I was a senior in high school in 1987. It was one of the best years of my life. For you youngsters out there, sorry you missed it. The 80's were awesome!
1987 was the best and worst year of my life. I was 16 years-old and my best friend's father bought a brand new IROC-Z Camaro. His claim was it was going to be his last sports car, and unfortunately he was right. He was terminally ill and didn't get to enjoy the car much, but he made sure I got to enjoy it for him. My best friend was a year younger, at 15 and couldn't drive yet so I had use of that car pretty much anytime I wanted it. My best friend's father took me out, taught me how to drive a stick, and most days I ended up taking it to school. Anytime I wanted to go out, he'd throw me the keys. He is probably the reason I was so into cars as a young man. He had a 1981 Turbo Trans Am that I used to drool over, but never got to drive as he got rid of it before I had a permit or license. He passed six days before Christmas that year, and I got together with the woman who would later become my ex-wife about a week later. We spent many nights in that car, parked, reclined the seats back, looking at the stars and rain through the T-Tops listening to Debbie Gibson, Tiffany, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, REO Speedwagon, Styx, and Richard Marx. I even lost my "V" in that car! A 1988 IROC-Z was my third car and I still miss it, it was the only vehicle in probably about 30 now that I ever regret getting rid of. Every once in a while, a song takes me back to those nights in that Camaro.
1984-1987 was the greatest era in music history! The 80s were amazing! Glad I was a part of it! Love the videos on this channel, but the Redux ones are my favorite! I love the nostalgia aspect of them
Yeah nah! 1983 was an epic year in music history with The Police, Def Leppard, David Bowie, Yes, The Tubes, Golden Earing, Duran Duran, Nena (99 Luftballons), Genesis, Mena at Work, Thompson Twins, Asia, Thomas Dolby, ZZ Top, The Fixx, Madness, U2, Howard Jones, INXS, Ozzy, the list is endless.
There was so much great music around in the mid- to late-80s and I didn't appreciate these - I scorned most of it especially the girlie pop of Tiffany and Debbie Gibson. But they sound so good today with al the dross around like Taylor Swift and Beyince.
@@amandajingleheimerschmidt3050 Actually i graduated December 1990. I'm panamanian and here our school year is from march to December. But pretty close!
1971 borne and 1989 HS graduate. Ya bet your bottom dollared arse that the 1980s decade was phenomenal!!! Also, the mid-late1970s when Saturday Morning Cartoons WAAAAY RULED!!!! For my time I It began at 5:30 am and lasted until 10-11am. And then picked up in early-late Saturday afternoon with half-hour comedies: Alice Laverne and Shirley The Carol Burnett Show And drama: Wonder Woman
@@lLushKittyOh wow... I had the biggest crush on Lynda Carter as a kid. It was bitter-sweet to see her appear in the 2005 theatrical release of 'Dukes Of Hazzard'. All in all she aged pretty gracefully.
I graduated High School and bought my first crappy car in June of 1987. I had an older brother who was an electronics wiz and he installed my first CD player in that same crappy car. Whitesnake, Guns and Roses, Def Leppard, Great White, all released albums around that time. I miss that car and I miss my brother.
Fellow 87-er here...had my trusty 8-track in my 1976 Plymouth Volare station wagon with the always popular wood-paneled sides (don't hate). I have mixed emotions about that damned car...but I miss my two besties who passed much too early who joined me in that car, boom box, in hand, many times. Always in my heart, J&J.
MY LETTER TO U2-1987 I saw you guys on the Joshua Tree tour in 1987 at MTSU-Middle Tennessee State University Saturday November 28th 1987. The Bodeans opened up for you. I remember at the time Larry had a crush on Wynonna Judd and she came out and sang a duo with Bono! I didn't have tickets to the show. A friend of mine drove us 3 hours from East Tennessee to see the show. We bought tickets at the box office for $18.50. We ended up 8th row center stage! I remember back then the band held back tickets for fans who were willing to make the drive and couldn't get tickets via phone or record store locations. Thanks again to Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr for making a special album and tour! I was 18 and had just graduated High School that year! All the Best! Gary Lagstrom
1987 was my favorite year in music, and I vividly remember this Top 10 from that time. I was 15 years old in the Philippines and would spend every Sunday afternoon listening to all four hours of Casey Kasem’s American Top 40.
Worked in a record store in Los Angeles that year and personally sold hundreds of copies of these in cassette, album and even a few CDs. What great memories and thanks for your amazing channel.
😅😅😅 me too! The warehouse records and tapes. I worked in the promenade Mall Just down the street from the famous Topanga Mall. My pumped out a bunch of this crap.😅😅😅
I was 14 in 1987 & now I'm 52 but I swear I feel like I'm still in the 80's! It truly was an amazing time to be alive and to grow up in!! From new wave to the big hair bands, no music can compare to the 80's music!! Love the music and love your channel thank you!!!♡♡♡♡
1987 in Europe was a year in which Pet shop boys were all over.Radio,discos,great album sales with “Actually” and singles like “Always on my mind”, “Heart” ,“It’s a sin” ,Rent,“ What have i done to deserve this”.I still remember walking and listening to “It’s a sin” with my sony walkman. “Actually” is still a great pop album.
LOL. Yeah, 1987, "amazing year" for music, you're as much of clueless imbecile as the maker of this dopey video, lmfao. The idea that we were all sitting around in '87 thinking this was some golden year, or "these are the days" is HILARIOUS. Were you always steeped in mediocrity, Willie? It's a hallmark of that moron decade, do you know that? lol
1987 was THE year in music. I never go long without listening to something from that year. Hysteria, Kick, The Joshua Tree, Appetite, the Cure's Kiss Me³, Permanent Vacation-Aerosmith's come back. Seriously. 87 was the year.
Trivia, Michelle Phillips and her daughter Chynna Phillips, who didn’t even form Wilson Phillips yet, sing background vocals on the song “heaven is a place on earth “ by Belinda Carlisle
Thank you for this. ‘87 was what I consider to be the best year of my life. Was in the military stationed in England so when we had time to hit the clubs it was British DJs playing the list you went down. I spent the next 10+ years trying to duplicate that “vibe” but failed. Great memories!
In Australia (Melbourne) you get your licence at 18. 1987 I turned 18 and got my licence in October getting ready for the summer of 1987/88. What a truly amazing time it was. The late 70s and all of the 80's was a brilliant time to be young. 1984 was my favourite year of the 80s ever.❤❤
Couple of years behind you didn't quite have my license to go hooning around just yet..... remember the yeah well though. Nice to see an Aussie mention with Icehouse in the honourable mentions.
