....PROF., with these LOADED questions! ...ha-HAA!! ....I would-would-WOULD say "Careless Whisper", but TECHNICALLY it was Oct., 1984, so.... I'll say, Paul Young's "Everytime You Go Away" for the greatest tune (in terms of Worldwide popularity)....The ALBUM, is Tears For Fears' "Songs For The Big Chair"....It is ART, personified....
Albums 1985: Howard Jones- Dream Into Action; Bryan Adams- Reckless; Heart- Heart(8th album); Dire Straits- Brothers In Arms; Tears For Fears- Songs From The Big Chair. Songs 1985: Dire Straits- Money For Nothing; Huey Lewis/News- The Power Of Love; Phil Collins- Sussudio; Eurythmics- Would I Lie To You?; Howard Jones-Things Can Only Get Better; Run To You- Bryan Adams.
85 was an awesome year. I was 10 years old and lived in a little town of about 900 people. Back then even a town that small had a drive-in theater, and we went to Back to the Future. We brought our own popcorn in a big paper bag and a pitcher of Coolaid with enough plastic cups for the family. We didn't have much money back then, and my mom would always make a couple of us kids hide under a blanket in the back of the car so it wouldn't "cost as much." We would lay there as motionless as possible, scared to death we'd get caught. It wasn't until we were adults that she told us they charged by the car load, not by the person; she'd been messing with us the whole time! Every summer we'd make it to the drive-in a time or two, and it reamains one of my most charished memories.
Sting singing "I want my MTV" to the melody of "Don't Stand So Close to Me" on "Money for Nothing" actually ended up getting him a songwriting credit on it, and therefore a cut of the profits. Yeah, that guy ain't dumb.
Do the records show whether Sting got a blister on his little finger? ... This may be apocryphal, but AFAIK that recording was done by pure chance as Sting and Queen were both in NY at the same time and in the same building. A chance meeting and ... voilà. If this is true, Sting had no time to prep and this was entirely freeform. Interestingly, it had never occurred to me that the overall tune was "don't stand so close to me". Thanks, that's very fun!
I know what happened to music. Record companies began to be run by bean counters, and music started being created by producers rather than artists. It's absolutely astounding to me that we have recording Stars who can't carry a tune, who don't write their own songs, and who are practitioners of the most banal orthodoxies. Music has become audio product, it is simply no longer art
That's what's on commercial radio. Real music still exists, but not on the airwaves. This applies to architecutre, painting, cooking, and all other art forms. Corporatism has coopted human expression to make bank.
@@wordup897 So what? All you are saying is popular music has become a fetishistic pursuit instead of a broad, unifying force in popular culture. Don't you still morn the loss of the widespread pursuit of innovation, excellence and quality?
@@wordup897 I agree. Today you have to look for good music, while in the past good music found you. You just had to turn on the radio and flick through channels and easily find great music that you wanted to blast and sing along, Today, radio stations stick to formulaic and boring pop music that all sounds very much the same, like Justin Bieber, Ed Sheeran, Arian Grande, etc.
@@Xman156 I haven't listened to commercial radio in about 15 years. The music became so bad, redundant and the ads and talk took about 40pc of the time, radio became more annoying than anything else. So far this is a stalled century culturally speaking, but as you know prior to 2000 there was a lot of fantastic and diverse music on the airwaves. Many people will say "you're just getting old / every generation says that," but in reality a lot of young people are very aware that today's music scene cannot hold a candle to the 60s - 90s. I grew up in Chicago and we had a phenomenal station called WXRT that was all over the place, from punk to jazz, and they went deep into albums, not just the singles, and the DJs knew their stuff. The station got bought ca 2005 and quickly became just a simulacra of the original format - what I labelled 'housewife alternative' at the time haha.
I'll never understand why Billy Joel seems to have been continually singled out for catching heat. He's a brilliant songwriter with a powerful, versatile voice, and he was one of those rare artists who captured my imagination deeply. He's one of the greats and the critics can go deal with it.
Amen. I have seen Billy Joel 3 times in concert and every time was a blast. The man can command a stadium, arena, or bar lounge. He's written so many different songs -- he's got soul, rock, pop, doo wop, etc. He's freely admitted his not so great moments (which fans don't agree with of course) and where he shamelessly borrowed from other artists, but for me you can't deny his brilliance. When you get to the bridge of You're Only Human - "You've been keeping to yourself these days cause you're thinking everything's gone wrong. Sometimes you just want to lay down and die, that emotion can be so strong." That is reality of depression. But he decided to make it an uplifting song. "But hold on Till that old second wind comes along." The video is great too. Billy playing Piano Man on the harmonica... The other new song on his Greatest Hits Volume 1& 2 album released in 1985 was The Night is Still Young. I was 14, didn't know a damn thing about sex, but I loved the song more than You're Only Human. Keep the faith and don't take shit from nobody.
Back then, critics were often hostile to artists who were super popular and who did mainstream Pop music. I guess they felt it was too safe or it was corporate rock (which meant they were sell outs). It’s all bullshit though. Guys like Phil Collins, Bryan Adams and Billy Joel knew what ppl wanted to hear and gave it to them in spades while still being true to themselves. They also were making really intelligent & well crafted albums that will be classics for all time.
1985 will always be known as the year of Live Aid. Everyone who performed there got a bump in record sales. You should do a show dedicated to Live Aid and the number of rock and roll hall of famers.
Honestly, Live Aid was something that, as I watched it that day, I thought "what's the big deal?" but now look back on it with the thought "damn...why aren't there live global musical events like that today? We have the technology to do it better than it was done in 1985, but we just don't have anything like that now. Why?" And I get a bit misty when I go back and watch the clips on the Live Aid RUclips channel. Queen's performance was, obviously, legendary. But so many performances were great, and being a New Waver, I really enjoyed Nik Kershaw, Sting, Elvis Costello, and Howard Jones, among others, on the Wembley stage.
I remember the first time I heard "Shout", I was pulling out of my driveway and my girl friend was belting the song out into my ear as she was behind me on my motorcycle. Every time I hear the song I remember her exuberance and the day we had riding was an awesome beautiful day.
We used to sleep outside in the yard all summer in the 80s. One night me and 2 friends were coming back from roaming the neighborhood at 2:00 am and noticed 3 of our friends were sleeping in my next door neighbors front yard. So we hopped the fence and unplugged their radio that was playing quietly. I snuck over and turned the volume up full blast and started running while Chuck plugged it back into the outlet. Just as we hit the ground on my side of the fence, SHOUT! SHOUT! LET IT ALL OUT! echoed through the silence of the night. After they got it shut down all you could here was us laughing our asses off. Good times.
1985 was bitter sweet for me. Sweet for music but bitter losing a good friend at a young age. Thank goodness the music pulls you through the bitter passages in life.
Me too…. The 1980’s were the worst of times…. The best of times for me. Horror Dark Night of the Soul…. Grand Life revelations… yes, and dealing with death for the first time in my life. I do not think I would have made it without the Grace of God and waking up each morning to the wild, unique back drop of NYC… MTV… Fashion… movies of the 1980’s
1985 was a great year for music. I often go back to those songs. Must include "Kyrie," "Never Surrender," "King For a Day," "Lay Your Hands On Me" (Thompson Twins, Bon Jovi did their own song in 1989), "Take On Me," and "The Sun Always Shines on TV," "The Search is Over" just to name a few of my favorites from that time.
1985 was MY year of MTV. My son was born that summer and I had the 4am bottle feeding. I remember so many of these hits from their videos falling asleep on the couch with my son in my arms…
I remember going to the drive in to see Back to the Future with my pregnant wife. I also recall driving home from the hospital after my daughter was born jamming to Money for Nothing. This entire list is truly the soundtrack of my young adult life. Great music and memories . thanks
I saw Top Gun at the drive-in in Austin, TX. Although crappy by today's standards, the movie was magnificent on that big screen! We must be about the same age...I had my three children in the 70s, 80s and 90s,,,one for each decade LOL
Bryan Adams has always been one of my favs since I was a youngster growing up in the 80’s. Summer of ‘69 has been and always will be my favorite song of all time. It almost brings a tear to my eye when I hear it now because it reminds me of how great those days were, especially now how we’re living in such a shitty time in history
"Shout" was my first favorite song as a 5 year old. Music has always been my world. 1985 was the year that it all really started for me on my musical journey. Couldn't have timed that better if I tried.
I remember reading a magazine article and the guy who wrote it stated that his daughter was swaying and singing along to Shout while he was watching the music video. It was such a cute moment.
In 1985, I was 21-22 yrs old. What an awesome time to dance, skate, party, or just kick back and listen- to great music! Nice seeing Kool & The Gang getting some props...
I must say 1983-1986 was the true height of 80's culture. 1984 & 1985 being the heart of the decade. After 1987, (1988 & 1989), it felt like a transitional era. Still 80's but, yeah.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 I can see why you'd say that. For me, it's 1983, 1985, and then 1984. Music-wise, anyway. As far as general life, I always say that "I haven't enjoyed anything since 1985," ha.
I am thoroughly convinced that 1985 was the high-water mark for western pop culture, music, television, movies etc... In addition to everything you mentioned in the intro and the ten classic songs on this list, '85 also gave us Cherry Coke, MacGyver, the Nintendo NES, the Casio SK-1 keyboard and so much more...
It truly was. It was my first official year as an adult. I had graduated from Nursing school and moved from a small town in N Central Texas to New Orleans. I packed everything I could fit into my Dodge Colt compact car and embarked on the twelve hour drive. I was carrying a bruised, but not broken heart, a love for SE Louisiana, and clear eyed dreams for finding love, and building a family. Many of these songs serenaded me on the cheap speakers of that car. To this day hearing Lionel Richie’s Stuck on You gives me a tiny bit of melancholy, it must of played once an hour during that drive.
