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- Today, we’re going behind the Top 10 rock songs from this very same week in the year 1982… Can you imagine, a top 10 billboard chart filled with all rock songs? In the past we’ve done redux episodes, covering the most popular songs on the Billboard Hot 100, but today we’re putting a new twist on an old favorite. Going 100% rock. Then after counting them down, we rerank each song according to how many times they’ve been streamed and find out which one deserves to be #1. But which classic rock titan will be the winner? Will it be Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Mighty Rush with Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart, or maybe one of the Eagles flying solo Don Henley or Glenn Frey? Start making your guesses in the comments and tell us who you think will take home the crown. I guarantee this is going to be a good one. And it’s all coming up… NEXT on the Professor of Rock.
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So it’s time for our inaugural installment of our show the “80s Rock Redux”, where we travel back to a specific week in the golden era of rock, count down the top 10 songs on the US Rock Charts, and re-rank them according to the world has listened to them since. Just to clarify, this is not my personal top 10, but the actual top 10 from this exact week back in 1982…. We have the songs and commentary from the actual artists!
So as we get started, let’s take a moment to immerse ourselves in the pop culture context of the day, starting with movies. Playing in the theaters on this same week in 1982 you could choose between Sylvester Stallone’s First Blood, The Man From Snowy River, or Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Did you see any of these in the theater? Then on television there were some classic shows debuting that year, including Family Ties, Knight Rider, and that one show where everybody knows your name: Cheers. And then on the cartoon front, you could catch Pac-Man, Super Friends, and Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. Such good memories… Okay, let’s get started.
Coming in at #10, we’re kicking it off with the holy trinity of prog-rock… it’s Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neal Peart of Rush with Subdivisions.
By 1982, Rush had long-established themselves as one of the premier progressive rock bands of the 70s. Some would argue that they were “the” premier prog-rockers of the decade. However, by the time Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart released their landmark 1981 album Moving Pictures, they began layering in a new sound… One that was highlighted by the use of synthesizers.
Then 1982’s Signals took Rush's keyboard aspirations to the next level… while unfortunately pushing Alex’s superb guitar work deeper into the mix. For Signals, almost every track had copious amounts of keyboards. And Subdivisions was no exception. In fact, it was one of Rush’s first tracks written p - บันเทิง
Poll: What is your pick for the greatest rock song of 1982?
Motels - Only The Lonely
Quarterflash - Find Another Fool
They were all good. I was in 6th grade. I cannot pick a favorite.
Eye of the Tiger, Survivor
Rock the Casbah, The Clash
I'll nominate "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor.
Nightshift by Quarterflash
No comparison between today's music and music in 1982. 1982 was so much better.
Anyone who was there know you are correct sir!
you're deluded mate, your own parents said that exact same pish when you were a youth, and it's outright bullshit.
I was never a Rush fan as a kid, always thought their avid fans were weird.....now I understand the genius of their music, especially for a 3-man band.
Same! My older siblings loved them and I just never cared for them. But when Tom Sawyer comes on I’m all ears, I want to hear every bit of it and more.
It takes time for some to appreciate RUSH but once you do there is no return.
@@aspalovin Fact!!
Welcome to the club. Rush will be one of your favorite bands for life. 👍
I’ve seen good Rush tribute bands and there’s never fewer than 7 people on stage. We saw one with 12! Is amazing how they managed to make music that “huge” with only 3 up there.
What a great year in music, 81-85 was just incredible.
Most definitly it buried disco forever!
Today's pop is not music, it is entertainment. Big difference.
1964-1969. Greatest Era of Rock Music. You people know nothing!
I tend to like everything from 1955-1992. Then music started to break and now it is broken
TOP 1982
Nu wave genre---- Burning sensations-Belly of the Whale
Peter Godwin----Images of Heaven
TOP Punk/Harcore-------
Legal Weapon -Equalizer
Featuring Kat Arthur (Janis Joplin of Punk) and Patricia Morrison
Bad Brains- yellow tapes
Top HipHop------
Grandmaster Flash- The Message
1982 was the year I really got music and became obsessed with the radio and started hanging out at record stores. Thank you Adam and thank God for 1982.
Very cool!
