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- Coming up, we’re going to go behind the Top 10 songs of this very same week from the year 1982. You know we’ve done a lot of these Redux episodes on this channel, but I gotta say, today’s show might have all them beat. It’s absolutely stacked with great songs. When comparing it today’s top hits you almost want to cry.. How far we’ve fallen IT’s really sad. The 80s Ruled...this time around there are some serious countdown contenders... Including what may be the heaviest hitting movie theme song of all time Eye of the Tiger by Survivor. Then Asia with the Heat of the Moment , some of New Wave’s finest British Invaders like Soft Cell with Tainted Love and The Human League with Don’t You Want Me and some surprise underdogs... and it’s going to be a real fight to the finish to see who comes out on top... NEXT on the Professor of Rock.
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It’s time for another edition of our show the Hit Song Redux where we travel back to a week in the golden era of the rock and roll and re-rank the top 10 songs of THAT SPECIFIC week based on how much the world has listened to them since THEIR PEAK POSITION ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100. As always, we’re including artist interviews, in-depth commentary, as well as your stories and dedications. Just to clarify, this is not my personal top 10. It’s the actual top 10 from this exact week 40 years ago. First, we count them down as they were, then and then we run them through a recalibration process to find out the real top 10 based on all time streams and views. This one has one to the best top fives in history. You’ll see
Before we get started though I have to give a shout out to my hero, the great Casey Kasem and his program the American Top 40 countdown. This show is a tribute him. So, to place us in the proper pop culture context of the day, if you wanted to catch a movie on this exact week in the year 1982, if you stood in a very long line at the cinema, you could see the box office leader, E.T which would become the #1 movie ever at least for awhile., or you could witness Sylvester Stallone's third installment of the Rocky franchise, or Harrison Ford’s Blade Runner.
On the boob tube you could catch the first season of Late Night with David Letterman or watch summer reruns from the first season of T. J. Hooker and the last season of WKRP in Cincinnati. Saturday morning cartoons were also fun with Spiderman and his amazing friends and the Smurfs! while trying to figure out your Rubik’s Cube. Alright, let’s get started.
So, coming in at #10, it’s a southern rock band that started to make some noise in the top 10 after their stellar song Hold On Loosely came up a bit short. it’s a Caught Up in You by .38 Special.
‘Caught Up in You’ was the first single released from 38 Special's 1982 album, Special Forces. Though it would rise to #1 on the Billboard Rock chart, it would peak here at the 10-spot on the Hot 100. Here’s what the songs writers had to say about the song.
In at #9 it’s a remake of a 60s soul song that became one of the defining song of the 80s with it’s synth pop magic: It’s Soft Cell with Tainted Love. - บันเทิง
Poll: What are your picks for the greatest single and album for 1982?
anything by Roxy Music, Kate Bush, or The Cure
Single: Simple Minds - Promised You A Miracle
Album: INXS _Shabooh Shoobah_
Greatest single: The Motels’ Only the Lonely
Greatest album: Michael Jackson’s Thriller
Thriller by Michael Jackson from late 1982 and American Fool by John Mellencamp from early 1982.
“Don’t You Want Me” by The Human League is THE BEST. One of my favorite songs, period.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 YES!
The funny thing about growing up in the 80s is even the songs you weren't really that into at the time, you look back and appreciate them.
It's so true.
Yes, like yacht rock. Boring adult music as a kid but now I'm an adult and love it!
I agree. I've never been a fan of Soft Cell or Human League but there's no denying the impact and popularity of their songs.
I was very much a metalhead back then, although I liked some, let’s say lesser rockier stuff. Now I will listen to anything, punk ska rock pop soul as it’s so much better than anything today
Definitely. Y’all 80s kids are very lucky!
The moment I knew I hadn't gone completely wrong in how I raised my kids: youngest son was out riding his bicycle (~8 years ago), saw a person jogging who looked to be seriously struggling. Kid pulled up Eye of the Tiger on his phone, rode beside the jogger blasting the song. He said the guy picked up his pace and made it all the way to the end of the song with a huge smile on his face. Said it gave him the boost he needed to finish his run. :)
Great story
Outstanding.
Raisin' 'em right!
Tainted Love! I was in 6th grade when it came out. Six years later, after graduating high school, I got to travel in Europe on my own. I was on an overnight ferry from Italy to Greece crowded with young people from all over speaking dozens of languages. All of a sudden, under a starry Adriatic sky, someone started playing Tainted Love, and everyone started singing and *stomp* *stomp*-ing along. It didn't matter who you were, where you were from or what language you spoke. All that mattered was being together and this song. It was the first time I really felt the power of music to unite people and I'll never forget it.
That is awesome!!! What a great feeling & what a great memory! 😁
That's and awesome story!
Great story!
What a cool story!! Thanks for sharing. ❤️✌️
Eye of the Tiger is on my daughter's bucket list. She wants to find some random person jogging, ride up behind them on a bike, and blast Eye of the Tiger on an 80s style boom box behind them.
...and the smell of reefer filled the air everywhere you went. We've gone from a carefree, stress-free life to a stress-induced chaos. "How far we've fallen" indeed.
