TOP 10 LIST OF THE DAY...

MY 10 FAVORITE...

SONGS OF 1984

#10

Footloose

Kenny Loggins

#9

Dancing in the Dark

Bruce Springsteen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk8VZgJkpeg

#8

Love Is a Battlefield

Pat Benatar

#7

Eyes Without a Face Billy Idol

#6

I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues

Elton John

#5

The Longest Time

Billy Joel

#4

Hold Me Now

The Thompson Twins

#3

Say Say Say

Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson

#2

All Night Long

Lionel Richie

#1

Say It Isn't So

Hall & Oates

TOP 10 LIST OF THE DAY...

MY TOP 10...okay 14....

SONGS OF 1989

I refuse to eliminate ANY of these songs. So 14 it is. I was a music maniac in '89. I spent my allowance every week on CDs and blank tapes...joined Columbia House for the first time (7 cds for 1 cent? YES, please!) and pretty much had the radio on 24/7.

#14

Toy Soldiers/Martika

As a child, I LOVED Kids Incorporated, so I was psyched years later, when one of the stars launched a solo career. This was her biggest hit. Great song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpJy46o_7b0

#13

Bust a Move/Young MC

#12

Don't Rush Me/Taylor Dayne

http://http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti5UwlDaNHE

#11

On Our Own/Bobby Brown

from my beloved Ghostbusters 2

#10

Buffalo Stance/Neneh Cherry

#9

Welcome to the Jungle/Guns n Roses

#8

You Got It (The Right Stuff)/NKOTB

#7

Waiting for a Star to Fall/Boy Meets Girl

#6

Lay Your Hands on Me/Bon Jovi

my only complaint: it takes 1:48 for the song to really start...

#5

Sowing the Seeds of Love/Tears for Fears

#4

18 and Life/Skid Row

#3

Like a Prayer/Madonna

#2

Listen to Your Heart/Roxette

#1

Straight Up/Paula Abdul

TOP 10 LIST OF THE DAY...

MY 10 FAVORITE...
SONGS OF 1988

#10
Make Me Lose Control/Eric Carmen

I thought I didn't like this song. But one of my best friends convinced me otherwise. She's right. It's a great song. Now if only she'll listen to ME and accept Neil Diamond...

#9
Tell It To My Heart/Taylor Dayne

#8
Naughty Girls/Samantha Fox

#7
Don't Be Cruel/Bobby Brown

#6
So Emotional/Whitney Houston

#5
Red Red Wine/UB40
(originally a Neil Diamond joint)

#4
Hands to Heaven/Breathe

#3
Monkey/George Michael

#2
Devil Inside/INXS

#1
Hold On To The Night/Richard Marx
of course...

TOP 10 LIST OF THE DAY...

MY 10 FAVORITE...

SONGS OF 1987

What a GREAT year in music this was! In fact, I'm cheating and putting 11 songs.

#11

In Too Deep/Genesis

#10

Livin' on a Prayer/Bon Jovi

#9

Only in My Dreams/Debbie Gibson

I was a HUGE Debbie Gibson fan throughout middle school. I was even lucky enough to go to one of her concerts - my first "real" concert. (Thanks mom!) This remains one of my favorite DG songs.

#8

Meet Me Halfway/Kenny Loggins

#7

Alone/Heart

#6

I Think We're Alone Now/Tiffany

#5

Let Me Be The One/Expose

I was big into freestyle in the late 80s/early 90s. I got most of my music from staying up late on the weekends to watch Friday Night Videos and It's Showtime at the Apollo. That's was my original introduction to Expose, among other great freestyle groups. That kind of music was a huge part of my early teenhood. Good times!

#4

Don't Mean Nothing/Richard Marx

#3

Who's That Girl/Madonna

#2

Jacob's Ladder/Huey Lewis & the News

#1

Heart and Soul/T'Pau

Summer of '87, I probably listened to this song a million times. Still love it! One of my favorite 80s songs.

TOP 10 LIST OF THE DAY...

MY 10 FAVORITE...
SONGS OF 1986

NOW PLAYING...

#1 Alive and Kicking/Simple Minds

#2 What You Need/INXS

#3 We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off/Jermaine Stewart

#4 Danger Zone/Kenny Loggins

#5 Kiss/Prince

#6 Papa Don't Preach/Madonna

#7 When the Going Gets Tough/Billy Ocean

#8 If You Leave/OMD

#9 You Give Love a Bad Name/Bon Jovi

#10 Sara/Starship

TOP 10 LIST OF THE DAY...