Professor - My first concert at 14, was 1981 RUSH Moving Pictures/Exit Stage Left Tour in Knoxville TN. At 7:30 when the opening band was supposed to come out, an announcer instead moved to the main mic and explained the opener (I think it was Raven) would not be going on due to ‘illness’. The crowd started to groan and boo, when he said “So, Ladies and Gentlemen, RUSH!!!” We lost our minds, and Rush came out and did their tour set for an hour and 15 minutes, but skipped the encore. They took a 10minute break, and came out to play everything from their older catalogue! Three hours total, we hear La Villa Strangiata, Broons Bane, The Trees, Xanadu, and many of their older cuts, I think they did some of Cygnus X-1! What a band, to give fans such an honor and recognize our loyalty. It was the best first concert a boy could get, and to this day the best concert I’ve seen, ever, and I was at many of the legendary groups tours of the era. Thanks for your stories. Here was mine.
So, on May 31, 1981 Rush came to my hometown and it would have been my first rock concert. Alas, I had no one to take me. Three years later, on October 4, 1984, they came back and I was floored. Fastway opened. It wasn't my first rock concert by then, but it was my first Rush show of many. My last Rush show, April 10, 2011 at MSG, was weird. I went there straight from work, suit and and tie and all, and it was unforgettable.
"Fastway" That brings back memories. @@Azabaxe80
More than 40 years ago, and it is ALL better than the popular music of today!!
If you notice everything gets better the further you go back, in everyway actually. You could argue that you should stop going back at the end of WWII but when you pass that and WWI up it gets better again except for medicine.
1982 felt very transformative. The color palate was transitioning from dark, nature tones to neon and pastel. The sound was transitioning from AM to FM. Pop was taking over the story telling songs. MTV was really picking up steam and making music a visual art. It felt like the world really became that bright eighties stereotype at this moment in time.
Saga stinks. I knew two guys who liked Saga back in the day and they stunk like Saga..
"Neon and Pastels" was the Miami Vice influence as that show exploded into the culture.
By the late 1960s, FM had been adopted for broadcast of stereo "A.O.R. -'Album Oriented Rock' Format", but it was not until 1978 that listenership to FM stations exceeded that of AM stations in North America.
It says something about the power of Pat Benatar in 1982 that she could take a 2-time failed song, mix it with an odd, crappy video, and have it be a monster hit that still gets airplay 41 years later.
SO true!
I had no idea about this story, rock goddess that she is.
3 time actually. Helen Schneider did a version of the song as well. Rachel Sweet's version is a modified version of the original and Helen's, then Pat took it further from Rachel's version. Rachel's version is really good as well. Actually actually, Helen's version was a big hit in Germany in 1981.
I loved this video. As a kid I thought of it as an Emilia Earhart adventure. I guess because she was the only female pilot I knew 😂😂😂 Pat is a queen!!!
god, modern stuff is rubbish
Still get goosebumps from the first 30 seconds of Pat Benatar's Shadows of the Night...
So good!
ME TOO!!!! Hair on my arms stands up!!!!
@@ProfessorofRock probably my favorite acapella intro of all time!
.....WHO YOU TELLIN'!??? .....kickass Intro! ....and that CHORUS! ...Pat changed 80's ROCK with this tune, NOT Quiet Riot.....
It’s so haunting.
Yes, please continue doing more of these!!! How can anyone get tired of 80s music? 🎧🎵🎸📻
And the 50s, 60s, 70s
Back in 82, Saga went on tour opening for Billy Squire. When they came through Tucson it was my very first live concert and it was beyond thrilling. During their opening set, the drummer brought out a set of electric Simmons Drums, that none of us had ever seen before. He ripped out an incredible drum solo that boomed off the walls- and it looked like he was playing a ridiculous set of practice pads!!! It was so amazing and I've been hooked on music, and specifically drums ever since
I always confused this tune as a Loverboy song. Of course, I was 9 in '82 and also thought Dave Stewart and Jeff Lynne was the same dude, so my judgement wasn't quite honed yet lol
This was voted our senior song for graduation. Made a lot of sentimental people mad, but it did reflect a common feeling of high school seniors.
As a fan I have to correct you: It's Squier!
That’s amazing!