Have to say, this video bringing tears to me. Born in 74, I remember all this being 12 and 13 years old. reason i like stranger things so much, I was there age at the time and did the same things. Born in a very small town with no stop lights. Hell, still in the same town and still no stop lights. This was the best time for music and movies. not like the crap we have today. The Alexa (echo) here only knows how to play 80's rock, and 80's metal
And one more small thing - while it wasn’t anywhere near the massive hit that St Elmo’s Fire was, John Parr did also have some chart success with Naughty, Naughty - peaked at #27 on March 16, 1985 and was on the charts for 20 weeks.
Not sure where you got your Info or if he peaked at #27 in another country? According to Billboard's Book of top 40 Hits Naughty Naughty peaked at #23 and spent 8 weeks in the top 40.
@@jeffvanderpool4039 I stand corrected - I was manually looking it up in the Billboard Hot 100 Charts book by Joel Whitburn and must have skipped the two pages where it was #24 (3/2/85) and #23 (3/9/85) before falling to #27 on 3/16/85. Good catch!!
I was serving in the Marine Corps in the 1980s. Stationed at Tustin, CA. I was able to see all the great bands at the time. I always ask “Where did all the great musicians go?”
My son was 3 when Shout came out. It was the song that got him into music. We listened to everything. His friends wound sing along for the 2.5 hour drive to our cabin in NW Alaska. He shares his love of music with his daughters now. They listen to Led Zeppelin, Johnny Cash, Streisand, Michael Jackson, Belefonte and more. Makes me so happy.
I love these episodes as well. I don't know how many people mention it, but Money for Nothing was really well engineered from a studio standpoint, too. It continues to hold up on the short list of songs to test the fidelity of a new sound setup. That actually might be a fun list someday.
Thanks again, Professor! For my money, 1984-1986 had some of the best music. 1985 was stellar, since we're still listening to those tunes to this day. That's some staying power.
Adam, I love the "Countdowns on this day"! Keep them coming and don't forget the 70s! I agree with you "what has happened to music?" I kept up with music until about 2006 and then I stopped. I just didn't enjoy the new stuff anymore. I do listen to some local college stations that play current artists that do "real: music but mostly I listen to 1970s thru 1990s..
Funnily enough, I too stopped listening to mainstream radio around 2006, but I think it was more than just no longer liking the current pop music, it was also around the time I really started getting into Heavy Metal as well. I feel like the game has changed though, there's still great music today, but you may not find it on mainstream radio, you have to dig deeper now.
One of the things I love about the ‘80’s music industry is how many artists from the 60’s & ‘70’s just kept on rocking right into the ‘80’s. This list has Tina Turner and Aretha Franklin, I’m sure the Professor of Rock brain trust could extend the list a mile long! 😌
I've probably already said this before, but my friends and I really took that line, "I want my two dollars!", and we ran with it. I can remember playing outside with them, riding around on our bikes just belting out the line to each other. One of my favorite 80s movies. In 1985 I was 6 years old and Shout was one of my favorites. I have this distinct memory of being in my neighbor friend's back yard, sitting in a swing on the swing set, and her and I talking about how much we loved the song. Just one of those random memories from my childhood that stuck with me for whatever reason.
LOVE your countdowns. You should do this type of video every week. With four decades to choose from, the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's you have enough material to last for years. :)
1985 was leading up to the last year I really followed the top 40 charts before becoming more of a fan of alternative/college music (Smiths/Replacements/REM were and really still are my favorite bands). So I still dig 85 - I love when you do these!! It really does show how much music has changed over the thats 37 years - and in my opinion not for the better. I also love how you cover not just the music but things like movies and TV. Really takes me back. Thanks Adam!
Man in motion for me was introduced through the instrumental version done by David Foster that was played for the Canadian air forces aeronautical show team the snowbirds. I couldn’t get enough of that song I didn’t even know it had words until I was about 10 in 1990
WOW. Great music overload!!!! I'm gonna listen to every one of these after this while I fix the car. What a year for us Canucks, Cory Hart, Brian Adams, (Boy in the Box and Reckless are awesome albums) Rick Hanson... and St Elmo's Fire was adopted by the Canadian Forces Snowbirds as one of their anthems. You just put me in the perfect mood Professor!
In 1985, Tears for fears "everybody Wants to Rule The World" I first heard in a colorful shopping mall store while on a student exchange trip with my high school band. It was also the year I graduated high school. I'll never forget those times. I think about them every day.
Good God man! This Nostalgia is just off the charts! This is such bittersweet memories. This channel is such a time machine for those of us who were kids the 80's. Thank you.
From 1985 - Phil Collins had several (courtesy of exposure on Miami Vice, maybe?), Eddie Murphy - Party all the Time (one hit wonder candidate?), but dude - the absolute has to be Dire Straits. Money For Nothing is still one of my all-time favs; the first three seconds of the intro are just iconic and distinctive - you know immediately it is THE song.
As a kid of the 1980s and a teenager of the 1990s, there is no greater decade of music than the 80s. It is a time filled with positive entertainment in every aspect. Music was upbeat and had uplifting lyrics, movies had heroes that we cheered for, cartoons were living movies with beautiful animation and dare I say...stories, and TV of the 80s taught us something at the end to help us become a better person......"because knowing is half the battle!"
Love these segments!! They are my wife and I favorites. We re-rank the songs and usually come pretty close until this week. For sure thought Dire Straits Money for Nothing was going to be #1 but nope. Love it
You really made me feel nostalgic with this one! The guitar rift of Dire Straits song Money for Nothing, still strikes a cord, I mean how can you hear that and not want to jam! Of course any list of songs that include such greats as all of these amazing bands and artists is going to be awesome. Thanks for sharing these amazing stories behind the songs. Fun fact: in the Summer of 69 music video the girlfriend featured is the actress Lysette Anthony that played the lead in one of my favorite 80’s movie “Krull”
I’m 57 years old. You can all guess the era I grew up with. New wave or rock at the time. I still to this day like music from the 60s or 70s. It is so real.
I talked to a teacher at my school who helps students with disabilities get into careers. She graduated high school in 1982 to the tune of the Go-Go’s, Human League, and Joan Jett! I bet she wanted to put another dime in the jukebox back then! 80s new wave rocks!
I remember going to see Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and Silverado as a double feature for 1 dollar. The air conditioning was out at the theater, so it was like an interactive experience watching those hot dusty movies while basically sitting in a sauna. The moment the credits started at the end of Thunderdome, i was out of there, lol.
as Ferris Beuller would say, this video is "so choice" man, thank you sir!!! 1985 was the most memorable for me from Music to Movies to just my Life...wish we could go back...so many, I loved were still in my life and alive here...oh well... today, well, just ain't the same...everything changes and nothing last forever... love your channel man!!!
So many good movies! They technically filmed Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in the fall of 1985 and it was released in June 1986, but I still love that movie and Adam’s shirt nonetheless!
Billy Joels best song from the 80's is the Longest Time. I still sing it word for mmm. And if you hear it every voice is his and there's no instruments!
This week in 1985, I was in USAF Tech training at Lowery AFB in Denver. New to the regimented culture of the military, music, and not a small amount of off hours beer, was what I used to remember who I really was. Don’t get me wrong, the military was great but I still needed to hold on to a part of that care free teen I had been just a few months before.
I knew Summer of '69 would finish #1 before he even started the list. It's one of the most memorable and iconic hits from the 80's still on radio rotation to this day.
On a channel with so many great features, these are my favorite segments. I am of the opinion that not only popular music, but humankind in general, reached its summit sometime around 1985 or 1986. This top 10 list serves to reinforce my theory. The fact that every popular show on TV worth its salt heralds back to that time is no coincidence, either.
My ex-boyfriend’s dad was a semi-famous musician with the Louisiana Hayride in the 50’s and was doing session guitar by the 80’s. He actually played on the Brothers in Arms album with Dire Straits and my bf couldn’t have been more proud.
Love these episodes! What a great week for music! My 20 something daughter told that when her and her friends are having a party they don't play today's music they play 80s music like Summer of 69 and Don't Stop Believing. She says this music just wants to be sung out loud by everyone in the room. Just shows the best music was our music, lol. You should do these every Saturday these episodes are a blast and filled with content
It is a great week for music. There is an English teacher at my school who was born to this exact same list of songs, on August 23, 1985. She said she loves The Power of Love and Back to the Future. She also loves Aretha’s comeback with Freeway of Love, and of course, playing the guitar on MTV!
@Anna Trail i love when they like our music and listen to it. Dwight was fantastic. He hasn't lost a thing, voice still great, guitar playing fantastic and he still has those classic Dwight moves, lol
Dude you got me crying just in the first 5 minutes of this video. The movies and tv shows are bringing back so many good memories. I subscribed immediately! I need this channel in my life.
Summer of 69 is just one of those timeless classics. It was a classic the first time it played, it’s just one of those songs. The only song I can think of, at the top of my head, that’s comparable is Jack and Diane by John Cougar Mellencamp. It too was a classic the second it was played on the radio.
I don't recall any controversy arising from Money for Nothing's lyrics at the time. People understood the context. Like Archie Bunker in the previous decade, the person speaking the bigoted words is intended as an object of ridicule, and we got that. In this century, however, context no longer matters. The offending verse is now omitted, just like Archie's bigoted dialog during "All in the Family" reruns.
