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- Up next we’re going to go go behind the top 10 songs of this VERY same week from the year 1986. 35 years ago. once again we will re rank them based on their performance since and we have some cool artist interviews… In this chart we have one of the most unlikely #1s of the decade as well as the biggest hit of 1987 battling it out as well as a couple of song that didn’t even make the top 10 that year that years later have been massive find out what the real #1 song is next. Starring Bon Jovi, Bruce Hornsby and the Range, the Bangles, Toto, Journey, Huey Lewis, Billy Idol and more
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It’s time for another edition of our show the Hit Song Redux where we travel back to a week in the golden era of the rock and roll and re rank the top 10 songs of THAT SPECIFIC week based on their legacy since THEIR PEAK POSITION ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100. with the actual artists commenting with your memories and dedications This program is a love letter to Casey Kasem’s american top 40… this time we travel back to this exact week in december of 1986.. and this week it’s anybody’s game…
Coming in at #10. the oldest song on the countdown. It went to #4 on the hot 100 and #1 on the R&B charts clear back in 1961 and was released in 1986 due to it’s use in a film starring River Phoenix Wil Wheaton, Cory Feldman and Kiefer Sutherland. It’s Stand By Me by Ben E. King.
coming in at #9 an 80s jam you may have forgotten about. Grefory Abbott with Shake you Down.
Sliding over the #8 spot Duran Duran with Notorious, the lead single form their album of the same name.
At the #7 slot this week in 86, we had the man who wore a whiplash Smile . The former frontman of punk outfit Generation X, It’s Billy Idol with To Be A Lover.
Coming in at #6 is Bon Jovi with You Give Love a Bad Name.
#5 We have a song that’s chorus had the band’s name in it and became a catchphrase that is indelibly tied to the decade of the 80s. It’s Everybody Have Fun Tonight by Wang Chung.
At the #4 It’s the NExt TIme I Fall from Peter Cetera and Amy Grant.
In at #3 It’s the man and his band who were coming off 2 massive #1 albums and #1 movie hit the year before. Both of his #1 albums had to do with Athletics.. Sports and Fore. It’s Huey Lewis and the nEws with Hip to Be Square.
In at #2 is a song that would keep going and be crowned as the biggest hit of the following year and it would become a defining fad of the late 80s and the dance moves are still being mimicked decades later. It’s the Bangles with Walk an Egyptian.
Ok it’s that time… Time to unveil the #1 song for this very same week in 1986. Drum roll please. It was one of the most unlikely #1 hit of the decade. It was serious song with an important message from an artist who doesn’t really get his due as one of the great american voices. It’s a song with one of my most familiar piano lines of the 80s Bruce Hornsby and the Range with the socially conscious hit The Way It Is. - บันเทิง
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Poll: What are your top 3 albums and singles of 1986?
ALBUMS
So - Peter Gabriel
Invisible Touch - Genesis
Back in the High Life - Steve Winwood
In 1986 there was only Black Celebration and some Dead or Alive that didn't suck. After Purple Rain it was all over with America. NIN saved the US a bit.. But apart from Reznor it's all shite.
Time to copy/paste from my all-time favorite songs list. Here are the songs that made my 'elite' list from 1986, as posted on billgraper . com:
"You Give Love A Bad Name"- Bon Jovi
"Amanda"- Boston
"Holding Back The Years"- Simply Red
"Kiss"- Prince & The Revolution
"The Next Time I Fall"- Peter Cetera & Amy Grant
"True Colors"- Cyndi Lauper
"If You Leave"- Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
"This Could Be The Night"- Loverboy
"Walk Like An Egyptian"- The Bangles
"A Different Corner"- Wham!
"Take My Breath Away"- Berlin
"At This Moment"- Billy Vera & The Beaters
"All I Need Is A Miracle"- Mike + The Mechanics
"That's What Friends Are For"- Dionne & Friends
"Greatest Love Of All"- Whitney Houston
"Tender Love"- Force M.D.'s
"All Cried Out"- Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force
"Sara"- Starship
"When I Think Of You"- Janet Jackson
"Love Walks In"- Van Halen
"Take Me Home Tonight"- Eddie Money
"Take Me Home"- Phil Collins
"Addicted To Love"- Robert Palmer
"Why Can't This Be Love"- Van Halen
"Conga"- Miami Sound Machine
"Something About You"- Level 42
Songs- Robert Palmer- Addicted To Love; Steve Winwood- Higher Love; Peter Gabriel- In Your Eyes.
Album- Steve Winwood- Back In The High Life; Springsteen- Live 1975-1985; Peter Gabriel- So.
Albums: Rush - Power Windows
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
Big Country - The Seer
(Still waiting for Adam to do a video on Big Country)
One thing The Bangles don’t get enough credit for is how talented they were with their instruments, they could really play!
This episode should be mandatory in every middle school so kids can learn that musicians once wrote, arranged and performed their own music on actual instruments.
It's too late. In 10 years AI will be on the top 40. We need a DeLorean to get out of here.
A good friend of mine works for Capitol Records. He calls today's top 40 music "cute tits, an ass and autotune." Regurgitated pablum.
Now it's all corporate song writers telling us what we want to hear - even if we don't want to hear it.