Seen them during this tour as well. I always wondered what those things were. The drummer came up to the stage front, pulled them from a briefcase, and proceeded to rip...lol
After 40 years I now know what they were...,
1982 was one of my favorite tears. Not only in music. I remember that time well and thanks for this time machine
Same here. That was one of my most beloved years of HS. As a young saxophonist in various bands in school, I surprisingly became as popular as guys who played guitar. I could play music by ear. I switched to saxophone as a child. I noticed women liked it, so by HS, I guess it payed off. MTV was great, concerts, movies, and dates were fun and more affordable. Most of all far less stressful. I miss those days. Thanks to music, we can look back and reminisce! 🙏
Me as well…I was only 21 and the world was open to me…so glad I made my dreams come true.
Subdivisions is the definition of a timeless piece. It could have been released at any time in the past 60 years or the next 100 and it would still ring true just as much as it did the day it was released.
Conform or be cast out.
It resonates with me especially as I walk high school halls every day.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 I walk the hallways too
Little boxes, on the hillside,
Little boxes made of tricky tacky.
Little boxes on the hillside.
Little boxes all the same.
“Subdivisions” was anything but a new idea. But nobody does it like Rush!
Now let’s see a show of hands: who knows what “Eminence Front” means?
Indeed. It was a song that spoke to those of us on the fringes who were never really included, not popular, and didn't really fit in anywhere.
Nice to see Stray Cats get some airtime 👍… Though I really wasn't much of a fan, I was attracted to their raw sound, and I'm still amazed by how Brian Setzer sang lead and played lead guitar... Talk about the ultimate patting the head and rubbing the tummy at the same time!
Easily one of Rock's underrated and rarely mentioned great guitarists.
Throwback baby!
No question!
They were so young and so good!
Black and orange cat sitting on a fence
Ain't got enough dough to pay the rent
Im flat broke but I don't care
I strut right by with my tail in the air
What's not to love!!!!
Imagine being 19 when all these great songs came out!!! Wish I could go back in time!!!😢❤❤❤
No kidding!
I was
I was 21 in 1982. I had no idea that my life would never get better than that year! Great time to be young and alive.
I was 15 and a budding guitar player. Incredible time to grow up
i was the same age in 82rush surprised when local d said they were coming to roanoke va. got tickets went early we stood right below geddy could see hum work foot pedals play bass keyboards and sing all at the same time later on hanging out how the hell did geddy do that stoner friend cuz hes geddy dude haha he shook our hands thanked everyone for coming were going to play 2112 for you sparse audience cheered hit the synth neils big floor drums just feet away did 2112 start to finish best encore to this day ever seen says alot same year molly hatchet 10 minute plus dreams blew us away of course never saw the band again ironically today at cvs had to wait for prescip. thumbed through rush 50th year tribute mag. i.plan to buy later on
"Shadows of the Night" is my favorite Benatar song. I'm happy to see it included on this list!
Very cool!
My favorite from her too.
_We Live For Love_ is the first Pat Benatar song I ever heard. I was just transitioning from Country Music to Rock/Top40. The 80's was the perfect time to switch.
Pat Benatar is one of my favorite artists period. Get Nervous is my favorite album/CD from her and Shadows of the Night is my favorite song. I probably have 30 songs that I love by her, though. I was a little disappointed it only ranked #7 overall but 1982 had much stiffer competition than current music.
@@billkeithchannelThat’s her best song so of course it’s never played on the radio
Rush's quote about Subdivisions being so relatable to people growing up in those circumstances is so true... also, the song Circumstances (from Hemispheres) was very similar in subject matter, and had a similar effect for me!
Thanks for sharing!
Good call there!
Conform or be cast out
@@libertywormfarm3819 boom. It's the _second song I ever_ was attracted to by the lyrics & not just the music. That line wasn't the only reason, but it encapsulated it.
Strangely the other song was Joe Jackson's "It's Different For Girls." My Dad & older bro liked James Bond movies. The way women threw themselves at him didn't seem impossible in reality, just stupid in the contexts the movies put it in. Male fantasy of women just Needing Men & therefore couldn't help themselves or resist.
So even though I'm male, it felt like Joe tapped into something else lacking in society, that Subdivisions taps into if not intentionally: empathy.