This is another great episode especially about music and television shows in 1987 I was 23 years old and I had a crush on Debbie Gibson and Tiffany MTV was still really enjoyable, tv shows were still watchable and as always thank you for showing the best music from the 80's and the interviews Thanks Professor.🎶📻memories of the 80's 📻🎶
When I think of the 80s and music, the thing that takes me back the most is Queen's "Radio Gaga", the performance from Live Aid. When I introduce that song to younger people who don't know it, I tell them about what it was like to listen to music before the video age, before the digital streaming and mp3 age before auto-tune. The days of intently listening to radio late at night in the dark, with only the light of the tuner window and LEDs so that you could hit record button at the right moment to capture that song to make your "mix tape". Waking up on Sunday morning to listen to the Top 40 Countdown with Casey Casem. "Radio Gaga" nailed it for me. The line, "We hardly need to use our ears. How music changes through the years." hits me hard and takes me back to the old days before MTV, streaming, and on-demand. Those were the days!
Having a rough time...Having to put down a beloved dog, having some health issues and kind of depressed. Just past Midnight on Thanksgiving and I see an episode of POR has posted earlier. It was thirty minutes of bliss. These top 10 shows just immerse me in a type of joy I cannot explain. Thank you Adam and Happy Thanksgiving to you.
2 days ago I had to put my beloved baby boy chip to sleep. Broke my right humerus bone the stress of putting my baby down caused my celiac disease to flare up. Anyway, I'm sorry for your loss. I literally feel your pain my friend. ❤ 😢 just prayed for you. ❤❤❤ ty for sharing what you did. Happy Thanksgiving sweetheart.
BWAHAHAHAHA! 86-90 was the absolute WORST, and it's been crap ever since! you're celebrating 86-90??!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Youv'e got the whole history of music, and you arrive at 86-90 as some kind of golden period, holy smokes are you a brainless twit or what?!!! LOL. What are you cheering on, Aussie, Midnight Oil? LOL. What a joke. You need help. I mean, of the dopey 80s, it's the the first four years that are the great ones, not the last four! Holy smokes, thanks for the laugh, Clueless David! Good luck with your lack of taste. "86-90, lol" Now I've heard everything. People LOVE to celebrate mediocrity, don't they?
@@BoccanNinojust looked at Australia’s top 20 in 1987. Remember suddenly from the Scott and Charlene wedding? 🤦♀️😂seriously though we were so lucky to have our own awesome bands and be exposed to international bands. My personal “ one summer” was 86/87, beaches,friends,bands,romances…….met my husband at Sydney’s Australian made concert. Magic,just magic ,and it was held on Australia Day 1987 near Cronulla. 👌
Yeah, 87 was a real blast with the world getting sold out and creating the horrible nightmare we're living in now! Let's celebrate mediocrity, yay!!!!! Poor Jane, lol.
In 1987 I was playing drums in a south Florida cover band and (briefly) dating a woman who worked as an overnight DJ. I would drive my fifteen-year-old Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser station wagon (full of drums) to the studio after my gigs and sit with her while she finished her shift. Although we only dated for a month or two, it was definitely during the period that all of these songs were on the charts. When she would get off work, we would go to a diner for breakfast and then to one of our apartments. I hadn't thought of "Wendy" in over thirty years. I do remember that she had a brand-new silver Volkswagen Rabbit Cabriolet and that she always had the top down unless it was raining. We attended a Richard Marx Concert when this was his hit on the radio. We had backstage passes, since she was a local Dj and stood just off stage for the whole show, watching from the wings. It was a lot of fun. Thank you for dusting off these memories.
Night Court is and always has been my favorite TV show of all time. As for Debbie Gibson vs Tiffany, a girl named Misty in Jr High asked me who I liked better and told her Tiffany, the following Monday she came to school with dark red hair, done like hers. Of course I had to start dating her going to all that trouble for me. It helped that I liked her before that, I just didn't know she liked me the same way. God I miss those innocent days, the old "I like you, do you like me circle one Yes or No" and of course they would add "maybe" and circle it. Hope she's met someone amazing and had the family she always wanted and deserves.
I worked in a record store back in 1987 and we had practilly every album as demos to be played over the speakers. I avoided Tiffany and Debbie Gibson like the plague. But your show on this brought back so many memories as a 17 year old kid who working in a record store. Thanks for the episode.
I worked in a record store in '87.......that year SUCKED for music, lol. The idea that someone is celebrating 1987 like it's some golden year is freaking HILARIOUS. The internet, man....what a wasteland of imbeciles making videos. This ignorant doofus actually has over a million subscribers, amazing.
And none of these songs were in the top ten of Billboard's top 100 of 1987. The true list: 1. The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian 2. Heart - Alone 3. Gregory Abbott - Shake You Down 4. Whiney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody 5. Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now 6. Robbie Neville - C'est La Vie 7. Whitesnake - Here I Go Again 8. Bruce Hornsby - The Way It Is 9. Bob Seger - Shakedown 10. Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer
Ah man what a refreshing blast of nostalgia. Back in '89 my friend's brother worked at a local radio station and he got us free tickets to the Debbie Gibson concert so we thought we would go for "shits and grins." It turned out I really dug it.
✨ 1987 ✨ A fantastic year for music -Timeless music!! ❤️ Black - Wonderful Life Madonna - La Isla Bonita Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me Depeche Mode - Strangelove Crowded House - Don't Dream is Over Johny Hates Jazz - Shattered Dreams U2 - Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin INXS - Need You Tonight Whitesnake - Is This Love And many, many more... 😃🎶
In the UK 1987 is when the Pet Shop Boys entered their "Imperial" era, It's a Sin, What Have I Done to Deserve This? and Rent were singles from the album Actually. Then they claimed the Christmas no. 1 with Always on My Mind.
I left home at 17 in that year, and '87 was definitely the biggest year in Pop hits. It was a perfect salad bowl of virtually everything imaginable. Adam, I really love that notion of comparing the charts then to now. There's a bunch of ways to do it, as you mentioned, I say go for it.
I didn’t have a Crowded House cassette at the time but I absolutely loved that song. I bought the “Best Of” album (CD) about 10 years ago - it is still is one of my best musical investments!
Love this segment! I feel 1987 was one of few best years in music. I loved so George Michael so much. I never got to see him on concert on until his last concert tour - Live 25. It was def worth the wait. I was crushed by his passing.
So was I.....but i had WAY better taste. The 80s was a decade of abject mediocrity, and there were two types of people: those who were steeped in it, and those who were disgusted by it. Guess which you were!
