Nostalgia Run Amok: BYH & Bubbler Live BLOG! AT40 from 4/6/85

When was the long-distance dedication? Wasn't it usually somewhere around No. 30?

 

The songs that fell out this week:

Second Nature. Dan Hartman
Misled, Kool and the Gang
I Want To Know What Love Is, Foreigner
This Is Not America, David Bowie and the Pat Metheny Group

I had no idea Dan Hartman had another hit.

Take it Bubbler!

 

I know I Want To Know What Love Is hit no. 1. I think Misled hit the top five.

"Don't Come Around Here No more" is one of the great videos of the era. I thought it debuted later in the summer though. I believe this is the album TP was working on when he punched a wall and nearly ruined his right hand.

That's right. I got facts, bitches.

 

This song is where I realized Dave Stewart from the Eurthymics wasn't just some dope who hunched over a keyboard while Annie Lennox did her andy-rogny thing, he had some chops.

And unlike most, I always thought the video was average at best. Alice In Wonderland imagery doesn't do it for me.

 

Meh. Cream pwns the whole Clapton catalog.

Think I'll go spin Badge now.

 

Don't forget Instant Replay from back in the disco era. He was a chart force!

 

By the way, I know exactly what I was doing on April 6, 1985 ... not getting laid.

Just like now!

 

Commercial time!

Except there are no commercials. Awesome.

35.) New Attitude, Pattie LaBelle

her first hit in 10 years. You go Patti!

 

No. 35: New Attitude -- Patti LaBelle

My attitude towards this song isn't new since '85. It sucks ... out loud.

 

If I remember correctly, this is the song in which the hot video-directing team of ex-10ccers Godley & Creme wanted Clapton to dress in drag, but he refused.

The 80s were the opposite of the 60s, thanks to the new Reagan morality -- if you remember them, then you were really there.

 

This truly was the golden age of syn-drums and cheesy synths. How did anyone have sex to this music?

 

The Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack was the anti-Glitter. It could do no wrong. Bubbler and I could have farted for three and a half minutes and it would have hit the top 20.

Speaking of which: Oh man. I hope "Party All The Time" is on this week. I might just shit my pants if it is.