If you want an artist that was prolific at writing, arranging and performing then look no further than Neil Diamond. He got his start on Tin Pan Ally, in NYC. His story would be a very interesting one, too. Many songs made famous by others were written by Neil.
@@Britcarjunkie That's why our music, from the sixties to the eighties, is so popular
I don't think today's children will remember music and television like we 80s kids did. Great times! ❤
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Damn, you've got one of the best music channels on TH-cam. Brilliant content and delivery. I love that you quote your viewers comments to illustrate the era of the song. You need your own show on MTV (you know, back when MTV was actually about music??).
@Natasha I miss my MTV too when it was about the music and video's! Internet Killed MTV not to mention endless streaming services and Iphones and other digital media LOL! Do people even still watch tv?😇❤🙏👍
Bruce Hornsby's "The Way It Is" was incredibly different at the time among synth and pop songs. He had a sound that was so unique. I loved it so much.
2pac (deceased rapper) used this song for his rap "Changes". I feel both versions.
And it's timeless. Still today it hits you right in the heart, cause nothing has changed and That's just the way it is.
Yeah, it sounds like an elevator song. No matter what the lyrics says, is the more insipid, jingle like, sterile pieces, fragments of music. Is not even a song, it like an excercise, a warm up, the thing students play without any sentiment in music instutes in the background, without anyone's interest.
@@Alfredo78666 So, you prefer "Old Valley Road" then?
@Astro Sigh That's Just The Way It Is.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THAT SONG!
Nice to see Cinderella on the list. Seems like they're overlooked a lot. Totally underrated.
I was so hooked on the _Somebody Save Me_ video. Quintessential metal. Night Songs is a fantastic album. I only liked about 1/3 of the songs on Long Cold Winter but the hits were really special.
@@billkeithchannel I agree, my favorite Cinderella song. RIP Jeff LaBar.
My favourite Cinderella track is Bad Seamstress Blues (Fallin’ apart at the seams). I was right into glam metal as a tween, but i got into it right at the end of the era, and missed out on Cinderella who were just a much more low key act than Motley Crüe, Skid Row, or Guns N Roses. I knew a couple of their songs but never sprang for an album, and my friends weren’t really into that’s so there was nobody to trade a tape with. Years later I bought a best of Cinderella album on the iTunes Store and it blew me away,. Tom Keifer was an outstanding singer with a powerful and unique take on the glam metal vocal style.
Hoffs and the those side eyes and big hair was so perfect. So many good songs and videos from the 80s
The Bangles are one of the coolest things of the 80s. They were a powerpop group inspired by the sixties garage rock, (which became indie pop a decade later), but because of the big hair and the 80s production, not many people realized that. I strongly recommend Different Light and their first record, All Over The Place. Great songwriting and the beatle-esque vocal harmonies are flawless.
I love the Bangles cover of "Hazy Shade Of Winter". It was a brilliant idea to change the tempo and make it their own. I am a fan of Bonnie Raitt and saw her live with Jackson Browne, Bruce Hornsby and Shaun Colvin. Great concert!! My first son was born in 1985.
Yes me too. My favorite from them.
Great song!
I saw that concert..my friend got free tickets for that show. It was an awesome concert...all their various hit songs...everybody just jamming along....good time.
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The movie 'Less than Zero' used that song to great effect in the opening scene.
Love the Bangles! I covered Hazy Shade on guitar on my channel. They took S&G’s masterpiece and made it even better IMO
Every single song from the 80's triggers memories in me that i haven't thought about in over 30 years. Sadly our kids will never experience that
My fiancé left when I was 7 months pregnant in November of 1986. BonJovi’s “You Give Love a Bad Name” sadly fit at the time.
Turned out that was the best thing that could’ve happened to me. My son is now 34 raised by my husband of 28 years.
About Bruce Hornsby. I LOVE Bruce!! I remember nursing my son to Mandolin Rain at 3 a.m. the first night I became a mom. That was very special for me.
So happy everything worked out! U r a survivor! You r strong! You r WOMAN!
@@lauradecker4213 Thank you Laura! Those words mean a lot. It wasn’t cool back then to be pregnant and single like it is today. I always used to feel like an outcast.
Things do have a way of working out, and you realize it was meant to be. Someone or something better always comes along.
@@BillGraper You’re so right Bill! The trick is to just hang on long enough but it will happen!
Thank you sir for your kind comment.
@Anna Trail Anna you’re a riot girl! I just adore your attitude and outlook. Man I’m telling ya if we lived close we’d have a blast!
Funny how you talked about your Bonstang had a lot of bondo. My mustang did too! I remember barely (and I mean barely) backing into a cement light post in a Walmart type store... got out to see the damage and all the bondo on my left back end laud on the pavement. I was horrified. And crushed. I cried all the way home with a paper bag holding pieces of my gold colored bondo. Haha Those mustangs went thru the mill right? Your car sounds so beautiful! I love the two tone blue and the roses!! Can’t wait to get a ride in Bonstang!
I’ll bet you’re a gorgeous brunette and with the red highlights! Sounds very beautiful! I’m the only one if me and my sister that got the blond hair and green eyes. My sister and brother have dark brown hair and brown eyes. Got the green eyes from the grandmother who is part Scottish. I have SO many bloods that I always mark other on race.
