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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!!!
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.
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.
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.
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! 🙏
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
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...,
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
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.
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?
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!
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!!!!
_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.
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!
Hey professor of rock, love, love your show, I was in 7-12 grade from 81-87, best era of music ever, your show sums it up, there will never be a top ten like this, I thought I new music from the 80’s, but you blow me away, great show
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.
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!
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
@@StephenTuckerJr 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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Rush is my fav band of all time. I love every record they have done. Signals is my fav album by Rush. Thanks for Saga reminder. I love 80s music in general. We were spoiled with music and cool style. Thank god i am Gen X!!!!! This was nice video. Thanks
....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!
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...”!
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!
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, 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.
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. ✌️
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!
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.
@@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)
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!
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).
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.
I worked for Missing Persons at the cool theater in Pasadena "Perkins Palace" for a music video...I still stay in touch with Chuck Wild (keyboards) and I ran into Warren Cucurullo (guitar) in Crete in 2018. Warren went on to play with Duran Duran. I loved their performance at the Yes Festival in May of 83. Love all of your videos Professor!
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.
OMG SAGA! Their shows were awesome! Michael is a good guy and they love to go to Puerto Rico to do shows. We absolutely love them. I recommend a tour through their catalogue, a great prog rock band. And yes we saw them in 2021 in Puerto Rico, traveled specifically to that show 😂 no regrets! Tom Petty, that’s the song that made me a fan, though I already liked the music. Awesome video.
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.
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!
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 🙏🏼
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.
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.
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.
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….
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.
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?
Music sucks nowadays, it's been crap for a long while now. I don't think good music will ever be a thing again. I'm just glad I was born in 1973. Thanks God ❤️
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.
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 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.
Serious flashback... Graduated from HS in 1982 and remember listening to Subdivisions on my Walkman on the campus at UC Berkeley... still one of my faves...
Wow were these the days for me, addicted to MTV on my tv 24 7. I had almost every one of these albums and when to many of the 82 concerts. Love every one of these songs and groups. What a great top ten i love these memories. What a fantastic year! Man-eater should have been top ten maybe #1. I love these revisiting these charts! Great episode professor!!
Good list, I remember when these songs were fresh. You’re kind on the “no comment.” Of these Imminence Front dove it. It was on Miami Vice, solid lyrically with a mysterious under tone. Thanks Adam!
Music today doesn't even come close to the music talent of yesterday. Rolling around in skivvies and twerking does nothing for me. I want music that makes me feel energized, like dancing and singing.
@@glennjpanting2081 Because it was fun, made you feel happy. The way people "dance" and sing has a lot to be desired. Record companies threw out all the good stuff for the garbage of today. No one will ever tell me this isn't being done on purpose to cause chaos. cRap music has been on the scene for too long now.
@@glennjpanting2081 Actually, my mother did like some of the more "modern" music and she was born in 1922. I didn't think all older music sucked either. One could at least hear the words and sing to it.
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.
November of 82...this is arguably best 10 song list you've presented from any month. EVER. In fact, I have a similar playlist from October 82 in my Amazon Music and my AMI account. The month of October of 82 is significant to me, as it was my 1st live concert experience as well. Rush...the "Signals" tour. I have always liked music, though I possess almost no talent to make it, play it, sing etc. That said, I became aware of Rush probably around 1980 when "Permanent Waves" was released. From there forward they were central to my personal soundtrack. In autumn of 1982 I was a freshman at Marquette University High School in Milwaukee, and as luck would have it I was finally allowed to go see my first live concert. October 9th at the MECCA Arena, where Rory Gallagher opened. I went with my best friend and a few other buddies from school. Rush coming to town was big news, but maybe even bigger is the the Milwaukee Brewers had brought post-season baseball back to Milwaukee and that night was also game 4 of the ALCS vs the Angels. The opening act finished and a short bit later, the house lights dimmed and Rush took the stage. Geddy came out wearing a Brewers uniform and the crowd of course cheered wildly. Alex broke into the into to "Spirit of Radio" then Neil joined and we were off on a sonic and visual journey. The energy was amazing to a kid at his first live show! Geddy belted trough the verses with the crowd singing along, and of course guys throughout the arena were playing their air drums. The lyric "...one likes to believe in the freedom of music..." came around except that Geddy changed 'music' to 'baseball'....he sang "...one likes to believe in the freedom of baseball..." and the crowd went absolutely nuts. If I wasn't already hooked as a fan before then, my love for Rush and three of the most talented musicians to share a stage was cemented forever.
