Cracking open the vaults again to check in on what Mark Seaman and I more or less currently think about hits from 47 and 42 summers ago. The first show examined was replayed by Premiere just last weekend; the second wasn't recently re-broadcast, though the week prior did get featured a few weeks ago.
8/27/77
Maybe I've been underestimating the overall degree of intersection in our Top 20s, as this is the second time in a row we have at least a 75% hit rate on both lists under consideration. Getting two exact matches, especially in the top 10, is highly unusual. Had I performed this exercise back when I was 13, I think Carly Simon and Andy Gibb would have ranked higher, while I regret to inform that the Emotions would have been much lower. George and Louis Johnson easily give us the collective top pick.
8/7/82
Had we ranked 7/31/82 instead, you would have found just highly I think of Eye to Eye's "Nice Girls." As it is, we have Mark's six faves all landing in my top 10, a rare convergence of thought. One day I'll compute some sort of matching score for these rankings; at first glance it appears this one is among the closer we've done. Just don't ask where I placed "Eye of the Tiger"--never have thought much of it.
While "Kids in America" seems to be the joint pick for best song, I'll embed what I've come to recognize as one of the most important hits of the early 80s instead. "Don't You Want Me" was a trailblazer, helping wake us up after a couple of AC-heavy years and ushering in the British synth band era.
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