My youngest son (he’s 24) is the one who got hurt in the Army and just got home a few weeks ago. My oldest is 34 and my daughter is 26.
My daughter is calling me so I’ll end here. But I’ll be back. 😘
I was so sick of hearing every one of these songs when I was 16, but 35 years later, I still remember all the lyrics and am actually enjoying hearing them.
I agree southilgurl2003.. The reason you were sick of these songs.. They were so overplayed on just about every station. Now, thankfully, not so much.
@@jonstreng7850 yup. So we appreciate hearing them!
Wow, I cant believe Notorious didnt make it higher at the end. I was a huge Duran Duran fan then and still love their music. Their new album 'Future Past' is really good.
I agree.
Agree & am still a huge fan! They're playing stronger than ever.
Serious is far and away one of their best songs. Amazing.
Yes I think Lizzy Borden was underrated. Notorious was the best song of 1986 other than Fates Warning - Prelude to Ruin , Possessed - Phantasm, Kreator - Pestilence, Hallows Eve - Lethal Tendencies, Slayer - Post Mortem , Sodom - Deathlike Silence ( which arguably was solely responsible for the entire Norwegian Black Metal movement) , Bathory - Enter the Eternal Fire, Juggernaut - Purgatory's Child, King Diamond - the Jonah , Dark Angel - Death is Certain Life is Not, Metallica - The Thing That Should Not Be, Touched - Night of the Hallowe'en , Stormwitch - Ravenlord , and Bladerunner - Eye of the Beholder. So many great hits from 1986 can't possibly name them all , but those aforementioned songs could be heard blasting from homes in every neighborhood in my 50 mile vicinity, as well as disturbing the peace roaring from 1000 car stereos . If your neighbors didn't like any of these hit classics just buy them their own copies. On whether absolutely everyone appreciated these masterpieces of music or not everyone did their best to expose people to the best music of the year. So if you were alive way back then and you don't remember these fantastic songs you can't complain that everyone didn't do their best to give you an opportunity to hear them
They are great in concert. Saw them about 5 years ago. Would love to see them again. They have such great energy! 🥂loved them then and now 💥
I can't think of a lot of bad music from this era. What a great time to hear the radio!
Good and bad are RELATIVE. ;)
@@TheWorldTeacher So true. I guess I'm thinking of only my opinion. I quit listening to music on the radio decades ago. In my shop I control the music and its' whatever era I want it to be. 1986, what a great time to be a teenager with few worries.
@@wingman5985, in the relative, material sphere in which we exist, beauty is not merely in the eye of the beholder, but that there is a scale of extreme ugliness on one end and perfect beauty on the other end of the scale.
Similarly, no two works of art, music, dance or theatre are equal in quality.
At the risk of starting a war of words, to illustrate the point with examples, the finest compositions by Arvo Pärt, Johann Sebastian Bach, Hector Berlioz, and Ludwig van Beethoven (especially his Piano Sonata nicknamed "Appassionata", the Missa Solemnis and final symphony), are at the top-end of the scale, while the utter garbage one often hears on the radio and liked by prepubescent girls and boys lies at the bottom-end of the same scale.
It was quite a time. Love your screename!
very true.
40 years ago music was about evoking an emotion or feel. Today it's about evoking an attitude.
I am a true 80’s child born in 1969 so I was a pure teenager in the 80’s. My kids challenged me to a trivia of 80’s music because they grew up with it and thought they knew. It didn’t go well for them. I said you do know when I grew up and I play guitar so I tried to copy everything. They didn’t listen. It was quite sad. Now they know. LMAO!
I played Trivia Pursuit with my ex’s family when we were dating. It was the 80’s edition and I kicked arse!
I took was a teen in the 80’s
🤣 can’t believe they thought they could beat you! 🤣
Wang Chung did an excellent job scoring the brilliant film To Live & Die In LA . A must see movie & must hear soundtrack.
I love that soundtrack!
I love that song from them "To Live And Die In L.A."
Fantastic film, and a fantastic soundtrack - and I have copies of both!
I had the honor of seeing Wang Chung on the lost 80s tour 2 years ago. They had great energy when they played!
Good guys. Truly. Thanks Ian.
Way underrated group -I loved them. First heard "Dance Hall Days" on the radio, like 1984, and they had a real different groove. So cool and innovative....
@@johnathandavis3693 I agree!
I’m jealous. Their 1986 album “Mosaic” was one of the first albums I ever bought and I still listen to it regularly to this very day.
@@johnathandavis3693 Is it strange that Dance Hall Days sounds very eerily as a prototype to Men Without Hats The Safety Dance which is also a song that released in 1982? The same year Dance Hall Days came out?
I was a huge Bangles fan when I was a kid. I drove my parents crazy singing along with that song each time it came on the radio. I loved The Bangles follow-up album Everything as well, which had the hits "In Your Room" and "Eternal Flame." I remember being in shock when the group broke up after that album.
I was shocked as well. They were so great together.
@Janet ...I ws lucky enough to get to see one of of the last concerts before the broke up in 89, it was in Dallas in July ..
I love their song "Hazy Shade Of Winter".
Susanna Hoffs starred in a movie directed by her Mom.
I’m going to say it’s called The Allnighter.
I think she thought she had a good shot at being the Belinda Carlisle of the Bangles.