The 70’s and 80’s were by far the best decades for music. Music today just can’t compare, Case in point, most advertisement today uses music from the 70’s and 80’s. Something I miss in current music is key changes, they just aren’t done. Glad I grew up in these decades, they were and will always be the best!
Today bands just use melody line's that they borrowed from bands from that era and with computers SMH
Speaking as a musician and songwriter who has been doing both for over 40 years, the Pop, Rap and Hip Hop of the last few years is diluted because of the major record labels. In the history of the record business for every gem the labels put out there were several turds they also released. They did well mainly because of dumb luck and oversaturated radio play. Music has now fragmented as we know because of streaming. Rock bands only make about 7 or 8% of most listened to songs on Spotify. Spotify is all label music and they are dropping the ball. The really good music is on Bandcamp and similar sites, on the band's websites and TH-cam. You have to look for it unlike in the past when it was easier to find. Every decade has had both gems and garbage and that is 100% fact. In that matter nothing has really changed.
And time changes. Every song sounds the same.
The crap produced today is all written to 4 chords, in the same key, to the same length and with lyrics by the same Scandinavian/Swiss companies (Think Taylor Swift, Maroon 5, Katy Perry).
The "artists" just have it all handed to them, and their dimwitted audience doesn't know the difference.
It's utterly devoid of any character whatsoever.
@whodidit99, You do know that it's a sign that we're getting old, right? 😂😂😂
"Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars."
I soooooo miss the 80's.
Me too, want a great time to be a teen!!
Ebony and Ivory has a personal meaning for me. You see, back in April of '82 I married a Black woman. Everybody, and I mean everybody, on both sides questioned it. But we were young and in love. So that song came out at the right time. Things eventually didn't work out and race wasn't issue. But I did get a very beautiful daughter.
Good for you! 👍
Sorry It Didn't Work Out, But Congratulations On Your Beautiful Daughter !!!! Many PRAYER'SNLUV 👼👼💝💝🕊️🕊️🌠🌌🌺🌺
@@wendyladybug355laurie4 Thank you!
Does your daughter consider herself black, white or mixed or does it depend on certain situations? I always wondered about those things.
@@MrGenexxx probably identifies as black. Pride in whiteness isnt in vogue at the moment. Being racist against white people is pretty common, why would a mixed race person choose to identify with that part? It would be pretty brave of them if they did tbh
I was 17 in 82. Great time to be a teenager.
Me too!
@@bridgetmcghee6371They had some good cars in 1982 too.But if your into wheels there's nothing like the 60s!!!!.
Me 'Three"...boy, was I glad when I graduated in '83!!!
Asia was so underrated. I always thought their sound was haunting.
38 Special
Asia might be the first power metal band.
Yeah! They were great!
Very Atmospheric!
Your 'lightbulb moment' with Eye of The Tiger - that's what Bohemian Rhapsody does to me 🤣👌
My younger millennial nephews are totally in to the 80’s. They love how original everything was! Music, movies, fashion…. My proudest accomplishment is their appreciation of an amazing time in pop culture. 👏👏👏
I was 20 years old in 1982, and I worked during the day, went to college at night, and surfing, arcades, and riding my motorcycle on the weekends. It was a great time to be alive!
Me too. College all day and working at night. And going to a different club almost every night. If I could go back in time 82 might be my choice of years.
It's still a great time to be alive!
Sounds like it 👍
I was 17 in 82, just graduated with my whole life ahead of me 🎉
Me too. Life was great then. Hadn’t started paying bills. No stress
80s is The Definition of Lighting in a Bottle it All came Together for The Entire Decade, Timeless Timing
I want my MTV!
120 Minutes rocked! 🤘
Me too!
Never missed an episode.
When Music Television played actual music!!
Look at them yo-yo’s, that’s the way you do it! Play the guitar on MTV! That ain’t workin’, that’s the way you do it! Money for nothing and chicks for free!
I remember when Eye of the Tiger came out, my friend had a small battery-operated boom box. He put in Eye of the Tiger and blasted it while we rode our bikes around the neighborhood thinking we were soooo coooool, lol. '82 was a great year for music!
Ebony and Ivory, Eye of the Tiger, Rosanna.....so many hits so little time. I WANT MY 80s!!
I loved that "Don't You Want Me" told the complete story from beginning to end of a relationship by both people. The good, bad and the ugly.
My then best friend performed an interpretive dance to that song for her talent entry in our local "Miss" contest. She won the talent portion but didn't get the crown.
I love that track. Human League was pretty awesome.
@@St.Linguini_of_Pestothe Todd in the Shadows Trainwreckords episode on them made me sad. Especially that quote from their interview when the interviewer asked if they even liked it and their answer was "I have to, it's all I have"
Oooouch
ouch is Right! Dang!
I love that song!
The UK charts in the early 80s were filled with superb British new wave and synth acts such as Human League, ABC, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, Blancmange, Yazoo, OMD, Duran Duran, Ultravox, Talk Talk, The Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees to name a few off the top of my head. Add in Bowie, The Jam, Genesis, Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Kate Bush etc and it was an amazing time. They all experimented with so many new sounds. Modern music is just boring to me.
‘82 was when I got into Adam Ant another great 80s star
@@opietwoep1247 indeed, I’m an Antfan and have seen him play live several times. Like his punk stuff best though.
Don’t forget Madness.