The "conform or be cast out however unfortunately isn't limited to high school. When we're teens, being rejected even rhetorically by Our Peers feels worse than death & overrides not only caution, but our fear of parental retribution. We thought at the time that being adults would make us untouchable, beyond the ability to affect us.
Not
At
All. You can't _have_ opinions on anything, can you? You can only conform.
If anyone doesn't think I'm right, by all means, challenge me. Let's talk vaccines or the fact that politicians _can't_ legally just declare lobbying legal or themselves or their cronies exempt from being charged for the fallout from their decisions.
Man, I love these redo's!
Great to see how they played out over time, plus the additional nostagiac flashbacks with the movies and TV shows thrown in to boot!
Couldn't agree more! My favorite too!
Definitely!
This was a nice change of pace. I really enjoyed seeing Saga gets some attention. They are a great overlooked band.😀
Indeed! Great song!
The full long version of _Wind Him Up_ is the other phenomenal classic from that album. The video is cool but too short since it is missing the extended solo and the half-awake vocal.
1982 was the year I started developing my own taste in music. All of these songs hit that deep nostalgia in my heart and I feel so fortunate to have been able to grow up in this time in culture and to be able to discover them was they were released.
There will never be another decade like the 80's period. Movies and music alone. My favourite for sure. Thanks Adam. Cheers 🍻 from Canada 🇨🇦
Oooo the man from Snowy River was a fave of mine. I always wanted a brumby😂
Of course! I've interviewed Setzer!
@@ProfessorofRock I’ll be searching for that 😁
"You got lucky"'s video was the first video I ever saw when our family got cable. It blew my mind... 👍 RIP Tom.
I was already a massive fan of Rush by the time 'signals' was released...it came out at the beginning of my senior year of highschool, which made 'subdivisions' perfect for my own life and observations.
I’m a senior now and this song is like my life.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 it really spoke to me all those years ago
Eminence Front is #1 in my book and ranks up there as an all time favorite for me! The intro is genius as is most of Townsend’s intros! The Who’s intros are as magnificent as the rest of the song.... Pete wrote the song specifically for an episode of Miami Vice. He once stated in concert..”Let’s just say, it paid the bills...”!
I first heard the intro in a car commercial many years back. I believe it was GMC.
Interesting… I’ve been listening to “Eminence Front” a lot in the past few months as it’s on one of my YT playlists. I wonder if the increased attention and views (not just from lil’ me, ofc) somehow affects the algorithm. Because I’m now hearing it more frequently than ever on Boston radio station ‘ZLX. Anyway, great truthful song, and I obvs can’t get enough of it!
Best song by far from them!!
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Amazing you remember b/c that ad came out in only 2015 when you were... ~10?😉
A local band plays that at shows. It’s fun to see people jammin while walking through.
One of my favorite albums of the early eighties is Asia’ debut album. To know that Carl Palmer was the drummer, made them a legitimate threat but never got a lot of play other than the first album!
Heat of the Moment is a very strong rock song.
Asia was one of those first real large super groups of the 80s made by bands from 70s and 60s. With members of yes, elp, ect. Wetting and how were phenomenal in it.
I saw Asia on their first tour summer of 82. I loved their debut album, particularly Only Time Will Tell. I have seen Carl Palmer many times with his ELP Legacy tour. Fantastic drummer.
1982 was the year we first got cable and thus MTV. As soon as I got home from school I'd turn it on. I used to record cassettes off the TV onto my little Radio Shack recorder. Shadows of the Night is still my favorite PB song and the video is what attracted me to her music. Men at Work is still a great listen. I wasn't into Peter, Tom, or Rush until my adult years. The more versions of these Redux videos the better. They are my favorite of all you do. I love nostalgic trips down memory lane.
I was in 5th grade at this time in 1982. I owned all of these hits on either vinyl or cassette. I remember this week in 1982 very well. I was a fan of most of these hits. For me, my top 5 personal favorites on this list, both now and back in 82 (and not in any particular order) are: Subdivisions, Eminence Front, Rock the Casbah, Down Under, Shadows of the Night. When you compared a sample of these hits to todays billboard hits, it saddens me to think that this is where we are in today's music. So blessed to have been around to experience this era. Just want to thank you for posting your videos. I subscribe to your channel and when I'm notified you put out a new video, it's the highlight of my day.
