Posted March 23, 200718 yr Top 40 Hits of Mid March 1987 1 Boy George......... Everything I Own 2 Ben E King ...........Stand By Me 3 Jackie Wilson .........I Get The Sweetest Feeling 4 Mel & Kim.............. Respectable 5 Freddie Mercury .....The Great Pretender 6 Mental As Anything ..Live It Up 7 Man 2 Man Meets Man Parrish........ Male Stripper 8 Percy Sledge .........................When A Man Loves A Woman 9 The Jets ...........................Crush On You 10 Al Jarreau............................. 'Moonlighting' Theme 11 Alison Moyet....................... Weak In The Presence Of Beauty 12 Level 42 .............................Running In The Family 13 Simply Red......................... The Right Thing 14 Erasure ..............................It Doesn't Have To Be 15 Carly Simon......................... Coming Around Again 16 The Beastie Boys................... (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) 17 A-ha ...................................Manhattan Skyline 18 Bruce Willis....................... Respect Yourself 19 Prince ...............................Sign 'O' The Times 20 Curiosity Killed The Cat ..........Down To Earth 21 Nick Kamen .............................Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever 22 Westworld ...........................Sonic Boom Boy 23 Genesis ..............................Tonight Tonight Tonight 24 The Christians .......................Forgotten Town 25 The Cult .............................Love Removal Machine 26 Europe .............................Rock The Night 27 Pepsi & Shirlie ........................Heartache 28 The Mission ...........................Severina 29 Duran Duran ..........................Skin Trade 30 The Communards .....................You Are My World 31 Frankie Goes To Hollywood...................... Watching The Wildlife 32 Billy Idol............................................ Don't Need A Gun 33 George Michael & Aretha Franklin .........................I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) 34 Five Star.................................. Stay Out Of My Life 35 Gary Moore....................................... Wild Frontier 36 Anthrax I Am ...................................The Law 37 Ruby Turner ..............................I'd Rather Go Blind 38 Tina Turner............................. What You Get Is What You See 39 Sam Moore & Lou Reed .............Soul Man 40 Full Circle ................................Workin' Up A Sweat
March 23, 200718 yr Author imho a poor chart, full of 60's soul re-releases (good enough), some weird rock, some early goth, some pop. there was no real direction or fashion evident here. pepsi and shirley, curiosity, christians were possibly the best of a bad bunch.
March 23, 200718 yr Here's the Official UK Chart from this date to compare UK Top 40 Singles weekending 14th March 1987 1 (7) Everything I Own – Boy George 2 (1) Stand By Me – Ben E. King 3 (10) I Get The Sweetest Feeling – Jackie Wilson 4 (9) The Great Pretender – Freddie Mercury 5 (3) Live It Up – Mental As Anything 6 (2) When A Man Loves A Woman – Percy Sledge 7 (26) Respectable – Mel and Kim 8 (5) Crush On You – The Jets 9 (4) Male Stripper – Man 2 Man Meets Man Parrish 10 (6) Running In The Family – Level 42 11 (29) Moonlighting – Al Jarreau 12 (11) The Right Thing – Simply Red 13 (12) Coming Around Again – Carly Simon 14 (13) Manhattan Skyline – A-ha 15 (8) Down To Earth – Curiosity Killed The Cat 16 (30) Weak In The Presence Of Beauty – Alison Moyet 17 (20) It Doesn’t Have To Be - Erasure 18 (14) Sonic Boom Boy - Westworld 19 (18) Love Removal Machine – The Cult 20 (New) Sign Of The Times - Prince 21 (26) (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) – Beastie Boys 22 (27) Forgotten Town – The Christians 23 (16) Rock The Night - Europe 24 (New) Tonight Tonight Tonight - Genesis 25 (39) Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever – Nick Kamen 26 (22) Skin Trade – Duran Duran 27 (15) Heartache – Pepsi and Shirlie 28 (17) I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) – George Michael & Aretha Franklin 29 (23) You Are My World - Communards 30 (19) Stay Out Of My Life – Five Star 31 (New) Respect Yourself – Bruce Willis 32 (New) Severina – The Mission 33 (37) Watching The Wildlife – Frankie Goes To Hollywood 34 (32) I Am The Law - Anthrax 35 (38) Wild Frontier – Gary Moore 36 (21) Behind The Mask – Eric Clapton 37 (24) It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way – Blow Monkeys 38 (New) Don’t Need A Gun – Billy Idol 39 (35) Soul Man – Sam Moore & Lou Reed 40 (31) Missionary Man - Eurythmics
March 23, 200718 yr Westworld though! Interestingly this is the chart from the top of the pops that the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu sampled on their 1987 (what the f*** is going on?) LP. It was indeed a comment on how the charts were full of re-releases, covers and very little new stuff. Edited March 23, 200718 yr by richie