Yes, post 90s music is either boring or annoying
So true. This proves once again that true music from the 60's, 70's, and 80 was created by true talent and not the monotonous rap crap from canned computer noise you hear today created by the same rotting brains of the Cult of Latter Day Woke...
In 1982 I was installing a car stereo in my 1967 chevy Camaro. I had a really hard time connecting the wires. Finally, when I connect them right the song Don't You Want Me came on. I always remember this song for success in installing a car stereo.
I saw Til Tuesday when they opened for Rick Springfield. I attended this concert solely for Aimee Mann and Til Tuesday. It was a really hard time in my life and this song played a big role in helping me Find my voice and stand up in the face of abuse.
What's great about that top ten list is how many different genres of music are there. Funk, country, new wave and straight up rock. So much diversity!
It’s what I love the best about the 80s!
This decade there was always good stuff for any mood.
Yes. Today, you only have two genres: crap and crappier. ;)
It seemed so especially in the early 1980's. There was so much musical experimentation at the time not to mention some of the greats from the 60s and 70s were still making music.
We or most of us are so much more open minded than all of the next few generations now. Yeah there were a lot of misogynist comedians gay people mixed race we didn't care but today now they just want to cancel everybody and they don't even cancel the right ones it's pathetic
There's no way you cannot smile when "Let it Whip" starts playing.
I was at Wallace Middle School, Charleston, SC and in the gym watching a talent contest; suddenly Let it Whip begins, that slow winding up synth...from stage left, out come the dancers in their matching sequence outfits and do the entire song choreographed robot dancing style. The whole gym erupted, not only because we've never seen robot dancing before, we never heart Let It Whip before. We went nuts and after school raced to our local Turtles music store to find out who did that song. Since we didn't know the title, we tried singing it to the employee; he immediately knew what we were referring to, pointed to the cardboard display right next to the register and we all snatched up our own 45 rpm single. I must have played it to death that night and all week. I'll never forget that exciting day in 1982.
I was in the 7th grade in 1982 and for me probably the most influential song and album of that time was the song Hungry Like the Wolf and album Rio by Duran Duran. It had one of the best most memorable music videos ever and is one of my go to songs when I sing Karaoke in public. It opened my world to bands from Europe and new wave alternative music along with Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Human League, and others. Special mention to Yazoo’s Don’t Go, Alison Moyet’s voice is phenomenal and Yazoo was like that very original and cool band that never got super big but if someone liked them you knew they had good taste in music.
Me too
I was 1 in 1982
Rio was 1983? Hungry was 83.
Why did Ebony and Ivory go away ? Don't you want me baby?... the top 2 played on the top of every hour on B96 Chicago
Bronski Beat, Midge Ure/Ultravox/U2/Icehouse/Soft Cell/Simple Minds/XTC/X/Television/Magazine/Bowie/The Smiths/Siouxsie & The Banshees/The The/Tears For Fears/A-Ha etc!
Casey Casem used to come to the state park I worked at as Santa's elf and always ganded out cassettes and then cds of upcoming groups. He gave me an original copy of Firehouse's first album. Miss him dearly. Love all the memories you invoke with your channel.😊
The comparison of the top ten of 1982 to the current top ten truly shows how far we have fallen as the Professor of Rock says here. We are rapidly racing toward the total fulfillment of the prophetic song "The Day The Music Died"😢 How blessed and lucky I was to be young in the '80's!!🙏
I'm right there with you Thomas! Every tune in the top 10 was iconoclastic and still is 40 years later; and that includes most of the songs outside the top 10 as well and expanding into the alternative world of a myriad of unheard gems. Cheers!
I couldn't agree more!
Haha well said
Only if your listening habits are glued to commercial bullshit Even in 1982, I steered away from any commercially driven pop chart.
peaks and valleys
My favourite memory of Hurts So Good is my gym coach from college. That semester my gym class was at 8 a.m. Most of the poor souls who dragged themselves out of bed to get there were barely coherent. The coach lived in town and jogged up to campus every morning. He would always burst into the gym singing "Hurts So Good" and we would groan and grimace! 😁 I would dedicate the song to him, but sadly I've forgotten his name 😥.
Oh man! The 80s! Never be another decade of music like it again. And it didn't matter what genre it came from, I soaked it ALL up! From 8 to 18, I was into it all!!
My husband and I were newlyweds in 82. He would call my office and when I answered he would sing 'Beckydanaaaa Beckydanaaa' He always made me laugh with silly stuff like that. I miss him 😂 Great memories ty!
Much better than my late husband's calling me Loreekamo. It's funny how music brings back memories.
I loved Juice Newton. Best line - "I'll be back when I calm my fears, so I'll see you around in a thousand years"
Great one!
In August 1982 Frida released her song
“there’s something going on” which was my absolutely favorite song of 1982. The Phil Collins drumming was absolutely stellar. And it made the top 20 and nearly the top 10!
It’s a brilliant and spectacular song.
Have to agree, Michael. Not a big Abba fan at all but Frida and Phil hit this song outta the park
LOVE THAT SONG!!
The drumming is highly distinctive indeed but the melody is not that strong. It is certainly a catchy song but lacks that sometimes indefinable something necessary for a song to cut through and rise up the charts. Neither Frida or Agnetha Faltskog had success in Britain post Abba even though they made some good music, especially Agnetha.
