They've Got A Little List
VH1 is counting down the 100 greatest songs of the 80s. Here are the top ten:
1 Bon Jovi --“Livin’ on a Prayer” 1986
2 Def Leppard --“Pour Some Sugar On Me” 1987
3 Duran Duran --“Hungry Like the Wolf” 1982
4 Michael Jackson --“Billie Jean” 1982
5 Prince -- “When Doves Cry” 1984
6 Hall & Oates --“I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)” 1981
7 Guns N’ Roses -- "Sweet Child O’ Mine 1987
8 Madonna -- “Like a Virgin” 1984
9 Run-D.M.C.-- “Walk This Way” 1986
10 AC/DC -- “You Shook Me All Night Long” 1980
Ugh. Can we get a do-over on this decade?
I don't like most of these songs, and I don't love any of them.
The rest of the list, with a few exceptions (for instance, "Burning Down The House," "Love Shack," "Brass In Pocket"), isn't much better. An average top 100 any week circa 1965 would kick the crap out of this list.
posted by LAGuy @ 1:11 AM
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I don't claim that the 80s were a banner time for pop music but a much better list than this could be developed. This looks like the most frequently played MTV videos at frat parties during the decade. This might be the most evocative list of the decade but ugh not the best.
I have the feeling that if the same methodology was used for the 60s or 70s, we'd get a lot of dreck too (though I agree the 60s list would still be better)
I don't rememeber where but I once heard that people's favorite music related back to whatever was popular when they started having sex -or to extrapolate-to whatever music a teen was digging at the time, s/he started getting the urges to procreate. That might explain the frat party music & MTV video soundtracks on the list.
I remember in December 1989, many radio stations had countdowns of the best songs of the 80s. "Start Me Up" was number one on most of them.
"Start Me Up" is the rest of the Rollings Stones music as the 80s are to the 60s.
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