I really hate that I missed them at a small town music festival about 9 years ago. I can't remember if I found out about it after or before it.
I 🎓 graduated hs in 1984! So thankful I'm a GEN X'ER and was alive to see and hear the great Freddie Mercury, Steve Perry and Lou Gramm in their PRIME! Thankfully Steve & Lou are still with us at the making of this video December 15,2021. 1990 and the Grunge movement killed music....Steve Jobs and his new Apple 🍎 iPhone killed the music industry ~ musicians get NOTHING for downloads of their music.Computer tech and auto tune ruined writers and singers.I don't like my bands like KISS using backing tracks in live concert venues.Saying " see you later" to Freddie Mercury, Michael Jackson and Eddie Van Halen was tough.
Agree with your assessment Rhonda. Thanks for your thoughtful examination.
Excellent analysis to the downfall of the music industry. I especially agree with your statement that 1990 and the grunge movement killed music. I would also add rap/hip hop as another genre which was responsible for hurting the music industry.
Perfect statement, Grunge ruined good music alongside with Hip Hop and Teen pop
@@michaelcrawford5083 I agree. You had the awful grunge movement to start off the 90s. Then, you had the manufactured, untalented teen-pop of the mid-to-late 90s. Finally, you had the awful rap/hip hop throughout the 90s.
I agree with your statement, except grunge. Grunge started to take us in a better place. .only at first. I found grunge, as silly as it may seem, more honest than alot of what the hard rock and metal scene was becoming. Sad, within 10 years time from 91-92, teen pop, hip hop, and even pop-country played their parts as well. And even if grunge in all its honesty, per my assessment, left a big void that's more cliche than good. All other stuff you added is dead on accurate. THANK YOU Professor of Rock for what you're doing! Such a great job, don't stop man!
This was a true jump back in time. I recorded this week’s American Top 40 from the radio in my cassette player. Of course not all the songs, but the ones I liked and I remember this line up of the top 10. I also had a notebook full with the lists I diligently wrote. That was my weekly ritual when I was 14!
I used to record the US top 10 on paper through 84 and 85 here in Australia also at age 14. Then the local station that aired it decided to stop! I was devastated and even wrote a letter to the station but they didn’t budge and that was the end of that.
There is a mashup of "Hip to Be Square" and "Enter Sandman" on TH-cam, worth checking out; the guy's name who posted it is Bill McClintock. Too bad Huey can't hear music these days; he'd think it's hilarious!
I also agree that The Bangles are an underappreciated band; they have great harmonies. My favorite is "Eternal Flame"... Susanna's voice is so beautiful on that song.
The Stones ‘Gimme Shelter’ and Rick James ‘Give it to Me Baby’ mash up is great on that channel!
@@girthyguitarist7586 I'll have to check that out!
Bill McClintock nails everything he touches. I personally love his Round and Round the Grapevine. Seamless!
lol 😆 that mash-up has me in stitches always! 🤣
I love mashups! I wanna make some!
Bon Jovi " was the Rock band for my Formative years!!!!! And I still go back in my mind every single time I hear these songs 🎵!!!!!!!" Thanks so much for the awesome videos!!!! God bless you all today 🙏 Shalom
Walk like an Egyptian should always be followed my Steve Martin's "King Tut" ;-)
Yes, I watched Pee Wee's Playhouse on Saturday mornings when I was an older teenager. My grandmother watched it with me sometimes too! She was a pretty hip ol' gal...she loved music videos a lot! Her favorite was Wild Wild West by Escape Club!
Aww! Such a sweet memory to share. My abuela liked "Rock The Dinosaur" by Was (Not Was) and then a few years later she liked "The Humpty Dance"...she had no idea what the song was about, she just loved the beat. Lol 😆
@@triphophoney2981 We LOVED Rock the Dinosaur too! And if yours was like mine...that little grandma dance! One that you know got her some attention around the USO back in the day when she could really cut a rug! Lol!
Escape Club's "I'll be There" is a great song
@@VideoSaySo And remember when Pee Wee lost his Play House in 1991 after appearing at a movie house in his birthday suit LOL which sent him to the jailhouse! It wouldn't be until 2016 before we'd finally see Pee Wee Herman return in Pee Wee's Big Holiday!🤔
@@SuperMarioBrosIII I think that was the same year that the TV show Murphy Brown got slammed and pretty much cancelled because the main character had a baby out of wedlock. My oh my how things have changed!
I graduated high school in the summer of '86. I was a freshman in college this week in '86. Such a great time. Bon Jovi had a concert at our university and some of the footage in the "Dead or Alive" video is of that concert.
I didn’t realize that Nobody’s Fool came out in ‘86. I didn’t discover them until my senior year of high school in ‘89 or ‘90. That song is one of my favorites to come out of the hair metal era.
Honestly, these year-in-music episodes would make great college courses... Hell I took a philosophy class on The Sopranos and morality. Incredible work Professor 🙌
A bit of trivia for 'Next Time I Fall': Amy Grant got the call to do the duet and said, "I thought a nuclear bomb had gone off and wiped out all the other women on Earth" but when she arrived at the studio, well, she had a bad head cold. Between takes, she was plied with lots of hot tea to keep her voice going. If you listen closely, Peter is carrying her (which is sweet on his part). Flash forward many months later and Amy, in passing, mentioned to her then-husband, "Whatever happened to that little song I recorded with Peter Cetera?" Gary gave her a crazy look and replied, "It went to number one." The song will always have a special place in my heart--right behind 'Glory of Love'.