1982 is the year I really got into music, particularly rock. I still love Stray Cats, Pat B, and so many from that year. To listen to music today is almost torture, so I avoid it totally.
Graduated HS May of 82. Was one hell of a summer to cruise & crank up the stereo! Thanks Adam for doing this one. Have a great day
Rock on!
Me too. No music like it today.
From day one that many of us Introverts heard "Subdivisions" in 1982, it has been a big anthem for us ever since.
Saga is incredibly underrated and one of the best live acts I've ever seen.
They are underrated because of the competition they had ... the others were simply bigger.
From the 70's, and still going strong today!
Men at Work was my absolute favorite band in college! Not at all surprised this was #1.
Who can it be knocking at my door?
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 go 'way, don't come round here no more
It was the first song I was compelled to memorize all the notes of a saxophone solo and enunciate each note every time the song was played.
@@sandgroperwookiee65If he hears he'll knock all day, I'll be trapped, and here I'll have to stay.
Colin Hay is still doing great work too!
My favourite Saga tune is Wind 'Em Up. I was privileged to see this great prog group perform at a small venue in Barrie Ontario in '81. They managed to wind me up ! Keyboards guitar all perfect. Among my favourite concert experiences. Thanks,Adam for covering this important phenomenon.
The long version is epic. The producer got that wonderful effect on his vocals before the longer solo by recording him when he was still in bed but just woke up. He got a mic close and told him to go through the lyrics to prove you know them and quietly sang them without questioning or even opening his eyes. He was floored when it was in the final mix. It totally gave that "exhausted" feeling a gambler feels after a long spell of losing.
@@billkeithchannel thank-you for your response. Saga was vastly underrated. They were technically perfect. This song always winds me up when I hear it. ✌️
1982 was a terrible year for our family! My sister lost two of her 3 children 5 months apart! Her youngest in July & her oldest in December. Both to accidents. She is with them in heaven with them as of 2019. I really don't remember a lot of music from that year that did much for me other than the entire sound track from "Man From Snowy River". It was a comfort that's for sure. edit: The oldest's favorite song was "Dirty Laundry" & we'd just blast it & sing our hearts out when we was together & to this day, whenever the song comes on, I don't care who's with me it's blasting full bore on my radio in his honor! ❤
That is awful! I can’t imagine the kind of pain your family must have felt at such a loss. Your poor sister. I pray she’s at peace, reunited with her children 🙏🏼
Love this format! Great idea! Keep the rock going.
Adam, I don't think it's possible for you to do a bad show. Love all your stuff. Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel to find songs of today to compare. Fingernails on a chalkboard sounds better than most of what they call music today.
Whatever boomer...just kidding, you're absolutely right
To find good music you can’t be listening to what the record companies put out. You got to find independent artists because the companies have a formula and format they demand. It’s 💩but it’s what the kids are used to. Their ears are used to autotune 😣
@@Fiona2254 The really sad thing, for me, is that in the 60s through 90s you didn't have to go "find" good music to listen to. It was everywhere. Now the common stance is "good music is out there, but you have to go find it."
@@dennis2966 Word. Few of us who grew up in the 60s and 70s and came of age in the 80s and 90s could realize at the time what an embarrassment of riches we had in music then, especially from both side of The Pond. The new songs and new bands seemed to sprout up on a weekly basis, and it came at us so fast, hot and heavy, if we had been adults at the time we couldn't have handled it. But as kids we couldn't wait for the next album to be released from just about every band or solo artist from the era; it couldn't come fast _enough._
It all happened so fast it was only a matter of three or four years after the Beatles arrived in America that rock began to branch off into a million different genres, and by the 80s we had a stadium-full of artists and bands putting out superb music, just one after the other after the other. In the past 20 years, though, rock has begun to die out -- and with it the souls of our children and grandchildren. The crap they're listening to now barely qualifies as music, and it is so overproduced and forced and contrived and tech'ed out it's sorta like a new model year for cars -- they all look the same.
1982, the year I got married . Still married after 41 years this podcast brought back memories especially with Rush and Hall and Oates keep up the great work.