March 24, 200718 yr Not a poor chart at all. Takes me back! I loved Moonlighting, and bought the Bruce Willis album off the back of it! Blow Monkeys! Westworld! Mel & Kim! and more. For me this has some stuff that would hold up as good examples of late 80's stuff and a lot of them have elements typical of the era, even though they might not be the first ones you'd think of. I'm gonna try and find Sonic Boom Boy somewhere - I loved it! Taya-taya-taya-taya-te-te-te-taya-taya-taya-take or leave it but please believe it we ain't never gonna be respectable! :dance: Edited March 24, 200718 yr by snowbaby
March 24, 200718 yr The tracks that are covers, reissues or taken from TV or films in the chart: 1 (7) Everything I Own – Boy George 2 (1) Stand By Me – Ben E. King 3 (10) I Get The Sweetest Feeling – Jackie Wilson 4 (9) The Great Pretender – Freddie Mercury 5 (3) Live It Up – Mental As Anything (reissue via inclusion on Crocodile Dundee OST) 6 (2) When A Man Loves A Woman – Percy Sledge 9 (4) Male Stripper – Man 2 Man Meets Man Parrish (re-release thanks to promotion on the (awful) Hitman & Her show) 11 (29) Moonlighting – Al Jarreau 13 (12) Coming Around Again – Carly Simon 25 (39) Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever – Nick Kamen 29 (23) You Are My World - Communards (reissue) 31 (New) Respect Yourself – Bruce Willis 36 (21) Behind The Mask – Eric Clapton 39 (35) Soul Man – Sam Moore & Lou Reed
March 24, 200718 yr Author Not a poor chart at all. Takes me back! I loved Moonlighting, and bought the Bruce Willis album off the back of it! Blow Monkeys! Westworld! Mel & Kim! and more. For me this has some stuff that would hold up as good examples of late 80's stuff and a lot of them have elements typical of the era, even though they might not be the first ones you'd think of. I'm gonna try and find Sonic Boom Boy somewhere - I loved it! Taya-taya-taya-taya-te-te-te-taya-taya-taya-take or leave it but please believe it we ain't never gonna be respectable! :dance: poor because it lacked originality, there was no strong trend/fashion. whilst those you listed were decent enough pop tracks they (and others) were generic, us older buggers had heard it all before. our charts were at there best when there was a strong new sound/fashion as it stimulated artists to be more adventurous. beat/mod/hippy/rock/glam/punk/new wave/new romantics etc always the best eras.
March 24, 200718 yr I own these 1 (7) Everything I Own – Boy George 2 (1) Stand By Me – Ben E. King 3 (10) I Get The Sweetest Feeling – Jackie Wilson :wub: 4 (9) The Great Pretender – Freddie Mercury 6 (2) When A Man Loves A Woman – Percy Sledge 7 (26) Respectable – Mel and Kim :dance: 10 (6) Running In The Family – Level 42 :dance: 14 (13) Manhattan Skyline – A-ha 15 (8) Down To Earth – Curiosity Killed The Cat :dance: 17 (20) It Doesn’t Have To Be - Erasure 20 (New) Sign Of The Times - Prince 25 (39) Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever – Nick Kamen 26 (22) Skin Trade – Duran Duran 27 (15) Heartache – Pepsi and Shirlie :cheer: :lol: 30 (19) Stay Out Of My Life – Five Star 33 (37) Watching The Wildlife – Frankie Goes To Hollywood 37 (24) It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way – Blow Monkeys
March 24, 200718 yr Author I disagree. Still a fun transition period with merit :zzz: transition into what? (oh yeah from ok music to watermans utter c**p).... what merit? wheres the inovation? facts are that when we are in a period of strong fashion in music the record sales go up, the times are remembered fondly, the tracks of the time are inspirational to the future and are used. for eg... dress in a '87 way!... you cant! it would be just a mis-match of general 80's clothing. dress in a '77 way or a 65 way, or a '72 way or an '81 way and you would hit the nail on the head! 87 was a typical bland mid-late 80's year with nothing going on in the commercial charts (underground however things were much 'hotter'). but like i said, there were some decent enough pop tracks pity they were nothing new!
March 24, 200718 yr Oh, hang on . . . "every point on the journey is a destination" . . . that's a bit more constructive than :zzz: Last time I looked, the 80s was a WHOLE DECADE. Funny that. Btw, does anybody actually have Sonic Boom Boy? I've looked on the net and nothing, without having to PM some random person.
March 24, 200718 yr Btw, does anybody actually have Sonic Boom Boy? I've looked on the net and nothing, without having to PM some random person. Try youtube, but don't PM me :P I'm very blonde lately I have my blonde moments. :lol:
March 24, 200718 yr Try youtube, but don't PM me :P I'm very blonde lately I have my blonde moments. :lol: First place I looked was youtube and nothing. All I could find on the net was an entry in someone's blog saying they have it and would send it by PM. Why, do you have it? Or do you have Sonic Doom Joy?