@@eightiesmusic1984 What is ironic is that her song did much better than many of the ABBA songs, in fact, although it was not in the top 10 it was the 20th biggest American hit of 1982 which is more for the sustained time on the charts.
Random observation: I used to love finding the new song I wanted to add to my collection on 45 with a glossy picture sleeve. Wasn't that the perfect format for a teenager? Go into a store with a dollar and change in your pocket and walk out with a vinyl disc and cool picture you would be enjoying for years. Great time to be alive.
1982 also featured Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Secret of NIMH & TRON. What an utterly amazing year.
Being the only child of divorced parents in the 80’s , music was my best friend, love this channel🤟
ME TOO 😎
👁️ MISS THE 80'S
1982 is the year I graduated HS… 40 years already and the music was absolutely banging!!!
Me too!!!
Ditto
Let’s hear it for the class of 82! And yes, the music was good.
@@hivac 🎉🎊🎉
Me too!
Compared to today's hits? What, we actually have hits today? Calling today's music hits is a stretch. And you're right-- early 1980's videos are awesome.
I love 1982!!
38 Special still one of the most underrated bands and love em hard today just as much!!
I did not know them. More of Skynyrd and Eagles fan. Love original lineup of Eagles.
They were really good and their music has aged very well. I've learned to appreciate them more as the years go by.
Fantastic live band! You feel Back On the Track in your bones.
I was in my junior year of high school in 1982, one of the best years of my life. Of course I didn't realize at the time how I would look back and see what great fun I had that year. Everything was just fun, my first year as a cheerleader, my best academic year, and of course the super amazing prom where I danced all night laughed and joked with my friends and we were just carefree and happy. I cannot tell you the flashbacks these songs gave me. I still know every word though some I haven't heard for a while, they were the soundtrack to one of the best years of my life.
I’m overdosing on nostalgia this morning!
The 80’s were the best!
For sure!
Best decade ever!
No matter how much we fight against it or think that OUR decade and OUR music was the best, the reality is that for each generation the music or top 10 of their own era or decade, where they grew up, will always be remembered by them with great nostalgia, and will always be for them, their favorite music, era, or decade because it was the music or times that moved their life experience and emotions the most.
It's useless to fight against that reality and try to convince people of a different decade or generation that OUR music, decade, or top 10s are the best when all their emotions, life experiences, and spirit are against such a notion(even if on the surface they tell you that they agree with you that your music or decade is the best).
The only way you could convince someone of a different era that your music or decade is the best is if those people you are trying to convince grew up listening to your kind of music during their own favorite decade or era.
@Felix Rodriguez no way.
The 80’s were the best!
@@jennyjenny4501 My point exactly.
This week in 82, this day in 82. I was given my beautiful first child, a daughter. Who gave birth to my first grandson on the same day of the month.
WKRP BABY!!!! Cincy in the 80’s was everything!!!🔥❤️❤️
The 80s was my coming-of-age decade. Forget today's music-I will die listening to the 80s.
1982 Music was awesome!!!
Such a great top ten!
Agree!
Juice Newton was GREAT - like Eddie Rabbit. First 2 Asia albums are utter greatness. I LOVE Asia - original lineup.
Here's some coolness. I got to see Juice Newton at the Mets Sports Center ( Now known as Mall of America's parking lot.) Then I got to see Eddie Rabbit at the Minnesota State Fair.
What an amazing decade of music. So glad I experienced it all first hand!
I'm glad we live in an age where we can watch or listen to anything we want at any time we want, but there is nothing like being a teen when the 1980's unfolded. The Purple Rain movie and soundtrack just blew me away. Then Prince and Michael Jackson going head to head at the award show, WOW!
Then the movies. Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, All the Brat Pack stuff. Schwartzenegger and Stallone. Eddie Murphy. Not everything about the 80's was great, but the entertainment can't be matched today. That's why all Hollywood does is remakes.
Yes! To all of that! Lol.
My entire high school and college times have a soundtrack of all the 80's songs that were put out. Best decade of music ever, with the 70's very close behind.
I hate to be cheesy but this channel is a godsend. Thank you so much for the dedication and effort you put into this. Awesome man 👍
Thanks you Matt! Means a lot.
....nuthin' cheesy HERE, Man! ...If you were THERE, you GET this channel....
@@RBS_ True.
@@ProfessorofRock Love your channel, Adam!! You'd have a lot of people sayin' "OHHH!!" if ya mentioned that singer Jeff Bickler that sang "Eye of the Tiger" is the singer in those hilarious "Bud Light-Real Men of Genius" radio and tv commercials of the late 90's - 2000's. God bless!!
@@ProfessorofRock - Well-deserved, high praise! - I end my every evening with a heavy dose of Professor of Rock and imbibe all the passion, knowledge, light-hearted joy and love of the best artists and the best songs. Much Thanks and Cheers!
1982 is one of my favorite years for music! Some other greats that come to mind, Harden My Heart by Quarterflash, Shadows of the Night by Pat Benatar, and I know There's Something Going On by Frida! What a year! What a decade for pop music!
