US #1s of 1986

i spent a lot of time in 3rd-4th grade taping songs off Casey Kasem's top 40

I started doing that in '86 as well (UK though, so Bruno Brookes etc. instead of Kasem)

lol at heart. they're probably in their early to mid 30s in that video but i thought they were old.

I fell in love with many (pretty much all) of my High School aged babysitters to songs like "What About Love." I was a real romantic.

Not sure why I capitalized High School there.

utter dogshit like "Rock Me Amadeus" at least has the lol80's factor

More like the lolGerman factor (or Austrian, or whatever), if you ask me. Plus it's a great record.

voted "Kiss" but probably Heart & Bon Jovi's most tolerable hits

take my breath away is timeless and powerful i voted for it

lol sure

Crap year overall, but that list makes the year look better.

Well there's loads of other stuff, "Bigmouth Strikes Again"? "Let's Go All The Way"? "Edge of Heaven"? Oh, and ILMlolers fave Devastatin' Dave The Turntable Slave with "Zip Zap Rap"...

And even utter dogshit like "Rock Me Amadeus" at least has the lol80's factor going for it

lol80's? These would (mostly) be great singles in any decade.

I want to give this to Simply Red, but I still return to that Human League song at least once every couple of months...

"Money'$ Too Tight to Mention" is the killer on that album.

Well, that one's good, too.

Seeing this guido-type dude (or whatever yr NW equivalent is) pull up to a cornerstore in a droptop with "Rock Me Amadeus" blasting and then proceed to enter said cornerstore while his car ran and "Rock Me Amadeus" continued blasting immeasurably improved my opinion of that song. It was pretty badass.

Dude could have proclaimed victory over the world at that moment and I wouldn't have argued.

Y'all don't make me make my SImply Red joke.

holding back the tears

http://www.rathergood.com/holding

Know why Mick Hucknall stopped holding back the ears?

Because the bunny was too tight to mention.

http://www.rathergood.com/bunny_too_tight

xp: DAMMIT TOO SLOW

Hey, I came up with that joke when I was twelve so to heck with Quizno's guy.

http://www.rathergood.com/mickey

"West End Girls"

Why do I keep clicking on those links at work?

"Hey, lookee there! Well the third time's gotta be the charmer!"

It's unfair that these other songs have to compete with "Kiss."

^^^how I break it down to an extent

Huh, didn't figure on being TOTALLY alone in hating (for 20+ years now) "Rock Me Amadeus" but whatever. Much, much would rather hear Nena or Trio or Peter Schilling or even Taco. (Or even "Der Komissar".)

Can't wait for the 1984 poll! (Most impossible one ever, if you ask me.)

1. Peter Gabriel, "Sledgehammer"
2. The Bangles, "Walk Like an Egyptian"
3. Prince and the Revolution, "Kiss"
4. Madonna, "Live to Tell"
5. Pet Shop Boys, "West End Girls"
6. The Human League, "Human"
7. Madonna, "Papa Don't Preach"
8. Bananarama, "Venus"

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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waht

C'mon, this was pretty obvious. Start counting hands.

i voted for west end girls. didn't really see this one ending any other way.

nothing against "West End Girls", but I'm not sure where it comes within a million miles of "Kiss"

but that's just me *shrug*

kiss is the one prince song i'd be cool w/never hearing again

owned

Same here. Radio overplay has hurt it.

Yeah, I'm done with "Kiss."

Wait, no I'm not.

might be played out but still prob one of the 10 best pop songs ever

Well, I'm done with it in the sense that when I listen to Parade I skip it; I do the same with "Let's Go Crazy." I'm just bored of these great songs already.

^^lets go crazy is unskippable come on

well he just skipped it so bloop there goes ur hypothesis

lol

but otr it's my fav prince song i think

I also skip "West End Girls" when I listen to Please, so.

I only skip "Purple Rain" every time I listen to Purple Rain. I skip nothing on Parade when I listen to Parade because I almost never listen to Parade.

lol i always listen to "purple rain." i bought a purple vinyl single on accident (thinking it was the whole album), and it's still the only prince vinyl i've got so i grew to like that song more than i might have

Oh come on. West End Girls is not 775% better than Addicted To Love.

Robert Palmer circa Cluees coulda done a decent version of "West End Girls."

xp: I know, and what the fuck is this?

Peter Cetera, "Glory of Love" 2
Janet Jackson, "When I Think of You" 2