The problem with "I Think We're Alone Now" is that Weird Al's classic "I Think I'm A Clone Now" overwrites it in my mind when hearing it. LOL. There are TONS of songs from 1987 that would fit into the greats for the year. Some excellent examples: Aerosmith - Angel or Dude Looks Like a Lady, Bananarama - Love in First Degree, Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter, Big Trouble - Dangerous (from "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure"), Blue Room - Everytime You Go Away, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band - Shakedown, Bryan Adams - Only The Strong Survive, any of the Def Leppard songs from "Hysteria", Echo and the Bunnymen - People Are Strange, George Harrison - Cloud 9 and Got My Mind Set On You, George Michael - I Want Your Sex, Guns 'N Roses - Paradise City/Sweet Child of Mine/Welcome to the Jungle, Heart - Alone and I Want You So Bad, Hue and Cry - Labour of Love, Icehouse - Electric Blue, Immaculate Fools - Tragic Comedy, INXS - Kick/Never Tear Us Apart/New Sensation, Janet Jackson - Pleasure Principal, Johnny Hates Jazz - Shattered Dreams, Living in a Box - Living in a Box, Los Lobos - La Bamba, Men Without Hats - Pop Goes The World, Miami Sound Machine - Rhythm Is Gonna Get You, Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning, The Outfield - Since You've Been Gone, all of the Pet Shop Boys songs from "Actually", Prince and Sheena Easton - U Got The Look, Pseudo Echo - Funkytown (one of a all-time favorites as a kid), REM - It's the End of the World As We Know It, Sinéad O'Connor - I Want Your (Hands On Me), Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now, Taylor Dayne - Don't Rush Me and Prove Your Love, Yello - Goldrush, and Yes - Love Will Find A Way.
A few years ago I got to meet (and get hugs and autographs from) Debbie, Tiffany, and Lisa Lisa...I was immediately taken back 30 years, and it was AWESOME!
I was 17 in 1987, and I can attest to the fact that there has indeed not, NOT been a year like 87' for music and movies!! I wish we all could go back, if only for a summer break weekend!!! LOVE to my fellow GEN X!!! ❤❤
Wow! What a Flashback. I got to hear Springsteen and the E Street Band every day from the 2nd of January 1988 until some time in May. He and the band rehearsed for his "Tunnel of Love" tour in the building I was stationed at in Red Bank, New Jersey. Every day at 12 noon we locked the building up as the band came in to rehearse. Funny story, I met him in the mens room at the urinal about a week in. He's the nicest guy. Some of us would hang out at the end of our day and take in the show.
Really great memory. That happens to be one of my favorite songs! Tunnel of Love! My brother said the same exact thing about Bruce. He was a garbage truck driver and happened to see Bruce and yelled " I love ya Brother" Bruce laughed and waved. My brother hit his air horn. Bruce laughed, an threw up a peace sign, and a huge smile. I have a cell picture of it. 🤘
We saw him live in Sydney a lil while back, mate he is a great singer songwriter,engaged the crowd, was very self deprecating…….and the a-ha came out, was never a fan in the 80’s ( as I found it “ dicky” ) ,but will look out for him coming out again. Great performance.
Best Albums 1987 1.Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing The Hardline 2.Michael Jackson - Bad 3.George Michael - Faith 4.Prince - Sign O the Times 5.U2 - Joshua Tree
Ain't that the truth! You don't know whatcha got till it's gone! I was young and naive back then, and had not quite developed an appreciation for all that awesome 1980s music. I should clarify that I was BORN in 1987, and this video makes me proud of it!
1987 was the year I bought my first walkman and my first album (The Joshua Tree by U2). Someone picked up a Billboard 100 chart printout from a record store and didn't find any use for it. I picked it up and studied it like a text book, memorizing it better than any of my school work. It was such a magical year, I'd give anything to relive it.
1987 and especially this time in 1987 was my pop culture awakening INXS kick, Michael Jackson's bad, pink Floyd a momentary lapse of reason, rush hold your fire, George Michael Faith def Leppard hysteria and Fleetwood Mac tango in the night were my soundtrack for movies there was plains, trains and automobiles, throw momma from the train, innerspace and much more what an amazing year
I got to visit the Lake Lure NC Dirty Dancing filming location in 1989 and stood on Baby’s bridge and steps and was inside Johnnys cabin and the little dance lesson room where they did the come here Loverboy skit. Also stood where they did the last dance lift scene. What memories and I cherish those few pictures I took while there. I have since worked my family tree and some of my ancestors lived in that very area many years ago. That is a magical beautiful area and the film was one of those that everything worked even tho back then they didn’t think so but it’s magical and that song, just fit. I haven’t been to the Mountain Lake, Virginia filming location but that’s on my bucket list! Nothing will ever top that original movie.
@@marktait2371 that is sooo cool. We both have awesome memories of the movie. I know they practiced the lift scene at Mountain Lake in the water and the water is gone now but it’s done that before so it will be back, just don’t know when. They filmed the final dance and lift scene at Lake Lure in what was an old boys camp and the stage and dancing was in the old gym. Yes I will get to Mountain Lake one day and stay at the Inn.
Bore off! I have been forced to watch that god awful movie too many times. Thanks Vicki for wasting days of my life on that. Still love you sweetheart but I won't be watching next time it's on TV
1987 was such a good year for music. If I were in charge, I'd like to see the format of a) Top 5 on the charts that week b) Top 5 that SHOULD have been on the charts that week and c) Top 5 all time plays/streams from the top 100 chart from that week.
Hey Professor. Long time viewer. Love your channel, one of my favourite places to spend time. Finally found someone who has a religious like belief in music like myself. Love the idea of the 5 and 5. Stay blessed my musical brother. ✌️
The Professor of Rock busting out the goods last several days. Man that's a lot of editing and production. TY for the efforts and hopefully you have a great holiday this week!!! Mahe Ohna ✌️ Favour ALL
Personally, for me, 1987 was the last “great” year of music in the 80s, 1988 was pretty good too, with some songs and albums being carried over from the previous year. I didn’t care too much about releases from 1989, the material was beginning to sound more like the 90s(thinking back on it now). The 80s will always be the overall favourite decade of music for me.
BONUS EPISODE FOR THANKSGIVING EVE!! 1987....... I just graduated college. Man, seems forever ago. The Movies seemed better back then. Music too! Happy Thanksgiving to everybody near and far. I have to hide til Friday to be safe. 🤣
I sometimes wonder what we all were thinking musically at that time as many of these “hit” songs leave a LOT to be desired, but then they take me back and the memories remind me of why, of a different more innocent time when the future was bright and anything was possible. Even if most of these songs on their own aren’t that special, they were central to that time and that alone makes them quite magical.
This also means that Weird Al's "Even Worse" album is the only one where he has 2 parodies of the same artist. Even if they were both based on the covers. Interestingly, "Fat" was the only song on there that wasn't a parody of a cover version.
1987s best and biggest selling album was Bad by Michael Jackson. He dominated with songs like Man in the Mirror, Smooth Criminal, The way you make me feel, Bad, I just Cant Stop Loving You. Amazing top 10 in most weeks!