Also liked We Got The Beat by the Go-Gos, Limelight by Rush, Breaking Us In Two by Joe Jackson, and I Can't Go For That by Hall & Oates. Surprised that one wasn't mentioned because it was a huge hit---just like Abracadabra by the Steve Miller Band, which was just as huge a hit.
Yeah! 🎶
Actually the 60s should be included.
I agree with the 70s and partially agree with the 80s only because RAP started I'm the mid 80s
Omg! That was the 1st concert I ever went to! I was 14 years old and I saw the Steve miller band... Abracadabra was a big song at that point time... what a concert!!! I remember they televised that concert too!
There is something about 1982 that really clicked. For a shock, look up all the movies that came out in '82. You won't believe your eyes. The variety and iconic movies released in that one year is mind blowing.
My boyfriend (we are both Gen-X) was going for a job interview after some difficulties. I woke up on the morning of his interview and sent him, “Eye of the Tiger”. He loved it and got the job.
I'm 52. I can relate. The 80s are SUPREME and SUPERIOR .... to all.
Except the '50s '60s and '70s!!!😎
Human League’s “Don’t You Want Me” is just awesome. It holds up as well today as it did in 1982.
And the movie The Breakfast Club used it
Oh no that was Don’t You Forget About Me
It‘s a pure classic.
Haha well said
Human League's, "Love Action," was a better song. Very indicative of the early 80s.
I wish I went back to 1982! The Human League, Soft Cell, Toto! Man, these were some really good songs. I have an art teacher at my school who was born this very same week and I showed her “Rosanna” and told her it was one of my favorite songs of the early 80s because of the instrumental and the way it ends. It’s an 80s classic for sure!
....NOT to be a 'David Downer' Lady Lily, but we had problems during those times; SIDS (soon to be called AIDS) was spreadin FAST, Republicans were in office, shady Oil businesses were making the rich RICHER....It was Movies & Music that was ESCAPE...
....BUT! ...since it was still GOOD Music, it's help up better than the actual 'time', as it were.....yet, I'd go back in a New York Minute.....
Toto was a really good band. Jeff Pacaro the drummer and Steve Lukather the guitar player were so profient at an early age it's amazing. They wrote some great song too.
@@RBS_ Meanwhile in the UK Thatcherism was busy destroying the fabric of society. To this day it has not recovered. She went to war with anyone who stood in her way; Argentina in the Falklands ( should have negotiated it away to avoid bloodshed), the miners ( the enemy within as she dubbed them) and communism in the Cold War ( communism was dreadful though Reagan's evil empire speech in 1983 did not exactly calm tensions). High unemployment and inflation dominated the eighties. Music was escape, that is true. A lot of the creativity of the decade was fuelled by a sense that the world might end in nuclear war, and unemployment which meant bands started up aided by dole money while allegedly looking for work. The legacy of Thatcher over here and Reagan in the US is still with us today in the long hangover from the excesses they unleashed.
Me too! The best year of music IMO.
@@ponzo1967 David Paich too. The Toto guys are the best musicians I have ever seen, period!
I was 24 in '82 and it was a great time musically. There was a genre for everyone pop, rock, funk, new wave, synth-pop and I loved it all!!! ❤️
I was 22, working in a restaurant in Santa Monica. I missed the 70's music, but gotta admit the synth 80's was strong. Especially "Tainted Love." It was kinda ironic how deeply affected by " love gone wrong" tunes affect you when you're living it. Loving music with detachment just ain't the same.
I got married in 83. I was 26 in 82. It was a good year for me.
18 years old in 1982, graduated High School and had a baby girl. All these songs were so special. What a great time to be alive.
Other than 1966, 1982 has been my favorite year for music. It’s unbelievable how many great tunes came out that year. I was 5 years old in 1982 and discovering my love for music through watching MTV, American Bandstand, Boomboxes blasting in the neighborhood, and listening to 45’s on my Fisher Price record player.
A few other tunes I enjoy from 1982 are “Southern Cross” by Crosby Stills And Nash, “Only Time Will Tell” by Asia, “Who Can It Be Now” by Men At Work, “Trouble” by Lindsey Buckingham, “Do You Believe In Love” by Huey Lewis And The News, “Young Turks” by Rod Stewart, “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” by The Police, “Steppin’ Out” by Joe Jackson, “Private Eyes” by Hall And Oates, and the Thriller And Toto IV album coming out that year among others.
It’s quite mind boggling how many memorable songs came out in just 1982. Pretty much from ‘81 to ‘87 was the most memorable era for pop music.
Love your channel, man! Rock on my friend.
I loved many of those songs and the videos for them, but I think MTV, in the long run, made music less creative, as more emphasis began to be put on appearance rather than on the actual music. That and maybe the world becoming so interconnected with the same music, that it has become more difficult to find new original sounds. There is something to be said in favor of some music developing in isolation.
You are so right - those songs you listed are CLASSICS. I especially love Do You Believe in Love, as well as Young Turks and Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic and Steppin Out. And the entire Men at work Debut album. And Hall and Oates - what more you can you say. It's all freakin' BRILLIANT stuff...I was 12 that year and I remember it like it was yesterday. Having MTV debut the year earlier, these songs really became ingrained in me and really hold a special place in my heart.
Great songs!