Wow…. 1982…. What a cool year, I lived in Kemmerer, Wyoming. The school and town got together and built us, oil field boom, kids, a roller rink. So,rollerskating was the “cool” thing to do. The rink had an incredible selection of 45’s to play. Oh…..the music.. so many great artists to choose from, but there are three songs that are still on my favorite playlist that rock my car on my way to work and home again every day……. Dirty Laundry, by Don Henley, Twilight Zone, by Golden Earring and Shame on the Moon, by Bob Segar. But if you look at the top list of artists from 1982…. The list is staggering… Van Halen, John Cougar, Glenn Fry, Donnie Iris, Def Leppard…. On and on and on…..Amazing year of music. So…. Close your eyes.. and hear Dirty Laundry in your head…. Listen…. Kick’em when your up and kick’em when your down……. and imagine you are rollerskating……. Such good memories….
I absolutely love these redux videos. I don't care if they are rock charts (this chart was fire, too) or pop charts; they are just fun! I do have to admit I prefer the early 80s to the later 80s. I have personally done a lot to see these stream numbers for these songs. I am a little sad to see Destination Unknown not do so well but I guess it keeps it a cult classic. Down Under is one of my all time favorite tunes of this era so no surprises there. Keep these coming Professor of Rock!
"Dirty Laundry" - Still relevant!!
Probably even more relevant now.
The 80's still rule!
I remember pretty much all these videos on MTV except the 1st one, Rush's Subdivisions. I'm a Rush junkie but didnt have MTV during this time but I had it within a year and saw all these other videos a million times. Videos of Rush's MTV concert were played pretty regularly.
The 1st actual video I remember seeing was Distant Early Warning off their next album Grace Under Pressure. I first saw Subdivisions video when there was a local video channel here in Boston called V66. They also played the studio versions of Tom Sawyer and Limelight that I also saw for the 1st time.
I lived in a Boston suburb and watched V66 back then. It was amazing to me an entire channel was created to play music videos. They played a lot more alternative rock videos than MTV, so that was interesting. I think it only lasted about 3 years, though.
@frommatorav1 yea, it was better than MTV I thought. I was bummed when it ended.
@@rushrules81Yeah. I didn't have MTV at the time but all my friends did, so I saw it a lot. They always played like the same dozen videos and V66 actually played new stuff, I didn't know yet, so I liked that.
Ironically, I wasn't a big fan of videos in general. I preferred to listen to the songs without videos. To this day, there are only a few videos, I love. Most videos were just silly.
1. Thriller - Michael Jackson
2. Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran
3. Sober - Tool
4. Cradle of Love - Billy Idol
5. Whitesnake videos (sexy women)
Great video thank you.. brings back the memories..
Loved and still love "On The Loose" by Saga. It's just a great rock tune.
Adam, I love the format of today's episode. Keep it going! As for 1982, I have to go with the first album I ever bought on cassette....ASIA's debut album. This one and The J.Geils Band's "Freeze Frame" became the first 2 of a 700 cassette collection that I still have in my basement all these years later.
I got Freeze Frame from Columbia House. You can tell since the cassette spine was unique in how Columbia House copies looked with those two blue bars compared to the store release. Piss On The Wall!
@@billkeithchannel I still have some of those cassettes in my basement collection from back then with those lines on the spine! Classic tune "Piss on the Wall" was. I can't believe I remember this but I won the album in a raffle at our 8th grade dance and they ended the dance with THAT tune! Ah, the good old days!
@@user-dm2sx9xb6r I 1993 I won a CD from being caller 10 to a local radio station. I was caller 3, 5, 7, and finally 10. Can;t believe I got in the queue that many times to win. I had a choice of 3 so I picked *Rush* - _Roll The Bones_ and it was the best pick I ever chose. I got totally hooked on every song on that album not just the hit singles.
I loved Asia and J Geils Band in 1982 but my first cassette was Pyromania by Def Leppard the next year.
I love the comparison with today’s charts ! I was 13 in 1982, my heart cries for all 13 y.o. today! Poor kids!
Wow, A Saga reference. I saw them in concert when they opened for Pat Benatar in Bloomington, MN. I love the World's Apart album and I have picked up a number of their other releases. Great to see Pat Benatar get some more love she is such a great performer. I've seen a number of times in the past and she never fails to belt it out.
Great Video Prof. I always really enjoy these comparisons and I always like to see how many of the albums I have in my own collection. (Got them all this time).
