Songs I'm sure are not #1
Is it You - DC Star
She's Got it All - Trigger Happy
Fire in the Hole - by
MTV 1st day'ers BootCamp (Why 1982 and not 1984
In my mind Thriller wasn't even the best 15 minute song of '82
Telegraph Road - Dire Straits How can a song about
the history of the building of America and one man's dreams not be pure Tim? Okay maybe the "crumbling" part.
There is only one way to rock - Sammy Hagar seems in title to go against the diversity embraced in this thread but I think it might say just the opposite.
Dirty Laundry - Don Henley - This album in the earlier linked review was a disappointment, but this song is still played all the time (and probably makes more sense today than it did in 1982)
Crazy - Supertramp might not be famous last words, but one of my favorites
When the Tiger Broke Free - Pink Floyd is such an emotional song. Sure it probably represents the beginning of the end, but there was still a year before we knew that.
If I had to pick a song that most represents 1982 (that wasn't released in 1981 or earlier) it
would have to be this, like it or not.
And, while off a disappointing album for retailer, and by a group few remember, the best song of 1982
would be this one. (Though I think this video is from the 1984 version as opposed to where
it was first heard.)
I doubt any of these made very many top 100 lists, Tim's or others. And I'm sure 1982 just got even worse for
@BassNBrew .
I listed a lot of local groups here that I expect most never heard of, but without MTV, often poor radio reception at home, a lot of what this just turned 18
(just before the deadline to be grandfathered in before the rising drinking age back to 21) was listening to was local
or available from Columbia House. Funny thing is, my song of 1982 was from a band that was local, but I first heard played on the radio a thousand miles away. But leaving out the 1981 "old guard" songs that were big in the winter, and the 1981 and older songs from "strange new groups" that owned the fall, these are representative snippets of what I remember of 1982. Not trying to hijack Tim's countdown or have much of a discussion, just reminiscing.
Speaking of which when you get to 1983, there is also a song released in that year which was recorded by the group that played my senior prom in 1982. When they were booked they were going by the name Paper Cup. By spring of '82 they morphed into Shor Patrol and they had a modest hit on their 1983 EP -
Loverboy which you'll swear is on dozens of early '80s movie soundtracks.
Which I'm not saying is a good thing. While not yet at college, by summer break of '83 my parents had cable and the distraction of MTV so I'd probably forget this in a 1983 thread.
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