Definitely give us the vignette, please. Love these. By the way, any chance you feel like doing a video on Midnight Oil’s Power and the Passion (and/or the whole amazing album 10, 9, 8, 7…) or INXS’s album Shabooh Shoobah, both of which, IMO, really never got the full credit that they deserve. I was living in San Francisco at the time, and thanks to one of the best progressive stations to ever exist - KQAK - I was turned on, in my very early 20s, to some absolutely phenomenal music that I never would’ve heard otherwise. Keep on keepin’ on, my friend. Love what you’re doing.
I was 25 in 1985, 2 kids, 1 divorce, jobs that sucked the life out of me, weekend dad is hard, tried to give the kids my love and have fun, teach them, all in 1or2 days, little therapy I guess with these words, thanks. But Rock-'n'-roll was always there, from Beatles to Zep, this channel is keeping the music of my youth alive, please accept my gratitude, it really makes me smile.🙏🎸
Run to You was my favorite track from Reckless, not Summer of ‘69. Heaven would have been my second. Power of Love is the one song that truly brings me back. It was incredible.
How did we go from all those good songs ,movies ,TV shows to what we have today ? Am I just a grumpy old man or did things really go that far down hill ?
I totally agree with you, Carl! And I’m still in high school. The music my peers play around me is just not good. I like to stand out. I try several times to show some of my peers cool music from the 80s, but then they just go back and listen to that creep Drake.
@@ProfessorofRock hey Ty for the response. Love all the content I’m 45 and it’s nice to walk down memory lane . I understand why and what a mid life crisis is now . All the music and movies from the past are just that much better then today’s nonsense. Wish there was more to look forward to .
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 I feel for you but you keep playing and listening to what makes you happy . I mean if bad music makes them happy then more power to them lol . As far as me I’m sticking to classic rock grunge and metal . As AC/DC said Rock and roll ain’t noise pollution rock and roll it will never die .
@@ProfessorofRock Nailed it, those were great years. 88-89 had a significant decline in quality for me. Too much bad hip hop music along with too much hair band music. I listen to the top 40 count down on the Sirius channel 80s on 8 and there’s a particular Too Live Crew song that makes the countdown in November of 1988; I find it hilarious when one of the original VJs have to announce the title of that song, especially Nina because you can tell she loathes that song/title.
@@ProfessorofRock I break down the 80s this way: 1980-1982 were great years but weren't pure 80s. During those years there were still a lot of leftover sounds from the 70s (especially 1980 and 1981). 1983-1987 were pure 80s, vintage 80s, and 80s at it's absolute peak. 1988 and 1989 saw a decline in quality which, sadly, led into the 90s which Is, by far, my least favorite decade in which I stopped following music (I personally despise Grunge and Rap/Hip Hop which took over the early 90s. 1991, in my opinion, was the worst music tsunami in music history).
In 1985 my father started recording music from MTV and VH1. A lot of these songs are in that tape. I cry whenever I hear any of the songs on it. I wore that tape out!
Just have to say how fun this one was today. Great memories!! Although, I now feel very silly that I never got the Summer of 69 reference. I always wondered why Bryan Adams was singing a song about a year when he would have been 7 years old. 🤣
Better off dead is one of those forgotten comedy masterpieces. I know a lot of people who are my age who have never heard of that movie. Which is sad, because it is funny as hell. "Shame, people throwing away a perfectly good white boy." "Gee ricky, sorry i your mom blew up." Classic! Oh, and the two Asians who were commentating all the time! LOL!
"This is pure snow! Do you have any idea of the street value of this mountain?!" "What's a little boy like you doing with big boy smut like this??" "TWO DOLLARS!!!"
1985 was a great year for music! Here are a few of my favorites from 85: A-ha, Hunting High and Low Howard Jones, Dream Into Action Mike and the Mechanics debut album Talking Heads, Little Creatures John Fogerty, Centerfield John Mellencamp, Scarecrow Sting, Dream of the Blue Turtles
....whooooooo!! ....Man I remember going to the Record Store to snatch "Scarecrow" Dec., 1985 (and, WHAM"s "I'm Your Man" 45)....I went to Sam Goody, and knew SO MUCH more than the Employees', the Manager gave me a Job, RIGHT ON THE SPOT! ....but I was 19, and just started College...I got the gig in 1990....
Bryan Adams “Heaven” was number one on my birthday, June 25 1985 and exactly ten years later he had another number one with “Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman”. Such a great artist!
I remember riding in the back of my friend’s Datsun 280z with the hatch back open and my feet dangling out the back while belting out “Summer of 69” with 7 of my friends on the way to go fishing. One of my favorite memories from high school.
Best times of my life for sure ~ my college days. Yeah, Bryan Adams was only a pre-school kid in 1969, so had to be about something else.... Love that he was inspired by Bob Seger and it's a fantastic song too. I recently heard it was the all time #1 song in Canada, so it deserves that spot here as well. Great story about Man in Motion too! I remember my college roommate being in tears after watching St. Elmo's Fire since it was hitting close to home that those days were coming to an end.
IT'S MY BIRTHDAY 🥳🎉 BIG FIVE-0!! 50 YEARS YOUNG,NEVER COULD'VE IMAGINED THIS GROWING UP.THANJS FOR ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO ABOUT GREAT 80S MUSIC,WHICH KEADS INTO MOVIES.JOHN PARRS SONG MAN IN MOTION FROM ST.ELMO'S FIRE BOTH AMAZING SING AND MIVIE.ALSO SAME CAN BE SAID OF POWER IF LOVE AND BACK TO THE FUTURE.MY MOM TOOK ME TO A THEATER AND DROPPED ME OFF TO SEE BACK TO THE FUTURE TO SEE W FRIENDS AND NO ADULTS.Thamks again for keeping Rock and Pop Alive!!!
I was a young man serving in the U.S. Navy stationed at NAS Whidbey Island, living in Coupeville in 1985. The radii station KISW was always proud to announce they were the only station they didn't play Michael Jackson! They also broke the news about people in Vancouver had found Brian Adam's black BMW and had spotters telling where Brain was at.
I became a die hard Bryan Adams fan after Reckless came out. Sang Summer of 69 in a little band I had a few years back. Lots of nostalgic energy in that.
To be fair, the term is one HIT wonder, not one charted wonder. It takes more than just having some good sales for a couple of weeks for a song to really be considered a hit. The work also has to enter the public consciousness to a reasonable degree, so that even years later a good number of people will go "hey yeah, I remember that one" when mentioned. In short, OHWs are artists who are remembered by the general public for having produced just one culturally significant work, regardless of whether they had a relatively successful (if lower key) career before or after that.
@@broncodeviltexas No, that is just journalist Wayne Janick's definition of OHW, which is not universally accepted. The more general meaning, as posted on Wikipedia is "any entity that achieves mainstream popularity, often for only one piece of work, and becomes known among the general public solely for that momentary success".
@@broncodeviltexas That's just one way to think of it, but it's actually more about perception then actual facts. For example, look at the band A-Ha, known for "Take On Me" and considered a one hit wonder in the US. That band had several hits in other countries and stayed together until 2010. On the other hand, look at a band like the Grateful Dead, they had a massive fan following yet they literally only had one top 40-hit in their entire career and nobody called them a one-hit-wonder.
I was stationed in Germany when I bought my Sony D50 in early '85 (" world's first portable CD player") and Brothers in Arms was my first CD. I still have the original battery case, but using the AC dock that same cd player is still working great in my shop.
Summer of 89 was my year so the song fits when I sing it at the top of my lungs. 19 years old, race cars, motorbikes, girls every where, last year of my apprenticeship, everything was going right, and the future looked so bright I had to wear shades. Yep, those were the best days of my life.
Wow, never knew that about Billy Joel. How interesting and sad. He was actually the singer who got me really interested in music when I was young. I heard Movin' Out and got hooked. Had my mom buy me every album of his she could find.
In 1972 I wondered what our kids and grandkids would think when our music was so very good, instead of the easy-listening, post-swing stuff our parents listened to that we were so fed up with.
The 50s and early 60s didn’t have that many interesting songs that stood out to me. When the Beatles came into the picture, I started liking more stuff!
What an absolutely phenomenal channel this is! You just popped on my feed a wee while ago, months, it didn't take long for me to hit that subscribe button! Being born in Sweden in 69, on the 23rd of January, a Thursday, one minute to 12 noon I saw that light of day for the first time, my dad had just finished work if I remember correctly (what I've been told) and it it was one of the worst snow blizzards in memory.... With my parents being children of the 60's, that was the music that I grew up with, plus 50's rock, rockabilly, blues, surf music like Ventures, Dick Dale plus other guitar virtuosos like Link Wray, Duane Eddy, they also threw in some old school country believe it or not! Which is also why I love 50's and 60's cars, old school hot rods and Kustoms! Still remember my school years from '76 to '87, if you wanted to fit in, you had to listen to pop, punk, heavy metal or synth music, except me....being odd boll among everybody! Pals would blast out Iron Maiden, AZ DC, Black Sabbath, Queen, David Bowie, Tom Petty and what not....and their I show up, blasting our Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly, Johnny Burnette Chuck Berry, Booker T and the MG's, ZZ Top, Ian Dury and the Blockheads with their Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll , Dr. Feelgood with their Milk and Alcohol, I could go on.... The first album that I bought for my own money was ZZ Top and their El Loco later followed Eliminator.... My parents got married on the 3rd of August '68 and they're still married, they are the kind of of parents that every should have, as of today they're not only my mum and dad but also my very best friends! Looking forward to see what long forgotten memories will pop up while listening (and watching) to your channel! A bit of a rambling and I do apologise, woke up with a headache this morning, think that I'll just put this channel on and let it run....and chill! What the hell happened to music!? 😥 Greetings from a Swede in Glasgow, Scotland! 🤜🏻🤛🏻🍻
I'm from Canada and Summer of '69 is almost our alternate National Anthem. A few years ago I was at a Rob Zombie concert when Rob announced it was his guitar players birthday. He said he'd let him pick what song to play next so the guitar player launched into the intro for Summer of '69. The entire hall of metal heads with black hoodies erupted and sang along for the first verse before Rob stopped and stated "Wow! You F*ckers really lover that song up here, don't you". The band then proceeded to play Enter Sandman instead but it was a sorta surreal moment while it lasted.