Agree the music from when I was v young. It defined that era
You just described the 6 year old me back in 1982❤️
I was 18 in 1982 This music is the soundtrack of my life!
Me too!
I would turn 17 in 82 I loved the his music
I was 19 and couldn't agree more.
I graduated from high school in 1983 and I remember all of these
classics especially from the Original MTV and VH1 these really
bring back the memories Thanks Prof.🎵🎶🎼🎸🎸🎤🎹🥁🎼🎶🎵
This has been my favourite episode ever. I was 15 in 82 and these songs all meant something to me. Thank you for doing this
We’re the same age and I feel exactly the same! 🫠
Me too
Me too! Lol
Anyone that’s interested, there is a Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 classic 80’s replay from a week in the 80’s every Saturday from 6am -10:00am on 100.1 WJRZ. Listenable on internet radio.
KJR 95.7 Seattle plays Casey Kasem's countdown Sunday @ 9am.
I Heart radio has a channel that plays American Top 40 with Casey 24/7. It alternates between the 70’s and the 80’s.
@@stephentaylor6617 Thank you😊
Wow! I do remember Casey Kasem. It was played down here in Melbourne, Australia. Great memories
@@debbieanne7962 Casey Kasem' was a great radio show back in the day. ❤
Rosanna STILL holds a spot as one of the best guitar solos EVER!
The whole song is just brilliant. I love how they switch up genres throughout, and the ending is perfect.
Really does Trey! - Luke's exacting and blistering precision makes both the solo on the bridge and on the outro, something that I've adored in amazement since it first came out. His nuances and subtly are just epic! - Cheers!
@@iam1982 The brilliance to me was in how melodically integrated it was. It didn't "feel" like a guitar solo so much as almost a "lyric".
@@treyhudson73 - It's like I wrote previously. Every part in this song is an undeniable hook; instantly recognizable by just about any listener. Everything is so melodic and 'lyrical,' is a perfect way to describe it. Luke's main guitar riff is a perfect hook and his solo's act much in the same function.
Roller skating to Eye of the Tiger and Night Owls are some of my best memories.
Eagles “Best Of My Love” takes me back to my Highschool days, in the very late 1970’s.
I was SUCH a dork! One of the nicest, coolest, and most talented musicians I have ever known, for SOME reason, teamed up with me, and we formed a band. I was playing a version of “Hey Jude” on my guitar, utilizing the country “boom-chick. Boom-chick” rhythm, and he stopped me saying “Steve! Not EVERY song is a COUNTRY song.”
He gave me his well worn copy of “Eagles Greatest Hits”, and said for me to go hone and practice strumming along to Best Of My Love”. Which I did. It opened my eyes! Since then, I have morphed into a competent rhythm guitar player, playing with many bands over the years. And it’s all thanks to my good friend Kurt, and Eagles “Best of my Love”
"Tainted Love" may not have hit #1, but it did hold the all-time record for weeks on the Hot 100 chart - 43 weeks!
Amazing!
It amazes me how many of those new wave techno pop songs from the early 80s have never ceased to be popular to this day. They are still played regularly on the radio all the time.
I liked "Sex Dwarf" off that same LP better, but with a title and theme like that it wasn't going to get much airplay.
Yes, the story behind 'Tainted Love' is positively magical with it almost falling off the charts before peaking at #8 in the US and #1 almost everywhere else in the world... and breaking that then record of 43 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. Perfectly addictive melancholia and my favourite song of 1982! - Cheers!
I brought home the album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret. I knew, KNEW, my father would say something. He did, "Those boys look like they should have their pictures printed on three dollar bills".
I still like the music of Soft Cell.
Eye of the Tiger is so memorable that I can still still hear the intro despite not hearing it for a decade or more. When you played the first couple measures, I just continued it on my air guitar.
The memories of these songs are strong. I had an elementary school PE teacher that used to play nearly all of these songs, He had the singles. What a great time in music.
The year I graduated High School. Love the 80’s. So much good music: Journey, Foreigner, Lover Boy…I could go on and on!
Heat of The Moment always brings back a lot of memories of the long hot California summers of my childhood. Hearing it again just now makes me realize how much it sounds like the hair metal that was to come in a few years down the line.
It’s such a great song. I cannot believe it came out in 1982, it sounds like it’s younger than 40!
In 1990, I once requested a radio classic rock station in the late-night hours to play Asia's Heat of The Moment, but the DJ said that he liked the song but wasn't allowed to play anything with a "hairy" guitar (whatever that meant).
@@markadams7046 Ha!!
This is the biggest hit of Asia and despite scoring other hits, do they count as a one hit wonder?
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I was 11 years old in 1982. I saw E.T. three times, once with my Mom and sister, the other times with friends. It is still one of my favorite 80s movies. Eye of the Tiger is such a great song!
John Mellencamp is my favorite artist in this countdown. Here is a quote I like from his Rock and Roll acceptance speech, " The sword is a mighty weapon, but not as strong as the words in our songs."
Thanks for the great quote Catherine!
Abracadabra, Super freak, More than this, Fantasy, Watcha gonna do when I'm gone, Pretty woman, I ran, No one like you, Who can it be now, Eye in the sky, Hold me, Young Turks, Keep the fire burning, Think I'm in love, Somebody's baby, Eyes of a stranger... and so many more. Beat that!
