My Top 100 of 1987!
The meme goes like this: get a top 100 hits of the year you graduated high school and mark how you felt about each song. For me, red means I loved it, black means I hate it,blue means I liked it, tan reflects indifference, pink, guilty pleasure, orange, I've never heard of it/can't remember and green hated it then, like it now.
1. "Faith".....George Michael
2. "Alone".....Heart
3. "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" .....Whitney Houston
4. "C'est la Vie".....Robbie Nevil
5. "Shake You Down".....Gregory Abbott
6. "La Bamba".....Los Lobos
7. "Livin' On A Prayer".....Bon Jovi
8. "Here I Go Again".....Whitesnake
9. "Heaven Is A Place On Earth".....Belinda Carlisle
10. "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life".....Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes
11. "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now".....Starship
12. "I Think We're Alone Now".....Tiffany
13. "With Or Without You".....U2
14. "At This Moment".....Billy Vera and the Beaters
15. "Keep Your Hands To Yourself".....Georgia Satellites
16. "Heart And Soul".....T'Pau
17. "Open Your Heart".....Madonna
18. "Didn't We Almost Have It All".....Whitney Houston
19. "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For".....U2
20. "Looking For A New Love".....Jody Watley
21. "Don't Dream It's Over".....Crowded House
22. "Is This Love".....Whitesnake
23. "Shake Your Love".....Debbie Gibson
24. "Shakedown".....Bob Seger
25. "Notorious".....Duran Duran
26. "I Want Your Sex".....George Michael
27. "The Lady In Red".....Chris DeBurgh
28. "Always".....Atlantic Starr
29. "Head To Toe".....Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
30. "Mony Mony".....Billy Idol
31. "Only In My Dreams".....Debbie Gibson
32. "Land Of Confusion".....Genesis
33. "Lost In Emotion"....Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
34. "Should've Known Better".....Richard Marx
35. "You Keep Me Hanging On".....Kim Wilde
36. "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)".....Samantha Fox
37. "Lean On Me".....Club Nouveau
38. "Catch Me (I'm Falling)".....Poison
39. "I Knew You Were Waiting".....Aretha Franklin & George Michael
40. "(I Just) Died In Your Arms".....Cutting Crew
41. "Control".....Janet Jackson
42. "Somewhere Out There".....Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram
43. "U Got The Look".....Prince
44. "Don't You Want Me".....Jody Watley
45. "Jacob's Ladder".....Huey Lewis and the News
46. "I Heard A Rumour".....Bananarama
47. "Little Lies".....Fleetwood Mac
48. "Songbird".....Kenny G
49. "Breakout".....Swing Out Sister
50. "Someday".....Glass Tiger
51. "Bad".....Michael Jackson
52. "In Too Deep:.....Genesis
53. "I Just Can't Stop Loving You".....Michael Jackson & Siedah Garrett
54. "La Isla Bonita".....Madonna
cause it was in Spanish55. "Let's Wait Awhile".....Janet Jackson
56. "Luka".....Suzanne Vega
57. "You Got It All".....The Jets
58. "Who's That Girl".....Madonna
59. "Don't Mean Nothing".....Richard Marx
60. "Come On With Me".....Expose
61. "Will You Still Love Me?".....Chicago
62. "Wanted Dead Or Alive".....Bon Jovi
63. "Don't Disturb This Groove".....The System
64. "Change Of Heart".....Cyndi Lauper
65. "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You".....Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine
66. "Casanova".....Levert
67. "When Smokey Sings".....ABC
68."Is This Love".....Survivor
69. "The Finer Things".....Steve Winwood
70. "Rock Steady".....The Whispers
71. "Big Time".....Peter Gabriel
72. "Point Of No Return".....Expose
73. "We'll Be Together".....Sting
74. "Something So Strong".....Crowded House
75. "Victory".....Kool and the Gang
76. "The One I Love"......R.E.M.
77. "Causing A Commotion".....Madonna
78. "Sign O' The Times".....Prince
79. "Carrie".....Europe
80. "Mandolin Rain".....Bruce Hornsby and the Range
81. "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight".....Genesis
82. "Can't We Try".....Dan Hill with Vonda Sheppard
Dan who? Vonda what?83. "Diamonds".....Herb Albert
84. "Heart Of The Night".....Bryan Adams
85. "Let Me Be The One".....Expose
86. "Brilliant Disguise".....Bruce Springsteen
87. "Midnight Blue".....Lou Gramm
88. "Just To See Her".....Smokey Robinson
89. "Doing It All For My Baby".....Huey Lewis and the News
b90. "Valerie".....Steve Winwood
91. "Cross My Broken Heart".....The Jets
92. "Ballerina Girl".....Lionel Richie
93. "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You".....Glenn Medeiros
94. "It's A Sin".....Pet Shop Boys
95. "I've Been In Love Before".....Cutting Crew
96. "Wipeout".....Fat Boys & Beach Boys
wow! I'd love to hear this!97. "Big Love".....Fleetwood Mac
98. "Respect Yourself".....Bruce Willis
You're kidding!99. "Who Will You Run To?.....Heart
100. "Right On Track".....Breakfast Club
What, like the movie?Now, you might notice that there's a lot more orange for "Never heard of it" than there is red for "Loved it". This is probably because in high school, I was trying my damndest to be "alternative", which in the Chicago suburbs meant not only wearing all black and lots of eyeliner when not in Catholic School Uniform, but also listening to obscure music. The weirder the better. If you got into a concert that had fewer audience members than band members, you hit the jackpot of cool! Next day at school you could say, "I saw "The Disappointments" or "Afterbirth" just so everybody could say, "the who?, the what?" or "Eeeewww!" (So satisfying!) In any case, many of my own personal choice top 100 can be found at the left margin of this blog. Check it out if you're interested.
