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Okay, so we are all fed, showered, and ready to do this week's M10! And this week, we'll go back to the 'top' of our list and target year 1985...
Elvis: Say, you kinda died off on that doing the current #1 thing...
Let me put that this way: Shaboozy's song- an M10 hit- was cool and all, but the Billboard chart JUST dropped it from #1 after being there all of August, all of September, and all of October! I can't really see the fun in that...
Yeah, variety is the spice a' life...
Okay, so how about you queue up the one debut this week whilst I bring up the 1985 charts...
No prob! All the way up at #7, a Beatles cover by Lucinda Williams...
Wow, she did that better'n the Beatles!
Well you WOULD say that, but While My Guitar Gently Weeps is a favorite of mine... but she did an absolutely dynamite job on it, IMHO! Okay, on to 1985...
Take on Me by A-ha (which recently hit here in acoustic version) is at the top of the Cashbox chart this week in '85. It would also top Australia, though Canada hung it up at #2. In Australia a remake of I Got You Babe, with Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders as Cher and UB40 as Sonny was on top. It would post a 28 here, and a 6 in Canada. Meanwhile, Canada had Dire Straits and Money For Nothing- which had just dropped from Cashbox's top and would get to #4 in Australia. Now, those big movers...
Tied for fourth with 8 spots up:
Be Near Me, ABC- Nowhere near my favorite from these guys, it hops up to 17 this week on CB. It would peak 9 here, 22 in Canada, and apparently never made it to Australia.
Broken Wings, Mister Mister- Again, not my favorite from this band. A future #1 here and in Canada (so much for my taste) and 4 in Canada, it moved to #25 this week.
Tied for second with 9 spots up:
Separate Lives, Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin- Same comment here as well, and again, I was in the minority. Both Canada and CB topped it at the top, Australia at 14. It jumped to #22.
Alive and Kicking, Simple Minds. Now this song I liked, even if I kept changing the title line to "I like it Kinky". 3 here, 4 in Canada, 21 in Australia, it landed at 38 this week.
And tops, with a ten-spot jump...
...ZZ Top with Sleeping Bag! Up to 36 this week on CB, it peaked at 8 here, 18 Canada, 36 Australia.
Whut with yer comments, I'm guessin' you didn't have much inna line of favorites this week...
Actually, there were quite a few I loved this week- and a few I hated, none more so than Aretha Franklin and Who's Zoomin' Who- in fact, I'll give you FIVE of 'em!
5- Night Ranger, Four In The Morning (I Can't Take Any More), sitting at 24 for a second week. Billboard peaked it at 19, Canada 84, didn't hit in Australia.
4- And We Danced, the Hooters, 26 this week. A top ten in Australia at #6, BB topped it at 21 here, 51 in Canada.
3- I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down, Paul Young at #13. Laurie can attest that this song gets played very loud, and I shout along with the chorus. 13 here, 16 Canada, 25 Australia.
2- Two of our #1 come next. Take On Me takes my #2 spot...
1- ...and Money For Nothing would be my topper.
Not much of an Aretha fan, are ya?
No. No. I remember her at some awards show with a set of backup singers that looked like the first three contestants that beat her in a trencherman's contest, and ever since I refer to her as "Aretha and the Heavyweights". Takes all I got to merely type her right name.
Uh, yer gonna get us sued. Shall I call Lawyer Bellbottom?
Let's hope mere opinion doesn't come to that. While I go sit in time out, how about you give out the rest of the M10:
Okey-dokey, Boss!
Stuck at 10, Nothing More and Jenny.
Similarly stuck at 9, the Tragically Hip and Wait So Long.
Hey, boss, we skipped a debut...
Yeah, I had some issues with my recording of the list this week...
Well, lemme fix this! At #8, here's the acid jazz man, Matt Berry, with Kith Liv an' his new one- I Gotta Limit...
Meanwhile, illuminati hotties stuck at 6 with Sleepin' In...
Down one fer Linkin Park and The Emptiness Machine at 5...
..and fer Geowulf an' Nightmare at 4...
Up two fer Leon Bridges and That's What I Love....
Stuck at 2, Honeycutters an' Jukebox....
An' still at the top...
...Linkin Park an' Heavy Is The Crown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, you kin come outta time out now....