What a GREAT year for a countdown right before the holiday! 😍 Growing up as a teen on a small WA farm during this time I waited up late EVERY Friday night for Friday Night Videos! The only way I could see music videos for a farm kid without cable these songs are burned into my eternal memory, word for word!
In Australia it was countdown on Sunday nights,sounds on Saturday mornings. Molly meldrum ushered in most of Australia’s big bands. It’s a lil creepy looking back now though I gotta say. He even had Prince Charles on the show .
"Just Like Heaven" triggered a memory of me making my cousin Kass stay in the car with me to listen to it before we went in to my sister's house [RIP] for Thanksgiving dinner! 🦃
Your name and channel are so proper for you. I really enjoy watching your videos. They take me back to my youth. The 80's were the best decade for music. Keep up the great work
In 87 I was 10 years old. I was too busy playing with Transformers and GI Joes to really pay attention to great music back then but all of my great childhood memories have great 80s songs somewhere in the background. My kids today can't figure why I always play 80s stuff all time. I just keep telling them - you just weren't there...
@@ProfessorofRocknegative ghost rider, now Belinda Carlisle, different story, it was the short straight blonde hair, never liked the poof hair or bangs, funny thing I met my future wife two years later, she had straight blonde hair in a sea of poof, 26 years later still married. My hair vanished, and hers has a “Touch of gray”, but still as pretty as the day I met her.
Those redux are great, as so many of the big hits are already well known. Including the obscure is what keeps the shows interesting and content fresh. Thanks professor.
What world are you living in? Tommy James never made a cent other than on personal appearances. His personal appearances might have taken a step up, that's it.
I was 4 in '87, but I do remember listening to Faith so much that I knew the words by heart. I also remember listening to "the time of my life" while my dad was driving us around. I knew the song before I watched Dirty Dancing in the '90s.
I am writing this even before watching the video. I always though 1987 was the best year in music, for my personal taste, obviously. Now let me see the video.
If we're talking top 10 hit's I'd go with U2: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For Favorite song of 87. The Cure: Just like Heaven For album of the year it's hard not to pick The Cure but I'd have to go with U2: The Joshua Tree Man, what a great year, there's so much to choose from. What in the hell did happen to music?
Poll: What is your pick for the Best Song or Album of 1987?
"Fascinated" by Company B
I couldn't get enough of that song.
1987 Bad comes to mind. Not the best I think lol😊
That first Richard Marx album was my favorite that year
Learning to fly PF 🤌🏼
Album-Hysteria by Def Leppard
Song-Beds Are Burning by Midnight Oil
I was a senior in high school in 1987. It was one of the best years of my life. For you youngsters out there, sorry you missed it. The 80's were awesome!
I wonder if life will ever be as good overall in the future compared to the 80s for young people.
100%. I was just starting college in the fall of 1987. Best decade.
Same. What a great time to grow up. Class of 87! ✊🏽
1987 was the best and worst year of my life. I was 16 years-old and my best friend's father bought a brand new IROC-Z Camaro. His claim was it was going to be his last sports car, and unfortunately he was right. He was terminally ill and didn't get to enjoy the car much, but he made sure I got to enjoy it for him. My best friend was a year younger, at 15 and couldn't drive yet so I had use of that car pretty much anytime I wanted it. My best friend's father took me out, taught me how to drive a stick, and most days I ended up taking it to school. Anytime I wanted to go out, he'd throw me the keys. He is probably the reason I was so into cars as a young man. He had a 1981 Turbo Trans Am that I used to drool over, but never got to drive as he got rid of it before I had a permit or license.
He passed six days before Christmas that year, and I got together with the woman who would later become my ex-wife about a week later. We spent many nights in that car, parked, reclined the seats back, looking at the stars and rain through the T-Tops listening to Debbie Gibson, Tiffany, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, REO Speedwagon, Styx, and Richard Marx. I even lost my "V" in that car!
A 1988 IROC-Z was my third car and I still miss it, it was the only vehicle in probably about 30 now that I ever regret getting rid of. Every once in a while, a song takes me back to those nights in that Camaro.
also a Grad 87 - absolutely the best time
1984-1987 was the greatest era in music history!
The 80s were amazing! Glad I was a part of it!
Love the videos on this channel, but the Redux ones are my favorite!
I love the nostalgia aspect of them
Yeah nah! 1983 was an epic year in music history with The Police, Def Leppard, David Bowie, Yes, The Tubes, Golden Earing, Duran Duran, Nena (99 Luftballons), Genesis, Mena at Work, Thompson Twins, Asia, Thomas Dolby, ZZ Top, The Fixx, Madness, U2, Howard Jones, INXS, Ozzy, the list is endless.
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@@riproar11 Beastie Boys, Motley Crue, Madonna, Prince, Salt-N-Pepa - 80s were great
79-83 was the best ever period.So much fresh innovation and originality.
There was so much great music around in the mid- to late-80s and I didn't appreciate these - I scorned most of it especially the girlie pop of Tiffany and Debbie Gibson. But they sound so good today with al the dross around like Taylor Swift and Beyince.
14 years old in 87...that's the sweet spot. What a year and what a blessing it was to be an 80s kid
Meeee tooooo 😂 you graduated high school in 1991, right? I’ve always been a little smug about having graduated in a “palindrome” year, LoL 😏
@@amandajingleheimerschmidt3050 Actually i graduated December 1990. I'm panamanian and here our school year is from march to December. But pretty close!
1971 borne and 1989 HS graduate.
Ya bet your bottom dollared arse that the 1980s decade was phenomenal!!!
Also, the mid-late1970s when Saturday Morning Cartoons WAAAAY RULED!!!!
For my time I
It began at 5:30 am and lasted until 10-11am.
And then picked up in early-late Saturday afternoon with half-hour comedies:
Alice
Laverne and Shirley
The Carol Burnett Show
And drama:
Wonder Woman
@@lLushKittyOh wow... I had the biggest crush on Lynda Carter as a kid. It was bitter-sweet to see her appear in the 2005 theatrical release of 'Dukes Of Hazzard'. All in all she aged pretty gracefully.
Same here! Great music!
I graduated High School and bought my first crappy car in June of 1987. I had an older brother who was an electronics wiz and he installed my first CD player in that same crappy car. Whitesnake, Guns and Roses, Def Leppard, Great White, all released albums around that time. I miss that car and I miss my brother.
Memories!
Cd in ‘87?….you were the cool kid for sure!
Miss the 80s. Good memories. No divisiveness.
While the pop was decent in 1987, it was tyrannical. had to respect people into hair bands that year lol
Fellow 87-er here...had my trusty 8-track in my 1976 Plymouth Volare station wagon with the always popular wood-paneled sides (don't hate).