Dude!!!! I watched Back to the Future for the first time and that same exact day right after the movie, I walked down to the record store 2 stores down from the downtown theater and heard Money for Nothin the first time…. Mind blown twice within minutes!!!!!!
It's kinda funny that "Summer of '69" came out #1 on your chart recalibration for 1985 because I changed it for my own lyrics of "Summer of '85". That was the year I graduated highschool and the summer before college. My last summer as a "kid" on the verge of adulthood. So many memories were made that summer never to be repeated and never forgotten. What a summer of '85 indeed!
In 85, these lyrics were not really considered that offensive. I traveled in politically liberal circles then and nobody took issue with this song. There certainly was no militant cancel culture like today. As a society, we are way too hypersensitive now and too eager to play victim because somebody said something you didn't like. People need to grow up and stop being such crybabies. Here endeth the rant.
1985 the second best year in music to 1984 for me. The year of Live Aid a day so engrained in my mind it still seems like yesterday and its emotional resonance shines brightly still. July 13th 1985. Ten years later I was working in West London just two miles down the road from the stadium and five minutes from BBC Television Centre where the know how that made the magic happen at the Wembley leg emanated from. The past seems like a dream, and as Tennessee Williams said, all life is memory except the present which we are too busy to notice. On December 21st I had a near fatal accident so it was a dramatic year at the tender age of 15. In the hospital they lost me for a while ( as in could not find me ) and the nurses thought I had concussion or possible brain damage because I would not stop talking about music. Apart from loving music the reason was deliberate; I was frightened to go to sleep lest I not awake as I knew I had to fight to survive. Music certainly came to my aid that night. Favourites from '85: Big Country Just A Shadow Madonna Into The Groove/ Crazy For You Love is a Battlefield Pat Benatar The Last Kiss David Cassidy I Was Born To Love You Freddie Mercury REO Speedwagon Can't Fight This Feeling Bryan Adams Run To You Don Henley Boys of Summer OMD Secret/ So In Love The Dream Academy Life in a Northern Town Kool and the Gang Cherish Strawberry Switchblade Since Yesterday Killing Joke Love Like Blood Aha Take On Me Marillion Kayleigh/ Lavender John Waite Every Step Of The Way Duran Duran A View To A Kill Madonna Dress You Up Prefab Sprout Goodbye Lucille Band Aid Do They Know It's Christmas? Elaine Paige and Barbara Dixon I Know Him So Well
I agree, however my nod goes to 1985 for many reasons. I attended many concert with Live Aid being epic. I worked backstage with my girlfriend and met many of both US and UK Rock's greatest. I toured 7 countries in Europe including Great Britain, and began university. I continued to discover many great British and UK artists like Strawberry Switchblade and Prefab Sprout whom you mentioned. Then came OMD, Scritti Politti, Go West, Level 42, Pet Shop Boys, soon came the Communards and later the Housemartins.
@@seanswinton6242 Great post. Scritti Politti were excellent. I bought Cupid and Psyche '85 in May ( I think it was) and have been a Prefab Sprout fan since 85. Paddy McAloon is a genius and no less than Paul McCartney has sung his praises.I forgot to mention Level 42 who were huge in 1985 with Something About You, Leaving Me Now and It's Over very successful in the UK from the mega selling World Machine album. Mark King is so genuine in interviews. The Communards released some great music including some of their lesser selling tracks like For a Friend and So Cold the Night. The Housemartins were unique- Build and Think for a Minute are my favourites by them. Paul Heaton recently put sixty thousand pounds behind the bar of sixty pubs to buy drinks for people to say thank you to the fans for their support over the years. It was to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Out of interest who were your stand out meetings with either US or British artists? No need to say of course.
Man, what a great line up and how that brought back so many memories. St. Elmo’s fire was a favorite movie of mine as well as the song, unfortunately, my kids didn’t feel the same. Every one of those songs were in the background of my childhood. I vividly remember skating at a skating rink with a girl I had a crush on to Whitney Houston. Summer of 69 on the bus trips, Tears for Fears on repeat, omg I want my MTV when Money was for nothing and chicks were free. But nothing beats how many hairbrush microphones I sang in the mirror to when nobody was looking.
Poll: What is your pick for the greatest song and album of 1985?
The album I still listen to today is Power Station.
Everybody Wants To Rule The World and Their Album
....PROF., with these LOADED questions! ...ha-HAA!! ....I would-would-WOULD say "Careless Whisper", but TECHNICALLY it was Oct., 1984, so.... I'll say, Paul Young's "Everytime You Go Away" for the greatest tune (in terms of Worldwide popularity)....The ALBUM, is Tears For Fears' "Songs For The Big Chair"....It is ART, personified....
is hate when this kind of questions says to answer with one option...no way jose...there are plenty ssssssooooo plenty
Albums 1985: Howard Jones- Dream Into Action; Bryan Adams- Reckless; Heart- Heart(8th album); Dire Straits- Brothers In Arms; Tears For Fears- Songs From The Big Chair.
Songs 1985: Dire Straits- Money For Nothing; Huey Lewis/News- The Power Of Love; Phil Collins- Sussudio; Eurythmics- Would I Lie To You?; Howard Jones-Things Can Only Get Better; Run To You- Bryan Adams.
85 was an awesome year. I was 10 years old and lived in a little town of about 900 people. Back then even a town that small had a drive-in theater, and we went to Back to the Future. We brought our own popcorn in a big paper bag and a pitcher of Coolaid with enough plastic cups for the family. We didn't have much money back then, and my mom would always make a couple of us kids hide under a blanket in the back of the car so it wouldn't "cost as much." We would lay there as motionless as possible, scared to death we'd get caught. It wasn't until we were adults that she told us they charged by the car load, not by the person; she'd been messing with us the whole time! Every summer we'd make it to the drive-in a time or two, and it reamains one of my most charished memories.
That's hysterical 🤣 Your mom sounds like a lotta fun. Great story!
Nice! I would love to go back to a drive-in theater someday.
Hell yeah 😁
Your mom is a great jokester and totally awesome. I totally mean that sincerely
Amazingly I share nearly the exact memory! ❤
Sting singing "I want my MTV" to the melody of "Don't Stand So Close to Me" on "Money for Nothing" actually ended up getting him a songwriting credit on it, and therefore a cut of the profits. Yeah, that guy ain't dumb.
That song was about working in the mover or furniture delivery business
That was the first thing I thought of when I heard him sing that.
Do the records show whether Sting got a blister on his little finger?
... This may be apocryphal, but AFAIK that recording was done by pure chance as Sting and Queen were both in NY at the same time and in the same building. A chance meeting and ... voilà. If this is true, Sting had no time to prep and this was entirely freeform.
Interestingly, it had never occurred to me that the overall tune was "don't stand so close to me". Thanks, that's very fun!
To think he started off as an English teacher.
@@dalepatterson1748 Just the day job to get some bank.......
I know what happened to music. Record companies began to be run by bean counters, and music started being created by producers rather than artists.
It's absolutely astounding to me that we have recording Stars who can't carry a tune, who don't write their own songs, and who are practitioners of the most banal orthodoxies. Music has become audio product, it is simply no longer art
That's what's on commercial radio. Real music still exists, but not on the airwaves. This applies to architecutre, painting, cooking, and all other art forms. Corporatism has coopted human expression to make bank.
Preach, Mark! As I like to say, autotune killed the music star. The music industry ran itself into the ground in the 2000s.
@@wordup897 So what? All you are saying is popular music has become a fetishistic pursuit instead of a broad, unifying force in popular culture.
Don't you still morn the loss of the widespread pursuit of innovation, excellence and quality?
@@wordup897 I agree. Today you have to look for good music, while in the past good music found you. You just had to turn on the radio and flick through channels and easily find great music that you wanted to blast and sing along, Today, radio stations stick to formulaic and boring pop music that all sounds very much the same, like Justin Bieber, Ed Sheeran, Arian Grande, etc.
@@Xman156 I haven't listened to commercial radio in about 15 years. The music became so bad, redundant and the ads and talk took about 40pc of the time, radio became more annoying than anything else.
So far this is a stalled century culturally speaking, but as you know prior to 2000 there was a lot of fantastic and diverse music on the airwaves. Many people will say "you're just getting old / every generation says that," but in reality a lot of young people are very aware that today's music scene cannot hold a candle to the 60s - 90s.
I grew up in Chicago and we had a phenomenal station called WXRT that was all over the place, from punk to jazz, and they went deep into albums, not just the singles, and the DJs knew their stuff. The station got bought ca 2005 and quickly became just a simulacra of the original format - what I labelled 'housewife alternative' at the time haha.
I'll never understand why Billy Joel seems to have been continually singled out for catching heat. He's a brilliant songwriter with a powerful, versatile voice, and he was one of those rare artists who captured my imagination deeply. He's one of the greats and the critics can go deal with it.
Glass Houses was a great album. He sold out though IMO.