March 24, 200718 yr Author Oh, hang on . . . "every point on the journey is a destination" . . . that's a bit more constructive than :zzz: Last time I looked, the 80s was a WHOLE DECADE. Funny that. Btw, does anybody actually have Sonic Boom Boy? I've looked on the net and nothing, without having to PM some random person. are you incapable of discussion? supporting your dreary one lines with something of substance?.. or are you just a big kid?.. go play in the lounge.
March 24, 200718 yr are you incapable of discussion? supporting your dreary one lines with something of substance?.. or are you just a big kid?.. go play in the lounge.Oh yes, I see now, you're right and I'm wrong, how silly of me to have my own individual perspective when your opinion is actually fact. What would be the put in wasting my time putting any more substance into what I say in places like here when it would still get shot down in flames. It's this kind of stuff that makes Culture Box and Retro elitist - no wonder it's much more fun to play in the lounge. And I'd rather be a big kid with an emotional response to music, thanks, than a soul-less catalogue of facts and figures. *note to self - own thoughts and feelings aren't important*
March 24, 200718 yr Author Oh yes, I see now, you're right and I'm wrong, how silly of me to have my own individual perspective when your opinion is actually fact. What would be the put in wasting my time putting any more substance into what I say in places like here when it would still get shot down in flames. It's this kind of stuff that makes Culture Box and Retro elitist - no wonder it's much more fun to play in the lounge. And I'd rather be a big kid with an emotional response to music, thanks, than a soul-less catalogue of facts and figures. *note to self - own thoughts and feelings aren't important* thats better! ...lol.. you cant ignore facts and figures though, otherwise you are re-writing history to suit. and it isnt a case of 'right or wrong' it is a case of individual perspective which may or may not go with the flow. notice i did not criticise your choices of favs here, but merely pointed out why i dont regard '87 as a good year for commercial music. dont take it personally, initialy it wasnt (until you started with sarky emoticons) (which ill delete) a dig at you at all. by all means have an emotional response to music, thats what music is all about, picking the ones that hit you there (points to heart) in some way to feel the emotion of the track. you want feelings? bang on some trance! never has any genre grabbed me by the spine. tingled it, wrenched it into a euphoric state... the purpose here is to express opinions and discuss/debate the differences, thats what im wanting, (as co-mod) until the admin tell me otherwise (or leslie) then thats what ill push for here (my only limitation is time).
March 24, 200718 yr The tracks that are covers, reissues or taken from TV or films in the chart: 1 (7) Everything I Own – Boy George 2 (1) Stand By Me – Ben E. King 3 (10) I Get The Sweetest Feeling – Jackie Wilson 4 (9) The Great Pretender – Freddie Mercury 5 (3) Live It Up – Mental As Anything (reissue via inclusion on Crocodile Dundee OST) 6 (2) When A Man Loves A Woman – Percy Sledge 9 (4) Male Stripper – Man 2 Man Meets Man Parrish (re-release thanks to promotion on the (awful) Hitman & Her show) 11 (29) Moonlighting – Al Jarreau 13 (12) Coming Around Again – Carly Simon 25 (39) Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever – Nick Kamen 29 (23) You Are My World - Communards (reissue) 31 (New) Respect Yourself – Bruce Willis 36 (21) Behind The Mask – Eric Clapton 39 (35) Soul Man – Sam Moore & Lou Reed I think what I was trying to get at was, although 1987 may not have been the heyday of 80s commercial music, as the decade was drawing to a close it is still a good snapshot of what had come before and gives a sense of moving on to somewhere else. Thisispop's post of songs from the year that were covers, re-issues, or from film and TV surely helps to demonstrate that this was the end of an era, taking stock and looking back, solidifying in preparation to move on. I probably did not express this very well earlier, but that is probably because coming into Retro and Culture Box is quite scary - so I end up just saying a couple of things that maybe don't get the point across, and then I leg it.
March 25, 200718 yr Not a poor chart at all. Takes me back! I loved Moonlighting, and bought the Bruce Willis album off the back of it! Blow Monkeys! Westworld! Mel & Kim! and more. For me this has some stuff that would hold up as good examples of late 80's stuff and a lot of them have elements typical of the era, even though they might not be the first ones you'd think of. I'm gonna try and find Sonic Boom Boy somewhere - I loved it! Taya-taya-taya-taya-te-te-te-taya-taya-taya-take or leave it but please believe it we ain't never gonna be respectable! :dance: Agreed, late 80s was more my era. I have lots of memories from that period. I left School in 88, then went to college which was great, sooo many memories there. So a lot of the music from that period is special for me. I'll see if i can sort out the Westworld song for you, i should have it somewhere.
March 25, 200718 yr Agreed, late 80s was more my era. I have lots of memories from that period. I left School in 88, then went to college which was great, sooo many memories there. So a lot of the music from that period is special for me. I'll see if i can sort out the Westworld song for you, i should have it somewhere.If you could that would be great Mark, thanks. I used to dance 'round my bedroom to it! (I'd have been 15! :blush:)
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