@@MagicRoosterBluesBand So many great songs from that year.
@@MagicRoosterBluesBand So many great songs from that year.
I too saw it in 1982 with my mum and sister. It was June 18, 1982, my last day of 5th grade, and we went scrambling to the theater to see Rocky III. But Rocky III doesn't exist without Eye of the Tiger. It's one of those rare songs that has so much impact both on the movie and outside the theater. Cheers!
1982! The year I graduated High School! Great memories and thank you for the tribute to this incredible year!
1982- I was 10 years old then and my family took me to see E.T. And this music was so great, and still is! Good times.
Best year of my life!! As a 22 year old dancing in clubs everywhere this music brings those awesome songs back with a big smile.
Amen! It was a fantastic year!
I definitely share your sentiment. We had it so good!
I was 22 too ! Dancing in all the clubs ….. unfortunately there’s nothing to dance to with today’s sorry music.
@@randykirkland3927 I dance in the dark
In 1982 I was 16 and heavy into roller skating. Tainted love and let it whip were always played at the rink. That was also the year we drove from Pennsylvania to Disney world in Florida for our family vacation. Eye of the Tiger was everywhere on the radio!! Great memories!
I was 16 too and remember my 1982 summer Disney trip with Eye of the Tiger playing too! Glad I wasn’t alone with that memory lol
@@Elgatovolar That is so cool!
1982 was absolutely amazing!
Eye of the Tiger is has been the official anthem of LSU ever since then. I remember going to the stadium and seeing the eye painted on the field and when the marching band played the song it gave us chills. It’s used to pump up the team in the locker room and the crowds in the stadium.
Hearing all of these songs makes me so happy I was was there to experience it all.
I had just turned 19. 1 year out of high school!!! What a great time in my life!!!💖💖💖
Darn, you ARE old lol
Jk, keep rockin' it, sister! 🤘
What a time!
..OY, YOY-YOY....I was a comic-book collectin', TV Dinner eatin', 45 collectin' 16 year Old, and I STILL remember EVERYTHING about the Summer of 1982....HALP! ....ha-HAAA!
I talked to a teacher at my school who was class of 1982 and she said she remembers when MTV first came out!
I would turn 20 in a few days, some great songs on the radio made my life get through some hard times.
I graduated in 1982 and we had our reunion today. I come home and see your hit song redux was from 82 😊❤️🥰
You’re so damn lucky!
I love 80s music, it was so great and the nostalgia of it makes it even better. I don't get why so many people trash today's music though. That era and this can both be great. Some of my favorite songs have come out within the last 5 years.
Juice Newton’s “Queen of Hearts” was my introduction to rock and roll.
40 years. Where did the time go?!
Excellent top ten - Still love Human League and all of the other top ten songs after all these years. I look forward to more weekly 40 year throwbacks!
Mellencamp.. .so many hits that are still so damn good today.
Your shows are addictive. Can't stop listening in reverse.
I was born in 82 and i listen to maybe 1% of todays misic. I listen to 60s, 70s, and 80s and thats never gonna change!!! Rocky V is still my absolute favorite movie with Cobra in at a hot 2nd ☺️
1982 is without a doubt the best year in music. Every artist seemed to have their best album that year, even the ones I was not a fan of.
For all those silly woke kids that seem to think their generation is the first to be inclusive just consider this list right here. Southern rock, synth pop, pop, country, R & B, funk, rock, new wave, every genre represented in this chart. And this was typical each and every week, all played on the same radio station back to back.
I really miss the 80's.
Yes indeed!! 1982 in my opinion was when The 80s in music went on it’s own (whatever was left from the 70s sound was all but gone). And you are right on about the music diversity on the same radio station. Great memories and great time to grow up!!
You're absolutely right. There is no comparison between today's music and the music from the top 10 of 40 years ago. Absolute bangers in that top 10, and that shows how far music has fallen. It's hard to pick a favorite from that top 10, but it's between "Eye of the Tiger" and "Rosanna" for me. To this day, I still play air guitar when "Eye of the Tiger" comes on the radio.
There is still great music out there today, but you just won’t find it in the top 40, that’s for sure.
That comparison montage at the end is literally one of the best things I've ever seen on TH-cam. Perfect, perfect, perfect. If I ever own two Ferraris, I'm sending the better one to the Prof.
Professor, like Vin Scully, Dick Clark, and your hero Casey Cason, you are that story teller who I never met in person but feel like I’ve know personally all my life.
You do a great job of reconnecting us to the best memories of our past.
Thank you.
I agree. I would add Bob Costas to that list.
Casey Kasem*
So Jim Peterik had a hand in TWO of the top 10 songs that week ("Caught Up In You" and "Eye Of The Tiger"). He's a great talent.
He’s so prolific.
Somewhere out there on the web is a showcase of him performing all his songs, in some cases with the bands he wrote them with/for. It's an eye opener how many songs he had a hand in, including most of the .38 Special you know
Jim Peterik really was the bridge master, I'd say him and Todd Rundgren were the kings of the mini song moment in a song.