posted by Susan in Italy @ 3:45 PM
18 Comments:
WOW!!!!!
100 of those! Great job Susan!!
Don't ever tag me for this, bcos I can't and won't do it:D:D
i have the WORST medley reapting in my head now. thanks...;)
okay, now i'm picturing you, manga-style, in a catholic plaid skirt and loads of black eyeliner with pigtails. wow, a dose of 1987 so early in the morning... how will the rest of my day go?
You and I love the same songs. I was a huge George Michael fan. Actually, I still am (blushing). I also love anything by U2. Great meme!!!!
Do you really hate Fleetwood Mac "Big Love"? I can't believe it.
Ok Asha, I'm not saddling anybody with this meme!
Hi Tracie, You mean worse than having the Honeydripper's "Sea of Love" going through your head all day? "Come with me, my love. To the sea, the sea of love...." My best friend in high school used to sing that in the morning just so it would plague me all day long.
Hi Melissa, He he! too bad for me Manga is a lot cuter than I was!
Hi Beenzzz, I almost put George Michael in the "guilty pleasures" category! U2 was everything back then!
Hi a.c.t., So sorry, nothing by Fleetwood Mac makes me happy. Especially Stevie Nick's smoker's voice. But for some reason, I had you pegged for a Smiths fan. Am I wrong?
Great list!
I love these lists. It's like a trip down memory lane.
I had totally forgotten about "When Smokey Sings" So catchy!
I think you and I are twins, separated at birth. I graduated the same year and had very eerily similar tastes. Nice to know I wasn't alone.
Hi Loulou, That's great! You're in France now, but where did you grow up?
I grew up in Washington State.
Hehe, I may have one or two Smiths songs in my collection, spot on Susan. I wonder, what made you think that? I do really love Fleetwood Mac as well though, surely it's possible to be a fan of both no? Oh my God, I've just noticed you have Chris De Burgh in blue! You and me need to have words...
Thanks Loulou!
I think it was your film interests that I associated with the Smiths, if that makes any sense. It's certainly poss. to be a fan of them and Mac but back in my high school, it was not! We were like Mods and Rockers. As for DeBurgh, it's just an anecdotal thing. It brings back a memory of my friend Paul serenading (really well) my friend Ange, and they're still married now so I love it.
Were there taboo musical likes in your school? Our #1 was glam metal (Whitesnake, for ex.)
Great list, Susan - we have a Catholic High school at the top of our road and I've noticed that a fair amount of the girls (and boys) seem to enjoy rebelling with dark makeup and black nailpolish, jet black hair and so on. Despite their uniform, they're always so interesting to look at! Well, just saying this because I can now picture you in high school! :)
1987...good times. This list brought back some memories. I hate to see what the list of 2006 will look like. :)
butigottathinktwice...beforeigivemyheartawayandiknowallthegamesyouplaybecausethemtoo...
There was another song from 1987 called "Notorious"...it was by Loverboy...and it really rocked! A couple of other good songs from 1987 were "Lessons in Love" by Level 42, "Dominoes" by Robbie Neville, and "Should I See" by Frozen Ghost.
For me, 1987 was one of the best years ever.
Hi Lotus, Oh am I embarrassed!
Hi Ragazza, God, I'm so out of touch, I don't even know if I'd recognize the 2006 top 100.
Hi Tracey, Ok, here's a better one: "Laaast Christmas, I gave you my heart, and the very next day, you gave it awaayyy..."
Hi Anonymous, Thanks for stopping by! I loved Level 42! I think a lot of the best songs did not make it into the top 100.
...thiiiis yeee-ah, to save me from teee-ahs, i'll give it someone special special...once bitten and twice as shy, ikeep my distance but you still catch my eye...tell me babay do you recognize me? well, it's been a year, it doesn't surprise me...
heart-breaking, isn't it?
face on a lover with a fire in his heart, man undercover and she TAW me apa-hart...ooh ooh...
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