Hits from 1986

[frualeydis]

saree_snowqueenposted a meme about hits from the year you turned 18.
This is the original meme:
"Go to Pop Culture Madness (http://www.popculturemadness.com/Music/Pop-Modern/2006.html) and select the year you became 18. Snip the best 50 songs from the list and paste it in your journal. Bold the ones you like and strike the ones you dislike, italic the ones you know but don't like nor dislike and the ones you don't know will stay common text."

But, as I commented in her journal, music was very different in Europe and in the US in the 80s, so maybe I recognized ten songs from the 1986 Billboard top 100.
So I also went to Tracks, which is a radio show on national radio in Sweden. It's not a sales list, instead the listeners (in 1986 pretty much everyone between 13 and 20) voted.

So here is my list, it includes quite a lot of swedish artists, and very few from the US. i didn't select the 50 I liked best, but took the top 50 for that year.

Tracks:


1 The final countdown - Europe
2 Dover-Calais - Style
3 Touch me - Samantha Fox
4 A question of lust - Depeche Mode
5 Take my breath away - Berlin
6 (I just died) in your arms - Cutting crew
7 Notorius - Duran Duran
8 Russians - Sting
9 The lady in red - Chris de Burgh
10 Glory of love - Peter Cetera
11 Ifrån - Adolphson-Falk
12 Jeanny part 1 - Falco
13 The sun always shines on TV - A-HA
14 Joey killer - Magnus Uggla
15 The runaway - Carola
16 Papa don't preach - Madonna
17 Stranded - Tone Norum
18 Kyrie - Mr.Mister
19 Suburbia - Pet Shop Boys
20 Hanging on a heart attack - Device
21 West end girls - Pet shop boys
22 In the army now - Status Quo
23 Dance with me - Alphaville
24 Lessons in Love - Level 42
25 Coming home (Jeanny part 2, one year later ) - Falco
26 True blue - Madonna
27 Stop (give it up) - Paul Rein
28 Nasty - Janet Jackson
29 I've been losing you - A-HA
30 Oh l'amour - Erasure
31 True colours - Cyndi Lauper
32 A different corner - George Michael
33 Greatest love of all - Whitney Houston
34 Sara - Starship
35 Var e' vargen? - Imperiet
36 Neverending love - Roxette
37 Why can't this be love? - Van Halen
38 Calling america - ELO
39 Every time - Münchener Freiheit
40 Christmas time - Bryan Adams
41 Move away - Culture Club
42 Thorn in my side - Eurythmics
43 When tomorrow comes -Eurythmics
44 They say it's gonna rain - Hazell Dean
45 Jackie - Ratata
46 Atlantis is calling (SOS for love) - Modern talking
47 How I know? Whitney Huoston
48 You give love a bad name - Bon Jovi
49 Opportunities (Let's make lots of money) - Pet shop boys
50 Bolero (hold me in your arms again) - Fancy


The US list:

1. That's What Friends Are For - Dionne & Friends
2. Addicted To Love - Robert Palmer
3. Kiss - Prince
4. Walk This Way - Run D.M.C./Aerosmith
5. Living In America - James Brown
6. Take My Breath Away - Berlin
7. Burning Heart - Survivor
8. Walk Like An Egyptian - The Bangles
9. The Sweetest Taboo - Sade
10. You Give Love A Bad Name - Bon Jovi
11. Higher Love - Steve Winwood
12. Never As Good As The First Time - Sade
13. Greatest Love Of All - Whitney Houston
14. Tarzan Boy - Baltimora
15. Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
16. You're A Friend Of Mine - Clarence Clemons & Jackson Browne
17. Manic Monday - The Bangles
18. Glory Of Love - Peter Cetera
19. Like A Rock - Bob Seger
20. I Knew The Bride (When She Used To Rock and Roll) - Nick Lowe
21. Word Up - Cameo
22. Conga - Miami Sound Machine
23. The Men All Pause - Klymaxx
24. In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
25. Live To Tell - Madonna
26. Dancing On The Ceiling - Lionel Richie
27. Venus - Bananarama
28. Typical Male - Tina Turner
29. Take Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money
30. Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
31. I Can't Wait - Nu Shooz
32. If You Leave - O.M.D.
33. You Be Illin' - Run DMC
34. Crush On You - The Jets
35. The Rain - Oran "Juice" Jones
36. Papa Don't Preach - Madonna
37. Mad About You - Belinda Carlisile
38. R.O.C.K. In The USA - John "Cougar" Melloncamp
39. Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins
40. Words Get In The Way - Miami Sound Machine
41. Walk Of Life - Dire Straits
42. I'm Your Man - Wham!
43. West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
44. All Cried Out - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam With Full Force
45. We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off - Jermaine Stewart
46. My Hometown - Bruce Springsteen
47. On My Own - Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald
48. Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung
49. All I Need Is A Miracle - Mike & the Mechanics
50. Tuff Enuff - Fabulous Thunderbirds

Comments

[armillary.livejournal.com]

I tried that one, but I know like five songs or so from 1992.

I guess that's one reason why I'll never master TP.

[myralea.livejournal.com]

you look great in that icon, really and truly!
although i am glad to be reminded i am not the only one who had a somewhat questionable hairdo in the 80s ;)

/m

[therru.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful picture!

I had dreadlocks in 1986. Red ones. :D

There is no Tracks list for all of 1984, unfortunately, since they only started that year. I looked up the top twenty for the 17th of November that year. I knew seven of them.

[clothsprogs.livejournal.com]

I only recognized seven titles on the US list.

Teddy

[ginger-dragon.livejournal.com]

This brings back memories. I've got to do this too. :-)

[billy-oblivionx.livejournal.com]

I know quite a few of the songs but I didn't buy any of them.
And I love the photo too.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, isn't it lovely? I had black and white striped trousers on too.

/Eva