I realize I'm late to the party here, but I have a story for you.John Cougar's Hurts so Good was one of my favorites. I liked it so much, it followed me into adulthood, and I told my husband I wanted that song to play in the room when our first child was born. We got the album, and brought in the player, and when I was in pretty intense labor, he started the music. Hurts so Good played, and the baby didn't come. I think she was born to Jack and Diane. I remember it was a compilation disc, but not the newest one. My daughter was born in 1997, so it had to be a compilation from the early 90s. That song still has a special place in my heart.
06-18-2024 @ 2:58am: THANK YOU! Professor of Rock for GOD is GOOD! Early on 06-17-2024, I caught a tune in my mind that I had only a FEW of the words/lyrics that were close to the original words/lyrics and GOOD SEARCH and GOOGLE MUSIC couldn't help me piece the GROUP or the SONG together. However, DISCOVERING your podcast on TH-cam later that even, I just got CAUGHT UP in your MUSIC HISTORY STORYTELLING and YES, you remind me of the LATE and GREAT Casey Kasem, but on STEROIDS. I couldn't STOP and I HAD to hear MORE of your podcast and YOUR STORYTELLING .
So, into my third/fourth episode of your podcast (this episode) you play the TOP TEN songs of maybe that year?... I don't know AND the SONG that began your COUNTDOWN was the #10 Song: CAUFHT UP IN YOU by .38 SPECIAL. When it played ... EVERYTHING CAME TOGETHER. This was the SONG that was CAUGHT UP in my head and my MYSTERY SEARCH was solved because of you ... and some how GOD lead me to my answer... and YES EVERY SONG in this TOP TEN is a CLASSIC so it was a GREAT WEEK/GREAT YEAR with some GREAT SONGS/GREAT MUSIC/ GREAT ARTIST!!! THANK YOU! 🎉❤😊
1982 may not have been my favorite year, personal or musically, but almost all of those songs bring back memories.
The Redux are my favorite episodes! Brilliant. That early 80s era was all over the place... and the early British synth sounded like it dropped from another planet. So great!
Agree. But they make me cry! Knowing how bad music has become.
I am infatuated with otherworldly 80s synthpop.
I was 11 years old in 1982. I absolutely love SOFT CELL! I love Marc Almond' s Solo singing career 🖤🦇
This is the first time watching your channel. I graduated in 77 and been into music since I was big enough to know what it was. I DJ'd for a bit in the 90's and always prided in myself for my knowledge of music. But just like when driving on the highway, there is always someone driving faster than you and here you have added more flavor to some of my favorite songs. You have my respect sir, well done. Thank you.
Same. Nicely put.
Today's music sucks big time. Love this series Adam. Keep up the great work.
No matter how much we fight against it or think that OUR decade and OUR music was the best, the reality is that for each generation the music or top 10 of their own era or decade, where they grew up, will always be remembered by them with great nostalgia, and will always be for them, their favorite music, era, or decade because it was the music or times that moved their life experience and emotions the most.
It's useless to fight against that reality and try to convince people of a different decade or generation that OUR music, decade, or top 10s are the best when all their emotions, life experiences, and spirit are against such a notion(even if on the surface they tell you that they agree with you that your music or decade is the best).
The only way you could convince someone of a different era that your music or decade is the best is if those people you are trying to convince grew up listening to your kind of music during their own favorite decade or era.
@@taowaycamino4891 I work with a few guys between19-22 and from what they tell me you'd be surprised how may kids their age are into "classic rock" (70's-80's) and can't stand most of what is considered music today. Sure lots of young people are going to listen to modern music, and what you say has truth to it. I also went to the stadium tour in Philadelphia last month with Motley Crue and others and I couldn't believe the amount of kids (teens and up) at the show wearing Motley Crue and Def Leppard shirts...I was astounded, and it made me smile.
@@petergunn3614 And I covered that part of the argument when I said that the exception would be young kids growing up with old or classic rock(including classical music from the 1700s and Jazz)during their early years. So I agree with you.
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Fact of the matter is the majority of so called "Musicians" today are merely performers...who couldn't play acoustically or a cappella.
They just don't understand music...they just yell at a beat box.
I graduated from high school in 1982 and this was a fun trip down memory lane! Each song is a gem!
I graduated high school in 85, the 80's was the best for music......John cougar, The Cars, Cindi Lauper, Asia, 38 Special, Prince, Rick Springfield, Springsteen, Soft Cell........OMG so many incredible bands........good clean rock! I'm 56 now and it's still my favourite decade for music
I love this channel, being 53 I was 13 in 1980 so 80s was truly my decade ! Now that said I do have a bone to pick with the professor about todays music. Thou I agree that the top ten now isn't what it was in the 80s, so many mumbled lyrics and mashed cords. Now I have a different perspective then most people my age as am a single Dad raising three young woman (13,12,10). So I get a huge helping of the music that kids today are actually listening to and just starting to get those teenage years as well. I do find that there is some very good music still being made and a few young artists give me hope for the future as well. Don't let your longing for those teen years when music means the most to us and its impact on our lives is biggest, nostalgia lens warps our opinions.
Agree. There are some occasional bright sparks every now and then. I can list them but come to think of it, quite numerous to really list here. The awesome thing is, my 8 and 12 year old boys are now hooked onto music I listened to when I was their age! Tears for Fears, Michael Jackson, Toto, etc, and I'm into the music they listen to and loving them too!
If you say so.