MY 10 FAVORITE...

SONGS OF 1985

I identify this as the year I truly discovered music - I became obsessed with the radio, buying blank tapes like crazy to record every great song. And here are some of the biggest songs for me that year - songs that I would sit in front of the radio and wait for, ready to press record+play...

#10

Voices Carry

'Til Tuesday

#9

Every Time You Go Away

Paul Young

#8

Take On Me

A-Ha

#7

Material Girl

Madonna

#6

LoverBoy

Billy Ocean

#5

Cool It Now

New Edition

#4

St Elmo's Fire

John Parr

#3

Strut

Sheena Easton

#2

Everybody Wants to Rule the World

Tears for Fears

#1

Out of Touch

Hall & Oates

Some honorable mentions...

All She Wants to Do Is Dance/Don Henley

Glory Days/Bruce Springsteen

A View to a Kill/Duran Duran

Don't Lose My Number/Phil Collins

We Belong/Pat Benatar

Solid/Ashford and Simpson

#2: "PEOPLE WHO HAVE MONEY DON'T NEED PEOPLE."

ALEX P. KEATON

of Family Ties


I wrote a really great post about Alex. And then my cat jumped on my keyboard and erased it all...and for some reason, blogger hadn't saved it. So, if this blog posting doesn't do Alex P. Keaton justice, I assure you the previous, cat sabotaged one did.

Back in my day, there were quite a few sitcoms featuring relatively "normal" teens involved in "normal" teen hijinx. You had your Theo Huxtable...your Mike Seaver...your Samantha Micelli...

And then there was Alex.

He was certainly not a typical teen. He carried a briefcase. He read the Wall Street Journal. Watched Wall Street Week. He idolized not a rock star or movie star, but Presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon. All of this to the chagrin of his former hippie parents.

Alex could've easily been a "normal" teen, but making him the 'Young Republican' black sheep of his family was brilliant. In my opinion, it MADE the show. And I don't think any actor could've pulled it off as well as Michael J. Fox. I mean, how often do you actually get to see a Republican portrayed as cool?

A GREAT ALEX EPISODE:

"A, My Name is Alex"

#5: "I BROUGHT YOU INTO THIS WORLD, AND I'LL TAKE YOU OUT!"

CLIFF HUXTABLE

of The Cosby Show

What a shame there aren't still shows like this on tv. And what a shame there aren't more dads like Cliff Huxtable! All-time #1 tv dad in my book, for sure.

Cliff is pretty much ideal in every way. Great dad, great husband, great doctor. And he's funny, too!

CLASSIC CLIFF MOMENTS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtJpafsDAr8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFCPb3t6HRM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeaayMlLQDc

#10: "GET OUT OF THE CITY!"

BALKI BARTOKOMOUS

of Perfect Strangers

Balki Bartokomous, a shepherd from the fictional island of Mypos, came to America to find his cousin, Larry. Balki was refreshingly naive and optimistic, and a just plain 100% good guy with a 100% good heart - the kind of character rarely seen on tv - or in real life.

His misinterpretation of American slang - and the English language in general - his wacky Myposian customs, and his enthusiasm in going along with cousin Larry's ill-conceived schemes made for much hilarity, consistent throughout the series.

CLASSIC BALKI MOMENTS:

"Momma told me never to do the dance of joy alone, or I would go blind."

From one of my favorite episodes:

And the Mypos cure for the common cold:

"Well, feed me garlic and call me stinky!"

'80s SONG OF THE DAY...

"Don't You Want Me"

Human League

1982

'80s SONG OF THE DAY...

Here's a fun game...Play the video below WITHOUT WATCHING and see if you can identify all of the voices. It's fun! I did surprisingly well when I tried it - see how you do!

"We Are the World"

USA for Africa

1986

'80s SONG OF THE DAY...

"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)

by Dead or Alive

1985

'80s SONG OF THE DAY...

"Never Tear Us Apart"

by INXS

1988

'80s SONG OF THE DAY...

"We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off"

by Jermaine Stewart

1986

'80s SONG OF THE DAY...

"Meet Me Halfway"

Kenny Loggins

1987

'80s SONG OF THE DAY...

"Break My Stride"

Matthew Wilder

1984

'80s SONG OF THE DAY...

"Fallen Angel"

Poison

1988

'80s SONG OF THE DAY...

"Say It Isn't So"

by Hall & Oates

1984