Amen. I have seen Billy Joel 3 times in concert and every time was a blast. The man can command a stadium, arena, or bar lounge. He's written so many different songs -- he's got soul, rock, pop, doo wop, etc. He's freely admitted his not so great moments (which fans don't agree with of course) and where he shamelessly borrowed from other artists, but for me you can't deny his brilliance. When you get to the bridge of You're Only Human - "You've been keeping to yourself these days cause you're thinking everything's gone wrong. Sometimes you just want to lay down and die, that emotion can be so strong." That is reality of depression. But he decided to make it an uplifting song. "But hold on Till that old second wind comes along." The video is great too. Billy playing Piano Man on the harmonica...
The other new song on his Greatest Hits Volume 1& 2 album released in 1985 was The Night is Still Young. I was 14, didn't know a damn thing about sex, but I loved the song more than You're Only Human. Keep the faith and don't take shit from nobody.
Back then, critics were often hostile to artists who were super popular and who did mainstream Pop music. I guess they felt it was too safe or it was corporate rock (which meant they were sell outs). It’s all bullshit though. Guys like Phil Collins, Bryan Adams and Billy Joel knew what ppl wanted to hear and gave it to them in spades while still being true to themselves. They also were making really intelligent & well crafted albums that will be classics for all time.
He’s one of the most talented artists out there. I always ignore the critics on him.
There are artists without the 80's wouldn't be the same. Billy Joel is one of them.
1985 will always be known as the year of Live Aid. Everyone who performed there got a bump in record sales. You should do a show dedicated to Live Aid and the number of rock and roll hall of famers.
My memory of Money for Nothing is Sting joining Dire Straits on stage at Live Aid for their performance of the song.
An episode on Live Aid, done in the style of the Band Aid documentary Adam did previously. Now I would watch that!
I agree with you. I still remember Live Aid to this day.
Honestly, Live Aid was something that, as I watched it that day, I thought "what's the big deal?" but now look back on it with the thought "damn...why aren't there live global musical events like that today? We have the technology to do it better than it was done in 1985, but we just don't have anything like that now. Why?" And I get a bit misty when I go back and watch the clips on the Live Aid RUclips channel. Queen's performance was, obviously, legendary. But so many performances were great, and being a New Waver, I really enjoyed Nik Kershaw, Sting, Elvis Costello, and Howard Jones, among others, on the Wembley stage.
I was at the Philadelphia show. It was an incredible day.
I remember the first time I heard "Shout", I was pulling out of my driveway and my girl friend was belting the song out into my ear as she was behind me on my motorcycle. Every time I hear the song I remember her exuberance and the day we had riding was an awesome beautiful day.
It’s one of my favorite songs of the 80s. I am totally like your GF.
Did you marry her?
We used to sleep outside in the yard all summer in the 80s. One night me and 2 friends were coming back from roaming the neighborhood at 2:00 am and noticed 3 of our friends were sleeping in my next door neighbors front yard. So we hopped the fence and unplugged their radio that was playing quietly. I snuck over and turned the volume up full blast and started running while Chuck plugged it back into the outlet. Just as we hit the ground on my side of the fence, SHOUT! SHOUT! LET IT ALL OUT! echoed through the silence of the night. After they got it shut down all you could here was us laughing our asses off. Good times.
1985 was bitter sweet for me. Sweet for music but bitter losing a good friend at a young age. Thank goodness the music pulls you through the bitter passages in life.
I'm so sorry. Condolences my friend. So true. Music is a healer.
Me too…. The 1980’s were the worst of times…. The best of times for me. Horror Dark Night of the Soul…. Grand Life revelations… yes, and dealing with death for the first time in my life. I do not think I would have made it without the Grace of God and waking up each morning to the wild, unique back drop of NYC… MTV… Fashion… movies of the 1980’s
Oh no, so sorry to hear that George!
hell yeah
Since I was 12 going on 13 in the Summer of 69 Bryan Adams song of that name meant a lot to me and still means a lot to me😊
Dire Straits "Brothers In Arms" is easily one of the greatest albums ever produced.
I totally agree!
1985 was a great year for music. I often go back to those songs. Must include "Kyrie," "Never Surrender," "King For a Day," "Lay Your Hands On Me" (Thompson Twins, Bon Jovi did their own song in 1989), "Take On Me," and "The Sun Always Shines on TV," "The Search is Over" just to name a few of my favorites from that time.
All fantastic songs! Love Thompson Twins.
Great songs
I had that Thompson Twins album on cassette & listened to it endlessly.
Ohh god yeah I forgot about Kyrie elaison.
awesome songs! Kyrie by Mr. Mister was from 1986!
Songs from the Big Chair is one if my all-time top 10 albums. Every note, beginning to end, and never get tired of it. It's THAT kind of album.
I graduated high school in 85, epic music in the 80's!! Even now when I hear Summer of 69, I turn it up and I start singing!!
1985 was MY year of MTV. My son was born that summer and I had the 4am bottle feeding. I remember so many of these hits from their videos falling asleep on the couch with my son in my arms…
I like your Farris Bueller shirt
I remember going to the drive in to see Back to the Future with my pregnant wife. I also recall driving home from the hospital after my daughter was born jamming to Money for Nothing. This entire list is truly the soundtrack of my young adult life. Great music and memories . thanks
Very cool. Great memories!
I saw Top Gun at the drive-in in Austin, TX. Although crappy by today's standards, the movie was magnificent on that big screen! We must be about the same age...I had my three children in the 70s, 80s and 90s,,,one for each decade LOL
@@fumblebunny1993 for me it was one in the 80' and one in the 90's. In the 70's I was still figuring things out. Lol
Yes, drive in movies were super cool! Pretty awesome memories!
Oh hell yeah
Bryan Adams has always been one of my favs since I was a youngster growing up in the 80’s. Summer of ‘69 has been and always will be my favorite song of all time. It almost brings a tear to my eye when I hear it now because it reminds me of how great those days were, especially now how we’re living in such a shitty time in history
He was definitely at his peak from 1984-1991. My favs are “Somebody”, “It’s Only Love” and “Can’t Stop This Thing We Started”.
Yup. I bet the actual summer of 1969 was filled with hippies and psychedelic goodness. Bryan Adams might as well be crowned the Canadian King of Rock.
Run to you, Summer of 69, Heaven ...wow, there´s a super trio of songs!
@@coolcat6303 yes! Can’t Stop This Thing We Started is my second fav song of BA’s
Summer of 69 will always be a huge part of anyone who grew up in the 80s.
"Shout" was my first favorite song as a 5 year old. Music has always been my world. 1985 was the year that it all really started for me on my musical journey. Couldn't have timed that better if I tried.
I remember reading a magazine article and the guy who wrote it stated that his daughter was swaying and singing along to Shout while he was watching the music video. It was such a cute moment.
Hell yes!
In 1985, I was 21-22 yrs old. What an awesome time to dance, skate, party, or just kick back and listen- to great music! Nice seeing Kool & The Gang getting some props...
I must say 1983-1986 was the true height of 80's culture. 1984 & 1985 being the heart of the decade. After 1987, (1988 & 1989), it felt like a transitional era. Still 80's but, yeah.
Right on point.
1984 is the best year ever, followed by 1985, then 1983.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 I can see why you'd say that. For me, it's 1983, 1985, and then 1984. Music-wise, anyway. As far as general life, I always say that "I haven't enjoyed anything since 1985," ha.
I am thoroughly convinced that 1985 was the high-water mark for western pop culture, music, television, movies etc... In addition to everything you mentioned in the intro and the ten classic songs on this list, '85 also gave us Cherry Coke, MacGyver, the Nintendo NES, the Casio SK-1 keyboard and so much more...
Let us not forget that 1985 gave us Max Headroom, my first introduction to AI!
It truly was. It was my first official year as an adult. I had graduated from Nursing school and moved from a small town in N Central Texas to New Orleans. I packed everything I could fit into my Dodge Colt compact car and embarked on the twelve hour drive. I was carrying a bruised, but not broken heart, a love for SE Louisiana, and clear eyed dreams for finding love, and building a family. Many of these songs serenaded me on the cheap speakers of that car. To this day hearing Lionel Richie’s Stuck on You gives me a tiny bit of melancholy, it must of played once an hour during that drive.
Tears for Fears is great. Their new stuff takes me back to the 80's. So glad they got back together
Have to say, this video bringing tears to me. Born in 74, I remember all this being 12 and 13 years old. reason i like stranger things so much, I was there age at the time and did the same things. Born in a very small town with no stop lights. Hell, still in the same town and still no stop lights. This was the best time for music and movies. not like the crap we have today. The Alexa (echo) here only knows how to play 80's rock, and 80's metal
I binge watched the entire series in June and was not disappointed by a single thing.
The nostalgia for us 70s born is strong with Stranger Things. Especially the season with Starcourt Mall. Back then the mall was where everyone went.
@TheVive _still no stop lights?!?_
I absolutely love these episodes. Perfect way to wrap up a Saturday morning.
Agreed.
Exactly. Just sippin’ on my espresso and missing those days…..
Another great song from ‘85: Perfect Way by Scritti Politti 🎶
@@maxaroni15 GREAT song! Adam needs to do a feature on that one.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 I think @aspalovin was hinting for that too 😂
And one more small thing - while it wasn’t anywhere near the massive hit that St Elmo’s Fire was, John Parr did also have some chart success with Naughty, Naughty - peaked at #27 on March 16, 1985 and was on the charts for 20 weeks.
Great song. Hidden gem for sure.
Mort, well said. John Parr is not a 'One Hit Wonder'. "Naughty, Naughty" is a great song to boot!
Not sure where you got your Info or if he peaked at #27 in another country? According to Billboard's Book of top 40 Hits Naughty Naughty peaked at #23 and spent 8 weeks in the top 40.