I have mixed emotions about that damned car...but I miss my two besties who passed much too early who joined me in that car, boom box, in hand, many times.
Always in my heart, J&J.
MY LETTER TO U2-1987
I saw you guys on the Joshua Tree tour in 1987 at MTSU-Middle Tennessee State University Saturday November 28th 1987. The Bodeans opened up for you. I remember at the time Larry had a crush on Wynonna Judd and she came out and sang a duo with Bono!
I didn't have tickets to the show. A friend of mine drove us 3 hours from East Tennessee to see the show. We bought tickets at the box office for $18.50. We ended up 8th row center stage!
I remember back then the band held back tickets for fans who were willing to make the drive and couldn't get tickets via phone or record store locations.
Thanks again to Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr for making a special album and tour! I was 18 and had just graduated High School that year!
All the Best!
Gary Lagstrom
think I saw the same Tour, at Rupp Arena in Lexington
The 80s was just a great decade for music
1987 was my favorite year in music, and I vividly remember this Top 10 from that time. I was 15 years old in the Philippines and would spend every Sunday afternoon listening to all four hours of Casey Kasem’s American Top 40.
Worked in a record store in Los Angeles that year and personally sold hundreds of copies of these in cassette, album and even a few CDs. What great memories and thanks for your amazing channel.
😅😅😅 me too! The warehouse records and tapes. I worked in the promenade Mall Just down the street from the famous Topanga Mall. My pumped out a bunch of this crap.😅😅😅
I was 14 in 1987 & now I'm 52 but I swear I feel like I'm still in the 80's! It truly was an amazing time to be alive and to grow up in!! From new wave to the big hair bands, no music can compare to the 80's music!! Love the music and love your channel thank you!!!♡♡♡♡
1987 in Europe was a year in which Pet shop boys were all over.Radio,discos,great album sales with “Actually” and singles like “Always on my mind”, “Heart” ,“It’s a sin” ,Rent,“ What have i done to deserve this”.I still remember walking and listening to “It’s a sin” with my sony walkman. “Actually” is still a great pop album.
1984 had the best music but ‘87 isn’t far behind. I enjoy these countdowns. Thanks for another good one POR.
84 is a great year, but not better than 87, the new albums that came out that year has some of the best selling albums in the world
LOL. Yeah, 1987, "amazing year" for music, you're as much of clueless imbecile as the maker of this dopey video, lmfao. The idea that we were all sitting around in '87 thinking this was some golden year, or "these are the days" is HILARIOUS. Were you always steeped in mediocrity, Willie? It's a hallmark of that moron decade, do you know that? lol
1986 was best if you ask me, but 84, 83, and 87 and even 88 was good.
Videos were everything in the 80's and 90's. Kinda miss that.
1987 was THE year in music. I never go long without listening to something from that year. Hysteria, Kick, The Joshua Tree, Appetite, the Cure's Kiss Me³, Permanent Vacation-Aerosmith's come back. Seriously. 87 was the year.
Trivia, Michelle Phillips and her daughter Chynna Phillips, who didn’t even form Wilson Phillips yet, sing background vocals on the song “heaven is a place on earth “ by Belinda Carlisle
I had that album - or rather: That cassette, LoL 😝
First CD I ever bought
I still have my cassette
Thank you for this. ‘87 was what I consider to be the best year of my life. Was in the military stationed in England so when we had time to hit the clubs it was British DJs playing the list you went down. I spent the next 10+ years trying to duplicate that “vibe” but failed. Great memories!
In Australia (Melbourne) you get your licence at 18. 1987 I turned 18 and got my licence in October getting ready for the summer of 1987/88. What a truly amazing time it was. The late 70s and all of the 80's was a brilliant time to be young. 1984 was my favourite year of the 80s ever.❤❤
WTH, in NSW get your L's at 16 & 9 months. P's at 17 limited to 80 k's & 17.3 months full license. Great days indeed.
Couple of years behind you didn't quite have my license to go hooning around just yet..... remember the yeah well though. Nice to see an Aussie mention with Icehouse in the honourable mentions.
This is another great episode especially about music and television shows
in 1987 I was 23 years old and I had a crush on Debbie Gibson and Tiffany
MTV was still really enjoyable, tv shows were still watchable and as always
thank you for showing the best music from the 80's and the interviews
Thanks Professor.🎶📻memories of the 80's 📻🎶
@rogertemple7193 you had a crush on Tiffany in 1987 when you were 23? She was 15-years old😮
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I love the episode of Night Court where two Uma Thurmans show up with a katana blade and mess Harry up.
I know, right?!😆
Markie Post TWIN TOWERS
Right? Def the best. Good thing Bull Shannon was there to toss her out!
@@angelbear_og Dan Fielding had a very special night...
I think maybe more a veiled reference to Bill Cosby? :)
When I think of the 80s and music, the thing that takes me back the most is Queen's "Radio Gaga", the performance from Live Aid. When I introduce that song to younger people who don't know it, I tell them about what it was like to listen to music before the video age, before the digital streaming and mp3 age before auto-tune. The days of intently listening to radio late at night in the dark, with only the light of the tuner window and LEDs so that you could hit record button at the right moment to capture that song to make your "mix tape". Waking up on Sunday morning to listen to the Top 40 Countdown with Casey Casem.
"Radio Gaga" nailed it for me. The line, "We hardly need to use our ears. How music changes through the years." hits me hard and takes me back to the old days before MTV, streaming, and on-demand.
Those were the days!
Having a rough time...Having to put down a beloved dog, having some health issues and kind of depressed. Just past Midnight on Thanksgiving and I see an episode of POR has posted earlier. It was thirty minutes of bliss. These top 10 shows just immerse me in a type of joy I cannot explain. Thank you Adam and Happy Thanksgiving to you.
2 days ago I had to put my beloved baby boy chip to sleep. Broke my right humerus bone the stress of putting my baby down caused my celiac disease to flare up. Anyway, I'm sorry for your loss. I literally feel your pain my friend. ❤ 😢 just prayed for you. ❤❤❤ ty for sharing what you did. Happy Thanksgiving sweetheart.
Feeling sad for you today, sometimes music is the best medicine. Be well!
@@hugome778 for joesph and myself it's a very somber day. Ty for being so kind. Happy Thanksgiving and all the best to you!❤️🩹
Thank you. Happy Thanksgiving to you and so very sorry for bad times. May they get better soon
@@josephalexander5161 ❤ hugs
86-90 was such an incredible era. Never to be repeated, sadly. Cheers from Australia.
