for a second, looked at me, and said "You were in literal diapers meanwhile I was blubbering like a baby to this song." We almost died from laughter. Its easy for us to forget we grew up two decades apart because of how "made for each other" our marriage feels. Now instead of re-feeling that heartache from a break up in 1989 he's reminded a mid life crisis gave him (and I) the dream relationship 😂

@TheStrykerProject 2 жыл бұрын

Robert Palmer's "Simply Irresistible" is in my current, ongoing playlist. It definitely stands the test of time!

@gokhanersan8561 2 жыл бұрын

“Everybody’s looking for somethin’ !!!” Sammy’s lyrics resonated, made me think. Eddie, Alex, Mike, and Sammy made magic with When It’s Love. Been practicing Eddie”s opening salvo on guitar. Talk about power-with simplicity. Priceless stuff.

@Scottocaster6668 2 жыл бұрын

"Something to fill in the holes..."

@gokhanersan8561 2 жыл бұрын

@@Scottocaster6668 Somebody get you a doctor, Dave-till things get out of control.

@brianpattison4603 2 жыл бұрын

Definitely the best you've put out and you have set the bar pretty high every time. Thanks @Professor of Rock!

@oscarpinillacastro5893 2 жыл бұрын

What a great concept for a show! Congrats!!!

@michaelfrazia4569 2 жыл бұрын

it's almost painful for me to watch this...the artists...Def Leppard, Kenny loggins, new edition , and into freaking van halen. ....doesn't get more diverse yet all the songs were great.....I couldn't tell you the top ten from right now , but I can tell you that there is no possible way it comes anywhere close to this week in 88...man, what a week, what year, what a decade!!!!...i was 14 in 88...glad I got to experience it

@scarseven7855 2 жыл бұрын

Me too, was a great time to grow up.

@michaelfrazia4569 2 жыл бұрын

@@scarseven7855 really was...perfect blend of the old days with modern technology.

@DocRaunchy 2 жыл бұрын

Great show. Keep this segment up for sure. What about a week in the early Nineties? There should be some interesting Top Tens.

@Kilroy_5150 2 жыл бұрын

I have to hand it to Adam, he's doing everything he can to prevent 'the day the music died' for the 80s era and i love him for it.The 'heart of rock n roll' is really in danger of dying with our generation and he's trying to do everything possible to preserve it.

@parkb5320 2 жыл бұрын

I remember in September 1988 I was just coming back the the East Coast after a year on the West Coast and trying to get my life back together, get a job, find a place to stay, get a car, etc, it was a big time for me.

@ericbgordon1575 2 жыл бұрын

Each time I think about "Perfect World", I spring back to how Huey Lewis and his band mates believed the *Small World* album signaled the conclusion of their pop stardom because it only included 2 top 40 hits (the other one being "Gimme the Keys and I'll Drive You Crazy"); the first Huey Lewis and the News LP since *Picture This* not to score five major hits. All the same time, their '80s output would probably translate into one of the most awesome hits compilation records in the history of rock and pop. I barely listened to Casey Kasem when he was alive and broadcasting. I was kind of bummed to learn before his passing that he was not a rock and roll fan. That was hardly better than what I learned about the late Dr Robert Moog who pioneered synthesizer manufacturing saying that he didn't listen to music at all.

@jimmyparris9892 2 жыл бұрын

Oh well, Leo Fender didn't play guitar.

@ericbgordon1575 2 жыл бұрын

Point made, @@jimmyparris9892.

@lennyloves4518 2 жыл бұрын

I love music memories! Great video 👌🏼

@ProfessorofRock 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@1974dastorga 2 жыл бұрын

Professor, you could put together a pretty bad ass video based on the Post Punk/Garage Rock Revivals in the early 2000’S. We were still young enough to appreciate and be excited for this type of music making a comeback! The Strokes, The Killers, The White Stripes, Franz Ferdinand!

@ProfessorofRock 2 жыл бұрын

Will do!

@1974dastorga 2 жыл бұрын

You’re bad ass!

@cephjedi 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Professor! I just stumbled on this channel and have been eating it up like there'll be no tomorrow. I have never had so many goosebump moments as I have watching these Kasem-inspired countdowns. Just amazing. Thank you for that! My story: This Gen Xer picked up the guitar in 1988 after hearing Guns N Roses chart hit after hit and absolutely HAD to learn how to do what Slash did. His riffs spoke to me so strongly! 33 years later, I'm no Slash, but I have performed a couple GnR songs at gigs and happy to say I am still playing and I still follow Slash and the Guns. 3 Chords and the truth!!!

@rphx27 2 жыл бұрын

Living color Cult of personality was the song of the summer of 88 for me.

@imr4840 2 жыл бұрын

And yet I remember it from 1989 when it charted and was all over MTV.

@charlescdt6509 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for bringing up Taylor Dane. I adore her and she is so underrated is crazy. Seeing her live is on my bucketlist.

@ProfessorofRock 2 жыл бұрын

She has a really great voice.

@prepperjonpnw6482 2 жыл бұрын

Adam you have found a way to fill the empty spot in my music life that used to be filled with Casey’s top 40 count down. Like you I grew up listening to the count down every week I even remember if you were in your car listening and you pulled into your driveway you would keep listening until a commercial then run inside the house and quick turn on the radio to finish it lol. Thank you for sharing your love of music especially the 80’s and back. Listening to you discuss the songs and artists takes me back to the top 40 count down like nothing else does. You now have that special place in the hearts of those of us who loved Casey’s top 40 show. 3 chords, truth, and Cheers

@robertcronin6603 2 жыл бұрын

OMG...Don't Worry Be Happy...what a phenomenon...I'll never forget when that was all over the radio, lol...great vid, Professor 🔥

@jkdubya85 2 жыл бұрын

I'm really down for this as a recurring series

@danieljacob76 2 жыл бұрын

It mystifies me that anyone could honestly dislike these videos. They must be lying to themselves…

@edminchau811 2 жыл бұрын

I remember one Valentine's day a local radio station was allowing people to request three songs in a row. Someone requested Love Bites, Love Stinks, and Love Hurts.

@tedlogan5628 2 жыл бұрын

Great segment! Looking forward to more down the road. 🤘🎸

@kevine455 2 жыл бұрын

BTW, I hope you will spotlight Robert Palmer's " Every kind of people" so, so below the radar it's stealth.

@ryangioia2358 2 жыл бұрын

Queensryche - Eyes of a Stranger Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son Megadeth - In My Darkest Hour Slayer - South of Heaven Death - Pull the Plug Metallica - One Living Colour - Cult of Personality Danzig - Mother Testament - Into the Pit Helloween - I Want Out