I feel exactly the same. Love that song. I clearly remember the day (Saturday of course) i watched it enter the Top20, fell in love with it (and started a crush on Amy.... shocking...) immediately. That TV program was to me what the MTV was to Americans in the 80's, it was like my "church", never missed one program through the whole 80's.
I graduated from senior high school after I sat for my GCE A-level examination in November 1986. I spent my weekend each week then, tuning in to Casey Kasem’s Top 40 countdown on a cable radio station. 1986 was a fantastic year for pop/rock radio music and movies. It’s a special year I still have fond memories of. All I did was listening to the radio a lot, and do my homework. It was such a carefree time, well almost (if you don’t count the inexorable problems that puberty brings).
Carefree is correct. What a time indeed. Thanks for watching!
Wow this episode really spoke to me. Eternal Flame (and Whiter Shade of Pale) were such awesome Bangle songs but when you flashed up Suzanna Hoffs solo album it hurt my heart. LOVED that whole album but it was the time of New Kids on the Block and my friends thought me a dork for still listening to Hoffs music. But what REALLY got to me was Carly Simon's coming around again. My parents divorced at 2 and in 1986 I was in the 5th grade and rented Heartburn with my Mom. That movie that song somehow opened my heart to why people divorce and that what happened wasn't my fault. The final scene of Meryl singing Itsy Bitsy Spider which fades into Coming Around Again was like a catharsis for me. I've never watched the movie again even though for nearly a decade I told people it was my favorite movie because the memory of sadness but forgiveness I felt that day watching it I don't want to ruin with my own failed relationship history. Of course at the time I didn't understand why I was so in love with that song and that movie but I understand now. The rare times I hear the song it crumbles my walls and makes me cry. Thank you for including it as a near miss.
22:00. "The Way It Is" has such a powerful melody that I didn't hear and understand the lyrics for 30 years.
Bon Jovi and Duran Duran were both plastered all over my little sister’s room. At the time, I was just getting into Metallica and the only music we could both agree upon was the Slippery When Wet album.
Love your work, but I have one nit to pick. "Stand by Me" really should get an asterisk because it was a re-release. I imagine "Bohemian Rhapsody", by this logic, is probably the #1 song for some week in 1991.
I remember getting into my brothers 45s and listening until he got home and yelled at me. That’s what made me love 80s music and I always have.
I met my future husband in March of 86. Married two years later and we are still together. It was a great year in music and for us.
Thanks for another great video Professor!
Professor this Was very enjoyable episode.
I definitely agree with you about Susan Hoffman and her eyes in that video I think we and a lot of other people have the same feeling lol.
Cinderella is definitely a Underrated band in it’s time and I was very pleased to see them make the top 10 in the updated version..
I hope you do more videos like this one Professor 🎩👓🤘
Feel free to correct me, but ISTR that she was on Pop-Up Video and said that this moment came from when she made eye contact with three people in the audience while filming. That's why she looks back and forth the way she does. Definitely an iconic moment regardless.
Meh I never liked Cinderella because of his voice, they weren't bad I just didn't enjoy listening to their stuff.
Same with me as a kid on that Susanna Hoffs moment… never realized that was so universal! Hahahahah
OMG those eyes. I think that is an instant-crush moment.
Love these revisits of rock era years. 86 was a great year for music. I have to say Cinderella is the most underrated "hair band" era's group! Can't wait for next one professor to see how these songs stood the test of time.
Will do. Rock on! Love Cinderella.
@Anna Trail doing well, absolutely love stand by me soundtrack and the movie really hit home on growing up. Hope you have a great holiday, no snow here at the moment
Cinderella while a "Hair Band" had a great blues type or undertone. Long Cold Winter and Bad Seamstress Blues(Falling Apart at the Seams) are good examples. Great White as well.
@@TheIroncitykid coming home and shelter me are my favs and great whites rock me are fantastic blues roots
@Tom Snoodle I don't know if they still tour but I would love to see them again. Rock and Roll hall of fame to me
Stand by me - what a great song and great memory. My dad had a vinyl collection, when I was about 6 or 7 I was obsessed with the Elvis records and the Drifters Saturday night at the Movies. I credit both with my musical education and my love of music. Ben E King's voice always reminds me of my dad's record collection, he passed away in 1998, so it's great to hear. Actually in tears as I write this. Thanks for the memory. It's why you do what do, I appreciate it.
Bruce Hornsby was writing for Huey Lewis before he did his own stuff. I remember seeing Bruce early 1986 before this album released doing a free live show on a side street/ alleyway in Grand Rapids during our annual festival of the arts. He hit it huge not long thereafter. Fun to have seen him with maybe 100 people watching standing in the closed public street...
Ben E. King had some classics, didn't he?!
Professor of Rock, thank you for going back and getting that history behind the stories.
And some of these songs I had forgotten, like that Greg Abbott one.
I continue to love the content on this channel.
You bet! Hope you are well my friend. Have a happy holiday. You're one of my favorite people I've met this year.