Cheers!!! ❤
BWAHAHAHAHA! 86-90 was the absolute WORST, and it's been crap ever since! you're celebrating 86-90??!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Youv'e got the whole history of music, and you arrive at 86-90 as some kind of golden period, holy smokes are you a brainless twit or what?!!! LOL. What are you cheering on, Aussie, Midnight Oil? LOL. What a joke. You need help. I mean, of the dopey 80s, it's the the first four years that are the great ones, not the last four! Holy smokes, thanks for the laugh, Clueless David! Good luck with your lack of taste. "86-90, lol" Now I've heard everything. People LOVE to celebrate mediocrity, don't they?
Australian bands of the 80's - GOLD
@@BoccanNinojust looked at Australia’s top 20 in 1987. Remember suddenly from the Scott and Charlene wedding? 🤦♀️😂seriously though we were so lucky to have our own awesome bands and be exposed to international bands. My personal “ one summer” was 86/87, beaches,friends,bands,romances…….met my husband at Sydney’s Australian made concert. Magic,just magic ,and it was held on Australia Day 1987 near Cronulla. 👌
All your reviews take me back to a time when life was a total blast. Thanks for the memories!
Yeah, 87 was a real blast with the world getting sold out and creating the horrible nightmare we're living in now! Let's celebrate mediocrity, yay!!!!! Poor Jane, lol.
1987 was an absolutely a great year for music.One can't go wrong with any of these songs.
17 yrs in '87... Wow.. What a time to be a teen..
In 1987 I was playing drums in a south Florida cover band and (briefly) dating a woman who worked as an overnight DJ. I would drive my fifteen-year-old Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser station wagon (full of drums) to the studio after my gigs and sit with her while she finished her shift. Although we only dated for a month or two, it was definitely during the period that all of these songs were on the charts. When she would get off work, we would go to a diner for breakfast and then to one of our apartments. I hadn't thought of "Wendy" in over thirty years. I do remember that she had a brand-new silver Volkswagen Rabbit Cabriolet and that she always had the top down unless it was raining. We attended a Richard Marx Concert when this was his hit on the radio. We had backstage passes, since she was a local Dj and stood just off stage for the whole show, watching from the wings. It was a lot of fun. Thank you for dusting off these memories.
We don't have time travel, but we do have music 😊
Faith is such a great album. I love George Michael (RIP).
Night Court is and always has been my favorite TV show of all time. As for Debbie Gibson vs Tiffany, a girl named Misty in Jr High asked me who I liked better and told her Tiffany, the following Monday she came to school with dark red hair, done like hers. Of course I had to start dating her going to all that trouble for me. It helped that I liked her before that, I just didn't know she liked me the same way. God I miss those innocent days, the old "I like you, do you like me circle one Yes or No" and of course they would add "maybe" and circle it. Hope she's met someone amazing and had the family she always wanted and deserves.
I worked in a record store back in 1987 and we had practilly every album as demos to be played over the speakers. I avoided Tiffany and Debbie Gibson like the plague. But your show on this brought back so many memories as a 17 year old kid who working in a record store. Thanks for the episode.
I worked in a record store in '87.......that year SUCKED for music, lol. The idea that someone is celebrating 1987 like it's some golden year is freaking HILARIOUS. The internet, man....what a wasteland of imbeciles making videos. This ignorant doofus actually has over a million subscribers, amazing.
And none of these songs were in the top ten of Billboard's top 100 of 1987. The true list:
1. The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian
2. Heart - Alone
3. Gregory Abbott - Shake You Down
4. Whiney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody
5. Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
6. Robbie Neville - C'est La Vie
7. Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
8. Bruce Hornsby - The Way It Is
9. Bob Seger - Shakedown
10. Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer
Ah man what a refreshing blast of nostalgia. Back in '89 my friend's brother worked at a local radio station and he got us free tickets to the Debbie Gibson concert so we thought we would go for "shits and grins." It turned out I really dug it.
To me, only two of those songs were truly memorable; Faith and Mony Mony.
✨ 1987 ✨ A fantastic year for music -Timeless music!! ❤️
Black - Wonderful Life
Madonna - La Isla Bonita
Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me
Depeche Mode - Strangelove
Crowded House - Don't Dream is Over
Johny Hates Jazz - Shattered Dreams
U2 - Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin
INXS - Need You Tonight
Whitesnake - Is This Love
And many, many more... 😃🎶
In the UK 1987 is when the Pet Shop Boys entered their "Imperial" era, It's a Sin, What Have I Done to Deserve This? and Rent were singles from the album Actually. Then they claimed the Christmas no. 1 with Always on My Mind.
@@chrisvarney1407
Have always loved the Pet Shop Boys. 👍
...I THANK GOD for those Boys! ...learned about 'Imports' BIG-TIME from them! ....also learned how EXPENSIVE they were, too! ...ha-HAA!
LMFAO. And you're actually celebrating this? 🤣
With Dusty Springfield on "...Deserve This."
”Actually” is one of my all time favourite albums.Pet shop boys are great.
I left home at 17 in that year, and '87 was definitely the biggest year in Pop hits. It was a perfect salad bowl of virtually everything imaginable.
Adam, I really love that notion of comparing the charts then to now. There's a bunch of ways to do it, as you mentioned, I say go for it.
They’re all left in the dust by Don’t Dream It’s Over.
I didn’t have a Crowded House cassette at the time but I absolutely loved that song. I bought the “Best Of” album (CD) about 10 years ago - it is still is one of my best musical investments!
My favourite song of all time!
Great song
Adam, I am so glad I found your channel. You're a couple years younger than me. My kids know about all of these songs. Gotta teach them young.
I am a huge fan of countdowns and this exact week in 87 is probably one of my favorites of all time! Great memories!
16 yrs old in 1987... these songs became soundtrack our lives. 80s was the best ~ regards from the philippines
Love this segment! I feel 1987 was one of few best years in music. I loved so George Michael so much. I never got to see him on concert on until his last concert tour - Live 25. It was def worth the wait. I was crushed by his passing.
I'll take the entire Joshua Tree album to start with, what an all-timer
1987… I was 17….this is the soundtrack of my life
So was I.....but i had WAY better taste. The 80s was a decade of abject mediocrity, and there were two types of people: those who were steeped in it, and those who were disgusted by it. Guess which you were!