@@jeffvanderpool4039 I stand corrected - I was manually looking it up in the Billboard Hot 100 Charts book by Joel Whitburn and must have skipped the two pages where it was #24 (3/2/85) and #23 (3/9/85) before falling to #27 on 3/16/85. Good catch!!
Loved Naughty Naughty by Parr and the movie
I was serving in the Marine Corps in the 1980s. Stationed at Tustin, CA. I was able to see all the great bands at the time. I always ask “Where did all the great musicians go?”
My son was 3 when Shout came out. It was the song that got him into music. We listened to everything. His friends wound sing along for the 2.5 hour drive to our cabin in NW Alaska. He shares his love of music with his daughters now. They listen to Led Zeppelin, Johnny Cash, Streisand, Michael Jackson, Belefonte and more. Makes me so happy.
I love these episodes as well. I don't know how many people mention it, but Money for Nothing was really well engineered from a studio standpoint, too. It continues to hold up on the short list of songs to test the fidelity of a new sound setup. That actually might be a fun list someday.
The intro sounds big and grandiose, like there is so much sonic awesomeness going on in that intro alone.
Heck yeah.
Thanks again, Professor! For my money, 1984-1986 had some of the best music. 1985 was stellar, since we're still listening to those tunes to this day. That's some staying power.
Adam, I love the "Countdowns on this day"! Keep them coming and don't forget the 70s! I agree with you "what has happened to music?" I kept up with music until about 2006 and then I stopped. I just didn't enjoy the new stuff anymore. I do listen to some local college stations that play current artists that do "real: music but mostly I listen to 1970s thru 1990s..
Will do!
2006 was the year I was born, and I totally agree with you. The new music nowadays is not as good as what it used to be. I prefer 1985 100%!
Yeah, I stopped following the charts around 1992, then only followed indie music after that. Haven’t regretted it.
Funnily enough, I too stopped listening to mainstream radio around 2006, but I think it was more than just no longer liking the current pop music, it was also around the time I really started getting into Heavy Metal as well. I feel like the game has changed though, there's still great music today, but you may not find it on mainstream radio, you have to dig deeper now.
One of the things I love about the ‘80’s music industry is how many artists from the 60’s & ‘70’s just kept on rocking right into the ‘80’s. This list has Tina Turner and Aretha Franklin, I’m sure the Professor of Rock brain trust could extend the list a mile long! 😌
I've probably already said this before, but my friends and I really took that line, "I want my two dollars!", and we ran with it. I can remember playing outside with them, riding around on our bikes just belting out the line to each other. One of my favorite 80s movies.
In 1985 I was 6 years old and Shout was
one of my favorites. I have this distinct memory of being in my neighbor friend's back yard, sitting in a swing on the swing set, and her and I talking about how much we loved the song. Just one of those random memories from my childhood that stuck with me for whatever reason.
Oh man me and my step dad say that always!! Last time was this dads day!! I liked head over heals better than shout
LOVE your countdowns. You should do this type of video every week. With four decades to choose from, the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's you have enough material to last for years. :)
... hell yes 👍
1985 was leading up to the last year I really followed the top 40 charts before becoming more of a fan of alternative/college music (Smiths/Replacements/REM were and really still are my favorite bands). So I still dig 85 - I love when you do these!! It really does show how much music has changed over the thats 37 years - and in my opinion not for the better. I also love how you cover not just the music but things like movies and TV. Really takes me back. Thanks Adam!
I was a 70’s kid but after punk and new wave in the early 80’s, I switched to the college music too. REM was incredible.
I agree with you, music went downhill after 2006 or so, when I was born.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Yeah, I blame you for the current state of music.
(Just kidding)
@@jens-kristiantofthansen9376 😅
The blame falls on the music industry and autotune, mostly.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 I agree completely. :)
Man in motion for me was introduced through the instrumental version done by David Foster that was played for the Canadian air forces aeronautical show team the snowbirds. I couldn’t get enough of that song I didn’t even know it had words until I was about 10 in 1990
I was obsessed with that song for a long time, and I still kinda am.
I wasn't a big fan of the song until I saw this countdown, but hearing the story convinced me this song needs more love.
WOW. Great music overload!!!! I'm gonna listen to every one of these after this while I fix the car. What a year for us Canucks, Cory Hart, Brian Adams, (Boy in the Box and Reckless are awesome albums) Rick Hanson... and St Elmo's Fire was adopted by the Canadian Forces Snowbirds as one of their anthems. You just put me in the perfect mood Professor!
Oh CANADA!
So many great Canadian musicians.
...Hell yeah!!!
Speaking of Canada, how about the band, April Wine!!!!!! Loved them and I don’t think they got the credit they deserved in the U.S.!!!
I absolutely loved Triumph!!!!
In 1985, Tears for fears "everybody Wants to Rule The World" I first heard in a colorful shopping mall store while on a student exchange trip with my high school band. It was also the year I graduated high school. I'll never forget those times. I think about them every day.
Good God man! This Nostalgia is just off the charts! This is such bittersweet memories. This channel is such a time machine for those of us who were kids the 80's. Thank you.
85 had some of the best music of the 80s! Shortly after 85, i stopped listening to the radio. Now just list to my own playlists and cds.
A lot of 90's music is good. But i know what you mean. I stopped around then, too. Started up again in the 90's, now stopped for good. Sad.
From 1985 - Phil Collins had several (courtesy of exposure on Miami Vice, maybe?), Eddie Murphy - Party all the Time (one hit wonder candidate?), but dude - the absolute has to be Dire Straits. Money For Nothing is still one of my all-time favs; the first three seconds of the intro are just iconic and distinctive - you know immediately it is THE song.
HELL YES!
As a kid of the 1980s and a teenager of the 1990s, there is no greater decade of music than the 80s. It is a time filled with positive entertainment in every aspect. Music was upbeat and had uplifting lyrics, movies had heroes that we cheered for, cartoons were living movies with beautiful animation and dare I say...stories, and TV of the 80s taught us something at the end to help us become a better person......"because knowing is half the battle!"
Love these segments!! They are my wife and I favorites. We re-rank the songs and usually come pretty close until this week. For sure thought Dire Straits Money for Nothing was going to be #1 but nope. Love it
Considering I was 15 and was just starting high school at this time, and yes I do remember all of these songs. Wow what a time to be listening music.
You really made me feel nostalgic with this one! The guitar rift of Dire Straits song Money for Nothing, still strikes a cord, I mean how can you hear that and not want to jam! Of course any list of songs that include such greats as all of these amazing bands and artists is going to be awesome. Thanks for sharing these amazing stories behind the songs. Fun fact: in the Summer of 69 music video the girlfriend featured is the actress Lysette Anthony that played the lead in one of my favorite 80’s movie “Krull”
I’m 57 years old. You can all guess the era I grew up with. New wave or rock at the time. I still to this day like music from the 60s or 70s. It is so real.
I talked to a teacher at my school who helps students with disabilities get into careers. She graduated high school in 1982 to the tune of the Go-Go’s, Human League, and Joan Jett! I bet she wanted to put another dime in the jukebox back then! 80s new wave rocks!
I remember going to see Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and Silverado as a double feature for 1 dollar. The air conditioning was out at the theater, so it was like an interactive experience watching those hot dusty movies while basically sitting in a sauna. The moment the credits started at the end of Thunderdome, i was out of there, lol.
I was 24 in 1985. It really was the best time to be alive.......
Summer of '69 is probably the most iconic '80s song ever.
One of the most iconic.
Said no one .... ever.
as Ferris Beuller would say, this video is "so choice" man, thank you sir!!!
1985 was the most memorable for me from Music to Movies to just my Life...wish we could go back...so many, I loved were still in my life and alive here...oh well...
today, well, just ain't the same...everything changes and nothing last forever...
love your channel man!!!
So many good movies! They technically filmed Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in the fall of 1985 and it was released in June 1986, but I still love that movie and Adam’s shirt nonetheless!
Billy Joels best song from the 80's is the Longest Time. I still sing it word for mmm. And if you hear it every voice is his and there's no instruments!
Great song. Really does remind you of the early 60s!
Super talented guy
This week in 1985, I was in USAF Tech training at Lowery AFB in Denver. New to the regimented culture of the military, music, and not a small amount of off hours beer, was what I used to remember who I really was. Don’t get me wrong, the military was great but I still needed to hold on to a part of that care free teen I had been just a few months before.
I knew Summer of '69 would finish #1 before he even started the list. It's one of the most memorable and iconic hits from the 80's still on radio rotation to this day.
On a channel with so many great features, these are my favorite segments. I am of the opinion that not only popular music, but humankind in general, reached its summit sometime around 1985 or 1986. This top 10 list serves to reinforce my theory. The fact that every popular show on TV worth its salt heralds back to that time is no coincidence, either.
1983-1987 were the golden years of 80s music, IMO.
My ex-boyfriend’s dad was a semi-famous musician with the Louisiana Hayride in the 50’s and was doing session guitar by the 80’s. He actually played on the Brothers in Arms album with Dire Straits and my bf couldn’t have been more proud.
Love these episodes! What a great week for music! My 20 something daughter told that when her and her friends are having a party they don't play today's music they play 80s music like Summer of 69 and Don't Stop Believing. She says this music just wants to be sung out loud by everyone in the room. Just shows the best music was our music, lol. You should do these every Saturday these episodes are a blast and filled with content
My twenty something’s love ‘moms oldies’ too!
It is a great week for music. There is an English teacher at my school who was born to this exact same list of songs, on August 23, 1985. She said she loves The Power of Love and Back to the Future. She also loves Aretha’s comeback with Freeway of Love, and of course, playing the guitar on MTV!