I love these Redux episodes -- it is like a time capsule. When you say back in this week in 1986 - it would be my birthday week and just turned 15 and a sophomore in high school. It like you dropped me right in my small town in WV wearing my Guess jeans that I pegged and wearing my flats and teasing my hair. Thank you for the trip down memory lane.
You get serious props for pointing out one of the sexiest moments in music video history with Susanna 's 3 look moment. The " moment " you became a MAN. LOL🤣👏Thanks for sharing this awesome time in music. Wang Chung. Bon Jovi. Bangles. All had iconic hits! We will never forget. WOW!!!!!!
I totally imagine that Greg Abbott dude singing "One, you cut a hole in a box. Two, you put your junk in the box .."
You're such a great storyteller, thank you! Keep up the good work!
I fell in love with Bon Jovi’s music when I heard their song Runaway on a video show out of Detroit called The Beat with Doug Podel as the host. I got to see Bon Jovi live in 89 in Detroit and their open ring act was Skid Row. The Wang Chung song I grew to hate because it got too much air play on Detroit radio which was the closest stations we could get on fm.
So happy to see Toto's song up there! I swear I'll be over you is just an incredible love song and Steve Lukather on Vocals is so awesome just like when he was on Rosanna! Crazy how time changes things up!
"You either love it, or you're lying about it"... Brilliant, never heard that one before.
"Coming Around Again" with "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" in Carly Simon's Martha's Vineyard concert is just excellent.
This is one of my favorite memorable times. I hear Gregory Abbott's "Shake You Down" all the time because I play my customized 1986-1987 playlist.
Meanwhile, I was also increasing my GI Joe and M.A.S.K. toys collecting, confused about the direction of Transformers, and looking forward to getting Lazer Tag for Christmas.
The first time I heard The Bangles was the song Going Down to Liverpool with Leonard Nimoy in the video. They were cool, a little folksy and beautiful!
We would cover I’ll Be Alright Without You in the local bars with three-part harmony. The vocals will either make or break that song.
I’m glad 80s metal is starting to make a resurgence!
@R you don't know.......The were in the Cyndi Lauper Video for Goonies R Good Enough and they also Had a Song on the Goonies soundtrack ...
Hoffs is also in Austin Powers. She plays Susie Shaggable, if I remember correctly.
I almost choked on my coffee when you said that part about Susanna Hoffs. So true!! The shimmery bikinis in the video were another magical part for my brother and I back then. Susanna still looked amazing when she inducted the Zombies into the RRHOF. I love these trips down memory lane. Great stuff.
I was 15 in ‘86. In some weird way, that year was a hugely impressionable one. Also, the Susanna Hoffs comment is right on.
Wow! What a top 10. We was truly blessed in the 80s.
Notorious is a personal favourite of mine.
I love the bangles. Who didn't have a crush on miss hoffs back then.😍
Wang Chungs "everybody have fun tonight" is a banger.
Wasn't the biggest fan of bon Jovi, but I like some of their songs. I was a much bigger fan of def leppard, motley crue, and whitesnake.
Great movies from that year. I loved stand by me. American tail was good too. I remember my mum buying that for my sister when it released.
And the three amigos. Man, super funny. Absolute classic.
Great work professor. 🤟
Thanks my friend!
*"American tail was good too."*
Funny you should mention that.... While i liked the movie, it will always be the *song* that i'll love...
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*Somewhere Out There* by Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram (R.I.P.), will always be *THE best song ever created for an animation movie* . Loved the song since it entered the Top20, still have the 7" single
@@conan5885 yeah, I still remember that song well. Haven't heard it in many years though. Next time American tail is on television I'll watch it.
Fun fact: The Bangles were one of the bands associated with the Paisley Underground in the early/mid 1980s. The band, Opal, was part of that movement, which morphed into Mazzy Star in the 1990s.
Original Opal vocalist Kendra Smith from The Dream Syndicate replaced by Hope Sandoval. Happy Nightmare Baby is a great album.
I love their first ep, released by faulty records. Ladies and Gentlemen... The Bangles is pure sixties garage rock fun.
I believe Prince wrote Manic Monday
Prince helped them immensely! Manic Monday written by Prince
@@dallisb1047 Yes, Prince and Cyndi Lauper loved their music, even before they were a major act. And he wrote Manic Monday just for them.
My favorite comment was when you said 'That's when I became a man"! I was newly married that year but when Suzanna Hoffs did that eye roll I felt like I had become a man again! She was the reason I loved the Bangles so much. Man...the 80s...sure do miss those glory days!
It's sooo true. She's a very beautiful woman.
It's interesting that you have Bon Jovi and Cinderella in the same countdown because I have a kind of funny story involving them. When Bon Jovi released 7800° Fahrenheit, I became a huge Bon Jovi fan and knew they were going to be big. Later on, Cinderella released Night Songs and I became a big Cinderella fan. When David Lee Roth went out on his Eat 'Em And Smile tour, he had Cinderella opening for him. At that time, they had only released Shake Me and most people weren't even paying attention to the fact that they were on stage. When David Lee Roth came on stage, the audience suddenly realized there was a concert going on and started getting into it. It ended up being a great show and I felt bad for Cinderella because people weren't really giving them any respect. Fast forward a couple of years and Bon Jovi was on their Slippery When Wet tour. They had Cinderella as the opening act and I was really excited because I was going to get to see both of them on the same night! The place was packed and Cinderella had gotten much more popular by then and everyone was glued to the stage while they played. After their set was over, half of the crowd left so it became obvious to me that the crowd was mostly there to see Cinderella, which I thought was an interesting switch from the first time I saw them!