The problem with "I Think We're Alone Now" is that Weird Al's classic "I Think I'm A Clone Now" overwrites it in my mind when hearing it. LOL. There are TONS of songs from 1987 that would fit into the greats for the year. Some excellent examples: Aerosmith - Angel or Dude Looks Like a Lady, Bananarama - Love in First Degree, Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter, Big Trouble - Dangerous (from "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure"), Blue Room - Everytime You Go Away, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band - Shakedown, Bryan Adams - Only The Strong Survive, any of the Def Leppard songs from "Hysteria", Echo and the Bunnymen - People Are Strange, George Harrison - Cloud 9 and Got My Mind Set On You, George Michael - I Want Your Sex, Guns 'N Roses - Paradise City/Sweet Child of Mine/Welcome to the Jungle, Heart - Alone and I Want You So Bad, Hue and Cry - Labour of Love, Icehouse - Electric Blue, Immaculate Fools - Tragic Comedy, INXS - Kick/Never Tear Us Apart/New Sensation, Janet Jackson - Pleasure Principal, Johnny Hates Jazz - Shattered Dreams, Living in a Box - Living in a Box, Los Lobos - La Bamba, Men Without Hats - Pop Goes The World, Miami Sound Machine - Rhythm Is Gonna Get You, Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning, The Outfield - Since You've Been Gone, all of the Pet Shop Boys songs from "Actually", Prince and Sheena Easton - U Got The Look, Pseudo Echo - Funkytown (one of a all-time favorites as a kid), REM - It's the End of the World As We Know It, Sinéad O'Connor - I Want Your (Hands On Me), Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now, Taylor Dayne - Don't Rush Me and Prove Your Love, Yello - Goldrush, and Yes - Love Will Find A Way.
A few years ago I got to meet (and get hugs and autographs from) Debbie, Tiffany, and Lisa Lisa...I was immediately taken back 30 years, and it was AWESOME!
I was 17 in 1987, and I can attest to the fact that there has indeed not, NOT been a year like 87' for music and movies!!
I wish we all could go back, if only for a summer break weekend!!! LOVE to my fellow GEN X!!! ❤❤
Also 17 in 87! What a great time to be alive 🤘🏻
I was 17 too. Probably the best year of my life. That year holds so many wonderful memories. I wanna go back!
Wow! What a Flashback. I got to hear Springsteen and the E Street Band every day from the 2nd of January 1988 until some time in May. He and the band rehearsed for his "Tunnel of Love" tour in the building I was stationed at in Red Bank, New Jersey. Every day at 12 noon we locked the building up as the band came in to rehearse. Funny story, I met him in the mens room at the urinal about a week in. He's the nicest guy. Some of us would hang out at the end of our day and take in the show.
No way! That's awesome!
Sad that he had to change.
Really great memory. That happens to be one of my favorite songs! Tunnel of Love! My brother said the same exact thing about Bruce. He was a garbage truck driver and happened to see Bruce and yelled " I love ya Brother" Bruce laughed and waved. My brother hit his air horn. Bruce laughed, an threw up a peace sign, and a huge smile. I have a cell picture of it. 🤘
@@user-kcrpineHe's never changed. You just turned into a snowflake.
Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up was also released in 1987 ..
I'm not gonna lie, this was my favorite song. I Rick Rolled myself.
Not top 10
We saw him live in Sydney a lil while back, mate he is a great singer songwriter,engaged the crowd, was very self deprecating…….and the a-ha came out, was never a fan in the 80’s ( as I found it “ dicky” ) ,but will look out for him coming out again. Great performance.
Did you just Rick Roll us? I'm feeling that that song was earlier. But I don't want to look it up. Regardless you got me.
Wow!! Second day in a row, another surprise! Never expected to see an evening notification from you. Thanks Professor!
You got it!
Best Albums 1987
1.Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing The Hardline
2.Michael Jackson - Bad
3.George Michael - Faith
4.Prince - Sign O the Times
5.U2 - Joshua Tree
Absolutely agree👌especially re Prince…..but I’m a lil biased there.
AWESOME YEAR 😎Been waiting on a new edition of this, couldn't picked a better time!
Is this a re-upload yr? This seems familiar?
Ain't that the truth! You don't know whatcha got till it's gone! I was young and naive back then, and had not quite developed an appreciation for all that awesome 1980s music.
I should clarify that I was BORN in 1987, and this video makes me proud of it!
The variety of music we had back then was incredible.
1987 was the year I bought my first walkman and my first album (The Joshua Tree by U2). Someone picked up a Billboard 100 chart printout from a record store and didn't find any use for it. I picked it up and studied it like a text book, memorizing it better than any of my school work. It was such a magical year, I'd give anything to relive it.
That same year I bought my first walkman and my first album was Bad by Michael Jackson. Memories
Thanks for the little trip to the past... I was a teen and some of these songs brought back memories I had forgot about!
i was in love with marky post on night court.
I was too!
Night Court was a fantastic show. May Markie Post and Harry Anderson RIP
Night Court was such a fun show.
@@TerrickTerranagree!
I have been waiting for Love Will Find a Way to get on your radar for this channel. The riffs on that song.
I love “I’ve Been in Love Before” ❤❤❤
I really like that you spend some time talking about some of the songs that were outside of the top 10 that have since gone on to great success.
Markie Post was a fox.
She still is, right?
Keep on keepin on ❤️✌️🤓👍
Yes, she was. Night Court was a fantastic show. May she RIP
@@michaelbaucom4019 I was only 8 or 9, but I remember it was on later. 9 or 930 pm if memory serves me.
Funny show. What has happened to sitcoms today?
@@joshuagibson2520 true.
Thank you for this. Fantastic format and content! I would love to see other years covered liek 1983 through to 1989.
i was hoping Kenny G's "Songbird" would be included on the list. Beautiful tune. Brings back memories!
1987 and especially this time in 1987 was my pop culture awakening INXS kick, Michael Jackson's bad, pink Floyd a momentary lapse of reason, rush hold your fire, George Michael Faith def Leppard hysteria and Fleetwood Mac tango in the night were my soundtrack for movies there was plains, trains and automobiles, throw momma from the train, innerspace and much more what an amazing year
I got to visit the Lake Lure NC Dirty Dancing filming location in 1989 and stood on Baby’s bridge and steps and was inside Johnnys cabin and the little dance lesson room where they did the come here Loverboy skit. Also stood where they did the last dance lift scene. What memories and I cherish those few pictures I took while there. I have since worked my family tree and some of my ancestors lived in that very area many years ago. That is a magical beautiful area and the film was one of those that everything worked even tho back then they didn’t think so but it’s magical and that song, just fit. I haven’t been to the Mountain Lake, Virginia filming location but that’s on my bucket list! Nothing will ever top that original movie.
@@marktait2371 that is sooo cool. We both have awesome memories of the movie. I know they practiced the lift scene at Mountain Lake in the water and the water is gone now but it’s done that before so it will be back, just don’t know when. They filmed the final dance and lift scene at Lake Lure in what was an old boys camp and the stage and dancing was in the old gym. Yes I will get to Mountain Lake one day and stay at the Inn.
Bore off! I have been forced to watch that god awful movie too many times. Thanks Vicki for wasting days of my life on that. Still love you sweetheart but I won't be watching next time it's on TV
1987. Wonderful year. Especially the music. It seems like this was the year that really defined the 80's.
1987 was such a good year for music. If I were in charge, I'd like to see the format of a) Top 5 on the charts that week b) Top 5 that SHOULD have been on the charts that week and c) Top 5 all time plays/streams from the top 100 chart from that week.