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 lol, playing guitar on MTV, that was a great top 10, wouldn't you agree
@Anna Trail i love when they like our music and listen to it. Dwight was fantastic. He hasn't lost a thing, voice still great, guitar playing fantastic and he still has those classic Dwight moves, lol
@@LG-dz9ss I love it when they share our music and they love it too
Dude you got me crying just in the first 5 minutes of this video. The movies and tv shows are bringing back so many good memories. I subscribed immediately! I need this channel in my life.
Summer of 69 is just one of those timeless classics. It was a classic the first time it played, it’s just one of those songs. The only song I can think of, at the top of my head, that’s comparable is Jack and Diane by John Cougar Mellencamp. It too was a classic the second it was played on the radio.
I don't recall any controversy arising from Money for Nothing's lyrics at the time. People understood the context. Like Archie Bunker in the previous decade, the person speaking the bigoted words is intended as an object of ridicule, and we got that. In this century, however, context no longer matters. The offending verse is now omitted, just like Archie's bigoted dialog during "All in the Family" reruns.
Context and nuance, two concepts lost on most folks in our current age.
Definitely give us the vignette, please. Love these.
By the way, any chance you feel like doing a video on Midnight Oil’s Power and the Passion (and/or the whole amazing album 10, 9, 8, 7…) or INXS’s album Shabooh Shoobah, both of which, IMO, really never got the full credit that they deserve. I was living in San Francisco at the time, and thanks to one of the best progressive stations to ever exist - KQAK - I was turned on, in my very early 20s, to some absolutely phenomenal music that I never would’ve heard otherwise. Keep on keepin’ on, my friend. Love what you’re doing.
Good call this channel definitely needs to do a Midnight Oil video
@@ykook7000 Riiiiight?
@@ykook7000 Yes! Love to see Adam’s take on Beds Are Burning.
I was 25 in 1985, 2 kids, 1 divorce, jobs that sucked the life out of me, weekend dad is hard, tried to give the kids my love and have fun, teach them, all in 1or2 days, little therapy I guess with these words, thanks. But Rock-'n'-roll was always there, from Beatles to Zep, this channel is keeping the music of my youth alive, please accept my gratitude, it really makes me smile.🙏🎸
Run to You was my favorite track from Reckless, not Summer of ‘69. Heaven would have been my second. Power of Love is the one song that truly brings me back. It was incredible.
I loved these songs. I was a new mom in 1985 and working full-time in a factory. The only relief I had was music.
How did we go from all those good songs ,movies ,TV shows to what we have today ? Am I just a grumpy old man or did things really go that far down hill ?
Computers and auto-tune leads down to now!
No you're not.
I totally agree with you, Carl! And I’m still in high school. The music my peers play around me is just not good. I like to stand out. I try several times to show some of my peers cool music from the 80s, but then they just go back and listen to that creep Drake.
@@ProfessorofRock hey Ty for the response. Love all the content I’m 45 and it’s nice to walk down memory lane . I understand why and what a mid life crisis is now . All the music and movies from the past are just that much better then today’s nonsense. Wish there was more to look forward to .
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 I feel for you but you keep playing and listening to what makes you happy . I mean if bad music makes them happy then more power to them lol . As far as me I’m sticking to classic rock grunge and metal . As AC/DC said Rock and roll ain’t noise pollution rock and roll it will never die .
I was twelve years old in 1985. What a great year and what a time to be alive! So many freaking memories for me.
1985 was a very underrated year in music. 1984 gets high acclaim, and rightfully so, but 1985 was amazing in its own right.
It agree. 1983-1987 are tough to beat.
@@ProfessorofRock Nailed it, those were great years. 88-89 had a significant decline in quality for me. Too much bad hip hop music along with too much hair band music. I listen to the top 40 count down on the Sirius channel 80s on 8 and there’s a particular Too Live Crew song that makes the countdown in November of 1988; I find it hilarious when one of the original VJs have to announce the title of that song, especially Nina because you can tell she loathes that song/title.
@@ProfessorofRock 83 to 87 are the Golden Era for Gen X
@@ProfessorofRock I break down the 80s this way: 1980-1982 were great years but weren't pure 80s. During those years there were still a lot of leftover sounds from the 70s (especially 1980 and 1981). 1983-1987 were pure 80s, vintage 80s, and 80s at it's absolute peak. 1988 and 1989 saw a decline in quality which, sadly, led into the 90s which Is, by far, my least favorite decade in which I stopped following music (I personally despise Grunge and Rap/Hip Hop which took over the early 90s. 1991, in my opinion, was the worst music tsunami in music history).
For me, the best year in music is 1984, followed by 1985 and 1983.
In 1985 my father started recording music from MTV and VH1. A lot of these songs are in that tape. I cry whenever I hear any of the songs on it. I wore that tape out!
Just have to say how fun this one was today. Great memories!! Although, I now feel very silly that I never got the Summer of 69 reference. I always wondered why Bryan Adams was singing a song about a year when he would have been 7 years old. 🤣
Knopfler is a short-story writer turned song writer and taking contemporary notes fits perfectly, along with his journalist's instincts.
Better off dead is one of those forgotten comedy masterpieces. I know a lot of people who are my age who have never heard of that movie. Which is sad, because it is funny as hell. "Shame, people throwing away a perfectly good white boy." "Gee ricky, sorry i your mom blew up." Classic!
Oh, and the two Asians who were commentating all the time! LOL!
"This is pure snow! Do you have any idea
of the street value of this mountain?!"
"What's a little boy like you doing
with big boy smut like this??"
"TWO DOLLARS!!!"
One of my absolute favorites. I want my two dollars. I also liked Roy Stalin.
Yes, love it!
Never Surrender resonated with me as a shy youth in high school struggling with self confidence.
I'm a hard rocker but that song is one of my all-time favorites, also how it moves me personally
@@Vibeagain me too.
It’s a great song, really uplifting.
1985 was a great year for music! Here are a few of my favorites from 85:
A-ha, Hunting High and Low
Howard Jones, Dream Into Action
Mike and the Mechanics debut album
Talking Heads, Little Creatures
John Fogerty, Centerfield
John Mellencamp, Scarecrow
Sting, Dream of the Blue Turtles
....whooooooo!! ....Man I remember going to the Record Store to snatch "Scarecrow" Dec., 1985 (and, WHAM"s "I'm Your Man" 45)....I went to Sam Goody, and knew SO MUCH more than the Employees', the Manager gave me a Job, RIGHT ON THE SPOT! ....but I was 19, and just started College...I got the gig in 1990....
@@RBS_ I was 14 in 1985. Spent alot of money buying albums that year.
Howard Jones is classic! Love him.
@@RBS_ Love I’m Your Man and Freedom.
@@RBS_ I saw John Mellencamp at Battelle Hall, Columbus, OH. 12/13/85. Scarecrow Tour. Great show.
What a week this was in ‘85! And what a time to be on the Radio, playing THESE tunes… when there was actually a LIVE DJ on the air!
Bryan Adams “Heaven” was number one on my birthday, June 25 1985 and exactly ten years later he had another number one with “Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman”. Such a great artist!
Super cool factoid right there.
Hell yeah!
I remember riding in the back of my friend’s Datsun 280z with the hatch back open and my feet dangling out the back while belting out “Summer of 69” with 7 of my friends on the way to go fishing. One of my favorite memories from high school.
Best times of my life for sure ~ my college days. Yeah, Bryan Adams was only a pre-school kid in 1969, so had to be about something else.... Love that he was inspired by Bob Seger and it's a fantastic song too. I recently heard it was the all time #1 song in Canada, so it deserves that spot here as well. Great story about Man in Motion too! I remember my college roommate being in tears after watching St. Elmo's Fire since it was hitting close to home that those days were coming to an end.
My mother was BORN in the summer of 1969, so I definitely thought it had a deeper meaning than I thought.
I remember hearing it was about a different year, but the label thought it would sell much better using 1969.
IT'S MY BIRTHDAY 🥳🎉 BIG FIVE-0!! 50 YEARS YOUNG,NEVER COULD'VE IMAGINED THIS GROWING UP.THANJS FOR ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO ABOUT GREAT 80S MUSIC,WHICH KEADS INTO MOVIES.JOHN PARRS SONG MAN IN MOTION FROM ST.ELMO'S FIRE BOTH AMAZING SING AND MIVIE.ALSO SAME CAN BE SAID OF POWER IF LOVE AND BACK TO THE FUTURE.MY MOM TOOK ME TO A THEATER AND DROPPED ME OFF TO SEE BACK TO THE FUTURE TO SEE W FRIENDS AND NO ADULTS.Thamks again for keeping Rock and Pop Alive!!!
Your nostalgia with the tv and cartoons was next level. Oh man, 85 was a fantastic year
I was a young man serving in the U.S. Navy stationed at NAS Whidbey Island, living in Coupeville in 1985. The radii station KISW was always proud to announce they were the only station they didn't play Michael Jackson! They also broke the news about people in Vancouver had found Brian Adam's black BMW and had spotters telling where Brain was at.
I just listened to the 1984 album on Spotify, listen to it back to front, amazing. I’ll Wait was the hit they missed off that record.
Love I’ll Wait, easily sounds like a hit.
The top music that week blows away today's current week
I became a die hard Bryan Adams fan after Reckless came out. Sang Summer of 69 in a little band I had a few years back. Lots of nostalgic energy in that.
Summer of 69 and St Elmo’s fire, money for nothing, Tina turner, tears for fears. Crikey. Stellar wonderful time for music.
OMG. The Professor called John Parr a one hit wonder. " Naughty Naughty" hit #6 / #23 in 1984. 😎👍
He must have forgotten. I said the same thing.