Speaking of Missing Persons, drummer Terry Bozzio has a daughter in Japan called Marina who is the drummer for a fantastic rock band called Aldious. Everything they have ever done knocks today’s top ten into a cocked hat.
--- Meh! 😖. Mr Cocked Hat
This video was awesome! It was an assault on the music senses. Great work!
This was pretty neat idea. I hope you keep doing this kind of count down, I enjoyed it!!!
What a great year for music and to be 11 years old, the late 70's & 80's was my growing years which is most of our love of music years as well.🤔🇺🇸
Was a blast!
I saw both The Wall and First Blood at the tiny "Espanola Theatre" in the eponymous very small town in Northern Ontario. Hitchhiked all the way down to Toronto for both the Signals and Struumer's "Clash Review Concert" that year. First year in high school. What a great year for popular music!
Such a great year! Thanks for watching!
And Saga, at MLG, as well!
So cool!
Absolutely love the deep dive you put into this piece, thank you 🙏!
Great idea with this format imo. I was a teen in the early 80's and became a fan of many on this list in those years. And most everyone of these songs you presented popped the lid on great memories. Toss another year in soon please sir.
So glad you added the last ones. In my head remembering the time when I was 18, Hall and Oates’ Maneater was most played and popular. I was wondering how they could have missed the top ten during that week.
It is the problem of "the good ... facing better ... competition".
I enjoy all your videos but this series is a bit special taking me back to my youth. It certainly makes me pull out my vinyl and reminisce. 👍
....WHO YOU TELLIN'!??? ....I just pulled the Vinyl on The Who, Stray Cats, & The Clash! ....I have NO time to play them, but they're HERE! ....ha-HAA!
Same here lol a trip down memory lane!
This wonderful week in 1982, I had just become a new father with the birth of my 1st daughter, Lindsay! Life was great, the music was great and I couldn't have been more happy! I remember during the disco days, before I had gotten married, I told my roommates that I'd pay anyone $100 if they caught me listening to a disco song! I never lost a single penny! I was lucky enough to be born in 1954, so I was able to see the best of the best in rock music history, but of course that also meant I saw, and did my best to not hear, the worst music to hit radio stations in the last 50 plus years. Adam, your top 10 list brought back so many great memories, except for Rock the Casbah, which for some reason I've never liked? Today, I listen to nothing but classic rock radio stations and hard rock radio stations to keep me happy. I live a good clean life, free of anything that could get me in trouble, both with the law and my maker! Why you ask? Because my nightmare would consist of being thrown in prison and then forced to listen to the crap echoing through the prison block that's also being played on popular teen and young adult stations nowadays, and then to grow old and die, go to Hell and be forced to listen to that same music, with disco thrown in just to make the suffering unbearable! My Heaven will be filled with the best rock and roll music in history for eternity! Thanks, Adam, you're the best!
This list is impeccable.
Hope you'll do these top tens for each decade. Your subscribers will thank you!
Great selections, you can do all of the charts through all of the decades and I will watch every single one! These are well thought out time capsules presented by someone who genuinely enjoys the music, and it shows.
You also should do an episode on Take Off by Rick More is and Dave Thomas as Bob and Doug McKenzie with vocals by Geddy Lee. That's how I first heard of Rush. It's a underrated classic.
Oh, I forgot about this song!
I never was a fan of Rush until I got older. Now I love them.
Tremendous episode, well done at every turn
This is a great list! Ten unforgettable hits from ten awesome artists.
Down Under is a great song, but has overstayed its welcome due to the heavy rotation.
Dirty Laundry, what a great song! It never ages!
Grea as usual, Professor!!! Thanx!!!
Great video! Keep them coming.
I had Rush's Moving Pictures on cassette. I didn't know exactly what they were singing when I heard "Eminence Front" on the radio. These are all great songs from the greatest decade. I love it. Thank you.
Except for the words “eminence front”? 😜
The MTV video was the only time I heard _Eminence Front_ since local radio never played it. Songs with a lot of music before the first lyric was seldom heard. Eventually it made its way to classic rock radio but took 25-30 years to do so locally.
I was 11 years old for most of 1982. I saw the film The Man From Snowy River. I had my own horse 🐎 too.