Honestly, 3 men and a baby, planes, trains, and automobiles, and EVEN fatal attraction are some of my comfort movies 😂
Amen!
Poor Jen. The 80s was no golden time for movies any more than it was for music......but you can do A LOT better than those three, jesus christ.
John candy, what a legend
One of my favorite Weird Al parodies is of I Think We’re Alone Now
CLONE!
@ that song should have been in the film Multiplicity!
Hey Professor. Long time viewer. Love your channel, one of my favourite places to spend time. Finally found someone who has a religious like belief in music like myself. Love the idea of the 5 and 5. Stay blessed my musical brother. ✌️
The Professor of Rock busting out the goods last several days. Man that's a lot of editing and production.
TY for the efforts and hopefully you have a great holiday this week!!!
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Personally, for me, 1987 was the last “great” year of music in the 80s, 1988 was pretty good too, with some songs and albums being carried over from the previous year. I didn’t care too much about releases from 1989, the material was beginning to sound more like the 90s(thinking back on it now). The 80s will always be the overall favourite decade of music for me.
For me it was 1986..
agree. by 88, the influx of rap and hipop was starting to take place
BONUS EPISODE FOR THANKSGIVING EVE!!
1987....... I just graduated college. Man, seems forever ago. The Movies seemed better back then. Music too!
Happy Thanksgiving to everybody near and far. I have to hide til Friday to be safe. 🤣
That's right!
...can I hide with'ya, Rog!? ...HA-HAAA!!
@RBS_
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The Cure would be my favorite. Still listen to them and many others to this day
Brilliant Disguise is low-key one of my all time favorite Springsteen songs. That whole album is underrated!
I sometimes wonder what we all were thinking musically at that time as many of these “hit” songs leave a LOT to be desired, but then they take me back and the memories remind me of why, of a different more innocent time when the future was bright and anything was possible. Even if most of these songs on their own aren’t that special, they were central to that time and that alone makes them quite magical.
It's funny that in Autumn of 1987, Tiffany and Billy Idol both released cover versions of Tommy James and the Shondells songs.
How crazy is that?
This also means that Weird Al's "Even Worse" album is the only one where he has 2 parodies of the same artist. Even if they were both based on the covers. Interestingly, "Fat" was the only song on there that wasn't a parody of a cover version.
1987s best and biggest selling album was Bad by Michael Jackson. He dominated with songs like Man in the Mirror, Smooth Criminal, The way you make me feel, Bad, I just Cant Stop Loving You. Amazing top 10 in most weeks!
Yes! Go deeper into the charts!!!!
Ahh the 80s and the crash, bang, wallop music 🎶 😊
Very distinctive sound ❤
You have the best job EVER dude! Srsly
What a GREAT year for a countdown right before the holiday! 😍 Growing up as a teen on a small WA farm during this time I waited up late EVERY Friday night for Friday Night Videos! The only way I could see music videos for a farm kid without cable these songs are burned into my eternal memory, word for word!
In Australia it was countdown on Sunday nights,sounds on Saturday mornings. Molly meldrum ushered in most of Australia’s big bands. It’s a lil creepy looking back now though I gotta say. He even had Prince Charles on the show .
"Just Like Heaven" triggered a memory of me making my cousin Kass stay in the car with me to listen to it before we went in to my sister's house [RIP] for Thanksgiving dinner! 🦃
COOL!
Music, movies and TV were so much better back then than they are today.
Great show! Top 10 then and the top 10 as of today.
☕️☕️🎶🎵🎶
You know it!
It was amazing growing up through the 80's. The music, movies, innovations, etc. We were blessed to live through such a period in time.
Night Court was the BEST! It had the perfect amount of Wacky going on.
I miss it!
Your name and channel are so proper for you. I really enjoy watching your videos. They take me back to my youth. The 80's were the best decade for music. Keep up the great work
2:45 - Team Debbie all the way! 2 #1 singles that she wrote, performed *_AND_* produced herself!
True!
In 87 I was 10 years old. I was too busy playing with Transformers and GI Joes to really pay attention to great music back then but all of my great childhood memories have great 80s songs somewhere in the background. My kids today can't figure why I always play 80s stuff all time. I just keep telling them - you just weren't there...
How do you talk about 1987 without a mention of Appetite For Destruction? I know its not pop, but holy moly…!
That album got success in 1988
Some songs just take you back to that exact time in your life. Mad About You is one of those songs.
I can honestly say I've never had a crush on either Debby or Tiffany! 🤠
Lita Ford?
Me neither! But Sting…maybe
I had a crush on George Michael. Lol, I was 10 in 1987. 😅
@@ProfessorofRocknegative ghost rider, now Belinda Carlisle, different story, it was the short straight blonde hair, never liked the poof hair or bangs, funny thing I met my future wife two years later, she had straight blonde hair in a sea of poof, 26 years later still married. My hair vanished, and hers has a “Touch of gray”, but still as pretty as the day I met her.
And I wasn't even born
1987 was a great year to be alive! Awesome music on all genres - rock, pop, country, and movies.
Damn bro, the guys you got to talk to, listen too!!! I was 19 in 87. Life was good back then.
Amen!
Those redux are great, as so many of the big hits are already well known. Including the obscure is what keeps the shows interesting and content fresh. Thanks professor.
Between "I Think We're Alone Now", "Mony Mony", and "Crimson and Clover", Tommy James probably made more money off the covers than his original hits.
What world are you living in? Tommy James never made a cent other than on personal appearances. His personal appearances might have taken a step up, that's it.
I was 4 in '87, but I do remember listening to Faith so much that I knew the words by heart. I also remember listening to "the time of my life" while my dad was driving us around. I knew the song before I watched Dirty Dancing in the '90s.
Been in love before might be their best!
I am writing this even before watching the video. I always though 1987 was the best year in music, for my personal taste, obviously. Now let me see the video.
If we're talking top 10 hit's I'd go with U2: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Favorite song of 87. The Cure: Just like Heaven
For album of the year it's hard not to pick The Cure but I'd have to go with U2: The Joshua Tree
Man, what a great year, there's so much to choose from. What in the hell did happen to music?
Cure tragic here. Absolutely agree.
I remember these songs, but I was too busy listening to Rush's Hold Your Fire. Time Stand Still and Prime Mover are still two of my favorites.
I lost my virginity to Pink Floyd’s Learning to Fly…. LMAO
Sorry, every time I hear that song, it brings that specific memory back.
Whoa!
@@ProfessorofRock
Sorry Adam… LMAO!!!
Why wouldn't it?!!?
My favorite would be The Cure. Still listen to them and others from that era. Music was so much better then.