This Week's Top 10 - May 18, 1985

Hello everyone,

It's time for our weekly Top 10 Chart from the past once again. This one goes back 21 years, to 1985. This one screams 80's to me. I find it to be a pretty good chart overall, though some will disagree. This is from Cash Box - please post any other charts from this time that you wish. As usual, please also vote for which song you feel is best, your favorite, etc. from this chart in the poll.



Cash Box Top 10 - Week Ending May 18, 1985

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1. DON’T YOU (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
2. WE ARE THE WORLD - USA For Africa
3. CRAZY FOR YOU - Madonna
4. ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK - Murray Head
5. EVERYTHING SHE WANTS - Wham!
6. SOME LIKE IT HOT - Power Station
7. SMOOTH OPERATOR - Sade
8. RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT - DeBarge
9. EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD - Tears For Fears
10. AXEL F - Harold Faltermeyer

 

Don't You (Forget About Me)

One of my desert island tracks. Absolutely love this song. Who could not like the Breakfast Club.

 

SMOOTH OPERATOR - Sade
Not so strong charts, IMO.

 

I'm SO excited!! I love the 80's music!!

I voted for Madonna's "Crazy For You" because that song brings back a ton of memories for me when I heard it on the dance floor!!

 

Only got #2 from this chart in my collection. I am familiar, however, with all the songs here.

 

That chart is impressive. I have to go with DON’T YOU (Forget About Me).

 

"One Night In Bangkok." I'm serious. The rest of the chart doesn't really float my boat, which is unusual because I loved the '80s.

 

Hate them all.

 

Simple Minds. That was the last 45 rpm I ever bought. Some turkeys on that chart, but better than what was out 10 years later IMO.

 

Very good year for Top 40 radio (perhaps the very last good year for radio), but oddly, this chart does not reflect it. There is lots of 1984 residue ("Axel F" particularly), and two of the more weaker singles by Wham! and Madonna. Spring of '85 was a bit weak overall, I guess. As much as I am a Power Station fan, I cannot deny the wonderful sounds of "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" simply dominating Top 40 radio during the Memorial Day weekend of 1985. The song just SCREAMS putting the top down and heading out on the road. Well...rolling down the windows at the very least.

Hey, when it was initialled played on radio, I thought "Don't You Forget About Me" was a new Billy Idol song. Ironically, Sir William would cover the song (quite effectively I might add), on his "Greatest Hits" CD from a few years back.

 

"Bangkok"

 

If I had to go with one, I'd go with "EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD" by Tears For Fears!

"DON’T YOU (Forget About Me)" is my second choice!

 

I voted for Smooth Operator - this was probably the last year that I listened to top 40 radio regularly. Here's the Canadian (CHUM Chart) countdown for the same week - predictably, the bottom 5 places are held by cancon acts (oh & # 9 too)

Chart #1482 - Saturday, May 18, 1985
Rank Song Title Artist
1. Crazy For You Madonna
2. Rhythm Of The Night DeBarge
3. Everything She Wants Wham!
4. One Night In Bangkok Murray Head
5. Everybody Wants To Rule The World Tears For Fears
6. Obession Animotion
7. Don't You (Forget About Me) Simple Minds
8. Nightshift The Commodores
9. Black Cars Gino Vannelli
10. All She Wants To Do Is Dance Don Henley
11. Smooth Operator Sade
12. Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody David Lee Roth
13. That Was Yesterday Foreigner
14. Walking On Sunshine Katrina & The Waves
15. Would I Lie To You? The Eurythmics
16. Welcome To The Pleasuredome Frankie Goes To Hollywood
17. Rock And Roll Girls John Fogerty
18. Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid Daryl Hall & John Oates
19. Things Can Only Get Better Howard Jones
20. A View To A Kill Duran Duran
21. We Are The World U.S.A. For Africa
22. Raspberry Beret Prince
23. Angel Madonna
24. Sussudio Phil Collins
25. Some Like It Hot Power Station
26. You're The Only Love The Payolas
27. A Criminal Mind Gowan
28. Tears Are Not Enough Northern Lights
29. Heaven Bryan Adams
30. Tokyo Rose Idle Eyes

 

I think the college radio chart would be far more interesting as the 80's college radio set the stage for much of what is popular today. I bet the Simple Minds and Tears for Fears and maybe even Sade would be on there, too although Program Directors hated to see popular commercial songs played.

REM, Husker Du, Replacements, Minutemen and other legendary bands were in their prime in 1985.

 

Wow what a list! Every single one is a familiar one. Love and miss the 80's.

 

Here is the WICN 90.5 FM top albums for MAY 1985

Husker Du - New Day Rising
Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega
New Order - Low-Life
Smiths - Meat is Murder
Naked Raygun - Throb Throb
Hooters - Nervous Night
Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun
Three O'clock - Arrive without traveling
Slickee Boys - Uh Oh..No breaks
Stranglers - Aural Sculpture

plus yello, translater, einsturzende neubauten, lloyd cole, sisters of mercy, guadalcanal diary, lords f he new church, Sonic youth, minutemen, big black,

Many of these have strong resale value and demand today....

 

I voted for Wham! and I'm not ashamed. Well, maybe I am, but I'm admitting it anyway.

 

Pretty good chart for 80s music, so I went with EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD - Tears For Fears. I also like 1, 3, 5, and 6.

 

I only know the first two, and I prefer by far Number 1.

 

Simple Minds is the best of a bad lot. Popular 80's music bores me. I liked the college/alternative scene better then. Let's Active rules!!!

 

I remember every one of those songs, but 20 years later, I couldn't vote for a single one. But I voted for TFF.

 

I can't vote. I like and have each and every one of these songs. Every #1's a winner!

 

(Those 80s college radio guys are trying to hijack this thread!!!)

I voted for Madonna, but consider the Simple Minds and Tears for Fears songs excellent as well. I found 80s popular music fun to listen to, and there was a burst of creative energy that was refreshing after the stagnation of the late 70s (Disco Era...)

 

My vote goes toward Some Like It Hot. Still knocks me out 21 years later.