I love music history. It really humanizes the artists and shows how hard you had to work back then to get a record deal. Unlike today, all you need is good looks and be halfway good at singing, the rest is taken care of by computers and sound engineers.
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.
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.
I have major respect for them for their musicianship, but I never was a big fan either. I'm more of a fan of melodic rock.
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
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
Wow! What a freakin concert
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.
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
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!
Yes, please continue doing more of these!!! How can anyone get tired of 80s music? 🎧🎵🎸📻
And the 50s, 60s, 70s
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.
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.
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...,
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.
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
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!!!!
"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
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!
Hey professor of rock, love, love your show, I was in 7-12 grade from 81-87, best era of music ever, your show sums it up, there will never be a top ten like this, I thought I new music from the 80’s, but you blow me away, great show
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.
There will never be another decade like the 80's period. Movies and music alone. My favourite for sure. Thanks Adam. Cheers 🍻 from Canada 🇨🇦
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.
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.
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!
This video was awesome! It was an assault on the music senses. Great work!
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.
I love the comparison with today’s charts ! I was 13 in 1982, my heart cries for all 13 y.o. today! Poor kids!
❤
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
@@StephenTuckerJr 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.
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.
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.
Rush is my fav band of all time. I love every record they have done. Signals is my fav album by Rush.
Thanks for Saga reminder. I love 80s music in general. We were spoiled with music and cool style.
Thank god i am Gen X!!!!!
This was nice video. Thanks
Dirty Laundry, what a great song! It never ages!
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!
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.
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, 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.
Loved and still love "On The Loose" by Saga. It's just a great rock tune.
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. ✌️
Pop music today sucks. Glad you are here I love your channel
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 😁
I sang Men at Works Down Under in Australia at a karaoke bar back in the late 90’s. The place went wild. It was like singing the national anthem.
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!
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)
The 80's still rule!
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!
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!
Really enjoyed this one one of each is good I like the rock one more keep up the good work
Thanks! Will do!
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).
I never was a fan of Rush until I got older. Now I love them.
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.
I worked for Missing Persons at the cool theater in Pasadena "Perkins Palace" for a music video...I still stay in touch with Chuck Wild (keyboards) and I ran into Warren Cucurullo (guitar) in Crete in 2018. Warren went on to play with Duran Duran. I loved their performance at the Yes Festival in May of 83. Love all of your videos Professor!
Awesome as ever professor.
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.
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.
I liked this! Keep the rock coming, man!
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!
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".
"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 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!
OMG SAGA! Their shows were awesome! Michael is a good guy and they love to go to Puerto Rico to do shows. We absolutely love them.
I recommend a tour through their catalogue, a great prog rock band. And yes we saw them in 2021 in Puerto Rico, traveled specifically to that show 😂 no regrets!
Tom Petty, that’s the song that made me a fan, though I already liked the music. Awesome video.
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.
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!
Love the focus on rock.
Sounds good!
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!
This list is impeccable.
Hope you'll do these top tens for each decade. Your subscribers will thank you!
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 🙏🏼
From day one that many of us Introverts heard "Subdivisions" in 1982, it has been a big anthem for us ever since.
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 love these reduxes! I vote for more.
Same
Sounds good!
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.
Excellent video. I was 18 years old in 1982 and it was a great time to be that age.
"Dirty Laundry" - Still relevant!!
Probably even more relevant now.
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….
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.
Love this format. The pop stuff brings back memories, but the rock songs definitely resonate better with me.
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.
Man I love these episodes!! They're a blast!!
AWESOME!
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?