The year my wife was born. Great year.
Very cool.
The Bangles are under-rated.
Agree!
Right!! To me better than gogos more top singles.
"Walk Like an Egyptian" memory: Two of my best friends from HS & I went to a studio near the mall where you could pick your song and record your own video - how fun is that? My mom still has that VHS tape of us somewhere...in our costumes made of bedsheets and "Egyptian" makeup!😆
Coming Around Again, Emotion In Motion and I’ll Be Over You are so underrated. I never get tired listening to these.
I find it shocking that Notorious is not on the top 5. How did some of these other songs beat it in overall streams?
I think Notorious was bigger on MTV than on the radio and MTV at the time still maybe had a bigger influence on people's perceptions.
Excellent countdown. Towards the end of 1986 the pop charts were still going strong with great songs.
Boy, have things CHANGED since then. :(
It was a great time to listen to the radio. Thanks Stephen!
You can say that again!
@@TheWorldTeacher I think 1987 was the last truly great music year. While there was still good quality music in 1988 and 1989, those years weren't as strong. Then, came the 1990s and the quality of music and the music industry spiraled downward and never recovered.
@@stephenhanft1226, in the relative, material sphere in which we exist, beauty is not merely in the eye of the beholder, but that there is a scale of extreme ugliness on one end and perfect beauty on the other end of the scale.
Similarly, no two works of art, music, dance or theatre are equal in quality.
At the risk of starting a war of words, to illustrate the point with examples, the finest compositions by Arvo Pärt, Johann Sebastian Bach, Hector Berlioz, and Ludwig van Beethoven (especially his Piano Sonata nicknamed "Appassionata", the Missa Solemnis and final symphony), are at the top-end of the scale, while the utter garbage one often hears on the radio and liked by prepubescent girls and boys lies at the bottom-end of the same scale.
Shake You Down is the ultimate 80s soft rock sound..timeless.
Cinderella was a phenomenal live band, saw them several times. Great classic rock sound
I really miss being young with such great music, movies, cartoons, etc.. The music today is like a soundtrack to a bad movie.
I love Billy Idol’s Whiplash Smile album! Very 80s with more of a synth sound.
Shake You Down, in my opinion, is one of the sexiest tunes ever. Great vocals, smooth soul... love it!
That look from Susanna Hoffs is legendary! I think every boy from that time remembers that look! I know I sure do!
Walk Like an Egyptian is such a bizarre yet cool song. The other week I heard it being played in supermarket, of all places, and more recently I discovered an extended version of the song that's around 5 minutes and 51 seconds long.
Thinking back to the music video, that one shot of Susanna Hoffs moving her eyes left and right is honestly haunting.
"Walk Like an Egyptian"--the song that was the beginning of the end for the Bangles. Debbi Peterson, their second lead singer and drummer, was not allowed to play the drums or sing a verse on it by the producers, being reduced to miming the whistle and playing a tambourine on the video while a drum machine did the drumming. She was reportedly deeply hurt by this as well as by the rest of the band not standing up for her.
Didn't know this; that's awful. Have loved the Bangles since I was a kid and need to go back and read up on them.
Had a crush on all four especially guitarist Vicki Peterson.
The music industry has changed dramatically, mostly to increase profits but not to improve music.
What a year that was, in life & music 🎵🎶
Walk like an Egyptian was the 1st music video I ever saw. I was 6 years old and it blew my little mind. It was a Saturday morning. I remember my babysitter asking my sister and I if we were allowed to watch MTV. We didn't know what MTV was so we said yes. I asked my mom later that day and her response was. Why not it's just music. My life changed from that day on...
"What happened to music"?
Talent no longer became a requirement, as the industry started producing it's own plastic versions.
Music became more about the outside rather than the substance.
And it shows by how many people ask this question.
The frightening thing is why the quest is still being asked and you haven't figured it out for yourselves.
It only shows.. the industry was right all along.
While you are correct, he (and others) have figured it out and he's not actually asking the question. It's more of a rhetorical question/statement being used as the title for this series. With the music in the video being used as examples of how good it was. :-)
Even as a little girl, I always thought The Bangles were by far the best girl group from the 80s. Suzanna Hoffs's voice is superior. And we all were obsessed with the video 🤣
And I'll never be able to think of Bruce Hornsby's The Way It Is without thinking of my father. As a black man who grew up in during the Civil Rights Era, my dad really loved this song. The lyrics resonated with him very deeply, and of course since I was a piano student Bruce's playing was something he wanted in my ear as often as possible.
Thanks for sharing Allison. Love your comment.
