My routines have been a little out of whack this week, so an abbreviated playlist for today.
“Cult of Personality” – Living Colour
Sigh…
“Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” – Michael Jackson
RIP to Quincy Jones, the greatest, most influential producer of all time. There are about a million songs of his that could fill this spot. Also props to Q for getting out before the world fell apart.
“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” – Gordon Lightfoot
Forty nine years ago this weekend.
“Champaign Supernova” – Middle Kids covering Oasis
Properly somber.
“We Belong” – Pat Benatar
We’ve reached the weird part of the Billboard calendar year where songs that became big hits would be bigger on the 1985 year-end list than the ’84 one. Here is an example, PB’s best song? Biggest song? Certainly one of each if not the pinnacle. Debuting in the Top 40 this week at #31 in its third week on the chart, it would peak at #5 in the first two charts of 1985 and land at #39 for all of ’85. It tied “Love Is A Battlefield” for her highest charting single.