To be fair, the term is one HIT wonder, not one charted wonder. It takes more than just having some good sales for a couple of weeks for a song to really be considered a hit. The work also has to enter the public consciousness to a reasonable degree, so that even years later a good number of people will go "hey yeah, I remember that one" when mentioned.
In short, OHWs are artists who are remembered by the general public for having produced just one culturally significant work, regardless of whether they had a relatively successful (if lower key) career before or after that.
@@davidh.4944 One hit wonder is having only one song make it to the top 40. Any artist that hit the top 40 twice or more is not a one hit wonder.
@@broncodeviltexas No, that is just journalist Wayne Janick's definition of OHW, which is not universally accepted. The more general meaning, as posted on Wikipedia is "any entity that achieves mainstream popularity, often for only one piece of work, and becomes known among the general public solely for that momentary success".
@@broncodeviltexas That's just one way to think of it, but it's actually more about perception then actual facts. For example, look at the band A-Ha, known for "Take On Me" and considered a one hit wonder in the US. That band had several hits in other countries and stayed together until 2010. On the other hand, look at a band like the Grateful Dead, they had a massive fan following yet they literally only had one top 40-hit in their entire career and nobody called them a one-hit-wonder.
I was stationed in Germany when I bought my Sony D50 in early '85 (" world's first portable CD player") and Brothers in Arms was my first CD. I still have the original battery case, but using the AC dock that same cd player is still working great in my shop.
Summer of 89 was my year so the song fits when I sing it at the top of my lungs.
19 years old, race cars, motorbikes, girls every where, last year of my apprenticeship, everything was going right, and the future looked so bright I had to wear shades.
Yep, those were the best days of my life.
I turned 16 in November of 1985.
It’s been all downhill since then.
You can say that again...
@@ProfessorofRock Great segment. ☮️
My mom turned 16 in May 1985!
Lol. I think a lot of us feel that way
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 She met the world during an amazing time.
Wow, never knew that about Billy Joel. How interesting and sad. He was actually the singer who got me really interested in music when I was young. I heard Movin' Out and got hooked. Had my mom buy me every album of his she could find.
80s was by far the best ever time for movies, toys and cartoons and pop music.
In 1972 I wondered what our kids and grandkids would think when our music was so very good, instead of the easy-listening, post-swing stuff our parents listened to that we were so fed up with.
The 50s and early 60s didn’t have that many interesting songs that stood out to me. When the Beatles came into the picture, I started liking more stuff!
Thanks for including me in the video!!! It really means a lot!! I’m a huge fan of this channel. What a great vid I really enjoyed this one! 😎🤘
What an absolutely phenomenal channel this is! You just popped on my feed a wee while ago, months, it didn't take long for me to hit that subscribe button! Being born in Sweden in 69, on the 23rd of January, a Thursday, one minute to 12 noon I saw that light of day for the first time, my dad had just finished work if I remember correctly (what I've been told) and it it was one of the worst snow blizzards in memory....
With my parents being children of the 60's, that was the music that I grew up with, plus 50's rock, rockabilly, blues, surf music like Ventures, Dick Dale plus other guitar virtuosos like Link Wray, Duane Eddy, they also threw in some old school country believe it or not! Which is also why I love 50's and 60's cars, old school hot rods and Kustoms!
Still remember my school years from '76 to '87, if you wanted to fit in, you had to listen to pop, punk, heavy metal or synth music, except me....being odd boll among everybody!
Pals would blast out Iron Maiden, AZ DC, Black Sabbath, Queen, David Bowie, Tom Petty and what not....and their I show up, blasting our Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly, Johnny Burnette Chuck Berry, Booker T and the MG's, ZZ Top, Ian Dury and the Blockheads with their Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll , Dr. Feelgood with their Milk and Alcohol, I could go on....
The first album that I bought for my own money was ZZ Top and their El Loco later followed Eliminator....
My parents got married on the 3rd of August '68 and they're still married, they are the kind of of parents that every should have, as of today they're not only my mum and dad but also my very best friends!
Looking forward to see what long forgotten memories will pop up while listening (and watching) to your channel!
A bit of a rambling and I do apologise, woke up with a headache this morning, think that I'll just put this channel on and let it run....and chill!
What the hell happened to music!? 😥
Greetings from a Swede in Glasgow, Scotland! 🤜🏻🤛🏻🍻
Oh, forgot some music that my parents also introduced me to....Motown!
Talk about blasts from the past! I'm so glad I found this! Thank you Professor of Rock!! 🎶 🎧 📻
I'm from the philippines, graduated high school 85, so proud of my kids digging my kind of music and movies...
I'm from Canada and Summer of '69 is almost our alternate National Anthem. A few years ago I was at a Rob Zombie concert when Rob announced it was his guitar players birthday. He said he'd let him pick what song to play next so the guitar player launched into the intro for Summer of '69. The entire hall of metal heads with black hoodies erupted and sang along for the first verse before Rob stopped and stated "Wow! You F*ckers really lover that song up here, don't you". The band then proceeded to play Enter Sandman instead but it was a sorta surreal moment while it lasted.
Dude!!!! I watched Back to the Future for the first time and that same exact day right after the movie, I walked down to the record store 2 stores down from the downtown theater and heard Money for Nothin the first time…. Mind blown twice within minutes!!!!!!
Absolutely an interview with Huey Lewis would be awesome!
It's kinda funny that "Summer of '69" came out #1 on your chart recalibration for 1985 because I changed it for my own lyrics of "Summer of '85". That was the year I graduated highschool and the summer before college. My last summer as a "kid" on the verge of adulthood. So many memories were made that summer never to be repeated and never forgotten. What a summer of '85 indeed!
In 85, these lyrics were not really considered that offensive. I traveled in politically liberal circles then and nobody took issue with this song. There certainly was no militant cancel culture like today.
As a society, we are way too hypersensitive now and too eager to play victim because somebody said something you didn't like. People need to grow up and stop being such crybabies.
Here endeth the rant.
A necessary one
I remember watching Hansen roll through town as a kid. Still love that song. That was a great year for music and movies.
1985 the second best year in music to 1984 for me. The year of Live Aid a day so engrained in my mind it still seems like yesterday and its emotional resonance shines brightly still. July 13th 1985. Ten years later I was working in West London just two miles down the road from the stadium and five minutes from BBC Television Centre where the know how that made the magic happen at the Wembley leg emanated from. The past seems like a dream, and as Tennessee Williams said, all life is memory except the present which we are too busy to notice. On December 21st I had a near fatal accident so it was a dramatic year at the tender age of 15. In the hospital they lost me for a while ( as in could not find me ) and the nurses thought I had concussion or possible brain damage because I would not stop talking about music. Apart from loving music the reason was deliberate; I was frightened to go to sleep lest I not awake as I knew I had to fight to survive. Music certainly came to my aid that night.
Favourites from '85:
Big Country Just A Shadow
Madonna Into The Groove/ Crazy For You
Love is a Battlefield Pat Benatar
The Last Kiss David Cassidy
I Was Born To Love You Freddie Mercury
REO Speedwagon Can't Fight This Feeling
Bryan Adams Run To You
Don Henley Boys of Summer
OMD Secret/ So In Love
The Dream Academy Life in a Northern Town
Kool and the Gang Cherish
Strawberry Switchblade Since Yesterday
Killing Joke Love Like Blood
Aha Take On Me
Marillion Kayleigh/ Lavender
John Waite Every Step Of The Way
Duran Duran A View To A Kill
Madonna Dress You Up
Prefab Sprout Goodbye Lucille
Band Aid Do They Know It's Christmas?
Elaine Paige and Barbara Dixon I Know Him So Well
I agree, however my nod goes to 1985 for many reasons. I attended many concert with Live Aid being epic. I worked backstage with my girlfriend and met many of both US and UK Rock's greatest. I toured 7 countries in Europe including Great Britain, and began university. I continued to discover many great British and UK artists like Strawberry Switchblade and Prefab Sprout whom you mentioned. Then came OMD, Scritti Politti, Go West, Level 42, Pet Shop Boys, soon came the Communards and later the Housemartins.
@@seanswinton6242 Great post. Scritti Politti were excellent. I bought Cupid and Psyche '85 in May ( I think it was) and have been a Prefab Sprout fan since 85. Paddy McAloon is a genius and no less than Paul McCartney has sung his praises.I forgot to mention Level 42 who were huge in 1985 with Something About You, Leaving Me Now and It's Over very successful in the UK from the mega selling World Machine album. Mark King is so genuine in interviews. The Communards released some great music including some of their lesser selling tracks like For a Friend and So Cold the Night. The Housemartins were unique- Build and Think for a Minute are my favourites by them. Paul Heaton recently put sixty thousand pounds behind the bar of sixty pubs to buy drinks for people to say thank you to the fans for their support over the years. It was to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Out of interest who were your stand out meetings with either US or British artists? No need to say of course.
Wow, so sorry to hear about the accident. Anyway, so much great music, so many great songs came out that year.
Man, what a great line up and how that brought back so many memories. St. Elmo’s fire was a favorite movie of mine as well as the song, unfortunately, my kids didn’t feel the same. Every one of those songs were in the background of my childhood. I vividly remember skating at a skating rink with a girl I had a crush on to Whitney Houston. Summer of 69 on the bus trips, Tears for Fears on repeat, omg I want my MTV when Money was for nothing and chicks were free. But nothing beats how many hairbrush microphones I sang in the mirror to when nobody was looking.
Hell yeah.
Absolutely THE. BEST. YEAR. EVER!! 🎶🎥📺❤️⚡️💯