Same with me as a kid on that Susanna Hoffs moment… never realized that was so universal! Hahahahah
Ah, Bon Jovi! Being from NJ, they are one of the few things that we can be proud about lol! My grandmother worked at our local hospital in the 80s and 90s. The whole hospital was buzzing one day and she found out it was because Jon was in the hospital visiting his uncle. She got to see him and everyone said he was a really nice guy. Huey Lewis and the News are one of my all time favorite 80s bands. I was little but I remember dancing around like a goofball when their music came on. Walk like an Egyptian was played at my mom and stepdad's wedding. The DJ had a sphinx mask and her best friend put it on. There is video of her dancing around with that on.
Bon Jovi is like the old school version of Nickelback, lol. Everybody wants to hate on them, but they start singing along after a while. Peace and love y'all 🤟
I think the big difference is I don't get sick of Bon Jovi's songs. LOL! The only Nickelback song I can listen to over & over endlessly is "How You Remind Me." It's weird, because I never get sick of hearing songs. I don't know why it's different with them.
Nicklecrack isn't even in the same league as Bon Jovi. Not even close.
Sorry to spark an argument, just saying they at one time or another they we're both hated on. Peace and love y'all 🤟
NickelBLAND.
Hands down the BEST channel on TH-cam! I can’t get enough Professor of Rock!!!
I literally said I like the way Susanna Hoffs moves her eyes and then you said it right after me. Classic!
It's too bad they don't make music like this anymore. 80s music was and still is the best. A lot of the problem is formulaic song writing and autotune making artists who aren't as talented sound so much better than they really are. I have to agree with you about Susanna Hoffs, she was gorgeous then and still is. The Bangles are underrated.
Man 35 years ago. Makes me feel old. Freshman in high school.
"In Your Eyes" is a quintessential '86 single.
1986 was the best year ever. I will fight anyone on this. Such a great year for music and pop culture.
Billy Idol is the '80s. I still listen to him today, my jukebox is full of Billy Idol.
I just can't understand why this channel isnt well above the million sub mark.
When you bring up Cinderella they are by far my favorite band it's just a shame that they didn't get more recognition musicians that they really were I've always thought if they had came along 10 or 15 years earlier they would be Legends right up there with the best I remember seeing them bon Jovi and poison in 88 and I had never heard of them and they completely stole the show
Susanna Hoffs - Walk Like An Egyptian "The sexiest moment in music history..."
I 1000% agree!! 😁
So many great songs in this video from the great music year 1986. I moved to Las Vegas back in 1986. The University of Nevada Las Vegas Runnin' Rebels was a basketball powerhouse back in those days, led by head coach Jerry Tarkanian! They made it to the NCAA Final Four that year. Someone parodied The Bangles' Walk Like an Egyptian in honor of the Rebels. They called it Walk Like a Tarkanian. It was so great!
Big duran duran fan, and when Andy Taylor left I was bummed, but his great American Anthem song take it easy reminds me of a duran duran song!!! I toi fell n love with susanna hoffs... think most boys did lol.....keep up great work Adam
I joined the Navy in October of 86. So that was a very memorable year after graduating high school in 1985.
I knew it would be Bon Jovi, it was their summer, their year, every song was a banger and we crusised and rocked to it every weekend. My Dad built a house for a guy who worked at the radio station, he told him how much I loved Bon Jovi and I got free tickets to see them in DC. I didn't know a single person on that bus but still had the time of my life. It was my first real rock concert and man did they deliver. It's great to see Cinderella make the list, they were underrated, Nobody's Fool was one of my faves by them. Rock was taking over and I loved every minute.
I was happy to see Cinderella move that far up into the countdown. As I recall, wasn't their Long Cold Winter album recorded the same time and studios as Bon Jovi's New Jersey? Today I ride a motorcycle. Songs from both albums and others from all genres make up my playlist for long motocycle trips. Especially LCW. Also, in the Army, working at Abrams tank shop, LCW was blasted loud n proud. That was 2009/10. Thx Tom, and everyone else making THAT album.
My memory of the Bangels was seeing them at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. My friends and I had gotten there early had a tailgate barbecue before the show and then went in. It was standing only so of course everyone was pressed as close to to the stage as possible. It wasn't exactly comfortable but it was totally unforgettable.
watching these makes me feel fortunate for being a kid in the 80s...it was the perfect meeting point of the past and what was to come...what a decade it was
Bon Jovi and Cinderella got me through some very tough times.❤❤❤
I heard "You Give Love a Bad Name" on the radio in late summer of '86 and as school started I told my friends that Bon Jovi was going to be huge. I was familiar with a few earlier Bon Jovi songs and liked their work, but I thought they knocked it out of the park with this one. I was saddened that the single didn't really take off of the radio. It was too good to be ignored, but it only got average to low air play. Then, "Livin' on a Prayer" was released and it exploded. That seemed to pave the way for "You Give Love a Bad Name" which finally started to get the air play that it deserved and it became a big hit.
I second what you just wrote. I remember it that way as well. I bought "Slippery when wet" the week it came out only because I liked the pun on the album cover and wanted to expand my cassette collection. I loved it right away and just knew it would be huge. Surprisingly it took a while. And by the time everyone else caught up to it, I think I had lost a little interest...lol.
This really took me back. I loved top 40 music back then. Not so much now.
The moment you said, "third verse" of Walk Like an Egyptian, I knew exactly what you were going to say! That was the day I became a Bangles fan!
That Cherry 7UP ad with baby Matt LeBlanc... I was only 11 for the week you're talking about, but man, I miss the 80s.