Music sucks nowadays, it's been crap for a long while now. I don't think good music will ever be a thing again. I'm just glad I was born in 1973. Thanks God ❤️
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
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 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.
Love this format! Great idea! Keep the rock going.
It’s incredible. How much music has stepped backwards. Maybe it’s me, but I just find today’s music hard listen to.
Serious flashback... Graduated from HS in 1982 and remember listening to Subdivisions on my Walkman on the campus at UC Berkeley... still one of my faves...
The Motels and Triumph rocked for me in 1982!!
Triumph was AWESOME!!!
😎👍
Amazing!
Both highly underrated bands.
Wow were these the days for me, addicted to MTV on my tv 24 7. I had almost every one of these albums and when to many of the 82 concerts. Love every one of these songs and groups. What a great top ten i love these memories. What a fantastic year! Man-eater should have been top ten maybe #1. I love these revisiting these charts! Great episode professor!!
Thanks My Name!
It seems like every song on the radio had something to look forward to.
Subdivisions is a masterpiece.
Unquestioned masterpiece! What's your favorite Rush record?
@@ProfessorofRock Signals.
Of course it is!
Good list, I remember when these songs were fresh. You’re kind on the “no comment.” Of these Imminence Front dove it. It was on Miami Vice, solid lyrically with a mysterious under tone. Thanks Adam!
Music today doesn't even come close to the music talent of yesterday. Rolling around in skivvies and twerking does nothing for me. I want music that makes me feel energized, like dancing and singing.
@@glennjpanting2081 Because it was fun, made you feel happy. The way people "dance" and sing has a lot to be desired. Record companies threw out all the good stuff for the garbage of today. No one will ever tell me this isn't being done on purpose to cause chaos. cRap music has been on the scene for too long now.
@@glennjpanting2081 Actually, my mother did like some of the more "modern" music and she was born in 1922. I didn't think all older music sucked either. One could at least hear the words and sing to it.
All people seem to be singing about is the hiney, breakup songs, or doing drugs/alcohol.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Definitely not about love or romance. 99% of the words I can't even understand.
@@JanesDough855 Because of shitty autotune.
Love the Rock take on your weekly Top 10 Redux.
Encore!
Encore!
Sounds good!
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.
November of 82...this is arguably best 10 song list you've presented from any month. EVER. In fact, I have a similar playlist from October 82 in my Amazon Music and my AMI account.
The month of October of 82 is significant to me, as it was my 1st live concert experience as well.
Rush...the "Signals" tour.
I have always liked music, though I possess almost no talent to make it, play it, sing etc. That said, I became aware of Rush probably around 1980 when "Permanent Waves" was released. From there forward they were central to my personal soundtrack.
In autumn of 1982 I was a freshman at Marquette University High School in Milwaukee, and as luck would have it I was finally allowed to go see my first live concert. October 9th at the MECCA Arena, where Rory Gallagher opened. I went with my best friend and a few other buddies from school. Rush coming to town was big news, but maybe even bigger is the the Milwaukee Brewers had brought post-season baseball back to Milwaukee and that night was also game 4 of the ALCS vs the Angels.
The opening act finished and a short bit later, the house lights dimmed and Rush took the stage. Geddy came out wearing a Brewers uniform and the crowd of course cheered wildly. Alex broke into the into to "Spirit of Radio" then Neil joined and we were off on a sonic and visual journey. The energy was amazing to a kid at his first live show! Geddy belted trough the verses with the crowd singing along, and of course guys throughout the arena were playing their air drums. The lyric "...one likes to believe in the freedom of music..." came around except that Geddy changed 'music' to 'baseball'....he sang "...one likes to believe in the freedom of baseball..." and the crowd went absolutely nuts. If I wasn't already hooked as a fan before then, my love for Rush and three of the most talented musicians to share a stage was cemented forever.
Variety is the spice of life. Enjoyed the redux!
I love music history. It really humanizes the artists and shows how hard you had to work back then to get a record deal. Unlike today, all you need is good looks and be halfway good at singing, the rest is taken care of by computers and sound engineers.