I have never seen that movie.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 It was filmed in Australia.
@@catherine6653 I went down there this summer!
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 It must have been a wonderful vacation. The land of parrots and marsupials.
@@catherine6653 I saw lots of both!
Great content as usual, Adam. Love the Rock-only version of Top 10 Redux.
A song that was just as popular on the radio where I lived as most of these at that time was You Got Another Thing Coming by Judas Priest. Great Tune!! Not sure if it even charted though.
A classic.
Clash and Stray Cats and other great music! The first half of the 80's is my favorite era. I was born in 80.
Very cool! What was your favorite album of 1982?
@@ProfessorofRock probably Forever Now by the Psychedelic Furs. Another band you should cover right there.
With 1984 being the pinnacle of it all.
Definitely liked it, keep it coming!
This was so great!! Thank you!
❤
Proof music will never be rhe same. Todays "music" just has nothing.
Thanks for this fun look back Professor! Thanks for all you do! 😊
....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand HOW!
It’s all processed, no real talent.
Awesome as ever professor.
Great show !! Thank you ! ! ! !
Love the rock tracks format!! That is my favorite genre.
Most vids about Rush also! Thanks Adam
Huge Rush fan here. Subdivisions? Great tune but 'New World Man' was the big Rush hit in 1982 off of Signals.
Yep. It was released outside of the date we covered.
I would have never guessed.
I love Pat Benetar! Back in the day, I wore out my Get Nervous tape - twice!
But yeah, early 80s videos are plain weird! It explains a lot about those of us who grew up with them.
More Redux Always! My favorite video series you do!
Variety is the spice of life. Enjoyed the redux!
Stray Cats were my favorite from this lineup.
Gotta love the 80's compared to current 'hits'.
I love the Stray Cats!
Music more or less died in the 90s ... when rap and techno took over ... in combination with industrialised "band castings" for boy/girl bands. THE INDUSTRY learned that they can turn customers into zombies through techno ... and 1 million idiots dancing on the Love Parade in Berlin proved it. They had outfits, so merchandising was even on the menu too.
I can see I will absolutely love this series. This was my music during high school and college, indelibly baked into my brain. But I couldn't begin to guess at which songs would make the list, not only because the genre lines blur, but also because I still listen to almost all of these. A couple I still try to avoid, but I won't rain on anyone's parade by naming them. Besides, what if I'm wrong about their quality?
Great episode, i remember it well, i was 9 yrs old recording these off the radio, & i still have Men At Work on vinyl!! Keep this series going!! great content!!
I love this format keep it going
Subdivisions is a masterpiece.
Unquestioned masterpiece! What's your favorite Rush record?
@@ProfessorofRock Signals.
Of course it is!
fantastic video - loved it
I liked this! Keep the rock coming, man!
By the way, it's a shame the Missing Persons never even became a top 40 artist (being two spots shy twice with "Words" and "Destination Unkown"). Dale Bozzio's voice is a signature new wave/post punk extravaganza!
What an album! _Windows, Tears, Bad Streets, It Ain't None Of Your Business, U.S. Drag,_ every song became my favorite at one point or another. The video for _Words_ with Dale's "box" skirt got me hooked. I bought the album from Columbia House as one of my freebies.
Spring Session M is the name of the album. :)
@@normanbuchwald Yes it is, and it is an anagram of Missing Persons.
GREAT EPISODE!!!!! More like this one pls. 🤘🎸🎇
Nothing from todays bands compare to rock from 50s, 60s, 70s or 80s rock bands, just junlk out there today , in my opinon. Great show Adam.
Fantastic video! Thank you Adam!
Pop of the last 10 years is nothing more than mono-tempo, simplistic electronics.
BRING BACK THE GUITAR SOLO!
Amen to that!
The guitar solo is sorely missed.
The Motels and Triumph rocked for me in 1982!!
Triumph was AWESOME!!!
😎👍
Amazing!
Both highly underrated bands.
Again, love this channel!
This was a great episode. I really enjoyed it.
What's sad about this top ten Zeppelin had reached their own loss and no way in hell to replace a legendary drummer whom the whole world was seeing a band that will and has their music played on the radio this very day in 2023 fifty plus years of being on the radio every single day
Todays music is so disappointing. I just can’t.